The difficult weather is also troublesome for the Black Iron City, but because the Black Iron City is now on the defensive, so these difficulties are relatively easy to overcome, after all, in the city, the people of Guangyuan have already been prepared, how to deal with this hot and humid weather, there are many large and small rivers in the city, and the place where the city is built is also located in a relatively high place, the ventilation will be better, and the city has more trees and green shade than the steel city like the Black Iron City. This can keep the temperature within a reasonable temperature, even if it is uncomfortable, human beings can tolerate it, in this environment, although it is a little uncomfortable, but it is not as uncomfortable as those field troops of Guangyuan Kingdom.

And relying on the solidity of the city, although the three months of the Black Iron City were very difficult, they did not lose the city, as for the villagers outside the city, there was no way for Shu Han, after all, the city was easy to master, but the thousands of villages were not so easy, especially the topography of Guangyuan Kingdom determined that these villages were often in the ravines, even the princes in those cities were difficult to completely control the villages below.

The fragmented terrain makes the small villages here almost independent kingdoms, even if the former princes are very difficult to control, let alone Shuhan now, which is why Guangyuan has the largest population among the three kingdoms, but the urbanization rate has always been very low, the entire Guangyuan country has a population of more than 4.5 million, but the real urban population is less than 800,000, which shows that their ability to control the grassroots is indeed very low.

Almost all of the big cities in Black Iron City are built on the plains, and when the population is needed, it can be directly requisitioned to the countryside, maintaining a fairly strong ability to control the countryside, and Guangyuan Country is obviously not good, those villages are in various ravines and ravines, it is not so easy to control them, and these villages have their own land, they are combined with each other to form an inherent force, if they are forcibly expropriated, these people will be forced to rebel, relying on the complex terrain, even Guangyuan Country itself is difficult to handle, It often takes a lot of time to suppress these rebellions, so the overall situation of the Guangyuan Kingdom is that the small vassal states are loyal to the king Dai Wuxian on the surface, but in fact they are all independent, and the same is true for the princes on their own territory, the villages form alliances with each other, watch and help each other, and then form checks and balances on the princes, and the entire power is transferred to the villages, even if the princes want to expand their influence, it is extremely difficult, this is the formal structure of the Guangyuan Kingdom.

Therefore, when the Black Iron City entered the Guangyuan Kingdom, it was impossible to implement the policy of clearing the wilderness as if it was in the Black Iron City itself, and included these peasants in the same scope of his rule, so he could only go with the flow and let them manage themselves, and Shu Han could only manage the 100,000 urban population in these six cities, as for the population of other places, that Shu Han could not control it at all.

However, the small size of the city also makes it easier to defend, otherwise a large city with a population of more than 200,000 people like Black Iron City, the city wall alone needs to be built very long, so that there will be a lot of people to defend, and now the remaining army in Shu Han's hands is only 30,000 people, where can it be defended so tightly, but fortunately, the population of these six cities is small now, and it is easy to defend, otherwise the trouble will be greater.

As for those villages, Shu Han won't care about them, and Guangyuan Guo won't care about them either, after all, this is the system of Guangyuan Kingdom, there are contacts between the two sides, for Guangyuan Kingdom, they are naturally going to counterattack when they accumulate strength, but now the front line is in an emergency, a large number of materials have been transported to the front line, and there are not many weapons in their hands that can be used, so although they have the heart but are powerless, this is their predicament.

It is precisely because of this that the time of three months is fleeting, and in these three months, the frequency of large and small wars is still very high, especially after the Holy Alliance mobilized its army, it launched a very fierce attack on Guangyuan State, but this time it was an attack on the mainland, and Guangyuan Country had already been prepared, and at the same time, the people in these villages, who had never obeyed the orders of the princes on weekdays, now found that as soon as the people of the Holy Alliance entered their territory, they forced them to take out food to ensure the operation of their army, At the same time, he also forcibly recruited strong men, so that many villages were wiped out because of this, such a thing, Black Iron City did not do, although the Black Iron City is also short of food now, but Shu Han is not as arrogant as Qiao Xuan, persecuting the local people before the war is over, this kind of thing, Shu Han does not dare to do.

Therefore, after the Black Iron City entered the Guangyuan Kingdom, except for those who raised the banner on the surface to follow the Guangyuan Kingdom, the rest of the Shu Han were treated equally, and did not trouble them, and for these villages, their recognition of the Guangyuan Kingdom was actually not high, no matter who ruled them, as long as they could abide by the traditional regulations between them, they would not directly rise up against them, so Shu Han's side did not encounter strong resistance, but Qiao Xuan obviously angered the locals.

The people in these villages were deeply angry at Qiao Xuan's brutality, and they enthusiastically participated in the recruitment of Guangyuan Kingdom, so that Guangyuan Kingdom gathered a large number of available soldiers, and at the same time, the Holy Alliance now has no new weapons that can threaten Guangyuan Kingdom, as for the hot air balloon people, now Guangyuan Country itself also has it, and without new weapons, this advantage of the Holy Alliance is naturally gone, and in such a complex terrain, it is undoubtedly difficult for the Holy Alliance to gain an advantage.

The only advantage is that in the previous war, the Holy Alliance gained a geographical advantage, and many passes were in the hands of the Holy Alliance, which allowed them to grasp the initiative even more, although Guangyuan Kingdom later took advantage of the Black Iron City to recapture a few during the battle with the Holy Alliance, but still let the Holy Alliance have an advantage.

And in response to this, Dai Wuxian obviously has his own arrangement, with his understanding of geography, he also carried out a wave of counter-killing, which made Qiao Xuan suffer a lot of impact, and now three months have passed, Qiao Xuan originally confidently thought that it was enough to pocket Guangyuan Kingdom, but he didn't expect that Guangyuan Kingdom's unique social system has made Guangyuan Kingdom persist until now, and not a single city has been taken away, and although Guangyuan Kingdom's army has been wiped out a lot by the Holy Alliance, but Guangyuan Kingdom's army seems to be divided and reproduced, was killed and came out again, Qiao Xuan himself couldn't figure out how many troops Guangyuan Guo had, and even Guangyuan Guo himself didn't know.

According to the data on the surface, the population of Guangyuan Kingdom is about 4.5 million, but this can only be counted, in such a mountainous terrain, in fact, there are many people who cannot be counted at all, and at the same time, because Guangyuan Kingdom's ability to rule at the grassroots level is very weak, so many villages in order to pay less taxes, often will underreport a lot of population, 150 people in the village may only be 70 or 80 people when the final report, so the population of Guangyuan Country is seriously problematic, It is very likely that his real population is at the level of eight million or even nine million, but because of the backwardness of the administrative system, Guangyuan Kingdom is unable to count all the population, and naturally it is about the same as the Holy Alliance in terms of strength.

And this is something that Qiao Xuan and Shu Han never wanted, after all, most of their land is plains, and the population statistics are very convenient, even if there are many mountains in the land under the jurisdiction of Black Iron City, but the population is mainly concentrated in a few plains, unlike the population of Guangyuan Country, which is all scattered among mountains and rivers, it is difficult to count at all, so Shu Han and Qiao Xuan did not expect that Guangyuan Country would have such a strong war mobilization ability, especially for Qiao Xuan, watching him win every battle, But there are more and more troops in the face, from more than 200,000 to more than 300,000 and close to 400,000 troops today, even the Holy Alliance is a little difficult to parry, and in three months, he can't take a step forward, and he can only vent his anger with the surrounding villagers, which makes Qiao Xuan's reputation in Guangyuan Country even more stinky.

If it was placed in the past, even Qiao Xuan would have to consider whether it was time to stop the war, after all, the war had reached this level, and the three parties were already tired, and the war for three months in a row was enough to drive the commanders crazy, but now, Black Iron City and the Holy Alliance had obviously put their future on this war, if they did not achieve victory and gain benefits, then there would be a great famine in the coming year, and many people would starve to death, and in order to prevent the people on their side from starving to death, It is only possible to survive by robbing the grain of Guangyuan Kingdom, for this reason, Qiao Xuan and Shu Han cannot surrender, the only thing they can do is to arm more people and throw them into the bottomless pit of the near war.

At this time, Shu Han and Qiao Xuan are like two gamblers, in order to win the war, transfer the disaster caused by the war to others, at this time, they can only desperately involve more people in this turmoil, Shu Han is very scared at this time, he wants to stop, but at this time, this matter is obviously not his final say, the entire Black Iron City has changed because of the war, and now, only by winning this war, Black Iron City can continue to live, Shu Han's own children can not become slaves of the country.

Therefore, no matter what they are thinking about now, they must finish this battle, it can be said that if a warship wants to start, it will never stop, unless the iceberg in front of them is sunk, or the giant ship of Black Iron City sinks to the bottom of the sea, there are only these two options, there is nothing else.

However, there is a lot of good news in three months, one of which is that the waterway from the Black Iron City to the Foothills City has finally been completed, the construction of this waterway has completely connected the several major cities of the entire Black Iron City, which is of great help to the Black Iron City, which can allow the materials in the rear to be directly transported to the Foothills City and then transported to the front line, and at the same time, the Black Iron City now has a total of eight ironclad ships that can directly enter the territory of Guangyuan Kingdom through the waterway. This added more space for Black Iron City's activities within the territory of Guangyuan Kingdom.

At the same time, after the construction of the waterway project was completed, a total of 40,000 workers were idle, these people Shu Han directly organized them into an army, used as sappers, set up barracks for the soldiers on the front line and cleaned the battlefield, etc., and could also be used as a real soldier at critical moments, for this reason, Shu Han specially announced a new rule, as long as they made contributions to the war, they could immediately be relieved of their slave status and become a free citizen, and at the same time they could enjoy the treatment of other citizens of the Black Iron City, and the rewards they received would be obtained by themselves.

In this way, this army directly entered the army system, and the newly trained 100,000 troops were also ready to go, as transport ships began to approach the foothills of the city, these 140,000 people will become the main force in the next war, and after having these troops, Shu Han's actions have also begun to become bold.

The emergence of the naval army made Shu Han's strategic considerations no longer just land considerations, but could broaden the angle of war through river roads, some amphibious cities, you can attack from both sides to block the enemy's support and attack, and at the same time block the enemy's grain routes, and Guangyuan Kingdom does not have any suitable method, they have no ironclad ships to contend with, they can only rely on the main guns in the city to shoot at the ships on the side of the Black Iron City for defense, to the ironclad ships come without a trace, Compared with the fixed battery, it is much more flexible, the ironclad ships of the Black Iron City often come late at night, and then shoot at the enemy's city, and when the day is almost dawn, the cannonballs are also fired, and then they drive back to their own city, leaving behind a devastated city, and because the waterway is completed, a large number of shells and resources are transported to the front line, which makes the ironclad ships have enough ammunition for them to shoot, and the roads in the land of Guangyuan are rugged, and most of the transportation actually depends on ships, And now that the river is controlled by the Black Iron City, the material transportation of the Guangyuan Kingdom can only rely on land transportation, which makes the troops of the Guangyuan Kingdom, which is not rich, even more strained, and this is beneficial to the Black Iron City.

The soldiers of Guangyuan Kingdom did fight very bravely when protecting their hometown, but in the face of an enemy that you can't touch at all, no matter how heroic they are, it will not help, the ironclad ships of the Black Iron City wander in the river, like a ghost, so that the enemy can not grope at all, and can only tremble under the terrifying atmosphere of the Black Iron City, in this state, even the soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles will become wrong because of the tension of the atmosphere, not to mention these temporarily conscripted troops.

And after a month-long attack, the cities on the front line were already in pain, at this time Shu Han sent ground troops to attack, and finally tore a hole in the enemy's defense line, the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Black Iron City continued to rely on ships to attack the enemy's various key cities, relying on the huge naval army, each time the troops could reach more than 20,000 people, and these cities in Guangyuan Kingdom did not have so many defensive troops at all, and even the population of the city was not as good as the army of the Black Iron City, In this situation, Black Iron City soon took more than five cities and hundreds of thousands of people from the hands of Guangyuan Kingdom.