Chapter 150

After a few rainy days, the sky suddenly cleared up.

Sapphire like dome high, a few white clouds floating gently, beautiful people's hearts like pouring a pool of water.

Yesterday, I taught in the equipment department. Today, the equipment department will officially try to produce artillery.

Seeing that the date of the barbarians' going south was approaching, there was not much time left for him.

Li San and Wang Xuan have been inquiring about the grassland these days. Today, they went to the palace together to report the information to Xiao Ming.

"Your Highness, we have heard that there seems to be some kind of reconciliation between the barbarians and Osman. Three months ago, the barbarians returned to Shengdu with slaves and craftsmen who had been plundered from Osman." Li San said.

"That is to say, the western expedition of the barbarians is over?" Xiao Ming asked.

"I'm afraid so." Wang Xuan looks dignified.

This is really bad news for Xiao Ming. After conquering the grassland tribes, the barbarians have become the most powerful empire in the north.

However, under the premise of the gradual decline of the state of Dayu and passive defense, the barbarians thought that they had no worries, so they began to fight against the West.

After destroying a series of small western countries, the barbarians met the Ottoman Empire in its heyday.

After three years of hostile expeditions, the two sides finally realized that each other was a giant, so they went on strike and returned to the DPRK.

In this way, the pressure of Chongqing 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 grinned bitterly, "what do you know about the barbarian population, army, weapons and equipment?"

Wang Xuan said: "the bad news is that during the western expedition, the barbarians seemed to have arrived at a sharp weapon for siege, called Huihui cannon, which is said to be able to throw a 300 pound boulder 500 meters away."

"Back to the gun?" Xiao Ming asked, "are you sure he threw the stone?"

"I'm sure that the merchants on the grassland have described this kind of cannonball as an advanced stone thrower." Wang Xuan said.

Xiao Ming was relieved. It's good for the barbarians as long as they haven't got the gun technology. But before there was no gun, if there were such stone throwing tools, it would be a great threat to Cangzhou City.

He remembers that in modern times, Mongolia seems to be using a similar kind of throwing stone, which is also from that place in the western regions.

Li San then said: "Your Highness, if the barbarians use this kind of thing to attack Cangzhou City, I'm afraid the wall can't hold."

For Xiao Ming, it's fortunate that the barbarians don't have guns. This kind of huge catapult with a range of 500 meters is far less than the range of guns. It can be destroyed in advance within the range of guns. It's not enough to be afraid.

"It's not worth worrying about. Is there any other information?" Xiao Ming asked.

Li San then rushed to say: "the barbarian population can not be accurately determined, but on the whole, there are still two million households."

"So much?" Xiao Ming was startled.

"Over the years, some barbarians have settled down in Changbai Mountain, and the population has increased a lot." Li San said.

Now Xiao Ming finally understands what a headache is.

Now the barbarians are not a pure nomadic people, but a half farming and half grazing people, such a nation is even more fatal to the state of Dayu.

Because half farming and half grazing means that the logistics of the barbarians will be better protected, making it easier for the barbarians to expand.

Wang Xuan's following sentence was a headache for Xiao Ming: "this is just the population of barbarians. Barbarians have always been used to plundering slaves. Now the ratio of regular army to slave army of barbarians has reached one to five."

"The merchants said that every time the barbarians March to the west, there will be a large number of slave troops. When these slave troops are finished and the enemy is tired, the barbarian cavalry will attack."

Li San said: "when we explore the grassland these days, we find that the cavalry of the barbarians are catching the people north of Cangzhou City. These people used to be the people of the state of Dayu. So it seems that the barbarians want to deal with us by dealing with the people of the western regions."

After a pause, Li San clenched his fist and said, "Your Highness, the people of Dayu will be forced to attack the city in front of the barbarians. What should we do?"

"The barbarians are extremely shameless and inhuman." Wang Xuan said angrily.

The despicable tactics of grabbing common people as meat shields can be found everywhere in history, especially in the Mongolian and Qing Dynasties.

It is also clever use of the puppet army and the people, a small number of people will beat down a country with dozens of times its own population.

Now the population of this barbarian is only ten to one with that of Dayu.

"What to do? If Cangzhou city is captured, our king will be the next king of Kang. " Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.

Li San and Wang Xuan look at each other. They seem to understand Xiao Ming's idea.

They also told Xiao Ming about the barbarians. It was just the barbarians' way of fighting.At present, the barbarians use a compound bow made of animal tendons. This kind of bow has a long range, and the barbarian cavalry also has a technique of turning back to shoot arrows while escaping.

It was this way that the people of the western regions were defeated by the barbarians.

However, the people of the state of Dayu have already understood the characteristics of the barbarians. Because of this, the army of the state of Dayu will not go out of the city to fight against the barbarians on the grassland.

Because it's pure death.

Apart from the fact that the range of bows and arrows can reach more than 180 meters, the most lethal part of the barbarian army is its strict discipline, which is far more dangerous than bows and arrows.

A brave army is really terrible.

Now Xiao Ming has been able to imagine that under the gun fire, the barbarian infantry are still climbing from the corpse pile.

"In addition to catching the common people, the businessmen on the grassland say that the barbarian troops have been trained very frequently recently, and they are very alert to the barbarians of Dayu who travel to and from the grassland. Many businessmen have been caught by the barbarians." Li San finally said.

Xiao Ming nodded. It was obvious that the barbarians' movements were abnormal. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before they attacked the state of Dayu.

"Continue to keep an eye on the developments of the barbarians, especially the barbarian army, and report to me in time," he said

Li San and Wang Xuan nodded and turned to leave.

At this time, Xiao Ming got up and went to the equipment department. Fortunately, he let the equipment department make full use of the artillery, otherwise he could not resist the 500 meter return gun catapult.

Three hundred pounds of stone on the wall is no less powerful than artillery bombardment.

After all, cannons fire solid bullets. He can't produce such a thing now.

Thinking of this, he quickened his pace, and a deep sense of crisis enveloped him.

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