Chapter 167: Kong Ming Lantern
Three days later, Lu Bu led 20,000 horses into Huiji County and went straight to Huiji Mountain.
His generals, Lu Bu brought Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and Dian Wei, and Gao Shun stayed behind.
This time, LΓΌ Bu only brought a thousand cavalry, and the rest were all infantry.
Most of the mountains are gathered in high mountains or places with treacherous terrain, and the cavalry is not useful at all.
The cavalry was also used to prevent the escape from the Shanyue impact breakthrough and to pursue it.
Soon, Lu Bu led the army to the foot of Huiji Mountain.
For Lu Bu's arrival, the sooner the mountain was prepared, all the mountain Yue gathered on the incense burner peak.
The incense burner peak is the highest altitude place in Huiji Mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
After surrounding the incense burner peak, Lu Bu and Jia Xu observed the terrain and summed it up.
After looking at the terrain, the two couldn't help but gasp.
The terrain of the incense burner peak is steep, and if you want to attack strongly, even if you have ten times the number of troops, you may not be able to attack it.
And the Shanyue on the incense burner peak is very numerous, at least five or six thousand people.
If they use a strong attack, they will not have enough people at all.
Besides, even if he could barely take it, he would definitely suffer heavy casualties, and Lu Bu would not have taken such measures at all.
Lu Bu couldn't help but look at Jia Xu and asked, "Military Division, how to attack?" β
Jia Xu couldn't help frowning and said: "This place is densely wooded, and the best way is to attack with fire." But Yamakoshi also took precautions against this, and cleared a large isolation zone in the middle, even if he used a rocket, he couldn't shoot it. In addition to attacking with fire, his subordinates haven't thought of a good way for the time being. β
Even Jia Xu couldn't help it, Lu Bu couldn't help frowning.
This is their first battle out of the mountain, and it must be started, otherwise, they will not be able to establish their prestige, and the following work will not be carried out.
But Shanyue occupies an absolute geographical advantage, and they have no way to deal with this kind of terrain.
One thing Jia Xu said is right, the best way to deal with this kind of terrain is to attack with fire.
But even if you can't shoot it with a rocket, how can you set this fire on the ground?
Lu Bu couldn't help frowning and thinking deeply, but it was difficult to come up with a good way for a while.
In fact, even in the original historical trajectory of Soochow, dealing with Shanyue was a protracted war of attrition.
There are also a variety of ways to deal with Shanyue, for example, one of the funniest methods is that they don't attack Shanyue, and then wait until the grain grown in Shanyue is ripe, and then send troops to kill and harvest it.
Shanyue had no food, so he had to run down the mountain.
This method can be regarded as a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle, and it is also very effective against Shanyue, but Lu Bu can't wait that long at all.
On the same day, Lu Bu had no choice but to set up camp and set up layers of protective measures under the incense burner peak to prevent Shanyue from stealing the camp in the middle of the night.
Lying in the tent at night, Lu Bu still struggled to think about how to deal with Shanyue, and did not fall asleep until he was very late.
After falling asleep, Lu Bu had a dream, in which Lu Bu dreamed that he returned to modern times and watched fireworks with Qin Ningyun. Looking at it, Qin Ningyun beside him suddenly turned into Diao Chan, Lu Bu took Diao Chan's hand, hugged Diao Chan into his arms, and made love wantonly.
After making love for a long time, I don't know what tricks Lu Bu used in his sleep, and he was woken up by the rocks on the ground.
After waking up, he couldn't sleep for a while, so Lu Bu simply put on his clothes and walked out.
Sister Yun and Cicada look too similar, and the two of them actually became one person in a dream.
Lu Bu felt that he missed Sister Yun a little, under the brilliant fireworks, Sister Yun was really beautiful!
That's right, fireworks!
For a moment, Lu Bu felt that he had grasped something.
Isn't it bad to set fire? So is it okay to use fireworks?
The height of the fireworks is enough!
However, there are no fireworks here, and even if there are fireworks, they may not be able to be ignited.
Isn't there no other way but fireworks?
There must be another way!
Thinking about it, Lu Bu's eyes suddenly lit up, there is!
Kong Ming lantern! That's right, that's it!
As long as the lower part of the lantern is connected to the wall with a piece of paper, after the candle inside is burned, the paper will be burned, and then the wall of the lantern will be ignited.
In this way, the purpose of long-distance arson can be achieved!
There is only one difficulty in this, that is, you need to calculate the speed of the Kong Ming lantern to lift off, and there is the length of the candle inside and the burning time.
It is necessary to calculate a number with a small error, and strive to burn the candle exactly when the Kong Ming lantern rises to the peak!
Thinking of this thought, Lu Bu couldn't help but fall asleep with excitement, and began to get up and go to the barracks to find paper and candles, and began to make Kong Ming lanterns.
Unexpectedly, Jia Xu didn't sleep either, and was sitting outside thinking hard about how to defeat the enemy.
Lu Bu knew the importance of this battle, but why didn't Jia Xu know?
As Lu Bu's most trusted military advisor, Jia Xu's inner pressure is not lower than that of Lu Bu at all.
When Jia Xu saw Lu Bu entering the barracks and didn't know what he was busy with, Jia Xu couldn't help but move and followed in.
"Lord, what are you doing?"
Lu Bu said excitedly: "Strategist, this thing I am making now is called Kong Ming Lantern. β
Jia Xu asked puzzledly, "Lord, what is this Kong Ming lantern for?" What is it used for? β
Lu Bu smiled and said, "Strategist, please wait a moment, you will know later." β
The simple Kong Ming lantern, the production method is really quite simple, it took more than a quarter of an hour for Lu Bu to make a simple Kong Ming lantern.
Finally, put the candle at the bottom of the lamp, and a Kong Ming lantern is completed.
After the production was completed, Lu Bu lit the candle at the bottom, and then excitedly said to Jia Xu: "Strategist, please look!" β
It's pretty bright outside this night, and it can be used as a lantern to illuminate.
But the lord is idle, and he doesn't sleep in the middle of the night, just to make lanterns and play?
Jia Xu felt that it was definitely not so simple, and couldn't help but look at Kong Minglan suspiciously.
Soon, Jia Xu suddenly found that Kong Ming's lantern was slowly rising into the air, Jia Xu rubbed his eyes, wondering if he was hallucinating.
How is this possible?
How could such a lantern-like thing take off on its own?
This, this is incredible!
And it worked!
In addition to the excitement, Lu Bu grabbed the Kong Ming lantern that was rising into the air and blew out the candle inside.
It can't be lifted into the air yet, and it can't be seen by the mountain at the summit.
Lu Bu couldn't help laughing and said: "Strategist, whether we can break through the incense burner peak or not, everything depends on whether this Kong Ming lantern is powerful!" β
Jia Xu didn't ask what Lu Bu meant by giving strength, but was wondering, just with this Kong Ming lantern, he could conquer the incense burner peak?
Jia Xu couldn't help but take the Kong Ming lantern from Lu Bu's hand, looked at it carefully, and suddenly remembered something, and his eyes couldn't help but light up.
"Lord, it's amazing, how did you come up with the production method of this Kong Ming lantern? Also, why was this Kong Ming lantern able to rise into the sky? β