717 Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment
Yuki Hayawa's order is beyond reproach, the speed of the Mingjiang-class airship is still very fast, and there is great hope that it will break through the range of fire of the LGS-1 anti-aircraft guns, and if the Mingjiang-class airship can break through the range of fire of the LGS-1 anti-aircraft guns, then the plan to bomb Beijing can still be carried out smoothly.
Yuki Haizawa hung out the signal flag to continue the charge, and ordered his No. 001 general-class airship to take the lead and rush forward.
Since the general-class airships flew forward under the fire of the LGS-1 anti-aircraft guns, there were more airships hit, and the number of airships shot down also increased, and in less than five minutes, three more airships were shot down, counting the three that were shot down before, there were only twenty-four general-class airships left.
Yuki Hayawa saw one after another general-class airships shot down, but he didn't have the slightest intention of turning back, and ten minutes later, three more general-class airships were shot down, leaving only twenty-one general-class airships flying to Beijing.
However, the general-class airship still did not fly out of the strike range of the LGS-1 anti-aircraft gun, and the general-class airship was hit by a cannonball, and for the general-class airship, the even more unfavorable situation is that after the general-class airship was hit by a cannonball, the levitation performance and speed performance have decreased, that is, the speed of escaping from the fire range has been greatly slowed down.
Almost all the general-class airships were injured, and a few of them were still on fire and crumbling, and at this time, another horse team came in the distance, this time the horse team, there were twenty carts, and the carts were also covered with tarpaulin, and the things under the tarpaulin were a large chunk larger than the LGS-1 anti-aircraft gun, and the speed was much slower than the car that had just pulled the LGS-1 anti-aircraft gun.
The team of horses is moving towards the battlefield and seems to be about to join the warband.
Yuki Haysawa saw the new horse team and twenty carts in the sky, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, these strange things have beaten us very badly now, why are they coming again?
When Yuki Hayazawa was surprised, he saw twenty carts stop on the ground, and when the tarpaulin was lifted, the things underneath were exposed, and I saw that such things were the same as the LGS-1 anti-aircraft guns, they were all artillery guns, and they all had long barrels, and this kind of artillery had only one barrel, which was much thicker and longer than the barrel of the LGS-1 anti-aircraft guns.
This kind of thing is another type of anti-aircraft gun, the LGS-2 anti-aircraft gun, why did Lin Fei develop a type of anti-aircraft gun when there was already an LGS-1 anti-aircraft gun? The reason is simple, because the production of anti-aircraft guns of the LGS-1 type is slow, expensive, and difficult to equip on a large scale, it is necessary to equip the front-line troops with a low-cost anti-aircraft gun to facilitate large-scale equipment.
Lin Fei decided to improve the original HP-2 75mm howitzer, increase its firing angle, and increase its firing range, which led to the LGS-2 anti-aircraft gun.
The rate of fire of this type of anti-aircraft gun was about five pieces per minute, and the rate of fire slowed down, the requirements for the barrel were reduced, so the cost was reduced.
This type of anti-aircraft gun is manually loaded, while the LGS-1 anti-aircraft gun is automatic loading, which has high requirements for automata, so the cost of automata is expensive, and the LGS-2 anti-aircraft gun is manual reloading, which does not require automata, so the cost is reduced by a large block.
The firing group of the LGS-2 anti-aircraft gun, like the LGS-1 anti-aircraft gun, consisted of five people, including two ammunition men, a shooter, an aimer and a commander.
The LGS-2 anti-aircraft guns erected their barrels in the wilderness, and before the guns were fired, Yuki Haysawa in the sky noticed that these LGS-2 anti-aircraft guns finally became the last straw that broke Yuki Izawa, and Yuki Hayazawa hurriedly ordered a retreat.
Although the LGS-2 anti-aircraft gun had a slow rate of fire, the caliber of the shell was large and powerful, and a shell was shot out, and the shrapnel formed was enough to cover the airspace with a diameter of more than 100 meters.
With the loss of a large number of airships, Yuki Izawa's general-class airships finally escaped the killing range of the LGS-1 anti-aircraft guns and LGS-2 anti-aircraft guns, and began to fly towards the base.
The places where the general-class airship flew were all Huaxia territory, and as long as it landed, it would definitely be caught by the Huaxia military and civilians, so the crew of the general-class airship chose to collectively break jade in the sky, and they detonated the bomb and blew themselves and the general-class airship to pieces.
After several hours of difficult flights, there were only six Admiral-class airships that flew back to the base, and each of these six was injured.
For Yuki Uizawa, the injury, crash, and death of the crew of the famous general-class airship were not the most uncomfortable things for him, but the most uncomfortable thing for him was the merciless ridicule of the Japanese soldiers.
In fact, this is not to blame ordinary Japanese soldiers, the crew of the famous general-level airship is usually a high-flying guy, the Japanese army treats these people as treasures, and the food is much better than that of ordinary Japanese soldiers, ordinary Japanese soldiers can eat fresh meat every five days, and these people have fresh meat to eat almost every day, eggs to eat, and milk to drink.
The treatment of the crew members of the famous general-level airship is so good, they themselves feel fluttering, they usually don't look at ordinary Japanese soldiers, they are arrogant to the Japanese soldiers, shouting and drinking, and the Japanese soldiers have long looked at them unpleasantly.
Now that the famous general-level airship has returned from defeat, the Japanese soldiers really feel a bad breath, and they are talking behind their backs, and some senior officers also ran to the front of Uizawa Yuki, and said arrogantly: "Haizawa-kun, the empire has invested a lot of money in your famous general-level airship troops, but you can't win glory for the empire when the empire is humiliated, but the empire has suffered even greater humiliation, you should disembowelment to thank the emperor." ”
Yuki Hayazawa was annoyed in his heart, but there was nothing he could do, and in desperation, he could only ask Nogi Noshinori for help, asking for cooperation with Nogi Noshinori to attack Shanhaiguan.
Nogi Xidian had long had the idea of attacking Shanhaiguan, and he also wanted to capture the Qing people like he had done before, and then use them as meat shields, but then he didn't do so, because the Huaxia army was already on guard, and this trick was difficult to work.
So Nogi Noshinori came up with a plan, that is, to let the general-class airship bomb the defense line of Shanhaiguan, and then the army attacked and conquered Shanhaiguan.
Nogi Noshinori then mobilized a brigade and more than 5,000 troops to launch another attack on Shanhaiguan, this time with six general-class airships taken off by Yuki Izawa to serve as the first wave of attack forces.
On 13 December, Yuki Izawa led six general-class airships to Shanhaiguan to prepare to drop bombs on the position, but what Yuki Haysawa would not have imagined was that the defenders of Shanhaiguan had been organized into an air defense regiment and armed with 30 LGS-2 antiaircraft guns.
At this time, Lin Fei has fully realized the importance of the army unit's defense of airships, although the bombing of airships is not so effective (because the bomb landing point is not accurate), but it can bring great psychological pressure to the soldiers of the army, just imagine, there is a thing that will throw bombs flying above your head, what do you feel.
Therefore, Lin Fei decided to equip the army with LGS-2 anti-aircraft guns and organize them into air defense regiments, on the one hand, to give substantial damage to the enemy airships, and on the other hand, to give psychological comfort to the army soldiers, and more importantly, the LGS-2 anti-aircraft guns are an improved artillery from the HP-2 75mm howitzers, and if the firing angle is lowered, it can also be used as ground support firepower.
At this time, the firepower of the Huaxia Army was quite insufficient, a division only had 30 HP-2 75 mm howitzers and 15 HP-3 105 mm howitzers, and the HP-1 howitzer did not need to be counted, while the British troops, a division had more than 200 artillery pieces of various types, France had more than 100 guns, and Germany also had more than 100 guns, and Germany's armored vehicles were developed very quickly, and weapons similar to Huaxia armored trucks had already entered service.
In order to increase the ground firepower of the troops, Lin Fei had to increase the number of artillery pieces, and the LGS-2 anti-aircraft guns were organized into an artillery regiment, which could be described as killing two birds with one stone, which not only strengthened the ground firepower, but also provided anti-aircraft firepower.
The only fly in the ointment is that such improvements also increase the logistical supply requirements for the troops, for which more trucks must be produced, more railways and roads must be built, and more transport ships must be produced.
At ten o'clock in the morning, six scarred general-class airships flew towards the Huaxia Army's defense line, and the Huaxia Army soon discovered them.
As soon as the soldiers of the Huaxia Army spotted the general-class airship, they immediately reported to the air defense regiment, and the air defense regiment was stationed at the rear of the battle line, and immediately made preparations for battle after receiving the report, aiming its guns at the airspace where the general-class airship was about to appear.
At half past ten o'clock in the morning, before the famous general-class airship flew into the range of the LGS-2 anti-aircraft guns, the commander gave an order, and 30 LGS-2 antiaircraft guns poured shells into the Mingjiang-class airship, and clouds of smoke exploded in the air, and one after another anti-personnel fragments were fired at the Mingjiang-class airship.
The debris tore through the airbags, pierced the pods, and some even pierced the tanks, spilling gasoline from the tanks like rain.
Haize Yuki originally thought that the weapons of the Huaxia Army that could hit the famous general-level airships were only available in important cities, but he didn't expect that they were also available in places like the Shanhaiguan defense line.
Uizawa Yuki was horrified, but he didn't order a retreat, if this attack failed again, he would be ridiculed to death by those colleagues, he would rather die than be ridiculed by others, Uizawa Yuki then gave a death order, even if it was all jade shatters today, it would blow up the defense line of the Huaxia Army.
Yuki Hayawa's subordinates hurriedly advised: "Captain, we can't fight hard, let's retreat." ”
"We can't retreat, if we retreat, our general-level airship troops will definitely be ridiculed to death by those ground soldiers!"