Chapter 171: The Demon Clan
After listening to the report of his subordinates, Agukos was also very strange, why didn't the Golden Eagle Emperor show up until now, could it be that something really went wrong with his cultivation, after all, the Golden Eagle Empire is now changing repeatedly, and it looks like it is about to die! Does that really mean he doesn't care?
However, this situation is also a good thing for him, now that the Golden Eagle Empire is worried about internal and external troubles, the little emperor can't do without him, and for a long time in the future, his position as the marshal of the empire is completely stable.
After instructing his subordinates with some new tasks, Agucoth began to recuperate from his injuries and regain his strength in his own home.
On the other hand, Guo Dafu went online again after resting for a few days in the name of inspecting the research institute.
And as soon as he went online, he heard the good news that the Desert Flying Eagle Gang Leader had actually successfully contacted many players from the Central Continent, and more than a thousand players had successfully arrived to converge.
These players were all the same as the Desert Flying Eagle before, they were chased by the demonized beasts to flee and hide, and they were about to give up one by one, but at this juncture, Guo Dafu came with a large army, and successfully defeated the million-strong army of the Golden Eagle Empire, which was considered to have successfully gained a foothold on the Central Continent, so those players gathered after learning the good news from the Desert Flying Eagle.
Guo Dafu is also very happy about this, after all, these players can persist until now, they must have one or two of their own unique skills, and they have been mixed in the Central Continent for so long, these players must be more familiar with the geographical environment here than him, an outsider, and then even if they just lead the way for the army, they can also make Guo Dafu and them take a lot less wrongful roads.
The only thing Guo Dafu is worried about is that these players will not be very obedient, after all, these players were either the leaders of those big gangs and big guilds or the top of the gang before, it can be said that they were all big shots before, and now it seems unrealistic to ask these guys to obediently obey their orders.
However, after really meeting with these players, Guo Dafu found that these guys are quite easy to get along with, and there are no thorns who dare to jump out to challenge their authority.
And most of these players are now dead in battle, and there are only a few dozen cronies left around them at most, facing Guo Dafu, who has hundreds of thousands of elite troops in his hands, of course, he doesn't dare to blow up.
Seeing that these guys were so knowledgeable, Guo Dafu also gave them some face, and each of them was given at least one second lieutenant rank, allowing them to enter the army as consultants to help study and plan the next tactics and march routes of the Blue Dragon Empire army.
During this time, in addition to these players who were invited by the Desert Flying Eagle to join the Blue Dragon Empire, there are also many fierce beasts who have also chosen to join actively, these fierce beasts are basically less eroded by demonic energy before, and after the aura recovers, they completely get rid of the influence of demonic energy, and those demonized beasts have become enemies of different camps, and the battle between the two sides is actually very fierce.
In order to defeat Guo Dafu before, the Golden Eagle Empire brought a lot of fierce beast cannon fodder to attack the city, and many of them were ordinary fierce beasts that were not demonized, which led to the grudge between the two sides getting deeper and deeper, and then after hearing that the Blue Dragon Empire defeated the million army of the Golden Eagle Empire, these ordinary fierce beasts that had been bullied and suppressed by demonized beasts before finally saw the hope of resistance, so they came over to join the Blue Dragon Empire.
This part of the fierce beasts that came to take the initiative to defect is about 800,000, excluding those old, weak, sick and disabled, Guo Dafu feels that he can pull out 30,000 or 40,000 elite war beasts whose strength is above the seventh level of the day after tomorrow.
And in order to be able to completely draw a line with those demonized beasts, these fierce beasts decided to change their names to the demon clan after discussing with the Tiger King, Xiaoqing and other beasts.
This is mainly because, Xiaoqing, they feel that these high-level fierce beasts that have awakened their spiritual intelligence are indeed very similar to the demon clan in the myths and legends of Orlan Star.
Guo Dafu has never interfered too much in the internal affairs of these beast clans, since Xiaoqing wants to do this, he also agreed, so that the fierce beasts of the Qinglong Empire will call themselves demon clans in the future.
As for the title of the fierce beast, it has gradually become the exclusive name of those demonized fierce beasts, and the two have gradually drawn a clear line.
And after another period of time, the news of the destruction of the million-strong army of the Golden Eagle Empire also reached the Blood Lion Empire, and the Wild Lion, the head of the battlefield observation group, also reported the situation to him in detail.
After listening to the report of the mad lion, the Blood Lion Emperor felt very happy, after all, don't look at the three fierce beast empires as allies, but in fact, there is also competition in secret, after all, who would like to share it with other countries if they can enjoy the entire Xuangu Continent alone!
Therefore, the Blood Lion Emperor would naturally be happy when he learned that the Golden Eagle Empire was deflated.
And some of the ministers below saw that their emperor was in a good mood, and even took the opportunity to pat themselves on the back, saying that the war between the Hanhai Empire and the Yingzhou Empire was getting hotter and hotter, and they were mired in the quagmire of war. Isn't this the heavens wanting to help them the Blood Lion Empire dominate the Xuangu Continent!
The Blood Lion Emperor listened to the sycophants of his subordinates, but he also thought so in his heart, so he decided to continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and wait until the Golden Eagle Empire and the Hanhai Empire were both defeated and injured by their opponents before making a move, unifying the entire Xuangu Continent in one fell swoop.
However, the Blood Lion Emperor also felt that these two allies could not be defeated too quickly, and inevitably, the blood of the Blue Dragon Empire and the Yingzhou Empire would be too little, and it would be quite difficult for him to eliminate them later.
Therefore, at a critical time, it is still necessary to come to the aid for a while, so that these two allies can continue to support, and fight with those two enemies all the time, bleed each other, and completely exhaust the last trace of strength.
And next, the Golden Eagle Empire and the Blue Dragon Empire are indeed accumulating their own strength and preparing for the next big war. As for the battle between the Hanhai Empire and the Yingzhou Empire, it has never stopped, and it is said that even the Sea Dragon Emperor, an emperor-level fierce beast equivalent to a great master of the human race, was injured a lot in the battle.
For a while, it seemed that only the scenery of the Wild Lion Empire was unique, and it was the destiny of heaven.
Guo Dafu didn't know the Wild Lion Empire at this time, and was ready to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight in the next battle between him and the Golden Eagle Empire, in his estimation, in the face of the invasion of the Blue Dragon Empire's army, these three fierce beast empires must be united to fight against foreign enemies, at least on the surface.
Therefore, he was frantically hoarding ammunition, grain, grass, and soldiers and horses during this time, just to be able to withstand the counterattack of these three empires at the same time in the next attack.
In order to increase the speed of hoarding materials, during this time, in the shipyards on Roaring Island and the Central Continent, they were working overtime to build the previous wood-hulled warships, although the combat effectiveness of this wood-hulled battleship is far inferior to the ironclad ship, but it is better than the manufacturing difficulty, even the Central Continent can be manufactured in large quantities.
Once built, these wooden-hulled warships were equipped with only a few small-caliber guns, which were then incorporated into the fleet as transports. Transporting supplies back and forth between Roaring Island and the Central Continent.
As the number of transport ships increases, so does the amount of material that the fleet can transport back and forth at a time.
After more than three months, the number of these transport ships has more than tripled, and if they only transport troops, they can transport more than one million soldiers and horses on each trip.
And special soldiers like undead soldiers who don't need much space, if they squeeze it, it is not a problem to transport more than two million in one trip.
Now that Guo Dafu is on the Central Continent, he has already hoarded more than three million undead soldiers and enough ammunition and grain and grass for two or three years for the army.
So Guo Dafu felt that he could finally start to make the army move.
And the Golden Eagle Empire, this time was not idle, under the order of Emperor Ling Feng, all over the country were crazy to pull strong men to enrich the army, in more than three months, a full five million troops were pulled, as for these forcibly pulled strong men, how much combat power there was, only God knows.
Agucos, a veteran of combat experience, also knew that the battle could not be won by these strong men.
After the last defeat, he was very enthusiastic about the powerful firearms of the Blue Dragon Empire, and as soon as he came back, he sent a group of his subordinates to the occupied area of the Blue Dragon Empire to find a way to get some samples of firearms.
However, the Qinglong Empire's side has implemented a military management system for these newly occupied territories for a long time, and it is very difficult for the spies to sneak in and steal firearms, and in the end they were busy for a long time, and those spies only got two demon-destroying flintlock pistols and a few grenades from a militia unit after paying seven or eight lives.
As for the heavy weapons such as the artillery, there was no chance of approaching them at all, and the spies could only look at them from a distance, and then draw a rough picture of them and bring them back to Agucoth.
As soon as he got his hands on the muskets and grenades, he handed them over to his craftsmen to find a way to copy them.
However, although these two things seem to have a very simple structure, it is not easy to imitate, especially the musket, the most difficult to make is the spring of the barrel and flintlock mechanism.
You must know that if the barrel is not up to standard, it is easy to explode during the firing process of the musket, after all, the power of the gunpowder explosion is so great, it can shoot the projectile out to kill and injure the enemy, and if it is exploded, it can naturally kill and injure the soldiers who use the musket.
At first, they didn't know about it, but many soldiers were killed and wounded dozens of people when they tried firing those imitation muskets.
After some research, the craftsmen found that the best way to improve the pass rate of the barrel of this musket was to drill the barrel directly.
The specific method is to take a fine iron stick of high quality, and then use a sharp and hard drill bit to drill into this stick little by little, and finally drill a barrel in the middle.
However, this method is time-consuming and laborious, and it takes a craftsman about half a month to drill out a barrel, and it can't make a mistake, once there is a little mistake, then the half-drilled barrel is considered wasted.
There is another method that although the pass rate of the barrel is not so high, the efficiency is much improved, that is, the iron sheet made of fine iron is rolled up little by little, and the craftsman slowly beats and shapes it into the shape of the barrel, and after repeatedly wrapping it with two or three layers of iron sheet, the probability of the barrel exploding can also be reduced to less than one percent, and the output is several times higher than the previous method.
After comparing the efficiency of these two methods, Agucos finally chose the latter, after all, although the barrel of the latter method still has the risk of exploding, but the probability is also very low, which is acceptable, the key is that its output is much higher, which can barely meet the needs of Agucos, otherwise according to the production efficiency of the former method, he will spend several years, and he will not be able to let his army reload these flintlock rifles on a large scale!