Chapter 2120 Clearance

The panic in the Southern Empire did not belong to their family. At this moment, the other three empires also felt the panic. What's going on? How could the people from Cao's House of Commerce become so powerful all of a sudden? In the past, they didn't have such abilities. From their point of view, the people in Cao's House were at best talkative and money-savvy. Local wars were fine, but they couldn't afford to lose in a full-scale war. But today All of this made them put this idea in their own minds. This is a fact. They didn't talk nonsense to you at all. Go out and look at the warships of Cao's firm and the army of Cao's firm. From what point of view, the Cao Family Commercial Bank now has the same power as the Four Great Empires. To be more accurate, the Cao Family Commercial Bank is now slightly stronger than the Western Empire, comparable to the Northern Empire and the Southern Empire. The empire is on par, but not as good as the Eastern Empire, but this is just Renmen's guess. The Eastern Empire is not the opponent of Cao's House in local wars. This is also certain.

In the past, if the people of the Southern Empire could suffer such a big loss, their three major empires would definitely be very happy, but now they are not happy at all. That is to say, it is just at the same level as the four major sects, and Keneng is almost the same as them, but all of this now makes them dumbfounded. The power of the Cao Family Firm can attack hundreds of counties at the same time. They also had it before. This ability, but it is hit and go. Now they are completely occupied, and what they fight is soldiers, horses, money and food. It seems that Cao's business is not lacking. Over the years, Cao's business has continued to carry out processing business among ordinary people. Now their crossbow arrows The storage capacity is absolutely astronomical. A county can supply them with a large amount of crossbow bolts every day. The shortage of crossbow bolts in the past will never happen now. Every company commander will wear a space ring on his body Yes, there are crossbows and arrows from Cao's firm inside, so no matter how large-scale the battle is. None of them.

Early the next day. Most of the troops of the Southern Empire have stopped resisting. Even if some cities have received a lot of support, they are not resisting now. The attack of Cao's House is too powerful. There is no effect at all when people go up. Look at the big hole in the city wall. Last night, the city wall of this county collapsed directly, and such a thing surprised them all. They have never encountered such a thing before. They didn't see it so clearly at night, but now when they see it, they are very glad that they chose to surrender. Look at the incomplete ones next to them. Corpse, if you continue to resist, that will be the result. The people of Cao's House will definitely not be afraid of missing a few shells. In their opinion, some things have to be as they are in front of you to scare you. Only then can you surrender. If it weren't for this reason, you would definitely not be as powerful as we are.

The city lord and the general who defended the city led an army of about 30,000 people to the outside of the city to surrender. Behind them were millions of ordinary people. Come down, and warn the people in the city, you can do what you did in the past, but those messy things have to be put away, for example, those who dare to steal things at this time will be abolished immediately of,

Troubled times require severe punishments, otherwise, you don’t know how the people of Cao’s House of Commerce treat you. This makes some members of the community feel very dissatisfied, but there is no way not to give it to others. People give money, but people don't accept it, this is not counted, not to mention the confiscation of money, it turned out that the person who gave the money was targeted. This made them feel very uncomfortable.

In fact, Cao's Commercial Bank has its own reasons for doing this. One is that at the beginning, it was not allowed to mess around. Just like now, it is absolutely forbidden to let these ghosts and snakes come out to make trouble. The society is not very stable in the first place. You all If they run out again, the life of these ordinary people will be even more difficult. The other is that the people from the underground force Cao's Commercial Bank will start to rectify. It is impossible for a city to have a dark side, because light and darkness are both In the city, but you must take this underground world into your own hands, otherwise these things will not be so easy, sometimes these things are looked down upon by the court, but the people of Cao's House But it's very clear, and it must be rectified.

The war lasted for about 36 hours, and the battle at Cao's House was coming to an end. If Li Cong was here at this time, he would definitely continue to attack. Such a wave of attacks must not stop, but now the frontline command It wasn't Li Cong's. Wu Zuoxi had already issued an order to stop the attack. Li Cong's actions were relatively risky. If his luck hadn't been so bad, he would have suffered a lot now. Be more cautious. Now he has captured 604 counties and more than 3,000 counties under it. Now Cao's Commercial Bank needs to stop and take a rest. It is a very important stage, but because the people of Cao's House stopped, the army of the Southern Empire retreated to a place 700 miles away from the coastline and settled down. What they need at this time is to form a huge defense line, here They are going to fight again with the people from the Cao's House of Commerce. Of course, this is what they said. What they think in their hearts is that the people from the Cao's House of Commerce should not attack. You have already taken us down. There are a lot of sites, is it possible to talk to us now, we will give up some interests, and then stop the war with you. As for the four guys in the palace, they left a note to the people of the Southern Empire and left with oil on their feet.

This incident made Killing God so angry. Damn, I brought them here, that is, I have been enshrined in the Southern Empire for less than half a year, and all of them ran away. I would cry about such a thing , I lost a lot of things, not to mention anything else. He said that he had spent a lot of money when the old man was treating his illness. When the four of them came here, none of them were healthy. Damn, now that they are all raised up, they will leave. At the beginning, the four of you said that you would be us for a hundred years. Because of this matter, he was scolded hard by the Supreme Emperor. Now it is unnecessary. Just throw yourself away, you have no feelings at all, it was definitely not like this when we treated you back then.

Those four guys also have their own ideas. Their Cao's firm made such a big move, part of which must be because they have four brothers. They also know how much the Southern Empire has. This time the matter must not be too much. If you don't leave in a hurry, Keneng will have no chance to run away if they catch him. This is a very depressing thing for them, so they must leave here quickly, so as to save a few of them. Their bargaining chip, the four of them look very powerful, but they are also powerless in the face of Cao's house and the Southern Empire. If they are really cheated by them, I can only be depressed for a while Well, they have no other way except this. Who told people in the Southern Empire to not believe in themselves at all? In one place, Cao’s firm is already their place. This time they persecute the Southern Empire. They did it on their own, they were very clear about the fiasco of the Southern Empire in Fenxiang Valley, who the saber was, he was much more powerful than them, but such a person didn't take any advantage in Fenxiang Valley, so he directly After being solved, what can they do?

Killing God asked people to search the places where the four of them lived, but the last news reported to him was that there was nothing left, nothing at all, such news directly let Killing The god left violently, although he gave the order to let the people below find those four people, but he is also clear that if the tenth-level fighters want to run all the time, let alone the ordinary people below, even If he followed, he might not be able to keep those people. I am powerful, but there are four of them. Besides, what they want is to run away and not confront you head-on. What can you do? People left? This is also the reason why people are not afraid. No wonder some people say that if tenth-level fighters want to catch it, it is simply impossible. What you want to do to tenth-level fighters, it is best not to let them, otherwise you will do nothing. If it can't be done, this is a tenth-level fighter.

If there were these four people, the people from the Southern Empire would still be able to quickly cooperate with the people from the Cao's House, and even quickly end the war, but now there is no intention of cooperating at all, because these four people are no longer It exists, and the Southern Empire feels that it must give the people of Cao's House a little more power this time, so that their empire is not something they can easily bully, and the other three empires also secretly expressed their support. Of course, they did not dare on the surface They did that, but the three major empires all supported tens of billions of silver, just to let them fight more thoroughly, and they also wanted to see the specific forces of the Cao family firm, although the Southern Empire was using their own That's all, but how many of you are still useful now, if you wait until you have no use value, it's really helpless, these bastards are all smart, you are useful, they will take a fancy to you, no function then

The government of the Southern Empire first issued a very strong statement, and people said that this matter is actually not that simple. The provocation of all the people of the Southern Empire, so the people in the Southern Empire and the Cao Family Commercial Bank are in a state of war, and all the properties of the Cao Family Commercial Bank in the Southern Empire have been seized. If the people of Cao's House of Merchant Realize their own mistakes and can retreat, everything is still negotiable. If the people from Cao's House still occupy the territory of the Southern Empire, then the Southern Empire does not rule out using military force to take back what belongs to them, because The Southern Empire has assembled an army of more than 1 billion. Prepared for a full-scale attack, the number of this army has almost accounted for one-third of the standing army of the Southern Empire, which is not a small number.

Generally speaking, such strong wording should be said by the people of Cao's House. Whoever changed to the Southern Empire this time, they think very simply. Keneng Cao's House is also afraid, and they Keneng will immediately put The money will be waived, and the land of the Southern Empire will be rationed to them in the end. At that time, the Cao Family Firm will retreat, because they have no ability to continue fighting with the Southern Empire. As long as he can win some victories on the battlefield. Then the three major empires will help themselves, and at that time they will also risk their own financial crisis and plan to uproot the entire Cao family firm. At that time, there is no need to be afraid of them. The three major empires have already followed suit The people of the Southern Empire negotiated. It's just that the contract hasn't been signed yet.

The challenges Cao's House is facing this time are also formidable. This is the first full-scale war with an empire. This is also something that Li Cong has always wanted to avoid but wanted to try in his heart. It is really because the current Cao's Commercial Bank is already too huge, and Keneng will not continue to stay there at all. If they continue to stay there, the Cao Family Firm will not be able to break away from the current bottleneck, and must open up new territories. Perhaps the establishment of an empire is what is needed now, but whether it can succeed now is a matter of Still hard to say.

On the map, the Southern Empire opened up a defense line about 3,000 miles long. This defense line was established with more than 190 cities, and an army of about 500 million people was invested in it. It sounds like a lot, but on average There are not many, and besides, the people of Cao's House of Commerce don't seem to plan to continue to attack. The people of Cao's House of Commerce seem to be planning to set up camp there. It is enough for them to achieve the current results. Even the people in the Eastern Emperor's Ministry feel that the people in Cao's House should have reached the limit of their attack. If they continue to attack, there will be keneng on their front. It's too long. Indeed, for the people of Cao's House, it is indeed a very unwise behavior for them to continue to attack before the second batch of troops arrives. Besides, the defense strength of the Southern Empire It has already begun to strengthen. If the attack continues, the casualties will definitely increase rapidly. The Cao's House will definitely not increase their own casualties. They are not fools.

At the same time, the government of the Southern Empire began to call on the residents occupied by Cao's House to stand up against their brutal rule and let them form their own army. As long as they can recover the city they live in, they can immediately become the city lord of the city. Well, this kind of thing has brought a lot of trouble to the people of Cao's House, but after two days of bloody suppression, these people are also honest, they saw the heads hanging on the city gate, Each of them has lost its original appearance. It looks like a blood gourd. At the beginning, there was still blood dripping down, but now there is no blood at all. It has been a few days. It has been air-dried, and it is estimated that they will not be taken until they become a piece of bones. Then there are some Huairong policies. Some poor people in the city can get part of the food and get it to work for the people of Cao's business. The opportunity is the same as it was in the Eastern Empire. Now they have learned how to deal with the people in the occupied areas, which is very good.

The first batch of about 11 million troops of the Cao's House of Merchant has already been fully utilized. Now they are already overloaded, and it is impossible to ask them to do other things. , For them, this is their limit. It can be said that such things will exhaust their strength, but now there are other things to do, that is, clean up, this city and The county town is occupied, but there are still a large number of remnants of the Southern Empire in their occupied area. They all went to the countryside below, and some even ran to the deep mountains and old forests. Those who have their own ideas, the Southern Empire will fight back sooner or later, so we have to persist now, and when they fight back, those who insist on resisting will become the heroes of the entire empire. At that time, it is not the current official position If it fits your own status, it will definitely be higher.

These people occupy most of the countryside. They also have a lot of troops in their hands, so they must all be killed. Otherwise, if these people provoke some ordinary people who don't know the truth to make trouble, it will be very bad for the rule of the Cao family firm, so It is necessary to take part of the limited troops to carry out the campaign. In addition, about 7 million people must be dispatched from the barracks of several other empires to disperse them into some important transportation points. Only in this way can the Cao family be strengthened. As long as there is any situation arising under the rule of the trading company, they can rush over immediately, so as not to make the spark of resistance become bigger. As long as Cao's firm can persist in this. It is impossible for them to grow up.

Hu Changhai is a soldier who wants to go down to suppress. Like the soldiers here, he is the Marine Corps of Cao's House, and he wanted to be a navy in the past. It's a pity that the navy didn't make it. Turned out to be a Marine. A very important reason is because he shoots very accurately. Generally speaking, if ten crossbow bolts can kill two or three enemies, it is considered. But this is the easiest thing for Hu Changhai. At a standard distance, he can kill more than six enemies with ten crossbow bolts. He had a 100% accuracy rate in the battle in the capital of the Eastern Empire. This record has only been broken by another brother of the army until now, but there are more people here, more than the original conditions. Under the same conditions, this guy is still the best in the army of the Cao family business. So the soldiers with him will show off to the surrounding comrades that their squad leader is a person who has won the Silver Star Medal. Although he is still a squad leader, even their squad leader will salute him when he sees him, because he once Serving in the military academy, many regiment leaders have studied with him, and the instructors are their instructors no matter what.

Although Hu Changhai has many officer apprentices, this guy doesn't have so much pride. If he wants to be an officer, he must go to that military academy to study. Although he is an instructor in the military academy, he doesn't recognize it. Literally, the gentlemen in the army have taught a lot of knowledge, but unfortunately, I really don’t have that kind of brain. I basically don’t remember some of the things I learned yesterday. I can be an officer, but this army can also be a soldier. It’s like I am now a sergeant major. , according to the internal rules of the army, my salary is the same as that of the battalion commander, thirty taels of silver a month, which can make my whole family live happily, except for this, as long as I am on the battlefield, then It is a double salary, as long as his apprentice can achieve any achievements, he will also use part of it to honor himself as a master. This is a good day.

"Old Hu, your task today is to take the second class and your class to this location. Our intelligence agent said that the original county magistrate brought about a hundred yamen servants to this place to occupy the mountain and become king." , they also often harass the common people, and even some of our vehicles for transporting food have encountered some troubles from them. It is not very serious, but if we let it go on like this, our life will not be easy, so the higher authorities order you to go Wipe them out." The company commander came over with a mission and said, the standard configuration of two squads is 20 soldiers, for the soldiers of Cao's House, one to ten is basically their battle loss ratio, It turned out that they could do this kind of thing in one class. This is because most of the second class are newcomers who just came from the training camp, so they don't have much experience on the battlefield. The company commander arranged this way to be able to Let the people in the second class learn it.

"Okay, company commander, don't worry, I'm sure I can do this. Those rookies in the second squad should also practice on the battlefield. In fact, I think they have basic knowledge, but they lack a little courage. We just It was always like this when they came out, and seeing blood is a good thing for them, after all, it is much better than before." Hu Changhai glanced at the ten soldiers in the second class and said, The fighters in the team basically change once a month, and they all come to learn from me. I was very happy about this at first, but it started last month. It turns out that people in both classes have followed me to study, as in the current situation, I am the monitor of the first class, but everyone in the second class except the monitor is recruits, and the monitor of the second class was brought by me a few months ago. As a soldier, I am going to become the squad leader of the two squads, but those who are capable work harder, and the rewards given to him are also quite a lot.

"Hehe, Lao Hu, you too. The current recruits are like this. At the beginning, there were many people who had to report to follow you. The method is that some monitors are either very capable. But he can’t teach others. Or his own ability can only take care of himself. It’s not good for newcomers, and you can count everything here. You can take care of yourself here. Recruits. You can also let yourself kill more enemies. The recruits who followed you are all backbones in other places. If I don’t squeeze you from such people, I’m really sorry for myself. This matter is very serious. Yes, don’t worry, if these recruits come out of training this time, I’ll treat you to a drink.” The company commander patted him on the shoulder and said, the others looked at this guy enviously, this company commander will flatter you Come on, why can't such a thing come to their heads? They actually all want such a thing, but they are helpless. Several head apprentices.

"Okay, company commander, don't worry, I, how to bring them over, how to bring them back, I can't live without squeezing them one by one, I will definitely drink your wine at night, brothers Let’s go.” Hu Changhai looked at the surrounding soldiers with a smile and said, twenty soldiers checked their equipment, and then set off, the distance is still thirty miles away, so the vehicles in the army sent them there , They will be put down when it is almost time. Generally speaking, they cannot be allowed to waste their physical strength on the road, it is nothing more than spending more money.

The vehicles Cao’s House uses for the Army and Marine Corps are carriages and airships. If they are long distance, they are airships, and if they are close, they are carriages. These things can be said to be very special. Of course, if you are a cavalry, you don’t need them. Things, the cavalry can use their own horses to go on the road. The attack requires the cavalry, but it is not necessary for the clean-up. The cavalry is a very big target. If they go, they will go far away. You can see theirs, don't say to wipe out other people when they get to the place, they have their own heads.

Twenty people happened to be a carriage, and the top was covered with thick canvas or something. If ordinary people shot arrows, they would not be able to hurt the people inside. Otherwise, all the sheds would be opened. , In this way, you can also look at some surrounding areas. The front is pulled by four horses. They are not the kind of horses, but their endurance is still very strong. Follow the two grooms, they will stop outside, and then find a Hide them somewhere, and wait for these people to be wiped out before they can be pulled back. It can be said that they have done this many times, and sometimes the driver will be killed. Such a thing is unavoidable Since they are on the battlefield, they should have such awareness, and it is already a matter of telling them not to come to the front line, and staying behind is considered a matter. If they hide dishonestly, they will be killed. That's their own reason.

Soon the carriage was almost at the place, Hu Changhai glanced outside, stood up and said to the people in the car, "Brothers, we are already at the place where we are about to carry out the suppression. According to information, there are about a hundred of them. Occupied a village. Originally there were more than 300 people in the village. Now their armed force should have 200 people, but half of them are people from this village. They have not received any training, and there are They may not be willing to be their soldiers. After going out later, follow what I said. Our keneng will end the battle soon. Remember, to deal with these broken people, attacking the heart is always the most important thing Things, don’t be in a hurry to start, just check your equipment, and go down in a while.” Seeing a few recruits who were a little nervous, Hu Changhai didn’t comfort the recruits. It is already a battlefield, and you have fought wars. You are not recruits anymore. I treat you the same as veterans. This has improved the mental quality of the recruits a lot. This is the experience he summed up. , If you don’t treat recruits as recruits on the battlefield. They don't need to be so restrained.

In a short time, the car arrived at the predetermined place. This is the war zone, and they can't go in. Twenty soldiers came down quickly. They all brought food and their own blankets and so on. It's over, their current appearance already has the appearance of some modern armies. The soldiers in the army of the Southern Empire carried their own weapons when they went to the battlefield, and they had nothing else. It is carried by a special person. This also caused serious expenses for the Southern Emperor Army. Not only do you have to prepare food for the soldiers, but also the people who come up to work, so that the cost of going back and forth will be doubled, although the migrant workers who deliver things don’t need to prepare So much so good. But in any case, it should be a copy. This is a more important thing. It must be counted in. When Cao's firm's army first came out, many people also thought it was not good to carry those things, but after a period of time they found that it could not only train soldiers. They can even save their own expenses. They didn't expect such a thing, and they were all surprised that Li Cong thought of such a way.

What appeared in front of Hu Changhai and the others was a piece of farmland, and about 2,000 meters away was their destination. Hu Changhai waved his hand, and the two squads dispersed. They would never advance in dense formation. If the enemy ambushes them in the farmland or somewhere, they will all have keneng to explain that they are here. Only fools would do things like that. Unfortunately, none of them are fools.

The battle formation is similar to that of some armies on the earth. A squad basically has six people in the front and four people in the back. You can turn back, you must ensure your safety in front of you. This is what they learned in the military academy. At the beginning, they felt that this matter could not be done that way, but later they saw that it was correct. , It is precisely because of this that you can rest assured to hand over your back to your comrades in arms, so that they can live better one by one.

At this moment, in a farmland next to the village, several yamen servants are playing cards here. They used to live a good life in the county town, but the people from the Cao's house suddenly came, and they will never forget that day According to the matter, good guy, a shell blasted the gate of the city, thousands of troops ran away without a fart, and their county magistrate also ran away with the army. They want to Run along, it's a pity that they haven't trained themselves in normal times, the army's escape sudu is too fast, it's impossible for them to catch up, so they all stayed, but they can't continue in the county They stayed here, so they can only go to this place now. There are more than a hundred yamen servants in this small mountain village, which can be regarded as enough to spoil the people here. The poultry and so on that they are reluctant to eat, all of a sudden there is nothing Well, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law have suffered a lot. The people in the village can be said to hate them to death, and have wanted to resist for a long time, but they have gathered the young and strong labor force in the village. What are they talking about? The training is not to separate the people in the village, so that even if they want to rebel, they will not have the strength. In addition, they are usually very powerful, and no one dares to do anything to them for a while. Let them do their best here.

In the past, they used to have a lot of entertainment in the county town, but they didn’t expect to have nothing to do after they came here. As for the women, there are only a few of them. It can only be nothing but playing cards or something. The five of them are on duty here, originally there was nothing wrong with it, but no one said one, the one who was going to lose the bet was on duty, and the rest of them were here to play, they also thought it was an idea, although their I have a lot of money in my hands, but in such a place, the money is like garbage, useless at all, even if there are tens of thousands of taels of silver here, it’s the same, I can’t spend it, let’s see what’s for sale here ? There is nothing, so they don't play for money anymore, they can only play this duty.

Each of these people didn't have much combat power and vigilance at all. At the beginning, there was one person who looked at the distance from time to time, but now there is no one, and they are all yelling here. Listen to them The sound depends on where they are. If it is exposed, under Hu Changhai's soldiers, they will never have or have any past keneng. Hu Changhai has already discovered them and has already begun to outflank them. , In fact, he was too cautious. If he didn't look around just now, they would have been dealt with now. The main reason is that Hu Changhai felt that they had two hundred people, so why did he send five people here? In fact, the county Ling is also helpless, he doesn't have much authority when he arrives here, if these government servants are not looking for a backbone one by one, Keneng himself doesn't need it, and there are many objections to asking five people to come out on duty, so There is no one else around. You used to pay the salary. Of course, you are our boss. What do you have now? It's not like we have nothing. Although you always say that the court will come back, who is true or not? What if you don't come back? Aren't we unlucky with you? "There are five people in total, two people watch one, kill them for me as soon as possible, here is about 1,000 meters away from the village, the sound should be difficult to pass, so it doesn't matter if the movement is loud, but you must give them all Those who are killed must not be allowed to run out. If we let them run out, our task will become a strong attack. Now we are all optimistic about our target, and I will do it when my hand falls." Hu Changhai glanced over there Xiao Shulin said that his people have already started to move, and if this can't kill them, it will be his own.

The few people who were still playing cards didn't feel anything wrong at all. These guys were shouting over there one by one. They didn't know that the danger was coming, and they all wanted to go back. What are you going to kill in the future? How can you feel the murderous intent coming from a distance? You have no vigilance at all. (to be continued...)