Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

"In that case, we should prepare in advance."

Qin Ming thought for a moment and concluded that if the other party wanted to come over, there were actually not many ways.

In addition to the estuary of the Changhe waterway, there are the ports of Jiangnan and Lingnan.

As long as we can control these areas well, even if the other party comes, they may not be able to get the upper hand.

"Let's go back first. It's not a good idea to stay here for a long time."

Seeing that the sky was gradually getting dark, Chang Baishan clapped his hands, breaking the heavy atmosphere among the crowd.

After spending several days, Qin Ming took them on a journey of many stops and starts, and finally returned to Luocheng in the Central Plains.

Within Los Angeles, thousands of local craftsmen have begun building factories.

Qin Ming instructed them that the first step was to build a steel plant.

Only with the steel plant could they lay train tracks, thus allowing resources from different places to flow better.

As for some core industries, such as hot air balloons, shotguns, automatic muskets and steam engine technologies, Qin Ming still placed them in Lingnan.

After all, this is his base camp.

After returning to the military camp, Liu Chuang rushed to find him.

"Your Highness, it seems we have angered the entire imperial court. They are sending out troops again and shrinking their defenses in the hope of starting a war with us."

"It's normal for them to want to fight, but don't pay attention to them now."

Qin Ming knew that the threat on his side did not come from Emperor Qian.

But it came from the extremely powerful Yan Dynasty overseas.

Since Qin Ming captured the Central Plains, Daqian's troops directly withdrew their defense line and all headed north.

Now the entire territory of Daqian has shrunk by more than 40%.

Shrinking the front line actually gave them some breathing space.

"By the way, have they made any breakthroughs in technology?"

Qin Ming suddenly thought of a question, so he immediately asked Liu Chuang.

As the commander of the vanguard army, Liu Chuang was the easiest to come into contact with the enemy troops.

After hearing about Qin Ming's culture, he said with some distress:

"Yes, and the changes are huge. Now they have begun to imitate our weapons and produce them, and they can even be deployed on the front line."

"This has caused great casualties to our troops. Fortunately, we have a lot of new soldiers joining us, otherwise our troops would have suffered heavy casualties."

Qin Ming and Da Qian share a border, and there is constant friction between the two sides.

No matter how we defend ourselves, their troops will eventually leak their technology.

But Qin Ming didn't expect that their speed would be so fast.

This reminded him of what Ye Shoujiang had told him before: the Yan Dynasty had extremely high productivity.

It is inevitable that Emperor Qian will leak this technology.

Once a two-sided attack occurs and both sides are armed with firearms, Qin Ming will be under tremendous pressure.

"Let's make sniper rifles next, and have the soldiers on the front lines start building defensive facilities. Then we'll start the fortress battle."

After thinking for a moment, Qin Ming directly changed their battle strategy.

This surprised Liu Chuang very much.

"Your Highness, we can reach the capital in another year. Why are we suddenly building a defense line now?"

Generally speaking, building a line of defense is a preparation for fighting a protracted war.

Qin Ming and his troops are now unstoppable, so there is no need to do such a thing.

Seeing Liu Chuang's puzzled look, Qin Ming patted his shoulder and then whispered:

"General Ye is here, so call all the generals over. Let's have a meeting tonight. I have something very important to tell you."

Although Liu Chuang didn't know what Qin Ming was going to say.

But seeing his serious expression, I could naturally sense that something was wrong this time.

So he nodded immediately without saying anything.

"understood."

Qin Ming returned to the tent, took out the topographic maps of several of their provincial capitals, and began to plan carefully.

The Central Plains is a vast plain. Although it is very suitable for farming and has good economic development, it has a huge problem.

They have no defenses!

Just like why Emperor Qian didn't want Qin Ming to cross the river.

This is because the Changhe River can serve as a barrier for Daqian. With this barrier, it will be difficult for Qin Ming to cross the river and seize the Central Plains.

After crossing the long river, Qin Ming did shatter their fantasy and took over the Central Plains.

But the problem he faced was how to defend the Central Plains.

If the large northern army attacks, Qin Ming will have no advantage and can only fight them to the death.

In order to alleviate this disadvantage, Qin Ming could only build some defensive facilities himself.

"Your Highness! Everyone is here."

In the evening, Liu Chuang finally arrived at Qin Ming's tent with a group of brothers.

Ye Shoujiang also came with them.

As a general with extremely high prestige in the army, Ye Shoujiang naturally sat next to Qin Ming.

After everyone sat down, Qin Ming turned to look at Ye Shoujiang.

"General Ye, please explain the current situation to them."

"no problem."

Ye Shoujiang nodded, then took out the drawings he had prepared long ago and began to tell everyone about the transactions between Daqian and the overseas dynasties.

and the various ports they might attack.

After explaining the situation in detail, Ye Shoujiang looked around and said seriously:

"Your Highness, it's not that you don't want to fight for the capital, but there is no chance now. If we don't prepare in advance and those overseas armies really arrive, everything will be over."

"Three hundred thousand troops, is that true?"

Liu Chuang's face was still full of disbelief. To be honest, the most intense war he had ever fought was the Battle of Changhe.

At that time, the imperial court's troops had barely reached this level.

But this overseas dynasty could easily arrange so many large ships and bring so many soldiers.

This gave him a dreamlike feeling of unreality.

Many generals around were also hesitant. To be honest, after marching for many years, they simply did not believe that such a powerful existence could exist.

Chen Pi sighed and slowly said:

"Your Majesty, I want to go and see it for myself."

"can."

Qin Ming knew that he had to suddenly turn all the troops around and even restrained them and forced them to stay where they were to build fortifications.

There will definitely be a lot of people who will feel dissatisfied.

Only by letting them see with their own eyes the power of that dynasty can they feel at ease working here.

At this moment, Ye Shoujiang on the side suddenly nodded.

"General Chen is right. If you want to go, then take me with you. I would like to ask for your approval, Your Highness."

Hearing this, everyone around was stunned.

Cao Chuan said quickly:

"General Ye, why don't you familiarize yourself with the things in the barracks first? As for going out to sea, we can let the others handle it."

Qin Ming looked at Ye Shoujiang curiously, wanting to hear his response.

At this time, Ye Shoujiang shook his head and said:

"I must go there in person this time, because I will discuss the possibility of a counterattack with His Highness after I return."

"What!?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes widened, their faces filled with disbelief.