Chapter 35: Adjusting the Focus
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It's just that, Li Tang's pressure on land is much smaller!
The cities passed along the way, such as Caiyang County, Xinye County, Bowang County, Anzhong County, Deng County, etc., Li Tang won them all.
Although, many of these cities are defended by a large number of Yellow Turban Army. It's a pity that most of the Mongolian cavalry under Li Tang who are good at attacking cities, plus the cooperation of Li Tang's own Qiankun bracelet and mount Little Yellow Chicken, there is no city that cannot be captured.
Of course, in the general city, Li Tang doesn't need to do it himself, otherwise he will take all the credit himself, and his subordinates will be mixed with wool! In particular, with the king of breaking the city, Guo Kan, there are only a few counties, and it is really difficult to stop Li Tang's attack!
It is not difficult for Li Tang to attack the city, but the difficulty lies in how to deal with these cities.
First of all, there must be a place for the surrendered Yellow Turban Army in the city! You can't kill all of them with a knife, Li Tang is willing to do such a thing.
Therefore, it is right to receive your own Qiankun bracelet.
Therefore, every time he went to the city, Li Tang wanted to loot the treasures hidden by the Yellow Turban Army, appease the people and restore the production of the city, and on the other hand, he had to put the prisoners into the Qiankun bracelet, but he was really busy!
With Qin Jie's sailors opening the way, Xu Xuan's infantry marched along the river bank at a very fast speed. After all, the two sides cover each other, and there really aren't many people rushing to snipe them!
Therefore, in just over a month, they all arrived under Wancheng. Besiege Wancheng and prepare to fight to the death with Zhang Mancheng, who occupies Wancheng.
And poor Li Tang is still attacking a city and a village! Anyway, it's a great opportunity to catch the captives, and if you don't catch it, you can't catch it!
When Li Tang captured the system cities and villages, there were actually four options, one was to manage, one was to occupy, one was to destroy, and the other was to plunder.
It's just that Li Tang can choose only one, that is, escrow, or not at all.
Because, if you choose to occupy, then you will become a thief and want to stand on your own.
Choose to destroy, it will be even worse.
Choosing to plunder, in fact, is still reliable, and it can sweep away the things in the Yellow Turban Army's treasury.
However, this city still belongs to the Yellow Turban Army, which is not good.
If you choose to act as an escrow, then you can temporarily exercise some powers, such as appointing officials, collecting taxes, and so on, which is similar to that acting county order.
With such a good thing, Li Tang naturally wanted to take his time to capture these cities. Of course, for the materials in the Yellow Turban Army's treasury, such as food, ordnance and other things, Li Tang must have plundered first, and then attacked the stone monument in the city.
As for the strength of the defense, call up! How does the money come from? It's also simple, when the Yellow Turban Army was eliminated, basically all the food and money from all over the country were concentrated in the city. As long as the city is broken, there is still no food and grass? As for saying that someone secretly hides gold coins and money and grain, and pulls them into the Qiankun bracelet for slow interrogation, they will definitely be able to ask questions.
Of course, does the military really need to be called up? In fact, it's just to make a show and abduct some talents!
Troops can be mobilized from other cities! Anyway, if you put 100,000 elite soldiers in a city, there will be millions of dozens of cities, and they can all be conscripted to the outside world.
In this way, Li Tang could easily transfer the troops in the jurisdiction of Linhai City to the mainland without arousing the suspicion of others.
After all, the garrison of any city has more than 100,000 soldiers, and Li Tang uses the finances of each city to raise private soldiers for himself, so why not?
As for the money and food for the conscripted soldiers, they were actually captured materials. It stands to reason that these materials were seized by the system army and should be returned to the government treasury, but not into Li Tang's personal pocket.
It's just that Li Tang really didn't take the money and food, and the money and food were used to recruit soldiers. However, these soldiers were all sent by Li Tang, and they originally needed to be paid by Li Tang, but now they have become paid by various cities.
If one day, someone wants to take back the system city and drive Li Tang away, won't Li Tang's soldiers be lost! Actually, no, first of all, these soldiers are Li Tang's soldiers, if one day, Li Tang is going to leave, then these soldiers Li Tang will definitely take them away. It's a big deal to let these soldiers retire and re-recruit some crooked melons and cracked dates to put them in the city. In this way, at least during Li Tang's time in the city, he didn't need to pay them food and salary out of his own pocket.
Moreover, if Li Tang replaced all the county towns with his own soldiers, and the generals who led the troops were all his own people, then outsiders who wanted to drive Li Tang away through the official face might have to weigh it!
Therefore, basically Li Tang captured a city in three or five days, and then it was a routine. Collecting prisoners, calling out soldiers, conscription, etc.
About half a year later, 34 of the 36 cities around Wancheng have fallen into Li Tang's hands.
Such as Champion Yi, Ye County, Xinye County, Zhangling County, Xi'e County, Pheasant County, Luyang County, Lixian County, Duyang County, Bowang County, Wuyin Yi, Biyang County, Fuyang County, Pingshi County, Jianyang County, Huyang Yi, Sui County, Yuyang Yi, Nieyang County, Yin County, Yu County, Shandu County, Liguo, Sui County, Chaoyang County, Caiyang County, Zhuyang County, Wudang County, Shunyang County, Chengdu County, Xiangxiang County, Nanxiang County, Danshui County, Xi County, etc.
The people stationed inside are all Li Tang's elite soldiers, and there are not many of them, but they are all elites with one as ten.
Except for the two cities of Deng County and An Zhongguo, because they were on the way to attack by Xu Xuan, they were taken.
In fact, in the entire Nanyang County area, there must be more than these 37 cities.
However, there are only these 37 system cities! In addition to these 37 cities, there are more than 20 cities established by players, more than 130 player market towns, and even Zhangling County has a player city.
However, Li Tang did not touch these player cities, not that these player cities are all from the imperial court camp. On the contrary, in order to protect themselves, these cities all surrendered to the Yellow Turban Army when the Yellow Turban Army came, retaining the ownership of the city.
It stands to reason that Li Tang wants to rob these cities, which is justified.
However, Li Tang still didn't look down on those block village building orders, so he didn't follow Shi Tianze's advice and ordered an attack.
Even, even Shi Tianze suggested going to these cities to extort some money and food, but Li Tang did not agree.
Of course, there are exceptions, and there are some smart players who rely on their familiarity with the terrain to ambush Li Tang's army.
The consequences can be imagined, the combat effectiveness of Li Tang's army is something that ordinary soldiers can ambush?
Therefore, not only did his army suffer casualties, but even the city was demolished by Li Tang, and the aborigines accumulated in the city were also captured.
After such a thing happened once or twice, they found that Li Tang was indeed not easy to mess with. At the same time, if he didn't take the initiative to provoke Li Tang, Li Tang would ignore them.
Of course, this may also be Li Tang's strategy to delay the army, and wait until the system cities are stabilized, and then turn back to clean them up. However, only for the future, who knows?
In order to avoid this situation, many player lords took the initiative to find Li Tang and signed a non-aggression pact, agreeing to pay taxes as usual, but it was just for Li Tang personally, and Li Tang was not to blame for the rest.
In this way, you don't have to change sides.
Such an agreement is still very kind to these lords. After all, joining the Yellow Turban camp also has to pay taxes every month.
If, anyway, you go to the imperial camp, not only do you have to pay fines, but you also need to pay taxes. At that time, if the Yellow Turban Army fights, it will have to become the Yellow Turban camp again and be blackmailed.
No matter how you look at it, it is better to sign a non-aggression pact with Li Tang.
Of course, the terms of such a treaty are naturally handled by Li Tang's subordinates, and there is no need for Li Tang to sign it himself.
At the same time, it can also be pushed cleanly.
In this way, Li Tang can be above board and stuff the taxes that should have been handed over to the imperial court into his pocket.
Now, on the entire continent, Li Tang has installed more than 400 elite soldiers.
That's not enough, though. Li Tang's goal is to install more than 800-10 million soldiers to come over, that is, to put 20-300,000 soldiers in each city.
And the cities in Linhai City, put three or five thousand people in each city to deter the residents in the city, anyway, there are many retired militiamen, and once there is a situation at that time, it is easy to recruit.
The key city can put tens of thousands more, or even hundreds of thousands. In this way, it is enough to keep the number of troops in the jurisdiction of Linhai City at 5 million to 6 million.
At present, the population of Litang Linhai City is about 300 million, most of them are shengfan, and there are more than 400 cities, so it can sustain the development of 500-6 million troops.
However, there are still 2 million soldiers attacking other shengfan, which should actually be in an abnormal state. The force that is truly completely defended is a maximum of 4 million people.
In fact, this number is not much, especially as the game develops, more and more players begin to develop ships, and when the time comes, their defense will be tight!
Fortunately, he also has a pirate army of more than 1 million people, which can ensure that no one else will harass his city for a long time.
As long as he persists for a few years, Li Tang will develop Linhai City well, and others will have nothing to do with themselves.
For Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Gan Ning, Huang Xu, and Huang Wudie, it is a bit overkill to continue to let them attack Shengfan. Now the Shengfan on the Ryukyu Islands has been completely eradicated, only Yizhou Island still has Shengfan forces, not that they are strong, but that the geographical environment protects them!
Although the distance is not far, but across the vast primeval forest, the casualties of the soldiers on the way are much greater than the casualties of the enemy!
At the same time, there are all kinds of fierce beasts and monsters blocking the way in the jungle, so the attack is very slow! It's just that in the process of attacking, I have gained a lot of rare treasures!