At this time, Shu Han understood that the reason why Qiao Xuan did not report to Guangyuan Guo was obviously to calculate the heart of the people of Black Iron City, and let Guangyuan Kingdom find out about the betrayal of Black Iron City, which is a double benefit for the Holy Alliance, firstly, the strength of Guangyuan Kingdom can be weakened as much as possible through Black Iron City, and at the same time, the opening of the door of Guangyuan Country made Black Iron City forgetful, so that in the subsequent war, it completely fell into a state of disorder, and in the end, although Guangyuan Kingdom recovered a lot of land, but more than six cities were taken away by Black Iron City, about more than 600,000 people, and Black Iron City has lost more than 20,000 to 30,000 troops, and it is no longer able to continue the offensive in the short term.

After that, there are only two ways in front of the Black Iron City, the first way is to withdraw the army, ensure the security of the current territory, and no longer expand, because with the only remaining troops in the Black Iron City, it is no longer enough to continue to wage a large-scale war against the Guangyuan Kingdom, and if you want to continue to fight, then there is only the second way, which is to completely mobilize the power of the entire country and arm the population of more than 100,000 to start such a war, just like the Holy Alliance.

This will undoubtedly shake the national capital of the Black Iron City, but the facts are already in front of you, the first way is impossible to go no matter what, the Holy Alliance is now directly aimed at the key point of the Guangyuan Kingdom, and its state is to eliminate the Guangyuan Kingdom, a fierce enemy, and the power of the Holy Alliance, Shu Han believes that the demise of the Guangyuan Kingdom is only a matter of time.

At this time, if Black Iron City chooses not to attack again, then it is equivalent to watching the Holy Alliance annex Guangyuan Kingdom, then Black Iron City is tantamount to sitting and waiting to die, this kind of choice, no normal person will choose, so now Black Iron City has only one choice left, that is, like Guangyuan Kingdom and the Holy Alliance, the fate of the entire country will be completely suppressed in this war.

The winner takes all, and the loser will lose everything, which is what Shu Han is unwilling to do, which is why he was very cautious in his previous wars, that is, he hoped to minimize the loss of soldiers, so as to ensure that the war would never shake the national capital of Black Iron City, and now Qiao Xuan used his own strategy, undoubtedly made Shu Han's plans go to waste, and now he can only do what he doesn't want to do, otherwise if Black Iron City is defeated, then there will be more tragedies.

And in the face of such a situation, its biggest responsibility is naturally these magnates of Black Iron City, if they hadn't launched a meaningless attack without authorization, thus putting a huge flaw directly in front of Guangyuan Kingdom, Black Iron City would not have encountered such a cruel choice that should not have appeared, but at this time, Shu Han obviously couldn't blame these magnates, after all, the war would continue, if they were punished at this time, then more than half of the Skywalkers in Black Iron City would go to prison, and this battle would not be able to be fought.

Shu Han was only able to punish a little, mainly admonishment, requiring them to obey their orders in the future war, not to act at will, and after this fiasco, they obviously realized that their combat ability was not at the same level as Qiao Xuan and Shu Han and others, even if Dai Wuxian's son was enough to defeat them, which made them finally stop fighting against Shu Han and began to obey his orders.

Shu Han's first order was to rely on the six cities he now occupied to start building a defense network to ensure that the soldiers of Guangyuan Kingdom would affect the territory where Shu Han was located today, and at the same time, in order to prevent the people of these six cities from rebelling or making internal responses, Shu Han also formulated very strict rules that no one was allowed to act without authorization, and if they found that they had contact with the enemy, they would directly sit together, including neighbors, who would be killed.

Shu Han himself actually didn't want to do this, killing the people, in his opinion, was not something he wanted to do, but in the face of Guangyuan Kingdom, he had no choice, although the political system of Guangyuan Country did a very poor job in concentrating forces, and at the same time, it also made Dai Wuxian's power not like Qiao Xuan, although he was named the king, but the real right was only the largest landlord in the entire Guangyuan Kingdom.

Such a system allows them to defend more than enough and not attack enough when facing the Holy Alliance, but a system like Guangyuan also has an advantage, that is, each city-state has a very high degree of autonomy, which makes it difficult for the big city-states to exploit the small city-states, and the people of each city-state have a strong sense of belonging to their own city, and they must also have more identification with the community of Guangyuan State.

This is the case with small countries and widows, which is undoubtedly unfavorable for Shu Han, the army of Black Iron City is stationed here, not only to prevent the army of more than 40,000 people outside, but also every citizen in these cities may be spies who report the news, in this case, it is necessary to use harsh laws to suppress the unrealistic delusions of these people, only in this way, can Black Iron City survive this environment.

At the same time, the families, families and heirs of the powerful in the cities are given certain privileges to continue to live their own luxurious lives to ensure that they will not be dissatisfied with the rule of the Black Iron City, so to speak, business as usual, with little impact on the political system of these cities to the detriment of the local people, which is obviously different from the policy implemented in the Holy Alliance.

In the Holy Alliance, every time a city is occupied, Black Iron City will judge the magnates in the city, and then take most of their wealth away, leaving a part to be distributed to the civilians in the city, so that they can support themselves, while in Guangyuan Kingdom, Shu Han took another approach, allowing these magnates to continue to enjoy privileges and wealth, while protecting their wealth from others, the reason for these two completely different approaches is that the local people have different degrees of recognition of the country.

The people of Guangyuan Kingdom love the country very much, and they don't have so much grudge against the rulers in the city-state, and almost all of them come out of the same city, unlike the Holy Alliance, the magnates in the city often come from those big city-states, and the people in the small city-states are often not able to rank among the upper ranks, but Guangyuan Kingdom is different, those magnates have a huge prestige in the hearts of the locals, and if they are treated casually, it will inevitably cause disgust, so Shu Han's policy is not to move anything, Then slowly move a part of the people to the two cities of Lushan City and Picheng in the rear, and at the same time bring the people of Lushan City and Picheng to here, and carry out population conversion to consolidate the rule of Black Iron City in this land, this speed was very carefully controlled by Shu Han, so as not to arouse the disgust of the people of Guangyuan.

The second point is to officially declare that the Black Iron City has entered a state of war, and the whole country will start to operate with the goal of the final victory of the war, and all actions and production cannot deviate from this goal, at this point, Shu Han announced that there are about 200,000 male farmers working in the fields in the Black Iron City today, and these 200,000 people will no longer farm from now on, but will enter various factories to produce in order to expand production capacity.

Then 100,000 people were selected from the existing workers in the factory for training, so that they could become soldiers as soon as possible, and the reason why the peasants were not directly allowed to become soldiers was because the workers were more disciplined than the peasants, and at the same time, hundreds of these workers lived together and were accustomed to dormitory life with each other, which allowed them to adapt to the life of the soldiers more quickly, and at the same time the discipline was very strong, which was also necessary for the soldiers.

At the same time, compared with the peasants, the literacy rate of the workers is higher, and some of the more complex orders can be better understood, it is precisely because of this that Shu Han issued such an order, and such an order is bound to reduce the grain production of Black Iron City in the coming year to a very terrible level, all the strong laborers of the whole country do not farm, but go to prepare for war, and the fields are cultivated by women and children, as well as the elderly over sixty years old, these people are obviously not enough to undertake this obligation.

In the next year, the grain in Black Iron City can obviously only be copeed with by storage, but now in the granary of Black Iron City, it is impossible for grain to support two years, and barely a year and a half is almost, which is also the harvest of the previous year to be able to accumulate these grains, but how to deal with it in the next half a year?

Obviously, Black Iron City is putting its hope on winning the war, as long as the war is won, you can get countless food from the enemy, and the winning side will not die any people, and in this, the risk is obviously very great, especially for Black Iron City, even if Guangyuan Country has suffered heavy losses now, but who can be sure that Guangyuan Country will not turn around?

You must know that not long ago, Black Iron City was still allied with Guangyuan Country and was the enemy of the Holy Alliance, but in just half a month, Black Iron City has changed its course, such a change will happen to Black Iron City, won't it happen to other people? Shu Han did not believe that before the end of the war, any change could happen, and no one was qualified to say that he was the one who would never fail.

And among the three kingdoms, the strength of Black Iron City is undoubtedly the weakest, whether it is territory or population, Black Iron City is not enough to compare with Guangyuan Kingdom and the Holy Alliance, among them, the easiest to lose is actually not Guangyuan Kingdom, but Black Iron City, after all, Qiao Xuan, no one knows what he will do, intrigues and tricks are endless, Shu Han doesn't believe him, as for Dai Wuxian, Shu Han doesn't think he is a simple person, who knows if the other party will struggle at such a time, At that time, Blackiron City may be in trouble.

So Shu Han has always been reluctant to block the future of the entire Black Iron City, but at this time, he obviously has no other good way, but there is also some good news during this period of time, that is, after two years of hard work, the railway from Huajin City to the Black Iron City has finally been built, which makes the transportation of materials from Huajin City to the Black Iron City three to five times faster, and the transportation volume has also been greatly guaranteed, which is undoubtedly a good thing for the Black Iron City.

At the same time, after the completion of the Black Gold Railway, the 15,000 railway workers can go to support the construction of the population waterway from the Black Iron City to the Pi City, which can greatly accelerate the construction of the waterway, especially for the Black Iron City today, this is more important, the change of the battle line once made the material transportation of the Black Iron City unable to catch up, if this artery can be built successfully, then the materials of the Black Iron City will be able to enter the front line faster, and at the same time, the water army of the Black Iron City can also reach the waters of Jiangxi, so as to engage the enemy, This is very important for today's Black Iron City.

And the investment of 15,000 people can greatly shorten the construction period, and now it takes about three months to build this railway, and three months is enough for the recruited army to accept and complete a whole recruit training, and in these three months, the main strategy of the Black Iron City is to defend, give priority to absorbing the six cities occupied now, and absorb the 600,000 people into the structure of the Black Iron City.

Coupled with the population plundered from the Holy Alliance before, Black Iron City has gained nearly a million or so population in the war, and the war has caused Black Iron City to lose more than 60,000 strong laborers, but even so, it has also made the population of Black Iron City reach 2.7 million, and there is only one step away from three million.

And this is not simple for today's Black Iron City, the opposite Guangyuan State occupies a geographical advantage, and at the same time, there are a lot of relationships and sources in the local people, so the people are also in the hands of the Guangyuan State, and now the reason why they have not made a move to eliminate the troops of the Black Iron City is entirely because the Holy Alliance has held the main force of the Guangyuan Kingdom on the front line.

Now Dai Wuxian shot out of this army, although the number of people is more and more than before, but the equipment is very poor, and even many people use cold weapons, and after the Black Iron City received these cities, the cannon at the head of the city was used as a defense, which made the Black Iron City occupy the convenience of weapons, and at the same time, the same is true in the weather, in the field of Guangyuan Country, the climate and environment are very bad, especially now that it is late spring, there is only one step away from summer, and in this hilly land, Summer means hot flashes and humidity, in such an environment, even the locals of Guangyuan Country are unbearable, only the city will be relatively better, so even if the soldiers of Guangyuan Kingdom want to recapture the city, but under the premise that the weather is unfavorable and the weapons cannot keep up, they will naturally not be able to launch a large-scale attack, and they can only rely on policies such as sneak attacks or surprise attacks to win, and this is also the biggest trouble for Black Iron City.