"Oh, so I'm the supreme commander of this Southern Legion? The entire military power of the South has to listen to me now? ”

Zhao Hu smiled, he was worried that it would be unjustifiable to send troops to occupy the two counties of Tieta and Satdo without authorization, but who knew that someone would send a pillow just when he wanted to sleep, so he immediately stood up excitedly and said to Stairn, who was temporarily serving as the clerk: "Immediately issue an investigation order, investigate all the towers, the land of Satdo, and all the lords who fled According to the "Imperial Wartime Act", the land will be owned by the empire and will be uniformly dispatched by the Southern Legion!"

"All the nobles have to pay the defense fee, if they don't have money, let them use the grain to count, one less, Lao Tzu will let the Kazakhs go to his house to move by themselves!"

"Resettle all the refugees from the north who have fled to the deserted land in the counties of Satedo and Tieta, distribute farming tools to cultivate, and only hand over one-third of the produce this year, and get more for more work!"

"Abolish the toll tax cards in Satdo, Eiffel Tower, and Falcon, collect taxes according to the payment for goods transactions, and encourage merchants to set up trading stations in the three regions, and those with superior conditions can provide certain financial support!"

Messengers carrying the latest legion decrees and proclamations were constantly sent out from the Tower Fortress, like spring thunder that shook the dormant nobles in the south. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The moat outside the tower fortress has swelled from the torrential rains for several days, and the rushing water has spread to the nearby river beach, forming a large muddy swamp in front of the tower fortress.

"It's fucking good!"

Zhao Hu stood at the head of the tower fortress in the company of Tie Long, looked at the moat under the fortress because of the torrential rain, suddenly unbuttoned his pants, stood on the head of the city trembling and sprinkled long urine outside the city, and the Tie Long next to him was dumbfounded, "Which one is this dead Zhao Hu playing?"

"I don't understand, this calls me to stand at the head of the city, pee in the wind, I'm a pure man!"

Regarding Zhao Hu's ridiculous behavior of standing at the head of the city to pee, Tie Long, who was standing next to him, rolled his eyes noncommittally, Zhao Hu had already seen the madness of Tie Long during this time.

In the past half a month, the tower fortress has been tossed miserably by Zhao Hu, who is afraid of death.

In order not to be attacked by the Kazakhs, Zhao Hu, who was afraid of death, not only arranged three earthen ditches one meter wide and two meters deep in front of the city wall, but also erected a tall triangular wooden tip in front of each pit to prevent the approach of siege equipment.

He also set up more than a dozen cauldrons at the battlements of the widened city wall, which were filled with a large amount of black crude oil that Zhao Hu had specially asked Meng Da to transport from the mountains in his falcon territory, which could be poured into the deep pit under the city wall at any time to build three fire wall belts.

The city gate walkway was re-strengthened with a large hard bluestone strip, and the fist-sized spear piercing holes were rearranged on both sides of the thirteen-meter-long city gate walkway, making an ordinary section of the city gate walkway murderous.

These are nothing, Zhao Hu also piled up three sides of the city wall behind the city gate walkway, a notched city wall more than 20 meters long, and the main city wall of the castle is connected by wooden planks, even if the enemy breaks through the first city gate, he will be blocked by this notched city wall, and fall into a desperate situation with spears on his side and arrows on his head.

In the end, even if the notch is breached, as long as the planks connecting with the walls on both sides are removed, the enemy can only stand on the notch and stare dryly.

The original narrow passage of the city wall for only one person has also been greatly widened, and it can even pass two war horses side by side at the same time, and cavalry troops can be organized to rush to the city wall at any time to support.

The rest of the people were chilled by these never-before-seen defensive measures, and secretly rejoiced that they were not the enemy who needed to attack the fortress, otherwise a thousand-strong team would have thrown themselves into it and would have disappeared without even a bubble.

A large number of defensive resources such as arrows, shields, and weapons are continuously transported from the Falcon Territory to the Iron Tower Fortress, and there is an endless stream of transport carriages between the Falcon Territory and the fortress every day.

"What is this?"

Tie Long looked at the strange weapon in the hands of the guard soldiers, this one-meter-long wooden-handled bow and arrow launcher was a new weapon that had just been transported from the Falcon Territory, and Zhao Hu called it a strange longbow with a long wooden handle on the crossbow.

It is said that Zhao Hu asked the craftsmen in the territory to build it according to the drawings before setting off from the Falcon Territory.

"That's good stuff! If the Kazakhs come to our tower again, I will greet them with this and let them know that their proud Kazakh strongbow is not bullshit in front of the tiger. Zhao Hu patted Tie Long's shoulder with a smug expression.

"Whoosh!"

A short-feathered crossbow arrow was nailed to the cavalry chain mail on a wooden stake two hundred paces away, and its strong penetrating power was as easy as tearing a piece of tissue paper into the stake about an inch.

Tielong saw that a soldier with a little training could easily shoot through the cavalry light chain mail two hundred paces away with this waist-high pedal* crossbow, and his face turned slightly blue, and the strong bow of the Kazakhs could only reach a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and this thing was afraid that it could shoot at least two hundred and fifty paces.

As a knight-turned-soldier, Tie Long had to think that if this kind of lethal weapon was used on a large scale, the all-sweeping ultra-long-range strike ability could easily wipe out the charging knights.

The tragic sight of being shot into a hornet's nest stimulated Tielong's nerves, and seemed to remind him of the scene when he led his subordinates to be surrounded and annihilated by the Kazakhs, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

In return for Zhao Hu's self-payment to reorganize the Southern Legion, the hunter leader Munda has been officially appointed by the Ministry of Military Affairs as the head of the Eighth Banner Regiment of the Southern Legion, Stan serves as the flag leader of the Sixth Banner Regiment, and the middle-aged monster knight Tielong is appointed as the guard captain of the guard directly under the Southern Legion.

After more than three months of all-out preparations, fed by millions of treasures buried by the Kazakhs and millions of stone defense grains paid by the southern nobles, Zhao Hu's southern army had 6,000 combat personnel and nearly 3,000 engineer logistics personnel, and Zhao Hu's army was about to break through the 10,000 people mark and become an important military force that dominated the south and ruled the three counties.

What the complacent Zhao Hu wants to do most now is to let the Kazakhs and the big nobles in the north continue to entangle, and buy time for himself to digest the land of the two counties, preferably until this year's autumn harvest.

With enough food security, the relocated refugees can settle down in the two counties, and even if the empire wants to drive them away, they can only stare dryly.

Otherwise, as soon as you collect the food yourself, pat yourself on the ass and leave, the empire will have to pay for these tens of thousands of refugees out of its own pocket, which is simply impossible for the hard-hit imperial finances.

The busy March is followed by the coolness of April.

But for Zhao Hu, who was defending the tower, it was really hot here. The Kazakh rangers, who had been extinct for two months, loomed on the opposite side of the tower fortress, and even touched the moat of the tower several times.

That arrogant and domineering, nobody-in-sight look is more of a demonstration than a reconnaissance.

If it weren't for Zhao Hu's strict order not to use bows and crossbows casually, the soldiers on the defence would have shot these bold scouts off their horses, and seeing that there was no movement in the tower fortress, the movement of the Kazakhs was getting bigger and bigger.

Yesterday, the outpost at the front reported that a group of about 5,000 Kazakh light cavalry troops had marched into the town of Hittelu opposite the tower and was stationed, and was eyeing the fortress of the tower opposite.

In the early hours of the morning, the cold stars hung high, the pale moonlight had not disappeared, and the roaring bonfire illuminated the hall of the iron tower red.

Zhao Hu, who should still be dreaming in bed, sat in the hall of the tower fortress, and the twitching appearance of the corners of his eyes showed that Zhao Hu was extremely unhappy now, and he was depressed and had the urge to cut people.

In the middle of the night last night, Munda on duty at the city wall rushed into Zhao Hu's bedroom and reported that a team of 200 Kazakh cavalry had blatantly taken advantage of the night to camp under the Iron Tower City, and judging from the military flag erected in the camp, it might be the famous royal court guard in Kazakhstan.

Zhao Hu said softly: "What do you say these Kazakhs want to do? Three watches run in the middle of the night to squat in the corner of others? ”

"This time the Kazakhs are coming fiercely, and I think that whatever they want to do, we just need to strengthen the defense of the castle! As long as we seize the opportunity, we can easily kill all these 200 Kazakhs outside the city. ”

Starn is still the lewd stream who likes to engage in defensive counterattacks, this guy did not participate in the mountain road annihilation battle because he was escorting supplies in the rear, because one of his legs was shot lame by the Kazakhs, he was inevitably afraid of the Kazakh strong bow.

"The Kazakhs are unknown this time, first they sent a large number of scouts to conduct close reconnaissance on us, and then a main army entered the town of Hittelu opposite us, and now they have directly sent people to our city, which shows that the Kazakhs are very interesting to us!" Captain Tie Long Dao.

"Interesting? I'm fucking in love with a Kazakh! Zhao Hu heard Tielong say a lot of such sentences, so he came to an "interesting" conclusion, and almost got up from his seat out of breath.

"My lord, it's not interesting, I mean it's very interesting to us!" Tielong still said stiffly.

"What's interesting? Can you explain it clearly, we are all coarse people, and we understand it there. Seeing Tie Long's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Zhao Hu couldn't help but ask curiously.

"It's just that you have ideas about us, it's interesting, and you want to negotiate with us!"