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Chapter 1649 Rise (11)

"Oh, so I'm the supreme commander of the Southern Legion? Now the entire military power in the South has to listen to me?"

Zhao Hu laughed. He was worried that sending troops to occupy the two counties of Tieta and Sartor without authorization would be injustice, but who knew that someone would bring a pillow just as he was about to sleep, so he immediately stood up excitedly and faced the temporary clerk Starn said: "Immediately issue an investigation order to investigate all the iron towers and Sartor's land. All the lords who have fled will be in accordance with the "Empire Wartime Act".

"All the nobles have to pay the defense fee. If they have no money, let them use food to pay for it. If there is one penny less, I will let the Kazakhs go to his house to move by themselves!"

"Relocate all the fleeing northern refugees to the deserted land in Sartor and Iron Tower counties, distribute farm tools for farming, and only need to hand in one-third of the products this year. The more you work, the more you get!"

"Cancel the toll tax cards of Sartor, Iron Tower, and Falcon, and collect taxes based on the payment for goods transactions. The Southern Legion encourages merchants to establish trading stations in the three areas. Those with favorable conditions can provide certain financial assistance!"

Couriers carrying the latest legion decrees and announcements were continuously dispatched from the iron tower fortress, shaking the dormant nobles in the south like spring thunder.

The moat outside the Iron Tower Fortress has surged due to the torrential rains in the past few days, and the rapid water flow has spread to the nearby river beach, forming a large muddy swamp in front of the Iron Tower Fortress.

"It's a damn fine day!"

Accompanied by Tielong, Zhao Hu stood on the top of the Iron Tower Fortress. He looked at the moat below the fort that was formed by the torrential rain. After peeing for a long time, Tie Long next to him was stunned, "Which game is this dead Zhao Hu playing?

"Don't understand, it's telling me to stand on the top of the wall and pee against the wind, I'm a pure man!"

Regarding Zhao Hu's absurd act of urinating at the top of the wall, Tie Long standing beside him rolled his eyes noncommittally. Zhao Hu's crazy Tie Long had already seen it all.

In the past half month, the Iron Tower Fortress has been tossed miserably by Zhao Hu who is afraid of death.

The wall was built, thickened, and tunnels were dug. In order not to be attacked by the Kazakhs, Zhao Hu, who was afraid of death, not only arranged three soil ditches one meter wide and two meters deep in front of the city wall, each In front of the pits, tall triangular wooden points are erected to prevent the siege equipment from approaching.

More than a dozen cauldrons were set up on the widened crenels of the city wall, which were filled with a large amount of black crude oil that Zhao Hu specially asked Mengda to transport from the mountains in his falcon territory, which could be poured into the deep pit under the city wall at any time. Construct three firewall belts.

The city gate aisle was re-reinforced with large hard bluestone strips, and fist-sized spear piercing holes were re-arranged on both sides of the 13-meter-long city gate aisle, making a section of the ordinary city gate aisle full of murderous threats.

These are nothing, Zhao Hu also built a city wall on three sides behind the aisle of the city gate, a notch-shaped city wall more than [-] meters long, connected with the main city wall of the castle with wooden boards, even if the enemy breaks through the first city gate, It will also be blocked by this section of the notched city wall, and fall into a desperate situation with spears on the side and arrows on the head.

In the end, even if the notch was breached, as long as the wooden planks connected to the city walls on both sides were removed, the enemy could only stand on the notch and stare blankly.

The originally narrow passageway of the city wall, which only passed a single person, has also been greatly widened. It is even possible to pass two war horses side by side at the same time, and cavalry troops can be organized to rush up the city wall for support at any time.

Seeing these unprecedented defensive measures, other people were very chilled, and they secretly rejoiced that they were not the enemy who needed to attack the fortress, otherwise a thousand-man brigade would be gone without even a bubble.

Arrowheads, shields, weapons and other defensive resources are continuously transported from the Falcon territory to the Iron Tower Fortress. There is an endless stream of transport carriages between the Falcon Territory and the fortress every day. Zhao Hu has built the Iron Tower Fortress into an incredible The meaning of Falling City.

"what is this?"

Tielong looked at the strange weapon in the hands of the guards in a daze. This one-meter-long wooden-handled bow and arrow launcher was a new weapon just shipped from the Falcon territory. Zhao Hu called it the long wooden handle of the foot-operated crossbow The strange longbow on his body.

It is said that Zhao Hu asked the craftsmen in the territory to build it according to the drawings before setting off from the Falcon territory.

"This is a good thing! If the Kazakhs come to our iron tower again, I will use this to greet them well and let them know that the Kazakh strong bow they are proud of is shit in front of Lord Tiger." Zhao Hu clapped proudly. He patted Tielong on the shoulder.

"Whoosh!"

A short-feathered crossbow arrow was nailed to the cavalry's mail armor on a wooden post two hundred paces away. Its strong penetrating power was as easy as shredding a thin piece of paper, and it was easily nailed into the wooden post about an inch. Can go straight to the arrow feathers.

When Tielong saw a soldier with a little training, he could easily shoot through the light mail armor of cavalry two hundred paces away with this waist-high crossbow in his hand, and his face turned slightly blue. The strong bow of the Kazakhs could only reach The distance of 150 steps, and this thing is afraid that it can shoot at least 250 steps.

As a knight-born soldier, Tie Long had to think that if this kind of lethal weapon was used on a large scale, the ultra-long-range strike capability that would sweep everything could easily annihilate the entire army of the charging knights.

The tragic scene of being shot like a hornet's nest stimulated Tielong's nerves, and seemed to remind him of the scene where he led his subordinates to be surrounded and wiped out by the Kazakhs, and cold sweat broke out behind his back.

In return for the reorganization of the Southern Army at Zhao Hu's own expense, the hunter leader Munda has been officially appointed by the Ministry of Military Affairs as the head of the Eighth Banner Regiment of the Southern Army, Starn is the head of the Sixth Banner Regiment, the middle-aged strange knight Iron Long was appointed as the captain of the guard directly under the Southern Legion.

After more than three months of full preparation for the war, supported by the millions of treasures buried by the Kazakhs and the millions of stones paid by the southern nobles, Zhao Hu's Southern Army excluding 6000 combatants and engineers With nearly 3000 support personnel, Zhao Hu's army has almost broken through the [-]-man mark, and has become an important military force that dominates the south and rules the three counties.

What the proud Zhao Hu wants to do most now is to keep the Kazakhs and the big nobles in the north to continue to entangle, buy time for himself to digest the land of the two counties, and it is best to delay until this year's autumn harvest.

With sufficient food security, the relocated refugees can settle down in the two counties. Even if the empire wants to drive itself away, it can only stare blankly.

Otherwise, as soon as they collected the food, they patted their buttocks and left, and the empire would have to pay for the tens of thousands of refugees themselves. This is simply impossible for the financially damaged empire.

After a busy March comes a cool April.

But for Zhao Hu, who was defending the iron tower, it was really hot here.The Kazakh rangers who had been extinct for two months reappeared faintly opposite the iron tower fortress, and even touched the moat of the iron tower several times.

That arrogant, defiant look is more like a demonstration than a reconnaissance.

If it weren't for Zhao Hu's strict order not to use bows and crossbows casually, the defending soldiers would have shot these bold scouts off their horses. Seeing that there was no movement in the iron tower fortress, the movement of the Kazakhs became more and more loud.

The front outpost reported yesterday that a group of about 5000 Kazakh light cavalry troops had marched into Hittelu Town, opposite the iron tower, and were stationed there.

In the early morning, the cold star hangs high, the pale moonlight has not disappeared, and the raging bonfire illuminates the hall of the iron tower red.

Zhao Hu, who was supposed to be dreaming on the bed, was sitting in the lobby of the iron tower fortress. The twitching eyes showed that Zhao Hu was extremely upset now, and he was so depressed that he had the urge to kill someone.

In the middle of the night last night, Meng Da, who was on duty at the city wall, rushed into Zhao Hu's bedroom and reported that a team of 200 Kazakh cavalry brazenly took advantage of the darkness to set up camp under the iron tower city. Royal Guards.

Zhao Hu said softly: "What do you think these Kazakhs want to do? They came to squat in other people's corners in the middle of the night?"

"This time the Kazakhs are coming fiercely. I think no matter what they want to do, we just need to strengthen the defense of the castle! As long as we seize the opportunity, we can easily kill all the two hundred Kazakhs outside the city."

Starn is still the wretched style who likes to engage in defensive counterattacks. This guy did not participate in the mountain annihilation battle because he was escorting supplies in the rear. Since one of his legs was shot lame by the Kazakhs, he still felt sorry for the Kazakhs. There is fear.

"The Kazakhs came from unknown sources this time. They first sent a large number of scouts to conduct a close-range investigation on us, and then a main army entered the town of Hittelu opposite us. Now they even sent people to come down from our city. This shows that the Kazakhs are serious about us. We are very interesting!" Captain Tie Long said.

"Interesting? I'm fucking in love with Kazakhs!" Zhao Hu heard Tie Long say a lot of words like this, and came to the conclusion of "interesting", and almost stood up from his seat. stand up.

"My lord, it's not interesting, I mean it's very interesting to us!" Tie Long still insisted.

"What's interesting? Can you explain it a little bit more clearly? We're all rough, so we can understand." Seeing Tie Long's hesitant expression, Zhao Hu asked curiously.

"He just has ideas about us, is interesting, and wants to negotiate with us!"

(End of this chapter)