Chapter 229: Autumn Harvest
Just when Kyoto convened an emergency meeting, Lao Jiu was busy relocating the population. By the time he had arranged everything, it was nearly half a month later. At this time, Lao Jiu was in the northern wasteland, leading soldiers to clear the snow wolf.
It was also at this time that news came from the interior of China. The Huaxia side no longer strictly checks the exit of the population, and seems to intend to let the families of those sailors leave. At the same time, from the north of the empire, a large number of troops were mobilized and a unified defense line began to be established on the southwestern border.
After the coastal riots, the Chinese Empire invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the coastal zone and began to develop into the ocean. It seems that he doesn't care about the tens of thousands of sailors who disappeared at all.
This series of Huaxia shows that the attitude is not only expected by Lao Jiu, but also unexpected by him. Predictably, Huaxia would definitely choose to secretly cooperate with him to speed up the development of the empire.
Unexpectedly, Huaxia may already know that after this series of events, there must be his shadow, and it seems that he is hiding, and there is no meaning. When the grain harvest is in the second season, it is time to leave.
Now that autumn has just begun, it is a good time for the army to march and fight. Since Lao Jiu has decided that he will no longer hide his strength, he will come up with some achievements to repay the Chinese Empire. The collective army training on Xiaoyao Island has also officially entered*.
And in the north and south boundary rivers, Lao Jiu also began to gather troops. Now the million soldiers here have basically reached level forty. So Lao Jiu planned to sprint again before leaving, and he wanted to make the average combat effectiveness of these soldiers reach level fifty or even sixty.
As for the end, after the baptism of war, the person who can really survive is what Lao Jiu needs. As soon as Lao Jiu's order to go to battle was reached, the forty thieves gathered 500,000 troops in Hulunbuir City and outside Amur City.
Then the forty thieves led two armies, using two cities as logistics supply stations, all the way to the north to conquer. Mi Baoer also mobilized a large amount of grain and grass materials, as well as various siege equipment, and followed closely behind the army.
Lao Jiu's task is very simple, he only needs to attack the city and plunder the land all the way, and he can hit wherever he can in the north. Whatever you say this time, you have to force the true strength of the two empires to the surface.
Especially in Russia, he was like seeing the strength of the real cavalry in Europe. Use these real armies to train an elite cavalry of your own, as well as infantry. In order to better train the soldiers, Lao Jiu did not use the Qin crossbow this time.
Due to the vast area in the game, the army of 500,000 was divided into ten roads, led by two of the forty thieves, and lined up directly in the north, a total of twenty road troops, forming a picture that swept the north.
As soon as Lao Jiu's side finished gathering the army, the two empires received the news, and then began to actively prepare for war. Although Lao Jiu turned his soldiers into bandits, he harassed the two empires from time to time to achieve the purpose of military training.
And the two empires, why don't they use bandits to train their own soldiers? The Twentieth Route Army, all the way north, the Mongol side gave up the three peripheral cities, and then formed a real confrontation with Lao Jiu's army.
On the Russian side, the territory was already widespread, so they did not resist much on the periphery, and directly let the enemy army drive straight in, and then started a guerrilla war. and from time to time sneak attacks on Lao Jiu's grain road, which makes him tired to cope.
Because the area of Russia is too large, Lao Jiu's station line is too large, and he can't concentrate on attacking one place, which makes the forty thieves very distressed. And what Lao Jiu can provide them with is equipment, food and grass, and other things have to be solved by themselves.
However, as mercenaries in the past, the Forty Thieves still have the talent to fight. Lao Jiu's requirements for them are also very simple, not how much territory they want to conquer, nor how many cities they want to capture.
Instead, let them use the real war to raise the level of the soldiers, and as for the process, Lao Jiuyi didn't ask. Of course, the loss should be reduced as much as possible, and he is almost always spending money now, and he simply can't make ends meet.
After Lao Jiu handed over the matter to the forty thieves, he wholeheartedly began to develop Xiaoyao Island. The soldiers on Xiaoyao Island have more than 500,000 veterans, and the strength of these veterans is above level 50.
And Lao Jiu's task is to raise the strength of these veterans to more than 60 and the strength of new recruits to more than 50 by the end of this year. At the same time, it is also necessary to train an army of more than 70 years. It can be said that his task is no lighter than that of the forty thieves.
After a month of going north, the forty thieves finally met the real armies of the two empires. Seeing the successive defeats in the battle formation, the morale of the soldiers dropped for a while, and the two empires had no choice but to send ace armies.
The Mongol Empire directly showed what it was like to be a country on horseback. They dispatched 200,000 iron horsemen at once, and all of them were above level 50. All the way south, the forty thieves who fought were defeated and retreated, and in just half a month, the loss of soldiers reached 100,000.
This made Lao Jiu feel distressed and helpless at the same time. And the blessing is incomparable, and the disaster is not a single line! Russia also sent their elite, 200,000 Knights of Light, who almost swept away forty thieves, causing them to lose more than 100,000 warriors before fleeing back to the frontier.
This made the forty thieves, who were originally high-spirited, suddenly become sad and gloomy. It also gave them a formal understanding of what war is. With Lao Jiu's encouragement, the Forty Thieves began to regroup and began their second journey north.
As long as they see the elite troops of the two empires, the forty thieves can also control the entire battle situation in an all-round way. They began to make a complete sand table, studied new strategic guidelines, and no longer rushed forward, but began to work steadily.
Just as the battle situation of the forty thieves had just stabilized, the fertile fields on both sides of the north and south boundary rivers had also begun to enter the maturity period, and the first batch of grain planted could already be harvested. This made the entire north and south boundary rivers start to get busy.
All the harvested grain was loaded onto cargo ships, and then transported directly to the Qilin base from the north and south boundary rivers. And Lao Jiu also left the battlefield temporarily and began to carry grain and grass from the Qilin base to Xiaoyao Island.
This is a very huge project, and you must know that there are hundreds of millions of hectares of fertile land, and nearly one billion tons of grain have been harvested. Therefore, Lao Jiu has been transporting grain almost all the time in the following time, even if he transports nearly 10 million tons a day, it will take nearly three months.
Regarding the grain harvest of the North and South Boundary River, the Huaxia Empire did not express any thoughts, and everything seemed to be very calm. But Mongolia, as well as Russia, which received the news, could not sit still and began to launch a full-scale counteroffensive.
This directly made the war between the two sides fall into a white heat, and they no longer put military training in the first place. This moment also truly reflects the true essence of an empire. The two empires each dispatched 500,000 elite soldiers, and the forty thieves they fought were defeated and retreated.
In less than a month, he retreated directly to Hulunbuir City, and Amur City, and then began to defend the city. The two empires began to deploy large siege equipment to forcibly take the two cities.
In this way, the fertile fields of the North and South Boundary Rivers, as well as the labor NPCs, are completely exposed to the enemy's butcher's knife. In desperation, Lao Jiu had no choice but to dispatch the Qilin Legion and began to launch a harassing sneak attack on the enemy's rear to delay the enemy's attack.
At the same time, Lao Jiu's undead cavalry, which had just raided the imperial city of Laos, was now retreating. Lao Jiu teleported to the border of China as soon as possible, preparing to welcome the return of this cavalry. The grain and grass transported to the Qilin base can only be temporarily backlogged first.
After several months of raiding and plundering, this undead cavalry can be regarded as truly completing a transformation, and the lowest warrior level has exceeded seventy. It's only been a few months, and more than 1,000 people still died on the battlefield, which makes Lao Jiu's heart ache.
Now the only way to stop the two empires from going south is to recall this trump card force. Only they can crush the armies of the two empires head-on, so as to break the situation of the northern and southern boundary rivers.
Lao Jiu sat in the teleportation array to the Huaxia frontier, and it took another three days to join this army. After letting them enter He's Bi, Lao Jiu began to return. And the past few days of their return are just the right time for them to rest and recuperate in He's Bi so that they can cope with the next big battle.
The return of the undead legion gave Lao Jiu a new plan. Now the energy of the two empires is attracted to the city of Amur and Hulunbuir. Therefore, Lao Jiu planned to take the undead cavalry and sneak attack the rear of the two empires at once.
If you want to capture Hulunbuir City and Amur City, it is not a matter of ten days and a half months at all. Both cities are guarded by hundreds of thousands of troops, and there are Qilin legions on the periphery to raid, so the two empires can only fight a protracted war with the forty thieves for the time being.
And Lao Jiu just took advantage of this time to raid the rear of the two empires, come to encircle Wei to rescue Zhao, force the two empires to withdraw their troops, and then look for opportunities to chase and kill all the way.
At that time, Genghis Khan was able to lay such a big foundation because his cavalry had mobility that others did not have, and they basically fought blitzkriegs. Therefore, in the siege of the city and the land, the speed of the warrior plays a very key role.
It's like the undead cavalry on the southwest border, basically relying on the speed advantage, they fought beautiful blitzkriegs. Every time, he can achieve his goal before the enemy reacts, and the super long speed will also make the enemy unable to figure out the movement of the army, thus losing accurate judgment.
After returning to Amur City, Lao Jiu took advantage of the cover of night and went directly to the rear of Russia. At the speed of Lao Jiu, it will take several days to feel the imperial city of Russia, flying around the clock. Therefore, he set his sights on those more important cities.