Chapter 437: Surprise

Early the next morning, many important ministers of Danyang came to Ye Tao's mansion after the end of the early dynasty, although they had been bombarded by fire and oil bombs for an unknown number of times, but due to proper maintenance, perhaps also because of the liquid rich in various nutrients moistening the earth, although many of those big trees had been destroyed, there were still a lot of plants scattered on the entire exercise ground, which looked lush and green. Perhaps, this is partly due to the fact that it has been a long time since there has been a live military exercise using fire oil bombs and Marspar bombs on the exercise ground. The Blood Qi Army and the Forbidden Army are now a little disdainful of these exercises, in addition to conducting two exercises every year after the completion of the training of recruits, most of the time they would rather conduct training in various professional projects in the camp and the exercise ground, and the part of the forbidden army in the Iron City also entered the field and changed guards in Danyang to familiarize themselves with the various situations in Danyang, just in case, and in order to cultivate the familiarity of various services, these services are firmly engraved in their bones. The Blood Qi Army, on the other hand, went even further, and now often carried out partial mobilization without prior notice, making long marches of about a battalion, deploying and closing at the target location, and then making a rapid return march. This highly targeted training method is being popularized throughout Dongping, because it is indeed very effective in improving the combat effectiveness of the troops. Probably, that is, except for Yunyunzhou, almost all the armies in Yunzhou are constantly moving except for repairs. The area to be governed by the Northern Xinjiang Economic Strategy Prefecture is too large, and even if the army has begun to expand now, the army is still too small. Naturally, these training methods of the Blood Qi Army gradually gave the officials of other departments in Dongping a headache, because the consumption of food had greatly increased.

Due to the simple notification that the Tiecheng side had vacated the exercise ground so that it could be used to demonstrate the new airship and compare it with the old airship, Tiecheng only notified the battalions that had originally used the exercise ground today to suspend training. However, when the airship team loaded with Tan Xiaopei, Tan Weiming, Ye Tao, Zhuo Mang, Chi Xianping, Chi Yun and others landed at the airship mooring site next to the exercise ground, what they saw was the entire officer corps of the Blood Qi Army who were full of interest, as well as many officers from the forbidden army. Since they were all their own people, what was originally just a private demonstration for Tan Xiaopei and others naturally turned into a collective demonstration of these officers who had a lot of expectations for new equipment.

Tan Xiaopei and the others simply sat together in the viewing cabin of Yunzhou No. 1 and observed the snow owl airship nearby. In the blazing sun, the Snow Owl airship looked like it was glowing throughout. According to the requirements of the demonstration, the crew of the airship is trying their best to show the various extreme performance of the airship, and the crew of the airship that can escort Ye Tao are all top pilots, at least half of them have tried these beautiful big guys when the snow owl airship is tested, and they have also contributed to many improvements in the airship. These pilots used the snow owl airship to play those actions such as rapid start-up from a stationary state, somersaults, vertical figure-eight loops, etc., which were not possible with early airships. The main point is the rigid frame of the Snowowl airship and the mechanism that directly heats the air without an open flame. In the early days, when the airship rolled to a certain inclination, whether it was vertical or horizontal, the tongue of fire would lick onto the airship's airbag.

These graceful and dangerous maneuvers made them envious in the eyes of the pilots of the airship team stationed in the Iron City. Flying is indeed a wild thing for everyone's minds, especially for the time being, flying in the air can't meet any enemies, the most interesting thing is to challenge your own limits and do things that you can't do before. However, it is precisely these attempts that make the pilots understand that they are a branch of the armed forces that are too limited by the weapons in their hands. If you can't do it, if you can't do it, you can't do it, and it doesn't mean that you can create miracles. And the snow owl airship let them see a possibility.

"Your Majesty, you should believe it now, do you think that I specialize in producing some snow owl airships for air control, can I dispose of those previous airships?" Ye Tao asked with a smile.

Tan Xiaopei didn't say much, he smiled and said, "Let's try to throw bombs." ”

Ye Tao gave the order through the copper microphone in the viewing capsule, and the signalman immediately gave the signal. The four Snow Owl airships lined up in the air in a diamond shape, lowered their altitude in unison, and the four bombardiers opened their magazines almost simultaneously and dropped fire oil bombs. After many improvements, the bombardier is no longer the first generation of products that can only measure the simplest data, but can measure data including flight speed, air pressure, wind speed, etc., to provide the bombardier with reference, and the bombardier can use the four copper buttons to finely tune according to the specific situation, make full use of the transparent glass aiming disc with the scale to coincide with the target, and then release the button. Moving the bombardier's position to the bottom of the pod not only provides a wide field of view, but also makes it much easier and more natural for the bombardier to operate the bomb sight wheel. And the first bomb was dropped, and four oil bombs neatly covered a meadow. Look at the red flag on the ground, although it didn't hit the start, it didn't leave ten.

"Are all the bombardiers so accurate, or are there only a few?" Zhuo Mang asked with difficulty.

Ye Tao said with a smile: "They are escort pilots, and they don't have much chance to attack the ground at all. The reserves of snow owls and fire oil bombs for escorting ships have been reduced by more than half. How can I pull the best bombardier over again? Most of the escort airship team are relatively balanced in several aspects, and they can be topped up in case there is a vacancy in any position. Although I don't dare to say that every bombardier can be so accurate, there must be more accurate than these few. When I go back, I will gather the ace bombardiers and pilots on the roster to come to Danyang to perform for everyone, and by the way, I will train the pilots and other crew members here. ”

Zhuo Mang nodded and said, "That's very good." ”

After thinking about it carefully, Tan Xiaopei finally nodded and said, "Ye Tao, the snow owl airship looks like this, and the kind you said can fight against the air, when will it be put in place?" …… I mean, to meet the needs of the whole of Dongping, the first batch is about 200 airships. ”

Zhuo Mang's eyes lit up and asked, "Your Majesty, have you figured it out?" ”

Tan Xiaopei smiled and said, "The airship team must have enough numbers to be useful, and speaking of which, it is indeed a bit too expensive." Here in Tiecheng, there are two teams according to a team of twenty airships. The pilots and ground crews combined, each team only has about 300 people, but the money spent is not much worse than that of a battalion. Ye Tao himself has always advised me to wait a little longer and wait for the airship to improve a little more. Now, I think it's time to do that. Ten teams of airships, one team in Danyang, two teams in Tiecheng, two teams on the Canal Governor's Mansion, two teams on the Yicheng side, and three teams on the Zhenbei Pass, just start like this, at least everyone can get familiar with it first. How many types of airships are there now? ”

Zhuo Mang was very familiar with the situation of airships, and he was now the most powerful advocate of expanding the airship combat force, and he was well aware of all kinds of situations, so he immediately replied: "Together with the airships we usually use to travel from various places, there are one hundred and seven in total. However, looking at the current Yunzhou No. 1, it turns out that the airship is really not comfortable enough, and I don't want to sit on it. ”

Tan Xiaopei smiled and said, "So be it." Gradually change clothes, the oldest batch, Ye Tao, you will negotiate and find a way to sell it to Chunnan at a good price. As for the newer ones, we put up the shelves of Dongping Airlines. Since Chunnan's spies are so interested in airships, they must have contributed a lot of ticket money, right? ”

Ye Tao smiled and said, "It's okay, let them see it." ”

Tan Xiaopei is really relieved now, not only to watch the airship performance on the comfortable airship, but also because the details of Yunzhou No. 1 and the Snow Owl airship are so beautiful. Although Tan Xiaopei is the lord of a country, as the lord of Dongping, who has a huge lead in technology, and has a son-in-law like Ye Tao, who is good at explaining complex principles, he is at least no stranger to technology. He naturally knew that these beautiful details, these highly industrial design and manufacturing processes, were indeed something that Chunnan could not imitate. Without those specially formulated metal materials, no hydraulic stamping machinery, and no high-speed machine tools powered by electricity, how long would the craftsmen of Chunnan have to work by hand to make the same thing? Even if Ye Tao handed over the airship drawings to Chunnan, I am afraid they would really not be able to do it.

In that case, why not make more money from your own "ally"? Tan Xiaopei also knows that this kind of opportunity is actually running out. Chunnan's appetite for armament procurement has become bigger and bigger over the years, and he has aimed at Dongping's heaviest ballista, the strongest armor, and all kinds of equipment that have been firmly controlled. There have been reports of officers having their binoculars snatched by "thieves" while they were being carried out, and there seems to be an increase in the number of workshops being watched. Tan Xiaopei has gradually recalled Dongping's officer corps stationed in Chunnan, and this time Concubine Lian Chang Ling instigated Wang Fangpin to instigate her brothers to fight among themselves, causing chaos in the Dongping Dynasty, which touched a certain nerve of Tan Xiaopei. I can't go on like this, I can't let Chunnan toss like this as an ally.

"Don't worry about the airship, although the craft of the snow owl airship is complicated, I will personally take care of the manufacturing process. It is guaranteed that 200 airships can be reequipped within half a year. As for the sale of airships, I will summon the envoys of Chunnan tomorrow. What's that guy's name now? Ye Tao happily took over this job that didn't seem to be within his original purview. Actually, dealing with those people is still kind of interesting to some extent.