Section X

Wu Ming sat upright on the horse, but there was a look of approval in his eyes: "Very much, immediately let the hot air balloon rise into the air, scout carefully."

After Lu Fang followed Wu Ming to Zhongxi, the hot air balloon was naturally no longer a secret exclusive to the imperial court. After Wu Ming returned to Tingya, he immediately ordered Zuo Wei, who was in charge of logistics, to manufacture, but the time was still short, and there were not a few hot air balloons in total, so it was still difficult to form an organization, and Wu Ming was in a hurry, and it was impossible to bring too much, forming a burden. The whole army only brought five hot air balloons.

In the confrontation of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops, it is naturally difficult for these hot air balloons to form an effective threat to the enemy, but they are more than enough to reconnoiter the enemy's situation.

Since it was reconnaissance, it was impossible to press it all, so Yang Yi thought about it, and finally decided to transfer two hot air balloons to reconnoiter the enemy. Two hot air balloons sewn from cow and sheepskin spread out on the ground, and quickly grew larger after puffing up, Wu Ming watched the four soldiers climb into the hanging basket inside, and asked: "Brothers, this time I want you to search for the movement in front of you, but not a war, let the tricks be brighter, don't fall in love with the enemy when you see it, just come back and report it immediately." ”

The hot air balloon was already inflated and was about to take off, and the four soldiers in the hanging basket heard Wu Ming's order and saluted in unison: "Yes, follow the orders of the grandfather." ”

The desert is too windy and the wind direction is too chaotic to be suitable for hot air balloon flight, and these soldiers have only been training for a short time, and after rising to a high altitude, they will fly even more crookedly, and it seems that they will fall off immediately. But this battle is related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people, and it is also related to the life and death of China, the West and the West.

When the two hot air balloons are on the ground, they are like two big tents, like behemoths, but as soon as they go into the air, they become two small eggs and become insignificant.

At this year's spring festival, she didn't go to the grave of the queen mother, so she must have been a little blamed, right? According to the charges of the two imperial brothers, they naturally cannot enter the imperial mausoleum, and the dry grave must be overgrown with dry grass. Esther, who was standing behind Wu Ming, squinted with a pair of big blue eyes, watching the two hot air balloons fly farther and farther, but there were a few more sorrows in her heart.

The war broke out again, and it was his two royal brothers who used to face off, but now, it was his husband and his younger brother who faced off. Although the emperor's younger brother, who is now the lord of Persia, never regarded him as his own relative verbally, but when he faced off with his husband, he felt a little pain and unwillingness, was it just because of Brother Amin? She thought about it, and I'm afraid it wasn't quite the case.

Wu Ming was standing beside her, and the hesitation on Esther's face was naturally in full view: "Xiao Ai, if you really feel embarrassed, don't force it." ”

If it was usual, Esther would definitely have to argue with Wu Ming again, but in this situation, she only sighed deeply. On the night of the Arc de Triomphe, I thought my heart was dead, but it had been in the Southern Han Dynasty for a while, but the events of that night had been like a lingering nightmare, clinging to my heart, I didn't want to think about it, but I couldn't help but think about it. If you really face the Persian army, what should you do?

One side is her husband, the other side is the homeland, although Persia has long denied herself as a princess, but although she says that she is powerful, she can be indifferent, after all, how innocent is the army? How are thousands of congregational members innocent? The master and the Divine Sect take care of themselves in many ways, and it is impossible for them to face each other. She thought for a while and said, "Brother Amin, is it true that Persia and China and the West only have one way to war?" ”

She suddenly asked such a sentence, which choked Wu Ming, and was stunned before saying: "Xiao Ai, even if I don't have your relationship, I don't want to go to war with Persia, but you have repeatedly crusades to the east, the goal is the central and western and northwest, and even more vainly try to connect the clouds, these are the purposes of Persia on the surface, as the governor of China and the West, the imperial court and the prince of the country, naturally I can't sit idly by, in fact, it is easy to stop the war, as long as Persia gives up the eastern crusade, I will naturally not have nothing to do, and take the army over the mountains and mountains to run to Gehan to hang out." ”

Abandonment of the Crusades?

Esther's fair forehead furrowed, and then she sighed deeply. She is a former saint of the Divine Cult and a princess of Persia, so she naturally knows the importance of the Eastern Crusade to Persia. In Persia, from the emperor to the common people, the idea of the Eastern Crusade has long been ingrained, just as people cannot do without air, and fish cannot do without water.

It was already evening, on the prairie in the west, as far as the eye could see, the sunset slowly poured towards the west, more like burning, reflecting that the grassland that should be green also had a bewitching red, overhead, a few white clouds in the evening wind, very fast to the west. It's a majestic view that you can't see anywhere else. Wu Ming stood beside Esther, looked at her with a bitter face, and was a little unbearable, looking at the sunset and said lightly: "Xiao Ai, look, the scenery in the West is also charming. ”

Esther stood beside him, watching the sunset together, a pair of blue eyes were full of light, as if she had made some kind of determination, and suddenly said: "Brother Amin, I have been avoiding before, but now I find that I am wrong, really wrong, there are some things, avoiding can not solve any problems, only to face the difficulties, as much as possible to let Persia dispel the idea of the East, this is the right way." ”

The sunset was burning, her jade-like face flashed with a touching flush, Wu Ming looked at her like a flower, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything. At this time, Yang Yi, who was standing behind Wu Ming, suddenly shouted, "Grandpa, the hot air balloon for reconnaissance is back." ”

The surrounding soldiers also shouted, and everyone looked up to see that two hot air balloons were already in the strong wind, slowly floating in the opposite direction.

The hot air balloon can only be driven downwind at the beginning, naturally many inconveniences, fortunately, Lu Fang is indeed skillful, to the West in the past few months, probably by the Queen Mother is not light, or really miss Bailan, these months have been nesting in the craftsman workshop to fiddle with the power cannon, and research hot air balloons. He was originally amazingly talented, but he was usually lazy, and this ruthlessness was really improved by him in many details, among which the maneuvering of the hot air balloon and the driving in the wrong direction were what he gained during this time.

The two hot air balloons seemed to fly slowly and quickly towards this side, at first it was just a small black dot, and gradually became larger, and the personnel on the ground had already prepared below, and the two hot air balloons were lowered in turn, and there were relevant personnel to meet them immediately. Wu Ming was watching intently, and when he stopped, two soldiers walked over with a wounded, and it seemed that the injury was not light. Everyone was a little surprised, and hurriedly greeted them together, Yang Yi shouted, "What's wrong?" ”

After all, the hot air balloon is not mature, and there was an accident when it was a test flight in Nanning. Two soldiers fell from the sky and died on the spot, so Wu Ming was not very relieved about this thing, if it wasn't for the overall situation of the West Land, he wouldn't let the hot air balloon go out.

One of the soldiers who was supporting him said: "Back to General Yang, this brother was sniped by the Persians and was wounded. ”