A team of airships comes from east to west, with a height of 1,500 meters, and consists of fifty third-class airships.

Today's airships are very different from the original hot air balloons, not only in terms of load capacity, but also in other aspects.

The original hot air balloon was named a first-class airship, and was completely eliminated three months ago. Since it was initially manufactured, it won by quantity and did not consider other issues at all, so there are considerable differences between first-class airships.

The smallest one can only carry a weight of 2,000 kilograms, which is for less than ten people, while the large one can carry a weight of 6,000 to 8,000 kilograms. The equipment is also varied, and the logistics supplies required for each hot air balloon are different.

For the sake of war, the Ministry of War issued a plan to build a new airship to the Ministry of Works. In less than three months, the second-class airship began mass production. The second-class airships were unified in load capacity, fully equipped and fixed personnel, and performed quite well on the battlefield.

As the war in Hongzhou continued to expand and the second batch of landing troops of the Ao people arrived, the battlefield area expanded from the original radius of 500 miles to 1,000 to 1,500 miles.

Well, this is the official statement of the Dachu Political Affairs Hall. As long as you have no problem with your brain, you will understand what this means.

The third-class airship is the latest airship that has just been designed and mass-produced. It is divided into three types: transportation, manned, and combat according to its use.

This team of fifty airships is half of the total number of third-class airships produced by the Ministry of Industry, including thirty manned airships and twenty transport and supply airships.

"There is the Jingtie City ahead. You can take a closer look. We will stay over the Jingtie City for half an hour." The person who spoke was a young official in his thirty years old. From his clothes, he could see that he was a fifth-rank consultant of the Ministry of Rites of the Great Chu.

"Yes." The bearded man holding the telescope just snorted and looked at Jingtie City intently.

After one and a half years of construction, Jingtie City has been built from the original small piece of land into a medium-sized city with a side length of more than two miles. Jingtie City is still expanding around. Plots of fine iron plates are laid on the flat ground, and a team of coolies carrying hot iron are pouring and welding continuously.

The movable fine iron city wall is as high as two meters high and ten meters wide. It is pulled by hundreds of cattle and horses and moves outward little by little through the track, giving more space to the expanded coolies.

Odin's beard trembled from time to time, his face was calm, but his heart was excited. He wanted to shout, "This is impossible, his eyes must be blind, and what he saw is fake, and this is not something that can be built by humans."

There were more than a dozen airship passengers holding the telescope. They looked quite normal. If you look closely, you will find that each of them was breathing twice as fast as usual, and their chests were fluctuating violently.

This is nothing to ordinary people. Anyone will only react more intensely than they see things they cannot understand and believe.

But these people are different. They all come from the masters of allies, with a total of twelve. This is a rare landscape, from different countries, riding on the same airship, and they are all masters.

In normal times, I was afraid that the fight would start as soon as I met. Many of these countries were feudal enemies. For example, this Austrian master came from the Golden Tribe. The Golden Tribe was between the Great Chu and Luosha and belonged to a nomadic people. Hundreds of years ago, it was once glorious. It defeated Luosha Kingdom and retreated again and again, and dozens of cities were slaughtered by the Golden Tribe.

At this time, standing next to Odin three steps and looking into the distance was the Grandmaster from Luo Sha.

The war in Hongzhou has been twists and turns, and is currently at a disadvantage. It has been captured by the Ao people for thousands of miles, and dozens of palaces have fallen into the hands of the Ao people.

With the area of ​​Da Chu, this little land is nothing, but for the Austrians, it is really important. They have more advanced technology than Da Chu, and the only difference is population and resources. With these, they can produce a large amount of military supplies in a very short time to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.

The diplomatic team that came this time was an important plan by His Majesty Chu Ren, allowing them to see the Iron City of Nanzhang and give these guys who were a little untempered by the Austrians.

Speaking of the Hongzhou War, the first battle of the Ao people was actually not much stronger than that of Da Chu. After several hours of "hard" battle, neither side won any results and ended with zero to zero.

The first ground battle took place on the tenth day after the air battle. The Great Chu took the Liaodong Xiangshui Army as the backbone, the local government troops as the branches, and the 100,000 Luosha Army to form an army of 400,000 people to fight against the five armies commanded by the Lei Army and 150,000 Au people.

Judging from the comparison of the number of people, the advantages of Da Chu are quite obvious. 400,000 to 150,000 are more than twice that of the Ao people. The Air Force has a greater advantage. It calls all the hot air balloons and airships around it, and has gathered a total of six flying teams and more than three hundred aircraft. Even if the Ao people try hard to produce hot air balloons with the stolen materials, the number is only 125, and it is a hot air balloon that is more backward compared to the Chu people.

In Beiyuanchuan area, both sides formed a formation, and the airships were like clouds in the sky. Among the 400,000 troops of the Great Chu, there were 12,000 heavy cavalry alone, and the rest were light cavalry.

However, the 150,000 troops of the Chu people were all infantry.

Judging from the comparison of strength before the war, Cheng Liang, the commander of the Great Chu, the commander of the Xiangshui Army in Liaodong, and the Duke of the Suiguo, was confident enough. Judging from historical battle examples, the usual ratio of attacking infantry with cavalry is one to three. In other words, one thousand cavalry requires at least three thousand well-trained infantry to be able to stop it. Moreover, it is just to stop it.

As for heavy cavalry, it is even more terrifying. This ratio can reach one to ten, or even more.

The problem is that this battle is a war that both sides have never experienced before. Lei Jun is very clear that he is at a disadvantage, but he must not be defeated.

The first thing that goes to the battlefield is not the light cavalry or the heavy cavalry, and it is even less likely that it is the musket team of the Ao people, but the hot air balloons in the sky.

After that funny air battle, in ten days, even the god, the Thunderstorm Secret Master in the mind of Ao Ren, did not come up with a way to deal with the enemy airships, let alone Chu Ren. After Feng Ole's summary of air battles, he firmly believed that airships were not suitable for air combat.

Two air forces moved towards the enemy's battle formation at the same time, and more than four hundred huge hot air balloons and airships covered the sky and the sun. On the ground, huge shadows cast by airships were everywhere.

They passed by each other, and the closest ones were not needed to see the operators on the enemy's hot air balloon without a telescope, but they ignored each other and continued to move forward.

Both sides agreed that this kind of flying tool is not suitable for fighting each other, and hot air balloons and airships should be used to deal with ground troops.

Countless gunpowder packs and bombs fell from the sky and were thrown to the neatly arranged ground troops on both sides.

When Renault saw this detailed battle report later, his expression seemed to cry and laugh, but in fact he couldn't tell what he felt in his heart.

If it weren't for the huge casualties, it was shocking to see, Renault really laughed, using his sense of superiority as an earthling to mock the ignorance of the Da Chu and the Ao people.

In terms of quantity, there are more than 300 airships in Da Chu, while the Ao people are only more than 100. Everyone uses black gunpowder. The bombs of Da Chu also include iron nails, iron sand and other debris, which are even more powerful. No matter how you look at it, the people of Da Chu have the upper hand.

Two quarters of an hour later, the smoke of gunpowder disappeared. Cheng Liang saw the result on the battlefield, but felt cold all over his body. How could this happen?

The Austrian army naturally suffered heavy losses, with broken limbs and flesh everywhere, but their troops were still able to maintain a complete queue. Even many injured people did not withdraw from the queue. With the sound of the snare drum, they actually charged towards the Great Chu army!

Can you imagine that the side with fewer people or infantry charges against the cavalry with many people?

Cheng Liang really wants to ask, what's wrong with this world?

In fact, he knew without asking, the Austrian army looked miserable, and there was no comparison. He was also bombed, and the performance of Chu people and Luo killing made Cheng Liang speechless, and the biggest problem was that the cavalry came from the cavalry.

People, after training, willpower and military rules, still maintain strong combat effectiveness under extreme conditions.

But the war horses were not good. At the moment the first bomb exploded, the cavalry troops that Chu people and Luo were killed were all in chaos. While they were trying to control the frightened war horses, they wanted to control the frightened war horses. This was an impossible task.

After the first batch of bombs of the Austrians dropped, the 400,000 Da Chu and Luosha coalition forces had mostly collapsed. What makes people speechless is that it is not the soldiers who collapsed, but the war horses. Can you imagine what the scene would be like if hundreds of thousands of war horses were frightened at the same time?

All military orders do not exist in front of frightened war horses. They run wildly, kicking away all objects blocking them, whether they are living or dead.

After all, the number is limited, and the lethality of black gunpowder is really not great. One hundred hot air balloons can carry a limited number of bombs. In addition, the lack of supplies from the previous troops of the Ao people, these hot air balloons cannot even be fully loaded.

Even so, the frightened war horses helped the Ao people a lot of help. Lei Jun discovered that he was not fighting alone. In addition to 150,000 men, he also had 400,000 war horses as allies.

Without his orders, the Ao people on the hot air balloon knew what to do. Where the horses were not frightened, throwing a bomb was enough. For the Ao people, it was not important to kill many Chu people, but the important thing was how many war horses could be frightened.

The collapse came too quickly, so fast that Cheng Liang had no time to react. You should know that this is a big Chu with poor communication, with hundreds of thousands of people. Even if they are well-trained, it will take at least two hours to set up a formation.

When hundreds of thousands of war horses were frightened and running everywhere, let alone he could not pass the orders on, even if they were passed on, they would not be able to be effectively executed.
Chapter completed!