Chapter 246 Internal Defense Mission and Military Industry
The entire Longyou war machine started to move. Even Li Yan, who built this machine, did not expect that this machine would be so efficient.
The first component to be activated is the inner guard.
All inner guard players have received a server-wide mission.
[Hexi Jiedu envoy Fang Guan made friends with Tubo and plotted against Zhangye. All the internal guards sneaked into Wuwei City. 】
[Mission Objective 1: Sneak into Wuwei City and find an opportunity to seize Wuwei City. 】
[Mission Objective 2: Inquire about the city defense layout of Wuwei City and instigate rebellion against the officers stationed in Wuwei. 】
[Mission Objective 3: Fang Guan really turns to Tubo, assassinates Fang Guan, creates chaos, and assists the army in capturing Wuwei City! 】
When the inner guard players saw this mission, they began to gather in Wuwei City.
Those players who are far away from Wuwei City can only look away and sigh. The large-scale tasks in the game Datang Fengyun are all time-limited. By the time they arrive in Wuwei, the tasks may have been completed.
The most excited person was Xue Hu, who had already sneaked into the Jiedushi Mansion.
Xue Hu had already lurked in the Jiedushi Mansion. He often took advantage of the opportunity to clean the study and read Fang Guan's letters.
Xue Hu also overheard the last conversation between Fang Guan and his staff Chu Zhuang and reported the information.
After Chu Zhuang proposed that Fang Guan have a sexual union with Tubo, Fang Guan's attitude was ambiguous and uncommitted.
Later, Chu Zhuang came to persuade Fang Guan several times, but Fang Guan still could not make up his mind.
This is also normal. Fang Guan's character was inherently indecisive. If word of the surrender to Tibet spread, it would be an unpardonable crime of treason. Not only Fang Guan himself, but his family would also be implicated.
Although Chu Zhuang said time and again that all Fang Guan had to do was to shrink his troops and garrison Wuwei City, then the Tubo people would fight with King Jianning.
But Fang Guan is not so naive and completely believes in the lies of the Tubo people.
The problem now is to appease the Chishui Army. Fang Guan was forced to have no choice but to summon the wealthy households in the city and ask them to pay another amount of money to support the army.
Now the wealthy households in Wuwei City are even more unhappy. The money they paid for converting horses into mulberries last time has not been refunded, so why do they have to pay again now?
What about the fields that were converted from horses to mulberries?
The tax collectors in the yamen went around and finally collected less than 10,000 yuan.
This small amount of money is used to reward the Chishui Army, but it is not enough to fill the gap between the officers' teeth.
He had no choice but to find the military leader, first reward the money, and then make plans for passing merchants.
The local rich and powerful families are all wealthy and powerful families who have been rooted in Liangzhou for many years. If they are unwilling to pledge donations, there is nothing they can do.
But the businessmen who come and go are rich!
When he thought of this, Fang Guan became confused.
Hubayi, who was rushing to Wuwei, didn't know what kind of trap he was falling into.
After leaving Jiuquan City, Hubayi bought a dozen pieces of Jiuquan blue-dyed cotton.
Hubay was originally planning to return to Gaochang, but the caravan's goods were not yet full, so he thought about it and continued eastward to Wuwei.
Wuwei is the entrance to Hexi. Silk merchants from the Central Plains will leave after transporting their goods to Wuwei, so Wuwei is also the starting point of Longyou silk trade.
Nowadays, food and Byzantine merchants are buying silk like crazy. A piece of silk can be doubled as long as it is shipped to Gaochang.
Hubay still couldn't bear the temptation and led the caravan further east, passing through Zhangye and arriving at Wuwei City.
Caravans continue to enter Wuwei City, and the inner guard players who are mixed in the caravans also enter the city one after another.
Xue Hu simply created a forum on the forum and opened a Wuwei local internal security channel to communicate with each other and discuss how to complete the task.
After completing the work of the Jiedushi Mansion, Xue Hu immediately opened the local chat channel.
There are already 30 people in the channel. These are all inner defender players in the eastern part of Longyou. After receiving the mission, they rushed to Wuwei City non-stop.
Including the players who are still on the road, it is estimated that there will eventually be fifty internal guards performing tasks in Wuwei.
The inner guard's chat channel has just added a new feature. Xue Hu gave himself a code name and started chatting anonymously.
"Brothers, I am the first internal guard to lurk in Fang Guan's mansion, codenamed Huzi! Welcome everyone to Wuwei!"
"Boss! The Wuwei mission chain this time was triggered by the boss, right? The boss is awesome!"
"The boss is awesome! The brothers will follow you!"
"Boss, please hurry up and finish the mission. Do you want to kill Fang Guan first? At least complete a mission first, right?"
Xue Hu immediately said: "We can't kill Fang Guan first. Have you studied the mission?"
Everyone in the chat room shook their heads.
Xue Hu said: "The difficulty of the three missions this time is gradually reduced. The first mission to capture Wuwei City is the most difficult. We only have a few internal guards, but Wuwei has 6,000 Chishui troops. We rely on us to capture Wuwei City.
It is an impossible task. But once the task is completed, the reward will definitely be the most generous."
Many inner guard players nodded. Xue Hu's analysis was correct. The first mission was the most difficult to complete.
"The second task is to steal the city defense map and instigate the Chishui Army officers to rebel. This task is considered to be of medium difficulty. Now the Chishui Army's military camp is outside the city. The city defense map should be in the hands of Luo Ang, the Chishui Army's attack envoy. He wants to sneak into the military camp and steal it.
For the city defense plan, we must instigate some officers of the Chishui Army to rebel."
All the players nodded in agreement, Xue Hu's analysis was clear and coherent.
"The easiest is the third mission. I'm in the Governor's Mansion now. I can kill Fang Guan as long as I risk my life. But if Fang Guan dies, Wuwei City will definitely be in chaos. Then what will happen to the first two missions?
Finish?"
Many internal defense players suddenly realized this and agreed with Xue Hu's analysis.
After some speeches, Xue Hu finally established prestige among a group of inner guards, and he was elected as the team leader by this group of players.
Xue Hu delivered a brief inauguration speech, and he continued: "This mission is divided into three goals: upper, middle and lower. At present, it seems that we will complete the middle goal first, which is to steal the city defense map, and strive to complete the third goal.
A goal, if you can't complete both goals in the end, then kill Fang Guan, this way you can save your capital!"
"The team leader is wise!"
"This is a good idea. Let's conquer the second mission first, get the city defense map and then do the first mission!"
"Then let that old guy Fang Guan live for a few more days, and everyone should act quickly!"
All of a sudden, the inner guard players showed their talents and began to think of ways to make friends with the officers of the Chishui Army.
The players in Wuwei City took action, and Yuchixin in Zhangye City also began to secretly assemble troops, mobilize supplies, and prepare for battle.
After King Jianning's order was sent to the barracks of Doulu Army and Moli Army in Shazhou, King Jianning also dispatched several capture forts to defend the Uighurs in the north, and dispatched several troops from Yumen Army and Baowenshan Army.
Capture the soldiers and horses guarding the mansion and march towards Zhangye secretly.
At the same time, Li Yan sent out tasks to all merchant players to transfer military supplies, food and grass to Zhangye.
The blacksmith workshop of Dashuixia Iron Works is also pounding steel hammers day and night, and newly manufactured weapons and armors are sent to the front line.
At this time, in the cannon foundry, Baigong player Jian Xia was checking out the newly produced cannons.
Also inspecting the workshop with Jian Xia was Cui Ruoyun, a female official from Shazhou.
"Xia Xia, I heard that you found a heat-resistant alloy and solved the problem of gun body cooling?"
Jian Xia said calmly: "It's just that the bombardment rate is 50% lower than before, but there is still a risk of bombardment during continuous shelling."
"This is awesome! Can it be used on the barrel of a gun?" Cui Ruoyun asked immediately.
During this time, Cui Ruoyun moved her laboratory to the vicinity of the Dashuixia Iron Works, and she and Jian Xia studied and manufactured guns together.
Today, the cannon casting workshop in Dashuixia has built nearly sixty artillery pieces, but there are many places that need artillery. In the end, only forty artillery pieces were shipped to Zhangye.
However, the artillery currently manufactured by gun foundries only includes front-loading cannons that fire solid shells and shotguns that can kill at close range.
Because no gunpowder-filled grenades could be developed, the long-range lethality of these artillery pieces was not strong.
However, grenade technology requires fuses and higher-grade gunpowder. Currently, Cui Ruoyun has made no progress.
Since howitzers cannot be built, players have focused on muskets and grenades.
Jian Xia shook his head and said: "This alloy is okay for making gun barrels, but it is not acceptable for making gun barrels. As you know, making guns is much more difficult than making cannons."
Cui Ruoyun also nodded. What players need is a modern rifle that can shoot continuously, not a matchlock gun that burns rope behind the butt of the gun.
Jian Xia asked in turn: "How is your gunpowder research going? Don't keep staring at the barrel of my gun!"
Cui Ruoyun shook her head and said: "How can it be so easy? The laboratory still can't do organic chemistry experiments today, not to mention making explosives, even urea can't be made."
Jian Xia asked: "Didn't you just get a new batch of experimental equipment? I heard that the glass workshop took a month of manual labor to get together a complete set of experimental equipment."
Cui Ruoyun shook her head and said: "What's the use of just having experimental equipment? If we don't have the main raw materials, and the most important raw material of organic chemistry is phenol, we can't do those organic chemistry experiments."
Jian Xia also nodded and said: "That's right, phenol must be extracted from petroleum. No wonder petroleum is the blood of organic chemistry, but I heard that some players have gone to the Taklimakan Desert to find oil fields!"
Cui Ruoyun smiled and said: "How can it be so easy? The Taklimakan Oilfield is not a shallow oil field. I hope they can produce oil soon."
Cui Ruoyun changed the topic and said: "There is nothing we can do about guns and cannons. How are the hand grenades made? My younger brother has been asking for hand grenades every day since he arrived in Zhangye. Your workshop should have already made them, right?"
Jian Xia took Cui Ruoyun out of the gun barrel workshop and came to a more heavily guarded workshop.
I only saw in this workshop, workers sitting beside the assembly line, filling the cast grenade shells with gunpowder and installing wooden handles.
Jian Xia brought Jian Xia to the warehouse, pointed at the grenades piled on the shelves and said:
"One thousand pieces, all packed up, can be transferred to Zhangye City today."