"How high can you fly?"
After hearing what the young master said, someone asked curiously.
Li Zhao thought for a while and said casually: "It should be up to several hundred feet." In his previous life, he didn't do much research on hot air balloons, but he had heard about the approximate number. He heard that it could fly more than a thousand meters and hundreds of feet. That's enough to summarize.
This was just a number he told Shaoli, but it shocked everyone.
Flying hundreds of feet in the sky is simply appalling. Even big birds cannot fly that high.
But the next scene confirmed this statement.
I saw the hot air balloon carrying Wu Quan flying higher and higher, and finally turned into a black spot, slowly moving forward, and finally disappeared.
This height should be several hundred feet.
"Sure enough, everything the young master has come up with is so amazing."
Some people couldn't help but flatter him.
Li Zhao just smiled faintly and said: "Everyone has seen it, this is a hot air balloon. There are buttons on the hot air machine. As long as the fire power is controlled, the hot air balloon can rise and fall."
He also just told Wu Quan how to control the lifting and lowering.
"Do you think it's possible to fly in the air with this thing?"
Looking at the crowd, some people immediately realized it and suddenly realized: "The young master said that we should carry a hot air balloon in the air to drop a killer weapon on the Qin army?"
The killer weapon he mentioned was naturally a grenade. You must know that some people came from Chang'an Township and had thrown grenades.
Li Zhao nodded with a smile and said, "Of course, if the grenade dropped in the air and landed in the Qin army, what do you think would be the result?"
Everyone fell into deep thought. What would happen to the Qin Army if a grenade was dropped on top of the Qin Army? They know the outcome without even thinking about it.
"The Qin army will definitely suffer heavy losses. Of course, they will also take counterattacks, but what if they increase the flight altitude to hundreds of feet?"
The crowd was ecstatic. The height reached hundreds of feet, and the Qin army's weapons were out of reach. They could still throw grenades. Isn't this a unilateral massacre?
As for the Qin army's strong crossbows, Wu Quan once told them that the stronger Qin's crossbows had a range of only six hundred steps, about two hundred feet. As long as the flying height exceeded two hundred feet, there would be nothing the Qin army could do to them.
What's more, hot air balloons can fly higher.
"Young master, we will not disappoint you, and we vow to kill the Qin army without leaving a single piece behind."
The confidence of the hundreds of people reached its peak, and a strong morale suddenly rose. That momentum could not be matched by even ten thousand troops.
"Okay, very good. Now you are familiar with the hot air balloon. I will order grenades to be delivered soon. You should be ready for battle! As long as the Qin army dares to attack my Shanglin Garden, there will be no return for them."
At this point, Li Zhao no longer cares about the life and death of the Qin army, even if some of them are his comrades who have fought with him before.
"You will not disappoint the young master."
Later, Li Zhao explained the operation method of the hot air balloon to everyone again and demonstrated it to them personally.
The operation of the heat engine was not difficult. In less than a quarter of an hour, they understood it well and began to operate it on their own. Some people ascended crookedly, while others worked steadily and slowly, and tried to test the load capacity. Weight, this weight affects neither the ascension nor the number of grenades.
This is a key issue. Li Zhao also emphasized it just now and told them to pay attention to the direction of the wind, otherwise they would not know where it would drift.
Generally, the wind direction determines the flight direction of the hot air balloon, but it can also be controlled.
He had some rough knowledge of meteorology in his previous life. The air in the sky is layered, and the wind directions in different layers are also different. For example, the south wind blows at a height of 300 to 500 meters, and the wind blows from the south at a height of 500 to 700 meters. The wind is not necessarily blowing from the south, it may be the north wind.
With this kind of knowledge, it is not difficult to control the flight direction of a hot air balloon. Rising and falling will change the flight direction. I believe these hundreds of people will feel this after they ascend to the sky.
But the problem was that he didn't know how long it would take to fly in the sky. If there was no firepower in the middle, it would be a big problem, so Li Zhao also purchased some fuel from the department store in case of emergency.
While everyone was working on it, they could faintly see the black spots coming back. Naturally, it was Wu Quan. He disappeared for a while, but he managed to find his way back. He was truly worthy of being a man who had marched before.
Of course, if Li Zhao hadn't instilled some flying knowledge into him in advance, he might not have been able to come back, and he might have flown to nowhere.
However, even after seeing the black dot, No-Fist took a long time and circled around to land on the testing ground.
This back and forth made him both excited and a little scared.
Flying too high, he was at a loss as to what to do. Fortunately, he had tested it in advance so that he could pass on his experience to a hundred people, and he would not be inaccurate in the battle and affect the situation of the battle.
There is no need for Li Zhao to worry about things here. He has more important things to do, and that is grenades.
The grenade relies on a fuse to detonate, and the length of the fuse determines the explosion time. Currently, the fuse is based on the throwing distance on the ground, which is not suitable for air throwing.
He wanted Ah Chao to calculate how long the fuse would be so that it could be thrown down hundreds of feet in the air and land just in time to explode among the Qin army. He also had to calculate the impact of wind speed and direction on the grenade, so that he could make the most accurate fuse. .
However, when he was about to leave, Wu Quan brought bad news. He saw from the air that the Qin army had surrounded Shanglinyuan. It was estimated that it was only three miles away. Many artillery pieces could be seen dimly. There are estimated to be thousands.
"Thousands?"
Li Zhao was not surprised that the Qin army had surrounded Shanglinyuan, but what was surprising was that they still had thousands of artillery pieces. You must know that Zhang Han also led the prisoner army to Hangu Pass, and he must have many artillery pieces with him. There were still thousands of artillery pieces at this moment, and he had no idea how many artillery pieces Duke Xiang had sent.
If there were any more, it would be difficult to cope with it. He didn't want to give all his savings over the years to the department store just to deal with Xiang Gong.
I don’t even want to go back to before liberation overnight.
"I understand. You immediately ask everyone to get familiar with the hot air balloon as soon as possible and wait for my order."
Li Zhao's face became solemn, and Wu Quan also knew that the young master might have something bad in mind, so he immediately agreed, not daring to neglect and urge everyone to get familiar with the hot air balloon.
Li Zhao did not return to Li's house, but looked for Ah Chao. He asked Ah Chao to modify the grenade fuse to prevent wind and control the throwing distance.
"Don't worry, young master, Achao will not let you down."
With the development of Shanglinyuan Academy, many mathematical talents have emerged. It is not difficult to calculate these things, and Ah Chao has many talented craftsmen, so it should not be difficult for them.
"It needs to be done quickly. It must be completed within three days."
Three days also seemed urgent. The Qin army did not know when to launch an attack. If the air combat could not be carried out within three days, he was afraid that Shanglinyuan would suffer losses.
"no problem!"
"Also, make five more sniper rifles and bring them over in three days."
Ten sniper rifles were taken away by snipers trained by Wu Quan. The current situation was critical and some more had to be made. This was a last resort. If Shanglinyuan was in decline, the beheading operation would come in handy.
Ah Chao promised firmly and left soon.
Li Zhao was not idle either. After patrolling the city wall, he walked to the gathering place for a thousand elites.
He has to make reasonable arrangements for the remaining one thousand elites.
(End of chapter)
