The battle of Naiman Banner was not surprisingly won by the revolutionary army with a slight loss, and for a time the grassland was full of rumors of the mighty and invincible guerrillas, coupled with the help of the Mongols to propagandize, the news soon came out of the Mongols who admired the Mongols, and Xiang Xiang soon had another Mongolian cavalry under his hand. After gaining a foothold on the grassland, in view of the fact that the reclamation of the Linxi area had not been completed, and in view of the reduction of the contradictions between Mongolia and Han, the Liaoxi guerrillas did not immediately go to Linxi, but went directly north to the vicinity of the Horqin Right Banner, and only returned to Linxi at the end of the year.

On the side of the Qing court, after Zhang Zuolin and Feng Linge turned back to Fengtian, although there was a head of the 'Meng bandit', they were still reprimanded by Zhirui, but the defeat of the patrol battalion was a major event after all, although Zhirui secretly protected Beijing Guangxu, but he did not dare to make a big deal about it, Zhang Zuolin and Feng Linge were still the leaders of the front road and the left road, and the missing men and horses under his hands also drew a battalion from the middle patrol battalion to supplement it. In the context of turning major matters into small things and small things into small things, a new round of purging is being planned, the fourth town in Zhejiang will be moved to the northeast to suppress bandits, and the sixth town that has been cleared in the area of Hangjiahu will be transferred to Yanzhou to take over the fourth town.

Under the premise of a central government, it is far more difficult to establish a large-scale base area than during the Republic of China, after all, the background of the Republic of China is that the people's hearts are scattered and the provinces are autonomous, and no warlord will be determined to exterminate the base areas. And now, although Yanzhou has a revolutionary army that has withstood the test of war, but the ammunition is insufficient, and the Qing army is constantly taking turns to clear and suppress the area, so that the scope of the base area is constantly shrinking, if it were not for the Beiyang Yuan Shikai and the Qing court centrifugation, giving the revolutionary army a chance to breathe, this base strategy is estimated to have failed.

In the Yanzhou Military Government, Lin Wenqian read the secret report of the Battle of Naiman transferred by the General Staff and was silent for a long time. Although the western Liaoning side is still in the preparatory period for the base area, and after the base area is established in the future, it will also face the brutal encirclement and suppression and strict blockade of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the logistics situation of the Liaoxi guerrillas is much better than their own, at least they have enough ammunition and 80 mortars, what do they have here? None of the black powder grenades could be used, although he secretly smuggled a few black powder compressors while he was on good terms with Fourth Town. However, the materials used to make the zuò lead are limited, and once these potassium chlorate, barium nitrate, and glass powder are used up, then the grenade can only be ignited with an open flame. Thinking that every soldier had to carry fire like an arquebusier, Lin Wenqian just shook his head. I wonder when the supplies promised by the General Staff will arrive? Thinking of Lin Wenqian, he said to the adjutant, "Prepare the horse, I'm going to watch the progress of the construction of the 6th field." ”

The lighthouse of Chun'an with 6 fields is located in Jinzijian, which is the highest mountain in Chun'an. Ignition at this at night will be an obvious coordinate. However, the 6 games could not be on the golden purple tip, but in a valley depression in the nearby Zitong Township. After receiving the report of the General Staff Headquarters, the construction began after the snow melted in six fields, and this time the militia was not called in but the troops directly under it, and the external version was to build a training camp.

Lin Wenqian ran to 6 games. It's almost finished. The trees everywhere have been cut down, the landmarks that were originally ravines have been filled, and on a square piece of forty acres of flat land, a huge wooden mooring tower has been built, and not far from the mooring tower, a machine room has also been roughly built, and the workers are finishing it. In fact, there is no way to build an airship storehouse with wood. Therefore, the airship from Ma'anshan could only be parked naked outside, cutting a rectangular gap of 180 meters long and more than 20 meters wide in the dense woods on the edge of the 6 fields, so that the airship could at least have a three-sided shield.

"Is it done?" Lin Wenqian, who had gone around for a while, asked Zhou Yawei, who was in charge of this place, he was a student of Zhejiang Wubei Academy, a native of Shengxian County, and he blew up the Wulin Gate in the north when he attacked Hangzhou. After the defeat in Hangzhou, the students of the Wubei Academy sacrificed a lot. Although he came out, his face was cut during the white-knuckle battle, which made the appearance of a handsome descendant extremely hideous.

"Report to the governor, it will be completed tomorrow, and everything is normal!" Zhou Yawei saluted. He wasn't told why he was guarding here. However, in line with his obedience to his superiors and loyalty to the revolution, he still obeyed the dispatch and withdrew from the Huizhou battlefield on the Western Front with his company.

"Good!" Lin Wenqian nodded, and then his gaze swept over his hideous face. His expression softened, and he asked, "Transferring you from the west, is there anything that the comrades can't think of?" ”

"Report to the governor, we are all revolutionary fighters, and we will go wherever the organization tells us to go." Even though Lin Wenqian's tone was soft, Zhou Yawei still replied seriously, after the purge, his heart and organization were one step closer.

"Good!" Feeling Zhou Yawei's revolutionary spirit, Lin Wenqian was a little happy and a little helpless, this was bought by dozens of lives, he only hoped that the troops would not do any more rectification, and they would not toss their own people.

"Come, sit down, sit down. Don't be so inhibited. Lin Wenqian's expression was even more kind, and he returned a cigarette to Zhou Yawei, and then said in a homely manner: "Is the eighth town good?" You are the Heroic Company of the Western Front, tell me what you think of Eighth Town. ”

"Yes, Governor." Zhou Yawei still had a standard military posture when he heard this, and only when the cigarette was lit did he relax a little. "The eighth town is the elite army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, equipped with Mauser 1888 rifles, a lot of mountain artillery and machine guns, and at the same time, the department is well trained, and the departments cooperate tacitly, which is better than the Anhui New Army. However, like the rest of the Manchu Qing army, they did not have special training in mountain warfare, except for the lack of resoluteness in white-knuckle warfare, and they did not know much about the common combat operations common in mountain warfare, such as intersperse-counter-penetration, ambush-counter-ambush, detour-counter-detour, and infiltration-anti-infiltration. Their usual tactics are suppression of mountain artillery and machine gun fire, and infantry collective charge, which is effective and ineffective for us, effective because they can occupy and hold key communication points with firepower, and it is ineffective because even if key communication points are occupied, we can still avoid these points with detailed maps and strike at the enemy's weak points. ”

Zhou Yawei is no longer a student soldier, he has gone through hardships and battles for a long time, and he analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy and our armies from the different understandings of the enemy and our armies on mountain warfare. In fact, it's not that he wants to tell everything he has learned and understood, so that Lin Wenqian can pay attention to himself, but guarding this training ground in this rear really puzzles him, he is afraid that he will always be forgotten by Lin Wenqian here, so he has to express himself.

"What about ourselves, what are the shortcomings?" Lin Wenqian looked at the young man and smiled in his heart, and asked the next question.

"We mainly ran out of ammunition, and the rifles used did not match the caliber of ammunition from the Manchus. Before, the fighters began to limit the amount of ammunition for each battle. After the grenades were delivered, everyone stopped shooting or rarely fired, and basically started fighting after throwing the grenades. The eighth town began to be uncomfortable, and when we saw that we were single, they slowly got used to it. ”

"It's not that we play single, it's that we don't have the conditions to carry out other fights." Lin Wenqian completely knew what the young man was thinking, and he just wanted to enlighten him. "At the end of the day. Or the enemy blockade is strong. Now, the place you are guarding is the supply station where we get the ammunition supply from outside, and the reason why you are here is that we are not at ease because others are guarding here. ”

"Here it is... Depot? Zhou Yawei looked at this mountain nest, full of doubts.

"Don't ask so much. The only thing that the revolutionary soldier had to think about was that the revolution would succeed and that he would be 10% loyal to the organization. Political Commissar Zhang Chengyue's words came out of Lin Wenqian's mouth rarely, he actually couldn't think of any other words to motivate the young officer in front of him.

"Yes, Dudu!" Zhou Yawei stood up and saluted. Lin Wenqian looked at his solemn appearance, and solemnly returned the salute to him, and then rode away on horseback.

Yanzhou's airship has been prepared for 6 games, and Ma'anshan is also ready. The same in the recess. There are also huge 6 fields and mooring towers, but there is an incomparably huge airship depot more than Yanzhou. Compared with the height of more than ten meters in the garage, the gate at the door, which is more than two meters high, is unusually short. This is an airship hangar built with bridge technology, the steel greenhouse is 180 meters long, 16 meters high, and 18 meters wide, and the German engineers who built it were surprised why these stupid Chinese would build such a large ore storehouse, but for Mark's sake. He's still doing things beautifully.

As for the airship garage with the door closed, a huge airship is quietly docked in the warehouse like an incomparably huge dinosaur in prehistory, and a group of workers are carefully loading goods into the pod under the airship. Because of this flight, the cargo loaded was less than five tons, and in addition to the 7mm bullets urgently needed by Yanzhou, there were 24 60 mortars and a sufficient number of shells, projectiles, fuses and molds. As for the shells themselves, they can only be produced by the Yanzhou side themselves. In fact, this is not complicated, the workers sent by the Tonghua Arsenal have already arrived in Yanzhou, and what they lack is these molds, projectiles, and fuses, as long as these things are sent to Yanzhou. The shell fell on the head of the Qing army, and that was a sure thing.

Colonel Hong Huangnan, who was sent by the General Headquarters, was looking at the pod under the airship thoughtfully, and only after the adjutant next to him told him that the supplies had been loaded, he came back to his senses. "All loaded?" He asked a nonsense.

"It's loaded." The adjutant replied, and he repeated the contents of the load, which he had taken the trouble to load, and said: "There are 150,000 7mm bullets, 8,000 instantaneous fuses, 5,000 projectiles, 30 shell molds, and 5 radio stations, all of which have been loaded." ”

The average bullet plus packaging is 27.5 grams, 150,000 is 4,125 kilograms; The average weight of each fuse plus the packaging is 39 grams, and 8,000 is 312 kilograms; 12 grams of propellant each, 5,000 copies is 60 kilograms, and 22 kilograms of shell molds are each, a total of 660 kilograms; There are also five radio stations...... Colonel Hong Huangnan silently calculated the weight of these goods, and said after a while: "Eighty-five kilograms, you go and ask Captain Pan, see if this is okay?" ”

The adjutant also felt heavy here, and now when he heard the colonel's order, he went directly to Captain Pan. At this time, Captain Pan is not in the airship library, but in the outside of the series of towers to observe the sky during the day, in this era without navigation, although the general rear has sent someone to light the fire along the airship passing by, but he is still not worried about these landmark fires, although the height of the airship is not high, but if the fog is heavy at night, or the wind comes, the airship is blown away, then every ten kilometers of fire landmarks are not enough to bring the airship to Yanzhou.

"Mr. Dickson, the weather seems to be better tonight than yesterday." Pan Shizhong stood beside an old man holding a sextant and asked cautiously.

"It's better than yesterday, but don't do it at night." The asked Mr. Dickson's name was Huo Rongye, and he shook his head, as if he was very worried about Pan Shizhongzhong.

"It's not a big deal, I've flown it earlier. As long as there are no accidents. "Pan Shizhong is an international student who came back from Germany with a boat. Because he loves flying, he was chosen as the first captain. He had been training at Lake Constance for a while and was not worried about flying at night.

"Then you have to be careful." Huo Rongye admonished. He is a native of Sanlin, Pudong, and taught astronomy at the Shanghai Canton Dialect School earlier. He is not a member of the revival, just because he is good friends with Xu Huafeng. He was very sympathetic to the revolution. At the same time, the airship involved navigation problems, and he specially rushed from Shanghai.

"It's okay, Mr. Dickson, don't worry." For tonight's flight, Pan Shizhong is very optimistic. As soon as he finished speaking, Hong Huangnan's adjutant looked for him and asked him about the airship. When he heard that it was only 80 kilograms, he said it didn't matter. The adjutant hit. Seeing that the sun was about to set, he accompanied Huo Rongye down the mooring tower and entered the airship hangar.

"Ready, huh?" Pan Shizhong asked his co-captain, and when he saw him nodding, he smiled and said, "It's time, let's gather." ”

Except for Pan Shizhong, who was a foreign student, the other crew members were all military cadets who had been transferred from the South African Military Academy, although they were very puzzled by their sudden transfer from the military academy. But when I arrived in Germany, I was shocked by the huge airship, especially since such a thing could fly. A brief shock was followed by a grueling practice flight, and the No. 3 airship that Zeppelin had built before was a training boat. The principle, structure, safety, maintenance, lifting, propulsion, flight and navigation of the airship are all training contents. There are so many things to learn, in order to sort out the various matters of the airship. In the end, the headquarters sent a group of trainees of the management training course to Germany, sorted out all the things, divided the entire flight into three departments: flight safety, flight, and ground support, and the flight was divided into several posts of level, lifting, power, and navigation, and formulated the responsibilities of each department and each post into strict standard procedures, which made the airship flight busy and orderly.

Pan Shizhong said that the collection. The eight crew members who were waiting on the side intuitively stood in a row, and after reporting for duty according to the rules of the army, Pan Shizhong looked at the group members who had been with each other day and night for nearly half a year and said: "Comrades, the money spent on us is really a lot. If you don't fly again, those people are going to soar......" In the scene of Yan Sù, Pan Shizhong's words were relaxed, and everyone only laughed, "Although I have flown a lot in Germany before, but this is the first time I have flown in my own home, everyone must cheer up, don't embarrass our airship troops." Yanzhou is waiting for us to deliver the things, so that the Qing soldiers can be defeated, and we must not let them down. ”

Everyone knows what the airship troops are doing, but when Pan Shizhong finished speaking, everyone's faces were no longer relaxed, but very solemn, Pan Shizhong felt this solemnity, and finally nodded to everyone and said: "Okay, move the library and dissolve it in thirty minutes." ”

The horizontal flight power of the airship comes from the piston motor in the pod, and its lifting control depends on the auxiliary airbag and counterweight inside the airship, especially the auxiliary airbag, which accounts for about one-fifth to one-quarter of the volume of the main airbag, and when the main airbag is filled with hydrogen, the auxiliary airbag is filled with air, and it and the counterweight make the airship still docked on the ground instead of floating. Generally, the net weight of the airship at 6 o'clock exceeds its lift force of 100 to 300 kilograms, that is to say, if the entire airship is taken to bear the weight, its weight will not exceed 300 kilograms. Of course, such a weight requires calculation and careful adjustment, which is the first step in the flight of an airship.

After adjusting the net weight, the 300-kilogram airship was moved outdoors with solid tires under the guò pod, and after determining the weather conditions and take-off direction, the airship was ready to take off. At this time, the air of the auxiliary airbag is calculated, the appropriate amount of [exhaust air, while the horizontal engine is fully open, the ground crew will support the airship gondola into the air with all its strength according to a certain elevation angle, and the airship can take off at this time.

The take-off and landing of the airship is the most dangerous, especially when the balance and direction of the airship rely entirely on the extremely slow reaction of the cable, which requires careful handling. When the entire airship crew was trying their best to control the balance of the airship, the captain Pan Shizhong saluted the people who saw them off outside the pod alone, and the general rear personnel and ground staff outside the field also saluted him solemnly.

Amid the roar of the internal combustion engine, the airship slowly climbed southward, and even though it was so slow, it still shocked the hearts of people who had long been accustomed to its huge body. This unprecedented huge flying object could not have appeared in a dream, but now it is slowly climbing in front of people's eyes, flying higher and higher, as if to cover the entire sky.

With the 6 continuous exhaust of the auxiliary airbag air. The airship had climbed to more than 400 meters after flying away from 6 fields and 2,000 meters. At this time, it was dark, Pan Shizhong in the pod could vaguely see the lights of the people in the distance, he looked at the watch through the shelter light in the warehouse, 7:03, with a cruising degree of 50 kilometers, it was no accident that he could reach Chun'an in six hours, but this requires the ground navigation system to effectively guide the airship. Otherwise, it is easy to make mistakes with a sextant, although this will not lead to any accidents, but it is not good to be seen by the people.

Pan Shizhong, who operated according to the program, finished writing the flight diary, and at this time, the deputy captain came to report: "I saw the navigation, and it was accurate." ”

"Okay, make sure of the direction. Don't go too far. As he replied, he used his binoculars to look for the navigation fire in front of him, and sure enough, a lamp the size of a grain of rice was lit in front of him, and if he could not see the fire in the shape of a cross, it would have been mistaken for the light of a farmer's house. I hope you don't get lost, Pan Shizhong thought of this and said to the navigator outside who was responsible for recording the reference object and measuring the angle of the stars: "The first time you fly, be sure to remember a qiē reference." ”

The news of the take-off of the Ma'anshan airship not only reached Yanzhou. It even spread to Shanghai. This is Yang Rui's careful explanation, because in his impression, the accident rate of the hydrogen airship is extremely high, and the airbag on the pod is a large explosive bag, once there is a small spark, the consequences will be catastrophic, so the safety measures of the entire airship are extremely comprehensive, in addition to the prohibition of fireworks, even the crew's clothes are all pure cotton fabrics. to prevent static electricity from being generated.

However, Yang Rui's impression is not entirely correct, in history, the German air transport company in Zeppelin, carrying 34,000 passengers, did not have a single accident. It was only the Hindenburg accident in 1937 that was filmed by twenty-two cinematographers and many photographers who were preparing to see the spectacular airship6 but did not want to capture the terrifying tragedy, which caused a terrible effect. Thus the hydrogen airship launched the stage of history.

It's just that these historical details are not familiar to a traverser, and Yang Rui also asked about the possibility of filling helium before using the airship, but the answer of the real room is that it is not possible, that is, helium cannot be manufactured. Can only be separated, but can not be sure from where helium can be separated, and finally Xu Hua Fengti yì can go to the tail gas of synthetic ammonia to find whether there is helium, if there is, it can be separated from those tail gas by guò technical means, but this requires a huge cooling system, only to reach a low temperature of more than minus 200 degrees, separation is feasible, such conditions are a huge challenge for practical operation and cost, is the final result, can only be filled with hydrogen.

In addition to the safety of hydrogen, the navigation problem is also an extremely headache, especially because of the need for concealment, the airship can only sail at night, and the fire on the guò route may be an effective indication, but this is only a range of 300 kilometers, and every 10 kilometers of the fire requires 30 ground navigation groups, but what if it is thousands of kilometers, or thousands of kilometers?

The solution that came up with this was radio navigation, that is, making a radio compass, and then setting up indicator towers, i.e., radio beacons, in some higher terrain and unobstructed places, and changing the distance between the airship and multiple radio beacons to determine the position and distance of the airship. In fact, this technology was discovered by the Germans in 1908, and it was only for the navigation of ships at sea in the early days, and it was only after the rise of aircraft transportation that it was applied to the positioning and navigation of aircraft in 1926, which was the most reliable air navigation system before the emergence of GPS. With the traditional investment in the radio room regardless of the cost, the technicians estimate that after half a year, or at most a year, a practical navigation system will be opened.

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