After seeing the pontoon bridge on the Tianhe River being blown to pieces, when he saw the blood of the soldiers of the Russian grain brigade staining the Tianhe River red, and when he saw that a whole team of grain and grass was burned, the Russian battalion commander Doroshenko roared wildly, took out his pistol and pointed it at the nearby woods, and after firing several shots, he finally vented the anger in his heart a little and calmed down.

"Deliver a message to all the nearby food convoys, asking them to unite into two teams, and the number of guards at a time must not be less than two hundred."

"Yes!" The herald departed.

In the next few days, the surroundings were very calm, and the Chinese team did not attack the grain team again. I don't know if they retreated, or if they had some other plan. Doroshenko sent a squad of scouts to spy around for the traces of the Chinese, but unfortunately found nothing.

"Could it be that they're really gone?" Doroshenko hesitated, but did not trust his judgment. "With the current military strength, this war really shouldn't be fought! We don't even know what the enemy we're facing...... I don't know the number of people, I don't know the equipment...... Hey, then again, His Majesty the Tsar will not give up Nebuchu, which is one of the few silver mines in the empire, and even nearby Chita has countless coal mines! ”

Lying on the bed in the barracks, Doroshenko could not sleep even with his eyes closed, he always felt that a pair of eyes were watching him.

Wang Yi took Shen Yazhi and Tong Qianjia into a high-walled compound that outsiders thought was a prison, but he didn't expect that there was indeed a hole inside......

"What is this place?" Shen Yazhi hugged Wang Yi's arm and said curiously.

"The ...... of the Aerospace Research Institute of Dashang"

"Aerospace Research Institute?" Shen Yazhi frowned and wondered, "Is there still such a place for Dashang?" Why is there no item in the financial report? ”

Tong Qianjia said with a smile: "Yes, aren't there a few huge sums of money that are called confidential in the annual financial report?" ”

Shen Yazhi smiled after hearing this: "I thought this kid was raising a little daughter-in-law outside!" ”

"Come on!" Wang Yi said innocently: "I have to build a light bulb factory to raise you, and I dare to raise other people's ......?" ”

Shen Yazhi raised her chin and said, "Isn't people's light bulb factory making money?" ”

After hearing this, Wang Yi immediately smiled and said, "I still need to ask, otherwise why would I fall in love with you two?" I'm not on the list! …… Actually, I haven't really told anyone about my life ideals! ”

"What do you want?"

"Brother, my highest ideal is to be an excellent little white face, to be a woman's wheel when I go out, to spend a woman's ticket to eat and drink, to pick up a woman's skirt when I go to bed, and it's best to give me another son!"

"Phew!" The two girls laughed and scolded.

Dashang has been researching aerospace vehicles for five years. Three years ago, the first piston aero engine was finally developed...... However, the performance is extremely unreliable, basically about a quarter of an hour of exercise, and it will be completely scrapped.

Around the middle of 1880, the first biplane wooden single-engine aircraft was built. The flight speed was extremely slow, the time in the air was extremely short, and it took only half an hour before and after, and when I landed, there was an accident, the left landing gear was broken, and the plane slid out more than 50 meters, breaking half of the wing. The only thing to be thankful for is that the plane did not explode and the pilot survived.

But even so, the entire Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics cheered with boiling cheers after a burst of exclamations...... Wang Yi was in the crowd, although he barely had a smile on his face, most of the time he was still pretending.

However, this time I came to the Aerospace Institute not to see the plane, but to see another kind of aircraft...... Airship!

The first airship was built in 1878.

The one was 21 meters long and nearly eight meters in diameter, powered by a battery-powered electric motor, and after flying about five kilometers and returning safely again. It's just that this airship is filled with hydrogen, and when he thinks of the Hindenburg, Wang Yi instinctively fears, so even if he watches the air show, he builds the stands very far away from the venue. After the successful test flight of the airship, researchers from the Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics asked Wang Yi to provide funds for the construction of a larger airship...... However, he was rejected by Wang Yiyi.

The first is that the safety of the airship is not guaranteed. The second is that the price is too high. Unlike Wang Yi's initial imagination, the manufacturing cost of the airship is actually very expensive, costing millions of silver dollars at every turn. For this reason, he also had a big quarrel with the researchers of the airship, and Wang Yi made it clear that unless the safety of the airship was guaranteed, Dashang would not build a second airship.

After 1879, as the big merchants began to produce oxygen industrially, the big merchants finally had the ability to produce helium on a small scale. Later, the new airship plan was finally proposed by the people of the Aerospace Institute, and Wang Yi approved the follow-up project.

Two years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Wang Yi is taking two girls to see the latest airship today!

Speaking of which, the reason for the delay of nearly two years in the middle is also because the new airship decided to use aluminum, and Dashang did not have an electrolytic aluminum production plant at that time, in fact, there was no one in the world, and the earliest electrolytic aluminum factory would not appear until 1886. The middle year was spent on this project.

There are two new generation airships of Dashang:

One is a hard airship, with a total length of 210 meters, a maximum diameter of 28.5 meters, a weight of nearly 100 tons, and a load of 48 tons, which is nearly three times the length of the Airbus A380 that Wang Yi did that year, using five high-power diesel engines as power, and the theoretical maximum speed has reached 180 kilometers per hour. It has been a test flight for more than half a year, and there have been some small problems in the middle, but they have been basically solved.

The other is smaller, but it also reaches 185 meters, the maximum diameter is also 28 meters, and it weighs nearly 93 tons, carrying 27 tons. The same five high-power diesel engines, the maximum speed reached 195 kilometers per hour. The biggest difference between this airship and the first one is that it is a semi-rigid airship with three cannons and small bombs.

Jim Anderson was the head of the airship project at Dashang, and the other director was Oyanin, and the two led 53 engineers from all over the world to complete the two airships. The one who had the most trouble with Wang Yi at the beginning, and was also scolded the most by Wang Yi, was Ou Yaning, who was one of Wang Yi's original liberal arts students.

"Sir, you were right when you said that students should not joke with human lives, even for noble purposes, they should not disregard the lives of others." Ou Yaning apologized to the king.

"It's all gone!" Wang Yi waved his hand.

Jim became a peacemaker at this time, and said with a smile: "Chairman, thanks to the helium project you provided, our airship research has made a safe leap, otherwise we really don't know what to do?" ”

Jim is in his forties this year, and if Wang Yi remembers correctly, the other airship master, the German aristocrat Zeppelin, should be about his age.

"What are your plans for the future?"

"It depends on you, sir...... Do you plan to mass-produce this airship? ”

"My plan is this, I want to be an airline, and it's better if you can make a super airship that can complete the round-the-world journey. After that, we will carry out the relevant passenger and freight business! But to be honest, I'm a little worried about the cost of the airship! They're just too expensive! ”

"This is also something that cannot be helped, whether it is aluminum, air bags, or helium filled inside, I am afraid it is difficult to imagine in the outside world." Ouyanin sighed.

Wang Yi frowned and said: "I personally prefer that after you set up an airline, a special person will be responsible for the operation, and you will be able to take care of your own profits and losses!" At the same time, they can afford their own real expenses. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on big business alone to solve the problem. Of course, I think the insurance team will be able to purchase some of your military airships. ”

Jim Anderson and Ou Yaning also knew that Wang Yi was telling the truth, and lowered their heads and thought about it.

The two girls had already run on the airship at this time, and several foreign female researchers were explaining the structure of the airship to them, and their chirping and excited laughter could be heard from a long distance. It seems that I got along very well with several foreign women.

Not long after, the two girls ran back, panting and their faces were flushed, and Shen Yazhi pulled Wang Yi at this time: "Wang Yi, Wang Yi, these two airships haven't been named yet!" ”

Wang Yi really didn't know, turned his face to look at Anderson, and asked, "Is there a name?" ”

In fact, it has already been named, and the first airship is called: Mammoth. The second ship is called the Pit Viper. However, Anderson is worthy of being a cunning man, and when he saw that Ou Yaning was going to answer directly, he hurriedly interrupted: "Chairman, not yet!" ”

The king looked at him with a smile and said in his heart, "All right! Have the eye to see!

Ou Yaning also reacted at this time, and he had long lost the strength to be with Wang Yiniu, and said with a flattering smile: "The two young ladies might as well give them a name." ”

This kind of thing Shen Yatou has always been a good one, Wang Yi didn't speak, picked up a cup of tea, and drank it.

"I think the big one is called the big scalper, and the small one is called ...... White Rabbit! ”

Wang Yi almost squirted out a mouthful of tea, and said in his heart: "What kind of product is this?" That's it for the big scalper...... Have you ever seen a white rabbit that resists machine guns and throws bombs? …… Wait, it seems that in later generations, China has always claimed to be the little white rabbit...... Black-bellied rabbits. ”

When Wang Yi was about to laugh at Shen Yatou's taste, the group of researchers around him, starting with Jim Anderson and Ou Yaning, until Wang Yi couldn't even name him, was heaxing as much as he coaxed!

"Okay, big scalper, little white rabbit! Suitable! ”

"Nima, do you do it with such self-pity, self-pity, inferiority, and self-deprecation!" Wang Yixin said, but seeing that the girl was happy, he didn't want to say anything more.

After that, the airship took off and took Wang Yi and the two girls around in a circle. To be honest, when I first went up, it was quite fresh. But for people like Wang Yi, who often fly in later generations, it's actually the same thing.

"Wang Yi, let's buy one too?" Shen Yatou suddenly raised the building yì.

"Huh?"

"Let them decorate it luxuriously, and it will be faster and more comfortable to go to other places in the future?"

"Yes, I'll get you a big bed, a sofa, and the whole kitchen ......."

Wang Yi joked with Shen Yatou and Qianjia, but he didn't expect Ou Yaning on the side to hear it, and later he really sold a luxury airship.

It wasn't until much later that Wang Yi realized that he had changed not only the history of mankind, but also the history of airships. After removing the safety hazard of hydrogen, with the first-mover advantage of appearing more than ten years earlier than airplanes, airships began to develop faster than in history, and even for a long time, it occupied all the rivers and mountains of air transportation. It wasn't until the advent of the real big plane that the situation gradually changed.

Since the wreck of the Hindenburg in 1937, until the 70s of the 20th century, the development of airships has been at a standstill. But now that Wang Yi has appeared, more than 30 years have been missing in the middle, and I don't know what the airship of the future generations will look like......