After several months of digestion, the Taeyong Kingdom has consolidated its existing territory and has the power to expand its territory. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Tengyuan has tens of thousands of elite soldiers under him, and there is enough food and grass, so he himself has to preside over the affairs of the country, and he can't lead the troops to the battle. Although the Taeyong nobles lost a large part of their territory, they did not hurt their vitality. Shrinking your forces, holding on to the city, and waiting to see what happens, this strategy may seem passive, but it is also the most effective.

Siege warfare requires a lot of skill from the generals. Siege warfare is no better than field warfare, and the situation of the two sides is unequal. The defender has a geographical advantage, and the attacker has a limited number of troops to invest at one time. Soldiers need to endure great psychological pressure during the siege, and if the siege fails, the morale of the whole army will be hit.

Because of this, the war book will take the siege as a strategy. If the logistics are worry-free and the situation is relaxed, the besieging side will not mind a continuous siege until the defenders run out of food, the economy collapses, morale is depleted, and the soldiers take a city bloodlessly. However, the reality is very complicated, and generals who command siege warfare rarely encounter such an ideal situation. So in most cases, sieges are about sieges.

Nowadays, the Taeyong nobles are weak and the Taeyong kingdom is strong, and the siege in this situation is beneficial to the Taeyong kingdom. But don't forget, the Ira people are also fighting against the Taeyong nobles, and other forces are also eyeing each other. The tactic of siege to surrender, while safe, was too inefficient. By the time the Taeyong Kingdom achieves its goal at this stage, the land of the Taeyong nobles may have been divided up by other forces.

Although the Ilibians were allied with the Tajon Kingdom, participated in the war, and had the ability to seize land, they were only allies of the king, not allies of the Tajon Kingdom. It is impossible for the land eaten by the Ilibians to be returned to the kingdom of Tayyong. The Republic of Bujin is willing to return the five northern towns to the Kingdom of Byron because the Kingdom of Byron is completely under the control of Mer, and Mer is a solid ally of the Republic of Bukin, and the Republic of Bujin is willing to strengthen the strength of the allies.

On the other hand, in the Kingdom of Tairong, from the time of his accession to the throne, Maier has not even given the country a capital. Although de jure speaking, the Tayrong Kingdom was ruled by the Byronic Kingdom in union, but the joint rule was not a merger, and the Tajon Kingdom had to have at least a nominal capital or capital to ensure its nominal independence.

Maier did not set up a system for the Tajon Kingdom, and even the official system was based on the Tajon aristocratic era. He himself did not participate in the decision-making of the Taerong Kingdom at all, and the country's military and political affairs were all decided by Tengyuan. In other words, the Kingdom of Byron is nominally a joint rule with the Kingdom of Tairong, and the Kingdom of Tairong is actually independent of the Kingdom of Byron and is not subject to the royal family of the Kingdom of Byrons.

For such a force, the Ilibians would never trust. They will not give the land they eat to the Taeyong Kingdom, as doing so will increase the strength of the Taeyong Kingdom, which in turn will increase the independence of the Taeyong Kingdom. Instead of returning the land to the Tayyong Kingdom, it is better to occupy it directly, gradually change the culture of the occupied area, and assimilate the Tayyong people into spiritual Ilibian people, so that they can serve the Ilibi League. As the strength of the alliance increased, so did the strength of Mel.

Tengyuan, as a Tairong person, this kind of scene is what he does not want to see. In his opinion, Taerong people should change themselves by themselves, so as to not only retain the good parts of Taerong culture, but also allow Taerong people to live a good life. Even though the expansion of the territory will increase the independence of the Taeyong Kingdom, Tengyuan still has to expand, because he is a Taejong person, and he can't watch his own people become spiritual foreigners.

Therefore, the Taeyong Kingdom must expand, and the momentum of expansion must be rapid, so that those Taeyong nobles who think that they can be safe and sound by holding the city will give up resistance, so that the Taeyong Kingdom can eat more land in the shortest possible time. Teng Yuan thought he could do this, but he couldn't pull away now and couldn't lead his troops into battle.

The arrival of Wei Xu can be described as a double happiness for the Tairong Kingdom. Having just won the Frontier Campaign, the famous Wei Xu is gaining momentum, and the Tairong Kingdom Army is willing to submit to his leadership. At the same time, Wei Xu is a guest general sent by the Byron Kingdom, and he fights for the Tairong Kingdom, which can reduce the independence of the Tairong Kingdom to a certain extent.

The independent tendencies of the Taeyong Kingdom have always been a headache for Tengyuan. Teng Yuan himself recognized Maier very much, and he felt that letting Maier rule the Tairong Kingdom was a good and harmless thing. But the local forces of the Tajon Kingdom don't think so, they can't trust Mer as a foreigner, but that's not the point.

The Kingdom of Byron had only a royal family, no nobility. As an emerging nation not much older than the Kingdom of Tayrong, the influence of the country's merchant class, landlord class, gentry class, and old aristocratic forces is declining. The perfect official system made the whole country have to obey the rule of the national cabinet centered on the king, and various systems that are beneficial to the people have made the people's support for the royal family increase day by day, and the merchants, landlords, gentry and old aristocrats are becoming more and more unpopular with the common people, and some people even think that these classes should disappear completely, so that the people's life will be better.

There is no doubt that such a system will do more harm than good to the local forces of the Taerong Kingdom. The local forces of the Tairong Kingdom were dominated by the old aristocracy, landlords, gentry, and merchants, and what happened to their counterparts in the Kingdom of Byron made them hate Mel very much. They spread unfavorable news against Mair in the Kingdom of Tairong, and at present, with the exception of Chunshan Castle and Harorin Castle, the local forces in most parts of the country are hostile to Mair.

Before the start of the border battle, there were protests from all over the kingdom of Taeyong. The soldiers recruited from the protest areas refused to fight, an outcome that was expected by Maier and Tengyuan, so they did not want to involve the troops in the first place. Of the 30,000 men sent to the northern front to support the border campaign, 10,000 were from Chunshan Castle and 20,000 from Yaolin Castle, and there were no officers and soldiers from other regions in the army.

However, for this expansion, the local forces responded positively, Tengyuan did not take much effort to gather 200,000 horses, and there were more than 100,000 people who volunteered to go with the army. Of the more than 300,000 people, not a single one was from Chunshan City or Yaolin City. Tengyuan wanted to preserve his strength for Maier, so he didn't call in the armies of these two cities.

Tengyuan knows what these people are thinking. As long as the Tairong Kingdom is strong enough and there are enough opponents of Myr, these local forces that oppose Mel can gather and force Mair to make the Taijon Kingdom independent. At that time, if Teng Yuan supports them, he may also be directly elected as the new king, if he does not support them, then most of these people will set off a rebellion in the country and force Teng Yuan to step down.

In the final analysis, these local forces attached to the Taeyong Kingdom only regarded the destruction of the Taeyong nobles and the establishment of the Taeyong Kingdom as a power reshuffle, and liberated the Taeyong people from the Taeyong nobility, which was just a slogan shouted to gain the support of the people. They want more power, more benefits, and they don't care what happens to the people after that.

When Wei Xu led a group of cronies to Yaolin City, Teng Yuan only explained one sentence to him: Fight as hard as you want, don't care about losses. Tengyuan's words made the second monk Wei Xuzhang puzzled, but as a general, he was still ready to follow Tengyuan's order and lead the army to set off.

When Wei Xu led the army to the expedition, Maier and Liu Xiu also arrived at the Tairong Fairy Settlement.

As early as September of the 137th year of the new calendar, a wave of ideas from the "Golden Bird" settlement swept through the settlement. The settlement elves were also given blueprints for the new rifle and the cartridge, as well as drawings for their production line. The Taeyong Fairy, who is not good at weapon research, has not improved these two types of equipment so far, in fact, for the time being, these two types of equipment do not need to be improved, and they can be used directly to beat most outsiders.

In November of the year 137 of the new calendar, the production line of new weapons was built. Over the next few months, the settlement produced 130,000 new rifles and more than 2 million rounds of cartridges. Most of these weapons have been distributed for the outer defense of the settlement.

Half a year ago, the "Golden Bird" settlement began to distribute the new rifles and fixed integrated ammunition produced to the scattered elves. Due to the large population base, the new rifles and ammunition exported by the "Golden Bird" settlement are a drop in the bucket for the scattered elves. Later, more and more settlements began to export new weapons, and the output of hundreds of thousands of rifles and nearly 10 million rounds of ammunition per month was still unable to meet the needs of the scattered elves.

The influx of new rifles has greatly increased the survivability of the scattered elves. More and more slave traders saw the power of this new weapon, and these people finally paid for their crimes. Some people who are lucky enough to survive tell others what they have seen and heard. At first, no one believed their words, because in the eyes of the people of the New World, the Taeyong Fairy was a mysterious and weak existence, and it was impossible to defeat the people of the New World.

But as time went on, the number of survivors grew, and people had to believe the words. The news reached the ears of some of the rulers, who were eager to get their hands on these powerful weapons, so they sent armies into unexplored areas to snatch them from the Tayyong elves.

Although the Taeyong goblins have been given powerful weapons, their tactical awareness is still too backward. Some of the rulers seized new rifles and cartridges, and after careful study, they discovered a desperate fact - the cost of producing such weapons was extremely high with their current production technology.

New World Man's machines are basically production equipment driven by manpower, and equipment driven by water and wind power is considered high-tech products. They have an assembly line production method that can improve production efficiency, but the production method is still manual production, and machinery only plays an auxiliary role. The disadvantage of manual production is that efficiency and quality cannot be achieved at the same time, and there is no quality if you want efficiency, and there is no efficiency if you want quality. Moreover, manual production requires the training of skilled workers, and newcomers cannot be directly put into production, so they must consume time, energy and resources to train, and only after newcomers become skilled workers can they be put into production.

For the New World, the outer walls of the metal shells were very thin. Making a thin sheet of metal, and then making a cylinder from a thin sheet of metal, is a technical task that takes a lot of time. The warhead is relatively easy to make, but the inferior warhead will reduce the accuracy, and the warhead of the fixed integrated bullet must match the shell, so this process is also time-consuming. There is nothing to say about gunpowder, so that the fixed one-piece bullet is only left with a primer.

The principle of primer is simple, but it is not easy for the people of the new world to produce it. The skilled and civilized gunsmith studied the primer and came to the conclusion that the production cost of this thing was the highest in the whole bullet.

The production efficiency of the fixed cartridge is low, and even if a new rifle is produced, it does not make much sense, because the two must be used together to be effective. And the new rifle is not so easy to produce, the production efficiency of the new world people is inherently low, and the structure of the new rifle is more complex than the musket, which means that the production of the new rifle is destined to be lower than the musket, and it is impossible to use it to equip the troops.

Some rulers who thought they were smart came up with a solution. Although we can't produce new rifles and fixed cartridges, we can grab them! So these people began to organize troops and invade the living quarters of the Taeyong goblins. At first, their plan went well, snatching some new rifles and fixed ammunition from the scattered Tayyong elves. However, their big move quickly caught the attention of the Taeyong elf settlement, and in order to protect the scattered elves, the Taeyong elf settlement sent thousands of settlement elves armed with new rifles.

Since ancient times, the gap in tactical awareness can be bridged by advanced equipment and the number of equipment. Thousands of elves in the colony armed with new rifles don't need any tactics, they only need to do three things: outrage, march, and attack. Whatever tactics the invaders used, they would have to be beaten into a sieve by the rain of bullets.

On June 20, 138 AH, Meier and Liu Xiu returned to the city of Byrons. They brought back 30,000 new rifles and 1 million rounds of fixed cartridges. The equipment was transported by 5,000 settlement elves to the supply depot, and then transported back to the Bluestone Palace by the Tairong elves who followed Meier.

Maier intends to form a new rifle force composed entirely of Tajon elves. He would not have issued the new rifle to the regular army, let alone the city defense army. For, for for the time being, no force other than the Guards and the King's Guard was completely final in Mayr.

The combat effectiveness of the new rifle unit was extremely high, and once it lost control, the consequences would be unimaginable, and Maier did not dare to take this risk. When the time comes, he will distribute the new rifles to the personal guards and the King's Guard to increase their combat power, and after that, the guards of the Bluestone Palace will also be equipped with new rifles.

However, these three units are limited in number and cannot be used as main combat units. Now that Mel has tens of thousands of Tajon goblins willing to follow him, these Tajon goblins are very reliable, and Mel has decided to reorganize them into the main battle force, making them the most powerful defense force in the Byron Kingdom.