Chapter 111: The Second Western Expedition Begins!
Behind the 400,000 army are the 300,000 people who are responsible for transporting supplies, don't look at the 300,000 people are 100,000 less than the 400,000 regular army, but the queue is much longer than the 400,000 army. The 300,000 people's transport team has nearly 200,000 horse-drawn carriages or wheelbarrows.
According to the carrying capacity of a wheelbarrow that can carry 500 units of grain, a wheelbarrow of 150,000 alone is enough to carry 7.5 million units of grain. But this only required 150,000 people to push the cart, and the remaining 50,000 were carriages, all loaded with weapons and armor. There are also quite a few vehicles loaded with disassembled catapults, as well as some polished special stone bullets.
In fact, as long as there is a mountain, the stones used in the catapult can be taken on the spot, and it will not take long. No matter how bad it is, pouring some water on the mound and building it into an earth and stone bomb will still not reduce the power much. However, Xiao Chen still insisted on occupying part of the vehicle to pull the stone bomb, and even Wang Ping couldn't persuade him.
Of course, Xiao Chen also has his own reasons for doing this. These are not polished stone bullets, they are all wrapped in many layers of cloth. Perhaps, this is nothing, but the manufacture of this strip of cloth is not ordinary.
These strips of cloth have been soaked in black fire oil and then dried for a period of time. After being soaked in fire oil, these strips of cloth will catch up whenever they meet a spark. Do you think Xiao Chen will bring these special weapons?
As for the black fire oil, it is the ancient name for oil in ancient China. Of course, this also refers to crude oil that has not been refined. If it had been refined oil, Xiao Chen would have dominated the world long ago.
There is a lot of oil in my own field! All this is thanks to the peasant uncle, all thanks to the peasant uncle!
I remember that day, the peasant uncle was rejoicing that he had become a royal field servant. Then, after drinking a little wine, I don't know why I ran into the ground. Later, when Xiao Chen asked the farmer brother, his answer was. The king asked the grass people to plough the land for the royal family, and the little one was happy and excited. At the end, after drinking the wine, I thought about it, and there was nothing too big to show myself in this light farming.
So, I thought of some fruits or flowers. Then contact my old friend, let my old friend send a few fruit tree saplings, and then run to the ground to dig a tree pit first, planning to plant trees in the afternoon!
As a result, the excitement dug deeper, and then he noticed that a black liquid was coming out of the ground. Originally, this guy thought it was something evil, so he called the guards. The guard was also shocked when he saw it, and continued to report to his superior.
Then, one was surprised by the other, until Wang Ping ran over curiously. When Wang Ping saw it, he was immediately pleasantly surprised, this is black fire oil. Back then, Zhou Yu became famous in the first battle of Chibi, and burned Cao Mengde's army of 800,000 with one fire, relying on this black oil.
Black fire oil has been sorted out by the Chinese during the Three Kingdoms period, and has also developed into a weapon of war. At the same time, the same weapon appeared in Europe, but instead of being a fierce fire oil, it was called the Greek Divine Fire. It seems that God has never taken care of the Han people, and when the culture of the Han people far exceeds that of Europe, they are always facing the change of dynasty.
With the change of dynasties, civilization has also suffered greatly. After that, there were four great inventions in China, but the ideas were limited and these inventions could not be further improved. But by the time Europe developed gunpowder into firearms, China was already lagging behind Europe. Subsequently, over the course of hundreds of years, the gap grew.
The power of the fire oil stone bomb is definitely undoubted, and it is precisely because of its super high reputation in history that Xiao Chen also brought the fire oil bomb to death.
Wang Ping knew about the oil bomb, but he was not optimistic about the power of the oil bomb. In his opinion, the use of fire oil bombs on warships is almost the same, but on land, it is really difficult to achieve much success.
This is also the reason why fire oil did not appear after the Three Kingdoms, of course, the most important thing is that the appearance of gunpowder, although it is only the most primitive gunpowder, is still much more powerful than fire oil. However, here, when there is no way to make gunpowder, fire oil is really a big killer.
In fact, Xiao Chen's use of fire oil was only done because of the prestige of the Greek divine fire, after all, European gunpowder appeared much later than China, and the development of fire oil was at its peak. It is precisely because of this that the Greek Divine Fire has become a very famous weapon in Europe, comparable to the devil!
However, in Wang Ping's eyes, these fire oil bombs might as well be replaced with arrow feathers! Hmm~ Who made us the boss, so Wang Ping, a wage earner, could only helplessly obey the arrangement of his own boss.
The 400,000 regular army and the 300,000 transport brigade arrived at Julin City after more than ten days. And just outside the Giant Forest City, a very large military camp has appeared. Covering an area of dozens of miles, there are more than 20 large and small camps, such a large camp is enough to stuff nearly a million soldiers.
It seems that the 60,000 horses in Julin City are not lazy. The camp was set up in advance, and when the army arrived, there was no need to waste time building the camp.
The big camp had been set up in advance, and the Beichen Army, which had been marching for more than ten days, rushed into it one by one when they saw the big military camp of Nanuo. Xiao Chen and several of his generals also walked into the city, everyone is a leader, how can they live with these big soldiers.
What should I do when I enter the city, naturally I have a drink first. Otherwise, I'm sorry for the exhaustion of my ten days of marching. Moreover, according to the custom of the Beichen* team, the generals will have a party with drinks first, and the soldiers will have a night of rest before holding a large party. In this way, several leaders can also have fun with everyone.
In the same way, the army was able to get three or four days of rest. I don't know when this custom was handed down, and Xiao Chen doesn't know either, anyway, I only know that if I dare to let the army go directly to fight at this time. The group of big-headed soldiers were absolutely unhappy in their hearts, even if they had no choice but to obey their orders, they might not necessarily greet their ancestors many times along the way.
Therefore, Xiao Chen is also happy to have this leisure time. Give you a good time to play don't play, you have to find something to do, and a group of people greet their ancestors. This kind of thing, it's not pure that you have nothing to do to find scolding!
Just when the 400,000 troops of the Beichen Army were relaxing, Li Zhaoliang didn't have the slightest free time here.
After a few months of cultivation, the ten cities of the current army have regained a little vitality again. The population of the ten cities that have been refreshed in the past three months has also reached more than 100,000, and the previous population has finally reached more than 200,000, which makes these ten cities also seem a little popular.
After the slaves were brought back by more than 100,000, only about 100,000 were left to take care of the fields that had been cleared. And in the past three months, a lot of grain and grass have finally accumulated in Dingxing City. Li Zhaoliang's army finally got rid of the food crisis.
At the same time, the large simple port where it was originally landed, has also been renovated and turned into a small town. Countless warships, troop transports, and some merchant ships were docked on the seashore. This port town was named Hailin Port Town, and the appearance of this port town also completely solved the isolation of Li Zhaoliang's army.
After the port was repaired, countless warships and troop carriers returned to the port of Donglin City and began to pump blood for the expeditionary army. Countless weapons, armor, grain, grass, and arrows were tied into bundles and thrown onto the ship, and then pulled to the harbor of Hailin. After passing through the land transportation, it finally arrived in Dingxing City.
With the blood transfusion of Donglin City, the 50,000 recruits who had already been trained officially joined the establishment of the Beichen Army. It has become the 55th lowest establishment of the 46th Association of the Infantry Army, the 47th Association of the Infantry Army, the 48th Association of the Infantry Army, the 49th Association of the Infantry Army, and the 50th Association of the Infantry Army.
Although it is the bottom five associations, Li Zhaoliang is still very happy that he has an additional army of 50,000. Even if these 50,000 troops are not able to fight, there is no problem in defending the city, so that he can free up more elite troops to fight.
With a large army and sufficient grain and grass, Li Zhaoliang was naturally unwilling to continue to rest. So, when Xiao Chen issued the order for the second western expedition, Li Zhaoliang had already brought an army of 150,000 to the city in front of him.
Zhangping City, a city for players in China, the city is tall, and there should be no shortage of weapons to defend the city. In particular, there are quite a few troops in it, with more than 20,000 men and horses. That's twice as many troops as the cities fought three months ago!
However, are these 20,000 people enough in Li Zhaoliang's eyes?
Of course it's not enough to see! Because this area is a plain area, Li Zhaoliang's army was discovered by the defenders in Zhangping City from afar. Of course, what Li Zhaoliang wants is to be upright, and labor and management are to be upright and upright to use the number of people to suppress you, what can you do!
In China, many players don't get into the game for the sake of their dream of dominating the world. Many of them voluntarily abandon the city or give way to others after entering the game. Then, he walked the world alone with a sword. Began an adventure in the rivers and lakes!
How to say, in the eyes of the Chinese, it seems that where there are people, the word jianghu is absolutely indispensable. It is precisely because of this that many people have a dream of rivers and lakes, a dream of martial arts. Alas~ They were all greatly rectified by Jin Yong!
In addition to these players who walk the rivers and lakes, there are many who come to travel to enjoy the pure rural life, or to be tempted by the real beauty of this game. There are also some who came specifically to be emperors, of course, they are certainly not ambitious and domineering, they are all attracted by the seventy-two concubines of the three palaces, six courtyards!
As a Chinese man, he said that he didn't want to be an emperor, he had thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines, which were all fools. And under this huge population base, there are still tens of millions of Chinese players who come to compete for world domination.
And the king of Zhang Pingcheng is a young man who is less than twenty years old, and he naturally entered the game not to dominate the world. He still knows how many pounds and taels he has, so this king has been committed to the development of national government affairs and does not provoke people. Of course, if someone provokes him, he doesn't mind firing back twice.
But today, the head of this king of Zhang Pingcheng has grown bigger. Because there are a lot of troops from Beichen Kingdom outside the city, Beichen Kingdom itself has heard of it, and it is the third player in the world to establish a country. Even though there are hundreds of countries in the world now, the Great Xia Kingdom and the Beichen Kingdom are still the two most powerful countries in the hearts of Chinese players.
Because in the diary of the Beacon Continent, every day I shout what happened to these two countries, and I don't know how big the commotion is. Especially in the past few months, the Great Xia Kingdom is a 500,000-strong army to the north, and the Beichen Kingdom is a 300,000-strong army to the west! it! That's not 530,000, that's 500,000, 300,000, where did these two come from so many soldiers!
As for the other Second Empire, the one named Brown doesn't seem to have appeared much in the Beacon Diary! Therefore, Long Teng Yuye and Chen Xiaotian became celebrities in the Beacon Fire Continent.
Looking at the sea of red outside the city, the king of Zhang Pingcheng twitched the corners of his mouth helplessly on the spot. Then, he didn't dare to say anything to the general behind him, and walked straight into the house of the city gate tower. Prepare pen and ink and start writing!
When Li Zhaoliang pulled the army to the city of Zhangping, he was about to rush directly to the city in one breath, and then have lunch in the city. Who knows, just when Li Zhaoliang was about to give the order to attack the city, Zhang Ping ran out of a fast horse in the city.
For the envoys, Li Zhaoliang still abides by the ancient Chinese etiquette. The two armies are fighting, and they don't come to make it!
After talking to the envoy, Li Zhaoliang also understood what Zhang Pingcheng meant. It looks like he is going to surrender, but the king wants millions of copper coins and his two princesses, and at the same time he eagerly hopes to leave a prince for himself. How to say this, Li Zhaoliang can decide by himself.
After all, Xiao Chen had sent a message before that this army of waterways was fully responsible. However, this agreement is easy to discuss, but this prince is a bit troublesome.
Forget it, I agreed first, and then I will report to King Beichen in the future, and then let him make a decision. The 20,000 defenders defended the fortified city, and even though they had 150,000 men and horses, the losses would definitely not be small if they wanted to defeat them.
In this way, Zhang Pingcheng simply belonged to the name of Beichen Kingdom.
Entering the city, Li Zhaoliang was immediately thundered by Zhang Pingcheng.
Bustling! Just those two words!
The houses inhabited by the people in the entire Zhangping City are all made of bricks and stones, and the avenues are also paved with stones. With such facilities, there are only Donglin City, Minxiang City and Xiaocheng in Beichen Kingdom. The four main streets immediately following the city gate are lined with houses of various kinds. Because of the arrival of the army, the inhabitants of the city did not appear on the streets.
However, Li Zhaoliang was still shocked after seeing Zhang Pingcheng's introduction.
The monthly commercial tax is as high as more than 40 million copper coins! It's a little too ruthless!
The population of the city is 160,000! This is even more devastating, and Li Zhaoliang has no confidence at all.
In the warehouse, there are 33 million units of grain and grass, and enough weapons and armor to arm 30,000 troops!
There are more than 500,000 acres of fertile land, which is very little. But also, just by looking at the number of shops in Zhangping City, you know that this is completely a commercial city.
And the commercial tax shows the economic prosperity of Zhangping City, you must know that the Beichen Kingdom occupies dozens of cities, and it has the training of the god general Xun Yu. Last month's commercial tax was only 130 million copper coins, and Zhangping City was only one city, which occupied less than one-third of the commercial tax of Beichen State, what a concept!
However, no matter how bullish it is, it is still Beichen now!