Chapter 283

When the balloon landed safely, everyone rushed up.

The red warbler rushed to the front. Seeing that the people inside were not dead, he immediately caught him out and shouted in surprise: "my husband, people are not dead, but still alive..."

"Really not dead!"

"Tell me, what did you see in the sky just now?"

The crowd gathered around and saw that the craftsman was alive and kicking, just like nobody else. They looked at him curiously, and then asked one after another. They looked nervous and expected.

Qin Huan whispered to himself that he was only more than 100 meters tall. If someone died, he would fart.

"How's it going? How does it feel? "

"Go back... Go back to the king. There's nothing unusual about Xiao Shangtian. I just feel that the wind is a little strong. The people below are getting smaller. By the way, the little one also sees Xiangyang City on the south bank."

The craftsman's name was Wang Xiaowu. He was only 20 years old this year. As he spoke, his excited face turned red.

"Xianggong, I also want to sit up and try, can I?"

"King..."

As the red warbler took the lead in opening his mouth, everyone else was eager to try and look at Qin Huan. Even Li Yan and the literati wanted to experience the feeling of flying in the sky.

"Not yet, but also in the test, and so on!"

Qin Huan waved his hand. Although there was a rope tied, there was no danger, but if the rope broke, it would be dead.

After all, they have no experience in how to operate the descent, and how many people can sit in the hot-air balloon has to be verified, so they don't want to take risks.

The people immediately looked disappointed.

Qin Huan and the craftsmen were busy again. They put the balloon into the sky and then lowered it. They had a lot of fun.

However, in the afternoon, although Hong Ying and the generals were still watching with interest, Li Yan and the literati were somewhat depressed. It was obvious that their curiosity had passed.

Qin Huan could only lament about this. Finally, he knew why ancient science could not develop.

After the hot-air balloon test flight was successful, Qin Huan ordered large-scale manufacturing.

It even plans to set up a special department to develop hot-air balloons for improvement in the future. After all, the hot-air balloons made now are too rough.

In addition to the fact that the rise and fall can be controlled, the direction and speed depend entirely on the wind, and the load capacity is too small, only 300 kg. In addition to people and oil, there is only 100 kg at most. The dead time is too short, so it is not very practical.

Of course, you can make it bigger, but it's too time-consuming and labor-consuming, and the bigger it is, the more difficult it is.

In Xiangyang City, Yang Sichang frowned every day when he saw that the thief army had not launched an attack for half a month.

Not only did he not relax at all, but he was more vigilant.

"Jiang Hua, what's unusual about the thief army these days?"

"Back to the hall, there was nothing unusual. There was no sign of troops being divided, nor did it look like attacking the city."

"It's strange. It's reasonable to say that the thief army should not delay!"

Yang Sichang paced back and forth, but he still couldn't figure out the plan of the thief army. He had to strengthen his vigilance and sent someone to Nanzhang to give orders to Baokang.

But the next day, Yang Sichang also wanted to sleep in as usual, but suddenly heard the alarm bell, got up and rushed to the city.

"What's going on?"

"Back to the hall, the thief army should attack the city today."

Hearing the speech, Yang Sichang hurriedly climbed up the tower with his official clothes, put up a shed and looked down.

Sure enough, the bandits in the distance were pushing ladder after ladder out of the camp, and the soldiers were gathering quickly. They were happy and nervous at the same time.

Because all the troops assembled this time are soldiers in Chinese military uniforms, it is obvious that the thief army is coming.

An hour later, hundreds of ladders were pushed beyond the wall, followed by a red cannon and a Fran machine gun.

"Is Feitian camp ready?"

King Qin stood at the top of a ladder and couldn't wait to see the tall Xiangyang City Wall in front of him.

"Back to the king, still inflating."

"Well, then wait. I'll see if the men in the city will pee."

Qin Huan looked behind him and said.

In the past half a month, he has made 20 hot-air balloons, selected 20 short craftsmen to drive, and named them Feitian camp.

Each person carried three 50 Jin powder bags and hung them outside the basket. At that time, just light the lead and cut off the rope. The lead has also been repeatedly tested to ensure that it can accurately explode at the head of the city in less than three seconds.

When the balloons inflated a hundred feet outside the city floated, the defenders at the head of the city were silly.

"This... This... This is Kong Mingdeng?"

"The thief army has made so many such big Kong Mingdeng!"

Yang Sichang was also surprised to open his mouth, but only for a moment he stabilized his mind and began to guess the other party's intention.

"Those Kongming lanterns floated by."

"Look, there seems to be someone up there..."

"Oh, my God!"

As 20 hot-air balloons slowly floated to the head of the city, the city wall suddenly fell into a riot. Both soldiers and officers scrambled to put their heads out and look around. Two people were squeezed off the wall and fell to death.

"Bu... Bu Tang, there is really someone on the Kongming lamp. How is this possible? How can people fly to heaven?"

Chen Hongfan pointed to the nearest one, trembling.

As the balloon floated closer and closer, the people in the city saw it. For a time, the whole Xiangyang City was in a panic.

Countless people rushed out of the house, looked up, or climbed up the ladder to the roof.

"Princess Ai, why are you so flustered?"

"Wang... Lord, there are some big objects floating in the sky. It is said that there are people on it. The people are scrambling to watch, and there is a mess in the house."

"Oh!"

King Xiang was surprised when he heard the speech. Ignoring the frightened look of the princess, he quickly walked out.

When the hot-air balloon was only a hundred steps away from the city, Yang Sichang finally responded and said anxiously, "come on, shoot down all the Kongming lights."

The soldiers bent their bows and arrows one after another and put arrows into the sky, but they immediately found that they couldn't reach them at all.

"Ha ha, the dog officers and soldiers below have the guts to shoot me down!" Wang Xiaowu bent down and looked at the officers and soldiers at the head of the city below. He was happy and laughed.

The other people on the basket were also excited and scolded.

Then he took out the rope and threw it down. A stone was tied to one end of the rope, just 100 meters long. Until it was determined that the stone fell on the head of the city and the length of the rope was just right, they took out a red flag and waved it several times.

The craftsmen 300 meters away immediately fixed the rope and no longer put it. Because the north wind blew, after the rope was fixed, hot-air balloons floated about 100 meters above the city.

As like as two peas.

"Come on, pull the rope and pull them off."

Although Yang Sichang didn't know what the other party was going to do, when he saw the Kongming lanterns floating above his head, he also had a bad feeling. When he saw them put down the rope, he immediately roared.

When officers and soldiers heard the speech, they immediately scrambled to pull on the rope.

But the rope was not fixed to the hot-air balloon at all, and it fell off as soon as it was pulled.