Chapter 236, Combat Readiness
When the ghost clan was killing in the north in the past 5 years, Daqi and other forces were not idle, and the living people in the whole world, demons, water tribes, sea tribes, and the court of Daqi all sent envoys to propose an alliance to deal with the ghost clan together.
The water tribe and the demon clan are okay, the ghost clan has not hurt them a lot, the monsters in the entire northern land have been killed, and they have been made into war puppets by the ghost clan, and the Yellow River water tribe has all died, after all, there is not much difference between the land and the bottom of the water for the skeletons, and the Yellow River Hebo fled to the Yangtze River after fighting out his men, and then fled to the Yangtze River and took refuge in the Yangtze River Longjun, so the water tribe and the demon clan are very clear about the danger of the ghost clan, everyone has a skin pain, and the alliance is naturally easy. They know that if they don't unite with the Terrans, everyone will die at the hands of the Ghost Clan.
But the sea clan and the ghost clan in the sea do not intersect, they even have a deep enmity with the court of Daqi, although they also know the harm of the ghost clan, but they want to be fishermen, so they are not interested in forming an alliance, just let some envoys come to the territory of Daqi, and even the front line of the war with the ghost clan to see the strength of the ghost clan!
And Xu Hao was not idle, the Great Qi court worked hard to train the army, built fortresses everywhere along the Yangtze River, raised the walls of Xiangyang County, improved defense, and made allies to prepare for the upcoming war.
And Xu Hao used his own methods to prepare for future wars.
He led the entire Yuzhang County to rapidly expand the production of steel and other war materials, and the iron and steel plant alone was established by more than a dozen, blast furnace and open hearth furnace are all made with mana, and the site hardening is also made of mud into stone, it can be said that with the mana, a steel plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons can be established in only one month, recruit a group of qualified workers, and a steel plant can start.
Xu Haoxin established more than a dozen iron and steel mills, various blast furnaces, and hundreds of open-hearth furnaces, which directly made the steel output of Yuzhang County exceed tens of millions of tons, which has far exceeded the volume of the first industrial revolution.
And supporting what chemical plants, machinery factories and other heavy industry industries are hundreds of thousands of growth, the entire Yuzhang County has become a heavy industry city, 99% of the world's industry is in Yuzhang County, the service here is more than 3 million workers, and even more than 30,000 monks in the foundation period as senior engineers, in order to let this deformed industrial monster grow!
Daqi Heavy Industry has expanded hundreds of times or within 5 years, which is impossible to achieve even if it is a satellite in Xu Hao's world. But in the world of Daqi, relying on many monks and aura plug-ins were really done by Xu Hao, it can be said that the industrialization of this world has now become a military industry, and the current Yuzhang County is more than the original three virtues, if it is not for the current crisis of extinction, even if there is the support of the whole world, such an industrial body will go bankrupt.
With the strong support of Xu Hao and the Great Qi court, the railway spread throughout the south, and the whole south became a construction site, and most of the 30 million refugees who fled to the south became construction workers, they were either building railways or building bridges, and the speed of the railway was more than 100 kilometers a day, and the straight railways and steel bridges connected the entire south, so that the power of the entire southern human race was connected. Strengthen the strength of the entire South.
And the excess steel Xu Hao did not continue to make swords, after all, it is the ghost clan that is now outnumbered, and the human race needs more powerful strength to defeat the ghost clan, so Xu Hao opened up the production of firearms.
Started to make muskets and artillery in Yuzhang County, although the muskets are simple flintlock guns, and the artillery is also a simple backyard cannon, but these weapons can already allow ordinary people to have the strength not to lose to the monks of the foundation building period, and can make the entire human race a soldier!
Chu Chengjun took the flintlock pistol and artillery made by Xu Hao to Yuzhang County, and in front of the emperor and the important ministers of the Great Qi court, he showed what it means to line up to shoot and what it means to fire ten thousand cannons, after seeing the power of the weapon. The emperor and these important ministers of the imperial court were overjoyed, this was simply God helping them, facing such a powerful opponent as the ghost clan, they needed this powerful weapon too much to arm the imperial army.
The emperor immediately handed over his inner treasury and all the gold of the imperial court to Xu Hao, and set an order for 10 million flintlock pistols and 100,000 artillery pieces, asking Xu Hao to produce these weapons with all his might.
This is already about the same as the order volume of the First World War, and it is generally impossible to manufacture it with the industrialization level of Yuzhang County.
But in this cultivation world, after all, the attachment of aura, after receiving the order from the imperial court, Xu Hao expanded the weapons factory, and the production capacity continued to grow explosively, in the first year Xu Hao produced 100,000 flintlock pistols and hundreds of artillery, and in the second year, the production capacity increased to 500,000 flintlock guns, 2 million in the third year, 5 million in the fourth year, and now the annual output exceeds 10 million, not that Xu Hao does not want to increase, but the raw materials can't keep up, and he can't let him burst out more production capacity, but this is enough to complete the order of the imperial court.
The same is true for artillery, the number of steel is insufficient, and Xu Hao can only barely produce 100,000 guns a year, but now as long as the cities on the Yangtze River are basically placed with thousands of artillery, and Xiangyang County has 20,000 artillery, it can be said that most of the city wall is occupied by these artillery!
After the weapons were produced, Xu Hao also equipped them with demon slayers and loose cultivators, who kept fighting guerrillas in Jiangbei with flintlock pistols and artillery for bounties, but destroyed many skeletons and zombies of the ghost clan. Even in Helian Yongli in Jiangbei, relying on the power of firearms, Helian Yongli laid a large territory in the north.
It's just that after the ghost clan swept away all the cultivation realms in the entire northern land, Helian Yongli and them were very conspicuous, and the demon slayer was very conspicuous.
The Emperor of the Eternal Night began to send his soldiers to encircle and suppress the demon slayer and drive them out of his territory, and then the Emperor of the Eternal Night sent his subordinates to lead a million zombies to surround Helian Yongli's tribe, and the two sides fought hard for more than half a year, but even with Xu Hao's firearms support, Helian Yongli still crossed the Yangtze River and fled to the vicinity of Danyang County after killing 100,000 people.
After the northern land was completely occupied by the ghost clan, and the rear had been settled, they really turned their guns and began to assemble a large army, tens of millions of zombies and skeleton soldiers marching towards the south! And the direction of their march happened to be Xiangyang County!
For a while, the entire Great Qi world was about to come in a storm, and everyone stared at Xiangyang County to see if the former overlord of the human race was completely defeated by the ghost clan.