Chapter 1134 Unyielding

The huge meteorite needed a special method to transport it to the eastern frontier, and a cavalry team of 10,000 people was dispatched to escort it. It is still unknown what effect this thing will play on the battlefield in Eastern Xinjiang, but there is no doubt that as long as it is successfully transported, Fang Xie will not waste its strength.

Yan Mad was ordered to lead the team to escort the meteorite, while Fang Xie took the others to chase after the team lightly. Sanjin Hou Wu and the main force of the Black Flag Army had set off a few months ago, calculating the distance, and the vanguard army had almost converged with Nalan Dingdong.

This time, those who traveled east with Fang Xie not only included Ye Zhuhan and Shiwan who came out of the 100,000 mountains. There are also a large number of Jianghu guests gathered by Xiang Qingniu, among which nearly forty percent are from Taoist sects from all over the country, and the rest are all Jianghu sects who participated in the Chang'an City Martial Arts Conference.

Most of them, because of the blood in their bones, the Black Flag Army wants to go east to exterminate the Kou, and these Jianghu guests who still have pride in their bones are willing to go to the battlefield to contribute and kill a few more enemies who plague the Han people. Of course, some of them naturally want to take this opportunity to show themselves in front of Fang Xie and have a good future.

But no matter what the starting point is, they are heroes.

There were about six or seven thousand people in the rivers and lakes who followed Fang Jie, and they were on the big boat left by the sailor to pick up Fang Jie. In order to demonstrate the military strength of the Black Flag Army and the majesty of King Wu, the transformed big dragon boat began its first expedition to the eastern frontier. This big dragon boat was not the one built by Emperor Taizong when he conquered Chen in the south, but was built during the reign of Zhenzong. Compared with Taizong's dragon boat, this one is much bigger.

It took three years for the Vermilion Bird Mountain Water Village Shipyard to transform this big dragon boat into the current water beast. It's not just big now, it's stronger and more aggressive than when it was first built. As the largest ship in the Black Flag Army's naval division, the Great Dragon Boat has been modified to fit enough artillery to be recast and upgraded according to the guns of the Opru Empire.

I have to say that although Andrew is a person with limited knowledge, he is really a person with a flexible mind. He studied the guns of the Opru Empire captured by Fang Jie, and then identified deficiencies in them to improve them. It can be said that this is now the most powerful war machine that Andrew has transformed.

Artillery has an unrivaled advantage in long-range attacks, and in order to ensure that the enemy can be hit within a hundred meters, a number of improved ballistas have been installed on warships, which can shoot heavy crossbows tied with tough ropes, and special heavy crossbows have barbs on them, which are difficult to remove once they are hung on the enemy's warship.

When the two ships approached, the big dragon boat could completely rely on this to invade the enemy ship. Trained sailors can climb the ropes they shoot to attack enemy ships. Even if it can't be attacked, relying on the absolute superiority of the big dragon boat in the word big, it can make the enemy ship completely lose its combat effectiveness after hanging the rope.

In order to ensure that the large dragon boat could adapt to naval warfare, the four-story building on the dragon boat was demolished. As a result, the hull is more stable and more resilient to the wind and waves on the sea.

In order to build such a behemoth, Fang Xie spared no expense and pasted a layer of iron plates on the outside of the hull. While ensuring the sturdiness of the hull, the problem of increasing the weight of the hull was studied for a long time before it was solved.

At least 2,000 craftsmen and shipbuilders, it took three years for this monster to show its fierce appearance.

In front of the big dragon boat, there are twelve Yellow Dragon Clippers that can carry two or three hundred people, and each Yellow Dragon Clipper can carry two centipede clippers. Behind the big dragon boat were eighteen five-tooth boats, and then hundreds of yellow dragons. At this scale, when traveling eastward on the Yangtze River waterway, I don't know how many people's hearts were shocked.

At the beginning, Fang Xie ordered that the two naval divisions in the northwest work together to transport more than 100,000 horses from Chen Dingnan's Chen Moving Mountain Office to Eastern Xinjiang. After the assignment, Duan Zheng, the general of the naval division, returned to the camp of Zhuque Mountain to transfer the brand-new naval fleet from the water village. These warships have all been built in the Suzaku Mountain Fortress over the years, and none of them have experienced war.

At that time, the army in the northwest included more than 100,000 horses under Chen Dingnan and Chen Yishan. There are also about 100,000 troops led by Lu Fenghou, and about 100,000 infantry led by Cui Zhongzhen. Cui Zhongzhen's troops, Fang Xie has been transferred back to Chang'an City to garrison.

In this Eastern Crusade, Fang Xie ordered Lu Fenghou to take his men and horses with Du Dingbei, Jin Shixiong, and Xu Xiaogong to converge with the men and horses on the front line of Qinhe Lingmen Pass, and merged into the elite of the Black Flag Army brought out from Chang'an City by Jin Hou Wu and Wu to form a huge army of more than 500,000 people. This does not include the more than 100,000 people in Chen Dingnan and Chen Qianshan.

Coupled with the follow-up team led by Fang Jie, the total strength of the Black Flag Army this time exceeded 700,000, and if you add the men and horses of the Nalan Dingdong Division, who were the first to go to the eastern Xinjiang, the Black Flag Army has more than 800,000 people in the Eastern Xinjiang battlefield, accounting for most of the total strength of the Black Flag Army.

The current Black Flag Army actually has more than one million troops. However, in Yunnan Road, which has just been fought for a few years, the southwest foundation must be left with enough troops to defend. In the Jiangnan Zhudao, it is necessary to leave enough troops to deter. In the Northwest Provinces, there were also Song Zi's men and horses fighting with the Mengyuan rout.

There is no doubt that Fang Xie made a desperate bet for the war in Eastern Xinjiang.

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Xiang Qingniu pinched his waist and stood on the bow of the boat, holding his head high and holding his chest high, he was so afraid of water that he could actually stand there in such a heroic posture, obviously the stability of the big dragon boat was good enough. The huge size of the warship doomed the limitations of the big dragon boat, and in order to let the ship go in and out of the Suzaku Mountain Fortress, it was a big project to widen and deepen the river connecting Xuanwu Lake and Luoshui.

Fortunately, the location of Suzaku Mountain Residence is good enough.

Xuanwu Lake is a large lake that was artificially opened up by Fangjie, borrowing the water of the Huangniu River in the north, and then widening the river channel to connect with Luoshui. From Xuanwu Lake to the east, you can enter Luoshui along the river, and then from Luoshui to the north through Xinyang City, there is the famous Sanjiangkou.

From the mouth of the three rivers to the Yangtze River, all the way unimpeded.

"Fang Jie, have you thought about going to Dongjiang this time, in case you lose...... What do you do? ”

Xiang Qingniu suddenly asked a very serious question.

Fang Xie sat on the side and looked at the sky in a daze, and smiled after hearing Xiang Qingniu's question: "If you lose the fight, as long as you don't die, you can fight again." In the Central Plains, there is no one in the world who should stand up more than me. If I lose, no one will come forward. ”

"Sometimes we always ignore a lot of things, and if I just think, if I come and lose, then I lose a lot of things and I don't come, then maybe other people don't come. Everyone thinks that it is not their business, and when it is their own business, they want to resist, but they are afraid that it will be too late. At the beginning, I also thought like this, once I lead my troops out of the foundation land, will someone take advantage of it and lose what I have? ”

He glanced at Xiang Qingniu: "There must be people who think like this, but they don't necessarily do that." What I just said was something that I ignored is what I thought I didn't have in others...... To put it more magnificently, it is national sentiment. To put it in layman's terms, outsiders are not allowed to come to the door. ”

"It is undeniable that there is no shortage of scum in this world who is willing to be a dog for the enemy like Yang Shun. What's not lacking is ...... A man who is willing to stand up and die to protect his fellow villagers! ”

He pointed to the soldiers: "They, they, and so many quacks who came with the army, they ...... Does it have anything to do with the people in Dongjiang? ”

Fang Xie let out a long sigh of relief: "If you say no, you don't, because if it weren't for this war, they might never go to Eastern Xinjiang." If there is, then there is. Because we are all Han people, we are all masters of this land. ”

Xiang Qingniu understood.

He hadn't thought about it so much before, he just thought, whoever fucking knocked on my door and called back. As for any national sentiments, he never thought about them. Perhaps most of these hundreds of thousands of good men who went to the East Xinjiang to participate in the war are like him, all so simple.

No one can bully their own people.

"I could lose everything."

Fang explained: "But I shouldn't regret it. ”

Xiang Qingniu was a little angry by Fang Jie's words, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar.

"Speaking of which, I hate those Dongjiang people very much, just take that person from the Penglai Sect, who doesn't have the appearance of a Jianghu guest. Take the people of Mufu, on the surface, it seems that only the honor and disgrace of their own family matter...... But when it came time for them to fight to the death, they did not flinch. I never thought I'd fight for someone I hated......"

Xiang Qingniu suddenly laughed: "Dao Ye has never lost his righteousness!" ”

He was like a man who had suddenly lost his mind, shouting and laughing loudly. No one knew that he remembered the mountain gate called Penglai Sect that he had once broken through. There, he once unscrupulously beat the people he hated to the ground.

It was also in that place that the remnants of the Penglai Sect, whom he hated, together with the five thousand Mufu soldiers, fought a bloody battle against an enemy far more powerful than them for a month, and finally all of them were killed.

No one would have thought that Xiang Qingniu would have a fire in his heart now, it was the anger of revenge. In that place where he had been, the people he hated fought with foreigners and were killed by foreigners. Now, he's going to avenge the people he hates...... Contradictory?

No!

Not contradictory!

Such stories have happened more than once in this land. For example, in Dongjiang, two neighbors were at odds, and when the male owner of one of them died on the battlefield, the male owner of the other family resolutely picked up his hoe and joined the team against the foreigners.

At this time, he thinks about avenging the neighbor he hates. Maybe it won't be long before the graves of two people who will blush at each other and want to fight hard will also become close neighbors.

Maybe no one cared about the people behind the battlefield, and the woman in the Qinglou took out her savings to buy leather and send it to the barracks, just for an extra layer of protection for those soldiers. The old men and women sat in their homes day and night with the soles of their shoes, just so that the soles of the soldiers would not wear out blood blisters when they marched.

Eastern Xinjiang

It has become a place in everyone's hearts.

Sitting farther away, Shiwan, who was seasick and uncomfortable, looked at Xiang Qingniu who was yelling with some puzzlement, and asked Ye Zhuhan, who was also languishing next to him: "Senior brother, what is that fat man yelling?" ”

Ye Zhuhan was silent for a while, and replied in a somewhat weak but heavy tone: "I'm roaring unyielding." ”