More than 200 airships entered Paris, so that the whole of Europe, except for Germany, other countries were stunned by the British and French spending, this is not a hot air balloon, or an early airship, a full set of hard skeletons, plus helium imported from the United States, each airship costs about a million dollars, plus ancillary equipment, the price is high.

It has been almost a few months since Germany first entered the airship era, but there are only a few countries that can follow up with the airship, the Entente side is Britain, France and the United States, the Allied side is Austria-Hungary, and even Russia has not followed up because of the shyness in the pocket.

In Russia's view, a million-dollar airship is enough to equip a large number of troops, in Russia, people are not important, for the tsar, how many gray cattle should be had, arm a division, that is, send some weapons and uniforms, etc., airships, this thing, it looks very useful, but the price of a ship is too high, especially look at Britain, France and Germany, they are hundreds of hundreds, Russia's finances have been on the verge of bankruptcy because of the war, if it is not for the support of Britain and France, it will not be able to support it at all, At the invitation of Japan and the support of Britain and France, he focused on preparing to go to China, on the one hand, for revenge, on the other hand, now rich China, can also give him the opportunity to plunder, although a few years ago in Mongolia defeated, but at that time, Russia only used a little force in the Far East, at most plus local support, and now go all out in the same day, even if the northwest develops, stronger, it is impossible to compare with Germany.

From the point of view of war and economically, Russia is already behind this era, as was the case in the First World War in history. Now, under the premise of strengthening Germany and the Northwest. Even more so, even Russia now. He was also distracted and did not concentrate all his energy on the European battlefield, and in the future he would reap the consequences of his short-sightedness.

What Britain and France want to do, Germany also knows very well, if Britain and France only had a slight advantage in airships before, now it is an absolute advantage, and the balance of power on the battlefield is not easy to break. Once it is broken, a chain reaction will be formed, which is probably what Britain and France are willing to see, after their own 600 airships, there is still room to take out 200 ships, in terms of financial resources, the Entente is not the Central Powers can turn back, even if Germany has the support of the northwest, it is only a concentration of 500 ships. There are still dozens of ships floating across the ocean, but it is no longer sustainable, but according to the intelligence gathered by the intelligence department, Britain and France still have at least more than 200 orders. Production is under intense pace in the United States.

This realization once again strengthened Germany's idea and made a quick decision. Even if it is at a certain cost, the battle must be resolved. Of course, this is certainly not a few months. Or a year's time, it will take a year for the United States to enter the war, and then the northwest will prepare to enter the war, to a certain extent, it can offset the advantages of the United States, and the combination of the northwest and Germany's army can solve the big problem of Russia in one fell swoop, and then concentrate on dealing with the Entente.

It is precisely because they are aware of all this that the German army and navy know very well that they must consume Britain and France as much as possible before the United States enters the war, and this consumption is not how much land they occupy, but the consumption of personnel and financial resources, with the smallest loss, in exchange for the maximum gain, this is the point, it is this strategic change that makes the Battle of Paris like this, not to pursue the loss of one city or one place, but to pursue the annihilation of the living forces of the Entente.

The mobilization of the scale of the campaign, with the intelligence level of Britain, France and Germany, could not be concealed at all, Britain and France prepared almost 2 million troops for the spring Paris offensive, plus the million-strong army in Paris, it was 3 million, the German expeditionary force was about 1.7 million, and there were 800,000 follow-up, 2.5 million against 3 million, and there was still a certain defense to rely on, the German side was relatively optimistic, but the British and French airships were a big problem, and before solving him, the army was not easy to move, once they found a way to get rid of the airship, Not only can it pit out the British and French 100 million pounds of funds, but it can also make the spring offensive end with the advantage of Germany, solve the British and French airship troops, and occupy Paris by the way, which is equivalent to the British and French coalition forces being cut in two, even if some troops can escape, but the overall situation has been decided.

In the past half a month, Mark has participated in more than 10 tactical seminars, and the importance of airships has gradually been placed in a more important position, from Moltke Jr., to the Minister of War, and then to His Majesty the Emperor, the pattern is higher than one another, and the support for the airship unit is also getting bigger and bigger, at least the shooters of anti-aircraft machine guns, from ordinary shooters, have been trained by special forces, and specially trained anti-aircraft machine gun special shooters, this alone, the hit rate of anti-aircraft machine guns will increase by two or three percent.

Mark has been reminded by the intelligence department before, when the British and French reinforcements arrive, it represents the outbreak of the decisive battle, the moment of the decisive battle has finally arrived, Mark's heart trembled a little with excitement, this is probably the first time in the history of world air warfare, the total number of air battles exceeded 1000, the thought of a battleship-sized airship, thousands of shades of the sky, this feeling made every pore of him comfortable.

However, during the decisive battle, he would not confront the other party head-on, but chose to use anti-aircraft machine guns to ambush, which seems to be a little unabided by the rules of knighthood, but in the era of queuing up to shoot a few decades ago, if there is a sniper rifle with a super long range, or Makqin or the like, who will be brain-dead enough not to use these advanced weapons, but to take the old weapons to fight the platoon guns, and if they are backward, they will be beaten. Only by striking hard and facing disadvantages with advantages can we achieve victory.

The General Staff has prepared two plans for the airship troops, but in the opinion of the airship commander Mark, there is only one plan, Britain and France will also come directly at his airship base, and the other plan is a small probability time, that is to say, at the moment of the decisive battle, the British and French targets are not placed here at the German airship headquarters, but in the south of Paris, where there are almost a hundred airships, containing and cutting off the southern route.

On the one hand, the guerrilla airship troops in the south have been further south, from the original 40 kilometers to 120 kilometers, which is almost a 2-hour voyage of the airship, if Britain and France really put the target there, according to the plan of the General Staff, Germany will attack Paris at all costs, with the help of airships, and when the time comes, there will be airships, If the Entente and Central armies in Paris were to fight together, the role of airships would be reduced, and the possibility of forcibly capturing Paris would be greater.

Of course, this is only the last idea, the idea of taking 10,000 steps back, even if Paris is captured, the British and French airships can still run away, and the anti-aircraft machine gun positions he has prepared several times will have no effect.

The reason why the General Staff made this plan was just for comprehensive preparation, what was the purpose of the Entente adding another 200 airships, Germany was very clear from top to bottom, what was the purpose of the spies who were cleaned up by the special forces at the airship base before, such a large base, as long as you have the heart, you can always find it.

On the second day after the 200 airships entered Paris, after such a long wait, Britain and France did not delay much, the spring offensive had already begun, in a vast space of hundreds, even thousands of square kilometers, more than 3 million army forces acted together, and the first shot of the door was the airship troops.

Xia Fei and Haig, did not attack the guerrilla airship formation in the south like the small probability plan of the General Staff, the target was determined from the beginning, directly to the north, when a large number of airships took off, leaving a small part of the force, almost 100 left in Paris, used to guard against the German airships in the south, and the rest took the initiative to attack and challenge the German airship troops, and the world war began for the first time in the form of air combat.

Nearly 700 large airships, in the air, almost obscuring the sky, whether it is the British and French forces or the German army units, are stunned by such a large-scale airship force, the scale of the naval battle is huge, and even the British warships have the reputation of the battleship sea, but the visual effect is not so intuitive, a total investment of more than 150 million pounds of airships is so grandiose in the air, much more intuitive than the battleship, and much more powerful.

With such a big target, it is impossible to hide it, and there is no need to hide it, and the British and French airships have slightly identified the direction, and they are towards the German airship base. Mark was in the command headquarters, and received a notice that the British and French airships had flown into the sky, and the target was pointing to the north, almost aiming at the location of his airship's landing field.

These are no longer problems, a large number of British and French airships flew into the sky, the main force was exhausted, which meant that his opportunity had come, and the positions of anti-aircraft machine guns that had been arranged around had a place to use, with the help of telephones, contacted every point, and after getting a confirmed and undoubted answer, the airships belonging to the German side also took off.

Airships on land can never play the greatest role, even if they lure the enemy, they have to rise, and in the large-scale operation of more than a thousand airships, how much will be lost, Mark has no bottom in his heart, but Germany, which has more cards, should be able to win. Germany confronted, about 500 airships, from several take-off fields into the sky, not as magnificent as Britain and France, but also quite huge, this is a war of airships, no other force can set foot in it, pure and cruel. (To be continued.) )