"The power compartment reported, the pressure was six and two. ”

"Three-stage power, cruising speed, left full rudder, direction due south. Lan Bing said excitedly, before this, the speed of Experiment No. 2 had reached ten knots, which was not much slower than the charge in the case of downwind, and the boiler pressure at that time was only five points six.

The design cruising speed of Experiment 2, also known as economic speed, is an indicator of eighteen knots, which is almost twice as fast as all the warships of the Northern Navy, and this is only the cruising speed.

"Power cabin, I am the craftsman Xiaoman of the Craftsman Construction Ship Branch of the Divine Craftsman Temple, and the in-service craftsman reports on the boiler situation. Xiao Man snatched the microphone and asked excitedly, he could clearly feel that the speed of the boat was still improving. As a shipbuilder, who knows more about warships than he does?

"I'm Mozi, the three boilers are running normally, and the current pressure value is about seventy percent. Mozi's voice came from the loudspeaker, and he had been leading people to guard the power cabin and guide the sailors to operate.

Under normal circumstances, all three boilers would not be activated, only in wartime, and one of the boilers would always be at low pressure in case the other two boilers had problems. This time it was a sea trial, so all three boilers were turned on.

"Mozi, do you want to try the top speed?" Xiao Man asked, looking excited, have you ever heard of a battleship that is more than twenty knots?

"Craftsman Xiaoman, please pay attention to your words, Sir said that after boarding the ship, everything is subject to the captain's orders, even if Mr. is on the ship. Mozi's dull voice came from the microphone, and although the tone had not changed, anyone who had worked with him for a long time could hear that Mozi was angry.

Mozi will not get angry easily, and he will only have such a reaction when it is related to his husband.

"Yes, yes, Mozi is right, at sea, everything is up to the captain. After speaking, she handed the microphone to Lan Bing, she was still a little girl, but she was the captain of the ship, and she didn't know what Mr. thought.

Binglan took the microphone, her position in Shengong City was very embarrassing, and the military prisoners waiting for trial in the Ministry of War didn't even have a serious identity when she arrived here. Lan Bing didn't expect that Lei Shi actually knew the rules of the sea.

When a warship goes to sea, everything is subject to the captain's instructions, even if it is wrong, it must be implemented, this is the rule of the navy, and it is written in the military regulations. It is the most thoroughly implemented of all military regulations, and it is much stricter than the military regulations.

The captain is the brain of the warship. As long as he goes to sea, the lives of hundreds of people on the whole ship are in the hands of the captain.

The navy is different from the army, it is easy for the army to change generals, and it doesn't matter if the soldiers want it or not.

If it cannot be recognized by the sailors, even if the commander is forcibly ordered, the battleship will not run for long, and the sailors would rather jump into the sea and swim back than give them a captain who does not approve of the burial.

The Northern Navy is even more so in this military regulation, because the captain not only has to take them to practice fighting, but more importantly, to take them to survive and find food.

Therefore, after Lan Guangzu was seriously injured, Lan Bing, a fourteen-year-old girl, was able to sit firmly in the position of captain, and it was impossible to make the Northern Navy accept Lan Bing as the captain, it was not in accordance with the rules, but the Navy below didn't care, whoever could let them live, they would be willing to listen to whomever they wanted. What's more, although Lan Bing is small, they grew up watching her, it is their own child, she is smart when she is young, and it is right to listen to her.

took the microphone: "I'm Captain Lan Bing, the power compartment is cruising at cruising speed, continue to move forward, and report the operation of the boiler in two quarters of an hour." ”

This order is correct, just now Xiaoman was too excited, the boiler needs to be preheated, it needs a certain period of stable operation, and the sudden rapid pressure increase and decompression will cause great damage to the boiler.

A quarter of an hour later, Experiment 2 reached its predetermined cruising speed, and at a high speed of eighteen knots, it broke through the wind and waves and headed for the deep sea.

When Experiment 2 was on trial voyage to the deep sea, the first air battle between Chu and Ao took place without any preparation on both sides.

Taking off from the Austrian camp, it floated in the air along the air for six hours, and a hundred hot air balloons flew more than 400 miles.

The flight team, which had not undergone a test flight, encountered one problem after another that caused great headaches for the commander. First of all, the command system is useless, the flag language does not work at all, a hundred hot air balloons, scattered within a radius of more than ten miles, some high and some low, plus the clouds that appear from time to time, no matter how good the eyesight, there is no guarantee that you can see the flag command.

That's not all, because the problem of separation caused by poor command is even more troublesome. In the flight of more than 400 miles, the flight team has lost three hot air balloons, and the adjutant in charge of checking the number has to count them every half an hour.

"Report to General Feng, the southwest side, the discovery of the flying machine. "The sergeant in charge of the lookout returns.

"Is it a lost hot air balloon returning to the team?" asked von Ole, the commander-in-chief of the flying team and one of Lei Jun's closest generals.

"No, you'd better take a look, it's much bigger than our hot air balloon and doesn't have the same shape. ”

After taking the binoculars and looking in the direction pointed by the lookout, he could vaguely see that dozens of huge flying machines were rushing towards his own flying team, and the speed was obviously much faster than that of a hot air balloon.

Feng Ole's face sank, damn it, the intelligence was wrong, Da Chu's had a flying machine, which looked bigger and more advanced than Lei Shi's hot air balloon, who would tell himself that the Chu people were ignorant?

Oh! It seems that General Lei said, forget it, it's not important, the problem now is to face the Chu people. However, how to fight in the air, von Ole does not know.

Feng Ole didn't know that the commander of the first flight regiment of the Great Chu Yulin Army on the opposite side, Se Mancang, was also worried, everyone was flying in the sky, how could this battle be fought?

Se Mancang is not an ordinary person, he has a very amazing father, Se Qinghe. Se Qinghe is one of the four auxiliary ministers of Great Chu, who is very famous and powerful.

When the old emperor traveled west and the new emperor Chu Ren ascended the throne, everyone thought that the four auxiliary ministers would definitely be replaced, but Chu Ren has not replaced the auxiliary ministers until now.

Chu Ren did not change the auxiliary minister, nor did he break up the Eight Legions, but he went to all sides. The military department is better, and the legions below are almost all controlled by the generals, and it is quite difficult for outsiders to improve in the army.

Semancang was originally like this, he came from a bachelor's family, but he cultivated a good martial arts since he was a child, and he became a nine-rank martial artist at a young age, and his reputation in Los Angeles was no worse than Luo Yi, but he didn't want to become an officer, it was difficult to even join the army, and no one accepted him at all.

Until Chu Ren ascended to the throne, he had to break the convention of monopolizing the army by Jiangmen, but it was really not easy, even if he was the emperor of Chu, it was impossible for him to go into battle in person, the people below just didn't buy it, no one could help it, and they had 10,000 reasons to tell His Majesty that this person was really not suitable to be a soldier.

Just when Chu Ren had a headache about this, a message came from the southwest that Lei Shi had invented a hot air balloon that could allow ordinary people to fly into the sky, this thing is good.

The most important thing is that there was no flying unit in Dachu before, and this is a completely new class of troops. It was not easy for Chu Ren to control the legion, but it was very easy for him to deal with the military department, the household department, and the engineering department.

With the hot air balloon in hand, how to form a flying unit, how many to form, and the personnel used, these are all Chu Ren's final words, not only do they not need the support of the legion, but they can even bypass the military department, and there is no way to do this.

It was under these circumstances that Semancang was directly appointed as a lieutenant general, commanding the First Flying Regiment of the Yulin Army, commanding fifty new combat reconnaissance airships and nearly a thousand soldiers.

Don't look at the name of the Yulin Army Flying Regiment, in fact, the ten newly formed flying regiments are all directly appointed by Chu Ren, and they only obey the command of His Majesty, and are not controlled by the Yulin Army at all.

The news of the landing of the Austrians in Chunjiang Mansion had reached Los Angeles as early as ten days ago, and in the past ten days, Da Chu was not idle, and nearly 500,000 people were transferred from the army transferred back from several regiments, and marched to Chunjiang Mansion from all directions.

The flying regiment was ordered to be responsible for reconnoitring the military deployment of the Austrians, and five of the ten flying regiments were sent over at a time, and it is said that the flying regiments are still being formed, and as a result, if conditions permit, Da Chu will form no less than 100 flying regiments within ten years.

"General Se, it's been confirmed, it's not our hot air balloon team. ”

"Well, herald, prepare for battle. Semancang said that this was his first battle, and he must not fail. If he loses, he will lose not only the face of him and his father, but also the face of His Majesty.

As the son of an auxiliary minister, Semancang's understanding of politics is far above that of the military. Your Majesty is not easy, if you want to fully control the army, you need more time, and you need victory after victory to prove it.

The flying teams on both sides gave orders for combat readiness almost at the same time, and the result was that the flight battle, whether it was the Ao or the Chu, did not have the slightest experience.

Under the order of von Ole, the hot air balloon flying team was in a mess, and the ten matching muskets began to be loaded, should the bed crossbow be used? The reaction on each hot air balloon is different, this kind of bed crossbow, only three hook crossbow arrows are distributed, which are used to shoot to the ground and fix the hot air balloon, whether it can be used in air combat, no one knows.

As for the bomb, it doesn't seem to be useful, it's used to bomb the ground, and the enemy they face is also from the air, how to use the bomb?

The Austrians are very chaotic, the Dachu Flying Regiment is just as chaotic, they are not equipped with muskets, and the number of bows and crossbows is also very small, and the Austrians have a large number of bombs and fuel in the airships, the former is used to bomb the Austrian army, the latter is used to burn the Austrian materials, and even the importance of the latter is better than the former.

According to the judgment of the Ministry of War, the Austrians can not bring much materials, coupled with the strong walls and clear fields, if the logistics materials of the Austrians can be burned again, these hundreds of thousands of Austrians will collapse without attacking.

No one laughed at anyone, neither side thought that the first enemies they encountered were also from the sky.