During the air defense operation, the ship dropped anchor and stopped the ship, completely abandoned its maneuverability, and stopped motionless on the surface of the sea and blew up at will...... This operation is also an operation that no one understands air defense today, and it will definitely make people think of fools if it is put on hold in the future when planes are hung with bombs and torpedoes to hit warships.

But now, Zhuge has his own clever calculations, who would dare not listen?

The sea was calm, the Lushun was gently undulating, and nineteen white airships had formed a bombing formation, one after the other, ready to launch a queue of bombing.

In fact, according to Shimazu Qiliang's order, the No. 1 target of these Japanese airships today should be the Emperor Wu of Han. However, after Saigo Yoshibei Takamori personally went to "dog fight" with Guan Tianpei, the "flying samurai" who replaced him as the leader felt that the Lushun was now a one-man pass, no, a boat was a pass, blocked in the waterway between Jueying Island and the Shenxiantai on the other side, it was a "brave ship", and the man who operated the boat must be the most brave samurai in the Ming Navy, so it was worth bombing.

Since there were no radio stations on these Japanese airships, and there were no lights or flags to dispatch and command, they could only follow the principle of following the "lead boat" in formation. The method of determining the lead boat is based on the number, and all airships have Arabic numerals at the tail, starting from 01 and ending at 20. Saigo took the No. 01 boat, so the lead boat at the beginning was the "Saigo boat". And when the leader boat finds that the airship is blocking the way ahead, he will rush to resist. When the airship behind saw it, it would regard Boat 02 as the new lead boat, and everyone would line up to fly behind its butt and line up to bomb. The order of queuing is numbered, from small to large.

This set of tactics looks very dull, but for an airship that does not have a radio station and cannot command with flags and lights, it can only be dull.

So when the 02 boat rushed towards the Lushun, the other 18 airships also came with it, saying that it was called "lining up to drop bombs", and if it was not good, it was to add fuel to death.

And at this moment, in the bridge of the Lushun on the sea, the tense atmosphere has also risen, and the air defense of the Indomitable last time was sparsely beaten! For the Lushun, the Indomitable also had problems - it was also designed with air defense in mind, and the guns equipped with limited firing angles really made the enemy's airship overhead, and there was no way to fight. And the improvised gun-bearers are also in an unprotected state, and they can kill a lot of people when they miss bullets......

So for Zhuge Weidao, there is only one chance!

He held the binoculars in one hand and a telephone receiver in the other, looked at the Japanese airship that was getting closer and closer to him, and a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Turn on all the speakers on the starboard side...... Attention to the starboard officers, I am the captain Zhuge Weidao, all 45mm guns and 13mm guns are fired in a salvo, the target is the enemy leader boat, hear my order and open fire! ”

Don't underestimate his phone call, this is the most advanced battlefield communication command system in the world today!

Through this system, the bridge can directly issue orders to all units of the ship, and can command the firepower of the whole ship in a unified manner. In addition, through the ship's radio station, it can also organize and coordinate with other ships and even airships in the sky.

In a decisive battle of the fleet, relying on this system, the capital ships of the entire fleet can concentrate fire to bombard an enemy ship!

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Zhuge Weidao telescope, covered the voice receiver on the telephone receiver with his free hand, and then asked loudly: "Report the distance!" ”

"2800 m ......"

"2500 meters!"

"2000 meters!"

"1500 meters!"

"1000 meters!"

With the captain's distance report one after another, the air in the bridge of the Lushun was about to freeze, after all, there were 19 airships approaching, and if they were allowed to drop bombs, the Lushun would be finished.

And Zhuge Weidao stretched his neck to look at the height of those airships, their altitude dropped rapidly, from at least more than a thousand meters at the beginning, now there are less than two hundred meters left, and they are still declining rapidly......

"500 meters ......"

When Zhuge Weidao heard this number, he finally took a breath and shouted loudly into the phone in his hand: "Fire!" ”

Eleven 45mm rapid-fire guns, 30 13mm guns roared at the same time!

41 rounds of lethal ammunition, whizzing and rushing towards the airship hundreds of meters away - don't look at the ammunition is not much, but it is all aimed at hitting! Moreover, the 30 Taiwan gunners are all "sharpshooter non-commissioned officers", and their marksmanship is particularly accurate! If it weren't for the ups and downs under the bottom of the boat, the fire of 30 salvos could have set the airship on fire from 1,500 meters away.

Now it's only 500 meters, how can you miss it?

I saw dozens of fires (tracer bullets) rushing towards the hapless airship in the sky like precision-guided lightning, and just a few moments later, an unknown number of shells and bullets hit the huge air compartment of the airship. This is a hydrogen boat! The airbags inside the chamber contain hydrogen that can be burned with a little spark. Therefore, almost at the same time as the airship was hit, it burned extremely violently, and the huge air chamber of the airship directly turned into a fireball in the sky. Soon, the dazzling, blazing fireball engulfed the entire airship with a speed visible to the naked eye. Then the flames that burned into a ball, in the stunned eyes of the people, slowly fell into the sea, like a sun shot down by Hou Yi.

"Hit!"

The cheers on the bridge of the Lushun suddenly rang out.

Zhuge didn't have the heart to cheer with them, he hurriedly picked up the telephone receiver and ordered loudly: "Attention everyone on the starboard side, target, the enemy's second airship, aim...... Five, four, three, two, one, fire! ”

This time, he didn't wait for the airship to get closer to 500 meters - the Japanese are not stupid, seeing that the airship in front of him has become a ball of fire, why don't they hurry up and run away? So he counted to five, and immediately gave the order to open fire.

Or the concentrated fire of eleven 45-mm guns and 30 13-mm guns, or a hit without suspense, or a blazing fire!

"Attention to the starboard crew, target, enemy third airship......"

Zhuge made persistent efforts for the Tao and continued to command the fire!

I don't know if it's not easy for the airship to turn around, or if the Japanese devils who drove the airship are already dumbfounded, anyway, the Japanese airships in the sky didn't turn immediately, but crashed into them one after another!

And what greeted them, of course, was the strong anti-aircraft firepower of the Arthur!

In the sky, fireballs burst out one after another, and one after another fell into the sea. However, these fireballs that fell into the sea were still getting farther and farther away from the Lushun, from the first one being less than 500 meters away, to the time the eighth fireball fell into the sea, the distance was about 1,500 meters. And the height of these fireballs is getting higher and higher...... By the time the ninth airship entered Zhuge Weidao's line of sight, it had risen to more than 1,000 meters.

Obviously, these Japanese airships have been saving themselves since they found out that something was wrong, but it is not easy for the airships to turn around, and it is not easy to switch from descent to ascent, so they will be knocked out eight by the Lushun in a row.

In order to go to the sky faster, the ninth airship directly threw away the bomb, and the airships behind did the same, all of which lost their bombs to reduce their weight. The airships that dropped their bombs flew into the sky at once, and the anti-aircraft firepower of the Lushun was a little small, but they could not threaten the Ming fleet in the Lushun and the Shadow Base.

"Sir," Wang Wen's voice rang out, "it seems that the Japanese airship has withdrawn...... Are we going to chase it? ”

"Don't chase them, go back with them!"

Zhuge let them go back for the sake of the Tao, in addition to not being able to fight and catch up, just to teach the British air defense...... Air defense relies on accuracy! A high density of fire is a waste of ammunition, and if you hit accurately, you can just shoot two shots.

When these airships like frightened birds retreated, Zhuge Weidao raised his binoculars again to look for the two airships that were jumping up and down and "dog fighting" in the air...... The airship "Dog Fight", this is really an eye-opener!

I don't know if someone will design a "combat airship" in the future?