The solution of the airship unit is very simple, under the airship pod, four planes are lifted with ropes, and this weight is not a problem at all for an airship with a load capacity of 8,000 catties. When it flies to an altitude of about 1,800 meters to 2,000 meters, let the pilot follow the rope into the cockpit of the plane, cut the rope, and the plane will break away from the airship.

The benefits of this method are obvious, it is very easy to do, and there is almost no need for modifications, just a matter of a few ropes. For ordinary people, it is very dangerous to climb into the cabin along the rope at an altitude of two thousand meters.

But Da Chu's plane pilots are 100% martial artists, and most of them are martial artists above the fifth level, ordinary people can't play with pedal planes, with the reach of a fifth-level martial artist, as long as you pay a little attention and are bold enough, there will be no accidents at all.

The only thing to pay attention to was the ten crossbow arrows filled with fire oil on the plane. That's right, each plane is only equipped with ten crossbow arrows, not that Da Chu is short of resources, but there is no need to match too many, ten is enough.

The plane can only surprise the airship against the power system, due to the problem of the power system, although the plane is flexible, but its climb speed is too touching, not only slow, but also can not climb too high, in terms of the ceiling, the plane is far inferior to the airship.

Therefore, the combat plan is based on this. It is required that the airship with the plane must fly above the enemy hot air balloon and dive from top to bottom, so that it is faster and easier to attack the hot air balloon, as for the people in the pod, don't care, if you fall down at such a high place, you will go to half your life if you don't die, who cares how many hot air balloon operators you have?

Da Chu is almost the same as the Aoren, unless there are special personnel, the lives of ordinary people are not valuable. The Austrians are even worse, they don't even have their original hometown, and many people don't have a space if they want to get on the ship, and it is easier than Da Chu to recruit troops.

Although it is dangerous to be a soldier, at least there is still a way to live, and you can live for a few more days. The Austrians who are far away in Oshu are living in dire straits at this time, and no matter how many transport ships there are, they will not be enough.

The transfer of hundreds of millions of people, not to mention this technologically backward world, is not so easy even if it is replaced by the earth. The Austrians can only do their best, and as for how many people die in the end, no one cares anymore.

This way of air combat is destined to attack for a long time, and the Austrians are not stupid, as long as the air is heated and the hot air balloon rises quickly, the plane in a low position can only watch, even if they break their legs, they will not be able to catch up with the hot air balloon.

In order to keep secrets, before the second battle, Cheng Liang strictly ordered the aircraft troops not to go into battle, all the two hundred planes were hidden, the pilots trained to use bed crossbows, and the craftsmen continued to improve, after all, the crossbow is more suitable for flat shooting, and the projectile can barely be done, and it is stranger to shoot downward, one is not good, and the crossbow arrow will fall down by itself.

Fortunately, the bed crossbow on the battleship is used, and the crossbow arrow itself has been fixed, and after several improvements, there will be no embarrassment that the crossbow arrow will fall off by itself before it is launched.

Twenty days after the first battle, the second battle was prepared, the Great Chu was desperately preparing for the battle, and the Austrians were also preparing, with tens of thousands of war horses, as well as a large amount of military resources, the equipment of the Austrian army was improved faster than that of the Chu people.

Among the vanguard troops, in addition to the navy army and the army of the five armies, the most are craftsmen, who have complete sets of tools and equipment, just waiting for the army to grab the materials and go all out to produce armaments.

Before the first battle, due to the execution of the fortified wall clearing by Da Chu, the Austrians got very few resources, and in more than half a month, only more than 20 hot air balloons were produced.

The first battle not only grabbed enough resources, but also made Thunderstorm realize that airships are better than hot air balloons, although they only changed their appearance, their handling in the air is obviously better than that of hot air balloons, and it is obvious that in terms of air force, the Chu people have gone ahead of the Austrians.

Fortunately, although air power is important, it is because both sides do not understand this, and I believe that it will not be long before the power of bombing will not be so great.

Its practical black powder bomb, the damage to the ground part is really limited, not to mention black powder, replaced by TNT, it is difficult to guarantee that a shell kills a person, when the army knows the shortcomings of the bomb, it is not difficult to come up with a way to restrain it.

Of course, thunderstorms also felt that air power was important, not only for combat, but more importantly for transport. The carrying capacity of the airship is naturally not as good as that of a transport ship, and on the sea, it is not as useful as a ship, but on land, especially in complex terrain types, the effect is much better than that of a war horse.

So, the direction he considered was a larger load, mainly for transportation. He made a calculation, if a large number of combat airships for bombing are manufactured, the airship itself is not a problem, after all, the structure is simple, and the black powder that can be used for bombing will be an astronomical amount, after all, it is a consumable, and if you throw it down, it will be gone.

In the areas currently occupied, the amount of black powder that can be produced per day is very small, and saltpeter and sulfur are lacking. After all, the control zone is still too small, and there are not enough people.

Now Thunderstorm and Thunder Army, the most considered thing is how to hold this landing field, as for the attack, it is better to wait for the follow-up troops to arrive.

The first rendezvous left a deep impression on the commanders of both sides, Cheng Liang found that the previous combat experience, under the bombardment of the airship, has completely collapsed, that kind of cluster charge, in the previous view, is unstoppable, the more people the better, but in front of the airship, the personnel are too dense, except for bringing trouble to themselves, it does not help much for victory.

Learning from this experience, in the second battle, the number of troops prepared by Cheng Liang dropped instead, using only 200,000 people, and they were ready to fight on foot.

Obviously, because of the bombing, the cavalry's war horses became accomplices of the enemy, and the lethality produced was far greater than that of the airship bombing.

Of course, foot combat does not mean that there are no horses, and on the battlefield, soldiers dismount to fight, and when they march, they are inseparable from war horses.

The second battle was also started by the Air Force first, and for this moment, Cheng Liang prepared for more than 20 days, with 50 airships and 200 pedal planes on board.

When 200 planes swooped down from the air, the Austrian flight unit was stunned, and when the first hot air balloon, ignited by the fire oil, fell from the air like a stone, the Austrian hot air balloon unit dispersed, at this time, who cares about the bombing mission, with the speed of the hot air balloon, it is shit luck to escape.

Seeing the results of the air battle, not only Cheng Liang, but also the morale of the army, the pace of progress became a little easier, after all, carrying fifty or sixty catties of armor blades, and accustomed to fighting on horseback, to the ground, the combat strength of Da Chu's army directly dropped by more than half.

"Two hundred zhang, the bed crossbow team is ready. ”

"Shoot. ”

Hundreds of bed crossbows, lined up, crossbowmen holding wooden hammers, smashed on the crossbow machine, nearly a thousand crescent crossbow guns flew out......

Suddenly, the Austrians were all shorter, and thousands of crossbow guns flew over the heads of the Austrians' queue, and no one was injured!

What's going on?

Cheng Liang held the binoculars and carefully observed this incredible glance, the unstoppable bed crossbow actually failed, this is impossible.

You must know that there are more than 100,000 Austrians on the other side, and even if you are well-trained, it is impossible to give orders and prohibit them, not to mention that it takes a long time from the issuance of orders to the execution of soldiers.

This is another accident, the first battle, not only brought a lot of thinking ideas to Cheng Liang, Lei Jun is also studying, the army of the Chu people is very different from the Austrians, do you still need such a thing as a trench?

After all, it was only the second battle, and although these trenches were probably useless, the Austrian army still dug several trenches according to the habits of previous battles. Of course, this time there were far fewer than the dozens of trenches in the first battle.

Unexpectedly, the air battle was lost, and they were greeted by thousands of crossbow guns. According to the fighting habits of the Austrians, as a defensive side, when they see the enemy's long-range weapons, they do not need to be ordered and go directly to the trenches.

Therefore, Cheng Liang saw the scene that made him incredible, the Aoren collectively shortened, and when he was thinking about how the Aoren conveyed the order, the Aoren counterattacked.

Although the Austrians are not yet an all-firearms army, at least eighty percent of the modifications have been completed, not only guns, but also artillery, relatively mature artillery.

Two months was enough time for the Austrians to transport hundreds of guns from the battleship, including forty pounds of guns.

The so-called forty-pound heavy gun, of course, does not mean that the artillery weighs forty pounds, but the weight of a solid shell. Due to the poor production technology, there are certain differences in the caliber of each artillery, so the artillery of the Austrians is not calculated according to the caliber, but according to the weight of the solid bullet.

The 40-kilogram heavy gun, the gun body weighs 4,600 kilograms, plus the auxiliary equipment such as the gun carriage and the auxiliary track, the total weight is more than 5,000 kilograms.

Before grabbing the Chu people's war horses, the Lei army almost gave up this kind of heavy artillery, which was too heavy to be transported so far by manpower.

Fortunately, the number of hot air balloons is increasing rapidly, and the thunderstorm instructed him, as a commander, he should have a long brain, and with the load capacity of the hot air balloon, he can barely transport heavy artillery.

Therefore, there are 30 40-pound guns, 180 30-pound guns, and more than 500 light guns under 30 pounds.

In land warfare, the distance of 200 zhang is not close, and among the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Austrians, only artillery of more than 30 catties can beat a solid bullet to such a long distance. The firing range of the light artillery is very close, and the smallest ten-pound light gun has a firing range of only 30 zhang.

At one time, two hundred and ten solid bullets were fired into the queue of the Chu people, throwing hundreds of blood, rain and flesh and mud, which shook the array of the Chu army.

In fact, there are far fewer casualties, except for thirty forty-pound heavy guns, which have brought a lot of casualties, and the lethality of thirty-pound medium guns is average.

Even so, it made Cheng Liang realize that he was facing an army with a completely different way of fighting.

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