"Enemy plane found!"

When the lookout on the mast of the "Wakamiya Maru" saw the colorful bird in the sky through the telescope, he was stunned at first until the fuselage was painted orange, and the tail and wings were green.

The alarm was issued only when the gray aircraft dived and lowered its altitude.

At this time, the entire Second Fleet and the landing force could clearly see the appearance of the Big Bird aircraft. The flying Big Bird was colorful, and under its wings, five-color stars could be clearly seen.

The two sides of the fuselage are painted with flying five-color stars. The five-color star is the symbol of the Chinese army, and this is obviously a Chinese aircraft.

"Look, it's a German Merkel aircraft!"

Major Yozo Kaneko, who had studied flying in France, only took one look at it and immediately shouted loudly that unlike other aircraft, the Mercades was a monoplane, and the shape of the entire aircraft was completely in the shape of a bird.

Compared with the Falman aircraft, it is more like a big bird in the sky.

"Captain, we will take off soon!"

Seeing the sailors preparing to operate the Hotchkiss five-centimeter anti-aircraft cannon to attack the aircraft, Fujise Masaru quickly shouted to Kaneko Yozo that his plane was originally put down for reconnaissance, but he never expected that it would encounter a Chinese aircraft just after it was put down.

That would allow those sailors to take advantage.

"Let's play with them!"

Zhu Xiangcai, who was flying a Mercados aircraft, did not know that he was almost targeted by an anti-aircraft gun. In fact, the entire Second Fleet did not have many anti-aircraft guns, because aircraft did not pose a great threat to warships, so there were only "Wakamiya"

Maru" has anti-aircraft guns, and a French Hotchkiss 3-pound improved gun is installed on each side of the superstructure. This gun was named a 5-centimeter anti-aircraft gun by the Japanese.

"Boy, don't you think you want to intercept me?"

Looking at the Falman 1912 seaplane released from the seaplane carrier, dragging two white waves and paddling to take off, Zhu Xiangcai couldn't help but mutter something, and at this time a strange look flashed in his eyes.

Almost as soon as the Falman aircraft was still paddling to take off, he began to climb.

After the improvement of the Mercados aircraft, the back seat has been eliminated, so there is naturally no back seat gunner. However, when setting off, Zhu Xiangcai brought one - a Type II submachine gun! This was prepared by him in case of unexpected events

, he believed in submachine guns more than pistols, especially when flying this untrustworthy Michael Tes aircraft.

Since intelligence showed that the China Army in Qingdao also had several aircraft, in order to facilitate identification and prevent unnecessary trouble caused by misunderstandings on our side, huge "Hinomaru" was painted on the upper and lower main wings of all aircraft and on both sides of the fuselage.

But what Zhu Xiangfei saw in his eyes was just a few solid red circles. The pilot of the Falmant 1912 aircraft, Lieutenant Fujise Katsu, and the observer, Lieutenant Kyonobu Osaki, controlled a Falmant 1912 seaplane to take off.

After that, Fujise Katsu began to search for targets in the air.

"At...10 o'clock, his height is about 800 meters!"

Osaki Kyounobu pointed to the 10 o'clock position and said.

"You're not trying to escape, are you?"

"It does not seem!"

After responding, Fujize Katsu adjusted the plane's course, and when it flew towards the China plane, he said to Osaki Kyounobu.

"Load the machine gun!"

The Falman aircraft originally did not have machine guns. Although France is the world leader in aircraft manufacturing technology, it has also tried to put machine guns on the aircraft. However, due to the complicated control of the machine gun, the shooting effect was extremely poor, but nothing was done. However, due to experiments,

For this purpose, at the request of Kaneko Yozo, a batch of Biez-Mercher machine guns were recently ordered from France to equip aircraft.

"But we seem to be a little outnumbered!"

"No, the Michaelis aircraft has no weapons!"

Because the aircraft flies slowly and steadily, pilots and observers can "comfortably" observe the ground conditions from the aircraft and use cameras to take photos. However, the aircraft cannot withstand the recoil of machine guns, so when pilots from hostile parties meet in the air

, they often salute or wave to each other cordially. At most, some brave pilots shoot each other with pistols in the air, just like during the Mexican Civil War.

"Haha, this is the first air battle in East Asia!"

"coming!"

Seeing the Falman aircraft approaching his plane, Zhu Xiangcai raised the corner of his lips, held the joystick between his legs, and while maintaining the heading, he held the handle of the Type II submachine gun in his right hand, loaded the gun with his left hand, and then

Putting the submachine gun on his legs, he flew towards the Japanese Navy Falman aircraft.

"Look, they're approaching!"

On the sea, almost everyone turned their eyes to the sky. Most of the Japanese sailors and army soldiers standing on the deck also saw an aircraft for the first time. They looked up at the sky, not knowing what would happen next moment.

, just looked at the two planes in the sky curiously.

Finally, minutes later, the two planes met head-on in the air. When the distance was still about 200 meters, Zhu Xiang felt a chill on his back. Only then did he vaguely realize that the back seat of the Falman plane actually had a

Holding a machine gun.

Although he found that the other party was operating a machine gun, he found that the other party had no intention of firing. While calming himself, Zhu Xiang slightly adjusted the course to fly over the right side of the other party. At the same time, he waved to the other party like a gentleman according to the pilot's rules.

After greeting and waving, he held the joystick with his left hand and operated the submachine gun with his right hand. He tried to put his left arm on the stage and put the barrel of the submachine gun on his arm.

"Say hello to this Chinese pilot!"

The other party showed a gentleman's demeanor. Naturally, Fujise Katsu didn't want to be left behind. Since he said so, Osaki Kyounobu naturally wouldn't refuse. The two planes, which were a hundred meters apart, slowly got closer and closer. When they were still more than ten meters away,

At that time, Zhu Xiangcai, who was wearing a flying suit, a flying hat and a white scarf around his neck, first gave a military salute to the Japanese pilots, while Fujise Katsu and Osaki Kyounobu returned the salute.

Almost as soon as he put down his right hand, Zhu Xiang, who was smiling with the joystick between his legs, used his thighs to prop up the seat and leaned his upper body out of the plane, while his hands were already holding submachine guns. At this time, the two planes were almost "passing each other".

"And pass by", the distance is only a few meters.

"hello!"

When a sentence of English came out of the mouth of the Chinese pilot, Masaru Fujise and Kyonobu Osaki, who had put down their hands, were about to reply, but they saw the hands of the Chinese pilot who was flying "on the wrong shoulder" raised in front of him, and there was an extra thing in his hand.

The thing - it was a gun, and at this moment the smile on the Chinese pilot's face turned into a sneer.

The moment he held the submachine gun flat in front of him and pointed the barrel slightly downward at the opponent, Zhu Xiang pulled the trigger. When a series of rapid gunshots sounded, his eyes were choked by the smell of gunpowder blown by the wind, but he still saw rounds of bullets.

It hit the fuselage of the Falman aircraft. There was no need to aim at such a close distance.

"Baga!"

Almost as soon as he saw the gun, Fujise Katsu pressed the control stick fiercely, trying to avoid the opponent's attack. However, when the plane suddenly turned, he heard a scream from behind him, and when he turned his head, he saw

Osaki Kyounobu's chest was filled with blood. Before he could curse again, the aircraft engine made a strange sound accompanied by gunshots and clanging sounds, followed by a cloud of black smoke, and the engine was hit.

!

"Cunning Chinaman,"

Kaneko Yozo, who had been paying attention to the sky, saw the plane dragging black smoke and struggling to fall towards the navy, and cursed loudly, the Chinese people are too cunning, they must be a sneak attack!

At this moment, Kaneko Yozo's No. RO B seaplane had just been lowered from the ship.

"Lieutenant Armed Forces, prepare to take off immediately, we must shoot down the China plane!"

Zhu Xiangcai, who succeeded in one blow, dared to stay there. Almost as soon as he emptied a magazine, he flew the plane towards Qingdao. However, when he looked back at the falling plane, he saw that

As if he remembered something, he picked up the Seagull 35mm camera made in Lianyungang and took two pictures in succession towards the plane he shot down.

"It's a hornet's nest!"

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw two more seaplanes rowing and taking off near the seaplane carrier. Zhu Xiangcai, who realized that he might be under siege, was still happy and decisively used the maximum power of the aircraft engine to catch the enemy plane.

While paddling, he quickly jumped to an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, ignored the strong upper air currents and hid in the clouds, flying towards the Ilqis Airport.

However, the two Japanese aircraft led by Kaneko Yozo could only climb to an altitude of 2,600 meters during the pursuit. In the end, they were unable to catch up due to the two-person load and poor engine performance, and they could only watch the enemy leave.

"Baga!"

Looking at the enemy plane going away, Kaneko Yozo cursed bitterly, but faced with the reality that the speed and ceiling were far lower than the enemy's, he could only curse and return to land.

The Japanese officers and soldiers on the warship, who were staring at this novel and unfamiliar air war, mostly looked at the plane that crashed into the sea with depressed expressions. The result of this air battle really exceeded their expectations. First, a plane crashed into the sea.

The Japanese plane was easily shot down, and the two planes that pursued it did not even see each other's shadows, allowing the Chinese plane to escape.

"Why!"

The unexpected result of the air battle only made Kato Nobuyoshi disappointed. It was at his instigation that the planes came over from the mainland to investigate. The original intention was that the "Wakamiya Maru" could send out waterborne weapons like the exercise a few months ago.

The plane conducted a reconnaissance on the fortress target of the Chinese army defending Jiao'ao, but they never thought that it would be easily shot down by them just for taking a photo.

"This is the plane..."

"It looks like a toy, no wonder it can be shot down easily!"

"But the Chinese plane is more like a toy!"

"Seems more like a big bird!"

The murmurs around him only made Kato Nobuyoshi's mind sink, but when he looked at the two landing seaplanes, he said firmly.

"At least they repelled the planes of the China Army, which didn't have many planes!"
Chapter completed!