Chapter 1163: Fighting to Support War
Three years passed in a flash.
Compared to three years ago, Heiyang City has expanded tenfold, and the original Heiyang City has become the inner city.
And the population of Heiyang City has also grown to one million.
Six hundred thousand people are city dwellers, and another four hundred thousand are floating population.
Because in these three years, Heiyang City has become a huge shopping city.
The representative products of Heiyang City are refined salt, glassware, silk, porcelain, perfume, and soap.
These products are sold well in hundreds of surrounding cities with the efforts of various merchants, and Heiyang City has accumulated a huge amount of wealth.
It is with these wealth that Qin Tian has the money to expand the city and the army.
By the way, the current Heiyang Army has expanded to 50,000.
Among them, 40,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry.
In these three years, Qin Tian sent troops five times, annexed five cities, and moved all the people in the city to Heiyang City.
City Lord's Mansion, meeting room.
Xu Huanzhi is making a year-end report.
This year, through the sale of refined salt, glassware, silk and other items, as well as commercial taxes, the total income of Heiyang City reached more than 38.6 million taels of silver.
However, the expenses are also very large, about 10 million.
Mainly, Qin Tian is constantly manufacturing armaments to prepare for the future. At present, the weapons he has revealed are only crossbows and bed crossbows. He has not exposed other powerful weapons at all.
After all, there are more than two million cities in this small world. He seems powerful, but if dozens of cities join forces, his situation will be quite dangerous. Therefore, he did not over-expose his strength, otherwise, it would arouse the vigilance of others.
After Xu Huanzhi finished his year-end report, Qin Tian also said some encouraging words and announced a holiday.
Since last year, Qin Tian has created the "Spring Festival" festival.
After the meeting, Qin Tian found that Long Tiejiang did not leave.
"Why don't you leave?"
Qin Tian asked with a smile.
"Sir, when will we attack other cities?" Long Tiejiang asked.
Three years ago, he was only a five-star warrior, but under Qin Tian's guidance and the accumulation of a large number of medicines, he has now become an eight-star warrior. He knows how many powerful weapons Qin Tian has hidden, so he can't wait to lead his troops to fight.
"No hurry, I will inform you in advance if there is a war!"
Qin Tian waved his hand: "Go back, you have worked hard for a year, relax well!"
Watching Qin Tian leave, Long Tiejiang couldn't help but flash regret in his eyes.
After a while, in the study.
A man in black knelt in front of Qin Tian, and he was quietly watching a piece of intelligence.
In recent years, with the popularity of various commodities in Heiyang City, the spies of Heiyang City have gradually developed to the surrounding cities, and not only the surrounding hundreds of cities, his spies have reached farther places.
The intelligence Qin Tian read was about Weishan City.
The city lord of Weishan City is a ghost clan.
Although the other party did not develop the economy, his strength has grown very fast.
In just three years, his army has grown to 200,000, and is still growing.
Why can a place that neither develops the economy nor improves people's livelihood accumulate an army of 200,000?
It's very simple, fighting to support fighting.
After becoming the city lord, the other party forcibly recruited all the Qingzhuang in the city as his soldiers.
After some training, he launched a war and attacked the surrounding cities.
In three years, he has captured 35 cities.
And all his military expenses and military supplies come from plunder, which has also cultivated a group of fierce soldiers.
According to intelligence.
Weishan City has noticed Heiyang City. Recently, he is leading his army to Heiyang City. At his current speed, he can reach Heiyang City in nine months at most.
According to the map, there are eleven cities on the way to Heiyang City.
After a slight hesitation, Qin Tian ordered: "Send your people to secretly contact the city lords of these eleven cities. If they need it, I can sell them a batch of crossbows!"
In the past three years, although the eleven cities have also been trying their best to develop, the largest city has only 6,000 soldiers and horses. How can it stop the 200,000 troops?
Even if they join forces, they still can't beat them.
So, Qin Tian needs to provide them with some help. First, he can gain their friendship, second, he can consume the troops of Weishan City, and third, he can make money. It can be said that he kills three birds with one stone.
The next day, Qin Tian took two maids to stroll in the city. Now Heiyang City can be said to be decorated with lights and colors, peaceful and lively.
After wandering for more than half an hour, the two maids were holding two strings of ** gourds in their hands and eating happily.
Five days later.
The leader of the dark guards brought back news that the city lords of the eleven cities all expressed their intention to purchase a batch of crossbows from Heiyang City.
Today, the Black Sun Army has a crossbow for every soldier, and the cavalry is equipped with double crossbows.
The number of crossbows in the warehouse has reached 300,000.
Crossbow soldiers are easy to train, so even though Black Sun City only has 50,000 soldiers now, Qin Tian can always equip 100,000 more troops, because he has implemented reserve military service in Black Sun City.
As long as the young men are over 16 years old, they will undergo military training for one month every year.
Soon.
The caravan transported 50,000 crossbows to 11 cities.
By the way, the price of crossbows is 50 taels of silver per crossbow, and the price of crossbow arrows is 1 tael of silver for 10.
The cost price of crossbows is only 3 taels of silver.
It can be said to be a huge profit.
Feiyu City, on top of the city wall, the city lord Blade Warrior Burton stared gloomily at the locust-like army below.
After three years of development in Feiyu City, the number of soldiers and horses has only increased to 5,000.
In order to feed these soldiers and horses, Burton was already very struggling.
But now, there are fully 200,000 troops coming to attack Feiyu City.
Weishan Army.
As the city lord and commander, Qian Jun waved lightly, and the messenger immediately waved the flag, and then 10,000 troops broke away from the army and began to attack Feiyu City.
The Weishan Army can be said to have been on the battlefield for a long time. Not only is it extremely experienced in combat, it is also extremely fierce.
In just half an hour, they almost hit the city wall several times.
"Use the crossbow!"
Burton couldn't hold it any longer. If this continued, the city wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
"Boohoo!"
The appearance of crossbows caught the Weishan army off guard, and the soldiers who were climbing fell down the city wall screaming.
Seeing this scene, Burton couldn't help but smile a little more on his face.
But soon, he became worried again. This time he only purchased 3,000 crossbows and 100,000 crossbow arrows. With 100,000 crossbow arrows, even if one of them killed an enemy, Weishan City would still have an army of 100,000 people.
Therefore, the final outcome has been determined.
Thinking of this, Burton felt extremely unwilling.
"Sir, withdraw!"
Suddenly, a civil servant whispered: "There are too many Weishan troops and we can't stop them at all. Why don't we evacuate to Bishui City!"
Hearing this, Burton fell into deep thought.
The civil servant continued to persuade: "Behind us is Bishui City, and they can't stop the Weishan Army. As long as we help them resist the enemy, they will definitely accept us, but the Weishan Army will not occupy the city and wait for them to leave. Finally, we can come back again!”
"Okay, let's retreat!"
This civil servant is right. If he continues to fight to the death, he will end up with the city destroyed and people killed. He doesn't want to be eliminated. The only way is to abandon Feiyu City. However, he is not prepared to withdraw to Bishui City because he does not think Bishui The city can block the Weishan army.
He decided to lead his troops to hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and wait for the Weishan Army to leave before leading his men back again. (To be continued)
