He captured a small city. Although the city was not big, it was his first foundation in the world of the Three Kingdoms.
After taking care of all the people and city guards, Zhong Yu summoned 500 ordinary soldiers to station in Dongxiang City and the surrounding areas.
Although these soldiers are called ordinary soldiers, they are not comparable to the city guards of Dongxiang City. Those city guards have been away from the battle formation for a long time, and they don't usually train much.
As for ordinary soldiers like me, they do exercises every day and practice every three days. I have been on the battlefield once or twice, and after some blood, I am no longer a rookie.
With them guarding him here, he can go to other places to conquer with peace of mind.
This time, he did not hide his figure.
Instead, he directly led his 100 cavalry and 1,500 ordinary soldiers and marched westward.
On the way, I don't know how many rural pavilions were destroyed, and in less than a day, they marched to the county seat.
At this time, the county guards had not received news of their advance, so they directly sent cavalry to raid the city gate.
Before they could react, their cavalry charged into the county and began to kill.
The cry of killing rang out. Although the guards tried their best to resist, they killed about three people with their own cavalry.
The training was not strict and they had never been on a real battlefield, so they collapsed immediately. In ancient times, elite soldiers could endure five levels of casualties without being defeated; ordinary soldiers could endure 30% casualties without being defeated; armies that were not strictly trained often collapsed on one level.
The training of these armies is not very strict. It is already very good to be able to sustain three levels of casualties and then be defeated while guarding the countryside.
But when they reach the limit of their psychological endurance, those who should be defeated will still be defeated. Everything is within their expectations.
The fighting soon subsided, and soldiers were scattered all around the county to ensure that no one could escape.
The battle in the city was led by his own one hundred cavalry, and ordinary soldiers followed him. They quickly captured the county government office, quelled the last resistance, and for the first time he occupied the territory of a county.
The resistance forces in the entire county were eliminated by themselves, and 500 people were sent to various townships to receive them. A county town was easily captured by him. Under such power, how could those small villages without even a decent city wall dare to resist his army? Aren't they afraid of his own revenge
A week later, the entire county was under his control. Checkpoints were set up in advance on various transportation arteries, and all those who intended to report that they had captured the county were detained.
After that, these people will be assigned to labor and do hard labor for ten years as punishment.
After handling all the matters, Zhong Yu left 1,000 ordinary soldiers to guard Fangling County. He took the remaining 1,100 people to Shangyong County. He planned to occupy as many cities as possible before the Han Dynasty discovered his power.
Traveling all the way, we arrived at Shangyong County three days later. Several pavilions on the way were easily captured by themselves. There was not even a regular soldier among the pavilions. They saw their thousands of people.
They are connected together in the wild, and from a distance they look like overwhelming dark clouds, pressing over them. How dare they stop themselves when they have lost all their courage.
When we arrived at the gate of the county town, we repeated our old tricks. The cavalry first rushed forward and hit the city gate so that they were caught off guard.
When the guards are unable to turn their heads, rush into the city first to seize the opportunity.
After entering the city, it was not easy for the well-trained and skilled guards cavalry to deal with the city gate guards who had neglected their battle formations and had lost all their courage.
There was another commotion, mixed with screams, and the sound of crying and shouting resounded in the city.
The soldiers commanded by Zhong Yu quickly eliminated the enemies, hoping to quell the riots in the city as soon as possible.
And along the way, he killed those green-skinned scoundrels who dared to come out to take advantage of the situation. He regarded this county as his own property. If these people dared to come out to smash, smash, rob and kill, weren't they bringing bad luck on themselves? They didn't look at the sharpness of their swords. Unfavorable.
An hour later, the entire county fell silent, and all the guards either died in battle or surrendered.
The county magistrate in the city also committed suicide. In the Han Dynasty, those civil servants still had a lot of backbone. Even at the end of the dynasty, they were not like those people in the Ming Dynasty who rushed to lick the legs of the barbarians of the Qing Dynasty.
Another county town was captured by him, and he already had the territory of two counties. Although it is said to be two counties, the places in these two counties are okay, compared to four or five counties. The population is also relatively large, probably 70,000 to 80,000.
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, natural and man-made disasters continued, wars broke out frequently, and countless people were displaced.
When Emperor Ling came to the throne, the Han Dynasty originally had a population of 40 million. But since he came to the throne, locust plagues have raged in the Central Plains, and the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers have continuously burst their banks. Coupled with the constant rebellions in various places, the invasion of barbarians from all sides, the people were displaced everywhere, and the population losses were very heavy.
The original population was 40 million, but now I don’t know if there are still 30 million. A year later there would be the Yellow Turban Uprising in Zhangjiao, which would cause another sharp decline in population. The princes everywhere will find that no one in their territories will be able to cultivate the fields or serve as soldiers to fight in the war.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, there were only a few million people in the world. The population of a county is only three to four thousand, but now there are twenty to thirty thousand people in this county.
Too much!
One county magistrate ruled the territory of two or three counties. Many affairs were inconvenient and unfavorable for governance. Zhong Yu planned to divide them into several counties.
Among them, Dongxiang, Nanxiang, and part of Beixiang in Fangling County were combined into one county, called Shuiqing County; the remaining territory was in Heyi County, called Guangqian County.
Shangyong County is also divided into two counties, the eastern part is called Zhushan County, and the western part is also called Shangyong County.
In this way, the four counties of Shangyong, Shuiqing, Guangqian, and Zhushan are combined into one county, let's call it Fengling County! On average, a county has a population of more than 10,000, which is quite good compared to the common counties with a population of 10,000 in many places in the Central Plains.
After occupying Shangyong and Fangling counties, Zhong Yu temporarily had no strength to attack. He can only stay here to recuperate for a month. After a month, those luck points will be harvested and he can use them to summon more soldiers and horses.
As for the governance of the county, he is a rebel. No talent from aristocratic families will come to him, so he can only rely on himself and use the system to recruit talents.
But since they can't provide any help to themselves, there is no use in keeping them. They also occupy so much of their farmland and population, and they don't pay taxes like themselves.
They still had a look of looking down on themselves, wondering where they got their confidence from. Now that I control their life and death, aren't you afraid of killing them with a knife
Therefore, in order to temporarily obtain more money and food, more people are freed to pay taxes for themselves.
In order to get more luck points, you should know that if you kill a person, you can get ten times the luck points paid for one month.
I did my own calculations and found that the newly built Fangling County has a population of more than 60,000, and there are about 240 luck points in a month and a year.
There are only 480 people used to summon soldiers and horses, which is far from enough for the next round of conquest.
The next time he wants to occupy the entire Hanzhong County, he will need at least five thousand troops. Counting the soldiers that can be summoned with luck points this month, there are only 2,480 soldiers, and there is still a shortfall of 2,520 soldiers.
This world is relatively low-level. It takes two hundred and fifty people a month to get a little luck point, if you squeeze it all at once. If you kill one person, twenty-five people can produce some luck points.
He would have to kill nearly 30,000 people before he could get so many luck points. Therefore, it was destined that he would not be able to coexist peacefully with those aristocratic families in Hanzhong County.
This is the last update for today. I wish everyone a good Spring Festival.
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