Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

In order to stabilize the Jiangnan port, Qin Ming called Chen Pi over after Cao Chuan left.

Liu Chuang and Wu Qingye were stationed in the Central Plains to prevent invasion from the Northern Dynasties.

Chen Shimao was somewhat curious about Qin Ming's arrangements.

"This is something I discussed with him in advance. It also involves hot air balloons and some new weapons from the other side."

"I see. Then I'll go write him a letter now."

"I will personally take charge of this trip."

In order to show respect to the wise and humble, Qin Ming also opened up to the Northern Dynasty this time.

He even had to go there personally to preside over the war.

"Row."

Chen Shimao knew what Qin Ming was thinking, so he nodded immediately.

That night, the newspaper published the news that Qin Ming was going to attack the Northern Dynasty pass and rescue those scholars.

Three days later.

In the northern part of the Central Plains, in Chen County.

Qin Ming, Chen Pi, Liu Chuang, Wu Qingye and others sat in the tent, formulating a battle plan.

Qin Ming first set his sights on Liu Chuang and Wu Qingye.

"Your mission this time is simple. You only need to continuously attack their checkpoints. However, your attack will not be a frontal one. You must flank them and avoid their main force."

"As for you..."

Qin Ming set his eyes on Chen Pi.

"Have you finished those shoddy hot air balloons I asked you to save materials on?"

"It's almost done. We can put it into the battlefield. I've made hundreds of hot air balloons."

At this time, Chenpi spoke with a smile.

The last time Qin Ming left Jiangnan, he gave him a task.

Let him make a batch of low-quality hot air balloons, preferably saving as much raw materials as possible.

As long as they can get up into the sky, they'll be fine. And these inferior hot air balloons can just be used to consume the enemy's ammunition.

According to the results of the investigation conducted by the people arranged by Chenpi and others after several rounds of testing.

The Northern Dynasty's anti-aircraft guns, although consisting of several sections of gun barrels connected together, could fly very high.

But the effect is indeed as Qin Ming said, the accuracy is far from enough.

If you want to deal with their hot air balloons, you can only cover the entire sky with firepower and use a large amount of gunpowder to shoot down their hot air balloons.

But every time such an attack is carried out, it seems like burning money, and it will cost at least several thousand or tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Qin Ming and his men tried their best to consume the enemy's firearms.

It was under his arrangement that a batch of hot air balloons that looked good but were useless were produced.

It is loaded with explosives, and as long as it gets close to the enemy's city wall, it doesn't matter if it is shot down.

The explosives in the hot air balloon will fall directly from the sky and hit the battlefield.

If a few times doesn't work, try a dozen times. Sooner or later, you will be able to blow a big hole in their city wall.

"Your Majesty, this idea of ​​yours is truly genius!"

After listening to Qin Ming's arrangements, Liu Chuang couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

In his opinion, this method can easily eliminate the enemy's high-altitude firepower.

However, Qin Ming did not walk down the same path until his death.

"This feint won't last long. We still need to mix in the real hot air balloon."

"With these hundreds of hot air balloons, I will be able to determine the deployment of troops at each checkpoint and the resources they possess."

"Once we've exhausted their anti-aircraft weapons, we can then deploy real hot air balloons to infiltrate the army and launch an attack."

Qin Ming's words stunned everyone present.

They all thought they had thought of the entire plan, but after Qin Ming took the initiative to speak, they found that they had only thought of one step, but Qin Ming had already thought of ten or a hundred steps.

"Your Majesty still has a solution. Then we will go there now."

"By the way, a large number of soldiers may be coming to support you soon, and the pressure on you will be a bit great. If you don't have enough soldiers or you don't have any soldiers available, you can tell me in advance and I will bring troops to support you."

At this time, Qin Ming spoke up and reminded them.

The arrival of 300,000 additional troops from overseas put an enormous pressure on them.

After all, the Central Plains is a wilderness with no strategic locations to defend.

Although they have the help of fortifications, they still need to be careful.

"Yes!"

Soon, the four of them led their troops towards the battlefield.

Qin Ming and Chen Pi were on the front line. They brought thirty hot air balloons and released them into the sky in batches in an area half a mile away from Tianhe Pass.

"People from the Southern Dynasty are attacking!"

The defenders of Tianhe Pass soon discovered the huge monster in the sky.

They were all extremely frightened, but fortunately the court had equipped them with the best weapons available at the time.

The defender quickly rushed up the city wall and shouted to his men:

"Take out our multi-section cannons!"

"Yes!"

Soon, more than seventy cannons were set up on the city walls.

They carried the ammunition, stuffed it in bit by bit, and aimed at a hot air balloon slowly floating in the sky.

"Ready...release!"

As the defender's voice came, countless artillery pieces quickly fired into the sky.

Bang……!

The rumbling sound made Qin Ming, who was observing from a distance, frown slightly.

"It seems that the development speed of the Northern Dynasty is much faster than I imagined."

"Yes, the power is almost as strong as our artillery shells."

Chenpi was also standing by and responded with some surprise.

Fortunately, they did not notice Qin Ming's feint attack at this time.

"continue."

Qin Ming spoke slowly, and the soldiers beside him immediately continued to release the hot air balloons.

In order to make the fake look more realistic, Chen Pi led his men directly to the battlefield and fought with the soldiers of Tianhe Pass.

After fighting for almost an hour, all of Qin Ming's thirty hot air balloons were shot down by them.

"That's not right..."

Qin Ming suddenly waved to Chen Pi in the distance and asked him to lead his troops to retreat.

"What's the matter, Your Majesty?"

"The amount of ammunition they have far exceeds our estimates. I suspect someone is secretly helping them."

Tianhe Pass is very important, but it is impossible to pile up so much ammunition.

If any Tianhe Pass can store so much ammunition, then the ammunition depots at the other passes must also have ample storage.

With the current productivity and economic level of the Northern Dynasty, it is impossible to produce so many things in a short period of time and provide them with so many things.

"Your Majesty, perhaps they got it from overseas."

At this time, Chenpi on the side suddenly pointed out a possibility.

"You mean... Yan Chao did it for them?"

"Yes, based on my observations just now, the accuracy of these weapons is even inferior to the inferior firearms they made before."

"It is very likely the Yan Dynasty, which has just mastered the art of firearms."

Chenpi nodded.