In the blue sky, the clouds are stacked on top of each other like cotton wool, and the soft texture makes people feel inexplicably peaceful, but below the clouds is a fierce battlefield intertwined with gold and iron.

Everyone raised their heads in the direction of Zhang Mingqi's fingers, only to see that between the clouds, there were faintly flickering sparks, getting closer and closer.

"What's that?"

At the same time, Tang Jun also noticed the abnormality in the air and exclaimed one after another.

Starfire, naturally, is not a starry sky in the night sky, it is a cold winter, and it is unlikely that there will be fireflies on a summer night.

At this time, the sun was still hanging high in the sky, and it continued to release its endless energy.

"Yes...... Lamp?" Li Yu raised his head and looked at the sky, and said with some hesitation.

It is indeed a lamp, and there is more than one.

Countless lamps fluttered and joined together as light as a cloud, their shells formed by yellowish tissue paper, and the chrysanthemum-like firelight swayed slightly in the center of the lamps.

They gradually replaced the elegance of the clouds, and converged in the wind into an endless sea of lights, although they did not appear bright in the daylight, but because of this, they have not been noticed by the Tang army.

"Flying lights!"

"Why can the lights fly!"

"Is this a fairy lantern flying down from the sky......

When the outlines of these things clearly reflected the eyes of every Tang soldier, one after another exclamations sounded in the Tang army's array.

Although there is a lantern festival in the Tang Kingdom every year, they have never seen a Chinese lantern floating in the air.

I heard that this kind of thing appeared a few years ago on Jing Wu's side, and it was invented by their prime minister Zhuge Wanling, and the lamp can slowly rise in the air after lighting the candle inside...... During the war when the Tang army went south, there was a time when the Jingwu army was besieged, and it was with this lamp that the signal was released in time, and then reinforcements were ushered in, and the army was able to get out of trouble.

But at that time, it was only three or five, and it was released at night, which was inconspicuous, and the number of flying lights here far exceeded hundreds or thousands, Li Mo looked at it, and it was estimated that there were about tens of thousands!

The cost of paper is not a small amount to make so many lamps, although today's paper has improved much more than the original production process, and has gradually begun to enter the homes of some dignitaries, but the vast majority of long notes are still on books and cloths.

What is this Jing Wu Jun trying to do in Mingtang?

"Bow. Xiang Chu said suddenly.

Although there were neatly lined up Qingzhou ghost riders on the opposite side, he still took a longbow from his subordinates unhurriedly, and as he wound the arrow, he suddenly pulled out a full moon!

The bowstring collapsed, and a flying lantern floating not far away fell, and soon a Xuanjia heavy rider turned over and dismounted, ran over in a few steps to retrieve the flying lantern, and gave it to Xiang Chu.

"General, this is something hanging from the flying lantern, it seems to be made of pottery, and it has some weight. The subordinate handed over a small bottle with a broken cotton rope at one end.

Xiang Chu nodded and took it, holding the palm-sized pottery bottle, and immediately smelled a pungent smell.

Very familiar taste.

A thunderbolt flashed in his mind, he had already guessed what was in this bottle, and raised his eyebrows: "This is stone grease!"

As soon as the words came out, Li Yu and several guards generals beside him all changed their faces.

They can't make flying lamps, but they all know what resin is.

"Naturalist" contains: famous mountains and rivers, holes and holes are facing each other, and the harmony comes out, then the stone fat and jade paste are born, and the food is immortal, and the dragon spirit turtle walks in the hole.

Of course, to this day, many famous masters have already proved that this thing is born naturally, but it has nothing to do with the dragon spirit turtle, and it is even more nonsense to eat it, and it is clearly pointed out in medical books that this thing can be used as medicine, but it cannot be eaten in large quantities.

Xiang Chu's face was as gloomy as ink, how could he not know that this thing had a discolor-changing name on the battlefield - fierce fire oil.

Compared with the usual grease squeezed from animals or plants, the fire of this thing will be extremely ferocious, once it is touched, it is almost as impossible to get rid of as maggots on the tarsal bones, and the dose of a small vial is enough to incinerate a large living person into a charred corpse.

Xiang Chu couldn't help but raise his head again, the flying lights in the sky were a little closer to them, and some had even floated above their heads...... Could it be that every flying lantern carries this kind of thing?

"Disperse!" Li Yu raised the long knife in his hand with one arm and roared loudly.

If all these flying lanterns fell, I was afraid that most of the Shenwu Heavenly Army would be drowned in the sea of fire, even if the armor on their bodies was extremely hard and could defend against swords and guns, how could they withstand the scorching fire?

But it's a pity that although this is a plain, after the dry river is flooded, the place they are in has become a gourd-like shape, wide on the outside and narrow on the inside, and they want to disperse the 40,000 Shenwu Heavenly Army at once...... How easy is it to say?

Xiang Chu lowered his voice, gritted his teeth and issued a military order: "The whole army ...... Throw away the baggage and go forward as fast as you can!"

Obviously, the situation is urgent, and Xiang Chu can no longer afford to hesitate.

Although he has led the troops for many years, he knows very well that the army is advancing at full speed, and there will definitely be large-scale formation chaos, and the Shenwu Heavenly Army, which is not fast, will gradually become disconnected from the cavalry queue......

Rush out of here. Maybe because of the chaos of the formation, he will be caught by the Qingzhou ghost cavalry, and he will be chased and intercepted by them, but if he can fight hard, it is better than being blocked in this narrow terrain and being burned to death by fierce fire oil.

This kind of nonsense strategy, Jing Wu Jun actually did it, so it seems that there must be a capable person in Jing Wu Army who understands astronomy and can measure the direction of the wind, otherwise these flying lights do not fly from behind the mountain, and the slightest wrong wind direction may make these flying lights deviate from the established route.

There are very few such people, after all, few people have dabbled in the art of astronomical divination, and even if they do, most of them only know a little scratch, but to measure the wind direction in the next period of time, they will definitely not be able to do it without a deep enough attainment.

"If such a person can be used by me......" Xiang Chu sighed, although every country has stargazing officials, but those wine bags and rice bags basically only know how to make up some mysterious and mysterious words, so that they can be used in the country's rituals and astrological divination, and predicting wind and rain, deducing good fortune and other major matters, I am afraid that it is a few knives on their necks, they can't do it.

"Distinguish the good and the bad, hmph, what is the good and the bad? Relying on empty mouth and white teeth to talk nonsense, in exchange for flattering the king for a full belly and poop all day long, if I can get to that position, I will definitely kill all these people with a knife. Xiang Chu's voice was neither loud nor small, and he never shied away from these.

At this time, the flying lantern had already reached the top of the Shenwu Heavenly Army, and people's eyes widened in horror, and no one noticed Xiang Chu's muttering.

As the flames rose, the Flying Lanterns seemed to have their own lives, understood their purpose in life, and began to sacrifice themselves to the flames, and at the same time ...... The fall also began.

Obviously, these flying lights have already set such a moment from the time they were built to the beginning of take-off, and as for how to make these flying lights fall at the right time, I am afraid that few people in the entire battlefield care.

Because just when the first flying lantern began to land, there was a bang in the military formation of the Shenwu Heavenly Army!

It was obviously just a clay bottle filled with fierce fire oil, but at the moment it landed, it suddenly exploded, and the fiery red flames spread suddenly among the crowd, and several Shenwu Heavenly Soldiers were immediately wrapped in the flames, and from a distance, it was like a layer of flames woven into a large coat!

And that's just the first one.

The flying lanterns in the sky began to perform "self-immolation" one by one and fell, and those clay bottles fell to the ground one after another, blooming red lotuses on the ground, and the red petals were like hooking the legs, feet, and shoulders of the Shenwu Heavenly Army, and for a time the tens of thousands of troops under Xiang Chu became a pot of porridge.

No matter how hard the armor on the Shenwu Heavenly Army was, there were many gaps, and they might be able to disdain it when facing the feather arrows, but they could not do anything in the face of these raging and pervasive flames.

Because of the burning pain and the fear of death, many of the Shenwu Heavenly Troops who were on fire ran wildly, and at the same time let out a terrible scream that was almost not like that of a human being.

The flying lights in the sky are still falling, I don't know how many pottery bottles have fallen into the military formation of the Shenwu Heavenly Army, because the place is narrow and crowded, the Shenwu Heavenly Army does not have much space to hide, they can only watch each pottery bottle fall, and there is a sudden sea of fire in front of their eyes......

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