The strategy has been decided, so the next step is how to expand the army.

Wushan Town has a total population of more than 40,000 people, and it is not a problem to transfer 4,000 people from it, the key is Malan Town, which has a population of less than 20,000, but the army has reached 2,000 people, and the town's economy simply cannot support so many soldiers.

Lin Yuan felt that he should still focus on Suizhou.

Suizhou has thousands of lords, a large land, a very rich population, and many small Zhongxiang rebels are in rebellion, which is very suitable for military training.

At the same time, Lin Yuan also decided to temporarily place Zhuge Liang in Malan Town and let him be in charge of everything in Malan Town.

On September 8, Lin Yuan set off again and arrived in Wushan Town on September 10.

The first thing he did when he returned to Wushan Town was to equip two heavy infantry battalions with the second batch of military supplies.

At the same time, all five battalions were promoted to second-order troops.

In this way, he had three battalions of hoplite infantry and two battalions of ordinary infantry under his command.

With such a strong army and the strategy set by Zhuge Liang, Lin Yuan knew that the annexation of Suizhou must be accelerated.

He directly divided the three heavy infantry battalions into three routes, one led by him, one led by Yuwen Chengdu, and the last one was led by Ban, and the three-way army swept through all the villages within a radius of 100 miles.

On September 12, Yuwen Chengdu took the lead in capturing the northern village.

On 14 September, Yu Ban captured all the villages to the south.

On September 18, Lin Yuan finally captured all the villages in the east.

In this way, with Wushan Town as the center, all 81 villages within a radius of 100 miles were captured by Lin Yuan.

This only accounts for one-fifth of the western district of Suizhou.

All the population, money and food were moved into Wushan Town, making Wushan Town a giant town with a population of 10w.

[Territory]: Wushan Town (second-level town)

[Lord]: Lin Yuan

[Affiliation]: Southern Song Dynasty Jinghu Road Xiangyang Mansion Suizhou

[Specialty]: None

[Population]: 105,300/10,000

[People's Heart]: 44

[Public security]: 70

[Fertile land]: 38,000 acres

[Prosperity]: 3800/2000

[Administrative efficiency]: 75/100

[Agricultural Efficiency]: 93/100

[Economic efficiency]: 56/100

[Cultural efficiency]: 45/100

[Military Rating]: 13000 (2 Heavy Infantry Battalions, 150 Heavy Cavalry, 50 Crossbowmen, 1 Heavy Archer Battalion, 2 Second Infantry Battalions)

[Grain output]: 1,290,000 units/year (1 unit is the food that needs to be consumed by 1 person/month)

[Village warehouse]: 243,600 units of grain, 314,500 units of timber, 196,300 units of ore......

[City Fortification]: Level 2 Wall (Simple Defense, Soldier Defense +6)

[Existing buildings]: thatched houses, wooden houses, junior blacksmith shops, primary grocery stores, primary wood quarries, primary mining farms, primary militia barracks, primary medical centers, primary carpenter shops, primary ceramic factories, primary textile factories, primary tea shops, land temples......

[Buildable Buildings]: Primary Aqueduct, Rickshaw Water Wheel......

After a village is promoted to a town, various level 3 buildings can be upgraded to a junior building, and when promoted to a county seat, it can be promoted to a medium level building.

"Ding! System prompt: Detected that the village meets the requirements for promotion to level 3 town, is it promoted? ”

"Level up!"

Wushan Town is directly upgraded to a third-level town.

However, it is still far from being promoted to the county seat.

For a third-level town to be promoted to a first-level county, four conditions need to be met.

The population reached 20,000;

The town has a prosperity of 5000;

Lord's reputation reaches 2000;

The popular heart reached 50.

The population of Wushan Town is fully satisfied, and the other three conditions are all met.

After encompassing all the territory within a radius of 100 miles into Wushan Town's sphere of influence, Lin Yuan did not choose to continue to expand externally, but stopped to digest it.

And at the same time as Lin Yuan attacked and annexed, the other lords of Suizhou also launched a chaotic war, and they frantically annexed and plundered each other.

In the end, five powerful lords were decided.

They were the Jingchu warriors in the eastern region, who had already occupied three-fifths of the territory and had a population of more than 300,000, which was even stronger than Wushan Town in Linyuan.

The dragon soul of the southern district has annexed a quarter of the territory of the southern district, and the remaining three-quarters are completely occupied by the Zhongxiang rebels.

The war madness in the northern region has actually unified the northern region, and Lin Yuan learned afterwards that the war madness has bought off half of the lords in the northern region, and the merger of the northern region will be so smooth.

The most powerful lord in the Central District is Drunken Fengwan, whose territory is only one-tenth of that of the Central District, but I heard that he has recruited an elite army equipped with all silver ranks.

The last lord is Beishan Mo, who also belongs to the Eastern District, and also occupies one-fifth of the territory.

Although the troops in the hands of these five lords are not as elite as Lin Yuan's, they are numerous and should not be underestimated.

Lin Yuan had no intention of competing with them for the time being.

"Ding! System Announcement: Congratulations to the Qilin Town of the Duke of the Lu Family, the famous mansion, who has been successfully promoted to a first-class county and become the first county seat in China, with a special reward of prestige +1000, charm +5, and physical fitness of residents in the territory +5. ”

The sound of a system announcement completely caused an uproar in the entire Chinese region.

The first county seat has finally appeared in China.

It's a pity that it's not from the Southern Song Dynasty, but from the Jin Kingdom.

"If a third-level town upgrades to a county seat, can you still get system rewards?"

Lin Yuan in the Lord's Mansion was also slightly taken aback after hearing this system announcement.

Immediately after that, the second system announcement sounded.

"Ding! System announcement: Congratulations to Xiliang Town, the 'Great Han Ma Mengqi' of Xingqing Prefecture, for successfully being promoted to a first-class county and becoming the second county in China, with a special reward reputation of +900, charm +3, and physical fitness of territory residents +4. ”

There were actually two towns before and after that were promoted to county seats.

Sure enough, while Lin Yuan was expanding and merging, these people did not have the leisure to develop their own power.

Lin Yuan immediately clicked on the territory rankings.

Wushan Town ranked 360th, which means that Wushan Town is the 360th territory in China to be promoted to the third level of town.

In China, there are already 360 third-level towns.

The Chinese district is so big that maybe in some remote corner, there is a third-level town.

Many people want to silently accumulate strength and then make a splash.

Lin Yuan is no exception.

In late September, all the militia in Wushan Town had finally been promoted to level 20, and Lin Yuan immediately used the third-order soldier promotion token to convert all of them into third-order troops.

At the same time, he drew 2,000 elites from the captured soldiers to form four infantry battalions.

In this way, the strength of Wushan Town finally reached 5,000 people.

In the lord's hall, Lin Yuan called Yuwen Chengdu.

"Chengdu, what are the conditions for recruiting Xiaoguowei under your command?"

Yuwen Chengdu looked overjoyed, the lord was preparing to recruit Xiaoguowei for him.

He immediately replied: "There are four conditions for recruiting Xiaoguowei, the first is to have advanced riding skills, the second is to have advanced cavalry archery, the third is to have advanced charge, and the fourth is that the physical fitness of the soldiers must reach 60 or more. ”

After listening to these four conditions, Lin Yuan was directly silent.

This condition is too harsh.

He originally wanted to transfer all the captured bronze generals to the eighth-order Xiaoguowei, but it was obvious that the bronze generals were not qualified for the selection of Xiaoguowei.

First of all, the strength value of the bronze generals is between 45 and 55, and the physical fitness is not up to standard.

Secondly, a person who can have advanced riding skills, advanced riding archery, and advanced charging at the same time is simply one in a million.

It's no wonder that the upper limit of Xiaoguowei is only three thousand.

From a distance, it was more difficult to gather these 3,000 people than to ascend to the sky.

However, he didn't want to give up, the eighth-order heavy cavalry, that was an existence that could sweep the world, how could he say that he would give up.

"I will give you permission now, all the personnel in my army, or the personnel in the territory, as long as they meet the conditions of Xiaoguowei, you can give priority to selection, and strive to form Xiaoguowei as soon as possible."

"The last general commands!" Yuwen Chengdu happily hugged his fists and withdrew.

Judging by his appearance, he went to choose the source of soldiers.

And after Yuwen Chengdu left, Takakura also walked in.

During these days, Gao Cang has experienced well under Lin Yuan's command, and the work of the scouts is becoming more and more proficient, and his level has risen to level 20, as if he is an elite backbone.

"Yang Mi has arrived in Suizhou, arrived five days ago, and now the Zhongxiang rebel army in Suizhou has begun to integrate, once they are integrated, the number will reach a terrifying 50,000!"

Yang Qi is also the core figure of the Zhong Xiang uprising, second only to Zhong Xiang.

When he came to Suizhou in person, he must have wanted to quickly capture Suizhou, get a county, strengthen the soldiers and horses, and then wave his army back to help Zhonghui.

At this time, the clock will be fighting the idea of Gangneung Castle.

The commander of Jiangling Mansion was Kong Yanzhou, the envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty, who recruited envoys along the river, and there were about 100,000 elite soldiers under his command.

With Kong Yanzhou's ability, it is estimated that it will be difficult to hold Gangneung City under the siege of hundreds of thousands of rebel troops.

It was only a matter of time before the city broke.

However, Lin Yuan was also unwilling, the rebel army captured Jiangling City so quickly, he had to find a way to slow down the pace of the rebel army and give Zhuge Liang some time to develop.