After the completion of the fortress, Andrei immediately transferred forty experienced veterans from his own guard battalion, and some of the two thousand militia battalions who were not enough, or were not qualified enough, or were not diligent enough to successfully break through to become first-class fighters in a short period of time, were transferred to these twenty experienced veterans, formed forty squadrons, and sent them to twenty forts.

Later, Andrei sent the non-artisan civilians in Wanghai City to twenty fortresses.

Originally, neither the militia nor the civilians were reluctant to leave the safety of Wanghai Town and go to the outer fortress, but when Andre announced that part of the land around the fortress would be allocated to them, these militiamen and civilians immediately became enthusiastic.

Andre's division was quite generous, first of all, forty veterans of the guard, each of whom was allocated two hundred acres of land, each militia was given fifty acres of land, and each civilian was given twenty acres of land.

It took the scholars half a month to divide the land of each soldier and civilian.

Andrei stipulated that the militia who were assigned to the earthen fort still had to be trained, and his squadron leader was their instructor, and the main task of the militia and the instructor was to train, and it was still completely out of work.

In this way, they had to hire people to take care of the fields they were allotted, and tenants naturally appeared.

Andrei announced that the militia and civilians hired tenants could borrow money from the Wanghai Town City Hall, and only needed to repay the same amount of wheat after the wheat was harvested.

Twenty fortresses, each of which had militia and civilians employing hundreds of displaced people as their tenants.

These people immediately filled the fortress with a bang.

After settling more than 20 fortresses, Andrei gave land to some craftsmen who were skilled in craftsmanship or who had made great contributions to the construction, ranging from 30 to 10 acres, which greatly increased the enthusiasm of the craftsmen.

The division of land has made the cohesion of Wanghai Town unprecedentedly high. Even the refugees outside the city seem to see hope.

Although the refugees were not given land, many of them became tenants, and for the farmers, there was a stable environment and land, even if it was rented land. There is hope in life, in fact, for most refugees, before the war, it was just that.

In fact, only half of the land enclosed by the twenty earthen forts was divided, and the other half was naturally the private property of the earl, and at the suggestion of Bai Qi, André divided all these lands into small plots of ten acres, and all of them were broken up and rented to tenants.

Suddenly, in the town of Wanghai. Everyone had land, and they seemed to be far away from Wanghai Town overnight.

In addition to the land, other industries in Wanghai Town have also begun to produce, the blacksmith shop can already forge ordinary weapons, can produce relatively rough and simple infantry chain mail, although the efficiency is very low, but the most important thing in Wanghai Town now is manpower.

The carpentry factory was already able to produce simple crossbows and longbows, although they were far less powerful than military heavy crossbows. But it was enough to deal with ordinary soldiers of the Great Zhou wearing leather armor or even paper armor.

The alchemy workshop was also fully installed, except for the brick catalyst and the castle binder. It is already possible to refine black steel, produce low-level arcane equipment, make some low-level healing potions, and produce some low-level enchanted armor-piercing arrows.

Mages can temporarily enchant weapons, but this enchantment only lasts for a few hours, and the effect of this enchantment is fixed. It is necessary to resort to alchemy.

This simple solidification, with the help of the alchemy equipment in the alchemy workshop, can only be done by an alchemist at the arcane level of the mage's apprentice, and of course, only the lowest level of +1 arcane equipment can be made. If the raw materials for forging equipment are good, this +1 arcane equipment is roughly equivalent to a light blue weapon.

However, the bottleneck that restricts the forging of weapons in Wanghai Town is precisely the raw materials.

When Bai Qi first heard that the alchemy workshop could refine black steel, he was taken aback, you know, black steel is a high-quality material for forging black equipment in space, but when he inquired clearly, he figured out that the black steel in space refers to a ferroalloy with a black iron content of more than 20%, in addition to black steel, about 3% Ordocus copper must be added to it.

The alchemist of the alchemy workshop said that the black steel is only a ferroalloy with a black iron content of less than 3%, and it does not contain austerite, and its value and performance are far inferior to the high-quality black steel in the space, but it is much better than ordinary steel.

Although the alchemy workshop in Wanghai Town can refine black steel, not to mention black iron, even ordinary iron is in short supply.

However, for the time being, the weapons and equipment brought by the fleet from the Salen continent are rich, and according to Count Andrei, even if the current regular army is doubled, it will be enough to be armed.

However, if you want to occupy the entire Beihai Prefecture, let alone double the expansion of the army, even if it is ten times larger, it may not be enough.

Therefore, solving the source of iron ore and black iron ore has become a top priority.

Bai Qi learned from the local people that Beihai Prefecture is known for its benefits of being rich in salt and iron, and salt is naturally sea salt, and iron refers to the abundance of iron ore in Hengshan.

Knowing this news, Andrei immediately adjusted his strategic direction and directed his strategic goals to the most barren north.

In addition to the iron mines, the top priority of Wanghai Town at this time is to build more earthen forts, occupy more land, recruit more displaced people, recruit more militia from them, and train more qualified soldiers.

Through the recruitment and training during this period, there have been more and more fighters above the first rank in the militia, and the number has approached five hundred.

Most of them are martial artists themselves above the first level, but there are also more than a hundred who broke through in militia training.

To be able to break through in just two months, these people must not only have talent, but also have a strong foundation.

Beihai people are still martial, there are thirty percent of the young people in the township who have practiced martial arts, and foreign martial arts are also a method of exercising the body, and it is not as extreme as the warrior training method, and the foreign martial arts are not as powerful as the warriors, but when it comes to consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan, it is indomitable, quite a bit exhausted and fishing, and the Western warrior training method that becomes benevolent if it is not successful is not as good as the foreign martial arts.

These villagers who have been practicing foreign martial arts for a long time, because they do not have advanced methods, and their nutrition cannot keep up, they are always unable to break through, but after coming to Wanghai Town, they are full of high-protein fish and meat, although eating fish is disgusting, but the physical condition is indeed quickly reaching the peak.

The foundation of foreign martial artists, coupled with the high-intensity and indomitable fierce training of the militia training camp, the foundation accumulated by these carefully selected militiamen was quickly excavated.

After the training was carried out and some of the militia people who lacked qualifications, diligence, and foundation were selected and sent to the outer fort, 500 of the remaining 1,000 people in the training camp were already first-class martial arts or warriors, and nearly 1,000 people had the hope of breaking through the bottleneck within three to five months and stimulating the power of qi and blood.

Just when Bai Qi organized many scholars to formulate a complete set of enclosures and plans for the north, a bad news suddenly came. (To be continued......)