At noon on February 5, the fifth year of Tianxuan, heroes from all armies were having fun in the tavern opposite the lord's hut. After the lord's hut and territory were upgraded in the Yihou territory, the tavern opposite was also upgraded at the same time. Now it can accommodate 500 people.

Carnival at the same time.

Although the atmosphere in the tavern was lively, a few heroes remained calm and restrained.

At 1 pm on February 5, the fifth year of Tianxuan, in a small conference room on the third floor of the Lord's Lodge, Qu Mao, Kong Ming, Xuande, Xinpin, Su Qiaoer, Silta Delta, Su Li, and Zhao Pan

, Sylvia Ocean, Zhang Da, Su Buqing and Sophie Trani and more than a dozen heroes gathered together and began to discuss with serious expressions.

Although when announcing the meeting, almost all the participating heroes were informed of the information about gunpowder, but when the formal meeting started, Xinping still had to convey the information about gunpowder and the Principality of Pengda to all the participating heroes again.

After all, in the conference room, Silta Delta, Su Li, Su Buqing and Sophie Trani did not know the information about gunpowder very well. Kong Ming and Sylvia Ocean knew the information about gunpowder most completely.

So after Xinping introduced the information on gunpowder technology, Sylvia Ocean introduced the changes in combat methods that gunpowder would bring to the navy and army with a more serious expression to the heroes present.

After listening to Sylvia Ocean's description, Zhao Pan scratched his head and asked: "Sir, after gunpowder is used in military applications, is it really as powerful as Sylvia said?"

Qu Mao nodded and said: "Zhao Pan, the actual situation is even worse than Sylvia's description. The gate of the fifth-level city wall should not be able to withstand a solid iron bullet fired by an artillery gun using gunpowder.

Even if the wall of the fifth-level city wall is hit by solid iron bullets from artillery three times in a row, a gap will definitely be blown out.

If there are howitzers or cannons, maybe a shell fired from five kilometers away can tear a gap of about 20 meters wide in the fifth-level city wall."

Zhao Pan first took a breath of air, and then said excitedly: "Sir, if this thing really exists, then I think there is a fifth-level heavy cavalry force of about 20,000 people. Basically, there is nothing in this world that can stop us.

The city wall.

Use artillery to tear open the gaps in the city wall and lead the fifth-order heavy cavalry in a mindless charge."

Qu Mao rolled his eyes, glared at Zhao Pan, and said: "When gunpowder can be applied to artillery, other lighter individual gunpowder weapons will naturally be used.

After the emergence of gunpowder, the cavalry had to gradually withdraw from the military order. If gunpowder weapons were available, the cavalry would carry out a concentrated charge and it would be no different from seeking death."

Zhang Da said: "Sir, since gunpowder is so powerful in military applications, I believe that we in Yihou Territory must have that kind of thing in our hands.

If we need to take the initiative to break out the main continent war again at the end of March, my subordinates suggest that we directly attack the Pengda Principality. Wouldn’t we be short of more than 1,600 soldiers? We have so many high-level warrior troops, are we afraid that we cannot defeat the Pengda Principality?”

Su Buqing also said: "Sir, otherwise the battle on the main continent should simply wait until the beginning of July in the fifth year of Tianxuan. At that time, the navy will transport the army, the garrison and even the imperial guards to the west coast of the east continent and directly launch a landing operation against the Principality of Pengda.

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The entire magic army is pressing forward, but my subordinates do not believe that 60,000 official magicians cannot make up for the gap of 1,600."

Sophie Trani thought for a long time and then said: "Sir, the gunpowder you mentioned is so powerful, but I feel that except for the attack range of magicians, which is not as good as gunpowder, our magic army can definitely do anything that gunpowder can do.

arrive.

The combat strategy Lord Su Buqing just mentioned is very enlightening. If the navy can transport us there, I believe that the combined force of the army, garrison, imperial guard and magic army can capture the entire Principality of Pengda within three months.

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Sylvia Ocean said: "The navy is also inclined to Lord Su Buqing's opinion, but the territory of Pengda Principality is at least equivalent to a medium-sized kingdom, so everyone should not take it lightly.

If we have to wait until early July to launch an attack, I think the navy basically has the capability to independently land and attack cities and seize territory. By then, offshore cities can be fully borne by the navy..."

Qu Mao waved his hand and said: "There is no need to continue talking. In fact, the lord's cabin has been discussing it for several days. The conclusion is that we will not move to the Principality of Pengda for the time being, at least before we launch the next war on the main continent. We will not take the initiative to find it."

The unhappiness of the Principality of Pengda.

Since there is scientific research on gunpowder in the Pengda Principality, the target of our next main continent battle in the Yi Hou Territory is likely to be the Qingyi Principality or the Kingdom of Dali."

Su Li said: "Sir, it is not clear to what extent Pengda Principality's gunpowder research has progressed. Can our intelligence personnel try to spend a lot of money to purchase some finished gunpowder and reverse engineer it?"

Zhao Pan said: "What a waste of money. Our Yihou Territory is already in a constant state of shortage of gold coins. It is better to find some special forces soldiers to sneak into the Principality of Pengda and either steal or rob..."

Qu Mao said: "Zhao Pan, our fight against the aboriginal forces is completely different from our fight against the chosen player lord forces. You must be mentally prepared."

Zhao Pan said: "Sir, no matter what kind of enemy they are, our Yihou Territory Army will never be afraid. We will completely tear them apart..."

Qu Mao rolled his eyes and said: "Zhao Pan, you first consider withdrawing troops from the Kingdom of Gillette, the Kingdom of Jili, the Kingdom of Napoleon and the Kingdom of Moner, including the injured soldiers of the army who have recovered and returned to the army. Your army will have a total of

How many troops are there? I'm actually not very confident that we can add 2 million troops by the end of March."

Silta Delta said: "Sir, if Master Zhang Da is willing to even out some of the war horses captured by the Moner Kingdom, Master Zhao Pan should be able to pull up a group of horses in a short time.

A fourth-level light cavalry force of more than 200,000 people..."

Qu Mao waved his hand and said: "The army not only has the cavalry corps, but also the long-range corps, the free corps and the special operations corps. The special operations corps is currently in the incubation stage and can be ignored for the time being, but the long-range corps and the free corps have to be

Think about it in advance.

Even if we pile up 200,000 fourth-level light cavalry, I estimate that the army's gap in high-level warriors will still be around 1 million."

Zhao Pan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at Qu Mao eagerly, and said, "Sir..."

Qu Mao waved his hand directly and said: "Zhao Pan, you can figure it out yourself, I can't collect so many recruitment coupons for high-level warriors at the moment.

Also, please don’t reveal the content of today’s meeting to your deputy commander-in-chief for the time being. I’m worried that too many people will know about it, and everyone won’t be able to control themselves from attacking the Pengda Principality.”

All the heroes said in unison: "Yes, sir."
Chapter completed!