The Counterattack of the Villains in the Movie World

Chapter 276 Start of War: The First Air Service Regiment of the Royal Guards of the Ming Dynasty

In the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, on the evening of September [-]th.

"Is it finally about to start? Gongsun Zan."

Wu Yan looked at the information and laughed happily.

Gongsun Zan also said excitedly, "The end is here."

Wu Yan waved his hand: "The whole army is attacking!"

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After several days of debate, the Allied Forces of the Five Nations finally determined the battle plan and completed the deployment of troops.

Lei Yicheng and Shengbao moved 20 troops to the north of Ping'an County, and joined the [-] troops commanded by Emperor Xianfeng. They will become the first troops to attack the city.

Seng Gelinqin, who was originally located in the south of Ping'an County, moved 20 troops to the west of Ping'an County, filling the vacancy caused by the transfer of Lei Yicheng and Shengbao.

The four-nation coalition divided 20 troops and moved them to the south of Ping'an County to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Seng Gelinqin.

Because the south is in the direction of the Ming Dynasty, heavy troops are deployed here. In addition, the 15 troops on the east side of Ping'an County can be transferred to the south for support at any time, so the coalition forces are not worried about any problems.

Night falls.

However, the coalition headquarters in the southern defense area of ​​Ping'an County is still brightly lit.

They don't have electric lights, and so far the only cities in the world that can really use electric lights are Nanjing City and Tokyo City.

Kerosene lamps are the main lighting method.

This is not only the headquarters, but also everywhere in the barracks. The brazier is considered a large-scale lighting method.

"Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing court was a little courageous, and dared to agree to attack Huai'an County."

When he said these words, John Watson was in a very happy mood, and the commanders from various countries next to him were also in the same mood.

"It can't be considered courageous. This battle determined the fate of the Qing court. Emperor Xianfeng also knew very well that it was impossible for us to take the lead in attacking the city, so they could only use human lives to divert the defense focus of the Ming army and Cause casualties as much as possible. At that time, we will clean up the mess."

"Actually, I think we can try to capture Zao Wou-ki. The value of capturing him alive is far more than helping the Qing court win this war. Not only because Zao Wou-ki must have mastered secrets that we don't know, but also because we If we have Zhao Wuji in our hands, we can continue to negotiate with the Qing court, Emperor Xianfeng will not let Zhao Wuji live in our hands."

"Makes sense..."

Hearing these words, John Watson felt a little helpless. He actually didn't want to capture Zhao Wou-Ki alive, because that meant they would have to start the siege battle as soon as possible, and they would definitely pay a lot of casualties.

The fighting power of the Ming Army is well known to the world. Although John Watson has never been to China before, he believes in the information he has seen.

Among them was a piece of information from one of the oldest families in England, saying that there was a Viscount named Juan Fu who bought two martial arts masters from China with a lot of money.

Then through some tests, as well as the 'confessions' of these two martial arts masters, it can be determined that Zhao Wuji, Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, is a non-human existence.

But John Watson did not reveal this information.

People can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes. Although he is the supreme commander, he also can't help himself. He also has the task of capturing Zao Wou-ki alive.

"We'll talk about capturing Zao Wou-ki alive later." John Watson said, "Let's discuss the siege battle first. The Qing court will start the siege tomorrow morning. The reason they gave was that there were too many night blindness among the soldiers. , the side defending the city will have a greater advantage. In my opinion, it is impossible for the Qing government to directly capture Huai'an County, so we can stand still on the first day. And tomorrow night, Seng Gelinqin will lead the crowd to attack the city. With the strength of troops and the consumption of city defense weapons, they can attack the city at night, but I still think they can't break through Huai'an county."

"So we don't need to move tomorrow night. It's one thing to observe how much the Ming army's defense force is. On the other hand, we need to prevent the Ming army from coming to rescue. The distance from Nanjing City to Huai'an County is only a straight line of 150 kilometers. The distance, from Tokyo City to Huai'an County, is only [-] kilometers in a straight line, and at the marching speed of the Ming Army, this distance only needs..."

John Watson stopped suddenly, for he heard some commotion outside.

The communication soldier next to him immediately went out to check, and then came back with a strange expression and reported: "There are some strange lights in the sky, like... a hot air balloon."

hot air balloon?
The commanders and high-level officers of the headquarters were stunned for a moment.

Hot air balloons are no strangers to them, especially the French commander present, because the world's first hot air balloon manned experiment was in Paris, France in 1783.

After the appearance of hot air balloons, they also thought about putting hot air balloons into military use, but they gave up because of technical problems.

"Is it from the Ming army? Except for them, there is no one in China who can make a hot air balloon, and the Qing court can't do it at all."

"It should be to observe the enemy's situation. After all, hot air balloons are difficult to use as weapons."

"Is it possible that Zao Wou-ki escaped? The reason why he dared to defend the city with 2 people, completely ignoring us to surround him, should be because of this hole card, this Zao Wou-ki... what should we do? If this time If you can't catch him, it will be very difficult to catch him again."

"Yes, it's not good for us to be stuck in a protracted war."

"My soldiers are already complaining that the food is not to their taste. If the supplies we brought are exhausted and the supplies provided by the Qing court are used, the morale of the army may be unstable."

When they heard that there were hot air balloons in the sky, the commanders of various countries did not get nervous.

Because they tried to use hot air balloons as air combat weapons a long time ago, France wants to build the world's first air force.

But there is a big problem. The load capacity of the hot air balloon is not high, and it needs to carry a lot of counterweight. Otherwise, it is difficult to fly up but difficult to fly down.

And if the counterweight is turned into cannonball throwing, the hot air balloon will be more able to land after the cannonball is thrown.

In the case of carrying at most a few shells, it doesn't really make any sense in terms of the accuracy of throwing them from the air.

Coupled with the cost of a hot air balloon, the loss of the "air force", the world's first air force, after more than 70 years of hot air balloons, still failed to appear in this world.

So after knowing that there was a hot air balloon, they didn't panic at all, and instead worried about Zao Wou-ki's escape.

"That..." the communications soldier said with a strange expression: "There are a lot of hot air balloons."

This sentence made the senior management of the headquarters a little bit astonished.

John Watson walked out of the headquarters without hesitation, looked up at the sky, and then was dumbfounded.

The night is dark and windy, and there are no stars at all, and the moon does not exist.

But at the moment when he raised his head, John Watson seemed to see a picture of the sky full of stars.

Hundreds of light clusters float in the air, which are the firelight under the hot air balloon. After passing through the sphere of the hot air balloon, it forms a picture like a huge lantern.

Some are like Kongming lanterns, but the size of these Kongming lanterns is very large. Coupled with the distance, it gives people a feeling of stars all over the sky.

"How do they control the direction of flight?"

The French commander frowned and asked. His focus was different from others, because he had participated in using hot air balloons to form an air force.

So he knew very well that the biggest disadvantage of a hot air balloon is that it is difficult to control the direction of flight. It can only float with the wind, and it is difficult to increase the speed. It is easy to be spotted and tracked.

"What are they going to do? How does it feel, they seem to stop on top of us?"

This question made the stunned John Watson suddenly come back to his senses.

"Hidden, let everyone hide, quickly..."

Before John Watson could finish his words, everyone heard a sudden roar in their barracks.

And this roar was as if the horn of the charge was blown when the war started.

The battle has finally begun.

It wasn't that nearly a million coalition troops began to attack the city, but the [-] Ming troops surrounded by them took the lead in launching a counterattack.

As Wu Yan said, he has never been surrounded, only a million coalition troops are surrounded by him.

above the sky.

Ming Royal Guards, [-]st Air Service Regiment.

Although it was the first time they played a battle, or even showed up in the whole world after a long time of secret training, they didn't feel nervous at all.

Because they are the elite among the real elite.

The Ming Dynasty occupied all of the Huaxia region south of the Yangtze River, ruled over a population of over [-] million, obtained a large number of troops from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing court, and could easily build an army of one million.

But there is always a regular army of 20 people. Which one of these people is not an elite?
As for the Royal Guards of the Ming Dynasty, although there were only 2 people, they were selected from the 20 elite Ming Army. It can even be said that these 2 people were selected from hundreds of millions of people.

They are the most elite troops in the entire Ming Dynasty and even in the whole world.

On a hot air balloon, there was only one soldier from the [-]st Air Service Regiment of the Royal Guards of the Ming Dynasty. After nearly a year of training, he could operate the equipment on the hot air balloon almost perfectly, keeping the hot air balloon hovering below. over the sky.

If it wasn't for the plan to manufacture fighter jets, Daming could even directly build airships, so keeping the hot air balloons hovering within a certain range is not a big problem.

He picked up a burst cannonball, pulled out the pull ring, and threw it directly at the brightly lit coalition camp below.

There is no need to require accuracy, because the coalition barracks below are very dense. In this world where there has never been an air strike, who would deliberately guard against air strikes?
Even in order to prevent being attacked by the Ming army at night, they deliberately kept the barracks dense.

They also do not know how to extinguish the braziers used for lighting, so that the barracks are always bright.

The roar below kept ringing, and each roar represented double-digit casualties of coalition soldiers, but the soldiers of the [-]st Air Service Regiment among the hundreds of hot air balloons in the sky kept dropping bombs expressionlessly.

It didn't take long for all the special explosive shells on the hot air balloons to be used up.

However, it is completely different from the previous cognition of the high-level coalition forces. These hot air balloons are not only equipped with a few shells, but are equipped with 30 shells as standard.

The 30 shells are very heavy. In the process of losing the counterweight of these shells, the hot air balloon undoubtedly began to rush into the sky, and the flying altitude quickly soared from 3000 meters to nearly 5000 meters.

Even if they have started to reduce the air pressure inside the hot air balloon, it will not help, because there is no weight on their hot air balloon, it is all shells.

"I really can't keep it."

A soldier of the air crew was a little sad. He knew very well that the [-] shells dropped had caused nearly a thousand casualties, but he didn't have the slightest negative emotion.But at this moment, I was sure that my hot air balloon could not be saved, and I finally had some negative emotions.

It's not because he's afraid of death, it's just a pity that this hot air balloon belongs to him.

Already at an altitude of more than 5000 meters and close to 6000 meters, this soldier did not feel cold, even in order to increase the number of shells he carried, his clothes were very thin.

Because he has cultivated the "Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Training Golden Bell Cover" to the sixth level, and this achievement is only average among the Ming Guards.

Not afraid of the cold doesn't mean you won't die from falling.

At a height of 6000 meters, even Wu Yan will be killed if he falls, of course, if he does not use a character card.

But the soldier didn't show the slightest fear. Instead, he put away the sadness on his face, and calmly put on a backpack in the basket.

After fastening the seat belt, he jumped out of the basket with a calm expression.

This scene happened on all the hot air balloons, not only the coalition camp in the south of Ping'an County where John Watson was located, but also appeared on hundreds of hot air balloons in the coalition camp in the east of Ping'an County at almost the same time.

240 Air Force soldiers of the 240st Air Service Regiment abandoned their hot air balloons, opened nearly [-] white 'mushrooms' in the sky, and then landed smoothly on the ground.

This also means that a total of 240 explosive shells carried by 7200 hot air balloons were all dropped in the barracks of the Allied Forces of the Four Nations.

The menacing 35 Allied Forces of the Four Nations thought they had decided the fate of China, but without firing a single shot, they became in a state of heavy casualties.

"Assemble, assemble."

John Watson didn't die, he shouted frantically: "The hot air balloon is gone, the Ming army may attack us, gather immediately, everyone, gather, ask for help, ask the Qing court for help..."

(End of this chapter)