On May 3, the fifth year of Tianxuan, the troops stationed at the border of the Monair Kingdom in the Yihou Territory, in order to retaliate against the Mughal Empire's invading troops for harassing the city construction site in the Yihou Territory, a total of more than 100,000 troops were dispatched to attack the Mughal Empire.

Fortification operations within the empire were raided.

The entire raid lasted only half a day and ended with 0 casualties and 17 minor injuries in Yihou Territory, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians of the Mughal Empire were killed and numerous injured.

As for how long the Mughal Empire's city building plan will be delayed due to this raid, Qu Mao has not made an in-depth assessment, but the impact will definitely be considerable in a few days.

In any case, after being attacked and harassed once by troops from the Yihou Territory, the Mughal Empire's invading troops would still harass the Maocheng construction site and the Yancheng construction site, but the frequency and intensity were much smaller.

At least during the two days of May 4th and May 5th when Qu Mao and Su Yan were still at the Yancheng construction site, the combined number of times the Mughal Empire’s invading troops raided the Yancheng construction site and Maocheng construction site was no more than

Five times.

If we persist for another three days or so, the fifth-level city walls of Maocheng and Yancheng will be completed. At that time, we will only need to station the second-level archers and third-level swordsmen troops in the garrison camp into Maocheng and Yancheng.

Worried about attacks by the Mughal Empire's invading troops.

Qu Mao and Su Yan have been staying at the construction site of Yancheng. In fact, they are waiting for the completion of the fifth-level city walls of Yancheng and Maocheng to form an enclosure. Once this task is completed, then the mountains and lakes where Maocheng and Yancheng are located will

The nearly 100 kilometers of grassland border between them will be impregnable, and there will be no need to continue to accumulate 1.8 million troops on this less than 100 kilometers of grassland.

Of course, the counter-harassment operation reduced the frequency and intensity of raids by the Mughal Empire's invading troops, so Qu Mao and Su Yan naturally needed to amplify the defensive convenience brought by such towns.

Early in the morning on May 6, the fifth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao and Su Yan each led 300,000 troops. Qu Mao led 300,000 troops to the west, and Su Yan led 300,000 troops to the east, inspecting Yi Hou's territory and

The confrontational border between the Mughal Empire and the princely state of Monair.

This border line is 1,200 kilometers long in total. Of course, Qu Mao and Su Yan are not just patrolling the border. Patrolling the border now is of little significance. The reinforcements of the Mughal Empire's invasion force have not arrived. On the long border line,

The Mughal invasion force was not deployed in force.

The main purpose of Qu Mao and Su Yan leading their troops to patrol the border was to secretly build a first-level city wall in the areas where towns needed to be built for confrontation, and to encircle the towns first.

As long as the first-level city wall is built and enclosed in the town that the Yihou territory plans to build on the border of the Monair Kingdom, and there are 130,000 low-level warriors on duty, the Mughal Empire's invasion force will have to spend more than 5 times the force if they want to break through.

, this is why Su Yan and Qu Mao each lead 300,000 troops.

The construction locations of Maocheng and Yancheng are exactly at the midpoint of the 1,200-kilometer border.

According to the agreement between Su Yan and Qu Mao, Qu Mao will go west all the way to the Mughal Empire, the border between the Monair Kingdom and another aboriginal force, the Mo Fei Kingdom, and the five town clusters that still need to be built in the entire western border.

, all the first-level city walls of the main town have been built.

Su Yan did the same, building all the first-level city walls of the four towns that needed to be built in the east, because Suramar had already built the towns about 100 kilometers away from Port Moner in advance.

The 300,000 troops each led by the two men would leave 350,000 troops to garrison every time a town wall was built. Therefore, the 300,000 troops each led by Qu Mao and Su Yan were mainly infantry, and the number of cavalry did not exceed

50,000 people.

Of course, neither of the second-level archers are brought with them. They usually bring third-level princess guards, third-level swordsmen, fourth-level crusaders, and fourth-level guards.

Even with the 3-meter-high wall protection provided by the first-level city wall, the Mughal Empire's invasion force would need more than 5 times the strength to completely capture it, even if it dispatched warriors of the same level.

What's more, once Qu Mao and Su Yan complete the task of secretly building city walls, Jia Kui will immediately arrange for more low-level guard soldiers to take over these border towns.

The 300,000-strong army led by Qu Mao bypassed the huge lake from the direction of Moner and continued to advance westward.

The 300,000-strong army led by Su Yan also bypassed the mountains from the direction of the Moner Kingdom and advanced eastward. Suramar had already followed Qu Mao's request and brought professional fortification craftsmen from other independent territories in advance.

Set off from Port Monell to build the first town in the east.

Qu Mao felt that once all 12 towns were built, with 50,000 garrison soldiers assigned to each town, and 400,000 army and janitor cavalry, then the 1,200-kilometer border between the Monair Kingdom and the Mughal Empire would form a

A complete defense network only requires 1 million troops to defend it impregnably.

Currently, the Yihou Territory has deployed more than 2 million troops in the Monair Kingdom. Once all the towns are built, at least 1 million troops can be freed up. Whether these troops return to the Holy Land for military upgrades or rush to aid Qingyi

It would be a better choice to continue to deploy the battlefield in the Principality, or even continue to be deployed in the territory of the Moner Kingdom, and take the initiative to attack the Mughal Empire from time to time.

After bypassing the lake, Qu Mao's army arranged the construction of the first-level city wall of the first town. Qu Mao also laid out the shadows of the city hall, city lord's palace, granary, material warehouse, military camp and medical room. The city wall was

The first priority is that it is not too late to wait until the city wall is built to build the functional buildings in the city slowly.

After guarding for a whole night, after all the foundations of the first-level city wall were laid and 20 centimeters above the ground, Qu Mao left 60,000 troops behind and led the remaining troops to continue heading west.

Before setting off, Qu Mao and Su Yan repeatedly emphasized that they should avoid the surveillance of the Mughal Empire's invading troops and build the city wall quietly, even if the location of the town construction was different from the originally planned location.

But in fact, after going out, Qu Mao found that he and Su Yan had overthought the situation. The Mughal Empire's invasion force simply did not have enough energy to control the 1,200-kilometer-long border, and they did not even have scout troops to monitor it.

With 60,000 troops left to defend the construction site, Qu Mao just didn't want any accidents to occur.

The city walls of Yancheng and Maocheng are both 2 kilometers long, but the other outer city walls, Su Yan, Qu Mao and Suramar have agreed to be 15 kilometers, 15 kilometers of first-level city walls, and they are on duty day and night for construction.

, even if soldiers are on duty inside to build it, it can be completed in a week at most.

With 60,000 warriors guarding the city, even if the Mughal invasion force discovered the city construction site and mobilized troops to attack, it would still take a few days. As long as the first three days have passed, the first-level city walls are generally built to a height of about 2 meters, so the guard

The troops can rely on the city wall under construction to defend, which should be foolproof. Moreover, the garrison, army, magic army and imperial guards always have third-level sentry troops traveling between the city-building troops and Maocheng and Yancheng.

Of course, before leaving the city construction site, Qu Mao will also optimize the town construction planning drawings and hand them over to the city construction troops, such as reservoirs, ditches, etc., as well as the locations of various buildings, etc.

The requirements and locations are marked on the drawings and completed by the city construction troops themselves.

After arranging the construction tasks of a town, Qu Mao led the remaining troops and continued westward.

It was not until May 11, the fifth year of Tianxuan, that Qu Maocai inspected the entire western border of the northern border of the Monell Kingdom, which was less than 600 kilometers away, and arranged the construction tasks of five towns, leaving almost all the troops behind.

, now there are only about 20,000 troops left with Qu Mao, among which there are only 2,000 third-level princess escort troops left in the infantry.

But Qu Mao has also arrived at the junction of the Monair Kingdom, the Mughal Empire and the Mofei Kingdom. All five towns have been built, but the last town is still 65 kilometers away.

Qu Mao wandered around the junction of the three countries for a long time, repeatedly surveying the surrounding terrain. After thinking about it, Qu Mao decided that another town must be built at the junction of the three countries, even if this town will not be built in the future.

Do not build defensive villages around it.

After all, this place is still 65 kilometers away from the last town on the western border. Even if a guard village is built around that town in the future, the junction of the three countries and the Yihou territory will still be at least 60 kilometers apart in the inhabited part of the Monell Kingdom.

Once the enemy chooses to sneak into the Monell Kingdom from here, this place will inevitably become a loophole in the defense of the northern border.

After thinking clearly, Qu Mao did not hesitate to plan the construction of the first-level city wall. However, considering that there were only 20,000 soldiers left around him, Qu Mao limited the construction length of the first-level city wall to 1 kilometer.

The one kilometer long town at the junction of the three countries will definitely be a military fortress in the future. The number of residents will definitely not be too many, but it will be a very important defense point. It doesn't matter if it is smaller.

The side length is shortened by 500 meters, and the overall time will be compressed to about 4 to 5 days. Therefore, Qu Mao retained all 2,000 third-level princess escort troops and left 10,000 fourth-level light cavalry to guard here.

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After arranging the construction task of the last town, Qu Mao led 8,000 fourth-order light cavalry towards Maocheng at 8:00 in the morning on May 12, the fifth year of Tianxuan.

Although the northern border of the Monell Kingdom was only captured during this battle, due to the continuous fighting, there are few residents on the border. There are 8,000 fourth-order light cavalry escorts. Qu Mao believes that there will be no problems on the road.

Because he led his troops all the way westward, Qu Mao saw very few enemy troops and residents. Basically, he saw no human habitation and the whole area was desolate.

From the time we set off from the Yancheng construction site on May 6th to the time we return now, we have been on the Western Front for six days. It is expected that a week will pass when we return to Maocheng, not to mention that Qumao also wants to see various places on the way.

The progress of town construction.

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