The speed with which Zhou Bai took Ruinan County greatly stimulated Lei Haomiao, which meant that Longfeng County, which was controlled by the state government, would be adjacent to the Anbei Governor's Mansion, and the territorial risk would increase greatly.

For this reason, the state government paid a certain price, and on 5 August forcibly exterminated the last general's forces that stubbornly resisted in Dingzhou County, and the result ended in the martyrdom of the general.

Beginning on 6 August, more than 50,000 elite state soldiers and more than 50 state Taoist regiments were stationed in Longfeng County one after another, and various convoys transporting heavy materials were endless.

Obviously, this is to prevent the Anbei Army from moving south.

Zhou Bai was a little helpless, because at this point in time, Lu Ding in Dingxi was also attacking Yongquan County on a large scale, which was also one of the few large counties that was still under the direct control of the state government.

Now that Lei Haomiao has withdrawn the elite main force to guard against Zhou Bai, then Yongquan County will definitely not be able to take care of it, and at most it can only respond.

It is equivalent to saying that in the heart of this feudal official, Zhou Bai, a country boy who started in the border area, is more threatening than Lu Ding, the son of a family who has been a general.

What else can Zhou Bai say, in order not to make Lu Dingyuwen profitable, he can only change the direction of expansion.

20,000 militiamen with battlefield experience were transferred to the Ruinan garrison on the spot, plus 20,000 surrendered troops who were being reorganized, and 10,000 elite government troops, a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses guarded Ruinan County.

With an army of 50,000, apart from Zhou Bai himself, only Zhou Yuan is qualified enough to be fully believed.

Therefore, Zhou Bai also crowned Zhou Yuan as the lieutenant of Ruinan County, and ordered him to stay in the town, responsible for fighting against possible threats from Longfeng County.

On the whole, it is still defense-oriented, and it is necessary to protect Ruinan without losing an inch of land, and investigate the various arrangements of the state soldiers in Longfeng County at the right time.

Because of the inside information of the eunuch Wang Xiu, the decree of sealing the country will be issued in the autumn at the latest, so that Zhou Bai will return to Bei'an County on August 8 and swear to go on the expedition again on August 9.

The luck of the world is limited, and a person like him who is ready to build his own country had better hurry up before the Daxu Imperial Court sealed the seal, otherwise it is likely to lead to the unstable foundation of the national fortune.

At present, there are only three people in Dingzhou who can be called the top of the state, Lei Haomiao, Lu Ding, and Zhou Bai.

One step first, one step at a time, this principle is very suitable for the law of luck flow.

When you are the first, you will inevitably get more people's attention, at least the basic impression is that your country is very strong.

However, no matter how many benefits there are, they are all relatively virtual levels, and the key is the news from Heavenly Court.

After Zhao Qi called the Marquis of Liang and established the Liang Kingdom, Chi Qing revealed through the Heavenly Disc that he would recruit all the kingdoms of the Tianyuan Continent to fight in the extraterritorial plane.

She said more Hanhu, probably because Heavenly Court, the Qingxu Alliance, and a group of half-plane and plane worlds have reached some kind of agreement, using the secular realm as a pawn to play a game.

The chessboard battlefield is the many planes between the Tianyuan Realm and the Qingxu Realm, and these dimensional worlds are sandwiched between the two giants, and there is not much autonomy in the first place.

Now both worlds have announced that as long as they win the kingdom confrontation, they will be able to intercept the corresponding luck food.

If you don't want to be lucky, you can negotiate with the two "organizers" in exchange for a certain period of time, allowing them to develop freely in the world without interference.

The high-level leaders of these worlds communicate with the will of the world, and naturally unanimously agree to this requirement, and the overall strength of the competition is a grasshopper shaking the tree, but only the power between the worldly kingdoms is afraid of whom.

Qingxu is not mentioned, it is already on the verge of collapse, and it can only continue to expedition to suck blood, which is well known.

And Heavenly Court may have greatly recovered its strength since ancient times, but its control over the mortal world of the Tian Yuan Continent is not as good as before.

A Tian Yuan Continent that has fallen into division and chaos can have any powerful country.

The immortals and gods of the heavenly court, seeking personal detachment, are to suppress the development of humanity for a long time.

But other small worlds are not necessarily, many small worlds seek an overall leap, the world is upgraded, and the power of the dynastic system is always above the individual.

In the kingdom of the Tian Yuan Continent, most of the luck had to be offered to the Heavenly Court, resulting in even a unified central dynasty, which was not considered a top-level dynasty among the many vassal worlds of the Ancient Heavenly Court at its peak.

It may be facing the country of the Qingxu realm, or it may be facing the "indigenous" kingdom of the dimensional world, which will be randomly dropped.

For this reason, when Chi Qing told Zhou Bai the news, he was very heavy, because even Heavenly Court itself had no confidence in the Tian Yuan Kingdoms.

However, in order to raise the Gu King, and also to isolate the flames of the war between the two realms outside the territory, Heavenly Court still had to recruit the countries of the Tian Yuan Continent to participate.

Among them were vassal states outside of the existing territory of the Central Dynasty, which would also be their chance to turn over.

If you can return victorious in the next conscription war, you may be able to try to get a glimpse of the Central Plains.

Expeditions outside the territory, with the country as a unit? The winner can take away the luck and food, I'm afraid it's more than that.

Chi Qing's news was beyond the scope of Zhou Bai's previous life, and he couldn't even imagine what kind of supernatural power and law control could achieve this kind of plane conquest.

And he didn't understand why Heavenly Court would promote this Heavenly Agreement when competing with the strength of the mortal realm would obviously have the upper hand.

It wasn't until the envoy of the Yellow Emperor and Qing Yi, who had just helped him not long ago, contacted him that Zhou Bai combined the news from the three parties to make it clear.

It turned out that the third invasion of the Qingxu Realm had suffered a bit of a big loss, and it had basically been characterized as a failure, and the Qingxu people clearly realized that even if the Dao Ancestor did not show up, the strength of the Tianyuan Realm was extremely top-notch.

Therefore, the top leaders of the Qingxu Alliance decided to change their thinking, no longer blindly pursuing radical and fast, but chose to attack the outer planes of the Tianyuan Realm first, as well as the other world planes between the two realms.

The first is to plunder the resources that are easy to plunder, and the second is to firmly lock the Tianyuan Realm, and then rely on the surrounding many dimensional strongholds to carry out an all-round attack.

If you lose half a plane, you have to increase the defense pressure of your own country, not to mention being the enemy of many complete worlds.

However, Heavenly Court has not gone out to the outer regions for too long, and the expeditionary fleet is still in the process of being formed, and it is a "gambling war" based on the agreement between the Qingxu Realm and the Heavenly Worlds with relevant interests.

Now that the agreement has been reached, in fact, the most basic purpose of the Heavenly Court has been achieved, which is to delay time.

It is good that the Tian Yuan Kingdoms can win more, but if they can't, it will not affect the bigger situation.

One of the biggest projects ever ever was the Demon Hunting Expedition!

Repeat the glory of Tianyuan, open up the blueprint of the Star Sea, and fight back to hunt the invaders from the Qingxu Realm!

There has always been only the Tianyuan Realm to fight other worlds, and He was once blocked at the door by other expeditionary fleets.

When Qing Yi revealed this plan, Zhou Bai almost didn't dare to listen to it, this kind of secret, I'm afraid it is not something that ordinary middle and lower level heavenly officials can know.

For this reason, he also took the initiative to swear with his inner demons that he would never spread the word, which was a sigh of relief.

But it is precisely because of this that Qing Yi has some hindsight, and her mouth is a lot tighter, and she has a kind of awareness that this is a secret.

Zhou Bai left an eye in his heart because of this, lost in the lake?

I'm afraid that the status of this fairy is not low, and she has to maintain the relationship well.

Of course, Qingyi still solemnly told Zhou Bai that if you want to go to the last step, you must get the ticket for the founding of the country in advance and strive to win.

As for the envoy of the Yellow Emperor, he was also the same as Qingyi, and he didn't know where to get the permission, so he contacted Zhou Bai from Tiandie.

However, this one is quite tepid, just to test Zhou Bai, whether he has the idea of inheriting the destiny of Tude.

Zhou Bai replied very cautiously, but he was perfunctory without a trace, saying that he had not yet made a decision, so there was no follow-up.

After all, if you really want to count, apart from Zhou Bai's status as a celestial person, the power of the Anbei Governor's Mansion is nothing, and the land of the two counties is not worthy of being overzealous.

The above people reminded that Zhou Bai must of course seize the time and strive to capture the border cities and counties and then build the country.

Otherwise, it can only be like Jiang Yuanlong in Xishu, with the land of two counties to establish a strong country, but the abundance of people in Xishu is far better than that of border states such as Dingzhou, and the population base is there, and there will not be too many hidden dangers to be established.

Under Zhou Bai's rule, the population of Bei'an County is at most 1.1 million, which is the result of the recent absorption of some displaced people from other states and the naturalization of mountain people from all over the country.

Looking at the fact that there are only 800,000 in Ruinan County, it does not meet the requirements of the ancient system of humanity and luck, and only one million can be set up as a county.

Even in the current era of great chaos, the impact of such regulations will not be too great, but if the country is forcibly established under the condition of insufficient population, luck may go wrong.

It is because Zhou Bai must take the border city and county to make up for the lack of population foundation.

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On August 9, the Anbei Army swore to march westward.

Although Zhou Yuan was not there, he was also accompanied by Gao Hu, Lou Jinpeng, Jiao Tu, Xu Yun, Yan Cheng and other generals.

Among them, Lou Jinpeng and Jiao Tu can both take on the role of command.

The number of troops of the Western Expeditionary Army was far less than the number of the main forces attacking Ruinan County, only 10,000 government troops, 3,000 demon troops, and 2,000 cavalry, totaling 15,000 people.

However, the main force was only 15,000, and there were quite a few auxiliary (civilian) soldiers accompanying the army, a full 10,000.

In addition, nearly 20,000 people were responsible for escorting the baggage, and there were reserve officials who accompanied them in the baggage team.

It is difficult to accumulate a family business, but it is very easy to squander.

Just like Zhou Bai opened the door to seek talents, but just filling the vacancies in Ruinan County and Border City County has already exhausted the talent reserve.

Most of the officials who went to Ruinan County were promoted, and the officials of Bei'an Township became Ruinan County officials, and the county officials became county officials.

Those who went to the border cities and counties observed carefully and found that many officials had served for less than half a year, barely passing an evaluation period.

If you hit the fourth county again, digestion alone is a problem, so Zhou Bai thought of the first major event after the founding of the People's Republic of China, opening a department.

At that time, there was enough luck to give these imperial examination talents......

Just thinking on the march, I felt more and more the importance of this call-up opportunity.

Only by winning and winning enough national fortunes can the country develop rapidly.

On August 10, Zhou Bai had already appeared in Baisha Town on a footing, which was only 300 miles deep into Baishazhou, but it was still more than 2,000 miles away from Shazhou City, a stronghold set up by the next border city county.

Even if it is the elite of the government army who has practiced martial arts, the normal march is only 200 miles a day, and if you don't save your physical strength, the forced march is at most 300 miles.

In this way, it normally takes more than ten days to reach Sandbank City, not to mention whether they can get supplies in Sandbank City and Border City County is still two words.

Because according to the previous strategic deployment, Biancheng County is a place that all the officials, including Xuanyiwei, have neglected, and they only know that it is poorer than Cangbei County.

In the case of inexperience, Zhou Bai chose the insurance method, that is, to send more grain trucks to transport supplies.

The town gate was closed, and the guards shouted angrily, so they had to reveal their identities.

The deputy general of the town guard camp, as well as Yan Luo, who had just arrived in office for a few days, hurried out of the city to greet him.

"He Zhiwu, the deputy general of the town guard camp in Baisha Town, and Yan Luo, the envoy of Baisha Town, have seen the governor. If you are late, please forgive your sins. The lieutenant general and Yan Luo bowed, their expressions flustered, obviously a little caught off guard.

However, Zhou Bai was not so careful, but explained: "The journey is fast, and the main army can only arrive tonight." By the way, where is Chu Kai and what is the situation ahead? ”

He Zhiwu immediately stepped forward and reported back: "Governor, the town guard has taken people to Shazhou City, and he hasn't come back yet, but according to our on-the-spot investigation during this time, there should be no problem with the march." ”

"The main thing is to walk along the ancient trade road, which is the safest and will not get lost."

"This is the latest map of Baishazhou, there are new water sources on it, we have all drunk it, the salinity is very low, and it can already quench our thirst."

After taking the map, Zhou Bai spread it out and took a look, which clearly marked important information such as the marching route, water source point, suitable camp, and the location of Shazhou City.

"Did you draw this picture or who drew it? It shouldn't be Chu Kai, this guy is not so careful. Zhou Bai glanced at He Zhiwu a few times and asked curiously.

It is said that the territory is expanding too fast, such as Baisha Town, where he only remembers one Chu Kai.

"This map was drawn by a certain general when he followed the town guard to investigate the route, and the roughness made the governor laugh." He Zhiwu was very modest, and he saw Zhou Bai's appreciation, and he was not arrogant or impatient.

Zhou Bai suddenly remembered something: "You look like you have read books, and your surname is He, aren't you from the He family of Pingcang?" ”

He Zhiwu couldn't stabilize it now, he never expected that Zhou Bai could still remember Pingcang, an ordinary villager.

He said excitedly: "Back to the capital, a certain will be the son of the He family." I have read the book, but I didn't show off my talents, I abandoned my pen and followed the governor to make contributions! ”

Looking at its own life, the red life out of the county, the thriving Universiade converges, and there is a chance to break through.

Coming from Pingcang, he has read books, can write and martial arts, and is meticulous and thoughtful.

This great luck should refer to Zhou Bai's favor, but the various characteristics and backgrounds of this son do make him have the heart to promote.

If you don't need to be able to do so, who else can you use.

Silently making a decision in his heart, Zhou Bai looked at Yan Luo again: "Do you have an idea about what I want you to do?" ”

He didn't really say what it was at all, but he did it on purpose, wanting to see if this former Jiedu talent really wanted to work loyally.

Yan Luo seemed to know that Zhou Bai had already asked this question, and immediately said: "Baishazhou has undergone this spiritual change, there are thousands of acres of fertile land, and there is a lot to be done...... In less than two years, this place can become the largest grain producing area in Dingzhou. ”

"In addition, if the salt soil sinks, if the salt mine can be developed for profit, it can not only solve the salt use of the domestic people, but also sell it to the outside world, and get millions of dollars a year......"