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As reported by visitors, the road outside the city is muddy. You must know that it has rained and been flooded are not the same thing. The flooded place has more water and the sinking is more serious. The carriage will press on it. It sinks directly into the axle, making it impossible to pass.

Kaicheng is close to the seaside, the humidity is high, and the water evaporates slowly. The road cannot be restored to traffic within ten days and a half. However, neither Wu Zhongyuan nor everyone in Weicheng can spend half a month here. The only way is to summon wind and rain, raise the wind to cool down, and freeze the road surface.

In fact, you can cast spells even if you stand on the city tower. However, Wu Zhongyuan did not choose to perform the spell from the city tower. Instead, he hovered in the air with the green dragon armor. This place is not far from the South China Sea. Although Ao Zhu and others retreated, they were probably observing in secret. , you have to show your strength to make them fearful.

Kuicheng is located in a remote corner, and the people in the city rarely see the wizard's practices. Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's ability to summon wind and rain, they have great reverence for him. They are surprised and sigh, suspecting that he is a heavenly being.

Normally, it takes half an hour to freeze the road surface, but it took Wu Zhongyuan a full hour. The reason is that the freezing point of seawater is lower than that of fresh water, and it requires a lower temperature to freeze seawater.

When the road surface was able to carry carriages and horses, everyone in Wei City began to set off. The first carriages were loaded with wooden barrels. The barrels were tied very tightly, and the outsides were painted with waterproof tung oil, and they were all filled with Donate salt to the Bear Clan.

Due to the need to continue to practice to keep the road surface hard, Wu Zhongyuan could not leave first and could only stay in Kaicheng temporarily.

The so-called moving north means fleeing for everyone in Wei City. Everyone is crying and the atmosphere is very heavy. However, after the Dragon Clan made such a fuss last night, everyone in Wei City is eager to leave here, and there is not much reluctance to leave.

From the time when the chariots and horses of Wei City started to leave at dawn, it was not until midnight that all the people in the city were evacuated. The entire team moving north stretched for dozens of miles. There were many soldiers in Wei City, and they had certain defensive capabilities, at least to resist bandits. There is no big problem with bandits, and with the team of warriors under Li Wanzi, as long as they don't encounter any hard characters, the safety of everyone moving north can be guaranteed, but they will not have to travel hard.

Everyone who should leave left, and the huge city was empty. In the end, only Wu Zhongyuan, Li Wanzi and a few leaders of Kai City were left.

As the saying goes, people are cheap when they leave their hometown. No one likes to leave their hometown. Yan Ci and others can't help but look sad. They all know that moving north is a road of no return. It's not that everyone has to die outside, but even if the world is peaceful in the future, They can't come back either. Kaicheng depends on the sea for food, and they have offended the Nanhai Dragon Clan. How can they have a good life when they come back.

But in the situation last night, Yan Ci could only choose to stand on Wu Zhongyuan's side. The five seals were about to disappear, and staying here would only lead to death.

Li Wanzi had to go back to build the city for everyone in Wei City and could not return with the team. After pondering, Wu Zhongyuan God granted the third master the order to send an order to Wu Mei to come and replace Li Wanzi.

Wu Mei was one of the two female warriors who took lotus seeds in front of the Bear Tribe and Ox Tribe and were promoted to Taixuan. The other one was Wu Shuang. There were two reasons why he chose Wu Mei to replace Li Wanzi. First, Wu Mei will be the city lord of Xinbiyuan City in the future. The settlement of Kaicheng is within her walled city. Let her escort Yuan Ci and others as they go north, which can build a relationship and make it easier to carry out work in the future.

The second reason is that Wu Mei is from Wu Junyue. He is more willing to work with Wu Ji than the selfless Wu Junyue. Wu Shuang is the person chosen by Wu Ji. He plans to hand over another new walled city to Wu Shuang in the future. .

Due to the large number of people in Wei City and its complete autonomy, the value of Wu Mei as the city lord is much smaller. At best, he is just a foreign ambassador. Wu Shuang's city will become an important border town for the Bear Clan like Daze and Daqiu.

As a king, it is not enough just to be able to conquer and fight well, you must also know people well and take charge of them.

After making up his mind, he ordered Li Wanzi to return first, and he went with the team to wait for Wu Mei's arrival.

As a result, Li Wanzi had a heavy burden on her shoulders. Not only did she have to connect the road with the Yi people, but she also had to expand two walled cities. She would not be considered for future work arrangements.

After Li Wanzi controlled the armor and took off into the air, Wu Zhongyuan ordered Yanci and others to catch up with the migrating team in Kuicheng, leaving only Zhu Qianwei.

Zhu Qianwei has red spiritual energy, and he needs to take lavender seventh-level lotus seeds to advance to Taixuan. He gave one of the seventh-level lotus seeds to Wu Di before, and now he still has one left in his hand.

Wu Zhongyuan took out the lotus pod from his arms, took out the seventh-order lotus seed and handed it to Zhu Qianwei, "Crush it and take it."

Zhu Qianwei reached out to take it, pinched open the shell, drank the lotus seeds, and then asked, "Sir, what is this?"

Wu Zhongyuan did not answer Zhu Qianwei's question, because after asking this question, Zhu Qianwei suddenly frowned, which showed that the lotus seeds had taken effect.

It was not without reason that he admired Zhu Qianwei. Zhu Qianwei swallowed the lotus seeds first and asked the question later, which showed that Zhu Qianwei had absolute trust in him.

"How virtuous and capable a general is? He deserves to be favored by God." Zhu Qianwei knelt down on one knee, moved and frightened. He didn't ask what Wu Zhongyuan gave him because he already knew what Wu Zhongyuan gave him.

Wu Zhongyuan glanced at Zhu Qianwei and stretched out his hand to help him up. Loyalty has been the noblest character since ancient times. Everyone thinks they have this character. In fact, the vast majority of people do not. That day, he first When they met Zhu Qianwei, Zhu Qianwei was fleeing with his infant master. Without any reward, Zhu Qianwei's only motive for doing so was loyalty from the heart.

"Sir." Zhu Qianwei tried hard to control the excitement in his heart, but he still couldn't help but tremble all over. There is a saying that he can reach the sky in one step. He is now, from the red Qi Gaoxuan to the deep purple Taixuan, and has been promoted to the seventh level in a row. , and instantly became one of the top masters.

"You should know that with greater ability comes greater responsibility," Wu Zhongyuan patted Zhu Qianwei on the shoulder, "Our opponent is more powerful than you think. I don't know how many years this war will last, and I don't know either. I know whether we can survive, and if you die in battle one day, don’t blame me.”

Zhu Qianwei took a deep breath, calmed down his excitement, and then said seriously, "If I had never met your Excellency by chance, I would have spent my whole life living in a corner, mediocre. Thanks to Your Excellency's promotion, I was able to display my ambitions and talents. Even if he dies on the battlefield one day, he will be brave and heroic, and he will have no regrets in this life."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded, "The Bear Clan currently has Zuo Fu Palace and You Bi Palace, each with warriors and wizards. However, warriors and wizards alone are far from enough. Brave soldiers and powerful armies are also needed. But at the moment, the great warriors and wizards in the major cities are The soldiers are all under the control of the city lord, and it is inconvenient to reorganize and change the system, so we can only settle for the next best thing. I currently have twenty walled cities. For each walled city, you can allocate a hundred people to form a royal guard to prepare for emergency reinforcements. During the festival, You rushed to have a bear meeting with me before, and this matter will be implemented immediately after the festival. The soldiers will be selected by you, the army will be commanded by you, and the organization will be determined by you. It will be directly under my jurisdiction and will not be controlled by Zuofu Palace and Youbi Palace."

"Yes." Zhu Qianwei answered the order loudly.

Although Wu Zhongyuan completely delegated power, Zhu Qianwei still had to consult with him for instructions, including the establishment of military units, headcount distribution, scope of authority and other details.

After discussion, the two decided that the two thousand soldiers were all cavalry, because only cavalry could rush to the rescue quickly. In order to distinguish them from wizards and warriors, and at the same time reflect the special nature of the soldiers, the two thousand people all wore yellow cloaks and were divided into Five hundred heavy armor, five hundred light armor, five hundred bows and arrows, and five hundred fire guns.

The so-called fire blunderbuss is actually an earthen gun. It is very simple to make. In modern times, many rural hunters can make it by themselves. The power cannot be compared with the standard guns, but the lethality is still much more powerful than ordinary bows and arrows.

Zhu Qianwei didn't know what a fire gun was, because there was no such thing at this time, so Wu Zhongyuan gave him a simple explanation, and then lowered his voice to secretly give him advice.

Hearing Wu Zhongyuan, Zhu Qianwei nodded slowly, "Don't worry, sir. I will take care of this matter when I select soldiers."

Anyone has selfish motives, and Wu Zhongyuan is no exception. He formed a personal army for two reasons. One is to have an army that truly belongs to him. The situation at this time is somewhat similar to that of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, where military power was scattered among the princes. Here, although the major city lords also have to listen to his orders, they still can't react quickly at critical moments, like an arm and a finger.

The second reason is that he wants to create a suitable identity for Wang Xinran. Before that, he wanted Wang Xinran to go to work in other places, but the more he thought about it, the less secure he became. If he didn't help Wang Xinran improve his cultivation, Wang Xinran's safety outside would be at stake. Not guaranteed. If he improves her cultivation level, her identity will be easily exposed.

After thinking about it carefully, it is safer to form a personal army under his own control. These people are all drawn from the various cities and do not know each other. Moreover, most of these people do not have spiritual cultivation and will not become the enemy's top priority. Attack the target. The most important thing is to keep Wang Xinran by his side, so as to ensure her safety to the greatest extent.

What he secretly told Zhu Qianwei before was that he should go to Heling to pick up Wang Xinran. As for who Wang Xinran was and what relationship Wang Xinran had with him, he did not mention it. Zhu Qianwei was a smart man and he should be able to guess it.

The convoy moved slowly, and the two of them were not in a hurry to catch up. Then they sat on the tower and talked some gossip. In fact, it was not gossip, but some scattered things.

In addition to 30,000 kilograms of salt, Kaicheng also prepared 30,000 kilograms of copper and iron and 30,000 kilograms of rice grain as meeting gifts. This was undoubtedly a timely help for Wu Zhongyuan. According to his and Wu Di's previous estimates, if the Fox Clan could support 50,000 There is still a shortage of 90,000 jins of rice and grain. If we get another 30,000 jins, we are still short of 60,000 jins.

However, this number does not include the elderly and children. If he does not want people to starve to death this winter, he must find more rice.

The richest city in the Southern Wilderness is Wei City, but there are so many people in Wei City that they can't squeeze out much rice. Apart from Wei City, only the Fox tribe has an easy life. Apart from these two landowners, there are really no tribes in the Southern Wilderness that can Excess rice grain.

At dawn, Wu Mei arrived, Wu Zhongyuan made introductions to both parties, and then left the convoy to go to the Fox Clan.

Let’s secure the fox clan’s rice supplies first, and then go to other places...

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