Chapter 1022 borrowing the way (2)
No matter how good the Chen Hai was in this, Zhao Xiaozhi was still in a state of erection. He pressed the table with a blue face and asked: "King Chen has always been determined to control demons and protect the people. In Anxi today, when Yueting sent troops, the Yueting sent troops, but Beiling forced blackmail. If the Yueting is angry, the situation of the battle will be ruined, how can King Chen thank the emperor for his kindness and reward the people, and how will he see the people of the world?"
"..." Chen Hai stood up long and said to Fu Siyuan, "Zhao Zhenjun is hard to get a visit to Beiling. I am plagued by everything. At this moment, I have to go to Yuzhu Peak to supervise the battle. I cannot take time to accompany you carefully. I have to ask Lord Fu to do my best for the landlords and entertain Zhao Zhenjun..."
Chen Hai did not respond to Zhao Xiaozhi's questioning and handed over the follow-up discussion to Fu Siyuan. He took the generals and walked out directly, regardless of Zhao Xiaozhi's anger and wanted to leave directly.
After leaving the hall, Chen Hai and the generals, surrounded by Jian Xiu Guards, rushed to the Dongcheng Camp, where they boarded the Shitian Xuanthunder ship, which had just been supplied with a new batch of heavy arrows, and flew towards the outpost 700 miles away.
"That person surnamed Zhao, I thought he would be so angry that he would just leave!" Zhou Wanqing couldn't help but smile when she thought of Zhao Xiaozhi's face being so angry that she was ashen.
"How dare he leave?" Chen Hai couldn't help but smile bitterly, "The last time they were defeated, they lost Qiantongling, a key area that controlled the middle reaches of Yinjiang River, only three million elite soldiers retreated to the mouth of Yinjiang River. They dared to stick to the protection formation of heaven and earth at the mouth of the river. They probably didn't even have the courage to withdraw troops and retreat to Tianhuang River. What can they turn against us?"
Yinjiang is a tributary of the middle reaches of the Wantao River. The river channel is only more than ten miles widest. From the mouth of the river to Qiantongling, which is more than 600 miles upstream, stands along the river. The narrowest part of the river channel is less than a thousand steps. After the demon soldiers occupy Qiantongling, they can easily transport their troops to the west bank of Yinjiang. At this time, the prince of Anxi, Lu Shang and King Zheng of Yue Liu Fen, led more than three million soldiers and horses to the estuary of the river where the Yinjiang River meets the Wantao River. Relying on a small mountain that stretches for more than ten miles, it deploys a large formation of heaven and earth to defend. There are not enough warships. If they leave Xiaojinshan and retreat west along the south bank, the flanks will be completely exposed to the attack of the demon soldiers.
The Anxi Army is at the mouth of Yinjiang River, and has a waterway connected to Qihuangling. The north bank is more than 400 miles away. It is also the Jingkou camp of the Beiling Army. It is not afraid of being cut off from supply. However, the problem is that the spiritual veins of Xiaojinshan are too weak, and the Wanxian Demon-killing Formation that can barely be supported is not very powerful. At this time, the demon soldiers of Yinhun Ridge and Wuhou Ridge are still gathering in the Maozhen Mountains. The Anxi Army is worried that the demons will gather enough troops to attack their camp at the mouth of Yinjiang River.
At this time, Anxi was very eager to see more reinforcements from Yue Dynasty entering Qihuangling and Yinjiang's front line...
"This time, Emperor Lie and the Lü family sent an envoy to the Yue Ting and invited three million reinforcements. I'm afraid he has already agreed to be included in the Yue Ting after the war, right?" Xi Tongguang fully understood what was being held in Chen Hai's heart, and at this time he couldn't help but sigh.
With the current situation, the Beiling Army can fully solve the Western magic soldiers retreating to the depths of Jingshan and whose activity space is less than 200 miles apart within one or two months. At that time, at least five million soldiers and four to fifty blue whale-class iron-armored warships can be gathered on the other side of the Yinjiang River mouth.
Generally speaking, how could the demons forcefully attack the Anxi army that retreated to the mouth of Yinjiang River?
The only exception is that the Lu family refused to cross the river and support each other from beginning to end!
It was precisely because of the concern that the Beiling Army might send troops into the south bank of Wantao River without authorization and attack the demon soldiers in the Panji Maozhen Mountains. Lu Shang and King Liu Fen of Yue Zheng could not wait to lead their troops out of Qihuangling and other places to fight with the main force of the demon soldiers on both sides of the Yinjiang River.
The Lü family couldn't wait to welcome the Yueting warships to advance eastward, which was reasonable, but Emperor Qin Ran of the Lieutenant did not know that Beiling would also send envoys to Yueting for help. To put it bluntly, he would rather place the Anxi land to Yueting than see Beiling grow stronger.
Two years ago, Chen Hai personally rushed to Anze to meet Emperor Lie Qin Ran, and ordered the prisoner Emperor Bao to establish himself, and then enfeoffed the vassals. Perhaps Emperor Lie Qin Ran had never expected that the Beiling Army would have such strong combat power after two years of integration, right?
It was probably because of this that Emperor Qin Ran decided to give up Anxi and asked the Yue court to send troops to control the demons to suppress the further growth of the Beiling Army?
In fact, when the demons launched a winter offensive last year, Xi Tongguang's expectation at that time was only hoped that the damage to the north bank of the Nuchuan River would not be too strong, and even if he was considered a victory, he did not expect that Chen Hai personally led the Longxiang Army to restrain the demon soldiers, and that the demon soldiers had no ability to penetrate the north bank of the Nuchuan River on a large scale to massacre and destroy. He did not expect that the demon soldiers did not get much advantage in a series of large and large battles that broke out from Wuchang City. In the end, the Western Demon Soldiers were successfully blocked by Chen Hai to the west of Jitian Canal and failed to retreat to the south bank before the river freezes.
Although the Beiling Army suffered not low casualties in the attack on the western demon soldiers retreating to Jingshan, the battlefield was divided and fragmented and narrow in the rugged mountains, and the human generals and soldiers were not at all superior. When the Western demon soldiers were weakened to only 800,000 troops, the Beiling Army suffered more than one million casualties, but the smoothness of the war was still far beyond Xi Tongguang's expectations.
However, after Chen Hai entered the outpost again, Xi Tongjiang felt that everything was taken for granted.
The outpost is located deep in Jingshan, and is located in the straight line of Jingshan, Daying Xinjing City, Daying and the eastern foot of Jingshan. It is 700 miles away. It is surrounded by stone peaks and the valleys are deep and dangerous. It is always like a thousand-foot hanging wall obtained by cutting a knife and axe. Except for the mysterious cultivator who can control the wind, sword cultivator and birds, ordinary mountain people cannot find a way to enter the mountain.
One hundred and seven hundred and eight hundred thousand demon soldiers retreated into such a steep terrain. No matter how many troops the Beiling Army has, who knows how much time it will take to capture it?
However, the outpost position east of the Beiling Army has advanced 600 miles into the mountains in the past five months. The Jianxiu Huwei Battalion, directly under the Longxiang Army, cooperated with thousands of heavy rock-breaking vehicles, 200,000 craftsmen to construct in sections, and more than 20,000 crawler-type heavy-loaded logistics vehicles, has opened up a gravel road that is winding and long about 1,200 miles long, thirty or forty steps wide to more than a hundred steps.
Although the Western Demon Soldiers tried their best to infiltrate the passage and destroy the passage, they risked heavy casualties and destroyed more than 20 miles of road sections, which were usually repaired within two or three days.
This allowed the outpost positions to continuously obtain sufficient supplies and rotate troops, and also allowed the Beiling Army to put the Tianji fighting chariot into the battlefield in every slightly open local battlefield!
The rock formation in Jingshan is extremely hard, but the rock-breaking cone used by the rock-breaking car is extremely luxurious and refined into Jingxuan gold. Moreover, each rock-breaking car consumes a rock-breaking cone every day. In the past five months, the accumulated loss of rock-breaking blades has reached 150,000 rock-breaking cones. The value is higher than the heavy-head arrows, heavy-bore crossbows, Scorpio chariots and other heavenly war machines consumed in the past five months.
The Beiling Army led by Chen Hai can be said to have completely put the tactics into a level that traditional generals in Haidong continent cannot understand.
If this passage was split open with sword cultivator swords, it would probably cost more than 100,000 and 200,000 spiritual swords, which would be unbearable to the Beiling Army at this time.
Although the materials consumed by each rock-breaking blade are more expensive than ordinary earth-level spiritual swords, after all, Jingxuan gold is a magic weapon above the heaven-level level, so the spiritual sword can use extremely precious gold and iron, but the main problem is the time required for casting and the manpower required.
150,000 rock-breaking cones are only required to be competent in a factory with a scale of more than a thousand craftsmen; while 150,000 Xuan-level, Earth-level spiritual swords, all the weapon refiners in Beiling County and the state of Qingbeiling do nothing else, and it is estimated that it will take three or four years to refine them.
Chen Hai did not have many surprises about this.
The Tianji Academy has been rooted in Yanzhou for nearly 60 years, and has devoted all the efforts of Yanzhou to develop Tianji war machine to control demons for more than 40 years. It has been directly under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou General General and used for the production of military war machine. It has reached more than 20,000 people before and after the battle of Taoyuan River, and has reached more than 400,000 skilled craftsmen. This has not included the Tianji Factory belonging to Taiweizong, Dong family, Miao family and others.
Leading with Guo Hongyi, Zhao Ruhui, Xue Cun, Ji Yuanren and others, regardless of their cultivation level, as long as they make all breakthroughs in their fields, the specialized craftsman of Tianji will have more than 600 people around the Taoyuan River battle.
This also represents the development of Tianji war equipment. It seems that it has not been able to break through the limitations of Fengyan Move magazine, but there are at least 600 places that can be called a major breakthrough.
In Wanxian Mountain, the weapon refiners and outer disciples who acted as service workers in the Qifeng Weapon Refining Academy had only more than 7,000 people in total, and they had never thought of using ordinary people to act as craftsmen.
In the past, Yanzhou was somewhat limited by the limited number of high-end craftsmen in Yanzhou. The limited wind raft and wind flame power boxes that can be refined every year directly limit the overall output of Tianji war equipment.
After the Battle of Shattering Star Gorge, the Beiling Army and the Seven Clans had already undergone substantial integration. The weapon refiners of the three sects were not mentioned. As the conditions for the original Beiling Army to provide free assistance to the Tianji war equipment of the Seven Clans, almost half of the medium and low-level weapon refiners of the four Beiting sects were seconded by Chen Hai to the Tianying City Factory.
When the Beiling County and State were officially established, these weapon refiners were naturally directly under the jurisdiction of the Craftsmanship and Crafts Department.
In addition, the Ji and Xi clans recruited a large number of children of the cold clan to train them into craftsmen and vigorously developed Tianji Factory, the wind array box, wind flame power box and arrow array box that the Beiling County can refine every year is directly increased several times compared to four or five years ago.
It also allowed new types of Tianji war machines such as Scorpio chariots, wind flame jet devices, and Tianji Puppet Arm that Yanzhou could only be tried in the past to be refined in batches and incorporated into the army on a large scale.
Therefore, in the winter of last year, Chen Hai led the Longxiang Army to delay the devil's invasion in the north. Even if it was a small-scale contact battle, he would have to abandon hundreds of chariots. By the end of the Battle of Tongbai Mountain, the Beiling Army had abandoned as many as 60,000 Tianji combat vehicles on the battlefield throughout the cold season. At the same time, more than 9,000 Fengyan airships were damaged due to various reasons, and countless various scrapped chariots were run away.
However, these are only the production in Beiling in two years.
These have brought about a fundamental change in the tactical arrangements at the Haidong Continental Battalion level.
What Beiling currently lacks is some rare gold and iron needed to refine high-end heavenly war equipment. Since Emperor Qin Ran did not hesitate to ced Anxi, he also had to restrict Beiling. The Lu family had long been determined to defect to the Yue Dynasty, so Chen Hai naturally had to blackmail him once this time.
Although the Jingxuan gold of 70 million kilograms of Jingxuan gold was dismantled from the Bihai Treasure Ship over the years, it has actually been used in recent years.
The output of Jibeiling, the first-level Jingxuan gold and iron, is only 200,000 to 300,000 kilograms per year; this is the result of the continuous expansion of output over the years.
In comparison, the wars in the Anxi tribes and the Yue Dynasty were not very expensive in the early stages. Although the annual output of extremely rare gold and iron was limited, the reserves over thousands of years were extremely considerable.
In the past year, Jiu Zhen led the three surnames to plunder the Yuechao coastal cities, and traded with the black merchants in Yuechao, and also sent millions of kilograms of extremely precious gold and iron to Beiling. However, this kind of transaction can only be done once or twice. Yuechao coastal cities were looted once, and the savings of extremely precious gold and iron decreased a lot. The pirate soldiers in Jiu Zhen's hands could not go deep into Yuechao inland to rob.
Fundamentally, you can explore the ore veins by exploring the bottom of the sea that is thousands of feet deep, or you may find some discoveries.
Otherwise, even if the Beiling Army fully mastered the batch refining method of black gold puppets, with the production of rare gold and iron in Beiling, it would be better to refine one or two bottles of black gold puppets every year.
Chapter completed!