Chapter 1989 The Confrontation Between Chariots and Gunpowder

The shipyards on the earth produced these things after ten days of production rush, mainly because these things are really not difficult for the productivity on the earth. What Li Cong wanted was how to make these sailors Learning how to adapt to these warships is the most important thing.

In fact, when Li Cong knew that the Eastern Empire began to develop the ocean, he had already started looking for a deep-water port on the ocean. This is what Li Cong found. Li Cong named this place the New Continent, saying it was a continent. It's just a relatively large island. This island is nothing here, that is, it is only 12.5 million square kilometers. Almost, the island Li Cong has been fully investigated by the airship. The island is basically an undeveloped place, and most of the land is plain. It can be said that it is a very good place to treat as your own. The base is pretty good too.

One is that the strategic location here is also very important. It is only 1390km away from the coast of the Eastern Empire, which can be said to be very close, and it is only 1566km away from the coast of the Southern Empire, which can be said to be very close on such a planet. It's a good place, but they don't have any intention of mining here, so no one comes here. The Eastern Empire is developing to the east of them. As for the south, they don't have this intention. Because the Southern Empire has no Any marine development plan, so this place has become a blank area. What Li Cong thought was that this would be his future naval base, and even the source of maritime trade would start from here.

There are currently about 300,000 people camping here in the New World. All the supplies here are transported by airships, mainly because they need to be kept secret. Airships can be said to be the most confidential things. At the beginning of the empire, Li Cong's airship was not allowed to move on their territory, but now the airspace has been opened to them, mainly because the Southern Empire also understands at this moment. Even if they prohibit it, Li Cong just needs to change the flight time to night, and then raise the flight altitude. They have nothing to do.

Looking at this place from the airship, most of the places are still very primitive, although 300,000 people is already a lot, but for such a huge piece of land. The 300,000 people are still very few, but Li Cong is already preparing to slowly transform this place in a year. The main thing is to use airships to carry out airship seeding in the places where they are used. First, turn this place into a huge food base. Except for a few places that need to be used to build ports, the rest of the land is a total of 11 million square kilometers, equivalent to It is 16.5 billion mu of land, almost all of which can be turned into arable land. Such a good place is really rare. Now Li Cong's grain sales are on track. It can be said that relying on some of the RTY planet The supply is already a bit beyond our means. It is very normal to have such a plan now. The problem to be solved is how to proceed, so Li Cong plans to spend a month to train hundreds of people by hand. Their role is to be good. Using modern machinery to carry out agricultural activities, they should be able to do simple mechanical work very easily, and then they will continue to teach the rest, of course. These people also have to take genetic potions.

According to the ratio on the earth, this requires at least tens of millions of people. It is not an easy task to find so many people in a short period of time, and it is a huge challenge.

Li Cong only needs to spend a few hours a day on building a huge farm, and he has to devote two or three hours to teaching those people how to drive a boat. Then I have to see my third son at night. It can be said that Li Cong is really tired and doesn't know what to say. After two days on the island, he finally has some results.

First of all, in terms of agricultural production, more than 50 people have learned how to drive cars and use machines for watering the ground. The underground water source here is also very rich, and the precipitation is also very abundant. It can be said that there is no There are some things to consider about the weather. As for harvesters and other things, Li Cong has no way to demonstrate them now. The machines used for cultivating land can only be pulled by tractors. These things have undergone certain modifications, and now it is time to use solid energy. There are many places on the earth that have not started solid energy. First supply this side. A piece of solid energy the size of a palm can allow a tractor to cultivate more than 5,000 acres of land. This kind of solid energy is really good. My personal task is to be able to teach thousands of people every day, and then these thousands of people will become their teachers again. If this continues to reproduce, Li Cong will take an exam once in a month. Qualified people will become instructors. In the future, their task is to train these people specially, and the rest who are unqualified can go to work. Anyway, there are no people here, and they are slowly groping. Enough.

The sailors are also doing very well. In the past few days, they have been able to use those cannons proficiently. As for things like sailing, they are not difficult for them. They have already started to hit distant targets. Yes, although the hit rate is not very high, but Li Cong has prepared enough shells for them. Such things can keep them in touch for a long time as long as the factories on the other side of the earth are opened for one day, mainly such things There is no technical content at all.

Of course, what makes Li Cong happiest is his third son. This kid is already at the third level. Li Cong also knows a lot of things from the books and this little guy's inheritance memory, that is, this kid no longer needs to eat. It’s enough money. You only need to eat a little of this thing every day. Now he can stretch out more than a dozen tentacles with a length of 50 meters. Li Cong carefully counted 18 tentacles, and the attack power is still acceptable. , at least a fifth-level fighter will feel very painful when he beats him. Of course, Li Cong will not ask this little guy to kill people. He can do such things two levels higher, which is really good, but Li Cong I'm not complacent, knowing that he has officially started to develop, Li Cong can't hold back this little guy at this time, and Li Cong has already bought what he needs when he comes.

At this stage, what this kid wants to eat is a kind of fruit in the Warcraft Mountains. A kind of thing called plum fruit, this thing grows anywhere in the Warcraft Mountains, it can be said that as long as you have time, you can bring back a lot of it, the price of this thing is slightly more expensive than a grenade Yes, it's only 200 taels of silver. There are many outside the Warcraft Mountains. Many first-level fighters and second-level fighters can get more than a dozen in a day. Of course, this is also risky. Ordinary people naturally dare not come here, but he also eats a lot of worthless things. This little guy eats 1 million plum fruits a day. A lot of them have been searched, and a lot of them have to be shipped every day. This is 200 million taels of silver per day. This is only the first stage of the third level. Li knew it when he talked with him. Time to double that number. The third stage is four times, that is to say, at that time, 4 million pieces of food will be eaten every day, and 800 million silver will be needed every day. Li Cong also feels that this amount is a bit too much. Fortunately, Li Cong has a complete acquisition network. , if there is no such network, it is estimated that Li Cong would not be able to find so many plums even if he has so much money now. Because basically everyone does it for themselves.

In addition, this kid has to suck up Li Cong's mental power every day. Li Cong knows from books that if he eats so many plum fruits every day, it is impossible for Li Cong to become so powerful. It is estimated that this has something to do with his mental power. At the beginning, his mental power also made many of his subordinates in the Warcraft Mountains very powerful. Maybe this time is exactly the same as that time, otherwise there is no way to explain this matter.

In addition, Li Cong often wants to understand his own magic. Li Cong has not delved into magic for a long time. In fact, Li Cong needs to learn a lot of magic now, but the magic books behind him all need to be read. Those who do the task, if you don't do the task, it is absolutely impossible to give it to you. Even if you are the president of the Magician's Union, you can't, but Li Cong is already very powerful in using some foundation magic, so Li Cong feels that he should slowly improve his spiritual power. As for those magic books Forget it, I have no intention of learning that at all.

Just when Li Cong was living his life in peace, a new war had already ushered in the front line of the Northern Empire.

Both Linghu and Tuoba Yuanye are smart people. Tuoba Yuanye knew that Li Cong was going to cooperate with this kid, so he didn't mean to treat him as a prisoner, and this guy himself wasn't a prisoner. Enlightenment, this kid doesn't know anything about the army, so the two of them usually get along very well.

"Why did you wake up so early? Isn't today the same as yesterday? It's not interesting for you to fight such a war. Why do you drag me up? Aren't they very powerful? I don't bother to watch your one-sided war." This day, just after dawn, Linghu was still rubbing his eyes vigorously, but Tuoba Yuanye pulled this kid up, what's going on? If there is anything that needs to be watched by this kid.

"Today is different from the past. Our spies have come to report that there is a very large chariot in the army of the Eastern Empire. I ask you to see if you have seen such a thing. If not If you are careful, something may happen, the most important thing is that the people of the Eastern Empire think they can break through our defense line with this thing." Tuoba Yuanye said worriedly, but when Li Cong left, he told him Now, everything on the front line will not change, I will definitely stick to this place, and nothing will happen to me.

"Chariot? Are you kidding? That thing has been removed from our Eastern Empire army a long time ago. They want to use that to fight against you? This is simply looking for death, and it is absolutely impossible for such a thing to happen. , unless they all don't want to live anymore, I feel that such a thing will never happen." Linghu said with some disbelief, the chariot was indeed a good weapon in history, but with the cavalry If it grows, this thing becomes a useless thing. Basically, no one likes this thing anymore. Sitting on it means death.

"This is definitely not a joke. This is definitely the most real thing. We didn't make any mistakes. We got the news that this is the latest chariot. It seems that that is it." Tuoba Yuanye put a The binoculars taught this guy that there was already such a huge monster on the horizon in the distance. Linghu saw this thing in a blur at the beginning, but later he felt as tall as himself. Damn, this is The so-called chariot? This *** is a little too high, it is very huge. Something like this might actually come around.

"The war may be even more cruel." Tuoba Yuanye said with some concern, he was not worried about whether he could deal with this. I'm really worried about how many of these things there are. It's okay to have a small number, but if there are too many, then...

Linghu is not a fool, he naturally knows that this matter will be similar to what Tuoba Yuanye said, and now it is the last moment, the fighting power of these chariots is definitely very powerful, and the people on their side are also very powerful. They all used their lives to block some of the trenches dug by Li from them, and then the people below shouted vigorously to rush over. The slow process caused more people to lose their lives. But this time, it gave hope to the people of the Eastern Empire. They could follow this thing and rush through the previous defense line that was difficult to pass. This is such exciting news for them.

"The enemy is coming fiercely. We can't just sit and wait for death. We need to change our previous tactics, otherwise we will suffer heavy losses. If they break through this line of defense, then you are finished, and I am finished." Linghu said worriedly , Although I was worried about the people of the Eastern Empire before, but now I think of my cooperation with Li Cong and what I did on that warehouse island, if it fails. After I go back, I will have nothing. This will never happen. I don't want to be like those idle children of the family who eat, drink and play with women every day.

"How to attack? Now our army may not be able to pass, even if it is in the past, you see that thing is so huge, cavalry and infantry may not be of any use in the past." Tuoba Yuanye said worriedly . Those chariots are about to break through the trench area, and they have suffered a lot of losses, but being able to break through here is their greatest victory, and then there will be those barbed wire fences, which are very useful for people and horses , but for something so high, the barbed wire may have no effect at all, it can only become a stumbling block for the opponent.

"By the way, the one left by Cao Ke... the gunpowder." Linghu is still a little unclear about these new things, so he might not remember it when he said it, "Hurry up, use that thing , that is the most effective, and it will definitely be fine if you hit that thing." At this time, it is not bad for him to think of this, but if Li Cong was here, he would definitely not do that, he would definitely let him These things continue to move forward, and when they are close to themselves, when they open the iron cover, they directly use bows and arrows wrapped in gunpowder and shoot them in. This is the result Li Cong wants, so that the largest scale can be carried out. If it is not like this, it is impossible to achieve a complete victory. The so-called complete victory is what Li Cong did before. Thousands of people died by himself, and hundreds of thousands of others were lost.

Tuoba Yuanye also thought of that thing, but that thing is their last guarantee. If they use it now, if there is something powerful on the enemy side, then wouldn't we have no cards? As the commander-in-chief of the first army, he must think that way, otherwise there will be serious consequences. Isn't it the last moment?

The sound of shouting and killing in front is already very powerful. After a rough observation this time, about 500,000 people from the Eastern Empire came, and there were more than 20 tall chariots like this. What Linghu Pinqiu wanted at the beginning was To make 20, the following people made five more. They didn't want their research to be cut off so soon, and they also hoped to hear the news of the victory. It turns out that what they are doing now is really good. They The loss of millions of cavalry did not advance to the inside of the trench. The generals behind the Eastern Empire seemed to have seen the hope of victory in this war. This huge chariot was really their blessing. They When you go back, you can tell Linghu Pinqiu that this thing must start to be built on a large scale, and it is just around the corner to break through the entire defense line. Now, one by one, they seem to have seen the scene that Cao Ke's army is about to retreat quickly.

"Haha, I just said that this thing is absolutely powerful. At the beginning, many people said that I was wasting my life and money. Damn, next time I will definitely board the chariot and kill it. Haha, It’s so satisfying, from the beginning of the battle to the present, only this time we have crossed over, and the future victory is certain, and we must reward them well when we go back.” The general who led the team said loudly, and the surrounding generals also All attached. They all know that if this thing is really good, the old general will definitely promote this guy vigorously. They originally thought that following them was to send them to death. Who knew that this was a great credit. If they didn't want to do such a thing, they would be fools. The credit is waiting for them. Of course they are flattering them hard at this time This guy is afraid that he will be left behind when he is rewarded for his merits and deeds. That is a big deal, and he came to the front line just for that day. This is all gone, what else is there to mess with?

"The general's vision is naturally good. After we go back one by one, we will rely on the glory of the general. If this thing can directly break through the defense line today, I think the day when the general becomes a great general is not far away." At that time, don't forget that our gang of brothers will be promoted by the general." What a general usually does best is to flatter. I basically don't know how to do other things, so I hurriedly stood up and said, how can I do less at this time.

"Haha, that's for sure, everyone, today we must have a big victory and go back to announce the good news to the old general. Let the army of these three-legged cats see what kind of army is, give me a fight, the whole army Assault." This guy didn't know who he was after being flattered for a few words, and each of them started to urge their horses to move forward. All the troops rushed out. All the 500,000 troops, including 400,000 cavalry, and 100,000 infantry marched slowly in neat formations. If such an attacking formation really rushed up, it would be a nightmare for those who had never been on the battlefield.

Looking at Tuoba Yuanye, 1,500 archers with bundled gunpowder are already ready, and the ammunition men around them have already prepared torches, waiting for the general's flag to come, and then quickly Ignite, lie down, and the rest is to let these archers shoot out directly. Tuoba Yuanye stood on the tallest gun tower and watched these slowly. The huge crossbow arrows on the gun tower had already been fired a lot, but this The thing seems to have no effect on the opponent's chariot, mainly because the front of the chariot is all made of iron, it is not so easy to break it, and the invincible crossbow arrows have no effect at this time, but The cavalry who came over from behind gave them a chance one by one. Don’t these guys know that you are just about to break through the defense line, but you haven’t broken through yet. Is it the same as when you die? Don't you have that awareness?

"General, the enemy has already passed the trench area. Shall we start attacking? It's already within our range." The general in charge of the gunpowder has come twice, and there is no way to stop them from the barbed wire Possibly, but Tuoba Yuanye also wanted to see this scene. He wanted to see if the barbed wire could be intercepted. Naturally, these things were to be tested. Now that the enemy has come, it is natural to kill them Well, should we wait for them to rush over?

"Well, get ready to attack. Remember, your people should cherish gunpowder. Don't attack those cavalry or anything. Your target is those chariots. As long as you kill them all, they will come with ten times as many cavalry and infantry." There is no possibility of rushing over, understand?" Tuoba Yuanye said loudly, he was afraid that this army would panic, this is the most important army, they are the most critical of the entire defense line, especially now this when.

"Yes, this subordinate understands that this subordinate must live up to expectations and can definitely kill them." The little general said.

Immediately, the torches in this camp began to ignite. Linghu knew that the confrontation between the strongest weapons was about to begin. If Li Cong didn't have these gunpowder, this battle might really be one-sided Yes, but people have such things now, so they don't know. From his heart, he feels that Li Cong's gunpowder is a little more powerful.

"Target, Eastern Empire chariot, shoot upwards at an angle of 65 degrees, and the direction is 15 degrees to the left, launch." The 1,500 people were divided into fifteen teams. Each team is responsible for dealing with a tank. They all quickly went to different areas. After hearing the order of their team leader, they launched their own rockets one by one. After the first launch, the observers stood up immediately. Rushed to the side to see the effect of their attacks. Then adjust their attack position, which is also very important.

The nearest chariot has already rushed into the barbed wire area ten meters away. They want to keep going, and they will be able to rush in soon, but at this time they all saw some bows and arrows coming from the sky, but they didn't care, what they cared about was how it was smoking, and they also saw rockets of the attack, such a thing burns? These people from the Northern Empire will not have faulty brains, we are all made of iron, and relying on your burning can have any effect. Regardless of him, just keep going. The general said just now that the first one to rush in will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver. Thirty taels of silver is not a small amount.

About 0.5 seconds later, the first rocket "kissed" on the first tank. What a passionate kiss it was. When it came up, the thing basically burned out its fuse and exploded directly. The power is still acceptable, and it has not been directly blasted. But the ears of the people inside were immediately blinded. What was the movement just now? How could there be such a loud sound? Damn it, my brain seems to be a little hard to use. What the **** is going on? Is there something wrong in there? The entire iron sheet in front was tightly sealed, and the people inside had no idea of ​​the situation ahead. They are all asking what happened to the people who can see the people in front of them.

The guys above also felt that something was wrong under the chariot. They were about to open the observation hole above to have a look, but when this guy opened it, a rocket came in, and this guy was hit by an arrow... inside The person quickly closed the lookout hole. As for the person who was hit by the arrow, he fell directly from the ten-meter-high platform because he did not stand firmly. No one cares whether a guy is dead or alive. Such a person If you die, you will die, because there is nothing worth seeing, but the fatal problem is that this guy still has a rocket on his body. The fuze of this rocket is also relatively long, and it has not exploded when he falls. The soldiers didn't have the idea of ​​cleaning up this guy at all, because they all wanted to rush up to win and get so much silver. This was what they were thinking at this time, and they didn't think about other things at all.

Boom... It exploded. The second rocket exploded inside the chariot. The people below were almost unable to walk. A dozen people were directly blown away by the gunpowder. The person was killed on the spot, there was only gunpowder, but nothing else, if the grenade was thrown in, the lethality of the shrapnel would definitely kill most of the people inside, and the entire chariot stopped immediately. It didn't matter if he stopped, but there were thousands of people following behind them. After the rockets flew down from the sky, these people suffered disaster, and they were blown up and down.

The general of the Eastern Empire who was charging also felt that something was wrong. Why did the fastest one stop? What's going on? Don't they want this reward? How could it happen one by one? What's that exploding thing in the back? How could there be so much smoke? Because Li Cong used some old versions of gunpowder with relatively low power, this was mainly because the operations of these soldiers were not very standardized. If something happened, it could be remedied. The new version of gunpowder is really powerful. It is too big, so it can also give the soldiers time to adapt.

"What's going on in the front? Why does it seem to have stopped?" Just when the general finished speaking, thousands of rockets had all fallen, and the first wave of attacks did not reach the designated position. It was because of the gunpowder tied to the arrowheads, which increased their weight a lot. It seems that the angle should be lowered. The observers immediately began to modify the shooting elements for the first time, so that in the next time Let the remaining people shoot more accurately.

The first wave of attack only paralyzed the three chariots. Of course, the one that was hurt the most was the one that rushed to the front. If there are grenades now, it is estimated that that one has been blown to pieces, but it is still full of scars , the main reason is that the people inside have no strength to push this huge thing, and the people behind quickly go in through the entrance, throw out the corpses inside, and then add new living people, so that they can continue moved on. But now the outside of this chariot has been bombed and a lot of nudity has appeared, it is impossible to run forward so competently.

"The shooting elements are adjusted, launch." The second attack started, the first attack only achieved less than 3000 kills, which made these guys feel very depressed one by one, mainly because Because the enemy adopted this chariot, the generals of the Eastern Empire also understood how powerful the enemy's rocket was at this time. They immediately issued an order to let the chariot move forward quickly. It is necessary to rush into the barbed wire area before the enemy's second attack. In fact, their army cannot reach this level. If they really rush in, this is a fatal time. Although the barbed wire cannot stop them They move forward, but their speed will be reduced. They are slow as if they are crawling. At that time, the chances of killing them will become greater.

When the second wave of rockets went out, more than ten tanks from the Eastern Empire had already rushed through the trench area. They just paid a price of less than 30,000 people and passed. It was ten times as much as before, and they couldn't get through. This also shows that their chariot is absolutely effective, no matter what the outcome of this war is. Well, the Eastern Empire is definitely going to manufacture such things on a large scale, and they will definitely not stop there, they are very good at this.

But then the generals of the Eastern Empire were in pain. Damn, the 800,000 taels of chariots were all destroyed in the second wave of attack. None of them could rush through, and most of the 100,000 troops following them lost more than half. The army has already lost more than half of it, even the tanks, and their experiments have basically failed. Because there are no reinforcements, even if they rush into the bunker area, it will be of no use, and they will not be able to defend it. Now is the best time to retreat, anyway, it is to verify those things.

"Retreat, retreat quickly..." This is what the generals of the Eastern Empire are saying now, and they have tasted the power of the rocket. Especially in a dense formation like theirs, that is the most terrible thing. When that thing falls, one person can directly finish the game with a dozen people. The bodies of those people who exploded are segmented. The battlefield was cruel in the past. Yes, but no one knows how cruel it is to this extent. Severed hands and feet can be said to be everywhere. How can soldiers not be afraid when they see these things? After all, they have not seen war for many years. One by one died before seeing the enemy. They had never seen such a war before. As for the infantry of the Eastern Empire, they were originally behind. They ran too fast this time, except Apart from the loss of hundreds of people due to the trampling of the cavalry, their loss can be said to be the smallest. Before, they felt that they had no credit and ran slowly. Now they can save a life more than most cavalry. I'm very lucky, if I don't have such an opportunity, I may die faster.

Seeing the mess on the battlefield after they retreated, Tuoba Yuanye was also relieved. It seems that his training is not enough. These rocketmen usually use bows and arrows without gunpowder for shooting training. Naturally, they can feel where they should shoot, but after adding such a heavy thing, they will be useless. It seems that they will not be able to save this money in the future, but every experiment needs to waste too much flame. I still feel a little uncomfortable in my heart, should I go to the front and blow up the ground? But he saw what happened just now. If they could hit the target on a large scale for the first time, the war might end earlier. Just as he was thinking, a general came over. He knew that this guy was Those who came to report the battle damage report should listen to it now. Although there is no defeat, victory is not easy. It is simply incomparable to the previous few days. The biggest thing is that the thoughts in the hearts of the soldiers are different from before. .

"Let's just say it." Tuoba Yuanye didn't ask the general to salute him, it was unnecessary.

"Yes, General, 3,564 of the 12,500 soldiers in our trench area were killed and 4,110 were injured this time. In the barbed wire area, 2,110 were killed and 1,254 were injured. If it is repaired, about 800 tons of barbed wire will be needed, and our trenches need emergency repairs. We have made a plan, and it will take 100,000 migrant workers two days to clear them out." The general said, and his heart was very heavy when he reported Calculated in this way, this battle only wiped out more than 200,000 enemies, including a dozen burning chariots, but their casualties exceeded 10,000 for the first time. It was also very good in the past, but they were also the biggest loss, and there is no doubt about this.

"Well, I see, try to find all the dead bodies of the brothers, give them pensions according to our rules, take care of the family members as they should, and let some counselors in the team pay attention to observe the soldiers' thoughts Emotions, this is very important, although we have not failed, but today’s situation is not what we want to see, their thoughts are very important.” Fifty people in the army will have a thought counselor, these people are in I have learned in the training camp that their presence can definitely increase the fighting power of these fifty people by 3% to 5%. Even if one of the fifty people is not a combatant, it is very rare that they can improve their fighting power. That's right, Li Cong suggested that Tuoba Yuanye didn't feel very good at the beginning, but now it seems that this is correct.

The Eastern Empire was also gloomy, but several generals still talked about the usefulness of this chariot. Although Linghu Pinqiu did not go to the front line to see what was going on, he still ordered to manufacture 5000 tanks immediately. The Eastern Empire will still be able to spend the money on the order of the Taiwan chariot, and they will also carry out a series of modifications on the chariot, which will definitely allow the chariot to be replaced in a short period of time. They have learned their lesson and prepared to fight again in the future. As for the result, only they themselves know. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. )