Chapter 274: The Temple Messenger (6200 words)

In the afternoon, the first formal meal of the students in the West Continent was charcoal-grilled pomfret. 【】

The big pomfret is a figurative term that lives in the depths of the river, either in groups of three or five, or alone, feeding on other large fish, and is often not interested in animals that are smaller than their teeth.

However, due to the strong interest of Xiao fat man Li Changning, this flat fish with teeth and body length has been developed in a variety of ways to eat, among which charcoal grilling is the most delicious.

At the banquet he entertained, while raising the glass full of fruit wine, he introduced with a smile: "Don't look at the ferocious appearance of the big pomfret in the Western Continent, in fact, the taste is the best. There is a saying that a beast that eats grass is better than a beast that eats rou, a fish that eats rou is better than a fish that eats grass, and a poisonous snake is better than a non-venomous snake. So, let go of your belly and eat. ”

Although the appearance was a little scary, under the leadership of the students who came earlier, the new students still tasted the big pomfret in fear.

Before eating, many people are sad to think: I will eat this kind of thing in the future.

After eating, everyone was very relieved to think: finally there will be a stutter in the future.

The student Zuo Yi was still a little frightened by the big pomfret with a radius of two or three meters, and Hu Luan ate some side dishes, and after hún had a round belly, he asked to walk around.

Yu Weichao arranged for two natives to accompany him, and he pulled She Lei, Sang Chengqiang, Li Changning and others to start talking with the new students, which was naturally the previous unit leader's style, and he inherited it very well - it is still very necessary to talk heart-to-heart, the martial arts students came to the Western Continent, just like the students who were originally going to go to the picnic, but after arriving at their destination excitedly, they were forced to participate in survival training.

Chen Yi assumed his identity, sat on the side, drank fruit wine, and read Kaman's interrogation report. Ever since he had taken the oath, Carman had basically known everything, not at all - ordinary information on the mainland, news about the big road goods in Mara City, how to ask how to have it, some of which were confidential, often kept silent, and answered quite tactfully.

"Is he loyal to the temple or is he keeping his oath?" Chen Yi thought in his heart, but walked towards the battlefield that day.

The Xijiang Water Village has been paved with hard cement, clean and tidy, and some of it looks like an ordinary township center in the 21st century.

The walled wall also continues to expand, and the outer part of the luolù seems to be made of reinforced concrete. At least 300 indigenous workers are busy on the kilometre end of the wall to the south. They are all villagers near Shuizhai, such as Yun Village, Shangyun Village, Hunting Village, Stone Village, Mu Village and so on. Chen Yilong has a lot of money, and Yu Weichao is happy to give money, and the villagers can get several times the reward from Mara City, which is equivalent to tying up the interests of both parties, thus forming a community that is not close.

This is also the main reason why Chen Yi agreed with Yu Weichao to expand the walled city. Judging from the results and process of this battle, it is clear that the Bunker played a greater role. Xijiang Water Village relies on the power of hot weapons, not the bow and arrow of cold weapons, and the only function of the towering and strong city wall is to make the vision of the hand broader, but in front of the master of the fighting skill, it also increases the casualty rate, and it is not easy to train an indigenous hand hand. However, relying on infrastructure construction to stimulate internal demand and stabilize the people's hearts is a superb invention of the modern political power, and Hitler has made a great undertaking from this.

The water village is very xiao, while observing and thinking, I walked to the river beach. There was still a scarlet face on the wet mud floor, but in the process of rising and falling, it became lighter and lighter.

The red sè in the river has long disappeared without a trace, and on the wide river, it seems that there has never been a massacre of 3,000 people.

Li Changning came to the river beach at some point, and when he saw Chen Yiwang's distraction, he tiptoed up to him and greeted him with a smile: "Curator." ”

Chen Yi let out an "um" sound.

Li Changning seemed to be encouraged, and said with emotion: "I participated in the whole battle that day, which was actually a bit thrilling. ”

"Oh?" Chen Yi became interested. The first-hand comments of the parties are different from the reports that are read later.

Li Changning began to describe the black and black ships he saw after waking up, and talked about the scene of entering the bunker and more than ten fire dragons tearing apart the phalanx of heavy infantry, and only skipped the incident of sleeping while he was on duty, and sighed: "Fortunately, there are steel plates outside the bunker, and I remember that when I fired the gun, there were at least thirty or fifty javelins, which crossed a distance of 2 kilometers and hit the bunker." There was also a javelin that went into the observation hole of the bunker and almost pinned the deputy's hand. ”

Speaking of the thrill, he paused and said: "The observation hole of our bunker is straight, and the javelin is obliquely slanted, I don't know how they did it, if the angle is a little more correct, there will be casualties that day." ”

Chen Yi nodded lightly. From Kaman's description, it is known that the soldiers of the heavy infantry battalion are at least at least the level of physical skill level 5 or above, that is, the level of combat masters who surpass the special forces. In view of the fact that the heavy infantry is obviously biased towards high muscles, high loads and high defense, it can be imagined that its cold weapons team combat must be superior to that of combat masters, and the Xiao officers among them can often reach the level of fighting skills, and although it is an exaggeration to throw javelins as far as 2 kilometers, it can be done after all.

Seeing that he was not interested in this, Li Changning turned his head desperately, and said: "I calculated when I went back, from the time the sentry found the enemy to the time we prepared the heavy machine gun fire, it took 10 minutes to say the least. The heavy infantry had to disembark first, then line up in formation on foot, and finally they all began to set off, and we attacked. If it's cavalry, it's dangerous to have no walls. ”

Chen Yi finally raised his eyebrows and asked, "10 minutes?" ”

"Yes." Li Changning said solemnly. When he first came to the Western Continent, he was in a rather bad mood, but just like Yu Weichao, Li Changning at this time had a lot of ideas. At least when they were on Earth, they were civilians at the bottom of society, and even if they entered the martial arts hall, they were still civilians with a little money. It's different in the Western Continent, not to mention being able to manage as many natives, just the distribution of various materials and the achievements of building cities, and there is a great ambition to open up in the heart. Come to think of it, those officials who have risen in the impoverished counties and townships, and those adventurers and butchers who set sail in the Age of Discovery, have this mentality.

The current Li Changning is desperately hoping to get Chen Yi's further recognition and thus grasp greater power. And for now, he, who has participated in and commanded the battle from beginning to end, does have the capital.

Chen Yi listened to his words and fell into deep thought.

According to the standards of the Kingdom of San Chio, a team of 50 full knights can only have a maximum of 5 minutes from preparing for battle to entering battle, and the skilled team will even have time to wipe down their weapons and equipment.

Thinking about it this way, if Mara City sent the Jingrui cavalry of that day to attack from the river beach in his absence, it would obviously not take five minutes to buffer for just two or three kilometers. When the cavalry entered the water village, the role of the dark fortress was minimal. In this way, even if the other party is repulsed, the water village will suffer a very big blow......

Chen Yi raised his head and asked, "Do you want to build a city wall on the river beach?" ”

In the era of cold weapons, the city wall was the best weapon to deal with the cavalry, and the Ming city wall was built the most, and the relationship with the ancients was not xiao. Today's Badaling Great Wall Tourism Company and other organizations should thank our ethnic minority friends for their long-term support and love, without their dedication and sacrifice over the years, there would be no black tour guides and wild lilies inside and outside the Great Wall today.

Li Changning didn't want to do architecture, he missed the crisp sound of the 12.7mm copper egg, and said: "I think there are two points to improve." ”

"Huh?"

"The first is to build our own armed forces, modeled on the inspection team system of the martial arts hall, so that foreign mercenaries and natives do not learn to rebel with weapons. At the same time, it is necessary to send more secret posts to educate the indigenous people on militarization. ”

In the past, I didn't dare to educate because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to fight back, but now some of the newly supplemented students are not afraid.

Chen Yi felt good and nodded in agreement.

Li Changning was greatly encouraged, and said: "Second, I think it is possible to lay mines and install some warning devices, like the ones used in museums. ”

Chen Yi was still thinking about where the mines were going, and suddenly there was a sound of "poof" and "poof" in front of him, and several aborigines with a lot of beards crawled out of the riverbank, holding something in their hands, shouting excitedly.

"What's going on?"

Li Changning said with some embarrassment: "They are looking for a warhead." ”

"Looking for a warhead?"

"Yes." Li Changning coughed twice and said: "The price of metal in the Western Continent is expensive, and the warheads of heavy machine guns are heavy, so we have recovered all the warheads on land as much as possible, but not in the water." ”

"How many bullets did you recover?"

"About less than 100,000."

The M2 Browning is a large-caliber heavy machine gun, much heavier than the general-purpose machine guns that were equipped after World War II. The bullets purchased by Chen Yi belong to NATO bullets, all of which are copper warheads and weigh 42 grams, while tracer bullets and armor-piercing incendiary bullets are slightly lighter, also 40 grams. Using the weights and measures familiar to Chinese is equivalent to one or two bullets.

In the battle on the river beach, the 19tǐng heavy machine gun swept non-stop for 20 minutes, using up 200,000 rounds of ammunition, equivalent to 8,000 kilograms, removing the recovered part, and leaving 4,000 kilograms. Not to mention the indigenous people, even if it is placed on the earth, 4 tons of copper will be sold for a lot of money.

Seeing that Chen Yishen was silent, Li Changning hurriedly said: "The water of the Xijiang River is getting deeper and deeper in the center, and the deepest depth is said to be nearly 100 meters, which is equivalent to the sea, and only a few local natives can dive 20 meters underwater...... Now, I heard that some pearl divers from afar have come to the water to collect warheads. ”

Chen Yi couldn't cry or laugh, but when he thought about it, this was not a very bad thing. For him, there is no point in recovering the warhead, the heavy machine gun is not suitable for reloading ammunition, and 100,000 rounds of ammunition, that is, a matter of a large truck, soon after the construction of the Jiangjing storage area, he will be able to drive to the original subway station, let alone now.

"Isn't Yu Weichao going to make his own currency?" Chen Yi suddenly spoke up and said, "You go and tell him to find a way to recover the warhead, and use it as a material to make copper coins or something." ”

"Huh? Good. ”

"And ...... I have a long reserve of bullets this time, and then I will come back in a few days, and you students can use them to practice, collect the warheads, and use them all as currency. I'll buy a set of coinage machines tomorrow. ”

While the two of them were talking, Yun Wu hurried over and said in half-baked words: "The messenger of Mara City is here." ”

Chen Yi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Oh? Check it out. ”

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The messenger muse stopped 3 kilometers outside the city walls. It was a troop of cavalrymen, dressed in elaborate leather armor and with beautiful red linen cloaks, and each of them rode the same beasts. It looks like a guard of honor is more than a battle.

Despite this, the 4tǐng heavy machine gun on the front of the southern city wall turned on the bolt and made an aiming stance. Several cadets also jumped up and down, urging the indigenous soldiers to carry the heavy machine guns that had just been buttered from the warehouse to the front wall. Yesterday, Kaman alone withstood the heavy machine guns of 3 bunkers, and the cadets didn't know that he was burning the source energy, but they only felt that any officer in Mara City was so terrifying.

Of course, for the military leaders of Mara City, the Xijiang Water Village is the most terrifying place. There is their inner jiān in the water village, and what happened yesterday reached Mara City without waiting for lunchtime. The phalanx of heavy infantry that had not been in a whole battalion had died for many years - although the 1,000 heavy infantry and borrowed cavalry that Carman had arranged for the front that day had returned to the barracks intact, the third heavy infantry battalion was dead in name only, and the cancellation of the number was inevitable. It is said that the temple priest threw out all the silver utensils, and the 3,000 people far exceeded the limit of non-war deaths, let alone the deaths of the system.

If it were possible, the Malla City Temple would be eager to completely annihilate the Xijiang Water Village, and if possible, every dropout would be Bill Gates.

Chen Yi stood on the city wall, looked at the 20-person cavalry from afar, smiled, and said, "Did they send a message?" ”

Yu Weichao took out a piece of linen cloth with ghost talismans and gave it to Chen Yi, and whispered backwards: "You come on." ”

A local interpreter groveled, "The letter was written by the chief priest Iyar, who asked us to quickly release the captured soldiers, return their armor, return the remains of the fallen soldiers, and finally ask the head of the water village to go to Mara City to explain the situation to the temple and the Senate. ”

"What about the rewards they give?"

"Nope." The translator answered accurately.

Chen Yi laughed and said, "What a barbarian. I know. ”

With that, he turned and descended the city wall.

Yu Weichao caught up and said, "What should we do next?" ”

"No reward means no things that we ask them to do, and they ask us to do things...... What's the hurry. ”

Chen Yi returned to the water village. The muse was still shaking her beautiful red linen cloak, waiting for the people of the water village to summon her with sincere fear.

At least on the surface, it was a sincere summons.

However, after waiting for a long, long time, until the sky was gray, there was no reply in the water village.

"It can't be illiterate." The more the Muse thought about it, the more he thought it was possible, so he hastened to order: "Tybetus, you go to the city wall and shout, and read the contents of our letter to them again." ”

Tibeitu glanced at the muse faintly, like a lonely widow.

"It is said that their bows and arrows can go far."

"I believe in you." The muse's determined gaze is very charming, but if you look beyond the eyes, you will feel that this guy looks like a mouse with a pointed chin.

With his red cloak, he was probably more like a bat. In any case, the work of persuasion in Shuizhai is a hot potato, and such an insignificant person as a non-muse is not enough to take on this heavy responsibility.

The smarter knights could understand the essence of the orders given by the Elders' Church, but the muse didn't know, and he fantasized about all the glory after this great achievement, but he didn't expect that Chen Yi had already entered the water village and started his own business, and he didn't even bother to pay attention to him.

Taibei roared outside the city wall for half an afternoon as if he were nervous, and did not retreat in panic until the five searchlights of the night came.

With Chen Yi's relationship, it is easy to borrow or buy these police equipment from the warehouse of a certain bureau, and then use some repair costs -- it may be more expensive than the equipment itself, but its performance is not bad.

The blazing light was paraded in front of the city wall, and the muse and others who watched it were panicked, and even the fighting spirit poured out, and the natives on the city wall were also suspicious, but they saw more things in the Xijiang Water Village, and they didn't shout.

Yu Weichao gently closed the window, and also isolated the hustle and bustle outside.

Chen Yi was working in a room not far from the city wall, and he had an intelligence book in his hand, which was mainly all kinds of public intelligence information. This booklet was collected by the Yuncun people sent out to Mara City after they learned that the city had replaced the poll tax with the entrance tax. All the power of Xijiang Water Village is in the hands of the martial arts students, and the so-called jiān details can only collect public information, so that the information of the two sides is equal.

The most important and necessary thing to understand in this information book is the absolute force of Mara City and the nearby city-states - 7 flag bearers with fighting skills below level 5, 4 flag bearers with fighting skills below level 7, plus 4 senate nobles of a similar degree, constitute the highest military class in Mara City. In the belief city-state of the Water Dragon Temple, there are only 5 paladins with divine skills, which is equivalent to the number of priests of magicians not exceeding 1,000.

It is impossible to resist the paladin with a heavy machine gun, but with the remoteness of Mara City, I am afraid that the city-state will fall, and there will be no paladins to care.

Judging from the temple texts copied by the Yuncun people, Mara City is as far away as Hong Kong is relative to Beijing compared to the Water Dragon Temple. Since there is no Maxiang Railway, in such a closed and backward environment, there is almost no need to consider the threat of mages and paladins.

"Build a road to Mara City." Chen Yi finally finished reading the intelligence book. Many of these published information were books purchased from Mara City, as well as some temple texts, senate notices, and so on, which had accumulated in the hundreds in recent years, but what he had at hand was the "important information" that had been translated first.

Yu Weichao was taken aback, and said in a speech: "Build to Mara City? ”

"Not enough cement?"

"No...... Yes, there is a large amount of volcanic ash nearby that can be transported by boat. But...... Highway, how to defend it? ”

"I think the clan concept in the Western Continent is very strong, as long as you have a good relationship with the nearby villages, naturally no one will attack your idea of the highway. If not, use the Silver Bullet Attack, and maybe they'll have to do you a favor. Chen Yi also said this after seeing the relationship between Shangyun Village and Yuncun.

Yu Weichao knew that sooner or later the highway would have to be built, and if it was an ancient army fighting, Hannibal had been fighting on the land of Rome for many years. However, the logistical support of the modern army must rely on roads and railways, otherwise it will be too late to carry horses with heavy machine gun bullets alone. The wheelbarrows of the Chinese Civil War were also pushed on the road, not in the meadows and forests.

However, thinking of Kaman, who was chasing Chen Yiran with heavy machine gun bullets that day, Yu Weichao said with great uncertainty: "The army of Mara City will interfere." ”

"Interference is going to be fought back. While the highway is being built, you also have to learn to fight at the same time. When Chen Yi said this, he lowered his voice and laughed: "If Mara City doesn't beat you, you don't have to look for ballast, otherwise, don't be polite." In addition, I will send another 50 trainees for a month at most. ”

Seeing that it was Chen Yi's established policy, Yu Weichao could only accept it, thinking of countermeasures with a sad face.

On the other hand, Chen Yi asked again: "Do you have a very stable grasp of the indigenous groups of the Western Continent now?" ”

Yu Weichao put aside the troubles he had just obtained, sat up straight and said, "The people of Yuncun are still trustworthy. Xiayun Village is also good. ”

"What about Shangyun Village?"

"Shangyun Village in Mara City is the core of seven or eight Zhongxiao Yun villages nearby, which is relatively old-fashioned." Chen Yi bowed slightly, and said in an instant: "You pick a few absolutely loyal candidates, and I will take them to Jiangning." ”

Yu Weichao was dumbfounded when he heard this, and it wasn't until Li Changning next to him touched him that he said slowly: "Yun Five, Yun Eight and Yun Twelve, Yun Thirteen." ”

"I've seen Yun Wu, the one with a green turban? Yun Eight is strong, and Yun Thirteen is a skinny xiaoxiao guy? ”

"Yun 13 has a very good language talent, and many books have been translated by him." Li Changning quickly added: "It only took him a few months to hear and write Chinese, and Yun XII is an indigenous shepherd, the master of a heavy machine gun." ”

To be able to master a heavy machine gun in the water wall, it is obvious that you have to have a lot of trust. Chen Yi nodded, and asked again: "In terms of highways, do you need any equipment?" ”

Yu Weichao pondered for a moment and said, "Weapon." ”

"Oh?"

"We can ask the natives to do the transportation of volcanic ash, buildings, etc., but if the defense is not good......"

"I'm trying to figure it out." Chen Yi closed the PDA in his hand, which represented the end of the evening xiao.

Yu Weichao and Li Changning got up to say goodbye. Because of trust, She Lei did not attend today's meeting.

Early the next morning. The muse, dressed like a female bat, dressed in the morning lù, came to the front of the Xijiang Water Village. It's not that their courage has increased, but that today's Xijiang Walled City has reopened, and a large number of indigenous people who come and go have dispelled some of their doubts.

Of course, the pride of the muse will not change, and he rides a tall horse, condescending to the native soldiers, and in the eyes of the "dirty civilians": "I want to see your lord." ”

"Please register." The indigenous soldier who had received a basic administrative education put down his spear, took out a crude Xiao student workbook and a ballpoint pen from the duty booth on the right side of the city, and placed it in front of the muse.

Another "dirty civilian" armed with a spear pointed to the "donation box" on the other side and said, "The entrance fee is a thin penny per person." ”

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