Zheng Sen held a Type 20 rifle and was shooting at the Jiannu camp below.
In addition to Zheng Sen, there were also the sergeant responsible for driving and two scouts in the gondola of Speed One, including Xu Yingwei's younger brother Xu Yinglong.
There was a gunshot, and a Jiannu fell to the ground.
But what made Zheng Sen embarrassed was that he seemed to be targeting Jian Nu next to him.
Fortunately, the military camp below is full of slaves, otherwise it would be even more embarrassing if the shot missed.
"You bastard, this Type 20 rifle is so easy to use." Zheng Sen laughed awkwardly, "The current height is at least two hundred steps, but it can still hit and kill Jiannu."
Xu Yinglong did not expose Zheng Sen, but said with a smile: "Zheng Gaijian, do you think Dorgon is in this military camp?"
"It can only be said that it is possible." Zheng Sen said while loading ammunition into the barrel of the gun. "The intelligence from the Secret Reconnaissance Division said that Dorgon did come to Liaodong, but it did not say that he followed the army to Gaizhou Guard.
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"Come on Zheng, captain, look quickly." Another scout suddenly shouted.
"A group of Jiannu slaves came out from the big tent below, one of them was wearing a mink fur coat."
"Let me see, where is it?" Xu Yinglong raised his binoculars and quickly found Jian Nu, who was wearing mink fur. He was running away hastily with the help of two other Jian Nu. He should be a big shot.
At that moment, Xu Yinglong raised his rifle and aimed at the big man who established the slaves.
A moment later, Xu Yinglong pulled the trigger, and a gunshot sounded in his ears.
When he looked closely, he saw that another Jiannu who was following the important Jiannu figure had fallen to the ground.
The distance of two hundred steps is still a bit far, and the Speedy One is not very stable at high altitudes, so the shot just now failed to hit the target.
"Zheng is advising you, why don't you lower your height?"
Xu Yinglong has always boasted about his excellent marksmanship, but his face seemed a bit confused.
"No, the Jian slaves also have flintlock guns." Zheng Sen said flatly, "If the height is too low, we will be in danger."
While he was talking, two dazzling red lights suddenly bloomed on the ground, and then there was a banging sound from the bottom of the hanging basket, like dense raindrops hitting a banana leaf.
There was also a popping sound from the boat above the head.
There are already many small holes in the silk boat body.
But fortunately, these small holes have little effect on speeding.
"Fuck you!" Zheng Sen said a curse word he learned from Chongzhen.
"Gou Jiannu is so clever that he actually thought of erecting the tiger crouching cannon to shoot, move quickly, and increase the height!"
The man in charge of controlling the flying car shook the handle as hard as he could, and the wooden propeller at the end of the gondola began to rotate, urging the flying car to fly forward.
At the same time, the fire in the stove became brighter.
More hot air puffed into the speeder's hull.
Immediately afterwards, the hull of the boat that had stopped rose again.
However, Jiannu had too many squatting tiger cannons, hundreds of them!
The Tiger Crouching Cannon was inherently inaccurate, and it was loaded with shotgun shells. It was even more inaccurate when it was raised upright, but it could not hold up too many of them, so it formed a huge screen of shotgun shells, which was still very scary.
Fortunately, the floor of the hanging basket has certain defensive capabilities.
In addition, it rose in time, so it wasn't a big problem.
However, another flying car seemed to be in trouble.
"Zheng, please tell me, the body of Speedy Car No. 2 seems to be broken!" the driver suddenly shouted.
When Zheng Sen heard this, he turned around quickly and saw a big hole in the rear of Speed 2's body. It was probably blown open by the shotgun shells of the Jiannuhu Crouching Cannon. A large amount of hot air was popping out.
The driver of Speed 2 is desperately turning up the fire.
But it was useless, Speed 2 was still slowly falling to the ground.
At this speed, it will forcefully land on the ground in five minutes at most.
But it is impossible for Speed 2 to fly back to Gaizhou in this short time.
"Follow me!" Zheng Sen ordered with a dark face, "Follow Speedy Car No. 2."
If the earthen jar is not broken away from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle. Although Zheng Sen was mentally prepared for it, when Speed 2 was really shot down by Jian Nu, he still felt a little hard to accept it.
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Dorgon was running away in embarrassment with the support of Cao Eryu and Hou Fangyu, when he suddenly heard cheers from behind.
Then Hou Fangyu also cheered: "Master, it fell. Minggou's Kongming Lantern fell down. No, it was shot down by our Crouching Tiger Cannon."
"Really?" Dorgon turned around and looked back, and sure enough he saw a Ming army's Kongming lantern slowly falling down.
Cao Eryu made an estimate and said excitedly: "According to the speed of falling, we will definitely not be able to return to Gaizhou City. If nothing else happens, we should fall in the wilderness not far ahead."
Upon hearing this, Dorgon immediately became excited.
"Pass the message." Dorgon said excitedly, "Hurry up and let the Eight Banners Mongolia catch up! Get this Kongming Lantern back for me!"
Ever since the day he was bombed by the Ming Army's Kongming Lanterns on the south bank of the Hun River two months ago, Dorgon hated this thing. At the same time, he was salivating and dreamed of owning the same Kongming Lantern.
It's a pity that after asking all the officials in the Manchu and Han Dynasties, no one could make it.
But today, the Qing Dynasty finally had the opportunity to capture a large Kongming Lantern.
As long as there is one Kongming Lantern, the Qing Dynasty can make more Kongming Lanterns.
"Hey!" Cao Eryu knelt down and shouted, and hurriedly went to deliver the order to the Eight Banners Mongolia.
Soon, thousands of Mongolians riding the Eight Banners galloped out of the formation and chased in the direction of the descent of the Kongming Lantern.
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Speed 2 finally landed in the wilderness.
Due to severe air leakage, the huge body also collapsed.
Speed 1 followed and landed nearby, trying to rescue.
"You guys come here quickly, hurry up!" Zheng Sen yelled.
However, the scholar on Speedy Car No. 2 said: "Zheng Gaijian, Speedy Car No. 1 cannot take away the four of us."
"Nonsense!" Zheng Sen said angrily, "Speed Car 1 is more than enough to carry 8 people."
"If you take the four of us, you have to throw away the tung oil, and Speed 1 will not be able to fly far."
"Shut up, you don't need to think about this, get in the car quickly!"
"Zheng Gaijian, you should leave quickly, the Jiannu cavalry is chasing us."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I order you to get in the car quickly, immediately!"
"Zheng is admonishing you, please forgive us for not being able to accept your orders."
Having said this, the two soldiers and two scouts of Speed No. 2 took out the sleeve bayonets from their waists at the same time, took off the bullet bags on their shoulders, and threw them onto Speed Car No. 1 together with the Type 20 rifles.
Throwing away their rifles, the four men turned around and faced the Jiannu cavalry with bayonets in hand.
In the wilderness ahead, thousands of Jiannu cavalry were sweeping in.
Long live the Ming Dynasty! The four men roared and charged towards the Jiannu cavalry.
Seeing this scene, Zheng Sen's eyes immediately turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's take off!"
The driver tried his best to turn on the stove to the maximum, and Speedy Car No. 1 rose rapidly.
After reaching more than fifty steps, the Jiannu cavalry rushed to within a hundred steps. Zheng Sen led Xu Yinglong and another scout and opened fire at the same time, killing three Jiannu.
But that's all they can do.
The Jiannu cavalry came over like a tide and soon swamped the four Ming troops.
Immediately, the Jiannu cavalry surrounded Speeder 2 and circled around the Speeder.
Xu Yinglong said worriedly: "Zheng gave advice, we should burn Speed 2."
"It's okay, no need to burn it." Zheng Sen said, "Just let Jiannu follow suit and build the flying car."
Once the speeding car is shot down, there is no need to burn it. This was specifically instructed by the Holy One. Zheng Sen also knew that the Holy One's intention was to consume Jiannu's financial and material resources.
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"Is this the Ming Army's large Kongming Lantern?"
Dorgon looked at the pile of silk cloth and a basket woven with rattan in front of him, wondering how such a broken thing could lift several people into the air.
However, there were also smart people among the ministers who established slaves.
"Master, the Kongming Lantern is actually nothing unusual."
"It can rise because the tung oil provides heat."
"The reason why I can fly forward is because of this wooden dragonfly."
"The wooden gears in the middle should be for speed regulation."
Ning Wan I quickly figured out the reason and said: "I can also make it."
"Ning Qing, can you make it too?" Dorgon said with great joy after hearing this, "Then quickly build ten, no, directly build a hundred Kongming lanterns for the Qing Dynasty. I want the sky to be filled with the Kongming lanterns of the Qing Dynasty."
Dorgon felt inexplicably excited when he thought that the sky was densely covered with Kongming lanterns of the Qing Dynasty, and that these Kongming lanterns could also rain down on the heads of the Ming army and throw thousands of enemies at them.
However, after I finished Ning, I shook my head and continued, "But there is one difficulty."
"What's the difficulty?" Dorgon said enthusiastically, "Come quickly, I'll do anything I can."
"This gauze is rare." Ning Wanme pulled off the Kongming lampshade with force and said helplessly, "It must be the finest gauze woven from Lake silk. It is not only light but also extremely tough."
"What's so difficult about this?" Dorgon said, "I'll just ask Shanxi merchants to buy it from Nanming."
Anyway, the Qing Dynasty now has a lot of money, so are they worried that they won’t be able to buy enough high-quality Hu silk?
Then Dorgon's eyes fell on the four socket bayonets spread out in a row.
Frowning, Dorgon turned to ask Tang Ruowang, who had just arrived in Liaodong, and said, "Tang Qing, is it really impossible for us in the Qing Dynasty to equip every self-generated fire blunderbuss with a sleeve bayonet?"
Tang Ruowang said helplessly: "It can be done, but it is labor-intensive and time-consuming."
"How much work and time will it take?" Dorgon frowned and said, "A self-generated fire gun can be directly used as a spear when paired with a bayonet. It is much more useful than a self-made fire gun paired with a bow and arrow or a saber."
Tang Ruowang said: "If the outer diameter of the barrel of the self-generating gun and the inner diameter of the sleeve of the bayonet are polished to the same standard, and they can be interchanged, the man-hours required to make each self-generating gun will at least double. Now,
Our Qing Dynasty's War Bureau can produce 3,000 self-fired muskets per month, but if we add bayonets with matching barrels, we can only make 1,500 at most."
"Is that so?" Dorgon frowned more and more, "Is there no other way?"
Tang Ruowang said: "I'm afraid there is no other way to report back to the emperor and the regent."
