When Mao Wenlong heard the sound, he saw a herald outside the house rushing over, kneeling in front of him, panting and reporting: "General soldier, ten miles east of the city, I found that a Japanese army has arrived." ”

Frowning, Mao Wenlong asked in a deep voice, "Do you know how many soldiers and horses there are?" ”

The herald hesitated for a moment before replying, "The Japanese army found so far is only about 3,000 soldiers and horses. ”

"Only three thousand?" Mao Wenlong was immediately confused.

If the Japanese wanted to come and attack Heiankyo, if more than 20,000 soldiers and horses arrived, there was no way to cause any trouble to the Dongjiang army defending the city.

Not to mention, now the Japanese army of 3,000 soldiers and horses wants to attack Heiankyo. It's almost the same as sending them to death!

Before the herald could respond to Mao Wenlong, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside.

"Report, Qi Yu General Soldier, the hot air balloon that our two people were monitoring the Japanese army was attacked and shot down."

Mao Wenlong was stunned for a moment, and then without saying a word, he raised his feet and ran out of the house. The huge hot air balloon who had just arranged to go to North Korea was so anxious to return to see Mao Wenlong at this moment, and he immediately followed.

"Haoxiao, what happened, why is the chief soldier so anxious?" Haoda approached Haoxiao's side and asked in a low voice.

"There is a group of Japanese soldiers outside the city, it is said that there are 3,000 soldiers and horses, and they also shot down our two hot air balloons, so the general army will be so anxious." Hao Xiao leaned into Haoda's ear and muttered.

"Shoot down our hot air balloons?" Haoda's face was full of confusion, looking at Haoxiao but he didn't see him explaining, obviously Haoxiao didn't know the details at the moment.

Mao Wenlong left the mansion and rode directly to the east city gate. Haoda and Haoxiao followed, and all the streets in the city are still banned. So Mao Wenlong rode his horse and galloped without causing any commotion.

After Susu, Mao Wenlong had already arrived at the east city gate, rushed up to the city wall and picked up the binoculars to watch, but he didn't see anything. It was only then that Mao Wenlong remembered that the place where the incident occurred was ten miles away from here, and he could see it here.

Frowning, Mao Wenlong ordered Haoda in a low voice: "Immediately arrange two hot air balloons to go to find out the situation, use the reconnaissance hot air balloons, and fly to the highest altitude." ”

"Yes, Commander!" Haoda didn't dare to slack off, and immediately went down to make arrangements.

Soon after, the two reconnaissance hot air balloons slowly rose into the air, and after reaching altitude, they headed towards the east.

At this moment, Mao Wenlong could only wait quietly, and Haoda and Haoxiao had already begun to drink the sergeants to be on full alert, ready to meet the arriving Japanese army at any time.

Ten miles away, two hot air balloons crashed into the foot of a hillside, and a large number of pirates had completely surrounded the place. And the general who led the army, Cao Xiong, was impressively in the column at this moment.

He walked to the crashed hot air balloon and rummaged for a while, but strangely did not find any corpses of the Dongjiang Army. Although he was puzzled as to why this was the case, he shot down two hot air balloons in the first battle, and such a result was worthy of Cao Xiong's pride.

He immediately ordered that the two crashed hot air balloons be packed up. When they were busy working, some Japanese robbers came to report that there was another hot air balloon of the Dongjiang Army flying here.

Kusao paused, and immediately urged everyone to hurry up and pack up the crashed hot air balloon, and when everything was loaded onto the carriage, cover it with a tarpaulin. Then the horse departed, while Cao Xiong left a thousand troops on standby, and the task of this thousand Japanese was to find an opportunity to knock out the two hot air balloons of the Dongjiang Army that arrived again.

Cao Xiong quickly left, and the 1,000 volleys left behind were already in place, and at this moment, the naked eye could see two hot air balloons slowly floating in the air.

The ambushed Japanese army had already prepared ten arrows aimed at the hot air balloon of the Dongjiang army.

The hot air balloon in the air did not detect the ambush of the Japanese at the foot of the hillside, and still maintained a slow speed to search below.

"Whew......"

When the hot air balloon approached the hillside, suddenly, ten arrows shot out, and the target went straight to the two hot air balloons in the air.

But this time the Japanese did not get their wish, and they all saw that the arrows that shot out could not reach the hot air balloon in the air. When they were stunned one by one, the Dongjiang Army in the air had already discovered the place where the Japanese were hiding. After all, everyone could see the movement of the arrow just now.

The hot air balloon, which had been slowly flying, suddenly accelerated, and when it reached the sky above the place where the Japanese army was hiding, the jar of fierce fire oil and explosives fell like raindrops.

In an instant, the entire foot of the hillside was turned into a sea of fire. The widows who were hiding in it were rolling on fire one by one, apparently trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies by rolling on the ground.

But these fires were ignited by fierce fire oil, and the wishes of these would-be pirates were doomed to fail. No matter how they rolled, the flames on their bodies did not diminish at all.

Throwing away all the things they were carrying, looking at the chaotic Japanese army at the foot of the hillside, the Dongjiang army knew that there were no more Japanese who were hiding. One of the balloons stayed behind, while the other began to return, apparently to inform Mao Wenlong.

The fire burned fiercely down the hillside, and billowing black smoke rose into the sky. Mao Wenlong, who was ten miles away, immediately saw it, he frowned, and already knew that the fight had started there.

Fortunately, the hot air balloons sent out are for reconnaissance purposes, and they can fly to places where arrows can't hit them. After learning that the Wako had something to shoot down the hot air balloon. Mao Wenlong already knew that the Japanese must have obtained the arrows from the Yi people, and Mao Wenlong was still worried that the Japanese would upgrade the arrows of the Yi people.

But now it seems that he completely overestimated the IQ of the Wako, after all, these advanced things were not made by the Wako themselves. Now they can imitate it in such a short time, which is not easy, and it is obviously too early to talk about upgrading.

Removing the worry in his heart, Mao Wenlong's expression gradually eased. At this moment, the returning hot air balloon has arrived, and the vast man who received the flag ran to the Manchu old file with a happy face, and said: "Chief soldier, all those Japanese have been killed, but the number is wrong, it seems that there are still Japanese who have fled, should we immediately send troops to chase and kill?" ”

Mao Wenlong hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "No need, it's too late to go out to pursue now." Now that they're here, they won't just leave. The order went down and informed the whole city that from now on the whole city will be under martial law, and always be vigilant to prevent a sneak attack by the Japanese invaders. ”

"Yes, Commander!" After the great surrender, he wanted to leave.

"Slow down, immediately send out a hot air balloon to inform the other cities, so that they can be more vigilant against the Japanese invaders. At the same time, everyone was informed that the Japanese had something that could shoot down the hot air balloon. Mao Wenlong calmly ordered.