Waiting and waiting, until the sun rose into the sky, a colorful feather arrow flew out of Dewenxi's camp, and the dozen or so soldiers quickly ran towards their own camp, then Li Feng gave the order to attack.
In an instant, the sky was full of rockets and fire oil cans smashed into the camp. The fire spread, igniting the provisions and tents. A large number of knights and mercenaries had been poisoned to death first.
Those who were lucky enough not to die got into a mess and fled frantically. As a result, they were caught in a large number of traps. Arrows came like a barrage of cannons, and the entire army of nearly 6,000 people collapsed in an instant.
"Put down your weapons and those who surrender will not be killed."
"I surrender, I surrender."
Under Li Feng's surrender order, more than 3,500 farmers who were lucky enough to survive were made prisoners.
After the war.
"Boss, the bodies of Devinxi and those barons are here, but Baron Ronnie ran out." Tom frowned and reported.
"Have you arranged for someone to chase him?"
"I asked Oris to lead people to follow the trail."
"Okay, I've asked Piccolo to block all intersections so he can't escape."
After Li Feng made arrangements, he returned to the castle.
During this war, the Earldom of Fenglin fell into an unprecedented panic without a leader.
In this chaotic situation, Li Feng quickly attacked, quickly sent troops to take over various territories, searched for intellectuals and resources in each territory, and at the same time issued a conscription order to replenish reserve troops.
Of the 3,500 captives, 500 strong and loyal people were selected as reserve troops, and the remaining people were transferred to the Luke Territory and the Dia Territory, and were given fields and returned to their families, becoming members of the two territories.
farmer.
At the same time, since Baron Ronny has not been caught yet, but there is a high probability that he has not escaped from Fenglin Earldom, Li Feng issued a wanted order. Anyone who catches Baron Ronny will be rewarded with 1,000 gold coins. Anyone who brings back Baron Ronny's head will be rewarded with 500 gold coins.
gold.
If you want to get rich, go find Ronnie.
It took more than three months to complete this.
More than three months later, Baron Ronny also walked out of the mountains and forests and surrendered.
He was completely desperate. He watched helplessly as various generals from the Dia Territory captured the entire Fenglin Earldom, especially his Gaobu Territory. All his family members had been arrested and imprisoned, but he could only hide in the mountains every day.
Ruining hair and drinking blood, he lived like a savage.
Fortunately he was a hard-working baron, otherwise he would have collapsed long ago.
Now that he saw that Dia's leadership was becoming a trend, he no longer wanted to hide, so he just let it be.
"Butler Skrone, as long as you spare my life, I am willing to fight for you. You must know that I was also a very good knight and won the Knight Medal of the Royal Capital."
"Haha, Baron Ronny, I can spare you, but you have to run an errand for me."
"I'll do it, I'll do it, whatever you say, I'll do it."
"Go to Earl Brett and tell him everything that happened here."
"Ah~~" Ronnie stared and looked at Li Feng doubtfully.
Li Feng smiled: "I will take care of your family, can you be my traitor?"
"..." Ronnie finally understood. He was not stupid: "I'll go and I'll do my job well."
Li Feng: "Picker, come in, I'll leave the rest to you, and you'll have a separate line of contact from now on."
Dia led an underground prison. The ticking footsteps slowly advanced along with the bright light, awakening Baron Jefferson who was curled up sleeping in the corner.
"Son, is it you? Son, you came to see me, hey."
Li Feng wore a sinister smile: "Baron Jefferson, can I give you a chance to survive?"
"Go to the earldom of Shuishishi and find a good job..."
"I'll go." Li Feng rambled on for a long time, but the main idea was to let him be a good traitor, hello to me, hello to everyone, otherwise, the whole family will be buried with Earl Devonsi.
Finally, a special poison was given, the kind that had to be taken once a year as an antidote. After Jefferson took it, he reluctantly went to fulfill his mission.
As for Li Feng, he still has a lot of things to do.
With the expansion of the territory, there are completely insufficient officials at the grassroots level. Those who are forcibly promoted are either corrupt and perverting the law, or they all have the bad habits of the world lord system, which leads to very large limitations.
Various supplies needed for infrastructure development and war are not enough. After Li Feng sorted it out, he became confused and had to take a series of measures to get started with enthusiasm.
"Ironmaking, oil refining, gunpowder, red brick, carpentry, and furniture workshops all need to be expanded. They don't need to be limited to Dialing, Glenland and Lukeland. Mason Territory can also choose places to build a large number of these workshops."
"Gunpowder production and thermal weapons research need to be stepped up."
"Agricultural output must be increased. In order to save land, expand the population base, increase efforts to encourage childbirth, and strengthen the promotion of intensive farming."
"After these are built, except for gunpowder, red bricks and steel, other commodities can be invited to be sold by traveling merchants in exchange for the raw materials and large amounts of money we need."
"Set up a propaganda department, with Smith directly in charge. It will compile the good lives of the people of Dialand into a book, recruit propaganda personnel, and bribe caravans with heavy sums of money to distribute them to the world. This move will reduce the number of times we conquer other places in the future.
resistance.”
"Strengthening the training of reserve troops. We currently have 4,000 reserve troops and we must train them to the strength of a regular army in the shortest possible time."
"Establish a military academy in Diyar and open education colleges in the other territories for four age levels: primary, middle and high school to promote my political ideas and cultivate the professional talents I want. I want a team of cadres who are single-minded and loyal to me.
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"In addition, we will build large hospitals in Glenland, Spring Palace and Mason Territory, and recruit doctors with high salaries to serve, so that our soldiers and our citizens can receive treatment at any time and reduce the pain of injuries."
"Yes~~~"
At Dialing's first castle meeting after the New Year, no one in charge backed down from the series of measures announced by Li Feng. They all had high morale and geared up.
Li Feng nodded, quite satisfied.
He definitely can't hide these things he did, and I believe it won't be long before a nationwide crusade comes.
All he needs to do is quickly let Dia lead this spark and grow it into a terrifying war beast.
A few days later, he moved his family to the castle of Fenglin County. It took him several months to complete the transfer of the entire administrative center and set about establishing Fenglin City.
At the same time, the Dialing granary and treasury were also moved away.
Dialing Castle was completely handed over to Robert, after all, he was Elena's husband, and Tony was also in charge of Dialing, building it into an incubation base for various high-tech industries and a concentration camp for political prisoners and hostages.
In this way, Li Feng gradually got rid of Robert as the nominal leader.