The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 160 Alright, now we know what the artillery airship is for!
After the last battle, Andrei realized that although this medium-sized airship was indeed equipped with a void shield, it was not enough to provide decisive protection.

If we find more players and focus our fire on that thing, this thin void shield will be breached quickly; it's far less strong than the void shield of a large Brandenburg-class airship.

That's why Andrei really couldn't understand what this thing was supposed to do.

With that effort, they could either remove the cannons from the airship and use them to carry bombs, or they could make the airship even smaller and use it for ground dives. Wouldn't that be better?

After looking at it for a long time, I realized that this thing could neither dive-bomb nor effectively bomb, and I couldn't understand its specific function at all.

Just as Andrei was wondering what was going on, he suddenly heard a cheer from the soldiers next to him.

"What's going on? What happened?"

As Andrei asked questions, he moved closer to the observer, and then he heard the soldier excitedly shout:

"Commander, great news! Look! Our air force is here!"

Upon hearing this, Andrei quickly moved closer to the periscope and looked through it. Using this perspective, he aimed the observation mirror at the sky and saw the scene in the sky.

While the Black Hawk Empire's air fleet continued bombarding the area below, another air fleet with completely different paint schemes slowly approached them.

Compared to the Black Hawk Empire's airships, which were painted entirely black, the Cambrian Empire's airships looked much more festive, all painted red and adorned with huge golden double-headed eagle patterns.

...Wait, a golden double-headed eagle?
hiss--!
He hadn't paid much attention before, but now, looking at the overwhelming array of golden double-headed eagles, Andrei inexplicably gasped in shock.

For some reason, he felt that the Cambrian Empire's aerial formation looked a bit like a certain human empire, making him unconsciously want to perform a Sky Eagle salute and shout his loyalty!

Compared to the Black Hawk Empire's massive aerial formation, the Cambrian Empire's formation, though much smaller, appears to be just as formidable.

The most significant difference is that the Cambrian Empire's aerial squadron is equipped with weapons that are completely different from those of the enemy!

Within this formation, the Cambrian Empire also revolves around a large airship as its core. Compared to the Black Hawk Empire's large airship, the Cambrian Empire's airship appears to be even larger.

What surprised Andrei was that this large airship did not seem to carry any bombing equipment. Instead, it was equipped with two huge triple-gun turrets located below the airship cabin!
Triple-mounted turret? What the heck?!
Andrei felt a little dizzy for a moment. He never expected that the Cambrian Empire would actually use airships as aerial battleships!

I don’t know exactly what the caliber of those triple-mounted cannons is, but judging from the style of these turrets, Andrei felt that the caliber of these cannons should not be small.

Besides, he had wanted to ask that before!

Both the airships of the Black Hawk Empire and the airships of the Cambrian Empire appear to have very large carrying capacities.

I wonder what kind of advanced technology the airships in this world use to have such a large carrying capacity.
They've even started loading armored turrets onto airships. How many tons must these airships be able to carry?

The sudden appearance of the Cambrian Empire's airship formation was naturally detected by the Black Hawk Empire long ago. Upon seeing the enemy's menacing air fleet, the Black Hawk Empire swiftly changed formation, with several medium-sized artillery airships blocking the way of the larger airships, before turning around and pointing their flanks towards the distance.

Wait, what's going on here? Are they trying to grab a spot in the T-series?
Under Andrei's bewildered gaze, he finally saw the purpose of these artillery airships: they were actually used as gunboats to engage the enemy in firefights!
As a series of cannon shots rang out, the Black Hawk Empire's airships launched a fierce bombardment, with large numbers of shells landing on the Cambrian Empire's airships from time to time before disappearing without a trace.

It seems that the Cambrian Empire's airships are also equipped with those void shields?
Andrei thought about it for a moment, and then felt that there was nothing strange about it.

Generally speaking, for such crucial technologies, as long as the difference in strength is not too great, both sides should be able to research and develop them.

Like most of the major belligerent nations in World War II, they all had the capability to manufacture tanks and airplanes, and most also had the capability to manufacture warships.

Although the performance of weapons and equipment manufactured by different countries will naturally vary, in general, their levels are still on the same starting line, and there is no generational gap.

So, thinking about it this way, Andrei wasn't surprised at all that the Cambrian Empire could also create Void Shields.

The only thing that puzzled him now was where the Cambrian Empire's air force units had gone.
As the medium-sized artillery airships began their fierce attack on the Cambrian Empire's large airships, the Cambrian Empire's air fleet also launched a fierce counterattack.

A large airship carrying two triple-gun turrets, along with several smaller gun airships.

From a visual perspective, Andrei felt that this firepower was much stronger than the Black Hawk Empire's simple artillery airships!

To Andrei's astonishment, the two air fleets, like naval battles in the age of sailing battleships, were almost face to face as they launched a fierce bombardment at each other.

Meanwhile, these airships were firing their cannons while constantly adjusting their positions, which could be considered a dogfight between airships.

Wow, this is truly eye-opening!

Andrei felt that being able to travel to another world wasn't such a bad thing after all. Putting aside everything else, just the scene before him alone had given him countless strange insights.

Inside the underground bunker, the other soldiers were still busy cheering excitedly, but no fool ran outside to cheer.

It seems they were aware of the enemy's bombing threat, and none of them wanted to go outside and become targets at a time like this.

When the large airships began to bombard each other like warships, the smaller airships acted as fighter jets, also dogfighting with each other and trying their best to prevent the other from getting close to their larger airships.

For some reason, the more Andrei looked at the pattern of this air battle, the more it seemed to resemble the space naval battles of the Imperial fleet in the Warhammer world.

Good heavens, is this a World War I version of Warhammer World?

(End of this chapter)