Chapter 728: Breaking the Cauldron and Sinking the Boat, Death and Life
Among the human race Chen Du, Xuanyuan, who received the news, frowned slightly, he didn't expect the peck to be so crazy, you must know that because the terrain of southern Xinjiang is mostly mountainous, the food output is not very much, and almost all the witches have a big appetite, so so far the Wu clan has less than 500 million witches, but the 500 million witches were pecked out of an army of up to 60 million, which is already more than one-tenth of the population of Jiuli, what is the peck trying to do!
As we all know, the reproduction ability of the human race has always been at the top of all races, of course, here is talking about the big races, such as the witch race, the demon race, the phoenix race, etc., we don't count those small classifications, the human race can grow up and reproduce in more than ten years, although it is far less than a few years old or even a few months to be able to give birth to offspring of some demon races, but in terms of efficiency, the human race has always ranked first.
Because the demon race is different from the human race, every demon race that has successfully transformed into a demon race has achieved cultivation, even if they can give birth in a few months, but their fertility will be greatly limited if they are successful, but it is far inferior to the human race, and those demon races who have not cultivated can still maintain that strong fertility, but almost nine out of nine of the children they give birth to cannot become a demon race, but all powerful races are more or less facing the problem of fertility difficulties, not to mention the Wu clan that can only rely on Jing blood to reproduce.
The human race is different, the human race is just an ordinary person when they are born, if they don't cultivate, their life span is very short, but every baby of the human race is definitely a human race, there is no zài demon race that is born but is just an ordinary beast, although the ordinary human race only has a few decades of lifespan in a lifetime, but if they really want to give birth, a few decades is enough for them to give birth to a large family, in the era of family planning in later generations, there are often four or five children in a family, in this flood without family planning, a family of more than a dozen children is a very common thing, so the fertility of the human race has always been the envy and jealousy of other races。
But then again, a small earth in the future can withstand seven billion human beings, and even scientists say that the upper limit of the earth's bearing is 10 billion human beings, so the flood that is thousands and ten thousand times larger than the earth is indeed only hundreds of billions of human races so far, and this number has hardly increased much after the Battle of Zhuolu, it stands to reason that with the reproduction speed of the human race, thousands of years is enough time for the human race to reproduce to tens of trillions, which is only a conservative estimate, so why has the number of human races been maintained at 100 billion? The biggest reason is because there is not enough food to eat!
Don't look at the vast area of flood land, but in fact, the area that can be used for cultivation is really not too much, first of all, the three large mountain ranges of the flood wilderness, the Hengduan Mountains, the West Kunlun Mountains and the one billion mountains that account for most of the southern Xinjiang, these mountains account for three-tenths of the area of the flood wilderness, so there are still seven-tenths left.
Many places in the West are deserts, this is because the West has been the main battlefield of the Great War many times before, and the underground spiritual veins have been almost completely interrupted, although they have been combed later, there are still some places where the spiritual veins have been completely destroyed, and these deserts are not suitable for use as cultivated land, so they have to subtract about one-tenth of the area, and there are still six-tenths left.
There is also Buzhou Mountain, located in the Honghuang Zhengzhongyāng Buzhou Mountain ruins account for about one-fifth of the area of the Honghuang, and since the Buzhou Mountain was broken into two, the spiritual veins inside have been completely broken, although it still maintains the appearance of the mountain, but now it is no grass, if you want to grow things there, it is better to consider the possibility of cultivation on the seabed, so that you can subtract one-fifth, and only four-tenths are left.
There are also some deep forests in the flood wilderness, these forests are the habitat of some wild beasts and strange beasts, the area accounts for about one-fifth of the flood wilderness, because there are many powerful foreign beasts hidden in these forests, so even Xuanyuan is not willing to provoke them lightly, let alone turn the forest into arable land, so that it will be subtracted by one-fifth, and there will only be two tenths left.
The remaining one-fifth is the place where the human race can be effectively used, whether it is living or arable land depends on this fifth of the land, someone should ask, even if it is only tenth, but there is a large area base of the flood famine, how can it feed trillions of people, in fact, it is not, do not compare the population density of the earth in the future with the flood famine, because there are several huge differences.
First of all, today's farming technology is not developed enough, all kinds of convenient equipment in later generations are not available now, people use basically hoes, and the grains of the flood are contained in aura, after eating, people can strengthen their bodies, and even prolong their lives, but the relative yield is far less than the genetically modified grain production in later generations.
Therefore, it is not incomprehensible that the Terran now has a population of only 100 billion, but even with a population of 100 billion, the standing army of the Terran is still only more than 10 million, that is, 1/10,000 of the total population, in fact, it could have been more, but Xuanyuan deliberately maintained a low level in order not to exert too much pressure on the Terran people, because the resources needed by a Terran soldier are about 100 ordinary Terrans. mounts, etc., whose consumption far exceeds that of other races.
Let's take the Lich soldiers as an example, the Wu soldiers don't need a battle armor, their skin is a good battle armor, they don't need a mount, their legs are the best mounts, so the Wu Clan only needs to prepare a weapon to go into battle, and the soldiers of the Demon Clan are similar, only Jing Rui's soldiers will have a battle armor, and ordinary soldiers only take weapons, so in terms of resources consumed, the Terran soldiers are much higher.
And the ordinary people of the Terran race can't fully supply the resources of the soldiers, because they still need to farm the land, so one hundred to one is just an ideal state, in fact, it is about three hundred to one, in other words, the hundreds of billions of people of the Terran can maintain a standing army of about 300 million, which is already the limit, and although the proportion of Jiuli is not so high, it will definitely not be less than ten to one ratio today, and the food needed by a Wu soldier alone needs dozens of people to cultivate the land.
Although the witches of Jiuli have become immortals, they need to rely on food to maintain their combat strength like the Wu clan, otherwise they will be weak and weak, although they will not starve to death but their combat power will be greatly reduced, when the battle of Zhuolu Chiyou led 30 million troops to fight with Xuanyuan, the population of Jiuli at that time is not much different from now, and it is said that Chi You filled in the grain that Jiuli clan had accumulated for countless years, so as to maintain the regular needs of the 30 million army, with the grain production of Jiuli now absolutely unable to supply the food needed by the 60 million army, at most two years Jiuli The stock accumulated in these thousands of years will be exhausted, when the time comes, the Jiuli army without food will be the meat on the chopping board, so Xuanyuan will say that the peck is crazy!
So is Chi Peck really crazy? No, he is very sober, but this is exactly the effect that Chi Peck wants, Chi Peck once analyzed the possibility of Jiuli defeating the Terrans, and the final result was almost zero, although the Jiuli warriors are brave and good at fighting, but the lack of population has always been a big problem that plagues Jiuli, such as the limit state of the Terrans can maintain a standing army of 300 million, and if necessary, the Terrans can even temporarily arm an army of 300 million, that is, a total of 600 million troops, and Jiuli? They absolutely can't, because their population is less than 500 million, so the lack of population is the biggest difficulty for Jiuli to defeat the human race.
The illusion of southern Xinjiang is not suitable for large-scale cultivation, so the grain output is greatly restricted, and the restriction of grain production directly limits the growth of the population of Jiuli, so Chi Peck believes that if you want to recognize the growth of Jiuli's strength, you must increase the population of Jiuli, and the premise of increasing the population of Jiuli is to increase grain production, and how to increase grain production? The most direct way is to obtain new territory, otherwise Jiuli will never be able to raise its strength to the same level as the human race, let alone avenge Chiyou.
Therefore, this time the pecking is completely open, he took out all the family resources of the Jiuli tribe to train the 60 million army, if he fails this time, then the Jiuli tribe will completely lose the opportunity for revenge, but ...... Chi pecked bitterly, maybe for ordinary people, not revenge is a good thing, because that means there is no need to fight, although the Jiuli clan is fierce, but it does not mean that everyone wants their men to go to the battlefield to fight a hopeless battle, so this time the peck is not successful and becomes benevolent, he has announced in public that if he fails this time, the Jiuli tribe must not mention revenge in the future, let the hatred dissipate with their failure!
It is in this magnificent atmosphere that the Jiuli army is divided into three routes, one route from the west, and their target is the western region where the Terran power is relatively weakest, because the Western Terran power is the weakest, so the number of people on this road is also the smallest, only four million troops and three quasi-saint commanders.
One route from the central artery to Buzhou Mountain, this road is mainly in the middle of the side should be the other two roads, commanded by the great witch Jiufeng, it is said that before the departure of the pecking and Jiufeng said, if he is defeated this time, he will either die in battle, or in seclusion, anyway, he will never return to the Jiuli tribe, so if this battle is defeated, then by the Jiufeng temporary leader, I think it should be easy to take the position with her prestige, and then the responsibility of peace negotiations with the human race will be handed over to her, although Jiufeng is unwilling, but she can see the determination in the eyes of the peck, so she had to agree to come down, her middle route army is higher than the West Route Army, a total of five million people, As for the master, it is enough to have Jiufeng alone.
Then Chipeck left a million people to be responsible for the safety of the tribe, and the remaining 50 million troops under the leadership of Chipeck went out of the eastern artery and killed Zhuolu City again, at the same time, Xuanyuan, who received a letter of help from Xuanyuan, realized that this was an opportunity to completely solve the Jiuli problem, so under his order, the Terran began to prepare for war with all their might, and countless reserves were soon transformed into regular troops, although these pieces of the Terran Standing Army have been kept in the number of tens of millions, but secretly Xuanyuan has trained countless ordinary people into reserves with the combat power of ordinary soldiers, and these reserves take weapons and wear armorAfter riding a war horse, except for being slightly inferior in terms of organization, their combat power is no longer inferior to that of the regular army, and now after simple training, they are the regular army.
The number of troops assembled by Xuanyuan this time was about 80 million, which was mainly a figure set by Xuanyuan considering the strength of the Jiuli infantry and the Terran cavalry, as well as some other factors, of which 10 million went to the west, 20 million went to the ruins of Buzhou Mountain, and the last 50 million went to Zhuolu City to listen to Zhuan's dispatch.
After learning the news of the assembly of the Terran army, Chipeck smiled bitterly again, that was because he once again felt the strength gap between Jiuli and the Terran, Jiuli tried his best to make an army of 60 million, and the Terran quietly gathered an army of 80 million, looking at this scene, it seems that he has not done his best, but Chipeck knows that he must not be frightened by these numbers, as the so-called' If even he is frightened, then the morale of the soldiers is naturally not high, so I am afraid that they will be defeated before the war starts, on the contrary, if everyone can fight hard with the heart of death, maybe there is still hope for victory in danger.
It is precisely because of this tragic mentality that the entire Jiuli army has a feeling of 'wind and water cold', in fact, to be honest, almost all the Jiuli soldiers know that they are almost there to go back this time, especially the soldiers of the East Route Army, because their survival will directly threaten the safety of Chen Du, so although they have the largest number, they are more dangerous than the soldiers of the other two roads, but even so, there is not a single deserter in the 5,000-watt army!
They knew that they would die and die, but they still puffed up their chests and kept moving forward under the leadership of the peck, none of them looked at the way back, maybe because they were fearless, or because they were afraid that turning back would make their hearts timid, but no matter what, they were real warriors, they had the courage to live and die to fight, and this was enough.
After a lapse of four hundred years, Chipeck once again led the army to the outside of Zhuolu City, but at this time, standing on the city wall and looking at him was no longer Xuanhuan, but Zhuan, looking at Zhuan's slightly immature but firm face, Chipeck sighed in his heart: "A generation of new people for the old...... It's also time to put an end to the grievances between the Terrans and Jiuli!"