Chapter 367: Full speed ahead
Lan Bing has some opinions about the naval drill, the smarter the person, the more ideas, and he always feels that what he thinks is right. However, smart people also have benefits, how long this army has been formed, how long the Tiger King has memorized the drill code, in addition to training, he spends most of his time on memorizing the drill code and regulations, and Lan Bing does not need this.
According to the naval code, the ironclad fleet, especially the aircraft carriers, should be as close to the enemy as possible, preferably between ten and thirty miles, for the simple reason that the speed of the ironclad ships is much higher than that of the sailing ships, and secondly, it can reduce the reloading time of the airship troops.
In addition, at this distance, in addition to airships and air carriers, the foot planes on the aircraft carrier can also attack the enemy ship group, the speed of the foot plane is not fast, it needs to be stepped on all the time, it is necessary to consume strength, and the range and altitude of the aircraft are far from being comparable with the airship.
Lan Bing agrees with these explanations in the drill code, but she feels that it is completely unnecessary, it is enough to have airship troops, the distance is long, and the load capacity is large, since it is also an attack from the air, why bother to distinguish between airplanes and airships?
As most generals think, since there was an airship, Lan Bing didn't think much of such a thing as an airplane, an airplane with a load capacity of only two or three hundred catties, not even a fraction of the airship's carrying capacity, it was a big toy.
She couldn't understand why the wise gentleman repeatedly emphasized the importance of airplanes. The number of planes attached to the fleet of Shengong City was too much in her opinion.
On the airship mothership, it can accommodate twenty aircraft to take off and land, and each airship must also carry two aircraft. Together with the ninety aircraft on the aircraft carrier, the total number of aircraft exceeds five hundred, and this is not counting the two hundred aircraft carried by the fat man for replenishment.
Lan Bing has no love for airplanes, and at the same time feels that so many planes take up too many people. You must know that the aircraft is a double crew, and each aircraft needs a pilot and a fireman, and five hundred aircraft occupy more than a thousand people.
The Shengong Army, the Army, Navy, and Air Force, including all the auxiliary personnel, are only in their early 5,000s, less than 6,000 people.
In the first battle, there are always countless problems, if it was Renault who was in charge of the Shengong at this time, he would have discovered the problem a long time ago, even if he didn't understand military affairs, he also knew that in naval warfare, the most important thing was to find the enemy first, and at the same time not to be discovered by the enemy.
In this unexpected encounter, the three generals of the Shengong Army were not aware of this problem.
The airship was very large, and when the airship found the Austrian detachment in the sky, the Austrians also discovered the airship.
As the commander of this fleet, Zhou Leng has rich experience in naval warfare, and not only that, but he is also an extremely rare grandmaster warrior among commanders.
Generally speaking, a grandmaster commander like him should play the role of charging in a large army, this time it is a little different, Zuo Qing's task is very difficult, he needs to take a detachment of fleets, escort 10,000 troops, and go around the sea route to seize Lufeichuan.
Lufeichuan is sparsely populated, there is no capital city, it is a very rare plain in the south, the Nanzhang Legion planted a large number of grass here, used to raise war horses, after decades of time, it has become a war horse breeding base.
The number of the Nanzhang Legion is not large, only more than 100,000, and it is scattered all over the place, the demand for war horses is greater than that of other legions, one person and two horses are standard, if necessary, one person with three horses, or even four horses are possible.
Because Zuoqing's second fleet landed in Wuyangfu, the Nanzhang Legion continued to draw combat power from all over the country and send it to the surrounding areas of Wuyangfu, so at this time, Lufeichuan only had more than 80,000 war horses, which was one-third of the usual time.
This amount, the Nanzhang Legion naturally doesn't care, but in Zuo Qing's eyes, it is too important. As a landing fleet, he also encountered the trouble that Lei Jun had encountered before, and his mobility was too poor.
With more than 30,000 casualties in an army, Wuyang Mansion was defeated, a large number of resources were obtained, and the production of armor weapons began, but it was difficult to expand outward.
The Austrians, who are equipped with hot weapons, are actually not afraid to fight against the Chu people, and they are reliable on two legs, and it is obviously impossible to outrun the Chu people who have a large number of war horses.
This is also a lesson learned from the Lei army, because of the lack of horses, it was trapped in Hongzhou, and it was separated from the base camp in two. Zuo Qing didn't want to have a problem like Lei Jun, he understood Lei Jun's helplessness, that is, to open up a landing field, but also to grab resources.
As a result, because of the wrong landing site, although it caused great damage to the Chu army, it was useless, but it was surrounded by more and more Great Chu coalition troops, and it was difficult to move an inch.
Even if they brought a large amount of supplies, Zuo Qing believed that the Lei army would not last long, three months at most, and when the food ran out, no amount of ammunition would be useless.
Zuo Qing's task is also very heavy, in addition to the same task as Lei Jun, he must also rescue the first fleet, that is 400,000 people, as long as they are rescued, relying on the resources of Wuyang Mansion, this game of chess can be revitalized, otherwise it can only be a dead end.
Don't look at Zuo Qing is very conceited, he will not be carried away by victory, he knows in his heart that Lei Jun's command is actually not too big, but it is too rigid.
If he also obeyed Dong Xian's arrangement, he was afraid that he would be trapped in Hongzhou with Lei Jun at this time. As an earth immortal, Dong Xian is still very powerful, but he can command wars, not to be brave.
There is no way, among the first batch of personnel, Dong Xian is the leader, even Lei Shi can't persuade him. Zuo Qing is much more courageous than Lei Jun, so he dares to play a game that will not affect the lives of foreign soldiers.
If you want to save the first fleet, there are two ways, one is the sea route, and after taking Wuyang Mansion, he already has enough supplies to detour to Hongzhou. The other is the land route, which is directly advanced from Wuyangfu to the north, and the two places are more than 8,000 miles apart, and it is definitely impossible to do without enough horses.
These two roads are not easy to walk, and it is impossible for the Chu people to watch the Second Fleet go to save people, so Zuo Qing is still hesitating, but there is not much time left for him.
It has been almost a month since the occupation of Wuyang Mansion, with Wuyang Mansion as the center, within a radius of thousands of miles, the Great Chu Coalition Army has gathered more than 300,000 people, and the reason why it did not attack was because it was hurt by the previous Lei Army, and it was also killed by Zuo Qing, the commander-in-chief of the Great Chu Coalition Army, afraid of insufficient manpower and defeat again, so they are still waiting, waiting for more troops and resources.
Don't look at this battle was fought in Dachu, the life of the Dachu coalition army was not easy, Dachu was originally short of food, and the war turned many places into battlefields, so naturally there was no food. Moreover, it is not easy to move the army, and the consumption of food is far more than usual.
If you continue to wait, you need to consume more food, and if you don't wait, you are afraid that you won't be able to win, and the most headache at this time is the general of the Southern Theater, the secret state of the Southern Commander Legion.
Grandmaster Yi Feng is relatively weak among the eight army commanders, not only in terms of his own strength, but also in command ability. It is obviously impossible to put hundreds of thousands of troops into his hands and let him defeat Zuoqing, the political affairs hall has already assigned the commander of the southern theater, but it has not yet arrived, and it is said that it should come in the next few days.
The commander of the Eastern Theater is still Cheng Liang, the commander of the Xiangshui Army. Although he lost more than 150,000 horses in two battles and hundreds of battles after that, he successfully trapped the first landing fleet of the Lei Army in Hongzhou.
The commander-in-chief of the south assigned by the political hall this time was Sun Xi, the general of Zhenxi who was transferred back from Jiuquan in the northwest. Prior to this, Sun Xi was still expanding the army, training the army, receiving orders from the political affairs hall and the military department, and arranging the training and transfer of troops, so he took an airship and returned to Los Angeles to meet His Majesty Chu Ren, and then flew to the south to replace Yi Feng.
Such a slow military transfer, in Renault's opinion, is really, the commander-in-chief actually took a month to take office, and it was a fart battle.
But this situation, in the eyes of Da Chu and even the Aoren, is very normal. After all, the area of Da Chu is too large, and if there is no airship, this time will double or triple.
The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of millions of troops takes a lot of time, and the march alone has to be calculated on a monthly basis. All the people ride lightly, but they only travel about 100 miles a day, and they only walk more than 3,000 miles in a month.
Of course, the light cavalry can double this speed, but the supplies cannot, this is still fighting in the territory of Dachu, if you go to the northwest, north, Liaodong, and go out to fight, the marching speed is even slower, you can walk sixty to eighty miles a day, which is already very fast.
As for some people proposing that they can supply in the state capitals passing by, that is nonsense, Dachu is not rich in the first place, and the people everywhere can't fill their stomachs, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in one prefecture city, so it is impossible for them to provide supplies to the same number or even more Chu troops.
Armies need to be drawn, supplies need to be concentrated, and all of this takes time.
Lan Bing didn't know the changes in the southern theater of operations, she only had the Austrian detachment in her eyes, and since she had encountered it, she would definitely kill all the Austrians. It's useless to be anxious, the rules and regulations are there, and there is a very resolute commander-in-chief, the Tiger King, who can't help it.
"Mr. Hu, if you don't recruit the airship back, if you follow it all the way, the Aoren will be suspicious. Lan Bing thought for a moment and said.
"Then how can we determine if the position of the Ao Ren has changed?" the Tiger King asked.
"Regulations on the calculation of warship battles in the Code of Naval Exercises. Lan Bing said without thinking about it, don't look at the time she spends, she is very familiar with these drill conditions.
"Yes. The Tiger King nodded and said.
Lan Bing's eyes flashed with a hint of understanding, it was obvious that the Tiger King was not suitable for leading the army, but he was deeply trusted by Mr., which no one could compare.
From the conversation just now, she found that as long as she found the right part from the conditions of the gentleman's discipline, she could easily convince the Tiger King.
Zhou Leng, the commander of the Austrian detachment, although he has a lot of experience, he doesn't know much about airships. Three quarters of an hour later, the lookout returned, and the airship flew away.
It was only at this time that Zhou Leng breathed a sigh of relief, such a thing as an airship was really annoying.
"Summons, speed up, we're exposed. Zhou Leng said, hoping that the Chu people would not be able to guess their goals, but this possibility is not very likely, and the Chu people are not stupid.
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