According to aerial reconnaissance, more than 130 ships were found in Wuyangfu, scattered in more than 10 docks, and most of these ships were merchant ships captured by the Austrians, as well as a small number of Austrian messenger clippers.

"Interesting, it looks like they've finally found out. After reading the battle report, Renault laughed, and the Austrian reacted much slower than he thought. This is due to the blockade of the Shengong Navy and the Air Force, and until now, the Austrians still have limited knowledge of the Shengong City.

The Austrian clipper has passed by here several times, but they were all sunk by the Shengong Navy and the Air Force first, and none of the Austrians have been spared.

This is the case in this era, there are no mobile phones, radios, and information networks, and the transmission of information depends on people, and it is very easy to block the waters within a few hundred miles with the power of Shengong City.

In addition to sending out four air teams to support the army, the Shengong City Air Force also has eighteen air teams, with a total number of more than 1,000 airships.

This is only the air force of Shengong City, the number of airships in the entire Great Chu has exceeded five thousand, and even so, it is still far from enough.

The main role of airships is not the battlefield, but for transportation. In the Reaper Mountain Range, there are five air fleets all year round, which are used to transport various resources, and hundreds of thousands of catties of various minerals, fuels, and herbs are transported from the mountains to Shengong City every day.

Ten air teams are used to transport food and daily necessities, except for Renault's personal guard air team, the rest of the air teams are busy all year round, people can rest, airships can not be idle, even so, the food and supplies in Shengong City are only barely enough.

"Has the staff calculated?" Renault asked, such a lofty name of the staff was naturally taken by Renault, the first batch of staff officers, most of them came from military schools, they were educated accordingly, although they could not be compared with the staff officers on the earth, at least not like the counselors in the Great Chu Army, and they could not know basic mathematics.

"It has been calculated, a full one-month voyage can carry 27,000 people, and it is impossible to have more. Moka replied.

This is the advantage of having a staff department, regardless of the news from the reconnaissance team, just calculate according to the size and load of the ship, plus the voyage, you will know how many enemies you are facing, the maximum number.

As for not discovering the movement of the Austrians, this is normal, as long as the troops are mobilized at night, the airship troops will not be able to detect it.

Wuyangfu has now become the base camp of the Austrians, and there are not many Da Chu people alive there, and it is almost impossible to expect them to pass on useful information. Renault would not let his men venture into Wuyang Mansion. This kind of thing has been done in the Southern Theater of Great Chu, but the result is that there is no return.

The difference between the Chu people and the Ao people is too big, it is not something that can be solved by painting the color of the skin black, several commanders of the Ao people are quite shrewd, and Da Chu's understanding of Wuyang Mansion all comes from the reconnaissance of the air force.

"Less than 30,000 people?" Renault smiled and shook his head, this is the result of information asymmetry, in addition to the 400,000 craftsmen and coolies in Shengong City, there are also 100,000 soldiers of the Desert Legion, although most of them are new recruits, and they have been training for more than a year, except for not seeing blood, they can be regarded as elite soldiers.

Guarding the Shengong City, the equipment is naturally the best, not only the armor is excellent, Renault also sent people to train them in firearms, and now the army of 100,000 people has nearly 100 artillery pieces, all of which are the rear-loading artillery eliminated by the Shengong Navy and the Army.

Don't look at these artillery guns Renault can't look down on, in fact, they are all good things, much better than the front-loading solid artillery of the Austrians.

It's a pity that the musket can't really be mass-produced, Renault has tried his best to continuously increase the output, and the monthly output is still less than five hundred, which sounds like a lot, but compared to the Great Chu Alliance, a few million troops, given a hundred years, can not equip half of the troops.

What's more, as a weapon, the loss rate of the musket is not low, even if the alloy is used, it can only shoot about a thousand rounds, Renault takes training very seriously, and now most of the production is consumed in training.

In his opinion, a musketeer, before going to the battlefield, if he does not fire a few hundred rounds of ammunition, is not a qualified musketeer at all, on average, two or three musketeers, one musketeer will be scrapped.

In addition to muskets, ammunition is also a problem, Mozi has not been able to develop a mechanical assembly line until now, and uses manual assembly operations, with a monthly bullet output of less than 30,000 rounds, which is pitiful.

You must know that the Shengong Army has 1,000 regular soldiers, and with the rate of fire of the Shengong musket, 30 rounds of ammunition per person is not enough for ten minutes.

The time for the formation of the Shengong Army is not short, it has participated in dozens of battles, and the rear is still constantly training new troops, and if it were not for the restrictions on ammunition, the army would have been expanded a long time ago.

"What's going on at the technical school?" asked Renault, who found a shortage of craftsmen soon after the establishment of the military academy, such as the production of ammunition, and the number of craftsmen who were able to make ammunition independently was too small, only a few dozen.

How can it be that ammunition is made by hand, and each craftsman produces only a dozen or even a few rounds a day?

As long as you are willing to study in a technical school, no matter what status, even if you are a slave, it is no problem, as long as you succeed in learning, you will immediately become a free person.

"Sir, the first batch of technical school students will not be completed in half a month. "Mo Xiang, as a personal secretary, knows best what Mr. cares about, and will send someone to inquire every day to grasp first-hand information.

"How many people in the first batch graduated?" asked Renault.

"There are more than 1,700 people, including 800 ammunition craftsmen, who can already complete the production of bullets and shells independently, but the quality and quantity are not enough. Moka replied.

"Very good, tell the technical school that you have to speed up. The issue of miniaturization of the steam engine, there has been no progress?" Renault continued to deal with official business.

"In the case of the same horsepower, the ninety-six steam engine ten days ago has been successfully put into trial operation, and the weight has been reduced to one and a half tons. Mo Xiang replied like a stream.

Renault touched his chin and shook his head, what is this, it's too much, what he wants is an engine weighing hundreds of pounds, it seems that the steam engine can't be counted on, the steam engine used for miniaturization is not enough horsepower, and the size is not much smaller, it seems that we have to find a way to find new resources, and the internal combustion engine is more promising.

"Check the progress of Question A19. ”

This time Mo Xiang didn't answer directly, but looked through the information, there are too many projects in the laboratory, each one is very important, she will take the progress of the experiment every three days, and it is too difficult to remember all of them in her mind.

"There is no progress on Question A19 at present. Mo Xiang looked at the information and said.

The topics of the laboratory are divided into two kinds of long and short topics, A 19 is a long-term research topic, which is not required to be completed in a short time, but this topic has been studied for more than three years, and there is still no progress, which is a bit unreasonable.

Someone once proposed to Zhang Tan and Mozi to give up this research group, and was finally vetoed by Renault, the internal combustion engine must be studied, but it is useless for him to be in a hurry, this is a big project, and now even the fuel problem has not been solved, so naturally there is no progress.

"yes, I see. Spread the changes in Wuyang Mansion to Jing Lan and Zhu Zhang, and let them prepare for battle. Renault said.

Zhu Zhang is the Tiger Ben General of the Desert Legion and the commander-in-chief of the Desert Legion transferred to Shengong City. According to the Great Chu military system, a tiger general can only command 10,000 horses, and with the invasion of the Austrians, many military regulations have been loosened.

Recruits were recruited in large numbers, and there were simply not enough officers. The eight legions of Great Chu are all in the hands of the generals, and Chu Ren intervenes, and he only has a good relationship with them, and he can mobilize the legions, and the problems within the legions still have to ask the opinions of the eight generals.

Zhu Zhang, the nephew of Zhu Chongjiu, the general of the Desert Legion, is one of the few cadres of the Zhu family. Originally, the most outstanding was Zhu Fu, the son of the general, the fiancé of the Ninth Princess, who died in the forty-eight countries of the plateau.

Now the leader of the next generation of the Zhu family is Zhu Zhang, although he is only a general of Huben, it is because he is still young and lacks military achievements, otherwise he would have been promoted to the right general a long time ago.

Tens of thousands of Austrians, Renault naturally does not take it to heart, there are air force reconnaissance, naval interception, it is difficult to say whether these ships can be relied on, the army's war preparations, just in case.

Wuyang Mansion, Ram Mansion.

Gia was half-lying on a bench, and two maids were taking care of her whole body.

Grandmaster Jia is the commander of the Grandmaster of the Fourth Fleet of the Austrians, nearly thirty years old, among the grandmasters, he is also very young, and he comes from a famous family, originally a princess of a country in Austria.

It's a pity that the country is long gone, and the identity of the princess is nothing. The important thing is that not only does she have the strength of a grandmaster, but the army of the original country has also been preserved.

After the death of her father, she took an army of 600,000 and occupied a place in the Olympic League and won the position of commander of the Fourth Fleet.

Her luck was not very good, before landing, she encountered the Shengong Naval Army, and lost more than half of it, and now she has only more than 200,000 pro-troops in her hands.

After Zuoqing's attack, Jiya and the commander of the Third Fleet, Guan Shengjie, competed for the command of the Austrian army in Wuyangfu, which made her physically and mentally exhausted, and she could only relax for a moment in half an hour of maintenance every day.

"Your Excellency, Lord Guan refuses to send his ships. A female official stepped forward and said that she should not have disturbed Jiya's rest with official business at this time, but Master Ji said that this matter is very important and can be reported at any time.

"Got it, you go down. Gia said calmly, she had known this. After Zuoqing's death, the opinions of the two have never been unified.

The second, third, and fourth fleets gathered in Wuyangfu, with more than 800,000 soldiers, more than 1.9 million craftsmen, and nearly 3 million people, gathered within a few hundred miles of Wuyangfu.

Guan Shengjie thought that it was necessary to expand outward, and after receiving the news of the thunderstorm, Jiya decided to raid Shengong City first to solve the big trouble.

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