Chapter 669: Laying Out the Grassland
After walking for another five days, the army finally arrived at the destination of this trip - Chengde. Of course, it was not the Chengde City of later generations, but the location of Chengde County. In addition to attacking the frontier with Gongsun Zan, another purpose of this trip to Youzhou was to improve Longhua's defense system.
According to the results of discussions with everyone, the city of Longhua has reached a certain scale, but it is still an isolated enclave outside the frontier, and it has become a place that Huangfu Chaobo cannot easily give up.
Therefore, what can be done now is to continuously strengthen his defense and make it a complete defense system, instead of relying on others to come to the rescue every time something happens. Another reason is to prevent Gongsun Zan from having any ideas about Longhua. Therefore, Pang Tong and others came up with this idea after seeing that Huangfu Chaobo had one of the benefits of becoming a vassal, "expanding territory and setting up counties and prefectures."
After discussing with Gongsun Zan this time, Gongsun Zan agreed to build several more towns around Longhua. Although he was still reluctant from the bottom of his heart, he finally nodded in agreement, but asked Huangfu Chaobo not to develop eastward.
On April 1, Huangfu Chaobo and his party finally arrived at the destination. At this time, the people in Longhua who received Huangfu Chaobo's notice had arranged for Zhang An to lead hundreds of craftsmen and two thousand people to arrive at the destination in advance under the escort of two thousand infantrymen to wait for the arrival of the army.
At this time, Zhang An had already led people to build a camp for tens of thousands of people, waiting for Huangfu Chaobo's army to arrive. After settling the army, captives, horses, cattle and sheep, Huangfu Chaobo settled down in the tent arranged by Zhang An. After summoning all the generals to have dinner, Huangfu Chaobo asked Zhang An about the situation in Longhua.
The current Longhua City has basically entered a stable period. The main reason is that the refugee refresh of the territory has stopped in the current game, and it depends entirely on the natural population growth of the territory itself.
In addition, the surrounding foreign tribes and the hostile forces within dozens of miles have basically been cleared, so this way to increase the population has also disappeared. As for the places farther away, Huang Xu and Tian Yu did not arrange soldiers to clear them for various reasons.
After more than a year of development, Longhua City still maintains the scale of a small city, but the two small territories of Hutougou Village and Tangtougou Village have developed into small towns, but due to various conditions, the scale of these two places has reached the limit.
One city, two towns and two passes, with a total of less than 50,000 people, but there are a full 20,000 soldiers and horses, including 5,000 cavalry. This is why Huangfu Chaobo hopes to get more people around Longhua and build a few more territories.
As for the new territories, after discussion, several people decided to temporarily add two new places, one is the location of Chengde County, which is named Xiaban this time, and the other is located in Chengde City, which is named Chengde.
The locations of these two places are just on the main road between Longhua and Junmi. If you want to make the land road between Longhua and Junmi unobstructed, it is best to control these two places in your own hands.
Before it was determined to control these two places, although there were always players building territories in these two places, they were all destroyed by horse thieves and mountain bandits. It was precisely because of this that Huang Xu and the others did not want to clear out the bandits in these areas.
Early the next morning, Huangfu Chaobo opened the village construction drawings that had been prepared long ago near the Luan River next to the camp. Then, he named the village Xiaban Village and appointed Meng Yuan as the deputy village chief.
Then, he left a thousand infantrymen, a thousand people and hundreds of craftsmen to Meng Yuan, and then selected the captives with good qualifications to prepare to replenish the lost cavalry. More than 8,000 people were left among the remaining captives. These people will be the population of Xiaban Village upgraded to a town-level territory. As for the future, it depends on Meng Yuan to find a way.
Then, the army continued to go north along the Luan River and headed towards Longhua. More than fifty miles northwest of the Luan River,
is the confluence of the Luan River and the Wulie River, which is also the location of Chengde City in the real world. This is also a site for building a city that Huangfu Chaobo prepared.
At the confluence of the two rivers, Huangfu Chaobo selected a better location and built a territory here. As for the name, Huangfu Chaobo was lazy again and named it Chengde directly. Fortunately, the place names outside the Great Wall in the game do not belong to the scope of the Han Dynasty, so this name will not conflict with the system place names.
Zhang An was appointed as the person in charge of Chengde. In the future, this will be a territory with the same status as Longhua, and it is even possible that this will be used as a county town of a new county.
After leaving all the people brought from Longhua here, 10,000 captives were also left here as a population reserve for Chengde's upgrade. As for the other more than 10,000 captives, they will continue to be sent to Longhua. At that time, a part of the population will be moved from Longhua to Chengde so that Chengde can be smoothly upgraded to a small city level.
After arranging these, the army continued to march north. After arranging the construction of Chengde, Zhang An did not stay here. Instead, he came to Longhua with Huangfu Chaobo, mainly because Huangfu Chaobo wanted to use the famous general card for Zhang An to transfer in Longhua. Chen Jing had already used Su Jiao's famous general card, and Shejian's famous general card was specially left for Zhang An.
The army arrived at Tangtougou Town east of Longhua two days later. Although this place is only a small town, it has become the largest gathering point for players in this direction on the edge of the grassland.
Of course, this is only the current situation. After a few months, when those player forces get the right to build cities in several territories from Gongsun Zan, the number of players in Tangtougou Town will decrease a lot. However, Huangfu Chaobo doesn't care about this. For him, there are too many instabilities in the players, so he doesn't want too many players to come out in his territory.
After sending all the captives and harvested horses and supplies into Tangtou Pass, Huangfu Chaobo was ready to return to Longhua City with everyone, but at this time, someone came in to report that there were several strangers outside the pass asking for an audience.
Huangfu Chaobo was stunned. He didn't want to deal with the players, but he didn't expect them to react so quickly. After thinking about it, he decided to meet them.
A moment later, Huangfu Chaobo met several players in the general's mansion at Tangtougou Pass. The leader was Qing Bao, the head of the Youzhou branch of Zilonghui, but he didn't know the other players.