12 days later, Xishui Port, the base camp of the Burning Wheel Expeditionary Force.

The entire battle phase of the Burning Wheel came to an end. The crippled enemies could not form an offensive cluster again in the short term.

But Zhouyou could not attack further. The fleet logistics that His Majesty the Emperor agreed to was still on the way. So - Zhouyou: Now is the time to strengthen regional control and absorb the people in this area at the same time.

These people, Zhouyou, are preparing to organize them on site, and then carry out roads and factory construction in groups. - Zhouyou: Does I have any money? It’s really not enough, I can still borrow it. Now everyone likes to lend me money.

Although Xiahong Island is a commercial intersection and has a developed economy, it is really too narrow. It is located in a large city with millions of people, and it has to be in a coastal area on land. The location of Xishui Port happens to be a river entrance, which is also the reason why Zhouyou chose to log in a few months ago.

There are boring aftermath, and there are also some interesting occasions.

During the post-war review, the students of Zhouyou repeatedly discussed their own assault wars, and compared them with the large-scale decisive battles on the front front of the Northern Empire and the rebels.

Students who were neatly worn by leather boots, clothes, military caps, and all wore operating systems on their arms, used weapons to review the battle of the Zhouyou in front of the strategic map, and compared it with the current Northern Line battle of the Empire.

With the wooden pole moving in the war game, these young men with white gloves were arguing back and forth like middle school students discussing war strategy games. They were holding notebooks to record each other, looking very serious.

"The gap between the opponent's corps is too big."

"They don't have a segmented defense to the rear supply line, and the front line is too long to cut from here."

"The heavy firepower is out of touch with the infantry!"

"By the way, the opponent's attack is not prepared enough. The deployment is scattered, and when dealing with the attack, it is unable to effectively concentrate firepower and counterattack."

...

In this war.

These students realized that the noble army on this continent was very frugal, and their side could fight with less and more. Because their side was well organized, the information channels were smooth, the corps had good coordination and fast mobility.

Now, the Gu Nest controlled by five of them in groups is developing information reconnaissance and drilling the speed of the movement of the corps in the same group towards the practical thinking.

Population resources are constantly accumulating, and students and non-commissioned officers are growing.

Just as the Rising Wheel was growing, Zhouyou was more cautious in observing changes in the political situation on the mainland.

Because at this time, Lan Lun is already a chess player. Compared with the past, every move now affects a lot.

...

After this battle, the first thing that was determined was the attitude of the imperial royal family.

Now on this continent, it is still the largest authoritative group.

Zhouyou is affiliated with the royal family and is quite stable in purchasing raw materials in various regions. After all, each company does not look at the face of Lan Lun, but also depends on the face of the royal family.

Of course, after fighting this battle, I also have the authority to ensure the supply of raw materials. That is, all raw material suppliers now also need to consider the risk of burning wheels to the door.

At this stage, Lan Lun is in harmony with the royal family and it will be beneficial. No one can get through the fall.

On this basis, the other goals of both sides have deviated.

First, on the burner side:

Zhouyou and the students will definitely not place the hope of stable supply of materials on the stability of the royal family. There are too many uncertain factors in the situation in the mainland in the future, and the Burning Wheel must be bigger, but as long as it reaches a certain level, it will inevitably cause fear from all parties, including the royal family. For example, the feather-winged Locust family is now very afraid of Zhouyou's solo flight.

And on the empire:

As a partial master, Zhou You's performance now makes the emperor very satisfied. Of course, after seeing Zhou You shrink due to insufficient troops, the emperor was even more regretful. This feeling is the same as ordinary players making mistakes in their operation and the result of the battle is not straightforward enough, and it is not satisfying.

The emperor's mentality is understandable. Since the battle of the Southern Front started, his second brother was very tenacious, and his idea of ​​solving the war in a short period of time went bankrupt. Now a big hole has been opened on the strategic flank, which has once again raised the hope of quickly resolving the war. Sometimes, a glimmer of hope can make people turn into a gambler.

The imperial emperor wanted to urgently complete the rebellion and shock the world. It should be because of this reason that he was so generous to Zhouyou.

However, once this strategic goal is completed, it will naturally choose to continue to reduce the vassal states after it is stable.

So, His Majesty the Emperor now praises the strength of the Hang Lun, and then how many reins he has prepared in his heart.

...

After the 18th, the situation became clear.

On the afternoon of the 12th, the emperor and the liaison officers sent by multiple troops (the generals were in Gu's nest and could not attend the meeting in person) held a meeting. They asked each unit to step up the attack and announced that they would give Zhouyou more logistics fleets.

The emperor officially regarded the battlefield opened by Zhouyou as the second main battlefield. He promised to Zhouyou to be appointed as the official. Although he did not increase his title, the scope of Zhouyou's territory on the southern line was expanded to a radius of 100 kilometers, which was far beyond the Count's territory and even comparable to the territory of some marquis.

The above is motivation, and the next is control.

His Majesty the Emperor will send his confidant General Genghe around him to take the Gu Niao south to cooperate with Zhouyou's battle.

Genghe is also the seed of the old emperor, and his mother is the maid of the eldest prince's mother. The cloth seed ability of the old emperor in the previous life was not covered.

As the legitimate son, Genghe naturally had to serve as a servant in Zhengxin. There were many concubines like him in the empire, and only the best could become the core of the legitimate son. Of course, if the legitimate son dies, such a concubine cannot be replaced.

Under the concept that the nobles pay attention to the priority of the family, the concubine's son is not justified and his appeal is insufficient. Even if the emperor's children are all dead, the surviving concubine's son will not be able to make the dukes and marquises in the country bow their heads to recognize their legal inheritance rights.

Of course, it is not absolute. If a concubine's son can have absolute power to defeat other nobles, he can also inherit the throne. This happened hundreds of years ago during the Fenglong Empire. Of course, if he defeated other nobles, he would not admit that he was the concubine's son, but changed his biological mother's information and changed himself to the legitimate son.

...

When the Empire's decision was passed to Xishui Port.

Zhou You happened to receive a secret letter from the prince among the rebels.

The prince is also in a state of great headache now. He never expected that he had just made a "small move" on the territory, and his elder brother would come directly with thunder whenever he had disagreement. He didn't expect that his elder brother was so appealing to the world that the viscount far away in the remote area would explode his back door like crazy.

The large number of vassal families in the south are now in a tendency to waver. He suddenly felt that the territory he had been operating was not as stable as he thought.

While the prince is now in a hurry to stabilize the situation, he persuaded Zhou You to sow discord such as "the general is a talented person", "the pseudo-emperor is not a favor," and "the name is a reward, but it is actually a restraint".

Zhou You smiled, read the secret letter to the emissary, burned the contents, and then threw the envelope to the envoy and took it back, indicating that it was impossible.

When you ask your students why you do this.

Zhou lobby said: "He has no credibility - credibility is not an injustice thing, but depends on what the object can guarantee. The emperor now has the upper hand, and if he loses his credibility, he will face more challenges other than the second prince, so the situation will turn sharply, so he has something to guarantee his credibility.

And what can that prince have to guarantee his credibility? If he warns me now and says he will inevitably take revenge and then make trouble for me, he will still have the credibility of saying it. But now, in this way, he is trying to provoke it in vernacular ways to achieve his goal. Oh, this is a despicable thing! Such a person should get rid of his relationship earlier and not get involved in any relationship, so as not to taint his credibility."

December 26, 106, Holy Gu Calendar.

The battle situation on the mainland was slightly clear, and the Battle of Light Volcano came to an end. His Majesty's army defeated the first line of defense of the rebels with 60,000 casualties.

This is more like "suppression". Under the endless bombardment of heavy artillery, the rebels had no will to stabilize the defense line and collapsed early.

The Gu insect was originally fearless and fearless. Giving up the defense line was actually because the nobles of the rebels who were shaken after learning that they had landed in the rear and had no idea of ​​the loss.

The vassals of His Highness, whose guerrillas were defeated by the princes, kept shirking responsibility in order to cover up their incompetence. However, they shirked themselves, but the messages they sent wavered the rebels' upper class.

If it were the generals and generals of the Fenglong Empire three hundred years ago, the generals and generals could kill the officers led by the head at any time. The soldiers under their command were organized into the suicide squad and did not dare to disobey. However, every nobleman now has his own exclusive Guworm legion. Guworms do not have the fear of being humans. If they want to punish these nobles, their troops will hinder without fear of death.

Therefore, these nobles who could not be killed and could only be scolded were very free to spread information, which caused the influence of "flyer".

...

And at this time, on the front battlefield of the empire.

His Majesty's legion and the main combat corps gradually achieved major victories.

Various insects are quickly crossing rivers and trenches. The corpses of the rebels have formed on both sides of the river. The heavy artillery that was blown up to the point of being skewed and the baggage insects carrying their movements have fallen over on the ground, flowing with a large amount of extremely combustible blood, creating a unique warrior on the battlefield.

...

The insects now replace the fight between human infantry, which seems to squeeze humans out of the battlefield, but humans cannot escape the destruction of the war.

A large number of cities have lost order, and humans are not suitable for super-large group living as animals that only consider themselves. Only the cooperation of interests in modern society can humans live in groups. When social cooperation that produces common interests cannot occur, the city becomes a dark forest, because everyone is an object that can be snatched, and everyone has the potential to snatch their own opponents.

On the territory of His Highness the Second Prince, a large number of cities were burning, and batches of humans dragged their pitiful belongings to escape from the city.

A weak and insignificant species like humans always retreated carefully to the side when they looked at the war insects rushing around on the road.

How sad it is such a scene.

However, the nobles nowadays do not seem interested in considering empty morals.

They are collecting resources, food, metal, fuel, and even young women are important materials to boost morale and need to be plundered. As for the common interests of human species, they seem to have forgotten about the competition for each other.

Of course, there are still people on this planet that have not forgotten.

Starting from the 18th, Zhouyou completely handed over the operation of the base to the students, and he took on the responsibility for resettlement of the war refugees.

In the urban defense zone, simple bungalows were urgently built. Each person classified them by men, women and children, and after public disinfection, they squeezed on the assembled beds on the upper and lower bunk beds. The emperor matched the transport ships, and the space tour was completely used to transport civilian materials.

Drilling machines are constantly drilling on the seabed to complete the construction of geothermal energy towers. The power grid is also building the coastline and supplying power to urban areas.

This power has completely exceeded the current need for the Gu Nest to produce weapons.

This is used to plan labor-for-relief, that is, to prepare a large number of people to go to the production line for production.

Zhou You has a lot of supplies in his hands, but distribution is a problem.

First, there are not so many civil affairs officials who make fair distribution; second, because the assigned person is in a state of weakness and dare not speak, it is very easy to have **.

Workers' organization can solve this problem.

Interests will allow some people who have accepted capital ideas to participate in management. Of course, their purpose is to use cheap labor to dig the first pot of gold.

Workers will work together with those who work with them to maintain this fair distribution rule.

Of course, the above is still on the blueprint, because workers' training takes three months, and the power grid takes several months.

...

Zhouyou's "not doing his job properly" naturally aroused the anxiety of the empire's messengers here.
To be continued...