A quarter past three in the morning.

The balloon of the hot air balloon has been laid along the foredeck of the ship on the left side, the horizontal direction of the balloon fine hemp rope and the vertical direction of the load-bearing thick hemp rope, are directly sewn on the linen and bamboo cloth with needle and thread, but there are still thousands of square meters of area have to use silk, fortunately the inside are pasted and lined with rice paper and hemp paper, anyway, the cost is very high, and the balloon is also heavy, even with the hot air balloon in the load capacity has also decreased.

The hemp rope is closed from the mouth of the air circle, which is made of bamboo and copper strips, and then extends down about two and a half feet, and then with a frame braided with bamboo, the frame is basically a rough circle, the upper diameter is about four feet, the lower diameter is about five feet, and the bottom is crossed vertically and horizontally with a two-minute thick bamboo board.

In order to further strengthen it, four copper strips are used to reinforce the connection from the mouth of the air circle to the bamboo basket.

Lin Xi saw that they had already installed the balloon, the air ring mouth and the bamboo basket, and instructed Mi Sanmei: "Mi Sanmei, have you done the pulley you made just now?" ”

Mi Sanmei was so excited that her face turned crimson, and she said proudly: "The Venerable Master commanded, if you dare to disobey your orders, Dad, bring those two pulleys." ”

Mi Sanmei's father ran out very doggedly this time: "Third sister, third sister, bring it, there are two pairs in total, two big and two small, see if it works?" ”

Lin Xi looked at it, almost laughed, thinking, people's creativity is really unlimited, it turned out, Lin Xi consciously drew the fixed pulley commonly used in civil engineering in later generations, and also drew the planing surface decomposition figure, as a result, Mi Sanmei's father directly made two large and two small kite rollers, but in the eight branches of the roller - Mi Sanmei's father called the gossip plate, welded with a round copper sheet, and then extended the two ends of the shaft with two copper strips, and made a hook.

The large pulley disc salute is less than a foot, the connecting hook is about a foot and a half, and the wheel is about an inch wide, while the small pulley is about half a foot in diameter, the hook is about a foot long, and the wheel is about eight minutes long.

The center of the two roulette wheels is a copper ring, the thickness of the copper ring is slightly less than a minute, the diameter is about an inch, and the shaft of the central copper ring is also a copper ring, the thickness is close to a minute.

Lin Xi asked, "Have you tried it to be easy to use?" ”

Mi Sanmei's father said: "Back to the Venerable's words, the little old man has tried a few times, and the little one has tried, and when he hung it, he put 80 catties of rice in a bag, which is very good to use." Butter is used between the two copper rings, which is very slippery, as long as it is not slippery fast, it is not a big problem to use it dozens of times. ”

Lin Xi was very happy, so he said: "Mi Sanmei's father is skillful, such a skill, isn't it good to support his wife and children, why do you want to beat and scold your wife and daughter?" ”

Mi Sanmei's father squirmed for a while: "Sometimes, my aunt is disobedient, Xiao Nizi, she eats a little too much." ”

Lin Xi frowned:

"You, you don't know how to be blessed in the blessing, the child grows up, eats more and grows stronger, the wife hurts a lot, she still gives you the housekeeping, what kind of ability does a man have to beat his wife, if you want your wife to worship you, like you is the real man."

Okay, after these words, you first put a large and a small copper strip fixed to the mouth of the air ring, and put the fine hemp rope into it, and the thin hemp rope should be twice the length of the mooring line, after leaving the length, tie the knot, form a circle, be careful not to let go and take it off, and install it with a pulley below, and tie the hook of the pulley to the railing of the boat.

Where the knots are carefully knotted, you will have to transport bazookas, fire oil cans, thunderbolts, explosive packets, and so on.

Our hot air balloon is too improvised, so we can only bring the first one that we want to throw down intensively, and then we have to transport it through these two lifelines, and you will put the things you want to send on the deck later, and arrange two teams of ten people to be responsible.

Remember, we can't tell the bottom from above, so we're going to tie the note to the knot and roll it down, and if you see the rope being rolled, we're going to roll it up, and we can move and focus on it.

Prepare two hundred steps to burn the sky under the big pulley, and use a cloth pocket at the small pulley to put four or five thunderbolts, explosive packets, and fierce fire oil cans first.

After rolling to the top, you think that the roll does not move, so stop, that is, the position is stuck, after we take off the thing, roll it down in reverse, you are continuing to roll, understand? ”

Mi Sanmei's father said repeatedly: "Saved, saved."

While speaking, Song Qing had already led people to connect the gas outlet of the steam boiler with a copper ring to connect the temporary leather pipe more than two meters long sewn from sheepskin, and the other end of the leather pipe was connected to the air ring mouth, which was now sealed with a thin wooden board, and only the central mouth made a copper ring and connected to the sheepskin gas pipe.

Afterwards, Song Qing said to Lin Xi, "Venerable Master, you can inflate it now. ”

Lin Xi said: "Then what are you waiting for, let's start work." ”

Because Lin Xi's Xuanyi sails were burned and thrown away, the remaining beams on the sails were all put on the deck, and now a huge giant with his body slowly swelling up.

The pyrotechnic who will be the supervisor fills the boiler half full of coal, and then the huge sealing box is pulled, and the crazy reddish and yellowish flames are sprayed, and gradually after the smoke is burned off, the furnace fire slowly shows a faint cyan.

Since the boiler can continuously inject seawater, after about ten minutes, a part of the concentrated brine is released, and then some seawater is put in.

For more than twenty minutes, the balloon had slowly detached from the deck, and when the last part of the balloon swayed and rose, there was a suppressed whispered cheer on the deck, and the slight sea breeze rippled, and the balloon turned to the port side of the deck.

At this time, Tu Xi ran and said, "Master, we are still half a mile away from the attack position, do you want to prepare to attack?" ”

Lin Xi said: "Listen to the opinions of Qingxu Zhenren? ”

Wang Zhong, the former abbot of the Taoist Temple, said: "We are now dispatching, and within about two quarters of an hour, we can reach the attack position. ”

Lin Xi asked, "Who will go up with me?" ”

Xiao Si jumped out: "Master, I am the most suitable." ”

Lin Xi looked at Tu Xicai, and Tu Xicai nodded: "We just discussed, if Qingxu real person is the selection leader, then Xiao Si is the most suitable." ”

Lin Xi said: "That's very good, now pay attention, our hot air balloon can only float with the wind, and we don't have the ability to fly autonomously yet, so you need to take the helm, let's try to be upwind of Zhang Hongfan's ship, close to the top of the ship, preferably within a hundred to fifty steps, otherwise we will be in trouble." ”

Tu Xicai said: "Guo Yijiaotou is responsible for commanding the boat, and the helm is Fei Zhushan, an old boat twelve years ago. ”

Lin Xi said: "Very good, the things on the ship, please leave it to you." Xicai, you must listen carefully to the opinions of the former enemy committee, and you must not insist on going your own way. ”

Several conductors said, "Good"

After more than ten minutes, the balloon has been completely erected, and now even the bamboo basket has been moored on the deck, but the hemp rope between the mouth of the air circle and the basket of the chief editor has been tightened, Lin Xi and Xiao Si stood in the bamboo basket, after a while, the basket of the chief editor floated again, this time continue to put four fierce fire oil cans, fire sand, cloth towels for wiping oil, and fire-breathing racks...... Two 100-step burning ...... Four Fire Yakshas...... Four thunderbolt bombs, two cans of 10-pound fierce fire oil cans.

Lin Xi and Xiaosi took off everything they could take off on their bodies, but the weather was cold, warm clothes were indispensable, and the cloth that wrapped their hands to prevent cold and slip was wrapped around their hands.

After waiting for a while, Song Aoxing said, "Venerable Master, the mooring rope has been tightened, it should be fine."

Lin Xi said: "Then disconnect the steam and fill the fire-breathing jar." ”

Song Aoxing took the people, busy but not chaotic, and hurriedly installed the fierce fire oil heating tank and the grid frame.

Lin Xi asked Xiao Si: "How many did you bring with you?" ”

Xiao Si said, "Venerable Master, I have brought four. ”

Lin Xi said: "Then let's do it." ”

Xiao Si carefully took out a piece of cloth, put it into the fire plate to cover the flamethrower, and then fluttered the sheepskin gas valve, fluttered for a while, saw that the cloth of the flamevent had been filled with fire oil, took out the fire fold, ignited the cloth, the flame burned, Xiao Si used a copper drill, the cloth was dialed to the copper plate, the fierce fire oil of the flame spout sprayed out, and soon a flame rose up, two feet.

Then Xiao Si continued to flutter the sheepskin raft, and the fierce fire oil sprayed more and more violently.

Lin Xi looked at the flames, looked at Xiao Si struggling to pounce on the sheepskin raft, and remembered that if there was time, they should be asked to make a vaporization and pressurization pipeline for oil circuits, but looking at the current time and skill level, for safety, Xiao Si could only work hard.

Lin Xi saw that the time was about the same, and said to Song Aoxing: "Old Song, come a few people, press the bamboo basket, loosen the cable, pull the cable, and slowly rise into the air." ”

Several sergeants with large shoulders and round waists came up and stepped on the edge of the basket, which was pressed down, and someone took the opportunity to loosen the slipknot of the cable, and then the sergeants jumped down one by one, and then grabbed the cable.

The huge body of the hot air balloon floats so lightly that it is like the smoothest grease, silently, and people may not feel it at all if it were not for the flames sprayed by the fierce oil can.

The hot air balloon floated up, rose up, one step, two steps, three steps, as if there was a little reluctance, and then it was freed from the fetters, and the sound of the fire breathing was also smaller, far away.

Zhang Hongfan sat on the bow of the ship facing the direction of Yashan to the east, and at this moment they were about fifty steps behind the port side, and in the shadows, Wang Zhong, a pure void real man, whispered: "Venerable Master...... Ascension to heaven......"

The twelve people in the Shadowless Boat all stared at the flames of the hot air balloon, and everyone murmured, "Venerable Master...... It's true...... Ascension? ”

Song Qing said, "The Venerable Master seems to say, that is called liftoff. ”

Qingxu Zhenren said: "You don't understand, in our sect, this is also called ascension, different levels of ascension. ”

Song Qing asked humbly: "This, like this?" ......”

After thinking about it, the pure and void real person also felt empty: "Of course, what the Venerable Master said is naturally the correct solution, and I will have to consult many people in the future......

After all, Zhang Hongfan is the marshal of the pseudo-Yuan, and the movement of the Xuanyi has aroused the vigilance of other escort ships, and they launched a messenger rocket to ask what the situation is, but this kind of signal, the people on the Xuanyi don't know how to answer.

On the Xuanyi, Guo Yijiaotou exclaimed: "The pseudo-yuan has discovered the situation, they launched a messenger rocket, we don't know how to answer, we must clear the void and start attacking." ”

One of the oarsmen asked, "What does it mean for a pseudo-yuan to launch a messenger rocket?" ”

Qingxu Zhenren sneered: "At this time, I found out, it's late, fellow Daoists, I'm waiting for the selection of the front, killing the enemy is at this time, it's a good order, understand the launch of three bazookas, and then we will move forward thirty steps, launch three more bazookas, and then all discard the useless items, bypass the stern of Zhang Hongfan's boat, and flee south." ”

In just ten seconds, three fire yaksha with the usual tail inflammation directly hit the front sail, middle sail and tail sail of Zhang Hongfan's car and ship, and hit directly, and then the boat traveled thirty steps, three hundred steps of burning sky with a collision fuse, loaded the mast and stacked sails, for a while, the fire sergeant rushed back and forth, and there were already several arrows shot at the stern.

Qingxu Zhenren shouted the order: "Turn around, go south...... Let them see us, but try not to get hurt, there is only one life, and paddle faster."

The boat drew an irregular arc, Zhang Hongfan exclaimed in surprise when he sat on the boat, and there were more and more arrows, and then, the bed crossbow also began to attack.

Qingxu Zhenren said: "The bed crossbow has been activated, let's go." ”

The Shadowless Boat moved in a slight arc, fleeing into the darkness to the south.

When Zhang Hongfan heard the sound, he had already put on his clothes and walked out of the cabin, and Haili Baihu hurriedly ran over: "Master, we have been attacked by an unknown attack, it is a shadowless boat, but the fire is very fierce. ”

Zhang Hongfan said: "What are you panicking about, what about the sneak attackers? ”

Haili Baihu said: "The sneak attackers have fled south"

Zhang Hongfan said: "That's the water ghost of the pseudo-Song Dynasty." ”

Haili Baihu said: "The shadowless boat is running so far away, it is either a water ghost or a Fengfeng or a death squad, but since they have escaped, it is not a death squad, and their firepower is very fierce." ”

Zhang Hongfan stood on the platform and looked at it, the front sail, middle sail and tail sail had already ignited a fire, but although it was very large, for the car and ship, as long as there was no follow-up attack, this ignition only made the car and ship uncomfortable.

Zhang Hongfan was puzzled: "They are just such people? What is the intention? ”

Haili Baihu said: "Master, do you want to transfer?" To be sure? ”

Zhang Hongfan said: "What happened to Zhang Qi and Turuk? ”

Haili Baihu said: "Now it's a chaotic battle, General Li Heng has sent nearly 40,000 soldiers, Lord Turuk seems to have killed Lu Xiufu, and General Zhang Qi wants to kill Zhang Shijie." Our army has now opened a passage almost three or four miles wide, and as soon as the morning dawns, we will continue to transport the sergeants ashore, and the pseudo-Song must have been finished. ”

Zhang Hongfan sat down and was puzzled: "How many escort ships are there around us?" ”

Haili Baihu said: "Nine." ”

Zhang Hongfan sneered: "Nine escort ships, they can only be a shadowless boat sneak attack, order the water ghosts to strengthen patrols, and order the escort ships to send two water ghosts to look for the pseudo-Song Dynasty." I'll sleep a little longer, it's dawn, and we're going to go to the cliff to engrave letters. ”

At this moment, someone shouted: "There is a light in the sky!" ”

In the sky, Lin Xi was giving Xiao Si a hand, Xiao Si had already taken a hundred steps to burn the sky, and suddenly exclaimed: "The Venerable, the Venerable, that person is wearing a big coat and shining gold, he must be a high-ranking official of the pseudo-Yuan, we are developed." Ignition, ignition!! ”

Lin Xi was also overjoyed, and directly used a copper drill to pick out the fire cloth from the fire tray, lit the fuse, and then threw the fire cloth into the fire tray.

Then stood beside Xiao Si: "It's lit"

Xiao Si was so nervous that he couldn't speak, the two-zhang long launch pad was not originally prepared for launching downward, so now when Xiao Si is holding it, he has to hold the bazooka with one hand, and wait until the bazooka has momentum, and then let go...... Anyway, things were done in a hurry, and they could only be done semi-manually.

In five seconds, the tail of the bazooka spewed flames, Xiao Si waited for half a second, let go of his hand, and the bazooka plunged towards Zhang Hongfan, the height was less than two hundred steps, the length was about one hundred steps, almost instantaneous, and the bright tail clearly told everyone that there was a fire-breathing monster in the sky.

Haili Baihu realized something, and suddenly picked up Zhang Hongfan and ran.

Lin Xi saw that Xiao Si's bazooka had flown out, so without saying a word, he hurriedly set up another one and lit the fuse.

In the interval when the bazooka was about to fly, Lin Xi began to throw thunderbolts, this distance was difficult to hit, but the sound caused chaos.

Hai Li shouted loudly behind Zhang Hongfan's back: "Release the shadowless boat, release the shadowless boat, release the shadowless boat quickly." ”

Lin Xi pulled the rope of the large and small pulleys, and after a while, the two ropes began to rotate, which was that the people on the boat already knew that they needed to transport the munitions.

Xiao Si has become a machine, with a small body and huge strength, the fire pot and thunderbolt can only be heard in Lin Xi's hands, and in Xiao Si's hands, half of them hit Zhang Hongfan's ship.

When Lin Xi saw Zhang Hongfan's boat, it seemed that he was about to put down a shadowless boat, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said to Xiaosi: "They let go of the shadowless boat, this stupid person, save the fire, knock down the shadowless boat, and burn the sky with a hundred steps." It's better to wait for Zhang Hongfan to start to go down, but it's not yet time for the Shadowless Boat."

said that it was too late, it was too fast, Lin Xi took Xiao Si a hundred steps with a collision fuse to burn the sky, and then lit the fire twist at the tail and told Xiao Si: "The fire twist has been lit, and I count dozens of them." ”

Immediately, he also picked up a hundred-step burning sky, put the hundred-step burning sky on the two-zhang long launch stand, and then stretched the tail of the hundred-step burning sky to the fierce fire oil jet, and waited until he saw the fire twist coming out of the spark, so he moved the bracket forward, and he aimed at the top of the shadowless boat, and the middle part of the board of the car and ship.

Xiao Si aimed at the position of the boat board close to the shadowless boat, Zhang Hongfan was hit by Hai Li with a rope in a small circle, Zhang Hongfan stepped on the circle with his left foot, Hai Li quickly put the rope down, just at this time, Xiao Si's hundred steps of burning the sky collided at the deck boat gang, a small flame burst open, and some fierce fire oil was exploded and scattered, forming a radius of eight or nine zhang of dispersion.

But there was still a part, shrouded above Zhang Hongfan and the Shadowless Boat, Zhang Hongfan immediately jumped into the seawater, and after more than ten seconds, struggled to emerge from the water, climbed onto the Shadowless Boat, and shouted: "Open the boat, open the boat." ”

At this time, the hundred-step burning sky launched by Lin Xi also arrived, and it hit the ship board obliquely, more than half a catty of gunpowder sprayed out more than 20 liters of fierce fire oil, and the shadowless boat was completely covered in it, on the deck, the explosion gunpowder launched by Xiao Si ignited, causing a fierce explosion effect in the air, and the explosive fire oil formed a violent high temperature and high pressure, smashing the shadowless boat into the seawater, and then the explosion gunpowder launched by Lin Xi was also ignited, exploding in the seawater, throwing the seawater to the sea surface again, and the shadowless boat cracked, All the personnel of the Shadowless Boat were damaged by the intense high pressure to their lungs and internal organs, and although the flames slightly ablated some of their skin and hair, they were thrown into the water in a short period of time, so the scorching was not serious......

Hai Li was ignited by the fire oil of the first explosion of his body and clothes, but soon, the second explosion killed him, and the detonation phenomenon produced a lack of oxygen and detonation effect, and the death occurred very quickly, and the deck was emptied quickly, but the fire was already ignited one after another.

It was about half past four in the morning, the darkest hour before dawn.

In the history of the past, it was engraved in Yashan - the heroic drama of Zhang Hongfan destroying the Song Dynasty here is no longer there.

In previous history, in addition to being injured by earthquakes and mudslides, there had never been such a rapid way of war destruction, and from this moment on, the real power of firearms began to be recognized.

Zhang Hongfan was killed, but Xiao Si and Lin Xi still projected at least one more round, and continued to throw four fire yakshas, burning the original place of the Shadowless Boat into a sea of fire.

The fire quickly heated the air, forming an updraft, and Lin Xi's hot air balloon was also affected by this, and it rose to a height of twenty or thirty paces.

Now the huge volume of Lin Xi's hot air balloon has been undoubtedly outlined by the surrounding firelight, at least three ships and loach boats began to shoot at Lin Xi's hot air balloon, the strength of ordinary bows and crossbows to shoot into the sky is very limited, and the erection of bed crossbows takes time. However, there are still condor archers or powerful shooters who shoot threatening enough arrows into the hot air balloon.

Lin Xi was mad, and he didn't need to burn the sky in a hundred steps, so Xiao Si let the ship transport the fire yaksha, and one after another fire yaksha was launched one after another, now Lin Xi has been very skilled in using the ignition twist of the tail in the fire spout, every threatening arrow is repaid a fire yaksha, the fire yaksha is condescending, after shooting, the iron spike at the top will be nailed to the deck, and it will explode and splash the fire oil after a few breaths, these powerful shooters and condor shooters have the right to move freely, but after they dodge the fire yaksha, The subsequent attack of the Yaksha will empty the area, causing the sergeant to look viciously wherever the powerful shooter runs.

At first, these powerful marksmen and condor shooters shot at the location of the hot air balloon and the light, and then found that the place where the tongue of fire and tail inflammation spewed out was not exactly the same as the position of the light, and by the time someone found out, often the fire yaksha had already emptied his ship's deck.

Xiao Si has never been so tired and happy as today, he only knows that the two pulleys are constantly unloading, rolling and sending letters, and then unloading, and then rolling and sending letters, at this moment, Xuanyi under the strong suggestion of Guo Yijiaotou, the three launchers also began to exert their strength, using Erli fireworks and 100 steps to burn the sky, the location of the Xuanyi and the hot air balloon is a sea of death, igniting the way of death, and quickly killing the living force of the four surrounding sea ships.

At half past five in the morning, the hot air balloon had begun to fall, gradually docking on the platform of the Xuanyi, Lin Xi and Xiao Si climbed out of the basket of the editor-in-chief, Lin Xi's legs and hands were already out of force and trembling, and said loudly: "Song Aoxing, hurry up and lead people to pack up the hot air balloon, vacate the launch frame, and flee south at full speed." After packing up the hot air balloon, I will put the launch rack on the rack, and all the enemy ships along the way, as long as they are close, will burn them to death, and set fire to all the enemy ships on our route, so that everyone can hear the Xuanyi and think of the flame of death. ”