Wu Qi looked at the sky, and then said, "The hour is almost up, let them in!" ”

"Teacher, do you really want to do this?" Hou Weilong still doesn't want these people to come in, he thinks that defending the city, so there is a reason to let the enemy army enter the city? When the enemy army enters the city, isn't it just to give the city to the other party?

But the commander of this war is Wu Qi, and he is a general, even if he does not understand, he can only abide by it.

When Zhaoyang's coalition army attacked the city, they found that there was a crack in the gate, and Hou Weilong gave an order, and this Zhaoyang's army easily entered Shucheng.

"Your Majesty, good news, good news, the gates of this Shu city are open!" A soldier ran up to Zhaoyang and reported the good news.

When Zhaoyang heard this, he was overjoyed: "Let all the soldiers rush in and capture Wu Qi alive for me!" ”

And Guo Xin was also stunned, he didn't expect that the gate of Shucheng would be breached so easily, but the facts were in front of him, so he couldn't believe it.

The gates of Shucheng opened, and the army rushed up and rushed into Shucheng.

Wu Qi saw that there were more and more soldiers of the Zhaoyang Alliance Army in the city, so he looked at the deputy general beside him and said, "Close the second door!" ”

The general nodded, and the group of soldiers who rushed into the city found that an iron wall suddenly blocked their way, and then they also found that he could not go up to the castle tower at all, because it seemed that he did not have the stairs to ascend the tower. w..

Wu Qi looked at Hou Weilong and said: "There are three lines of defense in Shucheng, this is the first one is the outermost, this is the second line of defense, this group of rabble is in the outer city of Shucheng, they want to advance, they can't enter, but want to go up to the city tower, they can't go up from here, they have to enter from the inner city!" ”

"The Inner City?" Hou Weilong was stunned and looked at Wu Qi.

Wu Qi pointed to the iron wall: "Behind that wall is the inner city, where the people of Shucheng and the families of the soldiers live!" ”

The vanguard of the Zhaoyang Legion already felt that something was wrong, and they looked behind them, only to see an iron wall descending from the rear, blocking their back road.

"Look at this outer city!" Wu Qi pointed to the Zhaoyang Legion Road in the outer city.

"That's about 200,000 people!" Hou Weilong looked at Wu Qidao, the outer city of Shucheng is actually very spacious, which can accommodate 500,000 people.

Of course, the reason why this Shucheng has such a big square is because this square also has a purpose, that is, Dianbing Square.

When the state of Chu is about to prepare for the eastward crusade, the central government of the state of Chu will carry out the point of troops here, and after the point is over, it will set off from Shucheng to carry out the eastward crusade.

Originally, Wu Qi wanted to wait for them to reach the most saturated number and pull down the iron wall, but because some people were already about to rush to the inner city, Wu Qi had to attack.

"Although this Shucheng doesn't store much grain and grass, do you know what is stored?" Wu Qi looked at Hou Weilong and asked. w..

"Teacher, please speak!" Hou Weilong looked at Wu Qi puzzled and asked.

"Oil, oil that can be burned, these iron walls, plus, stored oil, this is the second line of defense of Shucheng, the Shucheng fortifications that are crossed!" After Wu Qi finished rising, he heard the soldiers of the Zhaoyang Legion shouting: "What is this? ”

The moment this group of soldiers entered Shucheng, the oil had already begun to pour out......

"The value of this oil is very high, and the teacher is ready to beat this group of people with oil? How much does this cost? Hou Weilong was stunned and looked at Wu Qidao.

"Resources are gone, you can buy them, talent is the biggest resource, every soldier is the most expensive resource, lose some oil, nothing, but lose a person, it is a pity!" Wu Qi said to Hou Weilong.

For the princes of the empire, oil was actually a very expensive resource, and the state of Chu did store a lot of oil in Shucheng.

Although the state of Chu was large, it lacked resources, but they had a large reserve of fuel, which allowed them to compete with the princes for hegemony.

They traded oil for salt and money......

For a country as big as Chu, they need salt, but they don't have a salt mine, but recently they got half of the territory of Yueguo, close to the coast, and they can get some salt, before their salt could only be bought.

And this way of buying is to buy it with oil, after all, for the state of Chu, such a large territory, a large population, and a great need for salt.

The storage capacity of Shucheng oil is the storage of thirty years of Chu State, but Wu Qi intends to consume the average amount of oil in public in this battle.

However, for Wu Qi, there is no need for Chu to store oil, although oil is expensive, it is not a necessary material for Chu, and salt is.

Although you can store a large amount of oil and exchange it for salt and money with other princes or overseas, after all, if the other party breaks off the trade with you, the oil you store will be in vain.

Now the first exporter of fuel oil in Chu is Qi State, but Wu Qijue's Qi State is not a reliable country, once Qi State and Chu State go to war, this Qi State will cut off the purchase of Chu's oil, and this oil will be completely blind.

Wu Qi not only saw the internal problems of Chu, but also saw the external problems, and he saw that the economic lifeline of Chu was pinched by Qi State.

Before, there was a big buyer of his oil in Chu State, that is, Song State, but now Song State's oil is saturated.

After all, they don't start wars, they don't fight, and for them, oil is just a fire and a heat, and it is of little use.

So now the oil of Chu is basically sold to Qi, although there are still some overseas maritime merchants who buy oil from Chu, but that is only a fly's profit.

Wu Qi saw one thing clearly, if the state of Chu had been storing oil, then the state of Qi would have been controlling the economic lifeline of the state of Chu, which was very dangerous.

The state of Chu must break through, which must start a war with the state of Wei and seize some salt mines of the state of Wei, which is also the reason why the monarchs of the state of Chu in the past countries entered the Central Plains.

That is, only by entering the Central Plains can you get the important strategic material 'salt'!

Of course, now that they have defeated the Yue Kingdom, they also have a few salt mines, and they can produce salt by themselves.

Therefore, Wu Qi now feels that there is no need to store much oil, and he should store salt.

As long as there is more salt stock, it will be under the control of the economy of Qi State, and there will be less unreliable factor of Qi State.

This is also the reason why Wu Qi should have lost these fifteen years of oil storage, because for the Chu State, there is no need to continue to store oil.

"It's oil...... one soldier shouted, and another soldier also found out, it's oil.

Immediately they were frightened, and the soldiers on the tower of the city had already aimed their bows and arrows at them, and on the arrows of the bows and arrows, they lit a fire.

"It's almost full of oil, isn't it?" Wu Qi looked at the adjutant general next to him and asked.

"Well, as long as you give an order, you will ensure that the Zhaoyang coalition troops who entered the outer city will be wiped out!" The adjutant general said to Wu Qi.

At this time, Zhaoyang also realized that he had been tricked!

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