Taishan left, and Cai Mao reluctantly led the army back to Xiangyang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info At this moment, Yuan Biao had also received the news, rushed to the West City Gate, ordered the Jingzhou army to disarm, and let Chen Zhi and others return to Xinye, and Yuan Biao also reprimanded Cai Mao fiercely before it was counted.

After returning to Xinye, Taishan told Pang Tong and others what happened, Guan Wei and Zhang Wuqi were furious, and they immediately ordered troops to enter Xiangyang and arrest Cai Mao, but they were stopped by Taishan and Pang Tong, on the grounds that the time was not yet ripe, and they could not shake the dominance of Yuan Biao over Jingzhou. Guan and Zhang had no choice but to give up in the end.

Subsequently, according to Pang Tong's suggestion, Taishan personally wrote a letter to Yuan Biao, which was full of nonsense, and only briefly mentioned that Cai Mao's attitude was not very friendly. After receiving Taishan's letter, Yuan Biao knew that Taishan was dissatisfied with Cai Mao, and for the purpose of balance, Yuan Biao immediately replied to Taishan with a letter to comfort Taishan, and among the more than 30,000 troops, he picked out 5,000 strong as a substantial reward for Taishan, hoping to dispel Taishan's dissatisfaction.

After getting 5,000 soldiers, Taishan once again wrote a reply letter to Yuan Biao in accordance with Pang Tong's strategy, expressing his gratitude to Yuan Biao, saying that the past has passed, and will not take it to heart, and make clear his position, if Yuan Biao is useful to Taishan in the future, Taishan is still willing to obey Yuan Biao's orders.

In this way, Taishan exchanged two letters for 5,000 soldiers, and at the same time paralyzed Yuan Biao, making Yuan Biao unsuspecting of himself. After that, Tarzan loosened and tightened inside in the new field. Secretly stepped up the training of his 20,000 soldiers, ready to launch a riot at any time. According to Pang Tong's analysis, the Central Plains and Hebei, soon there will be a big war, this war will even affect the north of Youzhou and the south of Jingzhou, at that time, Mount Tai in troubled waters will be the opportunity to fish, now Mount Tai to do is to make adequate preparations for the future troubled waters fishing.

While Taishan was preparing in Xinye, Yuan Qi was also making pre-war preparations in Yanjing. The North has been decided. Yuan Qi no longer has any external troubles. The various alien races have followed his ideas and embarked on the right track of sinicization, and it is time to unite with Unomiya Terulie and launch a big war against Yuan Ding.

Exactly at this time. Wang Yezi personally came to the Dadu Governor's Mansion. Tell Yuan Qi. The Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower has been successfully developed. Yuan Qi was overjoyed, and followed Wang Yezi to the general prison and witnessed the power of the Heavenly Maiden scattering flowers. The Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers developed by Wang Yezi and Ma Jun are divided into two types. One is larger and can be thrown with a catapult, while the other is the size of a fist and can be thrown by hand.

At first, Yuan watched the power of the large celestial maiden scattering flowers. The big desktop of the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers, by two craftsmen who will be the supervisor to put it on the stone throwing machine, and then use the range of the stone throwing machine, the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers were thrown out more than 300 steps away, after the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers were thrown, they produced a huge inertia, and after the collision with the ground, they immediately produced a reaction force, vibrating the internal structure of the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers, so that it instantly produced a high-temperature explosion inside, thus forming an explosion. The explosion itself is not very lethal, but once the body of the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower is shattered, it will be shattered into hundreds of fragments in an instant, scattering in all directions, which is the most powerful part of the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower. After the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower was squeezed and blasted at high temperatures, most of the energy was concentrated in these flying pieces of iron, a fist-sized piece of iron that could easily break through the three layers of iron armor.

Although the power of the small celestial maiden is not as terrifying as the large one, it is easy to carry and easy to throw. A small celestial maiden scattered flower that is only the size of a fist can be thrown more than a hundred steps away by a person with strong arm strength, and when it lands, it will explode, scattering more than a dozen pieces of iron, and there is no problem in penetrating a layer of iron armor. Probably the same as the grenade usage in later generations, but not as powerful as the grenade.

While Yuan Qi was happy, he did not forget to ask about the cost and existing quantity of the two kinds of Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers. Wang Yezi answered one by one. The core of the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower is the crude oil produced in Buyeo, and it must be a clear oil that has gone through three processes, if it is slightly turbid, then it cannot be used to make the Heavenly Maiden Distribution. Therefore, the cost of the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower is extremely high, after Wang Yezi's calculation, a large Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower is estimated to cost thousands of copper coins, even a small Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower, but also consumes about a hundred dollars. Listening to Yuan Qi secretly smacked his tongue, where is this using special weapons to kill and injure the enemy, it is simply to use money to smash the enemy, the projectile of a hundred stone throwers will cost 100,000 money, how many princes can withstand such consumption?

As for the number of Heavenly Maidens, it is even more of a headache for Yuan Qi, because its production process is extremely complex, and the core components cannot be made by ordinary craftsmen, so as not to leak out, so the production process is extremely slow, coupled with the clear oil transported from Fuyu, it is often not enough to supply the needs of Wang Yezi and others, coupled with the consumption of the early development process, now there are only two hundred large Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers, and the number of small ones is more, there are thousands. However, Wang Yezi assured that after preliminary research, the production process will be accelerated to a certain extent in the future.

After inspecting the Heavenly Maiden Sanhua, Yuan Qi couldn't wait to ask about the new warship, and Wang Yezi replied that two new warships had been developed and were currently in the test period, so it was not yet possible to determine whether it was successful, so he did not report to Yuan Qi. Yuan Qi rushed to the water's edge with great interest and took a look at the two new-style warships in the water testing period. In terms of appearance, the new warship is very close to the warships of later generations, and the sides of the ship are like knives and axes. It has a perfect arc and forms an inverted triangle shape with the bottom of the boat. The hull was equipped with six red-clothed ballistas and four poles, and at the tail of the bottom of the ship, Yuan Qi even saw half of the water slurry exposed to the water, which was somewhat similar to the propellers of later generations, Ma Jun explained that this was based on Yuan Qi's proposal to use the water turning wheel used for agricultural work, after modification, to use it on the battleship. This saves the effort of the paddling soldiers. At the same time, they also freed their hands and switched to pedal paddling.

Replacing hand paddle with pedal paddle is one of the concepts put forward by Yuan Qi, and now it has been perfectly developed by Ma Jun. Such a new type of warship. It combines robustness, flexibility, and speed. After equipping the redcoat ballista and the batter. The combat effectiveness will also reach the peak of the warships of the Han Dynasty. Once these two warships successfully pass the test period, the Qilin Army under the command of Na Gan Jing will not be able to find an opponent on the water!

greatly praised Wang Yezi, Ma Jun and other craftsmen. Yuan Qi told them to protect the core secrets and not to leak the production skills of these cross-era weapons, and at the same time asked Wang Yezi to speed up the research and development process of warships and strive to manufacture more new warships as soon as possible.

Leaving the general prison, Yuan Qi's heart was full of joy, and with the help of the Heavenly Maiden Sanhua, he became more sure of the matter of conquest of Yuan Ding. In the next few days, Yuan Qi convened the core members of his subordinates to discuss the general direction and specific details of the expedition against Yuan Ding. Yuan He, who was in charge of money and grain, first explained the economic situation of the five northern states. Last year, under the constraints of the Yanjing Law, under the careful governance of the ministers of the government, and with the help of advanced tools such as the water truck developed by Ma Jun, the two states of Youyou and Tong achieved an unprecedented bumper harvest. One-third of the money and grain in the two prefectures were sent to the territory of the three prefectures to speed up the construction there, and half of the remaining two-thirds was used for military expenses and pensions for the soldiers who died in the war, and only a little more than one-third of the money and grain stored in the government treasury could be used for the combat needs of the 100,000-strong army for half a year.

Next, Xun Luo talked about the situation of public security in the territory. Now the sinicization of various alien races has been on the right track,The Han people who moved to the new three states,Have gradually accepted the life of peaceful coexistence with the aliens,They are working hard to build a common homeland,The five northern states are in a good order of ethnic integration,All the people,No matter what nationality he is,Are more satisfied with the current living situation,There are no abnormal big problems。 In the end, Xun Luo made a summary that this internal stability and unity was conducive to the war and laid the foundation for the army to go out.

Subsequently, Jia Yuan, on behalf of the Military Office, gave a clear explanation of the composition and distribution of troops in the five northern states. First of all, after the four elite troops have been replenished, they still maintain the establishment of 20,000 people per army, with a total of 80,000 elite soldiers, but the 20,000 naval troops belonging to the Qilin Army can play a role in this battle will be reduced to a minimum due to geographical restrictions, so the 20,000 troops of the Qilin Army, Jia Yuan does not recommend being included in the sequence of this battle; in addition to the four elite troops, the five northern states now have 360,000 regular troops, including 120,000 cavalry, 180,000 infantry troops, and 60,000 naval troops. Of course, the county soldiers who are responsible for local security and the auxiliary troops who serve the regular army are not counted. In the regular army, Han Chinese accounted for more than half, and the rest were soldiers of various foreign races such as Xinman, Xianbei, and Thorn Tower. Of course, the members of the four elite troops are all authentic Han Chinese, and if they are counted, the proportion of Han people in the army will be even more. The addition of aliens has greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Yuanqi army, and the fighting will and physical fitness of the aliens are an excellent supplement to the Han army.

In the end, it was Tian Feng's turn to speak, this time, after Tian Feng weighed comprehensively, he did not stop Yuan Qi's troops, he thought that now the army's combat effectiveness, will to fight, logistics and supplies and so on have no problems, and even because of the pacification of Mingzhou and Tongzhou, the morale of the soldiers because of a series of big victories is at the highest peak, and it is the most suitable time to fight.

The general direction of the expedition has become a foregone conclusion, and next, Yuan Qi began to discuss with everyone the list of soldiers who will go on this expedition. Eventually, after some discussion, Yuan Qi decided that he would use 100,000 troops for this expedition. The three elite troops participating in the battle, including the Tiangui Army, each mobilized 10,000 people, and the remaining 70,000 people, including 30,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry troops, were sergeants of various nationalities, but they were still mainly Han Chinese.

As for the generals and strategists who went out with the army, Yuan Qi also drew up a list. The generals included Qi Tian, Zhao Hu, Ma Yue, Huang Yong, Zuo Ci, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Zhang Chong, Zhang Zong, and Xu Ban, while the strategists included Zhuge Liang, Jia Yuan, Chen Gong, Xu Shu, and Tian Feng. The rest of the military generals were led by Wei Yan, Pang De and Ma Dai, Wenchen was led by Xun Luo, Yuan Ying, and Jiang Wan, and Gan Jing and Su Fei led the naval army to patrol the coastal waters and jointly defend Yanjing.