The end of the military era

Xiang Tao was born like a comet in such a critical situation for the Shuodong Army.

At that time, Xiang Tao was in an independent mixed brigade of the Shuodong Army. In a battle against the barbarian army, due to the defeat of the friendly army, it was surrounded by two infantry divisions of the barbarian empire.

After breaking out of the encirclement, almost all the officers above the battalion level of this independent mixed brigade were killed in battle, leaving only more than 500 people.

Xiang Tao, who was only the deputy battalion commander, was immediately elected as the temporary commander.

Next, Xiang Tao did not lead the troops to retreat to the area controlled by the Shuodong army, but began to detour towards the occupied area of ​​the barbarian army, and kept gathering the rout of the Shuodong army along the way.

Seven days later, Xiang Tao had nearly 2000 troops under his command.

At this time, Xiang Tao found the right opportunity and used surprise tactics to recapture a city where the barbarian army served as a logistics base, and rescued more than 3 captured soldiers of the Shuodong Army.

Afterwards, it only took Xiang Tao one day to reorganize more than 3 captured soldiers of the Shuodong Army and more than 1 young men who signed up to join the army in the city, and defeated an infantry division that the barbarian army came to reinforce. and an independent infantry brigade.

In the next battle with the barbarian army, Xiang Tao's troops fought more and more, and their combat effectiveness became stronger and stronger.

Coupled with Xiang Tao's resourcefulness, he judged the enemy's situation accurately in every battle, and arranged the battle plan carefully. As a result, the morale of the barbarian army immediately dropped by three points when they saw the "Xiang" flag.

By the time the barbarian army was driven out of Shuodong Town, Xiang Tao's army had exceeded 45, including nearly 10 surrendered barbarian soldiers.

Chapter 71 Idol

After the barbarian army withdrew from Shuodong Town, Xiang Tao formed the Shuodong Expeditionary Army under the order of Xue Daoquan, Shuodong's governor, and then led the army into the territory of the barbarian empire.

After the Shuodong Expeditionary Army entered the Barbarian Empire, Xiang Tao brought his military commanding skills to the extreme.

Nine months later, Xiang Tao led his army to attack Cangyuan City, the capital of the Barbarian Empire, and forced the Barbarian Empire to sign an alliance under the city, ceding a full 400 million square kilometers of land and about 6000 million people.

At this time, Xiang Tao had already been appraised as the God of War of the Han and Tang Empire by newspapers from all over the Han and Tang Empire.

And Xiang Tao's wonderful performance is not over yet.

In Tianyuan 1548, with the support and instigation of the Black Bear Empire, the Barbarian Empire once again chose to go to war with the Shuodong Army, preparing to take back the ceded 400 million square kilometers of land.

Shuodong Jiedu envoy Xue Daoquan immediately appointed Xiang Tao as commander in chief, commanding millions of Shuodong troops to fight against the barbarian army.

Under Xiang Tao's command, Shuodong's army fought successively victoriously and once again approached Cangyuan City, the capital of the Barbarian Empire.

The Black Bear Empire couldn't sit still at this time, directly using the Shuodong Army's invasion of the Barbarian Empire as an excuse, officially declared war on the Shuodong Army, and dispatched hundreds of thousands of troops to enter the territory of the Barbarian Empire by boat.

It must be known that among the six major orc nations, the army strength of the Black Bear Empire is faintly ranked first. Not only are the weapons and equipment excellent, but the personal combat effectiveness of the soldiers is also super strong.

Bear soldiers generally have the strength of low-level fighters, and there are not a few mid-level fighters and high-level fighters.

But the god of war is the god of war. Under the command of Xiang Tao, the Shuodong army with relatively backward weapons and equipment, relying on the tactic of exchanging space for time, launched a series of attacks on the army of the Black Bear Empire, and used guerrilla warfare to continuously harass the army of the Black Bear Empire. logistics.

After more than a year of fierce fighting, Xiang Tao commanded the Shuodong Army, causing 22 deaths and more than 40 injuries to the Black Bear Empire's army.

Even the Black Bear Empire couldn't bear such a large number of casualties, not to mention that the Black Bear Empire had no hope of defeating the Shuodong Army, so the Black Bear Empire withdrew its troops from the Barbarian Empire in desperation.

After the Black Bear Empire withdrew, the Barbarian Empire quickly gave up. Under Xiang Tao's intimidation, they had to cede another 350 million square kilometers of land and more than 5000 million people to Shuodong Town.

So far, the area of ​​a feudal town in Shuodong Town has exceeded 900 million square kilometers, with a population of 1.7 million.

Even the Black Bear Empire was beaten to the ground by Xiang Tao, who would dare to question Xiang Tao's name as the God of War!

Afterwards, not only the entire Han and Tang Empire recognized Xiang Tao as the God of War, but even other human countries, and even six beast nations, called Xiang Tao the God of War of the Han and Tang Empire in their newspapers.

In his last life, Zhou Rui regarded Xiang Tao as an idol, and he often blamed himself. If only he could have Xiang Tao's ability, he would be able to avenge his family!

However, what Zhou Rui couldn't understand was that on June 1551, 6 in Tianyuan, Xue Daoquan, the envoy of Shuodong Jiedu who was seriously ill and bedridden, poisoned Xiang Tao, a military god of the Han and Tang Dynasties, on trumped-up charges.

Perfectly explained what is meant by the end of birds, the hiding of good bows, the death of cunning rabbits, and the cooking of lackeys.

After Xiang Tao was poisoned, Xue Tingwu, Xue Daoquan's eldest son, took over the post of Shuodong Jiedu envoy, and immediately began to purge Xiang Tao's cronies in the army.

Three years after Xiang Tao was poisoned and killed by the six beast nations, they jointly launched a full-scale invasion of the Han and Tang Empires, and the people of the Han and Tang Empires all missed the military god Xiang Tao.

Even Shuodong Jiedu envoy Xue Tingwu had to admit that if Xiang Tao was still alive, the situation in Shuodong Town would not have become so bad.

When Zhou Rui was killed in the previous life, Shuodong Town was attacked by the coalition forces of the Black Bear Empire and the Barbarian Empire, not only lost the 750 million square kilometers of land snatched from the Barbarian Empire, Shuodong Town used to be about 150 million square kilometers Kilometers of territory, also lost almost half.

Because Zhou Rui regards Xiang Tao as his idol, he is particularly concerned about Xiang Tao's deeds.

Zhou Rui remembered that according to the newspaper, Xiang Tao was an orphan who was adopted by an old Taoist living in the deep mountains since he was a child.

When Xiang Tao was 22 years old, the old Taoist priest died without any illness. At this time, under the guidance of the old Taoist priest, Xiang Tao had been promoted to a high-level warrior.

After burying the old Taoist priest, Xiang Tao worked as a gladiator in a colosseum for nearly two years in order to hone his martial arts and hope to be promoted to a master.

Because he was still unable to break through to the realm of a master, Xiang Tao left the Colosseum and finally joined the Shuodong Army.

According to Zhou Rui's calculation, Xiang Tao should still be a gladiator in the Colosseum at this time. Unfortunately, the newspaper did not report which city Xiang Tao stayed in the Colosseum.

So at the beginning of the establishment of "Ghost Shadow", Zhou Rui asked Hu Yi to pay attention to the Colosseums in various cities of the Han and Tang Empires, especially the Colosseum in Shuodong Town, looking for a gladiator named Xiang Tao.

Zhou Rui thought that Xiang Tao joined the Shuodong Army later, and he was probably in a Colosseum in Shuodong Town, but Hu Yi found out about Xiang Tao in Tiansheng City.

Zhou Rui became very excited when he thought of Xiang Tao, the military god, joining the Zhou family.

On the night of September 9, Zhou Rui, who seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, tossed Chu Yingying, Zhao Yan, Annie, and Aisha until after three o'clock in the morning before falling asleep drowsily.

Early the next morning, Zhou Rui, who was sleepy, saw Zhou Jingtong from Jinshui Zhou's family, and said with a wry smile, "Seventh Uncle, it's not yet 7 o'clock, so you came too early!"

Zhou Jingtong lamented, "Xiao Rui, if I hadn't had to, I wouldn't have pulled off this old face and come to Ganyang City to ask your father and son for help.

How could this old man not know how important those six all-steel battleships are to the coastal defense fleet of Ganyang City. "

Yesterday Zhou Rui learned from his father Zhou Xiaozheng that the Jinshui Zhou family was in a hurry to buy six all-steel battleships for the first formation of the Coastal Defense Fleet.

It was because of the Jinshui Zhou family's feud that the Danyang Chang family in the southern province of the Bajin Empire actually purchased four fortress-class all-steel battleships from the Golden Lion Empire.

The Fortress class is the first all-steel battleship built by the Golden Lion Empire, with a full load displacement of 13500 tons and a maximum speed of 16.5 knots.

Equipped with 2 double-mounted 300-caliber 5mm main guns and 150 dual-mounted [-]-caliber [-]mm secondary guns.

10门四十倍口径80毫米速射炮，10门30毫米高射炮，18挺13毫米高射机枪和4具500毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 140 mm to 230 mm, the main deck armor is 60 mm, the main turret armor is 300 mm, and the crew is full of 800 people.

As the country with the strongest navy among the six orc nations, the Golden Lion Empire built sixteen of the first all-steel battleships in one go.

Later, due to war or other reasons, four fortress-class all-steel battleships sank, and the remaining twelve fortress-class all-steel battleships were all withdrawn from active service by the Navy Department of the Golden Lion Empire a few months ago.

Subsequently, the twelve fortress-class all-steel battleships were sold by the Golden Lion Empire, and all of them were sold to human countries.

So far, it has also opened the prelude to the sale of decommissioned warships and sealed warships by the six major orc nations to human nations.