Chapter 2181 The Windy City

The current situation is what it is now, and now the Western Empire seems to be in the same situation as the Southern Empire.

Now, many people have this idea, and many people are not optimistic about the Western Empire. They all feel that they also have potential

Like the people of the Southern Empire, they will face defeat in the end. For them, they laughed at others in the past

The Southern Empire is okay, but now people have nothing to do, but their own people need to worry now, one by one

Everyone was very afraid that people from Cao's House would really call, but some of their high-level people had their own opinions.

, that is, they decided that it is impossible for the people from Cao's house to call, at least the things in the capital of the Southern Empire have not been completed

They would not have come here before, but now the southern part of the Southern Empire can be said to be the base camp of the Cao Family Firm, and their rear is full of

When you are unstable, you have to continue to attack. This can be said to be looking for death. Such a thing is very difficult for anyone.

It's impossible, none of them would do such a thing, there are no fools in Cao's House, even if there are

If the people of the Western Empire know that the people are in chaos, they will not offend the people of the Western Empire at this time, so although the people of the Western Empire know that the people are in chaos, but

They are very happy one by one, because their territory has more than a dozen provinces of land, which is a great deal for them.

This is a very good thing. Now many people in the Cao's House of Commerce have said that they want to take revenge on the Western Empire, but what do they use to do this?

What about revenge? Attack at sea? This is not impossible. Vertex Novel The fastest chapter update can indeed bring a lot of losses to the Western Empire, but

What should you do after an attack? There is no base of Cao's firm in the western sea area of ​​the Western Empire, and neither are those islands.

It is very big, and it is obviously impossible to use it as their base.

The biggest difference between the Western Empire and the Southern Empire is here. The troops of the Cao Family Firm can be stationed on the islands along the southern coast of the Southern Empire.

There are more than tens of millions of troops assembled in the world, but they cannot gather so many troops on the territory of the Western Empire. Now the Cao family

Even if all the airships of the commercial bank are used to transport the army, they can only transport hundreds of thousands of people at once.

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If it's people from the Western Empire, they will fight with the people from Cao's House. It is absolutely impossible for these hundreds of thousands of people to persist until the next batch of reinforcements arrive.

of. As for the sea, it is even more impossible. An expeditionary force departs from the base of the Southern Empire, even if it is Cao's firm

The ships are relatively fast, and it will take two months to reach the port of the Western Empire. If you don't want to walk in the middle of the wind, then

It is absolutely impossible. As long as people from the Western Empire got the news. They want to stop this

There are still many ways to do things, after all, this time is too long, so now the people of Cao's firm

It is simply impossible to cause any substantial damage to the Western Empire. It is for this reason that the people of Cao's firm must

This bitter pill needs to be swallowed. At this moment, Li Cong, Wu Zuoxi, Wang Quantai and Wu Liubai have returned to the headquarters.

Two, the four of them are also discussing this matter, and now they have basically done everything they can do, but

But now there is no result. The Western Empire is different from what they boxed. At least they don’t want to give Cao’s business

The meaning of apologizing is that they have withstood this round of no gunpowder attack by the Cao's firm. The Western Empire and the Cao's

Some of the loan contracts of commercial banks have contracts, and they are paid in installments. It is not time for us to pay you, and you will not

If you don't follow the contract, Cao's House follows the spirit of the contract. If you don't abide by it, you will have no credibility.

"It seems that the Western Empire is far more stubborn than ours. In the past, we all felt that we were already very strong.

Well, it seems that none of the people from the Four Great Empires are our opponents. For them, we also seem to be very powerful

Yes, they didn't dare to offend us. They really didn't expect that the image we managed after the defeat of the Southern Empire was instant.

It was broken by the people of the Western Empire. Our army has no way to win, even if they suffer huge losses

It's okay to lose, because they have a relatively large population base, and it is impossible for us to be their opponents.

Other things are easy to solve, but this one is not easy to solve. If you have any ideas, just say it.

Now we have to solve this problem, and now we are in trouble, if the Western Empire is in our series of actions

If you give in, you can talk about everything, but now it is obvious that they have no intention of admitting defeat, and sometimes force

Hard is good, but now we are wrong about this matter, we are tough and wrong, people in the Western Empire must look at us

It's a joke, they will also say, aren't you amazing, just come here. "Li Cong said helplessly to the map, although

He built a quick response army, but the planet is too big, even he can't deliver it quickly

For the army, if it is not done well, the reinforcements sent there may also be killed, which also exposes the seriousness of Cao's firm.

What's not enough, Li Cong must carry out some reforms at this time, otherwise he may lose more thoroughly in the future

Bottom line, all of this is possible. The few people in front of me are all high-level executives of Cao's firm, except for Gu Xin.

Except for the two of them here, the first-class managers of Cao's House are basically here, and Li Wei also came here to attend.

"My opinion is very simple, we can't just admit defeat like that, although our army is already surrounded by them

However, none of them have completely failed. If our people give them a certain amount of assistance at this time, it will be

There is no problem in claiming the original area. If we admit defeat now, everything in our Cao's House will be gone.

How difficult it is for us to obtain our current status. In the past, people from the four empires thought we were rich, and others

But there is nothing, but it is our war with the Eastern Empire and the Southern Empire that made them understand that our fists

It's also very powerful. Now they understand what's going on, but now they all treat us one by one.

The practice has created doubts, if we do not have such ability. Our situation will be even more difficult in the future

. I have done calculations, if we send reinforcements now, according to the speed of the airship, we will arrive in the area within half a month

domain. Over 700,000 reinforcements with something they need. "Tuoba Yuanye is the representative of the military. This guy is the most

People who don't want to fail on their own side. The army's status for a few days is definitely achieved by the brothers' heads

Well, if you admit defeat at this time, you won't have many such opportunities in the future. This will also happen when you become stronger

It is a stain on them, so if there is no such thing now, it is better not to have such a thing. If this continues

If this is the case, their entire firm will feel very ashamed, and they will make the last move while they haven't lost that person.

Although the last effort may not be successful, it has given many people hope. This approach has also been thought through.

In the end, the elite troops may not necessarily fail in the past, and they all have very good combat effectiveness.

"I don't agree with the current practice. Now the troops of the Southern Empire have already begun to retreat, and they have lost more than a dozen

I don't think we have to fight this war. In fact, I said it after the beginning, this war

The war has nothing to do with us, as long as we make a certain effort, the Western Empire and the Southern Empire

People are still different. People in the Southern Empire will choose to submit under the threat of our hungry war, but it is obvious that the Western Empire

The people of China are not frightened by our threats. The people of the Western Empire have won now, and they will not be afraid of us

Yes, such a thing is a tragedy for anyone, for us, we need to accept this failure

defeated, many people in our army did not face up to this failure, General Mop, I have no other intentions, and

I don't mean to target anyone, I just say what I want to say, and now many things are not me

It’s so simple in our box, you should understand this matter, now everything must obey our development

It is possible, I am in charge of the operation of the entire group, it is not impossible for us to go to war with the Western Empire, but our collective

The regiment has a lot of scars to heal too, if we did we'd be warmongers

, Now the Chamber of Commerce has not resolved the problems left over from the last war. "Wu Zuoxi said, Tuoba

Yuan Ye originally wanted Xu Ang to come out and say something, but seeing this guy say it so sincerely, he had nothing to say

What to say, now he basically understands what's going on, sometimes things are not that simple, you have to consider everything

Only certain things can be done, and it is absolutely impossible to get things done so simply.

"I agree with Manager Wu's opinion. Now the commercial bank can't go through a large-scale war. There are many people in our commercial bank.

Money, but people can't just come out like that. This time we suffered more than one million casualties, and our company has a lot of troops

, but there are not many troops that can be mobilized. We have newly occupied more than 100 provinces in the Southern Empire, and each province needs

With more than 300,000 troops stationed, this will cost us at least tens of millions of troops, plus some of the needs we are giving to the land.

Our army is far from enough to protect the place. Now our total army is 3.5 billion people, but our mobility

I think the military strength is less than 200 million people. Can we fight such a war? Most of our army is locked up now, but

In this way, how many people can the Western Empire mobilize? According to one of our surveys, thirty years ago when the Western Empire did

According to a survey, there are 235 billion of them. According to the growth of these years, their number has exceeded 2500

Hundreds of millions of people, theoretically speaking, their entire empire has tens of billions of troops, which will not affect the operation of the entire empire, and there is another

The important thing is that they all fight locally, but we need to travel long distances. We have a great advantage over them

Potential, we have airships, we have space rings, these things are very good, but these things cannot be changed

It changed the contrast between us and the Western Empire. In the end, we will still have many places that are not as good as others. real

If there is a fight, we may fail. Such a huge failure will definitely not be something we can bear now

of. So this breath needs to be saved until later before it can be exhaled. "Although Wang Quantai just joined Cao's House of Firm not long ago. But

He is already a good hand at managing the economy. When Wu Zuoxi was fully in charge, he was in charge of the economy.

Wang Quantai had studied the economy of Cao's House before, and he could see it from this war. Cao Jiashang

Xing is actually richer than any of the four great empires, even if they are all added up, it will not work, because Li Cong is one

A pharmacist, relying on this point, those people are already impossible to keep up with, and it is for this reason that Cao

All actions of a commercial bank will be very supported by money, but in this world, you can’t do things with money

Well, there will be many other things. For now, many things have too many restrictions. The Western Empire

What I did this time is really beyond the scope of the Cao's Commercial Bank, and the Cao's Commercial Bank has already used a lot of

The restriction plan, but now it is basically verifiable, these things are basically useless

, it cannot be said that there is no harm to the Western Empire, but the people of the Western Empire can persist in living, except for Cao's House of Commerce.

It is impossible for them to succumb to this matter, and their people are not ready to go to war, but they are willing to fight against them.

They will definitely take a gamble on this matter, they all understand this matter very well, and they also know that the people in Cao's House of Commerce must not

If he dared to do this, Wang Quantai certainly knew the horror of Cao's House.

If the country is placed in the Southern Empire or the Eastern Empire, then you can be sure, you can definitely teach him a good lesson, yes

Li Cong is also very strange about this matter, why are there so many islands in the offshore areas of the Southern Empire and the Eastern Empire?

, some large islands are as huge as a dozen provinces, and can accommodate more than two billion people, but he

They have been investigating around the Western Empire and the Northern Empire for such a long time, but they have not found such a huge island.

"But now the brothers in the army are all excited, maybe we didn't experience any failures in the past.

The defeat, the defeat this time is too thorough, I feel that what we need to do now is to end this war decently, we should

We should publicize why we failed to the people below us, and we cannot let them lose their confidence like this.

For things that are not allowed, the army can have nothing, but it is absolutely impossible to lose the morale of the army. In the past, we

We all watched our opponents throw this thing away, but now this matter has come to our heads, this is me

The most important thing we have to solve, I think it is necessary to publicize the disadvantage of our army to the following

With the number of enemies they wiped out, and the various hardships they encountered locally, try to make our army able to

If it is not possible to accept the casualties in front of me, it is hard for me to believe what will happen inside the army, especially

It is the navy that cruises around the Western Empire. Many of their things are beyond the scope of the order. In the past, they only

It is enough to order them to harass. Obviously, they have already started to attack the Jun Cheng on land.

It is not a good thing for anyone, the navy of the Western Empire is not our opponent, but their coastal defense has now increased

That giant crossbow can already cause damage to our warship, and I don't want our warship to sink. "Tuobayuan

Ye said, some people in the army. Especially junior officers, it is difficult for them to look at this issue rationally, they all feel

I feel that now the firm is no longer the time when it first started. So many brothers died, why didn’t we want to take revenge?

mean? If this is the case, who will work for the chamber of commerce in the future?

Everyone turned their eyes to Li Cong at this time, and they just told Li Cong what happened around them,

How to make this decision in the end is still Li Cong's business, and they can't do it for them. just follow

Wu Zuoxi is the same. He can make decisions about those trivial things in normal times, but he can't when encountering such things

Yes, many things are not what he said, and many things need to be judged by various things. There are various data

Still not enough. War is a gamble. If you can win, just like the war in the Southern Empire,

Although I have lost a lot. But I also got a lot of things from the Southern Empire, but if I didn't

What about victory? Then in order to keep everything you have, you will definitely have to pay more, and the other empires will also

I learned from the Southern Empire. At that time, everything about myself may be over. They all protect the merchants, but the protection

Those who protect are the kind of small businessmen who honestly pay them taxes. Are you a small businessman? Impossible, I have

They have already controlled their economic lifeline, and they don't want their economic lifeline to be in the hands of others, that is because

Because of such things, they are looking at themselves one by one, as long as they make a little mistake, they will all

They will rush over without hesitation and eat themselves. They are just a huge piece of fat, and they are all waiting for this piece of fat.

The meat can go into their mouths, such a thing may happen, Li has reached this time from now, he must

It is only necessary to make a correct decision. If I go to war with the Western Empire at this time and fail, it will be the same as before.

When there is nothing left, the Southern Empire will stand up and take back what they had before.

In fact, Li Cong's heart is also very tight to start a war with the people of the Western Empire. He himself is not a warmonger, but

It was what the Western Empire did this time that really made them feel angry. The people of the Western Empire didn't even show Cao's firm

In my eyes, if they really had that little respect, such a thing would not happen now, the Western Empire

People who do things are like this, they don't see it, they should teach them a lesson, but after such a

If I have to see everything, just like now, there will be a lot of benefits in defeating myself, and when the time comes

It will also eat a piece of meat from the Western Empire, and it can slowly eat away at this empire in the future, just like the current Southern Empire.

The empire is the same, but what if you fail? Li Cong glanced at the brothers around him, it seems that this matter has to be discussed with Wang

It's the same as what Quan Tai said, if we want to end this war decently now, it would be a mistake to get involved in it at the beginning.

It's okay to maintain a balance, but you absolutely can't pull yourself into it. Those things on the Europa continent back then

Compared with myself, it's much more complicated. People from other countries in the UK can play well, but it's a pity that I don't have that

The ability, I didn't play this matter well, I played myself in, such a thing is very difficult for anyone

Not a good thing, now I have to let the Western Empire know their mistakes, but I have already used a lot of things

I have done this because of love, and now they still have no intention of repenting, how should I let them know

Do you know your own mistakes? Although it is not possible for them to sign any defeat agreement, but their own losses must not be just that.

Forget it, Li Cong suddenly thought of the example of attacking Shengguang City by himself back then, and it is also possible now.

Li Cong didn't say anything, and walked quickly to the front of the map. Several other people saw Li Cong's eyes.

I knew what was going on at that time, and it seemed that Li Cong had already found a solution to the matter, and they all followed Li Congda

Looking at the past, there is the capital of the Western Empire, the capital of the Western Empire known as the City of Wind. This is in the Western Empire

The place of Dahe Minxinjiang, this place can be said to be the political and economic center of the entire Western Empire, and this Minxinjiang is also far away.

The Luan River is much larger than before, and it is no problem for large warships to enter, but Li Cong thinks that they

There is no need to drive in such a warship, as long as it can drive in the river escort boat, Li Cong sneered

After a while, they immediately predicted what Li Cong was going to do. Several people looked at Li Cong in surprise.

really big. It's just that the defense and city walls of the Windy City are similar to those of the Holy Light City. in terms of the number of troops

It's not as good as the Holy Light City, but now there is still a prominent problem, that is, at that time, the Southern Empire had nothing to threaten

Things like the warships of Cao's House, but now the Western Empire has a giant crossbow. Nobody knows how much they make

Less of this thing. If only they continued to make more. At that time, this matter will not be easy to handle, I

We want to win, but we definitely don't need a tragic victory. Such victories are not needed for anyone,

Everyone needs an easy victory, but wars are always cruel. In the past, Cao's firm

People can easily win the war, but now it seems that there is no such simple thing, everything needs to be solved in the future

It's coming slowly, and the matter of victory alone is desirable to anyone, but it cannot be realized.

"We can't just admit defeat like this. This is not the style of our Cao's firm, nor my own style. Although we lost such a battle, I will not admit defeat in this war. The entire Cao's firm People will not admit defeat. If I just admit this matter, so many brothers who follow me to fight the world will be very dissatisfied. For them, following me may not get anything , Brothers are dead, is it just like that? There are millions of people here. As long as one person dies here, I will let them die a dozen people. Didn’t the general Mu Lun defeat him on the front line? Me? Immediately tell our sleeper personnel in the Western Empire to have some fun with this guy. He wants to be a marshal, so I will make him a prisoner. In addition, pass my order, and the 1st to 5th divisions of the Marine Corps will give me Gather up and get ready to go at any time. The first and second fleets of naval escort boats are assembled and ready to attack the Windy City at any time. We don't need to give them much results, as long as we let them know that we can fight all the way from brother to here, all the way from here As for the logistics supply, I will follow." Li Cong said with a smile, and the people around were also surprised, of course they knew the horror of their boss, and their boss's space ring could be thrown away With hundreds of millions of food, the knight is not Li Cong's space ring, but Li Cong's inner world, which can hold at least two things the size of the earth. With such a little supply, it is simply It's a very easy thing, and there is no need to consider their insufficient supplies. Of course they are confident in such a thing, and Li Cong will have more powerful weapons this time. People in the empire drink a pot, your capital is in danger.

Since Li Cong has already confirmed the offensive, they don't need to say anything more here. Anyway, Li Cong already has his own ideas, and they continue to talk about other things here, which makes them appear to be incompetent Now, what they have to do now is to prepare everything quickly. You must know that although the army Li Cong used this time is not very large, it is the most elite part. The war in the Southern Empire was already very powerful. Now that they have gone through the baptism of the battlefield, they are already the kings on the battlefield. They are also quite skilled in some things. For now, Their ability is definitely the number one in the army of Cao's Commercial Bank, second only to the Guards Division formed by Li Cong, but the role of the Guards Division is to guard the closest place of Cao's Commercial Bank, that is, Those teleportation formations, apart from them, these armies are the most powerful. Now Li Cong has used them all at once, and you can see Li Cong's meaning. Li Cong is going to win this war, absolutely I can't let them just end this matter like that. The war has just begun. I definitely won't mess with you in a large-scale war. But the small-scale ones will definitely hurt you. When the time comes to make you hurt, just take the initiative to seek peace with me. There was a big gap between the economy of the Western Empire and the Southern Empire in the past. You lost it with all your strength, and then you don’t feel sorry for it. Half a month is the time when the Cao’s firm will evacuate important items from the base of the Western Empire. It is estimated that the people of the Western Empire will not do such a thing like the Southern Empire. As for the action, if they really confiscated all the assets of Cao's firm, they have to see how their skills are. Is there anyone from the Southern Empire to compensate.

In the past, these great empires all hoped that the Southern Empire could wipe out the Cao Family Firm. If that's the case, all the assets of the Cao's Commercial Bank in their country will also belong to them. But now they don't have that kind of thinking anymore. The Southern Empire took back the assets of the Cao's Commercial Bank, which is about trillions of silver in assets, but they paid a hundred times that. All of them require silver compensation. The Western Empire also understands this now. Robbery is absolutely unacceptable, even if I am in a hostile state with the people of Cao's House, I absolutely cannot do such a thing. Let’s not talk about the issue of compensation in the future. After so many years of development, the Cao’s firm has been perfectly integrated with the economy of the Western Empire. Everyone is very clear about such things, and they also They will never do such a thing of self-destruction of the Great Wall. They will do this thing very well. For them, they will never go to the box to seize the Cao's firm. The Southern Empire is still in the Carrying that heavy debt, there is basically not much surplus in the annual tax except for the repayment of the money. Although the people of Cao's Commercial Bank control their economy, they are not as hard-pressed as the Southern Empire. But if they really do the same thing as the Southern Empire, it is really hard to guarantee that they will not do the same thing as the Southern Empire, so their upper echelons will not do such a thing, besides, some latent personnel of Cao's Commercial Bank will also A lot of money was sent there, and the magistrates everywhere are full of food. Even if the order is issued from above, someone will inform them. By then, all the valuable things will be gone. Get some What are you doing with your worthless things? It has no effect at all, and they will not be so stupid.

Jianghu escort boats have been in service for a long time, and now Li Cong has made some improvements. Of course, for this siege, all about 40 of them returned to the shipyard for a huge battle. The large-scale modification is to bring back the thing that Li Cong brought back. Now Li Cong has obtained 500 203mm heavy guns from the earth. If such a thing is on that kind of steel ship There is absolutely no problem if you do it, because they can all withstand that kind of recoil, but it is absolutely impossible for such a wooden boat. It is estimated that the two cannons are fired, and they have not done much. It sank, the recoil of this thing is so powerful, as long as those battleships were not in danger in the past, they would never shoot directly, because that would be a huge disaster for them, If they do such a thing, they will be really fools, especially if the damage to the keel is very serious, so as long as people are not fools, they will not do such things. Li Cong will take them back and modify them. It’s not to allow them to install such cannons, because no matter how wooden ships are modified, it is impossible to install such cannons, because they simply don’t have such skills. These cannons are put in, and they will still be installed on land at that time. I originally wanted to use an airship to transport them, but the airship is still a bit too risky in the air, so it is better to use transmission. Besides, it can also be operated Soldiers can get acquainted with them on the road. This kind of artillery is specially designed to open the walls of the Windy City. A shell weighing 100 kilograms should not be a big problem. Of course, if one shot doesn’t work, we You can do it again. Anyway, Li Cong also brought a lot of shells. There are a lot of shells like this on the earth. If you don’t get this, it will take a lot of time to scrap it. It’s better to be here Use your spare heat.

Each cannon requires nearly a hundred people to operate this thing, and there are twenty people who transport and install the ammunition alone. When such a thing is pulled, it also scares the artillerymen of Cao's Commercial Bank , They thought that the 155mm artillery they used before felt very powerful. It is said that this is 203mm. They also learned it when they were in the military academy. Generally speaking, the artillery that can move on land is already considered very powerful. The big one is not the biggest, but it is almost the same, and such a thing can have a range of 50 kilometers, which is simply impossible for them. They never thought that there would be such a thing before. They knew the information about the city walls of the Windy City before, and the thickness was almost 50 meters. If a 155mm artillery was used, it is estimated that tens of thousands of rounds would not be able to produce any results. Western Empire's If people are like this time and fight with them in such a wasteful way, they will still fail in the end, but with this thing, it will be different. It will be very difficult to break through the city wall, but at least It will bring huge pressure to them, and if so many shells are really wasted, the city wall is definitely not a problem. This thing mainly relies on a force, a deterrent force, I believe anyone who sees this thing People in the Western Empire will choose to submit, and none of them are fools. If they are asked to be enemies with such a thing, they may not have the courage to do so. Even the shells have to be carried by themselves. It looks strenuous, the people on this planet are very strong, but the 100kg thing is not a joke, and such a thing is still possible to explode, if it really explodes, this thing can definitely let them fly into the sky Yes, and I guarantee that there will be no intact things left in my whole body, so I am very careful about each of them. What I am most afraid of is that something will go wrong with me. In that case, I will have nothing. Well, there are no real bones left, so they need to be careful and careful, but they will still secretly enjoy seeing this thing.

This thing can be said to be the trump card of Li Cong's siege, and Li Cong also attaches great importance to such a thing, otherwise, he would not really let so many ships be refitted. The happiness is based on the pain of the navy. In order to load this thing, they have to dismantle their original artillery or something. Naturally, they are uncomfortable with such a thing. Besides, after arriving at the place , nor let them be artillery, they can only watch from the sidelines, attacking the capital of the Western Empire, this kind of thing is probably only one time, and it will not happen in the future, if such a thing happens, in the future At that time, the major empires would be very strict with some of their cities along the river. It is absolutely impossible to find such an opportunity, and there will not be such a good thing.

The Western Empire cannot be talking about celebrating this matter now, but it is almost the same. In the past, the status of the Western Empire among the four great empires was slightly higher than that of the Northern Empire, but it was actually regarded as the bottom. Compared with their economy and nothing else, it is even more incomparable with the Eastern Empire, so they can only follow honestly, but this time it is different, they have really made a big deal Yes, they really killed and defeated the army of Cao's House, and they got food from their mouths, what a great thing. Although everyone in the Western Empire is worried about the retaliation of Cao's firm, didn't they say that their retaliation is just what they are doing right now, and there is nothing else at all. (To be continued..)