In fact, the 500 Lord was a 100 general two years ago, and the population of Nanling City was 500,000 when he went south, but two years have passed, and the population of Nanling City has exceeded 800,000 so far.

After all, Nanling was the capital of the nascent Han Kingdom, and it could be said that it was the political center of a country, and it was bound to attract people to come and live, so it is not an exaggeration to add 300,000 residents in two years.

A city of 800,000 people? Gaotong lost his mind for a while, Nanling alone has a population of 800,000, so what should be the total population of the Han Kingdom? In addition, the capital of a country has the total population of Ouluo State, and Ouluo Country is still fighting with Han State!

Population, population represents labor, population represents the source of soldiers, in this social environment where having a population is equal to having a qiē origin, a madman will go to war with a country whose inhabitants of the capital are more populous than his entire country.

And it seems that the Han Kingdom not only has a population advantage, Gao Tong is not blind, he has seen many workshops in the suburbs. Although I don't know much about industry, but the workshop represents a lot of weapons and armor, what will happen to the war with such a country?

The five hundred lords who escorted the Ouluo envoy had already finished communicating with the city gate captain, and just as he was about to go back to take the Ou Luo envoy into the city, a new sergeant came over and said something to the city gate captain.

"We need to wait a minute, there is a temporary army coming into the city from here." So said the Captain of the City Gate.

The five hundred lord was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "When I came, General Zhonglang gave an explanation, saying that he wanted to let that group of envoys see the strength of the Han Kingdom. ”

The captain of the city gate couldn't understand what the five hundred lords were saying, so he shook his head and went about his business.

The city gate of Nanling is not small, and there are three city gate entrances and exits, under normal circumstances, the person is facing the right hand side and entering the left hand side and exiting, and the city gate in the middle will only open under special circumstances. There are many so-called special circumstances, including when troops come in and out.

There should be a lot of troops going into the city this time, otherwise there would not be a temporary ban on entering and leaving. When the five hundred lords returned to the position of the envoys, the captain of the city gate had already sent someone to shout and inform.

There were quite a few people at the city gate, and in addition to the 500 soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Corps led by the 500 lords, all kinds of caravans and individual leaders had to retreat to both sides of the avenue and stand on the non-concrete road for the time being.

The captain of the city gate did not tell the five hundred lords whether the coming army was coming in or out, and after he explained the reason for the stop to the envoys of the Ou Kingdom, Gao Tong immediately said indignantly: "Is this the diplomatic relations of the Han Kingdom? ”

What was diplomatic relations like at this time? According to the established rules, even the envoys of the belligerents should be polite, and at the same time the envoys of this type have priority in entering the city.

The sergeants of the Southern Expedition who were escorted by Luo Shao were not polite to Gao Tong and the others along the way, and now they were also deprived of the priority of entering the city. How can you not make this group of people in Ouluo Country unbearable.

"In our country, the army is the one who has priority in addition to the king, and you ...... the "five hundred lords" hehehe" laughed a long voice: "The envoys of Qin, Qi, Yan, Zhao, Wei, Han and other countries are treated with you. ”

Arrogant, extremely arrogant, Gao Tong saw this, and couldn't help it, so he brushed his sleeves and scolded in a low voice: "The country of birds and beasts!" ”

What is the land of beasts? It is completely out of the established system of etiquette and contrary to universal values.

Of course, the five hundred lords heard Gaotong scolding, and he was not angry. In fact, the strong never pay attention to the anger of the weak, because there is no need for it at all.

First, there was a slightly desolate trumpet. Then a burst of cheers broke out at the scene, and when Gao Tong heard the cheers, he looked at the surrounding Han people in surprise, those Han people looked at the location in the southeast direction, and each Han people had a happy and envious expression. They also constantly waved their arms.

To the southeast, that area was a crossing of the Yangtze River, and at this time a group of soldiers came down from the boat, and after they got off the boat, they lined up near the ferry. After about a quarter of an hour, when the ferry was soon overwhelmed, the procession that had been lined up in advance finally marched in the direction of the city gate.

Gao Tong was counting how many ships there were, and the number he counted was three hundred. The ships were large and small, and it seemed that there were different types of ships, both warships and cargo ships: "a chaotic navy ......"

It is indeed a chaotic naval army, the largest warship in the fleet should be about six hundred materials, and the smallest is even some boats; The cargo ships looked quite large, and none of them were under 1,000 materials.

Gao Tong looked at the fleet and found a phenomenon, the ferry port at that location seemed to be for the army, at least he didn't see any civilian deposits, turned around and finally found another ferry, but it was too far away from here to see clearly. He asked curiously: "Why divide it separately, isn't it a waste?" ”

The five hundred lords didn't pay attention to Gaotong's questions, and to be honest, if he understood this, he wouldn't be just a five hundred lords.

The army is getting closer and closer, and the soldiers who walk in the current are not armoured...... No, all the soldiers were not wearing armor, their upper bodies were red and very tight-fitting, their lower bodies were wearing black corset trousers with leggings, the boots on their feet were indecipherable, and each of them had a dagger hanging from their waists that seemed to be an extended version?

Gao Tong could understand that the unit should be a sailor or something like that, but he didn't understand much about what the situation of this army was.

If he wanted to say what was going on in the heart of the Five Hundred Lords, he just wondered how a king who pursued the "Turtle Stream" could not match the army with armor.

In fact, this unit is not a sailor, they are a unit similar to the Marine Corps that Lu Zhe made up for the landing war in the future, and the non-commissioned officers at this moment are not dressed in complete clothing during combat, if they are complete clothing, they should be specially designed armor and shields, bows, crossbows and other weapons.

When a small phalanx of 100 soldiers walked in front of Gaotong, he found that the foreheads of those Han soldiers were black and white only when they often wore helmets, so he also came to the incomplete information that this army was now dressed.

In addition to observing the physique of the Han soldiers, Gao Tong was also observing whether this scene was prepared by the Han State, so that after they came, they did not follow the specifications of diplomatic relations to stop their advance, and some troops lined up and walked by.

"Don't think too much, there are a lot of troops coming in and out of the city every day, they just happened to come to Nanling at this time, and it happened that for some reason the city gate captain needed to temporarily maintain it." The five hundred lords seemed to see what Gao Tong was thinking, and said casually.

There are still some words that the five hundred lord did not say, he thinks that for the Han Kingdom, the Ouluo Kingdom is a small country with a big fart, and there is no need to specialize in this place if he doesn't play, it only shows that the king really attaches importance to this army or is eager to review this army before the current situation will appear.

The number of troops ashore from the ferry was about 5,000 men, and they all entered the city in a short time, and the captain of the city gate announced that the city gate was restored to normal traffic.

Gao Tong glanced at the five hundred lords very meaningfully, and just as he was about to raise his steps and get into the carriage, there was a burst of footsteps in his ears, and then those Han people were cheering again, and they thought in their hearts with both confusion and contempt: "Every time you see an army, you have to cheer, is there something wrong with the Han people!" ”

In fact, Gaotong will not understand, Lu Zhe will always come to the welfare of the whole people every time he wins a diplomatic war, and he spares no effort to improve the social status of the soldiers, and then because the army continues to win foreign countries, the territory is expanded, and the price of land is low when the Qianshou buys it, and the fruits of their labor can also get more returns in foreign trade because of the strength of the country, there are too many reasons for the Han Qianshou to love the army.

"By the way, when the Southern Expeditionary Corps escorted us to arrive, those Han people were also cheering, and it seems that there were still businessmen who came over to ask what was driven away, so this qiē is the living habits of the Han Kingdom, isn't it deliberately performed?" Gao Tong finally stepped into the carriage, and he looked in the direction of the rumbling footsteps from the height, and his mouth opened wide at the sight.

The number of troops who came forward was not large, about a team of five hundred, but the army was fully armed, not only with plate-like iron armor, but also with a long sword hanging from the waist of each soldier, and the square shield in his left hand swaying with the way they walked.

Gao Tong opened his mouth wide because he saw the murderous aura of the army, and the other was the shabby Han army that had just come from the ferry, but the next moment there was a Han army with all the armor on it, and he deeply saw the luxury of the Han Kingdom.

"They...... Is it your king's guard? Gaotong didn't want to ask, but he asked anyway.

The five hundred lord muttered, "What kind of guard, is it a standing army or a city defense guard", and then urged: "Hurry up and enter the city, I still need to take you to the Hongru Pavilion to record when you enter the city, and then you have to go to the city defense army to record." ”

Gao Tong stopped talking, he glanced at a few Ou Yu countries, those who were signaled were about to leave the team immediately, the result was of course impossible to succeed, and the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Legion escorted were not blind.

"Filing, you know? After you file, can you move freely and wait for the notice, before that, for your good and my good, don't do things out of place. After the five hundred lords finished speaking, they walked away, not giving Gao Tong any chance to explain.

Entering the city from the city gate, Gao Tong was once again frightened by the straight avenue that seemed to have no end in sight, in fact, he had long wanted to ask what the road under his feet was that the dirt under his feet was not like mud bricks and not like bricks...... (To be continued......)