Chapter 501: Heavenly Soldier Assumption
Li Shimin didn't close his eyes all night and tossed and turned. The scene he saw in Chengtian Gate really shocked his heart and refreshed his three views.
Can people really fly?
A person who can fly is a fairy?
While shocked, he was even more frightened. He was an outstanding general, and his perspective of thinking about things was different from that of ordinary people. When Li Shimin saw the carriage flying in the sky, a picture appeared in his mind almost at the same time.
If there are archers in that carriage shooting arrows at the ground, how can people on the ground resist?
If there was such a thing in the air in front of the two armies, wouldn’t it be the local area to arrange troops and arrange them? If you brought a little more tincture and threw them directly on the enemy’s food and grass...
This thing is so scary! If the enemy owns it, it will be a nightmare for the Tang Dynasty!
How could Li Mu invent this thing? What was his original intention of inventing this thing? All kinds of doubts filled Li Shimin's heart, how could he sleep?
Time passed by, and the sky became white. Li Shimin stood up, called Gao Lao, and Gao Lao responded and appeared in front of Li Shimin's couch like a ghost.
Li Shimin rubbed his swollen nose and asked, "Is there no news yet?"
Eunuch Gao knew who Li Shimin was asking and replied softly: "I haven't replied yet."
Li Shimin was a little impatient and was about to speak when Eunuch Gao suddenly saw a flash of figures outside the hall gate, and hurriedly accused him of his crime and came to the door.
A little eunuch came to Eunuch Gao's ear and whispered a few times. Eunuch Gao waved his hand, closed the door of the palace, returned to Li Shimin's couch, and said, "Your Majesty, Marquis Zhulu has arrived at the palace gate."
"Hurry up!"
"Your Majesty, it's not time for the palace gate to open--"
Li Shimin said angrily: "I said hurry up! I can't understand the words? It's dawn, is it still an hour and a half away? What's your head doing? I don't know how to adapt at all?"
"promise."
Eunuch Gao responded and turned around and went out. As soon as he arrived at the door, Li Shimin called him and said, "I will also bring the carriage he was riding in, I want to see it."
Eunuch Gao responded and asked the palace servant to serve Li Shimin's clothes, but he went to the palace gate himself. The rules cannot be changed, and the palace gate cannot be opened before the hour. But Li Shimin was anxious and had to think of ways to adapt. He had to use a hanging basket and hang Li Mu in.
Eunuch Gao was still very fast. Li Shimin put on his clothes and brought him breakfast before he could eat a few bites. Eunuch Gao brought Li Mu over.
Li Shimin was drinking porridge when he saw Eunuch Gao bringing Li Mu in, and a mouthful of porridge was spewed out. Li Mu was covered in dust and his clothes were also burned by fire. If Eunuch Gao had not brought him in, Li Shimin would have regarded him as a Kunlun slave who was doing hard work in the West City.
"Li Mu, what did you do? Is it struck by lightning?"
Li Mu rolled his eyes and said nothing. He wiped his face and fell from dust.
Li Shimin got up and came to Li Mu, raised his hand and shook it in front of him, and said, "You made the thunder dumb? What the hell is going on? Tell me!"
Li Mu still refused to speak out, and Li Shimin had to look at Eunuch Gao and asked, "What the hell is going on!"
Eunuch Gao held back his laughter and said, "Report to Your Majesty, I just met General Chang He. General Chang He said so, they followed the carriage all the way eastward to Longshouyuan. Suddenly, the carriage stopped moving and immediately caught fire. They hurried over and saw that the carriage was hanging on the tree, so they tried their best to save each other. Zhulu Hou weaves a rope and puts his wife down first. Then the carriage suddenly catches fire, and Zhulu Hou is burned like this."
Li Mu glanced at Eunuch Gao and finally said, "Eunuch Gao, if you laugh out loud, we will break up."
Eunuch Gao quickly closed his mouth, but Li Shimin ignored this and burst into laughter. He ordered Eunuch Gao to prepare bath water for Li Mu, and then asked someone to bring a chair next to the table and serve him a bowl of porridge. He guessed that Li Mu would enter the palace directly and would definitely not have time to have breakfast, so he prepared one more person when he was delivering the meal.
Li Mu raised his sleeves, opened the lining, picked up a clean place and wiped his mouth. He opened his black face and only wiped it out a piece near his mouth. The more funny it would be. He would dry it out with a bowl of porridge. Li Mu looked at the things on the table, licked his lips, and said, "Your Majesty, you are too frugal. Forget it if you don't have meat, you don't even have an egg!"
Li Shimin raised his hand, called a little eunuch, and ordered: "Go to the imperial kitchen to see if there is any meat and eggs, and bring it to Zhulu Hou."
The little eunuch took the order and left, but Li Mu frowned. He glanced at Li Shimin and said vigilantly: "Your Majesty, why have you been so kind to me suddenly? I can't eat me."
"If you don't eat, you still say?"
"I just complained habitually, I eat every meal at home."
Li Shimin snorted and said, "Are you showing off your wealth to me?"
"I just tell the truth. There is no way, the family is the condition." Li Mu sighed leisurely and said, "I thought I had to save money. Later, I thought, what is the use of saving money? Maybe it will disappear one day. It's better to have the flowers that should be bloomed, and it can still be eaten and used..."
"You don't need to point out the mulberry and scold me. I know what you mean." Li Shimin interrupted Li Mu and said angrily: "I have already said that I will change it. You are not finished yet? Are you satisfied if you want me to apologize to you?"
"I dare not." Li Mu stopped quickly. He still understood the principle of being with the king as if he was with a tiger. It was enough. It was enough to be almost done. It really made Li Shimin angry, but he was the one who suffered the loss.
"Tell me, what's going on."
"well!"
Li Mu sighed heavily. When he remembered this, he was upset. He said that he was unlucky. Last night, Li Zhien changed his wedding dress. The two of them bowed to each other and finished their work. Just as they were about to get into the topic, they suddenly rattled and the carriage hit a tree!
Li Mu quickly looked out and found that when the two of them worshipped the world, the hot air balloon had already flew out of Chang'an City and arrived at the territory of Longshouyuan.
Longshouyuan is also called Longshou Mountain. Legend has it that in ancient times, a black dragon winds north from Fanchuan to Weihe to drink water. Its journey has turned into Longshouyuan. It was named after the western end suddenly rises from the edge of the Weihe River, which is like a dragon's head. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, this place has been selected as the base of the palace many times. Qin Xingle Palace and Han Weiyang Palace were built on the northern slope of Longshouyuan. During the Sui Dynasty, Chang'an City was built on the south of Longshouyuan. Longshouyuan became the boundary between the capitals of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the capitals of the Qin and Han dynasties.
The terrain here is much higher than that of Chang'an City. It is precisely because of this that the hot air balloon, more than 30 meters above the ground, hit a tree when it flew to Longshou Mountain.
The branches were broken into leather, and the hot air balloon leaked, and hung on the branches.
In this case, even if Li Mu is very determined, he cannot proceed. Fortunately, the tree is very strong and the rope hanging on the hot air balloon is also strong, so there is no need to worry about falling down all at once. When the guards arrived, the rope that had been covered and used for its purpose, Li Mu tied the rope to Li Zhien's waist and moved her first. But when it was his turn to go down, Li Mu felt a move in his heart.
Last night, he stole Li Shimin's limelight. And when he saw the hot air balloon, he would inevitably have many associations.
Li Mu was not afraid of Li Shimin's association, because he made this thing for use, and sooner or later he could not hide it, and he did not want to hide it. The only thing he was worried about was that Li Shimin would doubt his loyalty. For this era, the power from the air was absolutely overwhelming. Not only Li Shimin, but he could not be worried if he had changed to any emperor.
Therefore, he wanted to make this matter funny and absurd. In order to dilute Li Shimin's concerns about him, he wanted Li Shimin to think that the birth of the hot air balloon was to plant willows without intention, rather than to do it deliberately.
So, he broke the large iron basin containing charcoal.
There was still a fire inside, and it fell into the wooden carriage. The consequences were imagined. The flames rose into the air and hit the ground.
Li Mu originally thought that when the flames got up, he would have gone down long ago. Unexpectedly, the flames would explode so quickly, and he was caught off guard and was in a mess.
If I hadn't consciously covered my handsome face, I would have been disfigured at this moment.
Poor that tiger fur, all the hair was burned out. The fire spread to the trees and burned them too. When it was put out, only the large iron basin containing charcoal was still there, and the rest was only scorched earth left.
After Li Mu finished telling Li Shimin the half-true story, Li Shimin couldn't help laughing again. He had no doubts, because the story Li Mu told was completely tailored to his personality. In order to please women, he could do something like creating a hot air balloon.
After laughing, Li Shimin restrained his expression and said seriously: "Li Mu, are you making this 'hot air balloon' just for getting married?"
Li Mu blinked his eyes and used the innocent magic that had already been mastered, and said in a daze: "Your Majesty, I don't understand what you mean."
Li Shimin was very tempted: "Think about it, what if the two armies were in front of the battlefield?"
Li Mu still looked confused, and Li Shimin said anxiously: "Why don't you understand yet! If our archers were in the sky in front of the two armies, wouldn't our archers be invincible?"
Li Mu laughed out loud and said, "Your Majesty, are you confused or I am confused? How can you stand invincible? This thing can fly thirty or forty meters. Our arrows can hit the enemy, but the enemy's arrows can't hit us? Besides, we can't hide in the sky. The enemy can still hide on horseback. If we fight like this, it seems that the enemy is invincible, right?"
"Well……"
Li Shimin was choked and firm. He thought about it carefully and seemed that what Li Mu said made sense. But out of the intuition of a general, he still thought that the hot air balloon would not be so useless.
After frowning and thinking, Li Shimin said again: "Can't you fly high anymore? The range of the crossbow is only 100 meters, and the lethality drops sharply. When shooting into the sky, it will be at most 600 meters. As long as it can fly to 600 meters, we will still win."
Li Mu frowned and pretended to be thoughtful, and murmured: "Your Majesty, I haven't tried it before. I don't know if I can fly that high. If Your Majesty is interested, I can make another hot air balloon. Let's try it and know if it's OK."
"Do!"
Chapter completed!