Holy Roman Empire

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"Tell the War Office that we're dealing with regular Austrian troops, not colonial cannon fodder.

In order to block the enemy's front, the reinforcements must all be French troops, and the native troops should not be sent over to waste food. "

After the war broke out, in order to keep the colonial empire, the French government also sent reinforcements to the colonies once.

The backbone of the armed forces in the colonies now is the troops sent from the country as seeds, plus the army composed of local French.

The combat effectiveness is N grades stronger than the native troops, and because of insufficient training and outdated weapons and equipment, it is also one or two chips weaker than the native troops, which is still barely usable.

Before the middle-aged officer could speak, he suddenly remembered the sound of "Woooooo..." followed by "Boom, Boom..." again.

This is Cairo, and there are hundreds of kilometers away from the front line. It is impossible for shells to hit so far.

Suddenly there was an explosion in his ears, and Governor Jacob immediately realized something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered: "Send the order, let the airship force take off to intercept the enemy's airship immediately, and the air defense force is responsible for cooperation."

The air defense force these days is actually only responsible for dealing with, or driving away low-flying airships.To deal with airships flying at high altitudes, there is still only airships.

Of course, after the air battle on the Rhine, these experiences are a thing of the past.

I don't know if it was for the sake of secrecy, or because of bureaucratic dereliction of duty, or because it was considered unnecessary, in short, these changes in military concepts were not passed on to Governor Jacob in the first place.

With the issuance of this order, the scene that originally took place on the banks of the Rhine reappeared over Cairo, but on a much smaller scale.

In a sense, Governor Jacob's order is also correct.The airship unit is finished, which also reduces the logistical pressure on the Cairo defenders.

After all, since the appearance of airplanes, airship units without fighter escorts have been a live target for flying into the air.

Staying on the ground is a waste of resources.You must know that the maintenance of the airship is also very expensive. The maintenance cost of an airship can catch up with a destroyer.

France may be capable of building airplanes, but it is a dream to produce fighter jets in a short period of time.

……

After the sound of "da da da...", a French airship's airbag was broken and it quickly began to fall.

After adding a special bomb at random and confirming that the enemy was finished, the excited Second Lieutenant Wade gave up.

Looking around, the airships of the French army all fell and exploded, and those that had not yet fallen became targets of comrades-in-arms.

Airplanes kill airships without help.At this time, he leaned over to snatch the military exploits of his colleagues, but Second Lieutenant Wade couldn't do it yet.

"It seems that today's harvest is about to come to an end. I really envy the guy assigned to the Central European battlefield. I heard that in the air battle on the Rhine, someone set a record of three consecutive kills.

We can't do it here, there are too many monks and too little porridge.The damn Frenchman is also known as the most powerful country in Europe, and he doesn't know how many more ships are equipped, which is simply not enough for everyone to share. "

The young man flying the plane couldn't help it anymore, and said with a joke: "Okay, heroic Second Lieutenant Wade, I know you are the bravest fighter.

The airship that slaughters the enemy like this is really tasteless, and it is not worthy of your identity at all.

An evenly matched battle can highlight your bravery. For example, go down and capture Jacob, the commander of the French army, and create another miracle in military history.

Don't worry, I'll take the parachute for you, as long as you want, I don't mind opening the hatch again. "

Second Lieutenant Wade, who was furious, snapped: "Shut up, Adolf! This joke is not funny at all. I have explained it many times. You can't take what you say after drinking."

There is no doubt that this is the dark history of Second Lieutenant Wade.

Theoretically speaking, it is still possible to fall into the enemy's headquarters if it suddenly falls from the sky.If the enemy is brain-dead enough, maybe he can really capture the enemy's commander-in-chief.

The lucky U.S. pilot in the original time and space successfully captured an Italian army after landing in the wrong place.

However, similar cases have always been miracles in military history.Although there are Italians among the French soldiers below, most of them are French.

Second Lieutenant Wade also had his head drunk, so he came up with such a brain-dead plan.Now that he is awake, he will naturally not commit suicide.

Adolf smiled slightly: "Okay, this is my fault, let's stop joking for now. Our mission has been completed, so it's not a problem to just be idle.

How about I lower the flying altitude slightly, and you shoot with a machine gun to see if there are any unexpected gains? "

Austria has been engaged in aircraft research and development for many years, but the combat experience of the Air Force is still about zero.

On this issue, Franz, who is open, can't help.For an army to grow up, it needs a lot of experience accumulation.

Franz's knowledge of the Air Force is very limited, and most of the sources are jokes he has read on the Internet. If he really wants to use it as an Air Force training manual, it is not much different from suicide.

"You're not kidding?"

Wade asked in disbelief.The facial expression has already revealed the surprise in his heart, as if talking about Adolf's proposal, which refreshed his cognition.

"Of course!"

Adolf replied in the affirmative.After a pause, he explained: "The enemy, dare to let the airship go into the air, which proves that the battle on the Rhine River has not been passed on.

Since the enemy has never encountered a plane, naturally there will be no means of targeting it.It's not enough to deal with us in the same way as an airship.

Try it at an altitude of 500 meters. If there is danger, I will fly away immediately. Anyway, the enemy's reaction speed cannot keep up with us.

If we are lucky and kill a few big fish, we will make a profit. "

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Chapter 177 Civilian Casualties

Three days later, a "Report on Low Altitude Diving Machine Gun Shooting" appeared in front of Governor Feslav.

Recording what happened on the battlefield and summarizing the gains and losses are the fine traditions of the Austrian army, and at the same time, the unique characteristics of the Austrian army in this era.

Recording the course of the war seems simple, but not everyone can do it.At least it is impossible for countries that have not completed compulsory education.

The benefits of doing this are self-evident. Perhaps most of the recorded combat experience is repetitive nonsense, but as long as one-thousandth of the content is valuable, it is all earned.

Especially in the use of new weapons and equipment and the exploration of new tactics, these materials are extremely important.

Therefore, only officers in the army write reports, but in the freshly released air force, everyone has to write reports.

Low-altitude dive bombing and low-altitude dive machine gun fire are not new terms. Some people have proposed similar concepts as early as more than ten years ago.

Don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with the great Franz.Franz's military novice is true, but he also knows that although the military concepts of later generations are good, they are also based on specific conditions.

Take dive bombing as an example, it's not just flying at low altitude and dropping bombs.Not any kind of aircraft has the ability to fly and dive at low altitudes.

Even if the performance of the aircraft is satisfactory, the specific low-altitude method of this low-altitude flight still needs to be explored in actual combat.

While achieving results, it is also necessary to ensure the safety of personnel and aircraft as much as possible, otherwise it will be a replica of the kamikaze brigade.

Therefore, the great strategic idea of ​​using an airship to play low-altitude dive carpet bombing is not Franz's masterpiece.

The emergence of this concept in the Austrian army is not aimless, but is supported by actual combat cases.

As soon as the airship was put into military use, the Austrian airship force tried it on Ottoman and achieved remarkable results.

At that time, this strategic concept became the mainstream of the world and was recommended by many military big Vs.

It's just that with the emergence of anti-aircraft weapons, everyone found that low-flying airships were a living target, and this theory was quickly shelved.

The inapplicability of airships does not mean the inapplicability of aircraft. At least at this stage, the air defense weapons of various countries pose little threat to aircraft. In theory, low-altitude diving has become feasible.

Because of the insufficient load capacity of the aircraft, the dive strategic bombing turned into machine gun fire, which weakened the power by more than one level.

With the case of the failure of the airship, Admiral Feslav did not rush to make a decision, but fell into deep thought.

Whether this is an isolated case or a military concept with long-term development and application prospects is still a mystery so far.

Seeing that Feslav was still unable to make up his mind, Air Force Major General Andrew McCarthy on the side added another fire.

"Your Excellency, Commander, regardless of whether there is any prospect for the development of swooping aircraft, it is only effective for a short period of time.

We have conducted many drills, and the existing anti-aircraft weapons pose very little threat to aircraft, and it is easy to achieve results by swooping and strafing.

Even if the French discovered the weakness of this tactic, it would take time to find a way to deal with it.Before that, it does not affect our promotion of this tactic. "

Major General Andrew was so active that he was actually forced out.Compared with the army and navy, the air force is a little brother.

If the Air Force is strong enough, this kind of tactical promotion does not require other arms to cooperate, and there is no need to report to the theater commander at all, and it can be done by itself.

Soldiers still have to talk about their achievements. The establishment of the Austrian Air Force is too short, and there is no record at all. Naturally, the waist is not strong enough to speak.

If it weren't for Franz's support, they would still be an army flight force, and they would not have the ability to form an independent army at all.

In this context, the Air Force held its breath from top to bottom, eager to prove its worth on the battlefield.

Therefore, the Air Force has always been the most active in the promotion of new tactics.Otherwise, it would be impossible to verify its feasibility immediately after receiving a battlefield report.

After contemplating for a moment, Feslav nodded: "Theoretically, it is indeed feasible, but more practical cases are needed to support it before it can be promoted to the entire army.

In the next few days, I allow your Air Force to attack on your own to verify, or perfect this set of tactics. "

The development of military technology has never been smooth sailing.A big country like Austria has enough capital to pay tuition for the development of military technology, and the promotion of any new tactics is piled up with countless failures.

This is also the reason why many weapons and equipment and tactical concepts have been unable to be adopted after they were born.Without the support of actual combat results, everyone has no idea!

……

After receiving the support of the theater commander, the Austrian Air Force stationed in the Sinai Peninsula took immediate action.

The Egyptian area became "lively". Not only positions and fortresses became the hardest hit areas for bombing, but the streets and alleys and fields also became hunting grounds for the Austrian Air Force.

In order to collect more actual combat data, the Air Force didn't care about the cost, and had to try it no matter where it was.

As for the consequences, this is beyond the scope of major general Andrew's consideration. Anyway, the bullets hit the enemy's ground, and it is nothing more than a matter of the size of the battle.

……

Since the airship unit was finished, the sky above Cairo has become the territory of the Austrian Air Force. Every day, a combination of airships and planes will come to work from time to time.

For the sake of his life, Governor Jacob had to move the headquarters into the basement.In fact, he originally wanted to find a safer blast hole.

It is a pity that the city of Cairo is in the heart of Egypt, and the French have never considered the threat of foreign enemies. The latest military threat was the last time the rebels besieged the city.

The mob of indigenous rebels had at most a few local cannons, and the shells could not hit the Governor's Mansion at all.There is no need for anti-blasting, so naturally there is no anti-blasting hole.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Austrian War, Governor Jacob was only considering the issue of the canal defense line, and never thought that he would face threats from the sky.

When the crisis comes, it will be too late to dig now.After all, it is not just a big cave that can accommodate the anti-battery cave of the French Army Command.

"Your Excellency, the enemy's air force is too rampant, and they simply don't pay attention to France. We must fight back."

Those who can say such things are naturally not French soldiers.Any officer present knew that it wasn't that they didn't want to fight back, but that they simply didn't have the ability to fight back.

Looking at the angry middle-aged man, Governor Jacob frowned, and after a long silence, he slowly said: "Officer Abraham, please read the battle report, or pay attention to the domestic current affairs news.

Not to mention our side, even the Austrian air force in the country can't do anything about it. Paris was attacked by the enemy just a week ago. "

Hearing the news of the air raid on Paris, the expressions of all the people present changed drastically. Obviously, this was the first time for everyone to receive the news.

Seeing everyone's expressions, Jacob knew that there was a problem with his concept.Before the war broke out, news that happened in Paris could reach Egypt in only a few hours.

The telegraph business in France is run by capitalists. The first thing to consider is how to maximize the benefits, and any strategic or non-strategic ones must be relied on.

In this context, it is naturally impossible to lay a special submarine cable for the telegraph from mainland France to Egypt.

Instead, it took the land cable channel through the Algeria region, passing through the Austrian African region along the way, and cooperated with the Austrian Telegraph Company.

This is also in line with international practice. Telegram can be extended to most parts of the world within decades, relying on regional cooperation.

If they all do it alone, no telegraph company has the ability to connect the world.

The European war broke out too suddenly. After only a few months of brewing, it suddenly broke out.The French government was briefly stunned, not to mention the telegraph company.

The economy must also make political concessions. After the outbreak of the war, the Austrian Telegraph Company, which had originally cooperated, naturally stopped providing them with information transmission business.

The current connection between Egypt and the mainland is mainly through the transmission of information by warships traveling between the two places.Even the most well-informed master in the past, it is difficult to receive domestic news now.

After a pause for a while, the high-ranking official Abraham, who had reacted, turned pale in shock and said, "Your Excellency, are you sure you're not joking?"

Paris these days has a very sacred position in the hearts of the French.Paris was attacked. The news is too appalling. It is simply not comparable to Cairo being bombed every day.

Jacob nodded cautiously: "Your Excellency, do you think I would joke about this kind of thing if it didn't happen?"

"However, the matter is not as serious as you imagined. The enemy just passed by in Paris and did not cause us too much loss.

Presumably everyone has also discovered that the enemy's air force is not that scary.In addition to the appearance of great momentum, the actual damage caused by the bombing is not great.

The country is already preparing to produce aircraft. As long as we persist for a period of time, the enemy's advantage will no longer exist.

Now, we……"

The bombing was scary, and it wasn't scary either.Although the air defense forces of the French army are rubbish, they are available. With their backward air defense weapons, they still make Austrian airships afraid to fly at low altitudes.

Throwing bombs down thousands of meters above the ground, the hit rate is so impressive that it almost catches up with winning the lottery.

Purely in terms of lethality, from time to time, a dive-type strafing aircraft would cause casualties to the French army, which is more efficient than airship bombing.

The senior official Abraham interrupted: "Your Excellency, I have to correct you here, the loss caused by the enemy's air force is not small.

Since the enemy's bombing, the factories, shops, and entertainment venues in Cairo... can no longer operate normally.