Great Tang princess

Chapter 284 Skydiving
"Grandfather is talking about the issue of empty pay?" Li Yuechen asked back, "My child's suggestion is to conduct military exercises every year, improve the combat effectiveness of the army, and at the same time inspect the army..."

After listening to his daughter's explanation, Li Zhi finally understood what the so-called military exercises meant.

After thinking about it, I feel that this is quite interesting. Even if there is no war, we can try our best to keep the combat effectiveness of the army from dropping.

"According to your idea, it's not bad. If that's the case, why do you insist on dividing the imperial power?" Li Zhi was a little puzzled.

Li Yuechen lowered his head and thought for a while: "My child is afraid, if there is a foolish king in the future, and if he happens to live longer, it will not be a good thing for Datang."

"But your parliament has no power in your hands. The chiefs of other theaters are rotated every few years, and they can be transferred at any time... To the emperor, this council is just a decoration." Li Zhi said.

"Yes, the child naturally knows. It's just... always thinking that there is at least an institution that can supervise the emperor..."

"Chen'er, you still don't understand. The emperor doesn't like to be supervised, so it will easily lead to rebellious psychology." Li Zhi explained.

Li Yuechen nodded: "That's why I hope to have an institution that can supervise the emperor. It's just that I can't think of a good way for a while."

"There is already a solution, just what you said, education!" Li Zhi smiled, "If you can teach the future members of the royal family to be like our family, you don't have to worry about this problem."

"This...it's not that easy..." Li Yuechen curled his lips.

Li Zhi grinned: "I thought there was nothing easy for Chen'er."

"Grandpa, I'm not a god..." Li Yuechen replied a little helplessly, "But now, it seems that I can only try from this direction."

In fact, what the father said is indeed reasonable. Education can often shape people's three outlooks. If they can really educate the future royal family members well, it can indeed reduce the chance of a faint king.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you to deal with the future affairs..." Li Zhi waved his hand and handed her the will, "I'm tired, let me enjoy my happiness in these last few days..."

With that said, he turned around and walked back.

Li Yuechen looked at his back from behind, feeling that he was really much older than ten years ago, most of his hair and beard had turned white, and his temperament was not as domineering as before.

He is obviously still a middle-aged man, but he is already like an old man.

Seeing his father's appearance, Li Yuechen's nose felt a little sore, but he immediately walked over and walked back side by side with him: "Don't worry, Grandpa, with me here, Datang will be fine."

"Yeah!" Li Zhi nodded.

……

The matter of the will was given by the father in private, so it is definitely impossible for others to know.

This thing must be well preserved, otherwise once it is exposed, even if it is known by others, it will cause internal turmoil to the royal family in the future.

After thinking about it, two days later, Li Yuechen returned to the palace and stopped by the newspaper office.

Seeing her coming, Shangguan Wan'er was very happy, and hurried to the side to make a cup of tea: "Why didn't your Highness say anything when you came back?"

"Well, I suddenly want to go back to the palace to have a look..." Li Yuechen took the teacup, "Are you still used to the job content now?"

Now most of the affairs of the newspaper office have been handed over to Princess Yiyang to manage, and Shangguan Wan'er is still in charge of observing the content of the court meeting.

At other times the main focus is on intelligence.

With the increase in manpower in the past few years, the collected information needs to be summarized in various ways, which is a bit troublesome, so Gao Yanfu specially formed a group of eunuchs to form a well-structured intelligence organization.

Perhaps because of the influence of Li Yuechen, Gao Yanfu also fully considered the issue of performing their duties when designing the organizational structure.

So in this organizational team, who is in charge of what is determined, the structure is very strict, and it also guarantees to the greatest extent that Shangguan Wan'er, the intelligence leader, can control anything he wants to know at any time.

After chatting casually, Li Yuechen said suddenly: "Wan'er, there is something that I need you to keep safe for me."

As she spoke, she took out her father's will from her bosom and put it in her hand.

Putting it on her body is the safer method Li Yuechen can think of.

First of all, as a soldier, it must be inconvenient for her to carry it with her, but now the barracks is crowded with people, and she lives with Xiao He and Fang Furong, after all, it is a bit troublesome.

So after thinking about it, the safest place is still in the palace, but not with me, but with Shangguan Wan'er.

Everyone knew that she was the closest to him, as long as nothing happened to him, no one would dare to do anything to her.

And if something happens to him... there is no way this thing can be kept.

After several days of thinking, Li Yuechen finally decided to put this will on her.

"What is this?"

"Don't ask, anyway, keep it for me!" Li Yuechen shook his head seriously, "I hope I won't use this thing in my lifetime, and I may keep it for a lifetime."

Seeing her serious expression, Shangguan Wan'er nodded: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will take good care of it!"

Li Yuechen held her hand, stared into her eyes and said, "Wan'er, you must never tell anyone about this, this is a secret between you and me!"

Hearing what she said, Shangguan Wan'er seemed very happy, her face flushed a little.

It's just that there is an obvious smile on his face, and both eyes are a little bit crooked: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will take good care of it."

Since it was proposed by Li Yuechen, she must have kept it carefully.

In fact, this is also a helpless choice. For Li Yuechen, Shangguan Wan'er is the only person who has the ability to help her now, and she can completely trust her.

The two sisters can be trusted, but unfortunately they don't have the ability.

Mom must still be on guard against the two of them, so it's better not to do this kind of thing.

……

It's July, and the weather is still unbearably hot, but it's much better than in June, at least it won't be so hot that you can't sleep at night.

Several sets of parachutes have been made, and Li Yuechen plans to try it out. Speaking of which, he hasn't parachuted for a long time, so he feels a little rusty.

At the same time, the ground training of Geng Yunqiang and other officers is almost done, so they should consider actual skydiving.

The way they wanted to jump was different from the way they threw the prisoner down that day. That prisoner was Li Yuechen who had already opened the parachute when he was thrown down, which was considered a high jump and a high jump.

What they have to learn is mainly to jump high and drive low, and they need to manually pull out the parachute after falling to a certain height.

There is no AAD (automatic parachute opening device) in this era, so this is a very difficult thing. In the first few times, you have to jump with them yourself.

Several officers were called and were about to talk about parachuting, but Geng Yunqiang spoke first.

"Your Highness, the soldiers have recently reported that it is more or less inconvenient to run around in the jungle with this horizontal knife. It always makes a noise when it collides. Can this problem be solved?"

Hearing this question, Li Yuechen thought for a while: "There must be a solution, but...just, have you discussed which weapon is more suitable?"

"Weapons that are suitable for hand-to-hand combat are fine. We mainly use crossbows and arrows, and generally don't fight hand-to-hand. When it really comes to that time, I still hope to have weapons that can be used to pierce armor..."

Li Yuechen nodded in agreement.

Geng Yunqiang and the others didn't wear full-body armor, but most of the enemies did.

A weapon like a horizontal knife is not suitable for piercing armor. If you want to pierce armor, it is best to use a blunt weapon, such as a hammer.

But they are not suitable for carrying such a weapon, it is a bit too heavy and cumbersome.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Yuechen felt that there was something that should be quite suitable for them - a military light hand axe.

This thing used to be very common in the field of survival in the wild. Not only does it have multiple functions like a dagger, but the most important thing is that it can also exert a strong combat effectiveness when encountering some wild beasts.

Moreover, due to the different ways of exerting force, axes and knives should also be able to produce armor-piercing effects in this era.

Speaking of functionality, the daggers given to them are actually used as tools. When it comes to cutting people, an ax is much better than a knife.

But Li Yuechen couldn't decide on this right away, he still had to discuss it with Wang Xiaojie.

After all, he is the fighting instructor of this unit, and it is still necessary to seek his opinion on whether this kind of thing can be used as a weapon.

"Okay, I'll think about it." Li Yuechen nodded, "I called you here today to tell you that you can start actual skydiving training."

When everyone heard this, they all put on an excited expression, and they were all gearing up, as if they were ready to go to heaven.

Li Yuechen took them to the testing ground, and what the officers saw was indeed a parachute fully deployed and spread on the ground.

"Before the official skydiving, what you must master is folding the umbrella!" Li Yuechen took two steps forward, "I will demonstrate first, and ask if you don't understand! If it can't be opened, it will fall into a pile of mud!"

There are strict regulations on the folding of the parachute. It is not enough to pack it up and stuff it into the backpack. Otherwise, if it is knotted, it will not open.

When skydiving, you find that the parachute cannot be opened, so you can only wait to fall and die.

It took another three days and after teaching them how to fold their umbrellas, Li Yuechen took them into a hot air balloon and started to learn how to skydive.

At the beginning, because I had to dance with myself, I could only come one by one.

On the hot air balloon, Geng Yunqiang was carrying a parachute bag, watched the hot air balloon gradually rising above the clouds with a little nervousness, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Your Highness, are you okay?"

Speaking of which, this is also Geng Yunqiang's first time flying in the sky, and the first time he flies into the sky, he has to jump from the sky, which is really embarrassing for him.

"What? I was looking forward to it just now, but now I'm afraid?" Li Yuechen asked with a smile.

"This...it's the sky after all..." Geng Yunqiang's voice trembled a little, but he couldn't help looking curiously at the clouds that seemed to be floating around.

Li Yuechen handed him a goggle to put on: "Learn to challenge the sky over there, let's go!"

After speaking, he patted him on the shoulder and asked him if he remembered the training essentials.

After confirming that he remembered, with Li Yuechen's encouragement, Geng Yunqiang gritted his teeth and jumped out from the edge of the hanging basket.

Li Yuechen smiled, and jumped out. After several backflips in the air, he quickly caught up with Geng Yunqiang, and then grabbed his shoulder with one hand.

Under the action of gravity, the two quickly fell to the ground.

Whether it's the hair, the clothes, or even the skin on the face, they are constantly shaken by the huge wind pressure.

Geng Yunqiang only felt that his body seemed to be lifted by the huge wind pressure, his whole body was shaking constantly, and the ground was constantly enlarged.

Looking up, the distant skyline loomed, making him dizzy.He could only withdraw his attention, stare closely at Li Yuechen next to him, and follow her instructions.

Li Yuechen not only told him how many meters it was from the ground with the gestures he had taught them in advance, but also let him remember this feeling.

At the same time, let him put his hands on the puller constantly to familiarize himself with the process of opening the parachute.

When it dropped to about 800 meters, Li Yuechen quickly patted him on the shoulder, and then walked away from him.

Geng Yunqiang violently pulled the tab apart, and with a "poof", the parachute opened and unfolded above his head.

Li Yuechen next to him also opened his parachute, and immediately led him to control the direction, thinking about landing on the test site in the barracks.

……

Not long after, the two landed on the test field one after the other.

Other officers nearby ran over one after another, asking Geng Yunqiang about this and that, such as how does it feel to fly into the sky, what can you see during skydiving, etc...

But Geng Yunqiang seemed a little confused at first, looked down at his feet, and felt that stepping on the ground seemed a bit unreal.

Li Yuechen could understand his feelings, after all, she also came here from that time.

Turning his head and smiling, he asked, "How is it? Does it feel exciting?"

"Exciting?" Geng Yunqiang was taken aback for a moment, then nodded abruptly: "It's so exciting!"

The feeling of a person falling from a high altitude cannot be described in words. Geng Yunqiang took a few deep breaths with his face flushed, and then turned his head and said: "Your Highness, let's do it again!"

"Don't worry, there will be more opportunities in the future!" Li Yuechen smiled, and then waved to the deputy battalion commander next to him, "Niu Ermao, get ready for parachuting, come!"

"Yes!" Niu Ermao agreed, and immediately ran over.

After waiting for Li Yuechen to finish folding the umbrella, the two boarded the hot air balloon again, and then jumped down from the sky again...

……

In the past few days, almost everyone in Dongdu can see a square parachute slowly falling from the sky of Mangshan Mountain from time to time. Although they don't know what it is, many places in Mangshan Mountain have become military restricted areas. I can't get in, I can only stay curious.

But many officials knew that it must be the princess doing some strange experiments again.

For this princess, many officials have very complicated emotions, and they even made this thing.

It would be great if such a daughter was born in her own family.

It's a pity that such thoughts can only exist in fantasy. In the future, they will try their best to confront this princess...

(End of this chapter)