The mysterious world: Start working hard from the beggar camp!

Chapter 494: Profit first, not helping someone in need

Siping Prefecture City, Guizhou.

Gao Yingxiang, standing on the west gate tower, looked at the overwhelming enemy troops outside the city with a dark face.

"Hasn't there been any definite response from Li Zicheng's troops yet?"

He asked Liu Zhe, his trusted general standing beside him.

"King Chuang, no news yet!"

Liu Zhe's face was very ugly, and he said angrily, "Li Zicheng's troops are stationed in Pingxi Weicheng, a thousand miles to the east!"

"He sent a message via pigeon earlier saying that he had to deal with the troops of Zuo Liangyu's generals Lu Ding and Ma Jinzhong who were about to enter Guizhou, and he had no extra troops to support us."

"But now Hong Chengchou's army surrounding Siping City has more than a million soldiers, and they are all elite soldiers!"

"The enemy we are facing now is far superior to Lu Ding's troops who were confronting Li Zicheng in every aspect!"

"The enemy troops outside the city are led by Hong Chengchou himself. Among the one million soldiers here, there are less than 200,000 elite veterans. How could they be a match for Hong Chengchou?"

"Li Zicheng is killing someone with a borrowed knife, and he is not helping the dying!"

Others may not know, but as Lu Ding, who has worked with Li Zicheng for several years, isn't he clear about Li Zicheng's current intentions?
After the deaths of Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong, two leaders of the rebel army, Li Zicheng sought leadership of the rebel alliance.

After the rebel troops broke out from Huangzeling and headed south to Huguang, he quickly found an excuse to leave Gao Yingxiang's team and set up his own faction.

I don’t know why, but this guy Li Zicheng’s luck is much better than Gao Yingxiang’s.

In the past one or two years when the rebel army was constantly causing trouble in Huguang area, the development of Li Zicheng's troops completely surpassed that of Gao Yingxiang.

Among the four major rebel armies in the south today, Li Zicheng has the most elite soldiers and generals. Among his 1.5 million soldiers, 500,000 are elite combat soldiers.

If Li Zicheng came to help this time and worked together with Gao Yingxiang's troops to deal with Hong Chengchou's army, they would be able to compete with it.

However, after Hong Chengchou's army besieged the city, Li Zicheng found an excuse not to help. It is easy to imagine what he was planning.

"Humph!"

Gao Yingxiang snorted coldly after hearing this and said, "Lu Ding, go and join Huang Long immediately, gather all our soldiers and prepare to break out of the East City!"

"Since Li Zicheng can be the first one, I will also be the fifteenth one. I will divert the trouble to others and let him have a taste of being attacked from both sides by Hong Chengchou's army and Zuo Liangyu's army!"

"We can't defend Siping City anymore. We might as well give it up as soon as possible and head straight for Pingxi City after the army breaks through."

"After arriving at Pingxiwei, we will immediately turn south and have Li Zicheng's troops hold back Hong Chengchou's army!"

"Hong Chengchou just wants Guizhou, right? We give it to him and keep him away from this plague god."

He knew very well that he was no match for Hong Chengchou, and since Li Zicheng would not come to his rescue, he could only choose to stay away from him.

Before Hong Chengchou's army besieged the city, he personally led his troops in a fierce battle with Hong Chengchou. As a result, not only was he defeated by Hong Chengchou in three moves, but his soldiers were also quickly defeated.

Even Gao Yingxiang could not have imagined that Hong Chengchou, the civil commander, had quietly broken through to the initial sixth level of cultivation and also possessed a life-saving divine weapon!
Although Gao Yingxiang and several of his core generals had reached the peak of level five cultivation, they were no match for Hong Chengchou's group.

If he had not been lucky enough in the previous battle and used the military formation to block the attack of Hong Chengchou's own divine weapon, he would probably have died on the spot.

Fortunately, he retreated back to Siping Prefecture City, and now he didn't even have the slightest thought of fighting Hong Chengchou head-on.

Since Li Zicheng did not come to support, Gao Yingxiang's only way to survive was to immediately lead his troops to abandon the city and flee.

Although Gao Yingxiang hated and was angry about Li Zicheng's behavior of watching him die without helping, he could do nothing about it.

It's nothing, Li Zicheng has been too lucky in the past two years. His powerful general Liu Zongmin recently broke through to the initial level of level six, which makes people envious and jealous.

As Gao Yingxiang reluctantly ordered to abandon the city and flee, half an hour later, this extremely important Siping Prefecture city easily fell into the hands of Hong Chengchou.

Surprisingly, Hong Chengchou did not send a large army to pursue Gao Yingxiang's troops, but instead launched a large-scale purge in Siping Prefecture.

The shrewd Hong Chengchou knew that it was totally against his own interests to pay a huge price to eliminate these rebel forces.

He also wanted to send these rebel armies to harm the officials and gentry families of the Ming Dynasty in all directions, making the current chaotic world as chaotic as possible.

Now that Hong Chengchou has successfully captured most of the Yunnan-Guizhou region, he only wants to drive away the various rebel forces entrenched in Guizhou and will not kill them.

In a word: At present, only a sufficiently chaotic world is in line with one's own interests.

……

Li Dingguo did not know that Zhang Xianzhong and other rebel leaders had already embarked on a path that was completely different from the established history.

He was in Jinzhou City, the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, setting up the fifth teleportation array in his current jurisdiction.

Because the main material for building the teleportation array, Kongming Stone, is too rare, the Renaissance Army does not have many Kongming Stones in stock. Even with their natal artifact, the Da Ding, a refining artifact that can perfectly refine a large-scale primary teleportation array, they can only refine nine sets in total.

Li Dingguo would naturally not just randomly choose a place to set up such a precious teleportation array.

The only towns that have built and deployed primary large-scale teleportation arrays are the northern capital, Lingshan City in Jiaozhou Bay, Chang'an City, and Yangzhou City.

There is also the Jinzhou City which is under construction and layout.

The five large towns selected are all strategic locations, which facilitate the rapid deployment of troops and the transportation of money and supplies by the Fusion Army.

He will not build and arrange the remaining four teleportation arrays for the time being.

After all, before obtaining more Kongming Stones, there are only nine teleportation arrays, and one less will be needed, so it is impossible to arrange them casually.

This requires deciding the locations of the remaining four large teleportation arrays based on real-time conditions in the future, so as to make the best use of them.

Li Dingguo is now arranging and building a teleportation array. The reason why he chose Jinzhou instead of Zhenjiang Fort in Liaodong as Wan'er and Cao Bianjiao thought was that he made the decision after repeated consideration.

Both the Goguryeo Dynasty currently occupied by Huang Taiji and the Wa Kingdom in the east are located on the seaside.

In the future, the main force of the Restoration Army that attacks these two forces will definitely rely mainly on sea raids.

In this way, Jinzhou City is the only best choice for formation in Liaodong area.

He spent three days, leading thousands of craftsmen and tens of thousands of soldiers, to complete the construction of the teleportation array located in the large square in front of the Jinzhou City Lord's Mansion.

"The teleportation array has begun testing!"

"Put in the spirit stone!"

"Lock on the coordinates of the northern capital as the teleportation point!"

"start!"

After repeatedly checking whether the teleportation array's construction was qualified, Li Dingguo ordered an immediate test.

Several teams of soldiers who had been waiting at the core array hub of the teleportation array quickly placed hundreds of spirit stones into the energy center.

What Li Dingguo has inherited now is only a primary teleportation array. The maximum straight-line distance of teleportation is only one million miles, and it is powerless beyond that.

According to the introduction of the inheritance of the natal artifact Da Ding, only 100,000 people can be teleported each time, and it costs 100 low-grade spirit stones to activate it once.

Spiritual stones of all levels have always been precious and scarce materials in this world. Even though the spiritual energy of this world has gradually recovered, the veins that can mine spiritual stones are still very rare.

Within the current jurisdiction of the Renaissance Army, there are only three discovered primary spirit stone mines.

The largest spirit stone vein can only produce 10,000 spirit stones per month without damaging the origin of the vein and under the condition of sustainable recycling mining.

Of course, if you exhaust all resources and carry out destructive mining in one go, you can mine tens of millions of primary spirit stones.

However, no force would be so short-sighted as to destructively mine out all the extremely precious spiritual stone mines in their hands at once.

You should know that any spirit stone vein is a node where spiritual energy overflows from the spiritual veins of heaven and earth, and can continuously produce spirit stones.

Only by reasonable mining and utilization can sustainable recycling be achieved.

Even though the Renaissance Army has now conquered the entire northern land, the total reserves of spirit stones of all levels only add up to tens of millions.

Ninety-nine percent of them are low-grade spirit stones.

Don’t underestimate the teleportation arrays built by Li Dingguo. A one-way transmission of personnel and supplies only requires a hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Over the years, it is a horrific consumption.

With the current spiritual stone reserves of the Renaissance Army, they cannot do this even if these teleportation arrays are operated around the clock.

It’s nothing, the reserves of spirit stones are insufficient.

So under normal circumstances, even if there are only these few teleportation arrays, they will mostly be idle.

Among all the formation inheritances that Li Dingguo has obtained so far, spirit stones are the only energy crystal cores used to activate the teleportation formation.

As for other spiritual energy crystal cores such as magic cores and soul beads, they cannot be replaced.

It is estimated that this is determined by the characteristics of the teleportation array, which is very different from other arrays.

"Buzz..."

As the core energy hub of the teleportation array was filled with spirit stones, after verification, a combat soldier, riding a spirit beast warhorse, entered the teleportation area.

The teleportation array manager, who had undergone multiple rounds of operational training, activated the teleportation array.

A silver-white light shot up into the sky and then disappeared without a trace. The warrior in the transfer area and his spirit beast horse disappeared instantly.

Amid everyone's eager anticipation, about a quarter of an hour passed, and this teleportation array, which covered an area of ​​​​one hundred acres, once again burst out with a silver-white light that shot up into the sky.

As the light faded, a large convoy of about 10,000 people appeared in the transmission area.

"The transmission was successful!"

"This is amazing, isn't it? Jinzhou is a million miles away from the northern capital, and it's so quick to make a round trip!"

"This... this is the logistics department's convoy, using the teleportation array to deliver supplies to the Navy's Fifth Fleet stationed in Jinzhou!"

“This is so convenient!”

"It's a pity that each teleportation consumes a lot of spirit stones, so I can't use the teleportation array at will."...

The soldiers who were watching the test of the teleportation array were amazed and couldn't help talking about it.

In this vast world, since the demise of the Xian Qin Dynasty in ancient times, the teleportation arrays connecting the east, west, south and north were also completely destroyed, and there is no trace of the teleportation arrays anymore.

Now, the teleportation arrays that Li Dingguo has completed have reproduced the magic of the Xian Qin Dynasty, which naturally shocks people.

"Whoosh!"

A figure jumped out from the teleportation array and landed in front of Li Dingguo, reporting, "Grand Commander!"

"In order not to waste the spiritual stones consumed in this transmission, I will also deliver the military supplies allocated to the Fifth Fleet."

The person who came was Zhao Juan, one of the persons in charge of the logistics department.

It was also her first time to ride on a teleportation array. She was so excited that her face turned red and her expression was a little excited.

This is also normal.

As one of the persons in charge of the logistics department, she was well aware of the inconvenience of transporting large quantities of materials over long distances, which often required a huge amount of manpower and material resources to deliver enough materials to destinations millions of miles away.

Now with such a convenient teleportation array, large quantities of materials can be transferred in a moment, which is extremely convenient.

For the Restoration Army, this is definitely a milestone event with countless benefits.

In the future, the workload of the logistics department must be reduced by at least 30%!
And this is just the logistics department.

The most important significance of the teleportation array is that it connects the east, west, south and north, and can provide sufficient manpower and material support to the soldiers fighting on the front line, making the enemy despair.

"Well, that's good."

Li Dingguo said to Zhao Juan, "Finish your work first."

"Since the teleportation array has been opened in Jinzhou City, we should treat it as the base camp for the next round of war offensive."

"In a year at most, our army will launch a war of genocide against the remnants of the Later Jin Dynasty headed by Huang Taiji, as well as against the Japanese. We need to start preparing now."

He received a letter from Wan'er brought by Dameng yesterday and learned the general situation of the war with the Ryukyu Dynasty.

Given the character of the Japanese pirates, they would certainly not accept the loss of such an important large base, and would certainly find ways to launch a retaliatory action against the Fuxing Army.

Unfortunately, given the capabilities of the Japanese pirates, it is not easy to launch a large-scale retaliation against the Fuxing Army.

The Renaissance Army is different from ordinary big forces, it is a behemoth.

Although the Japanese pirates are brutal and aggressive, they are not stupid and it is impossible for them to use the tactic of adding fuel to the fire and come to die.

Ordinary minor fights are like child's play and cannot cause any serious damage to the Fuxing Army.

However, if the Japanese pirates wanted to launch a large-scale retaliation, they would need too many personnel and materials. It would take at least a year and a half just to formulate plans and complete war preparations.

With this time buffer, it won't be the Japanese pirates coming to retaliate, but the Fuxing Army will take the initiative to launch a massive cross-sea battle and invade the Japanese pirates' homeland!
Every aspect of the Restoration Navy is far superior to that of Japan. How could it possibly allow the other side to launch retaliatory actions step by step?
After receiving the news from Wan'er yesterday, Li Dingguo decided to lead the Fifth Fleet stationed at Jinzhou Port to the east to capture Tamra Island of the Goguryeo Dynasty in the near future.

Jeju Island is nearly times larger than the main island of Ryukyu, and is large enough to be built into a forward base for the Restoration Army.

As long as they can capture Jeju Island, they can lock down Goguryeo and Japan and deal a severe blow to their naval forces.

If things go well, it is not impossible to completely destroy the enemy's navy.

Whether it is the Goguryeo Dynasty occupied by Huang Taiji today, or the island country of Japan, their navies are not strong and are not on the same level as the Fuxing Navy.

Once the navies of Goguryeo and Japan were destroyed, they would undoubtedly be trapped.

Not only could they not even think about retaliating against the Fusion Army at that time, it would have been difficult to even protect themselves.

Zhao Juan took the order and left, leading the logistics department's convoy out of the teleportation array in an orderly manner and heading straight to the Fifth Fleet camp near Jinzhou Port.

(End of this chapter)