It was raining for a few days, and the sky suddenly cleared.

The sapphire-like dome is high and a few white clouds float gently, making the heart feel like a pool of clear water.

I had some teaching at the Equipment Department yesterday, and today the Equipment Department will officially try to produce artillery.

Seeing that the date of the barbarians' departure south approached, there was not much time left for him.

Li San and Wang Xuan have been inquiring about the movements on the grassland these days. Today, the two of them went to the royal palace together to report the information they received to Xiao Ming.

"Your Highness, from our news, the barbarians and the Ottomans seemed to have reached some kind of reconciliation. Three months ago, the barbarians returned to Shengdu with slaves and craftsmen who had been looted from the Ottomans." Li San said.

"In other words, the barbarians' Western Expedition has ended?" Xiao Ming asked.

"I'm afraid that's the case." Wang Xuan looked solemn.

This is indeed very bad news for Xiao Ming. After conquering the grassland tribes, the barbarians have become the most powerful empire on the northern land.

As the Great Chongqing Kingdom was declining and passive defense, the barbarians thought they had no worries, so they began to conquer the western region.

After destroying a series of small western countries, the barbarians encountered the Ottoman Empire, which was at its heyday.

After three years of hostile conquest, the two sides finally realized that the other side was a giant, so they stopped their troops and returned to the court.

In this way, the pressure on the Great Chongqing Kingdom will suddenly increase.

Recalling the Western Expedition of modern Mongolia, it seems that after the Western Expedition was completed, Mongolia easily destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Is there any worse news?" Xiao Ming smiled bitterly, "What do you know about the population, army, and weapons and equipment of the barbarians?"

Wang Xuan said: "There is one bad news. During the Western Expedition, the barbarians seemed to have a powerful weapon of siege, called Huihui cannon, which is said to be able to throw a 300-pound boulder for five hundred meters away."

"Rui Hui Cannon?" Xiao Ming asked: "Are you sure he threw the stone?"

"I believe that the merchants on the grassland described that this Huihuan seemed to be an advanced stone throwing tool." Wang Xuan said.

Xiao Ming breathed a light sigh. It would be great that the barbarians had not obtained artillery technology. However, before there was no artillery, if there was such a stone throwing tool, it would indeed be a huge threat to Cangzhou City.

He remembered that in modern times, Mongolia seemed to be using a similar stone throwing tool, which also came from the Western Regions.

Li San said at this time: "Your Highness, if the barbarians use this kind of thing to attack Cangzhou City, the city wall may not be able to hold on."

For Xiao Ming, it is fortunate that the barbarians do not have artillery. This giant stone throwing tool with a range of 500 meters is far inferior to the range of artillery. It can be destroyed in advance within the range of the artillery, which is not afraid of.

"This is not worth worrying about. Is there any other information?" Xiao Ming asked.

Li San rushed to say: "The population of the barbarians cannot be accurately determined, but overall, there are still two million households."

"So much?" Xiao Ming was startled.

"In recent years, some barbarians settled in Changbai Mountain for a generation, and their population has increased a lot," said Li San.

Now Xiao Ming finally understood what a headache is.

The barbarians are no longer pure nomadic people, but a semi-cultivated and semi-pardoned nation. Such a nation is even more deadly to the Great Yu Kingdom.

Because semi-cultivation and semi-grassing means that the barbarians’ logistics will be better guaranteed, making it easier for barbarians to expand.

Wang Xuan's following sentence made Xiao Ming even more troubled, "This is just the population of the barbarians. The barbarians have always been accustomed to plundering slaves. Now the proportion of the barbarians' regular army and slave army has reached one to five."

"The merchants said that every time the barbarians go ahead of the Western Expedition, there will be a large number of slave troops. After these slave troops are finished, the enemy will be trapped and the horses will be scarce. At this time, the barbarian cavalry will attack."

Li San said: "We have been investigating on the grassland these days and found that the barbarian cavalry were capturing the people north of Cangzhou City. These people used to be the people of the Great Yu Kingdom. From this point of view, the barbarians probably wanted to deal with us with the methods of dealing with the people of the Western Regions."

After pausing, Li San clenched his fists and said, "Your Highness, then the people of the Great Yu Kingdom will be forced to walk in front of the barbarians to attack the city. What should we do?"

"This barbarian is extremely shameless and has no humanity at all." Wang Xuan said angrily.

The despicable tactics of catching the people as meat shields are everywhere in history, especially the Mongolian and Qing dynasties who performed the most.

It is also because of the clever use of the puppet army and the people that a sparsely number of nations will conquer a country with a population of dozens of times that of its own.

Now the population of this barbarian is only ten to one compared to that of the Great Yu Kingdom.

"What should I do? If Cangzhou City is captured, I will be the next King Kang." Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.

Li San and Wang Xuan looked at each other, and they seemed to understand Xiao Ming's thoughts.

The two of them told Xiao Ming about the barbarians, which was nothing more than the barbarians' way of fighting.

Currently, the barbarians use a compound bow made of animal tendons. This kind of bow and arrow range is very long, and the barbarian cavalry also has a skill of turning around and shooting arrows while escaping.

It is this method that has caused the Western Regions to be defeated by the barbarians repeatedly.

However, the people of the Dayu Kingdom have already experienced the characteristics of the barbarians. Because of this, the Dayu team will not leave the city to fight against the barbarians on the grassland.

Because this is purely seeking death.

In addition to the range of bows and arrows that can reach more than 180 meters, the deadliest part of the barbarian army is that its discipline is very strict, which is much more dangerous than bows and arrows.

A fearless army is truly terrible.

Now Xiao Ming can imagine that under the shooting of artillery, the barbarian infantry still climbed up from the pile of corpses.

"In addition to capturing the people, the merchants on the grassland said that the barbarian army has been trained very frequently recently, and they are very vigilant about the barbarians of the Dayu country who traveled to and from the grassland. Many merchants have been captured by the barbarians." Li San said at the end.

Xiao Ming nodded. The many abnormal movements of the barbarians were obviously abnormal. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before the attack on the Great Yu Kingdom.

He said: "Continue to keep watching the barbarian dynamics, especially the barbarian army dynamics, and report to me in time."

Li San and Wang Xuan nodded and turned around and left.

At this time, Xiao Ming stood up and went to the Equipment Department. Fortunately, he asked the Equipment Department to produce artillery with all his might, otherwise he would not be able to resist this kind of revive cannon catapult car that was five hundred meters away.

A three hundred pound stone hitting the city wall is not much weaker than a cannon bombardment.

After all, the cannon fires solid bullets, and he is not able to produce things like flower bullets now.
Chapter completed!