Du Ruixun was silent for a long time, he couldn't refute Bai Liyan, but he said

"Even so, but the soldier can be killed, not humiliated, he will have the responsibility of defending the land and protecting the country, if the Xianguo is to attack, he will be a mantis arm as a car to block."

"Hehe, I'm afraid I won't be able to help General Du then. In a few years, Xianguo will have more powerful weapons, and I am afraid that the general will not be able to stop it even if he wants to use his mantis arm as a car.

Twenty years later, does the general think that our army will still cross the river in a truck, and then our army will fly directly from the sky to the capital of your country, throwing down 20,000 elites to capture King Wei alive. ”

Bailiyan is seeking to design a light tank based on an eight-cylinder engine, and at the same time study the parachute and airborne theory, so as to provide technical equipment and experience basis for the preparation of paratroopers in the future.

With the current political system of the vassal states, once the lord of the country is captured and his heirs are caught, it will exist in name only, and it will become meaningless to continue to resist, and reunification is only a matter of time.

Du Ruixun's "plan" of using his mantis arm as a car has no meaning at all, Bailiyan will never use the greatest bloodshed price in exchange for an unstable unified situation, and of course he will not give Du Ruixun the opportunity to fight savagely.

At noon, Bailiyan led Du Ruixun to visit the Xianjun camp and meal, compared with seven years ago, the Xianjun army has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the individual soldier's equipment has been improved for the second time, and it is not bad to say that the evolution is not bad.

The Type 654 is now distributed, and the uniform has been further modified to make it more suitable for modern combat, but the structure of the right jacket is still retained.

But in Bailiyan's eyes, the painting style still looks so weird. From a distance, it looks like it was in World War II, and up close, it looks like a Han Dynasty person, which is really a bit of a dreaming illusion.

When Du Ruixun saw the Xianjun food, he was still as envious as he was back then

"If there is chaos today, your Xianjun food is still so good."

"Since the start of the war, the defense of the country has not sent a single soldier, and the defense army must not be worse than seven years ago."

Du Ruixun shook his head

"It's much better than it was back then, but it's not to the point where you eat meat every day. And it is incomprehensible that you have fought three battles, and half of your army is pressed on the coastal front, and you can still eat so abundantly after three years. ”

"Hehaha......" Bai Liyan laughed and did not answer.

According to the normal consumption of the national strength of the agricultural princes, the mobilization and consumption of the war that lasted for three years, the non-staple food reserves before the war should be consumed, and no matter how rich the Xian army is, more than half should be consumed.

As a traditional agrarian society, the supply cycle of non-staple food in response to a large-scale war is only one and a half years, and it is not possible to eat meat at a leisurely rate, and the food will plummet after a year and a half.

Even in industrialized countries, if they are in war readiness and war for a long time, social resources will be depleted, so Du Ruixun's judgment is not wrong.

However, since the beginning of the war, Xianguo has not made a large-scale mobilization of manpower and social resources for war readiness, and the soldiers replenished by the town army are all from the 200,000 people of the baggage battalion, and the daily consumption of the labor battalion is comparable to that of the town army, or even not bad.

At the same time, in the past three years, foreign soldiers have been recruited one after another, while cultivating and cultivating in the fields, and at the same time training and eradicating illiteracy, and the vacancies in the baggage battalions have been filled by foreign soldiers.

Finally, the domestic agriculture and animal husbandry are developed, the livestock storage pen is high, the cattle and sheep in the Qianyue Mountain pasture are endless, and the batch and centralized use of harvesters have made the agricultural output value soar, and the increase in grain can be used for concentrate feed to feed livestock, and the livestock have accelerated the fattening, so since the war began three years ago, the food stocks and livestock in Xianguo have not decreased, but also increased significantly.

As long as the transportation logistics and production keep up, the salty army can now ensure that no one in the front-line combat units will have two and a half catties of polished rice, or pasta with the same energy, half a tael of vegetable oil, four taels of fresh meat, or cured pork, bacon pork, salted pork, salted pork, sausages, beef, mutton, chicken, and salted cheese with the same energy and nutrition, as well as a ration of candy, salty and sweet biscuits, and a small amount of nuts.

On the other hand, the Wei army has not fought a single battle for three years, and the non-staple food has been stored in the warehouse for a long time, and the supply of non-staple food is less than one-fifth of the amount of the Xian army, and the rest cannot be talked about at all, basically staying at the level of having enough to eat.

Although it is not denied that the impact of food on morale is not absolute, logistics are very indicative of the problem of national strength.

After having dinner in the camp at noon, the two returned to Jiangquan to discuss the Xianjun army and march westward.

Due to the epidemic of plague on the border between Weiguo and Changsun, Bailiyan could only take the Weiguo Road north of the Zhiwei border to the west.

In addition to the 8,000 cars, there were 5,000 four-wheeled wagons with them, but the speed was far from keeping up with the speed of the convoy, so the Xian army could only send a small force of cavalry to escort it.

At present, the army is in chaos, and the thousands of four-wheeled wagons of the Xian army are mainly carrying non-ammunition materials such as food and medicine, passing through the territories of different patriotic nobles, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be looted in the name of bandits, and they need to be escorted by the guards along the way.

Of course, the benefits of hiring guards as bodyguards are definitely indispensable, and Du Ruixun is a pragmatist, and the prices in the country are soaring now, and gold, silver, and money are all worth one day.

Bailiyan then gave him 50,000 black-feathered tribute chickens and 4,000 pigs as a reward, and at the same time set up an official livestock market in Jiangquan to supply some livestock every month and sell them to Du Ruixun's department at the market price in Xianguo.

Agreeing with them on the details, Bailiyan arranged for Du Ruixun to stay in the city and wait for him to leave the office, Jiang Jie asked puzzled

"Master Hou, treating Du Ruixun so favorably and leading him to visit our army, wouldn't it be a secret."

Bai Liyan shook his hand and said meaningfully

"It's not so much about treating Du Ruixun as it is about treating the guards well. Du Ruixun is the same age as me, if there is no accident, he will not live longer than this Hou, and after a hundred years in the future, you should inherit the means of this commander and continue to treat Du Ruixun's subordinates, only in this way can I make the guard army use for me, and at the lowest cost, the territory of the defense of the country will be included under my Xianguo. ”

"This ......"

Jiang Jie still hasn't understood Bailiyan's true intentions, and he has followed Bailiyan for many years, and he rarely can really see through Bailiyan's long-term layout every time.

The fundamental purpose of Bailiyan's generous treatment of Du Ruixun was to let Du Ruixun's generals know the strength and national strength of the Xian army, and at the same time use military threats to deter the guards, and at the same time use economic means to corrupt them and soften their positions.

The people's understanding of the country stays at the level of respecting the king and defending the land and planting their own land, and they do not really depart from the national cultural mentality of the Central Plains, forming their own national state consciousness, and there is no strong cultural and ethnic identity, so they are still a member of the Central Plains culture.

Therefore, as long as they are influenced culturally, militarily intimidated, and economically softened, they can be easily annexed politically.

At the same time, in the face of external threats, the Defenders and all the vassal states have a great sense of identity between the Central Plains and the human race, and under this premise, the Guards will use their lives externally, but it is difficult for the Central Plains to face each other with swords and soldiers.

Therefore, fifteen or twenty years later, as soon as Du Ruixun died, even if the Eastern Front Guard changed its commander, it would not be able to resist the pace of reunification.

Three days later, the Xianjun army successively took the car south, through the Dekang South County Chi Road to the territory of Liang State, each truck is equipped with two drivers, half a day rotation, the truck is equipped with a rainproof tarpaulin, the soldiers sit on the temporary wooden planks or chat or rest, unconsciously turn into a thousand miles away.

Affected by the road surface of the country, the convoy can only travel at a speed of about 100 miles per hour, and some cars break down from time to time on the way in, and the emergency repair vehicles that follow behind will quickly revive them and put them into operation.

Four days later, on August 12, the Xian army arrived at Gongxiang County on the border of Liang, but the border guards did not let them go, and a phone call reached the county government, which in turn called the Son of Heaven in Boyuan.

Knowing that the Xian army had arrived in Gongxiang, the Son of Heaven was shocked when he heard the news

"The Xian army came so fast, Xiangguo, the Xian army didn't fly!"

"Your Majesty, according to the telephone report, the Xian army came by iron car, traveled 2,000 miles a day without getting tired, and it only took four days to rush from Jiangquan to Gongxiang."

Xiangguo Jia Zhou said quickly, the Son of Heaven still hasn't come back to his senses, he said

"With such a rapid dispatch speed, the Xian army will not be invincible in the world in the future."

"I'm afraid yes, it is overhauling the railway in the country, has already drilled the hole from the Lingling to the whole county of Ganfu, and is still building the railway throughout the country, at this rate in less than ten years, the Xianguo railway will be completed, and continue to build railways to other countries in the future, the Xian army will be everywhere, and hundreds of thousands of troops will be transported to all parts of the Central Plains within a month will be unimpeded."

"Then why can't Boyuanjun Machinery Workshop imitate it?"

The Son of Heaven asked, and Jia Zhou said helplessly

According to the intelligence obtained in recent years, there are 200,000 and 300,000 people who are proficient in the method of fine and high-grade craftsmanship in Xianguo, and there are only dozens of people who can be called famous craftsmen in our country, and few people can understand the new craftsmanship of Xianguo, so they cannot be imitated."

"Back then, Bo Yuanjun sent hundreds of craftsmen to Yongxing to learn art, why did he only learn the skin and not learn."

"Alas......" Jia Zhou sighed helplessly, and then said, "The foundation of the craftsman country, how can Bailiyan pass it on in person." Moreover, the craftsmen sent by our country are not worth mentioning at all compared to the craftsmen of Xianguo, even if Bailiyan is not vigilant, it is difficult to learn the essence. ”

Education is the foundation of industrial development and social progress, Bailiyan spent seven years to set up basic education in the county, spent three to four years in Yongxing City to concentrate core resources to popularize middle and higher mathematics, and spent another ten years to popularize secondary education in the county, engaged in higher education in Yongxing City, and at the same time promoted basic education in other counties and counties across the country.

In the past 30 years, a complete set of systems is not for anyone who wants to learn and move away, relying on a few dozens of craftsmen to learn all the essence, it is simply a fool's dream.

The Son of Heaven was very annoyed at this time, but he was helpless, so he asked Jia Zhou again

"Baili Yan is now to Gongxiang, Xiangguo thinks it is allowed to enter the country or not?"

"Your Majesty, why did you say this, now that the war is tight, the Xian army is coming to reinforce, if our country is in the rain, why should we refuse to sit outside the door and wait to be killed."

"But the widow is worried that once the Xian army comes, he will defeat the armpit monster in the future, and what should Bailiyan do if he doesn't leave the widow country in the name of protecting the country."

"Having said that, but now that the national crisis is at hand, there is no longer so much to take care of, Gu Taiwei has urged Sima several times to send reinforcements, but the more reinforcements are given, the greater the casualties of our army, and the Xian army must go out."

"Alas...... is really angry, and immediately ordered Gongxiang County to let the Xian army enter. ”

"No!"

Tai Lieutenant Gu Ruquan's troops were nailed to death in the capital Jinye, the Great Sima Xiang Shichong blocked in Tianyungang, and Xiao Gongyi was dragged in the Vortex Cattle Beach, and the total strength of the three armies reached more than 700,000 people, not counting the dead in the previous months.

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