Yunze slowly lowered the hot air balloon into the martial arts arena, and generals such as Yue Pengju and Gao Chong rushed to greet him. They circled around the hot air balloon.
"Brother, what is this thing? It's so powerful that it can actually lift into the air. With this, we can be invincible." Gao Chong said excitedly.
Yue Pengju also looked at Yunze expectantly, wanting to hear something from Yunze's mouth.
Yunze smiled and looked at the hot air balloon and said: "This thing is called a hot air balloon. With it, your attack on Zhejiang and Ningbo will be much easier. He can not only help you detect the enemy's situation, but also help you surprise the enemy and launch air strikes." !”
When Yue Pengju and Gao Chong heard this, their faces were full of astonishment. They could understand what Yunze said about detecting the enemy's situation, but how could they do such a surprise attack on the enemy! And what the hell are air raids about!
Seeing the confusion on the faces of all the generals, Yunze smiled and said, "What would you think if a hot air balloon came over the enemy and dropped bombs?"
As soon as Yunze said these words, everyone suddenly took a breath of cold air. They all know how powerful bombs are. Although artillery is very powerful, sometimes it is always inaccurate.
Moreover, even if you know where the enemy is, you may not be able to cause much damage to the enemy, but if you drop bombs in the air, it will be a massacre.
They finally understood what an air strike was, which was to conduct an attack in the air. You don't even need to go down to beat the enemy until they cry for father and mother.
"Haha... good stuff... really good stuff. Brother, how much is this stuff? When can we send troops to Zhejiang and Ningbo!?" Gao Chong looked impatient.
Yunze smiled and said: "There is only one of this thing now, but within a month, at least thirty can be made. At that time, it will be the time for you to go on an expedition."
Yunze patted Gao Chong on the shoulder, turned back to the hot air balloon, controlled the hot air balloon, and returned to the weapons workshop. Seeing Yunze's return, Ye Chen and others who were waiting were filled with excitement.
The success of the hot air balloon made them feel that their hard work during this period was not in vain. The next thing is much simpler. Production continues. Every time one is produced, a test flight is carried out. Of course, the person conducting the test flight could no longer be Yunze.
But it's not Ye Chen and other engineers. They are all talents and precious little ones. If something happens, they will suffer heavy losses. The people who fly the test flights are selected from the People's Army.
After all, these hot air balloons are supplied to the People's Army, and sooner or later they will need someone to control them. Fortunately, this thing is easy to control and does not require teaching. Just have to strike a good balance.
After Yunze personally led the team to teach a few times, the rest was completely handed over to the People's Army itself. As more and more hot air balloons were produced, the number of hot air balloon operators trained by the People's Army also reached three to four hundred.
After Yunze completely let go, they would train by themselves. The People's Army now has 180,000 people. After this period of recruitment, as well as the reception of dozens of refugees, as well as the people in Danyang City.
Yunze's current number of people has reached more than one million. Such a scale makes Yunze feel a little overwhelmed.
If placed in any other dynasty, there would be no such population. Yunze had to lament that in the parallel time and space of history, the population had reached unprecedented growth, just like in previous generations.
Yunze made a rough calculation and found that the population of the entire Jing Dynasty was at least close to 100 million. With such a large population, he had to lament the development of Jing Dynasty.
It's a pity that such a developed dynasty ended up being governed like this by Song Ji. After the raging Jin army, the population of Jing Dynasty dropped by nearly 10 million.
Speaking of which, the parallel dynasty in the previous life had almost as many people. However, after being ravaged by the Jin people, the population was reduced by more than half.
With more than one million people, Yunze has recruited 180,000 soldiers, which is considered good. This is because most of the refugees who came are young and strong. As for the old, weak, sick and disabled, most of them died in On the way.
Almost all of the remaining people work under Yunze and contribute to the development of Danyang City. Although it is a bit difficult, as long as Yunze is given time to develop, it will become stronger and stronger in the future.
Yunze divided these 180,000 people into four armies. He divided the People's Army according to the military system of his previous life. The four armies are the First Army, the Second Army, the Third Army, and the Fourth Army.
The first corps has three divisions, a total of twelve divisions. The first army consisted of 40,000 people. Except for 10,000 new soldiers, the rest were veterans.
The remaining three armies are almost all new recruits, but all the officers are drawn from the First Army. All of these people have performed well and have meritorious service.
Of course, these people are all outstanding in cultural studies and have some skills in fighting. Yunze never skimps on cultivating talents.
For this attack, Yunze planned to use the First Army of the People's Army, whose commander was Yue Pengju. Gao Chong was originally the commander of the Second Army, but he was demoted half a rank and became Yue Pengju's deputy commander.
He had no choice but to go to war. Besides him, Han Long, Chen Qing, Guo Ming and Zhao Donglai all wanted to go to the battlefield.
However, Yunze kept the four of them. Although he allowed them to take this opportunity to train them, Yunze knew that once he went to war with the Zhejiang and Ningbo Jiedu Envoys, the surrounding forces would definitely not miss out on taking action against him. Opportunity.
Not only because Yunze is now weak and only occupies the territory of one government, but also because the development of Yunze, whether it is business development or military development, has long made the surrounding forces jealous.
The four of them were left behind in case of emergencies. Su Qianmo originally wanted to go, but in the end, she stayed because she was afraid that if something happened to her, something would happen to the child she finally got.
In this way, a month later, Yue Pengju led the First Army to the expedition, while Han Long's Third Army, Chen Qing's Fourth Army, and Guo Mingxin's Second Army stayed in Danyang.
Yunze was sitting in Danyang City, waiting for the battle report. He believed that Yue Pengju, with the opponent's ability and advanced equipment, would definitely not be difficult to destroy a Zhejiang-Ningbo Jiedu Envoy. Even if the opponent has 300,000 elite soldiers, they will still be vulnerable. What they are most worried about now is that Yue Pengju will encounter the Hebrews.
Luo Qingcen's intelligence organization has also entered a high level of operation. Send back information from Zhejiang and Ningbo at any time.
At the same time, stationed in the Jinhua Mansion of Zhejiang and Ningbo was the Wu Jing Army under the Jiedu Envoy of Zhejiang and Ningbo, with a strength of about 50,000. The Jiangshan Mansion next to it was in the shape of a horn. There were 40,000 Wu Jing's troops stationed there.
The military strength of these two prefectures is the strongest and largest under the Zhejiang-Ningbo Jiedushi envoy, and the remaining troops are distributed throughout the Zhejiang-Ningbo and Fan towns.
There are more than a dozen Fan towns, each with a military strength of more than 10,000, and some even have more than 20,000 troops.
Jiaxing Prefecture is the headquarters of the Zhejiang-Ningbo Jiedushi, and his firearms manufacturing base is also here. Those Hebrew speakers who originally stayed in Yongcheng have also moved here.
Because Yongcheng was closest to Fangla's Suhang Mansion, Shi Ren was afraid that Fangla would snatch away the Hebrew speakers, so he took him to Jiaxing Mansion first.
After a month of production and manufacturing, the number of firearms owned by the Zhejiang and Yongjiedushi commanders reached 3,000, and the number of hand grenades produced reached 10,000.
Shi Ren looked at those firearms. After testing the power of the firearms, his eyes could not suppress the excitement. If the Hebrew people hadn't told him to calm down, Shi Ren would have sent 3,000 elite firearms soldiers to attack Danyang Mansion.
Just when Shi Ren was excited that he also had firearms, the 40,000-strong First Army led by Yue Pengju also entered the territory of Jinhua Mansion. The military town of Wuzhen, which was guarded by 3,000 men at the outpost of Jinhua Mansion, directly let Yue Pengju captured it in less than half an hour.
Nearly a thousand of the three thousand soldiers in the military town were killed. The remaining people collapsed directly under the powerful power of the firearms and surrendered across the board.
The surrendered prisoners were sent to Danyang Mansion, while Yue Pengju led an army of 20,000 to continue marching towards Jinhua Mansion. Gao Chong rushed towards Jiangshan Mansion with 20,000 people. Although, they each brought 20,000 troops.
The two prefectures of Zhejiang and Ningbo had stronger troops than them. It was difficult to capture these two cities, but they still divided their troops into two groups and marched towards the two prefectures.
Shi Ren, who was in Jiaxing Prefecture, also received the news that Yunze had sent troops to invade. When the news came, Shi Ren was in the firearms workshop. There were also two accompanying Hebrew leaders. Rohans and Maral happened to be here too.
When the two heard the military report, they and Shi Ren stood there dumbfounded and did not come back to their senses for a long time.
Shi Ren looked at the reporting soldier coldly and said, "Are you really sure that Yunze has sent troops to attack?"
When the soldiers heard this, they quickly replied in horror: "Sir, the first military town in Jinhua Prefecture has been captured. They divided their troops into two groups and headed towards Jinhua Prefecture and Jiangshan Prefecture. There were 20,000 people on each route. !”
When Shi Ren heard this, his expression was cold, and there was a trace of ridicule on the corner of his mouth.
"Twenty thousand people... even if they add up to 40,000 people, they want to challenge us. They really don't know how to live or die. Send an order to Jinhua Mansion and Jiangshan Mansion to let me kill them! If there are even 40,000 people, If you can’t solve it, just give me the advice and come to see you!”
Shi Ren did not know that Yunze's side also had firearms. The Hebrew people had their own selfish motives and of course they would not tell Shi Ren this fact.
Therefore, Shi Ren heard that Yunze actually sent troops to attack him, and he only brought 40,000 troops. He even wanted to divide his troops into two groups to attack his two mansions. He was simply looking for death.
He didn't even want to send his nascent firearms battalion.
Rohans and Maral knew the whole story under the explanation of the translator. They looked at each other with some hesitation in their eyes. But after thinking about it, they gave up reminding Shi Ren.
Although they are not optimistic about Shi Ren's army, if Yunze's side uses 20,000 people to attack the city, even if they have firearms. It is absolutely difficult to capture two heavily guarded cities.
