"Fly! Fly! ”

On the playground of Guangzhou University, a hot air balloon carrying about ten pounds of stones slowly flew into the sky, and when I saw the hot air balloon flying, there was a cheer on the playground.

For the experiment of this flight interest group, I learned that the Metropolitan Governor personally came to participate, and almost the teachers and students of the entire school came.

Maybe everyone is studying different things, but everyone has a feeling about flying into the sky, and if they can, they want to fly into the sky one day.

"Congratulations on your success, keep up the good work, and one day you will be able to fly into the sky in a hot air balloon!"

Syllable! Syllable!

Fang Nan took the lead in applauding, and other teachers and students around him gave applause to the three members of the flying interest group, Dong Yan, Gao Xiang, and Sun Weimao could only face the praise of the principal and everyone's applause.

As for the hot air balloon, it is still slowly flying upward, there is no need to worry about the hot air balloon losing contact, the hot air balloon also has a rope connected to the ground, and the hot air balloon can be pulled down by pulling the rope.

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With less than a year and a half left before the end of the armistice agreement between the People's Army and the Ming Court, the strength of the People's Army is rapidly improving.

Before the outbreak of the last war, the strength of the People's Army was only more than 300,000, and now the total strength of the People's Army has exceeded 800,000.

The 800,000 army seems to have a lot of troops, but it can't be compared with the Ming court, which allowed the gentry and merchants from all over the country to form an escort team, and the strength of this escort force alone will exceed three million, a very large number.

Of course, a large number of troops does not mean that the strength is strong, most of the gentry and businessmen formed by the escort team combat effectiveness is not good, worse than the combat effectiveness of ordinary Ming army troops, equipped with basically cold weapons melee weapons, can have some archers are good, not to mention muskets and artillery.

In the face of such an enemy, it is not a big problem for the People's Army to fight 1 million with 200,000.

It is also because of this multi-million force escort force that the Ming court's control over various places has been declining, and even many officials have changed to mainly obey the orders of the "commander" of the local escort force.

A year and a half later, a new war will break out, with the strength of the People's Army, coupled with the efforts of the Military Intelligence Department, the People's Army believes that this war will be won, and their own losses will not be too large, the only thing to look forward to is the final result, to see if the Ming court will hold the capital, or will eventually flee north.

For the next war, for the next war to face a new war after the end of the next war, the KPA has made a lot of preparations.

In the northernmost part of Jiangxi, a special unit has been trained, and this unit has been temporarily named "Lancers", which means cavalrymen armed with muskets and muskets, although some people like to joke about calling them musketeers on horseback.

Whatever you call it, it is certain that this cavalry was armed with muskets, and the tiger head guns used by the KPA had a much longer range than bows and arrows, especially in the endless steppes, where the muskets were able to exert more power.

From the beginning of the formation of the lancers, the task of the lancers was determined, and the task of the lancers was to deal with the Tatars on the steppes in the north of the land of China.

When it was first formed, the Lancer Cavalry Unit had only one regiment size, but now the Lancer Cavalry Unit has four regiments, and by the end of this year, it will have five cavalry regiments, which will be reorganized into a cavalry division, about 5,000 cavalry, and the number of people is equivalent to the number of war horses, and one person can only be equipped with one war horse.

This cavalry division will also be a template for the cavalry units of the People's Army in the future, the cavalry of the People's Army will use bows and arrows relatively rarely, the cavalry should be able to attack the enemy both from a distance and at a close distance, muskets are easier to learn than archery, and most of the cavalry of the People's Army will be lancers in the future.

For the time being, the lancer unit can only form a division, and the main reason is that the number of war horses of the People's Army is too small, and in the areas ruled by the People's Army, the demand for horses is relatively large, but it is impossible to obtain too many war horses in a short time.

It would not take two years for the People's Army, with the lancers as the vanguard, to the steppes to steal the Tatar horses, cattle and sheep.

In the northern part of Jiangxi, there are also troops trained in the northern part of Huguang and not only the lancers, especially in winter, many troops are rotated to the south bank of the Yangtze River for training, mainly to experience the cold weather.

When the KPA arrives in the north, it will experience even colder weather, and the KPA cannot be defeated by the enemy, nor can it be defeated by the cold.

The human body can be trained to withstand the cold, but the time given to the People's Army is not much, so the People's Army is also sending soldiers with strong resistance to the cold to form the "Northern Division", which will be responsible for the task of directly taking the northernmost part of the land of China after the outbreak of the war, and will also be stationed in the north after the war.

There were other special units in the Lancers, Northern Divisions, KPPA.

There are marines in the navy, and there are two main types of training tasks in marines, one is land combat, and the other is combat from the sea to land, the latter being the most important.

Landlubbers are allowed in the Army, landlubbers are absolutely not allowed in the Marine Corps, and the soldiers of the Marine Corps must often train on boats, and seasickness must not be had, and if there are fighters who are seasick, they must be solved as soon as possible, and if they cannot be solved, they must be transferred out of the Marine Corps.

In addition, there are mountain divisions and jungle divisions, and just by looking at the name, you can understand the combat missions that these two special forces need to perform, one is mountainous and the other is jungle.

The further south you go, the denser and more dense the jungle becomes, especially in the Southeast Asian peninsula, where it is not suitable for large troops, and mosquito diseases will cause serious attrition of troops, and the KPA needs a force suitable for fighting in this environment, so there is a jungle division.

It is impossible for a unit to be omnipotent, and neither can the majority of KPA fighters be omnipotent, so in this case, it is enough to highlight one combat area of the troops, either in the cold north or in the jungled south, anyway, as long as there is a demand, special troops can be formed, and in battles with special terrain, professional troops must be allowed to carry out the task.

In order to form a unit to carry out special tasks, its investment is also a fraction more than that of ordinary troops, but fortunately, the KPA is not short of money at present.

Since the People's Army raised the flag, it has never encountered a shortage of money, the People's Army occupies territory, a large number of wealthy gentry and businessmen have seized their homes, and obtained enough money to develop themselves.

It takes a lot of money to build roads, build water, build factories, build schools, produce weapons, etc., thanks to the wealth accumulated by the family of the gentry and merchant over the years.

However, the land of China is limited, and the noble gentry and merchant families are also limited, and when the People's Army unifies the land of China, it will be necessary to be careful in planning.

Fortunately, after the People's Army unifies the land of China, there will be no large-scale expansion of the army, and military spending has always been the largest consumption of the People's Army.