Potato yields are indeed high.
But this could not withstand the large number of Yan troops.
Three hundred thousand soldiers and soldiers could not last more than a few days with their horses chewing the ground.
Therefore, King Zhu Di of Yan very wisely chose to continue the march. As long as Zhengcunba was captured, the southern army's food and baggage would be enough for them to reverse the situation of the war.
Three hundred thousand Yan troops continue to advance, aiming directly at Zhengcunba!
At the same time, Ma Fu, who had disappeared for many days, finally appeared and was carried to Li Jinglong with scars all over his body.
"what happened?"
"Where is peace? Where are the fifty thousand soldiers?"
As soon as Li Jinglong saw Ma Fu, he immediately asked.
He has never received any news of safety, and he doesn't know what went wrong.
The most recent time, Ping An told him that they were attacking a certain Xishan, and that Xishan was suspected of having sharp firearms.
But since then, the Ping An army seems to have suddenly disappeared, and there has been no news at all.
Li Jinglong was worried about this for a long time. After all, Ping'an was the founding general of the country and his combat power was there, not to mention that he had an army of 50,000 men under his command.
As a result, this carelessness caused everything to disappear!
Ma Fu finally saw Li Jinglong, knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
That day, he finally broke out of the Yan army's encirclement under the cover of General Ping An, but the Yan army scouts kept chasing him behind him.
This journey of horse binding was a near-death experience. In the end, he fell off a cliff and hid in a valley. Only then did he finally escape and ascend to heaven, getting rid of the Yan army scouts.
But Ma Fu also lost his way and didn't know the direction of the Confederate camp.
After all, he was from Liaodong. He had been hunted for three days and three nights while fighting in a foreign place, and he was already dizzy.
Fortunately, there is no end to the road. Ma Fu met a hunter who went up the mountain to hunt. With the help of the hunter, he successfully went down the mountain and found the direction of Zhengcunba.
However, for his savior, Ma Fu directly gave him a knife and killed Orion ruthlessly.
Because Ma Fu didn't dare to gamble whether the Yan Army scouts were still chasing him. If the hunter met the Yan Army scouts, his whereabouts would be exposed.
Finally, he returned to the Confederate camp, which shocked the entire Confederate army.
Looking at the Southern Army coach Li Jinglong in front of him, Ma Fu burst into tears.
"Commander!"
"They're all dead!"
"They are all dead, Commander!"
Fifty thousand men!
All died in battle!
He was the only one left!
When he thought of this, Ma Fu's heart felt like a knife.
Li Jinglong sighed after hearing this.
He originally had a glimmer of hope, but now his hope was completely shattered.
"Why are you going to attack Xishan?"
"Then what exactly is inside the Western Mountain?"
This is also the most difficult thing for Li Jinglong to understand!
What on earth is there in the Western Mountains that is worthy of Ping An’s determination to flatten the Western Mountains at all costs?
When Ma Fu heard this, he hurriedly looked around, only to find that his three-eyed gun was missing, and he immediately started looking for it with a face full of panic.
"What are you looking for?" Li Jinglong became even more confused when he saw this.
Is this guy going crazy?
Ma Fu panicked, crying and searching frantically.
Those three-eyed blunderbuss were bought with the lives of fifty thousand of their soldiers!
"Where are my things?"
"Who took my stuff?"
Ma Fu looked around frantically.
Li Jinglong became more and more confused when he saw this.
Fortunately, one of the guards brought the things over.
"Is it this firecracker?"
Ma Fu stepped forward and snatched the gun, and looked at it with tears streaming down his face.
"What on earth is this?" Li Jinglong asked curiously.
Ma Fu woke up and knelt down to offer the three-eyed gun to Li Jinglong.
"Commander, the name of this object is the 'Three-Eyed Gun', and it is a battlefield weapon invented by the Yan Army of Xishan!"
"Nearly 30,000 of my 50,000-strong army were killed by this sharp weapon!"
"What?" Li Jinglong was shocked and looked at the three-eyed gun in disbelief.
"This thing is just a firecracker, how can it be so lethal?"
"That's right, this thing is invincible within fifty steps. It doesn't require aiming or range!"
Ma Fu tried his best to popularize the knowledge of three-eyed gun, after all, they paid for it with their lives.
"Please ask the commander to immediately send someone to make these three-eyed guns, which are enough to change the current situation of the war!"
Ma Fu revealed the ultimate goal.
The reason why General Ping'an protected him and escaped was to let him bring back this battlefield weapon.
As long as the Confederate Army mass-produces these three-eyed blunderbuss and assembles them for Confederate soldiers, their combat power will increase more than ten times!
However, what Li Jinglong said next made Ma Fu feel like he had been struck by lightning.
"What? Is it just a firecracker?"
"You still talk about being 'invincible within fifty steps'. I think you are crazy, right?"
Although Li Jinglong is uneducated, he still has basic common sense.
Things like fire guns are completely useless.
Because the operation of the fire gun is too troublesome and the firing efficiency is too low.
Neither infantry nor cavalry are suitable to be equipped with this thing.
Moreover, the fire blunderbuss has the risk of exploding its barrel, and it is even more rejected by the soldiers of the three armies.
If it is a new type of artillery, Li Jinglong may still be concerned about it. After all, the artillery's lethality is indeed good.
But Li Jinglong really had no interest in this useless weapon.
"Commander!"
"This is what I saw with my own eyes, Marshal!"
"General Ping'an fought tooth and nail to escort the last general out of the siege, just to deliver this three-eyed blunderbuss into the hands of the commander-in-chief!"
Ma Fu was anxious. He couldn't believe that this would be the result in the end.
Fifty thousand soldiers died on the battlefield, but in the end they got a three-eyed blunderbuss, and Li Jinglong didn't even care!
"Okay, General Ma Fu is seriously injured, go down and recuperate quickly!"
"Commander, three-eyed gun..."
"I know what I'm doing, and someone will send General Ma Fu down to recuperate!"
Li Jinglong waved his hand impatiently and drove the person away without giving Ma Fu a chance to continue.
As for the three-eyed gun, Li Jinglong threw it directly into a corner without paying any attention to it.
Firstly, he really doesn't like firecrackers, and secondly, now is not suitable for mass production.
Craftsmen need raw materials to produce firecrackers. The army is now retreating to Zhengcunba. Where can they find these raw materials for craftsmen?
Besides, is this thing really that amazing? Can it really be "invincible within fifty steps"?
Li Jinglong would only sneer at this statement!
What he is more worried about now is that Zhu Di's army is attacking crazily and has broken through the defense line set by his own army.
Next, the two armies will start a decisive battle at Zhengcunba to determine the direction of this battle.
Although Li Jinglong has more troops, the problem is that there are many internal factions and they cannot really be unified.
Especially if he failed to capture Peiping, his prestige as the commander-in-chief of the three armies was greatly damaged, and he was vaguely unable to command the military leaders.
Li Jinglong became extremely irritable when he thought of this.
Damn Qu Neng!
What an absolute waste!
We almost managed to break through Peking back then, but now we can’t!
If Peiping is not broken, our army is now in an embarrassing situation, and may even be in danger of being attacked from both sides!
"Report——"
"Commander, Yan Jun is here!"
As soon as these words came out, Li Jinglong's expression changed drastically.
He hurriedly climbed up the camp wall and saw dust flying not far away, and then the densely packed Yan army appeared in his field of vision.
And the Yan King Zhu Di, who was stirring up the world, suddenly appeared on the battlefield!
