The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

After that, things became much simpler. With a successful case in front, all the checkpoints in the county were opened by myself using the previous method.

It didn't take much effort, and even the loss of soldiers was very few, only a dozen or so. However, during the Taiping period, there were not many soldiers at those checkpoints, generally dozens or hundreds of them.

There are a total of five checkpoints in the three counties. Except for the two more important ones, which are lined up with 200 guards, the other three small ones have 100 guards.

And within the five checkpoints, there are about 500 surrendering soldiers, which is a big hidden danger. In order to prevent Zhong Yu from ordering them all to be killed.

With a tight military force, I can't allocate too many soldiers to guard these prisoners. In order to avoid unnecessary troubles and accidents, it is better to kill them all to avoid future troubles.

In order to defend those checkpoints, Zhong Yu assigned 700 people, reducing the size of his army by a large circle. I only have 500 infantry and 100 cavalry, although those captives contributed 20 points of luck after being killed by me.

But it was just supplementing the number of soldiers consumed by several wars before, and there was not much gain.

After a lot of driving and killing, I have reached Changli County, the northernmost of the three counties.

This is a large county with a relatively large area, about 1.5 times that of ordinary counties. Moreover, the location is dangerous and there are many checkpoints, three of the five checkpoints are within its territory.

population? Because there are mountains and mountains everywhere and arable land is relatively scarce, most of the villagers in the county live by fishing and hunting.

So there are not too many, just 17,000 or 8,000 people! And now I am in the most eastern part of the county, that is, the most majestic checkpoint, the direction of Yunguan.

Yunguan guards the communication between Hanzhong County and Nanyang County, and on the left is the branch of Hanshui River. The usual connection can be achieved through water transportation. If it weren't for Yunguan's steep walls, there would be dangerous peaks all around.

Zhong Yu really didn't know how to guard such a well-connected place. But it is also a miracle made by nature, with such a dangerous barrier, it is really a one-man gate, and no one can open it.

As long as hundreds of his soldiers are placed on Yunguan, then tens of thousands of his troops will not be able to break through, and he can sit back and relax in Hanzhong.

However, it is too dangerous for such a dangerous place to be given the leadership by a county. Or put him in a separate county and separate him from Changli County.

Let's divide the area of ​​Changli County into the standard of an ordinary county! The extra half is divided into Yun County, although the area is smaller, it is only half of the normal county.

But it has a dangerous terrain and well-developed transportation. It can be said to be an important military town, so it doesn't take too much trouble.

Now that he has decided to divide it into a county government, he also needs to lay down the fifty miles around it and divide it into the area of ​​Yun County.

The army went out, and along the way, there were countless blood and killings, and countless bones were used to form the foundation of his rule in Yun County.

But in a day, I sorted out the surrounding areas of Yun County, which belonged to the poor and remote areas.

Since the surrounding arable land is relatively scarce, and the gentry inherits their families through farming and studying, the number of gentry is relatively small, only three families.

Zhong Yu's troops who had experience in cleaning up the aristocratic family completed the task very quickly. All the aristocratic families add up to more than 1,000 people.

But it is twice as big as your own army, and killing people is no better than killing pigs. Many times, people are waiting to be killed, and they don't even need to do it themselves.

They will kill each other, and killing people is much easier than killing pigs. Adults only need to swipe lightly on the vital points of the neck, but killing a pig requires a lot of force, and it takes a few more cuts to kill it.

In short, it was very easy. Without encountering too much resistance, the entire territory of Yun County was pacified, and Yun County was successfully established.

Killing those people gained another 40 luck points, and summoned 80 soldiers. His own ordinary soldiers have successfully expanded to 600 people.

With 100 cavalry and 600 infantry, he went to Changli County. Although the number of people is a little small, it is barely enough to win the city by himself.

Eight days later, Zhong Yuping settled Changli County, Xunyang County, Xi County, and Wuling County. He killed 5,000 nobles in the four counties and gained 200 luck points, so his footsteps stopped.

I plan to rest for a few days, wait until this month has passed and get the luck value, and then go on the expedition.

Use two hundred luck points to exchange for four hundred soldiers, and the exchanged soldiers will be stationed in two counties on the spot, with two hundred people in each county.

The newly-built Yun County is located in a dangerous place, and it can be said that it is the gateway to the northeast of itself, so it must be guarded by heavy troops. Therefore, Zhong Yu kept 500 people down in case he could send troops to support Yunguan in an emergency.

He took the remaining 100 cavalry and 100 ordinary soldiers to Xicheng County to station there. At that time, as soon as the luck point reaches him, he can directly exchange for soldiers and horses, saving him from rushing to this place from the rear.

With time to rest, Zhong Yu once again carefully planned his territory division.

There are only four counties in Fangling County, which is too small. It is better to divide Changli County and Yun County together, so that there are six counties in Fangling County, barely counted as a medium-sized county, with a population of 80,000.

However, one county in Xicheng is too vast, with the territory of three or four counties, which is not conducive to governance, so it is divided into three counties.

Shiquan County, Ankang County, Jinchuan County, plus the original Xunyang County, Xi County, and Wuling County, a total of six counties are being built into Xicheng County, with a population of about 70,000.

According to the division of the system, a county governs 3 to 7 townships, a county governs 3 to 7 counties, a prefecture governs 3 to 7 counties, a state governs 3 to 7 prefectures, and a province governs 3 to 7 states. A domain governs 3 to 7 channels.

The country corresponds to the division of counties and counties above according to the size of the territory. They are Nanguo at the county level, Ziguo at the county level, Boguo at the prefecture level, Houguo at the state level, Principality at the Taoist level, and Kingdom at the domain level.

Now that I have the territory of two counties, plus there are six counties in Hanzhong, which can also be divided into one county, then I have become an uncle with three counties, which is barely the smallest mansion. level country.

Soon, tomorrow will be a month, and the total population in my own territory is about 150,000. You can also get 600 luck points a month, which can be used to summon soldiers who can get 1200.

At that time, I will have 1,400 soldiers of my own to go to war. Nanzheng County, the prefecture of Hanzhong County, is the center of the entire Hanzhong County, with the largest number of gentry. If you kill him yourself, at least 20,000 people will be killed, and then he will have 800 luck points and 1,600 soldiers.

Calculated in this way, I have about three thousand energy from him, which can be used to pacify six counties, which is more than enough.

Time passed slowly, and a day had passed in the blink of an eye, and I had also harvested his luck value of 600, without the slightest hesitation, all of Zhong Yu was exchanged for soldiers.

As for the management of the territory of the two counties under him, it can be resolved after the entire Hanzhong County is occupied by him.

When the sun was rising again, Zhong Yu led his 1,400 soldiers and slowly marched towards Chenggu County, the gateway to the east of Nanzheng County.