Chapter 1722: Improving Technology

At this time, Europe.

Saxony.

Based on the ideas of Liu Zheng, the glider was manufactured; after experiencing several failures and process improvements, a glider capable of stable gliding for three hundred meters in the air was finally produced.

The distance is not considered long, but it is enough to be put into the war.

This is very good news for the Longyan Army; with these gliders, their plan for aerial combat can be implemented.

The eve of the air raid.

Liu Zheng is leading the Longyan Army in doing the final work.

Improving the explosives; if landmines are used, the dosage is too small to form much power.

It fundamentally cannot achieve the goal of destroying the industrial zone of Saxony.

But if the glider carries too much explosive, the gliding distance will be affected; without reaching the most suitable distance, it will crash and will not cause any damage to the heavy industrial zone of Saxony at all.

Therefore, what Liu Zheng needs to do now is to reduce the weight as much as possible while ensuring the power of the explosives.

The simplest method Liu Zheng thought of is to add an appropriate amount of white sugar to these explosives to increase their power.

But the current situation is that although they are not lacking any food, there is no white sugar among the supplies looted from Saxony.

This thing is not a scarce material for Longyan, but these fifty thousand Longyan troops did not carry such a large amount of supplies before coming to Saxony to fight.

Each person only carried very few daily necessities.

White sugar was carried, but it has now been used up.

However, this is not a difficult matter for the Longyan Army; in Liu Zheng's memory, there is a method, which is to use flour to produce starch sugar.

Although the effect is slightly worse, it is enough to use.

Liu Zheng used the flour snatched from the supply lines of Saxony to urgently manufacture and process it, extracting a very limited amount of starch sugar.

Although it is only a little bit, it is enough to use.

By adding a little bit of sugar into the explosives, the power of the bombs can be increased several times.

Having solved the power problem, the shell must also be solved; destroying the factory is more about the explosive power, not the shrapnel produced after the explosive detonates.

Therefore, the iron shell was cancelled, and a lighter coarse burlap was adopted instead.

At the same time, Liu Zheng also stored a large amount of cotton cloth soaked in high-concentration alcohol inside.

This is to increase the power produced by the explosion after these gliders crash.

However, Liu Zheng does not know that at this very moment, Prince Soubise in Saxony is also brewing an action plan against their Longyan Army.

Just as Prince Soubise expected, their Holy Cross Army was not infiltrated like a sieve by the intelligence organization of Longyan, as Saxony's was.

The Holy Cross Army is an army formed by Catholic believers; in terms of military loyalty, few troops can compare with them.

Even the intelligence department established by Liu Zheng is very difficult to infiltrate.

Liu Zheng is unaware of all the action plans of the Holy Cross Army.

However, previously, Prince Soubise's feint was to attack Hanover.

To break through from Hanover into Prussia.

After receiving such information, Liu Zheng attached such importance to the air raid to destroy the heavy industrial zone of Saxony and accelerated the pace.

And at this time, the Holy Cross Army led by Prince Soubise has quietly lurked near Halei Mountain.

He is currently in a temporarily established command post, watching the map of Halei Mountain gifted by the King of Saxony.

The map marks that they are on the south side of the mountain.

While the Longyan Army is on the north side of the mountain; if they want to launch an attack, they must cross the mountain ridge, climb over from the north side, and then launch a surprise attack.

But the strongest part of the Holy Cross Army is the Cavalry; marching on the mountain is a challenge for the Heavy Cavalry, which will slow down the speed of the cavalry's advance.

But they cannot abandon such a powerful branch as the Cavalry.

Prince Soubise decided to split the troops into two routes; one route with Infantry and Crossbowmen will climb the mountain from the south side and launch a surprise attack from the top of the mountain to provide cover for the Cavalry.

The Cavalry will flank from the north side and directly raid the Longyan Army along the mountain road.

The Longyan Army is located on the mountainside of Halei Mountain; Halei Mountain is not steep, let alone the Longyan Army's main camp on the mountainside.

Such an action plan by Soubise does not have much difficulty in execution.

But for Soubise, the only difficult part now is the traps that the Longyan Army set up near their main camp.

He went to check the road section where the Saxony troops were attacked; there are traces of explosions.

The entire road was blown into pits and bumps; it is impossible to operate as a transport line in a short time, and it will take a period of time to repair.

Although he does not know how the Longyan Army did it, from the on-site observation, such an explosion did not come from a Cannon.

It is more like wherever a person walks, the ground suddenly explodes.

If Prince Soubise had not checked it himself, he would not have dared to believe such a thing; he did not expect that Longyan already possessed such Weaponry and Equipment.

Prince Soubise did not dare to confront them head-on; he did not know how to crack such traps, so he adopted the simplest method, which he also considered the best.

Using Crossbowmen and the Musket Team to harass and attack the Longyan Army to force them to send troops, letting the Longyan Army take the initiative to fight, at which time the initiative of the battlefield would be completely grasped in their hands.

Even if the Longyan Army does not take the bait, they can block all the roads of the Longyan Army on the mountain and at the foot of the mountain, trapping the Longyan Army to death on the mountainside.

After formulating the plan, Prince Soubise immediately launched the action.

The Infantry and Crossbowmen of the Holy Cross Army quietly set out to march on the south side of Halei Mountain.

Halei Mountain is very large; the Longyan Army cannot cover the entire mountain with Longyan troops, and the Holy Cross Army did not discover any traces of Longyan Army activities on the south side of Halei Mountain.

Prince Soubise's operation went very smoothly.

According to the intelligence provided by the King of Saxony, they saw the Longyan Army's camp on the northern mountainside of Halei Mountain.

At this time, the Longyan Army's camp was still rising with cooking smoke as usual.

They did not have the slightest worry about exposing their position.

It was even as if they were luring them to attack.

Prince Soubise looked at the Longyan Army camp, which showed such disregard for them, and gave a cold sneer.

The Holy Cross Army was not the Saxony troops.

If it had been the Saxony troops, their current operational plan would have long since suffered a devastating blow from the Longyan Army.

But for the Holy Cross Army, the current Longyan Army was already a turtle in a jar, left for them to manipulate.

Upon seeing the military camp, Prince Soubise immediately launched an attack.

"Archery!"

The Holy Cross Army crossbowmen launched their attack from atop the mountain.

Countless arrows fell rapidly, attacking the base camp of the Longyan Army. The recent transcoding is severe; let us have more motivation to update faster. Please move your little hands to exit reading mode. Thank you.