After the barbarian army withdrew from Shuodong Town, Xiang Tao was ordered by Xue Daoquan, the envoy of Shuodong Jiedu, to form the Shuodong Expeditionary Army, and then led the army into the territory of the Tuban Empire.

After the Shuodong Expeditionary Force entered the Barbarian Empire, Xiang Tao brought his military command talent to the extreme.

Nine months later, Xiang Tao led his army to attack Cangyuan City, the capital of the Tuban Empire, and forced the Tuban Empire to sign an alliance under the city, ceding a full 4 million square kilometers of land and about 60 million people to Shuodong Town of the Han and Tang Empires.

At this time, Xiang Tao had already been rated as the military god of the Han and Tang Empires by newspapers all over the Han and Tang Empires.

And Xiang Tao's wonderful performance is not over yet.

In 1548, with the support and instigation of the Black Bear Empire, the Tuban Empire once again chose to wage war with the Shuodong Army, preparing to recapture the 4 million square kilometers of land ceded out.

Xue Daoquan, the envoy of Shuodong Jiedu, immediately appointed Xiang Tao as the commander and commanded millions of Shuodong troops to meet the barbarian army.

Under the command of Xiang Tao, the Shuodong army won successive battles and once again approached Cangyuan City, the capital of the Barbarian Empire.

The Black Bear Empire couldn't sit still at this time, and directly used the Shuodong Army's invasion of the Tuban Empire as a reason to officially declare war on the Shuodong Army, and sent hundreds of thousands of troops to enter the territory of the Tuban Empire by boat.

You must know that among the six major beast countries, the strength of the Black Bear Empire's army ranks first faintly, not only is it well-weaponized, but the individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers is also super strong.

Bear soldiers generally have the strength of low-level warriors, and there are also many middle-level warriors and high-level warriors.

However, the god of war is the god of war, under the command of Xiang Tao, the Shuodong Army, which is relatively backward in weapons and equipment, relies on the tactics of exchanging space for time, to carry out layers of blockade against the army of the Black Bear Empire, and uses guerrilla warfare to constantly harass the logistics of the Black Bear Empire's army.

After more than a year of fierce battles, Xiang Tao commanded the Shuodong Army, which inflicted 220,000 casualties and more than 400,000 wounded on the army of the Black Bear Empire.

With such a large number of casualties, even the Black Bear Empire couldn't bear it, not to mention that the Black Bear Empire couldn't see any hope of defeating the Shuodong Army, so the Black Bear Empire withdrew its troops from the Barbarian Empire.

After the Black Bear Empire withdrew, the Barbarian Empire quickly admitted, and under the coercion of Xiang Tao, it had to cede another 3.5 million square kilometers of land and more than 50 million people to Shuodong Town.

So far, Shuodong Town has an area of more than 9 million square kilometers and a population of 170 million.

Even the Black Bear Empire was beaten down by Xiang Tao, who would dare to question Xiang Tao's name as a military god!

After that, not only the entire Han and Tang Empires recognized Xiang Tao as the god of war, but even other human countries, and even the six beast countries, called Xiang Tao the god of war in their own newspapers.

Zhou Rui regarded Xiang Tao as an idol in his last life, and often felt sorry for himself, if he could have Xiang Tao's ability, how good it would be, he could avenge his family!

However, what made Zhou Rui incomprehensible was that on June 6, 1551, Xue Daoquan, the seriously ill and bedridden Shuodong Jiedu envoy, poisoned Xiang Tao, a generation of military gods of the Han and Tang Empires, on trumped-up charges.

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After Xiang Tao was poisoned, Xue Daoquan's eldest son Xue Tingwu took over the post of Shuodong Jiedu envoy, and then began to purge Xiang Tao's cronies in the army.

When the six major beast nations jointly launched a full-scale invasion of the Han and Tang Empires three years after Xiang Tao was poisoned, the people of the Han and Tang Empires all missed the military god Xiang Tao.

Even Xue Tingwu, the envoy of Shuodong Jiedu, had to admit that if Xiang Tao was still alive, the situation in Shuodong Town should not have become so bad.

When Zhou Rui was killed in the previous life, Shuodong Town, under the attack of the combined forces of the Black Bear Empire and the Barbarian Bull Empire, not only lost the 7.5 million square kilometers of land that was snatched from the Tuban Empire, but also lost almost half of the original 1.5 million square kilometers of Shuodong Town.

Because Zhou Rui regards Xiang Tao as his idol, he is particularly concerned about Xiang Tao's deeds.

Zhou Rui remembered that according to the newspaper, Xiang Tao was an orphan who was adopted by an old Taoist priest living in the mountains since he was a child.

When Xiang Tao was twenty-two years old, the old Taoist priest died of illness, and at this time, Xiang Tao had been promoted to a senior martial artist under the guidance of the old Taoist priest.

After burying the old Taoist priest, Xiang Tao worked as a gladiator in a Colosseum for nearly two years in order to hone his martial arts skills in order to be promoted to grandmaster.

Since he was never able to break through to the realm of the grandmaster, Xiang Tao left the Colosseum and finally joined the Shuodong Army.

According to Zhou Rui's calculations, Xiang Tao should still be a gladiator in the Colosseum at this time, but unfortunately the newspaper did not report which city Xiang Tao stayed in in the Colosseum.

So at the beginning of the establishment of "Ghost Shadow", Zhou Rui asked Hu Yi to pay attention to the Colosseum in various cities of the Han and Tang Empires, especially the Colosseum in Shuodong Town, looking for a gladiator named Xiang Tao.

Zhou Rui thought that Xiang Tao later joined the Shuodong Army, and it was likely that he was currently in a Colosseum in Shuodong Town, but he didn't expect that Hu Yi found out about Xiang Tao in Tiansheng City.

Zhou Rui thought that the military god Xiang Tao could join the Zhou family, and the whole person became very excited.

On the night of September 2, Zhou Rui, who seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, talked about life with Chu Yingying and Zhao Yan and fell asleep at more than three o'clock in the morning.

Early the next morning, Zhou Rui, who was sleepy-eyed, couldn't help but smile bitterly and said after seeing Zhou Jingtong of the Jinshui Zhou family: "Seventh uncle, it's not 7 o'clock yet, and you're too early!" ”

Zhou Jingtong lamented: "Xiao Rui, if it weren't for the last resort, I wouldn't have pulled down this old face and come to Ganyang City to ask your father and son for help."

How could the old man not know how important those six all-steel battleships were to the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City. ”

Yesterday, Zhou Rui had already learned from his father Zhou Xiaozheng that the reason why the Jinshui Zhou family was in a hurry to buy six all-steel battleships of the first formation of the coastal defense fleet.

Because of the feud of the Jinshui Zhou family, the Danyang Chang family in the southern province of the Bajin Empire actually purchased four fortress-class all-steel battleships from the Golden Lion Empire.

The Fortress class was the first all-steel battleship built by the Golden Lion Empire, with a full load displacement of 13,500 tons and a maximum speed of 16.5 knots.

It is equipped with 2 twin 40x caliber 300 mm main guns and 5 twin 40x caliber 150 mm secondary guns.

10 40-caliber 80-mm rapid-fire guns, 10 30-mm anti-aircraft guns, 18 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns and 4 500-mm torpedo tubes.

The broadside armor belt was from 140 mm to 230 mm, the main deck armor was 60 mm, the main turret armor was 300 mm, and the full crew was 800 people.

As the strongest naval strength among the six beast countries, the Golden Lion Empire built sixteen all-steel battleships in one go.

Later, due to war or other reasons, four fortress-class all-steel battleships were sunk, and the remaining twelve fortress-class all-steel battleships were all withdrawn from active service by the Admiralty of the Golden Lion Empire a few months ago.

Subsequently, these twelve fortress-class all-steel battleships were sold by the Golden Lion Empire, and all of them were sold to human countries.

So far, it has also kicked off the prelude to the sale of decommissioned warships and mothballed warships by the six major orc countries to human countries.

It's a pity that when Zhou Rui was reborn, the twelve fortress-class all-steel battleships of the Golden Lion Empire had already been sold, otherwise with Zhou Rui's local tyrant strength, it would be enough to package and buy all the twelve fortress-class all-steel battleships.

"Seventh uncle, my father told me about your kindness to our family.

But you also know what those six all-steel battleships mean to our Ganyang Zhou family, so I can only say sorry to Uncle Seven.

The current Ganyang Zhou family is not only the Ganyang Zhou family of our father and son, but also the Ganyang Zhou family of tens of thousands of soldiers.

If our father and son sell the six all-steel battleships with the strongest combat effectiveness in the coastal defense fleet, the coastal defense fleet will collapse directly, after all, this matter is too demoralizing. ”

"Xiao Rui, I haven't told your father about our Jinshui Zhou family's offer for six all-steel battleships, why don't you listen to it first!"