The Revolutionary Army won the battle of Naiman Banner without surprise with a slight loss. For a time, there were rumors of guerrillas being invincible on the grassland. With the help of the propaganda, the news came soon after the news came out, and there were Mongolians who were famous to join. Xiang Xiang quickly added another Mongolian cavalry under his command. After the landing on the grassland, considering that the reclamation in the Linxi area was not completed and the reduction of the conflict between Mongolia and Han, the Liaoxi guerrillas did not immediately go to Linxi, but went directly north to the vicinity of Korqin Right Banner, and only returned to Linxi at the end of the year.

On the Qing Dynasty, although Zhang Zuolin and Feng Linge returned to Fengtian, although there were heads of "Meng Bandits", they were still scolded by Zhirui. However, the defeat of the patrol battalion was a major event. Although Zhirui secretly protected the Guangxu in Beijing, he did not dare to make the matter public. Zhang Zuolin and Feng Linge were still the front road, the left-wing commander, and the missing personnel under him also drew a battalion from the middle road patrol battalion to supplement. Against the background of the small matter being turned into small matters, a new round of clearance is being planned. The fourth town in Zhejiang will move to the northeast to suppress bandits, and the sixth town that has been cleared in the Hangzhou-Jiahu area will be transferred to Yanzhou to replace the fourth town.

Under the premise of a central government, it is much more difficult to establish a large-scale base than during the Republic of China. After all, the background of the Republic of China was that people were scattered and the provinces were autonomous, and no warlord would be determined to wipe out the base. Now, although there was a revolutionary army in Yanzhou that had been tested by the war, the ammunition was insufficient. The Qing army continued to take turns to clear the base, which caused the control of the base to continue to shrink. If Yuan Shikai and the Qing court had not been intermittent, giving the revolutionary army a chance to breathe, the base strategy would have probably failed.

In the Yanzhou Military Government, Lin Wenqian read the secret report of the Battle of Naiman forwarded by the General Staff and said nothing for a long time. Although the western Liaoning was still in the preparation period for the base area, and after establishing the base area in the future, the logistics of the Qing Dynasty was much better than that of the Liaoning Western guerrillas. At least they had enough ammunition and 80 mortars. What are they here? Black gunpowder grenades may not be able to be used, although they took advantage of their friendship with the Fourth Town.

Several black gunpowder compressors were secretly smuggled. However, the medicinal materials for making leads were limited. Once these potassium chlorate, barium nitrate, and glass powder were used up, the grenades could only be ignited open flames. Thinking that every soldier had to carry the fire like a conveyor, Lin Wenqian shook his head. He only thought about when the supply of the General Staff promised to "fall from the sky" would arrive? Thinking of Lin Wenqian saying to the adjutant, "Prepare horses, I want to see the construction progress of the landing site."

The lighthouse of Chun'an landing ground is located in Jinzijian, which is the highest mountain in Chun'an. It will be an obvious coordinate when igniting here at night. However, the landing ground cannot be on Jinzijian, but in a valley depression near Zitong Township. After receiving the report from the General Staff, the landing ground began to carry out construction after the snow was snowed. This time, the militia did not call for the militia but used direct troops. The external saying was to build a training camp.

When Lin Wen sneaked to the landing site, the construction was basically completed. The trees everywhere were cut off, and the landmarks that were originally crisscrossed by the gullies were also filled. On a square piece of forty acres of flat ground, a huge wooden tying tower had been built. Not far from the tying tower, a computer room had been roughly built and the workers were finishing it. In fact, there was no way to build an airship warehouse with wood. Therefore, the airship coming from Ma'anshan could only park naked outside, and cut a rectangular gap of 180 meters long and more than twenty meters wide in the dense woods on the side of the landing site, so at least it would cover the airship with three sides.

"Is it finished?" Lin Wenqian, who had been walking around, asked Zhou Yawei who was in charge of this place. He was a student of Zhejiang Wubei Academy and from Sheng County. When he attacked Hangzhou, the Wulin Gate in the north was exploded. After the failure of Hangzhou, many students in Wubei Academy sacrificed. He was very lucky and killed out of the siege of the Qing army. Although the person came out, his face was cut through during hand-to-hand combat, making a handsome young man's appearance extremely ferocious.

"Report to the Governor, the construction will be completed tomorrow, everything is normal!" Zhou Yawei saluted. He was not told why he was guarded here. However, in his obedience to his superiors and loyalty to the revolution, he obeyed the order and took his company down from the fierce Western Front Huizhou battlefield.

"Okay!" Lin Wenqian nodded, and then his eyes swept across his hideous face. His expression softened and he asked, "Are you guys unable to think about it when you are transferred from the west?"

"Report to the Governor, we are all revolutionary soldiers. We will go wherever the organization lets us go." Even though Lin Wenqian's tone was gentle, Zhou Yawei still answered seriously. After purging, his heart and organization were closer.

"Okay!" Lin Wenqian felt Zhou Yawei's revolutionary spirit a little happy and helpless. This was obtained by dozens of lives. He only hoped that the troops would not do any more sanctions and would not bother with their own people.

"Come on, sit down and say, sit down and say. Don't be so reserved." Lin Wenqian's expression was even more kind, and he sent a cigarette to Zhou Yawei, and then said family-oriented: "Is the Eighth Town easy to fight? You are the Hero Company of the Western Front, tell me what you think of the Eighth Town."

"Yes, Governor." Zhou Yawei still acted as a standard military man. Only when the cigarettes were ignited, the people relaxed slightly. "The Eighth Town is the elite troops of the Qing Dynasty, equipped with the Mauser 1888 rifles, the seventh generation and five mountain cannons and machine guns. At the same time, the department has sufficient training, and the various departments cooperated tacitly, which is better than the new army of Anhui. However, like other Qing Dynasty troops, except for the indecisive will to fight, they did not undergo special mountain combat training.

The common combat operations such as interlude-reverse, ambush-counter ambush, detour-counter-circumcision, infiltration-counter-circumcision, etc. are not well understood in ground warfare. Their usual tactics are fire suppression of mountain cannons and machine guns, and infantry charge collectively. This is effective and ineffective for us. It is effective because they can occupy and guard key traffic points with firepower. It is invalid because even if the key traffic points are occupied, we can still avoid these key points and attack the weak points of the enemy with detailed maps."

Zhou Yawei is no longer a soldier. After going through hardships and fighting for a long time, he analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy and our army from the different understandings of mountain combat between the enemy and our army. In fact, it was not that he wanted to express what he learned and realized so that Lin Wenqian could pay attention to him. But he was really puzzled by guarding this training ground in the rear. He was afraid that Lin Wenqian would always be forgotten here, so he had to show it.

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

"We mainly lacked ammunition, and the rifles we used did not match the ammunition caliber of the Qing Dynasty. Before, the soldiers began to limit the ammunition for each battle. After the grenades were sent, everyone stopped firing or rarely shot. They basically started hand-to-hand combat after throwing the grenades. The Eighth Town began to be unadapted, and later they saw us sending the single, so they gradually adapted."

"It's not that we send a single order, it's that we don't have the conditions to implement other submissions." Lin Wenqian knew exactly what the young man was thinking, and just wanted to enlighten him. "After all, it's the enemy's blockade. Now, the place you guard is the supply station where we get ammunition supplies outside. The reason why you can't help but come is that other people guarding this place is that we are not at ease."

"This is... a supply station?" Zhou Yawei looked at the mountain nest, full of doubts.

"Don't ask so much. The only thing revolutionary soldiers have to think is that the revolution will surely succeed, and they must be loyal to the organization at the same time." Political Commissar Zhang Chengyue's remarks were rare to spit out from Lin Wenqian's mouth. He actually couldn't think of any other words to inspire the young officer in front of him.

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

The airship landing ground in Yanzhou was ready, and everything was ready in Ma'anshan. There was also a huge landing ground and tether tower in the same mountain depression, but what was more than Yanzhou was an extremely huge airship garage. Compared with the height of the garage of more than ten meters, the gate of more than two meters high at the entrance seemed unusually short. This was an airship garage built with bridge technology. The steel greenhouse was 180 meters long, 16 meters high and 18 meters wide. The German engineers who built it were surprised why these stupid Chinese people wanted to build such a large ore storage warehouse, but for the sake of Mark and God, he still did things beautifully.

The airship garage with a closed door, a huge airship was docking quietly in the warehouse like a huge dinosaur that prehistoric. A group of workers were carefully loading cargo to the pod under the airship. Because it was its first flight, the cargo was loaded less than five tons. In addition to the 7mm bullets urgently needed in Yanzhou, there were twenty-four sixty mortars and a sufficient number of shell-fired medicines, fuzes and molds. As for the shells themselves, they could only be produced by Yanzhou themselves. In fact, this is not complicated. The workers transferred from the Tonghua Arsenal had already arrived in Yanzhou. What they lacked were these molds and launch medicines and fuses. As long as these things were sent to Yanzhou, it was a foregone conclusion that the shells fell on the head of the Qing army.

Colonel Hong Huangnan, who was sent by the General Secretary, was thinking about the pod under the airship. He only came to his senses after the adjutant beside him told him that the supplies had been loaded. "All of them were loaded?" he asked nonsense.

"It's loaded." The adjutant replied, and he repeated the loaded contents again: "There are 150,000 7mm bullets, 8,000 instant fuses, 5,000 parts of the fire medicine, 30 shell molds, and five radio stations, all of which have been loaded."

The average bullet plus packaging is 27.5 grams per round, and 150,000 rounds is 4,125 kilograms; the average weight of instant fuse plus packaging is 39 grams per round, and 8,000 rounds is 312 kilograms; the average weight of the launching medicine is 12 grams per round, and 5,000 rounds is 60 kilograms, and the total number of shell molds is 22 kilograms, which is 660 kilograms; there are five radio stations... Colonel Hong Huangnan silently calculated the weight of these goods and said after a while: "It's over 85 kilograms. Go and ask Captain Pan, can you see if this works?"

The adjutant felt overweight. Now that he heard the colonel's order, he went to find Captain Pan. At this time, Captain Pan was not in the airship garage, but on the series of towers outside, watching the astronomical phenomena in the daytime. In this era without navigation, although the general has sent people to ignite the fire along the line where the airship passed, he is still worried about these landmarks. Although the airship is not flying at a high altitude, if the fog is heavy at night, or the strong wind blows the airship off, then the ignition landmarks every ten kilometers are not enough to bring the airship to Yanzhou.

"Mr. Dison, the weather seems to be better tonight than yesterday." Pan Shizhong asked carefully, standing beside an old man holding a sextant measuring instrument.

"It's better than yesterday, but don't do it at night." Mr. Dison, who was asked, called Huo Rongye. He shook his head, as if he was worried about Pan Shizhongzhong.

"This problem is not big. I have already flew past it earlier. As long as there is no accident, it's good." 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 has been training in Lake Constance for a while and is not worried about flying at night.

"Then you have to be careful." Huo Rongye reminded. He is from Sanlin, Pudong. He taught Astronomy at the Shanghai-Guangdong Dialect School earlier. The Jiangnan Bureau was under the Tianzi number two years ago, and the school was naturally incorporated into Tongji University. He was not a member of the Fuxing family, but because he had a good relationship with Xu Huafeng, he was very sympathetic to the revolution. At the same time, the airship involved navigation issues, so he came from Shanghai.

"It's okay, Mr. Dison, don't worry." Pan Shizhong was very optimistic about the flight tonight. As soon as he finished speaking, Hong Huangnan's adjutant looked for him and asked him about the overload of the airship. He heard that it was only overloaded by 80 kilograms, so he said it was okay. The adjutant was sent away. Seeing that the sun was about to set, he accompanied Huo Rongye to get down the tether tower and enter the airship garage.

"Are you all ready?" Pan Shizhong asked his deputy captain, and nodded and smiled when he saw him, "The time is up, let's get together."

Except for Pan Shizhong, a few other crew members were all drawn from the South African military academy. Although they were puzzled by their sudden transfer from the military academy, they were shocked by the huge airship after arriving in Germany, especially such a thing can still fly. After a brief shock, they practiced flight hard. The No. 3 airship built by Zeppelin was a training boat. The principle, structure, safety, maintenance of the airship, as well as lifting, propulsion, flight and navigation

All the training contents are all about training. There are many things to learn, in order to sort out the various matters of airships. Finally, the headquarters sent a group of students from management training classes to Germany, sorted out all the matters, divided the entire flight into three departments: Flying, Flying, and Ground Service. Flying is divided into levels, lifting, power, and navigation positions, and the responsibilities of each department and position are formulated into strict standard procedures, which makes the airship flight busy and orderly.

As soon as Pan Shizhong said he gathered. The eight crew members on the side stood in a row intuition. After reporting to the army, Pan Shizhong looked at the team members who had been with each other day for nearly half a year and said, "Comrades, the money spent on us is really a lot. If you don't fly, those people will get angry..." In the serious scene, Pan Shizhong said lightly, which made everyone laugh, "Although I used to fly a lot in Germany, this was the first time I flew in my home. Everyone should cheer up and don't embarrass our airship troops. Yanzhou is waiting for us to deliver things so that we can beat the Qing soldiers to amaze them. We must not let them down."

Everyone knows what the airship troops do. Therefore, when Pan Shizhong finished speaking, everyone's faces were no longer relaxed, but were very solemn. Pan Shizhong felt this solemnity and finally nodded to everyone and said, "Okay, move the warehouse in thirty minutes and disband."

The horizontal flight power of the airship comes from the piston engine in the pod, and its lifting control depends entirely on the secondary airbag and counterweight inside the airship, especially the secondary airbag. Its volume accounts for about one-fifth to one-quarter of the volume of the main airbag. When the main airbag is filled with hydrogen, the secondary airbag is filled with air. It and the counterweight make the airship still dock on the ground instead of floating in the air. Generally, the net weight of the airship when landing exceeds its lift of one hundred to three hundred kilograms, that is, if the entire airship is used to bear the weight, its weight will not exceed three hundred kilograms. Of course, such weight requires calculation and careful adjustment, which is the first step in the airship flying.

After adjusting the net weight, the airship with an airship of no more than 300 kilograms will be moved to the warehouse outdoors through the solid tires under the pod. After determining the weather conditions and takeoff direction, the airship can take off. At this time, the airplane in the secondary airbag is calculated according to the calculation, and the appropriate amount of air discharged, the horizontal engine is fully opened, and the ground crew will support the airship pod to the air with all its strength at a certain elevation angle. At this time, the airship can take off.

The take-off and landing of the airship is the most dangerous, especially when controlling balance and direction, relying entirely on cables that react very slowly, which requires careful operation. When the entire airship crew member was fully controlling the balance of the airship, Captain Pan Shizhong saluted the people who were seeing off the pod alone, and the general rear guard and ground crew outside the landing field also gave him solemnly.

Amid the roar of the internal combustion engine, the airship slowly climbed south. Even though it was so slow, it still shocked the hearts of people who had been accustomed to its huge body. This huge flying object that was unprecedented in ancient times could not appear in dreams, but now it is slowly climbing in front of people's eyes, flying higher and higher, as if it wants to cover up the entire sky.

As the airbags were discharged one after another, the airship had climbed to more than 400 meters after flying two thousand meters away from the landing ground. At this time, it was dark, and Pan Shizhong in the pod could vaguely see the lights of people in the distance. He looked at the watch with the lights in the warehouse. At 7:00 and 3:00, with a cruising speedometer of 50 kilometers, he could reach Chun'an in six hours without any accidents. However, the ground navigation system required that the airship be guided effectively. Otherwise, it would be easy to make mistakes with the sextant. Although this would not cause any accidents, it would be bad to be seen by the people.

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

"Okay, make sure you are going. Don't fly away." He answered while using a telescope to find the navigation fire in front of him. Sure enough, a light as big as a grain of rice was lit in front of him. If you weren't seeing the fire in a cross shape, it would definitely make people mistakenly think it was a light from a farmer. I hope you don't get lost. Pan Shizhong thought of this and said to the navigation staff outside who were responsible for recording the reference objects and measuring the angles of astrological signs: "For the first time flying, be sure to remember all the reference objects."

The news of the Ma'anshan airship taking off not only reached Yanzhou, but also to Shanghai. This was Yang Rui's careful explanation, because in his impression, the accident rate of hydrogen airships was extremely high, and the airbag on the pod was a large explosive bag. Once a small spark came out, the consequences would be disastrous. Therefore, the safety measures for the entire airship were extremely comprehensive. In addition to the prohibition of fireworks, even the crew's clothes were all pure cotton fabrics to prevent static electricity.

However, Yang Rui's impression is not completely correct. In history, Zeppelin's German Air Transport Company carried 34,000 passengers, but no accident occurred. It was just that the Hindenburg accident in 1937 was photographed by twenty-two movie cameras and many photographers. At that time, these people were preparing to watch the spectacular landing of the airship, but they did not want to take a terrifying tragedy, which caused an extremely bad impact. The hydrogen airship thus launched the historical stage.

However, these historical details are not well known to a time traveler. Before using the airship, Yang Rui also asked about the possibility of filling helium, but the laboratory's answer was that it was impossible, that is, helium cannot be produced. It can only be separated, but it is impossible to determine where helium can be separated from it. Finally, Xu Huafeng suggested that the exhaust gas of the ammonia can be synthesized to find out whether helium exists. If so, helium can be separated from those exhaust gases through technical means. However, this requires a huge cooling system. Only when the low temperature of more than minus 200 degrees Celsius can separation be feasible. Such conditions are huge challenges for actual operation and cost. In the end, the final result can only be filled with hydrogen.

In addition to the safety of hydrogen, navigation problems are also extremely troublesome, especially because of the need to be concealed, airships can only sail at night, and passing through the ignition on the route may provide effective instructions, but this is only a voyage of 300 kilometers. Every ten kilometers of ignition requires thirty ground navigation teams, but what if it is thousands of kilometers, or thousands of kilometers?
Chapter completed!