In the past two days, Kebi can feel a little inexplicable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lu Ren made a detailed analysis of Kebineng, and Zhao Yu relayed this analysis to Cao Zhang. Generally speaking, Lu Ren's analysis is basically correct, that is to say, although Kebineng led the crowd to attack Cao Zhang, and after defeating Cao Zhang, he led the crowd to attack Juyong Pass, but Kebineng really didn't have any big thoughts, or Kebineng didn't dare to have any big thoughts.

Kebi can take in a lot of Han people, so he has a better understanding of the situation in the Central Plains, so for such a strong figure as Lao Cao, Kebi can know that he can never afford to provoke. And now stationed outside Juyong Pass, as analyzed by Tong Lu Ren, the main reason is to see if there is a chance to go to the northern border to get a handful. Even if you can't get it, you have to let Lao Cao Xiaocao see the strength of his side, and then you can ask Lao Cao for more benefits.

Another thing that Lu Ren did not fully analyze is that after Kebi Neng took advantage of this army and killed Neng Chendi, he was also famous among the many tribes in the northern grasslands, which could make many tribes rush to join him and further expand Kebi Neng's strength. When the strength grows, the waist pole will be hard, so isn't there more things that Kebi can do? And now stationed in the Juyongguan area, it is nothing more than setting a rallying point for those tribes who are interested in coming to take refuge. It's not easy to set up a rallying point in the northern grasslands.

Therefore, for Juyong Pass, in addition to the fact that Kebineng's offensive was quite decent at the beginning, the later attacks were simply nonsense, after all, Kebineng didn't want to suffer too big losses. And as the number of tribes that have taken refuge in them gradually increases, Kebineng also wants to take this opportunity to integrate well.

Let's not talk about these, anyway, Kebi Neng has been really inexplicable in the past two days, because in the past two days, some strange octagonal palace lamps will float from the sky over Juyong Pass. There are so many that every two or three hours there will be three or two of them, about twenty or thirty feet from the main ground, during the day and at night.

It's not enough to arrive in the daytime, but at night, the lights of these octagonal palace lamps floating in the sky are like ghosts and ghosts floating in the night sky. And at the beginning, Ke Bineng was also scared, thinking that this was some master over there in Juyong Pass who was performing witchcraft, but witchcraft is witchcraft, why do you come during the day? Although people at that time were generally superstitious, they all knew that it would not be haunted during the day, right?

Let's talk about these octagonal palace lanterns, basically they start to land while floating, sometimes they fall in front of the camp, sometimes they fall in the middle of the camp, and sometimes they simply float to the back of the camp. Anyway, after two days, there are not many octagonal palace lamps on the whole, and there are them everywhere.

To say that there are not a few people who are frightened by the nomadic tribes on Kebineng's side, but aren't there some Han children under Kebineng's command? Their resistance to ghosts and gods is much stronger than that of the nomadic tribes, so some people picked up these octagonal lanterns and saw that they were lanterns with a unique shape, and the rest were nothing special.

And there will be no less bold people in the nomadic tribes, and the nomadic tribes are generally good at shooting, and there are many people who directly bend the bow and arrow to shoot through the octagonal palace lamp. So in the end, everyone got together and discussed it carefully, thinking that these octagonal palace lamps were useless, and most of them were released by Juyong Pass to scare people. Then someone threw the octagonal lanterns into the fire, and then ...... There's no more to say.

It's just that despite this, Kebineng felt that there must be some purpose for Ju Yongguan to make these things, but these octagonal palace lamps, which have no lethality at all, have not caused any casualties at all. Could it be that Juyongguan is really just playing tricks with these things?

As soon as he thought of this, Kebineng looked at the two well-preserved octagonal palace lamps hanging in his tent. Not to mention, this thing is not beautifully shaped, but in the center of the lamp there is a transparent glass cylinder about four inches in diameter.

A glass cylinder is a glass tube that looks like a water cup but does not have a bottom. And when some of the octagonal palace lamps fell and were picked up by Kebineng, there was a wooden base under the glass cylinder, and there were traces of burned candles on the base. Aren't there Han people under Kebineng's command? Some of them collected the remaining wax that had been recovered, and reluctantly made a few more candles, and then put them back into the octagonal palace lamp as they were and lit them, and everyone realized that the glass cylinder was originally used to prevent wind. After the candle in the octagonal palace lamp was lit, it slowly floated up after a while, but some of them floated up, and some of them couldn't. Anyway, a lot of people are puzzled by this.

If Lu Ren or Zhao Yu were present, they might have been told after checking that what could float up was the intact octagonal palace lamp, and those that could not float were basically shot down by the nomadic tribe with arrows, because the lamp film above the octagonal palace lamp was broken by arrows and could not gather heat......

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Okay, okay, in fact, these weird octagonal palace lamps are the so-called "Kong Ming lanterns" in later generations, and the legend is that Zhuge Liang made them out. But it wasn't Zhuge Liang who made it clear? The children of Huaxia all have a saint complex, and some outstanding things like to be labeled as saints, but in fact, they often have nothing to do with these saints. For example, the Zhaozhou Bridge, which is said to have been built by Luban, but in fact?

These are not, of course, Lu Ren put out the Kong Ming lantern not for fun, but has his own practical purpose.

In the blink of an eye, in the second watch of this night, on a certain hill next to Juyong Pass, Zhao Yu and Lu Lingqi were leading a large group of people who were busy with things. Zhao Yu still had a pen and a small notebook in his hands, calculating something very carefully, while Lu Lingqi was helping Zhao Yu with a flashlight on the side.

I don't know how long it has passed, a certain relative came to Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu, and reported in a low voice: "The ten wind lanterns released before, according to their logos, Nos. 1 to 3 floated to the back of the village of Kebineng Camp, No. 4 to No. 8 fell in the village, and ninety two were not far from the front of the village. ”

Zhao Yu nodded and looked at Lu Lingqi. Lu Lingqi understood, took out the ribbon and compass to test the wind direction and strength, and then said to Zhao Yu: "The wind direction and wind force have not changed much. Xiaoyu, can you do it? ”

Zhao Yu looked at the relevant records in his notebook again, nodded again, and said, "It's okay." The order went down, and all the lamps and candles were cut off by an inch and a quarter, and then the lights were lit. ”

With the order given, the hill was filled with the sound of "swish" matches smoking. Well, it's a match, Lu Ren's musket and artillery can be made, if you can't get a gadget like a match, then it's better to jump Alishan. In fact, matches, which are easy to use for fire, are currently one of the most popular civilian items in Yizhou's foreign trade.

It's far away again, stop. Anyway, it didn't take long for a large area of wind lanterns to ...... That is, the Kong Ming lantern gradually rose into the air, and the hasty calculation will pass, how to say that there are as many as 14500 lights. At this moment, on the top of the mountain, the soldiers are also carefully pulling the floating wind lantern with silk threads, and carefully adjusting the direction according to the direction of the wind.

"First team, disconnected!"

"Second team, disconnected!!"

"The third team, the disconnected !!"

With these orders issued, the silk threads that pulled the wind lanterns were cut, and the wind lanterns began to float towards the camp of Kebineng, thirty miles away. And that's 14,500 lanterns! It appeared in the night sky and floated into the distance, dazzling as the stars in the night sky. Of course, it's not eye-catching.

At this juncture, Cao Zhang and Tian Chou were also watching with binoculars. When they saw that this large piece of wind lantern finally rose into the sky and floated towards Kebineng's camp, they all glanced at each other in confusion, and they didn't understand what Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu were trying to do in the past few days. You must know that as allies, they also know the structure of these wind lanterns very well, but such wind lanterns seem to be of little use except for fun.

Thirty Han li, about 12.5 kilometers of the modern metric system, according to the wind direction and wind strength tonight, it will take about two hours for these wind lanterns to float to the camp area of Kebineng. In these two hours, Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu had already returned to Juyongguan, moved a ladder and climbed to the roof of the city gate tower, and each took their high-quality telescopes to visit Kebineng.

Cao Zhang and Tian Yu couldn't care about their identity as the main generals because they really couldn't figure out their minds, so they also climbed up and sat next to Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu, wanting to probe some breath from their mouths. However, Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu just laughed and didn't answer.

Finally, the four or five hundred wind lanterns finally floated to the sky above Kebineng's camp, which naturally alarmed the night sentinels on Kebineng's side, and then immediately reported to Kebineng and the leaders. Kebi was also puzzled when he saw this, because in the past few days, this kind of wind lantern was always floating in twos and threes, but nothing had happened, and there seemed to be nothing to make a fuss about, at least some people held this idea. But Kebineng is a person with some brains after all, seeing that the wind lanterns that were so scattered before, but now they appear on such a large scale, I intuitively feel that something bad will happen, but what will it be?

Looking at these wind lanterns, some of them may be due to the quality of the candles, or because the soldiers cut a little too much when they cut them short, and floated to the ground in advance without the follow-up hot air support, and their landing points will most likely be in front of the Kebineng camp. But at this moment, no one noticed that although these wind lanterns that had floated to the ground in advance were no longer candlelight, there was a long line of breath that had been lit, and the dark red breath fire was hissing towards something.

Finally, when someone couldn't bear it anymore and ran out of the camp to pick up the wind lanterns that were about to fall to the ground, these wind lanterns were finally no longer as "gentle" as in the previous days, but raging...... Exploded!

The first bang sounded, and some unlucky guy who wanted to take over the wind lantern was blown upside down by the shock wave of the wind lamp explosion, and after rolling on the ground for a few times, he died on the spot under the blur of flesh and blood. But before the others could react, one after another wind lanterns began a series of explosions, and the endless roaring sound sounded in the front, middle and back of the Kebineng camp.

This time, it wasn't that Kebineng was surprised, but that the entire Kebineng's camp was blown up...... This explosion refers not to the explosion of the wind lantern, but to the explosion of nerves in people's hearts. The most important thing is not only the nerves in the hearts of the people, but the nerves of the large number of horses in the whole camp have also exploded. They are all nomadic tribes, and there will be fewer horses? Will there be fewer cows? Will there be fewer sheep? Without horses, they have no ability to move and fight, and without cattle and sheep, then what do they eat? But how could the horses, cattle and sheep of that era be subjected to such a huge and continuous explosion?

14,500 lanterns means that there will be more than 1,000 loud noises. To be honest, for a nomadic camp with tens of thousands of horses, the coverage of this loud noise of more than 1,000 sounds is very small. But when these loud noises frightened the huge numbers of cattle, sheep and horses, it was no joke. And you have to know that the horses of these nomadic tribes basically do not have a fence, and tens of thousands of horses, so many nomadic tribes can't do it even if they want to, because they don't have the corresponding conditions.

So the horses blew up the camp, followed by the herds of cattle and sheep, and the whole camp was scattered like headless flies, and countless people were trampled to death in their path.

It's not that people don't want to stop it, it's that so many cattle, sheep and horses can't be stopped so easily, and second, why don't these loud noises scare people a lot? The people themselves panicked, and then the cattle, sheep, and horses were in a panic, and the whole camp became a mess. Even if there are people who are still calm, they want to work hard to calm people down, but how can the herds of cattle, sheep and horses be controlled?

Then, in the midst of this vast chaos, it was not surprising that there were fires everywhere in the camp. Some of them were lit by the wind lanterns that ignited the hay when they exploded on the ground, but those were very few after all...... You have to know that it's late at night, and the lighting at night is nothing more than torches, braziers, and so on. And when the cattle, sheep and horses were frightened by the loud noise of the explosion and began to run around, many lighting fires were inevitably knocked down and kicked over by the cattle, sheep and horses, and then brought up sparks, igniting the nearby flammable objects. Even if you have that heart, you can't withstand the chaotic rush of cattle, sheep and horses, let alone the crazy stampede that follows.

Between coming and going, Kebineng's entire camp has completely fallen into an uncontrollable chaos. On the other side, although Cao Zhang and Tian Yu on Juyong were far away, they borrowed the high-quality telescopes of Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu, and barely saw the situation in the Kebineng camp more than ten kilometers away, and they were so shocked that their mouths couldn't close. And after a long time, Cao Zhang suddenly said angrily: "Since this is the case, the two of you should let me prepare early!" The village is so chaotic, if I lead the people to take advantage of the chaos to raid, I will definitely be able to fight it! ”

Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu glanced at each other, and shook their heads helplessly. To be honest, neither of them expected such an outcome...... To be more precise, the main purpose of Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu to play the Wind Lantern this time was actually just to take this opportunity to test the weapon that Lu Ren handed over to Zhao Yu and collect relevant data. And then Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu always have a bit of a girl's heart, to put it bluntly, they just want to play a prank.

Speaking of wind lanterns...... Can the Wind Lamp explode? Of course, the lantern itself cannot explode. To be precise, these wind-resisting lanterns are actually the improved version of Kongming lanterns here in Lu Ren, but thanks to Lu Ren's excellent conditions, the actual level of these wind-resisting lanterns is close to that of a small hot air balloon.

However, even the hot air balloon itself has no attack power at all, so to speak, the load capacity of the wind lantern itself is quite limited, and if you put too many things, you will definitely not be able to float, if it is measured according to the standards of the time, the wind lantern has no effect at all. But Lu Ren also had the ingenuity to think of tying the explosives into the wind lantern. You must know that Lu Ren's current gunpowder technology is still okay, if it is just a simple cannon battle...... It's really a cannon battle, because according to the load capacity of the wind lantern, it can only be tied to four cannon sticks at most, but it has a certain explosive strength, and the power is smaller than that of modern detonators/tubes.

In fact, unless the cannons carried by these wind lanterns are quite lethal unless they blow people up at close range. But for Lu Ren, this is also the only way he can organize the aerial bombardment at present. Even if you can't kill a few people, there is still psychological pressure on the other party. Especially for some fixed targets, such as cities and passes, if there is nothing to do, let some go over, even if you can't kill a few people, you can make the other party unpeaceful day and night. And for Lu Ren, the cost of this thing is actually very low.

But there are too many uncontrollable factors in this thing, and they are too limited by the climatic conditions. Like the direction of the wind, the strength of the wind or something, you can't be sloppy at all, if there is any sudden change, then it is you who will be bombed. This is why before this "night attack", Zhao Yu would calculate again and again, and also release a lot of unloaded wind lanterns. The previous wind lanterns, to put it bluntly, were used by Zhao Yu to collect relevant data, and by the way, they were confused by Kebineng.

It wasn't until the accurate calculation of the data was completed that Zhao Yu released all the wind lanterns at hand and carried out a formal "group lantern dance" on Kebineng's camp. But still in that sentence, Zhao Yu and Lu Lingqi were collecting actual combat data according to Lu Ren's requirements, and secondly, they had the intention of being a little girl prank, but they never expected that there would be such a big effect, and they actually blew up the entire camp of Kebineng.

Not to mention that they didn't expect it, even Lu Ren himself might not have imagined such a result. You must know that according to Lu Ren's assumption, that is, when he is in actual combat one day, he will release 12,000 bullets in one breath, and then tens of thousands of cannons will explode on the ground, which will have a certain killing effect. The 2,000 wind lanterns that were shipped to Zhao Yu and Lu Lingqi this time were just for Zhao Yu to test and collect data......

(I feel like this chapter is graying off...... (To be continued.) )