499 Meat Grinder 3
The momentary change made the people in the hit hydrogen balloon scream.
Xiaoyue's eyes also shrank, and even Ming Xuzi and Hong Yunzi's mouths opened wide, they didn't expect such a thing to happen.
But...but after the lightning, the hydrogen balloon was...undamaged! Only on the gondola, there was a faint flash of light.
Xiaoyue breathed a sigh of relief, and began to command calmly: all balloons continued to fall at the same speed and escaped from the foggy area, but stopped falling at a height of one kilometer from the ground.
Ming Xuzi looked at Xiaoyue's command, his eyes flashed surprise, a little girl actually had the bearing to point out the country at this time.
And Hong Yunzi whispered in Ming Xuzi's ear, "What a little girl, what a Zhang family."
The hydrogen balloon gradually escaped from danger and began to descend to the rear. At this time, it was almost hundreds of kilometers away from the starting point.
The hydrogen balloon stopped about one kilometer from the ground, Xiaoyue took a deep breath, and continued to order: "Everyone get ready, open the valve of the balloon air bag, and then... jump off!"
No one asked why, and no one hesitated. These personnel from the Zhang family opened the valve of the balloon to deflate it without hesitation, and then everyone jumped out of the hanging basket one after another. Those who were not strong enough used talismans to carry the flight, and everyone quickly gathered towards the ground.
And Xiaoyue also turned her head to look at Ming Xuzi and Hong Yunzi, "Seniors, let's jump down too."
"Why? Isn't it good?" Ming Xuzi asked with a puzzled look on his face. The same is true for Hong Yunzi next to him.
"Just in case." Xiaoyue didn't explain too much.
Ming Xuzi thought for a while, then nodded, "Okay, let's leave."
Ming Xuzi raised a floating cloud and brought everyone down.
After everyone fell to the ground, Xiaoyue immediately organized everyone to stay away from the landing area of the balloon. In the sky, the balloon gradually descended again as the hydrogen gas was released. But not too fast, also drifting away with the wind.
Xiaoyue looked at the hydrogen balloon nervously, but Ming Xuzi and many soldiers looked at the foggy area. At this time, the foggy area had become gloomy, with thunder and lightning above, and overcast clouds. There are already raindrops falling.
Suddenly there was an explosion, lightning and thunder, and heavy rain began to fall in the foggy area.
And at this moment, the first hydrogen balloon was about to land. But at the moment when the balloon basket was less than ten meters from the ground, the negative charge carried by the balloon and the positive charge of the earth attracted each other, and a small but dazzling lightning appeared instantly, and the lightning directly penetrated the basket and the ground. air bag.
"Boom..." There was an explosion, and a group of flames exploded suddenly. The hanging basket and the airbag about ten meters below the balloon were instantly wiped out, and a ball of flames rolled. And this was just the beginning, the rest of the balloon continued to explode violently.
Because the balloon was more than 50 meters high, the flames exploded three times in succession, and the entire balloon turned into a ball of flames hundreds of meters high.
Wrinkles appeared in the air, the ground was directly overturned, and everyone felt that the sky and the earth were shaking.
Ming Xuzi, Hong Yunzi, and countless others were stunned and sweating... They just took this thing to the sky!
However, this is only the beginning. The next moment, another balloon exploded.
In addition, the hydrogen storage tank in the first balloon basket also began to explode. These explosions are more violent than 460mm shells. The flame rushed hundreds of meters into the air, and a large amount of hydrogen gas was sprayed around, causing a secondary explosion in the surrounding air.
The dull shock wave spread crazily, forming the effect of thermobaric bombs. Some of those who were short-distance and low-level repaired turned pale instantly, and had already suffered internal injuries.
Seeing this, Xiaoyue shouted for everyone to leave here, at least one kilometer away.
The sky balloons keep falling and exploding. In the beginning, a few of them were still attracted to the ground, but after only six balloons exploded, there seemed to be a faint flame floating in the air—it was the hydrogen gas that had been discharged in large quantities before, especially because there was a hydrogen storage tank in the hanging basket .
In the next moment, all the remaining hydrogen balloons exploded, and the world was turned upside down in an instant. The shock wave made Ming Xuzi, who was one kilometer away, tremble with fright.
Different from the explosion of the cannonball, the explosion of the hydrogen balloon is in mid-air, and twenty hydrogen balloons explode one after another, which is almost equivalent to the explosion of twenty super thermobaric bombs. A 'Fire Cloud' rose in the sky, and this time it was really a 'Fire Cloud', tumbling and rushing up to a height of a thousand meters.
Compared with the smoke of gunpowder, the flame and smoke cloud (water vapor) of hydrogen combustion are more pure.
The crazy explosion caused strong winds, flying sand and rocks. It was a bit difficult for Ming Xuzi to prop up the protective barrier. He was amazed at the madness of the explosion in front of him, but he also felt a wave of fear-just now, we did a good job and took this thing to the sky!
As for Xiaoyue, the little girl turned her eyes, and suddenly burst into tears, squatting down and crying loudly, "All the balloons are gone, Miss will kill me. Woooo...
Miss has prepared balloons for a year, and they were used when they got married, but now they are all gone, all gone, oh...Miss, I'm sorry..."
When the little girl cries, it is called a sad one, and it means that the one who hears it is sad and the one who hears it weeps.
Ming Xuzi has one head and two big ones! Looking at the rapidly disappearing flames in front of him, at the burning balloon wreckage floating in the sky, and at the crying Xiaoyue, he suddenly felt a heinous feeling:
Look, in order to support the Xuanzhen Sect, the Dayang Group even took out the things they wanted to get married! What is the bottom of the box, this is it!
So here comes the question, how should Xuanzhen Sect compensate?
Before this, Ming Xuzi hadn't really considered the price of the 'hot air balloon', he always felt that it was some vulgar thing, not a magic weapon, so it shouldn't be worth much. But at this time his mentality has changed.
The cost of this thing... is definitely not low!
Listen, Miss has been preparing for a year! Also, this thing can fly above the aura layer, and it can also deal with the defense line of the Xiaoyao faction regardless of the cost.
Turning his head to look at the 'fog area' next to him, he saw heavy rain, and the fog receded at a speed visible to the naked eye. And as the heavy rain washed away, some terrains also changed, which in turn affected the performance of the formation. The formations in some areas have already begun to tremble, which is a performance that has reached its limit.
Seeing that Xiaoyue was still crying, Ming Xuzi glanced at his master Hong Yunzi, who was "seriously" watching the flames in front of him and the heavy rain beside him.
The corner of Ming Xuzi's mouth twitched, he could only squat down, "Xiaoyue, what do you need to build this balloon?"
"Woooo... top-level demon silk... woo...you need foundation-level demon silk, and at least 10% golden core-level silk woven satin...to bear the pressure of the balloon.
For the sake of the balloons, the young lady bought almost all the demon silks from the West of the Tall Land and the West of the Fertile Land, so that she barely had enough.
Woooo...Senior, what should I do...
Miss will kill me... woo woo..."
Then what should I do...Ming Xuzi has black lines all over his head! If Zhang Hao was here, Ming Xuzi would definitely slap him in the face, why would a big man cry—well, Zhang Hao would not cry, but would cry for being poor, and Ming Xuzi's promise of a little compensation would be enough. But in the face of a crying little girl, Ming Xuzi is helpless at this stage of transformation!
After a while, Ming Xuzi inadvertently promised countless conditions, and Xiaoyue raised her rainy face and asked expectantly: "Senior, can you really find silk to make 50 balloons? Are you still willing?" On behalf of Xuanzhen Sect to witness the marriage for Miss?"
Ming Xuzi gritted his teeth and nodded: "Yes!"
"Thank you senior!" Xiaoyue Yingying stood up and bowed to thank her. Then he wiped away his tears, continued to sob, and left with his men.
When she got back on the train, Xiaoyue suddenly stopped crying, and shouted excitedly, "Ha, silk for fifty balloons. I quoted how much for one balloon... It seems to be four tons of silk. Oops... In the future, if senior Ming Xuzi finds out, will he hit me?"
A few girls next to her were also chattering excitedly, "I'm sure I'll beat you, I'll beat you to death!"
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Behind, Hong Yunzi watched Xiaoyue and others leave, and said helplessly to Ming Xuzi, "Silly apprentice, that little girl is acting."
"I know!" Ming Xuzi spread his hands helplessly, "Then what can I do, beat her up? Besides, I finally solved such a thorny problem for us, and those silks will be regarded as this time's employment money.
It's just some silk, although it's more precious, it's just silk. But the balloon, said to be a "hot air balloon", but I think it is not simple. I'm afraid this thing is not cheap.
Although the silk of 200 tons of monster silkworms is more expensive and is an excellent material for making soft armor, it is still valuable. But there is no place to buy that hot air balloon if you have money.
What's more, we have broken the defense of the Xiaoyao faction. I'm afraid the Xiaoyao faction has already vomited blood for this defense. A defensive zone that is 6,000 kilometers long and 300 kilometers wide, tsk tsk..."
Hong Yunzi smiled helplessly, "Yes."
It rained heavily for a whole day, and by noon the next day, the sky was impoverished, and there were already hundreds of rainbows hanging above the foggy area, which was beautiful.
However, as far as the Xiaoyao faction is concerned, the mood is not good!
They don't know what happened for the time being, they only know that there were lightning and thunder yesterday, heavy rain poured down, and then the foggy area that they spent countless costs to build disintegrated like this.
The heavy rain caused landslides and terrain changes, and a large number of formations were affected by the terrain changes.
Maybe one or two places are not affected much, but the whole area is greatly affected. The formations that were once connected together are now split into isolated islands.
Some of the fog formations are still working, and some fog areas have been restored; but more have been destroyed.
Of course, there are also formations such as the Lost Formation, which makes this place full of illusion and uncertainty.
The fog defense was broken, and the war between the two sides broke out again!
That afternoon, Xuanzhenjiao used artillery to open the way, forcibly tore up a large area of the formation, and began to charge.
On the opposite side, after the initial panic, the Xiaoyao faction immediately decided on a strategy: Xuanzhen Sect cannot be allowed to cross the line of defense!
Although the fog area is now damaged, it is not completely destroyed, and there are still a lot of places that are barely usable. The Xiaoyao faction must use these remaining formations to block the Xuanzhen sect. Once the Xuanzhen Sect is allowed to cross the line of defense, the line of defense will belong to the Xuanzhen Sect.
At this point in the war, for the Xiaoyao faction, there is no way to retreat.
Moreover, the formations here are chaotic, which can greatly weaken the power of Xuanzhenjiao's artillery, and a large number of formations left seriously affect the aiming of the artillery. Let everyone only fight at close range.
The armies of both sides advanced into the foggy area, and a decisive battle that shocked the whole world began here.
Two days later, Gu Xingdong stood on a hilltop, looking at an area shrouded in mist ahead, where some enemy troops were hidden, but the location and number were unclear.
An elite group of one thousand people from the Northern Tang Dynasty entered and searched without finding anything; then a group of three hundred people entered and wanted to occupy this place, but never came out again.
Gu Xingdong visually measured the distance and the scope of the foggy area, commanded 50 cannons of different calibers to fire a salvo, and then let his army, a team of one thousand people, advance under the cover of the cannons.
After a while, the sound of fighting broke out in the foggy area. But because of the cover of artillery, the enemy quickly retreated.
However, in the evening, a formation next to it was suddenly repaired, the fog area more than doubled in size, and the elite of the Free and Unfettered faction attacked brazenly. Gu Xingdong's subordinates were defeated, and only less than 400 of the thousand people fled back.
Then Gu Xingdong angrily directed the artillery to carry out retaliatory carpet bombing. This time, he personally led 3,000 elites into the battle, piercing through the mist formation and beheading more than 2,000 enemies.
However, such a war is just a corner of the battlefield.
At this time, the legions of the two sides have been completely intertwined and mixed together, and the two sides are fighting in every corner.
Due to continuous changes, the formations here have been out of the control of the Xiaoyao faction, but the Xiaoyao faction is familiar with the formations here after all, so they can repair and continue to use them.
But Xuanzhen Sect is not a good stubble here. The Xuanzhen Sect has far more artillery than the Xiaoyao Sect, and its range is longer. Every attack is opened by the artillery.
In addition, there are mortars, sniper rifles, etc. Every time the Xiaoyao faction attacks, they need to drop a lot of corpses.
On the third day of the war, the Xiaoyao Sect suddenly sent reinforcements—more than 500 suspended and fully enclosed armored combat vehicles arrived. These war machines, which combine science, industry, and traditional weapons of war, caused huge casualties to Xuanzhen Sect as soon as they appeared.
More than 500 armored vehicles are all driven by top-grade spirit stones. While the consumption is heart-wrenching, the results are brilliant. Xuanzhen Sect's offensive was contained.
War begins to transform into mechanization!
In the evening of that day, the Xuanzhen Sect allied forces, which were advancing continuously, stopped for the first time and even retreated. And left behind a large number of corpses, as well as weapons and luggage.
Among them, there are more than 2,000 people under Gu Xingdong, as well as more than 60 artillery pieces and thousands of shells. There are even sniper rifles and bullets, as well as binoculars and so on.
However, under the cover of chariots, the army of the Xiaoyao faction continued to advance.
[Disaster reference: Hindenburg airship. 】
(The status has recovered a bit, and the 4,000-character chapter is here.)