Gulf of the World.

In the Hereafter, it would have been called the Bay of Bengal.

The Gate of the Plane stands on a sandbar here. Because this is the intersection of the two worlds, it is called the World Bay by Lu Bu and others who guard here.

Because of the importance of the plane gate, this place will become the forefront of the world and will be the node of communication between the two worlds, so Li Zheng has long planned to build a giant city here.

If it weren't for the fact that this was not considered an imperial territory by default by the system when the country was founded, I'm afraid this giant city would have been built a long time ago.

In the fourth year of the early Yuan Dynasty, summer.

After more than two years of war, 80,000 soldiers on the southwest front of Liangzhou finally bulldozed the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, pushed the front line of the war to the World Bay, and brought it under the rule of the empire.

The fierce beasts all over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau were either directly killed, captured, or forced into the southern sea, or hid in the depths of the Kunlun Mountains and Hengduan Mountains, and did not dare to come out. This area has stabilized down.

Following the pace of the army, the transportation department has also sorted out the road traffic in this area.

In particular, on the towering mountain range of the backbone of the world, in the past two years, tens of thousands of mountain-breaking beasts have been driven by the transportation department to open mountains and rocks, and several highways to the south coast have been built.

At this point, there is no more trench between the Gulf of the World and the Empire.

As for the unusual geographical and climatic factors of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is no threat to the constitution of the people of the empire today. What altitude sickness, what kind of cold climate, etc., is not a problem.

On the contrary, because of the abundant natural resources in this area, it attracts many developers.

Li Zheng established the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a state, Yunzhou, divided counties and counties, and appointed officials. However, he did not take the initiative to relocate the people, but completely used Yunzhou as a mountain pasture and farm, and contracted it out.

Of course, if you want to take the initiative to migrate over, the official will not stop you.

After Yunzhou was incorporated into the empire, it was connected to the western part of Yizhou. In addition to the Hengduan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains between these two states, there are still some fierce beasts lurking, and some troops need to be stationed, and most of the troops of Bai Yu and Li Luo are deployed to the south of Yunzhou, on the battlefield on the border with the subcontinent.

Li Zheng's next plan is to take the subcontinent.

However, before that, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou, which are south of the river, naturally can't be left there.

From the beginning of the third year of the Yuan Dynasty to the present, all the fierce beasts in the entire area north of the Great River have been expelled. Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jingbei, and several counties in northern Yangzhou were completely incorporated into the empire.

However, the speed of the army was too fast, and it became a problem.

The empire did not have that much population to develop these areas.

So far, most of this large area in Henan and Jiangbei is still deserted, and there is not enough manpower to develop it.

Now, the more than 100,000 troops of the Eastern Army and the Southern Army are based on the two fronts of Dajiang and the southeast of Yinan, but they can only stand still.

There is no way, even if the imperial army can recapture Jiangnan from the fierce beasts now, it can only be left to the ground.

In the past two years, the evolution of the fierce beast has been surprisingly fast.

In the past year, in the process of pushing the army, the evolutionary beasts encountered have become more and more diverse, and their abilities have become more and more powerful.

Fortunately, the Imperial War Cavalry has developed rapidly, and more and more strong soldiers have inspired the spirit of war. Overall, the comparison of combat power with the fierce beasts is becoming more and more distanced.

After all, although there are many groups of fierce beasts, they are not as organized as the imperial army. It's just a rabble.

Today, the total number of the three armies of the empire exceeds 700,000.

Among them, the war cavalry force has reached a huge scale of 150,000!

The larger the base, the faster the development. Two years ago, the total number of war horses in the empire was only seventy or eighty thousand. Two years later, it doubled!

According to the estimation of the Imperial Academy, at most by the first ten years of the Yuan Dynasty, there will be no more ordinary troops in the imperial army, and all the troops will be war cavalry troops.

Only then will the military power of the empire be finalized. There will be more and more soldiers who comprehend the fighting spirit, and the combat power of the army will become stronger and stronger!

Even a few years later, among the emperors, there are all strong men who have comprehended the battle spirit!

In the past two years, Li Zheng's background has been strengthened to a certain extent.

First of all, the third-order war horse was born in the first three years of the Yuan Dynasty.

Li Zheng used various evolutionary fierce beasts as the mother and secondary body, and synthesized four main battle third-order battle horses. Compared with the first-order and second-order warhorses, the biggest feature of the third-order warhorse is not that it is far superior to the first- and second-order warhorses in terms of comprehensive elements, nor does it have stronger special abilities, but that the division of its troops is becoming more and more blurred.

Of course, there are still biases.

Of these four third-order battle horses, the first one is called the Flying Dragoon!

The mother of this kind of war horse is based on an evolutionary fierce beast similar to the genus of snakes and Jiao. Its secondary body is based on the flying evolutionary beast.

The size of the Flying Dragoon is huge, and it can be said that it is the largest of all the war horses at this stage!

The adult Flying Dragon Rider has a body size of 30 zhang and a waist diameter of more than 1 zhang, which can be described as a behemoth! The Flying Dragoon has three pairs of flesh wings, inherited from the Evolved Flying Beast.

With its wings outstretched, it can fly across the air, and when its wings are closed, it can also crisscross land, mountains, forests, and even water.

It's all-round!

The special ability of the Flying Dragoon is an ultra-long-range venom spray. The corrosive ability of this venom can't even be carried by the second-order armor, and it can be corroded into a pile of garbage in a few minutes. The third-order armor can only be self-protecting. Once this venom is present, although the third-order armor can ensure the safety of the soldiers, a set of armor will basically be scrapped afterwards.

Ultra-long-range venom jet, the range of which reaches ten kilometers!

Yes, ten kilometers!

In other words, the Flying Dragoon can launch a precise strike on the enemy from a distance of ten kilometers. It can be said that once this kind of war horse goes to the battlefield, it is basically invincible at this stage.

Even the golden war horse can't stand on its edge. Although the infrasonic ability of the Golden Warhorse is strong, it is already able to compete with it with the physical strength of the third-order Warhorse. And the Golden Warrider can't emit infrasonic waves from ten kilometers away.

The second type of Warhorse, called the Shadow Warhorse.

The size of this warhorse, similar to that of a wolf, is based on an evolutionary beast that can stealth, and its abilities have been enhanced to a certain extent due to the system. In addition to being more powerful in stealth, he also has the ability to collect his own breath.

As a result, the Shadow Riders are capable of any tactic of surprise and ambush without the enemy noticing. The outbreak is difficult, and it is impossible to prevent it!

The size of the Shadow War Rider is also extremely large. Because it has inherited the huge physique of the beast! This kind of war horse is five zhang long and more than two zhang high, which is much bigger than the giant beast that dominated Li Zheng before!

So don't think that the Shadow Rider is just an assassin, and its hand-to-hand combat ability is just as strong and terrifying.

Mountains, forests, swamps and other areas can't stop the shadow warriors, and the city walls can't stop it. Because the Shadow Rider has an extremely good jumping ability!

It is not difficult to jump more than ten zhang high and dozens of zhang away.

It's just that it can't fly, and it can't fight in the water, and it prefers the cavalry of land warfare.

The third type of war horse is a powerful unit that Li Zheng specializes in synthesizing for frontal combat. A war horse synthesized with power-type, speed-type, and rejuvenating beasts as the mother and secondary body.

This kind of war horse, which was named the king of heaven by Li Zheng, if it is placed on the frontal battlefield, it really has the majesty and bearing of the king of heaven!

How terrible is it to be a war horse that is six zhang long and four zhang long, integrating strength, speed, flexibility, and recovery ability?

It is like a fierce tiger, with two sharp horns on its head, a huge king character in the middle, and bone skin all over its body, integrating flexibility and toughness, and its defense is extremely strong.

Being able to go up the mountain, being able to go down the ground, being able to charge, being able to bite, being able to resist attacks, and being able to recover injuries to the best of their abilities all show that this is a kind of ace war horse in land warfare.

The fourth type of war horse is called the Shark War Horse.

Although there is a shark in the name, it is not actually similar to a shark. It is only because this kind of war horse is extremely powerful in the water that it is named Wild Shark.

The size of the Shark Rider is the second largest of all the Warriors, only below the Flying Dragoon. Its size is larger than that of a whale in the sea! Floating on the water, it looks like a small island.

The Shark Warrior is actually an amphibious warrior that can go to sea and land. The body shape is similar to that of turtles, with a pointed head, but most of the time it is shrunk in a tortoise shell.

Although it resembles a turtle, it is not as clumsy as a turtle, but is very flexible. Because its limbs and tail are extremely thick and long. In the water, in addition to attacking with the head and hitting with the body, you can also tear with your claws and whip with your tail!

In addition, it has the ability to swallow large amounts of water and shoot it into water arrows.

This is no ordinary water arrow, it also contains electricity!

Its range is not worse than that of the Flying Dragoon, and within ten kilometers, it can accurately inflict effective damage!

After the birth of these four types of war cavalry, Li Zheng did not immediately incorporate them into the army to serve, nor did he immediately select and appoint third-order war cavalry.

The first reason is that the number of these four types of horses is too small.

The Flying Dragons have no more than seven horses, the Shadow Warhorses are slightly more numerous, with twelve, the Heavenly King Warhorses are a little more, with twenty, and the Shark Warhorses have the least number of four.

Only such a small number was synthesized, not because the number of evolutionary beasts was too small. In fact, in and around the grassland, there are at least a thousand evolutionary beasts that have not yet been synthesized.

The reason why only so many heads are synthesized is that the synthesis of a certain kind of warhorse must be completely consistent with the recipe. The mother, the secondary body, the suitable evolutionary beast, only this point was selected.

As for the other thousands of fierce beasts, they are basically from different fierce beast groups. These thousands of fierce beasts represent thousands of fierce beast races.

Synthesis is also possible, but the types of war horses synthesized are counted in hundreds, and they are still single. What's the use of that? I can't reproduce.

Because the number is too small, these four types of war horses need to rest and reproduce.

The second reason is because the third-order warhorse is too powerful. First of all, the requirements for the cavalry are very high. Now under Li Zheng's command, only Lu Bu can meet the requirements. Of course, Li Zheng himself can't be counted among them. (To be continued.) )