"Power cabin report, pressure 6:2."

"Three-level power, cruise speed, left full rudder, direction is south." Lan Bing said excitedly. Before that, the speed of Experiment 2 had reached ten knots. This speed was no longer much slower than the charge high and under the wind. At that time, the boiler pressure was only 5.6.

The designed cruise speed of Experiment 2 is also called economic speed. The speed index is eighteen knots, which is almost twice as fast as all the warships of the Northern Navy, and this is just the cruise speed.

"Power cabin, I am Xiaoman, a god of shipbuilding division of the craftsman in the Shengong Hall, and I report the boiler situation in the craftsman." Xiaoman snatched the sending machine and asked excitedly. He could clearly feel that the ship speed was still increasing. As a shipbuilding craftsman, who knows more about warships than he does?

"I am Mozi, the three boilers are operating normally, and the current pressure is about 70%. "Mozi's voice came from the speaker. He kept holding people in the power cabin to guide the sailors to operate.

Under normal circumstances, all three boilers will not start, only in wartime, and one of the boilers will remain in a low pressure state to prevent problems from happening to the other two boilers. This time it was a sea trial, so all three boilers were turned on.

"Mozi, do you want to try the speed?" Xiaoman asked, with an excited expression. Have you heard of the warships that have exceeded 20 knots? I really want to feel it!

"Xiaoman Shenshou, please pay attention to your words. The gentleman said that after boarding the ship, everything will be subject to the command of the captain, even if the gentleman is on the ship, the same will be true." Mo Zi's dull voice came from the microphone. Although the tone did not change, anyone who worked with him for a long time could hear it. Mo Zi was angry.

Mo Zi won’t get angry easily, but only when it comes to Mr. He will have this reaction.

"Yes, yes, Mo Zi is right. At the sea, everything is listened to the captain." After saying that, she handed the sending machine to Lan Bing. She was still a little girl, but she was the captain, and she didn't know what the gentleman thought.

Binglan took the sending machine and her position in Shengong City was very embarrassing. The military prisoner who was waiting for trial from the Ministry of War had no serious status when he arrived here. Lan Bing did not expect that Lei Shi actually knew the rules at sea.

When warships go to sea, everything is subject to the command of the captain. Even if it is wrong, it must be implemented. This is the rule of the navy and is written in the military rules. It is the most thorough implementation of all military rules, which is much stricter than the military rules.

The captain is the brain of the battleship. As long as he goes to sea, the lives of hundreds of people on the ship will be in the hands of the captain.

The navy is different from the army. It is easy for the army to replace the generals. It doesn’t matter whether the soldiers are willing or not.

The navy will not be able to be recognized by the sailors. Even if they are forced to replace the captain, the warship will not last long. The sailors would rather jump into the sea and swim back than give them a captain whom they do not recognize.

This is especially true for the Northern Navy, because the captain not only had to take them to practice battles, but more importantly, he took them to seek life and find food.

Therefore, after Lan Guangzu was seriously injured, Lan Bing, a 14-year-old girl, could firmly take up the position of captain. It was impossible for the Northern Navy to accept Lan Bing as captain. It was not in accordance with the rules, but the navy below didn't care. Whoever could make them survive would be willing to listen to anyone. Moreover, although Lan Bing was young, they were the ones they were growing up. They were their own children, and they had been smart since they were young, so they could definitely listen to her.

Take the sending machine: "I am Captain Lan Bing. The power chamber continues to move forward at cruising speed. After two quarters of an hour, the boiler operation will be reported."

This command is correct. Xiaoman was too excited just now. The boiler needs to be preheated and needs a certain period of stable operation. The sudden rapid pressure increase and decompression will cause great damage to the boiler.

A quarter of an hour later, Experiment 2 reached the predetermined cruise speed, and rushed towards the deep sea at a high speed of 18 knots.

During the trial voyage of Experiment 2 to the deep sea, the first air battle between Chu and Ao happened without any preparations on both sides.

Take off from the Ao Ren camp, floated along the air for six hours, and flew over 400 miles with one hundred hot air balloons.

The flight team that had not passed the test flight encountered one problem after another that caused the commander to be extremely troubled. First of all, the command system was useless and the flag language was useless. One hundred hot air balloons were scattered within a radius of more than ten miles, with high and low levels. In addition, the clouds that appeared from time to time, no matter how good the vision was, it was impossible to guarantee that the flag language command could be seen.

It's okay, because of poor command, the separation problem caused by poor command is even more troublesome. After flying for more than 400 miles, the fleet has lost three hot air balloons. The adjutant responsible for checking the number has to count every half an hour. Several officers responsible for checking the number are blurred and crying constantly, and they can't count them.

"Report to General Feng, the southwest, to discover the aircraft." The sergeant responsible for the observation of the return.

"Is it the lost hot air balloon that has returned to the team?" asked Von Ole, the commander-in-chief of the flight team and one of Lei Jun's most trusted generals.

"No, you'd better look at it. It's much bigger than our hot air balloons and has different shapes."

After taking the telescope and looking in the direction pointed by the lookout hand, you can vaguely see dozens of huge aircraft rushing towards your own flight team, which is obviously much faster than the hot air balloon.

Feng Aole's face darkened, damn, the information was wrong, Da Chu's aircraft seemed to be bigger and more advanced than the hot air balloon of Thunder Master. Who told himself that the Chu people were ignorant?

Oh! It seems that General Lei said, forget it, this is not important, the problem now is to fight against the Chu people. But Feng Aole doesn't know how to fight in the air.

Feng Aole didn't know that Semancang, the first flight regiment of the Great Chu Yulin Army opposite, was also worried. Everyone was flying in the sky, how could this battle be fought?

Semancang is not an ordinary person. He has a very amazing father Seqinghe. Seqinghe is one of the four auxiliary ministers of the Great Chu Dynasty. He is powerful and has a great reputation.

When the old emperor traveled west and the new emperor Chu Ren took office, everyone thought that the four auxiliary ministers would definitely be replaced. As a result, Chu Ren has not replaced the auxiliary ministers until now.

Chu Ren did not change the ministers of the regent or disperse the eight major legions, but he participated in the sand in all aspects. The Ministry of War was better, and almost all the legions below were controlled by the generals. It was very difficult for outsiders to improve in the army.

Semancang was originally like this. He came from the bachelor's family, but he had learned a good martial arts since he was a child. He became a ninth-grade warrior at a young age. His reputation in Luocheng is no worse than Luo Yi, but he couldn't even become an officer, and no one accepted him.

Until Chu Ren came to power, he had to break the convention of generals monopolizing the army, but this was really not easy. Even as Emperor Chu, he could not go into battle personally. The people below didn't buy it, and no one could do it. There was a 10,000 reasons to tell His Majesty that this person was really not suitable to be a soldier.

Just when Chu Ren was having a headache about this, a message came from the southwest. Master Lei invented a hot air balloon that allowed ordinary people to fly. This thing is great.

The most important thing is that there was no flying force in the Great Chu in the past, which was a brand new military service. It was not easy for Chu Ren to control the army, but it was easy for him to deal with the Ministry of War, Ministry of Revenue, and Ministry of Works.

Chu Ren had the final say on how to form a flying force, how many people were formed, and how many people he used. Not only did he not need the support of the legion, he could even bypass the Ministry of War, and the generals had no way to do this.

In this case, Semancang was directly appointed as the General of the Central Army, commanding the First Flying Regiment of the Yulin Army, with fifty new combat reconnaissance airships and nearly a thousand soldiers under his command.

Although the name is the Yulin Army Flight Regiment, in fact, all the newly formed ten flying regiments were directly appointed by Chu Ren, and they only obey His Majesty's command and are not controlled by the Yulin Army at all.

The news that the Ao people landed in Chunjiang Prefecture had already reached Luocheng more than ten days ago. In the past ten days, Da Chu was not idle. He drew nearly 500,000 people from the army transferred back from several legions and marched towards Chunjiang Prefecture from all sides.

The flight regiment was ordered to reconnaissance the military deployment of the Austrians. Five of the ten flight regiments were sent at a time. It is said that the flight regiments are still being formed. As a result, the conditions allow, the Great Chu will form no less than one hundred flight regiments within ten years.

"General Se, it has been confirmed, is not our hot air balloon flight team."

"Well, send an order, prepare for the battle." Semankura said. This was his first battle and he must not fail. If he was defeated, he would not lose his face and his father, but also his Majesty's face.

As the son of the regent, Semancang's understanding of politics is far above military affairs. It is not easy for Your Majesty. It takes more time to completely control the army, and it takes more victory after victory to prove it.

The flying teams on both sides issued orders for combat preparation almost at the same time, but the result was that the flying battles, neither the Ao people nor the Chu people, had no experience in the slightest experience.

Under Von Ole's order, the hot air balloon flight team was in a mess, and ten cooperating muskets began to load bullets. Should the bed crossbow be used? The reactions on each hot air balloon are different. This kind of bed crossbow is only equipped with three back hook arrows, which are used to shoot to the ground and fix the hot air balloons. No one knows whether it can be used in air combat.

As for bombs, it seems that this thing is useless. It is used to bomb the ground, and the enemies they face are also from the air. How to use bombs?

The Ao people were very chaotic, the Dachu Flying Group was as chaotic. They were not equipped with muskets and had very few crossbows. Like the Ao people, there were a large number of bombs and fuel in the airship. The former was used to bomb the Ao people's army, the latter was used to burn down the Ao people's supplies, and even the latter was more important than the former.

According to the Ministry of War, the Austrians could bring not much material, and if they could burn down their logistics supplies, these tens of thousands of Austrians would be defeated without attacking.

No one laughs at anyone. Neither side thought that the first batch of enemies they encountered also came from the sky.
Chapter completed!