Now that he has learned more about Shuanghe County, this city must have been established by the Xian family in order to resist the possible resistance of the Yi people, it is located in the center of the plains in this area, guarding the boat dock, as long as the county town has not fallen, whether the Yi people want to plunder the surrounding plains or want to seize the ships and attack the more wealthy prefectures downstream, it will not be smooth, and how difficult it is to take this city! The walls of Twin Rivers are so tall that there are no mortal structures in the city that can match them, making it nearly impossible for any outsider using a ranged attack weapon such as trebuchets to see the results of their attacks, and those who attempt to climb the walls will find themselves having to face the top of the slope after climbing a vertical section of the wall, an angle that no siege ladder can help, and some of the stones on their heads can obviously be moved so that hot oil and other things can be poured on their heads. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The fortifications behind the walls can be seen from the north gate, which was unpopular in peacetime, with no paving along the streets, and the alleys are so curved and deep that the inhabitants have to walk long detours to reach the streets, and if there are no street vendors, they have to walk through an even longer alley to reach the market where the shops are concentrated. At night, the alleyway entrance will be closed and locked, and those who have to go out in a hurry have to toss for a long time to get the key. The army that rushed into the city would find them surrounded by ready-made barricades, they would not be able to grab anything without a long battle, the loss of one alley did not mean that another alley had been breached, and the isolation between the alleys made it difficult to set fires, and the besiegers were bound to get lost in these intricate alleys, facing a long and painful battle, and in the end they had little to gain.

However, the long period of peace diluted all this, and it was not just the weaponry of the defending soldiers that was reduced to decoration, and after drawing a map of the whole city, Hua Lin could clearly see that about half of the city had been abandoned—there must have been many more early inhabitants of Shuanghe County than there are now, which is a highly unusual phenomenon, but not necessarily a harbinger of cataclysm. The abandoned residential areas may have belonged to soldiers and their families, who were being relocated one after another when the situation was settled, and the residents of Shuanghe County were unable to fill their gaps.

At the prosperous south gate, the former city was rebuilt with impunity, the alleys were widened, shops were opened along the streets, and business was not limited to the market but everywhere, and on the fifth and tenth days, the peasants of the four townships drove their carts and cattle to the city to trade all kinds of goods, from rice and flour to chariots and horses, and they set up stalls along the streets, which seemed to be in good order, but Hua Lin could almost imagine how much damage a raiding cavalry would cause to the scene. There were no wooden fences to stop them, no deep and crooked alleys, the doors of the shops along the street were open to display their most valuable goods, and there were flammable colorful buildings in front of them, and the only one torch for the experienced could cause considerable panic.

No one had ever made any effort to prevent the scenario he had imagined, and sometimes the streets would be filled with a few pretended patrolmen or trappers, whose main task was to prevent some impulsive bandit who was too ostentatious rather than a premeditated raid. They walked so loosely that Hua Lin really couldn't admit that it was called a formation, but not counting the immortal officials who hadn't shown up yet, they were still the most combat-ready personnel in the city.

Because the combat effectiveness of the others was even more miserable, the merchants, from the shopkeeper to the clerk, did not know what combat training was, and they had never learned to dance and wield a sword since they were young, let alone a bow and crossbow with higher technical requirements. They patrolled only their own shops, they knew nothing about protecting their money, but they didn't know anything about protecting their own lives, and the kind of city guard made up of citizens that Hua Lin was familiar with was a word they had never heard before.

Perhaps these non-combat industry workers should not be demanded, but the underground society in Shuanghe County has no level to speak of. The Beggar Gang is the largest underground organization in the city, with hundreds of members, but unfortunately most of them are real beggars, who rely on the stinking and pus-bleeding sores on their bodies instead of exquisite combat skills to block the door of people's homes and extort money. The second-class organization is composed of some local scoundrels and evil youths, their family backgrounds are generally better, and some have also learned some boxing sticks that are not worth four or six, and they have opened underground gambling stalls in the city, hijacked private prostitutes, or acted as "protectors" in these places, and they are good at cheating ordinary people, they are such characters as the Jiming Murata family, and they can probably beat ten beggars at a time in terms of single combat effectiveness, but the number is often pitiful, so they are not the opponents of the beggar gang. The next level is some pure liars, Hua Lin took the melon cart into the city when he met the stall owner is one of them, they are good at touching porcelain, using crooked reasoning and crowds to scare the fat sheep in the countryside, and the evil young people are different, they basically dare not attack anyone with wealth, no wonder Zhou Huairen has no such people in his memory.

After visiting the city, Hua Lin summed up that the underground society in Shuanghe County was a "scoundrel type," that they did not have any professional dedication, and that the rotten sores on the beggars were real and not disguised! The thugs in the gambling house did not have any cooperation with each other, and after on-the-spot calculations, Ah Gui was able to beat all three of them at a time! As for the "stall owners" who blocked the melon carts, Ah Gui talked to them once, and they politely moved away from the streets near Pingjiao Lane, which also caused a lot of vegetable sellers and fruit farmers who chose to enter the city through the north gate.

In addition, there are some scattered legends, Ah Rong swears that he has heard of a one-legged thief who walks on the wall to steal a certain family's property, and a singer from elsewhere once knocked over a third-rate gang member who came to slander her, this is the only "master" they know, of course, no matter what the master can compare with the "sister-sama" - after the Flatfoot Gang once again raised the social level, even Ah Rong's sycophants have improved a lot.

Combat training and city building are so disappointing, what about the rest?

Ah, Hua Lin didn't get any good results in other aspects, the slackness of the soldiers in armament is easy for anyone to see, they should have helmets in their equipment, maybe because they are uncomfortable to wear, so Hua Lin has never seen a person wear it, they will only stand up straight when they see powerful people, and at other times they will let themselves collapse, and there will often be one or two fewer people in the patrol team, and everyone else is used to it. The captors were in better spirits, but they carried non-lethal weapons for the capture of drunkards and bandits, such as chains and fishing nets, and their numbers were limited, and if they captured a few people, they could be encircled, and more than ten had to be called in soldiers - although the soldiers were rotten, there was still no armed force in the city to compete with them.

This is basically the case with melee force, Xianshu - Hua Lin has visited more than 20 temples in the city, more than a dozen of which are dedicated to a figure dressed as a general, he guessed that it may be related to the general who was ordered to come here to fight against the Yi people, no one knows how, these temples were all deserted without exception, and were looted by beggars and other thieves, leaving only the towering buildings and the name of the General's Temple. Among the remaining temples, the most prosperous incense is the five "Temple of the Lady of the Child", there is exactly one in each of the five directions, enshrined a young woman with a baby in her arms, the residents of the city have gone to these temples to pray for the heir, Hua Lin has seen them one by one, to his disappointment, these temples are quite narrow and simple, the priests are all amateur liars, the eyes of the sky see, not to mention the magic power, even the perception is a mess, of course, he should not have any outsiders lurking in such a noisy and noisy place to cultivate. The others are temples dedicated to water, fire and crops, which are more crude than the temple of sending children, and there are no priests, and it is purely up to the nearby residents to clean and enter the incense.

More than twenty temples turned down, not to mention a person who really had magic power like the little priest Ujida, he was stunned that he couldn't even find a priest apprentice with a slightly higher perception!

In short, no matter what expectations the Immortal Family had for Shuanghe County when they built the city, if any army of Yiren suddenly rushed into the county seat of Shuanghe County at this time, the 20,000 people in the city would only have to pray that the new immortal official would indeed know the legendary immortal arts! This was the conclusion reached by Hua Lin in his investigation of Shuanghe County.

Of course, he was not idle to do this investigation.