Skynet In Another World

Chapter 165 The Erosive County

When the internal building facilities of Red Mountain Fort became more and more perfect, Hong Ji decisively ordered that the Red Mountain Fort base began to move towards the outer area. Carry out radiative expansion.

Take the nearest valley under the Red Mountain Fort as an example. Hong Ji mobilized a large number of peasants to build a new border wall to block the valley.

Originally, the absolute control of Red Mountain Fort was limited to the present main base of Red Mountain Fort on the mountainside. But once this new valley boundary wall is repaired, the entire mountain within the valley road land will be included in the Red Mountain Fort power map.

Hong Ji doesn't like those nominal territories. In Hong Ji's understanding, only an area that can be absolutely controlled by oneself and exercised absolute sovereignty can be regarded as a real territory.

For example, here in the Red Mountain Region, Fiefdom known as Red Mountain Sword Sect Sect Master Touba Feng. But in today's Red Mountain Fort, are his Touba Feng's orders and Red Mountain Sword Sect's orders good?

In the power map of Red Mountain Fort, Hong Ji's command is the absolute truth. What Touba Feng, what Red Mountain Sword Sect, do I know you?

The only thing Hong Ji values ​​is actual benefits. It is not difficult to see from the way Hong Ji develops the power map of Red Mountain Fort under his command.

Step by step, implement fortification of the mountain domain around Red Mountain Fort. Where the fortress of Red Mountain Fort will be built in the future and where the border wall of Red Mountain Fort will be built, it will be her Hong Ji site.

In this era without large construction machinery, the amount of labor determines the expansion speed of the Red Mountain Fort base.

Now, in addition to the need for a new border wall for Red Mountain Fort, Hong Ji needs to build a stone path in the valley territory that was first planned. Stone roads, as the name suggests, are roads entirely paved with stone slabs.

As the saying goes, to get rich first build roads. The development of Red Mountain Fort is inseparable from the continuous supply of external resources. Resources such as iron ore, copper ore, coal mine and other resource mining areas, among which the closest to Red Mountain Fort is more than 20 miles.

In the past, Red Mountain Guards escorted ore resources back to Red Mountain Fort, and the roads were rugged and uneven.

Under normal circumstances, a horse can only travel for less than half a day, and it will take at least one day to two days to switch to a baggage carriage.

The inefficient transportation is extremely inconsistent with Hong Ji’s development requirements, so even though the labor force in various departments of Red Mountain Fort is already highly strained, Hong Ji still puts road construction on the second only to build the boundary The second place on the wall.

After that, the newly planned new area of ​​the smelting plant and even the progress can be slightly delayed.

Of course, in terms of labor, besides reducing expenditure, the most important thing is to increase income.

Red Mountain Fort now has a total population of nearly three thousand people, of which one thousand belong to the combat organization. Usually they only need to maintain daily training. During the war, they need to go to the front and work hard.

With these thousand people removed, there is a team of nearly 100 craftsmen in Red Mountain Fort. The main task of these people is to turn the mechanical blueprint handed over to them by Hong Ji into real objects.

There are only about 1,900 workers actually used for siege construction.

One thousand nine hundred people, without the aid of large-scale machinery, had to build city walls and several dozen li new stone roads. It was an utterly inadequate measure.

So, Red Mountain Fort still needs to continue to recruit troops.

With the rations of Lu State soldiers seized this time as a backing, Hong Ji can confidently expand his manpower. Don't worry about not being able to support it.

And what is different from the past is that Red Mountain Fort now has a better external environment. The interior of Lu State Dai County is now a mess.

Three groups of fleeing slave forces are raging, slaughtering and destroying households everywhere; the evil forces and gangs in the original county, oppressing the good, profiting from somebody's misfortune. The entire Dai County, from the wealthy officials to the common people, is in dire straits.

The newly arrived Daijun commander intends to gather the remnants of Daijun soldiers, suppress the fugitive rebellion, and restore Lu State's original ruling order in Daijun.

The three T-3000 machines that could be kept in Daijun by Hong Ji still did not stop their assassination.

The death of a large number of county military and political officials on the front line made it impossible for the new generation county commander’s decree to be issued to the county.

When it rains, it pours, in such a chaotic situation, a group of forces appeared in Daijun to play the banner of the former imperial family.

The predecessor of Daijun was Daiguo, and it was only because of the destruction of Daiguo that Lu State turned it into a county of its own.

This force, under the banner of the Imperial Family, has grown rapidly in a short period of time. It's just that Lu State has been in control of Daijun for a short time, and most of the older generations of the country are still there. Those people still remember the homeland and are hostile to Lu State. It is only because Lu State imposes high taxes on the county to support Lu State's expansion war.

The people's hard life is naturally dissatisfied with the ruling class of Lu State. In addition to the erosion of the internal form of the current county, Lu State's delay in solving it has increased the grievances in the hearts of the people of the county.

It is because of the mentality of the people of the county at this time that some people take advantage of the trend to play the banner of the former imperial family. And quickly gathered a refugee army of tens of thousands of people.

This group of refugees said it was an army, but in fact it was a bandit. Its leader only expanded his own strength by using the name of the former imperial family.

The barren where this refugee army passed. In addition to grabbing money and food, they also grab people!

Forcing the good to be a bandit!

Originally, it was just such a group of mobs, and the new generation county commander could command the generation county soldiers to annihilate them with a wave of his hand. Now in his hands, in addition to the five thousand county soldiers that Ruan Dan had left to guard the county at the beginning, nearly 15,000 soldiers from the Red Mountain Region that were scattered behind one after another ran back.

It was supposed to be able to escape back to 20,000 people, but there are still 5,000 people who did not know whether they were deserters or died at the mouth of the beasts of the Red Mountain Region. These lives have no people or corpses. The new generation of county commanders did not actually express much hope in his heart that the five thousand county soldiers would be able to return in the future.

Furthermore, even the more than 5,000 county soldiers who have fled back now are in very bad condition.

The new generation of county commanders found that most of the county soldiers who had fled back were pale, weak, and frequent severe coughs were often accompanied by blood stains.

A look that is only half a breath away from death.

"These county soldiers are temporarily abolished, and I cannot leave the county seat now. It must be Hong Ji's subordinates who are secretly messing up!"

The new generation county commander frowned. Low mood.

He had known the news that the ruling centers of the three counties of Daijun were assassinated at the same time.

This is a piece of news that is extremely unfavorable to their Lu State, which shows that in addition to Hong Ji, Red Mountain Fort has at least three experts who are proficient in disguise and assassination method!

"Could it be that Hong Ji is really a Princess of the Great Zhou Imperial Family, as the outside world rumored?"