Chapter 862 New Arrangement
In the side hall next to the Qinzheng Hall, Zhou Xu fell into deep thought.
According to Shi Lei's personality, he must have written down all the information he obtained.
At the same time, a lot of information about the "greenskins" was also added.
Previously, the information was limited, and no matter how hard Zhou Xu thought about it, he couldn't figure out much. Now that the information has been supplemented, he quickly sorted out more ideas.
For example, the ethnic composition of the "greenskins" is actually somewhat similar to that of the lizardmen. Although the lizardmen are collectively called lizardmen, the ethnic group is actually divided into blue lizards (Soruk), green lizards (Baltu), chameleons and other branches. Even considering the possibility of bloodline evolution, half-dragons have to be included.
The same is true for the 'greenskins', which is a large ethnic group. The huge ogres are greenskins, those big guys who are similar in shape to humans but more burly than humans are also greenskins, and those goblin wolf riders who are short in stature but smarter and more flexible and can ride mounts are essentially still greenskins.
In addition, the report mentioned that Woking Copperforge said that multiple forces on the rock wall formed an alliance to fight against the greenskins together.
From this point, it is not difficult to see that the scale of the greenskins is definitely not small.
Under this premise, Zhou Xu was naturally grateful to the dwarves for helping them repel the greenskins.
But putting aside that bit of gratitude, Zhou Xu had a general idea of what the other party was thinking.
Simply put, as long as the greenskins are still there, there is basically no possibility of a falling out between the two sides, and they may even form a win-win relationship due to the geographical location of their territories.
The dwarves will take the initiative to guard the front area and prevent the enemy from going deep into their rear, thereby ensuring the peace of their New North District of the Great Zhou.
And in order to protect the New North District, their Great Zhou would also ensure the safety of the dwarves in the rear.
Zhou Xu saw the interests involved clearly.
How many good people are there in this world? Common interests are the real thing.
Right now, there is still the problem of the ratmen in the southern border. Zhou Xu has no plans to continue expanding the New North District for the time being. It is enough to maintain the status quo. Everything will have to wait until next spring, when he solves the problem of the ratmen in the southern border.
"Pass on my order. Let the wood elves withdraw. Let Drogo lead the team back to Feiyan City. As for Li Ce, let him continue to stay in Anling City and wait for follow-up orders."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he cast his eyes on the map that had been drawn some time ago.
This greenskin invasion undoubtedly proves how important it is to have a reliable general.
Under the circumstances at that time, although the dwarf troops helped a lot, it could not change the fact that Shi Lei held the bottom line at the critical moment and stabilized the situation in the New North District.
Now, with the rapid expansion of their Great Zhou's territory in the New World, arranging reliable generals to garrison has undoubtedly become a top priority.
In the New North District, since the Dwarven Copperforge is next door and the external coalition forces including the dwarves are still fighting with the greenskins, their Great Zhou should not have any expansion plans in the next few years.
Taking this into consideration, there is nothing wrong with the decision to appoint Shi Lei, who is prudent in his work, as the commander-in-chief of the New North District. The problem now is who should be responsible for the garrison of Anling City after Shi Lei leaves?
Although after occupying the Xinbei District, Anling City is already an internal city of their Great Zhou in terms of geographical location, but the location of Anling City is still quite a long distance from the Xinbei District. There are also many mountainous and forested areas in between, which have not been explored yet. If they are too relaxed, there is a chance that something unexpected will happen.
After much thought, Zhou Xu decided that the most suitable candidate here is Li Ce.
After all, compared to Anling City, Green Forest City is obviously safer. The Wood Elves can no longer do without their Great Zhou, and annexation is only a matter of time.
Further out from the Wood Elf village is a large lake, which is connected to Black Moon City and the Lizardmen's factory area. All of this is part of the territory of their Great Zhou. The possibility of any risk is very low, so all they need to do is arrange a young general to take charge there.
As his thoughts raced, Zhou Xu quickly completed a new round of defense arrangements.
As for the subsequent development plan of Xinbei District...
He is not familiar with the specific situation there yet, and he has to find some time to go there and conduct an investigation before he can make subsequent arrangements.
Just as Zhou Xu was planning this, Shi Lei, who was in Yuancheng, had already arrived in Pingyuan City with his combat-capable troops.
The city gate had been destroyed, and the city was in a mess. Many buildings had been damaged, and the streets and surrounding buildings were stained with large patches of dried blood. But apart from some debris, there were not many corpses to be seen. This situation made Shi Lei and the others look even uglier.
At that moment, an unprecedented strong feeling of discomfort surrounded their hearts, which was more of a psychological feeling.
Some recruits couldn't even bear it and vomited on the spot.
"Confirm whether there are any survivors in the city. Inform the engineering team to repair the city gate first. The rest of the people should go clean up the military camp in the city and set up camp there."
After quickly giving orders for what needed to be done, Shi Lei pulled the reins in his hand and rode his horse towards the city gate at the other end of Pingyuan City.
After a round, it can be basically confirmed that Pingyuan City has become an empty city.
After completing the simple stationing work, Shi Lei sat in his tent, silent for a while, then spread out a piece of animal skin paper and quickly wrote a report.
During this process, time quietly entered autumn. The first batch of people who had been transferred to Anling City under Shi Lei's arrangement had now arrived in Anling City smoothly.
Although the New Taipei City area has been safe since then, Zhou Xu is not planning to let this group of people go back.
On the one hand, it is considered that going back and forth may easily cause some unnecessary trouble.
On the other hand, considering that on the New World side, the New South District is the key development area compared to the New North District, this group of people has already been transferred here anyway, so they might as well be arranged to serve as labor in the New South District.
If there is a shortage of labor in the subsequent development of the New North District, he can transfer labor from the New South District. This can be regarded as a disguised form of population transfer, which will facilitate his assimilation of the new population.
"Your Majesty, this is a report from Colonel Shi Lei in Xinbei District."
After successfully resisting the invasion of the greenskins, as a reward, in addition to some material rewards, Zhou Xu promoted Shi Lei's military rank to a higher level.
As of now, Shi Lei is the general with the highest military rank in their Great Zhou, and he is also in charge of the largest area.
(End of this chapter)
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