The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 66

[Chapter 66 2 County Land]

After that, things were much simpler. With a successful case in front, all the checkpoints in the county were opened by the previous method.

It didn’t take much effort, and even the number of soldiers lost was very few, only a few dozen.

However, during the Taiping years, there were not many soldiers in those checkpoints, usually only dozens or hundreds of people.

There are a total of five checkpoints in the three county towns. Except for the two more important ones, which are guarded by 200 people, the other three small ones all have 100 people.

And within the five levels, there are about 500 surrendering soldiers, which is a big hidden danger. In order to prevent Zhong Yu from ordering them to kill them all.

With a tight army, I can’t separate too many soldiers to guard these prisoners. In order to avoid unnecessary troubles and accidents, it is better to kill them all, so as to avoid future troubles.

In order to defend those levels, Zhong Yu divided 700 people, reducing the size of his army by a large circle.

He only had 500 infantry and 100 cavalry, although those prisoners contributed 20 points of luck after they were killed by him.

But it was just supplemented before, because the number of soldiers consumed by several wars was nothing, and there was not much gain.

After a lot of rushing and killing, he has reached Changli County, the northernmost of the three counties.

This is a large county with a wider area, about 1.5 times that of a general county.

And it is located in a dangerous place, with many checkpoints, and three of the five checkpoints are within its territory.

population?

Just because there are mountains and mountains everywhere, and arable land is relatively scarce, most of the villagers in the county make a living by fishing and hunting.

So there are not too many, it is 17,000 or 8,000 people!

And he is now in the most eastern part of the county, which is the most majestic checkpoint, the location of Yunguan.

Yunguan guards the communication between Hanzhong County and Nanyang County, and on the left is the Hanshui branch, and the usual connection can be achieved by water transportation.

Zhong Yu really didn’t know how to guard it, such a place extending in all directions.

But it is also a miracle made by nature. With such a dangerous hurdle, it is really a one-man pass, and no one can open it.

As long as hundreds of his soldiers are placed above Yunguan, he will be unable to open tens of thousands of troops, and he will be able to sit back and relax in Hanzhong.

However, in such a dangerous place, it is too dangerous to be given to the commander by a county.

Or put him in a separate county and separate it from Changli County.

Just divide the area of Changli County into the standard of an ordinary county!

The extra half is divided into Yun County, although the area is smaller, only half of the usual county.

However, it has a dangerous terrain and developed transportation. It can be said to be a military town, so it is not too much trouble.

Now that he has decided to divide it into a county seat, he also needs to cut down the surrounding fifty miles and divide it into the area of Yunxian County.

The army set out on the expedition, the head was rolling along the way, and the blood and killings continued, and countless bones were used to cast the foundation of his rule in Yunxian.

But in one day, he sorted out the surroundings of Yun County, which belongs to the remote countryside.

Since the surrounding arable land is relatively scarce, and the gentry passed down their families through farming and education, the number of gentry is relatively small, only a mere three.

Zhong Yu’s troops who had experience in cleaning the family completed the task very quickly.

All the aristocratic families add up to no more than 1,000 people.

But it is twice the size of his own army, and killing people is no better than killing pigs. People are often waiting to die, and they don’t even need to do it themselves.

They will kill each other, and killing is much easier than killing pigs.

The adults only need to lightly touch those vital points on the neck, but to kill the pig requires a lot of force, and it takes a few more knives to kill it.

In short, it was very easy, and without encountering too much resistance, the entire Yunxian territory was pacified, and Yunxian was successfully established.

Killing those people gained 40 luck points and summoned 80 soldiers.

The number of his ordinary soldiers was successfully expanded to 600.

He took 100 cavalry and 600 infantry to Changli County.

Although the number of people is a little small, it is barely enough to take the city by itself.

Eight days later, Zhong Yu pacified Changli County, Xunyang County, Xian County, and Wuling County.

He killed 5,000 nobles in the four counties and gained 200 luck points, and his footsteps stopped.

I plan to rest for a few days, wait until after this month has passed, I get the luck value, and then continue the expedition.

Use 200 Luck Points to exchange for 400 soldiers, and the soldiers exchanged will be stationed on the spot in two counties, with 200 soldiers in each county.

The newly built Yunxian County is located in a dangerous place, it can be said to be its gateway to the northeast, and it must be guarded by heavy troops.

Therefore, Zhong Yu kept 500 people down, in case he could send troops to support Yunguan in an emergency.

He took the remaining 100 cavalry and 100 ordinary soldiers and went to Xicheng County to station on the spot.

At that time, once the luck point arrives, you can directly exchange troops and horses, so you don’t have to rush to this place from the rear.

With time to rest, Zhong Yu once again planned his own territory.

Fangling County has only four counties, which is too small.

It is better to divide Changli County and Yun County together, so that Fangling County has six counties, which is barely a medium-sized county with a population of 80,000.

The Xicheng County is too vast, with the usual three or four counties, which is not conducive to governance, so it is divided into three counties.

They are Shiquan County, Ankang County, Jinchuan County, plus the original Xunyang County, Xian County, Wuling County, a total of six counties are being built into a Xicheng County, with a population of about 70,000.

According to the system, a county governs 3 to 7 townships, a county governs 3 to 7 counties, a prefecture governs 3 to 7 counties, a state governs 3 to 7 prefectures, and a Taoism governs 3 to 7 states. A domain governs 3 to 7 Taos.

The country corresponds to the division of counties above according to the size of the territory.

They are the county-level male country, the county-level sub-country, the prefectural-level uncle, the state-level candidate country, the Tao-level principality, and the domain-level kingdom.

Now that I already have two counties, and there are six counties in Hanzhong, which can also be divided into one county, then I have become an uncle of the smallest mansion with three counties. level country.

Soon, it will be a month after tomorrow. The total population in my territory is about 150,000.

You can also get 600 luck points in a month, which can be used to summon soldiers who can get 1200.

At that time, he will have 1,400 soldiers of his own who can go on the expedition. Nanzheng County, the county seat of Hanzhong County, is the center of the entire Hanzhong County, with the most gentry.

If you kill him yourself, at least 20,000 people will be killed. At that time, he will be a soldier with a luck value of 800 and 1600.

In this way, he probably has about 3,000 energy that he can use to pacify the six counties, which is more than enough.

Time passed slowly, a day had passed in the blink of an eye, and he had also gained 600 of his luck points. Without the slightest hesitation, Zhong Yu used it all to exchange for soldiers.

As for the governance of the territory of the two counties under him, it can be resolved after the entire Hanzhong county is occupied by him.

When the sun rose again, Zhong Yu took his 1,400 soldiers slowly towards the gateway to the east of Nanzheng County, Chenggu County.

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