Chapter 842 New Plan

Looking at the sun in the sky, Drogo silently calculated the time in his mind.

"It's about time..."

Drogo was about to give the order to attack the city when the gate of Daliang City in the distance slowly opened.

Immediately afterwards, officials from the State of Liang, still wearing their official uniforms, slowly walked out of the city.

"Liang State is willing to surrender!!!"

Amid the shouts, the officials knelt down one after another to show their submission.

It was the end of summer at this time, and the scorching sun in the sky was still stubbornly emitting its high temperature. Autumn had not yet arrived, but Liang State had already become cold.

The Great Zhou troops quickly entered the city and took over the city defense. They then sent another troop to take over the last city located in the easternmost part of Liang State.

The easternmost and northern outer sides of Liang State are all continuous rock walls, towering and steep.

In other words, the retreat route was completely blocked, which was the biggest reason why Emperor Liang had never thought of abandoning the capital and retreating to this city.

This is a dead end. Coming here is also a dead end. It is better to die on the dragon throne in his own palace. At least he can protect the last bit of dignity he has as the Emperor of Liang.

From this moment on, Liang State was completely defeated, and relevant battle reports were sent to Xianyang as quickly as possible and handed over to Zhou Xu.

In this process, time quietly enters autumn...

"Committed suicide?"

After receiving this news, Zhou Xu looked up to the Emperor Liang, whom he had never met.

Not everyone has the courage to sacrifice his life for his country. Apart from his overestimation of his own abilities, Emperor Liang still had some backbone.

Zhou Xu didn't think much about this matter. He just sighed slightly and then focused his attention on the follow-up report.

Considering the subsequent governance work, he still has to pay some attention to the Liang Emperor's popularity among the people.

According to the reports from the front-line troops, the situation is neither good nor bad at the moment.

You may say that the people love Emperor Liang, but he has been waging wars all these years, causing the people under his rule to have almost no peace and their lives are extremely difficult.

But if you say that he was unpopular, he had won battles after all. He had just annexed a neighboring country last year, expanding the territory of Liang by nearly one-half.

In this regard, except for the founding emperor of Liang, no other emperor in history could compare with him in terms of achievements.

This also led to the fact that the people of Liang State did not have any question of whether they loved him or not. Basically, they were in a state of not caring who you are, and it didn't matter who was the emperor. They would neither oppose you nor support you.

As for the people of the neighboring country which was just annexed last year, there is no need to mention it.

This saved Zhou Xu a lot of trouble. Even though it was the other side that started the war, if the emperor of the other side was very popular among the people, it would also be a troublesome thing for him.

He put the front-line report aside. As the war with Liang State came to an end, he could slowly arrange the follow-up matters.

He had originally thought of sending troops to attack the rat people in the southern border, but now it was already autumn, and for a country, autumn harvest was still very important. Without affecting the autumn harvest, Zhou Xu estimated the time and it was definitely too late.

[When the Rat People come to the autumn and winter, they will definitely come back to consume us. We might as well fight them one more time and wait until the spring of next year before launching our war.]

This time, Drogo and his men were already efficient enough in conquering Liang State, and Zhou Xu couldn't possibly make any more demands.

Based on the latest situation, he quickly adjusted his plan and then picked up the next document.

The documents piled in front of Zhou Xu at this moment, which needed to be processed with the highest priority, were basically all related to this war.

The document in his hand at this moment was about the handling of prisoners.

This time, both Drogo and his men and Shi Lei's side successfully captured a large number of prisoners. Adding the two sides together, the total number of prisoners of war alone is nearly five thousand, which can provide a large amount of cheap labor for their Great Zhou.

Of course, this is not the main point. The main point is that among this batch of captives, there are 273 Centaurs! Zhou Xu, who received the news at that time, was so happy that he almost laughed out loud in his dreams.

He thought about it a lot, but he never imagined that the missing Centaur mercenary would fall into his hands in this way.

Zhou Xu was not in a hurry to deal with them. He detained them first and let Drogo contact them after he came back.

After all, they are all centaurs. Compared with them, Drogo's identity should reduce a lot of trouble and make subsequent things much smoother.

Zhou Xu basically didn't have to worry about the post-war work afterwards.

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As a military commander, Shi Lei is already very mature, and Bai Tu is also growing fast. The two of them can basically handle the relevant work of Liang State in an orderly manner. Now he usually only needs to wait for the report, and then review the documents, stamp and sign them.

After quickly processing these relevant documents, Zhou Xu's work for the day had just begun.

This year, the war with Liang State did have an impact on the internal development of their Great Zhou to a certain extent.

However, because the pressure of war was not great, internal development still maintained a certain efficiency and did not completely stagnate.

Just half a month ago, at the shipyard in Black Moon City, the second large ship of their Great Zhou was successfully launched.

To be honest, from a functional point of view, this should be regarded as the first transport ship of their Great Zhou with transportation as its main purpose, and it was named "Yun 001" in a rather concise and clear way.

The shipbuilding plan has not stopped. Now, the large lake from Black Moon City to Green Forest City has become an important route connecting the two areas.

In this situation, one or two transport ships are definitely not enough. According to Zhou Xu's initial idea, the number of transport ships on this large lake will be increased to four before the end of next year.

Just when Zhou Xu was imagining forming a fleet, opening a water route, and realizing rapid development between the two places, a group of uninvited guests appeared outside Pingyuan City, located in the western border of the former Liang State, on the other side of the New World...

Their bodies are similar to humans, but they look very different from humans.

They are tall and strong, with strong muscles under their strange green skin.

At the same time, like humans, they can clearly see their facial features, but they have a mouth full of ferocious fangs, two of which are exaggerated canines, which directly squeezed open the lips and exposed to the air, making them look even more ferocious and hideous! The outsiders who came here through a wasteland obviously noticed the existence of Plain City at the first time.

At that moment, they were like wild beasts that had smelled blood, and they let out excited war cries...

"WAAAGH!!!!"

(End of this chapter)