Chapter 748 Ends
Bai Tu, who was in Green Forest City, received the pigeon message the next morning.
After quickly confirming the content, Bai Tu became excited.
He knew in his heart that this was the king giving him a chance! Without time to think, he immediately gathered the troops in his hands, arranged the logistics troops, and officially set out towards Xishan City.
As for Green Forest City, there is actually no big problem. Now the people in this city are busy working to make money. Thanks to the injection of resources from the Great Zhou, the food problem has basically been solved.
In this situation, who would still want to rebel? The right thing to do is to work harder, earn more money, and improve your life.
This situation required Bai Tu to only leave a small number of troops to maintain daily public order, with basically no worries.
Leading his troops, Bai Tu officially set out.
As a result, just as he led his army to set off, another carrier pigeon flew to Green Forest City.
After receiving the letter, the remaining team sent out a soldier with good horsemanship on a fast horse to catch up with the large army led by Bai Tu as quickly as possible.
After confirming the content of the pigeon letter, Bai Tu couldn't help but feel complicated.
This was also a letter sent from Xianyang City, telling him that Liu De and Long Potian had both died outside Xianyang City. It also informed him that the people in Xishan City had long been dissatisfied with Liu De, and that after the beginning of spring, there had been constant internal unrest.
From a military operations perspective, this is good news.
This shows that Xishan City did not have much defensive force at that time, making it easier for them to take it.
But from his personal perspective of wanting to make meritorious service, the absence of Liu De and Long Potian would undoubtedly greatly reduce the value of his achievement.
However, Bai Tu did not hesitate for too long. He turned around and regained his spirit, leading his troops to continue advancing. After marching for several days, they soon arrived outside Xishan City.
At this moment, Bai Tu was not in a hurry to launch an attack, but instead sent someone over to shout.
After all, Bai Tu was a man who had led troops before, so he knew very well that if he could capture Xishan City without bloodshed, it would actually be a greater achievement compared to suffering casualties.
But he didn't know that Xishan City had been occupied by rioting refugees.
Liu De and Yan Sheng had the same character. They didn't leave any food for them at all. After making up their minds to attack Xianyang City, they didn't even pretend.
In just a few days, the population of Xishan City dropped sharply due to lack of food.
When they heard that the troops coming outside were from the Great Zhou, they immediately opened the city gates without hesitation and lined the streets to welcome them.
This is the advantage of occupying the greater good. As long as you occupy the greater good, ordinary people will be more emotionally inclined towards you.
Under this premise, if you can have a good reputation, it will be even more advantageous.
The good reputation of their Great Zhou in Xishan City is undoubtedly thanks to Kong Daqian.
Especially after the beginning of spring, because of the spring plowing, Liu De began to exploit the labor of refugees, making his "benevolent" archway no longer visible.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Kong Daqian not only stirred up the emotions of the refugees in secret, but also promoted the image of their Great Zhou.
When people are about to despair, they always want to have some hope.
The Great Zhou happened to appear at this time, which became their hope, and made them think, "As long as we can wait until the Great Zhou's troops arrive, we will be saved!"
Maintaining due vigilance, Bai Tu led his troops into the city. After successfully taking over the city defense, he confirmed the situation in the city and immediately launched relief work.
During this process, he had thought about whether he should just continue the action and take over Anling City.
Of course, this thought only flashed through his mind.
Based on the content of the pigeon letter and the situation in Xishan City, Bai Tu could easily guess that the situation in Anling City was most likely the same as this side.
According to their king's methods, while he ordered himself to lead troops to capture Xishan City, he should have also given orders to Major Shi Lei who was stationed in Heishi City, asking him to lead troops to capture Anling City.
If I were to go to Anling City for a moment, not only would my trip be in vain, I would also be charged with disobeying orders and abandoning my post without permission.
Thinking of this, Bai Tu came to his senses completely, calmed down, and guarded Xishan City quietly. After sending a carrier pigeon to report the matter to their king, he waited obediently for follow-up orders.
The carrier pigeons from Bai Tu and Shi Lei respectively brought the war between him and Yan Sheng to an end.
Zhou Xu threw the letter into the candlestick beside him and burned it. At this moment, his heart was extremely calm and he was not much disturbed by the news.
After all, in his eyes, this war had already ended when three hundred cavalrymen broke through Yan Sheng's five thousand troops outside Black Stone City. From then on, it was just the end and there was no suspense.
Three days later, Bai Tu and Shi Lei's follow-up reports arrived.
During these three days, while basically stabilizing the situation in the city, they also completed the inventory of the remaining population in the city.
The previous famine and Liu De’s inaction caused the population of these two cities to shrink severely, but even so, the two cities together added more than 7,000 new people to their Great Zhou.
From Zhou Xu's perspective, it means there are more than 7,000 more mouths to feed.
Although they themselves can be transformed into labor, the addition of more than 7,000 new people will undoubtedly increase the food pressure here.
This also made him quickly confirm their food reserves in the New World, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that they could still survive for the time being.
【It was a wise decision to ask the agricultural department to increase the area of land for cultivation last year.】
In the New World, the remaining food reserves in the mainland, plus the food they transported from the Old World, together, are enough.
Under this premise, the farmlands in Xianyang City and Lulin City had already been cultivated according to his arrangements in the spring, and it was already early summer now.
The crops that were planted at the beginning are growing very well. It is estimated that in half a month or a month at most, the first batch of summer harvest will be ready for harvest. After another two months, it will be the autumn harvest.
Of course, this does not mean that after this wave of autumn harvest, the seven cities in the New World will be able to survive entirely on the food they produce.
Even if we are optimistic about this matter, we still have to wait and see the situation of spring plowing and autumn harvest next year.
As for this year, if he could save more transportation capacity for the Old Continent, it would be considered a success. Zhou Xu didn't have much hope for anything else.
(End of this chapter)
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