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The news of the death of Kuha, the commander of the barbarian tribe and the dissolution of the 10,000-strong army, reached the governor's mansion in just one day, and Niu Bente asked the post station to report the war to Qingzhou overnight.

"Okay, Niu Ben fought a beautiful field annihilation battle outside Yunzhou City, according to what he said, this loss is almost negligible, and it is a real victory."

In the governor's mansion, Xiao Ming handed over the battle report to Zhan Xingchang.

Tsai carefully studied the news on the battle report, Zhan Xingchang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It seems that the flintlock pistol combined with this formation can allow the Qingzhou army to fight against the barbarians in the field, 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 he would go to Jizhou after a few days of repair, and the mixed application of the hollow phalanx and the car array made him a lot bolder." Xiao Ming said.

"Your Highness, the lower officials feel that there is no need to let General Niu Ben go to Jizhou immediately, Chagatai's troops still have an advantage, and once we go out of Jizhou, our logistics will be stretched, at this time Jizhou is full of chaotic people, and the threat to the transportation line is very great, if the transportation line is cut off by the barbarians and or the chaotic people, our soldiers will be in danger, this time it is true to rush to Jizhou, but it is also true to preserve the strength."

Xiao Ming nodded, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army are not afraid of fighting, they are afraid that they will run out of food and grass when the time comes.

If Chagatai encircled the Qingzhou army and did not attack, the army would face a desperate situation within ten days.

"And what do you think?" Xiao Ming asked Zhan Xingchang if he was still good at the ancient art of power scheming.

"Waiting for the forbidden army and the army of the king of Wei to act together, so that the army of the king of Wei will protect our grain and grass in the rear, this time the king of Wei will definitely be the same as last time, just go through the motions, let them go to the forward, they will naturally refuse, but if they are allowed to protect the transportation line, they will naturally not push it off." 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 the "mountain" battalion, who doesn't know that this is the worst army of the King of Wei. ”

"So, this time in Jizhou's predicament, 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, how could the Great Yu Kingdom resist the barbarians.

"I'm afraid so." Zhan Xingchang said: "And Chagatai is only a striker, if Bei Shan comes again at this time, the Qingzhou army will be in trouble this time." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Ming sighed, this time Niu Ben brought out basically all his elites, he didn't want to lose all his soldiers, just as Zhan Xingchang said, he wanted to rush to Jizhou, but he also had to save himself, and he couldn't be used as a gun for others.

is as cunning as King Wei, and every time he would rather pay money and be lazy to go to the army.

However, in Xiao Ming's opinion, it may not be a good thing to let the Qingzhou Army hone it, 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 let Niu Ben wait for the army of King Wei, and then go to Jizhou together to relieve Jizhou's difficulties.

At the same time, he once again instructed the matter of guiding the victims into Qingzhou.

He felt more and more that the population was the fighting power, and the population was the productive forces, otherwise the population of the fiefdom would not be enough to support the attrition of the war.

This is the sorrow of a country with a small population in the face of a large population, and when the difference in the generation of weapons is not very large, the use of crowd tactics is enough to destroy the other side.

And now the population of their own fiefdom is not much, only a quarter of the barbarians, and this does not include the barbarian slaves.

The difference in comprehensive strength is too great, which is why he is crazy about the population.

These people also lived a very miserable life under the rule of King Yong, and they could not give full play to the advantage of population, and it was different when they arrived in his fiefdom.

It can not only provide reserve soldiers for its own army, but 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 dragged down by war.

As he was writing, a noisy sound suddenly came to mind outside the governor's mansion.

A guard suddenly ran in and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, something strange has appeared in the sky. ”

"Heavenly?" Xiao Ming was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly he laughed, and said to Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang both showed interested looks.

The three of them went out.

I saw that the people on the street stopped one after another, pointed their fingers to the sky, and kept whispering.

At this time, a large gray balloon was moving slowly in the sky, and the balloon was about fifty meters above the ground.

But the 10-meter diameter of the balloon makes it look huge, and you can see it moving anywhere in Qingzhou.

"Your Highness, what is this!" Zhan Xingchang was shocked.

The officials of the Great Chongqing State are still strong in feudal superstition, and at this time they can't help but associate hot air balloons with gods and ghosts.

I saw Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang's faces pale.

And some of the people in the streets even kept praying with their hands folded in front of the heavens.

"What are you nervous about, this is a hot air balloon, something made by the students of Bowen Academy." 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 that tied the hot air balloon was still hanging low.

He realized something, maybe the hot air balloon broke free from the rope during the experiment and flew away on its own.

Sure enough, his idea came true, and Lin Wentao soon appeared on the street, running and jumping trying to grab the rope on the hot air balloon.

The students of the School of Physics also followed behind Lin Wentao, shouting and shouting, "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, and the hot air balloon fuel used by Lin Wentao was tung oil.

Tung oil can not only be coated with wood to prevent corrosion, but also is the fuel for oil lamps, and there are still many practical tung oil lamps in many modern rural areas.

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 are practical, using straw and other combustibles to heat the gas in the hot air balloon.

This kind of hot air balloon floats in the air for only about 20 minutes, and the distance of flying out is only about 20 miles.

Now, Lin Wentao uses the method of heating tung oil under the hot air balloon to make the hot air balloon fly farther.

However, the combustion value of tung oil is not as good as that of propane gas later, so the tung oil he added also made the range of the hot air balloon about five times at most.

No way, when natural gas and propane were not made, the restrictions on hot air balloons were here.

(To be continued.) )