A fleet of airships came from east to west, with a height of 1,500 meters, and consisted of fifty third-class airships.

Today's airships are too different from the original hot air balloons, not only in terms of load, but also in other aspects.

The original hot air balloon, named the first-class airship, was completely eliminated as early as three months ago. Because when it was first manufactured, it was based on quantity and did not consider other aspects at all, so there were considerable differences between the first-class airships.

The smallest one can only carry 2,000 catties for less than ten people, and the larger one can carry 6,000 to 8,000 catties. The equipment is also varied, and each hot air balloon requires different logistical supplies.

Out of war considerations, the Ministry of War issued a plan to the Ministry of Industry to build a new airship, and it took less than three months for the second-class airship to begin mass production. The second-stage airship has a unified load, is fully equipped, has a fixed personnel, and performs quite well on the battlefield.

With the continuous expansion of the war in Hongzhou and the arrival of the second batch of landing troops of the Austrians, the battlefield area was expanded from the original radius of 500 li to 1,000 to 1,500 li.

Well, this is the official statement of the Great Chu Political Affairs Hall, as long as the brain is okay, you can understand what this means.

The three-stage airship is the latest airship that has just been designed and mass-produced, and is divided into three types: transportation, manning, and combat according to different uses.

This team of 50 airships is half of the total number of third-class airships produced by the Ministry of Industry, including 30 manned airships and 20 transport and supply airships.

"Ahead is the Iron City, you can take a closer look, we will stay in the sky above the Iron City for half an hour. The one who spoke was a young official in his thirties, and it could be seen from his clothes that he was the five-grade counselor of the Ministry of Rites of Da Chu.

"Hmm. The bearded man who was holding the binoculars just snorted lightly and looked intently at the Iron City.

After a year and a half of construction, the city of fine iron has been built from the initial small piece of land, built into a medium-sized city with a side length of more than two miles, the city of fine iron is still expanding around it, a piece of fine iron plate is spread on the flat ground, a team of coolies carrying hot molten iron, constantly pouring and welding.

The movable fine iron city wall, as high as two zhang and one zhang wide, is pulled by hundreds of cattle and horses, through the track, a little bit outward, to make more space for the expansion of the coolie.

Odin's beard trembled from time to time, his face was calm and unwavering, but his heart was full of excitement, he wanted to shout, this is impossible, his eyes must be blind, what he sees is fake, this is not at all human can build.

Also holding the binoculars, there were more than a dozen airship passengers, they looked quite normal, and if you looked closely, you would find that each of them was breathing twice as fast as usual, and the ups and downs in their chests were quite intense.

This is nothing to ordinary people, and anyone who sees something they can't understand and believe will only react more violently than they do.

But these people are different, they are all grandmasters from an allied country, a total of twelve. It's a rare sight, from different countries, on the same airship, and all of them are grandmasters.

In other words, I am afraid that there will be a fight as soon as we meet, and many of these countries are feuds. For example, this Arcane Grandmaster is from the Golden Tribe, the Golden Tribe is between Da Chu and Luo Kill, belonging to the nomadic people, hundreds of years ago, once glorious for a while, the Luo Kill Country retreated again and again, and dozens of cities were slaughtered by the Golden Tribe.

At this time, standing three steps away from Odin's side, the one who was also holding up the vision was the grandmaster from Luo Slay.

The war in Hongzhou has been full of twists and turns, and it is currently at a disadvantage, being captured thousands of miles away by the Austrians, and dozens of prefectures and cities have fallen into the hands of the Austrians.

With the area of Dachu, this bit of land is nothing at all, but for the Austrians, it is too important, they have more advanced technology than Dachu, the difference is population and resources, with these, they can produce a large amount of military materials in a very short period of time, improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.

The diplomatic team that came this time was an important plan for His Majesty Chu Ren, to let them see the fine iron city in Nanzhang, and give confidence to these guys who were beaten by the Austrians and had some tempers.

Speaking of the war in Hongzhou, the first battle of the Austrians was actually not much stronger than Da Chu. In the first air battle, after several hours of 'fierce' fighting, neither side won anything, and ended 0-0.

The first ground battle, which took place on the tenth day after the air battle, Dachu took the Liaodong Xiangshui Army as the backbone, the local government army as the backbone, and the 100,000 Luo killing army to form an army of 400,000 people, against the five armies commanded by the Lei army, 150,000 Austrians.

Judging from the comparison of numbers, Da Chu's advantage is quite obvious, 400,000 to 150,000, more than twice the number of Austrians. The air force has a greater advantage, calling all the hot air balloons and airships in the surrounding area, and has assembled a total of six flight teams and more than 300 flying machines, while the Austrians, even if they try to produce hot air balloons with the stolen materials, the number is only one hundred and twenty-five, and it is a more backward hot air balloon compared to the Chu people.

In the Beiyuanchuan area, the two sides lined up in formation, the airships in the sky were like clouds, and among the 400,000 troops of Great Chu, there were 12,000 heavy cavalry alone, and the rest were light cavalry.

And the 150,000 army of the Chu people was all infantry.

Judging from the comparison of strength before the war, the commander of Da Chu, the commander of the Xiangshui Army of Liaodong, and Cheng Liang, the auxiliary state, are confident. Judging from historical examples, the usual ratio of cavalry to infantry is one to three. That is, a thousand cavalry, at least more than 3,000 well-trained infantry, is possible to stop. And, it's just a block.

As for the heavy cavalry, it was even more terrifying, the ratio could reach one to ten, or even more.

The problem is that this battle, for both sides, is a way of war that has never been experienced before. Lei Jun knows very well that he is at a disadvantage, but he must not be defeated.

The first to go to the battlefield was not a light cavalry or a heavy cavalry, and it was unlikely to be an Austrian musket team, but a hot air balloon in the sky.

After that hilarious air battle, for ten days, even the god in the minds of the Aoren, the thunderstorm secret master, did not come up with a way to deal with the enemy's airship, let alone the Chu people. After von Ole's summary of air combat, he firmly believed that airships were not suitable for air combat.

Two air units moved towards the enemy's battle formation at the same time, more than 400 huge hot air balloons and airships obscured the sky, and the ground was full of huge shadows cast by airships.

They passed by, and the closest ones didn't need a telescope to see the operators of the enemy hot air balloon, but they ignored each other and continued to push forward.

Both sides unanimously believe that such flying tools, which are not suitable for fighting each other, hot air balloons and airships, should be used against ground forces.

Countless gunpowder packets and bombs fell from the sky and were dropped on the ground troops of both sides lined up on the ground.

When Renault saw this detailed battle report afterwards, his expression was like crying and laughing, but even he couldn't tell what he felt in his heart.

If it weren't for the huge casualty figures, which were shocking to watch, Renault really laughed out loud, laughing at the ignorance of Da Chu and the Ao people with his superiority as an earthling.

In terms of quantity, there are more than 300 airships in Da Chu, and the Aoren are only in their early 100s, everyone uses black powder, and in Da Chu's bombs, iron nails, iron sand and other sundries are also added, which is even more powerful.

Two quarters of an hour later, the smoke cleared, and Cheng Liang saw the results on the battlefield, but he felt chills all over his body, how could this be?

The Austrian army naturally suffered heavy losses, and there were stumps and broken flesh everywhere, but their troops could still maintain a complete queue, and even many injured people did not quit the queue, and with the beating of the snare drum, they actually charged towards the Great Chu army formation!

Can you imagine that the side with fewer people, or the infantry, charges the cavalry with more people?

Cheng Liang really wants to ask, what's wrong with this world?

In fact, he didn't need to ask him to know that the Austrian military formation looked miserable, there was no comparison, it was also bombed, and the performance of Chu and Luo killing people made Cheng Xian speechless, and the biggest problem was from the cavalry.

People, after training, through willpower and military regulations, under extreme conditions, still maintain strong combat effectiveness.

But the war horse can't do it, the moment the first bomb bursts, the Chu people and Luo's murderous cavalry troops are all in chaos, while they have to resist the bombs that will fall and explode at any time, and at the same time want to control the frightened war horses, which is an impossible task.

After the first batch of bombs was dropped, most of the 400,000 Da Chu and Luo Kill coalition forces have collapsed, what makes people speechless is that it is not the soldiers who collapsed, but the war horses, can you imagine what kind of scene it is when hundreds of thousands of war horses are frightened at the same time?

All military rules and order did not exist in front of the frightened warhorses, and they ran wildly, kicking away everything that stood in their way, whether living or dead.

After all, the quantity is limited, and the lethality of black powder is really not powerful, a hundred hot air balloons, the number of bombs that can be loaded is limited, coupled with the lack of materials of the Austrians' previous troops, these hot air balloons are not even fully loaded.

Even so, the frightened war horses also helped the Aoren a lot, and Lei Jun found that he was not fighting alone, in addition to 150,000 men, he also had 400,000 war horses as allies.

Without his order, the Austrians in the hot air balloon knew what to do, where the horses were not yet frightened, and it was enough to throw a bomb. For the Austrians, it doesn't matter how many Chu people are killed by the bombing, what matters is how many war horses can be frightened.

The collapse came too fast, so fast that Cheng Liang didn't have any time to react, you know, this is Da Chu with poor communication, hundreds of thousands of people, even if they are well-trained, it will take at least two hours to set up a formation.

When hundreds of thousands of war horses were frightened and galloped everywhere, not to mention that he could not pass on the order, and even if it was passed on, it would not be possible to carry it out effectively.