"Your Majesty, ever since you opened the Nantian Gate and led us into the Otherworld to obtain the Martial Arts Cultivation Method, the imperial court has begun to promote transcendent powers." In the study, the first assistant of the cabinet made a detailed report to Li Xuan.

"Now, almost two years have passed! The Tang Empire cultivated 217 first-order generals, two second-order generals, and 58 first-order scribes. ”

"A large number of masters have been naturalized from the other world, and there are 1,163 first-order generals......"

"Most of the generals have been trained into Taoist soldiers by the imperial court, and there are more than 1,300 Taoist soldiers in total."

Li Xuan looked at the information in his hand, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

The huge national strength of the Tang Empire has created a large number of first-order transcendents in just two years.

The number of Dao soldiers has reached 1,300 people, which is enough to kill most of the fourth-order powerhouses, this is the strongest force in the Tang Empire except for Li Xuan!

Of course, the reason why so many Dao soldiers can be trained in a short period of time is largely because Nanhua Lao Xian contributed 1,200 sets of Dao soldier equipment.

If there is no Dao soldier equipment, it is impossible to form a joint force with the help of the formation engraved on the equipment, and it is useless to have a large number of people.

"There are so many people in the Tang Empire, except for the powerhouses recruited from the other world, only Zhao Xin and Chen Fu have broken through to become second-order transcendentals?" Li Xuan actually knew that cultivation was a matter of accumulation over time, and there was not enough time to boil it up, and it was difficult to break through to a high rank.

Even genius scribes like Guo Jia and Zhou Yu, and genius generals like Lu Bu and Zhao Yun, they all started practicing at a young age, and only broke through to the third order at the age of about twenty and became first-class scribes or first-class generals.

"It seems that for a long time in the future, the Tang Empire will have to reuse those talents from the Gaowu Three Kingdoms World until the extraordinary talents of the Tang World slowly grow up." Li Xuan shook his head, anyway, the people of the two worlds were his people.

Now is not the time to think about this, the reason why Li Xuan called the cabinet chief assistant is to ask about the manpower and material resources that the Tang Empire can deploy.

After dormant for so long, the Tang Empire has barely digested Yanzhou and can expand externally.

This time, the target he chose was Xuzhou!

Xuzhou was attacked by Cao Cao once before, suffered heavy casualties, and has not recovered so far.

And the three brothers of Liu Bei, who relied on Xuzhou Assassin Shi Taoqian, have long been subject to Li Xuan, and there is no doubt about being a traitor.

Just imagine, when the two armies are fighting, Li Xuan suddenly urges the mark of the Tianwei Gate and makes Liu Bei fight back, what will the result be?

Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian must be cold!

"Your Majesty, now is indeed the best time to send troops." The first assistant minister said confidently: "The imperial court has accumulated some war preparation materials, which is enough to sustain a million-strong army for cross-border operations!" ”

"An army of millions, it's enough. Spread my order, attack Xuzhou! ”

The Tang Empire is like a beast that has been dormant for a long time, and on this day it finally showed its hideous fangs.

Thousands of airships floated eastward, and each airship carried more than 100 soldiers on it, adding up to 100,000 troops!

This is just the vanguard of the Tang Empire, and there is a metal storm formed by armored tanks on the ground!

Where can the local troops in Xuzhou stop it? In the blink of an eye, several counties were lost, and after the news spread, the world was shocked.

Tao Qian immediately asked Liu Bei to take his headquarters to meet the enemy, and also took out another 100,000 troops and handed them over to Liu Bei for wartime control.

In addition to this, he also sent people to ask the surrounding princes for help.

Under the influence of Heavenly Dao, Yuan Shao, Shaoshu, and even Cao Cao, the boss of Cao Cao, who had just bullied Tao Qian not long ago, came to form princes to jointly resist the invasion of the Tang Empire.

In the land of Guanzhong, the Xiliang Military Group, which had been constantly fighting, suddenly gave up the struggle for power and profit, and raised 300,000 troops to kill out of Guanzhong, wanting to give the Tang Empire a backstab and take the opportunity to attack Yanzhou.

There is also Liu Biao in Jingzhou, this guy was originally just a dog guarding the household, and even the princes did not participate in the discussion.

But this time, he did his best to fight Jingzhou, borrowed Yuzhou, and ran over to attack Yanzhou!

The Tang Empire dispatched troops and sent generals, let Jia Xu be the military advisor, and took Xu Chu, Tai Shici, Zhang Liao, Zuo Ci, Yu Ji and others to stay in Yanzhou.

Li Xuan personally took the two fourth-order powerhouses of Nanhua Lao Immortal and Lu Bu, the three scribes of Zhou Yu, Guo Jia, and Lu Su, as well as Gao Shun, Chen Dao, and 1,300 Dao soldiers, which were enough to resist the world's masters.

The two sides will fight in Xuzhou, and the Tang Empire still wants to carry out an aerial bombardment according to the custom, but the enemy has already prepared.

I saw that the coalition side launched hundreds of ballistas, these ballistas have been magically modified, with the blessing of the formation, they can shoot crossbow arrows to a height of two thousand meters, and then explode!

In this way, the Tang Empire can be said to have suffered a big loss, dozens of airships were shot down in the blink of an eye, and other airships had to be quickly pulled up and flew to an altitude of three or four thousand meters.

Flying so high, the bombing will definitely not be effective.

Not to mention that the scenery on the ground was not clear, 99 out of 100 bombs were dropped in the clearing.

Li Xuan's ears were bright and clear, and he put those ballistas in his eyes from afar, and his eyes were glowing with golden light.

It's a good thing, and it can be used as anti-aircraft artillery. The arrow can shoot two thousand meters high, and the power of the explosion is comparable to that of a cannonball!

And this ballista can attack in the air, what if it is a flat fire?

This thought flashed through Li Xuan's heart, and more than a hundred ballistas changed from vertical shooting to 35-degree oblique shooting.

After those arrows left the ballista, they shot directly out tens of thousands of meters!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Artillery and crossbow arrows were fired, and the two sides naturally fought back and forth.

The artillery of the Tang Empire had a longer range and could attack for tens of miles. But the distance is too far, and it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy, after all, the fire control system has not yet reached the level of Li Xuan's previous life.

The crossbow carts of the princes' coalition army simply resisted with the rate of fire.

"Go on, don't stop, drain their arrows first!" Li Xuan sneered.

The explosion power of those arrows is not inferior to that of artillery, because of the formation engraved on them!

How much can the princes' coalition prepare for such arrows?

On the other hand, the cannonballs of the Tang Empire are manufactured by countless arsenals on assembly lines, and if the manufacturing power is raised to the limit, it is enough to supply tens of millions of troops for thousands of years!

Today it was just a tentative attack, and the artillery bombardment of the Tang Empire was non-stop. After a day and a night, the crossbow bolts on the opposite side were completely dumbfounded, leaving only some for air defense.

Li Xuan secretly monitored Liu Bei through the Tianwei Gate, and Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Tao Qian and others arranged their troops, many of which were included in his eyes, and there were no secrets to speak of.

It turned out that those ballistas were specially built by Cao Cao, and the production method was spread all over the world, which was specially used to deal with the Tang Empire!

What's more, these natives even secretly stole some guns and artillery from the Tang Empire and prepared to imitate them......

Imitation is imitation, Li Xuan can't wait for the other party to be like this.

Give up their strengths and fight machine guns, artillery, locomotives and tanks with the Tang Empire, and the Tang Empire can completely rely on its huge population base and industrial production capacity to crush them back and forth!

There is an other party who uses manpower and material resources to build Dao soldiers, and it can cause more trouble to the Tang Empire.