"Is this the mirror and cup those barbarians brought?" A middle-aged man with a long beard was playing with a glass cup, and a silver mirror was placed on the table next to him.
"Yes, my lord."
"I don't really believe that those savages can produce these things." The middle-aged man asked in a puzzled tone.
"It's grown-ups now."
"Well, not bad. Any other gains?"
"There are two hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver. Seventeen mirrors, forty-two cups like this..."
"Send it to the treasury." The middle-aged man smiled when he heard this. According to the price these ancient people sold these days, these items cost another 700,000 taels, a total of 1 million taels, which can be used to equip an army of at least 20,000 troops.
"My lord, will those savages take revenge?"
"What are you afraid of? They are too busy to take care of themselves now. If they fail, they may destroy the country. Moreover, the order has been issued to send troops immediately, and the city will also send 10,000 troops." The middle-aged man waved his hand indifferently. With this million, even if all the 10,000 soldiers are lost, they can easily be replenished.
"It's like this, Daxia and I have joined forces to attack, I'm afraid those barbarians won't be able to hold on for long!" the subordinate said in surprise.
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"boom!"
At night, an explosion suddenly occurred in a certain area of the Great Summer Camp, and some surrounding tents were lifted directly. Grieve and groan in pain.
The soldiers in several tents around hurried out, helped to drag away the dead bodies, and carried the wounded to the wounded barracks, then hurried back to the tents to close their clothes and lie down. However, before they fell asleep, they heard another roar in the distance.
But these soldiers fell into a deep sleep as if they hadn't heard it.
They were still nervous at first, but they got used to it after a long time. These days, there will be a few explosions every night. If you are close, go out and have a look.
Until early in the morning, Wu Shenghou walked out of his camp with an ugly face.
Wu Shenghou hadn't looked good in the past few days.
Aggrieved!
He has been in the army for decades in his life, and he has never fought such an aggrieved battle.
Facing Dayao, this battle is difficult to fight, he has known it for a long time, and he even insisted on planning for 20 years.
How many twenty years are there in a person's life? He has planned for twenty years for an event that is uncertain to happen, and this can be seen from his heart.
No matter how powerful the Gu Clan is, he is prepared and confident that he will win this war.
As long as the time is prolonged, all the land in the north of the ancient tribe will be lost, Yunguo will send troops, the south will rebel, and the recruits from Daxia will also add to the front line, that is when the barbarians of the ancient tribe will be driven back to the mountains.
The development of the war at the beginning was indeed within his expectations.
However, in the past twenty days, everything has changed.
The opponent got some completely unfamiliar weapons from somewhere, but they were quite powerful, especially on the battlefield, facing those ordinary soldiers.
A small thing that is still on the side of the road that no one will notice can cause hundreds of casualties, dozens of people.
At first, I thought that the other party didn't have much and would use it up soon, but the things in the other party's hands seemed to be endless, and they used one after another, changing new tricks from time to time.
On the battlefield, in the big camp, no matter day or night, you can always hear that kind of thunderous explosion. Whether you are on the battlefield or resting, or fetching water for cooking, you will encounter it from time to time. Over the past few days, Everyone in the camp was full of tension.
Especially when attacking, recently the opponent always throws a small ball that will explode after the input of troops reaches a certain level, interrupting the subsequent attack, and killing all the soldiers in front before the follow-up troops come up.
After a few days, the attack did not see any effect. There were more and more wounded on one's own side, while the casualties of the other side decreased.
Now when he heard that explosion every time he attacked, he knew that the rhythm of the siege had been disrupted again.
There is no sense of fluency in commanding the army to attack at all.
This frequent interruption of the attacking rhythm made him restless and chest tight.
And on this battlefield, the morale of the army is getting lower and lower, which also worries him.
If the opponent didn't have those weird weapons, even if the attack was temporarily frustrated, the morale would not drop so quickly.
But now you have to lift your feet when walking, and always look up at the sky when attacking, and even many soldiers have begun to feel at a loss.
The reason for him to persevere now is to at least achieve the strategic intention of this war, and to wait for the two armies that penetrated Dayao to achieve the expected goal.
At the same time, there was still an unyielding energy in my heart, and I wanted to see how many of those strange weapons the other party had.
He didn't believe that the other party would never run out.
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Wu Shenghou was in a bad mood, but Ren Baqian was in a good mood.
He planted a few landmines outside every night, and fired two cannonballs at the enemy camp from the top of the city. Watching the way the Great Xia army lowered their heads and raised their heads every day when they went out into battle, he felt very happy for a while.
Especially now the soldiers in the city are almost treating him like a god.
Although his individual strength is not strong, his messy things have indeed played a big role in defending the city these days.
Now the Great Xia Army outside the city still has 80,000 combatable troops. With half the casualties, those Great Xia Army have no plans to evacuate at all. Ren Baqian felt that they really didn't want to see the Yellow River.
The situation in the city is not very good. After sending out 300 flying cavalry to intercept the opponent's food team, there are still 800 flying cavalry and 3,000 soldiers in the city, a total of only 3,800 people. Now some empresses have been mobilized to participate in the battle. The civilians guarding the city went to the city to help.
However, Ren Baqian was not too worried. These civilians had experienced the training of the war, and they only lacked some military knowledge, so they could become a new force. Whether it is strength or personal bravery, it is not bad compared to the army.
In addition to this, Daxia had two other armies raging in the territory of Dayao, one of which had only about 80,000 people. When Ren Baqian first arrived in Liaocheng, he had already broken down many villages, until later all the villages gathered in the city. Only then did casualties begin to decrease.
However, in addition to that army, there is another army of 100,000 people doing the same thing. After getting nothing in the wild, these two armies have already started to attack the cities, and two cities have been destroyed recently.
There were many casualties in the city, but those two armies suffered heavy casualties as well.
According to Ren Baqian's words, more than 3,000 guarding troops were drawn out, and after the formation of the militia, it was difficult to form combat power in a short period of time. On the city wall, only relying on personal bravery to defend the city, even if the personal strength is much higher than that of the Daxia soldiers , but the fate of breaking the city is still inevitable.
In the past few days, three towns have been destroyed, with no less than 40,000 casualties.
I have to talk about the individual combat effectiveness of the civilians of the ancient tribe. In the face of the elite army of Daxia, a group of militiamen and civilians caused the opponent's casualties to reach 60,000, which is enough to be proud of.
This is also the reason why Daxia failed to hunt down and kill the civilians who fled after breaking the city, and the loss was too great.
At the same time, the 3,500 troops that were drawn out were waiting for orders, ready to join the reinforcements from the Southern Protectorate, and deal a fatal blow to the 120,000 Great Xia Army.
There are still seven days for the reinforcements to join the 3,500 troops, 8,500 to 120,000.
Even if Da Xia wins, the remaining army can't do anything but withdraw.
What's more, Daxia might not win yet.
Ren Baqian strolled to the side hall of the Chengling Mansion, where two radio stations were located, and the other radio station was taken away by flying cavalry who went out to intercept the Great Xia army.
"Any news?" Ren Baqian went in and asked.
"Not yet." The operators in the side hall were the Empress and Li Qianqiu's guards.
Ren Baqian nodded, and just about 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 there?"
"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 another person in front of the radio station.
"Aren't you in Daxia? I was wondering if you ran back, but I didn't expect you to go to the Northeast Protectorate."
What Ren Baqian said was the truth, he had really thought about the situation of the caravan, but it was a pity that it was difficult to convey the news. There is no caravan to pass messages between cities. Later, I can only hope that they will live a little longer and come back safely with their own money.
Now that the herbs are gone, the Empress is bankrupt, and her little coffers are left with money to maintain the palace and guards.
"My lord, not only I'm back, but also Lao Gu, but he's still in bed now, and I'm afraid he won't get up in ten days and a half month." Tang Feng said.
Ren Baqian frowned. Old Gu is Gu Ziheng. He should be in Yuncheng now. Even he has gone to the Northeast Protectorate. What happened
You must know that after the war with Daxia, he knew that his mirror and glass were on Daxia's side, so he didn't need to think about it, so he pointed to Yunguo's side and brought some silver taels for himself to return blood.
You must know that if you don’t have money, you will have no medicine, if you have no medicine, you will not be able to upgrade, if you cannot upgrade, you will not be able to marry the empress, and if you cannot marry the empress, it will be more serious. Is this making yourself a great magician
"My lord, I didn't bring back the money, it was robbed... I only brought back two thousand taels of gold from Daxia, and the rest was robbed. Old Gu was a little better than me, and managed to escape back with five thousand taels of gold. Other goods and money were robbed by City Lord Qingfeng."
Ren Baqian's eyes widened when he heard this.
I just pointed at the money to practice, and now I was robbed
The iron chain crawled out of his head, swam to the ground along one side, wrapped around the stool next to him, and then raised high.
Everyone in the side hall didn't bother to look at Ren Baqian's emoji, they all looked at Tiesuo holding up the stool to show off his might, and everyone was amazed.
"How much was robbed?" Ren Baqian squeezed out a few words between his teeth, not to mention what was not sold, but the money that was sold was all his hard-earned money!
Was robbed? What can be tolerated and unbearable!
"About 500,000 taels." Tang Feng said a number that shocked everyone.
This is one-fourteenth of Dayao's treasury's annual income, which is the empress' four-year income.
"Repeat, who snatched it?" Ren Baqian gritted his teeth.
"I escaped from Juruocheng in Daxia, and the one who attacked was the Juruocheng Military Station; Lao Gu escaped from Qingfeng City in Yunguo, and the one who attacked was the Lord Qingfeng."
After hearing this, Ren Baqian turned around and left, dragging a stool behind him. The sound of the stool bumping against 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 in doubt.
"One million taels!" Ren Baqian stretched out a finger.
The empress's eyeballs were rounded all of a sudden.
"It's the mirrors and glasses that I asked the caravan to bring back. I wanted to sell them to replenish the internal storage. It was a total of one million taels, and they were snatched by the Lord Yunguo Qingfeng!"
"Boom!" The table in front of the Empress was smashed into pieces.
"And Da Xia also snatched a part."
However, the words he added later were obviously not noticed by the empress. Her attention was all attracted by the words "one million taels", "replenish the internal treasury", and "City Master Qingfeng".
"How dare he..." The queen's hair stood on end, and the words came out from between her teeth.
"Your Majesty, it seems that Yunguo is going to send troops!" Ren Baqian said something serious first, and it can be seen from this incident that Yunguo has made up his mind. Otherwise, how could a city lord have such courage
The Empress calmed down somewhat after hearing this, but the anger in her heart was still hard to calm down. She has always robbed others, but she was robbed today? Or one million taels
How much can one million taels do
"However, before solving the Yun Kingdom, you can send experts to deal with the Qingfeng City Lord. This kind of person who has occupied the people's hard-earned money must be sanctioned and his family property confiscated. It is too slow to deal with it after the Yun Kingdom is destroyed. Ten thousand years is too long, we only fight for the day and night." Ren Baqian raised his fist and said vigorously.
Wars belong to wars, but you can't bear to steal my money! As for Daxia, this account will be settled later, and when Daxia's army is wiped out, if I want to let Daxia's treasury rats in, I will have to cry out.
"Destroy him all the way!" The empress directly set the tone.
"Family reunion!" Ren Baqian added.