Chapter 527 arrived

The direction of Yunzhou, the direction of Zhenning Pass, and now in the northeast of Northern Liao, a large number of military forces, the tribal coalition army commanded by Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, were originally advancing the war little by little according to the plan, and if they wanted to change, they needed a new set of combat strategies. It is that several directions have been adjusted according to this strategy, and they are ready to launch the final blow against Northern Liao.

What makes everyone the most anxious is the army of Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, the elite troops in Dongping in their hands, limited to conditions, there are not more than 10,000 people now, that is, three integrated battalions, plus the guards and scouts directly under them. One of the three battalions was the light cavalry they had brought with them at that time, one was the heavy equipment battalion that had been transported directly from Yicheng, and the other was a mixed battalion with a squadron of airships, a squadron of baggage, and a squadron of teaching. The mixed battalion is responsible for the extremely heavy work of logistics, reconnaissance, communications, and the training of the brutal warriors of the tribe into warriors with basic military qualities. Unless there is extremely important information, otherwise, the news of this army can only be transferred to Yicheng by sea, and then it can be sent to Danyang through the telegraph network, and then to Ye Tao's hands, although with the continuous improvement of lighthouses and relay communication stations established on a series of islands and reefs on the sea route, this transmission has compressed the time to ten days, but in the rapidly changing battlefield, ten days is still too long. In order to understand the actual situation and deploy the next stage of the new strategy, Ye Tao still decided to run it himself. Ye Tao hoped that before the general offensive in the direction of Yunzhou and Zhenning Pass, a considerable offensive would be launched in the northeast direction, so that the military strength of the Northern Liao Army at this stage would be mobilized on a certain scale. Naturally, such an offensive will have to bear considerable casualties, and the tribal alliance in the northeast, after all, is not a direct subordinate force of Dongping, and now Tan Weiran and Chi Lei have extremely high prestige there, but it is still a little difficult to make the tribal alliance pay considerable sacrifices to launch an offensive on the frontal battlefield.

It took two full days for a high-speed communication airship to pass through the land of Northern Liao, delivering the news of Ye Tao's imminent arrival to Tan Weiran and Chi Lei. This frightened the two of them. If they hadn't paid much attention to this level of adventure before, the air battle that had occurred not long ago showed that Beiliao had already made preparations in this regard, and the new airships in Dongping had not yet been installed, and the planes that had a great advantage over airships were absolutely impossible to fly with them for such a long distance. Once Ye Tao's flight team is intercepted, once something goes wrong, the consequences are unimaginable.

But Ye Tao had already set off a day after sending out the pilot airship, Tan Weiran discussed it with Chi Lei, and finally made a ruthless decision to let the communication airship return the same way, and inform Ye Tao's airship team on the way to land in Jiamen Town. Outside the town of Jiamen is a fertile field, the terrain is open, and there is no need to build a special mooring yard to carry out take-off, landing and replenishment operations. Then stop at Jiamen Town, and then fly to Tianmeng City, a fortress-type city that is still under construction, where the current headquarters of the tribal alliance is located. Ye Tao and his entourage naturally couldn't be as fast as a communication airship, and it would take almost five days to arrive. But the problem now is that the town of Jiamen is not yet in the hands of the tribal coalition, and it is still twenty-two miles away from their line of actual control. To be able to make such a promise, it is naturally not unsure, Jiamen Town was not captured before, but it was just because the control line of the two sides is now more convenient for their own side to defend, and the pressure on the troops is relatively small. Once Jiamen is captured, it means that the coalition forces will enter the operation on the Great Plains, then they will have to adjust the way of fighting, and entering the Plains will mean that more troops will be needed to deploy and defend in a large area, which means that the mobility of the operation will be greatly reduced, and the possibility of a large force meeting will increase, and in this regard, they are not fully prepared. However, it would be good to temporarily capture Jiamen Town, and when Ye Tao came, the whole army would evacuate. Anyway, when Ye Tao goes back, he really can't beat Jiamen Town again.

Jiamen Town is like a ripe fruit to them, ready to eat. They waited a day to send the heavy weapons battalion to the top of the camp before they began to move, and after an hour of bombardment, the defenders of Jiamen surrendered. It was the most rigorous and formal, but also the fiercest, siege warfare ever waged by the tribal coalition. Although they have captured many towns before, most of them are sneak attacks and strategic sieges of the inside and outside, or they have simply done the work of the defending generals before...... Once the coalition forces showed a completely different side, they already felt that some of the Northern Liao generals who had touched the path of the coalition army were completely unprepared. A heavy equipment battalion...... Now, everyone in the world knows that the cost of a heavy equipment battalion is twelve times that of a light infantry battalion, four times that of a light cavalry battalion, and three times that of a heavy infantry battalion, according to the standard set by Ye Tao, is roughly this standard for training and maintenance expenses in peacetime. Moreover, Dongping now has a total of ten heavy equipment battalions in the country, plus four heavy equipment battalions of the Blood Qi Army, these 40,000 troops, the literacy rate is 100 percent, basically everyone can master the basic four mixed calculations, half of the people can use slide rules and quick reference manuals, and one-sixth of the people can perform more complex calculations...... Such a unit, in this era of cold weapons, is the absolute pinnacle of existence, and it is a digital artillery unit of this era......

When the heavy weapons battalion and the tribal coalition army totaled 16,000 people launched a full-scale offensive, the defenders of Jiamen Town were almost crying, which was too bullying. In the past, tribal alliances fought with half elite troops, half of them still in training, or simply barbarians with only one tendon in their heads...... But this time, the light cavalry of the Frostwolf Army's Silver Wing Army appeared; The tribal model army, which had fully met the standards of discipline and combat capability of the light cavalry units of Dongping, appeared; Even those pro-guard troops who were originally just to stay around and show off appeared, and those pro-guards were equipped with different styles of armor and weapons produced by several ordnance workshops in Dongping, but it was not just as simple as improving their combat effectiveness by a notch...... Anyway, there are no troops at all that are not up to the grade.

The guards of Jiamen Town wanted to break their heads, and they didn't know when Jiamen Town became so important, but even if it was important, as for Jiamen Town, which had four or five thousand defenders, they couldn't use this kind of lineup to fight. He even thought that if the other party showed up and sent someone over to discuss, most of them would be lowered directly......

Of course, he didn't know that when he learned that Ye Tao was coming, Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, as well as those clan leaders, were full of fear of coping with the inspection and acceptance of the superior leaders, and they also had a strong sense of confidence in declaring their achievements.

After the capture of Jiamen Town, the Northern Liao side was also a little frightened, and in the case of confusion, the Northern Liao side began to shrink the front-line troops, and gathered in important towns one after another, instead of scattering and deploying as before, beware of the harassment of the tribal coalition.

Outside Jiamen Town, a considerable mooring site was established within a day, and the airship team was also transferred over to carry out daily air guard reconnaissance, as if facing a great enemy.

Four and a half days after Jiamen Town changed hands, the Northern Liao side finally confirmed that the tribal alliance army had made such a convulsion precisely because Ye Tao was coming. After Ye Tao and his entourage set off, Beiliao got the news. The Northern Liao side carried out two large-scale interceptions, but Ye Tao's personal guard airship team was not a little stronger than other airship teams. Although there are no new airships, all the airships have made some small changes to the characteristics that the flight altitude of the Northern Liao airship may be higher than that of their own, making it more convenient for the enemy to be higher than their own targets. Compared with the monotonous and boring weapons of the Northern Liao airship team, which lacked power and accuracy, this airship team is equipped with new rockets with considerable speed and accuracy. This kind of special anti-air rocket does not pursue power, but pursues light weight and small size, can be launched in clusters, and the launch speed and flight speed must be fast enough. A bazooka is loaded with six small rockets, which directly cover an airspace, so that the Northern Liao airship has nowhere to hide. For the Divine Arm Archer on Dongping's more elite airships, they didn't even need such an expensive thing as rockets, the Divine Arm Bow plus the newly equipped special arrows were enough. The new type of arrow is specially developed for the purpose of hitting the airship, this kind of arrow is more rigorous in the selection of the arrow shaft, requiring the absolute stability of the center of gravity, the triangular tail feathers can very well maintain the stability and accuracy of the arrow in flight, and the special arrow cluster hits the airbag of the airship, it directly tears out a big hole, no two words......

Beiliao intercepted it twice, and almost all the airships that had been built were put on the table, but in the air battle, they came up with a tragic result of 63 to 0, which made people extremely angry. Ye Tao taught Northern Liao a lesson this time: high-tech troops, leading in numbers and attributes in a single aspect, are completely meaningless...... What's more, the airship commander of Northern Liao doesn't know how to make full use of the ceiling advantage at all......

"General, there's news...... Ye Shuai's airship team has already connected with our airship. Approximately...... An hour later to the town of Jiamen. Another day passed, and shortly after Chi Lei, who had just finished his morning training course, returned to the command post, the herald brought the news.

"Immediately send an order to the whole army to be on alert for battle. The airship team took to the skies to put on alert. Inform everyone, we will go outside the city to meet Ye Shuai. Chi Lei laughed, stood up, threw down a string of orders, and hurried to find Tan Weiran.

There were more than 2,000 people who went to the mooring ground to greet Ye Tao, especially the leaders of various tribes, and the scene of all dressed up was even more rare. These clan leaders respected Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, but in their hearts, Ye Tao, who had always only heard of his name, was not only grateful, reverent and curious, but also had a kind of religious piety, they now admired Dongping's military power and cultural prosperity, and they now seemed to be not out of reach of such a life. Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, who already knew something about the habits of the tribe, saw that some tribal leaders even tossed out the clothes they wore during the grand ceremony of worshipping heaven and earth, which was usually only qualified for the whole tribal assembly, although they couldn't help but feel a little like rolling their eyes, but the heart of the tribal leaders was undoubtedly realized.

As soon as he completed another search around the mooring ground and arranged the defense forces, the welcoming team had just entered the mooring ground, and Ye Tao's airship team appeared in the distant sky. The beauty of the Yunzhou No. 1 airship made these people who were used to seeing airships a little moved. It is still the era of rapid generational renewal of airships, and Yunzhou No. 1 will always be the most advanced and safest airship in this era. The new Yunzhou No. 1 is still a snow-white color that is not stained with any variegated colors from head to toe, only there is a blue-green tree-shaped mark on the front end of the airship airbag, which is on Ye Tao's handsome flag and the Ye family's family crest. Unlike other airships, there are always various fragmentary hooks and protrusions on the outside, the hull of Yunzhou No. 1 is simple and concise, and the smooth surface allows the perfect curve of the airship to be fully displayed. Even the huge floor-to-ceiling viewing glass on both sides of the airship's cockpit fits this arc perfectly...... The forming technology of curved glass alone is a big leap.

And when such an airship got closer and closer, projected more and more clearly in everyone's eyes, everyone couldn't take their eyes off. The only thing that feels a little embarrassed and confused may be the ground crew waiting for the airship to drop the rope and carry out the mooring operation......

When Yunzhou-1 came to a steady stop at an altitude of about twenty feet above the mooring, a plate under the cockpit of the airship retracted about two inches into the boat, and then moved away to the side. An airship crew poked his head out of the opening, winced his eyes at the ground crewman whose confused expression had not yet disappeared, and then threw a coil of rope down.

The airship landed smoothly, and everyone gathered around, and everyone could see that Ye Tao was standing behind the floor-to-ceiling viewing window, smiling and signaling to everyone. Everyone suddenly found out...... It's not just the curves, it's the whole huge glass window that is more than a person tall, with a curve that fits the hull perfectly, and there is no frame at all in the middle. It can be seen that although this huge viewing window is spliced together from left to right by three curved glasses, the connection between the glasses is completely carried out by glue, giving people a huge visual impact...... Just these unbelievable pieces of giant glass made everyone present stunned. What kind of people use what kind of things, and what will Ye Tao, who can come in such a miracle-like airship, bring to everyone?