Chapter 433 Chaos(1/2)
(This chapter will be a bit fragmented, which is a total "binding" of the previous preparation and the subsequent plot. It is also because some readers have reported that the plot is progressing slowly, so as to promote the plot progress.)
When the sun sets in the west, the mercenary groups in Nanyang County were quarreling. They defeated the remaining main force of Nanyang County, and the entire Nanyang County entered the embrace of the mercenary groups.
So now the problem is, the division of territory, and everyone wants to divide more places.
Beichen Yuqing led more than 300,000 elite troops to continue guarding the border to prevent any in case.
At the same time, in Qi State, the Emperor of Qi finally learned about Nanyang County and immediately said to Prime Minister He Zhiguo: "Nanyang County has been taken down by those mercenaries. You can now go to Guangling County and buy the remaining half of Guangling County.
In this way, there will definitely be nothing to say in the Shang Kingdom.”
"Yes, I'll set out now!" He Zhiguo came out of the palace and immediately led the "Jiaozi" of three million taels of gold. Since Anyang had a bank, the surrounding countries have also founded their own banks. However, because Anyang had occupied the word "bank", other countries could only use other names.
There are many names such as money shops and gold shops. Among them, Qi State followed Anyang and built the "Royal Bank of Qi State".
But just after He Zhiguo left, the Emperor of Qi received an urgent report from the West - the defeat in the first battle!
"What's going on!" The Emperor of Qi was furious and asked the messenger.
The messenger was a small team leader next to the Grand Marshal Li Hui, and he was very eloquent: "Your Majesty, Huang Guo was prepared for a long time. When we launched the attack, we found that Huang Guo, who seemed to be unprepared, had already been prepared. On the border, all the large-caliber artillery were above 105 mm.
Caught off guard, we suffered a lot of losses. The commander-in-chief Qiu Wenming, the commander of the army, was almost hit by the shells."
The emperor of Qi's face turned cold: "In other words, we have not yet broken through the defense of Huang's country?!"
"Yes!" The team leader answered loudly.
"Bang!" The Emperor of Qi was furious, and the jade case was slapped with a slap. "Okay, before leaving, Li Hui told me that the Huang Kingdom would be eliminated before sunset tomorrow. As a result, he was beaten back as soon as he contacted me!
Come!"
"Your Majesty." A guard came.
"Go and tell Li Hui that no matter what means he uses, he will break through the Huang State's defense tomorrow. Before sunset tomorrow, the forwards of the main force will advance to the capital of Huang State.
I, don’t ask the reasons, don’t ask the means, just ask the results!"
"Yes!" The guard responded, turned around and left.
The Emperor of Qi looked at the soldiers who delivered the letter: "You go down too."
When the soldiers left, the Emperor of Qi looked at the map behind him and was helpless. The map actually came from the original Anyang print.
Seeing the word "Anyang" on the map, the Emperor of Qi held his fingers, and his veins swelled up, and he gritted his teeth and squeezed out four words: "Anyang! Li Xian!"
The words are complicated, there are anger, admiration, and there is also some weird relief from meeting the opponent. But then, everything turned into anger, boundless anger!
"Anyone who dares to stop my steps is the enemy! Li Xian, you, the same!!!"
It’s not because the Emperor of Qi is so angry. For the emperor of a country, the best way to practice is... territorial expansion!
Look at Anyang. As Anyang gradually rises into the Shang Kingdom, too many people's cultivation has been continuously breakthrough; and as a wise king, Li Xian has risen from the foundation-building stage to the Nascent Soul stage in just a few years. This speed is so fast that it makes the cultivators who practice step by step jealousy and even lose their minds.
This is the strength of the country.
But one thing is that if you want to expand your territory, you must have war. This... is playing a game of death! Soldiers, citizens, and even the emperor themselves are walking the tightrope.
The road to cultivation has always been a single-plank bridge, and the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road.
Now, the defeat of Qi's first battle has affected Qi's war plan. The emperor of Qi is of course angry. The most angry one is not the angry Huang Kingdom, but the angry Anyang, the current Shang Kingdom, and Li Xian, the tyrant businessman king - this bastard sells arms everywhere, and it is very efficient!
After the anger, the Emperor of Qi suddenly realized how the arms of Huang State were transported?
How did it ship? Of course... air freight!
While the emperor of Qi was furious, the emperor of Huang was meeting the merchants of the Shang Kingdom.
The Emperor of Huang, dressed in elegant shirt, met with merchants from the Shang Kingdom with equal etiquette. "Thanks to your support this time."
As he said that, Emperor Huang turned his head and looked outside. There was once a vast royal garden, but now the royal garden has been flattened by magic and has been changed to a temporary airport. At the airport, there are no more than a dozen huge planes moving slowly.
These aircraft have never appeared outside. They have a wingspan of more than 30 meters and six engines, which can transport more than 50 tons of supplies at a time. In just half a day, they can travel between Shang Kingdom and Huang Kingdom at one time.
Planes are constantly falling in the sky, and planes are constantly taking off on the ground. All planes flying to high altitude will activate the stealth formation and fly as high as possible to bypass the important cities of Qi.
And such transportation has been going on for two days! In two days, it not only brought arms to Huang State, but also brought many basic machine tools, general gunpowder production technology, etc.
Of course, the Shang Kingdom will not do business that loses money. If you pay so much, you will certainly have to pay back! Therefore, the representatives from the Shang Kingdom can only interrupt the excitement of the Huang Emperor.
"Your Majesty, the things have been sent to you, including 800 artillery, 60,000 shells, and 500,000 talismans. There is also a set of basic machine tools, including gunpowder production guidance, various arms combat guides, and other books, and 500 maps.
10 jade slips for various instructions.
Everything is worth 12 million taels of gold. Plus transportation costs, a total of 15 million taels of gold."
The Emperor of Huang took the map of Huang and pointed it casually, "Jinshan County is located in the southwest, bordering Baishan and Shao Kingdoms, with an area of 180 miles north and south and 150 miles east and west."
"Okay!" The merchants of the Shang Kingdom were very satisfied, "This county is here, let's sign."
The two signed the letter and sweared that the transaction would be completed this time.
After signing, the Emperor of Huang suddenly asked: "Mr. Xiao Zihou, do merchants in the Shang Kingdom have the power of Pengcheng Wanli Group?"
It turned out that the person responsible for transporting this batch of arms was Xiao Zihou, the second shareholder of Pengcheng Wanli Group.
When Xiao Zihou heard this, he was silent for a while, but did not answer positively, but smiled and said with endless pride: "There will be more in the future. Goodbye."
When Xiao Zihou left, His Majesty Huang suddenly turned gloomy, "Is the Shang Kingdom? Humph, take advantage of the situation to rob, I remember you!"
But then he saw the planes rising and falling in the royal garden, Emperor Huang finally sighed, "Is industry and commerce?"
After a little pause, the Emperor Huang suddenly spoke: "Come here, go and inform Baishan Kingdom, Rong Kingdom."
After the two groups of people left, the Emperor Huang suddenly wrote a letter and handed it to the chief guard beside him, "Immediately send it to the Shao Kingdom in the west and ask for rescue!"
"Yes!" The chief guard also left.
After everyone left, the Emperor Huang sighed and looked up at the plane flying around in the sky: "It has changed, it has really changed! It has completely changed!
Actually, I understand very well that Huang State is just a Qi State and Shao State’s excessiveness. Once a war breaks out, Huang State will definitely be crushed. Even if the development of industry and commerce is now too late!
Because, I... don't have any masters!
The only chance of life is that the whole country will surrender to Shaoguo! Doing so will at least protect the royal family and save more people from war."
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Xiao Zihou returned to the plane and looked at the small "Jinshan County" on the map, with both complacent and mocking.
What was proud of was that he finally completed the explanation of the wise king in exchange for land. This land was not from Pengcheng Wanli Group, and even those aircraft and arms were not from Pengcheng Wanli Group. Pengcheng Wanli Group is a "intermediate contractor". This is the support of the wise king for domestic industry and commerce.
This kind of support made all businessmen feel grateful to the wise king from the bottom of their hearts. At present, after completing the wise king's instructions, Xiao Zihou was inevitably a little proud - one-third larger than the wise king's expected area!
And ridicule... "A small country is the effect, even a county is only one-third of that of a big country."
Put the documents into the bag, Xiao Zihou closed his eyes and returned to Anyang.
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In the south, Jin State attacked Liu State not very smoothly, and encountered a very fierce obstacle.
First of all, Liu State is a big country after all. Although the domestic legal thinking is harsh, the reward strategy of "human merit" makes Liu State's soldiers brave in fighting.
Especially in the past, Liu State has always pursued the strategy of "incorporating the strong into the bureaucratic system", which has made Liu State very powerful in combat capabilities.
In addition, after all, Liu State had already had some contact with the Shang Kingdom, and the arms were not bad. Recently, through Gongsun Wushang's relationship, he bought a lot of eliminated arms from the Shang Kingdom, and for a moment he blocked the army of Jin State from the border.
"Even the power, how is this possible!" Li Lisong, the commander of the central army of Jin, sighed fiercely. After fighting for a day, he did not break through the border of Liu.
The two sides were densely fired, and planes in the sky fought endlessly. In such a war situation, Jin's bottom-up method - the battle formation, actually failed!
Because the artillery attack is relatively far away and the attack of the battle formation is too close, this has become the fatal weakness of the traditional battle formation.
Without the assistance of the battle formation, the attack of Jin State will be much weaker!
"But there is no way!" A sharp light flashed in Li Lisong's eyes, "Send the Nascent Soul Stage and the Jindan Stage to form an assault team, quietly touch the rear of Liu State, and launch a massacre!
General Lingyun Qiao Pengfei, please lead your men to assault.
What you need is to get in the warehouse, there is no limit. I only have a little, win! Don’t want anything except victory. Understand?"
"I understand!" Qiao Pengfei responded and went out. Although Qiao Pengfei's cultivation was higher than Li Lisong, Li Lisong was the commander, and Qiao Pengfei was just a general, and he had to obey the commander on the battlefield.
In fact, in a war that often costs hundreds of thousands of people, the ability of a Nascent Soul master may not be very powerful - the enemy cannot be without the Nascent Soul Formation.
Watching Qiao Pengfei leave, Li Lisong smiled confidently: "Although arms can change war, they cannot replace the combat ability of experts. Relying too much on arms will only make himself passive.
After I master the characteristics of arms, I can compete with the Shang Kingdom.
Shang Kingdom, I will not forget the last failure, I will still go back. And Li Xian, I want to let you know that this is the world of cultivation, and arms are definitely not the mainstream. Maybe it can be amazing for a moment, but it can never become the mainstream!"
At the same time, Gongsun Wushang, who visited Liu State, ended his visit and returned to the fleet, and the fleet began to return.
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As dusk approaches, Li Hui, the Grand Marshal on the front line of Qi, also received an order from the Emperor of Qi to take down the Huang Kingdom at any cost!
Taking over Huang State is not only a military goal, but also a long-term political goal. Only by taking over Huang State can the plans behind Qi State be launched. In short, taking over Huang State is a plan that Qi State cannot allow failure and is also the starting point for many subsequent plans.
After receiving the order, Li Hui looked at the dark red sunset and took a deep breath, "Send the order, organize the masters, and raid the Huang Kingdom Palace tonight!"
Looking at the sunset, Li Hui was very calm and did not panic at all.
Next to him, the coach Qiu Wenming, saw this and suddenly asked, "Sir, have you had this idea long ago?"
To be continued...