Chapter 233 Chapter 204 The Secret City

Time flies, and two months pass in the blink of an eye.The winter snow has melted away. Although the wind from the northwest is still stinging, in some places, spring is still gradually revealed.The more flexible water and the tender sprouts on the toes have clearly told people that winter is leaving. Although the northwest is a place of bitter cold, spring can be said to be the best season every day—although it is short. Most of the migration work in the City of Miracles has been completed, and the number of people officially living in this new city has reached 100,000.The original Gilliat City has almost been deserted.

The new capital city is located on the shore of Loulan Lake, which has fertile land that is rarely seen in the entire Northwest. In addition, it is located on a major traffic road and is closer to water sources. After a series of preferential treatment decrees by Duke Duwei, the city of miracles after spring will be even more It showed vitality. The department in charge of population migration has long queues almost every day. People from all over the Desa province, even if they don’t plan to really move, will choose to come to see this place with their own eyes after the ice and snow melt and the roads are cleared. Xiongcheng was built in a few months!

Just ten miles outside Loulan City, a new military camp has been built. Du Wei's Tulip Family First Infantry Division has been formed. This 20,000-strong army is built with the 4,000 rebels as the skeleton After getting up, batch after batch of recruits were added, and later, in order to solve the problem of the source of troops, Du Wei sent people to Big Ear City again, and bought off the commander of Viedro. More than 2,000 prisoners——Although Viedro was unsuccessful in the officialdom, he still had absolute authority in Big Ear City.For these prisoners, he only needs to make two random strokes on the list, and just say that they died of illness or died of exhaustion on the way to escort.In the end, because the number of more than 2,000 people was inevitably too large, Viedro simply reported that there was a plague in Big Ear City, and anyone who sold it to Du Wei simply used the name of being killed in the plague.

The higher-ups don't care about places like Big Ear City, and they heard that there is a plague, who would want to go to such a place to check?Biedro became more and more daring, and even a group of prisoners who were supposed to come this spring were still on the way to be escorted, and had already been "pre-sold" to Du Wei before they arrived in Big Ear City. For these prisoners, Du Wei promised to let them serve for three years, and after three years, they will be given freedom, and if they have credit, they will also be rewarded with land!Anyway, Northwest Desa Province is sparsely populated, but has a lot of land.As long as those prisoners have a glimmer of hope of freedom, they can also get their own land—although most of the land in the northwest is barren, it is real land after all!

Now in Du Wei's first division of the Tulip family, there are 4,000 rebels, plus 2,000 prisoners, and more than 10,000 recruits.Calculated among them, except for the 4,000 rebels who were originally the regular trump card army, the combat effectiveness of the 2,000 prisoners was even far higher than that of ordinary recruits! This is also natural. After all, Du Wei spent money to go there, and he selected the strongest young people in Big Ear City, and most of them had background checks (in fact, there is no need to check, since they were dispatched to that ghostly place in Big Ear City, Most of them have no background, and those with background have been rescued long ago.)

As Du Wei said, these prisoners who were already desperate, after seeing a glimmer of hope, are really willing to do their best to catch them!Therefore, during training, these people are particularly willing to endure hardships.In just half a year, it has already looked quite a bit.Even from the perspective of Robert Cavaliers, they think that although these people have not yet reached the combat effectiveness of the main battle army of the Empire, they are not much worse than those ordinary local garrison troops. In the past few months, General Duoduo of the Northwest Army sent people to ask for money twice. The first time Du Wei used the word "drag" again to fool the opponent away, and the second time, the opponent The next person, the attitude is much tougher.Du Wei considered that he didn't have the capital to turn against the Northwest Army, and the Imperial Army's annual spring drill would soon be held. The Northwest Army would be mobilized on a large scale, so he had to be prepared.In the end, he simply compromised, spent money to buy a peace, and handed over 50,000 gold coins for military expenses.Only then did the guys from the Northwest Army be sent away.

Compared with a complete infantry division that has been formed, the number of cavalry is much smaller.After all, excellent cavalry is more difficult to train than infantry. Although the people in the northwest are strong, Longbottom has extremely strict selection criteria for his subordinates.So far, Du Wei only has a 3,000-man cavalry regiment in his hands, half of which are old subordinates called by Longbottom, and half of which are recruits. However, Longbottom's training for those recruits was so strict that people couldn't help but sigh.Moreover, Longbottom assured Du Wei that although there were only 3,000 cavalry, after Longbottom's abuse of them, the combat effectiveness of these 3,000 people could barely match the cavalry of the regular imperial army.

In fact, at the beginning, Longbottom's subordinates rallied nearly 5,000 people. However, this guy's training was so harsh that many of them retreated because they couldn't hold on to Longbottom's requirements. Kicked out.And later on, Longbottom actually took these thousands of people out on a tour in light clothes. I don't know what he was doing mysteriously. He didn't come back until one month later, and the number of people was even smaller. After Du Wei asked, he found out that Longbottom actually took these people out for "actual combat"!According to Longbottom, "There are no soldiers who have ever done real swords and guns, and soldiers who have never seen blood, no matter how much they practice! Because the skills are not trained in the barracks, some brave guys on weekdays are very brave when they go to the battlefield." Pee your pants, some people who look ordinary on weekdays can turn into excellent fighters on the battlefield!"

So Longbottom took these thousands of people on a tour with light clothes, without any luggage, and with only a few days of dry food, along the Qilima Mule Mountains all the way to the northwest, crossed the territory of the Desa Province, entered the Northwest Corridor, and continued I ran to the desert outside the corridor, and fought a few battles with a few small horse thieves, so that these recruits got some real combat experience. Sure enough, when they came back, the temperament of these recruits was very different. Everyone seemed to have lost their original youthfulness, revealing a bit of blood-bathed majesty.

Although Longbottom led troops harshly, he was absolutely good to his subordinates.After they returned to the City of Miracles, Longbottom took a group of people to visit a brothel as a general, and there were a few disputes in the middle, which made Dardanelle, who was the first garrison chief of the new capital, very upset. Headache.However, Du Wei has confessed that as long as things are not too outrageous, let the two hundred and five generals do their best. ... In the early morning, a carriage was rushing on the road to Loulan, the new capital, surrounded by more than a dozen cavalry guarding the carriage, skillfully manipulating the horses, with serious expressions on everyone's faces.

Du Wei was sitting in this carriage with a tulip badge.He received the news last night and hurried to Loulan New City early in the morning. In fact, Du Wei's duke's mansion has already moved to the new capital, and the new duke's mansion in the new capital, which was built in imitation of Rollin Castle, has become Du Wei's new home.However, these days, Du Wei has remained in the abandoned city of Gilliar. Gilliar, in this abandoned city, the original population has all been relocated!But Du Wei did not let this empty city be abandoned in the end.He even spent some manpower and material resources to repair the outer city wall, and rebuild the original collapsed part. In Du Wei's view, Giliar City is extremely unqualified as a capital because it is located in a remote area with the Kilimaro Mountains as its back and cannot cover the entire Desa Province.But this remote city has other functions for Du Wei! As early as a month ago, after the last batch of residents moved out, Du Wei ordered the entire city to be sealed off, and then started construction in the city! Because, in Du Wei's plan, this remote and extremely safe city will be his best backup production base! Of course, this is not a place for the production of ordinary weapons. The broken territory in the northwest does not have any minerals. The lack of iron ore makes it impossible for Du Wei to manufacture weapons on a large scale here.But... Du Wei still has many other things to make!Some shady secret weapons that I don't want to reveal for the time being! And, what better place to be a manufacturing plant than a ghost town? No matter how broken the original Gilliar is, it is still a city after all!All living facilities are extremely complete, and the city wall repaired outside is the best defense. As long as the city wall is well guarded, no spies or spies can get in or out! And people in the city don't need to go in and out. There are complete living facilities in the city, there are wells, houses, and even Du Wei opened up an extra piece of open land as farmland. In this way, the people inside can live completely self-sufficient Self-sufficient!Fully enclosed production is enough to meet the requirements of confidentiality! And this abandoned city, the current production base, Du Wei completely handed over to Solskjaer and Seth, the two geniuses who invented magic. Later, thousands of slaves were bought from Daer City, including men and women, old and young. Du Wei had only one promise to these people: after working in the city for five years, he would be free!And after being free, you can get your own land! And these people changed from slave status to workers in Du Wei's production base. To the horror and surprise of these workers, these people originally thought that what awaited them would be extremely heavy labor... Many prisoners died during this heavy labor.But in the production base of Gilliar, the work is far from as hard as imagined! They even have a very comfortable place to live (the residents who moved out originally left a large number of empty houses.), with delicious and sufficient food.Du Wei even ordered that after getting up in the morning, these people can work until sunset in the evening before resting, and they can also rest for a period of time at noon every day. And the content of the work is not too heavy, it's just a little weird... In the several workshops built in the city, they fused many medicinal materials and powders they didn't know according to Lord Solskjaer's order, And then mass production out... Of course these people don't know that those things made with various unknown powders are Solskjaer's biggest invention "magic fire element", which is the kind of gunpowder that Du Wei relies on. The work of the people managed by Lord Seth is even more weird. They opened up a piece of land in the city and planted various trees, and Lord Seth taught them how to graft and plant... Then some prisoners The skilled craftsmen selected from here will devote themselves to the next process...carving! In this production base, the regulations are not too strict, and food, rest and safety are guaranteed, but Du Wei only issued a strict order: no one should leave the city! During this period of time, there was only one guy who didn't know whether he was dead or alive and wanted to escape secretly, but he was caught by soldiers before he reached the gate of the city. Then Du Wei became cruel and broke his two legs in public. "I can give you hope... but I can also take your life away at any time!" Du Wei announced to these people: "So, within five years, you'd better keep this in mind!" Early this morning, Du Wei had to leave the production base, because he received news that the younger brother and younger sister of the Marquis Liszt had entered the province of Desa. Arrive at the City of Miracles. In view of the good relationship with the Liszt family, Du Wei, the owner of the Desa province, of course has to rush back to greet him. In particular, he was still very curious about the sister sent by the Marquise Liszt to seduce him...