The news that Zhuguang City had begun to set up checkpoints around the city reached thousands of households through television sets.
The people in Chasing Light City were naturally happy because it was said on TV that when the safety zone is established, ordinary residents will be able to walk out of the city gates and go into the wild.
The wilderness now is a world of adventurers and mercenaries. Regular troops are busy attacking county towns, and those small towns, villages and other places are their domain.
As for ordinary residents, it is very difficult to find or collect some supplies.
Besides, even though the city is nice, people can't always stay in one place. Going out is inevitable.
So the people in Chasing Light City are very happy, but others are not so happy.
In Jinghe County, Liu Yibang also saw this news.
Now that Li Wuyou has returned to the palace in Yuanjing, he is still in charge of all affairs here.
Before Li Wuyou left, he also ordered Liu Yibang to establish a good relationship with Tang Zheng and try to draw him into the empire's camp as soon as possible.
Liu Yibang originally wanted to find someone to go over and inform Tang Zheng, saying that if he was willing to join the empire, he could be given the title of Viscount.
But after seeing this news, Liu Yibang didn't think so anymore.
This Tang Zheng has great ambitions. It can be seen from the beginning of his land encirclement that he is not satisfied with settling in a corner of Zhuguang City.
Moreover, he has also learned about the situation in Zhuguang City in the past few days. If he were Tang Zheng, he would not even want an earl, let alone a viscount.
He planned to use the Viscount to win over Tang Zheng, and deep down he didn't want the other party to rise to a high position.
Although Tang Zheng unintentionally ruined his good deeds, Liu Yibang also instinctively disliked him.
Moreover, he also learned about Tang Zheng's situation in the past few days. Unexpectedly, the old man or middle-aged man he originally thought turned out to be a young and handsome man.
After learning about Tang Zheng's family history, Liu Yibang felt more and more that this guy was a talent, no, a genius.
An ambitious genius and a born hero.
After he reported the news about Chasing Light City and Tang Zheng to Li Wuyou in Beijing, the other party actually asked him to contact Tang Zheng as soon as possible. If possible, she planned to go to Chasing Light City before the Spring Festival.
Liu Yibang still clearly remembered that this was not what Li Wuyou said before.
What she said was that if possible, let Tang Zheng come to see her.
How come she is going to Light Chaser City now?
By then, if Tang Zheng really joins the princess and becomes a member of the empire, I am afraid that at least he will start as a marquis, and it is not impossible for him to become a duke.
Considering the appearance and age of Tang Zheng and Li Wuyou, Liu Yibang did not send anyone to Zhuguang City.
But he also learned something. Tang Zheng is still single, with countless beauties around him, but he still doesn't have any real female companion.
It is too difficult to do this in the last days. Liu Yibang is still single today, because he has higher pursuits.
He must marry Li Wuyou, the imperial princess. Compared with thousands of miles of land, he would rather endure his desires and achieve this highlight.
But why did Tang Zheng do this?
What does he want to do?
Although there was no sign that Tang Zheng had the same ambition as himself, the man's intuition still made Liu Yibang wary.
It is enough to have one shining star in an area, so now the plan to recruit Tang Zheng can be declared stopped.
However, Liu Yibang did not intend to do nothing. As the commander of a group army and the lord of a large city, Liu Yibang had a very keen vision.
He saw that Tang Zheng wanted to expand, but the Northern Region had some natural disadvantages.
To the north, the farthest you can reach is the edge of the Tongtian River. Across the river is the boundary of Daliao, and it cannot be expanded.
The northeast is the Guyun Mountain area, which is also unable to expand.
To the east is Hezhou. Hezhou has two large rivers passing through the city. The main bridges are all in the urban area. They serve as natural barriers to block the direct contact between the Jing River and Zhuguang City.
Therefore, Tang Zheng couldn't expand to this side, and even if he wanted to, he couldn't get through it. He could only send out troops to bite the hard nut of Hezhou bit by bit.
To the west is the endless desert of Mobei Province. Thinking about it, Tang Zheng will definitely not go there for the time being, and it has no practical significance.
Therefore, if Tang Zheng wanted to expand far enough, he had only one choice, and that was to go south.
Fengcheng and Qinzhou, these two populous cities, have unlimited resources and possibilities.
Liu Yibang thought for a long time and made a decision.
Since we don't want Tang Zheng to expand, we must suppress him.
Since Her Royal Highness the Princess is paying attention to this matter, it is definitely not possible to directly suppress it. Then he will suppress Tang Zheng's future development space and prevent him from forming a large scale in a short period of time.
At least until he conquers Hezhou, Tang Zheng will definitely not be able to continue to develop and grow, so let him roam around in the northern territory.
If you want to go south, that is absolutely not possible.
After conquering Hezhou and expanding his power directly to the Northern Territory, Tang Zheng could announce his dismissal.
The Qinzhou and Fengcheng strategies that have been planned can be started in advance.
After seeing how effective this kind of enclosure was, Tang Zheng felt as if he had been given a shot.
This shows that there is no opposition from the surrounding forces in the area he currently occupies.
This is also normal. After all, there is no force in the Northern Territory that can compete with Tang Zheng, and he has not infringed on the interests of other survival bases. Of course, no one will have the time to object.
Maybe the empire will object, but currently the Fifth Army is far away in the Jinghe River, 1,300 kilometers away, and there is Hezhou, an unavoidable natural barrier in the middle. The empire cannot interfere with it until it captures Hezhou.
action.
The area of 500,000 square kilometers is certainly very large, but if you circle it piece by piece like this, there will eventually be enough circles.
In the next few days, Tang Zheng continued to carry out this kind of enclosure movement.
Thirty consecutive checkpoints were established by Tang Zheng, and the number of people in the city guard camp was also constantly increasing.
There are sixteen people at a checkpoint, and thirty means 480 people, which is almost two companies.
There were other bases where Tang Zheng stationed troops from the city guard camp.
Among the twelve bases, the University City base currently has a population of close to 70,000, and the remaining bases have a population of between 20,000 and 50,000.
In the University City base, Tang Zheng stationed a full company, and the rest of the bases were composed of a platoon.
As for some of the original troops in these bases, they were all dismissed on the spot by Tang Zheng.
Some of the demobilized people petitioned the local interior department, hoping to meet with the general and allow them to continue serving as soldiers.
Tang Zheng did not do everything right. He sent administrative officers and security officers to each base, and then selected some demobilized personnel, but the security officers at that time.
The Minister of the Interior, the Director of the Public Security Bureau, and some of the main officials below each base are all people from the Tang Zheng system. It doesn't matter if the ordinary office staff positions are given to the survivors.
With the continuous establishment of various checkpoints, Tang Zheng's highway system in the northern region has become more and more complete.
It became increasingly difficult to bypass the checkpoints and take small paths, and Tang Zheng's control area became wider and wider.
Nearly a week passed, and Tang Zheng finally completed the construction of checkpoints around Light Chaser City and the Twelve Bases.
By this time, the territory controlled by Tang Zheng in the system had reached 120,000 square kilometers!
Nearly half of the area of the Sanguang area in the Northern Territory is controlled by Tang Zheng, and the rest is where other survival bases exist.
However, Tang Zheng had also calculated that even if the entire area was brought under control, it would still not be enough to cover 500,000 square kilometers, so if he wanted to complete the mission, he still had to go out.
Going north was one direction, and Tang Zheng could even push his territory to Beifengdu on the bank of Tongtian River.
However, Lombard City and some county towns are within this area, which is not considered a safe area.
The scope of Tang Zheng's territory recognized by the system must not only be recognized by other forces, but also must not have a large number of zombies. Humans cannot safely move in this area, so what kind of territory is it?
After taking over the two county towns of Qingquan and Shuanglin, the territory may be able to expand to tens of thousands of square kilometers, but it will be difficult to expand again because the space is so big.
In the past few days, Tang Zheng has been thinking about this matter. If we don't capture Lumba to the north, we can't expand. To the northeast is the Guyun Mountain area, so we can't expand either.
Heading east, we entered the border of Hezhou, and Tang Zheng didn't want to contact the empire too quickly.
To the west is Mobei Province. The desert is relatively easy to control, but it is an uninhabited place. Controlling it is of little use for the time being.
Should we go south, towards Fengcheng?
Fengcheng is a larger city than Lumba and Hezhou, and there are more survivors in the surrounding area. Tang Zheng only came here via Fengcheng, but he is not very clear about the specific situation of Fengcheng. After all,
There is still about 700 kilometers between the two.
Moreover, it has been so long since the end of the world, and everyone's spheres of influence have been fixed. If you rashly enter the sphere of influence of other survival bases, it will easily lead to war.
If it was two months ago, Tang Zheng would not have cared about this kind of thing, but now the situation is different. The empire has even resumed the operation of the TV station, and everyone has a certain degree of restraint in their actions.
Although the empire no longer has as much binding force as before the end of the world, it is still better to be careful and try not to be criticized.
The empire has been established for hundreds of years, and it has been deeply rooted in the land of Hanyue and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even now in Zhuguang City, many people are loyal to the empire. It is too risky to directly confront the empire. Tang Zheng had to consider these issues.
Just when Tang Zheng was thinking about these issues, a piece of news from Jinghe caught his attention.
On the evening of November 10th, the news in Jinghe broadcast a shocking content.
"I have good news for everyone."
"With the unremitting efforts of Mr. Liu Yibang, Duke of the Empire and Commander of the Fifth Army, the Qinzhou Survivors Alliance accepted the Empire's recruitment."
"After Duke Liu Yibang's request and the approval of Her Royal Highness Princess Li Wuyou, Liao Yucheng, leader of the Qinzhou Survivor Alliance, was appointed as the commander of the Independent Division of the Fifth Army and was awarded the title of Imperial Marquis."
"The various units of the Qinzhou Survivor Alliance have been integrated into the independent first division of the group army. The current troop size is 50,000."
"In addition, the military headquarters of the group army is in contact with several major survival bases in Fengcheng, striving to bring Fengcheng back to the embrace of the empire as soon as possible."
"I hope that after seeing the news, the survival bases in various places can take the initiative to move closer to the group army and strive to establish an organized and orderly sphere of influence as soon as possible in the north-central and central-western regions of the empire to jointly fight against the zombies, our greatest enemy.