Section 2160: The Next Step Plan

They were dumbfounded when they heard the voice from the opposite side. How could this happen? What's going on with the person on the opposite side, weren't we all allies in the past? How could you say such a thing? Don’t you all know how we cooperated in the past? Now you all treat us like this? I don't know how we will get along with each other in the future, wait, I don't want to continue to get along with each other after we have made it like this. Suddenly, Ersha took a look at his cousin, and the two of them seemed to understand a lot , these two people understand that Cao's House is going to kill donkeys, they are all being used, so they all understand what's going on, the people in Cao's House don't want to use them anymore , so they are all going to be killed, but they don't want to kill these rebels with their own hands, so they are waiting for something, that is, waiting for the troops of the Southern Empire to come, but now the people of the Southern Empire They have not come here yet, so they all need to continue to wait. A few days ago, they were given a lot of delicious food, but the reason why they are not given to them now is that there is no way. Many things are like this. Now I am no longer an ally, why do I still give you so much delicious food? Your good days are over, so there is no need to treat you specially. I will not give you good food and drink these days It has its own reasons, that is, this will reduce your combat effectiveness a lot, so that things will be better when the people from the Southern Empire come to deal with you. It is too late for you people to understand now up.

The division commander himself didn't want to do this, but the current situation made him have to do that. Otherwise, there would be no way to order many things. The greatest duty of a soldier is to obey orders. The people in Cao's House knew that they looked down on the combat effectiveness of these insurgents. But it would be impossible to kill all these people directly, because they were all his comrades-in-arms in the past, and it is obvious that such a thing cannot be done by oneself if one wants to attack one's own comrades-in-arms. Li Cong would not let his men come down to do such a thing. Because he knew that if it went on like this. It is estimated that my soldiers will become some people who have no bottom line. At that time, they may be able to do everything. No matter what an army is doing, it must have a certain bottom line. If this bottom line cannot be preserved, it will be a tragedy for this army. The people of the Southern Empire just need such a credit. They have been repeatedly defeated in foreign wars with Cao's business, and the common people in the country are already defeated. I have lost confidence in the army. If even some rebels need the help of Cao's House of Firm to kill them, it will not be a good face for them, so the people in Cao's House of Trade ask them to personally kill them. After doing it, they all laughed happily. Originally, this was mentioned as a request to the people of the Cao's House, but now there is no need to say that, it is entirely because the people of the Cao's House don't need them to bring it up. The people in the firm said it themselves, what you want to do is your own business. We have done what we should do and what should not be done. Now your army has also entered zero state, and it is time for us to retreat.

"Boss, we were betrayed by them. Look over there, they are all from the Southern Empire. The people from Cao's House of Commerce have already started to retreat. Boss, tell the brothers to fight with them. If we do If we are all caught without a fight, they will definitely kill us all. None of the brothers were afraid of death when they embarked on this road. We don’t have such thoughts when we do other things, but if they all catch us if you get up,

Our family members are going to die. The people of the Southern Empire treat the rebellion as a heinous crime. It is impossible for us to persist in the past one by one. They are all going to attack us. Boss, if we don’t give orders now But it's over. Although the people in the Southern Empire are not as powerful as the people in Cao's House, their fighting power is much stronger than ours. This time we can go out one-tenth of the time, which is already a very good thing. "A general on the side saw that the army of Cao's House not far away had already descended from the tower, and the archers from the Southern Empire went up. Although the archers of the Southern Empire did not have the serial crossbows of Cao's House, their attack power was definitely It's not as good as the people in Cao's House, but their biggest advantage is that their weapons are very powerful. If they really fight, they can't take any advantage. These people are all running for them It comes from the head. For the rebels, they must be killed. Their heads are the best promotion weapon for the officers and soldiers of the Southern Empire. When these people see these rebels one by one, they have their own eyes. In their opinion, this is the red light that represents their past, and this is their future future. Their bosses are also shouting that the attack is about to start. As for those from Cao's House People, at this moment they have left without looking back, these people are destined to be abandoned, we will not look at them more, and we have no ability to bring them anything.

Many mid-level and lower-level military officers of Cao's House are asking their superiors why they did this. Although they said that they have no friendship with the rebels and they have carried out their mission resolutely, they still feel uncomfortable now. Yes, because in their hearts, it seems that such things should not be done by the people of the Cao's House of Commerce. Looking at these things one by one, I feel very helpless, but they still do it. This is their idea. In fact, I can’t blame them for having such an idea. They taught them in the past. You can't abandon your comrades in arms. These rebels have fought for such a long time, and most of them still have a certain relationship with them. If they are asked to deal with these people, they may not be able to afford their own serial crossbows. Seeing them being killed, they feel so sad. Uncomfortable, but still can't do things against the order, one by one still honestly boarded the warship on the Luan River, they are leaving Shengguang City today, because they are leaving here, the Cao's firm has already An agreement was reached with the people of the Southern Empire. In the future, the garrison of Cao's firm here will only have two divisions. The rest of the people have to retreat back, they are those redundant people, the people of Cao's House can increase the garrison here to four divisions, but they must give a report to the people of the Southern Empire. Although on the surface it requires the approval of the Southern Empire. But the people at Cao's House probably wouldn't do that. The reason why the four divisions are not left now is to give the people of the Southern Empire some face. Sometimes, things for face can only be done well. Otherwise, how will they mess around in the future?

"Hurry up, hurry up and assemble the team, our serial crossbows have already been taken away by the people of Cao's House, what we need now is the weapons in our hands." Cousin looked at Ersha and said, they all knew The people from the Cao’s House of Commerce would give them chain crossbows, so they didn’t bring any weapons when they came. In their opinion, the chain crossbows from Cao’s House of Commerce were the best weapons. Why did they bring their own crossbows? What about those embarrassing weapons, but now they don't even have a single weapon. The weapons of the people in the Southern Empire are much worse than those of the Cao's House, but they are much better than theirs. Now those bows and arrows are one by one They are already aimed at their own side. There are tens of thousands of archers. As long as they start to attack, the casualties of these people will definitely be very heavy. Ersha is not thinking about attacking or rushing out. That's impossible. If they really resisted, these people would tear them apart. Just look at the flags of the generals next to them. This time, the number of people from the Southern Empire definitely exceeded millions. They It's not the people from Cao's House, they are all rebels, and they are not their opponents in a one-on-one fight with the people of the Southern Empire, let alone the current ratio is so disparate, it is simply impossible, These people from the Southern Empire will definitely not give them a way to survive. You can tell by their expressions. Ersha really feels like he has a headache at this time. Could it be that all these people he gathered will be killed? In the past, he just wanted to live a better life for himself, but after he became the leader of the rebel army, he didn't think so anymore. When he thought the adventure was right, he was going to lose his life, and the lives of everyone else.

Li Cong on the airship had already seen a large amount of black around and began to surround the yellow in the center. He didn't know if it was right to do such a thing, but Li Cong knew that at least 7% of these rebels Ten people have done a lot of wrong things. If they are not good people in peacetime, they robbed a lot of food in order to keep their stomachs from starving. Those ordinary people are all because of them. Starved to death, although they are not direct murderers, but they are all indirect, none of these people are aware of this problem, Li Cong thinks of these as a psychological comfort for himself, in fact, he Although he always said that he needs a stronger heart, in fact he is still a mother-in-law, just like the situation in front of him, he has no way to convince himself, just finished negotiating while watching Wu Zuoxi, this guy didn't feel uncomfortable at all. In fact, he had encountered such things a lot. There were many such things in the Southern Empire before. Don't say that these are some allies in name. It's true that allies are betrayed. Yes, those people don't care about these things at all. They all think that such things are normal. If they hinder their progress, don't call them allies. , even his own brothers will be sold out, of course, such people are still some people without vision, those who really have vision will never do such a thing, if If everyone did this, the world would probably be in chaos. Many people would not do that, they would all have their own ideas, and they would not act recklessly. When everything is completed, it is time for the harvest of the Southern Empire.

For the people of the Southern Empire, they also paid a lot. If they hadn't paid so much, they would have paid a lot for these so-called rebels. They paid for the territory of ten counties, Each of these people is very uncomfortable, so they will work harder when collecting these heads. Some things are like this. These people understand each and every one of them. They are not the opponents of Cao's House of Commerce. It is not that simple to take back these things from the hands of Cao's House of Trade, and they will not do such a thing. They were already frightened by the people from Cao's House. They thought of the cannons of Cao's House. Those rain of arrows, one by one, has no intention of resisting, but for these people. They are not very afraid at all, they may kill these people at any time, for them, these people are nothing, they are just some farmers with weapons, it is still very easy to kill them Even if they killed a lot of people from the Southern Empire in the past, it was all because of the chain crossbow. Now they don't have that thing anymore, and the chain crossbow has been owned by Cao's firm. The people were taken away, and the people from the Cao's House of Commerce sold them to them at a price. The serial crossbows of the rebel army are not very useful. These things are about to be scrapped. Even if they are in my hands, they will not have much effect. These things will not cause any harm to the people of Cao's House , these things are just for this battle. After this battle, it is estimated that they will be useless at all, and these things will become some waste. People in Cao's House will not do some money-losing business , These things are also paid a lot of money by the people of the Southern Empire, and the people of the Cao Family Firm have never done charity. All this makes the soldiers of the Southern Empire very excited. These insurgents can only be killed. If they are not killed, how can I feel better?

"Okay, it's useless to see them. They should understand these things from the time our people started not giving them meat buns. They should all have brains, but they are too Believe us, this is also their mistake, I know you will definitely say that what I said is a bit far-fetched, but this is the truth, we also have our difficulties, we captured the Holy Light City, we died for nearly three Thousands of soldiers, we have no way to control the entire Holy Light City, so we have to exchange some other benefits. If you don’t exchange these benefits, how will the dead soldiers explain to them? Tell them that you are all in vain. You are dead, our Cao family firm did not get any help from your lives? Can you say these words? The people of our Cao family firm can be said to have paid a lot for this war. Besides, our Cao family firm The commercial bank is about to start pursuing the mainland balance policy. It is absolutely impossible to let any of their empires be very weak. Why did we give so many loans to the people of the Southern Empire this time? Some of them still only have 100% annual interest. The sixth low-interest loan, this money is the first of its kind in the entire continent, isn't it just to make them recover quickly? Let them grow up quickly in the confrontation with the Western Empire and the Northern Empire. The swords and guns of the Empire and the Western Empire are also very powerful, and now the Southern Empire is definitely not their opponent." Wu Zuoxi looked at Li Cong and said, Li Cong has not spoken for a long time, for such thoughts, Wu Zuoxi I understand everything very well. At the beginning, I also felt very helpless about some of the royal family's actions, but to be honest, I can think about those things now. How you do it is your business. I must have it. my position.

"Hehe, I just can't think about it for a while. Sometimes I think about this problem. Maybe I am really not a good leader, because my heart is still not good. I have seen it before. There are many such things, but now my heart is still a little soft-hearted. These things are really unclear. By the way, after we retreat, we must beat the people of the Western Empire and the Northern Empire very hard. Our airship transportation What's the matter? It doesn't matter if our people retreat slowly. All the elite troops of the Southern Empire must be transported to the border area. They must not be allowed to be on the border of the Southern Empire. Get something nearby. If the Southern Empire is really weakened too much, then it will be time for us to regret it. The people of the four major empires feel the crisis towards us, and they will use the strongest method to make themselves With the rapid development, each of these people has their own ideas, but unfortunately, sometimes they don't know what they should do, but they just get a piece of meat from others. It's clear that the Southern Empire, the dog in the water, can't be beaten by them." Li Cong said, Li Cong was trying to hide himself. Quickly entered the work. This time, the people from the Northern Empire and the Western Empire can be said to be aggressive. They have already prepared an army of no less than 300 million, and they are planning to cause some troubles near the border of the Southern Empire. Business negotiations. They all began to converge. The Southern Empire is very weak now. But if a full-scale war mobilization is to be carried out, it will be very uncomfortable for the people of the two countries to eat this piece of meat, so they must stop this life-threatening behavior. You must know that the people in Cao's House are not idiots, and the people in the Southern Empire are even more not idiots. They will not do things like taking chestnuts from the fire, because such things will cause them heavy losses.

"Hehe, this is the leader of our Cao's Commercial Bank. If you continued to be so weak just now, I would be angry. You are responsible for the happiness of so many of us. There are so many people on this planet. You Impossible to think about everything." Seeing Li Cong's appearance, Wu Zuoxi said, but he knew Li Cong's habit after entering work, that is, to know what he wanted to know quickly, so he didn't continue to gossip , and then said, "We have worked hard on these two empires this time, and they don't really want to do anything. For them, they just want to get a piece of meat from the Southern Empire. , As for the threat we gave them and how they dealt with us, they really didn't think that way. It's really because the strength we showed this time is too strong. In fact, they can all see it. Although the empire has not fully mobilized, neither have we. Some of our strength has not been shown. They are also very afraid of us. Our people just told them not to be too harsh on the people of the Southern Empire. Now, they began to appease us, and they also said that the army was dispatched only because of some disputes in the border area. In fact, they did not expect that we would provide airships to the people of the Southern Empire. In their view, we and The people in the Southern Empire have already beaten up to what they are now, how could they help them? I don't really want to flatter Li Cong. After getting along with people like Li Cong for a long time, basically there is no concept of superiors and subordinates. This is what Wu Zuoxi is like now. For him, Li Cong Not just his boss, but also his friend.

"Actually, the people in these four empires are not as simple as we thought. Although you were the prime minister of the Western Empire before, I think your time as prime minister was too short, and you were just Responsible for the affairs of the Tuoba family, I don’t know much about other things. The royal family can rule the roost on this continent for such a long time, and they have their own abilities. We can’t see through this. We should send The troops of the two divisions went over, not to mention helping the Southern Empire, so the people from the Southern Empire would probably be the first to object. None of these Huangshi disciples have any skills, but their face is very important. It is absolutely impossible for our people to help them do things, and it is impossible for them to agree. They can turn to anyone, but they will never turn to us, because we just defeated them and let the two The troops of each division are regarded as military observations, and they just need to familiarize themselves with the terrain in the past, and they can't play any real role. They just let them play a deterrent role and tell the people of the Western Empire and the Northern Empire, The misunderstanding between us and the Southern Empire is gone. If the people of the Southern Empire want to help, we will be there immediately. The army of these two divisions is a vanguard, and some warships will also be sent to the two empires. Go for a walk along the coast, and remind them that it is a matter of minutes to attack them." Now Li Cong is very comprehensive when he considers the problem, just like now. No matter what people in the Southern Empire think or hate us, we must do what we do, and we must not let you ruin our plan. In fact, the armies of these two divisions really played a big role , plus those warships on the outer sea, they really beat back the teeth that had been exposed by the two empires. After all, they really didn't want to have any conflicts with the people of Cao's House.

"This statement is absolutely true. I also discovered a lot of secrets of the Western Empire after the incident, but it was just superficial. If I hadn't been the prime minister of the Western Empire, I would definitely tell you that we will continue to work hard You can directly occupy the Southern Empire, but I didn't let you do such a thing because I knew those things at the beginning. If you really did that, it would be too risky. We They have hidden a lot of forces. But I guess these empires will hide more. When you occupy more than half of their land, I guess they will come out, and the secrets on this road are too great. There are too many, and it is said that tenth-level fighters can lead everything. But that is what ordinary people say. At our level, we only know about the news of the entire continent. These things are like this, there may be Some things we don’t know, so we should not be taboo to do them, these things are not very suitable for us, and now we don’t have such strong strength.” As for Li Cong’s claim that Wu Zuoxi had no contact with the real power of the upper class, he himself I admit that I have been the prime minister for more than ten years. What is this? It is nothing at all. These things are clear to him, and he knows it clearly. The more dangerous, when I was unloaded and killed, I was much worse than these people. My whole family was under the terrorist rule of the Western Empire. I don’t know how many times this happened. Yes, when I talked about this, I was also in tears, but now it is not very suitable to say that, many things can be solved.

"In fact, we have already done a good job. We used to be very afraid when facing the Eastern Empire, but now we don't need to be afraid at all when facing the Southern Empire. The main reason is our logistics. The supply has caught up. At that time, we could only deploy about 200 300-ton airships for transportation. If we continue to invest too much in the army, we will not be able to satisfy at all, but now we have 1,000-ton airships. There can be thousands of ships, and this number can allow us to obtain hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies every day. These things are a fundamental factor for our victory. Coupled with the application of artillery, these things can be said to have helped us I'm very busy, no matter how powerful the people in our Cao's House were in the past, they would not surrender directly, but now if we put our artillery outside their city walls, basically as long as there is no problem with our brains People will come out to talk to us about the surrender. They don’t say that, but they definitely think so in their hearts. Sometimes we have to do this. I think we can use our transportation capacity later. It was released to allow the flow of materials across the continent. This guy Wang Quantai has done a good job. Now that millions of ships are alive in his hands, this guy has done a very good job. Currently The material exchange between the Eastern Empire, the Western Empire and the Northern Empire has already started in an all-round way, and I think the Southern Empire will start immediately after the war is over." He is very clear about the strong transportation capacity of Cao's House , for them, as long as the materials can be transported, other things are nothing, they are all normal.

"Hehe, Old Wu, I hear you sound a little upstart. Our muscles should be shown to them, and we should also do things like this. But at present, many things are not what we want. It's as simple as it is, we can't do it, what we need is to make us all notice this matter, sometimes we should see it clearly, we can release half of the people out now, if there are more, then It’s impossible, we can’t let these people think that we don’t have any other strengths, their computing power is very powerful, even with such a small amount of data, they can calculate a lot of things, especially Our war potential is our lifeblood for us, but we can’t say too much. We must have our own secrets. The navy will be one of our key development targets in the future. The navy How is your military expansion plan going?" Li Cong looked at Gu Xin when he was talking, because Gu Xin was in charge of the navy recently, and Li Cong knew the importance of the navy when he was on earth, and it must be necessary to close the country. Failed, this point has been confirmed on the earth, and it is basically the same here, and many things have already been done in this way. The major empires here also feel that they should strengthen with other empires Contacted. But it can be said that they are powerless to come and go on land. Unless they all dispatched some super experts to clear the road, but the cost is not generally large, and it is estimated that they will not pay this money, if it is shipped by sea. Compared with the people in Cao's House, they don't have any advantage. They probably won't do it either.

In fact, if they want to go by sea, it is also possible. What Cao's House transports are those that need to be transported quickly, but they can transport some slower ones, and the freight can be charged a little less. But none of them have seen this market. They think that since it is to be transported, it should be able to get some things with relatively large profits. Yes, because of their thinking, they didn't get involved in shipping. Besides, shipping in this era really didn't develop. Except for the Eastern Empire, their other countries only had some ships in the inland river. , there are not even some sailors who have been in the sea, so how can they go to conquer the sea, but the people of Cao's House do not want these people to have so many ideas, if they really go to the sea There is no place for us to hang out. This is an unforgivable thing for us. In many cases, we should treat these issues correctly. The people of the empire conduct trade by sea, but the people of Cao’s House of Merchant Company control several major traffic arteries on the sea. It is no problem for your navigation, but you need to pay a lot of tolls. It is said to be very expensive, as high as 70% or more, which makes them a little bit of money. If you want to make money, there is no problem, just don’t start with me, you can make money elsewhere , as long as it is not with me, but if it is not with you, our cost may be even higher than this.

The navy can be said to be an absolutely important focus of this plan. Hearing Li Cong's question about the navy, Gu Xin hurriedly said, "Boss, our navy has experienced more than 290 fleets in combat. It can be said that if they are allowed to attack a coastal city, there will be no problem, but they are not very good at entering the inland river, mainly because the wind and waves at sea are relatively strong, and they have already adapted to the sea. They are not very familiar with such things as inland rivers, but it is no problem to give them a certain amount of time. At present, we have about 1.27 million large warships equipped with 240 guns, and 1.9 million ships equipped with 170 guns. There are medium-sized warships with artillery and 3 million small warships equipped with 120 cannons. In addition, we also have about 5 million inland waterships in the inland river. It is about 300 tons, and their main task is to escort the inland waterway ships. There are about 50 marines on board, and there is nothing else. Our shipbuilding plan is already I’m starting to prepare, and I’m waiting for your approval.” After speaking, this guy handed a document to Li Cong. Don’t think that the current navy has the current number, but this planet is too huge. There are tens of millions of transport ships on the inland river, not to mention the surrounding sea. It is no longer feasible to manufacture all of them on the earth, so the manufacturing is separated, and the earth only provides engines. Yes, the hull is made here. After that, Li Cong will directly use the teleportation array to get on the earth to equip the artillery and the engine, and then return it to the farmer. Those gathered together should be kept secret. A small number is okay, but such a large number is a little bit out of the question.

This is why Li Cong immediately got the second batch of people from the earth. Most of the people who came here this time are skilled workers. They will teach some apprentices here. The most important thing for these people is The task is to learn how to install artillery and engines, and then bring them one by one. In the end, all these warships will be here. This kind of order also makes the earth a little surprised, why do you need tens of millions of ship engines? Well, but why didn't so many ships appear on their seas? But these bosses didn't think about it. This is an order from the Imperial Investigation Department. Anyway, the money has already been paid, so we don't need to care about that. There are too many, and some people still pay directly with gold. This kind of thing can't happen once in two hundred years. We just need to work hard. As for the rest, we don't need to think about it. Well, the Li Tang Empire is so big, who knows what they are going to do, it is better not to know so much. In the past, Li Cong did not pay much attention to the shipping of inland rivers, because in Li Cong's view, the speed of their fleet The faster ones should be very safe, and it is impossible for anyone to pay attention to them. At the beginning, it was because of their faster speed and the stronger defense force on the ship, so it was Not many people would go to the Cao’s House of Business, and they didn’t want to, but now they all knew that if they didn’t rob the Cao’s House of Business, they would basically have no way to live. This matter must be done well, which puts the ships of Cao's House of Commerce in a dangerous situation. These people don't even think about what the people of Cao's House of Commerce are doing. How to rob the wealth is enough, which also makes it difficult for the people of Cao's house to deal with it. (to be continued...)