"Sir, please quickly order us to stay ashore and stay away!"
Qing Mulan grabbed the railing, her knuckles turning white.
Amei's face was also very ugly, and she instinctively clenched the handle of the knife.
During the defensive battle in Xichuan, Gada used a large number of hot-air balloons, and now they couldn't help but tremble with fear when they saw the enemy's hot-air balloons.
What's more, with so many arriving at once, the big ship is a living target on the river. A single attack by so many hot air balloons can burn the big ship.
"Mu Lan, don't forget, who made the hot air balloon?"
Tang Xiaobei consoled him: "As long as my husband is here, these hot air balloons are just toys. If you come more, you are seeking death!"
"But they are upwind!" Qing Mulan said anxiously.
In hot air balloon combat, taking the upper hand means taking the initiative.
"Don't you still believe my husband?" Tang Xiaobei comforted with a smile: "Don't worry!"
Qing Mulan subconsciously went to see Jin Feng.
At this time, Jin Feng frowned slightly and his face was serious, but he did not have any fear.
Perhaps influenced by the attitudes of Jin Feng and Tang Xiaobei, Qing Mulan slowly calmed down.
"Sir, the back is ready." An escort came over to ask for instructions: "Do you want to take off now?"
"Let's take off!"
After a while, the hot air balloons took off one after another from the back deck.
"What kind of hot air balloon is this?"
Qing Mulan looked up into the sky and asked in surprise.
At this time, a total of five hot air balloons were flying around the ship. Four of them were tied up with ropes and were floating around the ship. One of them was not tied up and was floating in the air with the wind.
The hot air balloons she had seen before were all spherical, but this hot air balloon was spindle-shaped, looked a bit like a fish, and was much smaller.
Moreover, there is a large fan on the hanging basket, which looks weird.
"This is my husband's new airship, specially designed to deal with hot air balloons!"
Tang Xiaobei said with a smile: "The hot air balloon can only float with the wind. If you install the steam engine on the lifeboat, the airship can change its direction and fly wherever you want."
In fact, the principle of hot air ballooning is very simple. Even if Wei Laosan hadn't rebelled, the enemy would have figured it out sooner or later.
Jinfeng has always adhered to the concept of "equip one generation, reserve one generation, and research and develop one generation". How could it be unprepared?
Before the advent of hot air balloons, Jin Feng had already thought of ways to restrain them.
At the Donghai Shipyard, when Jin Feng was making a steam engine, he asked Tang Xiaobei to lead people to build an airship.
At that time, I thought about using human power to drive it first, and then developing a small power machine to install it when I came back. However, I was forced to make a small steam engine halfway, which was just in use.
"airship……"
Qing Mulan looked up at the sky, looking a little dazed.
When she first met Jin Feng, she was the eldest daughter of the Qing family, and Jin Feng was a young blacksmith in a remote mountain village.
In just one year, this little blacksmith has grown into a king who needs to be looked up to by her and the entire Qing family.
Qing Mulan often went to the palace to play since she was a child. She saw many powerful and high-ranking officials, so she didn't pay much attention to Jin Feng's change in status.
But when she saw Jin Feng and Tang Xiaobei again this time, she suddenly felt a little inferior.
This feeling was not caused by the difference in status, but because Jin Feng had done something she couldn't understand.
Yesterday she witnessed the speed of a steamship with her own eyes, and now she saw an airship that could fly freely.
After not seeing each other for just a few months, she suddenly found that the gap between herself and Jin Feng was getting wider and wider.
In the gondola of the airship, the escort waved the flag downwards.
"Sir, Black Falcon asked for permission to take action." Iron Hammer asked.
Seeing Jin Feng nod, Iron Hammer also took out two flags and waved them.
Black Falcon received permission and started the steam engine.
Puff! Puff!
Thick black smoke was emitted from the fish mouth, and the fan on the hanging basket also started to rotate.
The airship quickly rose up, its tail pointed forward, and flew against the wind toward the enemy's hot air balloon.
"Let's just arrange for an airship to go over, okay?"
Qing Mulan asked worriedly.
There are too many enemy hot-air balloons, and the hot-air balloons are huge. With so many hot-air balloons flying over together, even though they are still far away, they look very oppressive.
On the other hand, airships are smaller than any hot air balloon, and there is only one...
"Don't worry, one is enough to deal with them, just wait and see the good show!"
Tang Xiaobei patted Qing Mulan on the shoulder: "Besides, don't we still have four hot air balloons guarding the ship? Even if there is a fish that slips through the net, it is no match for our hot air balloons!"
When Qing Mulan heard what Tang Xiaobei said, she didn't know what to say, so she had to take out her telescope and look up at the sky.
I saw the airship flying higher and higher, getting closer and closer to the enemy.
It has become the enemy's consensus that hot air balloons can only fly with the wind. Suddenly they discovered that airships can fly against the wind, and the enemies were a little panicked.
The commander of the enemy flight team immediately ordered several hot air balloons to increase their altitude to block the airship.
However, their rising speed was too slow, and when they only rose to more than 1,000 meters, the hot air balloon began to shake violently, scaring them to stop rising quickly.
"Prepare your heavy crossbow. As soon as this strange-looking hot air balloon comes near, shoot it down for me immediately!"
Flying on the front hot air balloon, the team leader said coldly.
After capturing Xichuan City, Gada seized some heavy crossbows and immediately sent people to deliver half of them to Jinchuan. They were just delivered yesterday.
Mr. Feng immediately gave some to the flying team and let them fight against Jin Feng's hot air balloon.
The hot air balloons flying at the front were all equipped with heavy crossbows.
Seeing the airship getting closer and closer, these hot air balloons were ready. As long as the airship came within the range of the heavy crossbow, they would work together to shoot down the airship.
But just when the airship was still hundreds of feet away from them, it suddenly took off quickly, raising its altitude to more than two thousand meters in a short time.
"How can we fight like this?" The enemy hot air balloon was dumbfounded.
Although they are also equipped with heavy crossbows, the effective attack range of the heavy crossbows is only a few hundred meters.
If you shoot upwards, you have to overcome gravity, and the range will be greatly reduced.
The enemy flies more than a thousand meters higher than them, and even the heavy crossbow can't reach it!
The captains on the two hot air balloons ordered an attack, but the distance was too far. The heavy crossbow arrows only flew halfway before starting to fall, making it impossible to hit the airship.
There were two other hot air balloons that tried to continue to rise, but their furnaces were too poor and they didn't understand aerodynamics at all. After rising to more than 1,500 meters, the hot air balloons could no longer rise, and there was a violent crash.
Shaking imagination.
At this time, the airship was already flying over the enemy's hot air balloon. Following Black Falcon's order, the two escorts picked up grenades and threw them down.
The grenade landed on the enemy's hot air balloon and exploded.
The debris from the explosion cut a large gash several meters long in the opponent's hot air balloon.
After being hit by an arrow, the hot air balloon can still land safely, but with such a big hole suddenly appearing, how can the hot air balloon hold up? It lands quickly!