"These are the mirrors and cups that those brutes brought?" a middle-aged man with a long beard played with a glass, and a silver mirror was placed on the table next to him.

"Yes, sir. ”

"I don't believe that those brutes can make these things. The middle-aged man said in a puzzled tone.

"Now it's an adult's. ”

"Yes, that's good. What else do you have to gain?"

"And two hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver. Seventeen mirrors, forty-two such cups......"

"Send it to the treasury. The middle-aged man smiled when he heard this. According to the price that those ancient people sell these days, these things are 700,000 taels, adding up to 1 million taels, and they can be used to equip the army with at least 20,000 troops.

"My lord, will those barbarians retaliate?"

"What are you afraid of, they are too busy to take care of themselves now, and it is possible to destroy the country if they don't do it. And the order has already been issued, and the city will send 10,000 troops on the same day. The middle-aged man waved his hand and said unconcernedly. With this million, even if all the 10,000 soldiers are lost, they can be easily replenished.

"That's the case, Daxia and Izumo are attacking together, I'm afraid those barbarians won't last long!" the subordinate was surprised.

......

"Boom!"

At night, an explosion suddenly broke out in a certain area of the Great Xia camp, and some of the surrounding tents were directly opened, some of the soldiers in the tents had died in their sleep, and some of the injured were awakened from their dreams, feeling the sharp pain on their bodies and screaming and moaning in pain.

The soldiers in the surrounding tents hurried out, helped drag the dead away, and carried the wounded to the wounded barracks, and hurried back to the tent to wrap themselves and lie down. But before they could fall asleep, they heard a distant roar.

But the soldiers fell asleep as if they had not heard.

At first, they will be nervous, but after a long time, they will get used to it, and there will be a few explosions every night for the past few days, and they will go out to see if they are close, and if they are far away, they will not hear it, they should sleep and sleep, and they should dream.

Until early in the morning, Wu Shenghou walked out of his tent with an ugly face.

Wu Shenghou's face hasn't looked good in the past few days.

Aggrieved!

He has been fighting horses for decades in his life, and he has never fought such a humiliating battle.

In the face of Da Yao, this battle is difficult to fight, he has known it for a long time, and he has even maintained planning for 20 years.

How many twenty years does a man's life have? He has been planning for twenty years for something that is uncertain, and you can see his heart from that.

No matter how strong the Gu clan was, he was prepared and confident that he would definitely win this war.

As long as the time is prolonged, all the lands in the north of the Gu tribe will be lost, the Yun Kingdom will send troops, the south will rebel, and the recruits of Great Xia will also add that the front line is when the barbarians of the Gu tribe are driven back to the mountains.

The beginning of the war was indeed within his expectations.

In the last 20 days, however, everything has changed.

The other party doesn't know where to get some completely unfamiliar weapons, but they have considerable power, especially on the battlefield, facing those ordinary soldiers.

A small thing that no one notices on the side of the road can cause hundreds of casualties, dozens of casualties.

At first, I thought that the other party didn't have much, and it would soon be used up, but the things in the other party's hand seemed to be endless, using one after another, changing new tricks from time to time.

On the battlefield, in the camp, whether day or night, you can always hear the thunderous explosion, whether it is the battlefield or rest, or fetching water for cooking, you will encounter it every now and then, and in the past few days, everyone in the entire camp is full of a nervous mood.

Especially when attacking, the opponent has been throwing a small ball that explodes after the invested troops have reached a certain level, interrupting the follow-up attack, and then killing the soldiers in front of them before the follow-up troops come up.

After a few days, the offensive did not achieve any results, and the wounded on their own side increased, while the casualties of the opponent were few.

Now every time he heard that explosion during the attack, he knew that the rhythm of the siege had been disrupted again.

There is no such fluidity as before, when directing an army offensive.

Being interrupted from time to time made him irritable and his chest tight.

And on this battlefield, the morale of the army is getting lower and lower, which is also something that worries him.

If the opponent didn't have those strange weapons, even if the attack was temporarily frustrated, the morale would not have dropped so quickly.

But now you have to walk with your feet down, and the attack always looks up at the sky, and even many soldiers have begun to be at a loss.

The reason for him to persist now is that at least to achieve the strategic intent of this war, and to wait for the two armies that have penetrated into Dayao to achieve the expected goal.

At the same time, there is still a momentum in my heart that does not admit defeat, and I want to see how many strange weapons the other party has.

He didn't believe the other party would ever run out.

......

Wu Shenghou was in a bad mood, but Ren Baqian was in a good mood.

Every night, he planted a few mines outside, fired two cannons at the head of the city, and watched the appearance of the Great Xia army bowing his head and raising his head for a while when he went out of battle every day, and he felt comfortable for a while.

Especially now the soldiers in the city are about to treat him like a god.

Although he was not strong on the individual, his messy things did play a big role in defending the city these days.

Now there are still 80,000 troops in the Great Xia army outside the city, and those Great Xia troops have no intention of withdrawing when the casualties reach half, Ren Baqian feels that they really don't see the Yellow River and don't give up.

The situation in the city is not very good, after sending out 300 flying cavalry to intercept the opponent's food team, now there are 800 flying cavalry and 3,000 soldiers in the city, a total of only 3,800 people, and now some civilians who participated in the defense of the city before the empress came to the city to assist.

However, Ren Baqian is not too worried, these civilians have been tempered by the war, and they only lack some military knowledge to become a new force. Whether it is strength or personal bravery, it is not bad compared to the army.

In addition, there were two armies wreaking havoc in Dayao in Great Xia, one of which was only about 80,000 people, and when Ren Baqian first arrived in Liaocheng, he had already broken many villages, and it was not until later that all the villages gathered in the city, and the casualties began to decrease.

However, in addition to that army, there was an army of 100,000 men doing the same thing, and after nothing had been gained in the field, these two armies had already begun to attack the cities, and two cities had recently been destroyed.

There were many casualties in the city, but the casualties of those two armies were not light.

According to Ren Baqian's words, after drawing out more than 3,000 troops to defend the city and forming a militia regiment, it is difficult to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

In the past few days, three towns have been destroyed, and no less than 40,000 people have been killed or wounded.

I have to say that the individual combat effectiveness of the civilians of the ancient tribe, in the face of the elite army of Great Xia, a group of militia and civilians let the casualties of the other party reach 60,000, which is enough to be proud.

This is also the reason why Great Xia failed to hunt down the civilians who fled after breaking the city, the losses were too great.

At the same time, the 3,500 troops drawn out were on standby, ready to join up with the reinforcements of the Southern Protectorate and deal a fatal blow to the 120,000 Great Xia troops.

The reinforcements had seven days to join the 3,500 troops, 85 against 120,000.

Even if Great Xia wins, the rest of the army will not be able to do much except withdraw.

What's more, Great Xia may not be able to win.

Ren Baqian wandered around to the side hall of the Chengling Mansion, where two radio stations were located, and one radio station was taken away by the flying horsemen who went out to intercept the Great Xia army.

"Is there any news?" asked Ren Baqian as he entered.

"Not yet. "The operators in charge of the side hall are the empress and Li Qianqiu's guards.

Ren Baqian nodded, and just as he wanted to turn around and go out, he heard a rustling sound from the radio, followed by a human voice: "This is the Northeast Protectorate, is the governor Ren here?"

"Looking for me?" Ren Baqian was slightly puzzled, walked back to the radio station and asked, "I am, what's the matter?"

"My lord, I'm Tang Feng. "There was a different person in front of the radio.

"Aren't you in Great Xia? I still wonder if you ran back, but I didn't expect you to run to the Northeast Protectorate. ”

Ren Baqian was telling the truth, he really thought about the situation of the caravan, but unfortunately it was difficult to deliver the news, he hadn't brought the radio back at that time, and although the moving bird could be used, it was very valuable, and it was only used to transmit news between cities, and the caravan did not have it. Later, I can only hope that they will live a little longer and come back safely with their own money.

Now that the herbs have been cut off, the empress has gone bankrupt, and her small coffers are only money for the maintenance of the palace and guards.

"My lord, not only is I back, but even Lao Gu is back, but he is still in bed, I'm afraid he won't be able to get up in ten days and half a month. Tang Feng said.

Ren Baqian frowned, Lao Gu is Gu Ziheng, he should be in Cloud City now, even he went to the Northeast Capital Protectorate, what happened?

You must know that after the war with Great Xia, he knew that his mirror and glass were on the side of Great Xia, so he pointed to the side of Yunguo and brought himself some silver taels to return blood.

You must know that if you don't have money, you can't have medicine, you can't upgrade without medicine, you can't marry the empress if you can't upgrade, and if you can't marry the empress, it's more serious, is this to make yourself a great magician?

"My lord, I didn't bring the money back, I was robbed...... I only brought back two thousand taels of gold from the side of Great Xia, and the others were robbed, Lao Gu was a little better than me, and barely escaped back with five thousand taels of gold, and the other goods and silver were robbed by the city lord of Qingfeng. ”

When Ren Baqian heard this, his eyes widened.

I was cultivating with this money, and now I was robbed?

The rope crawled out of his head, swam to the ground on one side, wrapped around the stool next to him, and raised it high.

Everyone in the side hall didn't care about Ren Baqian's emojis, and they all went to see the iron rope raising a stool to show off their might, and they were amazed one by one.

"How much was robbed?" Ren Baqian squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, and he didn't say anything about what was not sold, but the silver sold was his own hard-earned money!

It was robbed?

"About 500,000 taels. Tang Feng said a number that made everyone's hearts tremble.

This is one-fourteenth of the annual income of the Dayao treasury, which is the income of the empress for four years.

"Again, who robbed it?" Ren Baqian gritted his teeth.

"I escaped from Juruo City in Great Xia, and it was the Juruo City Military Station that I attacked; Lao Gu escaped from Yunguo Guofeng City, and I attacked the Qingfeng City Lord. ”

Ren Baqian turned around and left after hearing this, dragging a stool behind him, and the sound of the stool colliding and rubbing on the ground did not attract Ren Baqian's attention at all.

"Your Majesty, your money has been robbed!"

The empress, who was watching a TV series and eating popcorn, raised her head and was a little puzzled.

"A million taels!" Ren Baqian held out a finger.

The empress's eyes widened suddenly.

"It's those mirrors and glasses that I asked the caravan to bring before, and I wanted to sell them to replenish the inner library, which was a million taels, and they were robbed by the city lord of Yun Guoqingfeng!"

"Boom!" the table in front of the empress shattered at once.

"And Daxia also grabbed a part. ”

However, the sentence he added later was obviously not noticed by the empress, and her attention was all attracted by the words one million taels, supplementing the inner library, and the city lord of Qingfeng.

"How dare he ......" The empress's hair stood on end, and word by word jumped out from between her teeth.

"Your Majesty, it seems that Yun Guo is going to send troops!" Ren Baqian said something serious first, and it can be seen from this incident that Yun Guo has already made up his mind. Otherwise, where did a city lord get so bold?

The empress calmed down a little when she heard this, but the anger in her heart was still unsettled. She has always robbed others, but today she was robbed? Or is it a million taels?

How much can a million taels do?

"However, before solving Yunguo, you can first send a master to solve the Qingfeng City Lord, this kind of person whose hands are full of the people's hard-earned money must be sanctioned and his family property confiscated. Wait until the cloud country is destroyed and then deal with it, it's too slow, 10,000 years is too long, we just seize the day. Ren Baqian raised his fist and said hard.

As for Great Xia, this account will be counted in the future, and when the army of Great Xia is destroyed, he will have to come out with tears in his eyes if he wants to let the rats of the treasury of Great Xia enter.

"Destroy him!" the empress directly set the tone.

"Family reunion!" Ren Baqian added.