Black Dragon Kingdom

   Chapter 587 The Power of Money

  The pope bowed slightly and said without a trace of fear: "We don't think we will lose. I firmly believe that we will surely win and lead our civilization to a better future."

  He knows that the possibility of their success is very small, and more than 90% of the vested interests in the whole world are their enemies, but this does not change his will.

  He firmly believes that they will move from one victory to another step by step.

  The light on the statue of God of Destiny gradually faded, and before leaving, Ace said with a sense of humor, "Then, I wish you good luck."

   "I promise you, if you succeed, you will surely rise to the starry sky, and your glory will last forever."

  As the world master of Jingya World, he possesses the powerful power to speak out in Jingya World.

  The promise he made now, as long as they can really do it, their civilization will surely be able to go all the way up and become the overlord in the starry sky.

  The pope looked at the statues of the gods who had returned to the ordinary, and sighed deeply in his heart. If this great existence could help them, it would be great.

  As a devout follower of the God of Destiny, he could clearly feel that the one he had just talked to was not the God he believed in, but an existence far more powerful than the God of Destiny he believed in.

   It is precisely because of this that he did not ask this existence for help.

  That is not an existence that he can touch.

   "Tell Emperor Douglas that the gods have issued an oracle. As long as we can win this war, our civilization will go to the endless starry sky and reach eternal greatness."

   "For the sake of our civilization, he must win."

  He did not falsely preach the oracle. This great existence is also a great god. The other party's promise can of course be called an oracle.

  The order was issued, and dozens of temple knights headed from the Pope's Palace all the way to the army ruled by Emperor Douglas in the north.

   One and a half months later.

  Emperor Douglas looked at the oracle in his hand, and involuntarily turned his eyes to the distant horizon. There was the capital of the Northern Cold Country. As long as they captured it, they would have won most of the war.

  Northern Cold Country is the last country in this continent with an established industrial system and a large population. It is the last country with a strong war potential to fight against him.

  Besides the Northern Cold Country, among the other countries that have not been conquered by him, although they also have a certain industrial foundation, they are all unsystematic industries.

  The most important thing is that most of the countries have messy beliefs, and wars of beliefs break out from time to time. They themselves are full of contradictions, and it is difficult to unite to fight against him.

   "Tell the soldiers in front to crush all the enemies in front. This year, we will spend the winter in the capital of the Northern Cold Country."

  Emperor Douglas waved his hand and gave an order to the soldiers in front.

The morale was like a rainbow all the way, from one victory to the next, the soldiers raised their flintlock guns and cheered loudly at the moment Douglas ordered them, telling their emperor with cheers that they would be able to Victory again.

  The pitch-black wave submerged the land, and the neatly arranged black legion, carrying flintlock guns on their shoulders, strode forward.

  Dense cannons were in front of them, being pushed forward by countless war horses.

   The roaring sound kept ringing.

  One after another, the iron shells fell like raindrops towards the red soldier position on the opposite side.

  Among the fortifications, the emperor of the Northern Cold Country, Ulster the Great, used a telescope to look at the million-strong army opposite him with extremely high morale.

   His eyes were full of anger.

  He said to the advisers sent by more than a dozen countries behind him: "How can the millions of recruits temporarily pulled out be the opponents of this army of millions of veterans who have won countless battles?"

   "The stubborn strategy you have proposed is simply impossible to defend my country."

   "I have decided that the four major armies I am directly under will withdraw from the capital and retreat to the rear to preserve their strength. The mercenary armies you are directly under will take the top here first."

   "Winter will come in three months. As long as your 200,000 troops can last until the winter, under the attack of cold, the logistics of the Douglas Empire's 1 million troops will inevitably have problems."

   "At that time, I will lead the main forces of the four major armies with a total of 800,000 to attack, and the victory will definitely belong to us."

   After speaking, he left without looking back.

   If he hadn’t seen the face of Emperor Douglas’s legion, he still dared to bring his million-dollar army to meet him.

   But after careful investigation, he completely lost his mind.

  His army of one million is an iron army with a hundred battles, and his army of one million has more than 700,000 recruits. He takes the lead and fights head-on.

  The best way is to exchange space for time, and use the right time and place to defeat the opponent.

   A head-on confrontation is definitely not enough.

   Just right, among his millions of troops, 200,000 troops were organized by the colonies of various countries. Keeping them here is definitely enough for Emperor Douglas to drink a pot.

   After all, although the 200,000 troops are organized by the colonies of various countries, their combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

  The colonial army has to fight the native rebels all the time, and the combat experience is much better than his recruits.

   In a decisive battle, they may not be able to defeat Emperor Douglas, but they are more than enough to defend in various positions.

   An army of 200,000 troops, how can it last for three months?

  Advisors from more than a dozen countries frowned at Emperor Ulster who never looked back.

  Why did the other party make such a big determination? The capital actually said no to it.

  But they still couldn't refuse. They were all the spokespersons of the interest groups in their respective countries, and they also received the support of almost all overseas colonies, in order to defeat Emperor Douglas at all costs.

  Although Emperor Ulster made their soldiers cannon fodder, the plan he said had a considerable success rate.

  In the winter in the northern country, it is extremely cold weather that is more than ten degrees below zero, or even tens of degrees.

  Most of the soldiers under Emperor Douglas came from the warmer seaside and the south, and their resistance to cold was quite limited.

   Correspondingly, although the soldiers under Emperor Ulster are a group of recruits, these recruits have lived in the Northland for generations and are quite resistant to cold.

  Once winter falls, under the influence of the cold, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under Emperor Douglas will definitely be greatly weakened.

  If they move again, let them support their existence, affect the cotton-padded clothes output of cotton factories in various countries, or burn all the cotton-padded clothes and even cotton fields, so that the soldiers under Douglas the Great will not have enough cotton-padded clothes to keep warm in winter.

   In the weather of more than ten degrees below zero, or even tens of degrees, there is no cotton coat to keep warm.

   At that time, I am afraid that if the 800,000 army of Emperor Ulster is not used, the soldiers of the Douglas Legion will freeze to death themselves.

   Having found a chance of victory, they let the 200,000 troops under their control enter the position without saying a word, and resisted the attack of Emperor Douglas with the help of various fortifications.

   Then they contacted their supporters behind them as quickly as possible, allowing them to exert their respective influences and quietly destroy the production of cotton clothes in various countries.

   At the same time, of course, they asked for the various resources they needed without being polite.

  Gold coins, grain, cotton coats, flintlock guns, cannons, sugar, cement.

  In the trenches on the front line, an officer faced the hundred soldiers in front of him, and waved his big hand forward.

  Two soldiers, carrying a large box, came to the officer.

  He drew out his saber, cut off the copper lock of the big box, and opened the box.

  Under the sunlight, streaks of golden light appeared in front of all the soldiers.

  The officer pointed his saber at a large golden box full of gold coins and said, "Listen to me, the higher-ups have spoken. Before going to the battlefield, each person will take ten gold coins as a settling fee."

   "Afterwards, every time you kill an enemy, you will be rewarded with ten gold coins."

   "Give me a hard kill. After this war, all of you will be millionaires. You can go to the colony to buy a large piece of land, become small farmers, and marry more than a dozen wives."

  The sound of swallowing saliva sounded one after another, and a hundred soldiers looked at the golden gold coin in front of them, and swallowed involuntarily.

  One gold coin is equal to sixteen silver coins, one silver coin can be exchanged for one hundred copper coins, and at the colonial price, one copper coin can buy ten catties of grain.

  Among the colonies everywhere, a gold coin can be easily exchanged for an acre of land.

  If you go to some undeveloped colonies, it is not difficult to exchange a gold coin for two or three acres of land.

  One head, ten gold coins, this is really a sky-high price.

  They can't even sell themselves for so many gold coins.

  The officer looked at the greedy eyes of his soldiers, smiled and nodded with satisfaction.

  He doesn't believe that ten gold coins per head is enough to make them desperate.

   Facts have proved that the power of money is powerful. The morale of the soldiers in front of him has been extremely high, not much worse than the soldiers of the Douglas Legion on the opposite side, and even much higher.

   "Kill kill kill!"

  The soldiers of the mighty Douglas Legion, lined up neatly, holding flintlock guns, rushed towards the opposite position like a flood.

  The artillery roared, and the projectiles rained.

   "Fire, fire, fire!"

  An officer in a red uniform stood in the trench and roared at the soldiers lying in the trench.

  According to the pulling of the trigger, the dense rain of bullets brought down the densely packed black soldiers in the blink of an eye.

After the ammunition of the first gun was used up, the soldiers in red uniforms at the front did not hesitate to pick up another flintlock gun that had been loaded with ammunition beside them, and then, under the order of the officer, , fire again within five seconds.

   Another large group of black soldiers was brought down.

   Just after the second gun was quickly fired, the red soldier picked up a new loaded flintlock gun again, the trigger was pulled, and the projectiles shot forward densely.

   Next is the fourth shot, the fifth shot.

  The black soldiers at the front collapsed.

  The 50,000 soldiers lying in the trench at the front line on the opposite side each have five loaded flintlocks, which can fire five shots in a row.

   Within thirty seconds, 250,000 flintlock guns fired at them.

   No matter how low the hit rate of the flintlock guns was, nearly 30,000 soldiers fell on the battlefield under the conditions of intensive shooting and dense queues.

  The 50,000 pioneers sent by Emperor Douglas to the front line, after paying 30,000 casualties, no matter how strong the will is, it is impossible to rush forward, and they can only be defeated quickly.

  Advisors from more than a dozen countries looked at the soldiers of the Douglas Legion who were strewn with corpses on the front line, all of them showed satisfied smiles.

They have the support of the vast majority of the interest classes in the world today. Among other things, they are absolutely unlimited in terms of money and weapons. As long as they can win, no matter how much they spend, the supporters in the rear will do their best. Grit your teeth and support them with all your strength.

  In order to win the war, each of the soldiers on the front line was equipped with five flintlock guns. This is because the five flintlock guns are already very heavy, and no amount of soldiers can move normally.

   Otherwise, they wish that all the soldiers would carry ten or twenty flintlock guns on their backs.

   Judging from the current situation, everything they have done has not been in vain.

   This wave alone has already dealt a small blow to Emperor Douglas.

  30,000 elite soldiers blood-stained the battlefield.

   You must know that these 30,000 elite soldiers are enough to fight 80,000 or 90,000 ordinary soldiers head-on in a decisive battle on the plains and win them.

   But now, they only paid an extremely small price to wipe them out here, which is a huge profit.

  The command position of the Douglas Legion, using binoculars to observe the frontline Douglas the Great, looking at the heavy losses of the frontline legion, his face is gloomy and terrible.

  He saw everything on the front line, and the soldiers on the opposite side fired five times in a row in a short period of time, which severely damaged his front line army.

   Otherwise, in normal times, the 50,000 troops on the front line would definitely be able to enter the opponent's position and wipe out the opponent in one fell swoop.

  Under equal numbers, his army is invincible.

   "I miscalculated. I didn't expect them to have so many flintlock guns. Even I, who ruled most of the industrial civilization world, couldn't afford such a luxury."

   "It seems that the enemy in front of me is quite powerful."

   sighed inwardly.

  He quickly regained his confidence and began to redesign the battle plan.

   A day later, the soldiers of the Douglas Corps attacked again.

   But this time they did not form a dense formation foolishly and attacked forward.

  They began to raise their shovels and dig trenches forward in a zigzag pattern.

  The 300,000 troops dug together, but within half a day, the densely packed trenches were already close to each other.

  (end of this chapter)