Daimyo.

The Daimyo of this era is not the ancient city of Daimyo that has been left to modern times, it was built in the Ming Dynasty, and the city of Song Beijing, which was buried under the four-meter-deep silt brought by the flood during the Jianwen Emperor's period, is also not comparable to the modern small city.

Its circumference is forty-eight miles.

At the same time, the circumference of Bianliang City in Tokyo was only 52 miles.

Of course, at this moment, it is no longer as magnificent as it used to be, in the last years of the Jin Kingdom, it has been completely decayed, if it were not for the Daimyo Wang's family, even the city wall would probably be demolished like other cities, and it has not been restored for more than a hundred years under the rule of the Mongols, after all, the population of the entire Daimyo Road is even only a quarter of that of the Northern Song Dynasty, and there is no need for such a huge city.

As for now, it has been completely destroyed by the fire.

The rammed-earth walls, which had fallen into disrepair, had been reduced to the shape of dog's teeth, which had been destroyed by Han artillery during repeated attacks, and on these gaps there were rotting corpses, most of them Mongol and Semu soldiers, but there were also a small number of Han soldiers wearing gray cloth uniforms. All kinds of scavenging birds circled in the sky, swooping down from time to time to peck at the carrion on the corpses, and from time to time flowering bullets with small tails flew under them, and then after the sound of explosions, a column of smoke rose again in the already smoke-filled city, and the sound of cold guns was also endless.

It was a skirmish who used a Baker rifle to snipe the small number of defenders on the city walls.

"You can't open such a cold-weaponed city?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

"Immortal Master, the disciple is incompetent!"

Zhang Dingbian said ashamedly.

In fact, it was not that he was incompetent, he took less than two years to bring out a regular army equivalent to an army during the Napoleonic Wars, and he traveled thousands of miles, invincible along the way, and even fought the Mongol cavalry in the case of numerical superiority did not dare to fight him head-on, such a growth rate is already amazing.

But his opponent did withstand his attack on the city.

And it's with cold weapons.

The 200,000 Mongol and Semu soldiers in the city, with bows and arrows and swords and spears, as well as a small number of ancient cannons of the bowl type and muskets similar to the three-eyed guns, held on to the huge city, although the Han army was able to blast the walls with cannons each time, and then the infantry rushed straight in. But each time they were beaten back by the defenders with more than five times the casualties, and they were never able to break through the inner city that was the core of their defense, and it has to be said that these Mongols and Semu were enough to make the Eight Banners of the Yi Crow period ashamed, the latter at least had mountain splitting cannons and arquebuses, but their main weapons were the oldest bows and arrows.

Of course, it's not the five-meter hard bow of the Eight Banners athletes.

The Mongol soldiers of this era were really capable of firing hard bows.

Wang Baobao actually used the entire outer city outside the inner city and within the outer city wall as a battlefield, using various trenches and various buildings dug long ago as a barrier to the inner city, and using the complex environment to weaken the power of the Han army's firearms as much as possible. A flintlock pistol within a dozen meters is no better than a bow and arrow, and the first shot that can't kill the archer is the flintlock pistol, the latter's rate of fire is far from being comparable to the flintlock pistol, and the bayonet on the rifle is not stronger than the spear. The cannons could not move an inch in the ravine-filled city, and they even had to be careful of being attacked by the enemy, and all kinds of buildings and ruins would hide the whereabouts of the dead soldiers very well, and without a sufficient number of cannons, even if the Han army could approach the inner city wall through the outer city that crisscrossed the ravines and ruins, it would not be able to break through this line of defense.

They are flintlock pistols and not submachine guns.

The hot-weapon line infantry does crush the cold-armed classical infantry, but as long as the environment is suitable and the classical cold-weapon infantry is not afraid of casualties, it can also block the former.

The gap between the two sides is not yet so big that it cannot be solved.

And Wang Baobao hoarded enough food and various supplies to support two years in the inner city, because the distance was too far, even the flowering bullets could not hit there, after all, the city was too big, the forty-eight miles of Fangcheng, each side was twelve miles, and the twenty catties of flowering bullets could not hit four miles away. Their determination is to defend to the death, especially those Semu soldiers, they have no way to retreat, the Mongol soldiers can at least retreat to the outside of the Saiwai nomadic herds, but the Semu soldiers have long taken root in Hebei. The number of Semu people in this land is even more than that of the Mongols, and the whole of Hebei, especially the area from Zhending to Dadu, is full of Semu people, and whether the Han army or the Wu Yue army may be able to let go of the Mongols, but the Semu people are all killed, which is also the most basic principle of all armies in the Song army system.

So what else can the people of color do?

Try your best to win to keep Hebei, and if you can't win, you will die anyway.

"Where did they get their food?"

Yang Feng asked suspiciously.

This question is very puzzling, after all, Hebei was short of food before, and the most important batch of life-saving food in history was originally sent by Zhang Shicheng, but this time it was stopped before it could be sent.

"Human flesh."

Zhang Dingbian said.

In fact, it is very simple, half of the military rations of the defenders are human flesh, and the people in the city who did not have time to escape were eaten by them, but the number of these people is not much, this city is only large, but the population is not much, whether it is the turn of the two Song Dynasty or the Jinmeng War, including the Northern Expedition of the Red Turban Army before, this is the main battlefield, the population is no longer the terrifying number of more than one million people in a Wei state that can fight against the imperial court during the Tang Dynasty, in fact, even before the war, the entire Daming Road, including the surrounding nine states and counties, added up to only a hundred thousand.

In fact, the vast majority of the military rations of the Yuan army were the old men, the weak, the women and children who followed them into the daimyo.

Anyway, it's the final battle.

If this battle is going to be lost, then Hebei will basically be out of play, and the people of Hebei will definitely be killed, in this case, they might as well kill themselves! Could it be that they still feel guilty about this? I have to say that they are ruthless to their enemies, and they are just as ruthless to their own people.

"In that case, when the daimyo is opened, none of the defenders inside will be left."

Yang Feng said.

"Disciple, immortal master, please rest assured, the disciple is just short of military supplies, in addition to eating people, there is almost no food that can be supplied to the army in this area, and the ammunition is all transported from Ezhou for thousands of miles, and the king of Han has just built the road to Luoyang. In order to ensure the production of the rear, too many people could not be transferred to the north, and they had to resist the attack of the Mongol cavalry along the way, and the maximum number of people who could guarantee the attack on the front line was only 20,000 people, and it was not a continuous attack, so it was necessary to stop and accumulate ammunition. The king of Han had already begun to settle fields in the area around Luoyang, and after the autumn harvest there was no need to transport grain from Ezhou, and he also began to manufacture ammunition and guns in Luoyang, which could guarantee an attack of more than 50,000 men, and no matter how stubborn the enemy was to resist at that time, it was useless. ”

Zhang Dingbian said.

The crux of their problem is actually to get to the end of the attack.

From Xiangyang, they attacked and advanced nearly 1,500 miles, and their logistics line was more than 2,000 miles long, although all along the way were the hinterland of the Central Plains in the traditional concept, but in fact it was close to no man's land, whether it was Hubei, Henan, Hebei was all destroyed by the war, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land on the population of up to 1 million, and they all hid in the mountains and did not dare to come out, such a place could not provide military supplies, everything had to be transported from Ezhou, and even had to relieve those hungry people who could not eat, as he said, If you don't eat people, you won't even be able to supply food.

How to attack in this situation.

If you want to lay down the daimyo, it is very simple to transfer the follow-up 200,000 troops, even if it is a cold weapon, it can be bulldozed in one battle, but in fact, the 200,000 army will be hungry if you can't go to the daimyo.

Emperor Yang of Sui's conquest of Goryeo was closer to them by land! Later, Xu Da's Northern Expedition was indeed successful in one fell swoop, but Xu Da's army set off from Dongchang and went north along the canal, and Zhu Yuanzhang gathered the strength of the entire Jiangnan to provide him with protection in the back, how could Chen Youliang have such extravagant conditions? Zhang Shicheng, who controls the canal, wishes that his army would be wiped out! Zhang Dingbian's current predicament is largely caused by Lu Zhen, who is besieging Dongchang, from time to time to send people to pretend to be Mongolian soldiers to sneak attack, of course, this kind of thing can't be told to the immortal master, after all, he has also sent people to pretend to be Mongolian soldiers to attack Lu Zhen, this kind of thing is tacit understanding with each other, Zhang Shicheng definitely didn't sue him for this.

Similarly, Yang Feng will not ask.

Now these two are each showing their abilities, and stumbling each other is also one of the means, anyway, both sides are to drag each other as the main purpose, as long as Zhang Shicheng's arsenal production capacity is reached, the Wuyue Northern Expeditionary Army can be the first to break through the Yuan army's defense line, the rear of the Hanbei Expeditionary Army is fully supplied, Zhang Dingbian can be the first to open the defense line, and in the end, whoever captures Linqing will be considered a success, and now it is a fight for comprehensive strength.

That's good, this ordeal will lead to an all-round improvement, and they will all learn how to effectively manage a country.

Zhang Shicheng will know the importance of industry.

Chen Youliang will know that war is not just about having elite soldiers and fierce generals.

And Zhu Yuanzhang will also know that expansion at sea is sometimes more important than expansion on land, and at this time Zhu Baba even personally supervised the construction of warships, and his first fleet had already set off, with the goal of Dengzhou in order to establish a relay station for the Northern Expeditionary Army.

"Immortal Master, the disciple has something to ask Immortal Master."

Zhang Dingbian said cautiously.

"Say it!"

Yang Feng said.

"If King Han fails, and we people are unwilling to work for others, I wonder if the immortal master can guide the maze?"

Zhang Dingbian said.

He was actually afraid that Chen Youliang would fail, and the secession party was unsuccessful, what should Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang do when they settle accounts with them? During this time, he attacked Lu Zhen a lot of times, and even fought with Chang Yuchun before, but it was not disclosed to the public, it was because Chang Yuchun was defeated by him, so Zhu Yuanzhang was sure that he could not open the land passage so he gave up going north.

This can be regarded as a hatred.

Even if you don't have a grudge, you really have to go back to the mountains and forests and become a farmer from now on?

"This matter is not difficult, you are not willing to serve the people under the rule of others, so it is better to go to other places, where can you not play rich and glorious with your ability? The land of China must not have a secession party, the king of Han when the emperor can not tolerate other princes to continue to dominate one side, and the other princes when they are emperors can not tolerate the king of Han to dominate one side, but you can go to build another vassal state outside of China, as long as you are a vassal to the emperor, there is not only the land of China on this planet. ”

Yang Feng said.

He welcomes such people.

If Chen Youliang fails, then he must find a place to settle, and he will not be able to be a minister for Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhang Shicheng, and it is estimated that he is not willing to be a bare-rod vassal king who receives a fortune, and those cronies under him are probably not willing to work for Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhang Shicheng.

Then let's go out and colonize.

The Mandate of Heaven is responsible for providing them with ships and logistics, which is regarded as a gift to them out of the country, and then they go overseas to seek their own development, and continue to maintain a vassal relationship with the Mandate of Heaven, and the two sides maintain trade exchanges and personnel flows, and neither side is allowed to prohibit the people under their rule from going to each other, and the native people who don't like the emperor can go to these vassal kings, and the people of these vassal kings can think of their own land casually, and theoretically they are still an empire, similar to the British mainland and the British Commonwealth.

That's it.

For example, if Chen Youliang and these people are thrown directly to Australia, Zhang Shicheng or Zhu Yuanzhang are thrown to the American continent, even if they are willing to go west, they can be pushed to the Middle East, and in Yang Feng's plan, the territory of the Xia Empire should be centered on China, starting from the Arctic Ocean in the north, reaching the Nanyang Islands in the south, reaching the Caspian Sea in the west, and then controlling Hawaii in the east.

And the outward should be given to the vassal state.

These losers have extremely strong force, even if they don't follow them all, as long as there are tens of thousands or even thousands of veterans who are willing to follow them, in the case of the rear guarantee, it is also a force to destroy the country, such as Zhang Dingbian's army, if there is sufficient logistics, it is estimated that he can conquer the whole of Europe, at this time, no one in the Middle East, West Asia and Europe can stop them with sufficient logistics. And the local emperor can also profit, first of all, this is still a vassal to him, and secondly, these people will gain wealth through conquest and plunder and then trade with the locals, after all, even if they build their own industrial system, it will take time, and Yang Feng can encourage them to play with the education of all countries, and eventually form the Chinese nation to rule the world.

After all, as long as there is money to be made, and the language is the same, the belief is the same, and the culture is the same, so what psychological burden did the immigrants have in the past?

And so the era of colonization really began.

Then these vassal states control all the overseas resource sources, such as the control of oil fields in the Middle East, the minerals of Australia, and the resources of North America, which will become the guarantee of the development of local industries, and they can in turn become middlemen for the dumping of local industrial products, because they are conquerors and conquerors of those natives, so they must rely on the support of the native empire, so that whether it is in interests or feelings, they cannot really break away from the imperial system. Such a colonial system with the native as the core was established.