Law of the Devil

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 buds on the branches have clearly told people the departure of winter.

Although the Northwest is a place of bitter cold, spring can be said to be the best season of the year—although it is short.

Most of the preparatory work for 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, where there is fertile land that is rarely seen in the entire Northwest, plus it is located on a major traffic road and closer to water sources. After a series of preferential treatment decrees by Lord Du Wei, the city of miracles after spring, It also 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 after the ice and snow melt and the road becomes clear. Come and see for yourself this majestic city that was built in a few months.

Just ten miles outside Loulan City, a new military camp has been built. Du Wei's Tulip Family's First Infantry Regiment has been formed. This 20,000-man army is built with the 4,000 rebels as the skeleton. Yes, a batch of new recruits were added, and later, in order to solve the problem of soldiers, Du Wei sent people to Big Ear City again. After buying off the leader of Viedro, he brought another two thousand pairs of prisoners in a few months

Although Viedro is unsuccessful in the officialdom, he still has absolute authority in Big Ear City. He only needs to write two strokes on the list of these prisoners, 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 has a small population, but 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 regiment of the Tulip family, there are 4,000 rebels, plus 2,000 prisoners, and more than 10,000 recruits. Among them, in addition to the four thousand rebels who were originally regular ace troops, the combat effectiveness of the two thousand prisoners. It is even far higher than 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 their backgrounds checked (the revelation does not need to be checked, 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 go all out to catch them! Therefore, during the training, these people are particularly willing to endure hardships. In just half a year, it's already quite a shape. 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 Magdodoro of the Northwest Army sent people to pay twice more. The first time Du Wei used the word "drag" again to fool the opponent, and the second time, the opponent came again People, the attitude is much tougher. Du Wei considered that he still 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 was mobilized on a large scale, and he had to be prepared. In the end, he simply compromised, spent money to buy peace, and handed over 50,000 gold coins in military expenses, and only then did the guys from the Northwest Army fight away.

Compared with a complete infantry regiment 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 tough, Longbottom has extremely strict criteria for selecting his subordinates. So far, Du Wei only has a 3,000-man cavalry regiment in his hands, half of which are old subordinates recruited by General 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 gathered nearly 5,000 people. However, this guy's training was so harsh that many of them retreated because they couldn't hold on until the end. Kicked out. And later on, Longbottom actually took these thousands of people out on a tour in light clothes. She didn't know what she was doing mysteriously, but she didn't come back until a 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, "Soldiers who have never fought with real swords and guns, and who have never seen blood, are useless at the end of the day! Because the skills are not trained in the barracks. Some guys who are usually very brave, go to When they go to the battlefield, they pee their pants, and some people who look ordinary in ordinary times can become excellent fighters when they go to the battlefield."

So Longbottom took these thousands of people on a light tour, without any axle weight, and only had dry food for a few days, along the Kilimaro Mountains all the way to the northwest, crossed the territory of the Desa Province, and entered the Northwest Corridor , ran all the way to the desert outside the corridor, and fought a few battles with a few small groups of 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 the majesty of points bathed in blood.

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 a brothel as a general, and caused a few troubles, which made Dardanelle, who was the first garrison officer of the new capital, very upset. Headache. However, Du Wei explained that as long as the matter is not out of line, try to 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 City early in the morning.

In fact, Du Wei's duke's mansion had already moved to the new capital, and the new duke's mansion in the new capital, modeled after Luo Lin's construction, had 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. She even spent some manpower and material resources to repair the outer city wall, and the original collapsed part was rebuilt.

In Du Wei's view, Giliar City is extremely inappropriate as the capital because it is located in a remote area, backed by the Kilimaro Mountains. Incapable of covering the entire Desa Province. But this remote city has other functions for Du Wei!

After the last batch of residents moved out a month earlier, Du Wei ordered the entire city to be sealed off, and then started construction in the city!

Because, in Du Wei's plan, this geographical location is remote. And the extremely safe city will be his last production base!

Of course, this is not a place where ordinary weapons are produced. The broken territory in the northwest does not have any minerals. The lack of minerals makes it impossible for Du Wei to manufacture his own weapons on a large scale here. But... DU Wei still has many other things to make! Some 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 City is, it is still a city after all! All the living facilities are extremely complete, and the city wall repaired on the outside is the best defense. As long as the city wall is well guarded, no spies or spies can enter or leave.

And people in the city don't need to go in and out. There are perfect facilities in the city, there are wells, there are houses, and Du Wei even opened up an extra piece of open land as farmland, so that the people inside can live completely 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 has only one promise to these people: work in the city for 5 years, or 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.

What made these workers panic and surprised was that these people thought that what awaited them would be extremely heavy labor... Many prisoners died under such heavy labor. But in the production base in Giliar City, 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), and they have 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 bit weird... In the several workshops built in the city, they fused many medicinal materials and powders that they didn't know according to Lord Solskjaer's order , and then produced in large quantities...

Of course, these people don't know that those things made with various unknown potions are exactly the "magic fire element" invented by Mr. Solyakos, which is the kind of gunpowder that Du Wei relies on.

The work of the people managed by Master Seth is even more weird. They are proud that they have opened up a piece of land in the city and planted various trees, and Master Seth taught them how to graft and plant... Then some prisoners The skilled craftsmen selected from here will carry out the next process...carving!

In this production base, the rules are not too strict, and food, rest and safety are guaranteed, but Du Wei issued a strict order: no one who endures must 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 should finally remember this point!"

Early this morning, Du Wei had to leave the production base, because he had received news that the younger brother and younger sister of Marquis Liszt had entered Desa Province. 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, she was very curious about the sister sent by the Marquis Liszt to seduce her...