Villager of Daming

Chapter 1219 Balloon Raising Flag Grouping

The bird flew once, and after it flew away, it no longer appeared there, or a few birds were not seen in the field of view of the telescope.

"Could it be our team?" The man called Laojiu looked over there, but saw nothing.

"No!" The man holding the telescope was sure, "Because I saw that the clothes they wore were different from ours. They were not from the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and their hairstyles and clothing styles were very different."

"Let me see." Lao Jiu stretched out his hand, he was anxious.

"Don't pull it. If you break it, your bonus will be deducted. One lens is 600 wen."

The man holding the telescope slapped Lao Jiu's hand away, took off the telescope's rope from his neck, and then handed it over.

"It doesn't count during war, you can't allow yourself to get injured or killed just to protect the telescope.

Oh my! There really is someone here!
It must be the Jurchen tribe! Yes, I saw women, more than ten of them, and they were pregnant with a child.

More and more people, the whole tribe migrated? In the hot summer, no, don't they farm?

Do you think they can hear our hunting gunshots? I can hear other places."

Lao Jiu said as he looked, the number of people appearing in the telescope was gradually increasing, and it was not a small tribe.

So far, we have seen more than 300 people. Some small tribes have only dozens of people, divided into households, and seven or eight households form a tribe.

The tribes with large populations are basically all other tribes combined. The land is vast and the population is sparse. The entire Northeast is huge! How many Jurchen talents are there?
The Jurchens don't call themselves tribes, they call themselves villages, and everyone sticks together for warmth.

Sometimes a mudslide or a mountain torrent kills all the people in a village. When the nearby villages learn about it, they express their regret and then continue with their lives.

"Do you think they heard the gunshots?" The man who sent the telescope was aiming with a telescope, but he couldn't see anything.

"Feel? I feel like if they're not deaf, they can hear it."

Lao Jiu continued to stare, but couldn't see the other person's facial expression because it was too far away.

"What should we do? Let's move over?" another person who was lying on the ground spoke up. When the fifty people in the team heard what was said, they all moved together.

The other side has more people, and each of their teams has only two assault rifles, so the firepower must be concentrated.

"No need to gather, there's a hot air balloon going up there, look."

The fourth person spoke up and pointed to the sky, where a hot air balloon was rising, which made people feel particularly reassured.

Obviously other teams had seen it in advance. It was the central army in the largest front army, and they had a hot air balloon.

It takes at least ten minutes from taking out the hot air balloon to raising it, using kerosene as fuel and a blowtorch.

The team carried little gasoline because it burns too easily, while diesel and kerosene were relatively stable and had a wide range of uses.

The army has grenades, so there is no need to use gasoline to make Molotov cocktails, let alone put sugar in them.

"It's too far away. I can't see the specific flag signals clearly. I can only know that the other party poses no threat."

After the hot air balloon rose up, the people in the basket began to use flag signals. There were four people, one to control the fire, one to observe, and two to slowly move positions and make repeated flag signals.

It's too far away to see how the flag is waving, but there is a separate green flag there to indicate safety.

The most terrifying color is red, which means you have to fight to the death and the enemy is very dangerous.

This is the second person in the team who holds a telescope. He and the previous one who knows flag language, plus three other people, ten people each have a telescope, and the one holding it can sailfish. Normally, they are junior generals who can command a team of 300 people.

However, in Xu Da's army, a squad leader of ten people, that is, a small flag, had to be able to do it, and fifty people formed a general flag.

If it were the guards of the Prince's Palace, everyone would have to know how to do it.

"Hey! They are heading towards the hot air balloon. Are they going to have a war? The people in front are all young men, holding weapons."

The third flag was puzzled. The hot air balloon was indeed conspicuous, but wouldn’t the more conspicuous the place was, the more dangerous it would be?
Is the central army's banner conspicuous? Attacking the banner requires sufficient courage and fighting power.

A hot air balloon must be pulled by someone, and usually three ropes are used to secure it.

If there are enemies, the hot air balloon may be fixed in the middle of three big trees with ropes attached below.

The others spread out and wait to see who rushes towards the hot air balloon, so that they can set up an ambush.

Use the hot air balloon as bait, and when the other party really pays a heavy price and arrives under the hot air balloon, the person in the basket cuts the three ropes and flies! Find a place to land slowly.

When it is critical to charge the hot air balloon, the people on the balloon can see it most clearly, and they will accurately convey the information through flag signals.

Lao Jiu returned the binoculars to the person just now and said, “They are probably looking for someone. They can hear gunshots, but there are many hills and the echoes are chaotic. It is impossible to tell where they came from.

It happened to be such a big thing, there was a big pattern on our hot air balloon.

Their sharp-eyed people... anyway, they saw the balloon and went over to ask someone about the situation.

The young people are the main force, they are needed to protect the rest of the tribe, and they have to fight when they encounter danger.

Ah! The second hot air balloon is rising, no, the third one is rising as well, and there is a fourth one, hurry up and gather around. "

"Old Nine, didn't you say you didn't want to learn? How come you know it now?"

The person who gave the telescope to Lao Jiu said as he took the telescope back.

"Who said I didn't learn? The assessment was half a year ago, and my score was lower than yours. Can't I work hard in secret?
Now, as long as you can get a certain score, you can enjoy the same level of treatment even if you don’t have actual power.

Princes are still the best. Let’s wait and take the exam again, get full marks, and get more money every month.

"Shall we go? The four balls over there are rising at the same time, and the balloon combination pattern given is to cooperate with the encirclement of the central army."

Lao Jiu said, as if you should look at me with new eyes, "Isn't it possible for me to enjoy the benefits without being a small flag? The salary is increased, really increased!"
"Wave the flags, get them in position, red, blue, and yellow, ready!"

The captain of the team of fifty people spoke at this time. Their team was red, blue and yellow, with four flags arranged in this way.

In this way, the large flag on the hot air balloon can first show which troop it is, and then large flags of other colors can be used to carry out simple command.

This is the method used when the number of troops is small. If it is the entire team, then... use telegraph to notify the hot air balloon to send flag signals.

It was not Zhu Wentian who came up with it. The Ming generals came up with it on their own after they knew about hot air balloons and telescopes, and it is very useful.

The flags used for semaphore are small and cannot be seen clearly from a distance. So a large one is enough to convey a simple command.
Especially when the enemy is blind, our side knows the enemy's position and can form a situation of outnumbering the enemy locally, or even infiltrate, divide and encircle the enemy.

When the enemy sees the color of the hot air balloon change, they will surely understand after suffering a loss, but what does it matter if they understand? Attack the hot air balloon? That's great, we are waiting for the enemy to do so!

So here is a question, if you use three colors to fill four flags and combine them randomly, how many different flags can you create?
(End of this chapter)