Although Su Yi built two military fortresses at the water source, in order to prevent his subordinates from being attacked on the road when carrying water, Su Yi set up a lot of sentry posts along the way, so that once a large-scale enemy appeared, these sentry posts could immediately warn and remind the cottage of the enemy invasion.

Su Yi did this, in the eyes of many high-level leaders in Taohuazhai, it was a bit of a waste, especially Zhang Hongsheng, he thought that since Su Yi had become the county commander of Shangjun County, there was no need to spend his mind in the vertical and horizontal mountains, but Su Yi didn't think so.

Most of his foundation is in the Zongheng Mountain Range, with this military fortress, Su Yi can attack and retreat, even if the foundation outside the Zongheng Mountain Range is taken away, he can also retreat to Taohuazhai.

Of course, Su Yi will never allow this kind of thing to happen, but the work of preparing for a rainy day still needs to be done.

The water and soil of Yongji Canal are fertile, where the water source is sufficient, Su Yi ordered people to dig a lot of wells, and the South Wilderness Forest is the channel to open up the connection between Yongji Canal and Taohua Village, and the thieves of Peach Blossom Village can transport the water of Yongji Canal to the cottage through the South Wilderness Forest.

In this way, the fortifications of Yongji Canal are very important, the recent rise of Taohuazhai, many bandits are eyeing Taohuazhai, and at the same time, the rogues entrenched in the periphery of Taohuazhai have also begun to be restless, these people have ambushed a lot of bandits in Taohuazhai, and all kinds of sneak attack ambush tricks are available.

Su Yi and Scar didn't notice it at first, and it wasn't until the brother who came down the mountain recently suffered heavy casualties that they attracted the attention of Su Yi and others.

In just one month, more than 1,000 bandits from the mountain in Taohuazhai were missing, and countless people were ambushed.

As for the other cottage bandits, Su Yi didn't have to worry about it. After the thieves recuperated for a while, he gradually approached those cottages to avenge his revenge.

In fact, looking at the entire vertical and horizontal mountains, Peach Blossom Village looks at the surrounding hundreds of miles, no cottage can compete with it, even if it is Mangdang Mountain, any of the cottages in it are not enough to plug the teeth of the current Peach Blossom Village, like Ji Fu's cottage is even inferior to the two cottages on the edge of Peach Blossom Village.

Since Yongji Canal has been won, the next target of Taohuazhai is the iron ore in Chifengling, in addition to that. There are also a lot of precious timber and stone in the depths of the vertical and horizontal mountains, which are urgently needed for the construction of the cottage.

It's just that there are many rogues in the vertical and horizontal mountain ranges, although the peach blossom village is strong, but after all, the strength is not enough to dominate the entire vertical and horizontal mountain range, Lu Feng once took a thousand cavalry down the mountain, encountered the fierce black armor army, the two sides fought fiercely, and the elite cavalry led by Lu Feng was defeated by the other party.

This battle also made the high-level of the complacent Taohuazhai suddenly sober up, and there were many talents in the vertical and horizontal mountains. There are countless fierce bandits, not to mention the Black Armor Army, even the White Tiger Village can also compete with the Peach Blossom Village, and there are far more than one or two powerful forces like the White Tiger Village.

The southern barren forest is often attacked by rogues. Even some fierce bandit forces, in order to pull out the nail of the Southern Wilderness Forest, even pretended to be a rogue and attacked various key roads leading to Peach Blossom Village in the Southern Wilderness Forest. The looting of food and supplies once gave Scar and Zhang Hongsheng a headache.

When the two explained the situation to Su Yi, Su Yi frowned. In the end, he decided to increase the number of military forts between the Southern Wilderness Forest and the Peach Blossom Village, which guarded the various arteries.

Su Yi, Zhang Hongsheng and others made a plan, first let Qian Bao and others build additional fortresses, these fortresses should be built according to the dangerous arteries, and secondly, strengthen patrols, whenever there are more than 500 people into the sphere of influence of Taohua Village, the cottage immediately mobilizes the nearest army to destroy the other party, leaving no mercy.

Finally, Taohuazhai began a new round of talent selection competition, all outstanding martial arts can be promoted to small leaders through the competition, and some small leaders with great achievements can also be promoted to the generals of the cottage.

These small bosses were sent out to defend the various fortresses, both to train their abilities and to prevent enemy invasions on the other.

The role of military fortresses should not be underestimated.

At the same time, Su Yi also brought back the Gao Hei Hu, more than half of the Lux Army under the command of the Gao Hei Hu was lost, and after Su Yi returned from Dongyang County, less than 200 of the 800 Lux who took down the mountain returned to the cottage alive, and the casualties were very huge.

The Lux Army is the elite of the elite in the cottage, they are all infinitely powerful, charging into battle as if they are in a no-man's land, and because of this, the Lux Army is the highest death rate in the entire cottage, including the sword and shield soldiers are not as high as their death rate.

The Lux Army is a real sense of the dead soldiers, they carry the mace giant stick into the enemy formation, touch this weapon, the opposing soldiers are almost wiped and wounded, knocked to death! Whenever the Lux army successfully broke through the enemy formation, it could always rush the opponent into chaos, and the eight hundred Lux were like eight hundred iron balls rolling into the enemy formation, and everywhere they went was like entering a no-man's land.

With such an elite army, Su Yi naturally had to ensure its number and establishment.

Su Yi asked Gao Heihu to randomly select warriors in the cottage to replenish the number of the wrestlers. He also proposed that Gao Heihu expand the Lux Army, and now the amount of pig iron in the cottage inventory is extremely large, and the production of wolf tooth giant sticks is completely sufficient, of course, the biggest problem with the production of these wolf tooth giant sticks is not the reserve of pig iron, but the trouble in the production process.

Finally, Qin Yu trained a group of capable blacksmiths for the cottage, and with them working day and night, the weapons and equipment of the Lux Army could soon be supplied on a large scale.

To expand the number of the Lux Army, Gao Heihu naturally couldn't ask for it.

With Su Yi's permission, Gao Heihu suddenly expanded the Lux Army to two thousand people, and there were still more than 1,000 wolf tooth giant sticks left in the Taohua Village warehouse, plus the wolf tooth giant sticks left before, there were still 1,500 left, and there were still 500 wolf tooth giant sticks to make up for the vacancy.

Qin Yu ordered his blacksmiths to work day and night to make these maced giant sticks, and Gao Heihu was responsible for training these big men, I believe that it won't be long before these big men will become fierce and dead soldiers who are not afraid of death under the training of Gao Heihu.

The biggest gain from the capture of Yongji Canal was the capture of 2,000 horses, all of which Su Yi handed over to Lu Feng, allowing him to expand his cavalry ranks. Lu Feng is a master of training cavalry, but when he fought against the Black Armor Army not long ago, Lu Feng's troops suffered heavy casualties, which greatly damaged his self-esteem and self-confidence.

Su Yi and Gao Heihu took turns to comfort and persuade Lu Feng, which allowed him to get out of the shadow of defeat.

Su Yi really wanted to meet this legendary black-armored army and see what was different about them, only the black-armored army could be wandering around the mountains and rivers, and there was no fixed residence and such a strong combat effectiveness. (To be continued.) )