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In the warm carriage, the attendant said to Yang Feng respectfully.

Yang Feng nodded slightly.

At this time, he was looking out the window, in the vast field outside the window, from time to time you can see patches of green farms, and small clusters of houses between the farms, or occasionally you can see the sun and moon on the roofs of the shrines, in these farms close to the harvest season, a new generation of Ming farmers, riding horses with whips in their hands, their revolvers hanging next to the saddle, strolling leisurely like cowboys in the American West, and even the hats on their heads look like American cowboy hats.

And around them were groups of black slaves or Japanese slaves who toiled with their heads down.

This scene is very similar to those Southern manors in Civil War-era movies.

"Stop!"

His Majesty the Emperor said suddenly.

The attendant hurriedly picked up the phone, and then heard the sound of brakes outside, and the train, which was originally speeding at a speed of nearly 100 miles per hour, began to slow down, and at the same time, the train accompanying it was also quickly notified and also began to slow down.

In the farmland closest to the railway, the peasants and slaves who were working were the first to notice this anomaly, and then when they saw the golden dragon depicted on the train, they all knelt down on the spot without hesitation, and everyone bowed their heads to the ground reverently, and then more peasants and slaves saw this scene, and all the farms were boiling, and everyone put down their work desperately, rushed to a place where they could see the special train, and knelt down and bowed their heads to the ground in the same attitude.

Then the door opened.

His Majesty the Divine Emperor, who was wearing twelve crowns and twelve chapters, slowly walked down the red steps with a loving smile on his face.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Then the sound of bowing resounded through the field.

In this bowing sound, Emperor Yang slowly walked on the green field, until he walked to the nearest farm, at this time a large number of Jinyi guards had quickly arranged a cordon, and the farmer with the whole family lying on the ground was so excited that he didn't dare to raise his head and lie there waiting, and then he saw a majestic figure appear in front.

"Flat!"

A kind voice rang out.

The farmer stood up with his head bowed in a trembling manner, and then his family also stood up, and the slaves, of course, had to continue lying on their stomachs.

"What's your name?"

"Back to the emperor, grass people, grass people Lin Song."

"Where are you from?"

"The grass people are originally from Shandong."

"How many years have you been in the Western Regions?"

"Five years."

"How much land is there at home? What has been the harvest like over the years? ”

"Thanks to the emperor's blessing, the grass people have cultivated more than 1,000 acres of land here, and they have had a bumper harvest every year, drinking wine and eating meat every day, and the grass people have also raised ten horses, two hundred cows, one thousand sheep and fifty field slaves."

"You're having a good day!"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"It's all thanks to the emperor's blessing, if it weren't for the emperor who saved the grass people, the grass people were still eating bran under the oppression of slavery at this time, the grass people's mother was starved to death at that time, and now when I think about it, I can't go to Chongzhen's tomb to spit on Kang Mazi, the grass people just sent a letter to the soldier Da Lang asking him to fight bravely on the battlefield to repay the emperor's kindness, if he doesn't kill a hundred and ten xie sect demons for the emperor, the grass people will not allow him to enter this house again."

"Okay, it's really a loyal person, come and bring a pen and paper!"

Emperor Yang said with satisfaction, and then the attendant hurriedly handed over the pen and paper, he picked up the pen and brushed and wrote four big characters "Loyalty and Righteousness", and then the seal officer next to him took out the jade seal and stamped it on it.

"Give the righteous people of Dragon City Lin Song!"

Emperor Yang said.

The farmer was so excited that he immediately fell on the ground and wept.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was close to the people, immediately returned to the train, and before getting on the train, Lin Song carried a barrel of wine made at home, and ran to the train with tears in his eyes to give the emperor a taste, so Emperor Yang was not polite to him, and after tasting it, he also said a good wine by the way, so a legendary brand was born, so that hundreds of years later, the Lin family still relied on his words to support a huge enterprise.

The dragon train then moved on.

Only half an hour later, a huge golden icon appeared on the horizon in the distance, this statue is still based on the most classic image of Emperor Yang, that is, wearing an old-style military uniform, wearing a cloak and a helmet on the back, and raising the image of raising the hand behind the back of one hand and raising the hand as the standard, all cast in copper and pasted with gold leaf, the holy elephant is as high as 20 zhang, standing in the holy shrine of Dragon City, and the holy shrine is built on a hill in the city, so that this holy icon can be seen from a distance of dozens of miles.

And under this holy icon, the large-scale Xijing Dragon City gradually emerged.

This circular city with a circumference of sixty miles was a huge military fortress, and the circular walls were made of rammed earth, and the outer shell was all made of reinforced concrete one foot thick, and there were a total of one hundred and eight prismatic pillboxes, making the entire city wall look like a radiating sun. In the middle of the city is the same Ziji City as the Imperial Palace in the north and south of Beijing, the difference is that this Ziji City is surrounded by artificial lakes and green spaces, outside the artificial lake and green space is the imperial city wall, the south of the imperial city is the official office area, and the east and west sides are commercial areas, other places are residential areas, the garrison is divided into four military camps, distributed on both sides of the four main gates of this castle, behind the imperial city is a hill, the holy shrine and the holy icon are on this hill, but the gate of the holy shrine is to the north.

This huge castle, which took 12 years to build, can accommodate a million people, although there are not that many now, and the total population at this time was 300,000, and at this time almost all of these 300,000 people were gathered at the train station.

The train station is in the east of the city.

Outside the Qinglong Gate in the east of the city.

It's not just a railway station, it's also a wharf, and an artificially dug river runs out of the moat and leads north to the reservoir formed by damming the Ili River, but because of the topography, the river is difficult to use as a canal, just a few small pleasure boats, and of course that's enough, Dragon City doesn't need any canals. It is enough for the city to have a railway, in fact, in the future, it will play the role of the railway hub of the Western Regions, and there are many railways in the plan that radiate outward from the center of the city. The main significance of the reservoir is actually to generate electricity, where the latest alternators have been installed, and the latest AC power supply system has also been built, which can provide electricity for lighting in the dragon city, and a large number of electric lights are now installed on the city walls, and even the street lights on the main streets of the city are electric lights, and the barbed wire fence outside the city walls can be electrified.

This is also the first city in Daming to realize an AC power grid, even Nanjing can't do this, Nanjing's electricity is still stuck in the DC era, and mainly from some small diesel generators and coal-fired generators.

Soon in the eyes of the public, the dragon train drove into the Longcheng Railway Station, and then, just like in those farms, everyone knelt down and bowed their heads to the ground, with the most pious attitude to welcome the arrival of their god emperor, of course, their god emperor will not live up to their piety, and then the Yang Emperor wearing a crown stepped out of the carriage on the red carpet, and the sound of bowing followed by the sound of the crowd behind the flowers, drums and music, and Emperor Yang was also like a god, in the worship of 300,000 people stepped into his Xijing.

And by this time the offensive of the Ming army had already begun.

"One, two, pull!"

At the sound of the officer's command, the soldiers whipped their pack horses incessantly, and under their whips, the sturdy pack horses struggled forward, dragging a heavy four-inch cannon slowly, and the same scene lay out on the hillside, and eighteen groups of such pack horses dragged eighteen heavy cannons slowly forward in the same manner, and soon they were on the hillside, and the open grassland stretched forward under their feet, and on this green grassland a muslin-like fortress lay quietly in the sun.

Tashkent.

"Stop!"

The officer shouted.

All the pack horses stopped, and then the soldiers beside them untied their ropes and dragged the exhausted animals aside to rest, while at the same time, the artillerymen quickly finished erectioning one cannon after another, and then the wagons loaded with shells stepped forward, and the wooden boxes were lifted down one by one, and the heavy shells in the wooden boxes were quickly lifted out and fused, and then carried behind the cannons and loaded into the chambers, and then loaded into the cartridges according to the distance of the target and closed the gun locks.

"Fire!"

The final aim was completed, and with the officer's command, the gun commander behind the cannon quickly pulled the gun rope.

The earth-shattering sound of artillery rang out, and in the ferocious backseat of the cannon body, accompanied by blazing flames, one after another dozens of pounds of cannonballs flew out, flying over the steppe for more than ten miles like meteors, and then turned into eye-catching fire balls on the city of Tashkent. At the same time, behind the cannons, the artillerymen opened the locks as fast as they could to start the next round of reloading, and the huge four-inch shells continued to crash into the city of Tashkent at a speed of two rounds per minute, blowing the newly built castle into ruins.

"I just love watching this."

Zhang He, commander of the First Army of the Ming Army, said proudly.

At this time, the Ming army could no longer put heavy rockets outside the door of people's homes to bombard the door as before, and the 5,000 Russian troops and 10,000 Bukhara troops in Tashkent also had a large number of rifled guns and rifled guns, and the range of the former far exceeded the heavy rockets of the Ming army. Fortunately, now the Ming army doesn't play this anymore, who would risk using heavy rockets with a four-inch field gun with a range of more than ten miles, although the four-inch field gun is not as powerful as a heavy rocket, but this is nothing more than a little more bombardment! Train after train of shells were being transported to the Broken Leaf Railway Station, and then transported along the national highway in horse-drawn carriages.

"My lord, the enemy cavalry is attacking the convoy coming from Talas."

The officer next to him who was facing the radio said suddenly.

"It's not easy to attack us!"

Zhang He said with a sneer.

It's not easy.

At this time, the Russian army colonel Utkin was looking ahead with an almost desperate gaze, and in front of him thousands of Bukhara cavalry were making the same desperate charge, and their target was just a logistics transport team and a Ming military camp to protect this transport team, and the carriages of those regiments together formed a circular carriage city, and the Ming soldiers in the car city easily and continuously fired bullets outward, and four of the carriages had four machine guns spraying flames frantically, and the poor Bukhara cavalry kept falling in their stormy bullets.

These valiant nomadic cavalrymen could not even kill a single Ming soldier.

They shouted frantically, urging their horses with all their might, brandishing their scimitars in their hands to form a cold flash in the sky, once their ancestors also swept across the continent like this, from the far east to the Danube, when they were invincible, they were the nightmare of the whole world, and now they are still as brave and fearless as their ancestors, but unfortunately they can only be killed like dogs, and now the Han people from the east have become their nightmares.

The Bukhara cavalry did not understand this, they still believed that their bravery could be paid for victory, and they continued to charge like moths to the flames.

Then they fell one by one in front of the flame-spitting killing machine.

"Retreat!"

Colonel Utkin said melancholy.

He led a thousand Russian troops to turn around and decided not to let the Bukharans retreat alone, such a battle was meaningless, even if the 1,000 Russian troops also rushed forward, it would only add a thousand dead corpses.

"Ming cavalry!"

However, at this moment, a series of screams sounded, and on the horizon in the distance, countless cavalry appeared with a sky full of sand.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!"

Colonel Utkin shouted.

Around him, a thousand Russian cavalry quickly lined up and raised their spears, and soon almost the same number of Ming troops appeared in their field of vision, Colonel Utkin did not hesitate to give the order to charge, and a thousand Russian troops with spears more than five meters long, just like the Ming cavalry in the past, lined up in a dense formation and launched a charge.

However, their opponents suddenly became two, like encountering a torrent of rocks around their sides, at the same time all the Ming cavalry all picked up their rifles and pulled the trigger one after another in the gallop, the dense gunfire continued to sound, and the charging Russian troops continued to fall off their horses, of course, this is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that Colonel Utkin suddenly found that the grassland behind the Ming army suddenly spewed out four fire snakes.

"Spread out, spread out!"

He screamed with horror and despair.

But it's a pity that it's too late at this time, and the Russian army, which is lined up in a dense formation, just like the Ming army or the Polish hussars in the past, suddenly plunged headlong into a storm of bullets, and on a slightly raised mound just a mile away from them, four carriages were quietly parked, and on the carriage, the four heavy machine guns of the Ming cavalry battalion happily sprayed flames, and in the shaking of the canvas cartridge belt, they kept spraying dense bullets, and the target-like Russian army was instantly beaten all over the field.

The unlucky Russian army was still lining up on the wall at this time, and in front of the machine guns, it was like waiting in line to be shot, and they kept falling one by one in the wild rush, and the Ming cavalry who were outflanking the two wings at the same time continued to fire, like a huge pocket to wrap these Russian troops in it, and end their lives with whistling bullets.