Now Emperor Zhao only knows that the King of Han gave the rebels firearms because of his friendship with Long Bing'er. He doesn't know that the King of Han directly lost half of his family fortune to the rebels, and he doesn't know that the King of Han and the current Emperor of Chu are actually
They were all discussing among the rebels how to deal with Zhao Guo.
If Emperor Zhao knew this, he would probably be furious.
Of course, due to the state of Chu, it is impossible to state these clearly.
Emperor Zhao thought the blame for this matter lay with the State of Zhou, but in fact it was still the State of Chu.
Fortunately, Chu and Zhou will not take advantage of Zhao's domestic worries to interfere in Zhao's affairs.
Nowadays, the State of Chu is busy managing the grasslands and reducing the tax burden on the people. It has to be said that Xiao Zhi is indeed a qualified regent. The first thing he did after taking office was to temporarily slow down the development of other aspects except the necessary firearms research and development and assembly.
Reduce taxes on people and give them time to recuperate.
Three consecutive years of war have exhausted the people and money, spending military pay and recruiting countless civilians. It's time to recuperate.
In addition, because Chu State thought that Zhao State had promised to confiscate the tax revenue from the fief, King Feng symbolically confiscated it for three years. Within three years, all Weizhou's tax revenue belonged to the imperial court.
You must know that the tax revenue provided by Weizhou today has long surpassed the capital and has become the richest state in the world, followed by Yunzhou, which is developing simultaneously in the Zhou Dynasty.
Today Weizhou and Yunzhou look like factories in the Central Plains.
Xiao Zhi also used the wealth generated by Weizhou to start a large amount of infrastructure construction in Chu State. The agricultural model could actually copy Weizhou's development model, building canals to divert water, and improving waterwheels.
In short, Chu State has now stopped the pace of military conquest and restored the national economy and people's livelihood to the maximum extent.
Anyway, no neighboring country can beat the small country of Chu. It dares to jump out and teach you how to behave in minutes.
You must know that slowing down military conquest does not mean that I will not develop force.
The Zhou State was a little more comfortable than the Chu State. Most of the work during the attack on the grassland was done by the Chu State. The Zhou State did not waste too much money and people, and focused on defense and waited to attack when the time came.
Although he paid a one-time compensation to the Chu State, he also gained a lot of benefits from the grassland, especially the 5,000 grassland youths later exchanged from the Chu State.
In order to quickly conquer the small countries in the Western Regions in two years, Zhou State has begun to restart the heavy cavalry that was abandoned early by the economically weak Chu State because the cost was too high.
Nowadays, firearms and heavy cavalry have developed together in the Zhou Kingdom.
There is no way. Nowadays, there is a generation gap between the firearms of Zhou State and Chu State, so we have to find other sources to supplement them.
Do you really think that the five thousand green and strong whites on this grassland were exchanged for white?
These are the foundation for training heavy cavalry.
Moreover, Li Xun felt that the power of today's firearms was still a bit uninteresting and too cumbersome. In the end, people still needed to complete the harvest. There was nothing wrong in the direction of developing heavy cavalry.
The artillery is powerful, but difficult to move!
The Chu State Fire Gun is indeed single-person and portable, but it is low in power and is disposable.
When firearms can be operated and reloaded quickly by a single person and the power of individual firearms is greatly improved and everyone becomes a firearms soldier, then the era of heavy cavalry should come to an end.
While Zhou and Chu are flourishing and prosperous, I am afraid that only Zhao is now in deterioration. At this time, those who are deceived by Chu and Zhou will be fooled.
But now Zhao Guo has finally reacted and started to develop his own firearms, but he just doesn’t know when he will be able to develop them...
When the Zhao court finally decided to start developing firearms, the battle to defend the city in Shuzhou was still going on.
Following the timely rain in Shuzhou and Jiang Hong's instigation, Zhao's soldiers began a new round of siege. In order to boost morale, the lieutenants went up to beat drums in person to cheer.
Facts have proved that climbing first to capture the flag is not that easy. Now, after several hours of attack, the ladder has stabilized.
The angle of the city defense crossbow is limited. As long as they rush under the city wall, they will be unable to fire the city defense crossbow. However, it is true that they will be poured with hot golden juice and knocked down by rolling stones and wooden logs.
However, after the ladder was erected, there was a 40% winning rate. Zhao's soldiers immediately began to climb up the ladder. Although everyone knew that the first one to go up would die, everyone knew that the first one to climb up would win.
The allure of the flag’s military exploits.
There must be brave men under the heavy reward, so many people began to climb up the ladder desperately.
There are always times when the rolling stone and wood on the top can't be connected. Maybe when you go up, the opponent just can't connect!
If you get to Capture the Flag first, it will be worth ten thousand taels of silver!
In this way, every time Zhao soldiers climbed up, they would be knocked down by rolling stones and falling logs.
Just when the Zhao army was preparing for the next round of climbing, the weather that had changed from heavy rain to light rain finally stopped.
The soldiers guarding the city looked at each other, then looked at the Zhao soldiers who were climbing up from below, and finally reopened the firearms that had not been used and were wrapped in animal skins and waterproofed.
The soldiers of Zhao State who were climbing were holding up their shields while climbing up, but they didn't see any rolling stones falling down for a long time. They couldn't help but be curious. Could it be that the other party had used up all the rolling stones and wood?
After having this thought in his mind, Zhao Guoshi climbed even more energetically, which meant that he was very likely to be the first to capture the flag in this round!
After having achieved this feat, my family will be considered a member of the ranks of nobles!
This is how he suddenly became a nobleman of Zhao State from an ordinary big-headed soldier!
Illiterate common people have few opportunities to cross class!
Finally, when they climbed to the top with their shields in hand, someone thrust a black can into their arms before they could swing their swords: "Brother, hold on to this..."
Before these Zhao soldiers had time to think about what this was, they were pushed down by the people on the opposite side with a hammer.
boom!
Suddenly there was an explosion underneath the ladder, and the originally erected ladder suddenly became shaky.
When the general guarding the city wall saw this scene, he waved his hand and said: "Here comes someone! The catapults will no longer throw stones! Please put on firearms!"
In this way, the rebel weapons once again gained the upper hand.
Jiang Hong, who was standing on the watchtower in the Zhao State military camp watching the battle, saw this scene and his mentality almost collapsed!
It was almost a success!
God, can’t this rain keep falling for another half hour?!
Their attack on the city is in full swing and the rain suddenly stopped on your side?
In ancient times, Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind, but now Jiang Hong wants to borrow a wave of autumn rain on the spot.
But it was obvious that God did not give Jiang Hong this face. It was not until the roars came from the battlefield that Jiang Hong finally had to accept the reality. Today, the city would probably not be defeated.