Sun Ying looked confused at this moment. Although the Chu army opposite was not large, there were hundreds of airships in the sky, but there were no intention of moving forward. They floated in the air from afar, as if watching the excitement. This was too strange.

"General, I think those should be transport airships." The marching consultant beside him said, touching his chin.

Today's airships are immature and look the same, and there is no distinction between combat and transportation.

It sounds like something is reasonable. If it were a combat airship, it would have been flying over to bomb. Although the Ao people have come up with a way to deal with airship bombing and have been tested in actual combat, this method is passive and can only reduce casualties.

It is said that the Chu people also have a small airship that is much faster than the large airship and can attack the other party's airship, which is very difficult to deal with.

The Chu people were not as weak as expected.

Although both the Austrians landed in the two places, they defeated the Chu army thousands of miles. In fact, the Austrians' situation is a hundred times more difficult than the Chu people. After all, the number gap is too big.

In addition, in addition to giving the Chu people an unexpected blow during the first battle, the muskets and explosives relied on the actual combat experience of the Ao people commanders and the soldiers fighting to the death.

Of course, in terms of strategy, the Chu people were obviously weaker than the Ao people. Whether it was the first fleet of Lei Army attack on Chunjiang Prefecture, or Zuo Qing changed the landing location and took down Wuyang Prefecture, it was beyond the expectations of the Chu people.

But the result was far from as good as expected. The Lei army raided thousands of miles, captured a large area of ​​territory, and opened up enough landing grounds for the subsequent troops, but was trapped in Hongzhou and could not move forward.

Zuo Qing took over Wuyang Mansion and gained a lot of money. He had a lot of supplies and food in his hand, but it was extremely difficult to expand the landing space. Compared with the first fleet landing, Da Chu responded much faster to the landing of the second fleet.

What surprised Zuo Qing was that the Chu army near Wuyang Mansion was average in strength, but the local private army of aristocratic families gave him a great headache.

It took only more than a month to land, and there were more than a thousand wars in all sizes. Although Zuo Qing suffered great damage to the Chu people, his own losses were equally huge, and now he has reached an unsustainable level.

You should know that the Austrian army in the Second Fleet had only 120,000 main forces, and when they captured Wuyang Mansion, they had already lost more than 30,000 people.

In order to grab enough horses, Zuoqing forced out more than 10,000 people and ordered the fleet to go west and go around the sea, take down Lu Feichuan and seize the war horses.

At this time, Zuoqing didn't know that the fleet had long disappeared and became the first sacrifice for the Divine Workers Army to fight.

The troops in Zuoqing's hands were less than 80,000, and thousands of battles of all sizes caused him to lose nearly 20,000 people. In fact, at this time, there were only more than 60,000 regular troops in Zuoqing's hands.

The troops were too weak, which forced him to draw some of the sailors on the warships and join the army, which barely reached more than 80,000 people.

Wuyang Mansion is a big mansion. Just guarding Wuyang Mansion, these 80,000 people are not necessarily enough. He has to send four or five thousand cavalrymen to expand the strategic depth. He can't just guard an isolated city in Wuyang Mansion. If that is the case, there is no need to fight this battle.

The counterattacks of the local aristocratic families in Wuyang Mansion were very fierce. Although the battle of Wuyang Mansion caused heavy losses to the private soldiers of the aristocratic families, many of these aristocratic families were a century-old family. The surrounding areas of Wuyang Mansion were all their territory, and they needed people and food, and they would form tens of thousands of troops every day.

Of course, this kind of temporary unit is vulnerable, even if it has tens of thousands of people, it is not enough for thousands of teams to attack.

The problem is that there are too many people. Every battle of all sizes will cause casualties to the Austrian army, which has forced Zuo Qing to shrink his defense line. Now there are only two light cavalry troops outside, and the other two light cavalry have to be transferred back to Wuyang Mansion because of the huge losses.

After more than a month of battle, Zuo Qing not only failed to expand the occupied area, but the nearest Chu army was less than fifty miles away from Wuyang Mansion and could reach half a day of marching.

This means that the Wuyang Mansion has actually been surrounded by the Chu people. If the Chu people are allowed to continue to compress, it will not be a strategic space, but a living space. Maybe the Chu people will be able to capture the Second Fleet into the sea.

Zuo Qing would never allow such a thing to happen. Don’t look at the Chu fleet being vulnerable, but now he has no ship in his hand and is being knocked down to the sea, so he really has to swim back by himself.

Dong Xian has been preparing for more than a year in the Romon Islands, and has millions of troops, but the problem of insufficient ships cannot be solved, and it takes time to build a ship.

Sun Ying, the light cavalry, defeated six private soldiers in a row for three consecutive days, and two regular troops of the Great Chu army, and now the casualties have reached 10%.

Follow the general order of General Zuo and continue to advance a hundred miles, you can turn back to Wuyang Mansion and steal the general for a few days.

Originally, he should have rushed forward, fired guns and swept across the cannons, just like the eight Chu troops he had defeated before. But for some reason, when he saw the airship in the sky and the two hollow square formations in front of him, the soldier's intuition told him that it was dangerous! It was very dangerous!

The counselor's analysis makes some sense. If it were a combat airship, it would have come up to bomb now, and there is no reason to watch the fun from afar.

Intuition and analysis are two very strange thinking. Under normal circumstances, Sizhi analysis is correct, but on the battlefield, in the eyes of many generals, intuition is often more accurate than analysis.

"General, the enemy is a musket force." The scout came to report that although the distance was not far, it was still difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

"Murder force?" Sun Ying and the counselor exclaimed at the same time.

Judging from the intelligence sent by the First Fleet and the thousands of battles in the Second Fleet, the Chu people should not have hot weapons troops.

As for temporary production, Sun Ying didn't believe it. After all, a weapon like a musket has been used in Austria for decades. As a general of the Central Army, he knew very well that even if there were samples, he might not be able to understand the key point in a few years. It would be impossible to equip a unit of thousands of people in a few months, unless the Chu people had been studying it for a long time.

This information is very important. Without Sun Ying's instructions, he will have a quick horse to return to Wuyang Mansion to deliver a letter.

The Austrian army was stagnant a few miles away. The Tiger King looked at it for a moment and recalled the rules of the Taoist scriptures in his mind. He finally found one of the paragraphs: If the enemy does not advance or retreat, it means that the enemy commander is hesitating or waiting. The former means that the enemy is unclear about our situation and is not confident enough in its own combat power. The latter means that the enemy may have interspersed troops, attacking from behind or from both wings.

I have to say that Renault is prepared quite well, especially when handing over the troops to generals like the Tiger King, you must write them clearly and tell all aspects clearly.

In fact, Renault also thought about whether to hand over the troops to Jing Lan. Although he was disabled, he was a serious general of the Hu Ben after all, and had rich combat experience.

But after thinking about it, I would forget it. First of all, it was a matter of trust. This army carries Renault's hope. He used the teaching team model to build the army. It can be said that every soldier is a middle- and low-level officer in the future. As long as they are trained, they can expand their army ten times at any time. Da Chu has never lacked human resources.

In addition to the issue of trust, there is also the issue of commanding operations. After all, this is a pure firearm unit. The Tiger King has no command experience, and Jing Lan does not. What's worse is that Jing Lan has experience in combating cold weapons and cavalry, and it is quite rich.

Renault would rather paint on a piece of white paper than modify other paintings, which would be even more troublesome. He knew very well that war was different from others. A small mistake could lead to the annihilation of the entire army.

What Renault wants to do is to try to improve the fault tolerance rate of this team. Even if the commander makes mistakes, as long as the error is not large to a certain extent, it will not produce too bad results.

"Ask Lan Yunxi, are there any enemy troops around?" The Tiger King sent a meticulous order.

The messenger's face was thrusting. Is this a fucking question?

There are hundreds of airships in the sky. According to the wartime aviation regulations, airships will be divided into five to ten levels. That is, they will be divided into one layer at a height of three hundred meters. On the top of the troops, there are airships starting from five hundred meters to a height of one thousand five hundred meters.

If you fly high, you will naturally see far. In this kind of weather, the highest airship can be seen at least thirty miles away. If you find the enemy, you will have sent an alarm.

A moment later, the messenger replied: "Report, Commander Lan returns, no abnormality is found within thirty miles."

"Well! The command is sent, the first and second flying troops, guarding the logistics, and the infantry phalanx advance!"

There were three thousand people, and it seemed that there were quite a few. Only after I went to the battlefield did I realize that the troops were insufficient and I couldn't even draw much of the personnel to protect the logistics supply.

Fortunately, the Shengong Army has very little supply and does not need to keep too many people.

This is related to the supply ritual of the Shengong Army. Renault divided the supply into three levels. The first-level supply is completed by the transport ship, with a large load capacity, fast speed and saving manpower.

The second-level supply is completed by an airship and flies into the sky. It has high safety, high loading capacity, and slightly worse speed.

Level 3 supplies are the supplies that the troops carry. Even so, hundreds of carts are required to meet the requirements. Not to mention anything else, shells alone occupy one-third of the transport carts.

"Architecture reports distance." The Tiger King asked while thinking. This was his first battle. He was a little nervous, but he kept recalling the rules of the ritual written by the teacher, but instead putting his worries aside. He would not have time to worry and be afraid. With the IQ of the Tiger King, he would use them to recall the rules, and there was not enough time.

An artillery observer came forward to reply. Artillery observer was naturally a new military post, and his grade was not low, half of which were bachelor's. If you want to learn distance observation, you must at least recognize words, understand mathematics, and have a flexible mind.

"The enemy's distance is eight miles away, and it is at the edge of my artillery range."

"Reported, Commander Lan sent an assessment of the enemy's combat power." Another consultant rewarded him.

This is Renault's work. Several professional evaluation analysts were arranged on the airship, composed of bachelors and veterans. With the help of altitude, they observed the enemy situation, and made evaluation reports in a short time to provide reference for the commander.
Chapter completed!