It is comforting to note that the castle wall defense system of Tokugawa Prefecture Castle has finally been completed. It is said that it is preliminarily completed, due to time reasons, and there are still many auxiliary facilities that have not yet been fully completed, but the entire city wall construction has been completed, which is also the crystallization of the hard work of tens of thousands of people day and night.

Worried about the uncertainty of the invasion of the Huns, Qin ordered Liang Qiming to list this project as the No. 1 project, and all other construction projects must give way to this project, otherwise once the Huns invaded, the existing forces of the Tokugawa Prefecture were simply not enough to resist, and if there were no strong fortifications, it would be like a beautiful woman taking off ~ naked and posing, allowing the robbers to ravage.

Liang Qiming also understood the reason, for this reason concentrated two-thirds of the recruited migrant workers, gave generous remuneration, worked overtime day and night, and the migrant workers also took turns to work, Liang Qiming even asked Qin Duan to let the army transfer manpower to participate in the construction, but considering that the army's combat effectiveness now urgently needs a lot of time to train to improve, Qin Duan still did not agree after thinking about it again, and only asked him to recruit more migrant workers.

Because Qin Duan demanded that many of the original city walls that were not strong enough be demolished and rebuilt, and the scale was expanded several times, the amount of work was very huge, even if so many manpower and material resources were invested, it still took five months to complete the basic facilities of this project, and some of the remaining auxiliary facilities still needed nearly a month to gradually improve.

Qin Duan was very satisfied with this, after all, he was not defenseless now, and it only took another twenty days for the city defense project to be completely completed, and at that time, if the Huns wanted to capture Tokugawa City, they would have to pay a sky-high price.

Time passed day by day under Qin Du's close attention, and on September 1, the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the war between the Chidi and the Huns finally broke out. In order to consolidate their supremacy in the West Tengger Grassland. To establish a strong image for the other nomads of the Western Tengger steppe, he abandoned the old practice of invading south and west every year, and concentrated an army of 600,000 troops divided into three battle groups to attack the territory of the Huns.

The Beihuns, with the general of the expedition to the west, Ulle, as the main general, gathered 500,000 people from the main army of the western and southern conquests, and fought fierce battles with the Chidi army in the central part of the Tengger steppe near the dividing line of the traditional forces of the eastern and western nomadic peoples.

On September 5, the 14th year of the Apocalypse, the famous general Chaqin led an army of 200,000 troops to forcibly break through the defense line of the western part of the Xiongnu expedition in the fertile soil of the southern front. The 150,000 Hungarian troops on the southern front were forced to retreat.

On the night of September 7, Chachin took advantage of the retreating spirit of the Humriot army and the unstable foothold to force the Darba River, raid the Humriot camp, and defeated the 150,000 troops on the southern front of the Humriots in one fell swoop, captured more than 50,000 Hungarian soldiers, and the remnants of the army retreated more than 300 miles before they took up their positions. The whole territory of the Hungarians was shaken. Fortunately, Kurdo led an army of 100,000 in the east to arrive in time, collected the remaining more than 60,000 remnants, and stationed them in Huangyangyuan, curbing the advance of the Chidi people.

On September 14, a fierce battle broke out between the Chidi army and the Hungarian army on the northern front at Benmayuan, and both sides suffered losses. On 16 September, the central line of the Chidi army and the Hungarian army fought a general battle at Saimahara, because the terrain of this place was quite flat. There were no obstacles, and both sides invariably chose their main cavalry to face off. The fierce fighting lasted for half a day, and both sides suffered heavy losses, and finally they were forced to withdraw from the battle.

After more than ten days of stalemate on three fronts, on 20 September, the Chidi army on the southern front, led by Chachin, again launched a fierce attack on the Hungarian army led by Kurdo. Due to the difference in military strength of nearly 50,000 men, the fighting spirit of the Chidi side was high, and the fighting spirit of the remnants of the western part of the Beihun conquest had been severely weakened, and Kurdo was forced to lead his army back after making a slight resistance in order to preserve his strength.

September 27th. The northern front of the Chidi army and the Hungarian army again in the galloping horse plain, the two sides used light and heavy cavalry infantry to fight in all directions, the war lasted for a day, and finally the Humriot army first withdrew from the battle, the Chidi army also suffered a lot of losses, did not pursue.

On 29 September, the An'ou envoys arrived in the city of Sarah of the Chidi and the city of Barona of the Huns, respectively, to persuade the two sides to negotiate peace. On 11 October, negotiators from both sides began negotiations in a makeshift tent on the horse race plain, witnessed by an Anou envoy. After three days of marathon negotiations, the two sides finally reached a compromise on a series of issues such as the withdrawal of their troops and the redemption of prisoners of war.

On October 22, the armies of both sides withdrew to their respective territories, and on October 27, the two sides exchanged prisoners of war, and the Chidi side received a ransom of 50 million silver and 100,000 slaves.

"This Anou is really fucking hateful, and the Chidi and the Huns are fighting against him, and he is used to mediate in it?"

Qin Duan looked at the report on the situation of the war between Chidi and Beihun sent to him, and scolded the Anou people. Although the invasion of the Huns may have completely disappeared, seeing that the two sides, which did not suffer many casualties, had stopped fighting and made peace with the support of the Anou, Qin Dui's originally very good mood became very unhappy again.

"The Anou people live in the north-central part of the Tengger steppe, sandwiched between the Chidi and the Huns, and although their strength cannot be compared with these two powers, they are not to be underestimated. It has always maintained an impartial attitude towards both powers and has often acted as a peacemaker for both sides. The current chief, Khiber, is also a capable leader, and under his leadership, the strength of the Ann Ou has grown considerably. Zhuge Fang was familiar with the situation of the nomads on the grassland, so he quickly replied.

"Then why didn't he let the Chidi and the Huns lose both, so that he could take the opportunity to develop and grow?" Wufeng raised his own questions.

Zhuge Fang shook his head and explained; "My lord, it's not that simple. There are still several powerful nomadic peoples around the Anou people, and once the Chidi and the Huns are weakened, the balance on the Tengger steppe will inevitably be broken, and the other peoples who originally had ambitions for the Anou will have no scruples and may attack the Anou. ”

"The Annou also gained a lot of benefits from the good relations with the Chidi and the Huns, and at the same time thought that the two were holding each other back, so that it had a chance to develop, and it also hoped that the situation would last longer, and that it would be able to gain more time to strengthen itself. In a way, it seems to be somewhat similar to the strategy we take. That's probably what Kileber was going to do. ”

As it was already November and the weather was starting to turn cold, after determining that it was impossible for the Huns to attack Tokugawa, Qin Du and all the government officials were relieved of their hearts and could finally concentrate on solving other problems.

Due to the great harvest in the fall, almost all of them are smiling. The farmer's house is full of harvested grain, and the farmers are also thinking about how much to leave for the family to eat and next year's seeds, how much money the rest can be sold, and how much to repay the loan, looking forward to a happy and prosperous Spring Festival, and looking forward to a better life next year. Merchants are also ready to prepare for the upcoming spring shopping season.

Only the army has not changed, and still continues its training plan, and does not relax in the slightest because the immediate threat has temporarily disappeared, they know that it will come sooner or later, only if they are more prepared, the opportunity is greater, and it is impossible to achieve the final victory by evading.

By the end of October, in July, August, September, October, and four months, an upsurge of immigrants was set off, with 700,000 people pouring into Tokugawa Prefecture, and an average of more than 6,000 immigrants entering Tokugawa Prefecture every day, especially after the grain harvest in September, as many as 9,000 people settled in Tokugawa Prefecture every day, and the sources were more dispersed, and the proportion of workers, scholars, technicians, craftsmen, and small merchants who came from them also increased significantly. The population of Tokugawa Prefecture is close to 4.5 million, which is close to the highest level in history.

Merchants who smelled the business opportunities also flocked to the market, and various workshops, workshops, and shops opened almost every day, absorbing a large number of idle laborers. The construction of large-scale farmland water conservancy infrastructure and road transportation in Tokugawa Prefecture was officially launched, and the construction of these three roads from Tokugawa Prefecture to Northwestern County, Tokugawa Prefecture to Gochang Province, and Tokugawa Prefecture to Loulan Principality was given top priority.

In Xie Shuyu's words, the completion of these three roads will greatly improve the traffic situation in Tokugawa Prefecture, attract more caravans to and from Tokugawa, and create good conditions for increasing tax revenue. Of course, the traffic between the five prefectures of Tokugawa Prefecture has also been overhauled.

The influx of population has overloaded the work of the entire government organs, and various departments have requested additional manpower, but Liang Qiming only approved the report of the Administration Department and the Agricultural Administration and Water Conservancy Department requesting additional personnel, which provoked Mu Ziqi to scold Liang Qiming for not being used to seeing his "plump" figure, and he wanted to lose weight like Xie Shuyu.

Qin Duan also vetoed the army's request for further expansion and conscription, and demanded that the army should focus all its energy on improving the combat effectiveness of existing personnel, rather than conscripting new soldiers.

However, Qin also said that as the population of Tokugawa Prefecture continued to grow, it was possible to consider recruiting new soldiers after the festival, but only if the existing army had a satisfactory combat effectiveness.

Walking through the streets of Tokugawa Prefecture, letting the heavy snow wet his hair, the streets and alleys are full of busy people, small merchants are shouting vigorously to sell their goods, and children are also building snowmen in the streets and alleys carefree, looking at this qiē, Qin Dui's heart swelled with pride, it only took a short year to build a depressed and dilapidated border city into this vibrant image, what reason is there not to be proud? This also made Qin Dui's determination to defend the city in front of him even stronger. (To be continued......)