"Flying up! Flying up!"

On the playground of Guangzhou University, a hot air balloon slowly flew into the sky with a stone weighing about ten kilograms. When the hot air balloon flew up, there was a burst of cheers on the playground.

Regarding the experiment of the flight interest group, I learned that the Grand Governor came to participate in it in person, and almost all the teachers and students of the school came.

Maybe what everyone is studying is different, but everyone has a feeling about flying into the sky. If possible, they also want to fly into the sky and see which day they want to see.

"Congratulations on your success, keep working hard, one day you will be able to fly into the sky in a hot air balloon myself!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Fang Nan took the lead in applauding, and other teachers and students around him gave applause to the three members of the flight interest group. Dong Yan, Gao Xiang and Sun Weimao could only face it with a silly smile in the face of the principal's praise and everyone's applause.

As for the hot air balloon, it is still slowly rising up, so there is no need to worry about the hot air balloon being lost. The hot air balloon also has a rope connected to the ground, so you can pull the hot air balloon down by pulling the rope.

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Less than a year and a half left before the end of the People's Army's armistice agreement with the Ming court, the People's Army's strength is rapidly improving.

Before the outbreak of the last war, the People's Army had a force of more than 300,000, and now the total force of the People's Army has exceeded 800,000.

The 800,000 army seemed to have a lot of troops, but it was still impossible to compare with the Ming court. The Ming court allowed gentry and merchants from all over the country to form a guard team. The guard team alone had a force of more than three million, a very huge number.

Of course, a large number of troops does not mean strong strength. The combat effectiveness of the guards formed by most gentry and merchants is not good, and it is worse than that of ordinary Ming army troops. The equipment is basically cold weapons and melee weapons. It is good to have some archers, let alone muskets and cannons.

Faced with such an enemy, it is not a big problem for the People's Army to fight one million with 200,000.

It is also because of this guard team with a force of millions, the Ming court's control over various places has been declining, and many government officials have even changed to mainly obey the orders of the local guard team "leader".

A year and a half later, a new war will break out. With the strength of the People's Army and the efforts of the Military Intelligence Department, the People's Army all believe that this war will be won, and that their own side will not suffer too much. The only thing they are more looking forward to is the final result. It depends on whether the Ming court will hold on to the capital or eventually flee north.

For the next war and for the new war to face after the next war, the People's Army made a lot of preparations.

In the northernmost part of Jiangxi, there is a special force that has been training. This force is temporarily named "Lavender", which means cavalry equipped with muskets and using muskets. However, some people like to joke about it and call it muskets riding horses.

No matter what you call it, you can confirm that this cavalry is equipped with muskets. The range of tiger-headed guns used by the People's Army is much further than that of bows and arrows, especially on the endless grasslands, where muskets can exert greater power.

Since the formation of the lancers, the task of the lancers was determined. The task of the lancers was to deal with the Tatars on the northern prairie of China. The Tatars were mainly cavalry, so the People's Army used cavalry to deal with the Tatars.

When it was first formed, the Lancers had only one regiment size. Now the Lancers had four regiment sizes. At the end of this year, it will have five cavalry regiments and reorganized into a cavalry division, with about 5,000 cavalry, with a number of people equivalent to the number of war horses. Each person can only be equipped with one war horse.

This cavalry division will also be the template for the cavalry units of the People's Army in the future. The cavalry of the People's Army will use bows and arrows. It is best for the cavalry to attack the enemy from a distance and near. Muskets are easier to learn than archery. In the future, most cavalry of the People's Army will be lancers.

The lances can only form one division for the time being. The main reason is that the People's Army has too few war horses. In the People's Army's ruling areas, there is a high demand for horses, but there is no way to obtain too many war horses in a short period of time.

In less than two years, the People's Army will take the lancers as the vanguard and go to the prairie to cleverly capture the Tatar horses, cattle and sheep.

There are more than the lancers in northern Jiangxi and Huguang. Especially in winter, many troops are rotated to the south bank of the Yangtze River for training, mainly to experience the cold weather.

When the People's Army arrives in the north, they will experience a colder weather. The People's Army cannot be defeated by the enemy or by the cold.

The human body can be trained to be cold-resistant, but the time given to the People's Army is not much. For this reason, the People's Army is also drawing soldiers who are strong in resistance to the cold to form the "Northern Division". After the war breaks out, it will be responsible for the task of directly taking the northernmost part of China, and will also be stationed in the north after the war ends.

The Lancers, Northern Division, and other special troops in the People's Army.

There are marines in the navy. There are two main training tasks for marine combat, one is land combat, and the other is battle to land from the sea, the latter is the most important.

Landslides are allowed in the army, and landslides are absolutely not allowed in the Marine Corps. Marine soldiers must often train on boats, and seasickness cannot occur. If there are soldiers who are seasick, they must be solved as soon as possible. If they cannot be solved, they must be transferred out of the Marine Corps.

There are also mountain divisions and jungle divisions. Just by looking at the names, you can understand the combat tasks that these two special forces need to perform, one is mountain and the other is jungle.

The southward, the more dense and lush the jungle, especially on the Southeast Asian Peninsula, where it is not suitable for large troops to be deployed, mosquito diseases will cause serious reductions in troops. The People's Army needs a force suitable for combat in this environment, so there will be a jungle division.

A unit cannot be omnipotent, and most People's Army soldiers cannot be omnipotent. In this case, it is enough to highlight a combat field of the troops, either in the cold north or in the jungle south. Anyway, as long as there is a demand, special troops can be formed. Special terrain combat requires professional troops to carry out missions.

In order to form a force that performs special tasks, the investment is also more than that of ordinary troops. Fortunately, the People's Army is not short of money at present.

Since the People's Army raised the flag, there has never been a shortage of money again. The People's Army occupied territory, searched a large number of gentry and merchants, and obtained enough money to develop themselves. Over the years, the People's Army has gone through this path. Relying on tax revenue alone cannot support the development of the People's Army.

Building roads, building hydraulic facilities, building factories, building schools, producing weapons, etc. all require a lot of money, thanks to the wealth accumulated by the wealthy family of gentry and merchants over the years.

However, the land of China is limited, and the families of gentry and merchants are limited. When the People's Military Control Commission and the land of China is limited, you need to make careful calculations.

Fortunately, after waiting for the People's Army to complete the land of China, there will be no large-scale expansion of the army. Military expenditure is always the most consumed by the People's Army.
Chapter completed!