274 Germany needs airships

The Han River is swirling and misty. (Vertex Hand Hit)

A stone bridge crosses the Han River from north to west, connecting the capital of the Yi dynasty, which ruled Korea for hundreds of years, with the Han River, and from here it is Incheon, the largest open port in Korea, 30 kilometers to the west.

Anyone with a little knowledge of geography knows the importance of Incheon, where the Qing and Japanese countries fought fiercely during the First Sino-Japanese period, and MacArthur also chose this place, because everyone knows that as long as they cross the port of Incheon, Seoul, which is 30 kilometers away, will be unsafe to defend.

As the capital of the country and the largest city in Korea, whoever takes Seoul will achieve dominance and cut the whole of Korea in half.

Even if he is not very proficient in military affairs, at least because he loves artillery giant ships, he has seen a lot of military examples, not to mention that Master Li, who has always had excellent grades in geography classes since he was a child, can't even know this bit of common sense.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese forces stationed in Korea, the Japanese army general Yama Prefecture Aritomo, was also very aware of this, so after the Pacific Army crossed the river into Uiju, not only did it delay sending reinforcements, but on the contrary, after the Korean rebels continued to attack and harass, they took the initiative to shrink the defensive line and focus on Seoul.

Because he knew that from Uiju to Korea and then to Seoul, the mountains and forests along the way were rugged, and the roads were not suitable for large-scale marches at all, so he also chose to garrison heavy troops in Seoul.

On the map, Incheon is the maritime gateway to Seoul and is geographically important, as the Japanese army fought a hard-fought battle with the Qing army here three years ago.

But the problem was that the opponent at that time was the Qing army, which had low combat effectiveness, and now it is the more powerful Pacific Army, their land force is not weaker than that of Japan, and more importantly, they have a strong fleet.

Incheon is flat and there is no danger to defend, and the most important thing is Ganghwa Island, which is known as the barrier of Incheon, but after careful consideration, Yamasan-Aritomo still chose to abandon this forward position, not because he was timid, but because he cut off the connection between North Korea and Japan in the Pacific Fleet, and he did not dare to put his hope entirely on the navy, which has not yet been heard.

Ten kilometers

This is the maximum range of naval artillery of various countries known to Yama County, so he made a decisive choice, completely gave up the frontal confrontation with the Pacific Army on the Inchon front, and took the initiative to retreat to a safe range ten kilometers away to build a station, and put the most elite First Army here.

The 15,000 garrisons and the 10,000 Korean puppet troops, more than 20,000 or so, separated from each other, clamped Inchon like an iron tong, waiting for the Pacific Army to step out of the protection of the ship's guns and automatically send it to this iron tong.

"The plan is good, but Yama County Youpeng is outdated"

In the command tower operation room under the bridge of the Jinghai navigation, officers from the 1st Army Division and the captains of the four Jinghai ships sat in a group, and Tan Xiaozeng, commander-in-chief of the Inchon landing operation and chief of staff of the Navy, drew a circle on the small blackboard with chalk, and the 15-kilometer shelling range was enough to knock down the Japanese 1st Division stationed there

Although the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army cannot be underestimated, in the case of backward equipment and concepts, they have already left behind the twelve huge Hippo-class airships, and they are ready to provide continuous air support to the first division in the next few days, and when the bombs fall from a height of thousands of meters beyond the reach of the Japanese army, despair will spread in the hearts of no one.

"Right watch."

Tan Xiaozeng first raised the watch, in order to improve the concept of time for commanders at all levels of the army, Young Master Li is probably the most generous leader in the world, and he used private money to purchase 3,000 expensive new watches from Switzerland and send them to commanders at all levels, so at present, almost every officer above the company level has been issued a piece.

"The shelling will start at two o'clock in the morning and five o'clock sharp."

"Start landing" -

In the deep twilight, more than a dozen ground crew soldiers began to slowly untie the cable that held the No. 02 airship, and the observer-bombardier hurriedly carried the last basket of grenades onto the airship, and the moment the door of the gondola was closed, the airship suddenly jumped up like a wild horse.

Looking at the reconnaissance airship that was the first to leave, Percy who hurried here with Ryukyu took a deep breath, in order to find out the combat effectiveness of this huge airship, tomorrow he will board these airships with observers from several other countries to verify the effectiveness of this new weapon in combat.

Although the No. 02 airship was responsible for reconnoitering and correcting the coordinates of the ship's guns, and was only carrying a few small bomblets to attract targets, several observers were obviously unwilling to let go of such a good opportunity, and specially obtained a full 500 grenades from the army, preparing to let the Japanese soldiers taste what it means to rain down bullets.

A few minutes later, the radio signal of the reconnaissance battalion commando was intercepted by the radio on the boat, and through the continuous non-information radio waves emitted from three fixed points, the navigator supervised the radio messenger to quickly complete the positioning and fly towards the target.

After absorbing the experience of the last time the No. 07 airship was hit by a bullet in the engine and caused a misfire, coupled with the fact that there was no sinking bomb dragging, the No. 02 airship rose to an altitude of 1,300 meters, and the rifle bullets at this altitude were basically no threat.

Thirty minutes later, a point of light suddenly lit up on the ground under his feet, and the point of light flashed three times in a row before disappearing, and the pilot immediately pulled the servo, and the huge airship began to fly little by little towards the target where the light had just appeared.

Three minutes later, the hovering airship dropped its first bomb on the spot where the light was lit.

rumble

A huge explosion woke up Hasegawa from his sleep, and he quickly jumped up from the bed, grabbed the rifle leaning against the head of the gun, and rushed out with his companions.

For a whole month, the troops slept in their clothes, always ready for the landing from the sea to the west, so the sound of the explosion immediately made everyone nervous, and soon the barracks was lit up with the light of torches.

Hasegawa quickly found his wing leader, and under his leadership, he quickly ran to a low slope, which was the only vantage point around, so not only ten 75mm army guns were arranged, but also a full six Habecais machine guns purchased from France, and his wing was covered by cannons and machine guns to prevent the enemy from breaking through the defensive line.

Hasegawa ran with all his strength, and immediately ran into the battle position after rushing up the low slope, forming an arc of defense around the low slope, which is said to have been learned from the enemy's battle against the Russians.

In that sniper battle, the other party used this method of adding machine guns to the tunnel to block the entire tens of thousands of Russian ** teams, and now it is their turn to taste the power of their own invention.

After panting and finding his position, Hasegawa suddenly frowned, because he found that the explosion had only happened once, and the fire mass from the distant explosion was a few hundred meters away from the barracks, could it be that the other party was adjusting the coordinates of the shelling? But why didn't you even hear the gunshots?

Just when all the Japanese soldiers were puzzled, there was a buzzing but low sound in their ears, and everyone hurriedly searched around, but they did not know that death had begun overhead.

Under the ridicule of everyone, the bombardier slapped himself hard at the ball of fire in the bomb chamber door that was beginning to get smaller, but he didn't expect the error to be so big, so angry that he waved his hand at his partner, pulled the whole box of grenades to his feet, lifted the lid and took out a pull fuse from it, and then stuffed the grenade back into the box without waiting for the smoke to come out, and pushed it down hard.

The inertia caused the ammunition box to fall rapidly, until it was about to land, but the box exploded suddenly, and a full 50 detonated grenades exploded ten meters above the head of the Japanese tunnel, and countless steel balls and shrapnel swept through like a hurricane.

The bombardier did not know how many people had been killed by his rudimentary version of the cluster bomb, but this explosion was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and nearly 10,000 eyes were attracted to this faint sound the size of an egg, and the Japanese soldiers were frightened and immediately raised their guns to shoot upward.

Suddenly, countless points of light rose from the darkness, frightening several observers and captains who hurriedly ordered to continue ascending.

Looking at the airship that was getting higher and higher, gradually turning into a small black dot, Hasegawa swallowed his saliva, he didn't know what it was, but for some reason this flying thing always gave him an extremely uneasy feeling.

After a few minutes, Hasegawa finally knew where the uneasiness was coming from, and when hundreds of shells exploded in front of the position, the fire boomed and drowned out all his thoughts—

"Really want to go up?"

"Major Percy, I won't force you if you don't want to." After retracting his gaze from Xue Muhua's face, who was smiling at the corner of his mouth, Persey turned his head to look at the huge airship in front of him, and his feet trembled a little.

Behind him, observers from several countries, including Britain and France, also frowned at the same time, although they were all soldiers, they never thought of flying into the sky to fight one day.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the front line is very dangerous, so my lord Duke specially asked us to pick you up to watch the battle by airship for your safety, and now we are going to take off, if you don't come up, I can only say that I am very sorry."

Xue Muhua's words finally made these officers with their own thoughts grit their teeth and climb onto the airship, and when the cable untied the airship and began to rise, almost everyone turned pale and their feet trembled.

A few minutes later, several airship formations carrying six-ton high-explosive bombs were all lifted into the air, and after forming a super-large formation in the air, they flew towards Incheon Port in the distance facing the rising sun.

In the whistling wind, the ground under his feet swept backwards quickly, and the eleven giant airships around him and several Pacific Army soldiers chatting and laughing in the cabin finally made Percy settle down a little and carefully look at these airships.

Before today, he had never imagined that there would be a more shocking formation in this world than steel warships, but now he finally understood how many people's eyes would be attracted when all these airships, which were only huge on the ground, took to the air

Behind him, observers from several other countries were completely stunned by the huge airship formation, and they finally knew why the port of Yokosuka would be blown to pieces unprepared.

The distance of more than 20 kilometers is more than ten minutes for the airship, and when the huge formation of airships appeared overhead in the morning light of the rising sun, Hasegawa and all the Japanese soldiers who had just been shelled for several hours and could barely raise their heads were completely stunned, and when bombs fell overhead, countless shouts of killing had already sounded on the horizon in the distance.

Persey could no longer describe what he saw, a string of shells fell from the airship, and a few seconds later, the Japanese carefully constructed position immediately turned into a sea of fire, and he saw with his own eyes several heavy 75mm army guns, flying dozens of meters in the air in the explosion.

On the ground, countless soldiers were so frightened that they jumped out of the tunnel and fled backwards, and under the continuous spat of powerful bombs from the airships, the Japanese defense line was pierced into a large hole almost instantly.

"God, Germany must have airships"

Persey clenched his fists and shouted......

PS: This chapter is really badly written, I went shopping with my wife and daughter for a day, it seems that not only my feet are sore, but even my fingers are cramping, and I can't type what I think of, I'm really sorry for everyone

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