Chapter 179: Breaking the Heavens, Growing Strong
At the same time, the main force of the rebel infantry that entered the city also started a fierce battle with the officers and troops in the city.
In order to protect himself, Xiao Heizi could only guide those rebel soldiers, constantly using muskets and grenades to open the way, and bombard and kill those officers and soldiers who kept rushing in.
Although they were only some primitive firearms, they also showed great lethality when used in a reasonable combination, and those officers and soldiers who tried to stop them were routed one after another, leaving a large number of corpses along the way.
Soon, the rebel soldiers successfully joined up with Tapotian and the others, and began to load and transport the grain in the granary.
In addition, not far away, they also found a warehouse with a large number of weapons and equipment, which made the rebel soldiers ecstatic, you must know that most of the rebel soldiers under the command of the Breaking Sky are still only wearing a simple leather armor! Only a few of them, after having previously defeated the vanguard of the officers, captured some ironclads.
And now, in this warehouse, there are pieces of iron armor and sharp weapons. With these weapons and armor, the rebel soldiers will surely increase their combat effectiveness.
But soon, these rebel soldiers discovered an embarrassing thing, that is, there were too many things to grab this time, and they couldn't move them for a while. Especially those grains and grasses, which are enough for 100,000 troops to eat for more than a month!
If it was usual, they would stay here and slowly digest these gains, but it was very clear that he had made these officers and soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire deflated one after another, and the one-armed veteran must have hated him to death, if he dared to stay here, it was estimated that he would soon be surrounded by the other party, and he would not be able to escape if he wanted to.
So he has to continue to move in. However, in order to prevent the remaining equipment, food and grass from falling into the hands of the officers and soldiers, he really had to find a way to deal with it.
At this time, it was proposed that all the equipment and grain that could not be taken away could be burned.
If it had been before, Tapotian might have agreed to this seemingly most convenient method, but after a period of study, he felt that his horizons had improved a lot, just like now, he directly rejected this suggestion from his subordinates, and after thinking about it, he issued an order that puzzled those rebel leaders.
That is, to distribute the grain, grass and equipment that cannot be taken away to the people at the bottom of the city.
Stepping into the sky to do this, it is obvious that he wants to unite those low-level people, so that those low-level people who are bought by him will each be his eyeliner, which can allow him to better avoid the main force of the official army, and then continue to wander around the place, avoid the real and attack the false, and bleed the officials and soldiers little by little, weakening their strength.
And although the leaders of the rebel army did not understand the decision of Tapotian, they did not dare to disobey his orders because of the high prestige of Tapotian in the army.
So, soon the low-level people in the city were gathered, and then lined up to receive weapons and equipment such as food, grass, swords, and armor from the rebel soldiers.
You must know that before this, only soldiers had ever snatched things from them, and no soldier had ever been willing to give them anything! Whether it is the officers and soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire, or those rebels everywhere, it is the same.
As a result, the rebel army of Stepping on the Sky actually gave these poor people things today, and they still issued weapons, armor and food that could save their lives in the troubled times, how could this not surprise everyone in Fuyuan Town!
After all, some time ago, in order to prepare for war, the empire can be said to have begun to expropriate in various places, and almost the last bit of money and food in the hands of these poor people was looted, and many people had no choice but to rely on the wild vegetables and tree roots they dug up every day to survive, and some of the weaker ones had starved to death.
Now that they have broken the sky, they suddenly decided to open a warehouse and release grain, which undoubtedly saved their lives!
With gratitude, many people kowtowed directly to Tapotian and the others, and some people felt that if they continued to be obedient, they would have to be forced to death by those dog officials of the empire sooner or later, so they simply joined the rebels on the spot, ready to rebel with him, and then eat fragrant and spicy food every day.
In the end, there was even an old farmer who offered a spiritual pill that was said to be an ancestral heirloom to the sky, which was said to be able to help martial artists break through the bottleneck of cultivation.
Those rebel leaders who didn't understand the way to break through the sky before, looking at the people who were enthusiastically joining their troops one by one, they were all happy at this time, thinking that this boss is the boss! This ideological pattern is not comparable to them at all! With this casual move, so many people took the initiative to rebel with them, and after this wave, their strength could definitely be at least doubled.
And what made them even more excited was that after taking the pill offered by the old farmer, Tapotian really managed to break through to the innate realm.
Don't look at this innate martial artist, it seems to be very common among the officers and armies of various countries, but in fact, it is really extremely rare for a folk wilderness warrior like Tapotian.
After all, most of those folk martial artists do not have a complete inheritance, and most of the exercises obtained are those that are more widely spread in the lower grades of the Yellow Rank or Xuan Rank. Most of this kind of martial arts are cultivated to the limit of the acquired ninefold, and it is difficult to break through to the innate realm.
In addition, in terms of cultivation resources, folk martial artists are also incomparable with those official martial artists, and they can basically only rely on their own efforts to survive their bodies along the way, not to mention those elixirs that can increase cultivation, even every meal may not be completely full, after all, after becoming a martial artist, the energy consumed is very large when cultivating every day, and the amount of food is several times that of ordinary people.
In this case, those who can break through to the innate realm are all people with perseverance and hard work.
And stepping on the sky to think that he is still a little far from this kind of person, so he has been stuck in the nine-fold realm of the day after tomorrow for seven or eight years and has not been able to break through, this time he easily broke through this bottleneck with a pill, and for a while he felt a little in a trance, and he couldn't tell whether this was reality or illusory.
The next day, he took the army and left Fuyuan Town, and the number of soldiers under his command had increased from 20,000 to about 60,000, a tripled.
And relying on the weapons, equipment, grain and grass captured in Fuyuan Town before, his rebel army can really be said to be full of soldiers now.
Although his power has risen sharply in a short period of time, he is still not complacent, he knows very well that he still does not have the ability to compete with the main force of the official army, so after resting in Fuyuan Town for a day, he still decisively continued to go on the road with the army.
On the side of Agukos, he got the news that Fuyuan Town was captured by the rebels two days later, and along with the news, more than 1,000 remnants of Fuyuan Town were defeated.
Looking at Ding Meng, the guard of Fuyuan Town who was kneeling in front of him, Agu Kosi was so angry that he really wanted to pull out his knife and cut people, the other party was obviously also a congenital master, and he still had 5,000 elite soldiers under his command, but in the face of the attack of the rebels, he couldn't hold it even for a day, so he lost Fuyuan Town.
It is said that when the rebel attack was launched, this guy was not in the barracks at all, but was having fun in a barracks!
By the time this guy was called out of the green building by his own soldiers, the main force of the rebels had already entered the city, and the defenders in the city had already been broken by the rebels because they did not have a unified command, and only more than a thousand were killed.
In addition, seeing that those rebels still had new weapons such as muskets and artillery, Ding Meng didn't dare to resist at all, and directly took these remnants and slipped away from the West Gate.
Now Agucoth felt that he was surrounded by a group of pig teammates, and he had just wiped out a few rebel forces and subdued a dozen towns here, only to have an extremely important supply base in the rear taken by the rebels.
What made him most angry was that it was said that the rebels who captured Fuyuan Town were actually led by the guy who stepped on the sky.
This rebel army is like an annoying hornet, although it can't really hurt the main force of his army, but it relies on the familiar terrain, scurrying around, and then coming out to bite him when he is not looking.
He wanted to send troops to wipe it out, but he was worried that he would be the same as last time, after all, the guy who stepped on the sky was not ordinarily sensitive, and once he couldn't detect it, he would slip away.
What's more, he has already mobilized all the armies in place right now, preparing to attack the Feihe Empire.
Compared to the pony hornet that broke through the sky, the ancient crane with millions of soldiers is the real imperial disaster! This guy not only has a large number of soldiers, but also occupies the most prosperous hinterland of the Golden Eagle Empire, whether it is money, food or population, it is the most among the major rebel forces, if you give the other party some time to develop, then it is really difficult to destroy the other party.
So this time, Agukos sent troops, and its real main target was the Flying Crane Empire of this ancient crane, and the other rebel forces were just cleaning up.
For the sake of the overall situation, this time Agukos could only endure the anger in his chest, let Na Potian continue to jump for a few days, and wait until he defeated the Feihe Empire, and then come back to clean up the other party.
And just when Agucos's side suffered setbacks one after another, Guo Dafu's side was advancing all the way, and there was no city of the Hanhai Empire that could withstand more than three days, and the army of the Qinglong Empire seemed to be about to repeat the last feat and once again annex a large area of the Hanhai Empire.
This situation made Adams, the eldest disciple of Agucos, very anxious, after all, after the Blue Dragon Empire occupied the territory of the Hanhai Empire in this area, it would be his turn next!
Although he was ready to face the battle according to his master's instructions at this time, he had no choice but to have limited troops in his hands, so he really didn't have the confidence to delay the army of the Blue Dragon Empire for a long time!
And the method that Agukos gave him to resist the army of the Blue Dragon Empire is also very simple, that is, to set up more camps, fortify layer by layer, and exchange time for the cost of losing part of the territory.
After all, those lines of defense only need to be able to delay the army of the Blue Dragon Empire for a day each, so many lines of defense can delay the army of the Blue Dragon Empire for a few months.
And the territory of the Golden Eagle Empire is also very large, so it is completely acceptable to lose such a small amount of territory.
However, although this tactic looks simple, it is not so easy to execute, after all, if these lines of defense are to work, they need to be at least a sufficient number of soldiers stationed there!
So during this time, in addition to constantly building camps, Adams continued to draw militia from all over the country, and even forcibly recruited strong men into the army, and now, in addition to the 200,000 soldiers he brought at the beginning, he also relied on various methods to get about a million militia.
Don't look at this a lot, but Adams still feels a little insufficient, and in order to prevent these militiamen from abandoning the camp and fleeing directly in the face of enemy attacks, he also has to split the 200,000 elite soldiers he brought with him, and send a team in each camp to use as a supervisor.
By now, Adams had built a total of ten lines of defense in front of him, and he felt that the troops in his hands were a little insufficient.
On this day, he was really going to catch some strong men under his men, but the scouts sent out returned that a force from the Blue Dragon Empire had arrived at Eagle Cliff Fort at the border.
Although he had long known that most of the defenders on the side of the Hanhai Empire had no fighting spirit and should not be able to resist for long, Adams obviously did not expect that the other party would be so vulnerable, and it only took more than a week for the Blue Dragon Empire to penetrate this territory hundreds of kilometers wide all the way to the Eagle Cliff Fort.