The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Originally, Avid was extremely dissatisfied with Xu Lai's occupation of Hantan City.

No matter what, he, Avid Valentine, was standing on the front line against Hell, but he was stabbed in the back by his friendly forces behind him.

It is impossible to say that he has no thoughts or resentment in his heart.

However, as soon as Xu Lai arrived in Hantan City and visited the shipyard and the Hantan Fleet, he announced the expansion of the army.

The second thing he did was to use the cash to pay the newly formed Coast Guard.

Hantan City was not considered wealthy to begin with. After the fall of the Western Empire, the entire city’s resources were basically used to build ships.

The soldiers were grateful just to have a full meal every day, not to mention the salary, and they dared not ask for more.

Even the soldiers could only have one full meal a day, and it was impossible for other people in Hantan City to have enough to eat.

The third thing Xu Lai did after arriving in Hantan City was to open the granaries and release grain.

However, Xu Lai did not open the warehouse in Hantan City. There was not much food in the warehouse in Hantan City.

What Xu Lai released was the military rations for the Qingfeng Legion.

With the warehouse ring, food supply is not a big problem. However, the food in Qingfeng City was also purchased by Xu Lai at a high price.

Each soldier also carried two to three days' worth of dry food on his back in case of emergency.

Now that the battle is basically over, we can build a camp directly outside Hantan City.

Food and other supplies are directly allocated from Longan City, Wasteland City and Thorn City.

These cities store a lot of resources, especially Longan and Wasteland.

As descended heroes, Jiang Jian and his companions almost instinctively built high cities and stored up abundant food.

If they were willing to help Hantan City a little, Hantan City would not be unable to support its people or recruit soldiers.

Expanding the army, paying salaries, and releasing food, each measure is aimed at the huge problems currently existing in Hantan City.

Xu Lai's actions immediately won the support of the people and the military in Hantan City.

It would be a pipe dream to want to block the attack from Hell with the existing Hantan City alone, even with the Coast Defense Force and Hanjiang.

Even with the addition of the Qingfeng Legion, they can only hold out for a little longer at best, and may not even be able to hold out for one more day.

Hanjiang can only block Hell's ground forces, as Hell also has a large number of flying forces.

Without a strong city as a rear, even the strongest fleet is like a rootless duckweed, drifting with the current.

By then, the Coast Guard will not even have a reliable rear base for supplies.

Therefore, Hantan City must be expanded, the city walls must be raised, more arrow towers must be added, more warehouses and more food must be provided so that a long-term war can be fought.

This requires Xu Lai to invest countless resources in this city, even more than in Hard Stone City.

In a city that may require unlimited investment, Xu Lai will not be able to feel at ease unless he wins the hearts of the people and the military.

Xu Lai can hand over the coast defense force to Avid, who has experience in naval warfare and at least knows how to lead a navy.

No matter how dissatisfied Avid is with Xu Lai or how influential he is, it is impossible for him to mobilize the entire coast defense force to betray him, Xu Lai.

Because neither the navy nor the naval forces can produce food on their own and must be supplied by the rear.

As soon as these three policies were announced, Xu Lai immediately received responses and cheers from people all over the city.

Even Avid, who had been forced by Xu Lai to join and had always had a stern face, now had a little more smile on his face.

He was still dissatisfied with Xu Lai, but he had to admit that Xu Lai's arrival was good for Hantan City. At least it could allow the residents of Hantan City to have enough food to eat for a few days.

Moreover, Xu Lai's so-called military expansion was not exaggerated. Of the 5 new recruits he brought, 5000 were selected on the spot and incorporated into the Coast Guard to participate in training.

After destroying the tens of thousands of people in Thorn City, these 5 new recruits are no longer new recruits.

The lowest level is still level 3, but most have been promoted to level 4, and a few have been promoted to level 5. The average level of the entire team has been raised to level 4.

And the 5000 people that Xu Lai selected were the most elite ones.

2000 level 5 infantrymen, including 1000 heavy shield infantrymen and 1000 swordsmen. Except for the officers, the best people in the entire legion were selected.

剩下的3000人更厉害，1500名5阶神射手，1000名5阶破甲弩手，以及500名7阶幻影神射手。

After a little training to get them used to fighting on ship, this troop's combat effectiveness will definitely be quite impressive.

The admiralty and navy are a more troublesome type of troops because there are no hero buildings that can recruit them on a large scale.

If they can only rely on their own training, the role of long-range troops will be relatively large. If the melee troops cannot serve as sailors at the same time, their role will be much smaller.

The force was expanded by 5000 people first because the Coast Guard did not have enough ships.

As for this troop, Xu Lai didn't want to just make do with it, so he assigned Lena an additional task.

Let her leave behind 3 level 3 warriors and archers who have not yet advanced, and take the remaining 5000 troops to sweep all wild monsters and outdoor buildings within the four cities.

Firstly, it is to obtain resources to supplement the family expenses. Secondly, every little bit is still some meat, which is much more than the experience gained from daily training.

After the remaining 5000 people are upgraded to level 5, the 9 cruisers that Xu Lai invested resources in should be almost completed and can be put into use directly.

As for the newly established coastal defense force, Xu Lai will not let them sit idle.

After the wages were distributed in the name of Xu Lai and the Eagle Kingdom, the morale of the Coast Guard was restored.

In addition, Xu Lai also dispatched Elvy and the Angel Legion she led to the ship to escort the entire coastal defense force.

Together with the statue of the god of war erected in Qingfeng City, it can now increase the morale of the entire Eagle Kingdom by 10 points and increase all attributes by 5 points.

The morale of the Coast Guard was not immediately restored to its full value, but it was visibly improved to a high level.

It would be a bit of a waste to place the morale-boosting Coast Guard in a not-so-vast cold pond.

Moreover, more than a hundred warships were squeezed into the originally small cold pond, and the remaining space had to be prepared for more cruisers, so there was really no place for training.

So, Xu Lai waved his hand and ordered Avid to take more than 60 warships to patrol along the Hanjiang River day and night.

There are many benefits to doing this.

First of all, it can free up a lot of space for Hantan, so that the new recruits who have just joined can have a more stable training space.

Secondly, in the upper reaches of Hanjiang River, there are still some villages and towns that have not fallen.

Once the Coast Guard begins patrolling along the river, it can deter the Hell Troops that fly across the river.

We can also provide appropriate assistance to these towns, and if there are many refugees, we can help share the burden.

As long as there is a war, it is impossible to say that there will be no deaths. Even if there are angels who can resurrect, there will be situations where the corpses are completely destroyed.

Cities and population are the necessary conditions for the continued struggle. Finally, although the Hantan Fleet was established a long time ago, except for the backbone that was already built by the Valentine family.

Most of the soldiers were recruited after the invasion of Hell.

Apart from being much better than the Qingfeng Corps in operating ships and using weapons on board, these soldiers have only fought in two or three actual combats, and those were just small-scale frictions with the Hell Corps.

There are many wild monsters and enemies along the banks of the Hanjiang River, including on the Hanjiang River.

For example, the murlocs and the patrolling hell army.

Before, Avid was afraid of angering the demons in hell, so he mainly took a defensive approach in the few minor frictions. The fleet usually stayed in the cold pond and would never take the initiative to cause trouble.

But Xu Lai was different. He was also afraid of attracting the large army of Hell, but he knew that the army of Hell had already begun to gather.

If the attack is on his Eagle Kingdom, then it is extremely urgent to take the opportunity to eliminate the hostile forces near Hanjiang River, control the river surface, and improve their own combat effectiveness.

This is also the last chance to improve combat effectiveness.

But if Hell gathered together not to attack the Eagle Kingdom, Xu Lai could also use it to tie down some of Hell's power.

With a fleet of less than a hundred ships, they can only attack targets on the shore along the river, and it is probably impossible to change Hell's strategic goals.

Besides, the Hanjiang River is so big that there are a lot of resources just on the surface of the river.

Even if you just pick up floating treasure chests, floating objects, drifting bottles, explore shipwrecks, etc., the income will not be small.

Although it is certainly not as good as the resources on land, at least it can earn enough money to pay the salaries of the coast guard and other expenses.

Xu Lai conquered four cities, but even if he swept away the powerful and wealthy in these four cities, he could not extort much money.

Building Hantan City and increasing the number of ships for the Coast Guard are both bottomless pits that will consume as much resources as possible.

In addition to sending out the Qingfeng Corps, Xu Lai also organized the refugees to form a transport team to provide food and other supplies to the Qingfeng Corps.

There is very little arable land outside Hantan City, and those farms and villages already have enough manpower.

The city of Hantan, which had long lost its vitality, could not provide many jobs. Apart from the shipbuilding workers, even the wealthy families in the city had already closed all their shops.

The locals in Hantan City have all lost their jobs and have to wait for Avid and others to distribute relief food every day, not to mention the influx of refugees.

Xu Lai set up a transport team, which happened to be a work-for-relief method, which was much better than receiving relief.

As for the locals of Hantan City, Xu Lai did not forget that the city still needed to be upgraded, and it needed to be upgraded as quickly as possible.

Xu Lai wanted to bring not only the people from Hantan City, but also the people from Thorn City.

Relying on the warehouse ring, a large amount of resources can be transferred over.

However, Qingfeng City also could not withstand the consumption, after all, it had just provided support to Wanshi City with a large wave of attacks.

Moreover, building a cruiser requires a large number of workers and resources, especially wood and iron ingots.

With such a large number, Qingfeng City alone cannot handle it.

Therefore, after Xu Lai issued three orders in Hantan City, he quickly issued another order.

Although this order is related to Hantan City, it is actually aimed at Thorn City.

Xu Lai directly ordered the demolition of all buildings in Thorn City and the relocation of the population of Thorn City to Hantan City.

The Qingfeng Legion’s camp was built on the original site of the Thorn City to prepare for the future arrival of the Qingfeng Legion’s main force.

As for the resources demolished from Thorn City, they were all transported to Cold Pond City to be used for the expansion and upgrading of Cold Pond City.

Even if Thorn City is not enough, Xu Lai is considering whether to demolish Longan and Wasteland City as well.

Demolition and upgrading are both huge projects.

It just so happens that there are a large number of idle population and refugees in both cities. Putting them to work can also relieve Xu Lai of many of his burdens and security pressures.

Fortunately, Xu Lai is not short of city hearts. Thorn City directly provides a castle heart as a base camp, and Stone City also has a fortress-level castle heart.

The remaining two fortress-level ones were not difficult for Xu Lai to buy through the market in Qingfeng City.

If even the heart of the castle is not enough, Xu Lai can only demolish one of the two cities.

Demolition and upgrading, two important large-scale projects are carried out simultaneously.

In addition to the Coast Guard’s river patrols and training, the Qingfeng Corps’ peripheral sweeps.

At one time, almost all of the hundreds of thousands of people in the north of Hanjiang River took action.

The originally lifeless place was given new vitality because of Xu Lai's arrival.

Xu Lai even went to the top of the city wall in person to direct the expansion and upgrading of the city wall, and the construction locations of arrow towers and turrets.

Although Yu Lan and the others did not have to go out with the Qingfeng Legion on a sweep, they were not at all relaxed.

The space master from Qingfeng City has been rushing to Hantan City without stopping.

When he arrives, he will build a teleportation array immediately.

But before that, the officials from Qingfeng City could not arrive so quickly.

Xu Lai worked hard to transform Hantan City, and Avid cooperated with him. The Valentine family provided a group of young talents to help Xu Lai.

All these people were assigned by Xu Lai to Yu Lan's command, working with Xu Lai's secretarial team to change the nationality of the entire Hantan City's residents.

Not only the officials sent from Hantan City, but also from Longan City and Huangyuan City are now doing this.

The city will be incorporated into the Eagle Kingdom, and the residents in the city and the farmers outside the city will all be incorporated into the Eagle Kingdom's nationality.

This is not only to expand the Eagle Kingdom's sphere of influence and increase Congress's revenue, but also to integrate these Western Empire people into the Eagle Kingdom as soon as possible.

Speaking of which, these people of the Western Empire did not have much sense of belonging to the Western Empire.

A few years ago, they were all just imperial people. Although the Western Empire was established later, it was just a pseudo-empire that did not even have a parliament.

Only by joining the Eagle Kingdom and enjoying the national treatment of the Eagle Kingdom can you build cohesion for the Eagle Kingdom faster and earlier.

In addition, after becoming a citizen of the Eagle Kingdom, you can also start to enjoy the bonuses of the Eagle Kingdom's God of War Statue.

The Angel Alliance only reduces the morale loss when being with aliens.

In fact, except for a few cities like Stone City, where people live together with other races such as elves, other human cities basically do not mix.

Therefore, the Angel Alliance will be more effective when fighting.

However, the blessing of the God of War Statue is for all combatants. Naturalizing the citizens and the Coast Guard as soon as possible is also a way to increase combat effectiveness as soon as possible. (End of this chapter)