Zhao Yan stayed on the mountain for one night before leaving, and at that time he chatted with Hu Yanqing until midnight before resting, mainly because he had an important task to hand over to the other party, and Hu Yanqing finally agreed to the next task after thinking about it for a while, and then personally sent Zhao Yan down the mountain the next day. ◎Top Novel,www.

A few days later, Hu Yanqing and his soldiers were replaced, and then they were incorporated into a special team, as for their task, only Hu Yanqing knew about it, although the old ghost and the scar they wanted to inquire several times, but they were all blocked by Hu Yanqing, just said that this mission is extremely dangerous, it can be said that it is nine deaths, if they want to quit, it is not too late, but no one is willing to quit, because they know that the more dangerous the task, the greater the credit, They used to just want to eat in the army, but now with the victory of the army, everyone wants to fight for the fame of their wives and sons, and in order to achieve this goal, life and death have long been thrown out of the clouds.

Another few days have passed, and the north wind has been blowing since the early winter, but it suddenly changed the wind direction, and the wind actually blew from the east, and the wind was not very strong, and it was difficult to blow even the dry branches, so this small change did not attract too many people's attention, but Yang Wenguang and others in the Great Song Army had been waiting for this east wind for a long time.

On the first night of the change of wind direction, Yang Wenguang, who had been preparing for a long time, began to secretly mobilize one army after another, preparing to implement the hot air balloon raid plan that had been formulated long ago, and the first thing to mobilize was the special team where Hu Yanqing was, this team was not many in number, and it was only 2,000 people when it was full, but these two thousand people were all elites drawn from the army, and they were all known for daring to fight. The hundred people under Hu Yanqing were not too conspicuous among these people at all.

In order to prevent the Tangut people in the city from seeing the flaws, the mobilization of the Great Song army was all carried out at night, and it took two nights to complete the deployment of all the troops, including more than 70,000 Song troops ambushed in the Song army camp in the east, in addition to the 2,000 people who carried out the raid. As soon as the raiding party opens the gates, they will enter the city.

In addition, in the past two days, Yang Wenguang and they were also worried about their fears, on the one hand, they were worried that the Xixia people would discover the abnormal movement of the Great Song army, and on the other hand, they were worried that the wind direction would change.

It was also in this situation that at about the fourth watch of the next night, more than 700 hot air balloons that had been prepared began to be lit and prepared from the Song military camp in the east of the city, which was originally calculated according to Zhao Yan and their beginnings. Each balloon carries four people, except for one person who needs to stay on it to operate the balloon, it can transport three people, so that the number of troops transported reaches 2,000.

However, later in the actual exercise, Yang Wenguang and the others found that when the soldiers were fully armed, they suddenly increased a lot of weight, after all, both the armor and the weapons were very heavy, so that each hot air balloon could only carry three people in the end. The number of troops transported will be one-third less than before.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Yangang and others, who were invited, were also worried at first. It's definitely too late to let the capital send hot air balloons, and it's impossible to reduce the weapons and armor of the soldiers. But at this moment, that kind of Jianzhong once again put forward an idea, which suddenly woke up everyone who had gotten into the tip of the horns.

It turned out that according to Zhao Yan's plan, after the hot air balloon reached the sky above Xingqing City, the soldiers would jump off with the parachute designed by Zhao Yan on their backs. Then land in the middle of the city and gather as fast as you can at the city gate, the hot air balloon does not land. However, now the construction of the plant has proposed that it is better to let the hot air balloon carry the soldiers directly in the city, so that there are two advantages, the first is that the soldiers on a hot air balloon do not need to be scattered. The combat power of the three soldiers together is much stronger than that of the three scattered soldiers, and the second is that the soldiers do not have to risk jumping off with a parachute on their backs, after all, when parachuting in the later generations, there will still be accidents from time to time, not to mention the parachute temporarily designed by Zhao Yan.

Of course, this plan also has two huge shortcomings, first of all, Yang Wenguang and their proposal before they do not land, and then throw grenades or shells into the city to create chaos The plan cannot be implemented, and those hot air balloons that land in the city are estimated to be damaged, you must know that the cost of hot air balloons is not low, but compared to Xingqing Mansion, a few hundred hot air balloons are nothing at all.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that these hot air balloons have been modified in advance, and baffles are added around the stove so that the fire of the stove is difficult to see from the surroundings, and there are airbags on the top, hanging baskets underneath, and the airbags are also painted in a dark color, making it almost impossible to spot in the dark.

When all the hot air balloons are ready, it is already the darkest hour in the early morning, and when this time passes, the eastern sky will turn white, and then it will be the time when the airborne raid is launched, and this is also the time when people's vigilance is the most lax, and it is easier to succeed in sneak attacks.

With Yang Wenguang's order, more than 700 hot air balloons began to rise one after another, and then were blown by the slow east wind to the direction of Xingqing City, before Zhao Yan personally measured the wind speed, as well as the speed of the hot air balloon in the air, and the time and direction of the hot air balloon was also strictly calculated, and when the hot air balloon floated to the sky above the east gate of Xingqing Mansion, the eastern sky was just slightly white, so that the soldiers on the hot air balloon could see the surrounding environment, so that they could land in the city.

Compared with the busy Song military camp for two whole nights, the city of Xingqing Mansion seems to be very calm, since the Great Song Dynasty surrounded Xingqing Mansion, the whole city has been completely implemented martial law, after sunset to sunrise before the time strictly prohibits any civilians to appear on the street, every night there are Western Xia troops patrolling the city, and there are soldiers on duty at the head of the city at night to prevent the Song army from sneak attack.

However, as the so-called rigid cannot be long, it has been almost a month since the Great Song Dynasty surrounded Xingqing Mansion, except for the daily routine attack, the Great Song army has not had much movement, which also makes the Western Xia army slowly adapt to the frequency of the Song army's attack, and the spirit is slowly relaxed.

It is precisely because of this that when the raid on the side of the Great Song Dynasty finally began to be launched, there was no preparation in the city of Xingqing Mansion, especially now that it was early in the morning, most of the people in the city were sleeping soundly, and most of the soldiers who had been guarding the city all night were dozing, and the soldiers patrolling the streets were also preparing to go back to sleep in shifts, and no one noticed that countless black dots had appeared in the dim sky overhead.

Hu Yanqing is now floating in a hot air balloon above the east gate of Xingqing Mansion, before Zhao Yan found him to let him also participate in this operation, although the light is still very dim, but the lights on the gate of Xingqing Mansion still pointed out the direction for them, and he immediately commanded loudly: "Old ghost, immediately extinguish the fire furnace and descend!" ”

"Whoa!" The old ghost also agreed loudly, and began to pour the sand that had been prepared long ago into the furnace to extinguish the fire, and then smiled maliciously at the scar shrunk in the hanging basket, "Scar, we are about to fall, can you kid hold it?" ”

"Get out! Don't tell me anything about falling down, there is a kind of comparison between us and who will kill more people after we land! Scar grabbed the hanging basket tightly with both hands, closed his eyes and yelled at the old ghost, he has a strict fear of heights, not only dare not look down, but even can't hear the words "fall, fall, fall", for example, now he is shrunk in the corner of the hanging basket, and his whole body is constantly swinging when he speaks, it looks like a wolf bèi, for which the old ghost laughs at him, but as soon as he lands, Scar will immediately become vibrant.

"What is murder, who of us buddies hasn't killed anyone? But there are not many opportunities to fly into the sky, but I don't know if I can meet the gods if I fly up again? The old ghost said with a smile, he didn't expect that the scar, who is usually not afraid of heaven and earth, was afraid of heights, especially when they practiced for the first time, and the scar was scared to pee not long after they flew up, so the old ghost laughed at him a lot, but Scar is also a donkey temper, no matter how scared he is, he will not withdraw from this operation.

"I'm sorry, just your murderous old ghost, when you meet a fairy, you will also be beaten to the eighteenth layer of hell, so you still die of this heart!" Although Scar was extremely scared, he replied very stiffly.

Regarding the quarrel between the two subordinates, Hu Yanqing not only did not stop it, but he also sat and listened with a smile anyway, because he knew that they were going to land in the city next, and they were likely to face countless enemies, and it would be a lie to say that they were not afraid in this case, so now the old ghost and Scar are just arguing to divert their attention.

Of course, Hu Yanqing did not forget to observe the surrounding situation at any time, those hot air balloons that were far away could not be seen for the time being, but the hot air balloons he could see had begun to descend slowly, and the breeze blowing from the east was very weak, which made them move very slowly, which also made them safer when they landed, and also had more time to adjust the altitude.

With the decrease in altitude, the hot air balloon is less than 100 zhang from the ground, if someone in the city looks up at this time, they will definitely be found at a glance, and at this time Hu Yanqing also stopped the quarrel between the old ghost and the scar, so as not to cause their voice to reach the attention of the Xixia people, but Hu Yanqing These soldiers who participated in this operation did not know that they would create a legend in military history! (To be continued......) R527