As long as the German airship troops were annihilated, the entire French sky would belong to them, and they could calmly support the ground and encroach on the Germans' territory step by step. But it backfired, and the sudden blow directly wiped out the advantages they had previously gained.

As far as the eye can see, at least more than 30 airships are sinking, almost twice as many as the previous downed Germans, the most important thing is that the attack is from the ground, compared to the airship, the ground attack is more sustainable, it seems to be a kind of machine gun, but no one knows, what hurts them so much.

I don't know how the troops on the ground attacked them, but the commander of the airship knew very well that at this moment, he had to get out of here, and under one look, he lost more than 30 airships, and nearly 100 were under attack, and the rate of fire of machine gun bullets, if he went all out, a large amount of metal could be tilted away every second.

At this time, it shows the weakness of the airship, if it is replaced by an airplane, directly use afterburner, so that the speed increases suddenly, and quickly escapes from the unfavorable situation, but the airship has a strong ground attack, the speed is too slow, only 60 kilometers per hour, even if it flies at full speed, that is, about 1 kilometer a minute, their location is concentrated in the most comfortable place for the range of the anti-aircraft machine gun, even if you want to run, it will take time to leave the range of the anti-aircraft machine gun position, at least more than 3 minutes, But it is not easy for the airships gathered together to accelerate. 3 minutes, almost a nightmare.

A storm of metal is raging. As a last resort, the commander of the airship had no choice but to order the airship. Scattered and fled, I have to say that only by scattering and escaping from all directions can we stay away from the airship position.

Every minute, there is an airship falling, and in just 3 minutes, for the British and French airships, it is a mile of blood and fire. They didn't realize at all that their airships had dispersed, and the German airships, which had already scattered in all directions, began to slowly assemble and bypass 5 kilometers away

The machine-gun position, because the machine gun has no eyes, if the German airship enters the machine-gun position, it is under indiscriminate attack. It will also be shot down, according to the training, there must be a minimum distance of 2 km, for German airships. The first opportunity has been taken, and it has been confirmed that it has been shot down, and there may be dozens. Or even hundreds of ships, the gap between the two sides. Completely smoothed out, the rest of the airship. Most of them are injured, this is the best opportunity, even if they fight everything, they must completely take down the other party.

The airship lowered its altitude, and it was very difficult to rise again, for this battle, the German airship prepared some helium cylinders, which could replenish gas for some of the airbags, but this speed was too slow, and the fighters were fleeting, they threw down a large number of ballast things, and even some of their personal belongings, and some of the personnel who did not have much role also went down the rope, each ship probably cleaned up about 1500 pounds of things, plus a few minutes, kept replenishing helium, The altitude of the airship slowly rose, from about 600 meters to 1,000 meters, which was higher than the height of the opponent's airship.

Mark also knew that this was a tragic battle, especially since Britain and France did not have all the troops involved, and there were almost 200 ships still at a high place, overlooking the battlefield, although he was a little disjointed, about 3 kilometers away from the battlefield, but for them at full speed, it was two or three minutes.

Therefore, some of the airships remain at an altitude of 1,000 meters, and the others, about 200 ships, they must keep rising, and maybe, when the rest of the other airships arrive, they still do not rise to the same height, but they must also move forward to entangle them.

This is a ruined choice, Mark knows that when he is determined to sit down, even with the help of anti-aircraft machine gun positions, it is very cruel for the airship troops, and they must bear the risk of being crippled. But at this moment, he has no choice, he must seize this opportunity and kill all the other party, otherwise, there will be huge twists and turns in the battle of Paris.

5 minutes, a full 5 minutes, in the midst of danger and barrage, the British and French forces desperately left the opponent's position, some forward, some backward, in short, leaving these 12 dangerous areas, which can ensure safety.

In the end, the statistical result is that in the 5-minute attack, the airships that fell to an altitude of 1,000 meters were shot down a total of 189 ships, and about 100 ships were heavily damaged, although they were not shot down, they lost power and could not leave the area of the machine gun position, which was almost 300 airships, which were destined to be shot down.

The remaining airships, the wounded also accounted for a small half, completely undamaged, no more than 150 ships, hurriedly escaped the position of the airships, thinking that they were finally lucky to escape the catastrophe, but they encountered a head-on attack from the German side, occupying an absolute advantage, with 450 against 480 or so.

It seems that the number of the two sides has been pulled down to the same level, but everyone knows that this is not equal, the remaining 200 ships of Britain and France, they did not make the right choice at the most critical moment, did not rush over to meet their airships at the first time, but dodged far away, for fear of emerging some machine gun position.

Later, when the German airships rushed to the British and French airships, these airships woke up like a dream and rushed towards the German airships, but in these few minutes, the 200 airships that Germany met them had risen to the same height as them, 1500 meters, and even kept rising.

If it is said that the airship that was not attacked by the anti-aircraft machine gun was evenly matched, then the airship that had just come out of the attack of the anti-aircraft machine gun and was still in a scattered state could only be the object of pursuit by the Germans, 250 against 280 ships, and even had a certain upper hand in numbers, but 100 ships were injured in one way or another, and the British and French troops were afraid.

At the beginning, the Anglo-French coalition will not be afraid, even if it is replaced by the Anglo-French coalition 250 against 280, it will not be afraid, but the numerical superiority may not necessarily fail, in the air battle, a bullet to solve an airship, it is not nothing, both sides are equipped with large-caliber cannons, before the fight, there is any possibility.

Now, the unknown underground artillery fire, so that at least 250 airships, have been shot down, this is a blow to the head, God knows if there is anything similar below, the soldiers almost immediately understood, this should be a machine gun, I don't know why it can be hit so high, but for a country, as long as it goes all out, it can be made, as much as you want.

If you were a country, would it be a complete conspiracy for the Germans to attract them to attack in the woods below? It is based on this premise that the airships that are scattered are not turning around to attack, but fleeing in a panic.

Britain and France somewhat underestimated the difficulty of this anti-aircraft machine gun, but at this moment, for the soldiers, the first instinct was this, they had lost the opportunity, in order to avoid the 12 machine gun positions, they fled in a hurry, and there were about 280 airships, but there were less than 50 of them really together, divided into more than 50 different teams, which was fatal for this station, and also announced their end.

The Germans could carry out a battle of annihilation with more and fewer battles, just as they had done over the North Sea, and Britain and France could only flee in the desert. After the slightest asymmetrical pursuit battle, Germany ended the world's largest air battle with an extremely large advantage.

In the two battles, in addition to the results of the anti-aircraft machine guns, 200 against 200, the battle was 108:180, and less than 20 airships fled in the desert, which was basically the previous 3:5 shootdown ratio, which was relatively normal. Another battle group, the ratio of 250:280, was 65:220, almost three times the difference, and in the whole air battle, the Germans lost a total of 192 airships, but the British lost a relatively large number, 715 ships, after this battle, only 65 airships finally escaped back to Paris, and the rest were shot down to the north of Paris.

The world's first large-scale strategic air battle took only two hours to completely end, creating a history of air warfare and even the history of human warfare. Germany not only achieved a strong shoot-down ratio, but also suffered extremely asymmetrical losses, with more than 2,700 British and French airships killed and 10,800 captured, while its own damage was only more than 600.

The reason why so many are shot down, the number of casualties is very small compared to the number of downed, the key problem is that the airship is not an airplane, his specific gravity is lighter than air, even if it is broken through the airbag, loses buoyancy, and begins to fall, but will not fall sharply, it will fall slowly, only 800 meters in height, and when it comes to the ground, the direct fall to death is very small, most of them are in the battle, directly hit by the opponent's bullets, wounded and killed.

However, this air battle showed a huge problem, that is, the entire theater of operations was within the control area of the German Army, and if the airship landed, it would not be in the air, and the troops on the ground had already passed, and the already staggering airship fighters had no other way to do it than surrender, and there were even many wounded and captured airships.

The Germans suffered huge losses, but most of the airships can be repaired, as long as the skeleton is not completely destroyed, the airbags and helium are ready-made, including more than 200 ships in Germany and more than 700 ships in Britain and France, and may be repaired in the future at about 60%. (To be continued.) )