Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen
During the Central Plains Protection War, fierce war also occurred in the southwest region. Su Jing's sudden dispatch of troops shocked the southwest provinces.
Especially Lu Rongting, the King of Southwest, was even more anxious. After all, his hometown was almost taken down by Su Jing. How could he not be anxious?
The battle on the front line was already very stalemate and the rear was unstable, so Lu Rongting naturally dared not stick to it.
Although he almost won half of the land in Hunan this year, he still couldn't afford to lose the entire Guangxi.
He rushed back to help, but unfortunately he underestimated Zhang Zizhong and the others. They were just waiting for each other. Su Jing did not have much military construction, but he only attached great importance to intelligence.
The army route that Lu Rongting returned was always under control. A special ambush was launched. Under the bombardment of the artillery brigade, Lu Rongting's army collapsed before it even started. Then the two divisions dispatched together to pursue Lu Rongting's 30,000 army was almost finished in just one day.
I'm afraid there are only three thousand, one tenth of them who really ran with him.
You must know that this is his elite force, Lu Rongting. He made a lot of effort to establish this elite army, but it ended up disappearing once.
Su Jing's artillery brigade was too terrifying. Four 150mm cannons secretly transported from the United States, ten 120mm heavy howitzers, and thirty 75mm French mortars.
It can be said that in terms of artillery power, Su Jing's heavy artillery brigade was definitely the most powerful in the entire Republic of China, and even stronger than the Japanese. After all, the Japanese army did not have any heavy artillery.
Unfortunately, this heavy artillery brigade has been obtained by Su Jing doing his best, and it is almost impossible to transport heavy artillery from the United States.
Especially the 150mm cannon, this thing is definitely a forbidden item. For the sake of four heavy cannons, Su Jing had to lose a "puppet".
After practicing Maoshan Taoist Technique, Su Jing improved the "Soul Transfer Technique" with the help of the altar of luck, which can capture the soul, plant seeds on its soul, and completely refine the other party into a "puppet" who can only obey his own orders.
This method is extremely terrifying.
However, it can only deal with ordinary people, and it also consumes the power of the soul. Even Su Jing now has only a few.
Among them is a senior customs officer in the United States, the one who helped him the most.
As for those experts who were "invited" by Su Jing, Su Jing did not use this "soul-catching" technique. At most, he used the confusion in the soul-shifting technique. Just like modern hypnosis methods, the other party unconsciously became better at the senses of the Republic of China, and subconsciously believed that he was showing love.
If they really become "puppets" and thousands of people, even if Su Jing's cultivation reaches the level of Golden Pill, he may not be able to consume enough soul power.
Su Jing didn't know whether to make a profit or a loss when he exchanged a heavy artillery brigade for such a "puppet", but after receiving the news from Zhang Zizhong and the others, Su Jing thought he still made a profit.
Defeating Lu Rongting so easily is definitely an exciting thing for him and his Zhenhua Army.
Lu Rongting is truly ranked first among the many warlords in the southwest.
If Su Jing hadn't been Su Jing, he would have unified Guangdong and Guangxi last year, and even Fujian would have been under his rule, and he was a true tycoon of the Guangxi clan.
Unfortunately, Zhang Zizhong's sudden ambush this time suddenly interrupted all his possibilities.
Once the 30,000 elite troops are finished, so what if he escapes? Without the territory of Guangxi, it will not be so easy for him to build an army.
After all, this army requires money. Today's warlords also know that the army can no longer think about the past, as long as there are people.
Modern guns, especially the military armed forces of the great powers, made them clear that the army must need excellent weapons and guns and cannons.
However, these guns and cannons are still the most expensive. They cannot produce guns and cannons in China, so they can only buy them from abroad, so the price naturally increased greatly.
Lu Rongting's 30,000 elite soldiers spent millions of silver dollars, or even more. Without the taxes in Guangxi, it would be difficult for him to form them.
As for Hunan, the opponent won the other party, without the shock of 30,000 elite soldiers, the local snakes in Hunan would never be slandering him.
It can be said that Lu Rongting is the second giant won by Su Jing, and the first one is naturally Chen Jiongming, who originally rose to Guangdong.
Defeating Lu Rongting is equivalent to taking Guangxi, and Su Jing is naturally more at ease to be the boss.
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Three years have passed in a blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye, it has been five years since Su Jing came to this world.
Since Zhang Zizhong ambushed Lu Rongting three years ago, Guangxi has taken it. After Su Jing stopped for a year, he sent troops again to attack Fujian.
Faced with Su Jing's aggressive offensive and the military operations planned by Jiang Baili, deputy commander and chief of staff, Fujian naturally had no resistance.
In the end, it also fell into Su Jing's hands. Su Jing suddenly occupied the land of the three provinces and became the veritable overlord of the southwest.
At this time, the entire Republic of China also felt Su Jing's powerful power, which was a force that was not weaker than that of the Beiyang warlords at its peak.
No one despises him anymore. Tang Jiyao, the Yunnan-based tycoon of Yunnan and Guizhou, has been crazy about violence in the past two years. Without it, the pressure Su Jing has brought to him is too great.
After all, Lu Rongting's strength back then was not weak at all, but in the end, he was defeated by Su Jing's Zhenhua Army.
However, after taking over the land of the three provinces, Su Jing no longer took action. Su Jing knew very well that as he continued to expand, other warlords would definitely join forces to fight him.
This is not what Su Jing wants to see, and now that the First World War has ended, the great powers have once again set their sights on the country.
Su Jing's rise made them feel threatened, so they began to support some other warlords behind their backs. The support of arms also greatly increased the strength of other warlords.
Once Su Jing takes action, whether it is the Yunnan, Anhui, or even the Direct, he will join forces to fight against him, and then his losses will be great.
Su Jing naturally didn't want to do it anymore. Now the resources of the three provinces can make his foundation stronger and stronger, so naturally Su Jing can withstand loneliness.
As long as he is given a few years, the heavy industry under his rule will become more and more complete, and his strength will naturally become stronger and stronger.
In three years, the output of steel plants has been getting higher and higher, and now the annual output has reached three million tons.
In terms of military industry, it is even more developed. Not only light weapons, but also heavy weapons can be produced by themselves.
Especially with the 120mm heavy artillery, Su Jing also got several artillery fire experts from Germany, so he can also produce it, which is an amazing improvement.
The stronger his strength, the more low-key Su Jing became. In the past two years, domestic warlords have continued to fight, and the bewitching powers behind them are the purpose of reducing domestic power.
Su Jing could see clearly, so he was developing silently, which made many people gradually relax from him.
This is a good thing. In the past two years, Su Jing has devoted more energy to his own cultivation. In this three years, with the help of the altar of luck and a large number of resources, Su Jing's Maoshan Taoist Dharma has also practiced to the eighth level of Qi training, and is also at the forefront in the entire Maoshan.
In terms of internal strength, he has also reached the peak of acquired spirit. The Ren and Du meridians have been completely opened, just waiting to open up the two bridges of heaven and earth to welcome the baptism of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Chapter completed!