The sky gradually brightened, compared to the first early morning liftoff test in the Central Plains, the dawn process in this area seemed to last longer, but the children at the height of the clouds still saw the vast land below when the sky gradually became as dark blue as the evening, as well as the occasional sound of cannons and explosions not far behind them, and it was these sounds that let people know that the distance after takeoff was not too far, and they could not land on the ground too quickly.

Different from the excitement and nervousness of the first liftoff, after several years of hard study and training and even actual combat, the psychological endurance of today's children is no longer comparable to that of the past, and the three companions in the third balloon special class are now killed in the war and even various accidents, and only six pairs of people and twelve children have survived. Early on, these young girls learned that even a short period of time in the air was extremely dangerous. Even though there have been rigorous estimates and tests in previous training and exercises, it is still possible to overturn due to the speed of the actual hot air balloon when it lands autonomously, so the children can only take to the air to endure the cold, and carefully control the valves and stoves of the hot air balloon.

At this moment, a group of cavalry officers of the Catholic coalition who were in charge of guarding the perimeter thirty miles away from the outer perimeter of Xindu were lazy and resting and looking up at the sky, and they stumbled upon what seemed to be something strange in the sky.

"Oh God, what's that? Is it an angel? ”

"Impossible, the angel shouldn't be like that, how can it be a cloud with a fire that seems to be on fire...

Telescopes were not a very common thing in this era, even in the military, and were usually carried only by a few high-ranking officers and generals. According to Chen Xin's previous thoughts, it seems that the hot air balloon may still be discovered by the enemy cruising dozens of miles away when the sky is just bright, but after the previous drill assessment, this is a matter with too little probability.

At this time, a cavalry commander rushed over, and with a five-fold telescope of decent quality, he looked at the strange clouds, which seemed to resemble the blue of the sky, and finally saw the appearance of the strange clouds.

"When the enemy from the east invaded the east, I had seen that strange balloon before the army. At the time, it was thought that it was impossible for such a small balloon to drag an adult into the air, but now it does seem a little strange. There really seemed to be a figure shaking on it. I can guarantee that God would not have made such a rudimentary thing, they are some kind of tool of the enemy for reconnaissance and communication! Quick, report to the general! ”

In this way, the children's hot air balloon was finally discovered by the Catholic coalition patrolling outside the city. Although the hot air balloon continued to float eastward for more than twenty miles after about a quarter of an hour, at this time thousands of horse teams finally moved in all directions.

Because after special selection and training, the children who do not forget to observe the ground at all times in the air also discovered the abnormal movement on the ground at this time, and understand that they must not easily land down at this time, so they can only set up a large fire as much as possible, although the risk of doing so is still very large, because the army has summarized the experience of using hot air balloons, and it has been proved that if there is not enough fuel for lifting and controlling when landing, it will encounter great danger when landing.

Although there wasn't much fuel to carry at this time in order to install supplies in the already modest hot air balloon, the children had to take a chance.

"When there is still the last liter of fuel left in the furnace, let the hot air balloon fall from a height of more than 400 feet!" At this time, the two teenage girls in the 21st group of the hot air balloon, who were the navigators, could only make up their minds like this.

The situation in the air was also extremely unfavorable, because the clouds were so thin that the children could only let the hot air balloon rise to a height of about six or seven hundred zhang before they began to quietly let the hot air balloon fall, and at this time there seemed to be not much fuel left in the furnace.

In order to prevent the fuel from running out too quickly, the children had to let the hot air balloon go down with the fire turned off. The cold in the sky seems to make the heat in the hot air balloon begin to gradually decrease after less than half an hour or so, and the whole hot air balloon also begins to slowly descend from slow to fast.

At first, the speed of the hot air balloon descent was not very fast, but after less than an hour or so, the speed began to increase sharply when it was reduced to about two or three hundred feet, so that the experienced children in the air also knew that it was time to deploy the maximum firepower in the furnace.

But when the hot air of the hot air balloon just heated up, the height of the balloon also fell to a height almost close to the ground, when the hanging basket fell to the ground, the huge impact almost made the two children coma for a short time, if it was not designed to take into account the maximum amount of landing speed when landing, so that the bottom of the hanging basket has a spring and cotton for cushioning, there is no doubt that this landing action will make the children completely unconscious.

"Let's go! We can't stay here! The children, who had just woken up from a brief coma, seemed to hear the faint sound of horses' hooves coming from the ground, but they could not care too much about it, so they could only evacuate as quickly as they could, and look for a temporary hiding place during the day.

The children remembered that the air regulations used to say that in such an alien area, the local people could not be trusted, so even if it was a last resort or even if they faced a desperate situation that required suicide, they should try to avoid hiding in the local strangers' homes, and they should choose to use lying bunkers to hide themselves as much as possible, and each child learned the art of building camouflage fortifications.

But even so, time seemed to be a little too tight, and when the cavalry and horses began to appear on the horizon as the enemy began to pursue, the children of the twenty-first group had only just arrived and dug a recumbent foxhole that could only accommodate them, and they had not had time to prepare for all kinds of covers.

When the sound of the horse's hooves seemed to be approaching very close, the two children finally ingested the suicide poison that had been prepared for a long time, and gradually fell into a coma.

It was only at this time that some of the great doubts that had previously been raised in combat seemed to be revealed, and it turned out that it was not only adults who could be used, as long as there was enough strategic value, even for children of this age.

(End of chapter)