Chapter 530: Your Majesty! Please let Fan Kuai be the vanguard!
Under the night sky, the blazing black bird was particularly conspicuous. Not to mention a thousand steps away, even ten thousand steps away it could be seen clearly.
Below the black bird, there were no longer unclear swarms of ants, but the clear faces of Qin people illuminated by the firelight.
They held torches high, solemn and resolute, like emotionless stone carvings and wooden sculptures that could stand for thousands of years.
Zhou Shi listened to Qin Feng and looked at Xuanniao.
After a while, he smiled lightly, and said to the Chu man who was frowning and wearing shorts beside him:
"Do these Qin dogs know that your Chu State is here? They created a phoenix bird that was reborn from the ashes to celebrate the restoration of your Chu State.
The phoenix is the totem of the Chu State and belongs to the element of fire. Rebirth from the fire has always been the legend of the phoenix.
The general's personal soldiers, who were holding shields and ready to guard against the flints from the sky at any time to protect his safety, laughed together.
This unfunny joke did not touch their sense of humour, but the general's relaxed attitude really made them feel less nervous.
The man from Chu didn't laugh, he couldn't laugh.
The totem of the Qin State is the black bird, which belongs to water, so the Qin State worships black and calls it the virtue of water.
Water and fire cannot coexist.
The people of Chu could not imagine that the people of Qin would use fire to shape the Xuanniao for some important event.
"If the Qin generals don't want to burn themselves to death with this fire, this black bird will definitely cause great trouble to the generals."
"What's the trouble?"
Mayor Zhou's smile did not diminish, but his voice became much louder.
He pointed at the huge flaming bird under the city and said sarcastically:
" Do they think this black bird can defeat Linji? Even if it is a real black bird and can fly, it can't do it!"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Laughter broke out again around them, and the relaxed atmosphere here completely dissipated the slight tension on the city wall.
The general can still chat and laugh cheerfully, what could be wrong?
The Wei soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, turned their heads and looked around, trying to avoid the flints that seemed to be increasing in the air.
They picked up stones and threw them at the place where the singing was loudest.
Although there are more flints at night than during the day, the Qin dogs at night are far less fierce than during the day. Only the unpleasant Qin wind is still loud, but what's the use of that?
No matter how loud the singing is, it can't bring down a three-foot-high wall.
The Wei army, which was much more relaxed than during the day, took a leisurely look at the burning black bird while throwing stones and shooting arrows.
Qin Feng, who was singing loudly, was just as ridiculous as the burning black bird.
The louder the Qin wind is, the more fiery the black bird is, the more ridiculous it is.
"The general has ordered! Defend tightly! Do not slack off! Be careful, this is the Qin dog's arrogant strategy!"
Dozens of messengers spread Zhou Shi's order throughout the city walls.
The contempt that had just sprouted in the Wei soldiers' hearts disappeared completely, and they all perked up their spirits again.
The Chu people were by Zhou Shi's side throughout the whole process, and they admired the Wei general's every move silently.
[A few words, a few actions, first to dispel the panic, then to put down the contempt, Linji has Zhou market, Qin dogs can hardly enter.]
He clasped his fists towards Zhou Shi and said solemnly:
"After returning to Chu, I will do my best to persuade my king to ally with Wei to resist Qin and support Linji as soon as possible!"
Linji, the general defending the city, was such a cautious man who knew military affairs and was good at using them. The Chu people believed that before the food and weapons in the city were consumed, no Qin dog outside could enter!
The two of them didn't notice that among the flints in the sky, a group of "flints" slowly took off and ascended into the sky...
Behind the black bird's tail, the second emperor and a group of generals looked at the sky.
Young General Zhao Tuo swallowed his saliva and said what all the generals wanted to say.
"What is this? How can it fly..."
A big basket.
A small tripod with a one-meter-high wall was fixed in the basket. In the small tripod was a pile of shiny black honeycomb coal, which the second emperor called clean coal. The soldiers stood next to the small tripod.
On the basket was a large piece of animal hide. After being processed by the Mohist school, it was impossible to tell what kind of beast the hide had covered when it was alive. It was more airtight, lighter, and thinner than when it was alive.
It was such a strange thing. The flame in the small tripod was ignited, and the one-meter-long clean coal burned into a one-meter-high flame. The shriveled animal skin swelled up in front of the generals ' eyes.
Then, flew.
It flew away carrying Qin soldiers wearing special armor.
"I call it a hot air balloon. It's not very useful."
The second emperor didn't care.
All the generals smiled bitterly.
People can go to heaven, but you still say it's useless...
As the most skilled fighters, they thought of the role of hot air balloons on the battlefield as soon as they saw it for the first time.
Not to mention anything else, flying to a high altitude where arrows cannot reach and overlooking the enemy, you can see at a glance the enemy's deployment and formation, which cannot be hidden at all, and this gives you the upper hand!
"Disposable items, calm down."
The second emperor was very calm. He turned his head and glanced at the Yin-Yang doctors including Lu Sheng, Hou Sheng, Han Zhong and others standing behind him.
"Gentlemen, everything is ready, except for the west wind. Now it is almost midnight, where is the west wind?"
The hot air balloon moves automatically with the wind and its direction cannot be controlled manually.
Recently, the Yin-Yang doctors who monitor the sky every day either count on their fingers, look up at the sky, or draw symbols in the air that only they can understand.
After a moment, Hou Sheng, who was a good friend of Xu Fu during his lifetime, stopped and smiled.
Then, one by one, the Yin-Yang doctors slowly stopped their operations.
They were facing Linji City, and their wide robes and sleeves suddenly fluttered forward, shaking slightly.
The sixteen Yin-Yang doctors clasped their fists together, bowed their heads, and said loudly:
"Your Majesty, the west wind has arrived."
It hasn't been a moment since the words were spoken.
The black bird on the ground flapped its wings towards the east, and flames leaped forward, as if it had come alive!
The hot air balloons in the sky drifted toward Linji like flints with power added.
The west wind rises.
"Your Majesty! Please let Fan Kuai be the vanguard!"
Standing side by side with Liu Bang at the end of the generals, Fan Kuai, who was the farthest away from the second emperor among all the generals, walked up to the second emperor and bowed to ask for orders.
Lieutenant General Li Xin was filled with anger and his face was as gloomy as water.
Li Xin was the vanguard general, and Fan Kuai's action of asking for the vanguard was more excessive than slapping him in the face.
[Is this butcher easy to deceive? He is your Majesty’s confidant, is this your Majesty’s instruction…]
"No."
The Second Emperor did not hesitate, then turned to Li Xin, who looked more cheerful:
"The vanguard this butcher is talking about is not your vanguard. He wants to be a last pawn and charge to the front line."
This explanation was terrible, but Li Xin couldn't help but believe it, and nodded with a look of "So that's how it is".
How could a general still think of charging into battle? Swords and knives have no eyes, and generals and soldiers are treated equally.
The generals also thought so, and they all believed that either Fan Kuai was ignorant or the second emperor was trying to warn Li Xin.
Fan Kuai looked up and startled all the generals with his words.
"Fan Kuai does not compete with Your Majesty for the first achievement, and Your Majesty also does not compete with Fan Kuai for the first achievement, okay?"
Ying Chengjiao: “…”
Generals: “???”
A quarter of an hour later, at the foot of Linji City.
Fan Kuai was wearing armor and looking up at the top of the city wall. In his left hand he held a terrifying broadsword as wide as a palm. This was his dog-killing knife.
In his right hand he held a wooden shield, on top of which was a dense mass of straw. The straw, which was stained with gold juice and smelled foul, was pierced with inferior arrows and sandwiched with stones.
After nightfall, the Qin army did not attack the city at all. They attacked the straw above their heads. They just hid under the wooden shields under the straw and sang.
Standing on the three-meter-high wall in the dark night, the straw and people were all black, like a colony of ants.
Bang!
It's like spring thunder!
Even if a thousand people sing, it would be difficult to cover up the noise!
Fan Kuai smiled, and the scene of the second emperor pointing his gun to the sky with smoke coming out of the muzzle appeared in front of his eyes.
The fat on his face formed a ferocious face. It was time to attack the city!
He raised his wooden shield, threw away the straw, and erected ladders. All the Qin soldiers under the Linji city wall did the same thing as Fan Kuai.
They kept their mouths shut and concentrated their efforts.
It is common sense that when attacking a city at night, the loud noises will expose your position.
