"Later, when news came that he appeared in Pointe-Noire, I immediately sent my best personnel there, but I found no trace of him."

"Bald Eagle training is paying off. The last time the King of the Bull left Rock City, we followed the other party under the guidance of Xun Eagle and confirmed the location of the man in black in Vicious Horn City. ”

Hearing this, Tianhao nodded slightly: "Can you be sure that person is Wu Yuan?" ”

Pingjun has maintained a respectful standing posture with his hands down since Tianhao entered: "The location of the target is the private residence of the King of the Fierce Bull, where I developed two intelligence officers last year, and bought off a close attendant, and drew eleven avatars according to their common descriptions, and selected the one with the highest degree of similarity." ”

As he spoke, Pingjun took out a folded piece of paper from his underwear pocket, raised his hands upwards and handed it over.

The northern barbarians had always had the custom of painting on rocks and clay templates, and drawing on paper with charcoal was a novelty for them. The rough paper has simple lines, no tone used to represent light and shadow, and has nothing to do with traditional sketching, and in Tianhao's opinion, there is even some childish childish playfulness of children's essays, but even he must admit that this head captures the characteristics of the character, and it can be seen at a glance that it is Wu Yuan's face.

Slowly frowning, Tianhao picked up the wine jug on the table sideways, poured out a full glass, and drank it all.

This level of alcohol intake can have an excitant effect on him, stimulating the brain without anesthesia. The hot sensation in the throat loomed, and the rising heat was like a small fire burning the brain. Tianhao's consciousness gradually diverged, and he thought of many things, including the first meeting with Wu Yuan, the different views of the two sides on currency, as well as Niu Tong and Niu Weibang, and the merchant Jin Sheng.

There is no doubt that Wu Yuan is a staunch supporter of His Majesty's monetary system. He was a sparsely numerous, high-ranking wise man among the barbarians, and had a deep understanding of the theory of money and value. From the perspective of an onlooker, money is only an important step in the evolution of human civilization, but if you look at it at the level of actual participants, it is really related to the increase or decrease of one's own wealth and the degree of control over power.

Wu Yuan was hostile to himself, and Tianhao never doubted this. He could even be sure that the last time Niu Lingxiao came to Rock City with the beautiful princess and staged such a farce in front of him, there was a high chance that Wu Yuan was behind the scenes.

What the hell is he trying to do?

Also, what role did Wu Yuan play in the just-concluded war against the Pig Clan?

Could the disappearance of the Elo messenger team be related to Wu Yuan?

"Comprehensively strengthen the surveillance of Wu Yuan, and we must not let him out of sight again." Tianhao put the portrait on the table, and tapped his fingers a few times: "The training of bald eagles should be strengthened, and the needs of the intelligence department should be met first." The other is Niu Lingxiao, the king of fierce bulls, if possible, arrange a person by his side. ”

Ping Jun replied respectfully: "As you wish." ”

……

The construction of Tianjing City has begun to take shape.

The advent of paper fundamentally changed the concept of engineering. When he saw the architectural drawings for the first time, Xu Kun felt that he had stepped into another world.

The engineering infrastructure drawings drawn by Tianhao on paper are actually very simple, with a total of three.

The first is the pouring of the foundation, which is no different from the practice familiar to the barbarians, except with the addition of a reinforced concrete prefabricated slab. The Ox people have a unique advantage in steel casting, but out of habitual thinking, they rarely associate steel with buildings, and never imagined that houses with steel as their bones would be so strong.

This is followed by towers. Tianjing is a new city and the future territorial capital of Tianhao's master plan. His concept of the tower came from the European bastion of the civilization era. These towers under construction are very different from Rock City, with larger volumes, higher floors, better views, and exponentially more internal spaces.

Since it is a capital city, it is definitely necessary to consider the issue of population accommodation first. Tianhao intends to use these large towers as government offices, police stations, tax bureaus, environmental sanitation departments, propaganda departments, and food supply departments...... With the location of the tower as the core, the corresponding areas around the perimeter are demarcated to build houses, so that more civilians can be brought under control, so that they can be in close contact with the city administrators, complement each other, and supervise each other.

Finally, there is the overall planning. It's a big drawing, detailing all the details of the city being built. From regional functions, to military, civilian, health, transportation, reserves and other aspects are involved, the complexity of the complexity dazzles Xu Kun, and his heart is full of strong shock, but also more and more firm confidence that he must build a prosperous giant city with his own hands.

Guangshou has always been worried that the business of exchanging ore for food with Panshi City will not last long, but the reality is that the current supply of ore and iron in Shanyuanzhai is simply not enough. The existence of Tianjing City is a secret, and all the officials of the Rock Collar from top to bottom are all tight-lipped. Not only Shanyuan Village, but also all the ore from the Niu Tribe's villages in the northern Mishui City and the surrounding territory were centrally managed and smelted, leaving behind the indispensable military reserves, and all the rest were sent to Tianjing.

When the four large towers were completed, Xu Kun's brain, which had been worried since the start of construction, was finally relieved and he let out a long breath. This means that the area with the inner city as the core is safe, and even if there is a war or attack now, as long as a part of the workers is concentrated and relies on the tower, it can withstand at least 5,000 attackers until the lord sends reinforcements.

The change in Rock City is a secret. According to Tianhao's order, in the past four months, a total of more than 36,000 people have been quietly sent in the direction of Tianjing. Thanks to the improvised roads that were completed early in the construction between the two places, and a steady supply of materials and building materials, the new city completed the construction of the inner city a week ahead of Tianhao's estimate. This proves that Tianhao has not chosen the wrong person, and Xukun is currently expanding to the north and northeast of the city at the same time, and the construction of two large towers at the apex of the outer city on the planning drawings has already begun, and the subsequent work will use them as the core to build a series of complex and strong defensive fortresses.

Tianjing did not need a city wall, and history has long proved that such a large-scale defensive measure will completely lose its status with the full spread of thermal weapons. For now, however, the combination of towers and small fortress complexes will still play a role. Archers and musketeers with a dominant terrain can inflict a lot of casualties on the attackers, and together with the artillery set up in the city, plus a certain number of rapid mobile troops, this is the right way to start the war at this stage.

Tianhao has a trace of apology for the great teacher.

He promised that he would "not aim the butcher's knife at his own people".

Historically, many of the loyalists have not come to a good end, either by conspirators or forced to go to the guillotine, where they become the ultimate bargaining chip to eliminate the king's suspicions. There are also disputes within the Ox Clan, not to mention the King of the Fierce Ox being the best example.

Judging from the overall construction volume of Tianjing, the proportion of military buildings is not high, at most only 0.5 percent, or even lower. Xu Kun has always been worried about this, and he has asked for several additional towers and exterior walls, but Tianhao has vetoed them.

At present, these defensive measures in the new city are only expedient, in Tianhao's view, the real military defense must be set up on the periphery of the territory, if you can't even keep there, let alone any "internal warfare".

Two days ago, the search and exploration team had good news that they had discovered a plain in the northern part of the continent. The specific location is in the northeast direction of A43, more than 600 kilometers away from A43600 kilometers under construction. From there, the tall mountain range gradually flattens along the north side, with a drop of more than 1,400 meters, and the surrounding hills are densely wooded, but they are bound by an invisible force, resulting in the forest not being able to spread, allowing only wild grasses to grow on the plains at the bottom of the hills, covering an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers.

It was a huge plain. Tianhao was not without purpose, and he sent an exploration team according to the satellite monitoring map provided by the "old ma". The lofty mountains and mountains blocked the expansion of the barbarian ancestors, but they firmly held this land of lush water and grass and became the trophy of Tianhao.

It can be used as a new livestock farm, the only problem is that it is too far away from Rock City, so it can only send personnel from Jia43 to send supplies to open up the steep mountains and connect with the interior of the territory.

Crooked Tooth sent someone to bring in the newly developed musket.

The barrel made of alloy steel is two meters long, which is the figure that Tianhao has calculated after many calculations based on the average height of the barbarians. The length of the barrel determines the range, and thanks to the enhanced version of the gunpowder formula, the round lead bullet can be highly lethal when fired.

Even more numbing to the scalp was the caliber of the musket, which reached a full twenty millimeters.

The sheer size of the northern barbarians determined that they were different from the southern whites in many ways. The same is true with weapons. In the eyes of the barbarians, the caliber of twenty millimeters is really thin, and the curved teeth have sent people to repeatedly ask Tianhao before, "Should the caliber of the new musket be doubled and raised to forty millimeters?" ”

The round solid warhead cannot be compared with the sharp warhead of the civilized era, and due to scientific and technological factors, Tianhao currently has no better way to improve it. He could only briefly explain the relationship between the thrust of gunpowder and the mass, speed, and lethality of the bullet to the curved teeth, and required that the curved teeth must add rifling to the inside of the barrel while developing the musket.

According to the logic of human beings in the era of civilization, 20 mm caliber thermal weapons have been removed from the category of "guns" and must be labeled as the concept of "cannons".

The surface of the round projectile is engraved with a pattern, which coincides with the rifling inside the barrel, which ensures good air tightness.

Tianhao fired a shot at the target, and at a distance of eighty meters, the steel plate with a thickness of one centimeter was torn, causing a flared hole from the outside to the inside.

Such lethality is already strong enough, and it is impossible for the white southerners to fight in such heavy armor under any circumstances, they cannot bear this weight.

The accuracy of the shot barely satisfied Tianhao. This musket was very primitive, not much different from the early flintlock pistols, the hammer ignited the gunpowder would emit a large amount of smoke, and the firing had a certain delay, so it could only rely on a dense formation to ensure the fire of the platoon.

At present, it is impossible to achieve a fire cap fire, which requires the development of mercury thunderate, and Tianhao has nothing to do about it.

But one way or another, this is a full-fledged weapon, and the biggest problem at the moment is production.

Rifling and gun control made about the production of muskets, and there was abundant water power on Jeju Island, so four suitable places were selected to set up military factories. Based on the current manpower and resources, the monthly output of muskets is about 90, but with the large-scale construction of water conservancy workshops, the output will continue to increase.

Cheonho has ordered the cessation of the traditional longbow manufacturing project, and the remote equipment department of the Panseong Military Factory has been consolidated into two parts: one part is sent to Jeju Island to participate in the development and manufacture of muskets led by curved teeth, and the other part is dedicated to the manufacture of heavy military crossbows. The manpower ratio of the two is seven to three, and the former is significantly higher than the latter.

Science changes everything.

In Tianhao's view, in fact, the Niu clan should have abandoned the longbow a long time ago and fully produced a more flexible and lethal individual machine crossbow. The advantages of metal forging allowed the cattle to learn to use springs very early, and batch generation was not a problem. They have developed mental limitations in the use of weapons, perhaps because of ancestor worship, or because they may have some kind of misunderstanding about the Eagle archers, who have always been mixed with crossbowmen in the Ox army, and the former is much more numerous than the latter.

They apparently do not know what "firepower" means.

From the point of view of production efficiency, the production cycle of a good longbow is far greater than that of a crossbow, and the training of an archer is extremely brutal, far less simple than that of a crossbowman.

Until the musket unit is formed, the Rock Collar will maintain a certain number of crossbowmen.

White Southerners echo Tianhao's views in this regard. Bonnard and the sailors aboard the Obsidian confirmed that the Five Kingdoms and the Holy See army were a mix of musketeers and archers. Of course, "archers" is just a colloquial term for a habitual concept, and more than a decade ago, the armies of the southern kingdoms stopped using longbows and switched to machine crossbows.

Broken Tooth belongs to the kind of guy who is not very smart, but has a persistent mind. He regarded his poor English as the most vicious enemy in the world, and he memorized it desperately.

He doesn't learn very efficiently, but he learns quickly. From the perspective of a teacher in the civilized era, Broken Teeth belongs to students who are diligent and hardworking, but their brains are not very smart.

As a bonus, Tianhao threw him the new weapon and fired a few shots at the range.

“BIG！” The brute-toothed savage immediately fell in love with the weapon, and he slipped his fingers in and out of the hot metal muzzle, ignoring the temperature of the barrel he had just fired, and shouted the new words he had just learned: "All big things are good, and that's what men should use." I love big, I love this gun! ”

Tianhao raised his hand to cover his face next to him.

He felt that Broken Tooth's understanding of real life was so pure.

It's a good thing it's just a musket that's in the experimental stage, and if it's a larger caliber gun, God knows what amazing things this bastard will come up with.