The drone was taking pictures at an altitude of one thousand meters. When the soldiers raised their heads, they could only hear the sound of the roaring engine. Following the sound, they saw a drone that was larger than an eagle. No one cared about it at all.
After flying over Shanhaiguan, various camps began to appear along the coastal roads, as well as some fortresses built on the road. Half an hour later, a small town appeared among scattered fields.
"Lao Zhu, look, this is probably Ningyuan."
"It should be that there are so many military tents. Unexpectedly, from the air, they occupy several areas. No wonder it is difficult for the command and mobilization to move."
Chongzhen looked at the continuous camp area below. This was the resting place for the general troops mobilized from the pass. Wu Sangui and others were all preparing in the camp at this time.
Looking at the entire camp, Hong Chengchou placed all his soldiers in four square formations in the direction of Jinzhou to resist.
At the same time, from the construction of the camp and the deployment of the military fort, it can be seen that Hong Chengchou had no intention of moving forward at all, but was holding on to his death.
"The straight-line distance between the drone and us is now 348 kilometers, and the straight-line distance from here to Jinzhou is only over 70 kilometers.
Neither Hong Chengchou nor Huang Taiji dared to test this small distance of two hundred miles.
I'll try to fly towards Yizhou and Dalingbao later to see the Manchu and Qing Dynasty's deployment."
Chen Ye continued to control the drone, flying at a low altitude of more than a thousand meters and preparing to fly to Jinzhou.
"By the way, Lao Zhu, did those Jin Yiwei you arranged give any secret code to respond?"
"Having said that, I was thinking at that time, if you, the shop owner, get a big plane, I can see their location and transport supplies.
So let them paint the roof red in the area they control and put mirrors on it to reflect the light.
There is no fighting today. I feel that there is a location in Jinzhou where supplies can be transported, but I am not specific."
Chongzhen looked at the video sent back and found that the sunshine was just right now, and both Jinzhou and the besieged Jiannu were in peace.
"Down here is the area of Jinzhou. Are the mobile ones and tents the Jurchens'? It's a pity that we can't fly too low. I hope this camera at 100 meters can take a clear picture."
Chen Ye looked at the appearance of a city in the distance that was larger than Ningyuan and even the same size as Shanhaiguan.
In order to make the video as clear as possible and find the mark made by Jin Yiwei, Chen Ye lowered the flying altitude to two hundred meters. Any lower would not work. The smoothbore flintlock gun could still shoot at a level of two hundred meters.
"Are these slave builders quite insidious? Tens of thousands of people are camped more than ten miles away, but there is only a small group of people guarding outside the city gate."
"The tactics of establishing slaves have always been to fight in the field wherever possible, and siege is the most thankless part."
Chongzhen looked at the panicked slave soldiers under the camera and wanted to throw a few stones.
It's a pity that the area is not under his control. In the entire Jinzhou, only the area where the Jin Yiwei sent by him is located, and he can transport supplies.
But then I thought about it, drones can also deliver supplies. If they deliver a big firecracker like in the movie, Chongzhen laughed sadly.
"Hey, I saw it, it should be here, right? It seems like a granary?"
"It seems that the house is indeed a granary, and the marks on the roofs are exactly what I ordered."
Chen Ye pointed to a large house that was overlooked by the camera. There was a very large red cross on the roof.
After receiving a positive reply from Chongzhen, Chen Ye flew the drone around Jinzhou and then flew straight over the courtyard.
Chongzhen took the opportunity to add the food in the display window to several containers and drop them down, forming a drone-delivery perspective.
"With this drone, Huang Taiji had better not go to the front line in person, otherwise I will make him very comfortable."
Chongzhen didn't even need Chen Ye to remind him, he had already thought of several damaging moves.
Throwing bombs doesn't matter. He wants to throw shit at Huang Taiji and Huang Taiji's ancestral grave.
In Jinzhou, Wang Hu was guarding the empty granary with a few brothers, chewing grains out of boredom.
"General, we are here guarding here every day, and we don't even have food. When will we end?"
"Yes, General, why don't we go back? You have also brought the secret order that His Majesty asked me to take. I think the defense of the slaves is quite lax now."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Don't forget how happy you are when collecting cash. Jinzhou won't be able to throw it away for a while.
Have you marked all the marks you were asked to put on the roof?"
Wang Hu waved his hand to shut them up.
"Everything is done, so I painted the roof red with red paint, and then put eight mirrors at four angles."
"Well, in this case, we have done everything we can. When the time comes to retreat, we will be considered loyal and fulfilling our duties."
When Wang Hu heard what his men said, he finally felt relieved. They had also seen the situation in the city and were already preparing to evacuate.
As for Chongzhen's arrangement, he has gone from unconditional belief in breaking his cognition when he first saw the magic of mobile phones, to now he no longer trusts it at all.
Thinking about it, you know how it is possible. If there is something that can fly to deliver food to Jinzhou, why didn't it be used before?
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard a loud roar and the noise coming from the city outside.
"What's going on? Where did this loud noise come from? Did the earth dragon turn over?"
"General, I'm going out to take a look."
As soon as the men opened the door, everyone saw a crash in the courtyard and a huge iron box fell down.
The huge roar caused the ground to shake for a moment, and then another one, another one, four or five were piled up, and the courtyard wall collapsed. The iron box was also directly deformed, leaking out the rice grains inside.
The huge sound caused the whole city to shake, and many people thought it was a firearm exploding in the city.
"I'm going!"
"Brother, the gods have appeared!"
"You're so stupid! I can't believe that Your Majesty actually did it. How did Your Majesty do it?"
Everyone who saw the whole process in the room rushed to the courtyard at the same time and looked at the big box in the middle of the courtyard.
Wang Hu looked at the box that fell in the courtyard, and his eyes turned red instantly.
He didn't expect that His Majesty actually didn't lie to him, so he wouldn't have to die.
Amidst the rumbling sound of propellers, everyone looked up at the sky and saw a huge iron bird flying through the sky. After lowering the height to more than two hundred meters, the sergeants in Jinzhou City could also clearly see what was in the sky.
The defenders on the city wall could see it most clearly. They watched with their own eyes as the big iron bird dropped large boxes one after another in the area of the granary, just like laying eggs.
There was an uproar in the city, and everyone watched on the street as this thing they had never seen before flew over Jinzhou, circled the entire city twice, and then flew into the air towards Yizhou.
Many soldiers guarding the city were already panicking with firearms and shooting randomly into the air.
Outside the city, the Jiannu banner soldiers who were blocking the exits of various city gates in Jinzhou saw the iron birds flying in the air, and there was also a burst of noise. The Mongolian soldiers knelt on the ground and shouted to the Immortal Sky.
This iron bird has nothing to do with the immortal eagle they believe in, but it does not prevent them from kneeling down to worship something that is beyond common sense.
Especially when he saw this iron bird flying from the direction of Ningyuan and now flying to Yizhou, the Jurchens arranged by Heshuo to guard him quickly chased it on horseback and reported the news to Yizhou.
There are people over there in the Ming Dynasty who are using witchcraft! They want to do evil to the Qing Dynasty!
The people from Jinyiwei were closest to the iron box. After confirming that everything was complete, they stepped forward and opened the iron box.
A container is a standard forty-foot container, eleven meters long, more than two meters wide and high, and fifty-four cubic meters in total.
Inside was a standard fifty tons of rice. There were six boxes in total, stacked on two levels. Several people climbed to the top of the stacked boxes. The smallest container contained an imperial edict and one hundred thousand taels of silver.
A note floated in front of Wang Hu. After he opened it and read it, he put the note into his pocket.
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious! Your Majesty sent the iron birds of the government to support Jinzhou, transporting grain, grass, and stones to resolve the crisis in Jinzhou. There will be more to come!
Transport one hundred thousand taels of silver to reward Jinzhou soldiers. Jinzhou is saved! Long live your Majesty!"
Opening the imperial edict, he winked at several Jin Yiwei who came from Beijing together, and then they all shouted together.
Outside the hospital, the people who were ordered to watch the Jinyiwei were also shocked by the container falling from the sky.
Wang Hu walked towards him, which frightened him. Then he heard the shouts of the Jin Yiwei men. He was about to turn around and run away when he suddenly heard Wang Hu's voice.
"Please also report to the Commander-in-Chief as soon as possible that His Majesty's imperial edict has been received. Please come quickly to receive the edict and collect the supplies."
After the Jinzhou military households who were nominally assisting them left, Wang Hu led people to surround the granary and at the same time ordered people to put away the rice exposed in the container.
In the past few days, the food had been distributed in the city, and people began to feel hungry. When they heard this cry, they all gathered and ran to the granary, wanting to know the truth of the matter.
Jin Yiwei exaggerated the amount of supplies, but Wanshi grain was too important for the more than 16,000 soldiers currently living in Jinzhou City. This could sustain them for at least another two months, or even four months.
"Everyone, please don't crowd and don't ask. The supplies will be distributed by Commander Zu. The food is really there. You can see it by looking at the broken courtyard wall here. No one is allowed to go near the granary. Anyone who disobeys the order will be executed!"
"General, did your Majesty transport these rice to us from the sky through that big iron bird just now?"
"Niu Lao Er, you don't need this general to tell you, I can guarantee it for you. I personally watched the iron bird drop the box like it was laying eggs in the air.
That box is made of iron. It was so high that it broke, and all that was exposed was white rice."
More and more people are watching outside. Although Jinzhou is a military town, there are also many family members. There are thousands of women and elderly people who have nothing to do.
They were all talking outside the circle set up by Jin Yiwei, pointing to the granary area, and listening to the vendors near the granary talking about the magic of the grain boxes that had just fallen from the sky.
Gradually, looking through the broken wall and watching the Jin Yiwei delivering the white rice into the warehouse, the people all shouted together.
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious! Long live your Majesty!"
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious! Long live your Majesty! Jinzhou will fight to the death!"
"Come on, we will defend the city. Anyway, there is well water and Your Majesty will provide food. Let's see whether they starve to death or we consume them to death."
Jinzhou, which was originally anxious and turbulent because of some hunger, under this wave of Chongzhen's offensive, the people's hearts instantly consolidated and stabilized.
At this time, if Zu Dashou went out of the city to surrender again, he would really be infamy for thousands of years.