Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

"Oh, Su Zheng's little nephew, you've grown so big, the last time I saw you, it was when you were seven or eight years old, haha. "

Uncle Huang, long time no see.

Huang Xin walked into the lounge wearing armor, and greeted Su Zheng with a smile after seeing Su Zheng, and Su Zheng also stood up and saluted in return.

However, Huang Xin's eyes were attracted by He Jing next to Su Zheng. With a graceful posture and wearing tight armor, Huang Xin's eyes were straight, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Seeing this, Su Zheng blocked Huang Xin's sight from looking at He Jing, and after coughing lightly, he said

, "Ahem, Uncle Huang, my team has already advanced in the direction of the invasion of Tide City, and our two armies can meet this afternoon."

Huang Xin's mind was completely attracted by He Jing, and seeing that Su Zheng blocked his vision, he moved his position again, stared at He Jing and said

, "Okay, no problem, no problem..... Hey, this is your guard knight? Where did you get this? Is this knight interested in being loyal to me, I can offer a higher salary than Su Zheng.

Hearing Huang Xin's words, Su Zheng was a little unhappy, he was poaching people in front of him, he didn't take himself seriously at all, and the war was imminent, but he treated his only ally with such an attitude.

Now Su Zheng understands why Tide City is only targeting Merlin City, and the city lord of Merlin City has some brains.

Not only does he not have the ability to govern, but he also thinks about how to have fun all day long, and sooner or later he will destroy the city of Merlin.

Su Zheng waved his cloak, and his tone became a little angry:

"Yellow City Lord, it seems that you are very confident that you can resist the attack of Tide City, since this is the case, then I will lead the team back to the city, and the City Lord of Lao Huang will vent his anger to Tide City for us."

After that, Su Zheng waved his hand, intending to leave with the guards, but seeing this, Huang Xin hurriedly stopped:

"Hey, Su Zheng's little nephew, what do you mean by this, you said that you should join forces, you can't go back on your word!"

Su Zheng was speechless, cooperating with such a teammate, Su Zheng was really afraid that he would not die under the enemy's knife but would be killed by his teammates.

The old man of the think tank beside Huang Xin had already realized that his city lord's operation had angered Su Zheng, seeing that Huang Xin questioned Su Zheng instead, he hurriedly came out to mediate:

"Lord Su, don't be angry first, our city lord is very happy that you can come to support us, the enemy has four thousand people, only if our two cities are united, can we resist the enemy's attack, and then the other city-states on the sidelines will attack Tide City, if we ...... now

." According to the information I received, Fengling City has already dismissed the recruited auxiliaries, and has no intention of attacking Ted City.

Because you spread the news of our joint crusade against them, Teide City has carried out another numerical expansion, and it is reported that their actual strength may now be as high as 8,000 men, including 5,000 regular troops and more than 3,000 auxiliaries, and not only that, but he has also hoarded a large number of weapons, and if anyone attacks, they can leave and organize a large number of auxiliaries to defend the city.

Su Zheng's words made Huang Xin and the old man stunned in place.

They didn't know any of the information, and they didn't have spies in Ted City, so they couldn't get the news.

Su Zheng knew that this was the news deliberately released by Tide City, and there was a certain amount of moisture in it, mainly to deter other city-states and make them dare not act rashly.

However, with the financial resources of Ted City, it is really possible to organize a large number of auxiliaries in a short period of time, although the combat effectiveness is much worse than that of the regular training troops, but the defense of the city is completely sufficient.

In fact, Su Xincheng is also possible, although Su Xincheng only had 500 soldiers at the beginning, but if someone really attacked the city, at the most critical juncture, he could take out all the money at the bottom of the city lord's mansion, so that civilians could assist in defending the city, plus the Su family won the hearts of the people, Su Xincheng estimated that seventy or eighty percent of the civilians could be immediately converted into a city defense force.

Regarding Su Zheng's news, Huang Xin asked several questions one after another:

"Su Zheng's little nephew, where did you get the news? Is it reliable? How did this Tide City know that we were going to unite? Wu Chengwei! Did you betray me?"

As he spoke, he became suspicious of the old man beside him, who was his henchman, and he knew all the plans.

"Lord Huang has been wronged, how could I betray you!" The

old man knelt down on his knees with a plop, and seeing this, Su Zheng also grabbed his hair speechlessly, took a deep breath and said to Huang Xin:

"City Lord Huang, the news of your recruitment of auxiliaries and alliance with me is now making you know all over Meilin City, do you need anyone else to betray you? Even the merchants passing by know our plan. "

This... These damn businessmen!Missed a big deal!"

Huang Xin patted his thigh and said resentfully, hearing this, Su Zheng covered his forehead, and was directly laughed by Huang Xin.

At this time, Su Zheng really wanted to ask what the relationship between his father and his mother was!

"Okay, okay, Huang City Lord, the top priority is to immediately organize all the combat power to resist the invasion of Ted City." "

Okay, the team is almost finished, we can set off!"

Su Zheng really didn't want to take Huang Xin, Su Zheng was really afraid of being sold by this pig teammate, Su Zheng regretted uniting with Meilin City, and he knew that he would play by himself.

The original plan has been ruined by Merlin City, and now it can only rely on artillery to show its might, as long as the cannon is fired, the enemy will definitely be confused. Even if he dared to attack, Su Zheng was confident that he would use iron sand bombs to resist the enemy's offensive, and in the era of cold weapons, as long as the attacker lost a certain degree of troops, the army's morale would immediately collapse.

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Nearly 3,000 soldiers of Merlin City marched in the direction of the invasion of Teide City.

There were 800 heavily armored soldiers, 200 cavalrymen, armed with heavy guns and swords, and the rest were all fully armed, all of them were chainmail, and even the auxiliaries were wearing chain mail.

However, in the era of cold weapons, even if the weapons and equipment are the same, the difference in combat effectiveness is very large.

Regular soldiers are long-trained, and even without any equipment, they are better than a heavily armed but untrained peasant.

This is also one of the reasons why the ancient dynasties did not attach importance to firearms or even resist firearms, muskets can be quickly mastered, only need to know how to use muskets, you can exert the power of muskets, greatly narrowing the difference between the individual combat effectiveness of the imperial army and the rebel army, and naturally threatened the rule of the nobles and the emperor.

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The city-state of Meilin City is about 17 kilometers away from Dongzhai Village, and after 5 hours of marching, the current army of Meilin City is still about 5 kilometers away from the target location, but this distance is still quite far from the cold weapon era.

Scouts from both sides spotted each other and launched reconnaissance on each other.

Half an hour later, Su Zheng's team also arrived and officially joined the army in Merlin City.

The coalition forces did not set up camp, but set up a temporary command tent and began to summarize the results of the scout's reconnaissance for half an hour.