Chapter 180: Kong Ming Lantern

Zhuge Liang was speechless: "This can come down, and if you want to go down, you can control it by reducing or extinguishing the pine resin." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

But this sentence is obviously not believed by anyone, and it is regarded by everyone as an instigation or deception.

Zhuge Liang was also a little embarrassed for a while, snorted, and bent down to drill into the hanging basket: "I made this lantern, so I will experiment with it, so I can grasp the accurate situation." ”

"Wait!" Suddenly, Zhao Yun shouted, and immediately stopped Zhuge Liang and said with a smile: "You can't go up, you are now a half-immortal in the Jingzhou army, or the brother-in-law of the lord, in case there is a mistake, I can't afford it!" ”

Kong Ming's face darkened when he heard this, and he still didn't believe him after all.

"If you don't let me go up, and you don't go up, aren't you ready to break the city? If you want to break the city, you must sit on this hanging basket! Zhuge Liang said categorically, without a hint of concession.

Having said this, everyone also understands that Zhuge Liang's plan to break the city is to let people sit in this hanging basket and descend from the air to the city. Indeed, if it succeeds, it must be a surprise army, making the enemy unguardable.

Zhao Yun took a sharp breath, stepped forward to take the hanging basket from Zhuge Liang's hand and said, "Then let me come." I also have an elder brother in my family, and if something happens to me, at least my brother will pass on the lineage, and I won't break the incense. ”

"Zilong, what do you mean? Are we all people who are afraid of death? Zhao Yun's words immediately made several people around him throw contemptuous glances at him, this was completely a person who killed a hillside with a stick.

Zhao Yun also knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he laughed and ignored the others, and sat on the hanging basket.

Zhuge Liang ignited the pine resin, to see that the pine resin burned more and more vigorous, a large amount of heat drove the hanging basket to fly.

Suddenly, Huang Yueying shouted from behind: "Stop! Stop it! ”

"Why stop?" Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun asked at the same time.

Huang Yueying ran up and grabbed the hanging basket for fear of flying away: "This lantern has no heat insulation, you must add a heat insulation layer to the kraft paper, otherwise when the pine resin burns for a long time, the heat will burn the kraft paper and break, in that case, General Zilong will be in danger!" ”

"Ahh Zhuge Liang suddenly realized, a cold sweat broke out on his back, and he hurriedly thanked Huang Yueying: "Thank you Yueying for reminding me, if it weren't for your reminder, I'm afraid that I would have killed General Zilong, and Liang Ke would have died a hundred times to atone for his crimes!" ”

At that moment, Zhuge Liang hurriedly grabbed the lantern with Zang Ba and others, let Zhao Yun jump down, and let go of the rope. The moment the rope was untied, the lantern immediately rose with the wind and flew higher and higher.

Because of Huang Yueying's reminder just now, everyone looked at this lantern, and used their eyes to visually measure the height of the lantern and the distance it flew.

Last time, Zhuge Liang only considered whether he could fly, and he didn't do much, he didn't expect this situation at all, when he got the lantern picked up by the sergeant, he saw the burned lantern and thought that it was blown by the wind and hit something that caused the flame to deflect and burn out, but now it seems that there is really no heat insulation, which caused the kraft paper to be burned before it fell. Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang broke out in a cold sweat again, this time he really almost lost a general.

"One hundred, two hundred, three hundred ......"

Everyone was looking at the lantern, and when the lantern flew out about 500 zhang, they saw that the kraft paper was burned by the heat of the pine resin, and began to crack, and then fell headlong and fell rapidly!

Seeing this, everyone was apprehensive, Zhuge Liang was even more shocked, and walked towards Huang Yueying and said: "Thanks to Yueying this time, if you kill General Zilong, it is really a pity for Liang to die!" ”

Zhao Yun hugged his fists to Huang Yueying and said, "Yueying is really Lu Ban alive!" Zhao Yun owes you a life this time! ”

Since there was a problem, everyone returned to the army again, and Zhuge Liang remade it, and at the same time asked Xiangyang to send a large amount of brown paper and some iron wire to help, and also applied for at least 2,000 crossbows and dozens of carpenters.

Zhuge Liang took Huang Yueying to make two lanterns overnight, added a layer of heat insulation to the inner layer of kraft paper, and made a fixed seat with iron wire in the place where the loose fat was held.

Because of the lesson last time, Zhuge Liang didn't dare to let people ride rashly, but put stones with the same weight as adults in the hanging basket to fly as people.

I saw the huge lantern swaying in the wind and gradually drifting away. Zhao Yun rode a horse and chased all the way, until the lantern flew out of nearly twenty miles, and then slowly fell to the ground because the pine resin burned out, but the lantern was not damaged at all.

Zhao Yun, who witnessed it with his own eyes, was relieved this time, and immediately returned to the hillside and sat in the hanging basket. As soon as the rope was released, the lantern immediately flew up with the wind, and Zhao Yun became the first man in history to fly into the blue sky.

This time he made all the preparations, Zhao Yun sat on the lantern and constantly tested and adjusted the ascent and descent along the way, and by the time he felt that there was no problem with the operation at all, the lantern had already flown twenty or thirty miles away. Then extinguished the pine resin, controlled the lantern to descend, slowly descended, and returned to the ground unscathed.

Since the experiment was successful, the next step is to rush to mass production.

That night, everyone returned to the barracks, and Zang Ba wanted to set up a banquet to celebrate the success of the plan to break the city, but was hurriedly stopped by Zhao Yun and Zhuge Liang: "It is not too late to carry out the celebration banquet after the capture of Nanxiang, this matter must be carried out in secret. ”

Everyone is not a drunkard like Zhang Fei, so they will give up now. Zhao Yun said: "Since it has succeeded, why don't you give this lantern a name?" ”

"Then it's called a flying lantern, a lantern that can fly in the sky, how about it?" Zhuge Liang thought for a moment and said.

Yin Li opened his mouth and said, "It's not good, it's not good." As soon as I heard the sky lantern, I thought it was a sky lantern, which was a torture for the most heinous people, so unlucky, and it was not good to break the enemy. You invented it, why don't you just call it Kong Ming lantern? ”

"Yes, yes! Whoever said that a rough person can't dance and ink, next time whoever says that, see if I don't smoke him to death! Zang Ba laughed and raised his thumbs to Yin Li.

Everyone agreed, and the name of the lantern was decided, and they waited for Xiangyang to send materials and craftsmen.

Zhuge Liang's plan is to make at least 2,000 lanterns, but to make so many lanterns, the materials needed are naturally not a few, and it is not enough to rely on the military camp alone, even Xinye can't raise it, so he can only wait for the supplies from Xiangyang.

There was nothing to say for a while, and everyone arranged for themselves to go back to their tents to rest.