Since the birth of hot air balloons, Ye Mengxiong believed that this kind of marine balloon used for reconnaissance and command could be used for war.

In the 23rd year of Hongwu, Wanhu Tao Chengdao, a firearm expert of Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, proved with his life that forty-seven rockets could not be allowed to fly. After him, no one could make himself fly.

Now they can do it. Just pull it with a rope, fly up if you want to fly, and fall down if you want to fall.

There is no ship or gun in this world designed to exist to attack things in the sky. In the sky above thirty feet high, they are invincible.

When Ye Mengxiong saw the boat, he knew that this thing should have a weapon.

At the beginning of this year, he tried to carry long lead palm thunder on the boat's watch ball, and while looking, he launched an attack on the enemy ship that was hitting against the wind, but the effect was not as good as he thought.

The palm thunder is difficult to aim in the air, and the flag army in the hot air balloon does not have that accurate position calculation. In the end, no one of them may be able to accurately land at the target location, especially on the slowly moving ship, which is even worse.

However, this blow did not discourage him. In spring, Ye Mengxiong took advantage of the east wind to release two untied hot air balloons and drifted west for nearly twenty miles. He was almost at Tianjin Wei before he fell, which brought him great encouragement.

This shows that not only sea, but also land warfare can be used, but also land warfare's military formation is much larger than naval battles. As long as the wind blows well, twenty or thirty hot air balloons filled with thunder in the palm of your palm float over the enemy camp at night. What would it be like?

For this reason, Ye Mengxiong, who was a Jinshi in the past six months, even specially compiled a set of books published by Beiyang generals, called Tianhuolu, which specifically explains the production of hot air balloons, identifying wind directions, and using land warfare.

Later, the hot air balloons no longer contain thunder in palms. They ignite with pottery cans and then throw them down. When they hit the deck or the ground, they will explode into a sea of ​​fire. A warship will lose the ability to continue fighting in a short period of time. If they are not handled properly, they will be completely burned.

After that, the Beiyang Military Office began to work towards materials learning, looking for denser, thinner and heat-resistant fabrics, and fuels that can provide longer-lasting heat.

Then they found an upward gas, coal gas, in the coking plant. However, Li Shizhen, the person in charge of obtaining this gas, was more willing to name it light gas, because the preparation method is similar to the gold mercury powder of Compendium of Materia Medica, and mercury powder is also called light powder, which is also upward.

Then there were naturally flying fish.

"No, the flying fish cannot appear in the Beijing where Dayue. Didn't Xu Weidu see its appearance?"

This shocking thing appeared in front of Xu Jue. His first idea was naturally to let the emperor, Zhang Juzheng, and Feng Bao look at it to please the nobles. Mobile::

Knowing that it was not a monster, but a weapon created by someone, Xu Jue was no longer afraid.

But Ye Mengxiong had a different idea than him. In the official hall of the Beiyang Yamen, Ye Mengxiong turned his hand and said, "This is not the first flying fish. We put one a month ago, and it leaked. It ignited when the flag army ignited the tinder tank in the air. The whole flying fish exploded and the flag army was burned to an end."

Xu Jue could only imagine the miserable situation. After pausing, he said, "I think this one is pretty good. It flew up with the wind, burned the warships, and the flag army landed safely. It's pretty good."

The official hall was very quiet. Xu Jue didn't know where he said it was wrong and made Ye Mengxiong so silent. He saw the important officials in Beiyang raise their hand and pinch their eyebrows, and asked with an unexpected expression: "Do you think it's planned to burn the flying fish before landing?"

"It's not a hot air balloon. It should be able to fly for two or three hours. Although no one knows where it will fly, it shouldn't fall down so quickly, and it shouldn't be burned. Let it go to Beijing. Do you want it to burn Chengtian Gate?"

"This...isn't that plan?"

Xu Jue pursed his lips a little embarrassedly: "Then, I'm afraid this flying fish will have to be improved before His Majesty can watch it."

"Improve it. There are so many things to change in Beiyang, and Ye doesn't have so much energy. Maybe it will be better to have a rudder for Feiyu next time? Let it flow up the sky."

Another failure made Ye Mengxiong unable to raise interest in discussing this matter for the time being. He sat upright and asked Xu Jue: "The court will go to Beijing before the third period to go?"

Before Xu Jue could get over the novelty brought by the flying fish, he nodded and replied, "How heavy can the flying fish take to heaven? Can it be as heavy as Xu?"

"Director Xu looked at it but it was less than 1,300 kilograms."

Ye Mengxiong looked at Xu Jueyuan's rolling rolling alone and chuckled, saying, "Why did Your Majesty think about reading it?"

"Hi! Isn't it all the Lu Wang who made trouble? I heard that at first it was Lu Wang who wanted to watch the military parade. If the emperor wanted to watch this matter, I'm afraid he would be punished. Lu Wang is different. The empress dowager who made him suffer any grievance. She cried like a wolf, and couldn't stop it." Computer::/

"Later, the Empress Dowager told Your Majesty about this matter. When he was preaching, His Majesty asked the cabinet master and the Minister of War what he meant. His Majesty was young and had a wise spirit and thought that the original bad things were a good thing, believing that the military parade could boost the morale of the army and shine with martial ethics."

"We simply set the military parade as normal, which is limited to the consumption of financial resources. Therefore, it is initially decided to read a small reading a year. It is easy for the Beiyang Army, which is about to go to sea in February, to enter Beijing from Tianjin; every three years will be read a large reading, and the provincial capital departments will select the five most incredible Ministry of Households and outstanding young generals to go to Beijing to read it."

Xu Jue shook his head and sighed, raised his fingers and placed it on the table several times, saying, "Don't look at your young and wise. These generals and officials can be summoned by Your Majesty to participate in the palace banquet after the military parade, and then went to Beiyang for a three-month study and exchange."

"Your Majesty will come here to take a look at it. This is to let Beiyang shoulder the heavy responsibility!"

Xu Jue looked at Ye Mengxiong and said, "The Cabinet and the Wangbutang of the Ministry of War think that His Majesty's proposal is very good. He is now making careful arrangements for military parades. He should use means to prepare for each major review for three years, so that they can always be alert and not waste their military power."

Ye Mengxiong heard that the emperor was so wise and bowed to the sky with great comfort. He felt very moved. Finally, he shook his head and said, "This Lu King, the vassal king is so favored, it is not a good thing for the court. He should ask him to be a vassal early."

"Who says this is not?"

Xu Jue slapped his hands and said, "You are not only Ye Gong, but also the Ministry of Revenue of the Ministry of War, who have this idea, and they hope that King Lu will go to Yazhou to take advantage of the vassal state. But I heard that there was still war there, and there was no way. I just hope that Mr. Chen would expel the Western Barbarians as soon as possible, build a prince's mansion for King Lu, and send it away! Unfortunately, his Majesty was unhappy, and he didn't know what the use of King Lu staying in the palace."

I was so capable of making trouble when I was a child, but growing up is probably a disaster!

“Yes!”

Xu Jue slapped his head and said, "There is another official business. I heard that many disabled wounded soldiers in the first phase of Beiyang this year have come back to wait for resettlement. There are candidates with excellent talents. Mr. Ye should not forget to keep them for the Nanzhen Fushi. Our company plans to provide Tiqi with a hand gun and ask for a few bird gun coaches."

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