Chapter three hundred and sixty-eight sea and air battle
The sky soon darkened, and in the afterglow of the sunset, I saw a ray of sunset glow in the sky.
"General, look for the reward, no Chu people's airship was found."
"Well, change the navigation, right-speed flight 5." Zhou Leng breathed a sigh of relief. No airship continued to approach, which meant that the airship might have just appeared here unexpectedly, but why did it appear on the sea?
The Shengong City Iron Armor Fleet released an air fleet according to the naval combat operation points, scattered around the enemy ships. According to the calculation method in the regulations, airships were dispatched to the possible task directions of the enemy ships.
The night is coming, and this is also the most difficult time. A bright moon illuminates the sea, and airships can only fly higher and farther, because they are easier to discover than warships.
In other words, before the airship sees the enemy fleet, it is possible that the Austrians will find it first, which is absolutely not allowed.
According to Mr.’s strategic guidelines, fight or not. As long as you feel that there is a slight danger, give up and not fight.
That night, Zhou Leng slept well, but Zhang Le didn't dare to sleep. He shot out hundreds of instructions with crossbow arrows to prepare for the captains of each ship.
This is a kind of air defense hand break that Zhang Le developed when he was fine. Since he had not tried it, he didn't know whether it was feasible.
For some reason, Zhang Le always has a sense of crisis, and this feeling comes from the sky.
In the east, a touch of white fish belly just appeared. Tiger King and Lan Bing, who had not slept all night, received rewards from the airship and found that the enemy fleet was thirty-five miles away and fifty miles away from the coastline.
Lan Bing turned her head and looked at the Tiger King, her little face turned red, and she could tell that she was very excited. At the same time, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes. Her husband's regulations were very useful. Without eyes, she could find the huge position of the enemy fleet by just calculating by paper and pen. This made her feel incredible.
In fact, this is really not difficult. The sea is flat, with only so many directions, and the maximum speed of the warship is also limited. In addition, time is used as a condition, any junior high school student can calculate the answer.
"Commander Tiger, it should be possible to attack thirty-five miles away. We need more attack time." Lan Bing said.
Although there is air superiority and the airship is very slow, it depends on whether God gives you face. If the wind direction is wrong, you need to spend more time looking for the corresponding airflow, otherwise the wind will be blown to the opposite direction.
"You are the captain commander, as long as you don't violate the Dharma." The Tiger King was also a little excited, squinted his eyes and hid his emotions very well. The gentleman said, as a commander, you must keep calm at all times, which will make his subordinates feel at ease.
The Tiger King didn't know what to keep calm and what expressions to use? He had been struggling for several months, but in the end Renault couldn't stand it anymore. He told him to keep his expression blank, which would be great.
From then on, the Tiger King paid great attention to his expression, and even when he was the most enjoyable to go to the bathroom, he insisted on being expressionless.
"Telection, all air teams gather to check the ammunition and prepare to enter the attack position."
Renault did not expect that he developed the wireless phone, which always had problems and had a short distance of signal, played an unexpected role in sea and air combat.
Although it has various problems, there are 200 wireless phones in the air force, and dozens of them will receive commands with good luck, and then pass the commands to companions through original methods such as flags and phrases, which increases the speed of command delivery by geometric multiples.
In an era like Dachu, sending orders is actually a very troublesome thing. Not only is it inefficient, but it even often sends wrong commands. With a wireless phone, the effect is much better.
There is a reason why Renault asked for the best attack in the early morning and to cease before sunset. The airship was very slow and was greatly affected by the airflow. Lan Bing issued an order to assemble and prepare for the attack. It took tens of distances, and four air fleets completed the order for two full hours. At this time, it was almost noon.
"The second team attacks from the left, the third team from the right, the first team in the middle, and the fourth team is the reserve team." Lan Yunxi issued an order, except for the air team entering the combat procedure, Lan Yunxi will take over the command, which is Lei Shi Caodian's request.
The huge airship unit could be seen clearly within dozens of miles away, and Zhou Leng and Zhang Le naturally saw it.
"Prepare for air defense." Zhou Leng sighed lightly and said, "This is the sea, not the land." Even if he is a master, he can do nothing.
"Transmission, all warships, transport ships, and prepare for air defense." Zhang Le sent an order. It was daytime now, just use flag words. It was not like night, and you needed to use crossbow arrows to shoot at other ships with letters.
Renault spent a lot of time deducing the calculations, but it was useful. Airships were not comparable to aircraft, and they would be discovered far away, giving the enemy fleet enough reaction time.
The crossbow, bundles of crossbow arrows, and sulphurs were moved to the deck, and the sailors climbed up and down the mast, hanging a large number of fishing nets on it. Although this would affect the speed of the ship, it could act as an intercepting bomb.
At this time, the bomb is actually a ignited explosive pack, which has no armor-piercing ability. Even a 100-pound bomb will explode after being buffered by the fishing net and the length of the leads, intercepted by the fishing net, and fall on the deck.
"What is that?" Zhou Leng asked as the sailors raised dozens of bamboo tubes on both sides of the ship's side.
"General, that's a water dragon." Zhang Le replied.
Warships are most afraid of fire attacks, so there are a large number of water dragons on each ship to extinguish fires. Throw the pipe belt into the sea and shake the handle to absorb water from the sea and spray water columns from the bamboo tubes.
"Shuilong? Prepare to put out the fire?" Zhou Leng nodded slightly. Zhang Le was still a very good commander.
"Not all, General, in addition to preparing to put out the fire, I am going to use it to attack the bomb bag." Zhang Le said.
"Oh!" Zhou Leng was a little surprised, but he quickly understood. The bombs of this era were thrown from the air after being ignited. Not only did they have no armor-piercing ability, but they also did not have any waterproof attack ability, so they could not fight on rainy days.
If the fuse is extinguished, even as long as the black gunpowder is wet, it cannot be detonated.
"Very good, a good idea." Zhou sneered. It seemed that the huge air fleet in the distance was not that scary.
Facts have proved that bombing warships with airships is much more troublesome than imagined. Airships are unstable in air traffic, and sea breezes have caused great trouble to the air force.
A warship that is nearly 100 meters long seems not small, but at a height of hundreds of meters, it doesn't look that big. The airship is moving, and the warship is moving. For those aviation soldiers who have no mathematical knowledge, it is very difficult to drop the bomb to the right position.
Chapter completed!