Chapter 734: War Preparation

Shang Ji did not take action to interrupt Sun Zhong's breakthrough. It is extremely rare for this kind of title to be promoted independently. There are hundreds of generals in the Pingzhou Army who have titles of all levels, but so far none of them can win the title without the help of external forces. Upgrade the title.

Shang Ji couldn't bear to take the initiative to destroy this rare opportunity.

What's more, there is Guan Hai next to him, whose eyes are tearing apart, watching Guan Hai's attitude of fighting desperately against anyone who dares to take a step forward.

At this point in time, Shang Ji wouldn't take the initiative to provoke Zhang Jiao even if his brain was kicked by a donkey!

Shang Ji would not make a move, and Niu Fu, who was theoretically in the same camp as Sun Zhong, would not make a move either. Two quarters of an hour later, Sun Zhong successfully completed the promotion. In the end, Sun Zhong was stronger than Yang Cheng, Gao Xiang and the others, slightly weaker than Guan Hai, a genuine S-level general, and roughly on par with Pan Feng.

After the breakthrough, Sun Zhong and Guan Hai led their people to evacuate Pingzhou overnight, obviously distrusting Shang Ji very much.

After that, within a few days, Sun Zhong became famous!

Three years of loyalty and unyielding is itself a very eye-catching attraction. If he hadn't been born in the Yellow Turban Army, a little Su Wu's reputation would probably not have escaped. However, after escaping from prison, his strength soared, and he was promoted from a cannon fodder-level historical general to a senior historical general. It felt like God blessed and rewarded his loyalty.

Guan Erye, who was hailed as a model of loyalty by later generations, is still in silence. Sun Zhong, who was born in the yellow scarf, showed his loyalty and unyielding and became a model of loyalty.

In fact, the first line of the Yellow Turban Army has already started such propaganda. Zhang Bao personally led Bo Cai, Zhang Mancheng and other Yellow Turban generals out of the city for a hundred miles to meet Sun Zhong.

If Zhang Jiaoyuan hadn't been in the Western Regions, the welcoming lineup would have been even more luxurious!

Sun Zhong's fame and the welcome of the Yellow Turban Army with great fanfare also brought the Yellow Turban Army, which had been silent for a long time, to reappear in people's vision.

Focusing on the Yellow Turbans, people suddenly discovered that the Yellow Turbans are developing so vigorously at this time!

Zhang Jiao was conferred the title of Grand Master of Protecting the Country, Zhang Bao was also conferred the title of Master of Protecting the Country, and the generals of the Yellow Turbans also received awards according to their fame and status. After that, the Yellow Turban Army began a vigorous disarmament. Hundreds of millions of Yellow Turban Army were disbanded on the spot, and countless Yellow Turban soldiers were disarmed and returned to the fields.

The large-scale reduction of the army does not mean the weakening of the Yellow Turban Army. On the contrary, the large-scale reduction of troops and the integration of the Yellow Turban Army with Dong Zhuo exudes unparalleled potential.

After the reduction, the total strength of the Yellow Turban Army is only more than 8 million, but these 8 million troops are the best of the hundreds of millions of Yellow Turban Army! The last is the fourth-rank soldiers. Special units such as Yellow Turban Warriors, Huang-level Spirit Warriors, and Yellow Turban Immortal Warriors accounted for 80% of the total force!

Let Pingzhou and the Yellow Turban Army come out alone for a life-and-death duel at this time, it's really hard to say who will win!

The Yellow Turban Army did not continue to stay in Luoyang after streamlining its troops and administration. Under Zhang Jiao's personal leadership, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army began its westward movement. With Dong Zhuo's acquiescence, the Western Regions became the sphere of influence of the Yellow Turban Army. In just three years, the Yellow Turban Army destroyed countless countries in the Western Regions. This country is similar to Goguryeo and Xianbei, but with a smaller population and a smaller territory.

It belongs to the npc force in the narrow sense).

It's just that the Western Regions are too far away, and people's eyes are limited to the Han area, ignoring the Western Regions. After reacting at this time, I realized that the former rebels have been reborn and become a separatist force with a strong foundation!

The relationship between Dong Zhuo and the Yellow Turban Army is also quite special. It stands to reason that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, but at this time Dong Zhuo's camp is full of three tigers!

Of course Dong Zhuo was the biggest tiger, nicknamed Xiangguo, he was in charge of the court, and his power was the most powerful in the world; the second was Zhang Jiao, the great mage protecting the country, with eight million elite yellow scarves under his command, hundreds of historical generals, and he dominated the Western Regions; The weak tiger is the Qiang Alliance headed by Beigong Boyu.

In history, Beigong Boyu's rebellion once hit the Sanfu area, causing Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian, and Zhang Wen to suffer successive defeats.

Under the three forces, there are also Ma Teng and other princes who are attached to Dong Zhuo. The relationship between them is intricate, let alone outsiders, and even they may not be able to understand it internally.

It is surprising that such a complex and huge coalition of forces has barely maintained unity without large-scale internal conflicts.

Today's Dong Zhuo's power can be called the Dong Zhuo faction, except that without Lu Bu joining, it is stronger than the peak Dong Zhuo in history!

Sun Zhong's unexpected promotion also gave Shang Ji some other ideas. Maybe he can learn from Sun Zhong's experience and artificially create opportunities for title promotion.

Of course, this is just a very hazy and unreliable conjecture now, and Shang Ji doesn't have the time and energy to experiment with the upcoming national war.

As time went by, the whole Pingzhou was busy and entered a somewhat different atmosphere of preparations for the war.

All Pingzhou people know that their state shepherd is going to go out again, and he is still going on an expedition under the guidance of the god system), but this war will not have a direct impact on Pingzhou whether it succeeds or fails. This made the preparations less tense, but to a certain extent increased people's enthusiasm for participation.

In fact, not only Pingzhou, but even the entire Huaxia District is in this strange atmosphere. The princes are very interested in the national war that only happens among players, but they are limited by the rules of the system, and their curiosity is only limited to the level of listening to news.

It costs a lot of money to buy goods here, and the same items sold are also very profitable.

First of all, the horses. Three million war horses and six million raw horses were snapped up by the army of players within half a month. As a last resort, Shangji used a million Pingzhou reserve war horses, but they were all sold out in just one week.

After much deliberation, Shang Ji contacted Lu Bu and bought 500,000 war horses from Lu Bu's army, and then transferred 1 million horses from the Pingzhou army, a total of 1.5 million war horses were put on the player market. Pingzhou sold millions of war horses back and forth, and with the addition of scattered sales from other forces, it finally barely guaranteed the needs of the players participating in the war.

Correspondingly, one million cavalry troops in the Pingzhou Army can only serve as horseless cavalry for the time being, waiting for a batch of horses on the grassland to mature and replenish.

This is also the result of repeated arguments. Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Chen Guan and others agreed that the situation in Huaxia District is stable, and there should be no large-scale war in the short term.

As for the direction of Longmaw City, where the defensive pressure is the greatest, because Pu Yin also needs to participate in the national war, the pressure is greatly reduced. The temporary deployment of one million war horses will not pose a serious threat to Pingzhou's strategic security.

Apart from war horses, the most sold items in Pingzhou were siege equipment.

Large-scale siege equipment such as the heavy crossbow that broke the city, the torch stone cart, and the burst torch stone cart were pulled out one after another. The relatively simple siege equipment such as cloud ladders, rushing carts, rolling carts, flying ladders, and Lugong carts are even more frantically manufactured, and thousands of them have been manufactured successively.

These siege equipment are much simpler and cheaper than Jushi chariots, but they are also more dangerous to use. It needs to be used against the attack of the defending army and close to the city wall. Because of the developed ability to manufacture siege equipment, the Pingzhou army basically does not use this siege method. But for player forces, and even some small princes, this is the mainstream tool for siege.

Originally, with Pingzhou's manufacturing capacity, it was impossible to produce so many siege equipment in a short period of time. However, because Pingzhou is backed by public losers, its ability to manufacture siege equipment is top in the world. In order to take advantage of Pingzhou's advantage, Yanhuang Blade fully armed the players participating in the battle. In coordination with many player forces, a large number of craftsmen and countless materials were temporarily removed, which doubled the speed of equipment manufacturing in Pingzhou.

But from this point of view, it can be said that in order to win the national war, the Huaxia District will go all out with one heart and one mind!

There are also pills similar to it. High-level elixirs need to be refined by senior alchemists, and some top-level elixirs cannot guarantee 100% success even if Liu Shi does it himself. However, low-level Huiqi Pills, Congealing Blood Pills, etc. can be refined in large batches through multiple alchemy workshops. The only thing that restricts the output is the number of low-level alchemists and the raw materials of the elixirs.

Commissioner Huang is personally responsible for this aspect and coordinates with the player forces. A large number of people and materials are rushing day and night on the road in Pingzhou. In just over a month, the Pingzhou alchemy workshop has refined millions of basic elixirs, and this number is still going crazy at a jaw-dropping speed. rise.

In terms of equipment manufacturing, Pingzhou can't stand alone, but relying on the king-level workshop that has advanced to the supervisory institute, Pingzhou's equipment manufacturing capabilities are also top-notch in the entire Huaxia region. A large amount of materials and talents were transported to Pingzhou, and then quickly turned into pieces of sophisticated equipment and returned to the players.

Here we need to thank the Chidao network that has covered the main cities of Pingzhou, otherwise such a crazy large-scale material transfer would have been impossible.

This crazy situation made Deng Yan, Xun Yu and others dumbfounded. They couldn't understand why the strangers who were usually rebellious and intriguing, arguing endlessly over trivial matters, suddenly united unprecedentedly. Although they didn't understand it, Xun Yu and the others still gave 200% support in view of the various statistics of Pingzhou's crazy growth!

Although Shang Ji didn't have the idea of ​​taking advantage of the opportunity to enrich the country, the delivery of massive talents and resources was a rare development opportunity for Pingzhou. In just over a month, the development data of Pingzhou exploded.

Deng Yan even bluntly said that this speed of development can be maintained for half a year, and that Pingzhou's next three-year plan can be completed ahead of schedule.

Of course, it is completely impossible for this kind of madness to last for half a year, or even for a month. It has been less than a month since the start of the national war, and this crazy approach cannot continue until the start of the national war.

However, taking advantage of this wave of east wind, Shang Ji also completed the battle preparations ahead of schedule. A large number of arrows, armors, spears, and shields have been stored, and medicine pills, large-scale war equipment, etc. are ready to go. Although the scale of troops dispatched was only about a quarter of that of the Xianbei War, the logistical supplies dispatched were more than ten times that of the Xianbei War!

In addition to these, there are two secret weapons in Pingzhou-the Jackie Chan Cannon and the War Puppet!

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