Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 748 The Curtain Comes to an End
It was the next morning when Bai Tu, who was in Green Forest City, received the letter from Fei Ge.

After quickly confirming the content, Bai Tu felt excited.

He knew in his heart that the king was giving him a chance!
Without time to think about it, he immediately gathered all the troops in his hands, arranged the logistics troops, and officially set off towards Xishan City.

As for Green Forest City, the problem is actually not big. Now the people in the city are busy working to make money. In terms of food, thanks to the injection of Dazhou resources, it has basically been solved.

In this state, who would think of rebelling?
Hurry up and work more, make more money, and improve your life is the real thing.

This situation allowed Bai Tu to only need to leave a small number of troops to maintain daily public order, and basically had no worries.

Leading his troops, Bai Tu officially set off.

As a result, as soon as he led his army to set off, another homing pigeon flew to Green Forest City.

Taking the letter from them, the remaining team sent a soldier with good equestrian skills to ride on a fast horse, and caught up with the large army headed by Bai Tu as quickly as possible.

After confirming the content of Fei Ge's letter, Bai Tu couldn't help but feel a little complicated at this time.

This is also a letter sent from Xianyang City. The content is to tell him that Liu De and Long Potian have died outside Xianyang City. It also tells him that the people in Xishan City have been dissatisfied with Liu De for a long time. After the beginning of spring, there was even more internal unrest. Continuously.

From a military operational perspective, this is good news.

This shows that Xishan City does not have much defensive strength at this time, and it will be easier for them to capture it.

But from the perspective of his personal meritorious service, the absence of Liu De and Long Potian will undoubtedly greatly reduce the value of his contribution.

However, Bai Tu did not hesitate for too long. He regained his energy as soon as he turned around and led the troops to continue marching. After several days of marching, they soon arrived outside Xishan City.

At this moment, Bai Tu was not in a hurry to launch an offensive, but sent someone over to shout first.

After all, Bai Tu is also a man who has led soldiers, so he knows that compared to taking the Xishan City at the cost of casualties, if he can take the Xishan City without any blood, the credit will actually be greater.

But he didn't know that Xishan City was already occupied by rioting refugees.

Liu De and Yan Sheng were so stupid that they didn't leave any food for them. After making up his mind to attack Xianyang City, he didn't even pretend.

In just a few days, the population in Xishan City dropped sharply due to lack of food.

When they heard that it was Zhou's troops coming from outside, they immediately opened the city gates without hesitation and lined the streets to welcome them.

This is the advantage of occupying great righteousness. As long as you occupy great righteousness, ordinary people will be more emotionally inclined to you.

Under this premise, if you can have a good reputation, it will be even more powerful.

And their great Zhou Dynasty has a good reputation in this Xishan City, undoubtedly thanks to Kong Daqian.

Especially after the beginning of spring, due to spring plowing, Liu De began to squeeze the labor force of refugees, making his "Benevolence" memorial arch no longer able to stand.

Taking this opportunity, Kong Daqian secretly stirred up the emotions of the refugees and at the same time promoted their image as a great Zhou.

When people are about to despair, they always want some hope. And Dazhou happened to appear at this time, becoming their hope, and their thoughts became, 'As long as the troops who survive Dazhou arrive, we will be saved!' '

Maintaining due vigilance, Bai Tu led his troops into the city. After successfully taking over the city defense, he confirmed the situation in the city and immediately started relief work.

During this process, he had not thought about whether he should simply continue the action and capture Anling City.

Of course, this idea only flashed through his mind.

Based on the content of the letter sent by Fei Ge and the situation in Xishan City in front of him, Bai Tu could easily guess that the situation in Anling City was probably about the same as here.

According to their king's methods, when he ordered himself to lead troops to capture Xishan City, he should also have given orders to Major Shi Lei, who was in charge of Black Rock City, to lead troops to capture Anling City.

If he was distracted and ran to Anling City, not only would his trip be in vain, he would even be blamed for disobeying orders and leaving his post without permission.

When he thought of this, Bai Tu completely woke up, calmed down his mentality, and guarded Xishan City peacefully. After sending a flying pigeon letter to their king and reporting the matter, he honestly waited for the follow-up. Order.

The flying pigeon messages from Bai Tu and Shi Lei brought the war between him and Yan Sheng to a complete end.

Putting the letter into a nearby candlestick and burning it, Zhou Xu felt extremely calm at this time, and there was not much turmoil caused by this news.

After all, in his eyes, this war had already ended outside Black Rock City, when three hundred armored cavalry overwhelmed Yan Sheng's five thousand troops. From then on, it was just the ending, and there was no suspense. .

Three days later, the follow-up reports from Bai Tu and Shi Lei were quickly sent.

In the past three days, while they basically stabilized the situation in the city, they also completed the count of the remaining population in the city.

The previous famine and Liu De's inaction had severely reduced the population of these two cities, but even so, the two cities together added more than 7,000 new people to their Great Zhou.

From Zhou Xu's perspective, there are more than 7,000 more mouths to eat.

Although they themselves can be converted into labor force, the increase of more than 7,000 new people will undoubtedly increase the food pressure here.

This also allowed him to quickly confirm their food reserves in the New World, and then he relaxed a little, and he could still survive for the time being.

[It was a wise decision to ask the agricultural department to increase the area of ​​​​fields for farming last year. 】

On the New World side, the remaining local grain reserves, plus the grain they transported from the Old World, together are enough for the time being.

Under this premise, the farmland in Xianyang City and Green Forest City here has been cultivated according to his arrangements as early as spring. It is already early summer.

The crops that were planted at the beginning are growing very well. It is estimated that in half a month or a month at most, the first batch of summer harvest food will be harvested here. After more than two months, the autumn harvest will be here. .

Of course, this does not mean that after this autumn harvest, the seven cities in the New World will be able to rely entirely on the food they produce.

Even if we are optimistic about this matter, it depends on the situation of spring plowing and autumn harvest next year.

As for this year, if it can save more transportation capacity for the Old Continent, even if it is successful, Zhou Xu doesn't have much hope for others.

(End of this chapter)