The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 545
When the hot air expands enough to take off, the ground crew unfastens the fasteners that fix the hot air balloon, and fixes the burner and the gondola at the same time.

The pilot puts on a helmet and goggles and wears a canvas flight suit and enters the gondola. The man pulling the hot air balloon lets go at the same time, and the hot air balloon will slowly rise.

The pilot puts the other end of the rope used to pull the hot air balloon into the gondola, and fastens it with a slipknot.

Then throw sandbags to the ground one by one to increase the weight to prevent the hot air balloon from rising too fast. Whether to throw them all is determined by visual inspection according to the load of the hot air balloon.

In order to increase safety, there are also regulations on the flight altitude, which should not be higher than thirty feet.It is relatively easy to land. When preparing to land, the knob of the burner is adjusted to a small size, and the flame can even be extinguished. The air in the hot air balloon gradually cools and naturally descends slowly.

When approaching the ground, the pilot untied the rope that fixed the hot air balloon and threw it to the responders on the ground.

There are too many uncertainties in the use of such a hot air balloon to fly. The altitude is mainly determined by the pilot's accumulated experience in test flights. The speed cannot be controlled, and it depends on the wind speed.

When to lift off depends first on the face of God. It must be a sunny day, no wind, no wind, too much wind, and even worse if the wind direction is wrong.

The reason why Huang Sheng used this scientific research achievement was to enter Jinzhou to understand the military situation, and to know whether Jinzhou could still hold on.Of course, someone fell from the sky and entered the besieged Jinzhou, which undoubtedly boosted the morale of the garrison soldiers and civilians.

When the barbarians outside the siege saw something like this from the Ming army, what expressions would they have on their faces?Besides, the pilot will give them a little surprise when they pass over Jiannu's head.

It is safe to fly over the Jiannu control area at an altitude of [-] feet. Although Jiannu has artillery, it is not an anti-aircraft gun. Arquebuses and infantry bows cannot reach the hot air balloons.

It was already the beginning of November, and it was freezing cold in eastern Liaodong. There were more than 20 Mongolian Tartars and slave soldiers and civilians outside Jinzhou City. Huang Sheng's rescue of Jinzhou this time could not be a smooth one.

Therefore, it is necessary to adopt a slow-moving approach, and it is imperative to "strengthen the stronghold and fight the deadly battle".

Hongxie has been operating outside the city of Jinzhou for half a year. The camp is solid, and the fortifications should be even stronger now. Those earthen walls will become ice walls as long as they are watered, and their strength is comparable to that of a city.

If Huang Sheng approached with a large army, first of all, his strength would not be superior, and the ground was frozen three feet and he could not complete the fortification in a short time. If the Tartars and Jiannu cavalry rushed to attack, the Ming army might not be able to stand firm.

Without a reliable position, when the battlefield is first built by the enemy, and when the troops are absolutely against the trend, defeat is inevitable.

The scouts of the Huang family have scouted all the feasible military routes from Ningyuan to Jinzhou, paying special attention to the exploration of the coastal area closest to Jinzhou, and found that there were several obstacles repaired by the Hou Jin army.

Hong Jie is worthy of being a strategist. He is also a good tactician, and he has learned how to fight impeccably in the war.

Ba Xiao fought against Huang Sheng, and believed that the Golden Army was first afraid of Huang Sheng's artillery fire, and second afraid of Huang's armored chariots.

The slave chief is very smart and pragmatic. He has built small projects in places within [-] miles of Jinzhou that can be quickly approached by tens of thousands of troops, waiting for Huang Sheng to come to fight. Jiannu is thinking of revenge.

There is no flat open land outside Jinzhou City, and even the wheat fields after the autumn harvest have been dug into ditches by the Hou Jin army. The four-wheeled carriage cannot walk at all, and it is a big joke to want to run quickly.

The cavalry raids were hardly affected, and those ditches could be jumped over.

This is the arrangement of the Red Army according to local conditions, giving full play to the cavalry advantages of the Houjin Army, and it is possible to curb the mobility of the Ming Army's chariots.

Hong Xie found that using earth walls to contain the lethality of artillery fire was good, so he piled up all the soil borrowed from digging ditches and ridges into parapets, and now they are watered and frozen tightly, and their firmness is comparable to that of rammed earth walls.

Ba Xiao believed that these arrangements would reduce the artillery power of the Ming army by [-]%, and the roughness of the ground would prevent their chariots from approaching smoothly. possible.

It can be seen from this that the slave chief already knew that Huang Sheng was coming, and he was ready, and revenge was right under the city of Jinzhou.

Indeed, Hong Jie had long learned that Huang Sheng was granted the title of Lord of the Southern Kingdom and led the Liaodong Economy to rescue Jinzhou with [-] to [-] troops.

His espionage work covered almost the north of the Yellow River. Those Shanxi merchants who traded with Houjin would inform Houjin of Ming's intelligence, not only military information, but also the appointment and dismissal of officials. Houjin was able to grasp it quickly.

Hongxie also sent many spies to the caravans of Shanxi merchants, and even the generals of the frontier army were bribed, becoming a scum with two feet on two boats.

The enemy is ready to wait for me, will I just bump into it stupidly.

Huang Shengcai would not do such a stupid thing, and of course he would not do as Nu Chief wished when he had no advantage in time and place. Going to Hong is a decisive battle on the battlefield arranged.

The fortifications built by the post-Golden Army can be described as indestructible in cold winters, but those fortifications that look decent in winter are not worth mentioning when the ice and snow melt and spring flowers bloom.

Therefore, Huang Sheng planned to use the winter months to train troops, train the tens of thousands of Ming troops to be strong enough to fight, and let Hong wait foolishly in the ice and snow.

Because he was worried that the He Kegang Department of the Ming Army stationed in Jinzhou would not last until spring, he took the risk of sending people into Jinzhou to make contact.

This move should be a milestone in the military, and the participation of the Air Force in its original state will be recorded in the annals of history.

Zhao Shimin also brought a thousand new military engineering shovels, and Huang Sheng took a few to look at. Although the quality is slightly inferior to that of later generations of engineering shovels, it is unique in this era.

The engineering shovel produced by Huang’s family is designed to be foldable, which is easy to carry and can be folded once. The handle is changed to a triangular streamline shape according to the mechanical principle. They are all made of high-quality quenched high-carbon steel, which increases strength and wear resistance , Corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance.

The engineer shovel has the functions of shovel, pick, crowbar, saw, and knife.A soldier wielding an engineering shovel can easily cut off Jiannu's Shun Dao.

Huang Sheng asked Zhao Shimin to produce them at full capacity, which later became the standard equipment for engineers and auxiliary soldiers.

Since the owner of the family returned to Liaodong Bay with the main force of the navy, there is no need to worry about the defense of Huangjiawan Island and "Huaxia Island". Once came with Zhao Shimin.

At the end of May, after receiving the Patriarch's order to expand the army, Wu Qiang, Gu Yicang, Wang Zhigui, Liu Shifu, and Lu Zhongming, who had been promoted to General Manager Qian, completed the formation as quickly as possible, and are now fully staffed.

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