Chapter 164: An enemy more powerful than the Fan family, formal reorganization completed
"Whoosh!"
"Run! Why did you stop? You're not going to run anymore?"
"I told you to run!"
"kill!"……
On the endless Jialu River, two middle-grade treasure ships were surrounding three lower-grade treasure ships, speeding on the river like galloping horses!
It took nearly half an hour, and they were only a few dozen miles away from entering the waterway inside the pass. Xiao Douya finally caught up with the enemy with his two medium-quality treasure ships.
In a few moves, she smashed the opponent's raised formation protection shield with her top-grade spiritual weapon, the mace, and dodged to a low-grade treasure ship of the enemy.
She was so angry that she cursed loudly and, like playing whack-a-mole, she quickly beat the warriors and guards on the enemy ship to death one by one with sticks!
The three treasure ships encountered during this robbery behaved completely differently from the treasure ships encountered during the robbery a few days ago.
Several treasure ships we encountered a few days ago, including a medium-quality treasure ship, saw that they were surrounded and their hope of escape was slim, so they quickly laid down their arms and surrendered.
But today's three inferior treasure ships are completely different.
After they encountered the Fuxing Army's aggressive treasure ships, they saw that the situation was not good and began to flee for their lives without even a moment's hesitation.
It just so happened that their treasure ship had a large amount of stored soul beads and other formation energy, so when they turned around and fled, they kept the ship at the maximum speed!
This made Xiao Douya, who was leading his soldiers to fight instead of train and rob people on the road, so angry that he ordered his two medium-quality treasure ships to chase them relentlessly.
Fortunately, the speed of a mid-grade treasure ship is not comparable to that of a low-grade treasure ship.
Although Xiao Douya felt sorry for the consumption of soul beads used as energy and did not order the two medium-grade treasure ships to increase their speed to the maximum, after chasing for hundreds of miles, he finally caught up with the three low-grade treasure ships before the other party entered the pass.
She was filled with rage and fought with all her might. In less than a quarter of an hour, she led her soldiers and wiped out all the enemies on the three treasure ships.
"Reporting to the commander, these three treasure ships are filled with a large amount of spiritual rice! There are even second- and third-grade spiritual rice!"
Huang Lan, who was transferred from the Suzaku Camp by Hongmei to the navy to serve as Xiao Douya's deputy, checked the supplies on the ship after the battle, and immediately came to Xiao Douya with a happy face to report.
"I finally understand why these three treasure ships are fleeing desperately."
Huang Lan continued, "After inspection by the soldiers, the origins of these three treasure ships were confirmed to be from the Kang family, the largest rice merchant among the big Jin merchants!"
"The Kang family is not only the largest grain merchant in Qin and Jin provinces, but also has the highest financial strength among all the major Jin merchants and the strongest overall strength."
"Because the Tartars outside the Great Wall, especially the Later Jin Tartars, don't know how to farm. Even though a super-large spiritual vein has been created in the vast Liaodong region for unknown reasons in recent decades, they don't lack spiritual fields at all."
"But if you ask those barbarians who have just been civilized to farm or something like that, it would be too difficult for them. They simply can't do it."
"Although they have captured a large number of young and strong people from the Ming Dynasty, there are not many spiritual farmers among them, and even fewer spiritual farmers. It is impossible for them to use all the fertile spiritual lands."
"In this big world, the Later Jin Tartars have at least tens of millions of people, and there are at least millions of cultivators. The little spiritual rice and other spiritual plants they produce are simply not enough for use."
"The Later Jin Tartars need to purchase large quantities of spiritual rice, spiritual beans and other spiritual plant products from the Ming Dynasty through various smuggling channels every year."
"The Kang family has almost monopolized nearly half of the grain business in several border provinces. Over the past decade or so, through the trade of spiritual plant products with the Tartars, the wealth they have gained has almost doubled every year!"
"The Kang family is the real richest family in Qin and Jin provinces. They are much richer than the two wealthy families in the open: the Dai Palace and the Qin Palace!"
"Even our mortal enemy, the Fan family, is far behind the Kang family."
It turns out that Huang Lan is not only a senior general of the Suzaku Camp, but also one of the leaders of the Military Intelligence Department. In recent times, he has collected and reviewed a large amount of intelligence information. Therefore, he can be regarded as one of the most knowledgeable and knowledgeable people in the Fuxing Army.
She continued, "I just estimated that the spiritual rice on these three treasure ships alone is enough for all the soldiers of our Renaissance Army to eat for more than a month!"
"In this case, it's no wonder that the other party would run away as soon as they saw us coming to rob them."
"It's not for anything else, it's just because this batch of spiritual rice is too valuable, no one wants to be robbed."
"But……"
Huang Lan looked a little embarrassed when she said this. "We just made a life-and-death feud with the Fan family, and now we have offended the more powerful Kang family. This luck... is really unmatched."
She felt both happy and helpless at the same time, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say.
"What are you afraid of?"
As soon as Huang Lan finished speaking, Xiao Douya waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "My eldest brother has already said that since we decided to block the section of Jialu River outside the Great Wall, we are bound to offend a large number of forces inside the Great Wall."
"Since we have decided to do this, we have been mentally prepared."
"As long as our Renaissance Army becomes stronger and stronger, and we can turn everything from our enemies into food for our rapid development and growth, there is nothing to fear!" "By the time these enemies truly regard us as a serious threat, our Renaissance Army will have already been completely transformed and grown stronger."
"At that time, let alone the Kang family, even if all the big Jin merchants united to target us, we would destroy as many of them as came!"
Xiao Douya is now full of confidence and is truly fearless.
Any enemies who dare to cause trouble for us will be beaten to death with sticks.
She is not stupid, but extremely smart, and there is a reason for saying so.
In just a few short months, his eldest brother had single-handedly led the newly formed Renaissance Army to grow to such a size!
If Big Brother is given another year or two, who knows how many times the strength of the Fusion Army will increase by then?
It is no exaggeration to say that one thing is certain: the Fuxing Army at that time was no less powerful than Wang Jiayin's army, the strongest rebel army in Qin and Jin!
"Okay, Huang Lan, stop thinking so much!"
Xiao Douya began to give orders, "Immediately have the soldiers take all the enemy corpses with a treasure ship, dig a pit on the nearby shore and bury them, and then return with the three treasure ships with the spoils as soon as possible!"
"This time, not only did we get so much spiritual rice, but we also got three treasure ships that we urgently need. We can expand our navy once again."
Although Xiao Douya is one of the three current naval commanders, the weight of her words is much greater than that of the other two naval commanders, even more than that of the naval leader Hongmei.
Following her order, all the naval officers and soldiers on the scene, including Huang Lan, did not dare to hesitate at all, and immediately divided the work and cooperated to clean up the battlefield, count the spoils, etc., and they all got busy.
Just a quarter of an hour later, the two medium-grade treasure ships, carrying the three low-grade treasure ships that had just been robbed, began their return voyage.
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"Great Commander!"
"In the past half month, our Renaissance Army has completed a round of comprehensive training and reorganization!"
"Because we spared no resources to train new warriors, and during these wars, we rescued tens of thousands of people from all over the grasslands, and the blockade of the Jialu River has added nearly ten thousand boatmen and sailors. Now the total number of soldiers and civilians in our Renaissance Army has exceeded 170,000."
Near the former Fan family's exclusive dock, a pre-war briefing meeting is being held in the central military tent of the Fuxing Army.
As the general person in charge of the meeting, Hongmei was the first to report to Li Dingguo, "After more than half a month, we have completed the warrior selection plan for all soldiers and civilians at all costs."
"So far, we have 14,361 warriors in our Restoration Army."
"The total number of soldiers and civilians who can stimulate the power of qi and blood and become warriors is close to 10%, which is not much different from our expectations."
"The reason why the number of warriors is a little less than normal is that the vast majority of the people come from Dingbian City, and there are more than ten thousand elderly, weak and children."
"At that time, the Dingbian City's manpower had already been screened by the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong, which is why our current ratio of warriors to soldiers is a little worse than the average under normal circumstances."
She explained it to everyone so that no one would misunderstand and think that the Renaissance Army was just unlucky and that the people they had gathered were too poorly qualified.
Hongmei continued, "As of yesterday evening, the soldiers of the five battalions have been reorganized. There are now 12,000 cavalry soldiers in four battalions! Each battalion has reached its full strength of 3,000 cavalry!"
"The remaining 2,361 warriors are all selected naval officers and soldiers with good swimming skills."
"As for the navy, after more than half a month of training and fighting, as well as the repeated actions of blocking the Jialu River, we now have five medium-grade treasure ships and sixteen low-grade treasure ships."
"Although we have not been able to obtain any high-quality treasure ships, our navy has become a powerful inland navy that cannot be ignored."
"This is because there is no organized navy in this Dongtao Plain except us. Our Renaissance Army is the first of its kind."
"After this round of warrior selection, our Renaissance Army has finally completed the initial formalization!"
"In terms of the three aspects of perfect, reasonable and standardized organization, even in the Ming Dynasty, there is no army comparable to ours."
"However, most of the soldiers are new recruits. They still need to go through a series of actual combat training before they can build a truly strong army."
“This will take a lot of time and cannot be done overnight…”
This round of pre-war military meeting lasted for two hours, during which a great discussion was held on some future plans after the reorganization of the Renaissance Army, as well as the next series of attack plans.
It was not until one o'clock in the afternoon that Li Dingguo announced the adjournment of the meeting, and the generals at all levels present at the scene hurriedly dispersed.
Tomorrow is the beginning of the second round of the Renaissance Army's major action plan. There is still a lot of preparatory work to be done, which needs to be arranged by these senior military generals.
With the departure approaching, everyone’s schedule is fully scheduled and needs to be arranged in a hurry.
(End of this chapter)
