"Airship?" Yang Yuanzhao was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that Wang Yibing actually gave him such a choice, different from the previous accident of the special forces near the trading city, this airship proposed a little abruptly, the airship is also a project he pays attention to, in World War I, when the plane has not completely become the master of the sky, the airship is the king of the sky for a certain period of time, even in later generations, the load capacity of the airship is also very large, during World War I, the German Dublin airship, Create a strong horizontal carrying capacity of more than 100 tons.

Northwest also in the past few years, the study of a period of airship, but the construction of an airship is more difficult, must use a special canvas or leather, an airship made of zuò down, the cost is huge, even if it is the wealthy Northwest, in the end only built 2 verification models, a few months ago, there was a problem, an airbag spontaneously combusted, it was easy to extinguish, did not let it burn out completely, just the maintenance took 3 months.

Yang Yuanzhao didn't know that the inert gas airship has a high safety factor, but in this era, it is not generally difficult to get inert gas, but the hydrogen obtained by electrolysis of water is easier to obtain, so for the time being, the airship is still mainly hydrogen.

"Yibing, you have to know that there are no special forces here in Baotou!"

"But there's one in Cullen!" Wang Yibing followed and said.

Yang Yuanzhao opened his mouth, sorted out his thoughts, and said: "There is no landing place in Kulun, and the take-off of the airship needs a special place!" ”

"No landing!" Wang Yibing's eyes lit up and said: "Our special combat team has done training, if you hover in the air of 20 meters and put down 16 long ropes, an average of 1.5 minutes for one person!" ”

Wang Yibing's words. made Yang Yuanzhao silent, the subjects of the special combat team, in a sense, Wang Yibing was more familiar than him, and what he mentioned was what he was worried about. If this problem is solved, it seems that it will be possible to provide enough troops in the direction of the city within 2 days.

"If we use two airships, how many people can we carry."

"128 people per ship?"

Yang Yuanzhao was slightly disappointed, the two ships were only 250 people. As for solving the problem of buying and selling the city, it should be a drop in the bucket, he hesitated for a moment and asked, "What if you don't carry weapons?" ”

Wang Yibing was stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand what Yang Yuanzhao meant. Jiang Baili explained: "For this battle, the northwest has prepared a lot, although it is impossible to build fortifications in the city on a large scale, but there are still arms, enough to arm a division for half a month!" ”

"In this way, there can be 200 people carrying the necessary items!"

Yang Yuanzhao thought about it for a while, and decided to go to the airship training center to have a look. The take-off weight of the airship is very large, even if it is a Baotou realization type, because of his requirements. It is also enough to take off about 30 tons of weight, according to the current average weight of 70 kg of soldiers in the northwest, 200 people, but 14 tons, the margin is quite large.

Sharpen knives without mistake chopping woodman, at the airship test site. He finally knew why he could only carry 200 people. On the one hand, the rear of the airship. The propellers and thrusters are relatively small, and the airship is still a conventional gondola, which can bear a limited maximum weight, and cannot fully utilize the airship's take-off capacity.

Yang Yuanzhao remembered that during the First World War, the zeppelin used the method of aluminum wire winding to solve the problem of take-off weight.

In the all-in-one machine, the use of design, integrated molding, and then let people to lift, so that the improved airship, can reach the maximum take-off weight, can reach about 28 tons, enough space, can allow 350 people to easily do the airship, even the thruster has been replaced, with a larger horsepower engine and propeller to replace the previous one, in the windless state, can reach a speed of 55 kilometers per hour.

In this way, as long as the route is correct, not much detour, 24 hours of uninterrupted navigation, can fly 1320 kilometers, the straight-line distance between Baotou and Kyakhta, will not exceed 1700 kilometers, because between Kulun and Baotou, if in a straight line, is about 1300 kilometers, saving more than 400 kilometers, so that it may be able to arrive in a day and a half, the most important thing is that he can transport 700 soldiers, by the way, he can also transport 2-3 tons of ammunition as ballast.

Replaced in 2 hours, the completion of the Shun lì, the airbag that had already been prepared, also began to inflate, after more than 3 hours, at about 11 o'clock at night, the airship flew into the air, just carrying 3 tons of bombs, he will run continuously for 27 hours, arrive at Kulen, without landing, maintain the altitude, let the Kulen 700 special combat personnel come up, and then quickly go to the trading city, it is expected that it will arrive at the trading city between 11 o'clock and 12 o'clock the day after tomorrow, and strive to arrive before the arrival of the two divisions of the Russian army. Replenish the power of the Buying and Selling City.

In order to hold the trading city, Yang Yuanzhao really used the last hole card, not only two expensive airships, the current airships, the danger is still very great, although the Russian side, there is no plane, can pose a threat to the airship, but the huge hydrogen itself, is a bomb-like thing, long-distance flight, it is easy to have problems, once it appears, it is the consequence of the burning of jade, let's say that the special combat team, can be said to be Yang Yuanzhao's heart, strong, can be said to be a trump card in Yang Yuanzhao's hand, The special operations unit cannot be placed on the front line of Lang Jun's confrontation, not that his strength is insufficient, but that it is overkill, and the special operations unit, which is almost piled up with money, is put into the confrontation between the two armies, and the role played by the special operations unit is at most better than that of ordinary small soldiers, and the shooting is more accurate, but when the artillery arrives, it will still die, so it is really a bit of a loss.

In the whole 3 years, from the period of the factory protection team, to the militia group, and then to the 54 mixed association, go all out, regardless of the cost of investment, the first battalion basically came in handy, but there were less than 700 people, even the second battalion built later, has not finally completed the training, the total number is only more than 400 people, and now all of them are on the front line of the trading city.

In any case, Yang Yuanzhao has made a choice, and in order to hold the trading city, he pressed everything, the airship lifted off in the air, and headed towards the direction of Kulun, walking in the air, compared to passing through the Zhangku Highway in Baotou, reducing 400 kilometers, all the positioning that can be done, even the means of manpower, in short, a whole day, to ensure that the key points, or the bonfire, or the vertical wolf smoke, in short, to achieve the extreme.

At night, the undying Valentin and Andrei still used night raids as a means, but for Baotou, which has an all-in-one machine, night vision goggles have long been developed as a high-tech thing, and they are found by chance in the non-stop synthetic materials, because the number is very small, there are only 12 telescopes carried by the trading city and special forces, but these are enough to make Kyakhta's activities in the night, there is nothing to hide, and about 800 casualties have been paid. The two division commanders stopped the scarcity of continuation.

The next day's action was still uneventful, the two divisions organized a certain feint, but the determination was not great, the damage was not too big, and a certain intensity was maintained, so that the fatigue on the side of the city increased, but the battle damage was not much, it was still about 380 people, and even because of the recovery of the lightly wounded, a certain amount of vital force was increased, but when the night came, the offensive was significantly strengthened, and the news of the arrival of the 156th and 122nd divisions still put great pressure on Valentin and Andrey, They could not capture the city before the arrival of the two divisions, but they could only consume the strength of the city to the maximum.

The battle at night was extremely fierce, starting from 8 o'clock and fighting until one o'clock in the morning, the 173rd and 179th divisions lost about 3,000 people again, and completely lost the ability to take the initiative to attack, which stopped slightly, and at this time, Wu Jian's hands were really full of wounded soldiers, and the strength that could be used would not exceed 280 people, and the death toll also rose sharply, Liang Lingdong's men had basically lost their ability to fight, even among the 280 people, there were 210 people with different injuries, really unscathed, no more than 70 people.

This is probably the most tragic battle since the establishment of the army in Baotou, although the number of enemies destroyed is huge, but the Cossacks on the opposite side show strong resilience and aggressiveness, and Baotou also has a deep and sober understanding of the Russian army, a second-rate power.

It is night, northwest of Kulun, here is a bonfire formed a huge circular empty field of 10,000 square meters, at present, stationed in the first battalion of special forces in Kulen, all the personnel, are concentrated in this circular empty field, at this time it is about 9 o'clock in the night, an hour ago, only 45 kilometers away from the observation point of Kulen, the two airships have been smoothly connected guò, that is to say, around 10 o'clock, the airship will definitely arrive in Kulen, about 1 hour faster than the expected time, according to the radio contact, it should be last night, There is a southerly wind of about level 4, which allows the airship to use the power of the wind to speed up slightly.

Lan Rongzeng looked to the north, in the dark night sky, there was a large group of lights flickering, this is the light on the airship, and the tens of thousands of square meters of empty space below, countless bonfires, forming two x graphics, the blazing bonfire, the lights illuminated here are bright, even in the dark night sky, it is very obvious.

"It's here!" There was a cheer in the distance, the special forces did not move, the necessary mobilization has been done, what he can do is to get on the airship as fast as possible after the airship lowers its altitude, and then go straight to Kyakhta, where are the robes fighting bloodily, and the battle is against the Russian devils, this is a national war, and he must have Lan Rongzeng to participate. (To be continued)