Originally, Arvid was extremely dissatisfied with Xu Lai's occupation of Hantan City.
No matter what, he, Arvid Valentin, was on the front line against Hell, but he suffered a backstab from the friendly forces behind him.
It is impossible to say that he has no thoughts and resentments in his heart.
However, as soon as Xu Lai came to Hantan City, he announced the expansion of the army after seeing the shipyard and Hantan Fleet.
The second thing he did was to directly use cash to pay the newly established Coast Guard.
Hantan City was not considered wealthy to begin with. After the fall of the Western Empire, the entire city's resources were basically used for shipbuilding.
Soldiers, let alone salary, are grateful to God for being able to have a full meal every day, and they dare not ask for more.
Even the soldiers can only have one full meal a day, and it is impossible for other people in Hantan City to have enough to eat.
The third thing Xu Lai did after arriving in Hantan City was to open a warehouse to store grain.
However, what Xu Lai opened was not the warehouse in Hantan City. There was not much food in the warehouse in Hantan City.
What Xu Lai put out was the rations for the Qingfeng Legion.
With the warehouse ring there, the food supply problem is not big, but the food in Qingfeng City was also purchased by Xu Lai at a high price.
Each of the soldiers carried two to three days' worth of dry food on their backs in case of emergencies.
Now that the battle is basically over, the camp can be built directly outside Hantan City.
The food is allocated directly from Long'an City, Wasteland City and Thorn City.
These cities have a lot of stored resources, especially Long'an and Wasteland.
As advent heroes, Jiang Jian and the others almost instinctively build cities and accumulate grain.
If they were willing to help Hantan City a little, Hantan City would not be unable to support people or recruit troops.
Expanding the army, issuing pay, and releasing food, every measure is aimed at the huge problems currently existing in Hantan City.
And Xu Lai's approach also immediately gained the hearts and minds of the people and the military from Hantan City.
With the existing Hantan City alone, it is impossible to block the attack from hell, even with the Coast Guard and Hanjiang.
Even if you add the Qingfeng Legion, the most you can do is hold on for a while longer, or even hold on for one more day.
Hanjiang can only block Hell's ground troops, and Hell also has a large number of flying troops.
Without a strong city as a rear, no matter how strong a fleet is, it is like a rootless tree and can only drift with the waves.
When the Coast Guard arrives, it will not even have a reliable rear that can supply supplies.
Therefore, Hantan City must be expanded, the city walls must be heightened, the arrow towers must be added, there must be more warehouses, and there must be more food to be able to fight long-term wars.
This requires Xu Lai to invest countless resources in this city, even more than Hard Rock City.
In a city that may require bottom-line investment, Xu Lai can't rest assured if he doesn't steal the hearts and minds of the people and the military.
For the Coast Guard, Xu Lai can be handed over to Arvid, who has experience in naval warfare and at least knows how to lead a naval force.
No matter how dissatisfied Arvid is with Xu Lai and no matter how influential he is, he cannot mobilize the entire Coast Guard to betray Xu Lai.
Because neither the navy nor the navy can produce food on its own, it must be supplied from the rear.
As soon as these three policies were announced, Xu Lai immediately received responses and cheers from the whole city.
Even Arvid, who had been forced to join by Xu Lai and kept a straight face, now has a bit of a smile on his face.
He is still dissatisfied with Xu Lai, but he must also admit that Xu Lai's arrival will be good for Hantan City. It will at least allow the residents of Hantan City to have enough to eat for a few days.
And Xu Lai's so-called military expansion was not watered down. Of the 50,000 recruits he brought, 5,000 were immediately transferred to the Coast Guard to participate in training.
After destroying the tens of thousands of people in Thorn City, these 50,000 new soldiers are no longer considered new soldiers.
The lowest level is still level 3, but most of them have been promoted to level 4, and a few have been promoted to level 5. The average level of the entire team has been raised to level 4.
And these 5,000 people, recruited by Xu Lai, are still the most elite ones.
2,000 level 5 infantry, including 1,000 heavy shield infantry and 1,000 swordsmen. Except for the officers, the best people in the entire legion were selected.
The remaining 3,000 people are even more powerful, 1,500 level 5 marksmen, 1,000 level 5 armor-piercing crossbowmen, and 500 level 7 phantom marksmen.
This force, with a little training to adapt to fighting on the ship, will definitely have good combat effectiveness.
The naval force and the navy are a more troublesome branch of the military because there are no hero buildings that can be recruited on a large scale.
If you can only rely on your own training, the long-range troops will be more useful. If the melee troops cannot also serve as sailors, the role will be much smaller.
The reason for expanding the 5,000-man force first is because the Coast Guard has insufficient ships.
As for this unit, Xu Lai didn’t want to make a living, so he arranged additional tasks for Reina.
Let her leave 10,000 level 3 warriors and shooters who have not yet advanced, and take the remaining 35,000 troops to sweep all the wild monsters and wild buildings within the four cities.
Firstly, it is to obtain resources to support the family, and secondly, mosquitoes are more or less meat, which is much more experience than daily training.
After the remaining 5,000 people are upgraded to level 5, the 9 cruisers that Xu Lai invested resources should be almost the same and can be put into use directly.
As for the newly established Coast Guard, Xu Lai will not let them idle.
After the wages that should be paid were distributed in the name of Xu Lai and the Eagle Kingdom, the morale of the Coast Guard also recovered.
In addition, Xu Lai also stationed Elvi and the angel army led by her on the ship to protect the entire coast guard force.
In addition to being erected in Qingfeng City, it can now increase the morale of the entire Eagle Kingdom by 10 points and the War God Statue with all attributes by 5 points.
The morale of the Coast Guard was immediately restored to full value, but it was also visibly improved to high morale.
It is a bit of a waste to put the Coast Guard with high morale in the not so vast cold pool.
Moreover, more than a hundred battleships were squeezed into the originally small Hantan, and the remaining space had to be prepared for more cruisers. There was really no place to train.
Simply, Xu Lai waved his hand and asked Arvid to lead more than 60 warships to start patrolling along the Hanjiang River day and night.
There are many benefits to doing this.
First of all, it can free up a lot of space in Hantan, so that the new recruits can have a relatively stable training space.
Secondly, there are still some villages and towns that have not fallen in the upper reaches of Hanjiang River.
After the Coast Guard starts patrolling along the river, it can deter those hell troops flying across the river.
By the way, we can also provide appropriate amounts of help to these towns. If there are many refugees, we can also help share the burden.
As long as there is a war, it is impossible to say that people are immortal. Even if there are angels who can resurrect, there are cases where the corpse is completely destroyed.
Cities and population are the necessary conditions for continued struggle. Finally, although Hantan Fleet has been established for a long time, except for the backbone, it was built long ago by the Valentine family.
Most of the soldiers were also recruited after the invasion of hell.
In addition to being much better than the Qingfeng Legion in maneuvering the ship and using the weapons on board, this group of soldiers had only fought two or three times in actual combat, and they only had small-scale frictions with the Hell troops.
There are many wild monsters and enemies along the Hanjiang River, including on the Hanjiang River.
For example, the fishmen, or the patrolling hell army.
In the past, Arvid was afraid of angering the demons in hell, so the few minor frictions he had were mainly defensive. The fleet was usually in the cold pool and would not take the initiative to stir up trouble.
But Xu Lai was different. He was also afraid of attracting the large army of hell, but he knew that the army of hell had already begun to gather.
If he were to attack his Eagle Kingdom, it would be very urgent to take the opportunity to eliminate the hostile forces near Hanjiang River, control the river surface, and at the same time improve his own combat effectiveness.
This is also the last chance to improve your combat effectiveness.
But if the hells are gathering together, not to attack the Eagle Kingdom, Xu Lai can also use this to contain some of the hells' power.
With a fleet of less than a hundred ships, it can only attack targets on the shore along the river, and it is certainly impossible to change the strategic goals of Hell.
Besides, the huge Hanjiang River has a lot of resources just on the river surface.
Even if you just pick up floating treasure chests, floating objects, drifting bottles, explore sunken ships, etc., your income will not be small.
Although it is definitely not as good as the resources on land, at least it can earn the salary of the Coast Guard and other expenses.
Xu Lai conquered 4 cities, but even if he wiped out all the powerful people in these four cities, he really couldn't get much money.
Building Hantan City and increasing the number of Coast Guard ships is a bottomless pit, no matter how much resources you have, you can eat it.
In addition to sending out the Qingfeng Legion, Xu Lai also organized refugees and formed a transportation team to provide food and other supplies for the Qingfeng Legion.
There is very little cultivated land outside Hantan City, and those farms and villages already have enough manpower.
Hantan City, which has long lost its vitality, cannot provide many jobs at all. Except for shipbuilders, even the wealthy households in the city have already closed all their shops.
The locals in Hantan City have lost their jobs and have to wait for Arvid and the others to distribute relief food every day, not to mention the influx of refugees.
Xu Lai set up a transportation team, which happened to be a work-for-relief method, which was far better than receiving relief.
As for the locals in Hantan City, Xu Lai has not forgotten that the city needs to be upgraded, and it must be upgraded as quickly as possible.
Not only the people from Hantan City, but also the people from Thorn City, Xu Lai wanted to bring them together.
Relying on the warehouse ring, you can move a large amount of resources over.
It’s just that Qingfeng City can’t withstand the consumption. After all, it just supported a big wave of attacks in Stone City.
Moreover, building a cruiser requires a large number of workers and resources, especially wood and iron ingots.
Qingfeng City alone will definitely not be able to handle such a large number.
Therefore, after Xu Lai issued three orders in Hantan City, he quickly issued another order.
Although this order is related to Hantan City, it is actually aimed at Thorn City.
Xu Lai directly ordered to demolish all the buildings in Thorns City and move the population of Thorns City to Hantan City.
The main camp of the Qingfeng Legion was built at the original location of Thorns City to prepare in advance for the future arrival of the main force of the Qingfeng Legion.
As for the resources dismantled from Thorns City, all of them were transported to Hantan City to expand and upgrade Hantan City.
Even if Thorn City is not enough, Xu Lai is considering whether to demolish Long'an and Wasteland City as well.
Demolition and upgrading are both huge projects.
It just so happens that there are a large number of idle people and refugees in both cities. Let them start working, and it can also reduce Xu Lai's many burdens and public security pressure.
Fortunately, Xu Lai is not short of city hearts. Thorn City directly provides a base camp castle heart, and Stone City also has a fortress-level castle heart.
There are two fortress levels left. Xu Lai passed through the market in Qingfeng City and it was not difficult to buy them.
If even the heart of the castle is not enough, Xu Lai can only demolish one of the two cities.
Demolition and upgrading, two important large-scale projects are being carried out simultaneously.
Coupled with the Coast Guard's river patrols and training, the Qingfeng Legion's peripheral sweeps took place.
For a time, almost all the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire north of Hanjiang took action.
The originally lifeless place was re-energized because of Xu Lai's arrival.
Xu Lai even personally climbed to the top of the city to direct the expansion and upgrading of the city wall, as well as the construction locations of arrow towers and turrets.
Although Yu Lan and others do not have to go out with the Qingfeng Legion to sweep, they are not relaxed at all.
The space master from Qingfeng City has rushed to Hantan City non-stop.
When he arrives, he will build the teleportation array as soon as possible.
But before that, the officials from Qingfeng City could not rush over so quickly.
Xu Lai worked hard to transform Hantan City, and Arvid cooperated. The Valentine family provided a group of young talents to help Xu Lai.
These people were all assigned to Yu Lan's command by Xu Lai, and they cooperated with Xu Lai's secretarial team to change the nationality of the entire Hantan City residents.
Not only the officials sent by Hantan City, Long'an City and Wasteland City are also doing this now.
The city must be incorporated into the Eagle Kingdom, and the residents in the city and the farmers outside the city must also be incorporated into the nationality of the Eagle Kingdom.
This is not only to increase the sphere of influence of the Eagle Kingdom and increase the income of Congress, but also to integrate these Western Empire people into the Eagle Kingdom as soon as possible.
Speaking of which, these people from the Western Empire didn't have much sense of belonging to the Western Empire.
A few years ago, they were just members of the Empire. Although the Western Empire was later established, it was just a pseudo-empire without even a parliament.
Join the Eagle Kingdom and enjoy the national treatment of the Eagle Kingdom, so that you can build cohesion with the Eagle Kingdom faster and earlier.
In addition, after naturalizing in the Eagle Kingdom, you can also start to enjoy the bonus of the Eagle Kingdom’s God of War Statue.
The Angel Alliance only reduces the loss of morale when being with foreigners.
In fact, except for a few cities such as Stone City, where elves and other alien races live together, other human cities basically do not mix.
Therefore, the Angel Alliance will be more effective when fighting.
However, the blessing of the God of War statue is for all combatants. Naturalizing citizens and the Coast Guard as soon as possible is also a way to increase combat effectiveness as soon as possible. (End of this chapter)