1825 My New Daming

Chapter 85 Daikin Navy, Attack! (For collection, for follow-up)

Daoguang six years, November eleventh.

In the early morning, when the first ray of sunlight dissipated the chill surrounding the camp on the south bank of the Amu Darya River, Zhuge Weidao had already put on the uniform of the Great Gold Navy—a cotton-padded blue cloth robe, a suede fur coat In a yellow mandarin jacket, a dog fur hat with ear protectors, and a "disposable Yebiron knife" slung around his waist, he yawned and walked out of a barracks in the Amu Darya camp.

The so-called Amu Darya Camp is a castle built in an oasis on the south bank of the Amu Darya River and several camps around the castle.Although this camp is located on the southern edge of the Samarkand Governor's District, it has always been under the direct control of the Great Jin Court in the Promise Valley.The entire oasis is garrisoned by the Eight Banners soldiers sent by Wuji Valley, and even a large area around it is a military restricted area.

However, this site, which was regarded as the big stronghold of the Great Gold going south, has been idle for many years. Since it was built, there has never been a large army stationed there. It was not until three months ago that a large number of heavily armed Great Gold Eight Banners soldiers rushed in.Unlike the "acting school" Eight Banners stationed in Kunduz, the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in the Amu Darya camp were not so comfortable, except for drills, they were busy with construction.The "naval base" where Zhuge Weidao lives now was built by the Eight Banners soldiers of the Amu Darya Battalion in half a month. At the same time, an airship yard, as well as various supporting warehouses and maintenance workshops were also built.

The ground handling of this airship is very troublesome. Hydrogen cylinders, gasoline, ammunition, and various parts have to be stored separately. In particular, cylinders filled with compressed hydrogen must be stored in small batches in multiple warehouses. It is also necessary to use sandbags to build an explosion-proof fortification to prevent the hydrogen explosion from affecting the surrounding facilities.

In addition, each airship base has to be equipped with a repair shop, and maintenance and repairs must be carried out immediately after each flight, and an inspection must be carried out before the flight to ensure that the steel cylinders, airbags and gas pipelines are in good condition before they can be released.

It is no exaggeration to say that without strong industrial strength, without a reliable team of skilled workers and engineers, the hundreds of airships of the Ming Navy would be more dangerous to our own people and the enemy!
Today is "Double Eleven", and it is also the time when the Daikin Navy is on the attack for the first time!
When Zhuge Weidao walked out of his barracks and arrived at the airship take-off and landing site, twelve "Flying Dragon III" rigid hydrogen airships had already lined up on the open field.Ye Wu is directing dozens of ground crews to carefully load hydrogen cylinders and bombs on the airship with carts. This is the most dangerous thing!Fortunately, Ye Wu and the Daming Navy technical consultants he brought are very professional and responsible, so in the past few months, the Dajin Navy airship unit has not had a single major safety accident (not counting those who died from parachuting).

Seeing Zhuge Weidao appearing on the airship field, Ye Wu hurriedly suspended his work, walked up to him quickly, stood at attention and gave a military salute: "Reporting, sir, the routine inspection and equipment of the airship troops before take-off The addition is about to be completed, and ten of the twelve airships are ready!"

Originally, there were only ten airships that followed Zhuge Weidao to the Kingdom of Jin, but after receiving the report from Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian, the Daming Navy Department and the Army Department sent three more. There are two colonels from the Naval Staff Training Bureau and the Army Staff Training Bureau—although the Ming Navy was equipped with a large number of airships, they never thought about using airships for airborne operations. They only used airships for reconnaissance, Mining, air strikes.So now the navy and army training bureaus have sent people over, wanting to see for themselves how the airship airborne is played?

And among these two colonels there is an "old acquaintance" named Guan Tianpei!He is the deputy director of the Operations Department of the Naval Training Bureau, and one of the few senior officers in the navy who came from a civilian background, and he is very hopeful of being promoted to the rank of general or even lieutenant general!
Guan Tianpei got up earlier than Zhuge Weidao today, and changed into the military uniform of the Dajin Navy an hour earlier (the airship may be shot down, so he cannot wear the military uniform of the Ming Army) and arrived at the airship field. At the moment, he was talking with Wu Chuanzhen, who also got up early in the morning, next to an airship.

Zhuge Weidao also saw the two of them, so he said to Ye Wu: "Wen Cheng, go ahead, remember to check carefully, we are going to run a long distance this time, we have to go back and forth for more than 3000 miles, and we still have to fly." Ye Hang, there must be no mistakes!"

After explaining a few words, Zhuge Weidao strode towards Guan Tianpei and Wu Chuanchuan. Both of them looked like famous generals, but Wu Chuanchuan might drink milk as water, so he grew up very big. Guan Tianpei was a little smaller, but he could be considered a burly man, with a big face in Chinese characters and a beard, and he was not angry and majestic.

Wang Wen had already told him before that this "Master Guan" was notoriously strict, and he would not give anyone face if he scolded someone.

In front of this "Master Guan", Zhuge Weidao didn't dare to make mistakes, and after walking quickly, he stood at attention respectfully and saluted.

Guan Tianpei also returned a military salute, and said in a calm voice, "Major Daozi, can we attack on time today?"

"No problem," Zhuge Weidao said, "I just received a telegram from No. [-] boat, the weather at the western foot of the Hindu Kush Mountains is good, and I can fly."

The No. [-] boat is the airship where Ling Zongjun and Wang Wen are located. The crew of this airship is in the best condition and the most skilled among all the [-] airship crews. mission, the farthest flew to the vicinity of the Khyber Valley.

This time the route of the airborne operation deep behind the enemy was also flown out by them.

Last night, Ling Zongjun and Wang Wen set off on their No. [-] boat in the dark, bypassing the central and eastern peaks of the Hindu Kush Mountains, and detouring from the lower altitude of the Hindu Kush Mountains at the western foot, in order to determine the Whether the weather is suitable for flying.

Guan Tianpei nodded, and then asked: "Then when can we leave?"

Zhuge Weidao replied again: "According to the plan, the No. 3 boat in charge of the pilot mission will take off on time at six o'clock, followed by the No. 3 boat in command three minutes later, and then every three minutes after that. Airship. At 33:[-], all the airships have been lifted into the air! At most ten hours later, we can arrive over Peshawar to perform parachute or cable drop missions."

There are two options for airborne, one is parachute - if the British and Indian troops in Peshawar find the enemy in the sky and resist, then the airship cannot fly too low, and the naval paratroopers can only parachute.

The second is cable drop-if the British and Indian troops in Peshawar are unprepared, then let the airship lower its altitude, and even fly directly over the Peshawar fortress to perform cable drop!
Guan Tianpei asked again: "Do you know the situation in Peshawar?"

Wu Faxing, who was standing beside Guan Tianpei, took the question and said: "Yes, of course I know! There are two infantry regiments of the British and Indian Army stationed there, as well as a logistics command. The city defense force and the logistics command are headed by Major General Elston Finn. , his headquarters is in the Peshawar Fort, which is also the storage place for the logistics supplies of the British and Indian Army. In addition to the personnel of the headquarters, there are two companies of the British and Indian Army stationed in the fort. One of the companies is mainly composed of Tianfang believers. The other company is Hindu. So the relationship between these two companies is very bad on weekdays!"

Guan Tianpei was taken aback, "You know so much?"

"Of course," Wu Chuanzhen said with a smile, "the civil affairs officials in Peshawar are all sent by Kabul. In fact, they are all our people!"

"I see!" Guan Tianpei nodded.

At this moment, a burst of "woo hoo" sirens suddenly sounded in the airship field.

Zhuge Weidao said to Guan Tianpei: "Mr. Guan, this is the signal for the naval paratroopers to board the boat. In 10 minutes, we are about to attack!"

Wu Chuanzhen smiled and said to Guan Tianpei: "Colonel Guan, I will take the No. [-] boat as the airborne vanguard!" Then he clasped his fists again, "Just leave!"

Guan Tianpei saluted again: "I wish you all the best!"

(End of this chapter)