2022: Expedition (middle)
In fact, the wired telegrams in Yang Zhi's mouth were not used in the civilians. Now it is only used in the army. Of course, several major war zones were first used. For example, in Kunling County, wired telegrams were set up at the location of the base camp.
As a general, Zhou Jiyun naturally has a deep understanding of this technology. When issuing orders to various troops, he no longer needs to go back and forth with letters. If there is any accident on the way, the orders will not be delivered at all, and of course it will be even more unsuccessful.
Now, he stayed in the head of the general in Kunling County. What was going on in the front line? He could travel across the distance between space and time in an instant and reach his commanding place directly, and his commands could also reach commanders from all over the place in the shortest time.
If this technology is truly applied on a large scale, it may have to wait until after the war. It is said that it is mainly used for wired telegraph batteries. The technology is still quite unstable now. It is not only large in size, but also quite dangerous. Only in places like the army that pays great attention to discipline can we ensure that fewer things happen as much as possible.
Zhou Jiyun didn't care about such so-called danger at all. Compared with the thousands of losses on the battlefield, can this be called a problem?
After watching the airship take off, Zhou Jiyun immediately ordered Han Huafeng, the defender of Xiaoshi City, to pay close attention to the movements of the Qi army opposite. Whenever there is any abnormal movement, he would immediately report to the base camp.
The Tianwu Camp under the jurisdiction of Han Huafeng, Xiaoshi City, is located on the border between Kunling and Luzhou. Here, the most tragic battle for the Ming army broke out. The Daming Mingwei Camp independently resisted the two attacks from the Qi people and Bian Wushuang's army, and almost all the troops were destroyed here.
It was also in that battle that the Ming army completely defeated Bian Wushuang, and eventually forced Bian Wushuang's tens of thousands of troops to retreat to Kunling County. They surrendered in a desperate situation, and Bian Wushuang also burned himself to death.
Mingwei Camp also became famous all over the world after this battle.
After Mingwei Camp, the Tianwu Camp, which was established at about the same time as Mingwei Camp, was ordered to station here. Several years have passed, and the old people in Mingwei Camp have already left almost, and those who stay have become officers, but their desire to prove their minds like Mingwei Camp has never changed, especially the main general Han Huafeng, who was the first to establish the Tianwu Escort Agency back then. In comparison, Guan Ning and Yu Hong were just latecomers, but now the two of them are famous all over the world, and he, relatively speaking, can only be said to be ordinary.
In an army like the Ming army with countless famous generals, it would be too difficult to make a comeback if you don’t have a shocking masterpiece.
After receiving the telegram, Han Huafeng immediately issued a first-level combat preparation and came to the city tower. For them, they were preparing for battle all year round, but the degree of alert was different. Even in the years when the relationship between Ming and Qi eased, a large-scale market for Ming Qi commodity trading was not established like that of Changning County.
At the best time here, they can't help but stop caravans from commuting.
Airship combat is already common in Taoyuan County, Wuling War Zone. The military and civilians on both sides have long been accustomed to the buzzing big guy above his head. They flew to Changning County every once in a while and still put a few bombs, but they have never appeared in Kunling County.
The latest firearm equipment of the Ming Dynasty is basically given priority to the Wuling War Zone. The Kunling War Zone has never seen the latest standard rifles like the Ming Type 1. However, artillery has been gradually equipped one after another. For example, Xiaoshicheng, there are dozens of artillery pieces. However, there are no such portable mortars.
Unlike the Ming army in the Wuling War Zone that has gradually begun to transform into a hot weapon army, the army in the Kunling War Zone is still a completely cold weapon team, which is not much different from the past.
This has to do with the supply of weapons in the Ming Dynasty.
Although standard rifles like the Ming Type 1 have appeared, large-scale mass production has not been achieved. Even if the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of War are desperately building new factories and training new workers, it is obviously unrealistic to equip all the troops in a short period of time. Instead of distributing these new weapons evenly among the armies, it is better to concentrate them in one army to use them, which is better.
Sometimes, although fairness is taken into account, the effect is greatly reduced, or in other places, the rulers have to adopt such a moderate policy, but for the army, this is extremely harmful.
Zhou Jiyun obviously understood this truth, not to mention that Emperor Qin Feng also wrote a letter specially, which was handed to Zhou Jiyun by Yang Zhi personally to explain this truth to him.
Zhou Jiyun didn't understand. First of all, this arrangement makes sense. Since its establishment, Wuling War Zone has been preparing to attack Qi. Wu Ling has prepared for nearly ten years. It is natural for him to equip his troops first. Secondly, no matter what, the troops in Wuling War Zone have almost established a veteran army for the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Kunling War Zone cannot compete with him at all. If you want to prove that the troops in Kunling War Zone are not inferior to the opponent, you need to exert your might in this battle to destroy the country.
It is not surprising that the Wuling War Zone, equipped with the most advanced weapons, achieved a great victory, but if their Kunling War Zone also played well and achieved great victory after great victory, it would better demonstrate Zhou Jiyun's ability.
A small black dot appeared in the sky. Han Huafeng stood up, raised the telescope in his hand, looked over, and in his vision, a huge guy appeared clearly.
"Send the order, our air force has arrived, let the soldiers beat the war drums, blow the trumpets, and pay tribute to the heroes of the expedition!" Han Huafeng said to the deputy general beside him.
At this time, the wind was blowing from the direction of Kunling County. The airship in the sky did not start the steam engine, but flew quickly towards this side with the strong wind.
Above the small stone city and above the positions around the city, there were soldiers from the Ming Dynasty. They looked up at the ten airships and snakes flying in the sky in an neatly formed formation, and they immediately cheered.
They had heard of airships, but this was the first time they had seen so many airships lined up.
The sound of war drums rumbling, and the horn tear apart the cold wind, and came straight to the sky with the soldiers' trembling cheers.
In the sky, Han Dang, the commander of this expeditionary force, naturally noticed the movement below.
"Depart the steamer, lower the height, and hang the Ming flag." Han Dang ordered loudly.
The messenger on the airship quickly passed the flag words to the top of the other nine airships.
The rumbling sound of the machine started to gradually lower the height. At the same time, huge Ming flags waving from the tail of the airship and fluttered in the air in the wind.
The height of the airship kept falling, and finally stopped when it was only more than fifty meters above the ground. Han Huafeng, who was standing above the city, could clearly see the faces of the soldiers on the airship. He waved his arms to the airship and shouted loudly: "A good journey, come back from a great victory."
With his roar, thousands of soldiers in Little Rock City looked up at the airship close at hand, shouting in unison.
For the soldiers, they have such a magical weapon, so what is the Qi army on the opposite side? The Ming Dynasty is just around the corner.
Ten airships flew around Xiaoshi City, then they began to raise their heights and flew into the distant Qi State.
However, the excitement of Little Rock City is far from over. The airship troops went to Qi to carry out their missions. For these troops, it is not only a shot of a cardiac, but also a stimulant. The motivational effect on morale is self-evident.
For the Ming army, it was naturally a blessing to have such an air force, but on the other hand, it was a bad thing for the Qi army stationed in Luzhou.
The Ming army's airship troops had never taken off from Kunling County to bomb Luzhou, so for the Qi soldiers here, airships were still an extremely new thing. Although the senior officials of the Qi army also expected that once the war broke out, the Ming army would definitely use the airships, so there were some precautions in the army and used some pictures or narratives to establish the most basic defenses for the soldiers, but when they really saw the real thing, the Qi soldiers were still shocked.
Not only the soldiers, but also the middle and low-level officers, at this moment, were stunned at the fleet of airships that were quickly passing through the high sky.
What is powerlessness? At this time, they deeply felt it.
They are not afraid of thousands of troops charging, thousands of cavalry attacks, nor are they afraid of rumbling artillery bombardment, but the oppression of such things flying high above their heads cannot be described in words.
Wherever the airship passed, the soldiers and civilians of Qi below were all silent.
Countless fast horse messengers were running towards Luzhou City, but no matter how fast they ran, they could not stand the airship troops advancing straight in the sky.
While their messengers were still running wildly, the airship had already arrived at Luzhou City.
Guo Xiancheng stood on the city tower with a gloomy face, looking up at the airship unit that was approaching quickly. The deputy general beside him was loudly ordering the guards to remove the general's ceremonial guard and flag. If the Ming army saw it in the sky, a few bombs would come down, it would be a big deal. The general was nailed to the city tower like a nail and motionless.
Chapter completed!