The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 549
Liu Guozheng was already the second-rank lieutenant general of Daming Cong, and he refused to let go of the position of captain of the personal army, which was an unclear rank in the Huang family.

He was very nervous when he learned that the main family was going to the outskirts of Jinzhou, where there were Houjin soldiers who claimed to have 30 soldiers and civilians!

He contacted Gu Shanhe urgently, braved several thousand generals, arranged five thousand generals layer by layer, and built five blocking lines of defense.

Liu Guozheng had already started selecting fighters for the personal army with the consent of the head of the family. In May, a document was issued to the entire army, ordering managers at all levels to select and send outstanding young fighters.

The fighters who are required to participate in the election have outstanding combat skills and a clean family background. It is best to be a soldier of the Huang family system.

The previous batch of personal soldiers were promoted and released to become town governors and military chief officers. The soldiers and civilians of the Huang family system knew that it would be easier to be promoted if the head of the family led him to personally educate the team. Everyone rushed to sign up later.

The military chiefs at all levels are also happy to see the good soldiers they recommend become personal soldiers. It will always be beneficial to their own development to have their own people around the head of the family.

Most of the people are selfish, and the chief officers at all levels are showing favor to the soldiers under their command at this time. If these soldiers become the Patriarch's personal soldiers after two years of training, they may skyrocket to [-] miles!

Today, Liu Guozheng has 960 fighters under his command. Their starting point is not even a corps leader. At least they are small flag officers. Everyone's education is at least a primary school graduate, and most of them have completed high school studies. , and a small number of middle school graduates.

The bodyguard team is organized into eight hundred generals, each with 120 people. The bodyguard team guards the Patriarch's side in four shifts every day. It is absolutely possible that even if the Patriarch coughs in the middle of the night, there will be soldiers to respond.

This time is the first large-scale military operation after the formation of the new pro-soldiers. Liu Guozheng sent them all out to defend the periphery, and issued a death order. If Jiannu cavalry raids are discovered, each of the first contact points must fight to the death for an hour. Only then can the next line of defense be retreated.

Most of the old fighters in the personal army are martial artists. They have followed the patriarch in the north and south for two or three years, and their combat skills and loyalty are impeccable. The patriarch's fanaticism is unparalleled, and his loyalty is even more unquestionable.

The guards knew that the Patriarch was behind them, and everyone expressed their opinion that even if they ran out of ammunition, we rushed up and hugged Jiannu's horse legs to slow down their assault speed.

Huang Sheng learned about these situations and gathered everyone to give a lecture. Looking at the young soldiers with firm faces, Huang Sheng warned everyone:
"We are comrades-in-arms who love each other, and robes who trust each other. Although I am the Duke of Nanguo, I am also a glorious warrior.

It's not like they haven't seen the Huang family's horses before the mere slave cavalry raid. Why can't everyone be calm and kill them one by one?Our musketeers block each other layer by layer, just cover alternately and retreat while attacking. There is no need to make you shy away because the Lord is here. How to teach Jiannu to follow the order. "

The soldiers of the Huang family were all proud. They said in unison: "My lord, we will never be defeated by any enemy, and you will not be in danger, because we are united as one, and no enemy can surpass our defense line."

At this moment, Huang Sheng's eyes really filled with tears. These fighters will become the masters of this world, and he must make good use of them. He cannot let them trade their lives with those ignorant Tungus savages. It's too unworthy.

The six pilots are all teenagers who have studied in Huang's school for more than six years. What they have mastered is real knowledge, and their insight and practical ability are probably much better than those of Daming's Juren and Jinshi.

The pilots naturally come first in politics. They are all descendants of Huang's family. Xie Guicheng and Pang Lian are the first batch of tracker children to take in. Their older brothers are now senior officers of the Baizong Command.

The fathers of Zhang Xiancun and Gu Changqing were the first batch of 36 sailors and gunners who joined Huang Sheng. Except for two soldiers who were killed in battle, five of them retired due to injuries and transferred to civil affairs. Tube belt.

The flight captain is called Sun Jiuge. He is the second son of Sun Jiwang, a weaving factory master from Jiangnan. When he came to Huang's house, Sun Jiuge had been enlightened for three years.

When Sun Jiuge developed the hot air balloon, he burst out with infinite enthusiasm. His passion from the bottom of his heart made him willing to study hard. Now he makes all the test flight plans.

The deputy captain is Cheng Shiju, a down-to-earth young man. His father died on Juehua Island, and he, his mother, elder brother, and younger sister were taken to Huangjiashan Island and survived. One of Huang's outstanding ship designers.

The six teenagers who were about to fly stood in front of the Patriarch with their heads held high and their chests upright, and Huang Sheng returned the military salute.

Captain Sun Jiuge said in a loud voice: "Report to your lord, please give instructions after the pilot team is assembled."

Huang Sheng looked at several intellectuals of the Huang family who were not yet 20 years old, and said seriously: "You all have dozens of hours of experience in ascension, can you ensure the success of today's flight? Don't worry about it. Don't force it, remember that you are engaged in scientific research, and your keen judgment should not be clouded by distracting thoughts."

Sun Jiuge said: "My lord, the flight in such weather conditions can be guaranteed to be safe, but whether the landing in Jinzhou City is accurate depends on luck.

If we miss the landing point, we also have a plan to cross Jinzhou and drift to the sea. Captain Wang Zhaoxiang, who is in charge of the ground support of our team, has already contacted the navy to search and rescue in time. "

Although a hot air balloon is also called an aircraft, it cannot fly freely like an airplane.The pilot can only manipulate the balloon to change altitude, so if there is absolutely no wind, the balloon can only float up and down.

But the atmosphere is in motion all the time.In the windy days that people can clearly feel, there will be differences in wind speed and direction between high altitude and low altitude.

Near the ground, due to the influence of terrain and buildings, the wind direction will change and the wind speed will decrease significantly.

In the weather that is generally considered to be windless, local air vertical convection will also affect local air movement in different directions near the surface. Often in the morning or evening, from the ground to the air, there may be obvious changes in wind direction every few meters or tens of meters.

Some even have the opposite wind direction, and the hot air balloon pilots change the flight direction of the hot air balloon according to this phenomenon of the atmosphere.

Pilots experience the different directions of different altitudes through the relative movement of the balloon and the ground in the air, and then manipulate the hot air balloon to rise or fall to the height of the wind direction they need, and keep flying in this wind layer, so that they can reach their desired height. The purpose of flying to a target.

(End of this chapter)