Not to mention what happened to the west of the distant Sunset Mountain Range, in Houtu City, after He Yuya handed over all the matters related to the beast wood to the Xiao sisters, he focused his work on obtaining information about the settlements of other survivors.

Seeing that Luo Hou had been setting off for several days with the more than a hundred high-level evolutionaries who had been carefully selected, and had been distributed to He Yuya before, the work of spying on the survivor cities in various places had become urgent.

Although the intelligence department formed by He Yuya has already blossomed and scattered to the survivor cities in various places, after all, the time is still short, and it is impossible to spy on any secrets that are too core.

And once the elite forces formed by Luo Hou are combined, the forces of the City Alliance will inevitably start to run the wheels of war and launch a war to unify China in all directions.

At that time, although the elite forces formed by Luo Hou could not be afraid of any survivor forces, they could still understand the situation of some opponents more and still have an immeasurable effect on the war to unify all places.

If Luo Hou is blind to the opponents he will face next, then his future actions will definitely be affected to a certain extent, which is very unfavorable to the future unification war.

It is precisely because of this that He Yuya handed over the equally important affairs of the beast wood to the two Xiao Ziyuan sisters to take charge of, and concentrated their efforts and began to pay close attention to intelligence work, striving to find out the reality of the surrounding survivor forces before Luo Hou launched the unification war.

So far, Luo Hou's actual sphere of influence has stretched from Nirvana City in the west, Linhu City in the east, Luan City in the north, and Yeshan City in the south, which belongs to the forces of Houtu City. In total, dozens of survivor settlements.

Such a vast area actually occupies about a quarter of what was once a densely populated area in China.

Today, to the west is a vast no-man's land, and there are few places where large survivor settlements may exist except for the former Sichuan and Shu regions.

Due to the topographical reasons, the Sichuan-Shu region is difficult to connect with the area currently controlled by Luo Hou for a while. It's not the first goal right now.

To the east, Luo Hou had already occupied Linhu City, which was adjacent to the sea, and there were no decent survivor settlements further east, so it was also not the preferred target of this expedition.

Neither east nor west will work, and there are only two directions left, which are north or south.

To be honest, Luo Hou has basically not been to the survivors' settlement in the south. So I don't know the specific situation of those places, but the terrain in the south is complex and the jungle is dense, although there is a lot of population before the end of the world, but due to environmental reasons, Luo Hou does not consider attacking this direction for the time being.

In the north, on the other hand, most of the plains are undulating, except for some areas that are mountainous. Since most of the survivor settlements are unsafe, the survivor forces that can support it until now must be extremely large. And there are very few small settlements.

In this way, as long as these large settlements are subdued, the entire north will fall into the hands of Luo Hou.

What's more, it is just the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the cold air from the north has not yet begun to wreak havoc, which is just right for Luo Hou to launch an offensive against the survivors in the north.

If you wait another month or two. When the vast northern capital begins to be covered in ice and snow, the dispatch of a large army will be an extremely troublesome matter.

The last point is that the elite force that Luo Hou will build, because it is a pure cavalry army, of course, it needs to be in a flat terrain to be able to exert its full strength.

If it is in some mountainous areas with complex terrain. With the tall body of the steel-armored tyrannosaurus, I am afraid that whether it can act flexibly will be a big problem.

Based on the above reasons, He Yuya aimed at the area north of Luancheng as the preferred target.

At this time, another manifestation of the advantage of placing the strategic direction in the north first.

Because He Yuya is in charge of intelligence work, and most of the people and horses used by He Yuya are Luancheng's people, relatively speaking, they have a better understanding of the shape north of Luancheng, and it will be much easier to spy on.

In a few days, just a few days after Luo Hou led that elite force to the Sunset Mountains in the west, He Yuya's intelligence forces found out the reality of the three survivor forces in the area north of Luancheng.

On this day, He Yuya received information from his subordinates, and then summoned his right-hand men and began to study them carefully, to see if it was better to attack the three survivors one by one, or to push them over in waves and solve them together.

This, of course, requires a detailed analysis of the specific strength of the three survivor forces before we can roughly formulate a battle plan.

The three survivor forces, the closest one to Luan City, are only three hundred miles apart, but because they are separated by mountains and mountains, the two sides do not know each other.

According to the intelligence, this place is called Wanshan City, and as the name suggests, it is a survivor city built in the middle of a lofty mountain.

Wanshan City is not outstanding because it is deep in the mountains, there are only less than 300,000 survivors, and the most powerful evolutionary in the city is only the seventh order, not to mention compared to Luan City, even compared to Nirvana City, it is even worse.

Such a small survivor force, as long as Luo Hou is willing, he doesn't need his elite force to go at all, and any team of evolutionaries with outstanding strength can take down this place bloodlessly.

However, the problem is that in the three hundred miles of mountains between Wanshan City and Luan City, the terrain is very complicated, and high-level demon beasts emerge in an endless stream, if the strength of the evolutionary team sent is not strong, it will be difficult to pass through this mountain range.

This is also why there was no willingness to intersect between Luancheng and Wanshan City in the past, because of the high mountain road danger and the rampant demon beasts, which prevented the communication between the two places.

He Yuya, together with the head of the intelligence department, only discussed it slightly, and put Wanshan City aside, and when the time came, Luohou only had to pass by here during the Northern Expedition, and he could bring it into the scope of his rule.

The remaining two survivor forces are completely on a flat terrain, and they are both large survivor settlements with a large number of people in the city.

After passing the city of Wanshan to the northeast, when the mountain range came to an end, there was a large area of plains as far as the eye could see.

In this plain area, there used to be several densely populated cities, and with the advent of the end times, the survivors from all over the world settled in a smaller city on this plain, and after exterminating the zombies here, it has developed into a large survivor city with a population of nearly three million people.

This large survivor city called Central Plains City has two Heaven-Order Evolutionaries, more than a dozen ninth-order evolutionaries, and hundreds of high-level evolutionaries of the eighth order and below, and the overall strength is only not far behind Linhu City, which has a population of nearly 10 million, and it is actually much higher than Houtu City, which has a population difference.

Such a powerful survivor city, if there is no Luo Hou to participate in it, and only rely on the strength of the City Alliance to attack, although there is hope of victory in the end, the loss will be unbearable.

And Luo Hou's original intention of unifying China was to allow the survivors everywhere to be consumed as little as possible in the internal strife, if it was necessary to pay a lot of casualties to be able to subdue such a survivor force, then Luo Hou was willing to maintain the status quo.

This is also the fundamental reason why Luo Hou must build an elite force at any cost.

Only by relying on such an elite force with trembling strength to survive can we minimize the losses of the Medium Solid Force Evolver and achieve the goal of subduing the other party when attacking a powerful survivor force like Central Plains City.

Not only Luo Hou, but He Yuya also believed that as long as he could get the evolutionaries of the eighth order or above in Central Plains City, then this large survivor city with three million people could be smoothly incorporated into the rule of the City Alliance.

He Yuya could roughly deduce that as long as Luo Hou came with a strong attack from the elite force he had formed, in the end, the Central Plains City would definitely be able to subdue him, and the evolutionaries on both sides would not suffer any big losses.

However, it would be nice if it was just a Central Plains City.

On this vast plain, there is another survivor force, called Bifang City, although the strength is not as strong as that of Central Plains City, but it also has about two million survivors, which is not worth underestimating at all.

According to the investigation of He Yuya's intelligence officers, although the two cities have never been very compatible, they have not really torn their faces because they have to jointly resist the attacks of the surrounding zombies and monsters.

Even, in some cases, the two sides will also provide each other with a certain amount of assistance, so as not to be completely swallowed by zombie monsters, and then only their own forces will be left on the vast land, and it will be even more difficult to face endless monsters and crazy zombies alone.

With the relationship between these two survivor cities, once Luo Hou launched a war of unification, no matter which city he attacked first, the evolutionaries of the other city would not stand idly by, and would inevitably send a large army to help.

At that time, even if Luo Hou was sure to deal with the counterattacks of these two cities at the same time, it would not be easy to control the casualties of the evolutionaries within an acceptable range.

And right now, He Yuya's intelligence department is to try to find out all the information in these two places, and then analyze a feasible attack method, and when Luo Hou pulls that elite force back, he can immediately start the war to unify China! (To be continued......)