War can always inspire people's wisdom to the greatest extent, and the energy bursting out by the Qi team in desperate situations is even more surprising. First, it came up with a suicide attack like Kongming lantern to ensure the safety of the air. After the success, the craftsmen in Laizhou City quickly came up with countless good ideas on this basis.

First of all, they solved the situation where once the Kongming lantern is released, they can only leave fate. They created a new furnace that can regulate heat. After using this furnace, when the Kongming lantern rises to a certain height, the fire door of the furnace can be closed, so that the Kongming lantern can be kept above a certain height and want to rise, so that the furnace door will be opened again. Of course, if you want to fall, you will not open the furnace door. As the heat decreases, the Kongming lantern will slowly decline.

This gives the soldiers on Kongming lantern a room for choice

Of course, they still cannot control the direction and speed. If the wind is strong, they can only leave the will of course tie a rope underneath. However, this method can only be applied when defending. When tying the rope on the position, the Kongming lantern will be sent away by the wind and floating away from the position. In this way, the defense scope of the city wall or position will naturally be expanded.

The newly sent hot tincture oil from the Ministry of War provided them with better and more lasting fuel. Craftsmen quickly designed new stoves to allow Kongming lanterns to float in the air for longer periods of time.

When there was a certain amount of guarantee in the air, the Qi team in Laizhou immediately became energetic. It was on this basis that Zhu Ruofan, who was stationed south of the Honghe River, decided to launch a counterattack on the Ming team in Jiuquan, who was in the Jiuquan.

The central army in Suqian was located in Jiuquan, because compared with Zhangye County, Jiuquan's geographical location is more suitable for him to launch an attack on Laizhou at the fastest speed at the appropriate time.

Jiuquan County is a large county in Laizhou, but when the Ming army began to attack Crab Bay, Xu Junsheng strategically gave up. A river located in Jiuquan was dug by Qi army to open the embankment. The best places in Jiuquan County, including the county town, were all flooded by rivers. After the Ming army entered, it took a long time to clean up the surrounding areas, including the county town. As for the remote places, they had no energy or time to take care of them.

The city walls of Jiuquan County are made of rammed earth. There are neither blue bricks nor stones on the outside. Naturally, they did not stand out under the raging flood. The city wall, which originally looked very majestic, is now dilapidated, and there are gaps everywhere that collapse due to flood soaking.

After the Ming army entered Jiuquan, they did not build the city wall. In Suqian's view, all such city walls should be removed. So when the Ming army began to build its own camp, they directly dig out the rammed earth from the dilapidated city walls. After all, the quality of the soil used to build the walls is much better than that of the raw soil. This time, the city of Jiuquan has no idea.

The water also passed in the county town, and the adobe houses naturally collapsed, but many brick houses were still preserved. The Ming army cleared the streets, sorted out these slightly better houses, and then systematically disinfected them in the city. They were familiar with this. When they were conquering Chu State, they encountered the same thing in Xiangzhou. At that time, they received systematic training from the current officials of the Ministry of Health of the Ming Dynasty.

Under normal circumstances, there will be a major epidemic after a flood. If one is not handled properly, it will endanger the entire army.

After doing this, the Ming army did not enter the city, but moved into the camp they built outside the city.

The houses cleared in the city are prepared for the locals who escaped from Laizhou.

With the efforts of national security officials, Jiuquan people fled back from Laizhou one after another. This was also because Xu Junsheng over-controlled these refugees in Laizhou, which made many people not escape and would be exhausted and dying.

After all, there may be a way to live when you come back

As more and more people came back, there was finally some popularity in Jiuquan County. But for the Ming army, these people are now burdened because these people are completely useless, and they all rely on the Ming army to help them.

Of course, the Ming army could not support them for nothing. After the emotions of these people gradually calmed down and they selected some people they could trust and started a certain orderly life, the Ming army began to organize them to clear roads in Jiuquan County, eliminate floods, etc. to use these labor in exchange for their daily life rewards for their day

Of course, compared with the life in Laizhou City, the labor of the Ming people here is much easier because the Ming army organized these activities and knew the specific wages of Qi State, so the daily workload of these Jiuquan people was measured completely based on the local salary level of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, after completing the labor volume of the day and getting the reward, these people can not only guarantee a day's life, but also have some spare money in their hands after completing the labor volume of the day and getting the reward.

In order to quickly establish his integrity and positive image, Mingjun settled the bill every day and could get money after finishing his work

Of course, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty would not miss such a chance to make money. Behind the Ming army, there will always be some caravans. Although they sell some daily necessities with needles and threads, in the war-torn areas, these daily necessities are the most profitable.

These supplies were completely bargained in the Ming Dynasty. When merchants transported them one by one, the prices were rolling upwards, and the people in the war zone had no choice.

If they want to make their lives a little more normal, they must buy these things like iron pots, spatulas, cloths, and oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Who can not need these seven things?

In Jiuquan County, there are finally some county towns.

Suqian was naturally too lazy to care about these matters, but before the Daming Political Affairs Hall had sent a civil affairs officer, he appointed his own military logistics officials to take charge of the management, while he lived outside the county town and trained the army all day long.

This Ming army was born with the Western Army of Chu back then, and the training system of the Western Army was completely inherited from Qin Feng's lineage. The one who was responsible for training the Western Army back then betrayed Qin Feng's powerful general scissors.

Therefore, although the Western Army has experienced changes, their combat effectiveness has always been excellent, not much worse than the main force of the Ming army later.

Whether it is the hot summer or the severe winter for a long time, two classes a day are indispensable every day. When half of the soldiers in the entire military camp were naked and running around the county town amid the commands of officers with their arms and bare arms, it became a scene in Jiuquan County.

I only had a meal when I ran late in the morning. After I finished my meal, I took an hour to rest. Then I started various other special trainings, and I took a break in the afternoon. At night, I then ran again, physical training, and finally went to bed.

The people of Qi have never seen such a disciplined army. Even if they walked into the city during rest, even if there were only three or five soldiers, they were lined up in an orderly manner.

As the highest commander of the army, Suqian has always set an example, running when it should be, and practicing when it should be practiced. This is also the traditional style of the Ming officers in the Ming army. The pure wisdom of officers has not appeared yet, and the one who controls the army is still a guy whose own qualities are far superior to ordinary people.

However, as the Ming army transforms step by step towards hot weapons, the importance of personal force will inevitably decline slowly. But for an army, the influence of personal force will never be absent from the military habits, so the strong are naturally respected by the strong.

These days, except for necessary military affairs, Suqian spent the rest of his time in logistics and supplies. The reason is naturally the case when the air force airship returned in the city of Laizhou.

As an army general, Su Qian naturally understood that if these Kongming lanterns could knock down the airship in the air, they would have strong killing ability. Thinking of the airships being able to throw bombs in the air, why can't these Kongming lanterns be able to? The Qi army did not have bombs like the Ming army, but it was still OK to make some earth bombs. Before the Ming Dynasty created that kind of trigger bomb, did not ignite the leads in the air and count the time to throw them down? Take a step back and say that even if the other party threw some stones in the air, it would be able to kill people.

How to knock down these things in the air is the problem he is considering now

Kongminglanterns cannot control direction and height as freely as airships. If you want to attack yourself, you must have to take a controllable height. Suqian himself has also boarded the airship. At the beginning, the hanging blue under the airship was not as refined as it is now. It was difficult to sit on it and fly up as soon as it flew. Where is it like the airship today, like a small house?

The Kongming Lantern is naturally extremely simple, it is like an airship that can fly hundreds of meters high. I am afraid that they will even breathe.

"General Su, we tried it a few times when we wanted to modify the crossbow, but there was no way." A logistics officer pointed to some things on the field and said to Suqian: "But we made this thing. I think they can't beat airships, but there is no big problem in punching Kongming lanterns."

Suqian walked over and looked at the dozens of large slingshots on the open space, "That's it?"

"General, look," the logistics officer smiled and waved his hand. The soldiers on one side raised more than a dozen Kongming lanterns into the sky. When the Kongming lanterns rose, groups of soldiers below immediately became busy.

The rubber behind the large slingshot was pulled back by machine, and the last skin was filled with fist-sized stones. When the Kongming Lantern rose to a height of more than 100 meters, the officer ordered, and dozens of slingshots made a huge collapse sound. In front of Suqian, the eyes were immediately blocked by the stones that covered the sky and the sun.

The Kongming lantern in the sky was suddenly full of holes and some were directly planted, while others were shaking and completely lost their balance.

"It's really effective!" Suqian was very happy. Since this thing is to shoot Kongming lanterns, will it also pose a threat to the airship? If the people of Qi learn it, it would be a bad idea."

"General is too worried!" The officer smiled and picked up the rubber strips of the large slingshot: "Not anything else, just this thing, where did the Qi people get it? Other things are not as elastic as that? The cover of our airship is not the thin paper of Kongminglanterns, but like skins. They may be afraid of strong crossbows, but they will never be afraid that the pods under such stones are also very strong."

"That's good. Make more of this thing and give some to Zhangye. In addition, give a copy of the drawings to Crab Bay. Guan Zhen must be in need of Qi people. There is no other way to restrain our airships. I guess they will make such Kongming lanterns in large quantities, or they also want to bombard us when we attack."

The logistics officer laughed: "That's good, it's not worth it for us to make this thing. They have a life on a Kongming lantern!"

Suqian walked out of the logistics camp with satisfaction. As soon as he returned to his central army tent, the sudden sound of horse hooves broke the tranquility in the camp.

"General, the Qi army is about 10,000 people coming to Jiuquan." The scout turned over and dismounted and said loudly
Chapter completed!