"Sir, airships, lots of airships! Here we are! ”

The staff officer cried out in despair at George. Yilu's ears rang, and the unyielding command tower was suddenly filled with an aura of fear. George. Brigadier General Yoshiro just stood on the platform outside the command tower, looking up at the airships flying in line in the sky, filled with remorse in his heart.

He never thought that the ambush of the Ming Navy was actually in the sky!

He originally thought that after disbanding the formation, he could give full play to the British Royal Navy's strengths in fighting and fighting, and win in chaos, even if he couldn't really win, as long as he drove the four warships of the Ming Navy from Japan's territorial waters into the Pacific Ocean, he could claim victory.

And the development of things at the beginning was as he expected, and the Ming Navy also scattered in formation and fled south. Because the Lushun class and the Xinchang class are very fast, and the captains of the British Royal Navy are very clever. So George. Yoshiru believed that the result of this pursuit must have been that the Royal Navy had succeeded in chasing down the enemy...... Of course, this is also a victory!

As for the Revenge, the front and rear turrets were destroyed...... That's not his fault, it's the designer's fault, the armor on the Revenge is thick and many, it's protected everywhere, why is the turret just missing? Shouldn't that be the most important thing? Didn't the Revenge rely on those four 13.5-inch cannons to fight? Without these four cannons, the Revenge will only have 10 6-inch guns left, and 5 on one side, and the firepower is not as good as the Lushun class!

In addition, the four 13.5-inch cannons were not accurate at all, and the rate of fire was so slow that it took three to five minutes to fire a shot...... This cannon is useless at all!

And even more useless than the 13.5-inch cannon of the monarchy class is the 16-inch front-loading gun of the Unyielding class...... The 16-inch gun is still front-loaded, and when loading, the muzzle of the cannon must be put to the lowest first, so that the gunners can work hard to stuff the shells into it, which is simply an old cannon of the last century!

Obviously, the Royal Navy of the British Empire was not ready to fight a world war at all, and although the Royal Navy looked glamorous, it was not ready to be prepared!

So George. Yilu is already ready to "accept it when it is good", and after driving the Ming Navy out of Japan's territorial waters, it will be necessary to let the British Empire withdraw from Japan. As for how Daming cleaned up Japan...... The British Empire would have had to give all support but help!

But George. Yilu never thought that the Royal Navy would be ...... again and again when doing the best thing of "taking it when it is good" Another accident!

There are actually airships of the Ming Navy ambushed in the sky above Ji Yin Waterway, and these airships obviously have the ability to attack the sea! Needless to say, the plumes of smoke rising from the sea are the airships of the Ming Naval Aviation—otherwise how could they fly from the place where the plumes of smoke rose into the air?

Now I just don't know who was bombed? Looking at the appearance of thick smoke, it should not be a destroyer of several hundred tons that has been blown up, but a cruiser of several thousand tons......

At the thought of air raids, George. A particularly desperate question came to Yilu's mind.

How to fight the airship in the sky?

It is certainly impossible to use a 16-inch front-loading gun, and it seems that a 6-inch half-rapid-fire gun will not work...... Not to mention the slow rate of fire, the angle of fire was not high enough to shoot into the sky - the Indomitable was built and commissioned during the Napoleonic Wars, and there were no hard airships in those days!

As for the 2-inch rapid-fire gun...... It seems that it is impossible to shoot into the sky, because a shield is installed on the cannon that limits the height of the artillery, which is used against torpedo boats and sweep the decks of enemy ships, and it is not even considered to use it to hit targets in the sky.

Come to think of it, George. Cold sweat broke out on Yilu's forehead!

Although the firepower configuration of this Indomitable is very outdated, it is also a large ship with a full platoon of almost 12,000, and the protection ability is very strong, enough to withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery, as long as the artillery is upgraded, it will be a good ship again.

Now I'm going to blow up and sink the airship, but it's too unjust......

"George, our British Empire is not yet at war with the Ming Empire, if we can show them that we have no hostility, maybe ......"

George. Yoshiri glanced back, and it was his cousin Charlie who made the genius suggestion. The Law of Righteousness.

"So, how should we show that we are not hostile?"

"You can raise a white flag that symbolizes peace......"

"Charlie!" George. Yi Lu glared at his cousin, "What are you talking about?" How can the Royal Navy of the British Empire fly a white flag when it sees the enemy? ”

"But we ...... What to use to hit the airship in the sky? "Charlie. "The Indomitable is an old battleship, and it doesn't even have a large-caliber machine gun that can shoot at the air. ”

"With, with......" George. Yilu thought hard about it, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "With a rifle!" There's a new bass rear-loading rifle on the Indomitable! Rifles can shoot into the sky! ”

The so-called "new bass" rear-loading gun is actually a copycat of a certain type of rear-loading rifled gun of Daming, so it is not named after the designer or the factory, and is simply called "new bass" to distinguish the old-fashioned brown bass from the rifled bass (also a copycat gun).

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By 1827, this new bass rifle was no longer advanced, but it could "shoot the sky", and there was always a shooting height of several hundred meters, and it was much more reliable to use a rifle to hit an airship than a katana.

Come to think of it, George. Yilu gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Quick, hurry up and gather the sailors, except for those who must hold their posts to keep the battleship at high speed and fight with artillery, everyone else will take their guns to the deck...... The Royal Navy must hold its ground and fight to the death! ”

"Yes, sir!"

Well, the British Royal Navy has become the army in line to be shot, all to Charlie. Yilu was gathered, one by one, and a new bass was lined up in many rows on the deck of the Unyielding, and everyone was at gunpoint, waiting to fight the airship.

......

"Flag the Unyielding Horn and make them surrender!"

When the airship team of the Daming Naval Aviation approached the Indomitable, Guan Tianpei, who was riding on the airship, issued an order that was difficult to execute - how to write flags on the airship?

While the pilot and communications on the airship were in a daze, Observer No. 1 was already shouting: "Sir, the enemy ship Indomitable not only surrenders, but also dares to fire at us!" ”

"Fire?" Ma Xuchen, who served as the captain (and at the same time the captain), was stunned, "What are they firing with?" ”

"With a rifle!" The observer said, "The British sailors are standing in a row on the deck of the Indomitable, each with a rifle, shooting at us!" ”

This ...... An ironclad battleship with a full platoon of almost 12,000 tons, or a battleship with 4 16-inch guns, is now actually playing a real queue to shoot!

And the object of the shooting is still an airship floating in the air at a height of more than a thousand meters!

"Shoot a platoon? That's a ...... The spirit is commendable! Guan Tianpei nodded in admiration, "The Royal Navy of the British Empire really lives up to its reputation!" ”

Ma Xuchen on the side said with a smile, "No matter what, if you fall behind, you will be beaten...... This is the famous saying of King Wuzhong! ”

All the military academies of the Daming Army and Navy, as soon as you enter the door, there is a huge stone tablet, and this sentence is on it!

Guan Tianpei nodded and said, "Okay, now is the time for the British Empire to be beaten backward...... Since they won't surrender, let's start fighting! Captain Ma, you command. ”

"Yes!"

Ma Xuchen immediately took over the task and ordered loudly: "Generate electricity for each boat...... The formation was changed into a column, and the whole team followed the flagship boat, with an altitude of 1200 and a speed of 20 knots...... Fly over the top of the enemy ship Indomitable in turn and prepare to drop bombs! ”