Late Tang

Shi Yan's whole body tensed up suddenly, and a chill spread from his head to the soles of his feet.

Standing at the top of the city, he quickly turned his head and looked towards the north wall. Under the pitch-black night, he suddenly saw a little red light piercing through the sky from the corner of his eyes, without sound.This red light standing here does not look very big, but as a leading general, Shi Yan has rich experience in battle. Even though it is under night, he can still visually measure the distance and location of the red light.

This red light was at least fifteen hundred steps away, and it was almost exactly at the canyon passage outside Haogou under the north wall.And after careful calculation, judging from the position of the red light, it should be already above the north city wall.And at least three feet higher than the north wall!

The area around Heishi Ridge was empty and quiet, and the red light in the dark night sky became more and more conspicuous!

"how can that be!"

After Shi Yan quickly calculated it in his mind, he was also shocked by the result he calculated.At first he thought it might be some kind of signal flare from the Qin army, or something like a Kongming lantern.But according to calculations just now, that thing appeared outside the north wall, and it has gone straight up and surpassed the north wall by at least three feet, and it seems to be still rising.And look at the size of the red light, it is not a Kongming lantern at all, nor is it a signal flare.

Because, what surprised Shi Yan and made him unable to move for a moment was the northern sky, at which point a little bit of red light continued to soar upwards. Light.

Dozens of huge light clusters shone in the night, just like dozens of huge monsters suddenly drilled out of the darkness. Before the monsters devoured them, the bright eyes of fear flickered.

The Shatuo defenders on the city wall were almost stunned. Many people didn't know what it was at all, and many even dropped their weapons and knelt on the top of the city, praying and worshiping devoutly.

"What is that?" Shi Jianxiong, Shi Yan's lieutenant, opened his mouth wide, his eyes full of confusion.

Shi Yan also looked up and watched for a long time, before murmuring: "It's the Kongming Lantern!"

According to legend, Kongming Lantern is a kind of lamp invented by Zhuge Kongming during the Three Kingdoms period. Lighting a candle, it can fly higher and higher directly, and float far away by the wind. It was once used to transmit military signals on the battlefield.Up to now, Kongming lanterns have even become common things. On the night of New Year's Eve, many places have the custom of lighting Kongming lanterns at night.The fire trees and silver flowers never go to the sky, and the lights put thousands of flowers at night.

But although Kongming lanterns can rise into the sky, they can only be extremely small and light.Often the largest is the size of an ordinary lantern, but someone can already see the approximate shape of what they see in front of them.

They were very large, each at least several feet in size, and were burning with raging fire, and some people had already seen that there were still shadowy figures walking around on the big fireball suspended in the air.

Qin Jun is good at using firearms, and Qin Jun's firearms are the best in the world, but no matter how good they are at researching firearms, they have never heard of them researching such a huge Kongming lantern?

God, what a terrifying monster it is to be able to carry a team of people and fly up to the Kongming Lantern at a height of tens of feet.

An ordinary Kongming lantern can carry a letter. It is reasonable to say that since it can fly to the sky with a letter, then if you make a huge Kongming lantern in Dali, you can lift off with more weight.But in fact, there are many people who have had this kind of idea, but no one has ever really realized this idea.

A huge Kongming lantern that can carry people is just a fantasy!

Shi Yan didn't know how the Qin army made these huge Kongming lanterns, which were several feet high, but now the Qin army had already flew directly over the heads of the defenders on the huge Kongming lanterns above the gateless city wall to the north.

No matter how Qin Jun did this, the key now is how they deal with Qin Jun's move.

The Qin army's raid method did not follow Heishi Ridge's conventional offensive and defensive methods at all.This surprise attack by the Qin army directly made almost half of their important defense lines such as the doorless north wall, the deep stream in front of the fort, the fortified fortress, the tall fort wall, and the arrow tower lose their effect.

No one expected that the Qin army would launch a surprise attack in the north city with large Kongming lanterns, which caught the defenders of Blackstone Fort, who had been gathering heavy troops at the main gate south gate and the east and west secondary gates, by surprise for a while.What's more terrible is that no matter how high the city wall is, facing the Qin army falling from the sky, it also loses its due effect.

Those arrow towers and battlements that were supposed to play an important role are useless now. The guards on the northern city only hate that there is no brick roof on the top of the city wall to prevent the arrows from pouring down from their heads. guns and bombs!

Shi Yan's eyebrows were already tightly knit together, something is not good!

Sure enough, Qin Jun came to Heishiling, and he came in the way of divine soldiers descending from the sky.

Shi Yan has no idea how many troops the attacking Qin army has, how many big Kongming lanterns they have, or how much gunpowder they have. The north wall, the famous dangerous fortress that is said to be guarded by one man, and ten thousand men are not allowed to open it, may soon fall to the north wall.

Above the north city wall, huge Kongming lanterns that looked like hills were slowly rising into the sky not far from the north, and then moved over.

These Kongming lanterns are more than ten feet away from the top of the city wall, and the angle is right up. The bows and arrows of the defenders on the city wall are difficult to shoot at all. Even if you use the ballista to throw the cannon, the angle is not enough.On the contrary, all the Shatuo guards staying on the top of the city are like a mirror in their hearts. Once these hellish Kongming lanterns are adjusted to their positions, the next thing will definitely be the artillery bombardment that the Qin army has always been best at, covered by arrow rain.

It was extremely cold at the heights, but Li Qiusheng, the squadron leader of the Dapeng Bird Squadron, was holding the rope on the hanging basket in his hands. He was covered with leather armor, a thick cotton coat, leather gloves on his hands, and a leather hat on his head. , masks, and the unstoppable cold wind blowing in all directions, but still can't stop the blood in my heart!

Although the Roc Bird Squadron has been established for a long time, and the officers and soldiers of their special hot air balloon unit have experienced hundreds of aerial lifts and flights, but every time they take off, standing in the basket, feeling the strong wind blowing from all sides, And the people on the ground who became smaller in their eyes made his blood boil again and again.

This was the first actual combat of the Mirs Bird Squadron, and it was a winter night, so it was not a good time to fight.But the military order is like a mountain, Li Qiusheng will not refuse, even if he does not give the order, he will go to fight.

As the first batch of air troops of the Qin Army, these elites selected from the special warfare brigade are already hungry and thirsty, and have been waiting for the first air battle for a long time!

The hot air balloon of the Gold-winged Roc is Li Qiusheng's landline. In addition to the squadron leader Li Qiusheng, there are nine people on this hot air balloon. This is a standard team of ten people.The hot air balloon is made of silk coated with special lacquer, the bottom is a lacquered rattan basket, and the fuel for burning is black petroleum crude oil suitable for burning.

There are ten people on the hot air balloon, each of them is equipped with bow and arrow leather armor, as well as bomb kerosene!

The orderly behind him relied on a few lanterns to maneuver with other hot air balloons in the air. Soon, the orderly reported loudly.

"Golden Roc No. [-] is ready!"

"The Black Roc One is ready!"

"Blue Roc No. [-] is ready!"

"A total of 31 hot air balloons of the Dapeng Bird Squadron have all been lifted into the air and are on standby. The preparations are complete. Please ask the squadron leader to issue combat orders!" The observer reported loudly, his tone full of passion.This battle will change the battle pattern for thousands of years, and they will all be recorded in history!

"Sign out the signal, launch an attack immediately according to the predetermined battle plan, drop bombs, and bomb the northern city wall!"

Shi Yan led the guards of the headquarters and rushed to the north wall first. Although the north wall has no gates, if the enemy attacks from the sky, the defensive effect of the city wall will be greatly weakened.And the north wall has always been because there is no gate, and the city wall is tall and strong, so there are not many guards.Right now, it has become a weak link instead.

Before he could reach the north city wall, there was a sudden bright light in front of him, and the dark night suddenly became as bright as day!

Then there was a loud explosion and loud noise!

Fires suddenly broke out on the city wall to the north, and the night was so dark that it was impossible to see anything clearly.But together with the flames, Shi Yan from afar could already see dozens of huge fire-breathing monsters in the sky continuously spitting out a series of black spots from that big belly.

Some of the black spots fell on both sides of the city wall, but some still fell on the city wall. The flames of the explosion became one piece, and several tall arrow towers and corners were instantly wiped out, and many defenders were directly blown to pieces. , No bones left!

Qin Jun's sharpest firearms and cover attacks!

In this world, only Qin Jun has such sharp gunpowder strength, and such a strong net worth, who dares to throw away precious gunpowder like this without money.

Shi Yan groaned in his heart, this style of play can be said to be Qin Jun's signature style of play.It's just that the Shatuo army fought against the enemy in the past. Except for the Qin army, they have never encountered an equally wealthy enemy, so this kind of firearm formation is rarely fought.But he didn't expect that Sha Tuo and Qin Jun would fight so quickly, and in this extremely dangerous Blackstone Fort, Qin Jun repeatedly made surprises.

The Black Rock Fortress is indeed dangerous, but the Shatuo people did not expect that the Qin army would come from the sky, nor did they expect them to have such a fierce firearm attack!

Shi Yan suffered a big loss if he did mental calculations but didn't care!

I was careless, I didn't expect that the Qin army would dare to attack Blackstone Fort, it was still such a surprise attack!

In just a moment, he had roughly guessed Qin Jun's plan.Using Kongming lanterns to raid in the air not only has the effect of a surprise attack, but also deters Shatuo's army, and choosing the north wall for a surprise attack is the blind point of Shatuo's defense.

It was indeed unexpected to choose the north wall as the breakthrough point, but it was also the most likely breakthrough point.Once the Qin army is allowed to raid and occupy the northern city wall and occupy the highest point in the north, the Qin army will continue to enter the Black Stone Fort.Without the fortress of the pass and the defense of the city, Blackstone Fort is nothing more than an ordinary small city, with a mere [-] defenders, which can no longer stop the Qin army from attacking.

"Quickly, hold on to the north city wall, and never take half a step back!" Shi Yan watched the turrets of arrow towers being hit and collapsed sometimes, and couldn't help but feel anxious, the north city must not be lost!

On the hillside opposite Heishi Ridge, Li Wei and the generals were quietly watching the first aerial battle in the thousands of years of war history, and everyone was shocked by the constantly shining and rising flames!

The Dapeng bird squadron only has 31 hot air balloons, but these 300 people, at this time, bombarded the north wall that was originally impenetrable as a copper wall and iron wall. Arrow towers, turrets, and Shatuo defenders one after another, in front of them He screamed and moaned under his feet, but he was powerless to fight back!

A smile finally appeared on Li Wei's tense face.

He turned his head and shouted to the orderly behind him: "Tell the Black Bat Squadron that the Dapeng Bird has successfully completed the scheduled mission. They have successfully attracted the attention and strength of the defenders of Black Rock Castle to the north wall. Now , It's time for them to move out!"

"The Black Bat Squadron is ready!"

"Attack!"