Iron Fort Kingdom East Mirror.

A group of invaders from the north, after entering this kingdom, conquered the city and occupied the land without restraint.

Facing the invaders' rapid as wind, attacks like thunder, and rainbows, castles fell one after another, field battles continued to be defeated, and the situation was deteriorating day by day.

In just three months, 14 of the 20 earl territories of the Iron Fort Kingdom Dongjing and Prince Lawrence fell one after another.

In addition to the two earl leaders in the southern territory that had been trapped in the Tongshan Kingdom, Prince Lawrence looked around and was shocked to find that in his hands, only the Iron Castle City of the Royal Capital and the four earl territory were left, which had not yet completely fallen. However, under the accelerated attack rhythm of the invaders in the north, these four earl leaders, except for a few lonely castles, were still resisting, all villages, towns, population, land, and mines were in the hands of the invaders.

"What should I do? What should I do? How can the group of devils in the north drive away those devils!"

In Iron Castle City, Lawrence, who could hear bad news almost every day, walked back and forth in the palace, like a drowning man, grabbed the court of the palace prince. After suffering repeated blows, he no longer had the noble pride of the king of the past, but only despair and pessimism about the future future of the kingdom.

"Not good! His Majesty the King is not good. Fort Vale was captured by the northern army, and Earl Wentington died in battle!"

"What? How is it possible?" Lawrence stood up from the Iron Throne with disbelief. The whole body of the Varre Castle was made of iron ingots, and the city wall was higher than that of the Iron Castle. How could it fall so quickly?

"Not good, Your Majesty the King! Iron Fortress has also fallen, and Count Hart of Iron Fortress has been killed!"

"What?!" Lawrence fainted and almost fell to the ground. Iron Fortress is the largest iron ore smelting base in the kingdom. 40% of the iron ingots in the kingdom are produced here. Iron Fortress, which can be said to be the foundation and lifeline of the kingdom, has also fallen?

...

Not long after, a large army arrived outside the Iron Fort City, set up a camp, and surrounded the Iron Fort City.

"By the way, why do you like to cast cities with iron ingots so much? Isn't it good to use stones?"

Looking at the giant steel city of 50 meters tall, which was brown and yellow in front of me, made of iron ingots, Zhou Ming, who was riding on a horse, couldn't help but tease him.

Indeed, this castle made of steel cannot be blown up with black gunpowder, but metals are afraid of acid. A dye shop in the Granling Workshop area just happens to have a dye with strong acidity. After evaporation and concentration, the strong acid produced is strongly corrosive to the metal. Iron ingots that are more than ten centimeters thick will be corroded through you in a few days. Then, in the large holes that are corroded, a sufficient amount of gunpowder is placed, and a rumbling sound is heard, and the steel castles that are known as "never falling" are trapped.

"Boom~!"

After a loud bang, the thick iron gate of the Iron Fort City was blown up. After a fierce battle for the city gate, amid a cheer, tens of thousands of troops rushed into this city that had almost never experienced war. After destroying all resistance, the soldiers in charge of the search grabbed the clothes of civilians, but because they brought too much treasure, Lawrence, who had exposed his feet, sent him on the way with a glass of poisoned wine.

At this point, in just half a year, the 20 earl corpses in the East Mirror of the Iron Fort Kingdom and the Iron Fort City of the Iron Fort City, except for the two earl corpses occupied by the Tongshan Kingdom, the remaining 18 were controlled by Zhou Minghe and the seven earls who participated in the southern invasion together.

"The Tongshan Kingdom is currently the largest trading partner of the Merchant Alliance and the largest source of slave population. Will the Tongshan Kingdom's army have any impact on trade?"

Zhou Ming thought about it and said that the Tongshan Kingdom was full of fat in his mouth early and night, so it would be better to send an army to get him hard and let him suffer a little!

So, Zhou Ming gave the thief Jero a mercenary group with more than 3,000 people from thieves, and asked him to go to the two count territories occupied by the Tongshan Kingdom. Whether it was to beat sticks, dig traps, play ambush, or fight guerrillas, in short, the army of the Tongshan Kingdom could not be allowed to stay comfortably on these two territories, otherwise the Tongshan Kingdom, which had both copper and iron, would a little strategic monarch, and might grow into a new medium-sized power.

After receiving the order, the thief Jero did not disappoint Zhou Ming. He brought his "thieves group" with him, but he had tormented on two territories for half a year. The invading army of the Tongshan Kingdom, who had been mentally collapsed, took the iron ingots that had not been obtained for a few pieces and fled back to the country without regard to the strict orders of the king. Zhou Ming took advantage of the opportunity to send troops to take over the two territories.

On the other side.

In the western border of the Iron Fort Kingdom, several surrounding kingdoms that invaded were invaded. Faced with Duke Milton's desperate resistance, they not only did not gain any advantage, but instead suffered losses and lost their troops and jumped into bloody teeth.

For example, Helian, the king of the Kingdom of Voris, led a group of more than 2,000 knights, plus a total of 20,000 troops (the system of lords has been adopted by many lords for its ease of operation), and planned to swallow at least 6 earl corpses in the Iron Fort Kingdom with great enthusiasm, and then digest these territories and then head north to eliminate all rebellions in the country that did not obey orders!

In his prime, the king was already imagining the scene where the seven yinks knelt side by side in front of him and were finally beheaded by him.

However, his fantasies, when he and his army, who had already captured two Earls' territories and continued to go south, were burned in a viscous mud, black bubbles, and a huge fire suddenly popped up from all over the swamp.

A total of 20,000 troops were burned to death and burned, and were chased by less than one-quarter of them by ambushes that broke out around them.

It turned out that many of the lands in the western border of the Iron Fort Kingdom were all black swamps with bubbles. The ground of this swamp was buried with a large amount of shallow oil. After the oil penetrated out of the surface, the natural bubbles and toxic asphalt emerged were all very easy to ignite substances. Herian lacked knowledge, which led to a crushing defeat.

The troops withdrew back in a panic. Not long after, he suddenly heard that the 40,000 troops of the Free Trade Union had taken down all the territory of Dongjing, the Iron Fort Kingdom. Helian, in the court of Woz City, was so depressed that he almost vomited blood. He issued seven or eight consecutive orders of kings and withdrawal orders, but no one missed him.

"You damn traitors, you all wait for me, I will definitely make you pay the price!"

Helian, who had a breath of breath in his chest, had no desire to expand his territory at this time. He just wanted to train another powerful army to sweep across the northern border and kill all the traitors!

...

After taking down 20 earl corpses from the Iron Fort Kingdom and occupying the Iron Fort City of the Royal Capital, Zhou Ming and others did not formulate the next expansion plan, but sat together to discuss the allocation of these 21 territories.

Distribution of benefits.

This is a key issue that no matter in any field, organization, or team must face!

The cake is distributed well, hello, I, everyone. If the cake is not well divided, even the brothers with the best relationship may draw their swords and cut them.

As for how to allocate these 21 territories, the seven Counts all have their own ideas.

Some counts suggested that one person and seven counts would be divided just in time, and no one would suffer any losses.

But this proposal was immediately rejected because the efforts of the seven counts were different. Some sent more troops, some paid more money, some suffered heavy casualties, and some seized a lot... If all these factors were taken into account, no matter how they were distributed, there would be people who would be dissatisfied and some would be slapped on the table.

Therefore, it is harder to distribute interests than to win a battle.

"I have an offer. I wonder if you sir, would you like to listen?"

As the quarrel became more and more intense, Zhou Ming stood up and said.

"What proposal, Edward, you said." The old earl sitting in the head said kindly. Edward has always had many ideas, and maybe he has some good suggestions.

Everyone also looked at him.

Zhou Ming looked around for a while and said, "I think the land in these 21 territories is still too small, and it is not enough for everyone to divide it. It is better to wait until several kingdoms are captured and divide these kingdoms one by one. This way, the division is more interesting and easier. Do you think this is the case?"

"S~"

Hearing this, everyone took a breath of cold air, their hearts twitched violently, and then they started to beat violently.

There was also an earl next to him who had just fought red. After receiving the terrifying message of this situation, he was stunned and murmured: One person has one kingdom? How is it possible?

But after thinking about it carefully, the counts found that this was not impossible. If it were a few years ago, it would be difficult for them to gather an elite army, not to mention 20,000, even 2,000 people. In just a few years, they could easily pull out an army of 20,000 people.

Looking at Zhou Ming again, everyone thought that this kid was a monster. With a small baron leader alone, he pulled out 20,000 troops. The elite level was no different from the troops they brought. If all the territories were like Glen, then the result...

"As for the 21 territories at hand, I suggest establishing an "Iron Fort United States", which is temporarily entrusted by the Free Trade Union, electing a chairman for management, and setting up a council of elders and seven elders to participate in the management of the United States, and enjoying the right to supervise and vote in all matters of the United States. Moreover, each elder enjoys a certain share of the right to profit from the United States every year..."

Zhou Ming expressed his other idea.

After hearing this idea, everyone's eyes lit up.

The "United States" system proposed by Zhou Ming not only protects the interests of everyone under the conditions of mutual checks and balances and mutual supervision, but also concentrates on doing major tasks and reduces many constraints. If this system operates well, not only will it be worry-free, but also has a large amount of income recorded every year.

Just like the Free Business Alliance founded by Zhou Ming, the seven counts actually didn't know much about the detailed rules of the business alliance operation, but it is undeniable that it is precisely because of the business alliance that the seven counts could lie in the castle without worrying so much, and hundreds of thousands of gold coins were recorded every year.

Therefore, for the candidate for the president of the "Iron Fort United States", the Counts surprisingly agreed to let Zhou Ming be the president of the United States, because no one except him could have made the "United States" set of things.

However, at this moment, Zhou Ming, who should have been secretly happy in his heart, suddenly started to hold on and said, "I can serve as the chairman, but I have a small condition."

condition?

"What conditions?" asked an earl.

"I want to be the Count of Count Ross, and Count Lauziz has always wanted to kill me... and I also need a territory close to the United States of Iron Fort to facilitate the management of the United States."

Shortly after Zhou Ming led his troops into the Iron Fort Kingdom, Count Lauziz, who had been looking for opportunities to avenge his three sons for many years, seized this opportunity. Last month, he took thousands of troops and horses to siege the Glen, hoping that even if he could not kill Zhou Ming, the irreconcilable enemy, would kill a few of his close relatives before he died of old age and let him taste the pain.

"Can!"

The earls thought about it and nodded. In fact, with Zhou Ming's achievements, it would be enough to be named a duke, not to mention the earl, but these earls do not have the authority to grant titles that only the king has. Now Zhou Ming said that he wanted to become the earl of Earl Ross, but he actually wanted the territory of Earl Lauziz.
Chapter completed!