"Get out of the way, their firepower is too strong. Up, go up! Shiro Akino shouted loudly as he pulled up the nose of the plane and rushed up.

The devil's plane didn't expect the airship to start attacking at such a distance. I didn't pay attention for a while, and I was caught off guard. At this time, they were left with only four planes, one of which was still dragging black smoke. But they reacted very openly, and rushed upward. In front of the huge airship airbag more than 240 meters long, less than 10 meters long, they were like big gray mice in front of an elephant, baring their front teeth and gnawing fiercely.

"Elevated!" Feng Jiu commanded in a deep voice, the expression on his face was like a knife carved on white marble, without a trace of change.

The machine gun attack has an angle up and down, even if the anti-aircraft machine gun mount is blocked by the airbag, at a certain angle, it will not be able to attack the enemy aircraft. At this time, the only way to get out of this dilemma is to use height.

Even when the airship is unloaded, it can only stay at an altitude of 15,000 meters for a short time, which requires the full power of the propeller to maintain. Under normal circumstances, it can only wander at an altitude of about 10,000 meters. You must know that the Zeppelin is only 7,000 meters high. Later giant airships didn't break through much. If it weren't for the special materials of the Kirov airship and the help of the propellers, it would not have broken through 10,000 meters into the stratosphere.

At this time, 10,000 meters is enough to get rid of the old planes of the current devils. Even the relatively new Type 96 carrier-based fighter has an ascent limit of only 9,830 meters. But the ascent speed of the airship at 350 meters per minute is far less than the speed at which the devil plane attacks.

The two machine guns on Shiro Akino's plane were the first to fire, but two tongues of fire sprayed into the airship's airbag, as if an elephant had been bitten by a mosquito, and the airship still slowly rose with the help of the propeller. A plane beside them also attacked repeatedly, but it was still as if it was sinking into the sea, and they were so far away that they didn't see the bullet holes on the top, and naturally they couldn't see those bullet holes shrinking.

"Is this a combination of a high-explosive bomb and an incendiary bomb with white phosphorus? How does it work against airships? Shiro Akino was surprised, this was an excellent way for the British to deal with German airships during World War I, why didn't it work at this time?

He didn't know that the Kirov airship used helium, which was one of the most stable substances known to man, and that there were only a few reactions and compounds known to man. But white phosphorus is definitely not included. At this time, the bullets containing white phosphorus were not the kind of white phosphorus bombs with accelerants used by the Americans in the late World War II, and the power was not the same.

This heat quickly dissipates in the helium environment.

"The air defense of the Kirov airship of the first rank is still a little worse! Even with the installation of numerous machine guns, it is impossible to get rid of the characteristics of bulkiness and inflexibility. The advantages and disadvantages of airships are obvious, depending on how they are used. Meng Xiang was paying attention to the battle situation and analyzing it.

At this time, eight Thunderbolt planes rushed over, Meng Xiang would definitely not let the airship go out alone, although it was a test test, there were still sixteen planes following. Four Stuka were responsible for clearing the ground for threats and twelve Lightning for protection from aerial threats.

Shiro Akino shook off the clench of a thunderbolt behind him and rushed towards the airbag. In his opinion, the closer to the airbags, the more scruples the aircraft of the vanguard army will be. But the Thunderbolt below approached him with speed, and six machine guns pushed him back. A devil plane that held the same opinion as him got rid of the pursuit and came over.

There was no interception ahead, and the plane adjusted its posture and prepared to attack again, but with a continuous sound of machine guns, he could clearly see a series of small holes in the airbag that had been torn by large-caliber machine gun bullets, but then he found that his plane was also emitting black smoke and the plane was planted uncontrollably. As soon as the altitude was lowered, it was strafed by the machine guns below.

"They're shooting at their own airship?" His last question was not answered until the plane exploded in the air. And the airship received these bullets, and it still rose slowly, without the slightest abnormality.

Along with him was the plane that had already begun to smoke, and it was beaten down by the lightning plane in the first place.

Shiro Akino was forced down by the machine gun of the Thunderbolt behind him, but he quickly flipped up with his excellent technique and quickly pulled up and rushed up. Although he was forced by another plane to get closer, he rushed to the top of the airship.

"Go to the top of it and give it a try." Shiro Akino said in his heart. The other plane had been pushed farther and farther away by the lightning, and its vitality was almost cut off under the machine-gun fire of the four faster lightnings.

"Why is there a mast on top of it? Hang sails? Shiro Akino didn't have time to think about it, he took a few bullets on the wing, rushed to the inside position, and rushed straight towards the airship. A dive straf, but still no fire ignited as expected.

Rushing over, two thunderbolts surrounded him.

"Can't you run?" Shiro Akino tried to make some inconvenient wings, and at such a speed, he was absolutely unable to resist the pursuit of the vanguard planes.

"Then let's all die together!" Shiro Akino's eyes were red, and as soon as he stepped on the accelerator, he swooped down on the airship like a moth to a flame. "It's not worth blowing up an airship and boarding the shrine of the Yasukuni Shrine."

"What's that?" As soon as he approached, a ball of fire erupted from the strange mast on top of the airship, and what looked like a slender cannonball more than a meter long shot at him. Less than 500 meters away, in the blink of an eye. Without waiting for Shiro Akino to roll over and dodge, he hit his plane.

"Boom!" A large fireball exploded diagonally above the airship, and some of the falling fragments even fell onto the airship, burning all the way down the airship's skin.

Although Shiro Akino did not return to the Yasukuni Shrine, he went down in history because he was the first to be shot down by the X-4 air-to-air missile, and has been studied by countless people.

At this time, the mast that was nearly ten meters high stood tall like the thorns on the airship monster.

Normally, this mast is not available, and only in exceptional circumstances does a consolidation point in the airship's skeleton extend out, and at the top is a rotating weapon platform. Instead of a machine gun, Meng Xiang loaded two X-4 air-to-air missiles that had been tested to be okay.

Having lost the threat of aircraft, the airship began to descend again for precision bombardment. It's like an endless stream of bombs falling from an airship. The huge shadow of the airship seemed to press on the hearts of the devils, listening to the screams of the bombs falling, making them breathless. A carpet that the Grim Reaper had stepped on stretched from the feet of the vanguard chargers all the way to behind the shadows of the devil's hasty retreat.

In the smoke of the bombs, the mountain positions near Xiao Naoer were broken by Fu Yucheng's troops, and they pursued Bayintara all the way to Bayintara with the roar of airship bombs, and approached Jining.

"The air defense is still too weak!" Soon after the battle in the air over there, Meng Xiang received an analysis report of the entire battle, and after reading the entire specific situation, Meng Xiang couldn't help but sigh.

The Kirov airship is okay to deal with the lack of air counterattack force at this time, but if it encounters the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries, the first-class Kirov airship may be just a huge target.

"In addition to bombing, transporting people and cargo, and taking off and landing troubles, there are not many advantages over the giant bird. It seems that the airship can only be used for full-time bombing, and after dismantling the miscellaneous things on those weapons platforms, it can carry thirty tons. Under the escort of fighter jets, carpet bombing had a good deterrent effect. "The first-class Kirov airship is not as good as imagined, compared to the B-29 that can already be produced, in addition to a larger bomb load, it is insufficient in many aspects.

"Keep letting them attack, and wait until they reach level 2 to see how it goes!" Meng Xiang can only think so.

Jining was threatened, and the attack of the 26th Infantry Regiment near Yongshanzhuang could not help but be delayed.

"Jining needs support, and the harem will be seriously injured." Shigeji Shigeji sent an urgent telegram to the commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment, Shigetoku Kuroda.

At the same time, there was also an order from the commander of the Mongolian Corps, Lieutenant General Liannuma: continue to defend.

"Can you keep it?" Kuroda Shigetoku asked to himself.

Harem Chun was fighting in defense near Xiao Naoer, and he had heard about it. Airship! Airships were used by the Vanguard.

The airship seems to be backward, but the shadow of its huge body directly hits people's hearts, making people feel powerless. When large-load bombs are scattered from the sky, how do they deal with the lack of anti-air power?

"The 26th Division should be evacuated and retreated back to Sui, there is a lack of air power to attack, they can't stop the bombing of airships! Do not forget that the Vanguard also has a large number of aircraft. Let them go into the mountains at this time, and without supplies, they will soon die of hunger. Kenji Tsuchihara said anxiously.

"If the vanguard army attacks, we will retreat, which is too demoralizing." Sugiyama Moto, too, is helpless.

"Just let them attack, and the 26th Division will withdraw all the way and lead their two main divisions further. When we fight back, we'll get what we've lost. Kenji Tsuchihara said busily.

"The order is decided by the base camp." Sugiyama didn't say anything more. The devil's failure to the vanguard army has aroused great dissatisfaction among the people in the country. The loss of Beijing, Tianjin and other places has put a lot of pressure on the country, and some measures have to be taken to calm the domestic contradictions.

"So you're going to sacrifice the 26th Division?" Kenji Dohihara's expression changed, but then he returned to normal, and thought to himself. He had already guessed this situation, and if he was asked to arrange it, he might have done it, but it would have to be more reasonable. There are large areas in Suiyuan and other places where you can hide, interspersed, exchange space for time, and mobilize more vanguard troops. But at this time the war needed to serve politics, and they chose to die in battle.

"Not only the 26th Division, all the troops will hold out to the end and fight to the last man!" Sugiyama Mototo's expression swept Kenji Dohihara's expression and said solemnly.

Kenji Dohihara bowed his head and remained silent.

"Someone shouted out the spirit of jade shattering in Kyoto. The empire needs those young people to muster their blood. Sugiyama Motoko sighed in his heart, "The Empire is about to start fighting back, and it's time for those plans of yours to kick in." ”

"Hey!"

The 26 Infantry Regiment did not flinch and continued to defend in the mountains on the south side of Jining. This does not confuse Meng Xiang, the devils often defend at all costs, and the contradictions on their bodies are full of their tactics and strategies, and it is easy to have some unreasonable behaviors. Whether it's a devil guarding or retreating. Meng Xiang didn't care, the vanguard army just pushed it over.

As the remnants of the devils near Datong were cleared out, a base car took advantage of the cover of night to march continuously for nearly ten days before moving from Shijiazhuang to the vicinity of Datong.

Meng Xiang was very distressed, the number of sub-bases was constant, and there were too few trees, which made it impossible to place them in some places.

Meng Xiang thought about it for a long time, because the western front had the advantage of being blocked by Taihang Mountain, and the sub-base in Shijiazhuang was withdrawn. The recovered base vehicles began to move to Datong, and the sub-base in Handan was also put away and transported to the Xingtai area to find a location close to the center point to redeploy, and after the upgrade, the Fengfeng mining area and Shijiazhuang were enveloped.

And the sub-base of Datong can support the offensive to the north and south nearby.

"What a pity! The direct scope of the sub-base is too small. Meng Xiang compared for a long time, and could not find a suitable center point between Datong and Guisui, Zhangjiakou and Shuozhou.

"Let's spread it out near Liangcheng!" Meng Xiang thought about it for a long time, and finally decided.

The focus of the next attack, Meng Xiang intends to move to the Suiyuan area. In the Liangcheng area, it is not only suitable for concealment, but also can be taken into account in both Guisui and Datong areas. Datong is covered around it, with the help of Datong's coal can solve the worries of energy, with the help of radiation to the direct jurisdiction of Guisui, you can set up base buildings in Guisui, direct local supply.

As for the defense of the Shuozhou area and the Yanmen Pass area south of Datong, with the advantage of geographical advantages and the firepower of the vanguard army, it should be no problem to defend.

This time Meng Xiang has unconsciously changed in his heart, he did not use the base for the defense of the south, but invested in the next step of external expansion and attack, he is no longer the extremely insecure little white otaku.

"Those ladies are marching in the streets again today!" Zhou Bai smiled as soon as he came in.

"Oh? Isn't the concubinage incident over? Meng Xiang put down the intelligence information about Central Asia in his hand and said in surprise.

Soon after the tax on concubines was announced, people from the Women's Self-Help Association came to the door.

Meng Xiang found out that a group of big men had made a big mistake and included the matter of paying taxes on concubines into the luxury tax.

At first, Meng Xiang only believed that luxury tax generally refers to the imposition of a high tax burden on extravagant behavior. But in the minds of many people, the luxury tax is levied on luxury goods. The extravagance of the concubine's behavior, the people of the Women's Self-Help Association grabbed the pigtails, and the bite of that scarce resource refers to the real thing, that is, the concubine is regarded as an object. The Women's Self-Help Association, composed of a group of officials and wives, directly blocked the gate of the headquarters and demanded an explanation from Meng Xiang.

Meng Xiang originally wanted to take three steps to solve the problem of concubines, after all, it involved human ethics and tens of millions of families, so he had to be cautious. The improvement of women's status is not an overnight thing, and for a long time in later generations, women in ordinary families in many places could not eat at home, let alone concubines. This time, the marriage bill is only a trial draft. He just wanted to limit the behavior of taking concubines first.

But he underestimated the power of women. Those eldest wives absolutely don't want their husbands to take any more concubines, let alone pay painful taxes, and those concubines want fame. What the new youth need is the immediate abolition of concubinage. And someone behind it took the opportunity to provoke, and as a result, the newly introduced concubine bill was a bit thankless.

"This is not a bad thing, and it can be used to advance the process of women's advancement." Meng Xiang had to take a few steps behind him at this time.

The behavior of the Women's Self-Help Association has rapidly expanded under the promotion and control of Meng Xiang. Women organized marches to demand the advancement of women, causing an uproar.

"A bunch of mothers-in-law, what's the trouble? What kind of status do you have? If my wife dares to make such a fuss, I will slap her out. Beat her eight times a day. A strong black man said disdainfully after hearing the explanation of others.

"Then do you have a mother?" A female student next to her glared at him with a menacing crossed waist and said, "Then you are still not raised by your mother?" Your mother worked hard to raise you, can you watch your father beat her up eight times a day? ”

The strong black man was silent, and shrank into the crowd watching the excitement with a red face.

"The status of women is improved not only by the status of the wife among the spouses, but also by the mother, which also needs to be respected." Meng Xiang thought of his mother in the later life, and said with a heavy heart.

"Anything can go from good to bad, and from bad to good!" Pharmacist Tang often said this. Meng Xiang also has a certain understanding of this creed of being an official, which has been borrowed a lot from the crisis public relations of later generations.

Among the group of people in the citizens' assembly that introduced the bill this time, Meng Xiang took advantage of this matter to take down a few of them and cleared up some hidden dangers. At the same time, an apology signed by Meng Xiang was also made public.

In recent years, since the Beiyang political axe, there have been many things about Shimono taking the stage, and the people are also accustomed to this kind of boiling in the style of the central political axe. Even in the past, the emperor still came to the edict from time to time, so it was not unusual for Meng Xiang to do this. At least I recognized that this Meng Dashuai had the courage to admit his mistakes, and it was still relatively open. This reassured some people a lot, even the posture was stronger than the arrogance of the warlords. Suddenly, Meng Xiang's image was also much more friendly among the people.

In response to these problems, the theater government also announced that the citizens' congress would re-discuss the revision of the new marriage bill and the related women's protection bill, hoping that the people would elect suitable representatives to express their wishes.

For a moment, the mistakes of the war zone political axe about concubinage were ignored, and more questions were discussed about how the new bill should express its wishes.

Meng Xiang was just a bystander about this, and at the beginning it was just a mistake in the supervision procedure, and he did not regulate it. This kind of thing that does not involve the core interests of the vanguard army is very suitable for the drill of the open cooking procedure. Even if it is non-stop, it will not affect the operation of society and people's livelihood. It can also give the people a space to release contradictions.

The new bill is the most hotly debated over the rights of concubines and their children. This is a major matter involving the conflict of family interests.

The thousand-year-old custom of the original spouse and the concubine itself represents a kind of order. Order from the interests of the blood and the family.

In foreign exchanges, in the form of a family, it is necessary to concentrate limited resources in the hands of a small number of people, so that the original scale of power can be maintained, and then the entire family can be driven to a higher level. And civil strife was a major factor in the collapse of the family. As a result, the order inherited by the son-in-law has become the best choice to last for thousands of years.

But in the new society, with the development of large-scale production, the centralization is trying to eliminate the influence of the big family. The family unit was replaced by the unit of the small family, so the succession of the son-in-law became an obstacle for the central government. The idea of human rights and the equality of everyone is a powerful weapon for the emerging class in the West to break the monopoly of the aristocracy.

After it spread to China, it also brought up this trend of equality.

There are growing calls for concubines and their children to have the same status as their original spouses and concubines, but at the same time, there is a growing trend of resistance to such calls.

"Just enough is enough! Another inheritance law will be introduced, in which the will will first! At this time, Meng Xiang had to intervene. Someone behind the scenes started to push, and it wasn't just this kind of problem.

In the Marriage Law, according to the constitution, the equality of wives and concubines and women in each house is announced, but if there is a will, each family will settle the accounts of each family. The contradictions are scattered to each household, and there is no political axe.

In fact, there has been a solution to such a problem. But the two forces are fighting each other in order to gain more benefits, and it is difficult to compromise without outside interference.

"This era is a time when the old and the new coexist, and sometimes it takes the courage to break something old to establish a new order. Blindly seeking stability is not the way to go. Meng Xiang got such a revelation in this matter, of course, some information from later generations also made him never have the kind of desperate to smash all the old things, and there is no better solution, and it is also a brain-dead behavior that only knows destruction.

"Hehe, isn't the new bill already published on March 8 as the legal Women's Day? They're celebrating! Zhou Bai said with a smile, he has only one wife in the family, and he has to be nagged often. This time, he was praised.

"But there's one more thing." Zhou Bai restrained his smile and said, "Recently, the trade union is planning to hold a big march and strike, and their application has been reported!" ”