The Age of Lords Reborn

Chapter 212 The Alchemist of the Western Regions (Subscribe)
Shache Kingdom.

It is located in the Pamir Plateau, on the east side of the Tianshan Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains, which was called Congling in Han Dynasty.

To the northwest is Shule State, while to the south are the two states of Khotan and Pishan on the South Silk Road.

When Mo Xiaobai led his troops to Shache King City, he could see several beacon towers at the corner between the southeast two city walls.At this moment, thick smoke billowed, apparently the fastest way of remote communication in ancient times.

"The so-called 'Desert Dust Straight', isn't that the scene?"

The desert wolf smoke condensed vertically, and even though the wind was howling, it still couldn't be tilted. Mo Xiaobai couldn't help dropping a book bag, which caused Guo Jia to nod repeatedly.

A group of [-] cavalry entered the city, and Mo Xiaobai soon discovered that he was now the highest-ranking Han general in the entire royal city.Apart from him, there is only one captain leading five hundred volunteers to strengthen the fortifications with a group of Shache people.

At the same time, Mo Xiaobai also met the Lord Shache.

A fat middle-aged man with obvious characteristics of Central Asian race spoke with a bit of respect to Mo Xiaobai, a Han general who was a baron and a lieutenant.

Mo Xiaobai reckoned that this guy was probably taken care of by Ban Chao, so he was so in awe of the Han people.

After chatting with the Lord of Shache for a while, Mo Xiaobai immediately gathered all his men and soldiers to his side: "If Guishuang wants to send troops, he must pass Congling before and after the beginning of spring. Now it is the end of the twelfth lunar month, so what is left for us? Time is running out."

"This time the old general asked us to garrison Shache. You should know what our important tasks are. First, to investigate the enemy's situation. Once a large number of enemy soldiers are found, we should immediately spread the word with firearms; second, we don't have to go out of the city to resist. You only need to closely monitor its movements, and when the Guishuang army attacks Shule, harass its rear and the scattered cavalry."

"So the key to this battle is flying on you. The sentry sent out this time must be alert enough to retreat immediately when they find the enemy's tracks, and do not make any entanglements. In addition, urge them and the Hun cavalry to learn more Hun language, At least learn the most commonly used words, which will be useful in the future.”

Following Mo Xiaobai's order, Li Guang immediately cupped his fists.

Since the dispatch of the troops, he has always been in charge of the scouting. Now Li Guang is not only very proficient in the use of infantry scouting, but also has a lot of experience in cavalry scouting.

Coupled with the fact that the Da Yue Clan's route for dispatching troops is already under control, it is naturally not an impossible task to find the enemy's traces.

Mo Xiaobai turned his head to look at Li Ji and Guo Jia after explaining all the things that should be explained to Li Guang: "Although this battle requires strict implementation of the old general Ban's strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the field, it is necessary to defend the city. Thanks to you holding the seal of our school captain and taking over all the Han troops in the city, I will not ask you how to prepare for the battle, I only want the result, that is to hold Shache King City firmly for me, and minimize the casualties as much as possible."

"Feng Xiao, you and Zi Yang assist Mao Gong in defensive preparations, and the rest of the generals must obey Mao Gong's orders. Since the old general has already stated that this battle will be victorious and undefeated, I hope this war will be a beautiful victory .”

"Here!"

A group of civil and military officials clasped their fists immediately upon hearing the words. For them, following Mo Xiaobai from Jilusai to Xichui in the Western Regions was what they had been waiting for.

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For three days in a row, Mo Xiaobai followed his subordinate Wenwu to actively prepare for the pre-war matters.

The most important pre-war reserves are bows and crossbows.

The Han bow and Han crossbow are the strongest individual equipment that Ban Chao brought from the Han to the Western Regions.Especially in the battle of defending the city, the number of enemy troops that can be shot by a Han crossbow with plenty of crossbow arrows will undoubtedly be quite terrifying.At least thousands of continuous launches may cause wear and internal mechanism damage.

When all matters related to war reserves were carried out in an orderly manner, Mo Xiaobai finally got out of his busy schedule.

As soon as he returned to the foreign-style courtyard where he temporarily stayed, Mo Xiaobai heard the sound of ping-pong-pong-pong metal impact.

Stepping into the yard, I saw Fatty and Dumb playing with a one-handed sword each.

"What are you doing? Where did you buy the one-handed sword?"

Since he was busy arranging the city defenses for several days, Mo Xiaobai naturally had no time to take care of these two. Seeing them slashing at each other with a one-handed sword that was obviously only used by European nobles, Mo Xiaobai immediately raised his eyebrows and asked.

"This is a good sword for me, it can't be bought anywhere."

Hearing Mo Xiaobai's footsteps approaching, the fat man and the two stopped quickly, and Bayou walked towards him with a one-handed sword upside down: "There is only one Greek in the whole city who has the goods. Well, this is a sword made of steel."

"steel?"

Mo Xiaobai immediately became interested when he heard the words. Not long ago, he received a batch of Uzi weapons in Qiuci. He didn't expect Shache to have steel swords?
After taking the hilt from the fat man, Mo Xiaobai only took one look at the shiny black one-handed sword, and he was sure that it was indeed made of steel.

At least one level higher than ordinary refined iron weapons.

"The smelting technology in the Western Regions is so advanced? Can steel be smelted at this time?"

Although there is no doubt that the one-handed sword in his hand is made of steel, Mo Xiaobai still can't believe it. You must know that there is still some time before the advent of the famous Utz Steel. How could the Western Regions be the first to smelt steel?
"Brother, you don't understand this. It's not just the smelting factory that is good at tinkering with these things. There are also a group of people who are also very good at tinkering with metal."

Fatty seemed a little proud of this, took another one-handed sword from Duan's hand, and said, "Look at this, this is an ordinary refined iron sword. Although it is obviously different from steel swords, it is also better than us. The weapons of the players in front of them are much stronger."

Holding the other one-handed sword in his hand and playing with it for a while, Mo Xiaobai couldn't help nodding.

Although the sword had already been cut several times by Fatty and the others, in terms of sharpness and sturdiness, it was probably three points stronger than his own baron's saber.

But the more Mo Xiaobai looked at it, the more he felt that these two one-handed swords should not be products of the Western Regions.

Such a high-end smelting and forging technology should also be a kind of black technology for the current Western Regions, right?

As for what the fat man said, it was not a product of the smelting factory, Mo Xiaobai became even more confused, and said directly: "Don't play charades, just tell me where you bought it, and I will go and have a look."

Seeing Mo Xiaobai's urging inquiry, the fat man laughed and replied, "It's also a coincidence. I've been wandering around for the past two days and found a nagging Greek in the city. He said he was an alchemist. Master, I have a lot of alchemy products in my hand."

Greek?
alchemy?
"There are still Greeks who know alchemy in the Western Regions?"

"There may even be black Africans here. It's not normal to have one or two more Greeks. Don't forget that Alexander the Great of the Macedonian Empire came to India hundreds of years ago. From North Africa to Central Asia, what? Are there races?"

"You're right. No matter how he got here, since he has the ability to smelt metals, it's worth our visit."

There was nothing wrong with Fatty's explanation, and Mo Xiaobai immediately decided to meet this Greek alchemist who was 'wandering' in the Western Regions.

(End of this chapter)