Lei Dong watched the huge airship lowered its height. Through the telescope, he could even clearly see a huge head poking out from the other party's porthole. The man also held a telescope in his hand, as if he had noticed that Lei Dong was also observing him. He suddenly made a big face, then stretched out his left hand, and raised his middle finger high at Lei Dong.

The airship flew rapidly towards Leidong. In the telescope, the huge flying object seemed to be pressing towards him, and the high-rise middle finger was also rapidly increasing. Leidong suddenly put down the telescope. The airship immediately went away from his eyes, but dark guys spit out from under the airship's belly. One of them was flying towards Leidong slowly.

Lei Dong immediately ran to the side. When he ran for about a hundred meters, the falling bomb exploded, and smoke and dust flew high with the soil. With the first explosion, more than ten falling bombs connected to each other within a radius, and the scene instantly broke out of control.

Lei Dong did not react until this time. He did disperse the team. These bombs would not cause much damage to his team, but he forgot that the war horses he brought from the Liaodong wasteland had never experienced such a scene, and even his soldiers had never seen such a weapon.

In Liaodong, he only heard people from the Wanyan family depicting the scenes of these weapons explosions, but hearing people say that and personally experience are completely different things.

The war horse was frightened.

Usually, these gentle and communicative war horses were completely out of control at this moment, neighing and running around, regardless of the control of the knight on their backs.

Lei Dong looked at his well-trained cavalry team in a daze and instantly became a group of mobs. Some horses fell to the ground and fell to the ground, but they got up in an instant. The horses were overturned to the ground, and some war horses broke their legs and lay on the ground and whined. Many war horses were running around in panic and panic, and they actually bumped into each other. Whether it was a war horse or a horse knight, they were either dead or injured.

The artillery shells dropped by the Ming army's airship did not kill or injure a person, but the Qi cavalry still suffered huge losses.

Lei Dong was furious and looked at the airship hovering above his head, raised his hand to take down the bow and arrow, and opened the bow and opened the moon, and then turned toward the airship in the air with a whoosh arrow.

But he was destined to be disappointed. Du Yi was the commander of a combat airship with extremely rich experience. The airship under his command happened to shoot out a single arrow outside the range of the bow and arrow, and fell down weakly at a distance of more than ten meters from the airship.

Du Yi laughed in the direction of Lei Dong, and leisurely raised the heights on the ground with countless cavalry arrows shooting like rain. After flying around the field, he swung towards Lai Lv in a swagger.

The chaos was controlled after an entire hour. Hundreds of war horses were lost, and dozens of them ran away after being pushed down by the knights. Dozens of soldiers were injured and more than ten died.

Lei Dong's face was dull. These casualties were insignificant for the entire army, but they were unparalleled for the morale strike. What made Lei Dong even more worried was that since the Ming army's airship could penetrate deeper here, they could naturally continue to move forward. Behind him, he was still following his main force and a large amount of logistics supplies, their response measures would only be even more pitiful when facing such air strikes.

It is impossible to continue moving forward at the moment, so I can only set up camps on the spot, sending more scouts to Laizhou, and sending people back the same route to warn the follow-up troops to pay attention to the enemies from the sky. After a while, the sky was already dark.

After setting up the camp, there was no longer the laughter and joy of the previous ones in the army. In the huge camp, there was silent. Obviously, the scene during the day was unparalleled for these cavalrymen from the Liaodong wasteland. The pattern of war seemed completely different from the way of fighting in their image.

Lei Dong couldn't sleep at night, thinking about how to deal with the situation in front of him. What he didn't know was that after the airship in the sky bombed him, he immediately returned to Laizhou City. The north city had been completely destroyed, and Chen Zhihua's general headquarters was still located in the original Laizhou County Governor's yamen in the south city.

"He came quickly!" Chen Zhihua smiled and shook his head: "A team of all cavalry is not easy to deal with! We have absolute advantages in the air and on the water, but on land, there are no established cavalry to deal with him."

"I'm bombing him every day." Du Yi was so addicted today that he was thinking about going to bomb it a few times.

"Air attack is inevitable." Chen Zhihua said: "But for the enemies of all cavalry, there is shock, but it is difficult to cause large-scale losses. The Air Force will still attack tomorrow, but not attack these cavalry that are coming and going like the wind, but searching for his logistics and baggage units, focusing on his logistics."

"I understand!" Du Yi nodded: "General, Di News said that dozens of combat airships gathered in the Kunling War Zone to launch bombing. So far, there are only nine of them left here. Can the general ask for more transfers? Once there are more airships, carpet bombing, even the cavalry can blow them up."

"The imperial court will have unified arrangements for the allocation of airships. Maybe when all the airships in Kunling War Zone will be transferred to us, or you will be transferred to Wuling War Zone." Chen Zhihua smiled and said, "You are free to come and go in the air, and it takes only one or two days to go."

"That's right!" Du Yi's face was gloomy.

"Since you have discovered Lei Dong's traces, of course you can't let him be too carefree. In addition to Du Yi's airship troops continuing to harass him, the navy is even more in a big way." Chen Zhihua continued.

Guan Zhen nodded.

"All ships gathered together and went up the Red River, transporting infantry to a key node at the same time, striving to seal Leidong in a certain area." Chen Zhihua pulled open the map and pointed to the red dot marked on it to Guan Zhen. "In the battle of Laizhou, the Navy and Marine Corps and Suqian troops were greatly damaged. This time the interweaving was completed by Lu Dayuan's troops."

"Abide by the order!"

"General Lu, occupy these key nodes, and then stick to it. Never fight with the opponent in the wilderness. The opponents are all cavalry from the Liaodong wasteland. The combat power should not be underestimated. More importantly, their maneuverability is not comparable to that of you. What we need to do is to make a chain and slowly tighten it into the middle until it finally strangled him, instead of trying to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop." Chen Zhihua reminded.

"I will understand it."

"Guan Zhen, your gunboat and navy and marines still have to act. First, to cover the troop transport ship, and second, to use the maneuverability of your firepower to harass and strike Redon from time to time, preferably to force him to stay away from the river bank."

"Understood."

"General Su, after your troops rest, they will slowly advance from the front. At most half a month, our subsequent support troops will enter Laizhou on a large scale. At that time, if Leidong does not run quickly, he will fall into our huge trap and suffocate to death."

After the first attack, Lei Dong no longer dared to march sway, but moved forward carefully. However, after only two days, Lei Dong was in a dilemma.

After the scouts who were inquiring about the news, Laizhou had fallen, Xu Junsheng's entire army was destroyed, and even Xu Junsheng had died in battle, Lei Dong was immediately confused.

Should we continue to advance to counterattack Laizhou or retreat to the county town of Mizhou to wait for the next order of the court? This is a question. He was all cavalry and could not regain the lost land. When he retreated back to Mizhou, the court did not order him. He could change the imperial court's orders without authorization?

"There are boats on the river!" As the alert sentries rushed back, thousands of cavalry became nervous again. Lei Dong rode his horse onto the embankment. Looking at the Red River, dozens of large ships with Ming flags were loaded with soldiers, ignoring his existence and heading upstream, which immediately shocked Lei Dong and sweated.

Teams of cavalry climbed the embankment and silently looked at the Ming ship sailing in the center of the river. Similarly, different from the ships they reflected, they could not see the paddle pads. Instead, there were huge waves bulging at the tail of the ship, pushing the ship forward. The Ming army on the ship even yelled at them.

This is also a strange scene in the war. The two armies were only half a river, but they were at peace with each other. But this scene lasted for a short period of time. Several gunboats broke out from the fleet and walked towards the shore. Lei Dong saw the huge black guns pointed at his army on the two unique ships, and suddenly remembered the kind of gunboat that the Ming army appeared on the Red River that he saw on the dibao. Isn’t this the same?

"Retreat, retreat!" he shouted loudly.

Although the cavalry were a little confused, they still pulled their horses and retreated under the embankment. At this moment, the four rapid-fire cannons on the two gunboats began to bombard violently.

This round of strike lasted even shorter, but it actually caused great casualties to Leidong's troops. The soldiers also had an instinctive fear of the airships in the sky, but they were commonplace with ships. But they never expected that the Ming army's ships were completely different from the ships they imagined.
Chapter completed!