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Chapter 247: Build walls high, accumulate grain widely, slowly become king

The elder of the Gongsun family is named Gongsun Huaizhi, who is over eighty years old. He has acquired the fourth-level cultivation through years of hard work. If a fight breaks out, a young and brave third-level warrior like Ye Buyi can knock the old man to the ground.

However, when it comes to the mechanical technology of Gongshu Ban's lineage, it can be regarded as the strongest in contemporary times.

Although Gongsun Wu Yue is the head of the Gongsun family, he is far inferior to him in attainments in mechanical engineering. At this moment, the great elder seemed to have a spring installed on his butt and bounced out, dumbfounded, looking at the prisoner behind Li Guanyi, speechless for a moment.

Then he pulled Li Guanyi's arm and shouted, "How did you do it, you're alone and you're not a master?"

Li Guanyi was polite and gentle, and said: "There is a saying in the military that 'to defeat the enemy without fighting is the best strategy'. I can't defeat the enemy without fighting, but I avoided the strong and attacked the weak. I was lucky, and with the help of my friends, I was able to defeat these people."

Gongsun Huai squatted down, looked at the tied up Qi Junsong, and said:
"Wow, a fifth-level warrior, still wearing armor, you defeated these 1,000 people by yourself, good, good, awesome!"

Gongsun Huaizhi sighed with emotion and said, "Your vision is still better than ours, Master, I am convinced. Okay, send thirty of the best craftsmen to secretly go to Jiangnan."

"We have also recognized the Hidden Hyogo you mentioned before, so please take this person with you to have a look."

He was convinced, and looking at the tied-up man, he said:
"Wow, that's a thousand people."

"Awesome, really awesome!"

The silver-haired man who had followed all the way back looked unhappy.

"How could this plan be successful so easily without Yao Guang's formation and magic?"

"Humph, he has just passed the age of yellow mouth, but he is just a yellow mouth child."

"How dare you..."

He saw the young Taoist handing snacks to Yaoguang.

The silver-haired girl opened her mouth and bit it skillfully.

Bite, bite.

The silver-haired man's heart skipped a beat.

"Take your hands away, bastard!"

The left hand is extended, but the right hand holds the wrist:

"Elders should not be on the same level as younger ones...If they do so, won't they be hated by others?"

Gongsun Wu Yue nodded with a smile, and immediately gave an order. The Gongsun family's trusted disciples naturally took the thousand people away. The Gongsun family was located between the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River, and was also a family of martial arts. They had buildings similar to fortresses, and they managed to trap the thousand people with difficulty.

He also sent another disciple on fast horses to the place where the battle had just taken place.

Following behind were several disciples, who were controlling an object that was as strong as wood, stone or bronze. It was as agile as the wind and could easily walk on the path that Li Guanyi had just come from. No matter how complicated the terrain was, it was as easy as walking on flat ground in front of this mechanism.

Only thirty disciples were sent out.

He picked up all the weapons thrown down by the thousands of soldiers and transported them back easily. The battlefield was more than fifty miles away from here. It took only one hour to go back and forth for a hundred miles.

When they came back, these Gongsun family disciples looked relaxed, as if they had been dragging heavy objects for hundreds of miles. They were chatting and laughing as usual. Li Guan was surprised, and went up to look at the mechanism, only to find that it was shaped like a cow, hollow in the middle, and could store objects.

A warrior can use his internal energy to stimulate the internal gears to rotate, allowing him to climb rapidly.

It is not as good as Pegasus on flat ground, but it is more effective than a war horse on difficult walking ground.

Gongsun Feixue said: "This is the [wooden ox and flowing horse] passed down from our ancestors."

"The wooden ox climbs the mountain, the flowing horse fords the water. Only one person can carry a thousand pounds of things and travel more than 300 miles a day without feeling tired. They are useless and only used by me."

"What is useless? This is very useful!"

"Miss Gongsun Feixue, how much is this?!"

Gongsun Feixue was suspicious and replied, "This mechanical device is not cheap. It costs three hundred taels of silver. It can be equipped with mechanical devices. The mouth of the ox can emit flames, which has a certain degree of defensive ability."

Gongsun Feixue smiled and said naturally:
"If you want, I can give you a discount."

Li Guanyi: “…………”

He really wanted to equip this thing to the logistics soldiers of the Qilin Army, such as Lei Laomeng and Shi Dalin. If possible, he even hoped to weaken its quality in all aspects and use it for civilian purposes.

But the price of three hundred taels shattered the boy's dream.

Gongsun Feixue couldn't help but laugh and said, "I was just kidding. You helped us out, so you should be rewarded. But this item is not very useful, and the Gongsun family doesn't have much in stock, so it may take some time."

Li Guan said happily: "This is nothing."

Gongsun Wu Yue took Li Guanyi to see the Gongsun family's hidden place. It seemed that only elders and master-level craftsmen were qualified to enter this place. After Li Guanyi stepped into this place, Yaoguang showed surprise, which was rare.

This place is in the belly of a mountain. There is a huge rock in front, which is extremely hard. Even Li Guanyi's strength cannot push the mountain away. When it was three minutes after sunset, a strong wind blew in the mountain. Gongsun Wu Yue stretched out his hand and gently touched the huge rock.

The extremely hard and thick huge mountain wall was actually shaking to one side.

A passage appeared.

"This is the Fenghou Gate. Only at certain times of the day when there is a strong wind, with the help of the mechanism and the wind, can this gate be opened. At other times, it is absolutely impossible to enter. Even a master-level warrior who is famous for his martial arts can break this rock."

"Even if we blast this mountain to pieces, the secret treasure inside will also be covered by rubble. Mechanical devices are extremely delicate and sophisticated. Not to mention such a large amount of rubble rolling down, even if a rock falls, it is possible that the mechanism will lose its effect."

Gongsun Huai said directly: "When the so-called mechanical arts reach their peak, they must rely on the power of the universe. Pure mechanical arts have their limits after all. Only when the laws of nature are incorporated into mechanical arts can one be considered to have entered the realm of the beginner."

This old man is a typical arrogant technical genius.

If you can't pacify him, even the king of heaven will be a piece of shit.

If he was convinced, then Gongsun Huaizhi was a very honest, enthusiastic, and unsophisticated master of mechanics. He took out a stone and explained:
"It is filled with a kind of [qi] that cannot be seen with fire. Once it encounters fire, it will immediately explode. The destructive power in this closed place is roughly equivalent to a full-strength attack from a seventh-level warrior."

"But don't worry."

After this huge rock wall was opened, a hundred-foot-high rock swayed slightly in the wind, and a ray of light poured in from the gap. Then this secret place suddenly became bright. Li Guan looked intently and found that where the light flowed in, there was a concave device that could focus light.

Gathering natural light and directing it in other directions, after doing this several times, beams of light would fall down and land on stone platforms. There were mechanisms placed on the platforms, but they were all in miniature.

Li Guanyi's feat of capturing thousands of soldiers alone directly stunned Gongsun Huaizhi.

The old man went back and tossed and turned, his eyes wide open, and touched the still warm snack. He really didn't understand. Even if he caught a thousand pigs, tied them up and brought them back, it would take several days.

What's more, there are a thousand soldiers and a fifth-level general? !

He was very sure that these soldiers all had internal strength above the entry level. They wore full-coverage scale armor, which was a medium-type armor with a larger coverage area than light armor, but was not thick enough. The weapons they were equipped with were large-bladed spears with blades on both sides and bleeding grooves.

A broad, thick-backed machete that could chop off a skull in one blow.

And a powerful crossbow whose penetrating power is no less than that of the Gongsun family's mechanical crossbow.

This is a level of power that is intended to directly destroy the Gongsun family if they don’t agree.

If you are not used by me, then I will kill you.

This is Chen Dingye's style of doing things.

In addition, the military strategy used by Qi Junsong was to use the rear army as the front army, spread out the battle formation, keep the number of marching stoves unchanged to lure the enemy, and then send a lone elite force deep into the enemy's rear. The Gongsun family had no experience in dealing with this at all.

Three hundred years of chaos.

On the battlefield, the generals fought back and forth, and each other's fighting styles were revealed.

Even if he is just a general of Qi Junsong's level.

For ordinary underworld forces, it is a dimensionality reduction crushing.

After all, the martial arts world is not just about fighting and killing. Everyone wants to fight for interests and benefits. Things like kicking out a sect and destroying it are rare for them. But in the army, it happens that the army's generals do just that.

Skilled!

If Li Guanyi had not been here, the Gongsun family would have suffered this disaster.

Just thinking about it, if Qi Junsong led a thousand soldiers to appear at the gate of Gongsun family, Gongsun Huaizhi felt a chill on his back, so he was very friendly to the young general who solved the crisis, holding the young man's arm and laughing:

"Come, let me introduce to you the things that my family has accumulated over the past hundreds of years."

"The Gongshu clan was not tolerated by the court. Their ancestors were killed and their descendants were exiled. They remembered their ancestors' warnings and no longer specialized in studying the mechanisms for attacking cities and seizing territories. However, the foundation of the Gongshu clan's mechanism technology came from attacking cities."

"Every generation of mechanical masters will eventually create something to use in battle formations after research. However, in the first few hundred years, the world was at peace, and using this thing would mean death. In the next three hundred years, the four directions were fighting for hegemony, and using this thing would also mean death."

"These things should have been burned to ashes."

"But our ancestors of all generations have studied hard and gained something, but they are unwilling to burn it, so they have to store all the files and keep them here, waiting for the great changes in the world. Now is the time, please!"

Gongsun Huaizhi took out something and handed it to Li Guanyi, saying, "This is a mechanical crossbow." Li Guanyi held the mechanism in his hand and saw that it was quite delicate and small, but heavy. He asked, "What is this thing for?"

Gongsun Huai smiled and said, "This is a crossbow chariot. It is mentioned in Mozi. At that time, my ancestor Gongshu Ban and Mozi discussed the Dao. My ancestor attacked, while Mozi defended. This thing is a weapon that can be used for both offense and defense."

"Over the past few hundred years, my family has perfected it. With the wheel axle, we can quickly string the crossbow. This is just a thing that has been shrunk a hundred times. The finished product is so huge that it requires ten warriors to control it. It can be placed on the city gate and fly down from the sky."

"This is a mechanical technique."

"It can shoot out sixty giant crossbow arrows ten feet long in an instant."

Damn it? !
How many? !
Li Guanyi stared at the thing in his hand, stunned.

A crossbow arrow of ten feet is three meters and three centimeters long.

Such large crossbow arrows, sixty of them fired at the same time?

No wonder it takes ten incoming warriors to operate.

Gongsun Huaizhi said proudly: "My younger generation has modified it, and I have also modified the crossbow arrows. After our modification, the crossbow arrows will burst the moment they touch the ground, and the internal mechanism will be activated instantly."

"The large crossbow arrows will disperse. Each giant crossbow contains dozens of small crossbow arrows, which are scattered irregularly, enough to cover an area of ​​several feet in radius."

"It can also be used to poison."

"Ignite."

Li Guanyi's forehead throbbed wildly, and he said, "You said, car..."

The old man Gongsun Huaizhi showed a harmless and hearty smile:
"You're not really like Feixue, thinking that the wooden ox and flowing horse are only used to transport food, right? Hahahahahahahaha..."

He laughed the hearty laugh of a pure mechanical intellectual.

Li Guanyi held the exquisite, small, but extremely heavy locomotive in his hand. He said silently in his heart:
Public transport mechanical technology·Fully automatic loading of crossbow arrows·Large coverage area·Split, poisoned and explosive fire crossbow vehicle.

Li Guanyi felt that if Gongsun Wuyue had not suppressed these craftsmen of the Gongshu lineage, the Gongsun family would have disappeared eight generations ago. He looked at the proud and simple-minded master of machinery, his mouth twitched, and he just replied, "Okay, okay."

"It's good stuff."

Gongsun Huaizhi laughed and said, "You know it's a good thing, come on, there's more!"

"This thing is a [crossbow machine]."

The old man stuffed another object into Li Guanyi's hand and said, "The mechanical crossbow cart is powerful, but it is still too heavy. This thing is lighter and only requires three entry-level warriors to operate it."

"Put it on the city gate, and one of them, who has strong internal energy, will operate the mechanical crossbow."

"One is to put the special crossbow arrows for the mechanical crossbow on the shaft and pass the crossbow arrows through the shaft."

"The other can control the mechanism and rotate the base of the crossbow."

"On top of the city gate, three giant crossbow machines are placed on each side, covering the entire front of the city."

Li Guanyi imagined the scene in his mind: "..."

The boy blurted out: "Does this thing emit blue flames?"

Gongsun Huaizhi touched his sparsely haired head and said, "This thing won't work, but I do have something that can attack with fire."

"Well, that's definitely not possible... Wait, what, is it true!?"

Li Guanyi was dumbfounded.

Gongsun Huaizhi's eyes sparkled as he took out an object and handed it to Li Guanyi, saying, "This object is called the Hanging Fire Train. Three people can control it. It is made of red-hot charcoal wrapped in kerosene. With the help of the warriors, the mechanism will be fully powered. It will explode instantly and can attack a hundred feet away."

"Hahahaha, the so-called charcoal is called charcoal, but in fact it is not charcoal, it is a mechanism."

"It is hollow inside, like a full ball. You have seen some fruits that break open the moment they hit the ground, and the seeds are ejected and scattered everywhere. More than a hundred years ago, my ancestor followed the natural way and created this thing."

“It’s a poison-tempered caltrop. The moment it hits the ground, it explodes with a bang. The caltrop has thirty-six blades. With the force of its landing, it can cover an area of ​​several feet in radius and cut meridians and break bones. It’s a first-rate good stuff. Ahahahahahahahaha!”

"You don't have to kill people, but you have to destroy the soldiers' fighting power, which is to destroy the power of the army!"

Gongsun Huai was holding this extremely sophisticated mechanical device and laughing excitedly as he talked about it. His laughter was originally hearty, but in the secret treasure inside the rock, the wild laughter echoed, making Li Guanyi feel a chill on his back.

The young general's mouth twitched.

No wonder, no wonder.

Li Guanyi originally thought that the mechanical techniques of the Mohist school were extremely powerful when used in siege warfare, so why were they called "good at defense"? Now that he saw the mechanical techniques of Gongshu's school, he finally understood.

Being good at defense and being good at attack both need to be compared.

Compared with this bunch of lunatics, the Mohists are indeed much more kind-hearted.

No wonder Gongsun Wu Yue had planned to form an alliance with Li Guanyi before.

This is an ancient yet blood-related way of forming an alliance.

It was because she knew very well why the Gongshu family's mechanical skills were so terrifying, why the ancestors of the Gongshu family were persecuted to death, and why their descendants were left to wander around.

Anyone who sees this thing will get a tingling sensation on their scalp.

Li Guanyi thought that Ying State Jiang Wanxiang was so magnanimous that he could tolerate Gongshujia. It seemed that this hero had no idea how outrageous the lunatics in this family were. Li Guanyi immediately realized that if it were not for the relationship between Zu Lao and Gongsun Wu Yue, even he would never be able to see these mechanisms.

The young man couldn't help but hold the pine-patterned ancient sword in his hand, thinking of the old man:

“Grandfather…”

Did you infer all this?
In addition, the Gongshu family also has flying birds, walking beasts, and many other artifacts. When Li Guanyi presented the achievements of Lei Laomeng and other disciples of the Divine Beast Villa over the past year, Gongsun Huaizhi was overjoyed.

"If you can control wild beasts and strange animals, and carry a mechanical crossbow on your back."

"Then we only need one person on top to control the crossbow machine and it can become a siege weapon. Hahahahaha, with hundreds of exotic beasts, isn't that equivalent to having a strong fortress-level mechanical firepower following it?"

"With just a special mechanism, we can build a magnificent city overnight!"

"Where is that brat?! I've wanted to join forces with the Divine Beast Villa for a long time, but I was suppressed by the patriarch. Hahahaha, this time I can finally get what I want!"

Gongsun Huaizhi couldn't wait.

Gongsun Wu Yue personally selected thirty craftsmen, and Gongsun Huaizhi led them personally, and they went out from here and headed straight to the south of the Yangtze River.

There was a bronze mechanical boat that did not rely on sails, but used a mechanism to rotate the propeller, and it broke through the water. Because there were only thirty people, just like the people who did business in the Gongsun family in the past, when this group of people arrived, Yan Daiqing was quite angry.

"Pulling people again!"

“Pulling people again!!!”

"Li Guanyi, a man, a man!"

The handsome young scholar wanted to eat the letter that Li Guanyi had sent him before!

The young monarch spoke very sincerely and promised not to kidnap anyone.

Suddenly, about thirty people arrived.

Okay, okay, you won’t target the academy or school anymore, but the family of martial arts instead, right?

Good, good, Li Guanyi, you are awesome!

Yan Daiqing had dark circles under his eyes and was pouring a cup of strong tea that was so strong that it could kill people. At this moment, he was filled with resentment. Even Xiao Zhi had to retreat three feet away and did not dare to talk to this guy face to face.

This period of time has proved that dealing with internal affairs is a painful thing.

All major world affairs, military forces, talents, and supplies in the rear all require logistics. Its implementation is boring and difficult, and it is as hard as the fighting generals at the front.

There is no war at the moment. The army in front is marching, which is great; the general is training his troops, which is great!
It’s great for the princes to recruit people!

As the logistics chief, Yan Daiqing even wanted to kill someone.

His teeth were grinding.

"Do you know how bad the financial situation is?"

"Do you know that Jiangnan is so poor that it can barely make ends meet?! You are enjoying yourself out there, but you are leaving the internal affairs and finances to me, right, Li Guanyi!!!"

He was already angry, and Xiao Zhi said calmly:
"Just tell me whether you have changed it or not."

Yan Daiqing was furious, but Yuan Zhi came with a letter from Li Guanyi. Yan Daiqing was furious, but he saw that Yuan Zhi, who was supposed to be on the same side with him, had a change of expression on his face. He took out a letter and said, "It's from the lord."

Yan Daiqing snatched it away and said, "I want to see what he has to say!"

But he was stunned.

Xiao Zhi and Pang Shuiyun came over to take a look, and saw Li Guan writing slowly: "The world has changed drastically. I have made an agreement with Emperor Ying that within three years, there will be no fighting in Jiangnan and the Central Plains. I will enter the Western Regions, and Jiangnan needs to rest and recuperate."

"It is nine characters."

"Build the wall high, accumulate grain widely, and become king slowly."

"Gongshu Ban's best weapon is [building walls]."

"Gentlemen, thank you for your help."

Build high walls, store up food supplies, and slowly claim the throne... Yan Daiqing's anger slowly dissipated. He looked at the word "build walls" and listened to Gongsun Huai talking about Li Guanyi, who captured thousands of soldiers alone, and sighed.

After washing his face and drinking a sip of extremely strong tea, Yan Daiqing returned to his post. Jiangnan quietly started a new task - opening up a special road system.

"The public transport mechanism, the wooden ox and the flowing horse, will be enlarged and galloped across the country."

"Thus, food, products, and news from all directions can be transmitted day and night without stopping. The products of farmers and Mohists can be delivered to different areas at the fastest speed."

"It can even transport troops."

"Thank you, Mr. Gongsun, for going to have a detailed discussion with Lei Laomeng and others in the logistics department to break down the technical barriers between [Divine Beast Villa], [Gongshu Family] and [Mohist Machinery], and see if the combination of these three can help our plan be completed a little bit..."

This is a huge project and plan. Yuan Zhi looked at Yan Daiqing and said, "Daiqing, why don't you take a rest now..." Yan Daiqing sneered, "Rest? How can I rest when you are like this?"

He took a sip of tea and said calmly: "Since we are waiting for the lord to gallop outside."

"His great wish is to connect Jiangnan with its products, commerce, and military personnel, just like the blood of a giant, so that they can be controlled as easily as an arm and fingers, and gather together as one. Since he has such a great wish, we should bring his vision closer."

Yan Daiqing was calm and composed, but still had a straightforward character:
"Gentlemen, please work hard!"

Yuan Zhi, Xiao Zhi, and even Pang Shuiyun all looked a little stern and responded with:
"Thank you."

The Gongshu family entered, and under the command of the Qilin Army, they combined the [Beast Taming Techniques of the Divine Beast Villa], [Mohist Mechanical Techniques], and [Gongshu Siege Equipment] to break down the barriers between each other's technologies, be open and honest, and then discover each other's technical barriers.

The other side has already solved it.

If the three factions join forces, they can create an even more powerful mechanism.

Everyone was very happy.

The office pressure is increased by ten.

Yan Daiqing, the logistics chief of the Qilin Army, suffered from stomachache as a result.

He often punched a puppet, who gritted his teeth and called himself Li Guanyi.

When Xiao Zhi saw this, he turned around and walked away, saying to others:

"One of my generation!"

........................

Li Guanyi didn't know that the young strategist from Jiangnan was scolding him. Gongsun Wu Yue discussed with him the issue of how to deal with the one thousand Chen troops. This was indeed a trouble. He couldn't kill them, nor could he let them go.

While Li Guanyi was thinking, news suddenly came that the logistics officers of the Chen army had arrived. The two leading men were young, but imposing and seemed to have strong martial arts skills. They were coming this way.

Li Guanyi had already learned the identities of the two men from Qi Junsong.

Zhou Liuying.

No doubt at night!
(End of this chapter)