On the third day after returning from Beijing, the 80,000 Beijing troops commanded by Yan Zichen quietly marched in the autumn morning and rushed to the Hexi battlefield, which seemed to be able to swallow everything.

The old lady Yan at home cried and fainted again, and the second Mrs. Yan accompanied her in her mother-in-law's room all morning, and returned to sit in the summer residence at noon, but there was no grain of rice, and Yan Qi came back from the academy and found that her eyes were red.

Words of comfort are useless now, and no one seems incomparably small and powerless in the face of war.

Yan Qi also only ate two chopsticks and put it down, took Xiao Shiyi back to his room to take a nap, and lay down on the bed, Xiao Shiyi squeezed into his arms, stretched out his arms around her neck, and cried with a snort.

"What's wrong?" Yan Qi asked him lightly, patting him on the back.

"Miss Daddy. Little Eleven sobbed.

Such a little villain doesn't understand anything, but he also has a sense of blood connection.

"I want to, too. Yan Qi said, "But I don't cry, Daddy doesn't like crying children, do you still want to cry Yan Jinglong?"

"I don't cry......" Little Eleven cried.

"Okay, can my sister tell you a story?"

"Good ......"

"The name of the story is "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", once upon a time, there was a child named Yan Jinglong who never cried, and he had a nickname called Ali Baba......"

"I-my nickname, not Ali, ......"

"And what's your nickname?"

"Big ...... Big Baba!"

“…… This nickname is also a hanging bomb. Then I'll go on, this big bus......"

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The life of the academy is still the same, but everyone's emotions seem to be a little heavy and tense, the male students of the Jinyuan are paying attention to the battle situation in Hexi every day, and the most discussed topics between classes are related topics, and the female students of the embroidery academy are more dazed and afraid, chatting mostly about meeting which temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha, asking the gods to bless the safety of the soldiers ahead.

Yuan Chang really went to the front line with the army, Yan Zichen did not transfer him away, nor did he stop his willingness to follow, the splendid comprehensive martial arts team lacked a fierce general, but it did not affect the results too much, just because at this time, the members of the other academies did not have much mind to chase and fight in the game, and now the attention of the whole people is on the 80,000 army led by Yan Zichen, everyone is looking forward to and worrying, worried that if even Yan Zichen loses, who else can the Heavenly Dynasty send to resist the rebels.

Wu Yue's foot injury has healed, and he can't stay at home anymore, struggling to run to school, and he doesn't go home to eat at noon, so he follows Yan Qi to mix in the canteen, and the stove under Yuan Chang's bag continues to be used exclusively for Yan Qi's food, and Wu Yue is also stained, and he can get good food to eat every day.

After eating, Yan Qi took Wu Yue to Jiudianping, and the two of them sat on the big stone to meditate and practice internal skills together, Wu Yue heard that Yan Qi was also shouting to learn after learning internal skills, and pestered Wu Ting to teach her, and now it is also just getting started. The two of them passed their lunch break like this, and occasionally walked around the campus, but unfortunately although the autumn light was good, no one wanted to appreciate it now.

In the afternoon handicraft class, almost all the students were working on the development of new weapons, some were studying the principles of making firearms, and some were researching more powerful weapons to restrain firearms.

As Yan Zichen said, such a thing will appear sooner or later, the tide of history cannot be stopped, and defending peace does not mean being beaten passively, but the appearance of the fire gun is too sudden, as if it has jumped several steps up the stairs of history at once, without any signs and early foreshadowing, and directly caught the imperial army off guard, and there is no time to develop new weapons to deal with.

Of course, Yan Zichen revealed to Yan Qi that the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War have been working on research and development - in fact, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War have never stopped research and development, but unfortunately they have had little effect for decades, and now that I think about it, maybe this is because Tu Huazhang was originally the secretary of the Ministry of War, that is, there are results, and I am afraid that he has been suppressed or directly vetoed and eliminated - if he had planned to usurp the throne a long time ago, he naturally did not want the imperial court to improve the military strength.

While the students and even the gentlemen in the all-manual class were in full swing to devote themselves to the enthusiasm of designing new weapons, Yan Qi and Cui Xi were sitting at the table at the back of the classroom and whispering, there were messy pieces of wood and tools on the table, Cui Xi was holding a piece of wood in his hand, cutting and scratching it with a knife, but he was still talking to Yan Qi in his mouth: "If the range is a thousand steps, this will probably require a very large and thick copper pipe and a large amount of gunpowder, and according to what you said, the copper pipe of the fire gun is not very thick, which makes me a little puzzled." ”

"I can't say this well, because I don't know much about firearms," Yan Qi took a charcoal pen and drew a few strokes on the paper, "But I think that the bullet made by Tu Mi should be like this, the streamline of the warhead can reduce the flight resistance, so that the bullet can fly farther, and the quality of gunpowder is very important, the gunpowder is loaded in the tail of the bullet, and the gunpowder has a device to ignite the gunpowder explosion, and the gunpowder explosion will quickly produce high pressure in the gunpowder tube, and then the high pressure will push the bullet out quickly." ”

Many nouns are only available in modern times, but Cui Xi understood as soon as he heard it, and looked at Yan Qi with a flash of his eyes, and said, "This kind of thing requires very precise calculations to be foolproof, Tu Mi is very good at this?"

Yan Qi shook his head, thought for a while, and said to Cui Xi: "If I only use dictation to describe a special bow to you, can you make it?"

"No problem. Cui Xi replied with a smile without hesitation.

"Do you think the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry can do the same?" Yan Qi continued to ask.

"Yes. Cui Xi said, "After all, the people who can enter the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry are all masters in the world." ”

"But there will also be many skilled craftsmen among the people, right?" Yan Qidao.

"You mean, the Tu family has such a group of skilled craftsmen who have turned Tu Mi's idea of making fire guns into reality?" Cui Xi put down the wood in his hand, which had been carved into a war horse with its front hooves raised, and a general with a war spear on horseback on horseback.

"He knows the firebolt better than I do. "Yan Qidao, the cloud of that life is the underworld hero, the hero goes in and out of the body with a bow and arrow, I am afraid that I will laugh my fellow Dao to death, in fact, Yun left the mountains and forests to join the underworld and began to use a gun, and in the next few years, she and he also met as hostile parties, at that time he was holding a gun in his hand, and he was also a sharpshooter.

Master said that he was a genius at using arrows, but perhaps he underestimated him, but he must have an extraordinary talent for everything related to shooting or aiming.

The cloud has been using guns for so many years, and it is strange that they don't know about guns.

"So it's probably not difficult to put your ideas into practice," Yan Qidao said, "Especially since Tu Huazhang is in charge of the military department, there are many resources and materials for making weapons, plus there is such a thing as a firecracker that no one in the world has ever seen, even if you build a gun pipe in front of you, you won't know what this is going to do." ”

"And according to my father," Cui Xi continued, "the Tu family has wrought iron shops all over the country, saying that it is Mrs. Tu's mother's industry, and iron art is not a business that makes a lot of money. ”

"For more than ten years, these wrought iron shops have worked day and night, and they must have accumulated a lot of military resources. Yan Qi sighed lightly, "They have more than ten years of preparation, but we only have days and nights." ”

"I think you might be happy to hear the news," Cui Xi looked at her with a smile, "I made a hydrogen balloon that can carry people." ”

"Tell me I'm not dreaming," Yan Qi looked at him, "Tell me you're really a human." ”

"You seem to have said that I was a male god. Cui Xi tilted his chin and smiled.

"Male god, you are my male god, true male god!" Yan Qi praised with both hands.

"When are you free, I'll take you to see it. Cui Xi said with a smile.

"Let's see you at the gate of the academy after the club activities are over. Yan Qi clapped.

Fortunately, Wu Changge did not drag the hall in today's riding and archery club activities, and after practicing as usual, the team members were disbanded, Yan Qi came out with Wu Ting and Xiao Chen, and saw that Cui Xi was already waiting in front of the bulletin board outside the door. Wu Ting saw Cui Xi walking over to greet him first, and said, "Rongyu, I don't know if you are free at this time, I have something I want to ask." ”

"I'm not free today," Cui Xi refused directly with a smile, "If it's short, say it now, if it's long, please make an appointment another day." ”

"It's about some weapons," Wu Ting smiled disappreciatively, "We people have nothing to do to think about weapons that can restrain firearms, but since everyone is a layman in terms of craftsmanship, whether some ideas can be made still needs a master like you to give you some guidance." ”

Cui Xi was not surprised, people came to him almost every day these days, but he pushed them all, Wu Ting had a good relationship with Yan Qi, Cui Xi did not refuse, and said with a smile: "I only have time between classes, so I'm afraid that I won't be able to say a few words and have to go to class again." ”

"That idea time between classes is not enough," Wu Ting raised his eyebrows, glanced at Yan Qi, who was standing next to him and didn't know what to do, and then looked at Cui Xi, and said to Yan Qi with understanding, "You two have an appointment today?"

"That's right. "Yan Qidao.

"What's the matter?" Wu Ting asked with a smile and a straight face.

"Go see the balloons. "Yan Qidao.

"What 'balloon'?" Wu Ting asked.

"If you have time, come along," Yan Qidao turned to look at Xiao Chen, who had been silently joining in the fun, "Are you coming?"

Xiao Chen nodded, and Wu Ting didn't refuse.

"In that case, I'll call Xiao Jiu too. Yan Qi saw that his carriage was parked not far away, Yan Xiaojiu's goods were too lazy, and he would never ride a horse if he could take the car, since the carriage was here, it meant that the person was still in the academy, and most of them were soaking in the library.

went in and turned around and turned Young Master Yan Jiu out, and the group followed Cui Xi, but the direction was not Cui's Mansion, but ran in another direction.

Until the sun sets, it is in front of a rather wide mansion, Cui Xi's little servant stepped forward and knocked on the door, someone inside opened, saw that it was Cui Xi, accompanied the smile and saluted, and let everyone into the door, the door is just an ordinary house and pavilion, Cui Xi did not stay, went straight to the inside, walked for a while, entered a garden gate, everyone felt that the front was open, but saw that there were no trees or flowers in this garden, there were no lakes and rocks, but it was a flat and flat large piece of grass, the grass was surrounded by lampposts, and in the center of the turf, a huge hydrogen balloon was tied there。

Wu Ting's eyes were straight, and Xiao Chen was also staring at that thing intently, he had seen the balloon when he was in Saibei, and Cui Xi could only make small ones at that time, but he didn't think that he could make such a big one now.

Young Master Yan Jiu clasped his hands and stared at the hydrogen balloon thoughtfully.

"The hydrogen gas that was only filled in the afternoon," Cui Xi smiled and said to Yan Qi, "This is a good breath, do you want to try it?"

"Try!" Yan Qi stepped over without hesitation, not worrying at all about whether the thing would go wrong.

Under the balloon, there is a cabin like a bath bucket to carry people, and there are people guarding it, and when Cui Xi came over to salute, Cui Xi said to him: "Let's go up and have a look, you call someone to put the rope." ”

The man was busy, and ran to call a few people over, Cui Xi and Yan Qi walked into the cabin, and when they saw Wu Ting and they were also coming over, they smiled with these people: "You can only take three people at a time, you can go up in the next batch." ”

In fact, Wu Ting didn't plan to go on immediately, and he didn't know what the use of this strange thing was, so he decided to watch first, and Xiao Chen had no opinion.

The men seemed to be familiar with the process of releasing the balloon to the sky, and they quickly untied the cable that held the balloon, one end of the cable was tied to the balloon, and the other end was wrapped around the wheel, which was about the same as pig iron, which was heavy and strong, and was nailed deep into the ground, not afraid of being carried up by the balloon.

And at the moment of untying the cable, this huge hydrogen balloon was launched, and it rose into the air in the early night, lightly, steadily, and soaring into the sky.

Wu Ting, Xiao Chen, and even Young Master Yan Jiu, stared at this balloon with shock in their eyes--it flew up--this strange ball could actually fly into the sky like a bird!

The length of the cable is limited, and it is also to prevent the hydrogen balloon from flying too high and losing control, which is no better than a hot air balloon that can control the height by controlling the size of the gas.

Even so, this height is already higher than the palace at the highest point in the whole capital, looking down, Young Master Yan Jiu and they are already very small, fortunately, the night has already fallen, except for these people at the scene, no one found that there were two people in the sky high above their heads.

"You succeeded. Yan Qi said to Cui Xi. He always wanted to step on the clouds and travel in the blue sky.

The night breeze in the sky blew his clothes hunting, and his long black hair flew up, making him look like he was about to ride the wind, he smiled softly, his eyes were full of starlight, and then sprinkled this starlight on Yan Qi's face: "I never thought that there would be such a day, we could really fly into the sky." ”

"How do you feel?" Yan Qi interviewed him.

"Good. Cui Xi smiled, "It's never been better." ”

"I think so too. "Yan Qidao," looking down on the world from a high place like this, I feel that the whole person is detached. ”

"So the gods live in heaven. Cui Xi said with a smile.

"No wonder my male god always wants to go to heaven. "Yan Qidao.

Cui Xi smiled: "I've tried it almost every day these days, and today I'm sure that there is really no problem." ”

"God, you won't be the first time you will go into battle in person, right?" Yan Qi was afraid.

"No," Cui Xi said, his smile slightly faint, "The first time I let Lei Yu try." ”

"Huh, how did he get involved?"

"After returning to Beijing, he came to pester me from time to time, and I simply found something for him to do," Cui Xi said lightly, "This house was bought and rebuilt by him, and it was specially used as a place for me to develop balloons." ”

Then this one let his rotten peach blossoms fly.

After the two landed, they replaced Wu Ting and the three of them went up, and when the three of them got down from the balloon, Wu Ting's first sentence said: "I agree with Xiao Jiu that this 'light balloon' may be the key to breaking the rebels!"

Yan Qi remembered that the battle to encircle and suppress Yao Lida came, and the crude version of the hydrogen balloon played a great role at that time, and now that there is an upgraded version, maybe he can make a war feat again! 166 Reading Network