Seventh Night, another kind of battlefield

The dreamer easily took control of the southern wall of the Storm Kun Pass, pinning the defenders under the horse paths and stairs. Although with the current strength of the Donghai team members, it is completely easy to kill three in and three out among the soldiers of the mob army, and directly find the opponent's master to kill the tactics.

But they don't want to do everything for the Eastern Navy, if it continues like this, just if they become high-level martial arts masters, and the soldiers can't get the training they deserve, it is not a good thing for the territory and the long-term development of the Eastern Navy. Grasping this tone, Sima Fuqiang had to let Zhang Wei and Wanyue take it easy, so as not to really wipe out the mob army and leave no chance for the upcoming "trapping camp".

The ensuing battle was lackluster, and by the time the soldiers of the "trapped camp" climbed up to the top of the city from rope to rope, the defenders of the storm pass lost their last chance. The Eastern Navy, as always, won a landslide victory.

On the eighth day of Dongzhou time, before dawn, the Eastern Navy took the third city pass in Storm County. At this time, the only strongholds of the mob army around the northern plains were the Tyrannomy City and the Tyrant Pass at the east and west ends of the plain, and the connection between them had been cut off by the Eastern Navy, and they were holding their respective positions alone.

According to the original plan, the next target of the Eastern Navy was the Tyranny City, which was located at the westernmost tip of the Northern Plain, two hundred and fifty miles west of the Stormkun Pass, and the normal march would take more than five days. Even if it was to be released the next day, the Battle of Tyrannomy would not have been completed on the seventh night.

Considering that the Eastern Navy had conducted three consecutive battles in the past week, plus more than 300 miles of marching, at this time the soldiers had reached the end of their crossbows, and if they were asked to run long distances to the next city pass without resting, I am afraid that they would increase casualties due to excessive fatigue, which was not the result that the dream man wanted.

Sima Fuqiang summoned Huang Zhi, Zhang Wei, and several commanders of the Eastern Navy to discuss it, and finally everyone unanimously decided to have a long rest at the Storm Kun Pass, so that the already exhausted soldiers could rest for a few days.

Indeed, as the information provided by the commander of the Fengcang Guard, the Eastern Navy found a large amount of property and rice grain in the Fengkun Pass, which were all looted by the defenders of the pass in Kei County a while ago, and they became the trophies of the Eastern Navy at this time.

The captured rice and grain were enough for 1,500 men for more than a month, which finally alleviated the food shortage of the Eastern Navy and also met their needs for fighting in the northern plains of Bangxian County. After thinking about it for a while, Huang Zhi decided to fulfill his promise to the guards of the Fengfeng Cang, and sent scouts to inform the mob army who had returned to the fields after unloading their armor, and asked them to organize their own manpower to transport grain.

For this, Sima Fuqiang accepted Huang Zhi's statement.

"The mob army is essentially a riot county militia, and it is the soldiers who take up arms and lay down their arms as people. We have come to attack Tyrant County, not for revenge, nor for the purpose of plundering the property that is useless to the people of our dreams. Our fundamental purpose is to expand the scope of Tokai-gun's rule. And the foundation of the ruler lies in the will of the people, if we lose our trust in the stormy abundance, then we will lose our trust in all the captives of the mob army, and we will eventually lose our trust in the people of the tyrannical county. ”

In addition to rice grain, for the disposal of property, the dream person does not need these things that cannot be converted into points. After deliberation, Sima Fuqiang decided to reward most of them to the soldiers of the Eastern Navy, which was also the welfare and treatment that the winner deserved. In accordance with Huang Zhi's suggestion, a part of it was used as the settlement allowance for the rioter army who were dismissed on the spot.

Sticks and carrots are the best way for rulers to control their people. Although the mob army lost a large number of troops in the battle with the Eastern Navy, after this remedy of the dreamman, the soldiers of the mob army, who had saved their lives and gained some benefits, no longer regarded the Eastern Navy as an enemy who caused them pain, but received a settlement fee and part of the rations and accepted the dismissal with great gratitude. Some people who did not like to go home to work as farmers were probationed and decided to join the Eastern Navy, so they were temporarily assigned to the new barracks for observation, and then reassigned to each battalion according to their situation in the future.

Speaking of the new barracks, we must talk about Sima Fuqiang's arrangement. Although this unit was temporarily under the jurisdiction of Shi Liu Yuanzhi, the commander of the Eastern Navy, it was not actually an independent battalion, but a supplementary force to be assigned to each battalion. Sima Fuqiang's goal was to gradually expand the existing five battalions of the East China Navy from 500 to 1,000 people, that is, a total of 5,000 people, so as to meet the minimum requirements for garrisoning the East China Sea territory.

In order to support the 5,000-strong Tokai Navy, Tokai County needs a population of more than 50,000, and there is still a shortfall of 10,000.

Don't look at the explosive growth trend of the population in the East China Sea in the past few weeks, but this is because it has absorbed the refugees from Wei County and the displaced people from Xin County, and it can no longer be stopped. The number of homeless refugees and displaced people is always limited, and once all of them are attracted by the good living environment of the East China Sea Territory, it is no longer possible to become a rapid population growth point.

At this time, the population of the East China Sea had reached a bottleneck, stagnating at 40,000 people, and there was almost no significant growth. The next population growth can only be hoped for natural reproduction and expansion of the area under the control of Tokai County. Natural reproduction is a long process, even if the ancients married wives and had children at the age of seventeen or eighteen, it would take nearly twenty years to reproduce a generation, which is really a bit slow.

Therefore, the dream will choose military means and list the tyrannical county as the target of aggression. If they succeed in bringing the northern plains of Tyrant County under their rule, the population will grow again, with more tax revenues and more armies. It's a virtuous cycle, and while it won't be too short, it may take a few months, but it's better than encouraging the indigenous people in the territory to actively "create people".

According to the data in the hands of the dream man, Storm County is a large county with a large population, and the northern plain alone has a population of 40,000 or 50,000 people out of the East China Sea territory.

However, it is easy to start a business and difficult to keep a business, and it is not difficult for the Eastern Navy to annihilate six or seven thousand mob troops to conquer the northern plains, but the difficulty is how to hold this land far away from Donghai Town. In addition to these city passes that the Eastern Navy planned to attack in advance, there is also a Hengduan Pass at the southern end of the Northern Plain, which is an important checkpoint separating the only passage between the north and south of the Storm County.

Not to mention the need for a garrison of at least 3,000 people in the four passes, one city and one warehouse around the northern plains, if the people cannot be converted, the Eastern Navy will have to add at least 2,000 mobile troops to suppress the resistance forces in various places. In this way, even if all the existing forces of the Eastern Navy are sent, it will not be enough, not to mention that they still have the southern part of Wei County and the old nest of Donghai Town to protect.

In this way, the Eastern Navy must be expanded to at least 10,000 people. However, the dreamer did not intend to cause the Eastern Navy to be uneven due to the rapid expansion, so he had to find another way to solve the defense problems of the northern plains and the aspirations of the people.

The easiest way to do this is to win over the people and let the northern plains regain self-government with vigilante groups. As long as the local natives recognize the rule of the East China Sea and are willing to pay them a poll tax of 50,000 points per month, then it doesn't matter what kind of political and military system is to be implemented in the Northern Plains.

After setting this tone, taking advantage of the days when the East China Navy was resting at the Fengkun Pass, the people in the dream were not idle, and Huang Zhi took the lead and began to lobby in the villages around the Fengfeng Cang, preaching various policies benefiting the people in the East China Sea Territory to the aborigines of the county.

The general of the storm was born in the local wang clan, and his father was the patriarch of the local Lin clan and the head of the township of the storm feng township, so this son was able to serve as the militia group training of the storm feng township. After the militia groups in Bangfeng County rose up one after another, the Fengfeng Township People's League took over the Fengfeng Cang, which originally belonged to the official army, and his regimental training also became a general of the Mob Army, sitting in the Fengfeng Cang.

The old township chief Lin was grateful to the East China Navy for sparing his son's life, and also evened out a part of the rice and property in the storm kun pass to help the villagers of the storm feng township who were making a food shortage, and he already had a preconceived good impression of the person in the dream. In view of these two favors, the old township chief Lin decided to help the dream people and took the initiative to greet the township chiefs of the four miles and eight townships for them, so that everyone could give Huang Zhi a chance to give a speech.

Of course, even if Township Chief Lin doesn't help, the villages can't refuse the dream man who has a violent agency behind him, the Eastern Navy. It's just that he stepped forward to take the lead, which can greatly reduce the rejection and resistance of the aborigines of the county to the people in their dreams, and it can be regarded as helping Huang Zhi to carry out his lobbying work more easily.

After Huang Zhi moved the "cordial" effect, he used all his strength to talk about the foaming at the mouth, and listened to these people who had been under the rule of the state government for many years, and they simply regarded Donghai County as a paradise.

The only problem that plagues the local people is that they cannot leave their homes to settle in the East China Sea territory, which is hundreds of miles away, so they can only salivate over the welfare of the indigenous people of the East China Sea.

At this time, Huang Zhi immediately threw out an olive branch at the right time, and sincerely invited them to add the northern plains to the rule of Donghai County and enjoy the same preferential treatment as the aborigines of Donghai County.

For this point, the people of the violent counties in various villages were generally a little unclear at the beginning, so as Huang Zhi further explained the idea of self-government by them, it immediately led everyone to think deeply.

Bringing the Northern Plains under the jurisdiction of Tokai Prefecture in the form of autonomy may not seem much different on the surface, but they only have to pay one-tenth of the harvest as a tax, which is infinitely better than when they were under the jurisdiction of the prefecture. Even under the rule of a mob army that evolved from a militia group, they had to pay more than just a small share of taxes.

Although the mob army came from the militia group, they were forced to collect high taxes on their food, clothing and parents. This is because important resources such as salt and iron are under the control of the Dongzhou Imperial Court, in order to buy the daily need of salt, in order to buy the iron ore needed to build weapons, they have to buy through special channels at a high price from illegal traders in other counties.

Once they were brought under the rule of Tokai County, there was no such problem, and the Dream Man of the Tokai Team was himself the backstage boss of one of the largest smuggler salt traders in the nearby counties, and would henceforth provide relatively cheap salt to the people of the northern plains. The East China Sea Territory, on the other hand, is hilly and has its own mines, so the source of iron ore is not a problem. After these two things were settled, the military expenditure of the militia in the northern plains was greatly reduced, so that they could support the same size of garrison at a lower tax.

Once those people of insight saw the crux of the problem, they immediately couldn't wait to bring their villages under the jurisdiction of Tokai County.

The last problem that bothers everyone is the Duzhou Mansion, no one believes that the Lord of Duizhou Thorn Shi is willing to become the land of Donghai County, the capital of the state, which should belong to his jurisdiction, and this is the real irreconcilable contradiction.

Appendix: Week 8: Tokai Team Skill Sheet

Week 8 has ended, and the following is the skill status of each member of the Tokai team, for the reference of those who are interested.

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Huang Zhi:

Talent:???

Exclusive skills: Social, B rank

E-rank effect: Cordial, the intimacy level of the E-rank can quickly reach the level of familiarity by chatting with strangers, and the C-rank can be increased to the level of intimacy, which is affected by the punishment of the dream world, and is actually increased to the level of friendliness. The B-rank reduces hostility by one level, which just offsets the Dream World penalty, and has basically no effect on the enemy.

D-rank effect: Inspiration, aura effect, increase team morale through verbal stimulation, and the current B-status can increase the morale of allies within a meter range.

C-rank effect: Incitement, originally instigated friendly characters to assist in the action, and is now B-rank to encourage intimate characters to die for themselves.

B-Rank Effect: Unite, unite allies to assist in operations.

Combat skills: C-rank archery, D-rank Yishu, E-rank firearms, E-rank body technique, E-rank dagger

D-rank archery skill expansion: Beaded arrows, bowfighting

C-rank Archery Skill Expansion: Scatter Arrows

D-rank Yishu skill expansion: divination, divination, hexagram interpretation

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Sima Fuqiang (Captain):

Talent: Watching the sky

Exclusive skills: Sand table deduction, B rank

E-rank effect: spatial impression, which has an intuitive spatial impression of the terrain environment within the visual distance.

D-Rank Effect: Ascend to a high altitude and overlook, increasing the sight distance by 6o% at this stage.

C-rank effect: Night vision, which has the same vision as during the day at night when there is moonlight.

B-Rank Effect: Terrain multiplies, with the ability to ignore the existence of obstacles and judge the terrain behind them.

Combat skills: C-rank shield guard, D-rank swordsmanship, E-rank archery, E-rank marksmanship, E-rank body technique, E-rank firearms

D-Rank Shield Skill Expansion: Mobile Defense

C-Rank Shield Skill Expansion: Hold on to the spot

D-rank Kendexterity Skill Expansion: Thrust

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Zhang wei:

Talent: Bloodthirsty

Exclusive Skill: Claw, B Rank

E-rank effect: Hard, nails turned into claws, currently glass claws with a hardness of 6 on the Mohs scale.

D-rank effect: Claws count claws, and all nails except the tail finger can be turned into claws.

C-rank effect: Tear, which has a tearing attack effect on everything harder than the hardness of the claw, and is linked to the hard effect.

B-rank effect: Extended, usually without nails, popping out like a cat's claw when needed.

Combat skills: A-rank combat, B-rank firearms, BSP; A-rank combat skill expansion: Murderous aura is released, which has the effect of interrupting skills or reducing the effect of skills.

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Lisha:

Talent: Camouflage

Exclusive Skills: Heal, B Rank

E-rank effect: Healing, requires physical contact, accelerates wound healing, and can instantly heal seriously injured wounds.

D-rank effect: Recovery, physical contact is required, to speed up the recovery of physical functions, fatal injuries will slowly recover to serious injuries, and the weakness after serious injuries will be eliminated.

C-rank effect: Expelling, physical contact is required, and aberration of abnormal states below B-rank is required

B-rank effect: Vitality, increases your own vitality to 12o%.

Combat skills: D-rank archery (skill expansion: Beaded Arrow), E-rank firearms, E-rank body method, E-rank shield guard

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Xiaofeng:

Talent:???

Exclusive skills: Agility, BSP; E-rank effect: degree, E-status is increased by 5o%, and each proficiency level (i.e. 3oo proficiency) is increased by an additional 5o%, which is currently a BSP with an increase of 35o%; D-rank effect: Weakness attack, find the opponent's weakness, and form a fatal attack with a certain chance.

C-Rank Effect: Deadly, C- is a 1% increase in lethal attack chance.

Combat skills: E-rank archery, D-rank swordsmanship (skill expansion is the same as Sima Fuqiang), BSP; ……

Moon:

Talent:???

Exclusive skills: brute force, bsp; E-rank effect: Strong, increase strength, increase the "degree" of the same as Xiaofeng, currently BSP with 35o% increase; D-Rank Effect: Break Defense, currently ignores E-Rank Defense.

C-Rank Effect: Heavy Damage, which may still have a Heavy Hit effect after the opponent has successfully parried, currently has a 2% chance of hitting the opponent hard.

Combat skills: C-rank hammer method, E-rank body method, E-rank firearms, E-rank archery

D-Rank Hammer Skill Expansion: Strike hard

C-Rank Hammer Skill Expansion: Turn reality into fiction

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Afternoon Sun:

Talent:???

Exclusive skills: down-to-earth, bsp; E-rank effect: Firm, increases attack power, currently increases BSP by 6o%; D-rank effect: perseverance, increase physical strength, currently increased by 2oo% BSP; C-rank effect: Resist, increase the chance of counterattack, currently BSP increased by 5%; Combat skills: C-rank knife technique, E-rank body technique, E-rank firearms, E-rank shield guard

D-rank Knife Skill Expansion: Whirlwind Knife

C-rank Knife Skill Expansion: Force Splitting Huashan

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Yellow Warbler:

Talent:???

Exclusive skills: tenacious, bsp; E-rank effect: Tough, improve the ability to resist hits, currently increased by 35o% BSP; D-rank effect: Absorption, currently in the C state, absorbs 25% damage from E-rank combat skills, and absorbs 1O% damage from D-rank combat skills.

C-Rank Effect: Regenerates, accelerates wound recovery, minor injuries do not require treatment.

Combat skills: D-rank marksmanship, E-rank body technique, E-rank firearms

D-rank marksmanship skill expansion: Serial stab

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Seven:

Talent:???

Exclusive skills: Stealth, E rank

E-Rank Effect: Latent, currently hiding in the dark while stationary.

Combat skills: E-rank dagger, E-rank body method