Chapter 337

In Qingzhou, the war news in front of him was continuously delivered to the palace of king Qi through the post station on the official road.

Kuha, the commander of the barbarians, died in the war, and the news of the collapse of the ten thousand troops was only one day passed to the governor's house. Niuzhen sent the war report to Qingzhou overnight.

"Well, Niu Zhen fought a beautiful field battle outside Yunzhou city. According to him, the loss was almost negligible and it was a real victory."

In the governor's mansion, Xiao Ming gives the war report to Zhan Xingchang.

Zai Zai carefully studied the news in the war report. Zhan Xingchang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "the combination of suifa gun and this array seems to enable the Qingzhou army to fight against the barbarians in the field. If so, the Qingzhou army can also fight against the main force of Chagatai through this array."

"Niu Zhen said in the war report that in a few days, he was ready to go to Jizhou. The hybrid application of hollow square array and car array made him brave." Xiao Ming said.

"Your Highness, I don't think it's necessary to let general Niu Zhen go to Jizhou immediately. The troops of Chagatai still have the advantage. Once we go out of Jizhou, our logistics will be lengthened. At this time, there are mobs everywhere in Jizhou, which is a great threat to the transportation line. If the transportation line is cut off by barbarians and mobs, our soldiers will be in danger. It's true to rush to Jizhou this time, but it's not true It's true to preserve strength. "

Xiao Ming nodded. The soldiers of Qingzhou army were not afraid of fighting. They were afraid that they would cut off their food and grass at that time.

If Chagatai encircles Qingzhou army and does not attack, within ten days, the army will face a desperate situation.

"What do you think?" Xiao Ming asked Zhan Xingchang that he was still good at the art of power and stratagem in ancient times.

"Waiting for the forbidden army and the army of the king of Wei to act together and let the army of the king of Wei protect our food and grass in the rear. This time, the king of Wei must be the same as last time. It's just a walk through and let them play forward. Naturally, they won't, but if they are asked to protect the transportation line, they won't push it away." Zhan Xingchang said.

Pang Yukun also said: "Zhan Xingchang is right. The army sent by the king of Wei this time is the" mountain "camp. Who doesn't know that this is the worst army of the king of Wei."

"So the king can only rely on the forbidden army in the current Jizhou crisis?" Xiao Ming has a headache.

At the same time, he was a little angry. How could Dayu resist the barbarians.

"I'm afraid so." Zhan Xingchang said: "and Chagatai is just a forward. If Bei Shan comes back at this time, the Qingzhou army will be in trouble this time."

Hearing the words, Xiao Ming sighed. This time Niu Zhen brought out all his elite. He didn't want to lose all his soldiers. Just as Zhan Xingchang said, he wanted to go to Jizhou, but he had to save himself. He couldn't serve as a Spearman for others.

He is as crafty as the king of Wei. He would rather pay money than send troops every time.

However, in Xiao Ming's opinion, it may not be a good thing to let the Qingzhou army train for a while. The battlefield is changing rapidly. This expedition may train more generals for him.

The three agreed that Xiao Ming drew up an order to ask Niu Zhen to wait for the army of the king of Wei, and then go to Jizhou together to relieve Jizhou.

At the same time, he once again ordered to guide the victims into Qingzhou.

He felt more and more that population was combat effectiveness, and population was productivity. Otherwise, the population of the fiefdoms was not enough to support the consumption of war.

This is the tragedy of a country with a small population facing a country with a large population. When the weapon generation gap is not very large, the use of sea of people tactics is enough to destroy the other side.

But now the population of their own fiefdoms is not large, only a quarter of the barbarians, not including their slaves.

The difference in comprehensive strength is too big, which is why he is crazy to get the population.

These people also had a miserable life under the rule of King Yong. They were unable to give full play to their population advantage. When they arrived at his fiefdom, it was different.

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 could have capital and barbarians to consume for a long time, until the barbarians were dragged down by war.

Just as it was written, a loud voice suddenly came to mind outside the governor's office.

A bodyguard suddenly ran in and said in a hurry, "Your Highness, there is something strange in the sky."

"Heaven?" Xiao Ming was stunned when he heard the speech. Suddenly he laughed and said to Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang, "let's go and have a look."

Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang both showed interest.

Three people go out.

I saw the people on the street have stopped, pointing to the sky, constantly whispering.

At this time, in the sky, a big gray balloon is moving slowly. The balloon is about 50 meters away from the ground.

But the 10 meter diameter of the balloon makes it look huge. You can see the balloon moving everywhere in Qingzhou.

"What is this, your highness?" Zhan Xingchang was shocked.

The officials of the state of Dayu were still full of feudal superstition. At this time, they could not help but associate the hot-air balloon with the gods and ghosts.

Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang were pale.On the street, some people even put their hands together and prayed to the sky.

"What are you nervous about? It's a hot-air balloon. It's made by students of Bowen college." Xiao Ming explained.

At the same time, he looked up at the balloon in the sky and saw that there was no one on the balloon, only a brazier was burning, and the rope tied to the balloon was still hanging down.

He realized something. Maybe it was during the experiment that the balloon broke free of the rope and flew away.

Sure enough, his idea came true. Lin Wentao soon appeared on the street. He was running and jumping, trying to catch the rope on the balloon.

The students of physics college followed Lin Wentao and yelled, "come down, come down!"

"This idiot is going to kill people." Xiao Ming is extremely depressed.

During this time, he learned about Lin Wentao's hot-air balloon, which was fueled with tung oil.

Tung oil can not only brush wood to prevent corrosion, but also is the fuel of oil lamp. In many modern rural areas, there are many families who use tung oil lamp.

After studying the original balloon in the textbook, Lin Wentao obviously reformed the balloon.

After all, the most primitive hot-air balloon used straw and other burning materials to heat the gas in the balloon.

The floating time of this kind of balloon in the air is only about 20 minutes, and the flying distance is about 20 miles.

Now Lin Wentao uses tung oil to heat under the hot-air balloon, which can make the balloon fly farther.

However, the burning value of tung oil was not as good as that of later propane gas, so the tung oil he added at most made the hot-air balloon's voyage about five times.

No way. When natural gas and propane were not produced, the limitation of hot air balloons was here.

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