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Chapter 681: It's a Good Thing

Fang Xie stood in front of the huge map hanging on the wall, his eyes fixed on Huangyang Road.

The news sent back by the Xiao Cavalry School said that Luo Tu and the rebels had retreated for nearly 2,000 miles, and now Chen Bing was facing off against the court led by Liu Enjing and Xu Xiaogong north of the Yangtze River. Luo Yao died, and the rebels' hearts were scattered a lot. However, Luo Tu has some skills, and it is not easy to barely hold on to the overall situation without crumbling. ”

Wu Yiyi, who came from Huangyang Road, said: "But Pang Ba is dead, Luo Yao is also dead, now the rebel situation is passive, and the imperial court has recruited people on a large scale, and now Xu Xiaogong and Liu Enjing have no less than 500,000 people in their hands, although the number of soldiers is pitiful, but the morale is strong, Luo Tu's soldiers are well-trained, but the morale is low." ”

"It seems that the imperial court has the upper hand. Especially...... Now there is one more iron-clad general in Chang'an City, and Luo Yao was injured by this person. I have been in Chang'an City for so many years, and I have never heard of such a person, and no one seems to know where he came from. However, this person has nearly 20,000 ironclad troops under his command, and it is said that they are brave and cruel, and they have won many battles, and Luo Yao's rebels have been defeated in the hands of this ironclad army one after another. ”

Fang Xie snorted: "Send more people to Chang'an to see if we can find out the origin of this ironclad general...... In this matter, let Xiao Riding School do it, and Hou Ye asked the people who traveled the world to cooperate. Mu San ......"

The little eunuch Mu San heard Fang Xie calling him, and hurriedly came over: "What does the general command?" ”

"Go back and clean up, go back to Chang'an with the people from the Xiao Riding School, you have been in the palace for a long time, look for someone you know, and see if you can find out anything."

Mu San was shocked, he really didn't want to go back, he didn't know what the situation was in Chang'an City now, and he was really afraid that he would never be able to come out once he went back.

"Slave maid...... I'm afraid I won't be able to afford this errand......"

He glanced at Fang Xie and was taken aback by Fang Jie's eyes: "But the slave and maid will definitely do their best, the general trusts the slave and the maid, and the slave and maid naturally dare not live up to the trust of the general." ”

"Don't be afraid"

Sanjin Hou Wu Yi smiled: "I'll let Jiu Secai go back with you, with him, the worst can keep you safe." Wine and wealth have some fame in the underworld of Chang'an City, and the cheeky scoundrels in the city have to respectfully call him a wine grandfather when they see him, and the seniority is there. Coupled with the people from the Xiao Riding School, are you still afraid that you won't be able to come back? ”

Mu San hurriedly said: "The slave is just afraid that she won't be able to do it well." ”

Wu Yi smiled and said, "Do you know how I made my business bigger?" ”

Mu San shook his head: "The slave is stupid, how can she know the Tao." ”

"Because I dare"

Wu Yiyi said indifferently.

"Dare to ......"

Mu San repeated, and then understood what Wu Yiyi meant: "The slave understands, remember!" ”

"Let's go"

Fang Xie waved his hand: "Pack up your things, go to the account room to get a silver ticket of 30,000 taels of silver, if you want to find out the news, you can't avoid the words buy and rob." Don't grab what you can buy, and don't be soft on what you can. ”

"The slave remembers."

Mu San bowed and retreated.

"Master Hou, what is Xinyang Chengtian Xin's move?"

Fang Xie turned around and asked Wu Yiyi.

"Nothing has been done"

Wu Yi replied: "After Luo Yao's defeat, Tian Xin didn't dare to go out of the city, now Xinkoucang and Xinyang City are still two isolated islands, if we want to take Xinkoucang, it is not very difficult." Is the general going to attack Xinyang City? ”

"Huang Yangdao just didn't pull out such a nail, and it was disgusting."

Fang Xie pondered for a while: "But now that Luo Tu has no way back, all the forces in Jiangnan don't want to have anything to do with him, after all, the imperial court has the upper hand now." If Luo Tu returns to Jiangnan, he will clash with the local forces, and if he does not withdraw to Jiangnan, the supply of grain and grass is estimated to be running out, so he can only return to Huangyang Road...... If we take Xinyang City and Xinkoucang, it will be equivalent to cutting off Luo Tu's back road, and at the end of the road, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not attack Huangyang Dao. ”

"Right"

Wu Yi nodded: "If we take Xinkoucang now, Luo Tu will completely cut off the grain road, so he will either wave his army south to grab land with the local families in Jiangnan, or withdraw to Huangyang Road." Compared with the two, he should choose to fight Huangyang Dao. ”

"yes......"

Fang Xie sighed slightly: "After all, we haven't established ourselves in the southwest yet, and Luo Tu should also want to go back to Yongzhou, Jiangnan will like it more than Yongzhou." ”

"It's better to wait and ...... for now"

Wu Yi thought for a while and said: "Luo Tu is half crazy now, and if he is in a hurry, he will bite him regardless of it." ”

"No"

Fang Xie shook his head: "Master Hou has never seen this person...... Luo Tu is not an impulsive person, although on the surface he seems to be a brave and unscrupulous person, but if it is not for his deep scheming, how can he make Luo Yao trust? This man is calm and by no means a reckless man...... Therefore, Xinkoucang must be beaten, and Xinyang City must also be pulled out. ”

Wu Yi frowned, a little unavoidable of the solution.

"Force Luo Tu to go down to Jiangnan?"

"It's not force, it's guidance."

Fang explained: "Luo Tu made everyone think that he was a madman, so everyone was reluctant to provoke him, because he understood the horror of a madman, because a madman didn't care about it. Because of this, if he encounters another madman, will he really fight hard? A true madman doesn't know the horror of a madman, but a fake madman knows the way. ”

Fang Xie beckoned: "Come on, pass my military order back to Huangyang Road, let Cui Luoshang be the head of the march, Dugu Wenxiu is the military division, lead the army to attack Xinyang City and Xinkoucang, if you can't take these two places within a month, let the two of them come to see each other!" ”

"Whoa!"

The pro-soldiers outside responded, turned around and went out to arrange.

"That's right......"

Fang Xie smiled: "I've been busy discussing military affairs, and I forgot to ask, why did Master Hou come in such a hurry?" ”

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Wu Yiyi smiled: "Don't worry...... After the general led his troops south, although the military reports were sent back to Suzaku Mountain from time to time, I still couldn't let go of it in my heart, and I didn't worry about those people in the place, and the general naturally had no problem dealing with these guys with low eyes. I don't worry about Nanyan and the Su people, it's just a rabble. But when I got the news that Luo Yao was defeated, I immediately set off to rush here...... I don't want to, Yinyu started to be widowed before she got married. ”

Fang Xie smiled: "This is too unlucky. ”

Wu Yiyi laughed: "But it's still a little late, and I didn't see the earth-shattering battle." I asked the big dog curiously before, and just a few words have made my heart feel uneasy. It's too dangerous, and even if you're well prepared, it's better to avoid it later. ”

"Where is there such a thing, once is enough."

Fang Xie smiled and changed the topic: "How is the workshop going?" Andrew's artillery trial production was successful. ”

"Not yet"

Wu Yi smiled and said: "That guy is also a madman, although the hand-drawn drawings you gave him before you left were simple, he said that he gave him a lot of inspiration, and he suddenly became enlightened when he thought about it along your lines." We have already shipped several batches of iron ore from Jin Shixiong in exchange for grain, and the foundry has almost been built. Before I left, Andrew had forged a cannon, but it blew up during the test shot, injuring several people. ”

"There are still problems with the ratio of gunpowder, and there are also problems with the casting process."

Wu Yiyi shook his head: "However, this thing should be extremely powerful, if it is successfully built, it will be Chang'an City, which is said to be absolutely unbreakable, and it will not be able to stop hundreds of artillery pieces from bombing indiscriminately." ”

Hearing this, Fang Jie's heart suddenly moved.

In order to deal with Luo Yao, Fang Xie opened a door, and there were two words hidden in this door, called technology. And the impact of science and technology on this era is bound to be bloody. Because no matter what era it is, the first thing that science and technology transforms the world is the battlefield. Thinking of the towering walls of Chang'an City, and the boxy buildings and streets in Chang'an City, Fang Xie suddenly felt a little painful in his heart.

In the dead of night, Fang Xie always couldn't help but wonder what he was doing when he was brought to this world by the heavens. It's not mercy, there are dead people all the time in the world, and God doesn't have to and can't let him live again because of mercy on him, and moreover, he was sent to such a world to live again. If God really had mercy, there would not be so many miserable and pitiful things in this world.

So, what is God's purpose?

The only thing Fang Xie could think of was change.

Change the world of this world.

More than a thousand years ago, that person named Sang Chao also opened a door for this worldly realm, and because of the opening of this door, personal ability was raised to a terrifying height. One person can influence a city, a war, or even an entire world. But because of this, this world has begun to rely too much on manpower......

For more than a thousand years, there has been little progress in society.

Technology, stagnant.

Fang Xie specially talked to Andrew and asked Andrew what the world on the other side of the sea looked like. Andrew said that according to the history of his knowledge, more than 1,000 years ago, his country was still a barren primitive people, living on stone tools and hunting, which was much, much more backward than the Central Plains civilization. Moreover, there are no cultivators in his hometown, only the mages of the church can show super abilities, but the number of mages is negligible compared to the cultivators in the Central Plains.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that there are no cultivators, no strong manpower as the support of the country's strength. Therefore, on the other side of the ocean, the world of foreigners has developed extremely fast, unusually fast, and more than a thousand years later, firearms have been popularized in the army. As for the Central Plains and the grasslands, there has been almost no change in the past thousand years.

More than 1,000 years is a long time, but if you compare it with a long history, it is nothing.

The grasslands of the Central Plains stagnated, while the foreigners developed rapidly.

Thinking of this inadvertently, Fang Xie suddenly felt that he had grasped something.

But it was fleeting, and when he thought about it, he realized that he had caught nothing.

"General, what's wrong?"

Wu Yiyi's words pulled Fang Xie out of his thoughts, and looked at the concern on his face, Fang Xie smiled apologetically: "It's nothing, it's just a little distracted." ”

Wu Yi sighed, and after sitting down again, he smiled: "I thought the general had thought of something." ”

"What comes to mind?"

Fang asked.

Wu Yi said with a smile: "Speaking of firearms, I thought that the general thought of whether to let the newly built firearms battalion show its face when attacking Xinyang City. ”

Fang Xie shook his head: "No, before the artillery is built, the firearms battalion will not let others know about it." It's just a Xinyang City, and we don't need to expose all the hole cards. Cui Luo is a decent soldier but does not lose his atmosphere, Dugu Wenxiu has a good view of the overall situation, and the two of them cooperate to take Xinyang City without any problems. ”

"Hmm"

Wu Yi nodded, took a sip of the teacup, and seemed to have no words to continue.

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Yongzhou City

Sun Kee snacks

After the big dog entered the door, he found a corner and sat down, and ordered two drawers of xiaolongbao and a bowl of hot haggis soup. He sat down and just ate a few bites, when a middle-aged man came in and sat down at the table next to him and ordered two drawers of buns and a bowl of haggis soup. The two men sat back to back, very close together.

"The general said, I want to help me restore the country, destroy Nanyan, and make me the emperor."

The big dog said in a low voice.

The man's movement of bowing his head to eat stopped, the expression on his face stiffened, and after a long while, he muttered, "Help you restore the country...... Let you be the emperor...... Eldest brother...... This is...... Meddlesome. ”