It stands to reason that Zhao Hu should attack Donglai County with all his might, after all, he has already occupied Ling Wu City, where the essence of Donglai County is located, and he has also wiped out the elite of the Ling family, and the rest are some wine bags and rice bags, and these wine bags and rice bags are also very cooperative with Zhao Hu's intention to start infighting.

And more importantly, the city lords of the branch city are semi-independent, and they also besiege the other four major forces, it can be said that this is a very suitable time to take Donglai County, the reason why the four major forces of the martial arts will attack the old leader of the Ling family regardless of the spring ploughing period is that they are afraid that the Zhao family will get out of control and directly occupy Donglai County, so that they can have an extra strong neighbor.

Zhao Hu may not know that after a series of battles that have simply reached the extreme, especially the night attack on Ling Wu City, which killed the Ling family overnight, it has made the surrounding forces speculate that the Zhao family's combat power is infinitely high-end.

And the fact that the four major martial arts forces devoured the old leader of the Ling family, and once they encountered the branch city, their heads would be bloodied, it was even more difficult for people to shout that the Zhao family's combat power had reached the point where it was the first in the Eastern Shengguo!

It can be said that if Zhao Hu really takes Donglai County into his arms, he will definitely provoke a joint attack by the four major martial forces and the small forces and the big alliance, because everyone is afraid of the Zhao family's combat effectiveness, and they are deeply afraid that once the Zhao family unifies Donglai County, then it will definitely not be difficult to unify Dongsheng Kingdom!

Therefore, Zhao Hu now only occupies Lingwu City and Tianlan Township, and when he is a township head of one or two thousand Shi Zhixing, everyone still recognizes it, so the threat of Zhixing is not great, everyone just wants to win it over, and it is not to the point where everyone is taboo to join forces to besiege it.

Therefore, it can be said that Zhao Hu did not capture Donglai County, but instead made a move on Donghai County, which was a very good choice, because although Zhao Hu occupied Ling Wu City, he was still surrounded by the concubines of the Ling family and the lords of the branch city, so it can be said that as long as Zhao Hu did not move them. They can only become the barrier of the Zhao family, helping the Zhao family block the four major forces and the small forces and the big alliance.

The Zhao family, who wants to attack Zhao Hu, can only attack from the sea and Donghai County at this time. Needless to say, the daimyo with the power of the navy still can't care about the small daimyo of the Zhao family, and it is impossible for him to come and attack from so far away. And what about the other trolls? Without the support of the army, when they landed on the shore, any warrior who knew how to do a thousand stones could beat these sailors who were also thieves to the ground.

Of course, if it was at sea, the navy army formed by the 100,000 stone daimyo would not dare to provoke these sidekicks as bodyguards at will. On the one hand, he was a pirate sailor. After all, people grew up on ships and made a living from water warfare, and the naval army formed by the land daimyo really couldn't play them.

And Tokai-gun? If Zhao Hu only had Tianlan Township, they were still eager to invade the Zhao family, but after Zhao Hu captured Ling Wu City overnight and wiped out the elite of the Ling family, Donghai County immediately sent an envoy to make goodwill.

Not only did Donghai County send people to be friendly, but as the reputation of the Zhao family taking the city overnight spread, the four great martial artists of Dongsheng Kingdom. As well as the warriors of the small forces and big alliances, and even some trading company miscellaneous servants and ronins who thought they had some skills came to see Zhao Hu.

Zhao Hu naturally couldn't meet all these guys who asked to see, according to the rules, the envoys of the martial arts above Wanshi Zhixing could be personally received by Zhao Hu. The heads or envoys of the forces above Qianshi Zhixing were handed over to Wang Yong, the important ministers of the family, to summon, and the forces below Qianshi Zhixing were naturally summoned by a few bigwigs in the government affairs office.

Not to mention, although Wang Yong has been the leader of the thief group for a long time, he is now human. Very enthusiastic to receive these leaders and messengers of the Thousand Stone Zhixing forces.

Wang Yong came to receive these characters, and he would not make the other party feel unhappy, because Wang Yong had more than 500 stone of Zhixing. As the chief retainer of the Zhao family, a new and powerful rising force, he was naturally qualified to receive these figures.

It's just that the envoys sent by Donghai County are not something that Wang Yong can receive, because Donghai County has almost no independent small power martial artists, more than a dozen Wanshi daimyos, and then those small martial artists are all direct retainers under the command of these Wanshi daimyos.

It can be said that they are all forces above Wanshi Zhixing in the rules of diplomacy, and they must be personally received by Zhao Hu.

It stands to reason that as soon as people showed favor to you, you ran to beat them, and you couldn't say anything morally, but there was no way, who let these messengers who came to meet make Zhao Hu stunned!

Why is it shocking? It's very simple, the envoys sent by several martial arts lords in Donghai County are all powerful warriors, which is not worth being surprised about, what is really surprising is that these powerful warriors are all Black Flame warriors!

Looking at a samurai envoy with a black flame on his head saluting him, it was strange that Zhao Hu was not surprised!

"Fuck! Thanks to Lao Tzu's inspection of Donglai County, I can't find the Black Flame Taoist Temple, but I didn't expect the Black Flame Taoist Temple to be hidden in Donghai County! Damn, these messengers who are said to be hostile daimyo are actually Black Flame warriors, which shows that this Black Flame Taoist Temple hidden in Donghai County is very good! Almost dominates the Taoist temple of Tokai County! ”

Zhao Hu muttered in his heart, chatting with these envoys, and finally dealt with them, and immediately began to check the training level of the army, and let the logistics clerks begin to prepare for the logistics work, and at the same time, he also mobilized killers to investigate the situation of the Taoist Temple in Donghai County.

The killer has naturally been monitoring and probing information about Donghai County, but his attention has been on various martial artists, and he has never paid attention to the Taoist temple. After receiving Zhao Hu's order, these killers were a little stunned, but they quickly went all out to find out the information of the Taoist Temple.

In their minds, they have a Tianlan Taoist Temple, and this kind of Taoist temple that lives and dies with the powerful martial arts family naturally has the same desire as the martial arts family to have a Taoist temple in the whole world, and when their own lord is preparing to attack Donghai County, it is natural to find out the information of the Taoist Temple in Donghai County and prepare for the expansion of the Tianlan Taoist Temple.

Sensing Zhao Hu's strong malice towards Donghai County, Zhao Hu's retainers did not propose to unify Donglai County first, after all, Donglai County is too weak and too easy to get. On the contrary, Donghai County is full of Wanshi daimyo, and there are no independent small forces, so it must be a lot of trouble to fight such a place.

It's just that under Zhao Hu's strict orders, everyone didn't dare to say much, so they could only follow the order and get ready. Zhao Hu is the founder of the Zhao family, and he is also the promising king who led the rise of the Zhao family, and his orders are really no one can disobey

Other families naturally have to worry about the spring ploughing period, if the spring ploughing does not go all out, and the harvest cannot be directly reduced by half during the autumn harvest, it will definitely die! Therefore, as long as you disturb the spring ploughing matters, not to mention that the people will rebel, even the retainers will also rebel, and everyone depends on this spring ploughing to set the income for the next year, and they all rely on the hard work of this time to live! Whoever doesn't let them live, then they naturally won't let this person live!

Therefore, during the spring ploughing period, everyone was busy plowing the fields, and they didn't even need to defend the city. The lord's standing army was used during this period, and it could be used to attack cities and plunder land, but the retainers must have opinions, so the standing army of this period was used to maintain law and order in the territory.

Zhao Hu is not afraid that his subordinates will have opinions, and his standing army is not like other people's tens of hundreds and one thousand, but a full five thousand standing army, at this time, leading the army to fight can definitely be said to be invincible!

But Zhao Hu was also worried, he had said before that all the lords, don't look at other times when they are very docile, even if they are hacked to death by the samurai test knife, they think they are unlucky, no matter how the lord squeezes them, they will not rebel. But there is a premise. Then they cannot be mobilized during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest.

Naturally, there is no need to think about recruiting them as peasant soldiers, and the conscription order issued at this time cannot even be passed on to the council hall. Not to mention that it spreads all over the territory, as soon as the lord speaks, he will be collectively stopped by the retainers.

But this time to invade? They will hide and look at you with hatred, and even if you become a new lord, they will never admit it and will give you trouble as soon as possible!

Of course, if you give food alms. It can calm them down, but whose food will be given for free like this? So just wait for the smoke to rise in the new territory.

Especially Zhao Hu's goal is not to be a territory, but to think about how to kill the Black Flame Killer, this kind of thing can only be done with the support of the local people, but also with the support of the local family.

And during the spring ploughing period, the troops were dispatched, which angered the people of Donghai County, not to mention dealing with the Black Flame Taoist Temple, I can't say that I just came up with an intention, and the Black Flame Taoist Temple pulled the flag and greeted it, and immediately the whole county turned back.

Therefore, Zhao Hu quietly waited for the spring ploughing to pass, anyway, it was only a month or two, so it was really good to take advantage of this time to find out the information in detail. We should train our troops more elite and prepare our logistics and materials more properly.

When people are busy, time flies.

The 5,000 soldiers who were strictly drilled, filled with drills and studies in the morning, noon, and evening, did not know the passage of time at all.

They have been seduced by three meals a day, a meaty meal, exhausted by rigorous and continuous training and study, captivated by the golden future, and it is strange that they can remember the passage of time.

In Zhao Hu's place, the training is very hard, and no one has heard of any other family where the training of soldiers is so perverted by the Zhao family, that is, the killer training known as hell, and it is all daily training here in the Zhao family. And the Zhao family's killer training, that's called life in the abyss!