Chapter 149: Barbarian News

After a few days of rain, the sky suddenly cleared.
The sapphire-like dome is high and far away, and a few white clouds float gently, making the soul so beautiful that it is filled with water.
Yesterday I was teaching in the Equipment Department, and today the Equipment Department will officially try to produce artillery.
Seeing that the date when the barbarian goes south is approaching, there is not much time left for him.
And Li San and Wang Xuan have been investigating the movement on the grassland these days, and today the two of them went to the palace together to report the information they had obtained to Xiao Ming.
"His Royal Highness, we have received news that the Barbarian and Ottoman seem to have reached some kind of reconciliation. Three months ago, the Barbarian returned to Shengdu with the slaves and craftsmen looted from Ottoman." Li San said.
"In other words, the Western Expedition of the Barbarians is over?" Xiao Ming asked.
"I'm afraid that is the case." Wang Xuan looked solemn.
This is indeed very bad news for Xiao Ming. After conquering the grassland tribes, the barbarians have become the most powerful empire in the northern lands.
However, under the premise of the gradual decline of the Great Yu Kingdom and passive defense, the barbarians thought that they had no worries, so they began to conquer the west.
After destroying a series of small western countries, the barbarians encountered the Ottoman Empire in its heyday.
After three years of hostile conquests, the two sides now finally understand that each other is a behemoth, so they stopped and returned to the court.
As a result, the pressure on the country will increase sharply.
Recalling the Western Expedition of modern Mongolia, it seems that after the completion of the Western Expedition, Mongolia easily destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty.
"Is there any worse news?" Xiao Ming smiled bitterly, "What do you know about the population, army, weapons and equipment of the barbarians?"
Wang Xuan said: "There is one bad news. The barbarians seemed to have come to a siege weapon during the West Expedition, called the Huihui Giant Cannon, which is said to be able to throw a 300-pound boulder 500 meters away."
"Return to the gun?" Xiao Ming asked, "Are you sure he was throwing a stone?"
"I'm sure that the merchants on the grassland have described this kind of return artillery as an advanced stone thrower." Wang Xuan said.
Xiao Ming lightly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the barbarians hadn't acquired artillery technology, but before there were no artillery, if there was such a stone thrower, it would indeed be a huge threat to Cangzhou City.
He remembered that in modern times, Mongolia seemed to be using a similar stone thrower, which also came from the Western Regions.
Li San said at this time: "His Royal Highness, if the barbarians use this kind of thing to attack Cangzhou City, this wall may not be able to hold it."
For Xiao Ming, it is fortunate that the barbarians do not have artillery. This kind of giant stone thrower with a range of 500 meters is far inferior to the range of artillery. It can be destroyed in advance within the range of artillery, which is not to be feared.
"This is not worth worrying about. Is there any other information?" Xiao Ming asked.
Li San rushed to say at this moment: "The population of the barbarians cannot be accurately determined, but overall there are still two million households."
"So much?" Xiao Ming was startled.
"In recent years, some barbarians have settled down in Changbai Mountain, and the population has grown a lot." Li San said.
Now Xiao Ming finally understands what a headache is.
The barbarians nowadays are no longer a purely nomadic nation, but a half-farming and half-herdered nation. Such a nation is even more deadly to the Great Yu country.
Because half-farming and half-pastoral means that the logistics of the barbarian will be better protected, making it easier for the barbarian to expand.
The following sentence from Wang Xuan made Xiao Ming even more troubled, "This is just the population of the barbarians. The barbarians have always been accustomed to looting slaves. Now the ratio of the barbarian's regular army to the slave army has reached one to five."
"Businessmen said that every time the barbarians marched in front of the west, there would be a large number of slave armies. When these slave armies are finished, the enemy is also tired, and then the barbarian cavalry will attack."
Li San said: "We are investigating on the grasslands these days and found that the barbarian cavalry is arresting the people north of Cangzhou City. These people were all the people of the Great Yu country before. So it seems that the barbarian wants to deal with the Western Regions. Way to deal with us."
After a pause, Li San clenched his fists and said: "His Royal Highness, the people of Dayu Kingdom will be forced to walk in front of the barbarians to attack the city. What should we do?"
"This barbarian is really shameless and has no humanity at all." Wang Xuan said angrily.
The despicable tactics of catching the people as meat shields abound in history, especially the Meng and Qing tribes.
It is also the clever use of the puppet army and the common people that a sparsely-numbered nation will destroy a country with a population dozens of times larger than its own.
And now the population of this barbarian is only ten to one with that of Dayu.
"What to do? If Cangzhou City is captured, this king will be the next King Kang." Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.
Li San and Wang Xuan looked at each other, and they seemed to understand Xiao Ming's thoughts.
The two told Xiao Ming something about the barbarians, nothing more than the way the barbarians fight.
At present, the barbarians use a compound bow made of animal tendons. This kind of bow and arrow has a long range, and the barbarian cavalry also has a technique of turning around and shooting arrows while running away.
It was this method that caused the people of the Western Regions to be repeatedly defeated by the barbarians.
However, the people of Da Yu have already learned about the characteristics of the barbarians. Because of this, the army of Da Yu will not go out of the city to fight the barbarians on the grassland.
Because this is purely looking for death.
In addition to the range of bows and arrows, which can reach more than 180 meters, the most deadly aspect of the barbarian army is its strict discipline, which is far more dangerous than bows and arrows.
An army that is not afraid of death is truly terrifying.
Now Xiao Ming can imagine the barbarian infantry still climbing up from the pile of corpses under the fire of artillery~EbookFREE.me~ In addition to catching people, merchants on the grassland said that the barbarian army has been training very frequently recently. And they were very vigilant about the barbarians of the people of Da Yu who commuted to and from the grassland. Many merchants were arrested by the barbarians. "Li San said finally.
Xiao Ming nodded. The many changes of the Barbarians were obviously abnormal. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before the attack on the Great Yu Kingdom.
He said: "Continue to keep an eye on the developments of the barbarians, especially the developments of the barbarian army, and report to me in time."
Li San and Wang Xuan nodded, turned and left.
At this time, Xiao Ming got up and went to the Department of Weaponry. Fortunately, he let the Department of Weaponry produce all the artillery, otherwise he would not be able to resist this 500-meter-long return artillery catapult.
A three-hundred-pound stone hit on the city wall is not much weaker than the bombardment of artillery.
After all, the artillery fired solid bullets, and he didn't have the ability to produce such things as flower bullets.
Thinking of this, he quickened his pace, and a deep sense of crisis enveloped him. (To be continued.) Enable new URL