Kong Ming is not only resourceful, but also ingenious, and his manual work is not inferior to that of craftsmen in the army.
Under Zhuge Liang's personal practice, more than a dozen skilled craftsmen in the army followed him all night, and two "lanterns" were tied up at dawn.
The frame was made of bamboo grates, the top of which was pasted in the shape of a yurt with the finest kraft paper, a bamboo basket large enough to hold an adult, and a large bronze lampstand with iron wire in the middle, filled with pine resin to burn heat.
"Come and come, let me go, let me Lao Cheng see if Kong Ming doesn't make a baby this night, and he makes something blind."
After the winter rain, the temperature was lower, and Cheng Yanjin, who got the news, crawled out of the quilt with difficulty and went straight to Zhuge Liang's handsome tent, and the person shouted and screamed before he entered the tent.
Yang Qilang, who came a moment early, was appreciating Zhuge Liang's invention with great interest, and when he saw Cheng Biting Jin entering the handsome tent, he smiled and said: "Brother Biting Jin is here, Kong Mingtian sleeps all night, how can you be like your daughter-in-law Kong Ming didn't sleep all night last night, and made such two lanterns, saying that they can fly to the sky, do you want to try" "Fuck" Cheng biting Jin, the hooligan, directly burst into foul language, "Brag, I can actually fly to the sky, although I can't read a few big characters, but I'm not a three-year-old child."
Kong Ming smiled: "Won't you know if you try it?"
A group of more than 100 people carried two "lanterns" out of the barracks, and the north wind was cold outside the fence, which was a good weather for experiments, and Kong Ming was very satisfied.
Found a hillside of more than 300 zhang, the group abandoned their horses and walked, and climbed to the top of the hillside without much effort.
"When you set the pine resin on fire, the heat generated will condense in the canopy at the top, and as the heat burns, the lantern will slowly rise into the air.
As long as the wind direction is suitable, it will blow to Wuling City, and when the time comes, our army will be able to break the city in one fell swoop."
Zhuge Liang squatted in front of the lantern, lit the pine resin, and confidently explained to Cheng Biting Jin, Yang Yansi and several accompanying generals, while Huang Yueying pinched her chin and listened to her man's masterpiece, falling into contemplation from time to time.
The dried pine resin produced a huge amount of heat, and after a short time, the big lantern began to rise slowly, gradually leaving the ground, attracting more than 100 Han soldiers on the hillside to applaud with great interest: "Get up, get up, Mr.
Kong Ming is a true god."
"The lantern is about to fly, who will try to sit down" Zhuge Liang frowned and groaned, and when he looked up, his eyes happened to meet Cheng Yanjin.
Frightened, Cheng bit Jin and shook his head, faster than a rattle: "Kong Ming, don't look at me, my old Cheng is not like you, I haven't married a daughter-in-law yet, the three generations of the old Cheng family, just my only seedling, you must not harm my brother and me."
You let me follow you to charge and fight, I Lao Cheng will never say half a word, where you point to where I Cheng bite the gold but let me fly to the sky, this is more difficult than letting me have a child" "General Zhijie don't have to be afraid, when did I say that you would ride" Zhuge Liang smiled dumbly.
Cheng Yanjin was relieved, patted his chest and said: "You didn't say let me ride, why do you want to scare me to death if you look at me with your eyes, my old Cheng will pass on your son to our Cheng family if he has three long and two short." ” Cheng Biting Jin's mouth kept babbling, and he turned his head to look at one of his entourages: "You go up and be the first man to fly in the sky, your name will go down in history."
Everyone has seven emotions and six desires, which are called joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love and dislike, especially in this era when there is no talk of science and technology, people's thoughts are still round.
It's not just Cheng Yanjin who is afraid, when it comes to going to heaven, most people will be afraid, it's easy to go to heaven and it's hard to come down, what if you don't come "General, I didn't marry a daughter-in-law either," the attendant begged for mercy with a sad face.
Cheng bit Jin and blew his beard and glared: "Let go of your mother's fart, your son didn't marry a daughter-in-law, your son can go to the field to farm, and he even said that he didn't marry a daughter-in-law, could it be that the old Wang next door to your house knew that my old Cheng moved next door to your house for a few days."
Everyone present was still a little nervous, for fear that the first person to do the experiment would be himself, but at this moment, after listening to Cheng Yanjin's stand-up comedy, they couldn't help but grin, and the tense atmosphere was swept away.
"To solve the bell, you have to tie the bell, this lantern is invented by Liang, let me try it" Zhuge Liang bent down and was about to drill into the bamboo basket inside the lantern.
"Wait" Yang Qilang grabbed Zhuge Liang's shirt, "You are the chief general of the three armies, how can you be in danger There are many men in our old Yang family, although the eldest brother, second brother, and third brother died in battle, and the fourth brother and fifth brother are nowhere to be found, but I still have a sixth brother, even if Qilang has an accident today, our Yang family will not be left behind." ” "Seventh brother, there is a kind" Cheng bit Jin's nose sourly, and gave Yang Qilang a thumbs up, "If you have three long and two short today, my father is your father, right, you are my father, hey, look at me, I am so moved that I can't speak, I am your father" Yang Qilang was furious and punched Cheng Biting Jin's nose, which immediately bled out: "Funny" "Hey seventh brother, you are so ruthless" Cheng Biting Jin covered his nose and shouted, "Didn't my brother just say the wrong thing, I want to say that your father is my father, as for you to beat me?"
"My father won't want you to tease his son like this, and our Yang family's family rules are very strict, if you really want to be my father's son, it is estimated that you will be beaten to death by the family law in a few days."
Yang Qilang wiped the blood stains from his fist and bent down into the bamboo basket. was so troubled by Cheng Biting Jin, everyone present laughed and leaned back, muttering in unison, "General Cheng is really a funny", "It's so happy to have General Cheng here", "This is a tease given by the Holy Emperor, no one can take it away" As the pine resin burned, the heat continued to condense under the cowhide umbrella cover at the top, and this huge lantern rose higher and higher, gradually reaching a height of one zhang, as long as Zhuge Liang loosened the fixed rope, this lantern would flutter in the wind.
"General Shichiro, when you want to land, extinguish the pine resin, and after the heat in it is dispersed, it will slowly come down."
Zhuge Liang untied the rope and told Yang Qilang.
Just as the "hot lantern" was about to fly with the wind, Huang Yueying suddenly stopped Kong Ming loudly: "Husband, slow down, this won't work" "Why not," Zhuge Liang and Yang Qilang asked almost in unison.
Huang Yueying dragged the hot lantern downward: "You must add a thermal insulation layer under the umbrella cover, otherwise after a long time, the kraft paper will be damaged and broken by the heat, in that case, the people inside will be in danger."
Zhuge Liang suddenly had an epiphany, and said to Huang Yueying: "Thank you Madame for reminding me, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid that General Qilang would be in danger."
At that moment, Zhuge Liang asked Yang Qilang to jump from the bamboo basket and released this lantern alone.
At the moment when the rope is untied, the earliest hot air balloon in human history flies with the wind, rising higher and higher.
"One hundred zhang, two hundred zhang" All the people raised their eyes on the hillside and measured the height of the hot air balloon and the distance it flew with their eyes, but when it rose to more than 200 zhang and flew out of about 500 zhang, they could see that the kraft paper was burned by the pine resin underneath, and then began to break, and the lantern that lost its support fell rapidly.
Zhuge Liang had palpitations, and once again waved at Huang Yueying: "Today is really a loss to the lady by his side, if he harms the seven generals, Liang will not be safe in this life."
Cheng Biting Jin gave Huang Yueying a thumbs up: "Sister Yueying is really a female Lu Banye" When the group descended the hill, the thermal lantern was redesigned to take to the sky.
Back at the barracks, Zhuge Liang, at the suggestion of Huang Yueying, added a layer of insulation made of bamboo grate to the low part of the kraft paper umbrella, and then climbed the hillside again to fly.
With the lesson of the last time, this time I didn't dare to let people ride rashly, so I tried to release a light first.
I saw the huge lantern fluttering in the cold wind, gradually fading away.
Yang Qilang rode his horse and followed closely, until the lantern flew out of seventeen or eighteen miles, and then because the pine resin burned out, he finally landed slowly.
After witnessing it with his own eyes, Yang Qilang was full of confidence, and immediately returned to the hillside and got into the bamboo basket of the hot lantern.
After the rope is untied, the giant lantern flies in the wind, making Shichiro the first human to take to the skies.
After the lantern flew out of the ten miles, Yang Qilang extinguished the pine resin according to Zhuge Liang's instructions, controlled the lantern to land slowly, and returned to the flat ground unscathed.
At night, Cheng Yanjin ordered the chefs in the army to make a celebration banquet to celebrate the birth of this secret weapon, but was stopped by Zhuge Liang: "This matter must be carried out in secret, and it must not be fanfare, so as not to leak the rumors and make Sun Jun in Wuling City prepared." ” Cheng Yanjin, who wanted to take the opportunity to drink a good drink, had to give up stupidly: "If you don't drink it, you won't drink it, but Kong Ming, you have to give this big lantern a name."
"It's called the sky lantern, the lantern flying in the sky," Zhuge Liang thought for a while and said.
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Cheng Biting Jin scratched his scalp and kept shaking his head: "It's not good, it's not good, it looks like it is fate, in my opinion, it's still called Kong Ming lantern, since you invented it, it is naturally called Kong Ming lantern."
Yang Qilang listened to Cheng Biting Jin next to him and gave a thumbs up: "This name is good, you finally don't tease this time" The name of the lantern was decided, but if you want to attack Wuling, the number of people is definitely not enough, at least more than a thousand elites must fall from the sky to kill Sun Jun by surprise, and then seize the city gate and let the main army enter.
To make more than 1,000 Kong Ming lanterns, a large number of high-quality materials are needed, bamboo grate, iron wire, pine resin are easy to say, but kraft paper can not be raised for a while.
So Zhuge Liang wrote a letter to the Son of Heaven, requesting that a batch of high-quality kraft paper be transferred from Jinling and sent to Wuling as soon as possible. t1706231537: