Chapter 1379: Really Gone?!
Pingyuan Fortress was rebuilt from the original Pingyuan City of Liang State.
This city was originally captured by the greenskins and almost turned into ruins. After they defeated the invading greenskins and recaptured the city, they simply converted it into a border fortress during the reconstruction process to guard against the greenskins who might invade at any time.
This was because the threat posed by the greenskins was too great for the Great Zhou at that time.
They spared no effort when building this plain fortress. The specifications of the entire fortress are definitely the highest, even in the entire Great Zhou!
In the subsequent process of continuous reinforcement and strengthening, the height of the protective wall of the Plain Fortress has reached 20 meters, towering! At the same time, a large number of city defense crossbows are deployed on each wall. In addition, city defense blasting vehicles are also arranged behind the high walls.
If the greenskins dare to attack, these defensive facilities alone will be enough to give them a hard time.
In addition, a large number of crossbow troops were deployed in the fortress.
But don't forget that after the individual crossbow was developed, it was first deployed to the plains fortresses to resist the invasion of greenskins. The formation of a crossbow unit in the northeastern fortress was a later event.
After entering the Plain Fortress, Zhou Xu and Shi Lei chatted while briefly inspecting the Plain Fortress, which was a good way to reminisce about the past and do business at the same time.
During this inspection, Zhou Xu was actually also thinking about the next military deployment.
The reason why the Plains Fortress was built to such high standards was mainly to prevent the invasion of greenskins, but now, the long-term war between the greenskin camp and the coalition forces has entered the final stage.
Simply put, the threat from the greenskins has dropped significantly, even if it has not yet reached the point where it can be ignored.
In this way, there is no need to make such a big fuss in the Plain Fortress. After all, the military expenditure is not small every year.
But we can't cut them all at once. We have to strike a good balance here, after all, there are dwarves from Copperforge next door to them.
Although they currently maintain good diplomatic relations with the dwarves of Copperforge, the cooperation between them is even closer.
But after all, they are not a family, and no one can guarantee that nothing will happen between them.
Especially at the banquet held some time ago, King Otto Copperforge of Copperforge did not show up at the entire banquet.
Combined with the limited information, Zhou Xu has always been wondering whether Otto Tonglu is dead.
The death of the old king and the ascension of the new king are always accompanied by various situations, and some diplomatic relations also have to be reviewed.
There is no guarantee that there won’t be any problems by then.
The distance between Copperforge and Plains Fortress was too close. It was no exaggeration to say that once the enemy took action, it would only take half a day for the dwarves of Copperforge to reach the outskirts of Plains Fortress! From the perspective of an ally, Zhou Xu could give some trust to the dwarves of Copperforge, but as the ruler of the Great Zhou, he had to take various situations into consideration and be prepared.
After a brief inspection of the Plain Fortress, Zhou Xu also found an opportunity to briefly discuss this matter with Shi Lei.
"I have received that information before..."
As the commander-in-chief of the New North District, Shi Lei obviously could not be unaware of Otto Tonglu's affairs. He undoubtedly had some guesses about this situation, and it could even be said that he had been prepared for it.
"I feel relieved when you are here."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu patted the other person on the shoulder. Shi Lei's calmness made him feel at ease.
"Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty! I will do my best to defend the Plains Fortress! Ensure the peace of the border of our Great Zhou!"
Having said this, Shi Lei paused, glanced at the sky, and confirmed the time.
"Your Majesty, I have some military affairs to attend to, so I have to take my leave first."
“You bastard.”
Hearing this, Zhou Xu suddenly felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry, then shook his hands at him with a look of disgust.
"Go ahead, go ahead. I'll be gone soon and won't affect your work."
"Then I will leave!"
After saying this, Shi Lei turned around and left quickly.
[Oh my goodness, he really left?! ]
For a moment, even Zhou Xu didn't know whether to say he was stunned or straightforward.
Later, he changed his mind and realized that Shi Lei was indeed like this. If he was not like this, he would not trust him so much.
However, before leaving, Shi Lei left him with a personal soldier to follow his orders.
The personal soldiers who witnessed the whole process standing by were sweating profusely. When they noticed Zhou Xu's gaze on them, they felt like a thorn in their backs, a thorn in their throats, and sitting on pins and needles...
[General, this is too stupid. It's ok that you love to work on weekdays, but now that His Majesty is here, you actually left His Majesty here and went to work by yourself?! ]
I swear to God, when Shi Lei handed the task over to him, he was dumbfounded.
Zhou Xu was calm now.
The area of the Plain Fortress is not small, no less than a small city, but there are not many places that need to be inspected.
After completing the tour, Zhou Xu planned to go to the city behind to take a look.
He had indeed never visited the city in Xinbei District. After all, the location was too remote and transportation was not convenient at the moment. Now it was a rare trip, so there was no reason not to take this opportunity to look around.
Also because of its remote location and inconvenient transportation, the overall development of Xinbei District is relatively backward.
However, the large-scale construction in the early years has laid a good foundation for the later development of the New Taipei City. Once the railway transportation is opened, the development here can be immediately brought in.
In today's New Taipei City, the original cities that needed to be demolished were demolished, and those that needed to be merged were merged.
Apart from Pingyuan City which has been converted into a fortress, there are now three cities in Xinbei District, namely Daliang City, Yuancheng and Shanguan City.
These three cities are distributed in a triangle. Once the plain fortress is broken and the enemy attacks, these three cities can rely on this distribution advantage to support each other and contain the enemy's offensive.
The smallest of them is Shanguan City, but even so, the city's area can be considered medium-sized compared to the entire Great Zhou, and it is definitely not a small city.
At the same time, as long as you pass through Shanguan City, you can go directly to Anling City in the Xinnan District and enter the Xinnan District.
Therefore, this city is located on the main transportation route of their Great Zhou. Once war breaks out, it is also a strategic location! In addition, Daliang City, as the original capital of Liang State, should have been the best developed city.
But after being incorporated into the Great Zhou, Zhou Xu thought that Daliang City was located too far inland, and the retreat was blocked, with no room for development inside. Whether from the perspective of economic development or strategic perspective, the location of Daliang City was not good.
This also led to the gradual shift of the economic center of Xinbei District to Yuancheng, the central city in the following years.
Today, Yuancheng is already the best developed city in Xinbei District. At the same time, among all the cities in Da Zhou today, Yuancheng in Xinbei District can firmly rank among the top three in terms of city area alone.
At present, the only city that can exceed Yuancheng in terms of area is Black Moon City, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. After that, the areas of Xianyang City and Yuancheng are almost the same, and it is difficult to say which city has a larger area for the time being.
(End of this chapter)
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