Unlike the demoralized Imperial Army, the morale of the Principality of Lucerne was high, and the soldiers, even Brigadier General Louis, were happily discussing the morning bombardment.

"Hahahaha, Miss Ouyang's shelling in the morning is really wonderful, I can't imagine that you have so many powerful magic crystal cannons in addition to those mortars. ”

Brigadier General Louis and Ouyang Yu were having lunch together in the headquarters in the town of Kodor, Ouyang Yu smiled reservedly, the shelling in the morning was indeed wonderful but it cost a lot, a 1902-style 76mm field artillery system was sold for five hundred silver coins, and a 1904-style 152mm-200p cannon system was sold for as high as three thousand, especially the shells were more expensive, a silver coin and a cannonball, and the morning shelling alone cost nearly 10,000 silver coins just to buy cannonballs.

The weapons, infantry equipment and guns and ammunition sold by the system are the cheapest, all the technical equipment is expensive to death, a T-26 tank costs five thousand, which is still cheap, for example, the above 1904 model 152mm-200p cannon is three thousand, a Fokker Dr.1 triplane is also three thousand, and the navy's more expensive An old frigate costs tens of thousands of silver coins, tank soldiers, Artillery, pilots, naval officers and other technical arms are also more expensive than infantry, a tank crew with 50 percent training costs 300 silver coins, ten times more expensive than infantry, and the pilot is even more outrageous, and the recruitment cost of a pilot is the same as the price of a Fokker fighter. (Overriding the previous assumption here, it is simply impossible for the technical class to have the same recruitment cost as the infantry, and it is impossible for the recruited system soldiers to be recruited to be a universal class, so it is specifically stated.) ）

Ouyang Yu originally thought that the money in his hand was enough, but a careful calculation was not enough at all, now the scale of the army is still small and there are not many technical weapons, once the scale becomes tens of thousands or even tens of thousands, it will cost a lot of money just for the soldiers to eat every day.

The absent-minded Ouyang Yu ate a delicious lunch, but his tongue could not feel any taste, and after hastily eating, he made an excuse and left, and in the afternoon, Admiral Bonaparte sent a herald, and Ouyang Yu was called by Brigadier General Louis again.

When Ouyang Yu walked into the headquarters, Brigadier General Louis couldn't wait to hand her an order signed by Admiral Bonaparte himself, Ouyang Yu took the order and looked at it carefully, and the order read: Hereby, order the headquarters of Brigadier General Louis of the Principality of Lucerne to defend the town of Kodor until November 5, 315 in the imperial calendar, and not to retreat until the time is not enough, if you dare to withdraw without authorization, General Bonaparte, October 28, 315 in the imperial calendar.

Ouyang Yu felt very strange about this order, so he called the herald to ask him about the battle situation in other places, because the coalition army did not have radio communication devices, and the transmission of orders all relied on heralds on horseback, so Ouyang Yu and Brigadier General Louis knew nothing about the battle situation in other places except for the town of Kodor.

"Soldier, tell me what's going on, what's going on elsewhere? ”

The herald was a little hesitant at first, but when Ouyang Yu put the two silver coins into his palm, he said: "Two commanders, please ignore the order and retreat immediately, the Imperial Army has a new type of weapon, a machine that can fly in the air, relying on this new type of weapon, the Imperial Army has launched a powerful attack, and now in addition to the troops of the two commanders, the other lines of the Garonne River defense line have been lost, and the city of Corsica has been bombarded by the enemy's new weapons and turned into ruins, and our troops have all been defeated and retreated." ”

"Damn, we're outcasts. ”

Waved away the herald Brigadier Louis cursed angrily, although Ouyang Yu's heart was also very angry, she was still calm, lying on the big map to analyze the current situation of the person.

There is a bridge with a very good traffic capacity not far south of Kodor Town, which has been blown up by the coalition forces before the war, and now that the coalition forces have retreated, it is estimated that the imperial army has repaired the bridge, and the Kodor town defended by the coalition forces of the Duchy of Lucerne where Ouyang Yu is located has become a nail that can attack the bridge at any time, if the imperial army does not want its logistics supply line to be threatened, it will definitely wipe out her and Brigadier General Louis's troops.

Now the imperial army is still pursuing the coalition forces of the Gallic Kingdom to expand the results of the battle will stop in a few days, if you want to retreat, you must hurry up, otherwise it is simply impossible for more than 20,000 people to retreat surrounded by 400,000 imperial troops, but the decision to retreat is not in the hands of Ouyang Yu, but in the hands of Brigadier General Louis.

"Your Excellency General, what are you going to do?" Ouyang Yu asked, staring at Brigadier General Louis.

Brigadier General Louis was also distressed, he did want to retreat but the military order was like a mountain, although he and his army belonged to the Duchy of Luxon sequence, but Admiral Bonaparte was the commander of the army of the Duchy of Luxony, he could not disobey the order of the commander of the army of the suzerain, disobeying the order of Admiral Bonaparte, even Lieutenant General Benjamin could not protect him, what was waiting for him was the gendarme who came to the door and sent him to the court-martial, he was shot, and his family was reduced to slavery.

After a fierce exchange of ideas, Brigadier General Louis made the decision to obey the order, but Ouyang Yu's identity is only the head of the mercenary group, she can not obey the orders of Admiral Bonaparte, but now is a good opportunity to get merit points, she doesn't want to be like this immediately, as long as the army is finished, as long as there are silver coins, she can make a comeback again, so she also decided to stay and help Brigadier General Louis.

Brigadier General Louis excitedly shook Ouyang Yu's hands, "Ouyang thank you so much, if I can go back alive this time, I must ask for credit for you." ”

On October 30, 315 of the imperial calendar, the coalition scouts found that there were signs of increased troops of the Imperial Army on the periphery of Kodor Town, and at the same time, they also found a large number of magic energy tanks, and the pigeon reconnaissance planes of the Imperial Army also appeared in the sky.

On November 1, 315, the 23rd Infantry Division, the 27th Infantry Division, and the 30th Infantry Division of the Imperial Army, totaling 60,000 people, surrounded the town of Kodor.

Early in the morning of November 2, 315 A.D., 30 Falcon attack planes and 10 Dragon bombers of the Imperial Army appeared in the sky under the cover of 20 Eagle fighters, preparing to bomb the town of Kodor.

"Uh......h Woo......!"

The terrible air raid siren sounded over the town of Kodor, most of the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army and the coalition soldiers ran to the dugout, the tanks and artillery and other equipment had already been properly camouflaged, and scattered all over the town, the rest of the soldiers hurried to the higher roofs in the town or the positions built outside the town, a Maximin heavy machine gun was too high and the muzzle of the gun was waiting.

Maybe many people don't know that the Maxine machine gun can shoot in the air, and the Maxine machine gun of German origin is actually equipped with a three-legged anti-aircraft gun mount when it leaves the factory, (I don't know if it's true or not, I remember seeing it in a certain piece of information, and you are welcome to correct it.) It can threaten fighters at an altitude of less than 400 meters.

In addition, Ouyang Yu also urgently purchased a batch of British Mark II 40 mm guns, which is the nickname of this kind of anti-aircraft gun, officially known as Vickers MK II Air Defense Cannon.

In World War I, in 1915, the Royal Navy asked Vickers to design a reliable anti-aircraft gun, considering that the rapid development of aircraft would pose a certain threat to sea and ground targets. First of all, Vickers increased the weight of ammunition on the basis of the 37-mm one-pound gun, and lengthened the caliber ratio, and increased it by a factor of forty-three, developed a 37-mm 1.5-pounder gun, and began experiments on the famous Linxian-class light cruisers. The military was still not satisfied with the results of the experiment, and hoped to increase the power of the ammunition by adding a larger caliber. So Vickers increased the caliber to forty millimeters, with twelve rifling wires, and provided two pounds of ammunition, with a caliber ratio of thirty-nine times, and a rate of fire of two hundred rounds per minute. However, the initial velocity of the ammunition is slow, only 585 meters per second, and the range is only 1,000 meters. Not enough to achieve the effect of anti-aircraft artillery air defense.

In the 1923 improvement plan, they used the Mark II two-pounder naval gun to improve the barrel to 56 times and 112 times, and the former had an initial velocity of 732 meters per second, and the latter was 700 meters per second, with a rate of fire of 115 rounds per minute, respectively, to hit enemy aircraft in different airspace. The ammunition was fed by a chain of 14 rounds, and at first a braided chain was used, and later a steel chain was simply used. Eventually, the British Navy accepted the weapon and used four of each of the two guns as an auxiliary weapon for the air defense of the battlefleet. The single-barreled two-pounder cannon is also used flexibly on small ships such as frigates. In the end, the Prince of Wales was sunk by the Japanese in Southeast Asia, and the Woo Gun only played the advantage of high speed, and in the absence of tracer shells and large effective range, such air defense capabilities were limited, so the Woo Gang began to give way to the Swedish Bofors anti-aircraft gun of the same caliber.

All the models purchased by Ouyang Yu were single-barreled models, with a total of thirty-six doors, using time fuses, which were relatively evenly distributed in the town of Kodor and waiting for the approach of the imperial military aircraft group.