Chapter 168: Great Xia is in danger
The shock in Ning Chen's heart was incomparable, and the ghost sedan chair swept by, hurrying towards Jialing City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Crude oil was also discovered very early in Chinese history, but it was really used in modern times, one of the reasons is because these things are generally buried deep in the ground and are not easy to exploit.
He came to this world and has always tried to avoid the emergence of things that transcend the times, and any era has a specific trajectory of its own civilization, and he does not destroy it at will.
Things like gunpowder, oil, once they appear in war, can upset the balance and cause more destruction.
There was oil in Great Xia, which he had known for a long time.
It's just that he didn't worry too much, after all, many changes in thinking often can't be done overnight, just like the emergence of gunpowder in China, which was only used to make firecrackers at first, and when someone remembers to use it in war, I don't know how many years later.
It is not uncommon for ordinary people to discover this thing, in the past China, even in the Eastern Han Dynasty, some people found and recorded, however, the discovery and use are two different things, from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the application of oil, it has taken more than a thousand years, to the real use of war, that is, nearly one or two hundred years.
To put it simply, people's thinking and understanding have limitations, just like the Wuhou of the Great Xia Southern Expedition and the Northern War, he hardly had the opportunity to see these things with his own eyes, even if he heard them occasionally, he would not take them to heart, let alone think of using them in the war, and the people who discovered crude oil could not stand at the height of Wuhou, so it was even more impossible to think in this regard.
The ghost sedan chair came to Jialing City, this is a few days ago, the Northern Mongolia raid, a city, those days, he was in a coma in the underworld, I don't know the news.
Jialing City is close to the mountain, and the geographical location is not important, so it stands to reason that it should not be the target of the attack of Northern Mongolia.
After Ning Chen came to the city, he didn't stop at any time, and rushed directly to the several camps where the Northern Mongolian army had been stationed in the past.
With an army of 250,000 troops, how huge the camp required, Ning Chen looked at it for nearly an hour, and finally found unusual signs.
At one of the camps closest to the mountain, the imprints of the wheels had sunk into the earth, apparently having pulled something extremely heavy.
Ning Chen followed the imprint all the way into the mountain, and in the place where the wheel imprint was the most, he saw huge ravines, the oil was no longer flowing, and it was obvious that the most superficial part had been mined almost.
After reading it, Ning Chen already understood in his heart, there is no doubt that Fan Lingyue had already known that there was crude oil here, so he would not fight anywhere, and directly hit here.
He had seen the residue of crude oil in Yueyang City, it was not quite the same as here, the liquidity was better, and it was obviously treated simply.
It was not surprising that Fan Lingyue knew that there was crude oil in Yueyang City, and this thing was not a secret, and besides, there was definitely more crude oil in Daxia than this.
Send more people to check and inquire, and there will always be gains.
However, as he said, discovery and use are two different things, and if Lingyue discovers and uses it, it becomes a disaster for Great Xia.
Although the power of crude oil is far more than that, at a time when everyone is not taking this thing seriously, Fan Lingyue has already used it in war.
Ning Chen was a little powerless in his heart, if he was replaced, without the memory of the future generations, it was very likely that he would not be able to think of this step, the war has the knowledge of war, that is, weapons, iron armor, catapults, in front of the tremor field that has not seen the fire of Yueyang City, who would have thought that this black water that is not amazing will have such great power.
This battle was difficult to fight, Ning Chen sighed lightly, after this defeat, Great Xia's morale was bound to fall to the lowest point.
The defeat is unbreakable, the terrible thing is defeat after defeat, since the Great Xia and Northern Mongolia clashed, the Great Xia has never won, and has been losing.
First of all, the Beizhangyuan fiasco, later, Yangui City was broken, and then the Taiping Marquis army was defeated, and then the Tianmen Pass was broken, and today Yueyang City is broken, defeated again and again, and the defeat is more miserable than one defeat.
This time, even the most elite forbidden army in Great Xia was defeated, and it is very likely that a thought will arise in the hearts of the soldiers and people of Great Xia that Great Xia may really not be able to defeat Northern Mongolia.
Great Xia really can't beat Beimeng!
This was something that no one would have believed before the war began, but today, not only other people, but even the people of Great Xia have begun to believe in this fact.
The thousand-year-old invincible Great Xia has really become a thing of the past.
Everyone ignores the fact that in this battle to defend the city, the Great Xia Forbidden Army has done a good job, except for being stunned by the surprise attack of Beimeng at the beginning, and suffering heavy casualties, in the battle of defending the city a day later, even without the support of the city wall, it still shows quite strong combat effectiveness.
In the final battle, Beimeng lost nearly 60,000 soldiers, but the Great Xia forbidden army that really died in this battle was less than half of Beimeng.
Northern Mongolia occupies an overwhelming military advantage, and the destruction of the city is inevitable, and no one can stop it.
It's a pity that Yueyang City is so desolate that no one will pay attention to these facts.
Fan Lingyue is a terrible person, who can not only conspire and calculate, but also conspire against each other, and desperately use the lives of 60,000 Northern Mongolian soldiers to fight a way out of the city.
After this battle, the 40,000 soldiers defending the city were less than 10,000, most of the 90,000 forbidden troops were lost, the Chilian Battalion was wiped out, the Qingque Battalion was basically abandoned, and there was still one battalion left in the three battalions of the forbidden army.
Sixty thousand Northern Mongolian soldiers, in exchange for a Yueyang City and the panic of the entire Great Xia, is definitely the most worthwhile deal.
Moreover, the most important 100,000 iron cavalry and 10,000 heavy cavalry in Northern Mongolia are still intact, which is the real nightmare of Great Xia.
To put it simply, after this war, Great Xia really fell into a crisis, and the death of the country was no longer a joke after dinner, but a big problem that the dynasty must face up.
Weiyang Palace, Heavenly Oracle Palace, Taizhi Mansion, and the three most powerful people in Great Xia all fell silent after receiving the news of the fall of Yueyang City.
Xia Mingri's brows have been tightened, he has listened to Ning Chen's advice, if he can't fight, he will delay as much as possible, and do everything possible to drag the war until after the autumn.
Unexpectedly, even though Great Xia fully defended, it was still defeated again and again.
can't be defeated, can't be defended, the military division in Beimeng is already powerful beyond imagination.
Great Xia has fallen into passivity in an all-round way, and if it continues, it will really die.
The assassination of the imperial city still occurs every few days, and as soon as the three princes die, no one knows how many of these people there are, except for the military advisor in Beimeng.
The magnates in the imperial city are panicking every day, for fear that they will be the next to die.
The forbidden army of the sixth battalion patrolled day and night, doing their best to search for the shadows of these assassins, but the imperial city was too big, and it was not easy to find it when they infiltrated the city with the help of the power of the three princes.
In Weiyang Palace, the eldest grandson stood in front of the window, looking at the night outside the window, his expression was complicated, and he didn't speak for a long time.
Lime stood aside, silently waiting.
They also didn't expect that Great Xia would fail miserably again, and a Fan Lingyue had almost destroyed Great Xia.
Just half a year ago, Great Xia was still the powerful dynasty that was invincible for thousands of years, and today, who would dare to say these words.
There are no excuses, no excuses, just can't be beaten.
"If only he were here," Lime sighed softly.
In this world, the only person who can compete with the Northern Mongolian military division is Ning Chen, and there is no shortage of smart people in Great Xia, but the thinking of these two people is always far beyond everyone, and it is no longer a simple smart word that can be described.
The eldest grandson looked out the window and said slowly, "He has paid too much for Great Xia, if it weren't for him, Great Xia wouldn't be able to survive now, and the rest of the matter will be left to fate."
Hearing this, Lime sighed again in her heart and stopped talking.
Outside Jialing City, Ning Chen didn't stay for too long, and after a simple inspection, he left in a ghost sedan chair.
Beimeng broke through the city and once again broke through an important defense line in Great Xia, and now it depends on how Jingwu Gong and them deal with it.
He had been in the underworld for too long, and his understanding of the war was only on the surface, and many details were not clear, and he couldn't think of anything for a while.
It was getting late, and he had to go back as soon as possible.
The ghost sedan chair crossed by, drove quickly through the north of Great Xia, and finally rushed back to the underworld before dawn.
Ning Chen didn't know if he would have a chance to see the light of day again in this life, but there was always hope for survival.
He couldn't go out during the day, but fortunately, now that he had obtained a piece of the Spiritual Source, he didn't have to worry about the spread of the poison of the Yellow Spring Flower, and he could try to start cultivating.
At first, Ning Chen didn't dare to be careless, and carefully mobilized a trace of true qi to circulate in his body, and only after feeling that his body had not changed did he try to mobilize more true qi.
However, just as Ning Chen mobilized his True Qi to one-third, the poison of the Yellow Spring Flower showed signs of spreading again, obviously reaching the limit of the Immortal Origin.
Ning Chen sighed lightly and had to give up for the time being.
It seemed that the Spiritual Source in his body was not enough to support him to continue cultivating.
The scroll of life and the scroll of the earth could not be cultivated, so Ning Chen had to try to cultivate the scroll of heaven obtained from the Yin Tomb.
That page of gold paper was in the ghost girl's place, but he had memorized his mind, and now, instead of carefully running the scroll of life and the scroll of earth, it was better to try to practice the scroll of heaven without any foundation.
Like the scroll of the earth, the moves in the scroll of heaven can only be cultivated in the innate realm, and among all the heavenly books, except for the scroll of life, the rest of the heavenly books are not based on the mental method.
The most essential part is still the few tricks recorded after the mental method, but unfortunately, he can't practice it.
The advantages and disadvantages of several heavenly books are actually very obvious, the scroll of life only has the heart method, basically no moves, the only move, although it can be practiced, but it is difficult to practice and scare people to death, it is estimated that he will not be able to practice it for another ten years.
And like the scroll of the earth and the scroll of the sky, you can only know what is special about it after you are born.
A moment later, a little bit of light blue light lit up in the dungeon, very faint, like a dark firefly, which would be extinguished at any time.
Throughout the day, Ning Chen had been cultivating the Heavenly Scroll, and a trace of aura gathered in the dantian, like a newborn baby, growing slowly and clearly.