Chapter 274 Germany needs an airship

The Han River is winding and the water is foggy.

A stone bridge crosses the Han River from north to west, connecting the capital of the Li Dynasty, which has ruled Korea for hundreds of years, with the Han River. From here to the west, it is Incheon, the largest open port in North Korea.

People with a little geographical knowledge know the important surname of Incheon. During the Jiawu period, the two countries competed fiercely here, and the later generations of MacArthur also chose this place, because everyone knows that as long as they cross the port of Incheon, there will be no danger in Seoul 30 kilometers away.

As the capital of the country, the largest city in North Korea, no matter who takes Seoul, it means that it has gained dominance and cut the whole North Korea in half.

Even if he is not very proficient in military affairs, at least he has seen many military cases because he likes artillery giant ships. What's more, it is impossible for Master Li, who has been excellent in geography since he was a child.

The commander-in-chief of the army stationed in North Korea, said that the general of the army, Shanxian Youpeng, was also very aware of this very well. Therefore, after the Pacific Army crossed the river and entered Yizhou, it not only did not send reinforcements for a long time, but also took the initiative to shrink the defense line after the continuous attacks and disturbances of the Korean Rebels, focusing on the troops in Hancheng.

Because he knew that from Yizhou to North Korea and then to Seoul, the mountains, forests and deep paths were rugged all the way, which were not suitable for large-scale marching at all, so he also chose to station heavy troops in Seoul.

Judging from the map, Incheon is the sea gateway of Seoul, and its geographical location is very important. Three years ago, the Japanese army launched an arduous battle with the Qing army here.

But the problem is that the opponent at that time was the Qing army with low combat effectiveness, and now it is the more powerful Pacific Army. Their army is not weaker than Japanese, and more importantly, they have a strong fleet.

Incheon's terrain is flat and there is no danger to defend. The most important thing is Ganghwa Island, which is known as the Incheon barrier. However, after careful consideration, Shanxian Youpeng still chose to give up this front position, not because he was timid, but because he cut off the contact between North Korea and Japan in the Pacific Fleet. He did not dare to hope completely. Put it on the navy that has no news so far.

Ten kilometers!

This is the maximum range of naval guns in various countries known to Youpeng in Shanxian County, so he made a decisive choice, completely gave up the front line of Incheon to confront the Pacific Army, took the initiative to retreat to the safety range ten kilometers away to build a garrison, and put the most elite First Army here.

The 15,000 garrison and the 10,000 Korean puppet army were separated by more than 20,000 people. They clamped Incheon like the same iron pliers, waiting for the Pacific Army to get out of the protection of the naval gun and automatically send them to the iron pliers.

"The plan is good, but Youpeng in Shanxian is out of date!"

In the battle room of the commanding tower under the navigation bridge of the Jinghai ship, officers from the first division of the army and the captains of the four Jinghai ships sat in a regiment. The commander-in-chief of the Incheon landing war, Tan Xiaozeng, the chief of staff of the navy, drew a circle on the small blackboard with chalk. The shelling range of 15 kilometers was enough to knock down the stationed first division. Down!

Although the combat effectiveness of the army cannot be underestimated, they are outdated when the equipment and concepts are lagging behind! Twelve huge hippo-class airships have been prepared for the empty Jianghua Island. They will provide continuous air support for the first division in the next few days. When the bomb falls from a height of 1,000 meters beyond the reach of the Japanese army, despair will spread in no one's mind.

"It's right."

Tan Xiaozeng first raised his watch. In order to improve the time concept of commanders at all levels of the army, Master Li is probably the most generous leader in the world. Once 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 rank has sent one Blocks.

"The shelling will start at 2 a.m. and at 5 a.m."

"Start logging in!" -

In the sinking twilight, more than a dozen ground soldiers began to slowly ease the cable of the No. 02 airship. The observer and bomber hurriedly carried the last basket of grenades to the airship. At the moment of closing the pod door, the airship suddenly soared like a run-out wild horse.

Looking at the reconnaissance airships that left first, Percy, who hurriedly arrived here in Ryukyu, took a deep breath. In order to understand 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 airship No. 02 was responsible for reconnaissance and correction of naval gun coordinates this time, and only carried a few small bombs to attract targets, several observers were obviously unwilling to let go of such a good opportunity. They specially brought a full 500 grenades from the army, ready to let the Japanese soldiers taste what is like rain.

A few minutes later, the radio signal of the reconnaissance battalion commando was intercepted by the radio station on the boat. Through the informationless radio waves sent from three fixed points, the navigator monitored the radio correspondent quickly completed the positioning and flew towards the target.

After absorbing the experience that the last time the No. 07 airship caught fire caused by a bullet hit by a bullet at a low altitude, coupled with no sinking bomb drag, the No. 02 airship rose to an altitude of 1,300 meters, and this altitude rifle bullet was basically no longer a threat.

Thirty minutes later, a light spot suddenly lit up on the ground under his feet. After flashing three times in a row, it suddenly disappeared. The pilot immediately pulled the steering gear, and the huge airship began to fly over the target that had just appeared.

Three minutes later, the hovering airship dropped the first bomb at the light.

Boom!

A huge explosion woke up Hasegawa in his sleep. He was so scared that he jumped up from **, grabbed the rifle leaning against the gun and rushed out with his companion.

For a whole month, the troops had been sleeping with their clothes and were always ready to land from the western sea, so the explosion suddenly made everyone nervous, and soon a torch of light lit up in the barracks.

Hasegawa quickly found his team leader and ran quickly to a low slope under his leadership, which was the only commanding point around, so he not only arranged ten 75mm army guns, but also six Hakkaesian machine guns purchased from France. His wing was covered with cannons and machine guns. To stop the enemy from breaking through the defense line.

Hasegawa ran with all his strength, rushed to the low slope and immediately ran into the battle position. The long tunnel formed an arced defense line in front of the low slope. It is said that this is also an experience learned from the enemy's battle to block the Russians.

In that sniper battle, the other side blocked tens of thousands of Russian [***] teams with this kind of tunnel and machine gun method, and now it's their turn to taste their own invention.

After gasping for breath and finding his position, Hasegawa suddenly frowned, because he found that the explosion had only happened once, and the fireball generated by the explosion in the distance was hundreds of meters away from the barracks. Is the other party adjusting the artillery coordinates? But why didn't you even hear the gunshots?

Just as all the Japanese soldiers were wondering, a buzzing but low voice suddenly came from their ears. Everyone hurriedly looked around, but they didn't know that death had begun from the top of their heads.

Under everyone's ridicule, the bomber slapped himself fiercely at the fireball that began to get smaller in the bomb bay door. He didn't expect that the error would be so big. He waved his hand to his partner angrily, pulled a whole box of grenades to his feet, lifted the lid and took out a pull lead from inside, and didn't wait for the smoke to come out. The grenade was stuffed back into the bullet box and pushed it down fiercely.

The action of the habitual surname made the ammunition box fall quickly. When it was about to land, the box suddenly exploded. Fifty detonated grenades exploded ten meters above the head of the military tunnel, and countless steel balls and shrapnel swept through like a hurricane.

The bomber did not know how many people had been killed by his runiform cluster bomb, but this explosion was like stabbing a hornet's nest. Nearly ten thousand eyes were attracted to this vague egg-sized sound. While the soldier was frightened, he immediately raised his gun and shot up.

Suddenly, countless light spots rose from the darkness, scaring several observers and captains and hurriedly ordered to continue to rise.

Looking at the airship that was getting higher and higher and gradually turned into a small black spot, Hasegawa swallowed. He didn't know what it was, but somehow this flying thing always gave him a feeling of extreme uneasiness.

A few minutes later, Hasegawa finally knew where the uneasiness came from. When hundreds of shells exploded from the front of the position, the fire flooded all his thoughts in an end--

"Do you really want to go up?"

"Major Percy, if you don't want to, I won't force you." After withdrawing his eyes from Xue Muhua's smiling face, Percy turned his head and looked at the huge airship in front of him, and his feet trembled a little.

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

"Guys, the front line is very dangerous, so for your safety, my Duke specially asked us to pick you up in the airship to watch the battle. Now we are going to take off. If you can't come, I can only say that I'm very sorry."

Xue Muhua's words finally made these thoughtful officers grit their teeth and climb onto the airship. When the cable was untied and the airship began to rise, almost everyone was pale and their feet trembled.

A few minutes later, several airship formations carrying six-ton high-explosive bombs were all launched. After forming a super-large formation in the air, they flew to Incheon Port in the distance against Xu.

In the whistling wind, the earth under his feet swept back quickly. The eleven giant airships around and several Pacific soldiers talking and laughing in the cabin finally calmed Percy down a little and carefully looked at the airships.

Before today, he never thought that there would be more shocking queues in the world than steel warships, but now he finally understands how many people will be attracted when all these huge airships on the ground are launched!

Behind him, observers from several other countries were also completely shocked by the huge airship formation. They finally knew why Yokosuka Port would be blown into rags unprepared.

The distance of more than 20 kilometers is more than ten minutes for the airship. When the huge airship formation appeared overhead in the morning light, Hasegawa and all the soldiers who had just been shelled for a few hours and could hardly raise their heads were completely stunned. When a bomb fell from the top of their heads, the horizon in the distance was Countless shouts sounded.

Percy can no longer describe the picture he saw. A string of shells fell from the airship. A few seconds later, he said that his carefully constructed position immediately turned into a sea of fire. He saw with his own eyes several heavy 75mm army guns flying dozens of meters in the explosion.

On the ground, countless soldiers were so scared that they jumped out of the tunnel and fled back. Under the airship constantly spitting out amazing bombs, it was said that my defense line was pierced by a big hole almost instantly.

"God, Germany must have an airship!"

Percy clenched his fist and shouted.

(to be continued)