Chief of the General Staff Weeser said in class, "The world seen from different perspectives is completely different!" "Li Ji is not tall, about 165, which is considered medium in this era. However, when he was in class, he faced Wees, who was over 175 tall, and he had to look up.

When Li Ji entered the gondola of the hot air balloon, he finally realized for himself what Weeser was saying. Li Ji, who could only look at others at the same time, was in the hanging basket that was itself higher than the ground, and it was the turn of the people outside the hanging basket to look up at him. When the hot air balloon gradually rose, Li Ji completely looked down at the crowd at his feet. Even the high mountains in the distance gradually paralleled Li Ji in Li Ji's line of sight.

As an artillery observer, you have to learn to guess the situation of the enemy's position based on the information you receive. However, imagination always has its limits, and it is not as accurate as what you can see after climbing up the pole of the artillery observation post, but the height of the pole always has its limit. Standing on the hot air balloon, Li Ji felt for the first time the possibility of infinite ascent.

The qiē on the ground became smaller, and Li Ji ordered Wu Wenguang, "Ask about the ground, how tall are we?" ”

Wu Wenguang played out the flag, and soon got a response from the ground, he turned to Li Ji and said, "We have risen to the third zhang. ”

I looked at the position of the Qing army on the opposite side, and even if I stood on the artillery observation pole, it was only four or five meters. Now the height of Li Ji is already twice the height of the observation pole, and with Li Ji's own height, it is even more condescending. Originally, he could only see the positions of the artillery listed in front of the Qing army, but at this time, he had already included all the positions of the entire Qing army. took out the map and clamped it on the map board, Li Ji took out the "clairvoyance" in his arms. Pulling open the lens tube, the position of the Qing army appeared more clearly.

"In the west, there is a wood, the name is shot, the stem is four inches long, born on the high mountain, and the abyss of the hundred thousands, the wood stem can not grow, and the one who stands is also ...... Therefore, the gentleman must choose the hometown to live, and the tour must be a scholar, so he must prevent evil and get close to the middle. Li Ji silently recited the content of Xunzi's "Persuasion" in his heart.

"Persuasion to Learn" is a compulsory reading for the whole army's cultural classes, and even if you don't know Chinese, you have to learn it if you translate it into vernacular. Li Ji was able to stand out in the cultural exam, not because of how good his subjects were in mathematics and other subjects, but because Wei Ze's cultural course did not test the Four Books and Five Classics, but the content of "Xunzi" and "Tao Te Ching". This is precisely Li Ji's forte.

Li Ji really likes this article of Xunzi, and after nearly a year in Wei Ze's army, Li Ji is now more and more able to experience the benefits of "Persuasion" in practice. Just as Fang Cai's paragraph aptly depicts the present in which Li Ji lives, if Li Ji did not choose to join Wei Ze's army, then he can only live at home full of fear and resentment. How is it possible to stand on a hot air balloon like this, high in the sky. How could it be possible to receive so much education in Weze's army and see a whole new world.

Today's qiē is all because Li Ji chose to follow Wei Ze. Li Ji felt that Xunzi said it really well, "Therefore, the gentleman must choose the hometown when he lives, and he must go to the village, so he will guard against evil and get close to the middle school." "After following the Manchu Qing Dynasty for nineteen years, Li Ji didn't even get into the show, and now he is already a second lieutenant. And Li Ji believes that he will be able to have a broader space, those old scholars who teach the Four Books and Five Classics used to be the object of Li Ji's envy, and now Li Ji already thinks that they are not fart. There is no shortage of people in the Taiping Army who know the Four Books and the Five Classics, but among the old scholars, there is no one who knows how to make hot air balloons.

"Ensign! Let's count the number of jù! Wu Wenguang said behind Li Ji's back.

"Good!" Li Ji retracted his thoughts. According to the locations marked on the map, he told Wu Wenguang the approximate number of artillery, cavalry, and infantry of the Qing army in those positions. Wu Wenguang used the flag language to convey these numbers to the ground. Then, the staff officers on the ground roughly determined the position layout of the Qing army based on these numbers.

The mountain wind became stronger and stronger, and the rope tied to the side of the hanging basket gradually straightened, and the hanging basket began to squeak because of the pull brought by the balloon and the rope.

Li Ji didn't care about this at all, and Wu Wenguang shouted a little timidly: "Second lieutenant, should we let the people below pull the rope down first?" ”

The wind is strong in the air, if everyone doesn't rely on shouting, they may not be able to hear each other clearly, but this shout, some feelings may not be able to come out, Li Ji can only shout as angrily as possible: "What are you doing when you pull it down?" We still have to rise higher, and there are still some places on the Qing Demon's side that can't be seen clearly. ”

"But this bamboo looks too thin and can't stand the force, I think I'm afraid I'll dare to break it if I pull it like this again." Wu Wenguang bravely put forward his own viewpoint.

Li Ji put down his clairvoyance and said impatiently: "If the hanging basket is too heavy, it won't be able to rise to a high place." The alcohol blowtorch has a limited amount of alcohol, and it is impossible to burn it for hours at a time......"

While he was talking, a violent wind suddenly blew, and the hanging basket shook violently, and the two people in the hanging basket shook violently, and they were almost thrown out of the hanging basket. Outside the hot air balloon is a rope net turned into a rope, and the huge balloon is blown by the wind, and the ropes of the rope net are jumped straight. The bamboo hanging basket sounded even louder.

Now Li Ji first felt that something was wrong. Unable to refute Wu Wenguang's words anymore, Li Ji glanced down a few times, and looked down from a ten-meter-high straight-line distance, Li Ji couldn't help but feel a little dizzy. He turned his head and shouted to Wu Wenguang: "Quick, climb to the rope net!" ”

Wu Wenguang's face was full of horror, and his hand tightly grasped the hanging basket. At this time, the sound of the hanging basket was no longer a creaking sound, but a crackling sound when the bamboo broke. Li Ji grabbed Wu Wenguang's hand and moved his hand from the hanging basket to the rope net. Those who can be sent to heaven are relatively clever guys, and Wu Wenguang has already understood what Li Ji means. Both men on the gondola began to climb towards the rope net.

At this time, a more violent gust of wind blew, and the hanging basket could no longer withstand the huge force and was torn apart in the air. The debris flying in the air had not yet fallen to the ground, and the huge balloon, freed from the shackles of the rope, floated along the wind in the direction of the Qing army's position. The observers and signal flag bearers above tightly dragged the spider-like rope nets on the airbags, and floated towards the Qing army's position with the balloons.

When Admiral Jiangnan and Lord Chun learned that a strange thing appeared in the Shu Yue bandit formation, it was just when the hot air bag in the hot air balloon was filled with hot air to round the airbag. When Admiral Hechun followed his soldiers out to watch, the hot air balloon slowly rose.

Seriously, Lord Hechun wasn't afraid of that thing on the Taiping Army's position. Although I can't see it clearly, it is a man-made object no matter how you look at it. The balloon's airbag looked dirty, and the hanging basket below looked unsophisticated. As for the two figures on the hanging basket, it is clear that they are standing on the hanging basket.

Although I don't know what happened to this thing created by Shu Yue bandits, Admiral Hechun is completely sure that this is not a magical thing.

It's just that Admiral Hechun has a high position and is well-informed, and he can make a more correct judgment. The Qing army under Admiral Hechun did not have Admiral Hechun's Su zhì, and they completely understood the guy who could fly in the sky. So the Qing soldiers were stunned one by one, looking at the thing floating in the sky from a distance.

Before the morale was dealt a heavy blow, Admiral Hechun made a quick decision, and he ordered his subordinates to hurry up and "do something" for the guerrilla exortionists of the artillery. The Qing army's military in this practice belongs to the standing materials, and the caliber of the artillery carried by Hechun now is not large, if it is hundreds of thousands of pounds of artillery, the Qing army will generally give the cannon a general's name, and wear red before the war. There are things like incense and candle offerings.

At this time, the Qing army already felt that the failure of the artillery battle was caused by some evil method by the Shu Yue bandits, and when they saw the hot air balloon in the sky, they were even more firm in their thoughts.

There were no monks and Taoists in the army, but this could not help the Chinese, according to the cultural tradition of Chinese materialism, everyone naturally adopted the Confucian theory of "the unity of heaven and man". If the theory of "the unity of heaven and man" is vulgarized, it becomes that whoever is the official and who is more favored by the heavens will be more likely to hear and respond to the prayers of this person.

Admiral Hechun, as the highest-ranking person here, is certainly the most suitable person to be responsible for praying to the heavens. But Admiral Hechun didn't believe this. In a sense, Admiral Hechun is the same as the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He knows very well that he can have today's position, which is based on the failures of many people. And the failure of these people is not to lose to the ethereal ghosts and gods, but to the real living people. has personally experienced the battlefield of flesh and blood, where would Admiral Hechun really believe in the fate of ghosts and gods.

However, because of this, Admiral Kazuharu was well aware of the necessity of such ridiculous ghosts and gods for the lower classes. Although Admiral Hechun did not learn idealism and materialism, the so-called terms "idealism" and "materialism" are just words coined to explain the reality faced by human beings. When human beings are faced with the irresistible unknown, they will involuntarily choose a more idealistic mode. Because the model of idealism is nothing more than "how big the heart is, how big the world is". Problems that cannot be solved in the real world can be easily solved in the world of idealism. Even if this feeling doesn't solve any real problems, it can always act as a mental anesthetic.

Therefore, the Taiping army on the opposite side showed no signs of attacking, and Admiral Hechun personally presided over a simple exorcism ceremony.

However, halfway through the ceremony, the guy floating in the sky on the opposite side suddenly floated towards the Qing army. Admiral Hechun saw the whole process in his eyes, and he was even more afraid of that thing in the air. That action was strange, but it made it clear what it was pulling off. If it was really driven by people, it would not be possible to have such a bad appearance. Since there is such a bad appearance, it is time to say that something is going to happen to the thing that Shu Yue bandits are floating in the sky.

And things turned out to be as Admiral Hechun expected, and as soon as Admiral Hechun's exorcism ceremony was completed, black smoke came out of a button in the sky, and soon it was burning and falling down.

Although the Qing army didn't know if they had given birth, they immediately cheered excitedly, as if they had won a great victory. And the officers and soldiers of the Qing army who participated in the exorcism ceremony presided over by Admiral Hechun were extremely excited. Whether or not they really believed that the exorcision ritual of Admiral Hechun, who had never shown cultivation, worked, the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted. The deputy capital Tong Zhongtai knelt on one knee and said excitedly to He Chun: "Admiral, I think that in such a situation, the evil art of the Shu Yue bandits will be broken, and it must be demoralized. As long as the Qing army sends troops, it will be a big victory immediately. The last general is willing to lead troops to attack the Shu Yue bandits! ”

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