Chapter 145: The Eve of the Eastward Advance 1/3
Wind Country, Royal Palace, Heart Cultivation Palace!
"Wei wants to cut down bamboo and Min? Why is that? The Wind King frowned, holding in his hand the summary that someone had just passed up, and the content of the summary was that the army of Wei had reached the border of Zhu and Min.
Just when the Wind King still couldn't understand the movement of the Wei Kingdom, a eunuch walked in outside the palace, and the eunuch walked up to the Wind King and said respectfully: "King Qiqi, Tian Nan, a guest of the Wei Kingdom, asks to see you!" ”
"Oh? Someone from Wei is coming? It just so happened that Lone also had to ask Wei Guo what he wanted to do! The Wind King said displeased.
If the two kingdoms of Zhu and Min are destroyed, the country of wind will pay much less tribute every year.
After a while, Tian Nan hurriedly walked in, bent down to the Wind King and saluted: "Tian Nan, the envoy of the Wei State, meet the Wind King!" ”
"Flat!" The Wind King raised his hand expressionlessly.
Tian Nan straightened his waist, straightened his waist, and said straight to the point: "My king sent an envoy to see the King of the Wind, there are two things!" Tian Nan said at the same time, he also stretched out two fingers.
The Wind King faintly guessed something, frowned and said softly: "Don't sell it, say!" ”
"My king wants to go east, and going east means that the two kingdoms of Zhu and Min will be destroyed, and my king sent envoys to the so-called two things, this is one of them!" Tian Nan's expression was solemn, and he smiled and bent down to make a statement.
"What? Eastward? Are you kidding! The Wind King suddenly stood up from the king's chair with an expression of incredulity and anger at the same time.
"Doesn't the King of Wei know what the purpose of the Chu State is to help the Wei State? By doing this, Wei is digging his own grave! The Wind King clenched his fists with a gloomy face.
The state of Chu is to let the Wei state contain Qi Yue, and the same is true for the country of Feng, the state of Wei is now going eastward, who will contain it, wouldn't this ruin the plan of the two kingdoms of Chu and Feng!
"The envoys don't know, my king knows and doesn't know, the envoys don't know, the envoys only know that the Wei State wants to expand its territory eastward!" Tian Nan was neither humble nor arrogant.
If this was changed in the past, he would not dare to speak like this in front of the Wind King with a hundred heads, but now it is different, the strength of the Wei State is not inferior to the Wind Country, and even, it has been surpassed!
"Bastard!" The Wind King suddenly scolded angrily, feeling Tian Nan's presumptuousness, this is not taking himself as the suzerain-king in his eyes at all.
Tian Nan ignored the anger of the Wind King, and immediately said with a faint smile: "My king's second thing is to pay tribute, and on the orders of my king, carry 100,000 taels of silver to pay tribute to the Sect Leader Country Fengguo, please accept the Wind King!" ”
"What?" The Wind King was stunned for a moment, and his anger suddenly disappeared without a trace.
100,000 taels, compared to more than 300,000 stones of silver!
"What does King Wei mean?" King Feng seems to know what Wei Ya means, 100,000 taels is by no means as simple as paying tribute, otherwise it is impossible to pay so much tribute.
"These 100,000 taels are indeed tribute to the Wind King, and as long as the two kingdoms of Zhu and Min are destroyed, 100,000 taels of silver will be given as compensation, I don't know what the Wind King wants?" Tian Nan showed a confident smile, he didn't believe it, a total of 200,000 taels of silver, the Wind King was not moved.
"Whew!" The Wind King exhaled deeply and fell into deep thought, 200,000 taels of silver, this is not a small amount!
"Okay, Wei Guo is going east, and he is alone, where is the 100,000 taels of silver that was tributed?"
In the end, he still couldn't resist the temptation of 200,000 taels of silver.
"Just outside the hall, the Wind King can inspect it!" Tian Nan replied lightly.
The Wind King nodded, and then walked outside the hall, and when he saw the boxes of silver shining outside the hall, his eyes lit up!
After solving the Wind King's place, Tian Nan returned to Wei with his people!
Time passed quickly, when the State of Chu learned that the State of Wei was advancing eastward, the King of Chu Xiong Nai smashed the imperial bowl angrily, feeling that he had raised a white-eyed wolf, Lao Tzu raised you to let you bite Qi Yue, and as a result, you went eastward, special!
Xiong Nai, the king of Chu, was angry, and withdrew the 200,000 troops on the border of Qi, Chu withdrew its troops, and the pressure on Qi decreased a lot, when Qi learned that Wei was advancing eastward, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, Jiang Feizi, the king of Qi, knew the intentions of Xiong Nai, the king of Chu, and did not send troops to attack Wei, otherwise, Qi would have jumped into the trap of Chu by himself, and the king of Qi was not so stupid!
An invisible undercurrent was shattered because of Wei's eastward advance!
On November 20, the thirteenth year of Zhengyun, he was exiled from the outside of the city, and the Wei army camped!
After nearly two months, 100,000 young men had been transformed into qualified soldiers, and the strength of Wei had risen to 154,000!
Among the 154,000 troops, the Xuanwei army accounted for 18,000 cavalry, 66,000 crossbow soldiers, 30,000 Changge soldiers, and 40,000 short Ge shield soldiers.
Half of the crossbowmen's weapons are twelve-stone crossbows and half are ten-stone repeaters.
It took seven months for the Ordnance Division to build 42,000 12-stone crossbows, and 42,000 10-stone crossbows, for a total of 84,000 crossbows, and after removing the 66,000 used, the Ordnance Division still has 18,000 left, and it is still being manufactured every day.
Not only are crossbows being made, but chariots are also being manufactured, but the scale is too small, and now only a hundred chariots have been built, which is too much to use.
In addition, during this eastward advance, the Ordnance Division produced a full four million arrows.
"Kill! Stab! ”
"Crossbowmen, shoot!"
"Whew! Shout! Shout! ”
"The Xuanwei army listens to the order, the herringbone array charges, kill!"
"Infantry pressing!"
"Simulate a siege, infantry pressing!"
"Listen, your shields, be sure to come close together, and don't show a gap between two fists, otherwise, the enemy on the city wall throws a stone, and it is possible to crush you to death!"
The military camp was in full swing, and the generals personally led the troops to train, and even carried out simulated sieges and simulated confrontations in advance, which was of course Wei Li's experience gained from simulated operations in his previous life, increasing the soldiers' familiarity with the battlefield, so as not to be too panicked during the war.
At the same time, 200 miles away from the city, the border between Zhu and Min, called the Gu Yuanpo area, was garrisoned by more than 10,000 short shield soldiers led by Xia Houde, guarding the 500,000 stone army rations that advanced eastward.
And less than five miles opposite the ancient Yuanpo, the combined forces of Zhu and Min are stationed with a total of 20,000 troops, although the two countries of Zhu and Min are the sons of the country, but the national strength is not weak, and the standing army has reached more than 10,000, and now they have formed a coalition army to attack the Wei State.
Not only that, but the two countries of Zhu and Min are also carrying out forced conscriptions, arresting young and strong soldiers everywhere, down to 14 years old, up to 40 years old men, as long as they are not disabled, they must be recruited into the army, it is precisely because of this that the strength of Gu Yuanpo's Zhumin coalition army is increasing every day, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Zhumin coalition army camp, handsome tent!
In the tent, there are two generals sitting on the handsome seat, one is tall, the other is short, both are wearing rhino armor, hanging swords at their waists, the tall general is the general of the bamboo country, and the short general is the general of the Minguo general.