Chapter 9: The Sound of the Drums Fills China (6)

[The next chapter is still before one o'clock in the afternoon.] 】

The snow finally stopped, after two days of intermittent fall, and the cold wind that traveled through the valley never stopped.

The mountain wind blew up the fine snow on the ground, whirring and whirling, turning into a cloud of white shadows, running a hundred and ten paces with the wind, and then suddenly, scattered without a trace in a field of white snow.

The fence at the front of the Song military camp is only half a mile away from Luowu City, where tens of thousands of people are stationed, and the military village under the city. A foot of snow covered the surface, and the open space between the two armies was not trampled on, and it was almost a complete white snow.

Only a messy snow trail against the northwest mountain wall, and a dark brown mark, which was the remnants of the two hundred elite thieves who came to steal the camp last night after being shot by the long-awaited Song army's ten thousand arrows - their severed heads, which were now hanging high on the fence one by one, and their empty eyes were facing the place where they were sent to die.

Under normal circumstances, this is only a half-mile-wide dividing line, and both sides should release dozens of elite ranger shuttles to patrol it, and see where the other party is negligent, so they can take advantage of the situation to take a bite like a vulture, so as to boost their own morale and suppress the opponent's military morale. It's just that in the thick snow, any kind of ranger will turn into a slow turtle, and the bad luck is to be surrounded and killed in the snow, and neither side has the heart to release its own elite to send it to death.

It's only half a mile away, but it's only one hundred and eighty steps, if you shoot an arrow in the direction of Luo Wu City with a divine arm bow, as long as the six-inch wooden feather short arrow is not swept away by the wind, most of them can fall to the head of the city. It is also true that some soldiers do this, clearly bullying the party for lacking a heavy crossbow that can shoot from a distance, and from time to time they shoot a little, although the falling arrows can no longer hurt anyone, but they can also cause a little chaos in the defenders.

Of course, soldiers who can use the Divine Arm Bow at will, instead of having to wait for military orders to pull their teeth, among the 20,000 Song troops under Luowu City, there is only one commander of the Elective Army.

The selection of Yan Yanlu wears a red jacket on weekdays, a brocade belt is tied around the waist, and the waist knives across are rare goods made by good craftsmen. Now they gathered behind the fence, the red jacket brocade belt was still worn on their bodies, but on the outside they were dressed in a refined plate armor that was different from ordinary soldiers, with arm and leg guards, with a beautiful copper color on them, and a short cloak as red as blood behind them, worn on the iron helmet above their heads, and a ball of red tassels proudly raised high.

This group of drafters just sat and stood normally, but they were already majestic. The arrogance shown by one of the pawns was comparable to that of an officer known for his bravery in the Forbidden Army. If you lift the seven-foot Mo knife on your side again, the faint blue cold light on the blade that kills the war horse with one blow reflects the snow light, and suddenly a cold murderous aura comes to your face. This is a group of warriors carefully selected from tens of thousands of troops along the way to attack the city, and it is also a force used to change the tide of the battle in the hands of the cultivators.

However, they had nothing to do now, except for a few people who were idle and shot twice at the head of Luowu City or the military fortress under the city, and most of them still looked at the open space behind them.

Just in the middle of the clearing, Chongpu raised his head: "The wind seems to be a little stronger, can you go up in this weather?" ”

"It's not too windy today, it's okay." Chong Jianzhong shouted at the front, "Tie the rope tightly, and nail the drill into the ground by two more inches!" Don't let anyone fly into the sky before they get in! ”

Just in the direction that the sergeant of Xuanfeng was watching, that is, in front of Chong Jianzhong and Chong Pu, a bonfire was burning. The heat that burst through the fire dispelled the chill around it, and the little snow that remained after the camp was cleared also melted away.

More of the heat is poured into a huge air bag. Under the gaze of thousands of eyes, the air sac swelled little by little, floating upward. It was only one ship that was heating up, but there were two more ships parked next to it. After a while, these ships will alternately float into the sky. One is about to fall, and the next one will immediately rise to the sky, which can continue to solidify the enemy's situation.

The outer side of the airbag of the spaceship is painted with five colors, and one by one it is vivid. With a bloody mouth, his eyes widened, and his face was hideous, and he wanted to choose someone to eat.

The ships provided to Yan Yanlu by the Ordnance Supervisor were all plain and unadorned. Han Gang also had no intention of making some bells and whistles to decorate.

However, as soon as the spaceship fell into the hands of the planters, it immediately changed its appearance. In the eyes of the planters, it would be too wasteful to use the spaceship as a nest car. The ghosts flying in the sky, and under the command of the officers and soldiers, this is a sharp weapon that can beat the morale of the Western Thieves to the end.

It took half an hour to heat up, and the airbag finally took off completely, and the basket, which was connected by dozens of ropes, was torn off the ground. However, it was tied to the ground by a cable, and it was only a few inches above the ground.

At the urging of the military academy in charge of the spaceship's affairs, a lean and capable soldier immediately climbed into the basket nimbly.

Chong Jianzhong looked at the back in the spaceship basket a little unwillingly. He was a great man, and although he didn't have a trace of fat on his body, he still weighed too much. When he was in the capital, because he wanted to maintain the stability and dignity of civil officials, he greedily watched as one by one military generals jumped onto the spaceship and then took to the sky. After he arrived in Yanzhou, the first thing he did when he was free was to immediately take a spaceship to the sky and watch the scenery of Yanzhou City for a few days. But now it's wartime, there is no room for weight to be wasted, and even if there is more thought in the construction of the plant, he can only stare dryly.

In the center of the basket was an oil-fired stove more than four feet high. As soon as the scout flipped into the basket, he immediately lit a fire. The flames that rise maintain the temperature of the hot air in the airbags. Although it is not possible to lift the ship directly from this furnace, it can already double the spacecraft's time in the air.

Under the command of the ship's commander, the cable gradually loosened. One by one, the sandbags hanging outside the basket were unraveled, and with each drop of the sandbags, the spaceship leaped upward. It's like a frog that has been placed in front of the steps, jumping step by step. And the people who were watching the spaceship also raised their heads little by little.

The huge airbag dragged the basket and the Song Army scouts inside the basket like this, and jumped into the sky. From a height of nearly 30 zhang, looking down on the city and the military fortress not far away, you can see every move in the walled city.

When the beast head spaceship took off in the array of the Song army, there was obviously a commotion on the head of Luo Wu City. Even if there were a few people in the high-level of the party who had heard that the Song people had a ship that could fly in the sky, they would not have had the opportunity to see the real thing in person, let alone the soldiers below who didn't know anything.

In the old years, Di Qing was as handsome as a woman, so when he went into battle, he wore a bronze ghost face on his face, and his cape charged into battle, which made the Western Xia army in front of him feel terrified. The fierce general with the bronze ghost face back then is now long gone, but the evil beasts flying in the sky now are even more terrifying than Di Qing back then.

Wei Ming, who commanded the soldiers and horses in the city, looked at the monster with a huge mouth in the sky, and his hands and feet were cold. He knew that there would be no good results for him to get to this position, and he wanted to be transferred back to Xingqing Mansion several times, but he was blocked back. In the past two years, I have burned incense, and I can't imagine that there will be more

"What kind of monster is this?!" He screamed.

"It's a spaceship." The staff next to Wei Ming Ah Bury reminded.

"This is the ship?" Wei Ming's mind was a little more settled, since he came to Luowu City, for his nickname, he tried his best to inquire about the movements of the Song people, and he had heard of the term spaceship.

The staff nodded vigorously: "Walk in the void, ride the wind, this must be a spaceship!" ”

"Pass the order, let the soldiers not panic, it's just that the Song people have weapons!" Wei Ming Ah Bury immediately gave the order. It's just that he told the people below not to panic, but his own voice was trembling. The Song people can fly into the sky, what is the use of the city wall, they can fly to the top of their heads in a blink of an eye, "By the way, you have to shoot down, let people hurry up and ...... Shoot down the spaceship! ”

The Western Xia archers on the head of Luo Wucheng City aimed at the spaceships in the sky and shot them one after another. It's just that this is a complete waste of arrows, and no bow can shoot a ship that is much higher than a dozen stories of pagodas. Tired of looking at it with his neck up, the arrows flew into the air and fell one after another. If you insist on saying it, only the Song army can shoot down the spaceship in the sky by relying on the bed crossbow of the sharp weapon to defend the city.

Taking advantage of the chaos in Luowu City, the Song army pushed one thunderbolt cannon after another to the front. More than 60 huge catapults put on a mighty formation in front of the city walled city, which made the defenders at the head of the city frightened. The planter also raised the flag and plunged firmly into the snow. The 20,000 Song soldiers all cheered loudly, accompanied by the sudden sound of war drums, like thunder and tsunami, causing the snow in the nearby mountains to collapse.

A bamboo tube was dropped from the spaceship and landed with a thud. Immediately someone stepped forward to pick it up, turned around and sent it to the planter. Pulling out the note in the bamboo tube, he opened it and looked up, and looked up at Luo Wu City, "The western thieves in the city actually didn't move. ”

"I still don't dare to come out and fight hard. Did the people of the Wei family scare the Liang brothers and sisters? Chong Pu snorted coldly.

Sixty thunderbolt cannons were parked outside the village, and no one was sent out to guard the village, even if they knew that there would be traps in the road, they should come out and try their luck to see if they could burn a few, why didn't there even move at all?

"They're definitely going to come out." He didn't say anything more, but found a guard to give him two orders, and asked him to run to give orders, and he stood under the banner and waited quietly.