I, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, have risen since I destroyed the Turks

Chapter 646: Hot Air Balloon Appears on the Battlefield

After ten rounds of artillery fire, the entire battlefield was in chaos, with corpses and broken arms flying everywhere.

Although the Kushan general on the city wall survived the first round of bombardment, he witnessed the tragic situation of hundreds of thousands of Kushan troops below, and his face turned pale. He seemed to have been drained of all his energy and collapsed.

It stands to reason that as a general of a country, he should not be so incompetent, but the 500 powerful cannons of the Tang Dynasty were like a dimensionality reduction attack. The Kushan army suffered heavy losses before the two sides even fought.

We are finished, the Kushan Empire is finished.

He slumped to the ground with his hands drooping, muttering with lifeless eyes.

"General, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers in the city. We still have the strength to fight." The Kushan lieutenant general on the side saw the general in such a miserable state and shouted at him.

"It's no use, it's over, it's all over..."

On the other hand, let’s look at the Tang Dynasty.

"Haha, damn, this battle was so cool." Zhang Liang next to Su Dingfang laughed heartily.

"Even with a powerful weapon like the Shenwu Cannon, the Kushan Empire can't cause any trouble," Li Ang echoed.

Su Dingfang smiled when he heard this.

"Everyone, this war is not over yet."

"Order, all the vanguards charge. Zhang Liang, Li Ang, you two, flank them. Don't let any of these Kushan bastards escape."

The military order given by Li Zheng was very cold: no one who resists would be left alive.

"Yes, General."

Zhang Liang and Li Ang received the order and led their troops away.

At this point, the two sides began to engage in close combat.

In fact, it is better to say that it was a large-scale massacre of Tang Dynasty soldiers rather than a hand-to-hand combat.

The Kushan army has now lost all morale, and its general is also in a daze. Without the restraint of high-level officers, the Kushan army has long lost the ability to fight.

After a while, Su Dingfang stood on the border town of the Kushan Kingdom, overlooking this once strong city, with infinite emotion in his heart.

Today's Tang Dynasty, under the leadership of Li Zheng, is full of martial virtues, and destroying a country is as easy as pie.

"General Su, our soldiers have captured the Kushan general in the city."

Su Dingfang, who was feeling emotional, received a report from his subordinates.

"Kill them. The Emperor has ordered that there will be no prisoners in this battle."

Just when Su Dingfang defeated the Kushan Empire, on the other side, the Tang Dynasty was in a city close to the border of the Kushan Empire.

"Zhao Ming, isn't it too much of an overreaction for Huang or that little Kushan country?"

"Haha, you are so arrogant. As the saying goes, a lion is already using all its strength to fight a rabbit. Besides, the emperor only has his own considerations." Zhao Ming paused and then said, "Now that our Tang Air Force has just been established, this battle is a good opportunity for my Tang soldiers to get familiar with air combat."

Wu Yuanlong suddenly realized what was going on. "It seems so."

"The emperor's attention is no longer on this country or this place. As his subjects, we just need to assist the emperor."

Zhao Ming said.

Upon hearing this, Wu Yuanlong quickly agreed.

"Commander Wu, you lead two thousand Yulin troops to set out first, and I will lead a thousand personal guards to help you."

"I obey your orders," Wu Yuanlong gladly accepted the order.

A moment later, the people of the Tang Dynasty in the border town suddenly saw a huge black monster rising up in the city. On top was a round sphere, and below the sphere was a square basket connected to it by four thick chains.

The basket could hold about four or five adult men, and there was a blazing red flame on top. "Look, what is that?!"

"You look like you have never seen the world before. This thing is called a hot air balloon, and it is a magical device developed by the Tang Dynasty Ministry of Industry!"

"Tsk, what do you know? I've also heard from some important figures from the capital that this divine weapon was invented by His Majesty the Emperor."

"In my opinion, only His Majesty the Emperor could invent this magical object!"

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor."

The people of the Tang Dynasty in the city also spoke up and discussed this suddenly appeared magical weapon.

As everyone was discussing, more and more hot air balloons carrying Tang Dynasty soldiers slowly rose into the sky.

This time, Li Zheng directly allocated more than a thousand hot air balloons to Zhao Ming. This number is almost the total number of hot air balloons in the Tang Dynasty today.

Li Zheng set two goals for Zhao Ming. The first was to capture the capital of the Kushan Kingdom with lightning speed and destroy its royal family. The second was to make the soldiers familiar with the use and combat of hot air balloons.

Of course, the shortcomings of the hot air balloon were discovered during use, and the Ministry of Industry made improvements after the battle.

As more and more hot air balloons took off, the entire border town was blocked by hot air balloons. The people in the border town also looked up at the sky, looking at this strange artifact! Some people even knelt down towards the sky.

More than a thousand hot air balloons slowly rose into the sky, flying towards the capital of the Kushan Empire like a brewing thundercloud of a storm.

……

The capital of the Kushan Empire.

In the main hall, Baturu was leisurely drinking the fine wine shipped from the West, with no sign of worry about the war with the Tang Dynasty on his face.

The Tang Dynasty and the Kushan Empire were thousands of miles apart, and there was a desert Gobi in between. The cost of launching a war for the Tang Dynasty must have been extremely high.

Moreover, he had already sent a general to the border. He thought that if the two sides fought back and forth at the airport, even if they were defeated, they could at most bow to the Tang Dynasty verbally, and the matter would be over.

For hundreds of years, the Central Empire and the Frontier Dynasties have been living in this way.

Baturu would not know that now the Tang Dynasty's steam locomotive connected the north and the south, and martial arts and technology armed the Tang Dynasty's soldiers. What he faced was no longer the Central Plains Empire that his ancestors faced.

"Look, what is that?!"

Baturu, who was in a leisurely mood, suddenly heard a cry in his ear. He was about to scold these servants who didn't know the rules, but there was a louder noise coming from the royal capital.

Even though Baturu was slow-witted, he understood that something big had happened.

Baturu immediately stood up and walked out of the hall with a group of guards.

"What happened, you bunch of unruly slaves..."

Baturu's scolding stopped abruptly as he walked out of the hall.

Above the Kushan capital, hideous black hot air balloons appeared from far away and near.

As the hot air balloons approached, the entire Kushan capital fell into an eerie silence.

"Protect the king, enemy attack, enemy attack!"

"It's the Tang army. Defend quickly and protect the capital!"

When the hot air balloon got closer and the Kushan guards could clearly see the Tang Dynasty soldiers on it, the clever guards shouted immediately.

But more of the royal capital guards were looking at the Tang Dynasty Air Force in the sky with a dazed look on their faces.

In their minds, how could the enemy come from the sky?! The only beings that could go to the sky were the legendary gods they believed in.

So some foolish people simply put down their weapons and knelt on the ground to pray devoutly.

(End of this chapter)