Geng Jingzhong waved his hand, and the cavalry returned to Minsk.

The machine guns on the walls fired incessantly, firing in the pre-dawn darkness.

From time to time, people were shot and fell to the ground, but no one retreated.

The Liao army does not abandon its brothers!

And the black cloud dragon in Minsk also discovered that Geng Jingzhong's station had been emptied.

The east gate was not the main direction of attack of the Prussian army, and it could not withstand the repeated attacks of the fierce Black Cloud Dragon.

The Prussian soldiers were killed and scattered and fled, and Geng Jingzhong joined forces with Heiyunlong at the city gate.

"Huh! Old black, it's interesting enough. At this time, I also went into the city to rescue Lao Geng, and my brother remembered your friendship.

The previous things were written off by our brothers.

From now on, you and I will be brothers. Geng Jingzhong shook his hand and threw over a wine jug.

The Black Cloud Dragon grabbed the flask in the air and poured most of it down.

"Huh!

You're not bad, you can come back and save me if you rush out.

You're a brother, I've handed it over to Lao Hei. ”

After the Black Cloud Dragon finished speaking, he threw the flask back again.

The gunfire continued all around, Geng Jingzhong drank the wine and pulled the reins of the horse: "This place is no longer possible, we still go back to Smolensk." ”

"I'm old and I want to fight here.

What a pity!

We only have two regiments, otherwise, hehe! ”

The Black Cloud Dragon is fierce, but it's not stupid.

He also knew that this was a massive Prussian offensive. And by just fighting, the Prussians are not the belly of a mermaid.

He also knew that the best thing to do now was to withdraw to Smolensk. This is also the bottom line of the free activity area that Daming formulated for him and Geng Jingzhong before coming to Minsk.

"What about Kong Tingxun? Where did Kong Tingxun go? Geng Jingzhong suddenly discovered that Kong Tingxun was gone.

"Do you see the deputy head of the regiment?"

"Report! When he first came to rescue Captain Hei, Deputy Regiment Leader Kong was left behind, and now he can't find it. ”

"Humph!

This soft egg must have run away first.

Shameful stuff! ”

Geng Jingzhong scolded, this Kong Tingxun is too different from his son Kong Youde.

His sister Kong Sizhen is 10,000 times stronger than him.

The Kong family is also considered to be unfortunate that such a thing came out.

"Let's go, let's go back to Smolensk." Geng Jingzhong whipped his horse and whipped away, and galloped towards Smolensk.

Capital!

Li Xiao was still asleep, and was suddenly woken up by the phone ringing.

Suddenly opened his eyes, and Tokugawa Chihime next to him also woke up. Hurriedly picked up the phone and handed it to Li Xiao.

When I called Li Xiao in the early morning, something big must have happened.

Sure enough, after Li Xiao received the call, his face immediately became ugly.

"Send planes to reconnoiter tomorrow morning, and be sure to get the latest intelligence.

In addition, bomber formations were dispatched to bomb the attacking coalition forces. ”

What Li Xiao said is a helpless way.

The aerial bombardment could only delay the offensive of the coalition forces a little.

And airplanes, unlike airships, can be loaded with huge amounts of ammunition.

Even if they ran out of ammunition for a plane, it is estimated that they would not be able to kill many coalition soldiers.

At most, it's just a mental intimidation.

"No!" On the other end of the phone, Stilwell shouted a loud yes and hung up the phone.

Li Xiao looked at the huge grandfather clock, and the hour hand was already pointing to five o'clock.

It was still dark outside the window, and Li Xiao sat up with his clothes on, looking at the dark night outside and falling into deep thought.

He did not expect that the Prussians would attack at this time.

It is estimated that they must have known the news of the retreat of the Ming army's armored forces.

Just by relying on such a piece of news that is difficult to distinguish between true and false, he rashly engaged in military gambling, and Li Xiao admired the courage of the elder Moltke, chief of the Prussian General Staff.

But now the question is how the Ming army will respond.

Minsk has only two cavalry regiments for patrolling!

Now the life and death of the two regiments are uncertain!

The rest of the front, completely on the side of the Russians.

A few years ago, the coalition forces organized a group to bully Russia, and many elite soldiers and strong generals were killed, and the death of the elite has greatly damaged Russia's vitality.

Now it is absolutely impossible to let the Russian army start a military adventure in such a short period of time.

Even if Catherine supported Daming again, she would not dare to make such a decision.

Because today's Russia can't withstand too much turmoil, it only wants to develop peacefully and steadily for decades and lick its wounds.

As soon as the sky was bright, Zhang Ergou received the order to take off.

More than a dozen Stuka took to the air one after another, this time to patrol the attacked Western Front.

In the back seat of each Stuka, there was no mechanic who sat and operated the weapon as usual.

Instead, there was a photographer sitting with a camera in his hand!

This time they were not there to fight, but to scout.

In order to increase the range, the bomb was not hung. Instead, it was changed to a drop tank full of fuel!

I'm afraid it's going to be a long flight this time, and the Stuka experience is not good at all.

After flying down for four hours, maybe everyone will be torn apart.

Hopefully this poor photographer will persevere, and besides, don't throw up on himself when he vomits for a while.

Stuka soon reached an altitude of six thousand meters and began to sail according to the established course.

This time, a total of 12 Stuka were dispatched to find out what extent the Western Front had reached.

Soon Stuka flew over Smolensk, and the ground was littered with infantry reinforcements to the front.

There were also wagons carrying military supplies, ox carts.

Some of the second-line troops began to renovate the trenches and lowered their flight altitude, and these people could be seen digging like groundhogs.

The road conditions are still poor, and from time to time cars get stuck in pits. No matter how the riders whipped, the carriage was still stuck in the mud and could not move.

The photographer wasted no time in pressing the shutter, and he could hear the "click" sound constantly sounding behind him.

"What are you doing with these things?" Zhang Ergou didn't understand that in this season of Russia, this should be considered a normal phenomenon.

Otherwise, Ao Ye and Man Ye, two fierce generals, would not have moved the troops eastward to facilitate supply.

"What......!" The photographer leaned his ears together.

"I said, what are you doing with this?" Zhang Ergou was also a little helpless, he used to be in the plane with the mechanic, and they were all gesturing with their hands.

No way, the noise of the engine is so loud that it is difficult for two people to hear what the other person is saying when they are talking to their ears.

In fact, many pilots already have symptoms of deafness.

"What?" Sure enough, the photographer still didn't hear what Zhang Ergou was talking about.

"Forget it!" Zhang Ergou shook his head helplessly.

When Stuka arrived in Minsk, Zhang Ergou was surprised to find that this place had become a battlefield.

There was smoke from the explosion everywhere below, and lowering the altitude could see people on both sides shooting at each other.

Soon, anti-aircraft guns came from the ground.

Zhang Ergou hurriedly pulled up, but taking advantage of this opportunity, the photographer had already captured several photos.

The Western Front has now become a pot of porridge.

I don't know how much more dense the artillery fire was compared to Minsk, and the smoke from the explosion even formed a faint smoke on the ground.

No, it doesn't seem like smoke, it's fucking chlorine.

I don't know how much chlorine gas was released, anyway, there were these yellow-green smoke floating on the battlefield within a radius of ten kilometers.

It seems that the wind on the ground should be very small, because the chlorine gas is almost stagnant.

God, it's almost November, and there's still windless weather?

What surprised Zhang Ergou the most was that there were occasional flashes of explosive fires in the smoke.

In this concentration of chlorine gas, there are still people alive?

Fly further on, to Poland, where you can see countless coalition soldiers staggering along the same muddy ground.

"Sit tight!" When Zhang Ergou saw the coalition soldiers, he couldn't help but have itchy hands.

Although there were no bombs on board, the two machine guns were equipped with 6,000 rounds.

Stuka swooped down from high above like a falcon, whistling like a grim reaper.

Low! Hold it down again!

Zhang Ergou stared at the baseline, and when the baseline was aimed at the road, two machine guns burst into flames at the same time.

Strings of bullets turned into death scythes, and the soldiers didn't even have time to dodge before they were swept away by the bullets.

Suddenly, Zhang Ergou felt a heat in his back, and soon a strong sour smell covered up the smell of gasoline in the cabin.

Unsurprisingly, the photographer threw up, and under gravity, threw himself up.

Unable to care about it so much, Zhang Ergou's feet stepped on the machine gun pedal.

In the middle of every five rounds, a tracer bullet is interspersed to clearly indicate the trajectory.

Groups of coalition soldiers were beaten to the ground.

After five dives in succession, Zhang Ergou emptied the magazine.

No matter how much he pressed the machine gun pedal, not a single bullet would come out.

Zhang Ergou shook his wings and pulled high, according to his previous experience, he could leave happily.

But he didn't expect that black gunpowder smoke kept blowing up around him.

"Woo ......!" One shrapnel was embedded directly in the iron sheet of the fuselage, and another shrapnel grazed the windshield.

Just the slightest bit of it will shatter the windshield.

Zhang Ergou was scared out of a white sweat, and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, he couldn't wait to step his foot into the fuel tank.

The plane flew out with a fierce afterburner, and soon flew up to an altitude of 8,000 meters.

can no longer climb up, Zhang Ergou can only choose to fly level.

Fortunately, the anti-aircraft artillery fire behind him weakened, and looking at the shrapnel embedded in the fuselage, Zhang Ergou had palpitations.

If the shrapnel had been a little stronger, he would have had only one way to parachute.

However, he just killed so many coalition soldiers, and it is estimated that he will be dismembered if he jumps.

"Two planes shot down?" When Li Xiao heard the news, he looked at Stilwell in surprise.

Can't believe it's true!

With a 25-millimeter anti-aircraft gun with an effective range of only 2,000 meters, it was able to shoot down the latest Stuka bomber?

"There were two planes that didn't come back, and there is no news about them. Among the planes that came back, there were also four wounded.

According to our analysis, it should be the coalition forces that created large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

This large-caliber anti-aircraft gun used a new type of fuse, which could explode in the air. The shrapnel of the explosion was scattered in all directions and could hit the plane.

Wounded planes, with such shrapnel embedded in the fuselage.

One of the planes was almost hit in the engine. There are also planes that have their canopies cracked and almost can't come back. ”

Stilwell explained in detail the battle report from the front!

Li Xiao listened loudly, smoking a cigar and watching the scene of the autumn wind outside.

"Looks like our enemies are coming.

What is the situation at the front, how many days will the Russians be able to resist? ”

"Judging by the photos, there are some areas that the Russians can no longer hold.

When they had no choice, they released a large amount of chlorine gas and retreated. You look at this picture, chlorine gas covers almost a range of ten kilometers, and God knows how much they release.

Just in time for yesterday, the weather was so good that there was not much wind on the ground.

Chlorine gas covered for a long time, greatly delaying the advance of the coalition forces.

But Minsk is already falling, according to the last telegram that was sent. Our cavalry broke out of the encirclement and had already retreated towards Smolensk.

The Lithuanians in Minsk revolted, and the defender Molotov ......! ”

"Wait! Minsk is almost two hundred kilometers behind the front, how did the Prussians get there? Fly past? ”

Li Xiao interrupted Stilwell's words, and a sense of foreboding hit him.

"That's right! It was the one who flew over, and they used the airship. Large airship!

The Heidelberg manufactory can produce airships as large as the daimyo. The production line is sold to them, and the skilled workers are also trained by us.

At that time, you asked them for a lot of money for training. ”

Stilwell looked at Li Xiao, and it was obvious that he was a little dissatisfied with Li Xiao's behavior of selling airship technology.

It is estimated that not only him, but also in the army and even in the court, there are many dissatisfied people.

"I know you're not happy with me doing this!

But you also have to think clearly, airships are something that will be eliminated sooner or later.

Airplanes will be the real king of the sky!

In front of the aircraft, the altitude advantage of the airship ceased to exist.

Selling money with obsolete technology is in the interests of Daming.

You see, the Prussians produced so many airships. But they didn't dare to take off one in the daytime!

What are they afraid of? Not afraid of our planes yet?

This is the same as selling a battleship to the Hebrews!

The battleship looks strong in force, but in front of the aircraft carrier, it is a scumbag. If they can't even see the face of the aircraft carrier, they will be sunk by carrier-based aircraft.

Today, we need night fighters.

Send the newly formed squadron of night fighters to patrol the designated airspace at night.

As soon as you spot an airship, shoot it down.

In this way, the airship's movements at night will also be curbed.

What happened in Minsk, it will never happen again. When we have more night fighters, we can even dominate the enemy's airspace.

Although they had large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, darkness at night was the best cover.

In addition, telegraph to Ao Ye and Man Ye. Continue to hoard supplies, and do not move without orders. ”

But the Russians couldn't hold it anymore, and Catherine sent three telegrams a day urging the Ming to send troops.

Under the offensive of the coalition forces, the second-line troops of the Russians held out for a maximum of three days. Even, maybe less than three days. ”