Throne of Vientiane Civilization

After reaching a consensus with Bale, Shi Lei directly wrote a report and asked the Giant Eagle Knight to send it to the capital Black Moon City as quickly as possible. Ten days later, the report was delivered to Zhou Xu.

In this era, this is already considered high efficiency, and it also made the Giant Eagle Knight very tired.

The Giant Eagle's endurance is actually good, but you have to consider that there is a wood elf wearing equipment on their backs, which is a load-bearing flight.

After ordering someone to take the Giant Eagle Knight down to rest, Zhou Xu's attention quickly shifted to the report in his hand.

The report not only mentioned that Copperforge wanted to trade gunpowder with them, but also reported on the battle situation in Copperforge, as well as his thoughts and tactical ideas for this battle.

Zhou Xu agreed with Shi Lei's ideas.

This is indeed an unprofitable war, and the opponent is still a stubborn opponent like the greenskins. There is no need for them to waste money and effort to fight such a war.

Now they sent reinforcements to support Tongluobao, and were willing to provide them with some support and share the pressure, which was a timely help.

From the perspective of their Great Zhou, the focus of this battle was on how to reduce their own losses while letting the dwarves win this battle.

Based on this premise, their Great Zhou troops were destined not to attack the most intense frontal battlefield. The protagonists of this battle were the dwarves of Tongluobao, and the biggest losses were also borne by the dwarves of Tongluobao. They were just an easy supporting role.

Following this line of thought, Zhou Xu, who received the news at the time, only issued a symbolic conscription order for 3,000 soldiers in the rear, and did not even launch a large-scale conscription.

After this batch of new recruits came up, he used this batch of new recruits to draw, and currently 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, this military action to support Tongluobao has little impact on the development of their Great Zhou.

Because at present, in addition to the newly recruited 3,000 new soldiers, the troops mobilized to support Tonglubao are all ready-made troops from the New North District and New South District military camps, which will not affect the internal labor force.

Comparatively speaking, the mobilization of logistical support has a greater impact in this area, after all, it requires a lot of transportation capacity and reserve resources within their Great Zhou.

But generally speaking, the impact is not great. At least at this moment, their Great Zhou is still peaceful. People's lives and internal prices have not been affected by this military operation. Everyone should still do what they should do.

This situation allows their internal development of the Great Zhou to proceed completely synchronously with this military operation.

During this period, Zhou Xu also had a bold idea, that is, can he take advantage of this battle in Tonglubao to train his troops!

With the dwarf army of Tonglubao holding up the front battlefield, in Shi Lei's words, although the battle there has been slow to open a breakthrough, it is still quite stable to some extent, after all, the greenskins can't attack.

In this peaceful period, soldiers only train but do not fight. Many soldiers have never seen blood since they joined the army and have no battlefield experience at all.

It is a good thing that the days are peaceful, but as the monarch of the Great Zhou, he must always be prepared for danger! Taking this opportunity, it is also good to let the new recruits in the Great Zhou see blood on the battlefield.

If the dwarves of Tonglubao knew Zhou Xu's idea, I don't know if they would be angry.

I am fighting a life-and-death battle, and you are actually training soldiers? !

But Zhou Xu obviously doesn't care about this problem. Just tell me whether I support you!

The reinforcements are in place, so what's wrong with training soldiers?

Of course, training soldiers is training soldiers, and Zhou Xu is also afraid of accidentally capsizing in the gutter. Therefore, when he received Shi Lei's report and learned about the situation of Tonglubao, he had already ordered Jie Liancheng to follow the Xianzhen Camp headed by Zhou Chongshan to the Tonglubao battlefield for support when he sent troops to support them. The time should be coming soon.

Combined with the previous battle experience with the greenskins, there must be strong greenskins inside the greenskin army besieging Tongluobao, and there must be strong greenskins inside Tongluobao, but who can ensure that the strong men of Tongluobao will protect their Dazhou troops at the critical moment?

In this way, Jie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan went there just to give their front-line troops a bottom line.

Usually, they don't need to take action, just to prevent the strong greenskins who appear on the opposite side.

As for the gunpowder deal proposed by the dwarves.

Zhou Xu chose to accept it after a little thought!

He would definitely not sell the gunpowder formula, but the gunpowder could be sold. The most important thing was that he learned from the information provided by Shi Lei that the dwarves had sulfur!

Sulfur is not a rare resource, but it is unevenly distributed. Simply put, it is dead in drought and dead in flood.

Take their Dazhou as an example. Only Volcano Island has it, and there is no other place.

And it takes a lot of time to transport sulfur from the volcano island. All of this is increasing the cost of using sulfur.

In comparison, if they can get sulfur from Copperforge, the overall transportation efficiency will be greatly improved.

More importantly, if they can get sulfur from Copperforge, they can use the sulfur from Copperforge first, and keep their own sulfur as a resource reserve for emergency use.

Although I have it at home, I just don’t use it and give priority to buying it from other places. This is a relatively 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.

When the time comes, the dwarves who obtain gunpowder will definitely study it.

However, Zhou Xu was not worried. In this era, the technology was limited and there was no high-tech laboratory equipment. They could not understand what they were studying 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-skinned army. They sell gunpowder to the dwarves, which improves the military strength of the dwarves and is also conducive to better attacks. Retire the greenskin 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 accomplished.

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 increase in the military strength of Copperfurnace Castle will be beneficial to them, the Great Zhou. It outweighs the disadvantages.

However, they still had to show off their muscles appropriately to prevent the dwarves from having unnecessary thoughts.