Section 2257: Reception

Earlier, the Eastern Empire was different from other empires in the confrontation with Cao's House of Commerce. I really didn't expect them to join in on their own initiative now. Li Cong was thinking while looking at the second manager. In this matter, the Eastern Empire is different from other empires. The power of one empire is greater than the sum of the other two empires. Of course, the Eastern Empire cannot resist the combination of the three empires, but such There is also no gap in the alliance. Such a thing is basically impossible. At the beginning, the Cao family firm fought against the Eastern Empire because of some civil strife in the royal family of the Eastern Empire. Now the emperor of the Eastern Empire has sorted out the Eastern Empire. Now Li Cong is not saying that he is afraid of them, but he can avoid confrontation with them. It's better not to fight like this. After all, such an empire is too powerful. It's best not to have anything to do with them, but now that they have already come to the door, this matter can't be looked at like that, Xi It’s enough for the army of the empire to continue to harass. It’s enough to give the army of the Eastern Empire a blow to the head, and let them know that confronting the army of the Cao’s firm will definitely end badly. The total number of the troops of the Eastern Empire is about There are less than eight million people, but they claim to be over ten million. This is just the first batch. The Northern Empire did not allow them to pass here, but now there is no way. Others in the anti-Cao alliance have already seen the strength of the Cao family firm. If this does not give some help to the Western Empire, one of their important members may fall. They all understand such things Yes, especially at this time, it is necessary to give some support to the people of the Western Empire. If they cannot see hope, they may just ignore this matter in the end. This is the most terrible thing. , The people of Cao's House of Commerce defeated the Western Empire. Definitely a morale boost. In that way, all of them will be killed one by one, so that the Eastern Empire will pay millions of people, but the effect is different. Before that, the people in the Cao's House of Commerce laughed at their anti-Cao alliance. Just have a name. Anything else is basically useless. It is for this reason. Their faces are not very good-looking, and neither face nor face is basically good. Now that the Eastern Empire sends troops, the people of Cao's firm can shut up. At least we have done some things, it’s not the current situation, you should understand this, but Cao’s House also has its own arrangements for facing the army of the Eastern Empire, Tuoba Yuanye is here The headquarters has made an assignment, and he will continue to stay to deal with the Western Empire. Although it is impossible to come here in a short period of time, there must be a general here. Min De will continue with Wu Zuoxi and the others. To deal with those coins, Li Wei dispatched himself to go to the place where the Eastern Empire and the Northern Empire were handed over to stop the troops of the Eastern Empire. It would be even better if they could kill them all when necessary. It is impossible to have too many troops. Airlifting four divisions used to be their limit, which is also 800,000 troops.

For this reason, Li Cong wasted all the points he had recently obtained on the exchange system, and then bought 120 super large airships at a price of 22 million taels each, which can transport 4,000 people at a time. All the equipment they use can be carried, so that the army can be transported there at one time. It is really that the place is too far away from the headquarters of Cao's Commercial Bank. Even at this speed, it will take two months. reachable,

It is estimated that the army of the Eastern Empire has already arrived at this place in two months, and what they are about to face is an encounter. Some guards in the empire can also organize themselves to delay the army. They are very good at doing such things. Although the court of the Eastern Empire has repeatedly warned the guards of the Cao family firm Yes, but if you warn us not to do it, isn’t that giving you too much face? You must know that we are doing things that you don’t allow in normal times. It's time for us to act, how could we listen to you? Naturally, it is impossible for these people to dispatch on a large scale, so they should just follow the example of those people from the Western Empire over there, so that you can't catch us. At night, we took a small airship on the road, and directly put a lot of mines along the way for you, and we directly blew up the bridges for you when we encountered rivers and the like, and you said we did it, But everything needs to pay attention to a proof, doesn't it? You can't arrest people casually, and most of the local magistrates are in the hands of Cao's firm, which makes the court of the Eastern Empire feel that even if they want to use some tough methods to deal with Cao's firm, it's not so bad. It's simple, at least some high-level people in my country will not agree. The relationship between these people and Cao's firm is no longer that simple as friends. They seem to be tied together. These people don't feel themselves at all Their behavior is traitorous, and they even feel that what they are doing is correct. Before the Eastern Empire, we never cared much about the affairs of the mainland. We were all managing our own affairs, and we just need to develop ourselves. That is, in the recent period of time, this matter has become so violent that many people have been arguing endlessly. This is completely different from the previous policy of the Eastern Empire. When these people talk about these things one by one, they are They didn't blush at all, and they were talking about how they thought of the empire. In fact, they didn't know how much money they had collected from Cao's house. As for the casualties of those troops, they didn't care much about it. What's the matter with us, you just settle it yourself. It doesn’t have much to do with us, these people can easily be supplemented from other places, and they have other ideas, if they are all dead, is it possible to get a hand from the blood money , all of these people are full of money, and they basically don't do serious things. They all understand very well, and they do things like this a lot of the time, and they all look very good of. But who knew that they were all thinking about these things in their hearts. Since you all think about this, then this matter is not so easy to talk about.

The emperor of the Eastern Empire and some insightful people in the empire also wanted to kill all these cancerous tumors, but when they saw so many cancerous tumors, even the cruel people didn't feel so good at this time Easy to do. If so. In the end, each of them will be unlucky. Such things can be seen clearly one by one, it is better not to do that, if it is really done. It is estimated that their Eastern Empire will be paralyzed first, and the accounts can still be calculated clearly. The purpose of doing this now is to weaken the Cao's House of Commerce. If Cao's House of Commerce is fine, I am paralyzed here , Don’t they want to be laughed to death by others, such a thing can’t be done by themselves, they are all very clear about this matter, each of them has their own sense of propriety, and now they can do this matter Hold on, everything else will be fine. Besides, there is no non-greedy person in this world. After taking all these people down, the people in Cao's Commercial Bank will still use their money to make more people Those who work for them, besides, if all these people go down, those who come up again are not as capable as them. At that time, I don’t know how much trouble will happen. In fact, these people also think the same way, anyway It's just that the punishment does not blame the public, why worry about this matter, I don't know what the situation will be in the end, since this is the case, then there is no need to worry so much, that is their idea, in the end There are even some people who continue to sell some news about the march to the people of Cao's Commercial Bank. They think this is also a way of cooperation. For such a friendly person, the people of Cao's Commercial Bank Of course, the hard work of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is not bad, but Li Cong has educated them, since it is something that can be settled with money, it is nothing. The army of the empire began to march in such an environment. Naturally, they could not achieve any good results. This has not yet left the gate of the Eastern Empire. There will be tens of thousands of casualties. It seems that they will also carry out It was a relatively difficult march, and the final result must not be very good. Each of these people understands what is going on, but even their generals can't help it. What can they soldiers do? Well, some high-ranking people in the Eastern Empire also understand that this dispatch of troops is actually a matter of reputation, and it will definitely be nothing in the end. If this is the case, there is no need for some people in their own family to Follow up to take risks, it is better not to carry out such a thing, that is to say, let them make a decision, dispatch some members of their family, don't suffer, if there is a good result after suffering It's not bad, but if you don't get anything in the end, don't do this thing, everyone is not a fool, and the empire wants us to do such a thing, and we will not do it. At that time, the court of the Eastern Empire said that it was not allowed to transfer manpower, but in the end, these aristocratic families all have their own abilities. It doesn’t mean that what you want to do is what we do. We can all do such things. The big families of the Eastern Empire have many options, and it is not up to them to decide.

It can be said that no matter whether it is the army of the Western Empire or the Eastern Empire, they have encountered such a situation at this time. As landlords, the people of the Northern Empire are naturally aware of what is going on. A legion of about 2 million people was dispatched to help out, but seeing the appearance of the Eastern Emperor's army and being beaten by that damn landmine, they couldn't even walk a few kilometers in a day, so I still don't want to go that way. Maybe it will also bring some losses to himself. At this time, Li Wei arrived at Mingjin Pass with four divisions of troops. This can be said to be a dividing line between the Northern Empire and the Western Empire. Easy to defend but difficult to attack. This place was originally occupied by people from the Western Empire, but later because it was difficult to send foster care here, besides, peace has been going on for so long, and the troops of the Western Empire are no longer stationed here. The same Northern Empire People from other countries will not come here. Although it is considered a strategic location, such a place is only useful during a war. If there is no war, such a place has no effect. There is no one within thirty miles around. Only a fool would send so many troops to occupy this place. As long as there is no problem with your own brain, you will not come to this place, so this place has become the world of some bandits, and tens of thousands of bandits occupy this place. After a dozen airships from Cao's House dropped bombs on this place for a while. These bandits ran away without a trace one by one. So this place has become the place of Cao's business house. Li Wei took people in and searched it, and he understood why no one came to this place. It was too poor. The food these bandits eat is not as good as that of ordinary people's homes, that is, the bosses can eat some meat or something. It is very low, so most people have no problem eating some fine grains. Just like the situation in front of them, it is not very common to eat coarse grains, even for some poor people. They only eat this food in some years of famine, and at other times they basically eat fine waves, and it can be seen from this that these people really don’t know what they have become. This one can only be so depressing, but Li Wei is too lazy to take care of these people. Since he took over this place by himself, he has to turn this place into a more powerful Xiongguan. The guy came from here to support the army of the Western Empire. Li Wei asked everyone to rest on the first day, but he himself did not rest. Instead, he hurriedly looked at the surrounding terrain and established it within a few months. For a huge fortress, even if you bring a lot of cement yourself, it is not an easy task. Maybe you will suffer a big loss in the end. These things are not jokes In the end, if you mess up by yourself, it's not just your own problem, even some other people will be unlucky, and the most important thing is that it will affect the great cause of the entire Cao's Commercial Bank. This is the most terrible thing. I am a useful person, and I would not do such a thing myself.

The first thing to choose is the turret. Li Wei already knows the lethality of this thing on the earth. If more forts can be arranged, Li Wei will definitely turn all places into turrets, because of this thing , will make the people of the Eastern Empire feel scared, and may even prevent them from going out. Such a thing is a terrible thing for anyone. This time, Li Wei brought a 210mm heavy artillery Thirty, 70 155mm heavy artillery, 120 127mm artillery, 400 90mm infantry, and 500 large-caliber mortars. There are hundreds of thousands of shells prepared for these artillery alone. The arsenal on the earth has worked hard for a long time. In the previous war between Li Cong and the Southern Empire, some artillery on the earth had been completely consumed, mainly because the land on this planet was too large. Well, the earth is only as big as it is, and there is no way to compare it with the place in front of you, but there are really not many materials on the earth, so most of the raw materials are purchased by Li Cong on this planet. The price is just the price of a cabbage. If you really pull it back, you can definitely let these people drink a pot, tell you to make troubles, and let you see my ability, except for these In addition to things, it is the super serial crossbow. This thing has also produced the latest one. It can fire about 62 rounds of crossbow bolts per minute. It needs to replace parts once when it fires 500 rounds. The range has reached a terrible 4000 meters. If If there is a downwind, it is estimated that 5,000 meters is no problem. Li Cong also did something that made them more extravagant, that is, using this thing to launch magic arrows. Of course, this thing is just a test on the training ground. If it is really used in war, this is absolutely impossible. Even if Li Cong can provide so many magic arrows, it is impossible. The consumption of a war is too huge. Li Wei must arrange at least three artillery groups around this pass, hundreds of super serial crossbows, and some bunkers in other places. Of course, as long as there are people from Cao's House The places I often go to need a lot of landmines. This thing is really a good thing. If it were on the earth, there would still be many people to clear mines, but on this planet, landmines are the most powerful weapon. . Because people on this planet move faster. They can dodge everywhere, and it is impossible for shells to cause so many casualties to them, but this mine is different, and there is no way to predict such things. Encountering something like this can only be my own bad luck. Moreover. I don't have the ability to predict, how can I know what I stepped on, let alone. Those who stepped on landmines are basically dead, even the few who are alive are stupid, and they don’t know how to promote any experience. For them, there is no experience at all. To be honest, if there is one, it is to yell vigorously when stepping on a landmine. Maybe that will allow you to express all your fears, but the effect is something you know yourself. Anyway, many people will It may be said that the effect is not very good, it is better to be honest.

The Eastern Empire’s army hadn’t gone far before they knew the news. In their eyes, the people from the Cao’s House of Merchant were really giving themselves face. No matter how you say it, you have to wait until my door arrives. Just do whatever you want. This is a good guy. It can be said that Mingjinguan has never been defended by anyone, so there is no such place among their targets. Suddenly, they heard that the people from Cao's House gave this place Occupied, each of them felt that this matter seemed to be deliberately embarrassing for them. How could such a thing happen? It had never happened before. They knew that this was the Cao family. A stumbling block set up by the commercial firm for their door, about 800,000 people from Cao's commercial bank came, which happened to be one-tenth of their door. For their door, this number is nothing. At that time, I knew that the ratio of their army's battle damage to Cao's House should be 1:12, but that was the time when Cao's House had no artillery, and now the Southern Empire has raised this ratio to 1:25. , it is estimated that people from the Western Empire got cheap ones from Cao’s House of Commerce, and other people did not have such benefits at all. They just suffered losses one by one. When the high-level officials of the Eastern Empire got the news, they immediately Then they made another decision, they will never back down, because they are the most powerful empire on this continent, they remember very clearly what happened last time, and they will definitely not forget this time Yes, they must be like the people of the Western Empire, and take back that humiliating person from the Cao's House of Commerce, as long as they can kill the people from the Cao's House of Commerce, as long as they can make the people from the Cao's House of Commerce surrender , They can pay this price, but this is what the emperor of the Eastern Empire and a few people think. Other military and military officials don't think so. They know that Cao's House These years have been fought in the South and the North, almost without rest, and all of them have been spent in the war. Their opponents are also varied, and their soldiers are more skilled than they were at that time. Well, no matter it is strategic or tactical, this is not comparable to the army of the Eastern Empire. The most that the army of the Eastern Empire has done over the years is to continuously add some new equipment, but what is the final result? It’s still hard to say. There are hundreds of thousands of people equipped with crossbows in the Eastern Empire army this time. Although their main force is at sea, they also need to learn from the experience of the Western Empire. I don’t know what the results will be when I go back. The people of the Eastern Empire immediately added 15 million troops to catch up with the 8 million troops that passed before. The Northern Empire would not send troops anyway, but they About tens of millions of troops in my country are closely monitoring the troops of the Eastern Empire. These people are all looking at the soldiers of the Eastern Empire honestly, as if these people may give them the door of the Northern Empire at any time. It caused a certain amount of harm. At the beginning, the officers of the Eastern Empire all said that the people of the Northern Empire welcomed us to go there, but now that this matter is not the case, these Northern Empire People don't welcome me at all. Moreover, the eyes that looked at my door seemed to have a trace of vigilance, and I felt uncomfortable.

In fact, this kind of thing is nothing, as long as I can live in my heart, no one else will say anything. The reason why I feel uncomfortable is not because I used to be regarded as the teacher of the king, but now I have changed. It is not very comfortable for anyone to become a person who is protected from the rain by the enemy, but there are orders from above, so this matter has to be passed anyway, for Li Wei. These two months have really passed by. There is no chance to breathe. For the people of the Eastern Empire, these two months are enough to make them feel like they are going to collapse, damn it. There is no rest every day. Why are the airships of Cao's House everywhere? And they often give them bombs. When they want to go up and teach them a lesson, they can't find anyone. Or just looking at my door from a high place, the soldiers of the Eastern Empire had a more difficult life than the soldiers of the Western Empire. The soldiers of the Western Empire were in their own territory no matter what, But their door was on the territory of the Northern Empire. In the end, they walked all the way for two months, and about 720,000 people died. They were finally less than three hundred miles away from Mingjin Pass. It is estimated that there will be more It will take a few days to pass. At that time, the army of Cao's Commercial Bank will definitely be able to see how powerful they are. The second batch of troops of Cao's Commercial Bank is also 800,000 people, and they have been transporting here all the time. , just because this place is too far away from some military bases of Cao’s House, and there are still a lot of supplies that need to be transported over, it is estimated that it will take half a month, as long as the army of the Eastern Empire comes At that time, it is estimated that their reinforcements will be able to come. At that time, there will be no problem with the 1.7 million troops defending for a month. Of course, tens of millions or even more casualties will be caused to the people of the Eastern Empire. Yes, the casualties caused by the Iron War are very severe. As long as the people in the Eastern Empire and the Western Empire have the same abacus and think that they want to achieve their goals by killing more people, then I really let you Just try them one by one. Of course, it’s not so easy to tell you what the final result looks like. You just need to see if your bones are similar to mine. At this time Thirty-five reconnaissance companies have almost discovered the traces of the Eastern Emperor's army. These people have already received Li Wei's order, and they retreated immediately after sending them a congratulatory gift. Block the enemy, but you must not go head-to-head with the enemy, because the number of enemies is too many. Of course, the horses used by the reconnaissance troops of Cao's House are very good, that is, because of these things, their You can quickly return to Mingjin Pass. Besides, there are airships in the sky to help them. If there is no such thing, Li Wei will not let his soldiers go out to take risks. Relying on Xiongguan, what he can do is really There are too many, these people want to compete with me, it is simply impossible, and I will not be afraid of these guys, but if I fight against these people in the wild, then I can’t, you must know that the Cao family The most lacking thing in the business is people. People's lives are completely different from people's lives. It's better to be honest, otherwise they will suffer a lot in the future.

The marshal before the Eastern Empire belonged to a duke of the royal family. Who knew that at the end, this guy knew that this mission was not so well completed, and he ran to the palace of the Eastern Empire and begged the Queen Mother hard. The Queen Mother felt sorry for this As far as the grandson, he gave the errand to another earl. Although this earl is not a member of the royal family, he can be regarded as the son-in-law of the Eastern Empire. He has always hoped to have a chance to express himself, and he is not A fool, although he knows that this matter may not be too easy, but thinking that if he does not go, he may not have any chances in the future, so he might as well go up and fight once, maybe he will be able to I posted it there. After I got on the road, this guy knew why so many people didn’t come to do this thing, that is to say, something went wrong in my head. I believed that there would be some difficulties this time. Yes, but thinking about some things at home, my wife is the princess of the royal family, but because my family is not very good, my wife has been flirting with other people constantly, it doesn’t matter if my hat has changed color You know, in fact, he doesn't really care about this. The main reason is that my sons don't look very pleasing to me. I just have to be an official in the Ministry of War. It can be said that if there is anyone who I can pass after school, I have to make a good one for my son. It's only possible if you come from the future, just like this time now, I have to do that, if I don't do that, I feel uncomfortable in my heart, that's why this guy chose to be the marshal . In the past, he was considered a great general. But now he has suddenly become a marshal. This kind of thing was really a dream before. Although this marshal may not be able to go back, he is a marshal anyway. As long as you don't act too stupidly. After going back, his earl may become a marquis. Then his son can also have the title of earl, instead of being a viscount, and this kid may look at him more. As for his wife, he can definitely believe that during the period of his expedition, someone in the royal family will look at this woman. If she does something shameless at this time, it is estimated that the high-level officials of the royal family will give a woman to her. Killed, good guy, your husband is working for the empire on the front line, you see what you are doing in the rear, if this is really spread, the people of the royal family will not want it anymore, It was because of this thought that this guy came here. Now he is less than three hundred miles away from Mingjin Pass, and he must advance fifty miles today. When he got up in the morning, he called the bosses of several cavalry regiments Come, let them form an advance team of 300,000 people, they must quickly enter the surrounding area of ​​Mingjin Pass and do some things like scouting, otherwise they don't know anything about the other party. In the end, he was the one who suffered the loss. He didn't even understand his opponent. What were you doing there? Mingjin Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack. He is very clear about it. When he came, many people said that this must be done. It is impossible to use human heads to pile them up, except for this method.

The members of the advance team have been selected. It can be said that they are all people with no foundation, the advance team? Hehe, among other armies, this should be the most elite army, but when facing Cao's house, this is the one who was sent to death in the past, there is no need to get such a good army to go there, anyway, they are all going to die Yes, it’s better to let these old, weak, sick and disabled go up. Anyway, these people usually just eat more food here. As for other things, they can’t do much, and they don’t count on it now. Now that they have decided, they will start to do it immediately. As for the selected advance team members, they have nothing to say except that they are depressed. These people are all terrified. They walked along this main road. In fact, they all knew that there must be landmines on the mainland that made them afraid, but there was no way. Although such things were scary, they could still let them go Some of them survived, but if they met some other people, it is estimated that none of the salesmen over there will be able to return. In such a narrow place, even a regiment of Cao's firm would be able to survive. They can intercept hundreds of thousands of troops, and then there will be endless killings. As for them wanting to fight back? So what to do? They all use long-distance attack weapons, and our family has them too, but compared with others, they are like a bunch of useless fire sticks, basically they will not produce any effect, besides, go up It’s not so easy to get out without those sales outlets. They have to be locked in front and back. The airships in the sky are not vegetarians. If they keep throwing bombs, they will finally know the result with their calves. Yes, now many people already know the role of their sect. In fact, all the troops are here to die, but the army was the first part of the die before. Their sect is the most tragic, although it is Those generals tried their best to encourage the soldiers below them, but what they said was understandable. It was impossible to win any victory. It is better to be honest now. What was the last time? I don’t know the result yet, it’s better not to seek death, if you really want to seek death, the final result will definitely be very ugly, as predicted by them, there are not many investigations, everyone on the small road It is already ready. There is nothing good on the road except landmines. This is also a mistake of Li Wei. In his opinion, these people may choose to take the small road because of the fear of landmines. I really did not expect None of these people thought about taking the small road, but they all thought about taking the big road. In fact, they didn't have any other thoughts in their hearts. The most important thing was that they wanted to live. Although landmines are terrible, But it's nothing compared to those people in Cao's House. Seeing these people coming from the main road, the two regiments on the main road can only use their own mortars to bombard them vigorously for a while After that, they retreated sadly. Not only did their two regiments have 40,000 people, but it was impossible to defeat the 300,000 people in the wild, so it was better for them to choose to retreat, and Li Wei also gave them the door to retreat. Order, but more landmines will be left for them on the way, to slow down their speed.

The remaining troops of the Eastern Empire will not leave, but this is already too close to Mingjin Pass, and the airships of Cao's House are dispatched more frequently, and tens of thousands of bombs are dropped every day. , There are 200,000 downsizing almost every day. This is because the place is relatively large. If they are all trapped in a relatively small place, the life of these people will be even more difficult. Li Wei looked at Those people, thinking that if there were tanks now, they would probably be able to kill them all back in the past, but Li never wanted to change the world too much. He didn't even transport things like muskets, they were all used Such crossbow arrows, this is not bad. Anyway, these people are not my opponents. As for this, I just let you take a good look at it. Your door is here, and my door is in charge of reception. Naturally, I want you You can only see our enthusiasm, otherwise we will be negligent. (To be continued..)