The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

He won a small city, although the city is not big, but it is his first foundation in the Three Kingdoms world.

After guarding all the people and the guards in the city, 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 those of the city guards in Dongxiang City. Those city guards have been out of battle for a long time, and they don't usually train much.

As for ordinary soldiers like myself, they do exercises every day, every three days. I have also been on the battlefield once or twice, and after some blood, I am no longer a rookie.

With them guarding here, I can go to other places to conquer with peace of mind.

This time, he did not hide his figure.

Instead, he took his 100 cavalry and 1500 ordinary soldiers directly and aboveboard, and marched westward all the way.

On the way, I don't know how many village pavilions were destroyed, and they marched to the county seat in less than a day.

At this time, the county guard had not received the news of his march, so he directly sent cavalry to raid the city gate.

Before they could react, their own cavalry filled the county town and began to hack and kill.

The sound of killing sounded, although the guards tried their best to resist, but after killing about 30% of their own cavalry.

Those who were not trained strictly and had never been on a real battlefield collapsed immediately. In ancient times, elite soldiers could survive five layers of casualties without being defeated; ordinary soldiers could survive with 30% casualties without being defeated; an army that was not strictly trained was often defeated after one level.

The training of these armies is not very strict, and it is very good to be able to persist in three layers of casualties before being defeated while guarding the country.

But when they reach the limit of their psychological endurance, those who should be defeated will still be defeated, and everything is within their own expectations.

The fighting quickly subsided, and his soldiers were scattered around the county town, so it was guaranteed that no one could escape.

The battle in the city was led by his own hundred cavalry, and ordinary soldiers vassalized them, and soon captured the county government, quelled the last resistance, and occupied a county territory for the first time.

The resistance forces in the entire county were wiped out by myself, and 500 people were sent to various village pavilions to receive them. A county town was easily captured by him. Under such power, how could those small villages without a decent city wall dare to resist his army? Aren't they afraid of their own revenge?

A week later, the entire county was under his control. All the traffic arteries set up checkpoints in advance for him, and all those who intended to report that he had captured the county were detained.

After that, these people will be assigned to servitude and do hard work for ten years as a punishment.

After dealing with everything, 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.

Going all the way, three days later came to Shangyong County. Several village pavilions on the way were easily captured by him. Among the village pavilions, there was not even a single regular soldier. They saw thousands of them.

They are connected together in the wild, and from a distance, they look like overwhelming dark clouds, pressing over. How dare they stop themselves when they have lost all courage.

When they came to the gate of the county seat, they repeated the old trick. The cavalry rushed forward at first, so they were caught off guard when they hit the city gate.

From those guards who can't turn their heads when they can't turn around, they should rush into the city first to seize the opportunity.

After entering the city, it is not easy for these well-trained and skilled cavalry guards to clean up the city gate guards who are neglected in battle and have lost their courage.

There was another commotion, which was mixed with screams, and the sound of crying and shouting sounded in the city.

The soldiers commanded by Zhong Yu quickly wiped out the enemy, wanting to quell the riots in the city as soon as possible.

And along the way, he killed those green-skinned rogues who dared to come out to take advantage of the fire. He regarded this county as his property. Unfavorable.

An hour later, the entire county fell silent, and all the guards were either killed 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 in the last days of the dynasty, it was not like those people in the Ming Dynasty were scrambling to lick the dog legs of the barbarians of the Qing Dynasty.

Another county town was taken by him, and he already had territory in two counties. Although it is said that there are two counties, the places in these two counties are good, compared with four or five counties. The population is also relatively large, about 70,000 to 80,000.

In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, wars broke out frequently, and countless people were displaced.

When Emperor Ling came to the throne, the Han had a population of 40 million. But since he came to the throne, locust plagues have been raging in the Central Plains, and the Yangtze River and the Yellow River have continuously burst their embankments. Coupled with the continuous rebellion in various places, the barbarians invaded from all sides, the people were displaced everywhere, and the population loss was very large.

Originally it had a population of 40 million, but now I don't know if there are still 30 million. In another year, there will be Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Uprising, and then there will be another sharp drop in population. The princes everywhere will find that there will be no one in their territory to cultivate the fields and serve as soldiers to fight.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, there were only a few million people in the whole world. There are only three to four thousand people in a county, and now there are two to thirty thousand people in this county.

Too much!

A county magistrate governs the territory of two or three counties. Many affairs are inconvenient and not conducive to governance. Zhong Yu intends 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 rest of the territory was in Heyi County, called Guangqian County.

Shangyong County is also divided into two counties, the east is called Zhushan County, and the west is also called Shangyong County.

In this way, Shangyong, Shuiqing, Guangqian, Zhushan, and the four counties are combined into one county, let's call it Fangling County! On average, a county has a population of more than 10,000, which is not bad compared to 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 in this place to recuperate for a month, and 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, I am a rebel, and no one from a wealthy family will come to rely on me, so I can only rely on myself and use the system to summon talents.

But since they can't provide the slightest help for themselves, it's useless to keep them, and they occupy so much of their farmland and population for nothing, and they don't pay taxes like themselves.

There is still a look of contempt on his face, and he doesn't understand them, where does his confidence come from. Now that I control their life and death, aren't you afraid of cutting them down?

Therefore, in order to temporarily obtain more money and food, more people are liberated to pay taxes for themselves.

Also in order to get more luck points, you know, killing a person can get it for a month, which is ten times the luck points paid.

I did my own calculations, the newly built Fangling County has a population of more than 60,000, and there are about 240 luck points a month and a year.

There are only 480 people used to summon soldiers and horses, which is far from enough for my next round of conquest.

The next time I want to occupy the entire Hanzhong County, I will need at least five thousand soldiers from him. Counting the soldiers who can be summoned with luck points this month, there are only 2480 soldiers, and there are 2520 soldiers short of it.

This world is relatively low-level. It takes two hundred and fifty people a month to get a little bit of luck, if it is squeezed at one time. If one person is killed, twenty-five people can produce a little luck point.

I have to kill nearly 30,000 people to get so many luck points. Therefore, he was destined to be in Hanzhong County, and it was impossible to coexist peacefully with those aristocratic families.

This is the last update for today, I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year.