After cutting through the enemy formation, the rangers immediately broke away from the heavy cavalry, turned their horses' heads and pursued them towards the tail of the large group of horse thieves who had fled with Deng Hong.

The Ranger armor is naturally much lighter than the heavy cavalry, but the weight is not light, and there is no advantage in chasing and killing horse thieves, and after chasing for more than ten miles, they retreated.

Seeing the horse thieves flee in disarray, deafening cheers erupted from the city walls.

Most of the cheers were the refugees who chose to stay, and the sailors who took the place of the guards to maintain the city's defenses were very uneventful, and for them who had been in battle, such a victory was not something to be proud of.

The militiamen who were driven to the city wall by the sailors to defend the city were the most mixed in their hearts.

Due to the previous thunderous methods, these militiamen have been detached from this group of outsiders in their hearts, but these militiamen also have a great hatred for horse thieves, so in the face of such a victory, they have a feeling of discomfort that they don't know whether to be happy or not.

As news of the victory spread, the refugees who had fled gradually returned.

In accordance with Bai Qi's previous suggestion, Andrei announced a new decree that divided the refugees who defected to Wanghai City into three classes: citizens, civilians, and refugees.

The first is the citizen, a privilege that Andre has given to the soldiers and lords who follow him from the continent of Salen.

Citizens have many privileges, the most important of which is the ability to form parliaments and participate in the rule of their territories.

Commoners are free people, free people have a high status in the traditional aristocratic territory, generally speaking, only the administrators of the territory, soldiers can get this treatment, the new citizen class in the Salen continent is transformed from the free people.

Andrei promoted all the refugees who did not flee this time to this class.

Originally, there were also lords below the freedmen, and the status of the lords was equivalent to that of serfs, and they were the private property of the lords.

However, the territory has not yet been formed. Refugees have not returned, and forcibly recruiting them into subjects is a problem, and it is better to simply maintain the current employment relationship.

Andrei ordered that only citizens and civilians should enter and live in the inner city of Wanghai Town. Refugees are confined to the cramped outer city.

At the same time, Andrey also announced. Since the current militia battalion was cowardly when the horse thieves attacked, it was ordered to completely disband the existing militia battalion and re-recruit the militia.

At the same time, it was announced that all those who were recruited into the militia would be granted the status of civilians in Wanghai Town, and their immediate family members could enter the inner city to live.

Next, Wanghai City began a new round of construction.

Andrei first recruited nearly a thousand people with maritime experience from among the displaced people and sent them to Liujiawan.

The shipyard in Liujiawan has begun to take shape and can already manufacture small fishing boats.

With the participation of nearly 1,000 people. The catch in Liujiawan suddenly multiplied.

With the completion of the inner city of Wanghai Town, Andre recruited all the craftsmen of Liujiawan to Wanghai Town, and the primary alchemy workshop, blacksmith shop, and wood factory were quickly established.

Various artisans were selected among the homeless, and Andrei generously gave them the status of commoners.

With the gradual improvement of infrastructure, there is an abundance of food and labor. The central castle of Wanghai Town also began to be built.

The news that Wanghai Town defeated the combined forces of Ghost Horse Horse and East Horse Horse, and beheaded the leader of Ghost Horse Spirit, Ghost Sorrow Li Zhengkui, spread like a wind throughout the eastern two counties of Beihai Prefecture.

The displaced people in Beiheng County who were ruined by horse thieves and killed their families gathered towards Wanghai Town.

The number of displaced people in Wanghai Town has increased rapidly. In just one month, it has increased from nearly 10,000 to 50,000.

The outer city of Wanghai Town was already crowded, and some of those who came late even had to settle outside the city.

In order to settle these 50,000 people, Andrei sent all the people who had experience at sea to Liujiawan, and sent all the carpenters with the largest number of homeless people to the seaside, and made every effort to speed up the production of fishing boats and increase the harvest of fishery.

Of course. Even if there was enough food, it could not be distributed directly to the refugees, so in order to ensure that these refugees had jobs, Andrei recruited people to repair the old city wall and began to build an earthen fort near Wanghai Town.

According to Andrey's plan. With Wanghai City as the center, an earthen fort will be built every ten miles, and all the millions of acres of land on the plains near Wanghai Town will be under his control.

These hundreds of thousands of acres of land are basically planted with winter wheat, although because of the lack of care, overgrown weeds, the growth trend is not good, but these hundreds of thousands of acres of land can produce at least tens of thousands of tons of grain next year, as long as there is food, they can feed more displaced people.

In order to let all the 50,000 displaced people who came to defect have jobs and earn a mouthful of food, Andre ordered to start construction of 20 earthen forts at the same time.

After this period of digestion, the estrangement caused by the previous repression of the militia was gradually diluted by the new arrivals, and Andrei ordered the recruitment of the militia to start again.

When the displaced people heard that once they became militiamen, they would immediately gain civilian status and live in the inner city, so they immediately signed up.

After this period of time, the status of the citizen and the commoner has been completely separated from that of the homeless, and the citizen does not talk about him, and the commoner can not only live in the wooden houses of the inner city, but also do all the work more easily, but the most food is distributed.

If the food that the homeless people in the outer city get in exchange for their labor is only to feed their stomachs, the civilians in the inner city can basically eat enough, and in this time when they are starving everywhere, eating a full meal is already the greatest wish of everyone.

This time, the recruitment criteria for the militia were much stricter, and even so, more than 3,000 militiamen were recruited in just ten days, and among them there were even more than 300 martial artists above the first level.

Time flies by in full swing of construction, the weather is gradually warming, and summer is coming.

In order to be able to control the nearby land as quickly as possible, Andrei asked the scholars to design a small earthen fortress that was simple and practical.

According to Andrei's requirements, scholars designed a very simple circular fortress, the bottom of this fortress is a more than four meters high above the ground, with a stone foundation pad, the foundation is three meters larger than the earth fort itself, this foundation can not only strengthen the foundation of the earth fort, but also a means of defense, attackers want to climb the fortress wall, must first climb the foundation, but the platform between the foundation and the city wall is too narrow, greatly increasing the defense of the earth fort.

The main body of the earthen fort is a circular city wall with a diameter of more than 30 meters, the wall is 10 meters high and 4 meters thick.

Inside the walls were the quarters for soldiers and fortists.

Such a fortress would require only one or two hundred soldiers, with plenty of bows and arrows, and it would be difficult for the enemy to take ten times as many troops as if he did not have large siege equipment.

The structure of this fortress was quite simple, and the amount of work was not large, and with sufficient labor, in just two months, twenty earthen forts were erected. (To be continued......)