Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 237 The Hot Air Balloon Takes Off

In Fengxiang Mansion, Li Mi has been sick for the past few days.

After coughing violently for a while, Li Mi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, looking at the gray hair in the bronze mirror, Li Mi couldn't help sighing.

Before he came out to assist the emperor, Li Mi still had hair all over his head, but now it has only been two years since he reached the throne, and the emperor has been on the throne for less than two years, Li Mi's hair is already pale.

During this year, Li Mi exhausted his efforts, but as more and more ministers defected to the court, Li Mi gradually lost his previous weight in the emperor's heart.

In addition, Li Mi often persuaded the emperor, and repeatedly bluntly made the emperor unhappy. Gradually, Li Mi was no longer summoned to participate in some meetings.

At the last meeting of the Hall of Heroes, Li Mi advocated that the Tang army outnumbered the rebels, and that Xijing should be surrounded first and then slowly plotted.

If rebel leaders like An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang can be captured, the counter-insurgency campaign will be easier in the future.

However, there are also brave generals in the rebel army. If they fight hastily, they may repeat the mistakes of the Battle of Tongguan.

Upon hearing about the Battle of Tongguan, the emperor obviously hesitated.

Back then when Ge Shuhan stationed troops in Tongguan, if the emperor hadn't commanded him randomly to leave the pass to fight to the death, An Lushan would not have wiped out the main force in the pass. In the end, the two capitals fell and the emperor fled.

The emperor hesitated, but the chancellor Wei Jiansu said: "Now the people of the two capitals are looking forward to Master Wang! If you annex Chang'an and don't attack, you may lose the hearts of Chang'an!"

Now the emperor hesitated again, Li Mi hurriedly warned with the astrology: "Three stars are like Dongjing, and the stars of Dongjing correspond to the division of Qin and land. This is heaven's reminder to His Majesty to be cautious in using troops!"

Now the emperor hesitated again.

Wei Jiansu came out again and said: "Your Majesty, the army has spent a lot of money fighting, and now there are elite Uyghurs on the front line, and they have to pay the Uyghurs for a while. As long as the two capitals are recovered, the rebellion will naturally be put down, and then it will be slowly eliminated. An thief is it!"

Li Mi glared at Wei Jiansu. He knew that Jingzhao Wei's family was based in Jingzhao, which is near Chang'an. Now that the rebels occupied Chang'an, Jingzhao and Wei's family fled. Naturally, they were most eager to regain Chang'an.

Other prime ministers also came out one after another. They all came from aristocratic families, and they naturally hated this kind of troubled times.

Some aristocratic families in Hedong even hedged their bets. For example, Prime Minister Pei Mian had relatives who served under Shi Siming. For them, it didn't matter who was the ruler.

Seeing that the prime ministers all stated that they wanted to capture Chang'an as soon as possible, the emperor finally made up his mind.

He ordered the eunuch Li Fuguo to lead the Shence Army of Fengxiang Mansion to Qingqu, and ordered Guo Ziyi to launch an offensive to recover Chang'an City in Xijing within this month.

Li Mi has been ill since the meeting in the Hall of Heroes. Today he took the pills sent by a relative, and he felt better.

This is a distant relative who came from Longyou to join Li Mi. Although Li Mi has never seen this young man named Li Xian, he can remember the names and deeds of several generations of ancestors in the genealogy. These are families that are impossible for non-clan members to know. hidden.

So Li Mi recognized this nephew and let him stay in his house.

Li Xian was very obedient to Li Mi, and he also took the "Huaremotong Pill" brought by Li Xian, and only then did he feel that the pain in his chest was better.

This family nephew seemed to know a lot about medical skills, and he prescribed several prescriptions for nourishing the lungs, and even decocted medicine for Li Mi himself. Li Mi felt much better in the past few days.

Li Xian has been busy these few days, and Li Mi has also seen it in his eyes, and he pays more attention to this nephew.

Just when the imperial court decided to urge Guo Ziyi to attack Chang'an, five players were busy in a workshop outside Zhangye City.

"There's an air leak here, third child, hurry up and sew it on!"

"Here it comes! Fasten the rope here, I'm afraid it will fly away and fall apart!"

"Replenish the heated charcoal fire quickly, is the air not hot enough?"

There is a huge leather bag sewn on the ground, and the four players are working hard to reinforce the stitched part.

Finally, a player was heating the stove, and as the air heated up, the hot air balloon gradually inflated.

"Boss, can it really be successful? Are you getting the design right?"

"The blueprint is fine, my second child, is your calculation okay?"

"Absolutely no problem! Isn't this a buoyancy problem in high school? I can figure it out!"

"How long will it take to fly? It's been burning for half a day!"

At this time, the people in Zhangye City also saw a huge ball floating outside the city.

This aroused the curiosity and panic of the common people. Some bold commoners climbed onto the city wall and watched the huge ball expand a little bit, and it was about to leave the ground and fly towards it.

"Fly! Off the ground!"

Sitting in the hot air balloon basket was the fifth member of this group of players. He was also the only player who had contributed points to exchange for the resurrection book, and he became the test pilot for Datang's hot air balloon test flight.

Thinking that he might be the first player to fly into the sky in this game, this player also became excited.

Cui Tao, who had just arrived in Zhangye, also came out of the governor's mansion because of the great battle caused by these five players. Looking at this huge ball, Cui Tao also took a deep breath, and the players actually fiddled with hot air balloons up?
And Yu Chixin, who was stationed in the barracks outside Zhangye City, was even more excited when he saw the hot air balloon. A hot air balloon that can carry people is a strategic prop in this era!
In this era when combat needs to be observed from a high altitude, and the coach even has to build a watchtower on a high platform, the vision provided by a hot air balloon is incomparable no matter how high the mountain is!
With a hot air balloon, players can fully grasp the situation on the battlefield as if they had opened the fog of war.

Not to mention that the player has already created a telescope, and if he sits on a hot air balloon, he can control the entire battlefield!

Yu Chixin walked out of the barracks and watched the hot air balloon slowly rise into the air. Many native soldiers were frightened by the big ball rising into the air and knelt down to chant scriptures.

I only saw the hot air balloon rising gradually, and the player on the hanging basket gradually got used to the feeling of being in the air. He poked his head out of the hanging basket, saw the towering Zhangye City, and also saw the dazzling Zhangye Dan not far away. Xia.

The player immediately turned on the game recording function, and he said excitedly: "Masters of the audience, today is the first hot air balloon test flight experiment of our trapeze team! I am here to announce that the experiment was a complete success!"

"Everyone, please look, not far away is the natural wonder Zhangye Danxia, ​​and below me is Zhangye City, now let me give Zhangye City a surprise!"

After saying this, the player threw down a roll of coarse cloth in the hanging basket, and the roll of coarse cloth turned into a banner, only to see these big characters shining brightly under the sun:

"Long live King Jianning!"

(End of this chapter)