Chapter 558: Russian Airship

Cai Ye knows very well where the advantages of the Northwest Army are, a large number of artillery and automatic firearms, I am afraid that the key to the victory of the immature Northwest Army, of course, I have to mention those armored vehicles, speaking of armored vehicles, he has a hunch in his heart, it is estimated that the use of armored vehicles will be greatly restricted. ⊙ Topline Novel, x.

A large number of artillery and machine guns have put great pressure on logistics, and even most of the ordinary equipment of the Northwest Army can be single-shot and can be fired in burstsAK11, if the logistics are not solved, there will be big problems, and now the logistics have been solved, and they have a great advantage in sticking to the front line of the trading city, unless the Russian army takes a detour.

In the era when there were no armored vehicles and automobiles, it was not easy to detour, Mongolia was very large, but it was a sparsely populated steppe area, and the lone army went thousands of miles deep, and the matter of long-distance travel, with the development of the times, has become less and less.

Of course, some of them also had to be guarded against, a group of reserve troops in Baotou were sent to Wude, combined with the follow-up Seventh and Eighth Divisions, to conduct some professional training, as a mobile force in the rear, and Yang Yuanzhao also poured everything he had, using the all-in-one machine, and made 120 203 guns, which almost occupies the majority of the current all-in-one machine production, and even stopped the synthesis of other important materials for a few days in order to produce this thing.

12 gates 203, part of it is placed in Ud, part of it is placed in Kulun, as for the front line of the buying and selling city, it is even more concentrated 70 gates, so in just 20 days, the front line of the buying and selling city is concentrated in 90 gates of 203. They were nervously building a fort.

Originally, for land warfare, 203 was simply the king of land warfare. The 203 gun in the Northwest was born out of the ship version, as opposed to the 203 in the land combat version. It was much heavier and inconvenient to move, but in the fixed defense, the ship's version had a high rate of fire and stability, and it became like a Dinghai Shenpin, except for a few train guns that had a longer range than it, the rest did not have a high range.

The defense line of the city of buying and selling, facing Kyakhta, after the destruction of Kyakhta. This side north of Kyakhta is a wasteland, and there is no trace of the railway at all, so it is impossible to have train guns, more than 90 203, plus the greatly strengthened 155 and 108, and now there are 6 divisions near the city of Buying, but artillery, especially more than 100 mm artillery. The number is staggering. These own artillery pieces have also been lost, and a large number of captured artillery pieces of more than 100 mm have different calibers from those used in Baotou, and they cannot be used to Baotou's shells. However, when the Russian army was raided before, it only took a few hours to defeat the Russian army under the cover of armored vehicles. The Russian army not only lost its armor, but also abandoned most of its heavy equipment. It's too late to destroy even ammunition and the like, it's just the ammunition left by the Russian army. There are 15 bases, which are enough to support continuous operations for about half a year, and the northwest can definitely be called extremely strong in terms of heavy artillery, more than three times as strong as before.

Fixed defense is what the Northwest Army is best at, and the opponent must give the opponent a little color when it adopts the method of frontal attack.

The trading city is slowly preparing, and Brusinov is also slowly leading the team to the Chita side, he has been walking with the team for almost 20 days, although these troops will be concentrated on the Chita side, he only needs to adjust in the center, but the sooner he arrives, the sooner he can know how the battle was lost.

In that battle, the northwest side only exposed the results of the battle, and the Russian side was also vague, in Brusinov's view, he and Samsolov were both cavalry backgrounds, and had a certain common language, and he also knew some about Samsolov, it stands to reason that he would not lose his position and army so casually, there must be something else in it, and if he didn't figure out how it failed, Brusinov would not attack lightly.

Almost rushed to Chita in a daze, the Russian army that was defeated from the front line had long been charged, and the only remaining officer was brought to Brusinov, who didn't care about them, and directly asked them about Samsolov's whereabouts, although he got the request of Nicholas II to kill Samsolov directly, before he did it on time, he needed to know how the battle was lost, what he did, and was seized by the Northwest, and it also needs to be from the strategic level, I know what kind of strength the Northwest has. Samsolov, who is a high-ranking officer, is very suitable for this.

It's a pity that what Brusinov saw was a corpse, even a decomposing corpse, because of the tsar's order, Samsolov, who was supposed to be buried, was left behind, but fortunately, both photos and other formalities remained, Samsolov was killed after the defeat.

For this colleague of the same rank, who was also born in the cavalry unit, Brusinov didn't know what to say, since he was dead, he needed to restore the scene at that time as much as possible among the officers.

Chita has become the assembly site of the Russian army, and even the news of Brusinov's arrival has also spread to the side of the buying and selling city, more and more Russian troops, invisibly to the northwest to a certain pressure, in order to know themselves and the enemy, to the Russian army head-on, the first to dispatch is the airship troops, from Chita to Kyakhta, the distance is a little long, coupled with the safety performance, if you want to investigate, the first thing to bear the brunt of is the airship, the airship with strong flight ability and speed, is the first choice, and is not afraid of not coming back.

However, before their airship flew out, news came from the front that the special combat team, near Chita, had discovered the Russian airships, all of which were smaller models and combat models. The Russian army also has airships, which makes Cai Yi stunned, and his own airship is probably not suitable for going out. But soon, he laughed dumbly, no matter what, the Russian army is a great power, and it has suffered so many losses, especially in front of the airship, which directly stopped the Cossacks' intention to capture the trading city.

It can be said that there is no airship of the gods and air raids, I am afraid what the battle of the city is like, it is really hard to say, the gunboats at that time plus the 122 and 156 divisions were also elite, lost most of the personnel, and the special forces who could only retreat in the tunnels were not opponents at all, and the importance of the city was undoubtedly shown in the competition between the two parties. Maybe it can still be won, but the price paid is not so small, maybe the Northwest Army will have the biggest loss since the establishment of the army, and if it loses a certain elite, it will not be able to withstand this wave of Russian attacks at all.

With Russia's manufacturing capacity, it is impossible to make, or buy, a behemoth like the German Dublin airship, that kind of real behemoth, each of which costs amazingly, but Russia's ability to produce a small number of small airships is still possible, airships have been around for decades, and the airship club that has been popular in Europe for a period of time is also available in Russia.

Unlike battleships and land equipment, airships are not bigger and stronger, small airships, only equipped with a few people, not only convenient to control, but also fast, after a special arrangement, flying high, airships of this era, often with hydrogen as the main filling material, in a sense, hydrogen is a big bomb, as long as the machine gun is brought to the airship, close to the target, a bullet, maybe, will make the airship become an air torch and death car.

The faces of the staff officers showed a trace of embarrassment, airships are the best tools for reconnaissance and early strikes, although it is said that the special forces in the northwest can also do this, but in the hinterland of the opponent guarded by heavy troops, using special forces to figure out the enemy's layout and general strength and equipment situation, not only is it very dangerous, the possibility of problems is also very large, and they still can't let them out when they are idle, so it is good to find out the situation of the other party and what to do.

"Don't worry, I have a way, the airship is not to be afraid!" Cai Ye sighed and said calmly, his heart was slightly emotional, Yang Yuanzhao's preparation was deep, which can be seen from this, when logistics support, he had recently provided a batch of cylinders, which contained a kind of gas, Cai Ye had never heard of the name, at that time Yang Yuanzhao told him that if he could not use it, he would not use it, but if the Russian army really has an airship, it must be used, to ensure that the Russian army's airship is brought down, to ensure the air superiority in the northwest, and with this batch of cylinders, A number of specially crafted machine guns were provided to strengthen the airship's attack power......

At that time, Cai Ye was still very strange, why Yang Yuanzhao said this so solemnly, it seems that it is time to use it, one by one, the cylinders are taken out of the warehouse, a total of about 30, but even if it is a high-pressure sealed gas, among the 30 cylinders, it can provide more than 600 cubic meters at most, which looks not small, at most it is only for the smallest airship in the northwest to fill 14 times.

That's enough, choose the two airships with the best performance and fastest speed in the northwest, reduce one unnecessary thing, leave only the machine gun baffle and machine guns, each airship is loaded with more than 30 people, only 12 people go up, 5 of them are machine gun shooters, they will control five machine guns specially made machine guns, these machine guns look not only thick, but also have the necessary protection.

"What the hell are these cylinders?" Zhang Xiaohuai looked at the airship that was about to be inflated, and said a little strangely, in his cognition, the gas filled in the airship should be hydrogen, which seems to be different from the usual filling, it should be different.

"I don't know, according to Yuan Zhao, is it a gas that doesn't burn?"

"What doesn't burn?" Zhang Xiaohuai was stunned, he knew very well that in the battle, the biggest weakness of the airship was the airbag above, which was also the focus of the attack, whoever attacked others first could have an advantage, but if this gas would not burn, it would be invincible. (To be continued......) R640