The New Year's celebration was held as scheduled, although the town was established in a short time, and many places were still very simple, but this New Year's celebration was still very lively.

Suren specially asked Hathaway to make some magic fireworks, the gorgeous fireworks are really beautiful when they bloom in the night sky, the central square of the territory has become a sea of joy, because of the celebration, the food is not limited, but waste is prohibited, in order to maintain order, Suren also dispatched half of the soldiers to cooperate with the security team.

Fortunately, Suren did not open the supply of alcohol, otherwise there would definitely be drunkards making trouble. Although the rules here in Zhenbei City are very strict, there are always people who want to challenge the rules and make trouble during the celebration, Su Lun directly asked Harrison to lead people to put these people in prison and deal with them after the celebration is over.

Flordo, the halfling, prepared a lot of food, and of course more of the food was made by the other chefs he commanded, and only the food of Suren was made by him.

To Su Lun's surprise, there were some business-minded craftsmen in the territory who made many small goods and then sold them on the occasion of the festival, and Su Lun did not prohibit this kind of behavior, and the actions of these people made the celebration even more lively.

This behavior was soon imitated by more people, and during the celebration, a group of small traders appeared in the territory.

The New Year's celebration lasted for three days, and when the celebration was over, Su Lun's ears sounded again.

"Congratulations to the host, you have successfully added a new festival [New Year] to your territory town North City, which is celebrated on January 1 every year, and lasts for three days. "At the same time, in Suren's system interface, there is another [New Year] festival under the festival column.

[New Year: The beginning of the year, this is one of the most important festivals of the year, and a grand celebration is held on this day every year. Festive +10, Joy +20, Prosperity +5, Order -3】

Although the New Year's celebration has ended, the aftermath of this festival has not faded, for these slaves and the low-class people, this festival makes them feel joy from the heart, the original miserable days finally see a glimmer of hope after coming to the city, and after this festival is full of passion for life.

It's a land of life.

Hope is a beautiful thing, and although sometimes it is small and faint, as if a gust of wind can blow it away, it can burst out with shocking power at the slightest opportunity.

After the New Year, if it is in the southern provinces, this is already spring, but here in the northern wilderness, it is still covered with heavy snow, and the weather is still cold, and this time is actually the most difficult time in the northern wilderness.

By this time, many of the tribes living in the wasteland had almost exhausted their food reserves, and these tribes were also the most dangerous time at this time, and their eyes were already green when they were hungry, and they had already looked at other tribes. At the first opportunity, they will not hesitate to pounce.

In fact, this territory of Suren has already attracted the attention of other tribes in the wasteland, after all, the environment here is too good, and almost all races know that humans are the best at growing all kinds of crops, and they have a lot of food. Previously, under the leadership of Suren, Zhenbei City had waged a series of wars against the surrounding tribes, but in the face of hunger, they had once again set their sights on the area.

For a long time, the biggest dispute between humans and other intelligent beings was land, and land was a resource, the first element of racial reproduction.

After the celebration, Suren did not let his guard down, all the scouts were sent out, the training of the soldiers did not slack off in the slightest, and even some homeless people were forced to undergo military training.

In the interface of the barracks, in addition to training regular soldiers, there is also a militia option, which can train militias, and the combat ability of the militia is very low, but Su Lun does not want them to fight directly, but acts as auxiliaries, following to defend the city or transport supplies or something.

After the upgrade of Zhenbei City this time, each city wall is one kilometer long, such a long city wall, relying on the army and security army of Zhenbei City, even the city wall is not satisfied, if there is really an attack by other tribes, let the militia participate in the defense of the city is the only way.

After the militia was recruited, Harrison quickly recruited a thousand men from among the exiles and another thousand from the slaves to form a militia of two thousand.

In fact, the population structure here in Zhenbeibao is very unreasonable, more than seventy percent of the population in Zhenbei City are men, and the number of women is less than thirty percent, because whether it is a homeless person or a serf, the number of women is very small. There's no way around it.

However, although it has caused some trouble, the good thing is that there are more adult males. Let the labor force of the realm always be abundant.

The 2,000 militiamen are all engaged in primary military training, and there is no requirement for how powerful they are, but the various instructions must be absolutely clear, and the transfer of a large number of people to participate in military training has not had much impact on the construction of the territory, and the current development bottleneck of Zhenbei City is still population.

After Zhenbei Fort was upgraded to Zhenbei City, it needed more population to fill it, and if you want to develop in the Northland Wasteland, you can't do it without population support.

In fact, Suren has decided that after the ice and snow melt, he will prepare to emigrate in large numbers from Carthusian City, although the northern provinces are not as prosperous as the south, but the population is also quite large, just like Carthusian City, although Suren has not seen the city hall records on the population, but according to his inference, the city is conservatively estimated to have a population of about 200,000.

Other northern cities have a population of less than 10,000 or 20,000, and the most are directly 70,000 or 80,000. The combined population of the entire northern provinces is 1.5 million to 2 million.

During this time, Zhenbei City gained a lot of wealth because of trade, if it weren't for Zhenbei City's lonely northern wasteland, those nobles would have started to rob it a long time ago, and now if they want to emigrate from their territory in large numbers, it is impossible not to pay a lot of money. He was prepared to buy slaves in large quantities from these cities, while cooperating with the local nobility, and he paid for the purchase of the population from the nobility.

The military training in Zhenbei City went smoothly, especially with the addition of the Drow Elf instructors, which directly doubled the speed of military training. Although these drow elves believe in dark girls and belong to the good camp, it does not mean that they are virgins, and these drow elves are equally cruel and ruthless to military training.

Anyone who fails to complete the training or violates the rules will be brutally punished by the Drow Instructors. Su Lun's request to them was to dispose of them as long as they were not crippled or seriously injured.

Such brutal training allowed those militiamen to complete the militia training in the shortest possible time. After the militia completed their training, Zhenbei City also had the confidence to support a large-scale war.

The prying eyes of the surrounding tribes became more and more, and as time went on, they were almost unable to hold on.

Half a month after the New Year's celebration, Su Lun once again received news from the scouts, and found traces of orcs in the woods ten kilometers north of Zhenbei City, and at the same time, the number of gnolls, goblins, and kobolds around the territory was obviously increasing. There are all kinds of signs that war is coming.

At the same time, in the orc tribe, groups of orc warriors began to move in the direction of Zhenbei City, and the tribe's food was running out, but the war with the centaurs was still deadlocked. In order to get more food and weapons, they turned their attention to Zhenbei City.

According to their scoutings, there were not many humans in this new city, and although they had built walls, it didn't stop them.

For the orc tribe, assigning out a part of the orc warriors can reduce the food consumption of the tribe, and even if those orcs fail in the end, it can also reduce the food pressure.

Orc warriors gathered a large number of jackals, kobolds and goblins along the way, although the strength of these monsters is not high, but they are still qualified as cannon fodder, after all, a human city is not easy to break, and the orc tribe can only send a thousand people because they have to face centaurs, but by the time they arrived in Zhenbei City, the number had broken through to six thousand.

In addition to those orcs, a large number of small tribes in the wilderness that could not survive were collected by them, goblins, bear goblins, goblins, kobolds, gnolls, and a small number of trolls, and under the lure of food, they formed a huge coalition army.

It was already five days later when Su Lun received the news, and when he knew that the huge number of monster coalition forces were preparing to attack, Zhenbei City immediately closed the city gates, and the entire city went into a state of alert. and led a large number of archers and barbarian warriors to guard the river.

On the left side of Zhenbei City is the Hongsha River and the Baishui River, if you want to attack from the north, you must cross these two rivers, after Zhenbei City has a harvest altar, the rivers near Zhenbei City have all thawed, and you can only rely on boats to cross the river.

The orc army cut down a large number of pine trees, then made rafts, and prepared to force the crossing of the river. But they underestimated Suren's army too much, and nearly a hundred longbowmen and elite archers blocked it, and the monster army on those rafts had already suffered heavy casualties before they even landed.

In the face of a rain of arrows, after paying a heavy price for casualties, the monster army finally succeeded in landing on the shore, but they were greeted by a long-standing pikemen army and barbarians who had been eager to try for a long time.

As a result, there were no surprises, and the monsters who had just landed on the shore were crushed by a charge of the barbarian guards before they could celebrate. The orcs who led the team were directly cut off by the barbarians, and the remaining scattered kobolds, various goblins and gnolls did not make any waves in front of the pikeman phalanx, and they were all wiped out.

The first encounter between Fort Zhenbei and the Orc alliance ended in a complete victory for Fort Zhenbei.