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By the time he had appointed all the positions in the army, more than three hours had passed, and the ice city under the bright sun seemed to be depressed, and there were hardly any civilians in the streets and alleys except for soldiers and logistics personnel.

Jing Ling stood up and stretched, and looked over the roof of the shed to look at the clock tower that towered directly west of the square, and the hour and minute hands showed that the time was 10:25.

"Is this clock accurate in time?" Jing Ling asked Haji beside him.

"I remember that the time difference in the Ice City Clock Tower is about forty seconds per year on average." Haji said, "The most accurate clock in the world is on the giant island, I heard that the time is only three seconds away, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of countless scholars over the past hundred years, and then the Nolan royal family has offered hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and thousands of scholars and engineers have cooperated for two years to build." ”

Jing Ling's body trembled when he heard this, and his face suddenly showed a look of shock.

It's only three seconds away!!

As if he had woken up to something, he hurriedly said to Haji, "Has anyone invented the steam engine now!?" ”

"Steam engine?" "What is that, sounds like a workshop machine like a loom and a printing press?" ”

Kyungling ignored Haji and pondered alone......

In his mind, the earth is like a large clock, astronomers judge time by looking at the stars, and the clock that records time is an extremely sophisticated machine.

A clock with a time difference of three seconds took hundreds of years of painstaking efforts of countless scholars, which is enough to show what a sophisticated machine a clock is. However, it is precisely because of the research of countless scholars over the past hundred years that we can prepare enough impetus for the industrial revolution.

As we all know, the advent of the steam engine detonated the first industrial revolution, but the premise of inventing the steam engine required a large number of experience and methods to manufacture precision parts.

Obviously, in the past hundred years of studying precision clocks, all walks of life have been on the road of progress, and now that the three-second time difference has been made, it also means that this era has all the conditions to make a steam engine, and now the difference is to spread the concept of the steam engine.

The thought that the Industrial Revolution would be ignited gave him a thrill that a good international trading system would be supported by the steam engine to expand productivity and speed up transportation.

All countries and regions in the world can also benefit from international trade, and in order for trade to prosper, it is necessary to have a stable situation, wars will not occur as frequently as they are now, and mankind will usher in an unprecedented period of peace!

"Haji, we must live and show everyone how we can change the world! Jing Ling's eyes lit up, like a prophet who saw a bright future for humanity.

"Of course, we must live!" Haji swore an honest word.

Jing Ling swallowed a mouthful of saliva, trying to calm her emotions. But the idea of detonating the industrial revolution has always lingered in his mind, which made him find the future development direction of Zhonghua State, that is, to take the road of industry!

The women and children concentrated in the eastern part of the city will be a force to be reckoned with, and it seems that I will have to make a trip to the eastern part of the city. As soon as Jing Ling had the idea of going to the east of the city to appease the women and children, the guard tower in the east of the city suddenly rang a melodious alarm bell!

"Division commander, the enemy is coming!" Haji said with a cold expression.

"With so many siege equipment transported, it's time to come." Jing Ling sighed lightly, before the Red Army continued to send scouts to pay close attention to all the movements of the Nolan Army in Karl City, and at the cost of more than a dozen lives, the Red Army also found out a trace of the enemy's situation.

According to the scouts who returned alive, the general of the enemy army was none other than the generalissimo of the Light Army, Bais, and the lieutenant was Badiro, the lord of Karl City. The total number of light troops plus the defenders of Karl City reached 60,000, and more than 100 artillery pieces were carried, including 12 super giant cannons 'Titan Artillery', as well as countless siege equipment such as trebuchets, battering rams, siege towers, ladders, etc.

It can also be seen that this Nolan army is determined to recover the ice city, otherwise once the Rock Gravel City is broken by the Black Land Eastern Army, the Nolan Peninsula will lose two forward fortresses, which will directly affect the plan of the Nolan army to conquer the Black Land in the future.

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When Jing Ling led people to the east city wall, he saw an extremely shocking picture!

The mighty Nolan army continued to approach the ice city, and the flags covered the fields and the dust covered the sky as far as the eye could see...... The farmland houses along the way seemed so small and vulnerable in front of the mighty army.

The earth trembled with each further march of the black oppressive army like a dark cloud.

The sound of drums and shouts continued to reach the ears of everyone on the city wall, and at this moment, it was as if everyone's hearts were palpitating for this huge legion.

In front of Nolan's army was a cavalry force of about 5,000 people, led by middle-aged men riding a snowhoofed black-maned horse, wearing silver goose feather chain mail, a crown of tiger head and flames, and a blue robe with a sun pattern on his shoulders. The chow chow's brown-red curls were draped over his shoulders, and the same brownish-red beard covered his lips. The three-dimensional facial features exuded the aura of a king, and those sharp eyes looked at the majestic ice city in front of him like eagle eyes.

"Lord Bais, what is the origin of the army that captured the ice city?" The person who spoke was extremely obese, and the shiny armor was held up by him so that none of them were perfectly fitted together, and he didn't know what he lacked virtue in his previous life, which led to an extremely ugly appearance in this life.

He had sinister triangular eyes and fat lips, a garlic-shaped nose that looked funny, and a yellow-maned horse under his crotch, though a good horse, could only complain in the face of his weight.

"Listening to the report of the secret agent, it seems to be a slave uprising team calling itself the Red Army, and the leader of the army is called the division commander." A look of solemnity flashed in Bais's eyes, "Badillo, look at the soldiers defending the city, although their weapons are rudimentary, but the soldiers are arranged in an orderly manner, and the cannons on the city walls have been loaded with cannonballs, as long as we cross the firing range, I think they will not hesitate to invite us to eat cannonballs." ”

"These damned slaves, if they hadn't been busy exterminating the Ringing Horse Army in the city the night before, they wouldn't have had a chance to escape, and there wouldn't be this battle at this moment." Badillo spat and said fiercely with a hideous face. "What kind of division commander, once I catch him, I must cramp and skin him, stuff his human skin with straw, and set an example for him in the bazaar!"

Bais glanced at Badillo and said, "Sometimes you don't need to shed blood to fight. I saw him raise his right hand, and the standard-bearers on the side waved the flags one after another, and then the trumpeter blew the garrison order, and in less than two minutes, the 60,000 Nolan troops stopped and stood a kilometer away from the ice city.

Badillo asked, "What do you mean by this, Lord Bais?" ”

A hint of disdain rose in Bais's heart, thinking that this Badelo was particularly good at scheming, but when it came to leading the army to fight, the contents of his head would become like a pig's head. "We have found out that there are only more than 10,000 miscellaneous troops in the ice city, plus less than 50,000 slaves, and it is simply whimsical for such a number to rule the 400,000 white people in the city, not to mention that under the current conditions of the large army, the so-called red army in the city will soon face the situation of being attacked by us inside and outside. If you were a division commander, would you still desperately defend the city after knowing the fact that the city would eventually be broken? ”

"Of course, if you don't resist desperately, will you sit back and let the enemy come and cut off your head?" Badilo looked ridiculous, as if Byss had asked a funny question.

It seems that this pig is not very stupid, although Bais looks down on Badillo's ability to rule, he will not underestimate Badillo's scheming methods. However, he has never regarded Badero as a confidant, but he also doesn't want to stiffen his relationship with Badero, after all, one more chess piece is one more help.

"If I had told the Red Army that if they had surrendered, I would not only not hold them accountable, but I would have recruited them into the army and made them Nolan's mercenaries," Byss said. As for the division commander, he will receive a hereditary fief granted by me, so do you still think that they will refuse my recruitment when they are alone and facing the situation of being surrounded and suppressed? ”

Badillo squinted in the northwest direction and said, "They are not alone. ”

Bais also looked in the northwest direction, and anger suddenly flashed in his eyes. "At the beginning, the deployment of 5,000 soldiers and horses in Ice City was to give the Black Land Eastern Army a reason to fight, so that we could flank the Black Land Eastern Army trapped in Ice City with the army of Rock Gravel City. I just didn't expect ......"

Bais didn't say any more, but Badilo knew who he really resented. If it weren't for the fact that the Nolan royal family wanted to use the Ringing Horse Army to kill Bais, the pillar of the light army, the slaves of Karl City would not have escaped and gathered into a rebel army to take the ice city.

If Ice City had not been captured by the rebel army, the Black Land Eastern Army on the west bank of the Li River would not have crossed the river to attack Rock Gravel City.

Bais suddenly clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and said, "If Bingcheng hadn't dispatched half of the defenders to encircle and suppress the Xiangma Army, maybe that ragtag rebel army wouldn't have been able to take Bingcheng at all." It's all damn Falo, he actually betrayed me, not only did he not encircle and suppress the Xiangma army with the defenders of the ice city as planned, but also led the cavalry team towards the ice city, I expected that the loss of the ice city must be inseparable from him! ”

Badillo chimed in: "That's right, I guess he's in the city at the moment, maybe drinking wine and talking to the so-called division commander." ”

Within a minute of the two talking about Falow, the spies came to report that two knights from the mountains and forests had asked to see Lord Bais, one of whom claimed to be Falow, the commander of the cavalry of the Light Army.

"Okay, this guy sent it to the door himself!" Badero slapped his thigh and said proudly.

Bais frowned and pondered, if Falow was a rebel, then why wasn't he in the city at this moment? Could it be that he's here to assassinate me!?