Fengxiang Mansion, Li Mi has been ill these past few days.
After coughing violently for a while, Li Mi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at his gray hair in the bronze mirror. Li Mi couldn't help but sigh.
Before he came to assist the emperor, Li Mi was still full of white hair. Now that he has only been in virtue for two years and the emperor has been on the throne for less than two years, Li Mi's hair is already pale.
This year Li Mi spent all his efforts, but as more and more ministers defected to the imperial court, Li Mi gradually lost the weight he had before in the emperor's heart.
In addition, Li Mi often advised the emperor and made the emperor unhappy many times. Gradually, Li Mi was no longer summoned to participate in some meetings.
At the last meeting of the Hall of Heroes, Li Mi advocated that the Tang army was far more numerous than the rebels and that they should first surround Xijing City and then slowly attack it.
If rebel leaders like An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang can be captured, future counterinsurgency campaigns will be easier.
However, there are also brave and capable generals among the rebels. If they fight hastily, they may repeat the mistakes of the Battle of Tongguan.
When he heard about the Battle of Tongguan, the emperor obviously hesitated.
Back then, when Ge Shuhan was stationed at Tongguan, if it weren't for the emperor's random command, Ge Shuhan would have to leave the pass to fight to the death, and An Lushan would not have destroyed the main force in the pass. In the end, the two capitals were captured and the emperor fled.
The emperor hesitated, but Prime Minister Wei Jiansu said: "Now the people of the two capitals are eagerly waiting for Master Wang! If we annex Chang'an without attacking, we may lose the hearts of Chang'an!"
Now the emperor hesitated again, and Li Mi quickly used the astrology to warn: "The three stars are like the East Well, and the stars in the East Well correspond to the divisions of the Qin Dynasty. This is God's reminder to Your Majesty that you must use your troops carefully!"
Now the emperor hesitated again.
Wei Jiansu came out again and said: "Your Majesty, the army has spent a huge amount of money in fighting. Now there are elite Uighurs on the front line. If you wait, you have to pay the Uighurs. As long as the two capitals are recovered, the rebellion will naturally be put down. Then it will be slowly eliminated.
That’s it!”
Li Bi glared at Wei Jiansu. He knew that the Wei family's foundation was in Jingzhao, which was near Chang'an. Now that the rebels had occupied Chang'an and Jingzhao Wei's family had fled, naturally he was the most eager to recapture Chang'an.
Other prime ministers also came out one after another. They all came from aristocratic families, and they were naturally extremely disgusted with this troubled world.
Some aristocratic families in Hedong even hedged their bets. For example, Prime Minister Pei Mian had relatives serving under Shi Siming. For them, no matter who was the ruler, it was fine.
Seeing that the prime ministers all expressed their intention to capture Chang'an as soon as possible, the emperor finally made up his mind.
He ordered the eunuch Li Fuguo to lead the Shence Army of Fengxiang Mansion to Qingqu, and ordered Guo Ziyi to launch an offensive to regain Chang'an City in Xijing within this month.
Li Mi had been ill since the meeting at the Hall of Heroes. Today he took pills sent by a relative and felt better.
This is a distant relative who came from Longyou to join Li Mi. Although Li Mi has never met this young man named Li Xian, he can remember the names and deeds of several generations of ancestors in the family tree. These are families that non-tribes cannot know.
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So Li Mi recognized this clan nephew and let him stay in his family's house.
Li Xian was very respectful to Li Mi. He also took the "Huarexitong Pills" brought by Li Xian, and then he felt that the pain in his chest was better.
This nephew seemed to know a lot about medicine. He prescribed several prescriptions for nourishing the lungs and even gave Li Mi decoctions himself. Li Mi felt much better these days.
Li Xian has been busy these days, and Li Mi also sees it in his eyes, and he pays more attention to his nephew.
Just when the imperial court decided to urge Guo Ziyi to attack Chang'an, five players were busy in a workshop outside Zhangye City.
"There's an air leak here, please sew it up quickly!"
"It's coming, it's coming! Reinforce the rope here quickly, I'm afraid it will fly up and fall apart!"
"Hurry up and refill the heated charcoal fire. Is the air not hot enough?"
A huge sewn leather bag is spread out on the ground, and four players are working hard to reinforce the stitched parts.
Finally, one player was heating the stove, and as the air heated, the hot air balloon gradually inflated.
"Boss, can it really be successful? Are your design drawings correct?"
"There's nothing wrong with the design drawing. Is there anything wrong with your calculations?"
"Absolutely no problem! Isn't this just a high school buoyancy problem? I can do it verbally!"
"How long will it take before I can fly? It's been burning for a long time!"
At this time, the people in Zhangye City also saw a huge ball floating outside the city.
This suddenly aroused the curiosity and panic of the people. Some brave people climbed onto the city wall and watched the huge ball expand little by little, and even flew away from the ground.
"Flying! Leaving the ground!"
Sitting in the basket of the hot air balloon is the fifth player among this group of players. He is also the only player who has contributed points to redeem the resurrection book, and has become the test pilot of this Tang Dynasty hot air balloon test flight experiment.
When he thought that he might be the first player in this game to fly into the sky, this player became excited.
Because the battle caused by these five players was too big, Cui Tao, who had just arrived in Zhangye, also came out of the Governor's Mansion. Looking at this huge ball, Cui Tao also took a breath. The players actually tinkered with a hot air balloon.
Already?
Yu Chixin, who was stationed at the military camp outside Zhangye City, was even more excited when he saw the hot air balloon. A hot air balloon that can carry people is a strategic prop in this era!
In this era where combat requires climbing to observe, and the commander even builds a watchtower on a high platform, the view provided by a hot air balloon is unmatched no matter how high the mountain is climbed!
With a hot air balloon, players can fully grasp the situation on the battlefield, just like turning on the fog of war.
Not to mention that players have already made telescopes. If they get on a hot air balloon, they can control the entire battlefield!
Yu Chixin walked out of the military camp and watched the hot air balloon slowly rising into the sky. Many indigenous soldiers were frightened by the big ball rising into the sky and knelt down to chant sutras.
I only saw the hot air balloon gradually rising. The player on the hanging basket gradually adapted to the feeling of the air. He stuck his head out of the hanging basket and saw the towering Zhangye City and the dazzling Zhangye Dan not far away.
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The player immediately turned on the game recording function and said excitedly: "Gentlemen in the audience, today is the first hot air balloon test flight of our trapeze team! I hereby announce that the experiment was a complete success!"
"Everyone, please look, not far away is the natural wonder Zhangye Danxia, and below me is Zhangye City. Now let me surprise Zhangye City!"
After saying this, the player threw down a roll of coarse cloth in the hanging basket. The roll of coarse cloth turned into a banner. Under the sun, these big words were seen shining brightly: