My brother is the most handsome man in the Qin Dynasty

Under the night sky, the blazing black bird is particularly conspicuous. Not to mention a thousand steps away, even ten thousand steps can be seen clearly.

Under the black bird, there is no longer an invisible swarm of ants, but the clear faces of the Qin people illuminated by the fire.

They held the torches high, solemnly and resolutely, like stone and wood sculptures without emotion that could stand for thousands of years.

Zhou Shi listened to Qin Feng and looked at Xuanniao.

After a while, he smiled easily, turned his face to the side of Chu Ren, who was wearing shorts and frowning, and said:

"Did these Qin dogs know that your Chu country was here, so they created a phoenix bird reborn from the ashes to celebrate the restoration of your Chu country?

The phoenix bird is the totem of Chu State and belongs to fire. Its rebirth from the fire has always been the legend of the phoenix bird.

The soldiers holding shields around him, always on guard against flint from the sky, to protect the safety of the general, laughed together.

This unfunny joke did not touch their laughter, but the general's relaxed attitude really made them no longer nervous.

Chu Ren didn't laugh, he couldn't laugh.

The totem of the Qin State is the black bird, which belongs to water, so the Qin State worships black and calls it the virtue of water.

Fire and water are incompatible.

The people of Chu could not imagine that the people of Qin would use fire to shape black birds because of some important event.

"If the general of the Qin army does not want to burn himself to death with this fire, this black bird will definitely cause big trouble to the general."

"What trouble?"

Zhou Shi's smile did not diminish and his voice became much louder.

He pointed at the huge flaming black bird below the city and said sarcastically:

"They think this black bird can defeat Linji? Even if it is a real black bird and can fly, it can't do it!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

A burst of laughter erupted all around again, and the relaxed atmosphere here made some tension on the city wall completely dissipate.

The general can still talk and laugh, so what's the problem?

The Wei soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and turned their heads to look around, avoiding what seemed to be more and more flint in the air.

They picked up stones and threw them hard at the place where the singing was loudest.

Although there are more flints at night than during the day, the Qin dogs at night are far less fierce than during the day. Only the unpleasant Qin wind is still loud, but what's the use of it?

No matter how loud the song is, it can collapse a three-foot-high wall.

The Wei army, who was much more relaxed than during the day, was throwing stones and shooting arrows while taking a leisurely look at the burning black bird.

Qin Feng, who was singing loudly, was as ridiculous as this burning black bird.

The louder the Qin wind, the more blazing the black bird, the more ridiculous it becomes.

"The general has an order! Guard closely! Don't slack off! Be careful, this is Qin Gou's arrogant soldier's plan!"

Dozens of messengers carried Zhou Shi's orders throughout the city wall.

The budding contempt in the hearts of the Wei soldiers disappeared, and they all cheered up again.

The Chu people who were by Zhou Shi's side throughout the whole process and saw all the responses of General Wei were silently admired.

[A few words and a few actions, first to get rid of the panic, and then to feel contempt. Linji has a Zhou market, and it is difficult for Qin dogs to enter. ]

He clasped his fists at Zhou Shi and said solemnly:

"After returning to Chu, I will try my best to persuade my king to unite with Wei to resist Qin and support Linji as soon as possible!"

The general who defended the city of Linji was such a cautious, knowledgeable, and good at using troops. The people of Chu believed that until the food, grass and weapons in the city were exhausted, none of the Qin dogs outside would be able to get in!

The two of them did not notice that among the flints in the sky, a group of "flints" slowly took off and lifted into the sky...

Behind the black bird's tail, the second emperor and the generals looked at the sky.

The young general Zhao Tuo swallowed and said what the generals wanted to say.

"What is this? How can it fly..."

A big basket.

A small cauldron with a meter high wall was fixed in the basket. In the small cauldron was placed a large amount of shiny black honeycomb coal, which the second emperor called clean coal. The soldiers stood next to the small cauldron.

On top of the basket is a large piece of animal skin. The animal skin that has been treated by the Mohists cannot tell what kind of beast it was covering before birth. It is more airtight, lighter and thinner than before death.

It was such a strange thing. The flame in the small cauldron was ignited, and the one-meter-long fine coal burned into a meter-high flame. The shriveled animal skin swelled in front of the generals' eyes.

Then, it flew.

Carrying Qin soldiers wearing special armor, they flew away.

"I call it a hot air balloon, it's of no use."

The second emperor didn't take it seriously.

All the generals smiled bitterly. People can go to heaven, but they still say it’s of no great use...

They are the best at fighting and thought of the role of hot air balloons on the battlefield just when they first met.

Not to mention anything else, flying to a high altitude where sharp arrows cannot reach, overlooking the enemy's army, their formation can be seen at a glance, and there is no way to hide it. This gives you an advantage!

"Disposable items, calm down."

The second emperor was very calm and looked back at Lu Sheng, Hou Sheng, Han Zhong and other yin and yang doctors who were standing behind him.

"My lords, everything is ready except for the west wind. Now that the time of the Son is coming, where is the west wind?"

The hot air balloon moves automatically with the wind and cannot be controlled manually.

Recently, the Yin-Yang doctors who monitor the sky every day are pinching their fingers, looking at the sky, or drawing symbols in the sky that only they can understand.

For a moment, Hou Sheng, Xu Fu's good friend during his lifetime, stopped pointing and smiled.

Then, one by one, Dr. Yin Yang gradually stopped operating.

They faced Linji City, their broad robes and big sleeves suddenly fluttered forward, trembling lightly.

Sixteen Yin and Yang Doctors clasped their fists together, bowed their heads, and said loudly:

"Your Majesty, the west wind has arrived."

The words fell, not for a moment.

The black bird on the ground fluttered its wings toward the east, and the flames swished forward, seeming to come to life!

The hot air balloons in the sky swing towards Linji, like those flints with added power.

The west wind rises.

"Your Majesty! Fan Kuai please be the vanguard!"

Standing side by side with Liu Bang at the end of the general position, among the generals, Fan Kuai, who was the farthest from the second emperor, walked up to the second emperor and bowed to ask for his orders.

General Li Xin's face was filled with anger and his face was as dark as water.

Li Xin was the vanguard general, and Fan Kuai's move to ask for the vanguard was more outrageous than slapping him in the mouth.

[This butcher is so trustworthy! He is His Majesty’s confidant, and this is His Majesty’s instruction...]

"No."

Without thinking, the second emperor turned to Li Xin, who looked better, and said:

"The vanguard this butcher is talking about is not your vanguard. He wants to be a pawn and charge at the front line."

This interpretation was terrible, but Li Xin didn't dare not believe it and nodded with a "So that's it" look on his face.

How can anyone who is a general still think about charging? The sword has no eyes, and the general and the last soldier are treated equally.

The generals also thought this, thinking that either Fan Kuai was ignorant or the second emperor was trying to beat Li Xin.

Fan Kuai raised his head and startled the generals with his words.

"Fan Kuai won't compete with Your Majesty for the first credit, and Your Majesty shouldn't compete with Fan Kuai for the first credit, okay?"

Ying Chengyu: "..."

Generals: "???"

A quarter of an hour later, at the foot of Linji City.

Fan Kuai was wearing armor and looking up at the city head. In his left hand, he held a terrifying broadsword with a face as wide as a palm. This was his dog-butchering knife.

In his right hand, he held up a wooden shield. On top of the wooden shield were densely packed straws. The straw, which was stained with golden juice and had a terrible stench, had bad arrows stuck in it and stones sandwiched between them.

After nightfall, the Qin army did not attack the city at all. They attacked the city with straw on their heads. They just hid under the wooden shields under the grass and sang.

In the dark night, standing on the three-foot-high wall, the straw and people were all black, like a colony of ants.

Bang~!

It’s like spring thunder exploding!

Thousands of people singing can't cover up the loud noise!

Fan Kuai smiled, and the scene of the second emperor raising his gun to the sky during training appeared in front of his eyes, with smoke coming from the muzzle.

The face full of flesh formed a ferocious face. It’s time to attack the city!

He held up his wooden shield, threw away the straw, and erected a ladder. All the Qin soldiers under the Linji city wall also did the same thing as Fan Kuai.

They kept their mouths shut and worked hard.

It is indeed common sense that when attacking a city at night, the sound will reveal the location.