Chapter 1479

"The length of the cable below is only more than 80 zhang, so we can only rise to a distance of fifty to sixty zhang at most. Of course, if we don't use ropes to fix it, it's OK to be thousands of feet away from the ground, but in that case, it's easy to fly dozens or even hundreds of miles away..."

The excited emperor Zhao Xu ordered loudly without thinking. "Since it is more than 80 meters, how about it, so what if it rises to 80 meters? I really want to see how magnificent it would be to look down at the beautiful mountains and rivers of my Song Dynasty at such a height..."

"Yes, Your Highness and the others dared to stand at this height just now. Can we fall behind the children?" Su Song next to him was old, but his heart was still childish.

"Official family, is that too high..." At this moment, Ma Shang's mouth turned a little white and he said tremblingly.

"What, aren't you very brave on weekdays?" Emperor Zhao Xu couldn't help but laugh at Ma Shang's appearance.

Ma Shang said with a sad face. "I am very brave, but at such a high distance, if there is a chance, I will die..."

"Bah! Don't say something depressed, what are you afraid of? If you are so scared, come on your back." Wang Yang rolled his eyes big, turned his eyes, and took a backpack-shaped bag from the side and threw it in front of Ma Shang.

"This is..." Ma Shang picked up the backpack with an unknown look and asked curiously.

Wang Yang raised his eyebrows and said to Ma Shang with bad intentions. "This thing is called a parachute, which is specially used to provide a landing tool for warriors who want to jump from it."

"I said to Lord Wang, you want to kill our family, right?" Ma Shang glanced at the ground where the man was almost thinning into an ant. He looked at the broken thing in his hand, and his face turned from grayish white to black at the bottom of the pot.

"This is not really harmful to you. This parachute is to prevent the hot air balloon from rising to a height of hundreds or even thousands of feet. If something goes wrong and cannot return to the ground, how can a good thing used to save lives be said to be harmful to people?" Wang Yang retorted unhappily.

"Parameter... Wang Qing, what do you mean is that after wearing this object, jumping down from a height of thousands of feet high, and people can be safe and sound?" Then, the emperor couldn't help but stare curiously, snatched the object from Ma Shang's hand and looked at it carefully.

His eagerness to try made Wang Yang a little doubt that if he had instigated a few words, perhaps the Emperor of Song Dynasty could really perform a weight on the spot with this thing in his arms.

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

"Uh... Logically speaking, it should be possible, but at present, this parachute has only been tested for animal testing, and no one has used this object for parachute jump test, so its safety is probably necessary to be tested further before it can be fully qualified."

"You..." Ma Shang's expression was very complicated. He pointed at Wang Yang for a long time and couldn't hold any of them out.

"But don't worry, Eunuch Ma, although you only used dogs and sheep to test, it has been proved that when you reach a height of fifty feet from the ground, you can save your life as long as you can open the parachute as soon as possible. If you don't believe it, please ask everyone present."

"This is true. Our brothers didn't really die of animals thrown from the hot air balloon." Ling Zong, who stood aside and had never been able to speak, answered again.

Wu Qilang kicked him directly, glared at Ling Zong, who was coming to the Ministry of Rites with a vicious look on his face, and quickly explained.

"Those animals are used for parachute jump tests. As long as the parachute can be opened in time, if they can land in places like the water surface, there will be no problems. If they land on the ground, you need to pay attention to prevent collisions and sprains..."

"...Well, so that's it. What he said just now scared me, haha..." The emperor finally breathed 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 used to appreciate the charm, but also has great use in the military aspects of our Song Dynasty." Wang Yang glared at Ling Zong's bastard fiercely, and then he came to the emperor and pointed at the scenery below to change the topic.

"Oh? Needless to say, wait for me to guess..." When Emperor Zhao Xu heard that Wang Yang said that he could be used for military affairs, he immediately became interested again. He stroked his short beard and looked at the scenery around with his eyes shining.

"I thought of it. As the saying goes, as we climb up and look far, we can see so far when we stand at a height of only twenty or thirty feet from the ground. If we can reach the top of a hundred feet, then any abnormal movements dozens of miles away will probably not escape our gaze?"

"Your Majesty is wise, please use this item to look in that direction..." Wang Yang smiled deeply, took out his telescope and handed it to the emperor, pointed to the west and said.

After the emperor took the telescope, he looked in that direction, and the hot air balloon was still rising slowly. The weather was clear and without air pollution or light pollution, his vision seemed so clear.

"That's..." The emperor suddenly exclaimed, took down the telescope, looked at the distance, and once again put the telescope in front of his eyes and looked carefully.

"That is my imperial capital of the Song Dynasty, Tokyo Bianliang..." Wang Yang said with a smile. "Although Tokyo Bianliang is dozens of miles away from here, as long as the height is sufficient and with this object, we can see a place of dozens of miles or even nearly a hundred miles."

"If it is in a border town, especially in a deserted and crowded place, my border town in the Song Dynasty only needs a small hot air balloon that can stagnate in the air with one or two spies with extraordinary sight.

This will allow our soldiers from the border town of the Song Dynasty to check the enemy's movements one or two hours in advance. If they are used on the battlefield, their usefulness may be greater. Every move of the enemy will inevitably fall into the eyes of our soldiers."

At this time, Wang Yang walked to the corner that had been covered with cloth before, lifted the cloth, revealing something, and the emperor Zhao Xu was stunned. "Is this, is this a crossbow?"

"Your Majesty, this is a crossbow, similar to a crossbow, but its function is not to fire crossbow arrows, but to shoot a special ammunition, incendiary bomb..."

Wang Yang took out a black thing from the bamboo basket next to him. This thing was a sphere, with only one raised, and a lead wire was pulled out.

"This is wrapped in animal skins outside, with pig urine foam as lining inside, and bamboo as support, and it is filled with about five kilograms of tinder oil. Using this light crossbow cannon, you can bombard the combustion dozens of feet away. If an enemy comes near, you can directly ignite the fuse and throw it down to attack the enemy..."

The emperor's eyes suddenly moved with joy. "It seems that Wang Qing, you want to give me an unexpected surprise again this time, right? Haha, hurry up and demonstrate to me a few times, let me see, come on, throw one for me..."

As soon as this said, all six or seven people in the entire bamboo basket were stunned and dumbfounded. Looking at the emperor who was so excited that he looked like a child, Wang Yang looked down shyly.
Chapter completed!