May 2, 1905, sunny, windless, good weather suitable for flying. Du Ziteng wrote the first sentence on today's flight log.

On this very day, on the outskirts of Novosibirsk, which had become a city of soldiers, the sky was white, and fifty airships loaded with all kinds of supplies were ready to sail on the airfield. As one of the founders of the Air Force, Du Ziteng, who eventually gave up his post as chief of the General Staff of the Air Force and became the commander of the Air Force, inspected the airship one last time. Although there had been training in airdropping supplies before, it was the first time that such a large-scale air supply of front-line combat units had been carried out. At the same time, this is also the first time in the history of mankind to drop materials through the air, and this operation will write a significant stroke in the history of mankind. As the commander-in-chief of the operation that is about to be recorded in history, he will naturally leave his name in the history books, which makes Du Zitengxian extremely excited.

"If large-scale air replenishment of front-line combat units can be carried out from the air, this will change the pattern of warfare in the future. This operation is epoch-making, so be sure to come back safely. Liang Huadian said to Du Ziteng with a solemn expression.

"Commander Liang, don't worry, this is not the first time you have done it." Du Ziteng replied with a relaxed smile.

"General Du, I wish you success." A pair of large hands stretched out. Michael, former chief instructor of the Chinese Army, current German military attache in China, and chief of staff of the German Far East Army, also visited the airport. He still remembers how rudimentary and primitive the Chinese army he saw when he first arrived in China, but he also admitted that after more than ten years of development under the orders of the wise emperor, the Chinese army has become a strong army that rivals or even surpasses the German army. As for Horst, who was currently the commander-in-chief of the German Far Eastern Army, he had already made countless circles around the airship. If it weren't for the Luftwaffe trainees on the airship, he would have been the first to jump on it.

"Instructor Mike. We will succeed. Du Ziteng reached out to hold Michael's hand and replied in the affirmative. For Michael. The Chinese soldiers have given enough respect, and it must have been he who guided the Chinese army to modernization.

After Du Ziteng said goodbye to everyone, he boarded the No. 1 airship. The No. 1 airship, which had completed the final inspection, slowly rose into the air, and then the other forty-nine airships rose into the air one by one, forming a huge formation and flying towards the west under the light of the morning sun.

The Great Mountain Rock has already demolished all the towns of Tatarstan overnight, sorting out a radius of one kilometer of open space. In order to cushion the airdrops, Oyama Rock spent the night letting the Japanese soldiers loosen the ground with the most rudimentary tools, spread all the spare blankets on the ground, and then spread the largest white cloth on the top of the middle. A large red circle is drawn in the middle of the white cloth. The red heart of the Japanese flag is the center that guides the air force.

"Why haven't you come yet?" Dashan Yan waited anxiously as he watched the sun rise in the east. Although the telegram from the staff officer Ben asked them to ensure the safety of the drop site within a radius of 1.5 kilometers, in the opinion of Oyama Yan, what should happen if something is thrown down from a height of several thousand meters and thrown off the Russian position if a gust of wind blows it away. Therefore, Dashan Yan still distributed most of the ammunition and ordered the Japanese army to start a counteroffensive on all fronts, and he wanted to ensure the safety of the drop site within a radius of five kilometers, absolutely safe.

Warm sunshine wine to the ground. Shining on Oyama Rock didn't make him feel warm. Today, the Japanese army is launching a full-scale counterattack, but the Japanese army, which is only lightly armed, is not going well in the face of the Russian army, which is supported by artillery and whose morale has risen. The consumption of ammunition and casualties have increased dramatically, if they are not replenished today. With the existing supplies of the Japanese army, it will hold out until tomorrow afternoon at most.

But he was not disappointed, as the roar of the machine came from the horizon, and a dense row of black dots was imprinted on the sun. That's a Chinese airship. Dashan Yan breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good to come, it's good to come." ”

"It's coming, it's coming. Can a shell be thrown down from a height of several thousand meters, and the shell will not explode? Gentaro Kodama was a little worried. After all, he had never heard of airdropping supplies from the air, and if it was food or something, he would have believed it, but the airdropped shells ...... In fact, Dashan Yan was also a little worried, because he hadn't heard of it either. So the drop site within a radius of two kilometers has long been empty.

"Observed target area." The observation post of Airship 1 spotted the huge Japanese flag on the ground.

"Signal to slow down." Du Ziteng glanced at the ground and began to prepare for the airdrop.

The navigator began to maneuver the tail rudder and adjust the airship's navigation towards the airdrop target area. Upon entering the periphery of the drop zone, the bomb bay opened, and the wind pouring in from the bomb bay caused the airship to shake. However, as the speed gradually decreased, the air irrigation gradually decreased, and the flight of the airship became more and more stable.

"Keep the course, stay in place, hold on. And shut down the engine. Du Ziteng lay on the scope. Now that the engines were turned off, the airship's doji of the scope, driven by inertia, gradually approached the huge red dot in the Japanese flag. When the airship came to a halt in the air, the doji of the scope was aimed at the large red dot. The results of countless hard flight training sessions have yielded remarkable results.

"Start airdropping." Under Du Ziteng's order, the crew who had already prepared pushed the box containing supplies down the open magazine. Each box is strapped to a parachute, and a tie rope connects the parachute to the airship. As the box falls to the length of the tie rope, the tie rope pulls the parachute bag, and the parachute opens when the resistance of the air drops, and a white umbrella flower slowly falls from the sky.

"What are the Chinese doing?" Alekseev looked at the umbrella flower in the sky and said in surprise. When he heard that the front was surrounded by the Japanese army, he couldn't wait to rush to the front line, he wanted to personally command the army to completely destroy the Japanese army, in order to avenge the shame of defeat, and by the way, tell His Majesty the Tsar with facts that the early stage was just a mistake. It's just that he didn't expect that he had just arrived at the front line and happened to see the Chinese airship doing something inexplicable.

It is not only Alekseev who does not know why, the entire Russian army does not know what the Chinese airship is doing. The bombing of Tokyo by Chinese airships has long been known to the whole world, especially the results of the bombing and sinking of a battleship that stunned the world. Although it was later proved that the airship posed little threat to the battleships in motion, its real power should not be underestimated. So when the airship flew over the Russian army. The Russians began to disorganize until the airships continued to fly into the Japanese positions. Only then did the Russian officers and soldiers settle down to look at this legendary medium and large killing weapon. When the airship dropped white umbrella flowers in the Japanese position, all the Russian officers and soldiers did not know what it was for. So much so that the battlefield fell into a temporary lull.

In order to speed up the airdrop, in addition to the airdrop through the bomb drop compartment, the hatches on both sides of the airship pod were also opened at the same time for the airdrop operation. As the number of parachutes in the air increases, the weight of the airship is also reduced, and in order to maintain the stability of the altitude, the airship has begun to emit hydrogen. But such a fully loaded airdrop operation is really the first time for the Air Force. Due to the imbalance of the push supplies, the airship began to sway from side to side, and it became more and more serious, Du Ziteng ordered to start the engine and circle around the airdrop field at low speed.

The first box to land slowly fell to the ground. The mountain rock was immediately lifted out. When you pry open the lid of the box and lift the wrapping cotton, you will see a whole box of shells. It turns out that the shell will not explode when it hits the ground. Seeing this, Gentaro Kodama on the side immediately ordered all the vigilant soldiers to enter the drop field.

An airship carried five tons of supplies, and it took more than ten minutes to throw them all out of the cabin, and the few people on the boat were tired enough. Then the No. 1 airship left the airdrop area, and the No. 2 airship entered the airdrop area at a low speed to start the airdrop operation. In order to accurately check the process of the airdrop, Du Ziteng's No. 1 airship has been stranded in the air not far away to watch, and the airdrop of fifty airships one by one took a whole day, making Du Ziteng and his party hungry enough.

"Go back. Starve me to death. Du Ziteng touched his flat belly and told the navigator to start the anti-sailing.

As the airship passed over the Russian positions, the bombardier laughed and threw a barrel from the airship, and everyone laughed and headed towards the base. The soldiers in the Russian positions all looked up at the barrels falling from the sky, and watched the barrels burst open not far away. Then there was a smell of urine throughout the area. There's no way, for more than ten hours, even a person can't hold it back. It's unfortunate. Alekseev happened to be nearby, and he watched the barrel fall from the sky and wanted to get closer to observe. And he smelled it, too. So with a black face, he ordered the army, which had stopped attacking, to attack overnight, because his reinforcements had also arrived.

The airdropped supplies began to pile up. Oyama Rock smiled. This batch of supplies only had a small amount of clothing, some food and medicine, and most of them were urgently needed bullets and grenades, which was a relief for the Japanese army, which was already seriously short of ammunition. At the same time, in order to make up for the lack of heavy firepower of the Japanese army, 100 machine guns and 50 48-mm mortars were also airdropped to the Japanese army, and the most important thing now is to send these supplies to the front line as soon as possible.

"I always thought that China recruited the Japanese to fight because it wanted us to be cannon fodder, but I didn't expect the Chinese to really send us supplies." Da Shanyan said with some sighs.

"Don't be too optimistic, the Chinese have given us so many supplies at once, I believe that China's reinforcements will slow down, and we need to hold out longer." Gentaro Kodama thinks more than Oyama Rock. Dashan Yan was speechless about this.

"Report." The Chinese Signal Corps came in small steps and handed over the message: "The General Staff has an order, and it is necessary to continue to ensure the safety of the airdrop site in the next few days." As long as weather permits, air resupply will continue. ”

Gentaro Kodama and Oyama Iwa glanced at each other, neither of them expected this to be the result. But with these materials, let alone guarding for five days, even if you come for another five days, Dashanyan will dare to say that you can keep it.

With machine guns and mortars, and ample ammunition supplies, the Japanese were still strong in the face of Russian attacks. In these five days, except for the third day due to weather conditions, the airdrop of supplies has never stopped in the other four days.

Early in the morning of the sixth day, the airships of the Chinese Air Force still appeared in the sky on time, and continued to fly towards the Japanese positions along the same course. Even the Japanese army was ready to receive airdrops again.

However, things changed a little, and the airship suddenly made a turn after entering the sky over the Russian positions, and then opened the magazine right above the Russians' heads. This time, the Chinese Air Force was carrying not supplies, but ground bombs. As the bombing order was given, the bombs carried on the airship whistled down, and the unprepared Russian troops were blown up. The Chinese Air Force carried out an hour-long bombardment of the eastern positions of the Russian encirclement. The entire position was also unrecognizable, completely shrouded in the smoke and dust of the explosion. But that's not all. Although the bombing was much faster than the dropping of supplies, an hour was not enough time for all fifty airships to complete the bombing. Face the recalcitrant enemy forces. The Chinese Air Force has never said that it will bring the bombs back. The other airships that had not yet arrived for rapid bombardment continued to bomb along the Russian positions in two teams.

The bombing continued to stretch forward, and the Russian army was overwhelmed by the Chinese Air Force. At this time, on the distant horizon, the 1st Division of the Royal Chinese Army had appeared, and they quickly rushed forward.

"It's the Chinese, the Chinese are coming-" The remnants of the officers and soldiers on the Russian positions that had just been bombed felt the ground shake, and they finally saw the Chinese troops that were already very close through the misty smoke and dust. So the commanders shouted to the soldiers to reorganize the line. Perhaps they were accustomed to the roar of airships overhead, and just as they were focusing on the approaching Chinese Army, airships 45 to 50 flew just above the position. As a result, the Russian officers and soldiers who had survived the previous round of bombing were once again caught in the baptism of bombs. When the bombardment ended, the mortar positions of the Chinese army, a kilometer away from the positions of the Russian troops, had just been erected.

The mortar positions of "Knock ......" began to exert their power, and 48-mm mortar shells were fired out as if they were not for money. The poor Russian officers and soldiers had to shell again with mortar shelling after two rounds of aerial bombardment, and the Russian army, which was already suffering heavy casualties, completely collapsed, and they were just blindly looking for a safe hiding place to hide, and they forgot to organize a defensive line.

"Kill-" The Chinese soldiers who rushed into the Russian positions burst out into an earth-shattering cry, and they smashed into the chaotic Russian positions with bright bayonets.

"Kill a few to give-" The Japanese troops in the encirclement heard the sound of Chinese reinforcements fighting, and also launched an attack on the Russian army from the inside.

The Russians were still fierce, when they were confronted with bayonets that glowed with cold light. Still dare to muster up the last courage to rush forward to fight. However, the Russian officers and soldiers, who had completely lost their formation, could only fight on their own, and until he fell, he was always fighting alone.

The battlefield was filled with smoke and dust, but only the sound of the Chinese and Japanese armies was left. Alekseev was anxious. After five days of fighting, he knew very well that the remnants of the Japanese army numbered less than 10,000 people, and the reinforced Chinese army was only more than 10,000 people in one division. And these days, he has been constantly transferring troops from the rear, and he has already transferred 50,000 troops, and even transferred 10 heavy artillery pieces two days ago. However, the airships of the Chinese Air Force are like war cheats. Fifty mobile heavy guns of unlimited range bombarded the Russian front army all the way from the Russian rear army, and the bombardment continued. The key is that it is not possible to counteract it yet, and can only let the Chinese Air Force wreak havoc. All the troops were in disarray, the command had completely collapsed, and none of Alekseyev's orders at this time could be effectively transmitted to any of the troops on the position. Even the ten heavy guns that were firmly protected in the rear were blown up from the air by the Chinese. The entire 50,000 Russian troops were caught in the Chinese bombardment. But Alekseev did not give up, he worked hard to gather troops, because he knew that the Chinese air force could not bomb indefinitely, as long as the moment the Chinese air force ran out of ammunition, that is, when he launched a counteroffensive, the Russian army would be more than double the total strength of the Chinese and Japanese armies.

"Report, the 1st Forward Regiment has joined forces with the Japanese army." The signal corps ran back dusty to report.

"This is the first time that the Chinese and Russian armies have confronted each other, and Feng Delin's first regiment has played the momentum of our Chinese soldiers in one battle, and it is a good fight." Liang Huadian held the binoculars and looked at the situation on the battlefield and nodded with satisfaction: "The generals must remember that no matter how complicated the situation was before the war, reconnaissance is essential. Don't be like these stupid big Russians, they didn't even send scouts, we didn't find them two kilometers away. ”

"Then you have to dare to send it." Wu Junsheng, commander of the First Division, said with a smile on the side: "The Sidewinder Special Operations Force personally formed by Lord Liang has almost killed all the scouts of Russian Maozi." ”

The Rattlesnake Special Operations Unit is a special operations force formed by the Army itself, modeled after the ghost unit of the Second Regiment of the Central Garrison Brigade. The Ghost Force is the elite of the elite who have been selected from hundreds of thousands of troops across the country, and they will not only use all kinds of guns and artillery in the army, but also drive all naval ships from patrol boats to battleships, and even the planes that the Air Force has just equipped. The emperor also recruited all kinds of strange people from the people to teach them to hide, infiltrate, assassinate, steal, and disguise, and be proficient in many Chinese languages and customs of various countries, which can be said to be omnipotent. Especially during the Battle of Mukden, the action of annihilating the Russian command with a single surprise attack is memorable. But only the emperor has the command of this army, and none of them can be mobilized. When the northern strategy plan was drawn up, the generals at all levels grinded the emperor for half a year before the emperor agreed to secondment the military department for temporary use. But you can't ask the emperor for secondment every battle, right? However, no matter how many reports were made from the General Staff to the combat units, asking the emperor to send personnel from the ghost troops to guide the special warfare study of various arms, the emperor turned a deaf ear. Therefore, each branch of the army can only bite the bullet and do its own thing.

In fact, they are a little mistaken, where are so many skills that they can learn by everyone. In the ghost army, there are also various groups such as force, intelligence, logistics, and support. Moreover, Li Ming and Ben did not dare to send these people to guide, because the nature of the ghost troops was that they were agents, and they were talking about mobile and flexible sabotage operations in various cities of the enemy. What all branches of the armed forces need is reconnaissance, guidance, and other behaviors that guide the combat of large troops. These are two different combat concepts from Ben, so Li Ming and Ben didn't dare to send people, for fear of teaching people astray. Li Ming told them countless times but didn't listen, and the generals just saw how easy the ghost troops were, so Li Ming could only turn a deaf ear to the generals' requests. As a result, all branches of the navy and army could only form their own special operations units according to their own needs, and because Liang Huadian fell into the water and fell ill during the conquest operation, he was left in the country to form a Sidewinder special operations unit belonging to the army, and this operation was the first time that the Sidewinder special operations unit tested their achievements on the battlefield. So far, the results have been remarkable.

"There is still a big gap with the emperor's ghost troops. The ghost troops talk about fighting behind enemy lines, and our rattlesnakes are just the eyes of the army, maybe the emperor is right. Liang Huadian thought about it and finally sighed, he had seen the training of the ghost troops, and he knew the history of the ghost troops. Liang Huadian turned his head and said, "The first regiment has opened up contact with the Japanese army, and this officer will go over." Division Commander Wu, the battlefield will be handed over to you to command. After speaking, Liang Huadian ran towards the battlefield that had gradually calmed down with his guards, and he wanted to enter the Japanese command headquarters at the time of the battle as the supreme commander of the battlefield on the northern front of China, which was not only to appease the Japanese army that had been trapped for a long time, but also to show this attitude to all vassal states in this way: China will not regard the army of the vassal state as cannon fodder, and China will also treat every army that fights for China. This was an order from the imperial court, because war is a continuation of politics.

Wu Junsheng said that he was giving it away, and then issued an order: "Order Sun Chuanfang's second regiment to attack from the left, Wu Peifu's third regiment to attack from the right, and Xu Shuzheng to lead the artillery regiment to follow up, and be sure to break up the enemy formation." ”

"Whoa!" (To be continued.) )