Super Chief - Chapter 692

The Earl of Cirencester swallowed and asked anxiously: “Your Excellency the Great Chief, can’t we sit down and talk about things about the American Federation? I think, as long as we are willing to talk. , Then all issues can be resolved at the negotiating table.”

　　 Ishikuma turned his head and looked at the adjutant of George III with shining eyes, and he couldn’t help but shrink his neck when he looked at Cirencester.

“No, Lord Earl, I think there is no need to negotiate. For us Yanhuang tribe, the enemy is the enemy, and the betrayer is the betrayer. It is absolutely impossible for us to sit and negotiate with such a person. Only blood and life , Is the best way to solve the problem!”

　　 After a pause, Shi Xiong continued: “Since they chose to betray at the beginning, they should understand that betrayal must have a price. Now, it’s time for them to pay the price.”

　　 As soon as he finished speaking, the wall clock hanging on the wall on one side of the bridge made a dozen melodious sounds. Everyone looked up and found that the time had come to 12 noon.

　　 “Notify Bone Spear and let his second division launch a general attack!” Shi Xiong looked away from the wall clock, and instructed faintly.

　　 The communications officer immediately conveyed the order to the radio communication room under the bridge. A few seconds later, a radio wave spanned more than ten kilometers and reached the Bone Spear’s second division.

In the next moment, the muffled sound like thunder began to rang out in the distance, and in the distant sky, five or six small black spots appeared and expanded rapidly. It was the bear who came to support. Military and Air Force rigid airships.

　　 Abbasnot, who had never spoken much, shrank slightly when he saw the communications officer’s hand-cranked magnet telephone. He has never seen such a communication facility, and has never heard of such a thing that can be used for direct calls.

　　 Obviously, this thing is a very efficient way of communication, far better than semaphores.

“The Yanhuang tribe still has such a technology?” Abbasnot thought, rubbing his chin. “If this technology can be obtained, then it is definitely a strategic good thing for the empire… “

　　 The rumble of the cannon in the distance interrupted Abbasnot’s thinking. When he looked up in the direction of the cannon, he was immediately attracted by the rigid airships in the sky.

　　 “What is this? It’s different from the hot air balloons I’ve seen before. Could it be that this is a more advanced hot air balloon?” Abbasnot’s mind began to come alive again.

　　 In fact, at this time, the fact that the Yanhuang tribe possessed a hot air balloon that could fly people in the sky had already spread across the European continent. After all, whether it was the Yanhuang tribe’s subjugation of the Iroquois Alliance or the Chesapeake Bay battle, the British had personally seen this kind of hot air balloon that could carry people into the air.

　　 And a few years ago, the French brothers Joseph Mengfei and Jacques Mengfei also completed several hot air balloon lifts in the Versailles Park in Paris. Hot air balloons are no longer rare in Europe.

　　 is only after the hot air balloon is lifted into the sky, unless it is fixed with a rope, the direction of the hot air balloon depends entirely on the wind direction.

　　 It is obviously southeast wind today, but how can those “hot air balloons” fly against the wind?

　　 Abbasnot of course did not know that the six “hot air balloons” that appeared over Boston were actually six standard rigid airships, the kind of rigid airships equipped with a propeller propulsion system and a rudder.

　　 Hard airships are much larger than hot air balloons. Take these hard airships now owned by the Grizzly Army Air Force. One airbag of an airship is not much smaller than a hot air balloon. With the same airbag, there are thirteen on an airship!

　　 The rigid airship currently used by the Grim Bear Army Air Force is built by Stone Bear imitating the first-generation Zeppelin airship.

Because there is no way to smelt aluminum at this time, whether it is thermal reduction or electrolytic aluminum, it is not the current Yanhuang tribe can do, so the cabin of the airship cannot be made of lighter alumina, and Shixiong can only be used by his subordinates. The method of thin steel plate and wood plank is used to construct the cabin.

　　 Above the cabin, there is an airship hull with thirteen airbags. There is a skeleton made of steel in the hull. The skeleton is composed of an abdominal longitudinal girder, 20 long pestles and twelve frames, and uses a large number of longitudinal and lateral cables to enhance the structural strength. The hull frame is covered with a skin made of cotton cloth brushed with tung oil.

　　 There are thirteen airbags in the boat, with a total volume of 10,000 cubic meters, which is filled with hydrogen, and has a total buoyancy of eleven tons.

In this era, the source of hydrogen is not difficult, whether it is water gas to purify hydrogen or steam and iron heating to purify hydrogen, no matter whether it is Shangjing Industrial Base or Daqingshan Industrial Base, both methods for purifying hydrogen are available. .

　　 Even the Petroleum Research Institute in Buffalo is now studying the use of decomposing petroleum to produce hydrogen…

　　 In short, the purification of hydrogen is not a problem.

　　 The airship is also equipped with a steering rudder that can control the elevator. At the rear of the airship, a four-meter-diameter propeller is installed. The power of the propeller is provided by a small steam engine weighing 330 kg.

　　 With the power provided by this steam engine, the airship can fly in the air at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour.

　　 Generally speaking, the basic performance of this airship is similar to the first-generation Zeppelin, except that it is slightly inferior to the first-generation Zeppelin in terms of size and buoyancy.

　　 The self-weight of this airship is close to seven tons, which means that if the airship can fly normally, the airship’s cabin can carry four tons of cargo.

In fact, a few years ago, when the first rigid airship carried a two-ton rock and flew for 500 kilometers in the air without stopping ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Shi Xiong knew his own “Kiroff”. “The airship bombing team did not run away.

That’s right, when the first rigid airship successfully completed the test, Shixiong used the old-fashioned Kirov airship in the famous computer game “Red Alert” to name this airship. It is called a “Kiroff-class” rigid airship.

　　 The power of this thing is indeed very powerful. When doing bombing experiments, everyone was shocked by the power of the bullet thrown down by this thing.

The special “aviation bomb” used on the airship weighs more than 30 kilograms, and it is filled with up to eight kilograms of high-explosive explosives, which is more than a 155-mm high-explosive grenade in later generations. Two kilograms more!

　　 This kind of high-explosive projectile specially used for airdrop is equipped with a special balanced tail, which can ensure that the warhead always rushes down during the throwing process. Before the warhead is thrown, a touch fuze will be installed. Once it hits the ground, it will explode, and then all unprotected soft targets within a 45-meter radius will be cleaned up!

　　 Now, it’s finally the turn of this thing to emerge in actual combat…