The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 4: Insufficient Leadership

The Strike Freedom Gundam was placed on the sand table.

Unexpectedly, the base of the sandbox lit up red, and then a row of red words appeared on the bottom of the base: "Too outrageous... cannot be used..."

Yue Wenxuan spread his hands: Okay, this thing is indeed too outrageous, it is reasonable that it cannot be used.

What about the Fighting Buddha Sun Wukong?
"Too outrageous... unusable..."

Yue Wenxuan understood that the super-realistic things were no longer useful, so it seemed that he had to change to something more normal.

Yue Wenxuan took out the model of the Liaoning aircraft carrier.

"Not enough leadership... Not enough leadership..."

This time the prompt was not "outrageous", but it was a prompt of insufficient leadership.

In other words, you can use it once you have enough command power.

Yue Wenxuan glanced at the large number of modern weapons in the display cabinet. He definitely could not think of getting battleships, cruisers, destroyers and the like. Judging from the technological gap, these things were most likely due to insufficient command capabilities.

Tanks are worth a try...

Yue Wenxuan picked up a Tiger tank and placed it on the sand table.

"Not enough leadership... Not enough leadership..."

Can't use tanks either?

He simply took out a handful of models from the cabinet and placed them on the sand table one by one.

Modern armored vehicles, modern heavy machine gunners, modern automatic riflemen, World War II semi-automatic riflemen, World War I bolt-action riflemen...

"Not enough leadership... Not enough leadership..."

Yue Wenxuan couldn't help but grab the edge of the sand table and complained: "What do you mean? I was able to put in a Guan Erye just now, but now I can't use a World War I bolt-action rifleman? Are you trying to say that Guan Erye is worse than an ordinary World War I soldier?"

The sand table was cold and cool, and did not respond to Yue Wenxuan's complaints at all.

Well, the gun is fast from seven steps away, and accurate and fast within seven steps. Times have changed. If Guan Erye’s combat effectiveness did not have the added bonus of legend, it might be less than half of that of a bolt-action rifleman in World War I.

Yue Wenxuan continued testing...

The musketeer finally managed to get in this time.

Hey, all done!

Yue Wenxuan thought: If I go to the toy store and buy some goods, and get tens of thousands of flintlock soldiers to put on the sand table, wouldn't it be easy to defeat the Jin Dynasty?

He rummaged through the display case and pulled out a small box containing dozens of Civil War figures. The musketeers of that era wielded flintlock rifles. He placed them one by one on the sand table. However, after only the fifth one, the familiar phrase "Insufficient leadership... Insufficient leadership..." popped up on the sand table's base.

Yue Wenxuan realized that "command ability" not only hindered technology, but also hindered military strength.

"It seems that the prerequisite for resisting the Jin is to improve leadership."

How to increase leadership?

No hints!

When playing games, what Yue Wenxuan hates most is unclear task prompts.

Just as I was thinking this, Madam Gong Er and her group on the sand table stopped moving...

We have arrived at Laoshan!

Laoshan, with a total area of ​​446 square kilometers and an altitude of 1132.7 meters, is bordered by the Yellow Sea on the southeast and east sides, and Jimo County is not far to the north.

The terrain in the sandbox began to rise.

At first, Yue Wenxuan could only see the gentle slopes at the outermost edge of Mount Laoshan. However, as Gong Erniang and her group continued to go deeper into the territory of Mount Laoshan, the mountain became steeper and steeper, with plastic valleys, plastic stone peaks, plastic forests, and plastic wildflowers...

The painting on the sand table became majestic. The rebels entered a small valley. The entrance was covered by a large number of plastic trees, making it very hidden. Once inside, the valley suddenly opened up. There was an oval flat land in the valley, about two miles long and one mile wide. A small stream flowed down the hillside, providing water to the valley bottom.

Yue Wenxuan stared at the stream with wide eyes. The water was made of plastic... How outrageous!

This sandbox just complained that Gundam and Sun Wukong were outrageous, and now it itself is being outrageous to no end.

Huh? Someone's already arrived in the valley.

Fifty or sixty plastic figures, some sitting and some lying, were resting beside the plastic stream. Their clothes were also very mixed. Most of them were dressed as farmers, and there were also a few vendors, fishermen and hunters among them.

As soon as they saw Madam Gong Er, the group jumped up from the streamside and shouted, "Madam Gong Er!"

"Great! Madam Gong Er is still alive. We thought Jimo City had fallen, and you too..."

"Wow, wow, wow...Brother Gongyi's daughter is still alive...There's still hope for our Jimo righteous army."

Madam Gong Er waved her hand, and everyone immediately quieted down. She glanced at everyone present and sighed, "Is this all the people there are?"

At its peak, the Jimo rebel army had a total strength of over 10,000 men, but now there were only over a hundred of them in front of her, and she couldn't help but feel dejected.

A man dressed as a vendor said, "Brother Zheng Qi should still be alive. When the city fell, I saw him leading dozens of his brothers fleeing to the northeast. Perhaps he'll reunite here in a few days."

A man dressed as a hunter said, "Brother Zhang Jiu has also fought his way out of the encirclement. I saw him leading a group of brothers towards Heshan in the east."

Everyone talked at once, describing the retreat of several rebel armies.

Madam Gong Er listened to the whole process and felt relieved. She loudly encouraged the morale: "Many of our brothers are still alive. When the storm has passed, we will reunite with our respective forces and reorganize our army. We will definitely be able to drive the Jin thieves away."

Yue Wenxuan was thinking: "You're not capable! All of your men are just ordinary militiamen, not even as good as the Song army. How can you possibly succeed in resisting the Jin army like this?"

He picked up his phone and checked Baidu...

Baidu shows that in 1127 AD, the Laizhou rebels, led by Gong Yi, used Jimo County as their base to resist the Jin army. However, they were quickly defeated by the Jin army, and the remaining rebels fled to the mountains and islands for shelter.

The rebels frequently launched guerrilla warfare, raiding Jin camps, seizing Jin supplies, and inflicting heavy casualties on enemy troops. After two years of guerrilla warfare, the rebels recaptured some prefectures and counties that had been occupied by the Jin army.

However, in January 1130, the Jin army mobilized a large force to return and fiercely attack the lost prefectures and counties in Shandong. By 1, all the rebel forces were defeated by the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Jin army, and the entire Jiaodong region was placed under the rule of the Jin Dynasty.

More than a decade later, in 1148 AD, a famous man was born in Jiaodong. His surname was Qiu, and at the age of 20, he was given the name Qiu Chuji by his mentor Wang Chongyang. He was not the Southern Song Dynasty hero who fought against the Jin Dynasty in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. From the day he was born, he was an authentic Jin citizen.

A bit embarrassing!

Yue Wenxuan's eyes fell on Madam Gong Er, and he thought: If I don't intervene, you won't live past 1132, but now that I have this sandbox, how can I just stand by and watch?

Thinking of the sand table, Yue Wenxuan thought of the store where he could buy the sand table online.

Just now, a series of events happened too fast, and he had been paying attention to the sand table. Now that he has relaxed, Yue Wenxuan's attention has been freed, and he has the energy to think about other things.

The sand table was sent by mistake when he bought something on Taobao.

Should I contact the store owner and ask what's going on? Maybe I can even get a copy of the "instructions"?

Yue Wenxuan took out his mobile phone and opened the "My Orders" interface on Taobao, trying to find the store owner's contact information.

An outrageous thing happened. I couldn’t find the record of this order in the “My Orders” interface.

The order mysteriously disappeared.

He desperately tried to recall the store, vaguely remembering it was called "Ningyang Technology Co., Ltd. Official Flagship Store." He quickly searched for the store's name, but found it was nowhere to be found...

Even the store disappeared.

Even if the store is gone, the company will still be there, right?
He opened the "Mouyancha" business search website, but couldn't even find "Ningyang Technology Co., Ltd."

The mysterious disappearance of shops, mysterious disappearance of orders, and mysterious disappearance of companies brought about a mysterious sandbox.

Yue Wenxuan was stunned. "What does this mean? The choice of Steins;Gate?"

(End of this chapter)