"Well, I can name the airship after you, but not by the name Tsiolkovsky, so let's think of a good name, I can say it, you can see if it's okay."

Tsiolkovsky nodded and asked, "What a good name?" ”

"Your Chinese name is Qi, I think it's called Qi Tian Dasheng, how about it?"

Tsiolkovsky's eyes lit up, "Monkey King? Is it a character from that famous book? ”

Lin Fei nodded, and Tsiolkovsky laughed, "Okay, our airship is called Monkey King, which is not only majestic, but also has my surname, which is really good." ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "Then I will give an order to officially name this type of airship, by the way, I have decided to use this type of airship in this response to the counteroffensive of the Qing court, and you will immediately hand over the first batch of airships produced to the Air Force." ”

Tsiolkovsky was stunned, "Give it to the Air Force?" We don't seem to have an air force in our empire's military establishment, right? ”

Lin Fei regretted for a while, he did not mention the name of the Air Force, just a moment of smoothness, the Air Force said, Lin Fei hurriedly said: "Well, that's right, we don't have an Air Force, you hand over the airship to the newly formed Airship Brigade, the handover process should be as short as possible, and I will go to the Airship Brigade to inspect in three days." ”

In this way, the Monkey King airship officially entered the service of the Chinese army, but Lin Fei did not establish an air force, this is because since Lin Fei used submarines to win the Nanyang World War, the eyes of military experts from all over the world have been focused on Lin Fei, waiting to see what new things Lin Fei will come up with.

Lin Fei was worried that once he took out the name of the Air Force, it would arouse the interest of all countries in the world in the Air Force for airplanes, but now it was 1899, only three years before the Wright brothers first manufactured airplanes, and at this time, all the conditions for making airplanes were already in place, and only one person was left to stand up and pierce this layer of window paper.

Lin Fei, who is familiar with the history of the development of weapons in the world, knows very well that airplanes are weapons and equipment that will change the times, so Lin Fei regards airplanes as a killer weapon for his future operations, and Lin Fei does not want to stimulate all countries in the world to develop airplanes, so that Lin Fei's aircraft advantage will be gone.

It is precisely for this reason that Lin Fei did not take out the plane, in fact, with Lin Fei's current technology, it is easy to take out an aircraft like the Wright Brothers, and it is also possible to take out a military aircraft in the early stage of World War I, but Lin Fei did not do that, what he is doing is to make technical reserves for aircraft, even if the powers develop aircraft under the stimulation of Lin Fei, Lin Fei can always maintain a technological advantage.

The development of an airplane requires a lot of mathematical knowledge, because designing an airplane requires a large number of fluid dynamics calculations with a huge amount of engineering, and there are no large number of mathematicians who can't play it at all......

In the following three days, Tsiolkovsky handed over the first batch of Monkey King airships to Lin Gecheng, the captain of the airship brigade, and Lin Gecheng was overjoyed that he, an air force officer, finally had air combat weapons and no longer had to curl up on hot air balloons as scouts.

In the past three days, the Huaxia agents have also figured out the detailed march route of the Qing soldiers, and Lin Fei immediately made targeted deployments, but Yuan Shikai's new weapons and equipment, the Huaxia agents did not figure it out.

On the fourth day, Lin Fei went to inspect the airship brigade, Lin Gecheng accompanied him throughout the whole process, and introduced Lin Fei to the detailed parameters and operational use plan of the Monkey King's airship.

Lin Gecheng introduced to Lin Fei: "Our four Monkey King airships are named 'Golden Hoop Stick', 'Fire Eye', 'Seventy-two Variants' and 'Somersault Cloud'."

Lin Fei laughed on the spot, "Xiaolin, how much do you love watching "Journey to the West", you actually gave the airship such four names. ”

Lin Gecheng smirked, Lin Fei continued to smile and asked: "In the future, our Monkey King airship will have a lot of it, how do you name it, there are only a few Monkey King's skills and treasures, it will not be enough." ”

"Your Majesty, don't worry, we have already thought about these, and if there is a Monkey King airship in the future, we will call them 'Havoc in the Heavenly Palace' and 'Three Dozen White Bone Spirits'......"

Lin Fei couldn't help laughing, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, you can tell me the detailed parameters of the Monkey King airship." ”

"Okay, our airship, 156 meters long, 19 meters in diameter, and about two tons in weight, Lingo, you didn't ask Professor Tsiolkovsky to use hydrogen as a filling gas, if we use hydrogen as a filling gas, the load capacity can be about five to six tons."

"No, use hydrogen as a filling gas, absolutely not, you better use hot air honestly."

Hydrogen will explode, the safety is very poor, in the era of Lin Fei during the First World War, the British in order to deal with the German Zeppelin, specially made high-explosive bullets and incendiary bullets, when used, the high-explosive bullets first penetrate the air bag, so that the hydrogen and air are fully mixed, and then the burning bullets produce high temperatures, detonate hydrogen, and turn the entire airship into a blazing fireball.

In fact, Lin Fei really wants to use helium as the filling gas of the airship, but unfortunately Lin Fei has no way to make helium now, so he can only use hot air first, although Lin Fei has chemist Haber under him, but helium is an inert gas and does not react with other substances, so it cannot be made by chemical methods, and can only be purified by physical methods, but how to purify, Lin Fei will not, Lin Fei is not omnipotent, and it is impossible to know everything.

Lin Gecheng nodded and continued to introduce: "Our Monkey King airship is a hard skeleton airship, different from the French airship we have seen before, we have all seen the French airship, it is a soft airship, there is no hard skeleton in it, and the combat effectiveness is much worse than that of the hard skeleton airship, it is worth mentioning that the skeleton of our airship is made of aluminum alloy. ”

The Chinese Empire has been able to produce aluminum alloy on a small scale, in fact, the industrial exploration of the production of aluminum alloy, Lin Fei carried out when he first built the power plant, but unfortunately there is a shortage of mineral resources such as bauxite, after more than two years of exploration, the production of aluminum alloy, after the construction of eight airships, there is not much left (four for testing, four for the army).

However, now Yunnan, Guangxi and Vietnam and other places are in the hands of Lin Fei, these places are rich in bauxite resources, aluminum alloy industry is emerging, and the future aluminum alloy can be widely used in various types of combat aircraft of the Chinese Air Force.

Lin Gecheng said that Lin Fei is very clear, after all, the use of aluminum alloy as the skeleton is Lin Fei's decision, when Tsiolkovsky wanted to use alloy steel as the skeleton, the density of alloy steel is more than three times that of aluminum alloy, the use of alloy steel, the weight of the airship has been greatly improved, and the combat effectiveness has dropped to a mess.

Lin Fei waved his hand, "Okay, let's not talk about these things, let's talk about the combat use of the Monkey King's airship, how are you going to use it?" ”

Lin Gecheng replied: "We think about it this way, the modular design of the Monkey King airship, the Monkey King Airship has three combat modules, first, the long-range reconnaissance module, which carries reconnaissance equipment similar to that on the hot air balloon; Second, the fire strike module carries four Grimm guns, each with 1,000 rounds of ammunition, or several shells, but the error of throwing shells is too large, and I am afraid it is difficult to cause effective damage; Thirdly, the personnel transport module, the two-ton load capacity of the airship, excluding various equipment and operating personnel, can carry about twenty fully armed fighters. ”

Lin Fei's heart moved slightly when he heard the last personnel transport module, this is the prototype of the Airborne Forces, Lin Gecheng is a kid who can think of this.

Lin Gecheng continued: "These three mission modules can be switched arbitrarily according to the orders of the superiors, if you need reconnaissance, you can install the reconnaissance module, and if you need a fire strike, you can install a fire strike module, as for the personnel transportation module, there are too few people to transport, and I haven't figured out how to apply it yet." ”

Lin Fei nodded lightly, "Very good, after talking about the equipment, let's talk about the people, how are the brothers of the airship brigade training?" ”

Lin Gecheng patted his chest, "Brother Lin, although rest assured, our brothers trained with the airship during the test, and they were all trained very well, and they were all familiar with the operation of the airship, and they were all full of courage, any of them dared to climb on the airship airbag and repair the holes in the airbag during the airship sailing." ”

The airbag of the airship is not one, but many, there is an air bag outside, and the air bag is a group of small air bags inside, the air bag may be damaged due to meteorological factors, and people need to climb up to repair it, just imagine, climb on an airship flying at a height of one thousand meters, and complete the repair operation in the whirring wind, how thrilling it is, without the courage to surpass ordinary people, don't want to do it at all.

Lin Fei nodded with satisfaction, encouraged Lin Gecheng a few words, and asked Lin Gecheng to organize the soldiers of the airship brigade to conduct a review, and then left the airship brigade station and returned to the palace.

As soon as he returned to the palace, Xiyun pushed open the door and walked in, and said, "Husband, there is news from the embassy in the Qing Kingdom, and they have figured out the mysterious weapon that Yuan Shikai is newly equipped. ”

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "What is that mysterious weapon?" ”

Xiyun didn't answer directly, but said suspiciously: "I have some suspicions, our agents made a mistake in this matter. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"Because this mysterious weapon was shown to the world by Yuan Shikai." (Eleventh is distributing red envelopes, brothers, come quickly, group number-423214695)