Text: Rise from the City_Chapter 85 The evil dragon has become a dead dragon
Just when hundreds of ring-headed knives, under Luo Cheng's order, smashed into the defenders who blocked the city gate with their bodies. The siege ladder outside the city was also pushed hard by dozens of strong men at this time, and it directly hit the city gate.
However, by this time, the defenders who had been blocking the front were almost all dead. The defenders behind him were still facing forward, and the city gate was directly broken under the strong impact of the siege ladder. And the gates of the city, at this time, were opened to the Allies.
Standing on the city wall, the evil dragon crossing the river who was looking up to the sky and smiling bitterly also guessed the result when he heard such a loud noise. Needless to say, the city gate had just been slammed open, and he had completely failed.
Think of the great name of this king, with the land of one city, he destroyed three player forces in a row, and fought in the southwest according to four cities. But I don't want to be now, the power is declining, and the past glory is gone. The 180,000-strong army pressed the border, but he failed to get the news earlier, resulting in the loss of two cities in a few days.
150,000 troops approached Julin City, and they made many preparations. I thought that I could hold on to the moment when the Beichen army was defeated and retreated, but I didn't want to make such a mistake. To be able to transport 20,000 soldiers into the city without knowing it, is there any other way than the tunnel?
Alas~ I am still from the 23rd century. There are so many siege tactics in history, but this digging tunnel, I actually have no defense, and I deserve to be defeated.
The eastern gate of Julin City was smashed by a siege cone, and for a while, countless allied soldiers rushed towards the city gate and rushed into the city. The city gate suddenly became the burial ground of the defenders, and countless Allied soldiers outside the city entered the city, together with the original 20,000 soldiers in the city.
Suddenly, thousands of defenders near the city gate were immediately wrapped in dumplings. Swords and swords, and spears are dense. Blood poured around the gates, stumps and severed arms were scattered everywhere, and countless heads were rolling everywhere. The wide eyes on it were the dead man's expression of his sorrow.
In a short time, thousands of defenders near the city gate died and surrendered. More Allied troops outside the city also entered the city in turn. Countless soldiers immediately divided into four roads, and under the leadership of several generals, they quickly rushed to the four city walls.
Near the East City Gate, Xiao Chen and Wang Ping walked slowly on the top of the stairs made of stones. The staircase officially led to the city gate, and the two slowly climbed the city wall under the protection of dozens of guards.
Listening to the sound of fixed-point fighting nearby, I looked at the corpses of the two armies piled up everywhere on the city wall. Xiao Chen could only walk silently, ignore what he could ignore, he brought war and death to these soldiers. But this does not break their dreams, and once they will succeed, war is like this.
Those soldiers who fell on the city wall could only help them take care of their wives and children after the war. This is the only thing I can do at the moment, and it can be regarded as some comfort to these deceased.
When he walked to the center of the city gate, a corpse caught Xiao Chen's attention. Dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, he shows the identity of his master - the evil dragon crossing the river. No, it's time to cross the river and die now.
At this time, the body of the dragon crossing the river was already full of arrows, and there was blood everywhere on its body. There are his own, and there are his own soldiers. A hair spread out and draped on top of the bright yellow dragon robe, covering the face of the river crossing evil dragon, so that Xiao Chen didn't know what the river evil dragon looked like from beginning to end.
The bright yellow dragon robe on his body is tattered, and it can be seen how much suffering this dragon robe has preserved. It also shows how many injuries his master has suffered, and shows how brave and good its master fought before he died.
However, this is all history. The dragon who crossed the river was dead, and the four cities under his command were all owned by him at this moment. The dead don't represent anything, maybe it can only show the glory of the corpse before, but everything after that belongs to others.
Hundreds of thousands of people, at this moment, with the death of the dragon crossing the river and the fall of the four cities, all became their own people. In the same way, these more than 300,000 people will be from their own country tomorrow morning.
He didn't pay much attention to Jiang Evil Dragon's corpse, Xiao Chen only glanced at it twice, sighed, and then turned around and left. Naturally, there will be soldiers behind him, and the body will be cleaned up. The dragon robe will be collected by its own soldiers and sent to their own treasury.
plus this one's dragon robe, plus the previous dragon robe and crown. The inner treasury of the royal palace in Donglin City has become a museum. More than ten pieces of king's items represent the glory of Donglin City at the moment.
After staying on the city gate tower for a long time, Xiao Chen went down and went straight to the palace in the city. Ahem, continuing to stay on the city wall is really a bit of a delay for those soldiers to clean up the corpses.
When I arrived at the palace, the palace had already been cleaned by the soldiers. While the city was covered with blood, there was no blood stain in the palace. At this time, the sound of fighting in the city has almost disappeared.
Walking into the advisory hall in the palace, Xiao Chen found that in addition to himself and Wang Ping. The rest of the generals have all arrived, and they are all waiting for themselves in the main hall. Suddenly, Xiao Chen was a little embarrassed. Alas~ People are tired and tired to help themselves fight, and they seem to stay in the hall and wait for themselves, but they are late again, and they are really a little bit of that.
Soon, Xiao Chen reconciled his mood and looked at the few new faces that appeared in the hall. Xiao Chen couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "Old wolf, these three are...?" ”
The old wolf said: "These three people are the main people who surrendered after the army entered the city. Among them, this is called Xie Wei, who is the prime minister of Julin City; This one is Che Yun, the general of Julin City; This one is Akio Akio, the general of Julin City. The three of them were all loyal ministers of the original Julin City, and I didn't let the rest of them into the main hall. ”
As soon as the old wolf's words fell, the man named Xie Jian said: "Surrender to the minister Xie Jian to see the king!" My lord, these are some account books such as account accounts and material accounts in my giant forest city. Please check it out! ”
After speaking, Xie Wei respectfully handed over a few books that were not very thick. Xiao Chen smiled a little at that time, this little old man is very sensible. As soon as I arrived, I gave the most important thing in Giant Forest City, which is good! Promising!
Xiao Chen turned the ledger and began to check it.
The total population of Julin City is 327,812, of which more than 108,000 are young and able-bodied men, more than 101,000 are women, more than 75,000 are elderly, and more than 40,000 are children under the age of 18. Within the sphere of influence, there are more than 7 million acres of land, with an average of nearly 20 acres of land per person. This number is not light for Xiao Chenlei.
You must know that even if the current Beichen Kingdom has a population of nearly one million, the fields cultivated by the people are only 10 million acres, and on average, there are only 10 acres of land per person, which is only half of the giant forest city. How big a gap should there be in this data,, do you want to let those ordinary people in the city cultivate ten more acres of land in the future?
Of course, the more than 10 million acres of land is not all the fields, and there are nearly 3 million acres of military land. These huge military fields are all the result of the hard work of those slaves. However, although these slaves selflessly cultivated three million acres of land for the Beichen army, they were not without rewards.
Five acres of fields per person, that's their reward. The five acres of land were not deducted from the military fields, but were reclaimed separately. However, it was enough for the slaves to rejoice for a while. With five acres of land, you can almost feed a family.
As for the low egg-like field tax, it was directly ignored by many slaves, and it was just five copper plates, which was trivial.
In this way, the slaves were used to the fullest, and they were still willing. The slaves were happy, and Xiao Chen was even happier. As a colonialist Xiao Chen, the many slaves under his command have always been a big trouble. Well, now just five acres of land per person makes these guys more honest than the other.
And without paying anything, he calmed the mood of the slaves and obtained millions of military fields and more than a million copper coins. It's hard to find such a good thing.
In terms of per capita land, Xiao Chen was thundered by Julin City for a while, but the economic and commercial problems below almost made Xiao Chen vomit blood directly. Looking at last month's business taxes, it was only more than 300,000 copper coins, which almost made Xiao Chen bite his tongue.
Nima, what's going on. As a person from the 23rd century, you don't know the importance of business. But how could the business of the forces of Giant Forest City be so bad?
In the end, under Xie Wei's explanation, Xiao Chen understood.
It's time for my army to go on the march, and it just so happens that this area has been in war for several months, that is, seeing that winter is coming, everyone has not been fighting for long. But Xiao Chen led an army of more than 100,000 to break in.
And in this battle between hundreds of cities, Julin City is quite good. The military strength has not been lost too much, but the business is needless to say. At the beginning of the war, the commercial tax dropped directly from 8 million to 1 million. In the next few months, it almost dropped to zero, and the 300,000 last month was still that for a while, and everyone was tired, and they didn't fight every day like before, so they just replied a little.
As for this month, it is estimated that it will not grow too much, after all, the four cities have been fighting for almost half a month. In this case, who would dare to do business, and the business tax would naturally not be too much.
Xiao Chen's main concern now is no longer the issue of commerce, but the big battle between the hundreds of cities that Xie Wei said. Hiss! Hundreds! , what kind of concept, is this area so messy?
Don't worry about it for now, that's all for later, it's a big deal that your 150,000 army will continue to fight. Xiao Ye can't fight his own army of 150,000, and he can't defeat a group of poor people who have been fighting for several months.
The population of Giant Forest City knows almost everything, so let's see what good things are in the warehouse.
The first thing that came into view was: 800 taels of gold, 5,000 taels of silver, and 100,000 copper coins.
Eh, the corners of Xiao Chen's mouth twitched fiercely. Nima, the first two look quite gratifying, but this last one really affects the atmosphere too much.
Forget it, 100,000 copper coins is a lot, enough to buy some jewelry for the two little daughters-in-law in the family.
The rest of the inventory is nothing to look at, except for about 3.8 million grains and grass, the rest was ignored by Xiao Chen. The number is too small to look at.
After Xiao Chen finished reading the account book handed over by Xie Wei, Che Yun next to him hurriedly said: "Descend to the minister Che Yun to see the king!" This is the list of my former Giant Forest City army! Please also check it out! ”
A thick book was handed over, Xiao Chen was speechless on the spot, do you want me to read such a thick book for a few days?
However, as soon as he opened the book, Xiao Chen suddenly secretly praised Che Yun in his heart. I saw that the first page of this book was marked with the words 'Army Overview'.
There were 35,000 men with swords and shields, 40,000 with spearmen, and 5,000 with archers.
At the same time, there were modifications next to it: 35,000 sword and shield soldiers, more than 20,000 killed, and 15,000 surrendered. More than 28,000 of the 40,000 spearmen were killed and 12,000 were dropped. There were 5,000 archers, more than 1,200 killed and more than 3,000 killed.
The entries are clear and easy to understand. This time the war meant that the Allied soldiers killed nearly 50,000 people, and more than 30,000 surrendered.
After that, the second page is marked with the 'List of Swords and Shields'. Presumably, there will be a 'list of spearmen' and a list of archers'. From this point, it can be seen that Che Yun is indeed a talent, and everyone doesn't know how he fights, but if he is asked to manage logistics, he is definitely a talent.
Xiao Chen slowly closed the thick book, and then handed it to the guards beside him. smiled and said to the two people in the audience: "This king is now lacking a prime minister and a military logistics officer, I don't know if the two of you have any thoughts?" ”
After understanding the meaning of Xiao Chen's words, both of them were pleasantly surprised. None of them thought that they would be able to obtain such an important position as a general, but the two of them were also a little worried, after all, the two of them occupied a high position without any merit, and it was really..."King Qiqi, my Beichen is full of talents in China, and I am afraid that I am not competent in the inferior class." The two saluted in unison.
Xiao Chen naturally knew what these two people were worried about, so he continued: "Hahaha, my Beichen Kingdom is a meritocracy, as long as you have talent, then you will have a chance!" ”
Xie Yu and Che Yun glanced at each other, and then said, "Weichen Xie Wang is very kind!" ”
"Hahaha, good! By the way, I wonder if General Zhao is willing to be the captain of the city gate of my Beichen Kingdom? "The last will see the king!" Akio didn't procrastinate, so he saluted.
"Hahaha, now my Beichen Kingdom has added three more important ministers, and the day of domination of the world is just around the corner!"
"The king reigns over the world, and the dragon is mighty!" The generals saluted together.