Chapter 734: Battle Readiness
Shang Ji did not interrupt Sun Zhong's breakthrough, this kind of title is extremely rare, there are hundreds of generals with titles at all levels in the Pingzhou army, but none of them can make the title promotion without the help of external forces.
For this rare opportunity, Shang Ji couldn't bear to take the initiative to sabotage it.
What's more, there is a stunned Guan Hai next to him, who dares to take a step forward and fight with him, unless he completely tears his face with Zhang Jiao, otherwise Shang Ji will not have a chance to destroy.
At this point in time, Shang Ji will not take the initiative to provoke Zhang Jiao even if his brain is kicked by a donkey!
Shang Ji didn't make a move, and Niu Fu, who was theoretically in the same camp as Sun Zhong, wouldn't make a move. Two quarters of an hour later, Sun Zhong successfully completed the promotion. Sun Zhong's final strength was stronger than Yang Cheng and Gao Xiang, and slightly weaker than Guan Hai, a genuine S-level general, and he was roughly in the middle of Pan Feng.
After the breakthrough, Sun Zhong and Guan Hai led people to evacuate Pingzhou overnight, obviously extremely distrustful of Shang Ji.
After that, in just a few days, Sun Zhong became famous!
Three years of loyalty and unyielding is a very eye-catching attraction in itself, if it weren't for his background in the Yellow Turban Army, the reputation of a little Su Wu would probably not be able to run. After getting out of prison, his strength skyrocketed, and he was promoted from a cannon fodder-level historical general to a high-level historical general, which felt like God had blessed him with a sense of rewarding his loyalty.
Guan Erye, who was praised as a model of loyalty and righteousness in later generations, is still silent, but Sun Zhong, who was born in the yellow scarf, performed a loyal and unyielding performance and became an example of loyalty.
In fact, the Yellow Turban Army has already begun to publicize this way, and Zhang Bao personally led Bo Cai, Zhang Mancheng and other Yellow Turban generals out of the city for a hundred miles to welcome Sun Zhong.
If it weren't for Zhang Jiaoyuan in the Western Regions, I'm afraid the lineup would be even more luxurious!
Sun Zhong's fame and the Yellow Turban Army's fanfare also made the Yellow Turban Army, which had been silent for a long time, reappear in people's field of vision.
Focusing on the Yellow Turban Army, people were surprised to find that the Yellow Turban series was developing so vigorously at this time!
Zhang Jiao was named the Grand Master of the Protector of the Country, Zhang Bao was also named the Master of the Protector of the Country, and the Yellow Turban generals also had their own rewards according to their reputation and status. After that, the Yellow Turban Army began a vigorous disarmament, hundreds of millions of Yellow Turban Army was disbanded on the spot, and countless Yellow Turban soldiers were disarmed and returned to the field.
The large-scale reduction of the army did not mean the weakening of the Yellow Turban Army's power, on the contrary, the large-scale reduction of troops, and the Yellow Turban Army after the merger with Dong Zhuo, exuded 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 elite of the hundreds of millions of Yellow Turban Army! The last is also a fourth-order soldier, and special troops such as Yellow Turban Warriors, Yellow Turban Lingwu, and Yellow Turban Immortal Martial Artists account for 80% of the total strength!
Let Pingzhou and the Yellow Turban Army at this time pull out alone for a life-and-death duel, it's really hard to say who wins or loses!
The Yellow Turban Army did not continue to stay in Luoyang after the elite army was streamlined, and under the personal leadership of Zhang Jiao, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army began to move westward. With Dong Zhuo's acquiescence, the Western Regions became the sphere of influence of the Yellow Turban Army, and in just three years, the Yellow Turban Army destroyed countless countries in the Western Regions (this kind of country is similar to Goguryeo and Xianbei, but the population is smaller and the territory is smaller, and 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 Lands and ignore the Western Regions. After reacting at this time, I found that the former anti-thieves had been reborn and became 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 tolerate two tigers, but at this time, Dong Zhuo's camp is full of three tigers standing side by side!
Dong Zhuo is, of course, the biggest tiger, known as Xiangguo, in charge of the court, and his power is the best in the world; followed by Zhang Jiao, the great mage of the protector of the country, with eight million elite yellow turbans under his command and hundreds of historical generals, dominating the Western Regions; The weakest tiger is the Qiang Alliance led by Beigong Boyu.
In history, Beigong Boyu's rebellion once hit the land of Sanfu, causing Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian, and Zhang Wen to suffer defeats one after another.
Under the three forces, there are Ma Teng and other princes who are attached to Dong Zhuo, and the relationship between them is complicated, not to mention outsiders, even they may not be able to figure it out internally.
It is astonishing that such a complex and large coalition of forces has managed to maintain unity without large-scale internal conflicts.
Today's Dong Zhuo forces can be called Dong Zhuo's system, except that there is no Lu Bu to join, it is stronger than the peak of Dong Zhuo in history!
Sun Zhong's unexpected promotion also gave Shang Ji some other ideas, perhaps using Sun Zhong's experience to artificially create opportunities for title promotion.
Of course, this is just a very hazy and unreliable conjecture now, and the national war is imminent, and Shang Ji does not have the time and energy to experiment.
As time passed, the whole Pingzhou was busy, and entered a somewhat alternative atmosphere of preparation.
All the people of Pingzhou knew that their state pastor was going on an expedition again, and they were on an expedition to a foreign land under the guidance of the gods (system), but no matter whether this war succeeded or failed, it would not have a direct impact on Pingzhou. This makes the preparation a little less tense, but to a certain extent, it increases 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 wars that only take place among the players, but due to the rules of the system, the princes' curiosity is limited to listening to the news.
Merchants spend a lot of money on goods here, and the same items sold are also very profitable.
The first is the horses, three million war horses and six million horses were snapped up by the army of players in half a month, and Shang Ji had no choice but to use one million Pingzhou reserve war horses, but they were sold out in just one week.
After much thought, Shang Ji contacted Lü Bu and purchased 500,000 war horses from Lü Bu's army, and then transferred 1 million from the Pingzhou army, totaling 1.5 million war horses to the player market. Pingzhou sold millions of war horses, and with the addition of scattered sales by other forces, it finally barely guaranteed the needs of players participating in the war.
Correspondingly, there are one million cavalry troops in the Pingzhou army that can only serve as horseless cavalry for the time being, waiting for the next batch of war 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 is stable, and there should be no large-scale war in the short term.
And the direction of Dragon Throat City, which has the greatest defensive pressure, is greatly reduced because Park Eun also needs to participate in the national war. The temporary transfer of 1 million war horses will not pose a serious threat to Pingzhou's strategic security.
In addition to war horses, Pingzhou sells the most siege equipment.
Breaking the city and heavy crossbows, large siege equipment such as torch stone carts and bursting torch stone carts were pulled outward one after another. Relatively simple siege equipment such as ladders, rushing cars, chariots, flying ladders, and Lu public cars are even more frantically manufactured, and thousands of them have been manufactured before and after.
These siege equipment were much simpler and cheaper than stone rigs, but they were also more dangerous to use. It is necessary to use the siege of the defending army to approach the city wall, and the Pingzhou army basically does not use this siege method because of its developed siege equipment manufacturing capacity. However, for the player forces, and even some minor princes, this is the mainstream equipment for siege.
Originally, with Pingzhou's manufacturing capacity, it was impossible to make so many siege equipment in a short period of time. However, because Pingzhou has the backing of public losers, the ability to manufacture siege equipment is the best in the world. In order to give full play to the advantage of Pingzhou, Yanhuang Blade fully armed the players participating in the war. In coordination with many player forces, a large number of craftsmen and countless materials were temporarily withdrawn, which doubled the speed of equipment manufacturing in Pingzhou.
But from this point of view, in order to win the national war, the Huaxia region can be said to go all out!
Similarly, there are pills. High-grade pills need to be refined by senior pills themselves, and some top-grade pills can't be guaranteed to be 100% successful even if the Liu clan does it himself. However, low-level Hui Qi Pills, Blood Condensation Pills, etc. can be refined in large quantities through multiple alchemy workshops, and the only thing that restricts the output is the number of low-level alchemists and the raw materials of the elixir.
Commissioner Huang is personally responsible for this aspect, coordinating with the player forces. A large number of people and materials are rushing day and night on the galloping road in Pingzhou, and in just over a month, the Pingzhou Alchemy Workshop has refined millions of copies of basic pills, and this number is still soaring at a staggering rate.
In terms of equipment manufacturing, Pingzhou cannot stand alone, but relying on the king-level workshop that has been advanced to the Supervision Institute, Pingzhou's equipment production capacity is also at the first-class level in the entire Huaxia District. A large amount of materials and talents are sent to Pingzhou, and then quickly turned into pieces of sophisticated equipment and returned to players.
Thanks to the Chidao network that has covered the major cities of Pingzhou, otherwise such a crazy large-scale material mobilization would not have been possible.
This crazy situation made Deng Yan, Xun Yu and others stunned, and they couldn't understand why the intrigues who were unruly and intriguing on weekdays and fighting over trivial things suddenly united like never before. Although I don't understand, but looking at the data of Pingzhou's crazy growth, Xun Yu and others still support 200%!
Although Shang Ji did not take the opportunity to make a fortune, the delivery of massive talents and resources is a rare development opportunity for Pingzhou, and in just over a month, Pingzhou's various development data has grown explosively.
Deng Yan even bluntly said that this development speed can be maintained for half a year, and the next stage of Pingzhou's three-year plan can be completed ahead of schedule.
Of course, it is completely impossible for this madness to last half a year, not even a month. It's been less than a month since the start of the national war, and this crazy approach is unlikely to last until the start of the national war.
However, taking advantage of this wave of east wind, Shang Ji also completed the war preparations in advance, and a large number of arrows, armor, spears, and shields were in reserve, and pills and large war equipment were ready to go. Although the scale of the troops dispatched was only about a quarter of the Xianbei War, the logistics materials dispatched were more than ten times that of the Xianbei War!
In addition to these, there are also two secret weapons of Pingzhou - the Jackie Dragon Cannon and the War Puppet!