So at this time, there are not many people who know amethyst, and it is normal for these pathfinders not to know, at this time Shu Han also basically confirmed that the monkey may have really run away, and he couldn't help but feel a little unreal, he originally thought that there was a big war to fight, but now suddenly his side won, Shu Han didn't know what kind of mood it should be, but in the end, more than two years have not been in vain, they have finally succeeded, and this time no one who went to the forest has had an accident, which is undoubtedly a good thing.

Shu Han took everyone back to Joaquin City, and told the news of the monkey's departure to all the cities of the Survival Alliance on the phone, which is undoubtedly good news, for a period of time, the Holy Alliance has been developing, but the Survival Alliance has not made any progress, although the progress of the Holy Alliance is very slow, but this still makes the people of the Survival Alliance very depressed in their hearts, and the feeling of death gradually approaching undoubtedly makes everyone a little worried and afraid, except for some heartless people who still drink for fun, Most of the people were in a heavy mood, and now, the enemy who stood in front of them finally left, just as the gloom was finally dispelled by the sun, and the entire survival alliance was immersed in joy.

And Shu Han also immediately gathered people and began to explore the entire forest, which is much easier for them than the Holy Alliance, the monkey did not wreak havoc on this forest before leaving, so the Survival Alliance does not need to take a detour like the Holy Alliance, in addition, during the time that the monkey is here, almost all the fierce beasts in the forest have fled to other places to survive, so there are almost no fierce beasts in the forest except for some wild beasts, which makes exploration very easy, Shu Han ordered a group of five, More than 300 teams were sent to draw a map of the entire forest within a week, and then handed it over to the experts in order to plan the railway route as soon as possible.

In the vast land behind the forest, the people of the Survival League have already coveted it, and at this time the passage is finally opened, everyone is naturally excited, and there are countless people who have applied for it, and finally sorted out an army of 30,000 people, this time Shu Han is not directly commanded, but Zhang Ruoming led this army south to explore, and Shu Han continued to stay in the Survival League to deal with internal affairs.

After that, the center of gravity of the survival alliance shifted to the south, compared to the strong enemy in the north, the south is undoubtedly a fertile soil, after passing through the forest, it is an endless plain, which does not match Shu Han's geographical knowledge, after all, in his memory, the mountainous areas in the central and southern parts of Zhejiang are more than in the north, and now they are in the northern part of Zhejiang, going south, how can there be so many plains, but in the past three hundred years, the geological changes are far beyond people's imagination, who knows what is going on?

Although this is the earth, the geographical situation is different from what he knew before, and it will undoubtedly be lame to speculate with his own ideas, so after reading it a few times, Shu Han handed over these drawings to the experts for them to analyze, and the reason for this.

On the other side, the team led by Zhang Ruoming can be said to be prosperous in the entire southern region, and encountered a lot of city-states on the way, but with Zhang Ruoming, they are all vulnerable, not worth mentioning at all, these city-state tribes, all live on the plain, across the lake and look at each other, the strength of each other is almost the same, and the population is generally not much, as little as seven or eight people, more than 100,000 people, this plain according to the calculations of Zhang Ruoming and other subordinates, there are more than 20,000 square kilometers, if you add the surrounding small plains and gentle hills, That's 40,000 square kilometers of land, which can support millions of people, and there are no problems, it is more than enough, so there is no war.

In the hundreds of years of time, it can be said that there are a lot of small battles, land annexation, population division has reached a bottleneck now, if there is no Zhang Ruoming to lead the army to come, then these people may still be able to develop, with time slowly annexed and gradually become a large city-state with a population of millions, but time is obviously not on their side, Zhang Ruoming's army came here, it means that their times have changed.

After Zhang Ruoming and others understand, although these city-states are independent of each other, but they have lived here for a long time, and naturally need to communicate with each other, and in the process of this exchange, commercial civilization has been developed, and the exchange of information has also promoted social progress, although the population here is only more than one million, but there are more than 200,000 full-time population.

This is mainly because this land is really very rich, not only fertile plains, but also mountains, forests, lakes and rivers, some of which even rely on sheep herding, water and grass to live, can feed themselves, it can be said that the living conditions are very good, at the same time each city-state needs its own set of offices, but also needs to have its own university, etc., which makes them very many people out of production, more than 200,000 people, and at the same time in science and technology has also made great progress, such as muskets and so on, They are also equipped, and there are not many of them.

However, Zhang Ruoming is not very worried about this, although these people have muskets, but the technology of these muskets is a very low-end product, and the lack of copper and iron raw materials also makes their number of cannons very limited, and Zhang Ruoming's army, the number of iron cannons is more than two hundred, it can be said that nearly one-third of the iron cannons of the survival alliance are all brought, and 30,000 troops, all of which are equipped with muskets, of which 5,000 infantry are equipped with the most advanced rifles, and a magazine can be loaded with five bullets. It can be reloaded by simply pulling the bolt, and the speed is very fast, which is no different from the rifles of the First World War.

Under the generation difference of this weapon, in just one day, Zhang Ruoming successfully captured a city-state closest to the forest, called Instant Water City, with a population of 40,000 in the city, plus the farmers outside, the population is about 150,000, which is considered to be a good side of the plain, after conquering here, Zhang Ruoming did not recklessly loot, but notified the rulers who were still alive to come to the hall to see him, pacified them, and screened those diehards. Drove them out of his ranks, and then began to take over the city with a brigade of civil officials.

First of all, of course, there are population registration, libraries and universities, these key places in the city are all controlled by Zhang Ruoming first, and then he asks them if they have any clues about the monkey, after all, their city-state is near the forest, and it is so close that there should be news, but unfortunately, the people in Instant Water City do not know.

For this forest, they only know that the ancestors have set the rules, everyone is not allowed to enter the forest, for the people of Instant Water City, this forest is undoubtedly a taboo, and they have entered this forest before, but without exception, none of them have come out again, and over time, people have regarded this forest as a forbidden land, and no one has set foot in it for many years, which is why they were defeated so quickly, they have not much defense on this side of the forest, Zhang Ruoming's army attacked suddenly, and under the premise of being defenseless, it was naturally defeated, and as for what kind of monkey, they didn't know at all.

After listening to the report of the people below, Zhang Ruoming couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, is it possible for the monkey to teleport? How could it suddenly disappear, the people around it don't know, but this kind of demonic beast itself carries a lot of weirdness, since he can't figure it out Zhang Ruoming doesn't want to think about it, he immediately let a force control Instant Water City, and then forced about 4,000 soldiers and Skywalker who are still alive in Instant Water City to follow him to attack the surrounding cities, so that he can let his officials and soldiers control the city and fight for more space, after all, there are too many old people in Instant Water City here, will hinder the Survival Alliance's ability to take over the city.

On the other hand, it can also let the soldiers of Instant Water City pave the way for the survival alliance, on the one hand, they can get rid of those who are still unconvinced by others, and on the other hand, they can use these battlefields to select people they approve of to serve as the future leaders of Instant Water City.

However, compared to Instant Water City, other cities have already learned the news at this moment, after all, the prosperous commercial trade makes the connection between these city-states very close, even if it is not like the survival alliance, all the city-states are in one country, and the communication with each other is faster, but the convenient transportation and water conservancy network also allows them to have merchants in their respective countries, in this case, Zhang Ruoming's arrival, the news is naturally unconcealable, and in the face of Zhang Ruoming, an outsider, everyone's attitude can be described as inconsistent.

Most of them are vigilant, in such an environment, the various city-states are very open, but for outsiders, it is undoubtedly repellent, in the face of Zhang Ruoming, of course they want to drive him out, plus although there are businessmen who pass the news back, but after all, these city-states have not invented image technology, no one has seen this army with their own eyes, they only know that Zhang Ruoming's men have about twenty or thirty thousand people, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, but how strong it is, they don't know, the combat power of Instant Water City itself is also very limited, Because of the lack of iron ore, the weapons are very backward, and defeating Instant Water City is not particularly remarkable in the eyes of many people.

So their attitude is very simple, that is, they have no good impression of Zhang Ruoming, and at the same time strengthen their defense, and the other is to connect their allies and prepare to drive Zhang Ruoming out, these people occupy the majority, but in addition, there are some small city-states that see opportunities from it, in these small city-states, most of them are also dependent on the big city-states and live, and their rulers are generally the same as the crowd, going with the flow, but among them, there are still some people who are not willing to be lonely, Secretly sent people to Instant Water City to get in touch with the troops led by Zhang Ruoming, hoping to cooperate to conquer this land.

Their idea is very simple, their city-state status is not high among the various city-states, if they follow the trend, there is no future for development, and among them, Zhang Ruoming is an opportunity for development, if they can participate in it, maybe they will be able to soar.

Even if you don't, it's nothing to get in touch, but you can still know the details of Zhang Ruoming, if you can't be friends at that time, at least you can understand your enemies, and their idea will not be to completely surrender to Zhang Ruoming, but they just want to bet on both ends, this is a necessary skill for small city-states, the so-called wall grass, when the Black Iron City was sandwiched between the Guangyuan Kingdom and the Holy Alliance, it was the same, these small city-states were just doing what the Black Iron City did at the beginning.

For these people, Zhang Ruoming is so smart, he naturally understands their intentions, he doesn't break it, he just takes these people with him, and directly lets them follow him to the front line, on the front line, there is a military parade, the location of the parade is on the battlefield, yes, Zhang Ruoming is directly on the battlefield, showing the force of the survival alliance, and the enemy facing is another city-state less than a hundred kilometers away from Instant Water City, called Leshui City, on this plain, most of the cities will be named after nearby water sources, In this way, I will be grateful for the mother river of my city.

The strength of this Leshui City is slightly stronger than that of Instant Water City, the army has about 15,000 people, and a large number of people have been temporarily gathered, and there are about 30,000 people, which is similar to Zhang Ruoming's troops, and the surrounding three cities also have an alliance relationship with Leshui City, originally Instant Water City was also among them, but Zhang Ruoming came too quickly, and was destroyed by Zhang Ruoming before this small alliance could react, otherwise this is also a strong figure, these three city-states together, the army is about 60,000 people, The remaining two city-states are obviously subordinate to Leshui City, and together they are only 30,000 people.

The army of 60,000 people, in front of Zhang Ruoming, was like a chicken and a dog, and it lasted less than two hours, and then began to disperse, no way, the weapon has already formed a generation difference, when the people of the Leshui City Alliance were still loading bullets, Zhang Ruoming's five thousand Xiao Yong soldiers had already begun to charge forward with their modern rifles, and the soldiers of Leshui City were still attacking in formation, but Zhang Ruoming's five thousand people were stragglers, and the attack of Leshui City was nonsense, and only a few people could be shot in the end, and Zhang Ruoming's side, although it is a skirmish front, but the shooting speed and accuracy obviously make up for the role of the line, and after just a few charges, the defense line of Leshui City has been completely defeated.