Chapter 33: Bombardment of Paper
At this moment, Pang Tianshou looked at the black and numb Li Zicheng's army in the hot air balloon, and now he is the Nth time in the sky, as the oldest person who has gone to the sky, although he lost a little face when he was forced to get on the hot air balloon for the first time by the emperor - everyone in the public saw him pee his pants, but what does it matter! He was keenly aware that he was the first person to go to the sky, and this hot air balloon must be the emperor's most important thing, he wanted to seize this opportunity, so Pang Tianshou praised this hot air balloon vigorously!
Pang Tianshou's whole life is in order to climb to the highest peak of power, he saw the advanced technology of the West brought by Catholicism, and believed that these technologies would be helpful to the Ming Dynasty, and that the emperor would reuse these technologies, so he grasped the straw of Catholicism, and used the psychology of Catholicism to preach in the Ming Dynasty, so that Catholicism sponsored himself to climb up. As for whether you believe in Catholicism or not, and whether you believe in ghosts, it's just a mutual use. I'm a eunuch, and if I have milk, I'm a mother!
Now, since the emperor attaches great importance to this thing that can fly into the sky, he has to seize this opportunity!
Sure enough, without Pang Tianshou's guess, after his strong praise, the emperor made him a training officer of the Hot Air Balloon Army, and asked him to choose the right person among a group of little eunuchs to become a member of the Hot Air Balloon Army! Later, he was named the general of the hot air balloon army by the emperor! A eunuch, he was personally named a heavenly general by the emperor! What a glorious thing this is! He can proudly tell his children and grandchildren that our family is a person who has gone to heaven! Our family is the emperor's own general!
Pang Tianshou was able to stand out from a little eunuch and be favored by Catholicism because he could grasp those seemingly impossible opportunities!
Chongzhen also has his own reasons.
First of all, this hot air balloon is a new thing after all, a big living person sits on this hot air balloon and flies into the sky, who is not afraid, there is a fear of heights! Since Pang Tianshou praised this hot air balloon, why not let him form and train this hot air balloon army? He's the only one who has ever gone to heaven! He's proven that he can fly safely into the sky and then come down safely, and let him do his best!
Secondly, there are too many eunuchs in the palace, Chongzhen has been thinking about how to give these eunuchs something to do, so that these eunuchs can be used for their own use, and it is best to use Pang Tianshou to form a eunuch air force!
The most important thing is that the Catholic Jesuit has too deep roots in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao, Yang Tingyun and other scientists of the Ming Dynasty finally believed in Catholicism, why did they switch from Confucianism to Catholicism, of course, they saw the advanced technology brought by Catholic missionaries, and the technology brought by these missionaries is true, then the God told by the missionaries is also true, and the Bible that the missionaries said is also true, and then they became Catholics, believing in the God and the Bible respected by Catholicism. And what does it mean to believe in God and the Bible?
It means that the emperor Chongzhen is in the air! It means that the Chinese culture of Confucianism, Taoism, Moism, Legalism, etc., which once flourished and contended with a hundred schools of thought, will be replaced by Western culture!
These Catholic missionaries, after Matteo Ricci's death, began to change Matteo Ricci's missionary methods, became radical, resolutely rejected traditional Chinese Confucian Taoism, and strictly forbade Chinese parishioners to worship heaven, ancestors, and Confucius.
No!
Pang Tianshou is the best point of change, he is a eunuch, unlike other brainwashed disciples, whoever can give him benefits, he will praise whomever he wants. If the former Catholic Pang Tianshou can turn around and suppress Catholicism, this effect is the best.
So Chongzhen gave Pang Tianshou two tasks, one is to eliminate the Catholic Jesuits, and the other is the newly built Air Force General!
Pang Tianshou's air force, in fact, there are not many people, the cost of hot air balloons is too high, there are eight hot air balloons in the entire capital, two people in each balloon, plus 20 people to wait for the substitute, although there are only 100 people in this air force, but the emperor of Yulu is according to the five products of the military department, so that many people who want to enter the air force can not come in envy! But envy is envy, if you want to enter the Air Force, you must first become a eunuch!
Originally, Pang Tianshou didn't have to go to heaven, after all, it couldn't compare to the ground in the sky, in case the hot air balloon suddenly burst, and his life would be gone. But today is different, Li Zicheng led an army of 500,000 people, this thing that can make a contribution by throwing bombs, what can Pang Tianshou let others do! So he followed his subordinates with righteousness and awe-inspiring and said that he would personally go into battle to kill the enemy, and let the generals on the ground who looked down on him see that although the general of the air force was a eunuch, he was not a bad breed!
What is the 500,000 army, and they will not be frightened when they see this flying thing in the sky? Frightened and not going to make a mess? Besides, when the time comes, he throws a few bombs at Li Zicheng's camp, where can Li Zicheng hide? Anyway, Li Zicheng can't fly, and the bow and arrow can't shoot so high and can't hit him, in case Li Zicheng is blown up, this is a great credit! Can this credit be given to others?
"Sa!"
Pang Tianshou saw that Li Zicheng's thief army was almost here, and ordered another person on the hot air balloon to start the first step of the battle plan according to Chongzhen's previous instructions - paper bombing!
Although there were only two of them on this hot air balloon, Pang Tianshou also took out the momentum of commanding thousands of troops and horses to order another eunuch on the hot air balloon!
"There's a ...... on that thing."
"Are those people immortals?"
"Have you heard? The emperor is really the son of heaven, these people must be immortals, come to help the emperor! ”
"I heard that King Han caught a person a few days ago, and that person said that the emperor asked the gods to drop bombs from the sky, and this battle is really impossible to fight!"
"Look, look, what did the gods throw down?"
......
The people in Li Zicheng's team talked a lot, if Pang Tianshou knew that Li Zicheng's thief army regarded him as an immortal, he would have died of joy, he went from a Catholic who was almost sentenced to death to being considered an immortal by these thief troops!
O gods! This is much more bullish than the ancestor who was a little eunuch!
A basket full of pieces of paper with propaganda slogans poured out of the hot air balloon, and the other three hot air balloons saw Pang Tianshou start throwing pieces of paper, and they also threw pieces of paper at Li Zicheng's thief army below, and tens of thousands of words of paper floated in the sky, slowly falling towards Li Zicheng's thief army on the ground.
The soldiers picked up the pieces of paper and looked at them.
Uh, uh, uh, I can't read most of the words!
"Hey, what's written on this piece of paper?"
"I don't understand, the three red letters that were × are the names of the king!"
"It seems that the gods want to kill the king"
Most of Li Zicheng's thief army were illiterate peasants, and after getting the piece of paper, they looked at the words on it in confusion, and they could barely recognize the three red characters of "Li Zicheng" being crossed out. Chongzhen also guessed that most of Li Zicheng's thief army were peasants and illiterate, but they should recognize the three words Li Zicheng, so Chongzhen deliberately asked people to write the three words Li Zicheng with a red pen, and then make a ×, even if these farmers didn't know the words, they knew that the meaning on the piece of paper was that Li Zicheng was going to die.
Li Zicheng and his cronies also picked up some pieces of paper, Li Zicheng looked at the contents of the pieces of paper, he was half angry, and the pieces of paper attributed the drought in Shaanxi to his head!
In addition to writing that he Li Zicheng is a disaster star, and that there is a drought in Shaanxi because of Li Zicheng, he also wrote that he is not to blame for surrendering in the past, and the emperor only needs Li Zicheng's life, etc., Li Zicheng knows that if he continues like this, he will mutiny, his team is all some peasants, there is no culture, and feudal superstition is particularly serious, if they know the meaning inside, they will have a fart fight!
"Everyone's calm, everyone's calm!" Li Zicheng shouted at the crowd!