Chapter 349 Aerial Inspection
Except for the guards of princes and nobles, no army in this world has established female soldiers. The Wesson Army was the first to do so. All airship operators in the Air Force are female.
Wearing sky blue uniforms and unique pilot cloaks, these female soldiers have become a special sight in the Wesson Army, which is mainly gray and black.
Last year, the Air Force's two airships and the Flying Tulip annihilated the Ghazi Empire's fleet, severely damaging their maritime power. This year, Fatih could only use merchant ships to come to Wei. Senzhou.
With the actual results, the air force construction has developed rapidly. The number of hot air airships put into use has increased to four, and four more are under construction and are expected to be delivered by the end of the year.
However, what makes someone depressed is that the original shark paint background color has been changed to black. The reason is to absorb the sun's heat and save energy. It does not look majestic, but a bit spooky.
The good news is that the hot air airship has been replaced with a more powerful engine, the propeller has been optimized, and the speed has been increased from twenty kilometers per hour to thirty kilometers per hour when there is no wind.
Because of the color change and the night air raid last year, the female air force soldiers got the nickname "Night Witches".
Frederick boarded a hot-air airship to accompany today's leaflet delivery mission and conduct an aerial inspection.
The hot-air airship flew over the border at an altitude of 500 meters, and thick smoke could be seen rising in the distance.
After being surrounded, the coalition forces of the Franconia Principality and the Legens Alliance will naturally not sit still and wait for death. They are now organizing their forces to conduct exploratory attacks to find weak points where they can break through.
Nowadays, the coalition forces are also equipped with firearms, which are basically folding air guns exported as shotguns. The riflemen have replaced the archers, and at the same time, the crossbowmen are used for segmented shooting.
Frederick thought that the enemy was also making progress. In just a few years, it had already reached the edge of the era of queuing to kill.
In addition to shotguns, maroon gunpowder, which is an export product that earns foreign exchange, also appeared on the battlefield. This kind of gunpowder was used for mining. It was put in a 5-liter wooden barrel, lit with a fuse and thrown out by a trebuchet.
The power of such a barrel of gunpowder with the addition of pebbles is considerable. Although a magician can also achieve such an effect, it is cheaper and ordinary people can do it.
However, this is a world with extraordinary power. Under the reinforcement of magic elements, the strength and reflexes of people who are well fed, drunk, and trained for a long time are far stronger than those from Frederick's hometown.
After flying closer, Frederick saw several gunpowder barrels still flying in the sky, but they were blocked by intensive magic attacks and even Pea Gatling barrages, exploding into an orange fireball in the air. Soldiers in position complete the hazard.
Of course Frederick would not give Gatlin the pea to move 5 meters with a short shot, he would just observe the battlefield with a telescope.
There is a road that can pass horses, forming a fork at the foot of a 100-meter-high hill. Weisen's army is guarding the mountain. The road under the mountain is filled with roadblocks made of felled trees and newly dug large roads. The mountain must be occupied to clear the pit and restore traffic.
The enemy's attack of 2,000 men was frustrated and failed to approach the hilltop in the middle of a forked road. After seeing dozens of corpses dropped by the heat airship, they hastily retreated. Soon after, a group of unarmed peasants were recruited to carry the troops. Leave with the body.
Frederick ordered the airship to slow down and used the communicator to call the troops on the ground to inquire about the battle situation.
In the past few days, the enemy troops in the encirclement have not touched the main force of Wesson's army stationed on the main road. Instead, they have divided their forces to attack the checkpoints on the small roads. They seem to be looking for the weak points of the encirclement.
The Weisen Army stayed firmly on the position, regardless of whether the enemy was defeated, provocative or provocative, but did not take a step out of the position.
Battles always benefit the defending side. The effective range of the enemy's shotguns is only about a hundred meters. Hunting is enough, but fighting is not. People do not dare to charge in the rain of bullets and barbed wire. Wesson's army is squatting in the trenches. Here, the far projectile from the opposite side failed to cause much damage.
The damage to this position was only a few dented steel helmets, and one unlucky guy had his shoulder scratched.
Gunpowder barrels pose a greater threat. The pebbles thrown out when exploded in the air are quite powerful. When they land on the ground, ricochet may occur, and someone's calf may be broken into bones.
After listening to the report, Frederick encouraged them and asked them to set up a few more positions, and then let the airship continue to move forward, and soon reached the sky above the main camp of the coalition forces.
In view of the large number of night attacks in Frederick's battles, the coalition military camps made targeted arrangements for this purpose.
The main business is located in a river bend surrounded by water on three sides, but the originally rippling river has now turned into a mud ditch. You can see people fishing in the mud and digging wells by the river. Others began to light haystacks to let the smoke block aerial reconnaissance.
It took some time for the thick smoke to rise and cover the military camp, enough for Frederick to see clearly that the main camp was divided into many grids, separated by half-man-high fences and roads.
The biggest advantage of a night attack is that it allows the enemy to blow up the camp and completely lose their organization. People in chaos are easier to catch than pigs.
The current layout is obviously prepared for night attacks. After the people behind the fence have the mentality of "it is others who are being beaten, not themselves", it is not easy to panic, and they can quickly organize themselves in their own camps. .
At the same time, the fence can prevent the spread of the rebels and can also delay the attack of the night raiders, which is beneficial to the defenders. The food in the military camp can be eaten for more than a month, and it is all stored separately to avoid being burned by a fire.
Not only the main camp, but also the guard camps on the surrounding hills. The smaller ones are divided into half, and the larger ones are divided into three or four parts, looking like cut cakes.
Frederick curled his lips, he had no intention of attacking at night, he didn't even bother to fight a tough battle, he just let it go.
The hot air airship threw a few Hessian bee nests at the people digging wells by the river and then continued flying north, targeting several towns dozens of kilometers away.
With nothing to do on the way to the goal, Frederick sat down on the chair and looked at the hills outside the window.
At this time, a female soldier came over to him with a bottle of drink.
Under Duke Wesson's guiding ideology of "I would rather have people wait for equipment than equipment wait for people", all positions on the airship are now occupied by two people, and the new airship can be used directly after it is built.
The new and old pilots were all graduates of Weissenburg University. In order to reduce the load, they were all short girls. Frederick looked particularly tall and burly standing there.
The female soldier who came to deliver water was almost twenty years old. Frederick looked familiar to her, so he asked: "What is your name?"
The female soldier replied: "My name is Hannah. Now he is a trainee pilot."
Frederick had some impression of this name. He seemed to have heard it somewhere, and Hannah said: "My sister Lina is the wife of your guard captain Tony."< br>
“Oh!” Frederick understood, “No wonder you look familiar to me. I was a guest at your house a few days ago and met your sister and two nephews.”
"By the way." He remembered something, "I remember Tony said, didn't you and your sister study necromancy with Manuel?"
Hannah said a little embarrassedly: "Master said I am talented in necromancy, but I prefer mechanics. I often went to the Mechanical College to audit when I was in school. "
"I saw the Air Force recruitment this year, so I signed up."
"Now...Master is a little unhappy."
Frederick nodded slightly and said: "You do what you like, as long as you are happy."
"I suggest that you take the correspondence courses of the Mechanical College when you have time. Systematic learning cannot be compared with auditing."
"In the future, the airship team will be expanded, and air routes will be opened. It is very important in this field. For the future, it is important to accumulate knowledge.”
Frederick didn’t say much to her, and after a few words, he asked her to return to her post.
Not long after, the first town arrived. There were vineyards growing grapes within a radius of more than ten kilometers. The grapes grown were much better than those in Wesson before, and the wine they produced was famous far and wide. Frederick I also drank a lot.
The female soldiers began to get busy. The airship finally adjusted its course and lowered its altitude to 300 meters. The target was the square in the center of the town.
Today is market day. There are many people in the market. There are people selling chickens, ducks, pottery, and today there are people selling their wives.
The arrival of the airship made some people in the square panic, but they were soon ridiculed by the "city people".
This is not the first time the airship has come. This time, just like last time, there were pieces of paper scattered like snowflakes in its belly.
Most of these flyers will be used by people to wrap things, but the contents inside were spread throughout the town the last time the flyers were airdropped.
Frederick offered generous terms to the surrenderers in an effort to reduce the damage caused by the war to the place. Compared with the cost of reconstruction, it was very cost-effective.
The task now is to do enough publicity, and then there will be an example for everyone to see.
(End of this chapter)