The artillery fire of the decisive battle between the Huaxia army and the Hubei army became more and more intense, the whole earth trembled, and even the houses in the capital were shaken to the rubble and the walls fell to the slag, and the people hiding in the homes were very uneasy, and the children who usually cried endlessly hid in the arms of their parents and did not dare to speak, and the adults did not dare to take a breath in the house.

There are also many good men and women who burn incense and pray, praying that the Jade Emperor, the Buddha, the Taishang, the Laojun, the Nanhai Guanyin Bodhisattva, the gods and Buddhas will come together to save the suffering, save the suffering, and bless the capital from being captured by Lao Maozi.

The citizens of the capital found that at this moment when the life and death of millions of people were decided, they could do nothing and leave everything they had to the imperial army.

The whole capital was in turmoil, but there was no tide of panic and fleeing on the streets of the city.

This shows that the Chinese Empire is far more powerful than the Qing court's organizational ability: the strong men in the capital have long been organized by the Huaxia army to maintain order in the streets, and in the rumbling cannons, although the citizens of the capital are panicked, there is no phenomenon of fleeing everywhere.

When I first heard that Lao Maozi's army was about to approach the capital, it still caused a lot of confusion among the people, and some thieves took the opportunity to make trouble and loot and steal, causing a lot of turmoil.

Fortunately, in accordance with the "Wartime Mobilization Act" issued by the National Assembly, the various departments of the imperial government and the General Staff declared a state of emergency in the capital, immediately implemented wartime military control, imposed a curfew, cracked down on thieves who took advantage of the fire to loot, and mobilized the strong men in the city to participate in maintaining order and assisting the army in transporting heavy logistics materials, so that the order in the capital was greatly improved.

However, the citizens in the capital still have a lot of panic, and they have doubts about whether the Huaxia army can defeat the tall old Maozi, and all kinds of terrifying legends about Lao Maozi eating people without spitting out bones, and ten Chinese people can't beat one old Maozi.

For this reason, Emperor Hu Zhen also sent a telegram back on the way back from Vladivostok, asking his three harem ladies to come forward in person to appease the people.

Han Yuqing, Zhong Ling, and Kaorani, the three beautiful mothers, obeyed Emperor Hu Zhenyan's words, and personally went out to inspect schools, orphanages, hospitals, refugee settlements and other places on behalf of the emperor, especially Han Yuqing went out with a pregnant belly despite Zhong Ling and Kaorani's dissuasion.

In order to let the people know more about the dynamics of the royal family, when the three Niangniang went out, they gave up taking a car and went out in a traditional sedan chair, and got some honor guard signs, and drank five or six to let the people on both sides of the street know that the Niangniang in the palace came out of the palace to the people, and the capital is now very safe.

Li Hongzhang, Prime Minister of the Imperial Government, Li Haoran, Speaker of the National Assembly, and a large number of other old men also came forward in person, not even sitting on sedan chairs and horses, but walked directly on the streets to patrol around the capital to calm people's hearts.

After a lot of efforts, when the Hubei army approached the city, order was restored in the capital, and the people were mobilized to assist the army in the battle.

At this moment, the streets were carrying military supplies in a steady stream of people, carrying ammunition, medicines, food, stretchers, and even coffins for the sacrificial soldiers.

Even Prime Minister Li Hongzhang saw the scene and sighed with a stroking beard: "...... The people's support for the army fighting bloodily in the front was unimaginable in the former Qing Dynasty! ”

Suddenly, the sky went dark, and a rumbling sound hung over people's heads.

Immediately someone shouted: "Airship, look, that's our airship!" ”

People looked up one after another, only to see a large area of black pressure in the sky, and a large airship with the golden dragon flag on the red background of the Chinese Empire painted on its belly swept through the air, and next to the airship, there was a group of extremely fast planes rushing towards the battlefield quickly.

"That's our plane! I heard that it is an artifact that only our Chinese Empire has in the world! ”

"Old Maozi is dead!"

"The capital is saved!"

"We are saved!"

"Long live the Chinese Empire, long live, long live!"

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live!"

The people in the streets cheered, and the sound was transmitted to the residents' homes, and many people ran out to watch, and jumped on the roofs of the houses to build pergolas to watch.

The cheers grew louder and louder, and the people who ran out of the houses where they were hiding, out of a kind of venting psychology, shouted very loudly, and the sound of guns and cannons heard from outside the city in the capital.

At this time, because the airships and planes of the Huaxia Army rushed to the battlefield to carry out a carpet-style bombardment, the hundreds of thousands of Hubei troops outside the city immediately fell into chaos:

"Damn! Where did these yellow-skinned monkeys get their flies buzzing around! ”

"What flies? This is clearly a man-eating eagle! ”

"God, how is it that these barbarians who do not believe in God have air weapons, but the civilized people who believe in God do not?"

In fact, the Hubei soldier was wrong, the Hubei army was prepared for the air weapons that the Huaxia army was wreaking havoc on the battlefield in the United States, and the Baikal side carried more than 700 airship weapons to attack thousands of miles, but because of secrecy, it was impossible for him to know about his level, and in addition, the weather conditions were not suitable for the past few days, so he did not take off to participate in the battle. Of course, the most important reason is the lack of command experience and communication and navigation means, otherwise the Hubei army would have used thousands of airships to enter the capital like the Huaxia army raided Lanzhou and captured the Guangxu Emperor alive.

Seeing the bombing of the airships and planes of the Huaxia Army in the air, Brodaevsky said: "Your Excellency, commander, according to the plan, our airships should also rush to the battlefield to participate in the battle!" ”

"Hurry up and notify the airship to join the battle and beat the yellow-skinned monkey's airship back!" Watching the airship of the Huaxia Army fly to the top of his head without scruples to and pee, Nicholas was full of black lines.

Although the Hubei army did not have a radio, it had pulled a number of wired telegrams between the various troops, and it was still very convenient to communicate with each other, and when they heard the order of the commander of the front army, they immediately sent telegrams to urge their airships to fly to the battlefield to fight.

In fact, today is the day when Nicholas insisted on a decisive battle, and it is now close to noon, and the group of airships of the Hubei army has already taken off with weapons.

It's just that the Hubei army doesn't have a radio or sound radio, or even a radio coded telegraph machine, and in the air it commands and controls a huge group of airships to fly to the same place and starts a formation operation, and the Hubei army does not have enough experience, which is a very difficult thing for the commander, so the group of airships of the Hubei army is slow to move and cannot arrive at the battlefield on time.

Nicholas wanted to shoot and send a cable telegram in vain, and the commander of the airship group in the air could not see it at all, but just let the airship group fly to the battlefield according to the plan set before the war.

However, when the group of airships of the Hubei army flew together, they were discovered by the reconnaissance personnel of the Huaxia Army, and immediately several radio stations sent telegrams to the General Staff of the Huaxia Army:

Discover the group of airships of the Hubei army, which is flying towards the battlefield!

When Hu Zhen heard the news, he sneered: "Old Maozi's airship group? Fly in and make a flock of turkeys in the air! (To be continued.) )