Chapter 1169 The advantages outweigh the disadvantages
After reaching a consensus with Balai, Shi Lei directly wrote a report, instructing the Giant Eagle Knight to send it to the capital Black Moon City as quickly as possible. Ten days later, this report The report was delivered to Zhou Xu.
In this era, this is considered highly efficient, but it also makes the giant eagle knight very tired.
Giant eagles actually have good endurance, but you also have to consider that there is a wood elf wearing equipment on their back, so they are flying with a load.
After ordering someone to take the giant eagle knight down to rest, Zhou Xu's attention quickly shifted to the report Shi Lei had in his hand.
The report not only mentioned that Copperforge wanted to trade gunpowder with them, but also reported on the battle situation at Copperforge, as well as his thoughts and tactics on this battle.
Zhou Xu agreed with Shi Lei's idea.
This is indeed a unprofitable war. In addition, they are facing a tenacious opponent like the greenskins. There is no need for them to waste their time and money to fight such a war.
Now that they have sent reinforcements to support Copperhearth Castle, they are willing to provide them with some support and share the pressure, which is a timely help.
From their perspective, the focus of this battle is to allow the dwarves to win this battle while reducing their own losses.
Based on this premise, their Zhou troops are destined not to attack the frontal battlefield where the battle is fiercest. The protagonists of this battle will be the dwarves of Copperhearth Castle, and the biggest losses will be borne by the dwarves of Copperhearth Castle. They Just be a relaxing supporting role and that's it.
Following this line of thought, Zhou Xu, who received the news at the time, only issued a symbolic conscription order for three thousand troops in the rear, and did not even launch a large-scale conscription.
After this batch of new soldiers was recruited, he used these new soldiers to mobilize. Currently, he has assembled 3,000 garrisons in the plain fortress. If there is a need on the front line, these 3,000 garrisons can be dispatched at any time.
For now, the military operation to support Copperhearth Castle will have little impact on their internal development in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Because at present, except for the 3,000 newly recruited soldiers, those mobilized to support Copperhearth Castle are all ready-made troops in the military camps of the New Taipei District and the New South District, which will not have an impact on the internal labor force.
In comparison, the mobilization of logistics support has a greater impact in this area. After all, it requires a lot of transportation capacity and their internal reserve resources.
But overall, the impact is not big. At least for now, they still have peace within the Zhou Dynasty. People's lives and internal prices have not been affected by this military action. , everyone should just do what they should do.
This situation will allow their internal development of the Great Zhou Dynasty to be completely synchronized with this military operation.
During this period, Zhou Xu also had a bold idea, that is, could he take advantage of the battle in Copperhearth Castle to practice military training!
The dwarf army from Copperhearth Castle is holding up the frontal battlefield. In Shi Lei's words, although the battle situation there has been unable to open a breakthrough, to a certain extent, it is quite stable. After all, The greenskins can't attack either.
In this period of peace, soldiers only train but do not fight. Many soldiers have never seen blood since joining the army and have no battlefield experience at all.
Peaceful life is a good thing, but as the king of Zhou Dynasty, he has to be prepared for danger in times of peace! It would also be good to take this opportunity to rotate their new recruits within the Great Zhou Dynasty to see blood on the battlefield.
If the dwarves of Copperhearth Castle knew about Zhou Xu’s idea, they might not be so angry that they would vomit blood.
Labor and management are fighting a life-and-death battle, and why are you actually training troops? !
But Zhou Xu obviously doesn’t care about this problem, just say I don’t support you!
The reinforcements are all in place, what's wrong with the training?
Of course, military training is all about military training, and Zhou Xu was also afraid of accidentally capsizing his boat in the gutter. Therefore, he had already received a report from Shi Lei before and learned about the battle situation in Copperfurnace Castle and dispatched troops to support him. The order was given for Xie Liancheng to follow the trapped camp headed by Zhou Chongshan to the Copperfurnace Castle battlefield for support. The time should be coming soon.
Based on the previous experience of fighting against the greenskins, there must be strong greenskin within the greenskin army that is besieging Copperforge, and there must be some within Copperforge, but who can ensure that Copperforge Will the strong men protect their Zhou troops at the critical moment? In this way, Xie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan went over just to give their frontline troops a run-down.
Normally there is no need to take action, just to guard against the green-skinned strongman who might appear on the opposite side.
As for the gunpowder deal proposed by the dwarves.
After some thought, Zhou Xu chose to accept it!
He will definitely not sell the gunpowder formula, but the gunpowder can be sold. The most important thing is that he learned from the information provided by Shi Lei that the dwarves have sulfur!
Sulfur is not a rare resource, but it is unevenly distributed. To put it simply, it is the result of drought and flooding.
Take their big week as an example, they only have it on the volcanic island and not in other places at all.
It takes a lot of time to transport sulfur from the volcanic island, all of which increases the cost of sulfur use.
In comparison, if they can obtain sulfur from Copperhearth Castle, the entire transportation efficiency can be greatly improved.
In addition, the more important thing is that if they can obtain sulfur from Copper Hearth Castle, then they can use the sulfur from Copper Hearth Castle first, and their own sulfur will be used as a resource reserve first. Keep it in case you need it.
Although I have it at home, I just don’t use it. I give priority to buying it from other places. This is a common method in national development.
Not to mention that this time the sulfur in Copperhearth Castle does not necessarily need to be purchased by them.
The dwarves wanted gunpowder, he just had to add brimstone to the terms of the deal.
Of course, we have to wait until the dwarf representatives arrive to discuss the specific situation in detail.
The dwarves who have obtained gunpowder will definitely study it.
But Zhou Xu is not worried. In this era, there are limited technical capabilities and there are no high-tech laboratory equipment. They cannot understand what they studied in a short period of time.
Under this premise, the dwarves of Copperforge Castle are now their allies of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they are also the core force against the green-skin army. They sell gunpowder to the dwarves to enhance the military strength of the dwarves. It will help to better repel the green-skinned army.
To put it simply, the dwarves bought gunpowder from him, which greatly increased the lethality of the green-skinned army, thus reducing the pressure and casualties faced by their reinforcements in a disguised manner, and allowing their support troops to perform better on the front line. The stroke, perfect!
As for the dwarves who obtained gunpowder, will they pose a threat to their great Zhou in the future?
Of course Zhou Xu has considered this issue, but to be honest, if he is struggling with this issue now, he is thinking too far.
According to this line of thinking, I'm afraid nothing can be done.
At this stage, Zhou Xu can only say that as long as the greenskins and the coalition forces are still there, according to the friendship they have established at this stage, they, the Great Zhou and the dwarves, can maintain their alliance. The improvement of the military strength of Copperforge Castle will be of great help to them. Generally speaking, their advantages outweigh their disadvantages.
However, they still had to show off their muscles appropriately to prevent the dwarves from having unnecessary thoughts.
(End of this chapter)