Chapter 336: Hot air balloon

In Qingzhou, the battle reports from the front are continuously passed to the Prince of Qi Palace through the post on the official road. August 1??? Chinese network???
The barbarian ten thousand chief Kuha died in battle, and the news of the collapse of the ten thousand team reached the Dudu Mansion in just one day, and Niu Bente asked the post to send the battle report to Qingzhou overnight.
"Okay, Niu Ben fought a beautiful field annihilation battle outside Yunzhou City. According to him, this loss is almost negligible and it is a real victory."
In the governor's mansion, Xiao Ming handed the battle report to Zhan Xingchang.
Looking carefully at the news on the battle report, Zhan Xingchang said with a smile while stroking his beard: "The combination of the flintlock and this battle seems to allow the Qingzhou army to fight the barbarians in the wild. If so, the Qingzhou army can also Fight with the main force of Chagatai through this formation."
"Niu Ben said in the battle report that after a few days of repairs, he was going to Jizhou. The mixed application of the hollow square and the car array made him a lot bolder." Xiao Ming said.
"His Royal Highness, the lower officials feel that there is no need to let General Niu Ben go to Jizhou immediately. Chagatai's troops still dominate, and once we go out of Jizhou, our logistics will be lengthened. At this time, there are chaos everywhere in Jizhou. The threat is great. If the transportation line is cut off by the barbarians and/or rioters, our soldiers and soldiers will be in danger. The aid to Jizhou this time is true, but the preservation of strength is also true."
Xiao Ming nodded. The soldiers of the Qingzhou Army were not afraid of fighting, they were afraid that their food would be cut off.
If Chagatai encircled the Qingzhou army and did not attack, the army would face despair within ten days.
"Then what do you think?" Xiao Ming asked Zhan Xingchang, he was still good at the ancient tricks.
"Waiting for the imperial army and King Wei's army to act together, let King Wei's army protect our food and grass. This time King Wei must be the same as the last time, but just walk through the field and let them play the forward. They naturally refused, but If they were asked to protect the transportation line, they would naturally not push it away." Zhan Xingchang analyzed.
Pang Yukun on the side also said: "Zhan Xingchang is right. The army sent by the king of Wei this time is a "mountain" camp. Who doesn't know that this is the worst army of the king."
"So, this time in Jizhou's poverty, this king can only rely on the Forbidden Army?" Xiao Ming had a headache.
At the same time, there was some anger in his heart, so intrigue, how did the great Yu country, which is holding back each other's legs, resist the barbarians.
"I'm afraid so." Zhan Xingchang said: "And Chagatai is only a forward. If Bei Shan comes again at this time, the Qingzhou Army will be in trouble this time."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Ming sighed. This time Niu Ben brought out basically all his elites. He didn't want to kill all his soldiers. Just as Zhan Xingchang said, he wanted to help Jizhou, but he also had to save it. You can't be a gunman for others.
The cunning old man, like King Wei, always prefers to spend money to be lazy.
However, in Xiao Ming's opinion, it may not be a good thing to let the Qingzhou army practice. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and this expedition may be able to train more generals for himself.
The three agreed, and Xiao Ming drafted an order to make Niu Ben wait for King Wei's army, and then go to Jizhou to relieve Jizhou from the trap.
At the same time, he once again gave instructions to guide the victims into Qingzhou.
He felt more and more that population is combat effectiveness and population is productivity, otherwise the population of the fief is not enough to support the consumption of war.
This is the sorrow of a country with a small population when it faces a country with a large population. When the weapon generation gap is not very large, the use of human sea tactics is enough to destroy the other side.
And now the population of his fief is not large, only a quarter of the barbarians, which does not include the slaves of the barbarians.
The difference in overall strength is too great, which is why he wants to get people crazy.
These people also had a miserable life under King Yong's rule, unable to take advantage of the population, and it was different when they came to his fief.
Not only can it provide reserves for its own army, but it can also provide labor for all walks of life in Qingzhou.
In this way, he can have the capital and the barbarians to consume for a long time, until the barbarians are brought down by war.
As he was writing, there was a noisy voice outside the Dudu's Mansion suddenly remembered.
A guard suddenly ran in and said hurriedly: "Your Highness, something strange has appeared in the sky."
"Heaven?" Xiao Ming was startled when he heard the words, and suddenly he laughed and said to Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang: "Go, let's go and see..."
Both Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang showed interest.
The three went out.
The people on the street stopped one after another, pointed their fingers to the sky, and kept whispering.
At this time, in the sky, a large gray balloon was slowly moving, and the balloon was about fifty meters away from the ground.
But the ten-meter diameter of the hot air balloon makes the hot air balloon look very huge. You can see the hot air balloon moving anywhere in Qingzhou.
"His Royal Highness, what is this!" Zhan Xingchang was shocked.
The officials of Dayu State are still strong in feudal superstition, and at this time they can't help but associate the hot air balloon with the gods and ghosts.
I saw Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang pale.
And some people on the street even prayed and prayed with their hands clasped together in the sky.
"What are you nervous about? This is a hot air balloon, something a student of Bowen College created." Xiao Ming explained.
At the same time, he looked up at the hot air balloon in the sky, and saw that there was no one on the hot air balloon, only a brazier was burning, and the rope tied to the hot air balloon was still hanging down.
What he realized might be that the hot air balloon broke off the rope and flew away by itself during the experiment.
Sure enough, his idea came true, and Lin Wentao soon appeared on the street. He ran and jumped trying to grab the rope on the hot air balloon.
The students from the School of Physics followed Lin Wentao, yelling, "Come down, come down!"
"This idiot will kill someone." Xiao Ming was extremely depressed.
During this time, he learned about Lin Wentao's hot air balloon~EbookFREE.me~ The hot air balloon fuel used by Lin Wentao is tung oil.
Tung oil can not only paint wood to prevent corrosion, but it is also a fuel for oil lamps. In many modern rural areas, there are still many people who use tung oil lamps.
After studying the original hot air balloon in the textbook, Lin Wentao apparently modified the hot air balloon.
After all, the most primitive hot air balloons use straw and other burning materials to heat the gas in the hot air balloon.
The floating time of this kind of hot air balloon in the air is only about 20 minutes, and the flying distance is only about 20 miles.
Now Lin Wentao uses the method of heating tung oil under a hot air balloon to make the hot air balloon fly farther.
However, the burning value of tung oil is not as good as the later propane gas. Therefore, the tung oil he adds can make the hot air balloon's voyage about five times.
No way, when natural gas and propane are not produced, the limitation of hot air balloons is here.
(To be continued.)