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Chapter 626 Chapter 644: Hot Air Balloon

"Kill——" Tang Jun carried the modified ladders and rushed to Wangting City. At the same time, more than 300 bed crossbows were launched together, and the sound of bowstrings was heard endlessly. They shot towards the city to suppress the enemy. It was so powerful that even the copper shields couldn't resist it. The Western Turkic army could only hide behind the city wall and dare not show their heads. The Tang army rushed under the city wall smoothly and began to build ladders.

When the Tang army started to set up the ladder, the bed crossbow stopped shooting to prevent accidental injury. The archers from behind stepped forward and shot arrows towards the top of the city.

"Destroy those houses that have not been burned by the fire, and create an isolated area to prevent the fire from spreading!"

"Hurry up and take people to save people, bring them all to the foot of the city wall, and warn them not to run around and scream to disturb the morale of the army, otherwise they will be killed on the spot!"

"The battle on the east wall is urgent, send 2000 people to reinforce!"

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Yang Fan walked quickly around the city, giving orders as he walked, with a deep and calm expression. Although the fire in the city was causing panic, Yang Fan was indeed a talent and he was not panic, because he knew that although the fire in the city caused panic among the people Panic, but it has little effect on the army. What he has to do is to stabilize the morale of the army. At this time, the morale of the army is more important than anything else.

"General Yang! The granary is on fire!" A soldier rushed to the top of the city and reported to Yang Fan, panting.

Yang Fan frowned, and turned his head to look in the direction of the granary. The fire there was really big, so he said: "Take 2000 people to fight the fire, and save the grain!"

"Yes!"

The situation is not optimistic. The food in the granary is what they rely on to guard the royal court. If all the food is burned, the royal court will be destroyed.

The Tang army's offensive became more and more fierce. Yang Fan had already used boiling water and kerosene for the soldiers. Many ladders were blazing with fire, making it impossible to climb.In the rear, the Tang army brought in thousands of ladders.Yang Fan had to admit that today's battle was the most difficult and aggrieved battle he had ever fought. Although there were only [-] Tang troops, he felt like there were more than [-] troops, and the pressure was huge.

The Tang army attacked hard, and the Western Turkic army also defended hard. The Tang army retreated a distance from the catapult and continued to throw oil and fireballs. The fire had begun to spread to the city wall, and the army on the top of the city was sweating profusely.

"Damn it! How much of this black oil do they have?" Yang Fan gritted his teeth and moaned. The burning of this black oil was really terrible. The reason why this battle was so difficult was because the fire messed up his energy. Morale is low.

Yang Fan glanced at the army and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, this is our royal court. If you lose, you will become corpses! Your family members will become slaves! You have nowhere to retreat! You We can only kill all Tang Jun back! Kill!"

Yang Fan's encouragement really worked. The morale of the Western Turkic army immediately improved a lot. The soldiers of the Western Turkic army shouted and fought with the Tang army. Ladders, or throwing stones and rolling logs, prevented the Tang army from climbing the city.Originally, nearly a hundred Tang soldiers rushed to the top of the east city, but they were killed and retreated.

The battle has lasted for two hours. There are corpses everywhere on the top of the city. Walking is a bit slippery because the ground is full of blood. Under the city wall, Tang Jun’s corpses have been piled up nearly three feet high. too tragic.

Fan Lihua has been looking at the top of the city coldly, and from time to time, a messenger comes to her to report the battle damage. The casualties have exceeded [-], and their [-] army is less than half left.

Finally, Fan Lihua couldn't accept such a battle damage report, and suddenly raised her hand and said, "Ming Jin, withdraw troops!"

"Kang, kuang, kuang..." The gong sounded, and the Tang army retreated one after another, withdrawing their troops.

And the Western Turkic army at the head of the city all collapsed to the ground, feeling like they were surviving after a catastrophe. After repelling the Tang army, they didn't even have the energy to cheer and celebrate. The Tang army... was too fierce.

After returning to the camp, Fan Lihua sent someone to count the battle damage, and then she returned to the tooth tent. After a long time, someone sent her a book of battle damage. There are not many left, and the bolts of the bed crossbow are almost exhausted.

Looking at the battle damage list, Fan Lihua frowned tightly. The loss in this battle was too great. Although it is estimated that the Western Turks lost nearly 2 people this time, the Western Turks are defending the city, they are attacking the city, Originally, the difference in troop strength was not that big, if this continues, they will undoubtedly lose.

Thinking of this, Fan Lihua couldn't help reaching into her bosom, and took out a letter. On the envelope were written four big characters in charcoal - "Great Ideas in a Bag".

In order for Fan Lihua to win the Western Conquest, Li Hao really helped her with binoculars, craftsmen, gunpowder, and oil. He also specially applied to Li Shimin for cavalry and bed crossbows. Not only that, he also sent a letter To Fan Lihua.

That night, Li Hao came to Fan Lihua's mansion alone, secretly met Fan Lihua, handed this letter to her, and told her that this is a good plan, if you really can't conquer the royal court of the Western Turks, you can give it a try The method here, but the success rate of this trick is not 100%, let her use it with caution.

Now Fan Lihua had no other choice. After hesitating for a moment, she tore open the envelope and took out the thick paper inside.

There were seven sheets of paper in the envelope, six of which were drawings, and one was letter paper. She unfolded the drawings and looked at it, and found a strange thing drawn on the drawings, which seemed to be a big ball floating in the air, under the big ball There is a big basket hanging, there is a hole under the big ball, a fire is burning in the basket, the flame and heat of the fire go straight into the big ball, in the basket, there seem to be two people standing, on the upper right of the drawing In the corner, there are three big characters - "Hot Air Balloon".

The remaining five drawings show the specific steps of making a hot air balloon. They don't seem to be very complicated. Fan Lihua can roughly understand it, but she doesn't understand. The drawings say that this thing can fly and carry people to the sky. Something that can fly?
Full of doubts, Fan Lihua opened the letter paper. The letter paper was filled with dense pencil writing, which was quite beautiful. Li Hao's writing with pencil and charcoal was still very good-looking, but his brush writing, tsk tsk tsk...

After reading the contents of the letter, Fan Lihua finally understood Li Hao's clever plan. In fact, he used hot air balloons to transport troops into the city by air, and carried out a surprise attack.

But according to Li Hao, there are many problems with this method. This kind of raid must be chosen at night, and the enemy cannot be found, otherwise they will be the target of others flying in the sky. Also, the choice of weather is very important, it must be black paint On a dark night, the kind without moonlight, and then there must be wind, otherwise the hot air balloon will not be able to float over the city. Also, there is a fire in the hot air balloon. How can we prevent the enemy from noticing the fire, otherwise they will definitely be killed? As for making hot air balloons, Li Hao asked him to find Lu Qing from the craftsman team.

Lv Qing is Li Hao's student, and his ancestors are skilled craftsmen for three generations. After learning a lot of physics knowledge from Li Hao, Lv Qing inherited his father's craftsmanship. Now he is only in his early twenties, and has already applied a lot of physics knowledge to In practice, Li Hao recruited and trained him to become an excellent craftsman. This time, he asked him to bring hundreds of craftsmen to help Fan Lihua attack the Western Turks.

Fan Lihua put away the letter paper after reading it, and immediately sent someone to pass it on to Lu Qing. Soon, Lu Qing came to the dental tent and saluted Fan Lihua. Fan Lihua asked, "Lu Qing, do you know something called a hot air balloon?" ?”

Lu Qing nodded and said: "This villain has heard from his mentor, and the villain has also conceived it, but he has never seen it."

Fan Lihua handed the six blueprints to Lu Qing, and said, "Look at this, is this a hot air balloon?"

Lu Qing took it in his hand, looked at each one, showing a happy look, nodded and said: "Return to the chief manager, this is indeed a hot air balloon, and it also tells the method of making a hot air balloon."

Fan Lihua asked suspiciously: "This hot air balloon... can it really fly? Can it carry people?"

"Yes, it can really fly." Lu Qing said, "Chairman, in fact, this thing is the same as the Kongming lantern. The Kongming lantern... I don't know if the chief manager has seen it before."

"I've never seen it before." Fan Lihua shook her head and said, "I've only heard of it, so there is such a miraculous thing in the world."

Lu Qing smiled slightly and said: "The teacher said, there are many incredible things in this world. If the ignorant people don't understand, they will explain it with the theory of ghosts and gods. Those are the principles of all things, which my mentor calls physics."

Fan Lihua was not in the mood to ask what physics is at the moment, she was more anxious about the war, so she asked, "How big can this hot air balloon be, and how many people can it carry at one time?"

Lu Qingdao: "As long as the material is sufficient, you can naturally make it as big as you want, but the bigger the more troublesome, it is also quite difficult to operate, fuel is also a problem, so the villain suggests that it is most suitable to carry six people at the same time."

"Okay, let's make this big." Fan Lihua asked, "How long will it take to make five hundred?"

Lu Qing said apologetically, "Chairman, the thick cloth that King Qiongnan asked us to bring... is only enough to make three hundred."

"It turns out that he asked me to bring so much thick cloth for this reason." Fan Lihua was moved when she heard the words, and went west by herself, but Li Hao had prepared for her. Could she not be moved, so she said, "Then How long will it take to make three hundred?"

Lu Qing replied: "It will take about fifteen days."

Fan Lihua thought for a while and asked, "Then what if we make another thousand Kongming lanterns?"

Lu Qing asked: "How big a Kongming lantern will the chief executive make?"

Fan Lihua said: "How tall is a person, eight to nine feet."

Lu Qing thought for a while and replied: "It's actually very simple to make Kongming lanterns. One thousand of them can be completed in three to four days. And it doesn't need thick cloth, so it has no effect on making hot air balloons."

Fan Lihua was overjoyed when she heard the words, and said: "Okay! The manager has given you the authority to dispatch [-] troops from today to supervise the construction of Kongming lanterns and hot air balloons."

"Yes!" Lu Qing excitedly accepted the order.

(End of this chapter)