614 Japanese airships enter the war
Lin Gecheng raised this question to the secret service, and the secret service quickly gave an accurate answer: "Yes, we can pull a few large truckloads of dry firewood, transport it outside the barracks, and then light the dry firewood. β
Lin Gecheng thought about it and felt that the method proposed by the secret service was completely feasible, and the Qing soldiers had never even heard of an airship, let alone knew that someone had ignited a fire on the ground and indicated it as an airship target.
However, Lin Gecheng put forward a requirement, that is, the flame must continue to burn for more than twenty minutes, because the speed of the airship will be affected by the wind speed, so that there will be some fluctuations, the airship may not necessarily rush to the sky above Yuan Shikai's new army camp at the specified time, if the flame burns out in a while, then the airship will not be able to find the flame, the longer the flame burns, the greater the possibility of finding the flame from the ground.
The secret service hesitated for a while, and replied, we can replace the dry wood with more flame-resistant wood, and the wood will be soaked in oil and burn for more than twenty minutes, but in this case, we will need at least a day to prepare, and we will not be able to launch an attack tonight.
Lin then decided to postpone the attack until two days later, giving the secret services two days to prepare.
After two days of preparation, the secret service prepared everything, and then began to operate, on the morning of this day, Lin Gecheng led four Monkey King airships to take off, rushed to Guangzhou Port, and flew to the sky above Guangzhou Port at night, the secret service will pull the wooden cart to the west side of the new army barracks, put it in a cross shape, and then ignite the fire, after the Monkey King airship found the flame cross from the sky, it fired cannonballs to the east side of the flame cross and threw cannonballs.
More than a dozen agents drove the carriage to the west side of Yuan Shikai's new army camp, Yuan Shikai's new army saw these carriages pulling wood, hurriedly came over to stop the interrogation, and the first agent stuffed a piece of silver, and said with a smile: "We are going to send these timbers to the port." β
The officer frowned and said suspiciously: "Why do you still send wood in the middle of the night?" β
"Master Jun, I was delayed on the road some time ago, and now I can only deliver the goods in the middle of the night."
After all, Yuan Shikai's new army was well-trained, and the officer did not simply let them go, but waved his hand and ordered someone to check the goods on the car. β
The leader of the agents hurriedly explained: "The oil is soaked to keep insects at bay. β
How could the officer think of the use of these woods, he didn't say anything, and went to patrol other places with his soldiers, and the leader of the agents saw that the time was ripe, so he ordered his men to light a fire, and his subordinates immediately took out the fire-starting thing, and set the wood on fire, and the oil-soaked wood suddenly burst into flames.
If the agents turned around and ran away at this time, it would be suspicious, the agents trembled and stood aside, looking terrified, Yuan Shikai's new army in the barracks saw the fire outside, felt that something was wrong, and rushed out a team of people, they could not see that the vehicle was in the shape of a cross on the ground.
Yuan Shikai's new army rushed to the front of the agent and asked angrily, "What's the matter?" β
"Master Jun, our wood is on fire, can you help us put out the fire?"
Yuan Shikai's new army rolled his eyes, ignored the agent's request, and let the flames burn, they just stood between the flames and the barracks, not letting the wind blow the flames into the barracks.
The fiery red cross shape looked particularly conspicuous in the sky, and the four Monkey King airships were waiting for the Flame Cross in the sky, and now seeing that the Flame Cross finally appeared, they immediately flew towards the east side of the Flame Cross.
The barracks of Yuan Shikai's new army were lit with firelight, which was very conspicuous from the sky, and four Monkey King airships shot machine cannon shells at Yuan Shikai's new army barracks, and the shells hit Yuan Shikai's new army barracks, shot into the ground, and made a series of "poof" sounds, and some of the shells happened to hit the tents, turning the Qing soldiers inside into a hornet's nest, and the screams came and went in the barracks.
The Qing soldiers who were monitoring the timber truck were shocked and hurriedly ran to the barracks, trying to figure out what was going on, and the agents saw that the Monkey King airship had already started a blow to Yuan Shikai's new army barracks, and immediately fled screaming.
The Monkey King airship gradually flew to the sky above Yuan Shikai's new army camp, and the night of the last air raid, this night was also dark clouds covering the moon, it was pitch black between heaven and earth, and he couldn't see his five fingers, and Lin Gecheng painted the airbag and pod black, so Yuan Shikai's new army on the ground didn't see the Monkey King airship in the sky at all.
The Monkey King airship threw 105 mm caliber shells from the sky, and the explosions sounded in the barracks, causing Yuan Shikai's new army to cry wolf, and Yuan Shikai's new army was killed on the spot.
After all, Yuan Shikai's new army was a well-trained elite division, and the commander immediately decided that we had been attacked by the enemy, and they immediately divided their troops into four directions and rushed out in four directions, southeast, northwest, and northwest, to wipe out all the Huaxia troops that attacked them......
When the Shandong Qing Army and the Zhili Qing Army saw the explosion coming from the direction of Yuan Shikai's new army camp, they all gloated, and secretly muttered, aren't you elite, why are you the same as us now?
Yuan Shikai was furious when he heard that his military camp had been attacked by the Huaxia army, although Yuan Shikai was angry, but he also realized that what his new army encountered was probably not as simple as a sneak attack......
The four Monkey King airships had exhausted all the shells in thirty minutes, and then returned home, leaving a mess to Yuan Shikai's new army.
Early the next morning, someone sent the battle damage report to Yuan Shikai's desk, and Yuan Shikai was furious when he saw the battle damage report, it turned out that last night's sneak attack had caused more than 300 people to be killed and more than 500 to be injured!
This new army was trained by Yuan Shikai with great effort, and now he has lost so much at once, Yuan Shikai is like being cut by someone.
At this moment, someone suddenly came to report: "Lord Yuan, the French adviser Fenerbahce asks to see you." β
Yuan Shikai frowned, and asked in a cold voice, "What are the French advisers here for?" β
"Your Excellency, the French adviser said that he already knew what had attacked us."
Yuan Shikai suddenly became interested, "Quickly invite Mr. FenerbahΓ§e." β
After a short time, Fenerbahce came to Yuan Shikai's approach, and Yuan Shikai hurriedly asked: "Mr. Fenerbahce, you said that you know what attacked us, please tell me, what is the thing that attacked us?" β
Fenerbahce's face was serious, "The thing that attacked you was an airship. β
"Airship? What is an airship? β
Fenerbahce looked up at the ceiling, "An airship is a flying thing, we used it in Vietnam. Fenerbahce said and gave a general description of what the airship was, and then said: "Your barracks have been attacked by large shells, and you have not found the artillery that fired the shells, not even the artillery positions, and it is obvious that these shells have fallen from the airship. β
Yuan Shikai was taken aback after hearing Fenerbahce's words, "The cannonballs of the Huaxia thieves really came from the sky, may I ask Mr. Fenerbahce, how can we resist the airship of the Huaxia bandits?" β
Fenerbahce said in a deep voice: "With your strength, it is extremely difficult to resist the airship of the Huaxia thieves, and you need to use the power of our airship. β
"Your airship, where is your airship? Your country's land in Vietnam has been robbed by Lin Fei, and if you want to bring the airship from the mainland, it will take a lot of time. β
"Well...... Fenerbahce hesitated for a while, then said: "We sold the airship technology to Japan, and Japan has now copied the airship, you can send someone to discuss with Japan, and ask Japan to send an airship to assist you." β
It turned out that since the French airship was shot down by Lin Fei with a rocket, the French decided that the existing airship was not enough to adapt to the future war, so they made a favor and sold the relevant technology of the airship to the Japanese, and used the money from the sale of technology to develop new technologies, while the French airship technology was relatively low-end, and the Japanese quickly mastered it.
Yuan Shikai shook his head gloomily, "Mr. Fenerbahce, it's good to have Japanese friends come forward to help, but there is one point, Japan is too far away from us, and it will take several days for the Japanese airships to come. β
Fenerbahce smiled and shook his head, "The airship seems to be powerful, but it has a natural shortcoming, that is, it is too far from the ground, it is difficult to accurately identify ground targets, you just need to hide your military camp and not let people see it from the sky." β
Fenerbahce then told Yuan Shikai the details of the camouflage methods, which included covering the tent with a net made of green cloth strips and extinguishing all lights at night.
Yuan Shikai ordered his subordinates to disguise the military camp according to Professor Fenerbahce's method, and at the same time asked people to send a letter to Beijing, asking Japanese friends to send airships to help participate in the war.
In order to avenge the burning of the mountain fire, Japan had already prepared to participate in the war, and after receiving Yuan Shikai's request, it immediately agreed to send an airship to assist Yuan Shikai in the war, and promised that the airship could be sent over within three days, and the airship battle between China and Japan was about to break out.
During these three days, Lin Gecheng continued to launch air strikes against the Qing army according to Lin Fei's instructions, but Huaxia agents told Lin Gecheng that the Qing army began to set up camouflage facilities in the barracks, and the Qing army seemed to have realized that what attacked them was an airship.
Since the Qing army has realized this, it makes no sense for Lin Gecheng to choose to attack at night, so Lin Gecheng decided to attack the Qing army during the day, and used the huge body of the airship to shock the Qing army.