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June 18, 255 (1914), Hanjing.

After dinner, Wen Desi was watching Wen Jiàn, but Xin Jie, the chief of the General Staff, came in a hurry.

The two greeted each other for a few words, and Xin Jie said with a smile: "Mr. Wen, at half past eight Paris time this morning, a large-scale air battle broke out between Germany and Britain and France in the airspace near Paris, and both sides invested in the air fleet......

"Uh, that...... What about their air fleet? I was just wondering why they didn't use it now, but I didn't expect it to be used today......" Buntokuji smiled strangely.

"It's all been filmed, it's still the whole thing, I've already brought the video, do you want to see the results yourself, or do you say it......" Xin Jie smiled and took out a small memory card.

"Okay, let's see it myself, this kind of thing is like watching an expired ball game, and it's not interesting to know the result. Wen Deji took the memory card and put it in his optical brain to activate it, and began to watch the live video inside.

The video was taken by an unmanned mineral surveyor at an altitude of 20,000 meters, because the European war is currently a hot spot in the world, Wen Desi assigned five of the only six unmanned mineral surveyors to the past, one to monitor the western line of Britain, France and Germany, one to monitor the eastern line of Austria and Russia, one to monitor the southern line, and only one was left for backup in the country.

I saw that in the picture on the screen, densely packed armed airships and warplanes took off from dozens of large airports in Britain and France and flew towards Paris. Naturally, such a large-scale operation could not be hidden, and the Germans quickly responded, also taking off a large number of armed airships and warplanes. From the commentary and subtitles, it can be understood that this time, the British and French forces dispatched a total of 2 armed airships of various types, as well as more than 8o fighters. The Germans dispatched 18 armed airships and more than 7oo warplanes.

Because the plane degree is faster, it is the fighter plane that arrives at the destination first, so the melee of the plane is the first.

At half past six, the first warplanes of the two sides began to make contact, and as the number of planes on both sides gradually increased, at about 7 o'clock, the main aircraft groups of both sides arrived at their destinations. I saw thousands of warplanes of various types slaughtering in the sky over Paris, and from time to time planes were smashed into a ball of fireball, or dragged black smoke down from the sky, and umbrella flowers appeared in the sky from time to time. At this time, the two sides had not killed the red eye, and they still retained some demeanor, and neither attacked the other party's parachute pilot.

One of the German planes painted in red was particularly active, shooting down seven British and French fighters in a row. Later, it was given a close-up, which was a German Albatross B fighter with dozens of vertical bars painted on the rear fuselage and vertical tail (the results achieved by the German fighters were indicated by the vertical bars painted on the vertical tail, and the vertical bars carried the nationality of the downed enemy aircraft).

"Who is this red guy?" Mr. Wen couldn't help but ask.

"Manfred von Richthofen, nicknamed Baron ......⊥," replied Singje, who was next to him.

"The performance of the albatross should not be as good as our swifts, but it is indeed worthy of its reputation to be able to do this kind of Cheng dù...... Uh, another ......" Just as he was asking, the red plane shot down another opponent. Mr. Wen suddenly asked subconsciously: "Is there such a master among our pilots?"

Xin Jie thought for a moment and replied, "It's not hard to say, but we also have a lot of good pilots." For example, the Air Force's Jin Hai, Wei Dabao, Hua Gai Mu, and the HNA's Chu Wangyuan, Huang Zhong and others are all trump cards with more than 2 records...... And our air combat tactics are more about teamwork rather than their own efforts. ”

Wen Deji nodded, and continued to look without asking any more questions.

Since the J-"Swift" fighter plane purchased by Britain and France from China was put into combat some time ago, it is no longer as powerless as in the past. Although the performance of the "Swift" fighter is not as good as that of China's active aircraft, it is still slightly better than the German Albatross B fighter. However, many excellent pilots of Britain and France were lost in the early air battles, and most of the people who participate in the air battles now are rookies.

Although the British and French fighters had a certain advantage in performance, the pilots' experience in combat was far inferior to that of the German pilots.

Half an hour after the air battle was carried out, the British and French pilots were obviously panicked, and they were gradually suppressed by Germany, coupled with the continuous search for aircraft attacks by Germany's ground anti-aircraft fire, the losses of British and French fighters began to rise in a straight line. At about 7:4o, the British and French fighters could not resist and began to retreat.

At point B, all the British and French fighters retreated, and this time they had more than 2o fighters shot down on the spot, and 2o with varying degrees of damage. And only 6o German fighters were shot down, and hundreds of them were injured. There are also more than 4oo more aircraft capable of fighting.

However, the current battle was only the first half of this air battle, and soon after the British and French fighters retreated, the British and French airship troops arrived, while the German airship troops were still in formation because of the greater distance.

On this plane, because of China's reference, as well as Xie Zhantai's big fool, oh, I mean that the "experts" are vigorously advocating the "airship winning theory" in the world, and the major powers are also vigorously displaying airships, and because China has dug a pit for the great powers to jump, countries have vigorously imported technology from China and invested a lot of energy in research, and its exhibition is far greater than that of the same period in the original time and space. In recent years, more and more large airships and giant airships have appeared in the skies of various countries, and giant airships of this size are no longer rare.

The largest of them is China's Xiang Whale class, which is 2o meters long and 6 meters wide, with 30,000 cubic meters of airbags inside, with an empty weight of 1oo tons, and the total buoyancy provided by the airbags reaches -6 tons, and the giant airship with an effective carrying capacity of O tons can be used, which is larger than the unfortunate Hindenburg. However, this whale-class is a transport airship, not an armed airship. Second only to China is Germany, whose Hindenburg class appeared in the sky two years earlier, but this is a modified Hindenburg class, absorbing the technology provided by China, not only equipped with auxiliary propellers around the hull, but also the hull structure has been greatly improved compared to the prototype.

Germany's largest strategic armed airship is the "Rheinland Gold class", which is the armed version of the Hindenburg class. It is equipped with a twin 15o mm main gun, a 6mm secondary gun, a 7mm and 7mm guns, and a B machine gun.

The British "cherubim" (also called the Angel class) and the French "Giffar class" were smaller than their German counterparts, and the main guns were also 6-inch, and the secondary and archival guns were fewer. Since they are all imported Chinese technology, these airships are relatively similar in appearance, and the most obvious difference is the livery. Orange-red livery in Germany, yellow in England, blue in France.

In order to cover the formation of their own airships, the German planes rushed forward first. Due to the high altitude of the Anglo-French airships at this time, the German aircraft could only attack from below. The Great Powers are not fools either, and although they also believe that airships are the masters of the sky, they are not defenseless against aircraft. Because the ceiling of the aircraft at this time is far inferior to the airship, the best way to prevent it is to fly at high altitude, as long as it rises above 86 meters, the plane can basically only sigh and have no choice.

But this time Britain and France were preparing for an air fleet battle with Germany, and they carried too many weapons and ammunition, so they couldn't fly that high, and could only rise to a height of 6oo meters. This altitude is ineffective ⊥ most anti-aircraft guns, but the aircraft can attack.

Of course, at this time, the aircraft did not have turbocharging technology, and once the altitude reached 66 meters, it was very sluggish, and the power and degree of the aircraft were greatly reduced. Therefore, to ensure maneuverability, the aircraft of this period were basically engaged in air combat in the airspace below 36 meters.

But at this time, I can't care about it, if I let the British and French airship arrays attack the airships that are still arrayed on our side, most of this air battle will be lost. The German fighters threw aside the order and rushed forward in a frenzy. Armed airships have a characteristic, they have the strongest firepower in the lower hemisphere, and once they are in formation, they cover each other, and even the main guns can be used.

After the German plane's attack intentions were revealed, the British and French airships immediately began to attack. I saw thousands of guns and machine guns spewing out long tongues of fire, intertwined into a dense network of fire under the airship array. The German plane, on the other hand, was now in the climbing stage and was unable to maneuver significantly, and after hitting its head into the fire net, it suddenly hit its head and broke the blood flow. Although the German aircraft are also firing, only 2 Albatross fighters are still firing from the back, and the power is greatly reduced, while the lower hemisphere of the armed airship is a key protection area, and the bottom of the pod is equipped with armor at least 1o mm thick, and the machine gun only adds a few pits. Although the airbags are not armored, the machine gun bullets are too small, and they only pierce a few small holes when they hit it.

In less than five minutes, the Germans were shot down by more than three planes, while only a few of the British and French airships were slightly injured. The remaining German planes saw that the opponent's firepower was too strong, so they immediately divided into several roads and circled around the airship array.

"Did the British and French airships use hydrogen or helium?" Seeing this, Wen Desi frowned.

Xin Jie explained on the side: "It's a mixture of gases, hydrogen on the inside, and helium on the outside. Mr. Wen, in fact, even if it is an all-hydrogen airship, as long as it is at an altitude of more than 66 meters, it is difficult to ignite if it does not use a special incendiary bomb. Germany is now using ordinary bullets, and unless a third of the airbags are broken, it will not do much damage to the airship......"

"Hehehe, in that case, our airship isn't all pit people......" Wen Deji smiled.

At a time when all countries are investing huge sums of money and massive manpower and material resources to vigorously develop "air battleships" and "air cruisers," China has only built the first one and has not built it, and the large and giant airships that follow are all bombing and transport-type, and these airships are only equipped with small-caliber guns and machine guns of less than 6 millimeters at most. However, in order to confuse foreigners, these airships are equipped with large-caliber fake turrets made of iron, wood and plywood, and then painted with a layer of metallic paint, anyway, as long as you don't look closely, no one can tell that they are fakes.

About 2 minutes after point B, under the harassment of German planes, the German airships lined up in array, so the airships on both sides began to bombard each other with their main guns. Unlike the battle line of the naval battle, the confrontation between armed airships is directed towards the enemy, so that the recoil is taken into account, and the stability of the airship cannot be compared with that of the battleship after all, the displacement and swing caused by the side shot are larger, and the displacement caused by the enemy is much smaller, and the area to be attacked can also be reduced. There is also one of the biggest differences from naval warfare, which is the shells. Because the defense of the airship is much lower, the shells used for the airship's main gun are basically shotguns and grenades, in order to destroy the opponent's airbags as much as possible.

Due to the desperate harassment of German aircraft, the British and French airship arrays were defensive in two rows, and the rows between the boats were relatively dense. And the German airships can calmly line up in multiple rows of attack formations. This is equivalent to the fact that the German airship is the same as the British and French airships, and all the airships can wield firepower, while the British and French airships only have two lines against the German airships, and only the first two rows of airships can wield firepower. So as soon as they came into contact, the British and French airships suffered a big loss.

I saw that the main guns of the airships on both sides fired in unison, the red and yellow cannon flames reflected half of the sky, the ribbon-like ballistics crisscrossed the air, and the downed airships fell like meteors.

The power of the 15o mm main gun is not comparable to that of machine guns, and in less than ten minutes of shooting, more than a dozen airships were dropped, all of which were from the British and French forces. Only a few German airships were injured, and one of them was more seriously injured, and it broke away from the array and descended towards the ground, which was in the German-controlled area anyway.

At this time, the German planes also circled around the British and French airship arrays from all sides, and the German planes, led by several aces, swooped down from the airship and violently attacked the most vulnerable upper hemisphere of the airship. Although the German planes did not have incendiary bombs, they attacked by concentrating more than a dozen planes on one airship. Airship airbags can't stop bullets, although breaking a few won't affect the flight, but it's broken a lot, and it's still fatal.

Under this round of attacks by German aircraft, four more airships were shot down. There were also two seriously injured ships, which could no longer maintain an altitude of 66 meters, and were descending rapidly, and the German planes hovering below immediately rushed up to watch as soon as they saw an opportunity. The lone airship that broke away from the array was extremely vulnerable in the face of the swarms of aircraft surging from all directions, and was smashed into two huge fireballs in less than 2 minutes.

As soon as the German pilots saw that this tactic was effective, they immediately concocted the same tactic and carried out repeated dive attacks. And when the German airship was also in chaos, it took the opportunity to approach the attack.

This large-scale air battle was a prelude to an attempt by Britain and France to counterattack and retake Paris. After a total of more than five hours of fierce fighting, the Luftwaffe finally emerged victorious. The Anglo-French fighters lost a total of 336 aircraft (shot down on the spot and lost after returning), more than 3o were damaged, 6 airships were lost, and the rest were all wounded. In total, 214 German fighters were shot down, more than 1oo were wounded, 2 airships were shot down, and more than 4o were wounded. Since it was impossible to regain air supremacy, this counteroffensive operation ended without a hitch.

"Hahaha, this kind of air fleet battle looks really good, it's spectacular, but it's not practical......" Wen Deji said very regretfully after watching the whole air battle.

"That's right, in front of our fighters, the airship is a large target, whether it is a hydrogen airship or a helium airship...... Xin Jie also said with a smile: "But Mr. Wen, according to our intelligence, in order to break through each other's trench tactics, the warring parties are likely to be tanks next......"

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