Chapter 354: Stimulating the potential for war, strength in numbers
"Dajin!"
"Big White!"
"Stop fighting, you two! Come back soon!"...
After successfully subduing the peerless general Cao Bianjiao, Li Dingguo and he hurriedly shouted towards the golden eagle and the white crane fighting fiercely in the sky.
Two level six early stage spirit birds were fighting fiercely, but they heard their master's call. Although they didn't know the reason, they obediently stopped fighting and flew towards their respective masters.
“Swoosh!”…
They returned to their respective owners and caught Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao who were hanging in the air in time.
The battle between Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao just now took place at an altitude of thousands of feet, which was quite an alternative experience.
A human practitioner at level six can already float in the air for about an hour with the help of the transformed internal energy in his body.
If the internal energy is exhausted during battle, one will fall from a high altitude, which is very dangerous.
Without the protection of the internal energy, he would still be killed by the fall, and die miserably.
"Da Jin, we two have known each other since we fought, and we have become family now."
Li Dingguo said to Dajin, "From now on, you and Dabai are the same, you are in the same group, don't continue to fight."
After explaining to Da Jin, Li Dingguo turned to Cao Bianjiao, who had also explained everything to Da Baihe, and said, "Cao Bianjiao, today I will let you see the true strengths of our Fuxing Army."
"I have personally brewed a kind of top-grade spirit wine, and I would like to invite you to taste it together. I guarantee that it is the best wine you have ever tasted."
He cast a special formation mark towards Cao Bianjiao and Da Baihe respectively, which penetrated into their wrists and formed a small five-color pattern.
"Cao Bianjiao, Dabaihe, this is the formation mark for entering and exiting our Renaissance Army base camp."
"With this special mark, this protective formation will no longer block you. You can enter and exit at any time from now on. It is very convenient."
Li Dingguo said something to Cao Bianjiao and the white crane who were looking at him with some confusion, and asked the golden eagle to return to the protective formation of the island in the middle of the lake.
The two level six spirit birds were extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, they entered the nearby protective formation and landed in the mansion.
"This...this five-colored tree, how can it be so tall!"
"I just made a breakthrough not long ago, and after absorbing some of the special spiritual energy here, I quickly stabilized!"
The first time he entered this blessed land on the lake island, he saw the towering tree that was like a mountain and shining with five-colored light. Although Cao Bianjiao had seen a lot of the world, he was still stunned for a moment.
After coming back to his senses, he said to Li Dingguo in surprise.
"Ha ha……"
Li Dingguo smiled and said, "This five-colored sacred tree is not as simple as it seems."
“Although I still don’t know its name, as my life root, I can be sure that it is a top-grade innate root.”
"Its magical power is not inferior to any innate top-grade spiritual root in ancient myths and legends."
"This is also the greatest foundation of our Renaissance Army. The rapid rise of our new force has a lot to do with the spiritual root of this five-colored sacred tree."
Li Dingguo still values Cao Bianjiao very much.
Otherwise, he would not have brought him into the base camp of the Renaissance Army and let him see his biggest secret.
"Top-grade innate spiritual roots?"
"This……"
After learning the truth, Cao Bianjiao was shocked and said in amazement, "I finally figured out why the Fuxing Army was able to rise so quickly."
"Great Commander, the big tripod you used to take away my Wuliang Pagoda is also an innate artifact with nine seals, right?"
"Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to take away my life-defining artifact, the Infinite Tower."
"You have two top-level artifacts in your possession. No one else has such a background."
"I am convinced of my defeat this time. I am inferior to you in every aspect, so what else can I say?"
"By the way, where's that hundred-fruit wine you mentioned?"
Thinking of the top-grade spiritual wine that Li Dingguo mentioned, Cao Bianjiao suddenly became excited and asked impatiently.
"Cao Bianjiao, don't worry."
Li Dingguo smiled and said, "I took the time to collect a large number of various spiritual fruits on this large island and brewed two batches of hundred-fruit wine. Each batch of spiritual wine only had 3,000 jars."
"I have kept them as treasures. So far, less than three hundred jars have been consumed. The remaining ones are enough for you to drink."
As soon as he thought about it, eight jars of ten-jin fruit wine flew out from the Human Emperor Cauldron, and two jars were suspended in front of him, Cao Bianjiao, and the two big birds.
"Originally, I wanted to prepare a delicious meal later before serving it to everyone. Now that you can't wait, drink two jars first!"
"Even with our current cultivation level, drinking two jars at most is enough. The strong spiritual energy contained in this spiritual wine must be refined before we can continue to drink it."
He explained the reason so that Cao Bianjiao and Da Baihe would know the effect of this top-grade spiritual wine.
"it is good!"
Cao Bianjiao was overjoyed when he saw this. He raised his hand and took two jars of spirit wine, placed one on the ground in front of him, and slapped the remaining jar of fruit wine in his hand.
"puff!"
After a slight muffled sound, the mud seal on the wine jar fell off completely, and was rolled up by his divine sense, falling under a nearby spiritual fruit tree.
Cao Bianjiao's control over his own strength and mental power has reached the level of returning to nature, and he did not damage the wine jar in the slightest.
"Ha ha……"
Li Dingguo laughed loudly and said to the golden eagle and the white crane, "Big Golden, Big White, let's come too!"
He and the two level six spirit birds had control over their own strength and mental power no worse than Cao Bianjiao. They used exactly the same method to remove the mud seal on the wine jar in an instant, and then each drank loudly into the wine jar.
"Gulu..."
After a moment, all four jars of fruit wine were drunk up in one breath by the two spirit birds.
"happy!"
"Commander-in-chief, this hundred-fruit wine you brewed yourself is definitely the best spiritual wine I, Cao Bianjiao, have ever tasted!"
"I've drunk Lingmi wine a few times before, and its taste and efficacy are far inferior to the fruit wine you brewed."
Because the output of spiritual rice has always been in short supply for all forces, there are not many forces that have excess spiritual rice of various levels to use for brewing wine.
The Cao family army had never been wealthy before, so very little spiritual rice wine was produced over the years.
Cao Bianjiao had only drunk it a few times in his life, and that was during the Chinese New Year.
However, those spiritual rice wines could not compare to the fruit wine developed by Li Dingguo, the junior alchemy master, based on the principles of alchemy.
The efficacy is far inferior.
After satisfying his craving for alcohol, Li Dingguo and Cao Bianjiao spent about half an hour preparing a sumptuous meal and began a hearty round of eating and drinking.
……
"Commander-in-chief, you can rest assured!"
At the edge of Daling Lake, in a large camp near the military headquarters, Cao Bianjiao, holding the seal of the Pixiu Corps, saluted Li Dingguo solemnly and said, "I will train this 90,000-man corps armed to the teeth very quickly!"
“I can’t say anything else, but I, Cao Bianjiao, am also an expert at leading an elite cavalry army into battle!”
"In three months at most, I will definitely train an elite cavalry!" "From now on, the various Tartar tribes outside the pass will be in real trouble!"
"With the Pixiu Army led by me and the Taotie Army led by General You Shilu sweeping forward all the way, if we don't conquer a territory of 100,000 miles in radius, we will be considered incompetent!"
"If there is enough time, it is not impossible to expand the territory of a million miles for our Renaissance Army!"
With a disciplined main combat corps in his hands, Cao Bianjiao's eyes were filled with endless divine light and exuded high fighting spirit.
He was telling the truth. When it came to leading cavalry in battle, even the current Li Dingguo was no match for Cao Bianjiao.
He had fought in many battles with his uncle since he was a child and had participated in numerous cavalry battles. He was extremely experienced in commanding a large and disciplined cavalry army.
It can be said with certainty that in the huge Fuxing Army, when it comes to commanding cavalry combat, Cao Bianjiao can be called the undisputed number one.
"it is good!"
Li Dingguo looked at Cao Bianjiao, who was full of fighting spirit, nodded and said, "I'm waiting for you and General You Shilu to flatten the vast grassland in the north for me!"
"After one year, when your two main battle corps are fully trained, immediately expand them to 180,000 people to speed up the pace of sweeping across the northern prairie!"
"In the next few years, maybe we will soon go to war with those white barbarians."
"The war at that time was a true war of genocide. For our Chinese people, it was a war with no retreat."
Li Dingguo was not prepared to allow the white Hu people to continue to exist in this world, so as not to leave endless hidden dangers for the Chinese people.
The best explanation to future generations is to completely exterminate them.
The territories left behind by those white barbarians can be completely filled by the Chinese people. There is no need for those white barbarians to exist in the world and be an eyesore.
"Commander-in-chief, just wait. When the time comes, I, Cao Bianjiao, will be the vanguard and destroy all the alien humans that the Renaissance Army encounters!"
Upon hearing Li Dingguo's plans for the future, Cao Bianjiao's face flushed with excitement, and he patted his chest and made the assurance.
By that time, I will definitely have broken through to the peak of level six, and I don't know how much fun it will be to kill with my elite soldiers.
Li Dingguo instructed Cao Bianjiao on some things, then left the camp and came to the military headquarters building not far away.
"The Commander-in-Chief."
Zhao Hong, who was in charge of the military headquarters outside the Great Wall, saw Li Dingguo coming to the meeting hall and immediately came over to report, "Zhao Li and Zhao Juan reported this year's logistics summary report to me earlier."
After Zhao Hong was transferred to the military department as deputy chief executive, the logistics headquarters was taken over by sisters Zhao Li and Zhao Juan.
The three sisters have now broken through to the initial stage of level five. With their outstanding ability to handle affairs, they are able to take charge of the military and logistics headquarters outside the Great Wall.
"You heard a report on the general situation outside the Great Wall not long ago, Commander-in-Chief. There hasn't been much change in the past two months, so I won't go into details here."
"What I want to report is the latest statistics in the interior."
"So far, our Fuxing Army has completely occupied the northern part and nearly half of the central part of Qin, as well as the area east of the Luoshui River."
"The area within 3,000 miles on both sides of the Yellow River from Yumen Ferry to the north has also been completely occupied by our army."
"The territory we are in now is about 200,000 miles long from north to south and about 100,000 miles long from east to west."
"There are about billion soldiers and civilians in the interior of the country. The exact number is still being further counted."
"Ten months have passed since we entered the customs at the beginning of this year, and we have opened up and built 15,800 large farms covering 10,000 mu."
"With the concerted efforts of the large number of artisans recruited from various places, and with the help of new soldiers from various places, the construction of various basic water conservancy facilities in large farms in various places has been completed."
"More than 80% of the large farms covering 10,000 mu have harvested a quarter of various crops, which has fully solved the food problem for all soldiers and civilians."
"Among the hundreds of towns currently occupied, there are a total of 160 with city defense formations. Among the dozens of important towns, the city defense formations originally set up by the imperial court have been transformed by you, the commander-in-chief."
"Except for the 160 important towns that currently have new city defense formations, the hidden dangers in those towns have been jointly cleared by the Military Intelligence Department and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The cleanup operations in the remaining small and medium-sized towns are still in progress."
"If we want to eliminate all the hidden dangers in our occupied area, it will probably take at least a year."
"This is only possible with the help of tens of thousands of three-tailed demon wolves."
"In those towns with city defense formations, various workshops have been built by a large number of craftsmen according to the plan. Now some workshops are already mass-producing various daily necessities and various production tools."
"In three months at most, all completed workshops will be fully operational."
"Our Renaissance Army's craftsman camp, under the leadership of several master craftsmen who are willing to work for our Renaissance Army, has developed thirty large-scale coin-making machines according to the drawings you provided. We are preparing to mass-produce gold, silver and copper coins in order to complete the reform of the chaotic currency in the jurisdiction."
"The relevant reform team has selected more than 300 warrior recruits with talent in this area. They are being led by the thousands of accountants recruited and are undergoing emergency training according to the planning and regulations formulated by you, the commander-in-chief."
"If everything goes well, it will be implemented smoothly in half a year, completing the formalization of currency reform, and thus starting the next step of commercial formalization reform."
"In general, within the jurisdiction of our Renaissance Army, all soldiers and civilians have solved the problem of food and clothing, and the momentum of development is very good. There are good signs that we are already surpassing the outside of the Great Wall."
"The fundamental reason for this is that the population advantage inside the Great Wall is too great. It is about 200 times greater than the 12 million soldiers and civilians outside the Great Wall."
"You are right, Commander-in-Chief. There is strength in numbers."
"Now that we have sufficient human and material resources, our development in the interior of the country is far exceeding the planned growth rate."
"In every town with a city defense formation, we have set up a warrior recruitment camp, which is open to local boys and girls under the age of eighteen for a long time."
"As for the problem of training resources, the local warrior recruits will go outside the city to hunt monsters and solve it themselves."
"Although it has not been formalized yet, once batches of warrior recruits and reserve soldiers complete the warrior entry selection, a large number of new warrior recruits will gradually stand out, and then solve the problem of self-sufficiency in the training resources needed by each recruit camp."
In fact, this model of selecting and training new recruits that was being carried out in full swing in various places was improved by Li Dingguo based on the militia model of his previous life, and he ordered it to be implemented in various towns.
For the rapidly growing number of warrior recruits and reserve soldiers in various places, it is not a big deal to be self-sufficient in solving the problem of consumption of training resources required for recruit training.
In this vast world, in the deep mountains and forests, and in the wilderness and swamps, there are countless tribes of monsters and beasts of all levels.
As long as there is reasonable planning, the new recruits and reserve soldiers from all over the country can do it with some effort.
Currently, the regular army of the Renaissance Army has a size of nearly one million, and the training resources required each month have reached the limit that the military can support.
This made it impossible for the military to take care of the selection of reserve recruits in various towns.
But Li Dingguo is not an ordinary person. He has memories of two lives as a human being and knows clearly how the model of universal military service was achieved in his previous life.
This certainly cannot be done by the military alone, but that does not mean it cannot be done with the concerted efforts of the military and civilians from all over the country.
As long as the number of reserve warriors in each recruit camp continues to increase, the combat effectiveness will become stronger and stronger. They can go to the field to conduct actual combat training to solve the problem of self-sufficiency in training resources and complete regular training by themselves.
Li Dingguo wanted to use this method to greatly enhance the military strength of each town within his jurisdiction in order to reserve a large number of troops for the Fuxing Army.
In the future, as the scale of the war gradually expands, when you want to expand the regular army, you can directly go to the new recruit reserve camps in various towns to recruit people.
Once the war requires, a large number of new warriors can be recruited into the camp at any time to quickly expand the number of people in each main combat legion.
Li Dingguo naturally could not tolerate the fact that as a member of the Chinese ethnic group, he could not even match the Later Jin Tartars in terms of the number of warriors and soldiers.
The Chinese people have the advantage of having a large population and great strength, and they must find ways to utilize it in order to unleash sufficient war potential.
In the future he plans to go to war with alien human forces all over the world. How can he do it without sufficient reserve troops?
When it comes to war potential, the Chinese people have never been afraid of anyone.
Why?
So what if I have more people?
The population within the Ming Dynasty was enough to match the total population of all Western countries combined.
In this regard, the Chinese people have a strong enough foundation, but it has never been stimulated.
(End of this chapter)
