Chapter 42: The Great Army Strikes

The Su family is the first cultivator family under the Royal Dragon Dao, and the ancestor of the Su family is the original Daoist of the Royal Dragon Dao, otherwise the position of the King of the North Sea would not be the turn of the Su family to sit.

The archdeacon of the outer gate of the Royal Dragon Road is also a member of the Su family, but because of the long time, the blood relationship with the king of the North Sea has long been weak.

The vein of the King of the North Sea was originally the ancestor of the Su family, but due to the distance from the Royal Dragon Mountain and the corruption of wealth and wealth, this vein has not produced a high-level monk for a long time, and it has gradually lost its right to speak in front of the high-level leaders of the Royal Dragon Dao.

On the contrary, the Archdeacon of the Outer Gate of the Royal Dragon Road, who has lived at the foot of the Royal Dragon Mountain for generations, has been a master in recent years, gradually replacing the original position of the King of the North Sea.

This makes the throne of the King of the North Sea a little unstable, and in recent years, the archdeacon has been pressing on the King of the North Sea step by step, obviously taking a fancy to the throne of the King of the North Sea, fortunately, there are still some old people in the King of the North Sea, and the archdeacon does not dare to go too far, just make some small moves to make it difficult for the King of the North Sea line.

Most of the old people in the Beihai King's lineage do not have much longevity and often retreat, and the Beihai King can't disturb the cultivation of these ancestors because of a trivial matter.

Although the archdeacon's troubles to the king of the North Sea were all small things, these small things accumulated over time and became big things.

For example, every year, the archdeacon will use various means to reduce the number of offerings to the King of the North Sea, and he will not reduce much, he only needs to make the number of offerings of the King of the North Sea a little less than everyone's psychological expectations.

After a long time, everyone in Yulong Mountain naturally feels that the Beihai King is no longer very respectful.

You must know that although the Su family is the largest family in the Royal Dragon Dao, in fact, it is not the Su family that covers the sky in the Royal Dragon Dao, but more monks from other families.

If these people feel that the King of the North Sea is not respectful enough, then the position of the King of the North Sea will come to an end.

There are many more things like this, and over the years, the King of the North Sea has been made miserable by the archdeacon.

The deacon token is missing. If there is no archdeacon to get in the way, this matter is nothing to the king of the North Sea, but if it is known by the archdeacon. It's another big trouble.

Therefore, Su Dingbei could only hide the loss of the deacon token first, and sent someone to contact the second brother who was stationed in Yulong Mountain, and begged him to help get a deacon token.

Of course, the King of Beihai would not let go of Andre's side who robbed and killed his mission, and seeing that the plan to ask the monk to make a move was in vain, and it happened that Yan Yuanshen had succeeded in suppressing the bandits, he immediately sent someone to send an order to him to exterminate the foreign envoy group, and at the same time sent someone to send a few talismans to Yan Yuanshen. to deal with the monks of the opposing side.

Yan Yuan cautiously received the order, turned the army, and went straight to Wenshui County to kill.

With Yan Yuanshen, the people who flocked to Wenshui, Wanghai, and Hanshan counties, in addition to the rear army under the command of the King of Beihai, there were also a large number of refugees.

There is a saying that bandits are like combs, and officers and soldiers are like grates, which means that after the robbers rob. The people still have a little way to live, once the officers and soldiers come. The people have nothing left to live.

After the chaos in the world, some of the big clans in the township have formed villages to protect themselves, and in order to protect their parents, wives and children, the villagers often give up their lives and forget death. It is extremely difficult to bite, and these people are not very oily, so most horse thieves will bypass this kind of stockade.

This kind of cottage is extremely difficult for horse thieves who are not good at attacking the city, and the gains outweigh the losses. But to the officers and soldiers who were well-armored and had siege equipment, it was nothing.

Beiheng County was ruined by the Hengshan horse thieves, only these villages still have some oil and water, as soon as Yan Yuanshen's army arrived, they wantonly apportioned to these villages, and the slightest resistance was the destruction of the village.

Originally, these villages also took in some refugees, but after Yan Yuanshen hung a layer of land, these villages could not even support themselves, so they could only expel the refugees.

Now in Beiheng County, only Wanghai Town has the ability and willingness to take in refugees, so these refugees who were expelled from the fortress can only drag their families and come in the direction of Wanghai City.

About a month ago, the number of refugees flocking to Wang's navy began to increase dramatically again, and now the number of refugees in Linhai County and the nearby Hanshan and Wenshui counties has reached 100,000.

Thanks to Andre's constant attention to the source of food, the shipyard in Liujiawan is constantly working day and night, and now there are nearly 100 fishing boats in Liujiawan and other fishing boats.

After this period of development, the size of the shipyard has continued to expand, and the shipbuilding capacity has been continuously improved, and today, almost every day, a new fishing boat more than ten meters long is launched into the sea, and all the refugees who have experience on board are pulled out and pulled out to work as fishermen.

Even so, it was not enough to feed all the refugees, most of whom were semi-starving, but the wheat in the fields was almost ripe by this time.

I don't know if it's because of the climate, or because of the different wheat varieties, the winter wheat ripening time in this world is different from the real world, and it was delayed until the end of July.

Although the wheat did not grow well because it had not been taken care of for a long time, even if it was only half or even one-third of the usual yield, the wheat in these three counties would be enough to alleviate the food problem, and with the production from Shanghai, it would be enough to feed 100,000 refugees.

In order to settle these refugees, Andre began to build earthen forts near the county seat of Hanshan and Wenshui counties at the same time.

In the past two months, the militia battalion has sent out more than 1,000 first-class fighters, and at the same time, more than 3,000 militiamen who cannot break through the regular fighters in a short period of time have been eliminated.

In order to obtain iron ore, Andrei drew a brigade of two hundred and fifty men from the newly trained soldiers, and officers from the veterans to form an independent brigade, escorting scholars, craftsmen, and hundreds of relatively strong refugees to the north, stationed at the easternmost point of Beihengshan, near the sea, and opened a small port as a base.

Then, this army, escorting a number of scholars and alchemists who were proficient in prospecting, entered the Beiheng Mountains.

Just three days before Yan Yuanshen arrived in Wenshui County, good news came back from the Beiheng Mountains that scholars had detected an iron ore vein.

The good news was very exciting for André and his men.

As the army expanded, the armor and weapons that Andrei had brought from the continent of Salen had begun to run thin.

At this time, the cavalry under Andre had reached 500 people, including 100 heavy cavalry and 400 rangers, forming a company brigade.

The extra 200 or so cavalry were drawn from Liu Beishan's cavalry.

Since Liu Beishan joined, Andre has spared no effort to support Liu Beishan, in just two months, on the basis of the old county town of Wenshui, he has built a fortress that is no worse than Wanghai City, although this support is carried out in the form of loans, but this support is real, in this process, the two sides have established a lot of trust.

Liu Beishan was also happy to send some of his loyal brothers to Andrei's army, which would allow his influence to penetrate deep into Andrei's system.

Liu Beishan's seven or eight hundred elite horse thieves are all martial artists above the first level, and there are even masters among them.

Andre transferred fifty fourth-level martial artists from these nearly 1,000 elite horse thieves, and two hundred horse thieves who were skilled in riding and archery, and after breaking up the original cavalry regiment, two cavalry brigades were mixed, and after more than a month of training, they had formed combat effectiveness.

However, these two cavalry brigades also exhausted the cavalry equipment in Andrei's hands. (To be continued......)