Chapter 601: The Second Fortified City
The weather in Jiangnan is still a little hot in September, but you can already feel the coolness on the Wufeng Islands, but the first snow of the winter is ushered in in the north of Murowei.
Winter in Murowe comes early, sometimes by the end of August, when the snow begins to fall, and by mid-October the snow can completely bury everything, usually this is the last time to stock up on food for the winter, and some tribes will migrate to a warmer shelter place for the winter.
Black Domain!
The only city in Murowe also ushered in the first snow of the winter in mid-September, and the snow was not large, but it was only covered with a thin layer on the ground, giving the world a touch of snow white.
In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves was heard, and a team of 100 emerged from behind the foot of the mountain in the distance, galloping towards the west.
Zhen Sixteen rode on horseback, grasping the reins with one hand and stuffing the other hand into the crotch of his pants, muttering something in his mouth, if he got closer, he could hear him cursing the ghost weather here, "It's so fucking cold!" It's so cold that the cock is unconscious! ”
The war with the northern part of the mountain was completely over before mid-August, but the matter was far from over, and the disappearance of a medium-sized tribe in the steppe was a very important event, and several surrounding tribes also noticed something, and sent soldiers to inquire about it.
Although tribes disappear from the grasslands every day, those are very small tribes, and the tens of thousands of tribes like those in the northern part of the mountain have lost their sights in just a few months, which will make other small and medium-sized tribes feel terrified and panicked.
The occurrence of such a situation is tantamount to upsetting the delicate balance in the territory of Murowei.
Many tribes have speculated that there must be a bigger tribe appearing! If this tribe attacks its own tribe, will its own tribe be able to resist?
Less than half a month after the northern part of the mountain disappeared, rumors quietly spread in the southern part of Murowei that a tribe similar to the Yellow Head had risen, and only a tribe as powerful as the Yellow Head could annex the northern part of the mountain in a short period of time.
Especially in the last place where the northern part of the mountain appeared, that is, less than a hundred miles away from the Black Domain City, many cavalry of other tribes suddenly appeared, and began to look for clues of the disappearance in the northern part of the mountain.
This phenomenon immediately aroused the high vigilance of the Black Domain City, the Black Domain City was erected next to the Black Domain Haizi, as long as you enter the surrounding twenty miles, you can find the existence of the Black Domain City, which is a secret that cannot be hidden for the cavalry who come and go like the wind, once the secret of the Black Domain City is discovered, the strength will be crazy in the northern part of the mountain, and those tribes that are more powerful than the northern part of the mountain can be imagined.
The secrets of Black Domain City must not be discovered by outsiders in a short period of time!
Now the population of Black Domain City is close to 50,000, which is considered a medium-sized tribe in the territory of Murowei, but 50,000 people stationed in Black Domain City seems to be crowded, which is not the reason why Black Domain City is too small, but the city is stuffed with cattle, sheep and horses, so that the Black Domain City, which was originally designed to accommodate 100,000 people, has the phenomenon of people and animals under one roof.
This is a reluctantly acceptable situation in the winter, but in the summer, not to mention whether there will be cross-transmission of diseases, the smell of livestock manure can make the castle abandoned.
Wang Peng didn't expect that the population of Black Domain City would expand so quickly, and when he built Black Domain City, he also specially opened up a large breeding area for livestock in the city.
At the beginning, there were less than 10,000 people in the Wuluo Protectorate, and after migrating to Haizi in the Black Domain, they swept away the small tribes within a radius of 100 miles, gathering about four or five thousand people, and then the Ruzhi Department attacked, and the population increased by nearly 10,000 after the defeat of the Ruzhi Department, and then in the northern part of the mountain, after a big war, more than 20,000 people were absorbed, so that the population of Heiyu City approached 50,000.
The 50,000 people living in the Black Domain City will not seem crowded, but the 50,000 people carry more than 2 million cattle, sheep and horses, even if the Black Regions City does not live with people, it will not be able to stuff so many livestock.
Wang Peng discovered this problem at the first time, and divided two groups of people to leave the Black Domain City, one group of people went west and stationed thirty miles away from the Black Domain City to confuse the peeps of other tribes, and the other group of people went to the jungle in the east and settled down in the south of Xiangyang Mountain, forty miles away from the Black Domain City, and began to build a second city.
This city is larger than the Black Domain City, and the geographical location is also better, almost connecting the two lakes in the north and south of the Black Domain Haizi, completely cutting off the possibility of attacking from behind the Black Domain City in terms of defense, and eliminating the threat of the enemy breaking the embankment and flooding the Black Domain City again.
The reason why he didn't choose to build a city in Xiangyang Mountain at the beginning was naturally the fierce fire oil under the Black Domain City.
However, this Xiangyang City is destined to not be built in a short period of time, even if there is a large number of laborers in Black Domain City now, because winter is coming.
In the winter, the ground is frozen as hard as steel, even the people who live here all the year round are not willing to go out easily, and in the long winter half a year, the whole Murowei seems to have lost its vitality.
However, before the winter came, Wang Peng used the inexhaustible timber nearby to build a large number of wooden houses in the area of Xiangyang Mountain, so that nearly half of the livestock had houses for the winter, and then began to build a second city immediately after the spring of next year.
Before Wang Peng could finish all this, he found that there were many cavalry from other tribes around Black Domain City, some of these cavalry found a temporary settlement in the west of Black Domain City, and some found a gathering place in Xiangyang Mountain, but it was not clear whether they had found the existence of Black Domain City.
But this phenomenon still scared Wang Peng a lot, and the just-concluded war in the northern part of the mountain had already left Heiyu City without the strength to fight another big war.
Fortunately, those tribes only sent cavalry to investigate, not a large-scale squeeze towards the area of Black Domain City, Wang Peng knew that there was not much time left for him, but fortunately, after more than half a month, he entered the winter of Murowei, and at that time, even if it was discovered by some medium-sized tribes, and wanted to start a war with Black Domain City in winter, one was in the city, and the other was outside the city, under the judgment of the advantages and disadvantages, Wang Peng would not be afraid, but looked forward to the return of those blind tribes.
However, before that, the secret of the Black Domain City can be delayed for a while, and once Xiangyang City is built, it can form a corner momentum, and it can be attacked and defended when it retreats, even if it is attacked by twenty or thirty thousand cavalry, the Black Domain City has the power to fight.
A large number of hundred-man teams were dispatched, and as long as they met the cavalry of other tribes, they would be killed, and in just half a month, there were no major battles, but small clashes were continuous. Zhen Sixteen was sent to patrol the northwest of Black Domain City, these days are spent on horseback, after a long time, the whole person almost grows with the war horse under him, whether it is eating or sleeping, even if it is out of the horse, he will not leave the war horse, he has been trained into a real cavalryman, the bubble meat on his body has become strong and powerful, and the edges and corners on his face have become more and more distinct, if he returns to the wolf's den at this time, there will be many people who do not know Zhen Sixteen.