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Chapter 1470 Excited Like a Child's Son of Heaven (Part [-])
Chapter 1479

"The length of the cable below is only more than eighty feet, so we can only go up to a distance of fifty to sixty feet at most. Of course, if we don't use ropes to fix it, it is also possible to be a thousand feet above the ground, but in that way, It's easy to fly dozens of miles or even hundreds of miles away..."

The hot-blooded Son of Heaven, Zhao Xu, ordered loudly without even thinking about it. "Since there are more than eighty feet, how about going up to eighty feet? I really want to see how magnificent it will be to look down on the great rivers and mountains of my Song Dynasty from that height..."

"That's right, Your Highness and the others dared to stand at this height just now, can we just lag behind the children?" Although Su Song next to him was old, he still had a childlike heart.

"Guan family, isn't that too high..." At this moment, Ma Shang's mouth turned pale and he said tremblingly.

"Why, aren't you usually quite bold?" Emperor Zhao Xu couldn't help laughing when he saw Ma Shang's appearance.

Ma Shang said with a mournful face. "Your servant is quite courageous, but at such a high distance, if something happens, your servant will die..."

"Bah! Don't be discouraged. What are you afraid of? If you are really so afraid, here, I will give you this back." Wang Yang rolled his big eyes, rolled his eyes, and brought a backpack-shaped bag from the side. The burden was thrown in front of Ma Shang.

"This is..." Ma Shang picked up the backpack with a puzzled face, and asked curiously.

Wang Yang raised his eyebrows and said maliciously to Ma Shang. "This thing is called a parachute, and it is specially used as a landing tool for those warriors who want to jump from it."

"I said, Mr. Wang, you are trying to kill our family, right?" Ma Shang glanced at the ground that was about to be thinned into ants, and at the broken thing in his hand, his face turned from gray and white to the bottom of the pot black.

"This is really not trying to harm you. This parachute is just to prevent the hot air balloon from rising to a height of hundreds or even thousands of feet. If something goes wrong and it cannot return to the ground, how can it be a life-saving good thing? Do you mean harming someone?" Wang Yang resented him very unwillingly.

"Parachute...Wang Qing, do you mean to say that after wearing this thing, people can jump from a height of thousands of feet and be safe?" At this moment, the emperor couldn't help but widen his eyes curiously. He snatched it and looked it up carefully.

The look of eagerness to try made Wang Yang somewhat doubtful that if he gave him some encouragement, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty might actually be able to hold this thing and perform a scale fall to the ground for him to see.

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Faced with the emperor's question, Wang Yang naturally could only answer truthfully.

"Uh... logically speaking, it should be possible, but at present, this parachute has only been tested on animals, and no one has used it for skydiving tests. Therefore, its safety may require further testing. , it will be safe."

"You..." Ma Shang's expression was very complicated, and he pointed at Wang Yang for a long time, unable to hold back a fart.

"But Mr. Ma, don't worry. Although only dogs and sheep have been used for experiments, it has been proved that as long as the parachute can be opened at the first time when the height from the ground reaches [-] feet, you can save your life. I don't believe it. Just ask everyone present."

"It's true, the animals that our brother threw from the hot air balloon really didn't fall to death." Ling Zong, who was standing by the side, who had never been able to speak, rushed to answer again.

Wu Qilang kicked over directly, glared fiercely at Ling Zong who came to the ceremony department with a face full of people, and quickly explained.

"Those animals are used for skydiving experiments. As long as the parachute can be opened in time, if it can land on a place like the water surface, then there will be no problems. If it lands on the ground, then you need to pay attention. Protection against bruises and sprains..."

"...Well, that's how it is. I was taken aback by what I said just now, haha..." The Son of Heaven finally heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that these guys were so idle that Tian Cheng threw animals from the sky to play with. .

"Your Majesty, this hot air balloon is not only for admiring the scenery, it is also of great use in the military affairs of the Great Song Dynasty." Wang Yang glared at that bastard Ling Zong fiercely, and then moved closer to the emperor. Pointing to the scenery below to change the subject.

"Oh? You don't need to say, let me guess..." Hearing Wang Yang's words that it can be used in military affairs, the emperor Zhao Xu suddenly became interested again, stroked his short beard, and looked around with bright eyes. The scenery comes.

"I thought about it. As the so-called climbing high and looking far, we can see so far when we stand at a height of only twenty or thirty feet from the ground. If we can climb to the top of a hundred feet, then any change tens of miles away , I'm afraid they won't be able to escape our gaze, right?"

"Your Majesty is holy, please use this object to look in that direction..." After Wang Yang smiled deeply, he took out the telescope and handed it to the emperor, pointing to the west and said.

After the Son of Heaven took over the telescope, he looked in that direction with his eyes. The hot air balloon was still rising slowly, but the sky was clear and there was no air pollution or light pollution, so the sight was so clear.

"That's..." After Tianzi suddenly exclaimed, he took down the binoculars, glanced at the distance, and put the binoculars in front of his eyes again to look carefully.

"That is the capital of my Great Song Dynasty, Tokyo Bianliang..." Wang Yang said with a smile. "Although Tokyo Bianliang is tens of miles away from here, as long as the height is sufficient and this object cooperates, we can take in everything within a radius of tens of miles or even nearly a hundred miles."

"If it is in a border town, especially in a barren and inhabited place, my Da Song border town only needs to have a small hot air balloon, which can carry one or two spies with extraordinary sight in the air.

This will allow my soldiers in the border town of Song Dynasty to detect the enemy's movements one or two hours in advance.If it is used on the battlefield, it may be even more useful. Every move of the enemy will definitely fall into the eyes of our soldiers. "

At this time, Wang Yang walked to the corner that had been covered with a cloth before, and lifted the cloth, revealing something, the emperor Zhao Xu couldn't help being stunned. "This is, is this a crossbow?"

"Your Majesty, this is a ballista, similar to a crossbow, but its function is not to fire crossbow bolts, but to throw a special kind of ammunition, incendiary bombs..."

Wang Yang took out a dark object from the bamboo basket next to it. This object was a sphere, with only one protrusion in one place, and a lead wire was drawn from it.

"It is wrapped with animal skins on the outside, lined with pig urine foam, and supported by bamboo. It contains about five catties of kerosene. With this light ballista, you can shoot incendiary bullets to a distance of tens of feet. In addition, if an enemy comes close, you can also directly ignite the fuze and throw it directly below to hit the enemy..."

The emperor's eyes suddenly moved with joy. "Looks like Wang Qing, you want to give me an unexpected surprise again, haha, quickly show me one or two, let me see, come, come, throw one for me to see..."

As soon as this remark came out, the six or seven people in the bamboo basket were all stunned and dumbfounded. They all looked at the emperor who was as excited as a child, and Wang Yang looked down shyly.

"Your Majesty, I think it would be better for us to try firing this ballista..."

(End of this chapter)