(I feel that the battle scene in the previous chapter was not written, lament)

The rout of the enemy army did not allow Yang Yuan to pursue with victory, cough cough, cough cough, I am afraid it is impossible to catch up. So he began to send people to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded. At the same time, Yang Yuan did not relax his vigilance, but spread out a group of scouts to continue to explore the surrounding situation.

On the way back, Alger ran into Benedict's team, and of course Alger was ridiculed. Only this time he endured it and then led the remnants of the cavalry back. Benedict thought for a moment, even Alger's cavalry elite was defeated so badly, and I am afraid it would be even worse to lead the troops alone. It's just a big crime to escape, and Benedict has no choice but to slow down the army and wait for Stormwind to come to the rescue. At that time, there was also a reasonable explanation for his retreat without a fight.

So after Yang Yuan returned to Rock Town, Benedict slowly entered the scout's sight. But right now, there's nothing you can do with these people just by relying on the power of scouts. It's just that there is a person with a very smart head, so he pulls the tiger's skin and pulls the flag. These people were replaced with the flag and armor of the North County, and Benedict sent someone to inform the return of all the people after knowing that the other party was a scout of Stormwind. Although this trip was in vain, Alger's cavalry regiment was destroyed. The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and this is not a bad result. So in the scout's stunned eyes, these people really went back, went back, went back, and said important things three times.

At first, the scouts thought they were confusing them, but later found out that they had really returned, and immediately reported the news. Yang Yuan didn't want to know the reason for the enemy's retreat, he only valued the result. So someone sent the news back here.

Ying Zihan was also shocked after receiving the news, it turned out that the Macedonian phalanx was so powerful. As for his own random opinions before, Ying Zihan directly ignored it, but Yang Yuanxin's desire to expand the number of troops was vetoed by Ying Zihan. Just kidding, it is already very difficult to support the current army Ying Zihan, and he dares to expand, and Ying Zihan's territory may have to eat people directly in the future. Especially when he saw the complete formation of the Macedonian phalanx, Ying Zihan's eyes kept twitching, more than 8,000 people, hehe.

Ying Zihan let Yang Yuan replenish the lost soldiers and let him recruit on his own. And then reward the three armies, as for the family allowance, the predecessors of these people were slaves, where did the family come from. It seems that the slave soldiers have such an advantage.

At the same time, the success of this battle was also remarkable, the governor of the northern county, Auston, sent a letter of commendation, and the Duchy of Heilin stationed an infantry twenty miles from the border to defend against Yang Yuan. It's just that now they are still sending people to find out the news, and they don't dare to use troops easily. Duke Field sent someone to congratulate him, Viscount Reed sent someone to express his respect and money, and Merlin even scraped together a thousand gold coins to personally send it to Chaoge.

It is expected that the results of this battle will definitely spread out in the near future, and Ying Zihan is bound to attract everyone's attention for the second time.

At the same time, according to insiders, Bishop Allen was angry with a cup......

It's just that Ying Zihan temporarily looked away from Thorn Ridge because of the arrival of a piece of news. News came from Hanxi Lake that the first batch of refined salt had been prepared and was now on its way to Chaoge. This was a great event, and Ying Zihan had the salt transported to Thorn Ridge and handed it over to Ino.

Eno saw Ying Zihan's secret message, because Ying Zihan was afraid that the message in the army would be intercepted by the enemy, so he invented a set of codes. The letter told Eno to sell the salt quickly and then buy grain to ship back. Of course, Ino knew about the lack of food in his territory, but he really didn't have much salt in his hand now, so this batch of salt was directly sold in other territories at a price of 20% off. Well, Ino also took this opportunity to go to the other two territories to buy five hundred stone of grain. (Note: One stone = 100 catties)

If this rate continues, Yingzihan's food crisis can be solved. As for Ying Zihan's current territory, the peasants' surplus grain has long been purchased by Ying Zihan, otherwise Ying Zihan can afford to raise 10,000 troops? Ying Zihan can do things that are reckless and unbridled, and other lords will not think of it? It's just that they can't afford to support these troops, and they can't even supply food without mentioning military salaries and equipment.

Is 500 stone of grain too much? 50,000 catties of grain, if it is only 1,000 infantry and 500 heavy cavalry to maintain Thorn Ridge, I am afraid it will only be enough for a month's consumption. So Ying Zihan directly kept these grains in Thorn Ridge, and if they were to be transported back, they didn't know how much food they would cost. However, this is also because there is not much salt, there are only two stones, and Beta and others have just started construction.

The current mining and refining rate of Hanxi Lake can produce one stone of refined salt every ten days, which is three stones per month. But 100,000 people use salt for 10 stone a month. In other words, the current salt production of the Hanxi Lake Salt Mine is not enough for the consumption of Qindi itself.

However, Shuke and Beta told Ying Zihan that this was just the beginning, and that everything was not yet on track, and that in a month, the rate of salt production could be close to ten times that of the current one. In other words, Ying Zihan could export refined salt to the outside world at that time, and then buy back grain and other items. At the same time, the profits brought by refined salt can make Ying Zihan's already ruined family wealth slowly rich again. Well, that's right, during this time, Ying Zihan has almost spent all the money to maintain the army. At the beginning, when the wine road was not blocked, Ying Zihan could barely support it, so after being blocked, Ying Zihan had to urgently attack others and rely on the system's rewards to break the game. The reward of the system is also the reason why Ying Zihan was so desperate that he had to select 3,000 infantry from Thorn Ridge when there was a shortage of money and food.

Ying Zihan is now relieved, at least all the expenses of the territory are barely maintained now. However, if you want to develop rapidly, you still have to take the sword sideways, and after the thorn ridge is completely digested, Ying Zihan plans to do it again. However, he has to pick the object of his action this time, Merlin is vulnerable, and after Ying Zihan kills him, I am afraid that it will cause Viscount Reed to panic, and it will be a bit troublesome to unite his backstage Duke Field at that time. Duke Field has 1,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry under his command, and if Yingzi is ruthless and loses, the current Western soldiers will not be able to defeat him. The important thing is that he is a duke, Ying Zihan is just an earl, if Ying Zihan dares to attack him, it is estimated that the arrival of the Li Imperial army is not far away. Therefore, Ying Zihan thought that if he wanted to fight, he would have to take down Viscount Reed before Duke Field reacted.

Ying Zihan had already made a decision when he thought of this, and when the time came, Ying Zihan would attack from Viscount Merlin and Yang Yuan would attack from Thorn Ridge and quickly take down this piece of fat. As for Merlin, in Ying Zihan's opinion, it was easy to take him down.