Chapter 6542 Huangtian→Huangtian→Huangtian

If the three families in the Persian Gulf received the news of the locust plague, beat Shi Min several times, and were sure that there were tens of billions of locusts passing through their side, and they were sure that no matter how hard they struggled, they could not resist it, so they stole thirty ships of fine grain from the Kushan side, harvested the rice on their own farms in advance, the unripe sugarcane in the plantations, and the wild vegetables and weeds within a radius of dozens of miles, and then gathered all the people in the Wubao and the bunkers to lie down in a low-consumption state. ??? ????н???.￠???? ????

Then most of the noble families in Central Asia still struggled to some extent. After all, they had been in the Central Plains before, and they had seen locust plagues before, but the number was slightly more. How could they lie down directly?

Of course, the most important point here is that the loss of lying down directly is too great. At this point in time, each family does not have enough food. If they lie down directly, people will definitely die, and many people will die. In this case, it is better to struggle and see how the effect is. At least dying in resistance is worse than dying of hunger.

At least the former is conducive to social stability, and the latter will really cause riots.

Besides, the locust plague is just a locust plague, not a locust god, let alone a locust god. Moreover, they have killed the real Huang Tian, ​​so the wild locust god is unknown. Just do it. There is nothing to be afraid of. Just do it first.

Guo Zhao's behavior is actually based on this idea. After all, after Guo Zhao reorganized the fiefdom of the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin, it was just above the Zhang family in Hanoi. After the Zhang family in Hanoi lay flat, the locusts passing through the border did not say that they were the first to attack the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin, but at least they also separated a small team and flew to the northeast.

As for prevention, the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin actually did it. Because the Han Dynasty had a professional course on preventing locusts, the three families would specially clean up the locust eggs every winter to ensure that there would be no locust plague in the local area.

After all, locust plagues are something that cannot be solved by future generations once they break out. Almost all mainstream solutions to eliminate locust plagues rely on prevention before the plague, such as turning the soil in winter to freeze locust eggs to death, and biological control in spring to kill locust nymphs. Basically, when the plague really breaks out, it is useless to spray pesticides from airplanes. If it is a super plague, you can only wait for the locusts to die, otherwise it is completely useless.

Therefore, logically speaking, the prevention measures of the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin are correct, but these locusts fly from Africa. Let alone the three families, except for the Kushan Empire and the Parthian Empire that has already collapsed, no one else in the world has ever considered this outrageous possibility.

As for special granaries and special shelters to deal with locust plagues, how to say it, Wubao, bastions, bunkers and other things are not so easy to build. Not all families are like the Yong family, rushing directly to the doomsday fortress, just short of building an underground palace directly.

The semi-sealed earth-stone structure of the Wubao, the semi-submerged closed bunker, the almost completely closed war stronghold bastion, etc., all fortress-like buildings have high construction costs and require high technology. The only relatively low cost is the cellar, but the cellar for storing food also needs professionals to build it.

Of course, it is not that a big family like Guo Liuyin cannot provide professionals to build bunkers and Wubao. The problem is that the backbones of the three families were attacked and slaughtered by the Anxi bandits a few years ago. The rest are women, children, the elderly and the weak. Otherwise, how could Guo Zhao be in power.

Unless there is no one in the direct line, the major families will basically not let women inherit the position of the head of the family. At that time, all the adult men of the three families died in the war, and Guo Zhao was almost appointed in a critical situation.

Now the question is, what else did Guo Zhao inherit besides the lintel, and how many resources can the family provide?

Let’s not talk about anything else, just say how many managers and technicians these three families need to maintain a family and establish a fiefdom.

There are not many left, even if the three families of Guo Liuyin are combined, there are not many left. After all, when the first wave of the founding of the country was over, the major families spent a lot of money, and it is impossible to leave too many people in the hometown.

These technicians were killed in a wave, and the progress was one step behind. By the time Guo Zhao stabilized the situation, it was already two years ago. At this time, the construction started, and the war fortress such as Wubao was built first.

Although the construction of cellars for storage was also considered, the human resources of the three families have always been limited, and most of them are local Anxi people. Therefore, after considering the reality, it is better to use local materials to build thatched houses and wooden warehouses.

After all, the quality of Anxi people, unless there are professional technicians under the rule of the seven nobles, can never be compared with the professionals reserved by the three families of Guo Liuyin.

It's a pity that most of these professionals were consumed when the bandits broke the three families before. Even if they are still alive, they have been absorbed by other families.

The descendants of the three families of Guo Liuyin, even if they can find these professional technicians carefully cultivated by their own families in other families, they can't go back. After all, everything must be reasonable.

Therefore, after suppressing the unrest, Guo Zhao actively demonstrated his military power, and made do with other aspects first, and then crossed the river with the Zhang family in Hanoi to the south, the Wang family in the northeast, and the Cui family in the north.

This idea is not wrong, but it also has some unpredictable shortcomings. After all, human and material resources are limited, so they can only be selectively promoted.

For example, as long as there is no fire in the granary on the ground, there is generally no problem. The three families of Guo Liuyin have strengthened fire prevention for so many years, so they have come through. As for seeing other families building bunkers and cellars, Guo Zhao also followed suit, but he did not have a deep understanding.

Besides, the manpower and technology required to build a bunker are much higher than building a granary on the ground. If nothing goes wrong, Guo Zhao is not willing to invest too much human resources and technical personnel here.

Who made the three families of Guo Liuyin have the least manpower? After all, there are so many families in Central Asia. From the perspective of the territory of the feudal state, it is considered a medium-to-large feudal state, but the family with a population scale less than that of a semi-dependent small force is only these three families.

If we really talk about the population of these three families, they are not even as large as the Anding Hu family that is dependent on the three kings. If we only discuss the core population of the Han Dynasty, the three families combined are not as large as a small family.

In this situation, of course, they can get by if they can. The three kings next door are building bastions. I heard that bastions are war fortresses and are very meaningful for fighting against the enemy, so they should follow suit. The Cui family in the north is building bunkers to store grain. Their own ground granaries can also store grain. Forget it, let's put it aside for now. Replacing wooden houses with brick and tile houses requires professional kiln burning personnel. There are no professional kiln burning personnel. Forget it. It's not that wooden houses can't be lived in. Let's put it aside for now.

The three families of Guo Liuyin can only choose to save as much as possible. Anyway, it's not a big deal. As long as they do a good job of fire prevention and security defense, these problems are actually not a problem. After all, wooden houses are also quite good to live in.

After so many years of getting by, the three families of Guo Liuyin relied on Guo Zhao's hand-kneading high-density energy crystals, a rare resource of the empire level, to exchange various necessary materials with others, as well as the deterrence of Haftan's military force, and they have been able to sit firmly in the fiefdom, and there has really been no trouble.

However, when the locust plague broke out in East Africa, the fiefdoms of these three families suffered a fatal blow.

The difference between wooden houses and brick and stone buildings was fully revealed at this moment. The locusts with demon crystals could gnaw through wooden houses and wooden granaries, but it was impossible for them to gnaw through the waterproof layer of the cellar and the brick and stone building. Only the locusts with Qi training and internal Qi leaving the body could do it.

Among the hundreds of billions of locusts, there are only a few million such super locusts, but they are distributed in such a locust plague. They are not super locusts that attack collectively, so they have basically no impact.

Therefore, the three families in the Persian Gulf were attacked by hundreds of billions of locusts. At most, all the green on the ground was destroyed, the soil layer on the ground was thinned, and the wooden doors of the residence were eaten. There was no cruel situation of leaving only a vast expanse of gray.

The three families of Guo Liuyin were directly eaten by these super demon crystal locusts, even the wooden buildings. The entire sealed country was almost left with only a few Wubao in the central area, and the rest were all gone.

In fact, this is also the reason why Guo Zhao fought to the death, almost self-destructing, because the East African super locust plague is completely different from what Guo Zhao thought. Guo Zhao originally thought that the locusts would eat up the thatched houses at most, but they even ate up the wooden buildings.

If the wooden buildings could be eaten, it meant that the granaries would definitely not be able to withstand it. Considering the grain stored in his own Wubao, Guo Zhao could only rely on burning and etching the army formation to fight the locust plague.

After holding on for three days, barely transporting the food and grass that could be saved to his own Wubao, and transferring the core population to several Wubao in the central area, the entire Guo Liuyin Kingdom was left with nothing.

This terrifying situation stunned the three kings who had been observing the three families of Guo Liuyin. Originally, when Guo Zhao took out the big killer and bombarded wildly, the fiery red flames illuminated the southwest sky, successfully blocked the migration of the large locust army, and delayed a lot of time for other families in the rear, the head of the three kings, Wang Ling, was still ready to take out his own killer and fight the locust plague to force the locusts back.

As a result, in just three days, the fiefdoms of the three families of Guo, Liu and Yin were eaten up, and Guo Zhao's strategic reserves were less than one-tenth left. Many nodes of the large-area etching and explosion of Xuanxiang were directly scrapped due to high-energy ablation.

In other words, Guo Zhao fought with his foundation to prove that this thing really couldn't be defeated. The result of his desperate fight was that he annihilated hundreds of millions of locusts in three days, and then his own foundation was directly blown up by the locusts.

As for the crystals of heaven and earth essence exploded by the locusts, let alone not picking them up, they were absorbed by the later locusts. Even if they could be picked up, compared with Guo Zhao's investment, it was a loss. In these three days, Guo Zhao burned more than 180 high-density crystals of heaven and earth essence at the level of ostrich eggs. The price Guo Zhao gave to Chen Xi for each of these things was worth 20 million yuan.

Although Guo Zhao didn't cherish them because he could rub them by hand, he consumed more than 180 in three days. In the eyes of the three kings, it was really too outrageous. He really didn't dare to fight this battle!

Never admitting defeat in life, claiming that if the whole family dies, the whole family dies. As long as there is one person in the family alive, the Wang family will fight back sooner or later. Decisive, lie down and let the hammer do whatever he wants. The locusts eat whatever they want. You can't afford to provoke them. You really can't afford to provoke them.

At the same time, another army of locusts went north from the eastern part of the Persian Gulf, passing the three families of Han, Bai and Shen. The heads of the three families went to the north for something last time. After receiving the news, they rushed back desperately and finally returned successfully when the locusts' outpost arrived.

But earlier, because the heads of the three families were not there, the speed of emergency harvesting was slow, and a large amount of grains were not harvested. Faced with such a situation, the three families of Han, Bai and Shen had nothing to say, and they had to bite the bullet.

After two days of fighting, the Han family shot all the arrows empty, and the shock arrows never stopped. The 3,000-man vibration wave slash of the Bai family chopped from morning to night, and the Shen family opened a large-scale etching Xuanxiang, madly converting various energies to replenish the two families.

After more than a dozen people died from exhaustion, and the tribesmen at the rear tried their best to snatch some of the food from Lord Locust's mouth, the three families decisively chose to lie down and let the hammer go.

Can't beat it, can't beat it at all. Damn it, even if you kill millions of them, there will still be tens of millions of them swarming you. Even if you kill tens of millions of them, you'll still have hundreds of millions of them swarming you.

It's completely unbeatable, there are too many, too many.

"Is this a locust plague?" Zheng Tai looked at the locusts that were covering the sky and carrying a poisonous smell, and then weighed the super locusts that were presented to him by his silly son, which were bigger than one hand. To be honest, Zheng Tai Tai said that his eyes have really been opened in this life.

"Master, this is a universal antidote, but it is still not completely effective for such large locusts." The researchers from the Zheng family said to Zheng Tai cautiously.

"Can we use the etching formation that absorbs the essence of locusts at the moment?" Zheng Tai sat on the chair a little tiredly and greeted his researchers. Compared with dealing with the locust plague, Zheng Tai felt that his married daughters were better. Even Zheng Ling, who is the most difficult to deal with, is much easier to deal with than Locust.

"Yes, it is not very useful for large locusts, but for ordinary locusts, the essence stripping array can still be used." Zheng Huan replied quickly.

Compared with other aristocratic families, the Zheng family has a large number of backbone forces that can advance many processes at the same time, and the essence stripping array is one of them. This thing was originally used to get rid of insects, and it is also suitable for dealing with locusts. .

"Not to mention those locusts whose inner Qi has separated from the body, how many locusts have become powerful by practicing Qi?" Zheng Tai said with a sneer, "The most troublesome thing about the locust plague is actually the huge number of ordinary locusts. Without that huge number of ordinary locusts, Tens of thousands of internal energy leaving the body...wait, are there tens of thousands of locusts with internal energy leaving the body?"

Zheng Tai originally wanted to say that without the huge number of locusts, a little internal energy would be nothing, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be tens of thousands of locusts with internal energy separated from the body. This was too outrageous!

"According to the sample size we have obtained now, the third wave of locust plague should have a scale of 400 billion. Among them, the birth rate of boundary-breaking locusts is about one in 500 million to one in a billion, which means that there are about four There are about 100 to 800 locusts, and the birth rate of inner-qi-level locusts is about one in 10,000,000, which means there are estimated to be 50,000," Zheng Huan said very tiredly.

One thing to say, this probability is already very low, but the number of locusts that cannot be sustained is too outrageous. No matter how small the probability is multiplied by this huge scale, the total data will be very outrageous.

"In fact, considering that the second round of locust plague we are currently facing is affected by early rains, the average intensity of individual locusts has not reached the limit. The average intensity of individual locusts in the next round of locust plague is very likely to rise further." Zheng Huan looked at it with a solemn expression. Zheng Tai got another stab.

"That is to say, the total number of locusts with internal energy levels above the body level will only be more, not less, right?" Zheng Tai said with a very tired heart.

"Yes." Zheng Huan was also tired. This was the most abnormal locust plague he had ever seen since he was a child.

Let's put it this way, if Guo Zhao fully activates the city-state-level large-scale etching array, burning energy crystals endlessly for three days and three nights, and killing hundreds of millions of locusts, the pheromones released by the dead locusts should be enough to stop the locust plague. Avoid this place.

After all, a normal locust plague only amounts to more than a billion. On a scale of several billion, it is outrageous enough to wipe out a state. In this case, if one-tenth of it is killed in a few days, even if you have no brains, you will realize it. There are natural enemies, and then no more past them.

So in theory, there is nothing wrong with Guo's idea of ​​​​Dianpo, but Dianpo miscalculated the scale.

Even if there is a locust plague on a scale of tens of billions, the number of locusts entering the Guoliuyin fiefdom will be greatly reduced if Bian Po kills them like this.

However, the problem is that the scale of this wave of locusts exceeds 100 billion and is approaching trillions.

Let's put it this way, the locusts Guo Zhao burned with the etching explosion array in three days were not as many as the locusts eaten by his brothers in East Africa because they did not have enough food to eat and were hungry and weak. There are many locusts crawling out of it.

Therefore, the death of hundreds of millions of people has no feeling at all for this kind of locust plague. If you die, you will die. There will be many brothers who will follow.

Zheng Tai and Zheng Huan looked at each other. It was also the first time for them to see internal energy leaving the body measured in tens of thousands. The scale was really outrageous. It always seemed like it would be difficult to kill the remaining things after killing the locust army. Feel.

"Forget it, we can't control those things. If the essence stripping circle is effective, open it for me. Don't care about the energy consumption. Just pump it for me, pump it hard. Kill as many as you can. Fight with the locusts." Yes." Zheng Tai said fiercely.

The Zheng family relied on the essence stripping circle to directly kill 10 to 20 million locusts, but indirectly killed more than 300 million locusts. Of course, the Zheng family did not know the latter, nor did other families.

It's not that this essence-stripping array is so excellent. In fact, even the fully-opened essence-stripping array can only kill locusts approaching this airspace.

Just because it can't be sucked to death doesn't mean it can't be weakened. Even if the essence stripping circle is fully opened, even if it only takes away a small amount of the locust's essence, it's enough to make the locust weak. As an omnivorous locust, a weak brother is really a brother. You smell so good.

The Essence Stripping Array absorbed the essence of hundreds of millions of locusts, sucking tens of millions of them to death. Most of the remaining ones were used as dry food by fellow locusts.