The shock in Ning Chen's heart was unparalleled. The ghost sedan passed by and rushed towards Jialing City.
Crude oil was discovered very early in Chinese history, but its real utilization was in modern times. One of the reasons is that these things are generally buried deep underground and are difficult to mine.
When he came to this world, he always tried to avoid the appearance of things that transcended the times. Every era has its own specific trajectory of civilization, and he would not destroy it at will.
Once things like gunpowder and oil appear in a war, they will disrupt the balance and cause more destruction.
Great Xia has oil, this is something he has known for a long time.
However, he was not too worried. After all, many ideological changes often cannot be achieved overnight. Just like the emergence of gunpowder in China, it was only used to make firecrackers at first. It was not known how many years it would take until someone thought of using it in war.
It is not unusual for ordinary people to discover this thing. In the past China, some people even discovered and recorded it in the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, discovery and use are two different things. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the application of oil, it took more than a thousand years, and it took nearly one or two hundred years to actually use it in war.
To put it simply, people's thoughts and understandings have limitations. Just like Martial Marquis who fought in Great Xia and fought in the north and south, there is almost no chance to see these things with his own eyes. Even if he hears about them occasionally, he will not take them to heart, let alone think of using them in the war. The people who discovered crude oil cannot stand at the height of Martial Marquis, and it is even less possible to think in this regard.
The ghost sedan arrived at Jialing City. This was a city captured by Northern Mongolia in a raid a few days ago. During those days, he was in a coma in the underworld and did not know the news.
Jialing City Linshan, the geographical location is not important, logically it should not be the target of Northern Mongolia's attack.
Ning Chen After arriving in the city, he rushed directly towards several camps where the Northern Mongolian army had been stationed before.
With an army of 250,000, the required camp was so huge. Ning Chen checked for nearly an hour and finally found unusual signs.
At the camp closest to the mountain, the marks of the wheels were an inch deep into the soil, indicating that they had obviously pulled something extremely heavy.
Ning Chen followed the mark all the way into the mountain. In the place with the most wheel marks, I saw huge ravines. The oil was no longer flowing very much. It was obvious that the surface layer had been almost completely mined.
After reading it, Ning Chen already understood something in his heart. There is no doubt that Fan Lingyue already knew that there was crude oil here, so he did not hit anywhere but hit here.
He has seen the crude oil residue at Yueyang City. It is not the same as here. It has better fluidity and has obviously undergone simple processing.
It is not surprising that Fan Lingyue knows that Yueyang City has crude oil. This thing is not a secret. Moreover, Great Xia definitely has crude oil in more than one place.
Send more people to check and inquire, and you will always gain something.
However, as he said, discovery and use are two different things. When Fan Lingyue discovered it and used it, it became a disaster for Great Xia.
Although the power of crude oil is far more than this, Fan Lingyue had already used it in the war before everyone took it seriously.
Ning Chen felt a little weak in his heart. If it were him, without the memory of future generations, he would probably not have thought of this step. War has knowledge of war, that is, weapons, iron armor, and catapults. Who would have thought that this ordinary black water could be so powerful before seeing the trembling field of fire Yueyang City.
This battle is difficult to win, Ning Chen sighed. After this defeat, Great Xia's morale will inevitably fall to the lowest point.
Defeat is indestructible, and the terrible thing is that one defeat after another is defeating. Since Great Xia fought against Beimeng, Great Xia has never won and has been losing.
First Northern Zhangyuan was defeated miserably, then Yan Returning City was defeated, then Marquis Taiping army was defeated miserably, then Heaven's Gate Pass was defeated, and today Yueyang City was defeated, one defeat after another, each defeat was more miserable than the last.
This time, even Great Xia's most elite Imperial Guards was defeated. The thought will most likely arise in the minds of Great Xia's soldiers and people that Great Xia may really not be able to defeat Northern Mongolia.
Great Xia really can't beat Beimeng!
This was something that no one would believe before the war started. However, today, not only other people, but also Great Xia people have begun to believe this fact.
The millennium-invincible Great Xia is truly a thing of the past.
Everyone has ignored the fact that in this battle to defend the city, Great Xia Imperial Guards did a good job. In addition to being stunned by the surprise attack from Northern Mongolia at the beginning and suffering heavy casualties, in the battle to defend the city one day later, even without the support of the city wall, it still showed quite strong combat effectiveness.
In the final battle, Northern Mongolia lost nearly 60,000 soldiers, but the number of Great Xia Imperial Guards who actually died in this battle was less than half of that of Northern Mongolia.
Northern Mongolia occupies an overwhelming military advantage, and the destruction of the city is inevitable, and no one can stop it.
Unfortunately, Yueyang City is so broken that no one will pay attention to these facts.
Fan Lingyue is a terrible person, who is both scheming and scheming. He just sacrificed the lives of 60,000 Northern Mongolian soldiers to find a way out of the city.
After this battle, the 40,000 soldiers defending the city were less than 10,000, and most of the 90,000 Imperial Guards were lost. The entire Chilian Battalion was wiped out, and the Qingque Battalion was basically destroyed. There was only one battalion of the third battalion Imperial Guards left. With the Yueyang City destroyed, the blow to morale was huge.
Sixty thousand Northern Mongolian soldiers, exchanging a Yueyang City and the entire Great Xia panic, is definitely the most worthwhile transaction.
Moreover, Northern Mongolia's most important 100,000 iron cavalry and 10,000 heavy cavalry are still intact. This is Great Xia's real nightmare.
Simply speaking, after this war, Great Xia was truly in crisis. The subjugation of the country was no longer a joke after dinner, but a major issue that the dynasty must face squarely.
The three most powerful people Weiyang Palace, Heavenly Edict Hall, Taishi Duke's Estate, and Great Xia all fell silent after receiving the news of the fall of Yueyang City.
Xia Mingri has been frowning. He has listened to Ning Chen's advice. If he can't win, he will try to delay it and do everything possible to delay the war until the autumn.
Unexpectedly, even though Great Xia defended fully, they still lost again and again.
Unable to defeat or defend, that Military Advisor from Northern Mongolia is already powerful beyond imagination.
Great Xia is completely passive. If it continues, it will really die.
Assassinations in the Imperial City still occur every few days. Once Third Prince dies, no one knows how many of these people there are except Military Advisor from Northern Mongolia.
The dignitaries in the imperial city were in panic every day, fearing that they would be the next to die.
Imperial Guards from the Sixth Battalion patrolled day and night, trying their best to search for the shadows of these assassins. However, the imperial city was too big. It was not easy to find them after they sneaked into the city with the help of Third Prince.
Weiyang Palace, Changsun stood in front of the window, looking at the night outside the window, with complicated expressions, and did not speak for a long time.
Qing Ling stood aside, saying nothing, waiting silently.
None of them thought that Great Xia would be defeated miserably again. A Fan Lingyue had almost destroyed Great Xia.
Just half a year ago, Great Xia was still the powerful dynasty that had been invincible for thousands of years. Today, who would dare to say these words.
No excuses, no excuses, just can't beat it.
"It would be nice if he was here," Qing Ling sighed softly and said.
In this world, the only person who can compete with Beimeng Military Advisor is Ning Chen. Great Xia has no shortage of smart people. However, the ideas of these two people are always far beyond everyone else. They can no longer be described by the simple word smart.
Changsun looked out the window and said slowly, "He has paid too much for Great Xia. If it weren't for him, Great Xia wouldn't be able to survive now. Let's leave the rest to fate."
Hearing this, Qing Ling sighed in his heart again and said nothing.
Except for Jialing City, Ning Chen did not stay too long. After a brief inspection, he left in a ghost sedan.
Beimeng broke through the city and once again broke through Great Xia's important line of defense. Now it's up to Duke Jingwu how they deal with it.
He had stayed in the underworld for too long, and his understanding of the war was only superficial. Many details were unclear, and he couldn't think of any solution for a while.
It was getting late and he had to go back as soon as possible.
The ghost sedan passed by, speeding through Great Xia north, and finally rushed back to the underworld before dawn.
Ning Chen I don't know if I will have a chance to see the light of day again in this life, but there is always hope for survival.
He couldn't go out during the day. Fortunately, now that he got a piece of Underworld Source, he didn't have to worry about the poisonous spread of Yellow Springs Flower and could try to start practicing.
At first, Ning Chen did not dare to be careless and carefully mobilized a trace of true energy to circulate in the body. After feeling that there was no change in the body, he tried to mobilize more true energy.
However, just when Ning Chen mobilized his true energy to one-third, Yellow Springs Flower's toxicity showed signs of spreading again, and it had obviously reached the limit that Underworld Source could bear.
Ning Chen sighed and had to give up temporarily.
It seems that the Underworld Source in his body is not enough to support him to continue practicing.
Scroll of Life and Scroll of Earth cannot be cultivated. Ning Chen has no choice but to try to cultivate Scroll of Heaven obtained from Yin Tomb.
The golden page was with Ghost Maiden, but he had memorized the idea. Now, instead of carefully operating Scroll of Life and Scroll of Earth, it would be better to try to practice Scroll of Heaven, which has no foundation.
Like Scroll of Earth, the moves in Scroll of Heaven must be practiced in the innate state. Among all Heavenly Tomes, except for Scroll of Life, the remaining Heavenly Tomes are not based on mental methods.
The most essential part was the moves recorded after the mental technique, but unfortunately, he couldn't practice them.
The advantages and disadvantages of several Heavenly Tome are actually very obvious. Scroll of Life only has mental skills and basically no moves. Although it can be practiced, it is terrifyingly difficult to practice. It is estimated that he will not be able to master it even after ten years of practice.
And like Scroll of Earth, Scroll of Heaven, only after innateness can we know what is special.
After a while, dots of light blue light lit up in the underworld, very faintly, like dark fireflies that would go out at any time.
Throughout the day, Ning Chen has been practicing Scroll of Heaven, and traces of breath gathered in the Dantian, like a newborn baby, growing slowly and clearly. >