27th April 1937, [Unknown]Location [Unknown]
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""Sir we have initiated the plan, we shall see what the Swiss have in store for us."" A man in black combat clothing knelt behind a man in white robes, the man with white robes was facing him with his back pointed at him. So his face could not be seen. ""Good work. We have our suspicion that the Wanderer had fled to Switzerland instead of our estimated Romania since no trace has been found there. Yet our agents in Switzerland have not reported anything related to the Wanderer."" The Man in white robes said slowly. ""Sir, if you would have given me the men back there he would no longer be a nuisance! I could have made it much easier for our union!"" The man kneeling said angrily. ""Young lad. You have to understand that we did not have the resources nor the intelligence on what the Wanderer is capable of. Rushing our way in and or pushing him into a corner could have instead backfired on us"" The man in white robes replied to his outburst.
""I I I am sorry Sir, I overstepped my boundaries."" The man in black quickly said. ""It is okay, but no matter what the Wanderer throws at us, we will be capable of throwing it back a 100 fold! For we the Union have our ways of DEALING WITH THEM!"" The man In white robes shouted. And immediately the view in front of the white-robed man became clear, they were on a British Zeppelin and broke through the cloud cover clearly showing a construction site, ma.s.sive in size down there, what is being built is unclear.
""Sir our planes have made contact with the weapon, reports say it looks like a Zeppelin, but bigger than the one this world normally creates and it also looks like it"s armoured."" The man in black reported back. ""Interesting, our Armoured Zeppelin Blueprints disappeared in the 5th Great war with the Confederation, could they have obtained it, The confederation keeps its own designs very secret as it can take 5 years for a design to be acceptable and ready for production."" The man in white robes said, "But could they have made their own?" The man continued to think.
27th April 1937, 0923
HMS Dreadnought
""ALL CREWMAN THE ANTI-AIR WEAPONRY, ENEMY PLANES INBOUND! THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL"" The captain ordered.
""SIR YES SIR!"" The replied.
""Marshall! I am deeply sorry but we might need a bit longer than 1 hour to get to Bern."" The captain apologised. All crew were running to and fro as they prepared to engage the enemy.
""Do not worry, this is out of your control."" I casually waved it away.
""Sir enemies inbound time until contact 1 Minute!"" a Navigator shouted...
""Aim the main guns, load High Explosive (HE)!"" The captain ordered. The fire control officer was finishing the range finding.
""Loading HE!"" The fire control officer reported. Before continuing to aim the small weaponry with the central fire control system. "Beep" The alarm sounded that the main Batteries were ready to fire.
""Aiming secondary batteries!"" he continued. Before shouting ""GET READY!"" Seconds tick by as the Fire control officer took the optimum timing. His hand was pointed upwards before finally slamming it forwards whilst shouting
""FIRE!"" The fire control officer ordered. "BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM" 4 HE 400mm Sh.e.l.ls were hurdled towards the enemy... The fire control officer was counting silently inside his head. Remembering the velocity and distance all by heart.
""7..,6..,5..,4..,3..,2..,1.., DETONATE!"" The fire control officer shouted to the Gunmen. The fuses inside the HE sh.e.l.ls were remotely detonated through Radio waves. Immediately after the order, the entire area in front of the Battle Zeppelin was lit alight. Fire engulfed them as they moved through the area of the explosion.
Everyone looked in awe at the Might of the main cannons. ""YES!"" The crew shouted, the tactic to stay together backfired on the Union. ""30 Planes down sir!"" the observer reported enthusiastically.
""Anti-Air fire!"" The captain stayed serious as more than half of the enemy planes were still alive and kicking. The crew"s enthusiasm immediately was dowsed, and started to opened fire upon the enemy planes, ""DIE UNIONISTS!"" Soldiers shouted as he opened fire in his quad 20mm cannon pod.
While the Ravens were fighting with all they had the captain was annoyed that their 30 planes haven"t launched yet.
""Where are our Hurricanes?!?"" The captain demanded. ""Si Si Sir, Head of the Ravens forbade the launch, he stated that the enemy will slaughter them."" A Hauptmann said who relayed the orders. ""Dammit, why?!?"" We need those planes for Defence. "Hmm, Manfred has also seen what they were, these are planes our Hurricanes can"t compete with. It seems I must step up my R&D on plane development. I must arrange a visit then." I thought to myself.
""Sir they are in firing range!"" A Navigator shouted. Immediately the enemy opens fire on the Battle Zeppelin, but the Armoured plating easily stopped the enemy from Penetrating. And they learned quickly, they armed their bombs and started to dive towards the Zeppelin again. ""ENEMY BOMBS INBOUND!"" An Observer shouted as the Fighter planes all carried a small bomb with them, "BOOM!" a rain of bombs landed on top of the Zeppelin, sadly what they could carry were small bombs, good for hitting infantry and IFVs/APCs. And they didn"t know that the armour is thickest on top followed by the bottom, the sides are the weakest as they only have light armour plating. The bombs create a fiery h.e.l.l outside the ship, but as the entire Zeppelin is made for a Pressurised flight it has very thick doors, causing the fire to stay outside and do any Harm, besides scratching the paint.
Sir, 4 Secondary batteries have been damaged!"" An engineer reported quickly, ""Send engineers for repairs quickly!"" The Head of Engineering shouted.
""Enemies inbound 3 O"clock Captain!"" Another Navigator shouted. The Captain"s face turned Solemn, he wanted to avoid damaging anything, as the planes could do nothing, but it seems that they are only moments away of using their planes as Bombs, and that would do a bit more damage which will delay them even more. Which he cannot allow!
""DIVE DIVE DIVE!"" The captain shouted. Immediately the HMS dreadnought started to descent dramatically, losing alt.i.tude quickly.""Sir, we are breaking cloud cover!"" A navigator reported. I watched and remembered that they were only 3 minutes out of the Hangar, "They must have known our base location than, or they had dumb luck. Even so, I was going to reveal our presence today anyways." ""SOUND THE BASE ALARM!"" I ordered.
"EEEEEEEE" A ma.s.sive Siren audible all over the valley sounded. ""ENEMY AIR RAID!"" The commanders shouted upon hearing the siren.
""MAN THE ANTI-AIR GUNS, SCHNELL!"" They encouraged the soldiers. Everybody"s eyes almost popped out of their sockets as they saw their HMS dreadnought Dive dramatically through the clouds, But immediately they saw the plans zooming around the Zeppelin-like flies, ""Target the planes!"" the commander shouted down the orders. "dun dun dun" 20mm autocannons started to unleash h.e.l.l upon the planes, nimbly avoiding the Zeppelin. The Planes temporarily stop firing at the Zeppelin and started to dive down towards the Anti-Air Towers. ""ENEMY FIRE INBOUND!"" A commander shouted, but it was too late, "tatatata" Machinegun fire from the planes mowed down crews of the Anti-air stations, ""Where are our planes?!?"" the soldiers shouted desperately. It was a h.e.l.l in the Valley, as not all Anti-Air Tower had guns and not every tower was finished causing them to be unprepared.
""Sir 4 enemy planes down!"" An Oberst shouted. ""f.u.c.k, where did they come from"" A commander cursed as he saw his men die by the planes hands. Only after 30 minutes of intense fighting did the final Plane finally crash down towards the ground. ""Sir we have defeated the enemies!"" The Helmsman reported. It was a short mess, but they were able to easily defeat the enemy, even without planes. This showed the strength of the HMS Dreadnought. ""Sir there are minor damages to the Zeppelin, 3 crew injured, we can fix the exterior in one hour before arrival."" An engineer reported to the captain. ""These Planes were mainly made for fighting other planes, their payload was too big, causing them to easily fall to out Anti-Air. Manfred made the right choice here."" I a.n.a.lysed. ""Sir, no objects spotted on the Radar, we can start to head towards Bern."" The radarman said, ""go to cruising alt.i.tude again!"" The captain ordered. "It seems he dead set on getting to Bern." I thought.