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"How long has it been there?" asked Pierre Beauregarde, frowning, after putting down his binoculars. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After Ulysses Simpson Grant had taken the train back to Washington three days earlier to make the final preparations for James' plan, Pierre Beauregarde had become the Supreme Commander of the American Army South, which had nearly 400,000 troops under his command.

Hearing his question, the guard's face couldn't help but show a trace of embarrassment, but under the old general's majestic gaze, he still quickly replied: "Report to the general, according to the report of the patrol soldiers, they have already found this airship parked there at dawn!"

When it comes to airships, the guards can still see some incredible looks in their eyes, although the airship began to be known to the world in 1784, after the French Robert brothers built the first human-powered airship, but the guards could not associate the behemoth that was 100 meters long and twenty or thirty meters wide that was quietly floating in the wind not far away with the airships described in the newspapers. He had consulted many people for this, and if it weren't for the unanimous belief that this big guy was an airship, I'm afraid it would be difficult for him to trust his own judgment.

Beauregaard did not notice the change in the look on the guard's face, his eyes were only on the huge airship, and from his approaching brows, and from the increasingly serious face, it could be seen that Pierre Beauret's heart was no longer as calm as it appeared.

"Pierre. What's wrong?" Seeing his friend's suddenly serious look, as his deputy, he served as the deputy commander of the Southern Front Army. Frank Berman, who also came from the Civil War, asked with a surprised expression.

"Something is wrong!"

"Something is wrong?"

"Yes!" said Boregard, with a solemn expression.

Perhaps seeing the curiosity on his friend's face, after organizing his own words, Boredard spoke again: "Since entering December, the squadron opposite us has become restless, you must know that since they retreated to the west bank of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers a year ago, no troops above the platoon level have ever stepped into our control area. But recently, in the last week. Our border guards and the National Guard have already fought dozens of skirmishes with them in a row!" At this point, a hint of tension suddenly appeared between Boregaard's expressions.

Frank Berman was also a veteran of war, so after listening to his friend's words, his face changed. "Do you think the Chinese will take the initiative to attack us?"

"Yes, although the current war situation, on the surface, our military strength, especially in terms of troops, has far surpassed the Chinese. However, there is too much gap in the quality of soldiers and weapons and equipment. Of course, the most important thing is our logistical supply, and the domestic economy can't last long!" said Pierre Beauregaard with a helpless expression.

After listening to his words, Frank is also heavy-hearted, and now the entire US ** side is not worried about the strength of the troops is not comparable to the Chinese, after all, the US Army, which has prepared rifles, machine guns and a large number of artillery, has caught up with the level of weapons and equipment, even if the training level of the soldiers is not comparable to the enemy, but the number can be used to smooth out the gap. But the weakness of military logistics is the real human existence, especially the extensive use of new rifles and machine guns. As well as the installation of a large number of artillery pieces, just the replenishment of ammunition is enough to give quartermasters and railway departments a headache, not to mention the logistics materials such as food, medicine and so on, which are in greater demand.

Moreover, what is worrying is that the current terrible domestic situation in the United States, the economic crisis and the war have completely drained the blood of the United States, if it were not for the British to make the war between Huo Jiajun and the United States more prolonged, weaken the strength of both sides, and ensure their status as world hegemons, and give the United States a large amount of weapons and equipment support and some loans, I am afraid that the United States government of Alan Arthur would have been unable to support it a long time ago!

"General Grant had a secret conversation with me before he left, and the situation in the country is very bad now, and if we can't win the war in half a year, then the economy of the United States will be completely bankrupt!" said Boredard with a worried expression.

"Has the domestic economy reached such a dangerous point?" Although Frank knew the impact of the domestic economic crisis, with a large number of factories going bankrupt and unemployed all over the country, bankruptcy and unemployment were too normal for the United States and the capitalist world, which had an economic crisis every eight to ten years, but the United States had now reached such a dangerous situation, which he had never imagined before.

"For the sake of the future of the United States of America, we must win this war!" said Frank Berman with a determined expression.

After glancing at his old friend and nodding, Boregaard raised his head and looked at the huge airship floating in mid-air and said: "During this period of time, the intensity of the activities of the squadron has suddenly increased, and the reconnaissance troops have frequently crossed the Mississippi River to reconnoiter us, and I judge that they are likely to launch an offensive against us in the near future, so after going back, immediately call the commanders of the troops and let them strengthen their vigilance!" After speaking, Pierre Beauregarde looked at the Mississippi River with a somewhat regretful expression, even in the dry period, the width of the river is about a kilometer, "The Chinese inland river fleet controls the river, which is really too bad for us!"

"Yes, they not only have an advantage in logistics and supplies, but also can attack us on a defense line that is thousands of miles long, while we can only be stationed in a few cities for key defenses, and we are completely passive in terms of strategy!

Now, the U.S. Army is at a disadvantage in all respects except for its superiority in numbers. Of course, there may be a little bit of a local advantage, but this advantage is almost non-existent after the internal chaos in the United States and the Huo Jiajun cleaned up all the unwanted Americans on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

As the captain of the 'Kun-012' airship, today he is not carrying out the task of bombing US positions, but providing fire reconnaissance and artillery bombardment coordinates for the huge fortress heavy artillery group in the rear.

As a traverser, Huo Shan understands the importance of the Air Force, especially aircraft, to war and economic development, so after the Huo Jiajun Dragon's Den and the Academy of Sciences began to take shape, he sorted out the aircraft data in his computer in the early 20th century and handed it to Xu Jianyin, but Huo Shan also knew that when the internal combustion engine and processing technology were far from meeting the requirements, the aircraft was just a good-looking toy on paper!

However, the airship that was popular in the early days of World War I is more suitable for this era, especially in 1881, the airship cooperated with the dragon's tooth in Singapore's secret operation, which suddenly made the military see its value, in this era when there were few machine guns, although the speed of the airship was indeed very slow, but the ground forces of various countries lacked effective air defense weapons to resist the dilemma of the threat from the air, which made the Huo family military more enthusiastic about the development of the airship.

With the support of the army, coupled with Huo Shan's acquiescence, the airship within the Huo family army has developed very rapidly, especially in the design of multiple airbags and hard skeletons taken out by Huo Shan, as well as the rapid progress of internal combustion engine power, the design of the airship has become more and more perfect, and the performance has become more and more excellent.

For example, the 'Kun-012' airship piloted by Guo Fei is a new type of hard airship that Huo Jiajun has just designed and produced in the past six months, with a length of 112 meters and a width of 15 meters, which can be charged with 25,400 cubic meters of hydrogen, weighs 39 tons, carries 19 tons, is powered by two 80-horsepower diesel engines, and is buoyant by 24 airbags, which can carry 16 people and fly 580 kilometers continuously at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour.

It can be said that this new hard airship taken out from the essence of three years of research by the Academy of Sciences, in addition to still using hydrogen instead of safer ammonia to provide buoyancy, makes Huo Shan a little dissatisfied, has completely reached the pinnacle of airship development in this era, and if you want to break through in the future, you can only wait for more excellent power equipment to appear!

Although this airship is nothing in Huo Shan's eyes, and even has some flaws, in the eyes of the navy and army, this airship, which is six or seven times larger than the European soft airship and has a relatively faster speed, is already a perfect strategic weapon. Therefore, after Huo Shan named this airship 'Kunpeng', the army and navy successively purchased 24 ships. And because of the imminent outbreak of the Sino-US war, the army immediately transferred the twelve airships that had already been obtained to the American theater, and this time the Southern Front Corps, which was responsible for the offensive mission, was assigned six Kunpeng-class airships.

"Report!Captain, radio communication has been made with rear command!"

"Well, immediately report to the command that my 012 boat is ready for battle and can carry out the orders issued by the headquarters at any time!" Guo Fei replied with a solemn expression.

"Yes, Captain!" After the young operator turned to leave, Guo Fei picked up a specially issued high-powered telescope in front of the special observation window, and condescendingly observed the US military position not far away, from which he could clearly see the enemy's troop allocation, position construction, firepower allocation and other important information, and these key information were the key objects of his own firepower strikes. Therefore, Guo Fei must carefully write down the exact coordinates of these critical areas. (To be continued.) )