With the end of the second battle, the land of Hongzhou was full of smoke. Cheng Liang is a veteran general of a hundred battles, and Lei Jun is not an ordinary general, he can be selected from the nearly 10 million Austrian army to become a vanguard force, serve as a landing, and establish a beachhead, and even have a general who collects resources, how can he be an unknown person.

Through battles again and again, Cheng Liang is looking for the weaknesses of the Austrians, and Lei Jun is also summarizing the combat methods of the Chu people and how to give full play to the advantages of the Austrians' weapons and equipment.

In addition to the game between the two generals, Lei Jun also has a more obvious advantage, that is, behind him, there is also the most outstanding secret master of the Austrians, Thunderstorm, although Thunderstorm is very dissatisfied with him, a descendant of the 'Lei' family, but the level of Thunderstorm's secret skills must not be underestimated.

Less than half a month after the end of the second battle, the Austro's pedal planes had already taken to the air, and the quality was not weaker than the Chu people's planes, or even better.

Renault didn't see it, if he saw the Aoren's plane, he would definitely sigh a few times, it's amazing my brother, he actually has a gear.

In fact, this thing, there is not much technical content, just through the change of the size of the gear, to achieve the difference in speed, any earthling, know the truth, a five-level fitter, can be made by hand, but here is the world of Da Chu, a secret master who understands the gear, enough to surprise Renault.

Of course, there is no such talent on the front line, and the information that Cheng Liang got is that the Austrians learned how to manufacture the foot plane and used it, and on the battlefield, the Austrian foot plane seemed to be faster, at least in a few air battles with the Austrian aircraft, the Chu army had no obvious advantage.

The reason why I say this is because of the quantity, behind Cheng Liang, it is the entire Great Chu Continent that supports him, as long as he has a twist, he can get everything he wants, more troops, supplies, equipment, almost everything he wants, will be obtained within one to two months.

On the contrary, the Austrians can only produce on their own, and the manpower is obviously insufficient, not only the manpower is insufficient, the resources are even more tight, on the surface, the Austrians control a considerable area of land, in fact, it is all fake, except for the Chu people who are caught to work hard, they get nothing from the Chu people.

Cheng Liang implemented the strategy of clearing the wilderness very thoroughly, and all the abandoned land, not to mention people, did not even leave a dog.

Of course, this is only a place that can be seen, after all, in such a large area, there will always be some villages left behind, allowing the Austrians to loot some resources and population. However, for the Austrian vanguard army, which has nearly 400,000 troops, and tens of millions of follow-up troops, it is a drop in the bucket and cannot solve the fundamental problem.

Therefore, whether it is an army, an airship, or an aircraft unit, in terms of numbers, the Chu people have an absolute advantage, in a recent air battle, the Chu people's 400 foot planes, against the Austrians 180 planes, the result is evenly matched, no one can help anyone.

With the number of battles, on the frontal battlefield, the Austrian troops commanded by Lei Jun met Cheng Liang's 600,000 army with 120,000 troops.

This is not that Cheng Liang's command ability is too weak, in fact, he found that there are more troops in his hands, and his command is not as flexible as before. At the same time, Lei Jun also has more and more experience in how to better play muskets and artillery.

The Austrians thought that with the help of muskets and artillery hot air balloons, an army of more than 100,000 could sweep through a region, get a lot of resources, and strive for more advantages for the later troops.

The Coalition believes that we have a multimillion-strong army and should defeat the vanguard of the Austrians with a crushing force, and the concern among the Coalition leadership is the number of the Austrians, not their quality.

In this regard, the Austrians and the Chu people are equally confident, and both believe that the advantage is on their side. As a result, the Austrians did have an advantage in equipment, but this advantage was far less obvious than they thought.

When the coalition forces first came into contact with the Austrian army, they found that the previous hundreds of thousands of years of combat experience seemed to be useless, and even a veteran general like Cheng Liang was at a loss in the early days and did not know how to command the battle.

Although all kinds of accidents continued to appear, in general, the coalition forces had the absolute upper hand, and the Lei army racked its brains and used the strength of the four armies to block the attack of the coalition forces, although it was retreating every day, the speed of retreat was extremely slow, enough to support the arrival of the second batch of landing troops.

But the problem is not that it appears on a frontal battlefield, in such a large area, and the coalition forces have enough troops, who would be stupid enough to only fight you head-on?

Except for the initial period of trial control, Cheng Liang's orders were well implemented, and the coalition forces that came from all directions bypassed the frontal Austrian troops and attacked the base camp, which made the Lei army, which was already insufficient in strength, have to transfer an army and return to the base camp.

Don't look at the number of people in the rear, but they are all logistics and craftsmen, the number of fighters is extremely small, there are not tens of thousands of elites, no matter how powerful the secret technique of thunderstorm is, it is impossible to hold the base camp.

Not only that, but Lei Jun also faced a more serious problem, that is, insufficient supplies. There is no problem with food for the time being, but the hot weapons troops cannot lack ammunition.

When they set out from the Lomon Islands, the fleet brought with them a hundred base ammunition, which was originally sufficient, and even if these muskets and artillery were scrapped, they would not be able to use these ammunition.

But as the coalition army entered the Austrian-controlled area and separated the Austrian troops from the base camp, there was a problem with the supply of the Lei army.

What annoyed him even more was that even if he didn't dare to return to the base camp and couldn't defeat the Great Chu coalition army, in fact, he couldn't complete either of the two most important tasks as a vanguard.

The base camp was besieged, and although it would not be much dangerous, nothing could be done. Although they broke through to Dachu for nearly a thousand miles and were dragged to death by the coalition forces, they could also do nothing.

Opening up a camp is one of the tasks, and collecting resources is the second task, both of which the Lei army has failed.

On the surface, in the hundreds of battles before this, the Austrians had the upper hand, and at a very small cost, they inflicted heavy losses on the Great Chu coalition army, and in terms of the number of casualties alone, the Great Chu coalition army was at least five times more than the Austrian army, but what is the point of this?

When he reaches the level of Lei Jun, he will not care about the gains and losses of one city or one place, nor will he care about the number of casualties, in order to achieve the strategic goal, any loss is acceptable.

Looking at Cheng Liang on the other hand, although the pressure is very great and the losses are numerous, he firmly grasps the strategic focus, and even begins to establish a military camp garrison at a possible landing location, even if it can't stop the Austrians, at least it can play an early warning role.

In this situation, the second landing fleet of the Austrians came!

To everyone's expectations, Zuo Qing, the commander of the second ship of the Austrians, did not land in Chunjiang Mansion in Hongzhou to support the Lei Army as originally planned, but led the fleet to attack Wuyang Mansion in Yuezhou, the largest maritime capital of Great Chu, and the most important port city of the Southern Naval Army of Great Chu.

Three hundred nautical miles outside Wuyangfu, he defeated the main force of the Southern Navy in World War I, sank and damaged more than 500 warships of the Southern Navy Army, and killed more than 50,000 people.

The naval battle was different from the land war, the first battle, Cheng Liang was defeated, was hit by hundreds of thousands of frightened horses, and the casualties were only more than 60,000 people, and the total number of troops invested by both sides in that battle exceeded 500,000.

Naval battles take place at sea, and as long as the battleship is gone, it is extremely difficult for the people on board to survive.

After defeating the Southern Naval Army, the huge fleet went straight to Wuyangfu, shelled the city, and then the army landed, fought a bloody battle with the Nanzhang Army that arrived for fifteen days, and at the cost of losing 30,000 people, defeated the 300,000 allied troops that arrived successively, and occupied Wuyangfu.

According to later statistics, at least 150,000 coalition troops died in this battle, and the rest were defeated and defeated.

Zuoqing's imaginative command not only surprised Dong Guanyue, the commander-in-chief of the Luomen Islands, but also made all the previous plans of the Great Chu coalition army go to waste.

Originally, it was thought that the second fleet of the Austrians would land in Hongzhou to support the first fleet of the Lei Army. According to this strategic line of thinking, all the troops were deployed with Chunjiang Province as the center of gravity. Who would have thought that Zuo Qing went straight to Wuyang Mansion, which was originally the most important port of Great Chu and had heavy troops.

There are not only more than 1,500 large and small ships of the Southern Naval Army, more than 150,000 naval troops, but also more than 100,000 people of the Southern Palm Legion, as well as the private soldiers of the Wuyangfu family.

In fact, it has been proved that the battle of the private army of the Wuyang Mansion family even exceeds that of the Nanzhang Army, and the number of people is beyond imagination.

During the half-month campaign, the total number of private soldiers mobilized exceeded 200,000, and most of the people killed in the battle were the private soldiers of the family.

In fact, the Ministry of War also knew that among the eight major legions of Great Chu, the weakest was the Northern Naval Army, followed by the Southern Commander Army.

Even so, with Wuyang Mansion as the center, within a radius of thousands of miles, the military strength that can be mobilized in half a month is more than 500,000.

In this battle, Zuo Qing showed superb command art, and seemed to know the Great Chu army very well, and the Great Chu departments knew almost nothing about the Austrians, and most of the battles were about to collapse at the touch of a button, even if the private soldiers of Wuyangfu were strong-willed, and even did not hesitate to fight to the last person, they still could not stop the advance of the Austrian army.

When Renault saw the battle report, he knew that although this Zuo Qing was very adventurous, his command level might not be stronger than Lei Jun's. He must have first obtained the information of the Great Chu Coalition Army from Lei Jun, especially about the Navy, before he dared to make a dangerous attack.

This battle obviously has a hint of gambling in nature, and Zuo Qing won the bet.

In fact, Zuo Qing also had a hard time, when he learned about the situation of the vanguard fleet, he took people to calculate for more than a month, but he couldn't find a solution.

Even if the Second Fleet goes to reinforce it, what is the point for the Austrians?