PS: We have been suppressed on the monthly ticket list for a while, should we change our position? Chapter 681 This is a good thing Fang Jie stood in front of the huge map hanging on the wall, his eyes staying on Huang Yangdao. "The news sent back by the Knight Riding School says that Luo Tu and the rebels have retreated for nearly two thousand miles. Now Chen Bing is facing the imperial troops led by Liu Enjing and Xu Xiaogong in the north of the Yangtze River. Luo Yao died, and the rebels were distraught. But Luo Tu has some skills, and he can barely hold on to the situation. It's not easy." Wu Dao, who came specially from Huangyang Road, said: "But Pang Ba is dead, and Luo Yao is also dead. Now, the rebels are in a passive situation, and the imperial court has recruited civilian warriors on a large scale. Now Xu Xiaogong and Liu Enjing have no less than 500,000 troops. Although the number of soldiers is pitifully small, their morale is strong, and Luo Tu's soldiers are well-trained. , but morale is low. " "It seems that the imperial court has the upper hand. Especially there is an armored general with unknown origin in Chang'an City, and Luo Yao was injured by this person. In all these years, Chang'an City has never heard of such a person. No one seems to be able to tell where he came from, but he has nearly 20,000 armored troops under his command. It is said that he is brave and cruel, and has won many battles. Luo Yao's rebels were defeated one after another at the hands of this armored army. " Fang Jie said, "Send more people to Chang'an to see if we can find out the origin of this armored general Let's leave this matter to ourselves. The Knight Riding School will do it, and the Marquis will ask the people with knowledge of the world to cooperate, Mu San" When the young eunuch Mu San heard Fang Jie calling him, he came over quickly: "What is the general's order?" "Please clean up later. Go back to Chang'an with the people from the Riding School. You've been in the palace for a long time. Find some people you know and see if you can find out anything." Mu San was shocked. He really didn't want to go back. What's happening in Chang'an City. He didn't know the situation, and he was really afraid that he would never come out once he went back. "My slaveI'm afraid that I can't afford this job" He glanced at Fang Jie and was startled by Fang Jie's eyes: "But this slave will definitely do his best. The general trusts me, so I dare not let him down." "You don't need to be afraid." Sanjinhou Wu Yiyi smiled and said, "I asked Jiusecai to go back with you. With him, Jiusecai can keep you safe at the worst." With his reputation, all the scoundrels in the city will respectfully call him "Grandpa Jiu", and with the seniority there, are you still afraid that you won't be able to come back? " Mu San said quickly: "I'm just afraid that I can't do well." Wu Yiyi smiled and said, "Do you know how I made my business bigger?" Mu San shook his head: "I'm stupid, how could I know." "Because I dare" Wu He said calmly. "Dare" Mu San repeated it, and then he understood what Wu Daodao meant: "I understand, please remember!" "Go ahead" Fang Jie waved his hand: "Pack up your things and go to the accounting room to get thirty thousand taels. If you want to find out information about silver notes, you can¡¯t avoid the words buying and robbing. If you can buy it, don¡¯t be ruthless. ¡°Mu San bows down.¡± Withdrew. "Master Hou, what did Tian Xin do in Xinyang City?" Fang Jie turned around and asked Wu Yiyi. "No action" Wu Yiyi replied: "After Luo Yao's defeat, Tian Xin was even more afraid to leave the city. Now Xinkoucang and Xinyang City are still two isolated islands. If we want to capture Xinkoucang, it will not be very difficult. Is the general going to attack Xinyang City? " "Huang Yangdao has just left a nail, and he is still disgusting." Fang Jie thought for a while: "But now that Luo Tu has no way out, all the forces in the south of the Yangtze River are unwilling to have anything to do with him. After all, the imperial court has the upper hand now. If Luo Tu returns to Jiangnan, he will conflict with the local forces. If he does not withdraw to Jiangnan, the food and grass supplies will be exhausted soon, so he can only return to Huangyang Road If this happens, we will Taking Xinyang City and Xinkou Cang will cut off Luo Tu's retreat. At the end of the road, there is no guarantee that he will not attack Huangyang Road with all his strength. " "Yes" Wu Yiyi nodded: "If we take Xinkou now. Even if Luo Tu has completely cut off the food route, he can either send his army south to grab territory from Jiangnan local families, or withdraw to Huangyang Road. " "Yes" Fang. Jie Wei sighed slightly: "After all, we haven't established a foothold in the southwest yet, and Luo Tu should also want to return to Yongzhou. Compared with Jiangnan and Yongzhou, he will like it here more." "It's better to wait for now" Wu Daodao thought for a while and said: "Luo Tu is already half crazy now. If you push him too hard, he will bite you regardless." "No" Fang Jie shook his head: " The Marquis has never seen this person before Luo Tu is not an impulsive person. Although he seems to be a foolhardy person on the surface, if he is not deeply scheming, how can he be trusted by Luo Yao? This person is very calm and by no means a fool. Reckless man Therefore, Xinkoucang must be attacked, and Xinyang City must be removed." Wu Yiyi frowned, and there was no way to solve the problem. "Forcing Luo Tu to go to the south of the Yangtze River?" "It's not forcing, it's guiding." Fang explained: "Luo Tu made everyone think he was a madman, so everyone was unwilling to provoke him because he understood how terrifying the madman was. Because the lunatic doesn't care. Because of this, if he meets another lunatic, will he really fight for it? Only the real lunatic doesn't know how scary the lunatic is." Fang Jie waved: "Come here, pass me. The military order was sent back to Huangyang Road, and Cui Lueshang was appointed as the military commander and Dugu Wenxiu was the military advisor. They led the army to attack Xinyang City and Xinkoucang. If they cannot capture these two places within a month, let them come to see you! " "Here! "The soldiers outside responded, turned around and went out to make arrangements. "By the way" Fang Jie smiled: "I have been busy discussing military affairs, and I forgot to ask, why did the Marquis come in such a hurry?" Wu Yiyi smiled: "I can't worry After the general led his troops south, although military reports were sent back to Zhuque Mountain from time to time, I still couldn't let go. I was not worried about those people in the local area. The general had no problem dealing with these guys with high ambitions and low power, and he was not worried about Nan Yan. The Hehe people are just a mob. But when I got the news that Luo Yao was defeated, I immediately set off and rushed here I didn't want Yinyu to become a widow before she got married." Fang Jie smiled: "This is too much. It's a bit unlucky." Wu Yidao laughed: "But I came a little late and didn't see the earth-shattering battle. I asked Da Quan and the others out of curiosity, and their words made me feel upset. Calm down. This matter is too dangerous. Even if you are well prepared, it is better to avoid such things as much as possible. " "There is no such thing. Just once is enough." Fang Jie smiled and changed the subject. : "How is it going at the workshop? Has Andrew's artillery trial production been successful?" "Not yet." Wu Daodao smiled and said: "That guy is also a madman. Although the hand-drawn drawings you gave him before leaving were simple, he He said it gave him a lot of inspiration, and it suddenly became clear after thinking about it. We had shipped several batches of iron ore from Jin Shixiong in exchange for grain, and the foundry was almost completed before I left. Andrew had already cast a cannon, but the barrel exploded during the test firing, injuring several people. "There is still a problem with the gunpowder ratio, and there is also a problem with the casting process." Wu Yiyi shook his head: "But, this thing. It should be extremely powerful. If it is successfully built, even Chang'an City, which is said to be absolutely invincible, will not be able to stop hundreds of artillery bombardments. " Hearing this, Fang Jie's heart suddenly moved. In order to deal with Luo Yao, Fang Jie opened a door. There were two words hidden in this door, called technology. The impact of technology on this era must be bloody. Because no matter what era it is, the first thing that science and technology changes in the world is the battlefield. Thinking of Chang'an City's towering city walls and the square buildings and streets in Chang'an City, Fang Jie suddenly felt a little aching in his heart. In the dead of night, Fang Jie can't help but think about why God sent him to this world. It is definitely not pity. People are dying all the time in the world. It is not necessary and impossible for God to let him live again just because he pities him. Moreover, he was sent to such a world to live again. If God really had mercy, there wouldn't be so many miserable things in this world. So, what is God¡¯s purpose? The only thing Fang Jie could think of was change. Change the world. More than a thousand years ago, the man named Sang Luan also opened a door for this world. Because of the opening of this door, personal abilities were raised to a terrifying height. One person can influence a city, a war, or even the entire world. But because of this, the world has begun to rely too much on manpower Over the past thousand years, society has basically made no progress. Technology is stagnant. Fang Jie deliberately and peacefullyAndrew had a conversation and asked Andrew what the world looked like beyond the sea. Andrew said that according to the history he knew, his country was a barren primitive nation more than a thousand years ago, relying on hunting with stone tools for a living, and was much, much further behind the civilization of the Central Plains. Moreover, there are no practitioners in his hometown. Only the mages of the church can show super abilities. However, the number of mages is simply negligible compared with the practitioners in the Central Plains. Perhaps because of this, there are no practitioners and no strong manpower to support the country's strength. Therefore, the world of foreigners on the other side of the ocean developed extremely fast, unusually fast. More than a thousand years later, firearms have become common in the military. In the Central Plains and grasslands, there has been almost no change in the past thousand years. More than a thousand years is a long time, but compared with the long history, it is nothing. The grasslands of the Central Plains are stagnant, while the foreigners are developing rapidly. Thinking of this inadvertently, Fang Jie suddenly felt that he had caught something. But this feeling was fleeting, and when he thought about it carefully, he found that he had caught nothing. "General, what's wrong?" Wu Daodao's words pulled Fang Jie out of his thoughts. Looking at the concern on his face, Fang Jie smiled apologetically: "It's okay, I'm just a little distracted." Wu Daodao said oh and sat down again. After he recovered, he smiled and said, "I thought the general thought of something." "What did he think of?" Fang Jie asked. Wu Daodao smiled and said: "Speaking of firearms, I thought the general thought about letting the newly built firearms battalion show its face when attacking Xinyang City." Fang Jie shook his head: "No, before the artillery was built, the firearms battalion We can¡¯t let others know. We¡¯re just fighting Xinyang City, and we don¡¯t need to reveal all our cards. Cui Lueshang uses troops in a regular and disciplined manner, but Dugu Wenxiu has a good view of the overall situation. If the two of them work together, they won¡¯t be able to win Xinyang City. What's the problem?" "Yeah" Wu Yiyi nodded, took a sip from the tea cup, and seemed to have no more words to say. ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ Yongzhou City Sun Ji Snacks After Da Quan walked in, he found a seat in a corner and sat down, ordering two drawers of small steamed buns and a bowl of warm haggis soup. He sat down and had just taken a few bites when a middle-aged man came in from the door and sat down at the table next to him. He also ordered two drawers of steamed buns and a bowl of haggis soup. The two people were sitting back to back, very close to each other. "The general said that he would help me restore my country, destroy Nanyan, and make me emperor." Big Dog said in a low voice. The man lowered his head to eat and stopped, and the expression on his face froze suddenly. After a while, he murmured: "Help you restore the country Let you be the emperor Big brother This is a good thing. "