The war did not break out as Shang Ji had expected, at least not immediately.

Nadolland, of course, knew that his strength was far inferior to that of the coltan, so he did his best to delay the start of the war.

He first went to the coltan clan in person, explained and apologized to the head of the coltan clan, Chang Huang, and gave him rich gifts, and even promised to hand over all the high-ranking nobles of the Boke clan to the coltan clan.

Then he and Li Tong jointly visited Chenglu, the little marshal of the Jie Drum Department, and cried to Chenglu about the bully of the small clan and the assassination of Boko Bat, the head of the Boko clan, and asked Xiaoshuai to call the shots for himself.

On the one hand, there is the Nado clan who has just sent him a lot of money, and on the other hand, there is the coltan clan who is ambitious and wants to challenge his status as a handsome, and of course there is no need to say more about how to choose Chenglu Xiaoshuai.

According to Nadolander's request, on the one hand, Chenglu used words to stabilize the Columbus clan, promising that he would use the power of the tribe to punish the Boko clan who framed the elite of the coltan clan, but on the other hand, he vigorously supported Nadoland to expand the armament war, hoping to use the Nadot clan to leave a lesson for the coltan.

After teaming up with Chenglu to stabilize the Columbia, Nadorand began to arm himself desperately against time, striving to grow strong enough to compete with the Columbium Clan before Chang Huang came to his senses.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

The Nado's arms build-up war has achieved good results. After the annexation of the Boko clan, using the existing resources and the covert support of Chenglu, in a month, the Nado clan army expanded to 7,000 people!

That's more than the combined amount of Brocade and Nado's before Shang Ji came!

Of course, this frenzied expansion has not come without a cost.

First of all, the number of middle-aged men engaged in productive work in the Brocade and Nado clans has been greatly reduced, and the ratio of soldiers to civilians is seriously imbalanced. If the current situation continues, even if there is no threat of war, the Nados will surely collapse in three months!

In addition, Nado's fiscal deficit is serious!

As I said before, Nadorand has no money, and in order to stabilize the hearts of the Brocade people, he did not dare to excessively scrape Broke's, and the financial situation has not improved greatly after the annexation of Broke's.

But there is no money for arms expansion, but it really can't work!

Fortunately, Chenglu intended to use the power of the Nado's to teach the collum a lesson, so he agreed to give the Nado's loan!

Of course, Chenglu was not at ease, this money has high interest, and even in order to get this money, Nadoland's pastures, herdsmen, livestock and other large amounts of property were mortgaged to Chenglu, according to the agreement signed by Nadorand and Chenglu, even if Nadoland won the war against the Columbia, he was almost a slave of Chenglu.

Of course, Nadoland, who has already burned his eyebrows, has no time to care about these things, and if he can't pass the level of the Columbia, Nadoland will be finished immediately!

In order to expand the army, Nadorand even approached Shang Ji and asked if he could provide a batch of weapons and equipment!

As mentioned before, the manufacturing capacity of the Xianbei people's weapons and equipment is very limited, but the resources of war horses are extremely rich. Shang Ji continued to obtain new recruits and weapons replenishment, and Nadorand saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, of course he understood that Shang Ji had a stable channel to trade with the Han. In desperation, Nadorand approached Shangji.

After discussing again and again with Chen Guan, Chen Mo, Zhao Shen and other generals, Shang Ji finally agreed to Nadolland's proposal to trade weapons for war horses.

Of course, Shang Ji's decision to agree to this transaction was also made after comprehensive consideration.

First of all, if Shang Ji wants to continue to fish in troubled waters on the Xianbei grassland, he can't do without the support of the Nado clan. Once the Nado clan was destroyed by the coltan clan, the Shang Ji had to withdraw from the grassland and return to Heishuisai, and the rich harvest was gone.

Secondly, this batch of weapons and equipment was used in the Xianbei Civil War, that is to say, the more equipment provided, the more intense the civil war, and the heavier the Xianbei casualties, the more beneficial it was for Shang Ji, and it was also in line with the interests of the Han court.

In the end, Nadoland offered a price that was too eye-watering!

A low-grade war horse is exchanged for a set of normal-level equipment, and a medium-grade war horse is exchanged for two sets of ordinary or a set of elite level!

You must know that in Wangquan County, a low-grade war horse is now priced at least ten gold, and a set of ordinary-level equipment is at most hardware!

Don't even think that the price of a medium-grade war horse is less than 20 gold, and the high-grade suit is only about 10 gold at most!

With the development of players, the price of equipment below the elite level has dropped a lot, after all, the most engaged in production among the players is the blacksmith, and a large number of junior and intermediate player blacksmiths have smashed the price of low-level equipment down. However, the price of war horses has risen instead of falling compared to the beginning.

There are more and more high-level games, and after meeting the most basic survival needs, high-grade consumer goods such as war horses are becoming more and more popular, causing their prices to rise all the way.

In addition, the appeal price is still the market price, and the cost of the blacksmith's workshop in the black water plug is only one-third of the market price!

In other words, a low-grade war horse, Shang Ji can earn at least eight gold! You don't need to fight bloodily, you don't need to fight to the death, you just need to pour the item into your hand, and you will immediately have several times the profit, so a fool won't do it!

Even after hearing about Nadoland's offer, Chen Mo immediately chose to go offline and report to Yan Huang.

In the past month, Shang Ji has successively traded 4,000 war horses of various colors with Nadolander, providing him with 3,000 sets of normal-level suits and 1,000 sets of fine-level equipment.

Shang Ji also made a profit of 30,000 gold!

The reason why the profit is not as high as expected is because the blacksmith workshop in the black water plug is seriously underproduced!

Yan Huang's deal with Shang Ji's mid-level blacksmith workshop construction drawings had already been completed. Deng Yan also understood the importance of things, and as soon as the drawings arrived, he immediately arranged for personnel to upgrade and build.

After the upgrade, the output of the blacksmith workshop has tripled, and the theoretical production capacity has reached 300 sets of equipment of the Nissan excellent class and below, 30 sets of equipment of the 100 forging level, and 3 sets of iron-grade equipment!

However, due to the limited number of blacksmith talents in the black water plug, especially the number of high-level blacksmith talents, the production capacity cannot be fully utilized.

In addition, Shang Ji needs to prioritize the expansion of the Black Armor Rider, and most of the production capacity is invested in the production of the Black Armor Rider suit, and it is not at all concerned about the production of the low-level equipment that Nadorand needs.

In the end, it was the Black Water Plug that barely produced a part, and then outsourced a part of it to Li Taining's Baiyun Town, and finally barely met Nadorand's army expansion needs.

Of course, in this way, the profits of the merchant will inevitably be reduced a lot.

But even so, the development of Shang Ji in the past month can be described by leaps and bounds!

First of all, as the absolute main force, the Black Armor Xuanqi has expanded to 500 people, of which nearly 200 people have been promoted to the fifth order!

In addition, according to Shang Ji's explanation, Heishui Sai recruited and trained ordinary light cavalry on a large scale, and trained a full thousand third-order light cavalry in a month.

According to the training ability of the Heishui Sai Intermediate Barracks, even if Shang Ji has the blessing of the characteristics of military training, he can train up to 600 light cavalry in a month, and he may not be able to train successfully!

But who let Shang Ji have a good brother?

Of course, Shang Ji's every move can't be hidden from Liu Yi, who is his direct superior, and of course, Shang Ji has no intention of hiding it from him, and even Shang Ji needs him to help cover up and avoid being caught leaving his post without permission.

As a typical Han ist, Liu Yi heard what Shang Ji was doing, and he couldn't wait to fly to fight alongside him.

It's a pity that he is different from Shang Ji, as the county lieutenant of Wangquan County, he may be able to leave at will like Shang Ji.

In desperation, Liu Yi had no choice but to escort Shang Ji in the rear.

Hearing that Shang Ji needed to recruit a large number of soldiers in a short period of time, Liu Yi personally went into battle to help train, and the five junior barracks in Wangquan County went all out to recruit pikemen, and then Liu Yi personally trained and transferred to light cavalry!

Although it is more troublesome to operate, it is better because Liu Yi is strong, the commander value is also super high, and the training efficiency is not low.

In addition, in order to prepare for the war, Shang Ji finally decided to hand over the special class token of the Dragon Archer Cavalry that he had obtained before to Su Huan to use!

After Su Huan got the Dragon Bow Riding Token, his loyalty immediately skyrocketed by four points, reaching the full value of 100 points.

There is no such thing as loyalty in "Beacon Fire", even if it reaches the full value of 100 points, but if the lord does something angry and resentful in the future, the loyalty will still fall, of course, as long as the lord does not do stupid things, it will not be reduced easily after the full value.

But as long as the loyalty is still maintained at 100 points, even if the lord orders his subordinates to cut themselves, the subordinates will immediately execute it without complaint!

Su Huan became the first military general under Shang Ji with full loyalty!

Su Huan did not live up to Shang Ji's expectations, and after a month of intense training, he strengthened the training of the original archers and pulled out a 500-person dragon archer!

Therefore, at present, there are more than 2,000 troops in the hands of the merchants who can use them on the grassland!

Five hundred black-armored Xuan cavalry, more than 1,100 third-order light cavalry (more than 100 veterans left from the last war who did not advance to the fourth order), and 500 dragon archers!

Counting the seven thousand Xianbei light horsemen from the Nado clan, the combined strength of the two is not even weaker than that of the coltan clan.

Of course, Shang Ji's strength is kept secret, and in the entire Nado clan, only Nadoland knows that Shang Ji still has a group of not weak forces hidden in his hands, but how many Shang Ji didn't tell him, and he didn't ask.

From the outside world's point of view, Nado's strength is still far inferior to that of the Columbia.

After a month of prevarication, no matter how stupid the head of the coltan clan is, Chang Huang understands that he has been tricked!

According to the information provided by Chen Guan, Chang Huang has already ordered to reorganize the army and prepare to lead a large army to kill him the day after tomorrow.

Obviously, Nadoland also has his own intelligence system, and not long after Shang Ji got the news, Nadoland called a meeting to discuss the joint resistance to the invasion of the Columbia.

"Everyone, tell me how we can resist the tyrant of the Columbia!" In the Nado's tent, Nadoland asked aloud with a gloomy face.