Heaven's Change of Fate

Chapter 202 Going South and the Order to Kill Huhu

The Eastern Expedition Army led by Zhang Songxi traveled eastward all the way. Not only did the team not decrease, but it gradually grew in size in a snowballing manner. Every time it went to a place, it copied the operation of the previous occupied area, and the people easily returned. The Eastern Expedition Army became stronger and stronger. The newly joined young and strong seriously delayed the progress of the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

Zhang Songxi simply sent all the recruited young men back to Xiangyang, which also caused a great increase in the food and grass pressure in Xiangyang. After all, the food and grass used to be enough for the whole city to feed for two or three years, but now there are too many mouths, and the large-scale training is extremely exhausting. Young and strong, these young and strong can eat one after another.

Fortunately, after half a year, Yin Susu sold all the property of the Tianying Sect and turned it into food and grass, and then took advantage of the fact that Xiangyang was not encircled, mobilized the entire Tianying Sect main altar, the congregants of the branch altars in various places, and the Ming Cult With the help of the power of the three major bodyguards, the food and grass were transported to Xiangyang through hardships and dangers.

"After the great event is completed, the White-browed Eagle King can be the king, and can establish a kingdom; the Yinye king can be a duke, and can open a vassal to establish a duchy; Create a feudal clan and establish a principality." Regarding Yin Susu's desperate move and his strong support, Yang Xin was not stingy, and immediately stated that he would not treat them badly after the event was completed, and directly engraved his words into stone carvings and stood them in Xiangyang City.

Yang Xin's method of reciting merits with stones not only appeases the hearts of Yin Susu, Yin Tianzheng, Yin Yewang and other high-ranking members of the Sky Eagle Sect, but also shows it to the world, which is like buying a horse's bone with a lot of money.

After more than half a year of conquest, the Eastern Expeditionary Army reached the Jianghuai region, connecting half of Hubei, half of Jiangxi, half of Zhejiang, all of Anhui, and half of Jiangsu, which not only expanded the strategic depth, but also obtained urgently needed strategic resources. .

With the mining of the Xinzhou Road Copper Mine, a large amount of brass was continuously transported to Xiangyang. The countless bullet production lines built by Yang Xin during this period began to run 24 hours a day with the continuous influx of brass.

Yang Xin organized skilled craftsmen to build heavy machine guns at the right time, but due to the production process and technology at that time, the Maxim heavy machine gun in Yang Xin's imagination could not be manufactured at all. Forest machine gun.

This kind of Gatling machine gun is not a machine gun like Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, but a hand-cranked machine gun. This kind of machine gun is the kind of machine gun that appeared in "The Last Samurai". It shoots with a rocker, and this machine gun is very heavy. Even with two wheels, it is difficult to push it by manpower alone, so it can only be pulled by horses.

Although this Gatling machine gun has various problems, it is undoubtedly the most lethal weapon in this era, and it is also the embodiment of the pinnacle of civilization.

When a Gatling machine gun was pushed to the top of the city, Yang Xin's heart was completely at ease. Next, it was still a crazy military training. At this time, Zhang Songxi had also returned and devoted himself to the crazy military training. .

At this time, looking at the sphere of influence or territory of Yang Xin's troops, it is almost the same as the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in its heyday, except that the center of gravity of Yang Xin's troops is in Xiangyang, and the center of gravity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is in Jinling.

Huguang is ripe, and the world is full. With the passage of time, the people under Yang Xin's rule have completely returned to their hearts, because Yang Xin has fulfilled his promise, all the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are exempted, and only [-]% of the land income is collected.

"Following the young master will feed the whole family!" It's no longer empty words, but the real truth.The confidence of the people under Yang Xin's rule was unprecedentedly firm, and they supported Yang Xin 100%.

With the support of the people, Yang Xin's position became more and more stable; with the continuous large-scale military training, the soldiers under Yang Xin's command became more and more sharp.

During this period of time, King Ruyang, the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian army, was not idle, and actively mobilized the army. King Ruyang first mobilized the northern army, and then stationed on the north side of the Han River, facing Xiangyang across the river.

The army that King Ruyang was going to mobilize from Jianghuai was directly defeated by the Eastern Expedition Army led by Zhang Songxi during the Eastern Expedition, which was equivalent to breaking the arm of King Ruyang; the army from the south was also defeated by soldiers under Yang Xin , because Yang Xin knows that soldiers are not made by training, but by killing.After Zhang Songxi returned, after the soldiers under Yang Xin's command had undergone basic training, Yang Xin immediately dispatched them to take the initiative to meet Meng Yuan's southern army. After defeating Meng Yuan's southern army, Yang Xin organized the southward movement by the way.

Wherever the southward army passed, all surrendered. First, they were afraid of the combat power of the southward army, and second, the people spontaneously offered the city.

The slogan spread by Zhang Songxi was too lethal. Countless people who were eager for land and for survival broke out with terrifying combat power, and those oppressed soldiers in the south were also eager for land and for survival, so they simply responded directly. Yes, automatically accepted the vote certificate, and then dedicated the city.

Going south is much easier than marching east. Although there are Mongolian people and Semu people who are unwilling to wait for the slaughter and want to fight back, what they are facing this time is not the Southern Song Dynasty, but the vast ocean of people's war. No matter how cruel they are, In the end, it was also submerged by the vast ocean.

Yang Xin's southward army entered at the right time and rebuilt the order according to the past practice. When King Ruyang led the northern Mongolian Yuan Jingqi to face Xiangyang across the river, and after the western army of Mengyuan left Qin and Shu, Yang Xin had already occupied the south of the Yangtze River. Compared with the previous territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was still inferior to the land of Qin and Shu.

Judging from the map, Yang Xin occupies all the territory of Wu and Yue, and the strategic depth has been deepened again. At the same time, Yang Xin has more and more resources, especially strategic resources.

In fact, wars are about resources. From the perspective of books, Meng Yuan has far more resources than Yang Xin, but Meng Yuan cannot perfectly convert resources into combat power, but Yang Xin can perfectly convert the resources in his hands into combat power. In addition to factors such as people's hearts, civilization, and geography, technology is an absolute factor.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and science and technology are also the primary combat forces.

In front of artillery, Gatling guns, and muskets, the cavalry, return artillery, etc. that Meng Yuan was proud of were simply unable to take action.

When King Ruyang was preparing to use the return artillery to attack the city defense of Xiangyang across the river, the return artillery was cleared by Yang Xin's artillery before it was assembled.Without long-range attack weapons such as return cannons, facing Xiangyang City with high walls and thick walls, King Ruyang could only order the ants to attack the city.

It's not that the king of Ruyang has thought of strategies such as night attack by masters, tunnel digging, flooding, fire attack, etc., but facing the tall Xiangyang City and Yang Xin, who had been prepared for a long time, these methods did not work at all. It hurt the masters of the rivers and lakes that King Ruyang managed to win over.

Yang Xin was not idle either. Taking advantage of the confrontation between the two sides, Yang Xin once again held high the two major weapons of magic tricks and gold and silver, and issued the "Killing Hu Order" by the Wuzhuo Heavenly King Ran Min to the land of Shenzhou.

As soon as the "Order to Kill Hu Hu" came out, the world shook.

(End of this chapter)