When the sunlight through the window ridge shone on Ai's face, she woke up leisurely. She opened her sleepy eyes. She sat up from the bed and realized that there seemed to be some changes in her bedroom, becoming more magnificent.

After washing up, she walked out of the room and found that the exterior wall of the palace seemed to have changed a lot, but she couldn't say what the specific place had changed. In short, she felt that the palace suddenly became more grand and luxurious.

In fact, this was the result of Hua spending 300 points to upgrade the palace to the Bronze Age level. He also upgraded the military camp and workshop to the Bronze Age level. He spent 560 (260,300) points. After the military camp was raised, there were more troops such as [Elephant Cavalry], [Charge], [Bronze Shield Guard], [Bronze Spear Guard], [Compound Bow Shooter], [Compound Bow Shooter], [Compound Bow Shooter], and the workshop can now make compound bows, bronze swords and some more exquisite bronze utensils.

The price of [Elephant Rider] and [Charge] is as high as 20 points, and the population consumed is 3 and 4 respectively. Hua believes that using precious points and limited population balance to exchange for these two unused things is not waste but a crime.

He just upgraded all 88 Shieldge infantry into bronze shield guards, and then generated two bronze shield guards. He gathered a total of 100 with the previous 10 bronze shield guards, spending 274 (88×35×2) points, and upgraded all 150 horned bow archers to compound bow archers, spending 300 points.

At present, the Huben camp in the basin trained another 400 new Huben recruits, and more than 500 were stationed in Yingyi. The Huben army has added new types of bamboo bow archer troops.

The reason why the Hu Ben Army's archers did not use composite bows is that although the workshop can produce composite bows, some of the raw materials for composite bows are not only expensive, but also difficult to obtain. Even in Qibashi City, there are few merchants available for sale, so it is still difficult to get a lot of equipment at present.

The more important reason is that it is difficult to achieve a native archer training to a level close to that of a system archer without four or five years of long-term professional training. From the practical and tactical level, it is not very meaningful to have junior archers use expensive compound bows. On the contrary, daily arch adjustment and maintenance will become a drag on them.

The same principle is also suitable for the Shieldge infantry in the Tiger. It is not that the bronze short sword in his hand can become a bronze shield guard by changing the bronze sword. The high martial combat power of the bronze shield guard is not just because of their equipment. Their individual tactical literacy and group consciousness are not only in the Bronze Age, but even in the entire Cold Weapon Age, they are also at the top level.

However, when the system copper mine is established in the future, when the copper material output can be supplied in large quantities, it is feasible to have the Hu Ben short soldiers and infantry equipped with the same or even better equipment as the bronze shield guards.

As for the long-salt warriors and the spear soldiers equipped with round shields and five-meter spears, Hua believes that the Tiger Ben Army is easy to imitate these two types of troops, and it is a bit wasteful to spend the system's population balance. So he only spent 78 points to upgrade 39 of the Long-salt warriors to the spear soldiers as the future instructors of the Tiger Ben.

More than two months later, the fortress of Yingguo Copper Mine was built. Hua immediately inspected the place and built a system copper mine with smelting facilities with 300 points. He named the fortress the bronze fort, where fifty compound bow archers, twenty long halberd warriors and fifty tiger benches were stationed. This was the only stronghold station in Xia State with Qilin Guards (system soldiers).

Due to geographical reasons, the copper material cost of copper fort is much lower than that produced in Tonglu Mountain far south of the river. Elephants on both sides of the Rushui took bamboo rafts to transport a large number of copper ingots to Huayi, making them into various agricultural tools, hunting tools, and bronze utensils, and then transported downstream to Qibashi City.

At this point, the bronze castle began to bring stable wealth and population to the Xia Kingdom, as well as the important strategic material of bronze.

...

With a "bang", a soldier from Shen State had been knocked away by the Xia State Huben Shield Guard. He was about to step forward and the soldier from Shen State. A militiaman from the left front had already slashed down with a sword, and the sword blade happened to slash into the chest of the soldier in Shen State.

However, the Yi Guo militia did not notice that an old farmer in the rear waved his hoe and smashed him at him, slamming him on the mouth of his vest, spitting out a mouthful of old blood and falling to the ground.

A few tiger archers who had already drawn their bows immediately shot at the old farmer when they saw this. Several shots were shot empty, and only two shots into the old farmer's body. He fell to the ground on his back, and was still muttering: "The State of Shen cannot be destroyed, and the foundation of the ancestors cannot be lost."

After a Shenguo garrison slashed and slashed two militiamen with Ge, he approached a Xia Kingdom's long halberd warrior. The bronze axe in his hand was slashed hard at the other party's head. A two-foot-long bronze spear blade had already drilled out of his chest. The ten-pound axe in his hand fell freely on the opponent's helmet, then slid to the ground, and made a long hole in the opponent's naked arms.

More than twenty Xia State Huben Shield Guards and dozens of Yi State militia broke into the Shen State Palace.

Shen Bo sat in the hall, with more than a dozen corpses lying beside him, all of whom he committed suicide. He calmly filled himself with a leap of wine, drank it all in one go, and then he picked up the bronze halberd weighing hundreds of pounds beside him and jumped up.

He danced wildly with his halberd and killed every enemy soldier. Wherever the halberd blade passed, his head and broken limbs fell everywhere.

Just as Shen Bo, who had a ferocious face, killed ten militias and tiger bells in a row, more than ten compound bow archers came to the entrance of the hall and shot sharp arrows at him. Almost every arrow shot into his body, and some arrows even shot through one to two millimeters thick copper bubble nails. In the end, he turned into a dead hedgehog.

The killing did not end because of Shen Bo's death. The people of Shen, who resisted with hoes and sticks, were slaughtered, both men, women, young and weak. The ancient Shen Kingdom, with a population of 3,000, disappeared into the long river of history.

This was the autumn of 1058 BC. In the past two years, China successively conquered the Rushui coast, from Huayi to Yingyi, two of which were proactively surrendered, two were determined by edicts, two were forced to subdue the army, and the other five were shot down by real swords and guns. Among them, Shen Guo was the last and the one with the most fierce resistance.

The four Fang countries saw that Xia defeated the Fang countries on both sides of the Rushui River, and then launched an alliance to fight against Xia. As a result, the 3,500 troops of the group were put together and the troops were slapped under the city. A few days later, when their troops were exhausted, Hua Chengye led his troops out of the city to raid and counterattack, defeating the four-nation coalition forces and killing more than a thousand enemies. It was raining heavily for days and blood flowed into a river. A large number of corpses drifted down the river. After that, Hua led his army to go down the water on bamboo rafts, and after joining the Iraqi army, he wiped out the enemy troops besieging Yingyi Palace City and Tongbao. Then he swept away all sides one by one.

After this battle, the other two wait-and-see Fang Guo immediately agreed to surrender after receiving Hua's letter.

Several of these eleven countries are vassal states of Shang, but Shang has no time to take care of this part now.

During the same period, the Shang side's name was the vassal state, but its old enemy, Xiqi Zhou, was expanding towards the Wujie Mountain area (i.e. Taihang Mountain) north of the river, capturing cities and attacking the country, and directly threatening the Shang side's royal capital. Laiyi in the east also took the initiative to advance westward to the Shang side's eastern vassal states. Most of these vassal states were royal vassal states of the Shang side, and the importance of the two surnames to Shang is incomparable to Shang, and Laiyi's western advance also posed a direct threat to the Shang side's royal capital.

Therefore, in the process of conquering the entire Ru River Valley in China, there were almost no obstacles from outside the region.

...

"Report to the Lord, our army captured 432 civilians from Shen State, almost all of whom were women and children, and seized 653 other slaves, concubines and servants of Shen State. Please tell me how to deal with these people." Yu Kuan, who directed the operation, asked him to ask.

Hua has never encountered this situation. Even if the other four countries have resisted, the monarchs will be captured, killed or surrendered voluntarily, the common people will give up resistance. But now almost all the males in Shen State have been slaughtered, and it is impossible and meaningless to exist as a country.

As for why Shen State is so special, one of the reasons Hua knows is that Shen State has "pure bloodline" and has no side branches. I don't know which generation it started, except for the eldest son, the rest of the male men were not allowed to have children with women of other surnames, and could only marry women of the same surname in the clan, and implement an internal marriage system.

When he was about to bring all these people back to Huayi for resettlement, he saw a young man with a crooked mouth and staring at him fiercely with resentful eyes, so he said coldly: "All men who are higher than the wheels are executed, and the rest are taken back to Huayi for resettlement."

"Master, what did you say..." Yu Kuan asked again because he was afraid that he would hear it wrong.

"I said that except for slaves, among the prisoners of Shen Kingdom, all males who were higher than the wheels, regardless of age, would be cut down," Hua said loudly.

"I obey the order!" Yu Kuan immediately went down and ordered the soldiers to execute.

...

Hua stood on a bamboo raft and looked at the Rushui Valley in autumn. This is a piece of land with a population of nearly 60,000 square kilometers from the Yiluo Basin in the north and ending in the east edge of the Nanxiang Plain in the south. It is now controlled by the Xia Kingdom.

The Xia State and Zhou State and Shang State ruled and managed the vassal states differently.

Except for the two vassal states of Xia State who took the initiative to submit and the two proclamations, the rest were like Ying State, and they used local consuls to manage administrative affairs, and the king became the void king.

The eleven vassal states, including Ying, all dispatched several dozen to one hundred Hu Ben garrisons, all of which were stationed in solid palaces or forts.

Neither the consul nor the monarch are allowed to set up personal guards. Only the standing garrison troops that are used for public security and their own security can be retained. The military armor and weapons used are also subject to restrictions. All militias of vassal states are subject to unified management of the Hu Ben garrison.

The Xia State dispatched system officials to each vassal state, but these officials only served as the consuls of the vassal state or the monarch who was not a false king, and did not interfere in specific administrative affairs. At the same time, they also had the responsibility to manage the Hu Ben garrison of the Xia State and safeguard their military discipline.

[Ding… Main mission 9 "Conquer Rushui Valley" is completed, congratulations to the Lord for receiving a point reward of 600]

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Data summary so far in this chapter:

【Points: 741】

[System population: including 50 farmers, 10 strong bow hunters, 2 businessmen, witch doctors, 100 bronze shield guards, serpent warriors: 40, spear soldiers: 30, compound bow shooters: 150, official: 16, total 420 people]

[Population balance: 2620]

[Building Facilities: Bronze Age high-end palaces, military camps, workshops | Bronze Age intermediate-level houses | Pigeon chambers | Wooden structure walls | Warehouses | Copper mines]
Chapter completed!