Sun Ying's face was confused at this time, although the Chu army on the opposite side was not large, but there were hundreds of airships in the sky, but they did not have the slightest intention of stepping forward, floating in the air from afar, as if they were watching the excitement, which was too strange.

"General, I think those should be transport airships. The marching counselor beside him touched his chin and said.

Today's airships are not yet mature, they all look the same, and there is no distinction between combat and transport at all.

It sounds like there is some truth, if it was a combat airship, it should have flown over and bombed at this time, although the Austrians have come up with a way to deal with the bombing of the airship, and in actual combat, it has also been tested, but this method is passive, and can only reduce casualties.

It is said that the Chu people also have a small airship, which flies much faster than the big airship, and can also attack the opponent's airship, which is very difficult.

The Chu people are not as weak as expected.

Don't look at the two landings of the Austrians, both of which defeated the Chu army, in fact, the situation of the Austrians is far more difficult than that of the Chu people, after all, the gap in numbers is too big.

In addition, in addition to the muskets and explosives that gave the Chu people a surprise blow in the first battle, the next battle relied on the actual combat experience of the Austrian commanders and the desperate battles of the soldiers.

Of course, strategically, the Chu people are obviously weaker than the Austrians, whether it is the raid on Chunjiang Mansion by the Lei Army's First Fleet, or Zuoqing's change of landing location and capture of Wuyang Mansion, it is beyond the expectations of the Chu people.

But the result is far from being as good as imagined. The Lei army raided thousands of miles, took a large area of territory, and opened up enough landing grounds for the follow-up troops, but they were trapped in Hongzhou and could not move an inch.

Zuoqing took Wuyang Mansion, but he had a full harvest, and he had a lot of materials and food in his hands, but it was extremely difficult to expand the landing space, compared to the landing of the First Fleet, Da Chu's response to the landing of the Second Fleet was much faster.

And to Zuo Qing's surprise, the strength of the Chu army near Wuyang Mansion was average, but it was the local private army, which gave him a great headache.

The landing has only been more than a month, and there have been more than a thousand large and small battles, don't look at Zuoqing's great damage to the Chu people, but his own losses are also huge, and now it has reached an unsustainable level.

You must know that the Austrian army of the Second Fleet, with only 120,000 main forces, had already lost more than 30,000 people when they captured Wuyangfu.

In order to grab enough horses, Zuo Qing squeezed out more than 10,000 people and ordered the fleet to go around the sea route to the west, take Lufeichuan, and seize the war horses.

At this time, Zuo Qing didn't know that the detachment fleet had long ceased to exist and had become the first sacrifice of the Shengong Army to fight.

The troops in Zuo Qing's hands were already less than 80,000, and he lost nearly 20,000 people in thousands of battles, in fact, at this time, in Zuo Qing's hands, there were only more than 60,000 regular troops that could be handled.

The strength of the army was too weak, so he had to transfer some of the sailors on the battleship to join the army, which barely reached more than 80,000 people.

Wuyang Mansion is a big mansion, just to defend Wuyang Mansion, these 80,000 people may not be enough, he also has to send four 5,000 cavalry to expand the strategic depth, he can't just defend a lonely city in Wuyang Mansion, if you really want that, this battle doesn't have to be fought.

The counterattack of the local families in Wuyangfu is very fierce, although in the battle of Wuyangfu, the private soldiers of the family suffered heavy losses, but among these families, many of them are century-old families, and the surrounding areas of Wuyangfu are people's territory.

Of course, this kind of improvised army is vulnerable, even if it is tens of thousands of people, it is not enough for thousands of Austrians to attack.

The problem is that there are too many of them, and every time they fight, they will bring casualties to the Austrian army, which makes Zuoqing have to shrink the defensive line, and now there are only two light cavalry troops left, and the other two light cavalry have to be transferred back to Wuyang Mansion because the losses are too great.

After more than a month of fighting, Zuoqing not only failed to expand the occupied area, but the nearest Chu army was less than fifty miles away from Wuyang Mansion, and it could be reached in half a day.

This means that Wuyangfu has actually been surrounded by the Chu people. If the Chu people are allowed to continue to compress, then there is no strategic space, but no living space, and the Chu people may send the second fleet to the sea.

Zuo Qing will never allow this kind of thing to happen, don't look at the fragility of the Chu people's fleet, but now that he has no ship in his hand, he is beaten to the sea, so he really has to swim back by himself.

Dong Xian has been preparing for more than a year in the Luomen Islands, and Chen has millions of soldiers, but there is no way to solve the problem of insufficient ships, and it takes time to build ships.

Sun Ying's light cavalry, for three days, successively defeated six private soldiers and two regular armies of Dachu, and now the casualties have reached 10%.

According to General Zuo's general order, continue to advance for a hundred miles, and you can turn back to Wuyang Mansion and grab a few days for the general.

It was supposed to rush up directly, with a volley of guns and a sweep of artillery, just like the eight Chu armies he had defeated before. But I don't know why, when he saw the airship in the sky and the two hollow phalanxes in front of him, the soldier's intuition told him, dangerous!

The counselor's analysis is somewhat reasonable, if it was a combat airship, it should have come up to bomb it a long time ago, and there is no reason to watch the excitement from afar.

Intuition and analysis are two very peculiar kinds of thinking, under normal circumstances, mental analysis is right, but on the battlefield, in the eyes of many generals, intuition is often more accurate than analysis.

"General, the enemy is a musket unit. "The scout is coming, although the distance is not far, it is still difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

"Musket troops?" exclaimed Sun Ying and the counselor at the same time.

Judging from the intelligence sent by the First Fleet, as well as the thousands of battles of the Second Fleet, the Chu people should have no thermal weapons troops.

As for the temporary production, Sun Ying didn't believe it, after all, the musket has been used in Austria for decades, as a Zhonglang general, he knows very well that even if there are samples, he may not be able to understand the key in a few years, and it is impossible to equip a force of thousands of people in a few months, unless the Chu people have been studying it for a long time.

This information is very important, and there is no need for Sun Ying's orders, and he has his own fast horse to return to Wuyang Mansion to deliver the letter.

The Austrians were stagnant for several miles, and the Tiger King looked at it for a moment, recalling the rules and regulations in his mind, and finally found one of them: if the enemy did not advance or retreat, it meant that the enemy commander was hesitating or waiting. The former shows that the enemy army does not know the situation against us and is not confident enough in its own combat strength. The latter means that the enemy may have interspersed troops, flanking from our rear or from both flanks.

I have to say that Renault is quite well prepared, especially when handing over the troops to a general like the Tiger King, you have to write clearly and tell everything clearly.

In fact, Renault also thought about whether to hand over the troops to Jing Lan, although he was disabled, but after all, he was a serious Tiger Ben general with rich combat experience.

But in hindsight, forget it. First, there is a question of trust, this army, carrying the hope of Renault, he used the model of the teaching team to build the army, it can be said that every soldier is a future middle and low-level officer, as long as they are trained, the army can be expanded tenfold at any time, Dachu has never lacked human resources.

In addition to the problem of trust, there is also the problem of commanding operations, after all, this is a pure firearms unit, and King Tiger has no command experience, and neither does Jing Lan. What's worse is that Jing Lan has experience in cold weapon cavalry combat, and he is quite rich.

Reynaud would rather paint on a blank sheet of paper than change another painting, which is more troublesome, and he knows very well that war is different from other things, and that a small mistake can lead to the annihilation of an entire army.

And what Renault wants to do is to try to improve the error tolerance rate of this team, even if the commander makes a mistake, as long as the mistake is not large enough to a certain extent, it will not produce too bad results.

"Ask Lan Yunxi, have you found enemy troops around?" the Tiger King ordered meticulously.

The herald's face twitched, what the hell do you need to ask?

There are hundreds of airships in the sky, and according to wartime aviation regulations, airships will be divided into five to ten levels. That is, every 300 meters in height, divided into one floor. Overhead the troops, from five hundred meters to a height of one and a half thousand meters, there are airships.

The highest airship, in this weather, can be seen at least thirty miles away, if the enemy is found, the alarm will have been sent a long time ago.

After a while, the herald reported: "Report, Commander Lan has reported that nothing unusual has been found within thirty miles." ”

"Hmm! Order, the 1st and 2nd Flying Armies, guard the logistics, and advance the infantry phalanx!"

Three thousand people, which seems to be a lot, only to know when I go to the battlefield that the troops are insufficient, and even the manpower to guard the logistics supply is not much.

Fortunately, there are very few supplies for the Divine Engineer Army, and there is no need to leave too many people.

This is related to the supply drill of the Divine Engineer Army, where Renault divides supplies into three levels. The first level of replenishment is completed by the transport ship, which has a large loading capacity, fast speed, and saves manpower.

The secondary supply is completed by the airship, which flies in the sky, with high safety, and the loading capacity is not small, and the speed is slightly worse.

The third-level supply is the material that the troops carry with them. Even then, hundreds of pack carts were needed to meet the requirements, and if nothing else, shells alone took up a third of the transport carts.

"The artillery reports the distance. The Tiger King asked while thinking, this was his first battle, and he was originally a little apprehensive, but he kept recalling the rules and regulations written by Mr. in his heart, and instead put his worries aside, which would have no time to worry about being afraid, with the Tiger King's IQ, all of them were used to recall the regulations, and the time was not enough.

Immediately, an artillery observer stepped forward to reply, the artillery observer is naturally a new military position, and the grade is not low, half of them are bachelors, if you want to learn distance observation, you must at least know how to read, understand arithmetic, and have a flexible brain.

"The enemy is eight miles away, on the edge of the range of our artillery. ”

"Report, Commander Lan sent an assessment of the enemy's combat strength. "There is also a counselor in return.

This is again Renault's handiwork, and several professional evaluation analysts are arranged on the airship, composed of bachelors and veterans, with the help of height, observe the enemy's situation, make an assessment report in a short time, and provide it to the commander for reference.

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