Chapter 850 The 6th Player Prince
What the knight didn't expect was that when he returned to Guangmu City, he received a system prompt as soon as he entered the county government: "Congratulations to the player, you have occupied five of the six county towns in Shuofang County, occupying more than 80% of the number of cities in the county. The player's official position is a fourth-rank general, and the official position has reached the conditions for becoming a vassal force. Please complete the operation of taking office as the governor of Shuofang on the management jade in the county government."
The sudden prompt made the knight ecstatic. It was not easy. He finally became a vassal. So far, there have been only five vassal players. The reason for this situation is that after conquering Shuofang City, the knight set Guangmu City as his main city, and Shuofang City is a subordinate city.
Running all the way, the knight didn't care about what Fu Xun wanted to report loudly behind him, and rushed directly into the management jade of the county government. After carefully clicking it, he found that there was a blank behind the county governor, who had been in a gray state and could not be changed. Information can indeed be filled in.
After filling in his name, another system prompt soon appeared: "Congratulations to the player, becoming the governor of Shuofang County and the sixth player lord."
Immediately, the whole system prompt appeared in the game: "Congratulations to the player Xiake for taking office as the governor of Shuofang County and becoming the sixth player lord!"
The system prompt played three times before it ended, which made the players excited again. After more than half a year, another player lord appeared. For a time, Xiake once again became a topic of discussion.
Inspired by him, Zhao Zilong also decided to send troops. In early March, after uniting the reinforcements of Xi'an Yang, Chengyi and Yiliang, Zilong would dispatch 12,000 troops to attack Wuyuan City. After two days of fierce fighting, Wuyuan City was finally captured.
Afterwards, after the army rested for several days, Zilong would send troops again, and with the help of the Xi'an Yang navy, he crossed the Yellow River to attack Heyin.
Three days later, Zhao Zilong conquered Heyin. When he ran back to Jiuyuan City excitedly, he found that he did not receive any system prompts. After carefully asking Huangfu Chaobo and the knights, he realized that he did not meet the system conditions at all. Although there were six county towns, they were far apart. As for the county towns in Wuyuan County, he only occupied four of the nine cities, which was far from the 80% heavy condition.
Now that five or six players have become princes, the players have roughly calculated the conditions to reach the level of a prince. The first is that their official position must reach the level of a governor. The second is the number of cities. If the number of county towns controlled in the adjacent area reaches more than five, or the number of county towns controlled in a county reaches more than 80%, then they can take the position of a governor.
Zhao Zilong now only has his own official position that has reached the fifth rank, and the number of county towns has not yet reached the requirement. He originally wanted to let Lao Du and his county towns surrender to Zhao Zilong first, and then Zhao Zilong would appoint them as county magistrates. As a result, he found that if he did so, the people's hearts in the county towns of several people would plummet, and Zhao Zilong had no choice but to give up.
Finally, it was Huangfu Chaobo who gave him an idea. A few dozen miles east of Linwo, there is a town at the junction of Wuyuan County and Yunzhong County, called Qiyang Town. Huangfu Chaobo once stayed here for a night. It is an abandoned middle town with a very special location. It is backed by Yinshan Mountain in the north and faces the river in the south. It can be said that it is the key to Yunzhong entering Wuyuan.
Zhao Zilong can occupy this place and then upgrade it to a county town. In this way, he will reach the land requirement of five cities. Wouldn't he be able to become a vassal at that time? When he became the governor of Shuofang, the three county towns controlled by Lao Du and Huangfu Chaobo automatically belonged to the cities under the jurisdiction of Shuofang.
However, Zhao Zilong did not become a vassal until more than half a year later. However, this county town created a lot of troubles to resist the westward advance of Lu Bu's army.
Less than a month after the knight became the sixth player vassal, Cao Charlie, who was appointed by Cao Cao as the governor of Mount Tai, finally met the requirements of the territory. After more than half a year of war,
Cao Charlie fought several battles with Zang Ba and finally occupied Fenggao, Yingxian and Liangfu counties, and drove Zang Ba's army to Mouxian and Laiwu.
At this time, Cao Charlie finally controlled more than five cities and became the seventh player vassal.
And the three counties of Feiguo, Nanwuyang and Nancheng in the south of Mount Tai were also incorporated into the rule of Langya by Tuberose who took advantage of the fire.
Just when the players were still speculating about the next player to become a vassal, the war in the Central Plains was ignited again. What surprised everyone was that this time it was Sun Ce of Jiangdong who started it first. The strategy of Sun Ce's army surprised everyone. When everyone thought that he would pursue the victory and pacify the three counties in Jiangdong first, he crossed the river again and went north, and once again entered Guangling.
In just three days, Sun Ce's army once again arrived at the city of Guangling.
In fact, at the beginning, almost all the generals of Sun Ce's army hoped to go south first and then north, first pacify Wujun and Kuaiji counties, and then march north to attack Yuan Shu. It was only Zhou Yu who rejected the opinions of others and went north first and then south. In his view, Wujun and Kuaiji counties were like meat in his pot. When the time was right, the stewed meat would naturally go into his stomach, while the Zhongjia Dynasty in Jiangbei was a big piece of fat meat hanging there. There were already two people who were eyeing it and wanted to eat a big piece. If he didn't hurry up, he would have to snatch food from others.
And another point is that after more than half a year of fighting, Yuan Shu's army has been seriously injured. If he guessed correctly, it would not survive this year at most. Wujun and Kuaiji are different. Jiangdong has a complicated terrain. If Sun Ce is not careful, he will be dragged into the mud. He wants to get out but cannot. Maybe when Jiangdong is pacified, the outcome of Jiangping has already been decided. At that time, it will be much more difficult to cross the river.
Another reason is that Yuan Shu has a relic of Sun Jian, which makes Sun Ce and the generals of the Sun family obsessed with it. So in the end, Zhou Yu successfully persuaded the generals of Sun Ce's army to send troops to Guangling again when Ji Ling's army was still in Xiapi and Guangling was empty of troops.
Sun Ce left Cheng Pu and Quan Rou to guard Jianye, Huang Gai and the newly recruited Wujun Gu Yong to guard Dantu, and he led 50,000 troops again, with Zhou Yu as the military advisor, and six generals, Sun Jing, Han Dang, Zhu Zhi, Lu Fan, Lu Dai, and Zhu Heng, to attack Guangling.
The 50,000-man army quickly captured Dongling Pavilion, leaving 2,000 troops to defend the port. The army was divided into two, advancing by land and sea, and quickly surrounded Guangling City again. This time, under the command of Zhou Yu, Sun Ce's navy first defeated Yuan Shu's navy in Zhongdu River outside the Guangling City Water Gate, and then besieged the Guangling City Water Gate.