With the end of the Second Battle, the land of Hongzhou was full of war. Cheng Liang was a general who fought for hundreds of battles, and Lei Jun was not an ordinary general. He was selected from the nearly ten million Austrian army, becoming a vanguard force, serving as a landing, establishing a beachhead position, and even a general who collected resources. How could he be an unknown person?

Through repeated battles, Cheng Liang was looking for the weaknesses of the Austrians, and Lei Jun was also summarizing the Chu people's combat methods and how to play the advantages of Austrians' weapons and equipment.

In addition to the game between the two generals, Lei Jun has another more obvious advantage, that is, behind him, there is the most outstanding secret master of the Ao people, Thunderstorm. Although Thunderstorm is very dissatisfied with him, the descendant of the "Thunderstorm", the level of Thunderstorm's secret technique must not be underestimated.

Less than half a month after the Second Battle, the Ao Ren's foot-plane had already taken off the air, and the quality was not inferior to that of the Chu Ren's plane, and it was even better.

Renault didn't see it. If he saw the Ao Ren's plane, he would definitely sigh a few times. My brother is so awesome that he actually has a gear shift.

In fact, this thing does not have much technical content, but only changes in gears, reaching different speeds. Anyone on earth knows the truth. A five-level fitter can be created by hand. But this is the world of Da Chu. A secret master who knows gear shifting is enough to surprise Renault.

Of course, there is no such talent on the front line. Cheng Liang got the information that the Ao people learned how to manufacture pedal planes and used them. On the battlefield, the Ao people's pedal planes seemed to be faster. At least in several air battles with the Ao people, the Chu army had no obvious advantage.

The reason for saying this is because of the quantity. Behind Cheng Liang, the entire Great Chu Continent is supporting him. With just one memorial, he can get everything he wants, more army, supplies, equipment, and almost everything he wants will get within one to two months.

On the contrary, the Ao people can only produce on their own, and the manpower is obviously insufficient. Not only is it insufficient manpower, but the resources are even tight. On the surface, the Ao people controlled a considerable range of land, but they were actually fake. Apart from letting the Chu people catch work hard, they got nothing from the Chu people.

Cheng Liang implemented the strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the fields very thoroughly. He did not even leave any abandoned land, let alone people, but even a dog.

Of course, this is just a place to see. After all, in such a large area, there will always be some villages, allowing the Ao people to loot some resources and population. But for the Ao people vanguard army with nearly 400,000 and the hundreds of millions of later troops, it will not solve the fundamental problem.

Therefore, whether it is the army, airship, or aircraft troops, the Chu people have an absolute advantage in terms of number. In the recent air battle, the Chu people's 400 foot-pedal planes fought against the Ao people, but they ended up being evenly matched and no one could do anything to anyone.

As the number of battles increased, on the front battlefield, the Austrian troops commanded by Lei Jun faced Cheng Liang's 600,000 troops with 120,000 troops, fighting with great success and without any disadvantage.

This is not because Cheng Liang's command ability is too weak. In fact, he found that there were more troops in his hands, and his command was not as flexible as before. At the same time, Lei Jun also became more and more interested in how to better play the muskets and artillery.

This war was too different from what the two sides had imagined before. The Austrians thought that with muskets, cannons, hot air balloons, more than 100,000 troops could sweep across the board, obtain a large amount of resources, and gain more advantages for the later troops.

The coalition believes that we have millions of troops and should defeat the vanguard of the Austrians with a crushing force. Among the coalition leaders, what we have always been worried about is the number of Austrians, not their quality.

In this regard, the Ao people and the Chu people are equally confident, and both believe that the advantage lies with their own side. The result is not the case. The Ao people do have equipment advantages, but this advantage is far less obvious than they imagined.

When the coalition forces first came into contact with the Austrian army, they found that hundreds or thousands of years of combat experience seemed useless. Even the long-time generals like Cheng Liang were at a loss in the early stages and did not know how to command the battle.

Although various accidents continued to occur, the coalition forces had an absolute advantage. The Lei Army racked their brains and used the forces of four armies to block the coalition's attack. Although they retreated every day, the speed of retreat was extremely slow, which was enough to support the arrival of the second batch of landing troops.

But the problem is not that it appears on the front battlefield. In such a large area, the coalition forces have enough troops. Who would be foolish enough to fight you head-on?

Apart from the initial trial control period, Cheng Liang's order was well implemented. The coalition forces that came from all directions bypassed the frontal Austrian troops and directly attacked the base camp. This forced Lei Jun, who was already short of troops, to draw a first army and return to the base camp.

Although there are more people in the rear, they are all logistics and craftsmen, with very few combat personnel and not even the elite of tens of thousands of people. No matter how powerful the secret technique of the thunderstorm is, it is impossible to defend the base camp.

Not only that, Lei Jun also faces a more serious problem, that is, insufficient supply. There is no problem with food for the time being, but the thermal weapons force cannot lack ammunition.

When we set out from the Romon Islands, the fleet brought a base of ammunition of 100, which was originally enough. Even if these muskets and cannons were destroyed, they would not be able to use these ammunitions.

But as the coalition forces entered the Aoist controlled area and separated the Aoist troops from the base camp, Lei Jun's supply problems occurred.

What annoyed him even more was that he was afraid to return to the base camp and could not defeat the Da Chu coalition. In fact, as the vanguard, he could not complete either of the two most important tasks.

The base camp was besieged, and although it was not very dangerous, it could not do anything. Although they broke into the Great Chu for nearly a thousand miles and were dragged by the coalition forces, they could not do anything.

Opening a camp is one of the tasks, and collecting resources is the second task. Both of these, Lei Jun failed.

On the surface, it seems that in the hundreds of battles before this, the Austrians had the upper hand and suffered heavy damage to the Great Chu coalition at a very small price. In terms of the number of casualties alone, the Great Chu coalition was at least five times more than the Austrian army, but what is the significance of this?

At the level of Lei Jun, he would not care about the gains and losses of a city and a place, nor did he care about the number of casualties. In order to achieve strategic goals, any losses are acceptable.

On the other hand, Cheng Liang looked at him again. Although he was under great pressure and suffered numerous losses, he firmly grasped the strategic focus and even began to establish military camps at places where he could land. Even if he could not stop the Austrians, he could at least play a warning role.

Under such circumstances, the second landing fleet of the Ao people has arrived!

To everyone's expectations, Zuo Qing, the commander of the second ship of the Ao people, did not land in Chunjiang Prefecture, Hongzhou to support the Lei army as planned, but led a fleet to attack Wuyang Prefecture, Yuezhou, Dachu's largest sea transportation prefecture, and the most important port city of the southern naval army in Dachu.

Three hundred nautical miles outside Wuyang Mansion, he defeated the main force of the Southern Navy in one battle, sank and injured more than 500 Southern Navy warships, and killed more than 50,000 people.

Naval warfare is different from land warfare. In the first battle, Cheng Liang was defeated and was attacked by hundreds of thousands of frightened war horses. He was killed or injured by more than 60,000 people. In that battle, the total force of troops invested by both sides exceeded 500,000.

The naval battle takes place at sea. As long as the warship is gone, it is extremely difficult for the people on the ship to survive.

After defeating the Southern Navy, a huge fleet rushed straight to Wuyang Mansion and shelled the city. Then the army landed and fought with the Nanzhang Army that arrived for fifteen days. At the cost of losing 30,000 people, they defeated the 300,000 coalition forces that arrived one after another and occupied Wuyang Mansion.

In this battle, not only did the Southern Navy defeat the landing battle, but also suffered numerous casualties. According to subsequent statistics, at least 150,000 coalition forces died in this battle, and the rest were defeated. For a moment, with Wuyang Mansion as the center, it was difficult to see established coalition forces within 3,000 miles of surrounding areas.

Zuo Qing's command of the sky was shocked not only Dong Guanyue, the commander-in-chief of the Romon Islands, but also made all the previous plans of the Great Chu coalition Army was wasted.

I originally thought that the second fleet of the Ao people would land in Hongzhou and support the first fleet of the Lei Army. According to this strategic approach, all troops were arranged with Chunjiang Prefecture as the center of attention. Who would have thought that Zuo Qing rushed straight to Wuyang Prefecture, which was originally the most important port in Dachu and had heavy troops.

Not only were there more than 1,500 ships of the Southern Navy, more than 150,000 naval troops, but there were more than 100,000 troops of the Southern Army, and private soldiers of the Wuyang Mansion family.

In fact, it has proved that the battles of the private army of the Wuyang Mansion family even exceeded that of the Nanzhang Legion, and the number of people was beyond imagination.

During the half-month battle, the total number of private soldiers from the aristocratic families mobilized more than 200,000. Most of the private soldiers of the aristocratic families were killed. In contrast, the Nanzhang Legion not only lagged behind in equipment, but also had poor fighting will.

In fact, the Ministry of War also knew that among the eight major legions of the Great Chu, the weakest was the Northern Navy, followed by the Southern Plate Legion.

Even so, with Wuyang Mansion as the center, the military force that can be mobilized within a radius of thousands of miles in half a month is more than 500,000.

In this battle, Zuo Qing showed his superb command art and seemed to have a great understanding of the Great Chu army. The various divisions of Great Chu knew almost nothing about the Austrians, and most of the battles were about to collapse. Even the private soldiers of the Wuyang Mansion had strong will and even fought to the last one, they still could not stop the Austrians' advance.

When Renault saw the battle report, he knew that although Zuo Qing was very adventurous, his command level might not be stronger than Lei Jun. He must have obtained information from the Great Chu coalition from Lei Jun first, especially about the navy, before he dared to take a dangerous attack.

This battle was obviously a bit gambling, and Zuo Qing won the bet.

In fact, Zuo Qing also had difficulty speaking of his suffering. When he learned about the situation of the Pioneer Fleet, he led people to calculate for more than a month, but he could not find a solution.

Even if the Second Fleet goes to reinforce, what is the significance of the Austrians?
Chapter completed!