Daming Military Empire

Chapter 601 Hot Air Balloon Positioning
With the injection of hot air, the hot air balloon slowly swells up and gradually turns into a ball. At this time, the hot air balloon is actually full, but the buoyancy is not enough to stand up from the ground.

Song Yingxing didn't order people to stop inflating at this time, he just ordered a few guards in Jin Yi to carry the hanging basket and kerosene lamp bracket to the side of the hot air balloon, ready at all times.

It lasted like this for about a cup of tea, the bottom of the hot air balloon finally got off the ground slowly, and it was about to rise up!

Song Yingxing hastily unplugged the black wire behind the fan, and then directed Jin Yiwei to remove the loudspeaker from the opening of the hot air balloon, and hang the hanging basket on the rope.

Then he ordered someone to fix the kerosene lamp bracket to the iron hoop at the bottom of the hot air balloon, adjust the kerosene lamp to the minimum, and then fix it on the bracket.

At this time, the hot air balloon has been completely erected. If there were not a few Jinyiwei standing in the hanging basket, it is estimated that it will take off. Song Yingxing immediately said excitedly: "Marshal Lu, General Qin, quickly call a standard bearer, stand Go up, remember to ask him to bring binoculars."

When Qin Gongming heard the words, he immediately looked at Lu Xiangsheng to see what he thought.

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while, and said decisively: "Call an artillery commander over here."

Qin Gongming nodded, and then said loudly: "Go, call Chen Han, the commander of the Artillery Division."

Hearing this, a personal soldier behind him immediately galloped towards the artillery position, and soon, a young general in the uniform of a major general followed behind his personal guard and rode his horse.

Although this general is young, he is very heroic, with a handsome face that is elegant and fortitude, and a pair of tiger eyes that are tough and murderous, at first glance he is a rare good general.

He came to Lu Xiangsheng and Qin Gongming, turned over and jumped off the horse, put his legs together, raised his head and chest, gave a standard military salute, and then said loudly: "The last general Chen Han will see Marshal Lu and General Qin."

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the binoculars hanging on his chest, nodded, and then ordered: "Go and stand in that hanging basket, and later rise into the air with the large Kongming lantern, and observe the situation in the bastion. No dead ends."

Hearing this, Chen Han performed a standard military salute again, and said in a loud voice: "The last general obeys orders."

Afterwards, he threw the reins to the guards on the side, and ran towards the hot air balloon without hesitation.

Seeing Chen Han running over, Song Yingxing immediately asked all the guards in the gondola to climb out, held the surroundings of the gondola, let Chen Han climb in, and then stepped forward to explain the adjustment method of the kerosene lamp and the attention of the hot air balloon up and down. matter.

After Chen Han listened, he nodded his head to express his understanding. Song Yingxing checked it carefully again, and then shouted excitedly: "Attention everyone, one, two, three, let go."

Following his order, the Jin Yiwei who were holding the hanging rails around them let go of their hands at the same time, and the hot air balloon slowly floated into the air.

According to the method taught by Song Yingxing, Chen Han slowly turned up the kerosene lamp, the flame gradually approached the bottom of the hot air balloon, and the hot air balloon rose faster and faster.

Amid the exclamation of everyone, the hot air balloon finally rose to a height of fifty feet, and the thick hemp rope at the bottom of the hanging basket was pulled straight.

Chen Han on the hot air balloon stabilized his figure, then picked up the binoculars and looked at the bastion ahead. After scanning carefully several times, he put down the binoculars, turned down the kerosene lamp, and then finished a Task gesture.

Seeing this, Song Yingxing below immediately asked several Jinyi guards to pull down the hemp rope. Soon, the hot air balloon was pulled back to the ground. Chen Han described to Song Yingxing what he saw above, and then climbed out of the hanging basket to Lu Xiangsheng. run over there.

Seeing Chen Han running over, Lu Xiangsheng immediately asked, "How is it? Can you see what's going on inside the bastion?"

Chen Han saluted and said: "Report to Marshal Lu, you can see the situation inside the bastion clearly, without any dead ends."

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he couldn't help but praised: "Good."

It's really great, with such a magic weapon, it's easy to suppress the firepower in the bastion. After a few rounds of bombardment, the artillery in the bastion will basically fail to fire. With the addition of armored vehicles, attacking the bastion is as easy as walking on the ground!

He thought for a while, and immediately ordered to Qin Gongming: "General Qin, you send people to set up a camp five miles behind, and it will be set up according to the size of an army. Let's live here and practice well."

Lu Xiangsheng was really excited at this moment. With the two magical weapons of hot air balloons and armored chariots, the bastion of Tsarist Russia has become vulnerable to the Ming army. There is absolutely no problem in taking the Siberian Plain next year!

After he confessed to Qin Gongming, he went to Song Yingxing's side again, and thanked Song Yingxing solemnly. Song Yingxing was such a great gift. This hot air balloon is not only useful in the battle of attacking and defending the bastion, but also in other places. .

For example, after setting up the camp, hang such a hot air balloon over the camp and send a sentry to look out for it. Who else can sneak attack on your camp?

Another example, when the two armies are facing each other, if such a hot air balloon is hung in the formation, the enemy's formation can be seen in a panoramic view, and then targeted arrangements can be made, wouldn't it be a step ahead!
Of course, these all require drills, and it takes time to explore and summarize.

Since then, Lu Xiangsheng has also become an experimental maniac. He directly led all the generals under his command and most of the Dingliao army to live outside that bastion. Every day, he drilled, drilled, and drilled again. Various tactics had to be repeated many times. , Various data have to be measured repeatedly many times, and all live ammunition is used.

For example, the attack distance of the artillery in the bastion, how far is the live ammunition, how far is the explosive ammunition, and how far is the shotgun, he has to let the artillery in the bastion fire repeatedly and measure repeatedly.

Another example is whether the armored combat vehicle will be damaged after being attacked by live ammunition. He directly parks an armored combat vehicle within the range of the bastion artillery, and then directly bombards it repeatedly with solid ammunition.

For another example, how fast the small armored tanks dug the city wall, he directly ordered people to drive the armored tanks under the city wall to dig, and dug a hole in the city wall, and dug one after another!
When he got excited during the exercise, he even climbed into the basket of the hot air balloon, ascended to a high altitude, and directly commanded with semaphore. The madness seems to have returned to the time when he personally led the army to the city wall and killed all directions.

After repeated drills, he finally came up with the best plan to conquer the bastion, which is:
First of all, use a hundred Shenwei cannons, calibrated by hot air balloons, and fire a few rounds of flowering shells to destroy the forts in the bastion as much as possible, and then suppress them with shotguns to directly silence the artillery in the bastion;

Then, ten large armored combat vehicles and ten small armored combat vehicles went up at the same time. Each tank was followed by a hundred infantrymen and pushed directly to the bottom of the city wall. Small armored fighting vehicles dug the city walls together.

Finally, use infantry and a simple small armored tank to rush up through the gap, occupy the bastion on the first floor, and then continue to the next floor. This small tank does not need artillery or a big hoe, it is just an iron shell , Just open a few rows of shooting ports!

After testing, with this method, one day is enough to conquer a bastion!
(End of this chapter)