Fang Jie stood in front of the huge map hanging on the wall, his eyes fixed on Huang Yangdao.
"The news sent back by the Xiaoqi school said that Luo Tu led the rebel army back nearly two thousand miles, and now Chen Bing is in the north of the Yangtze River, confronting the court troops led by Liu Enjing and Xu Xiaogong. Luo Yao is dead, and the rebel army's hearts are also scattered. Quite a lot. However, Luo Tu has some abilities, and he was able to barely hold on to the situation without falling apart, which is not easy."
Wu Yidao, who came here specially from Huangyang Road, said: "But Pang Ba is dead, and Luo Yao is also dead. Now the rebels are in a passive situation, and the imperial court has recruited Minyong on a large scale. Now Xu Xiaogong and Liu Enjing have no less than half a million troops. , although the number of soldiers is pitifully small, their morale is strong, and Luo Tu's soldiers are well-trained, but their morale is low."
"It seems that the imperial court has gained the upper hand. Especially... now there is an unidentified general in iron armor in Chang'an City. Luo Yao was injured by this person. I have been in Chang'an City for so many years. I have never heard of such a person, and no one seems to be able to tell where he came from. However, this person has nearly 20,000 armored troops. It is said that he is brave and cruel, and he has won many battles. Defeated at the hands of this armored army."
Fang Jie hummed: "Send more people to Chang'an to see if we can figure out the origin of this Iron Armored General... I'd better let the Xiaoqi School do this matter, and Master Hou ask the people from Hutongtianxiaxing to cooperate. Wood three… "
When the little eunuch Mu San heard Fang Jie calling him, he hurried over: "What orders does the General have?"
"Go back and tidy up, and go back to Chang'an with the people from the Xiaoqi School. You have been in the palace for a long time. Find someone you know and see if you can find out anything."
Mu San was startled, he really didn't want to go back, he didn't know what was going on in Chang'an City, he was really afraid that once he went back, he wouldn't be able to get out again.
"Slaves... I'm afraid I won't be able to take on this job..."
He glanced at Fang Xie, and was taken aback by Fang Xie's eyes: "However, this servant will do her best. The general trusts this servant, so naturally this servant does not dare to disappoint the general's trust."
"do not be afraid."
Wu Yiyi, Marquis of Sanjin, smiled: "I will let Jiu Se Cai go back with you. With him here, at the worst, I can keep you safe. Jiu Se Cai is famous in the underworld in Chang'an City, and the rogues in the city met him. Everyone should call Grandpa Jiu respectfully, seniority is at stake. Adding the people from the Xiao Riding School, are you still afraid that you won’t be able to come back?”
Mu San hastily said: "This servant is just afraid that I can't do well."
Wu Yiyi smiled and said, "Do you know how I made my business bigger?"
Mu San shook his head: "This servant is stupid, how could he know?"
"Because I dare."
Wu Yiyi said calmly.
"dare… "
Mu San repeated it, and immediately understood Wu Yidao's meaning: "Your servant understands, remember!"
"Go."
Fang Jie waved his hand: "Pack up your things and go to the cashier to get a bank note of 30,000 taels of silver. If you want to inquire about the news, you can't avoid the words "buy" and "rob". If you can buy it, don't grab it. Don't be soft-hearted."
"The servant remembers."
Mu San bowed and retreated.
"Master Hou, what did Xinyang Cheng Tianxin do?"
Fang Jie turned around and asked Wu a question.
"No action."
Wu Yidao replied: "After Luo Yao's defeat, Tian Xin dared not go out of the city even more. Now Xinkou Cang and Xinyang City are still two isolated islands. If we want to take Xinkou Cang, it will not be very difficult. The general wants to fight Xinyang City?"
"Huang Yangdao didn't pull out such a nail, and it's disgusting."
Fang Jie pondered for a while: "But now that Luo Tu has no way out, all the forces in the south of the Yangtze River are unwilling to have anything to do with him. After all, the imperial court has the upper hand now. If Luo Tu returns to the south of the Yangtze River, he will conflict with the local forces. If we don't withdraw to the south of the Yangtze River, the supply of food and grass will probably be exhausted, so we can only go back to Huangyang Road... If we take Xinyang City and Xinkou Warehouse at this time, it will be like cutting off Luo Tu's back road. I will not attack Huang Yangdao with all my strength."
"right."
Wu Yidao nodded: "If we take the Xinkou warehouse now, Luo Tu will completely cut off the food road, so he must either send his troops south to grab the territory with the local family in the south of the Yangtze River, or withdraw to Huangyang Road. Compared with the two, he He should choose to fight Huang Yangdao."
"yes… "
Fang Jie sighed slightly: "After all, we haven't gained a foothold in the southwest yet, and Luo Tu probably wants to go back to Yongzhou. Compared with Jiangnan, he would like it here more than Yongzhou."
"It's better to wait for a while..."
Wu Yidao thought for a while and said, "Luo Tu is half insane now, if you push him, he will bite him regardless."
"No."
Fang Jie shook his head: "Master Hou has never seen this person before... Luo Tu is not impulsive, although on the surface he seems to be a brave and foolhardy person, but if he is not deeply scheming, how could he be trusted by Luo Yao? This person Very calm, definitely not a reckless man... Therefore, Xinkou Cang must be fought, and Xinyang City must also be pulled out."
Wu Yiyi frowned, somewhat unable to follow Fang Jie's train of thought.
"Forcing Luo Tu to go to the south of the Yangtze River?"
"It's not forcing, it's guiding."
Fang Jie said: "Luo Tu made everyone think he was a lunatic, so everyone was unwilling to provoke him, because he understood the horror of a lunatic, and because a lunatic didn't care about it. Because of this, if he meets another lunatic , Will he really go all out? A real lunatic doesn’t know the horror of a lunatic, but a fake lunatic does.”
Fang Jie waved his hand: "Come here, send my military order back to Huangyang Road, appoint Cui Lueshang as the general manager of the march, and Dugu Wenxiu as the military adviser, and lead the army to attack Xinyang City and Xinkou Cang. The two of them come to see each other!"
"Here!"
The soldiers outside responded, turned around and went out to make arrangements.
"correct… "
Fang Jie smiled: "I have been busy discussing military affairs, and forgot to ask, why did Lord Hou come here in such a hurry?"
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Wu Yiyi smiled: "Don't worry... After the general led his troops to the south, although the military report was sent back to Zhuqueshan from time to time, I still couldn't let it go. I'm not worried about those people in the local area. Naturally, I don't worry about Nanyan and Heren, they are just mobs. But when I got the news that Luo Yao was defeated, I immediately set off to rush here... I don't want Yinyu to become a widow before she gets married. "
Fang Jie smiled: "That's a bit unlucky."
Wu Yiyi laughed loudly: "But the one who came here was a little late, and I didn't see the earth-shattering battle. I asked Dagou and them curiously before, and just a few words made me feel uneasy. This is too dangerous. Even though you are well prepared, it is better to avoid such things as much as possible.”
"Where is there such a thing, once is enough."
Fang Jie smiled, and changed the topic: "How is the workshop? Has Andrew's cannon been successfully trial-produced?"
"not yet."
Wu Yiyi smiled and said: "That guy is also a lunatic. Although the drawing you hand-painted for him before you left was simple, he said it gave him a lot of inspiration. After thinking about it along your lines, it suddenly became clear. Let's start from Jin Shixiong. Several batches of iron ore exchanged for grain have been shipped in, and the foundry has almost been built. Before I left, Andrew had cast a cannon, but the chamber exploded during the test firing and injured several people."
"There is still a problem with the ratio of gunpowder, and there is also a problem with the casting process."
Wu Yiyi shook his head: "However, this thing should be extremely powerful. If it is successfully built, even Chang'an City, which is said to be absolutely invulnerable, will not be able to stop the indiscriminate bombardment of hundreds of artillery pieces."
Hearing this sentence, Fang Jie's heart suddenly moved.
In order to deal with Luo Yao, Fang Jie opened a door. There are two words hidden in this door, called technology. The impact of technology on this era must be bloody. Because no matter which era it is, the first thing that technology transforms the world is the battlefield. Thinking of the towering city walls of Chang'an City and the square buildings and streets in Chang'an City, Fang Xie suddenly felt a little pain in his heart.
In the dead of night, Fang Xie couldn't help but think about why he was brought into this world by God. It's definitely not pity. People die all the time in this world. It is unnecessary and impossible for God to let him live again just because he has mercy on him. Moreover, he is sent to such a world to live again. If God really had compassion, there wouldn't be so many miserable things in this world.
So, what is God's purpose
The only thing Fang Jie thought of was change.
change the world.
More than a thousand years ago, that person named Sang Luan opened a door to this world, and because of the opening of this door, his personal abilities were raised to a terrifying height. One person can affect a city, a war, or even the entire world. But because of this, the world has begun to rely too much on manpower...
For more than a thousand years, society has basically not made any progress.
Technology, stagnant.
Fang Jie talked with Andrew specifically, and asked Andrew what the world on the other side of the sea looks like. Andrew said that according to the history he knew, his country was still a barren primitive nation more than a thousand years ago, living on stone tool hunting, which was far behind the civilization of the Central Plains. Moreover, there are no practitioners in his hometown, and only the mages of the church can show super powers. However, the number of mages is negligible compared with the practitioners in the Central Plains.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that there are no practitioners and no strong manpower to support the country's strength. Therefore, the world of foreigners on the other side of the ocean is developing extremely fast, exceedingly fast. After more than a thousand years, firearms have become popular in the army. As for the Central Plains and grasslands, there has been almost no change in the past thousand years.
More than a thousand years is a long time, but if compared with the long history, it is nothing.
The grasslands of the Central Plains stagnated, while the foreigners developed rapidly.
Thinking of this inadvertently, Fang Jie suddenly felt that he had grasped something.
But this feeling was fleeting, and when he thought about it carefully, he found that he hadn't grasped anything.
"General, what's the matter?"
Wu Yidao's words pulled Fang Xie out of his thoughts, and seeing the concern on his face, Fang Xie smiled apologetically: "It's nothing, just a little absent-minded."
Wu Yidao let out an oh, and smiled after sitting down again: "I thought the general thought of something."
"What did you think of?"
Fang asked.
Wu Yiyi said with a smile: "Speaking of firearms, I thought the general thought of letting the newly built Firearms Battalion show their face when attacking Xinyang City."
Fang Jie shook his head: "No, before the artillery was built, the Firearms Battalion couldn't let others know about it. It's just a fight against Xinyang City, and we don't need to show our cards. Cui Lue's commercial soldiers are upright but still grand, and Dugu Wenxiu sees the overall situation Very good, with the two of them cooperating, there will be no problem in taking Xinyang City."
"Um."
Wu Yiyi nodded, took a sip from his teacup, and seemed to have nothing to say.
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Yongzhou City
sunji snacks
After the big dog entered, he found a corner seat and sat down, ordered two drawers of steamed buns and a bowl of warm haggis soup. He sat down and took a few bites when a middle-aged man came in and sat down at the table next to him. He also ordered two drawers of buns and a bowl of haggis soup. The two sat back to back, very close to each other.
"The general said, I want to help me restore the country, destroy Nanyan, and let me be the emperor."
Big Dog lowered his voice and said.
The man stopped bowing his head to eat, and his face froze suddenly. After a while, he murmured: "Helping you restore the country... let you be the emperor... big brother... this is... a good thing."