Zhen 16 and Zhen 18 led 4,000 cavalry to raid the camp in the north of the mountain, killing and wounding more than 2,000 people, including the old and weak, capturing more than 18,000 women and children left in the camp in the north of the mountain, and capturing more than 800,000 cattle and sheep and horses, and their own losses were less than 200 people, which was a real victory.

Of course, if Wang Peng and Zhen Er hadn't desperately delayed the attack of the cavalry in the northern part of the mountain, even if this battle was finally victorious, and the Black Domain Haizi Water poured into the Black Domain City, it would have been a miserable victory in the end!

Even so, after this battle, the Black Domain City also suffered a lot of losses, the newly trained infantry of 2,000, in addition to 500 people to defend the city, 1,500 infantry to block the 6,000 cavalry in the north of the mountain, the number of dead in the battle alone reached more than 300 people, the seriously wounded also exceeded 200 people, and the remaining nearly 1,000 people were wounded.

Similarly, after this battle, the cavalry that fled from the northern part of the mountain returned one after another, and these cavalry did not come to take refuge because they looked at the Black Domain City, but the Black Domain City captured the families of these cavalrymen and had to surrender to the Black Domain City.

It took three days for the statistics of the battle to be completed in the northern part of the mountain.

There are two things that make Wang Peng the happiest, one is that a large amount of materials in the northern part of the mountain have been seized, of course, in addition to cattle, sheep, war horses, and women, children. The second thing is that after this battle, not only did the cavalry of Black Domain City not decrease, but due to the addition of a large number of cavalry in the northern part of the mountain, the number of troops in Black Domain City suddenly exceeded eight thousand!

At this time, Wang Peng finally figured out why the northern part of the mountain would fight with the Black Domain City!

The northern part of the mountain is far less powerful than Wang Peng originally imagined, a few months ago, the northern part of the mountain suffered a sudden invasion of the Mengwu department, a large number of cavalry died, when the attack on the city of Heiyu, the cavalry in the north of the mountain has been left less than 8,000, and the remaining more than 20,000 people are all old and young, women and children, in urgent need of a place to recuperate, at this time happened to find the city of Heiyu.

After reading the report, Wang Peng couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, the population structure of Black Domain City was actually similar to that of the weak northern part of the mountain, or even worse.

There is a characteristic of the war on the steppe, the defeated side will be slaughtered by the victorious side, and there is a reason for this, in order to prevent those young people with resentment from taking the opportunity to rebel within the tribe after the defeated side is co-opted.

According to the law of survival on the grassland, Wang Peng should also slaughter the young and strong in the northern part of the mountain this time, and he did this before, but as a result, the women, children, and children in the Black Domain City accounted for about three-quarters, resulting in a serious shortage of troops in the Black Domain City now.

But this time the situation is a little different, in the end, the northern part of the mountain is also forced to a dead end by the Mughuls, otherwise it will not fight with the Black Domain City.

This is the external reason, the internal reason is that the loss of the Black Domain City is not small, if you continue to slaughter these young people in the northern part of the mountain, the strength of the Black Domain City will be difficult to recover in a short time, in case of ......, as long as you encounter a tribe like the northern part of the mountain, the Black Domain City will have no power to fight back.

Ponder over! Wang Peng was still ready to leave the young and strong in the northern part of the mountain to replenish the losses of the troops in the Black Domain City.

Although there is a great risk in doing so, the benefits are also quite obvious, as long as it can integrate the youth in the northern part of the mountain, the strength of Black Domain City will jump to a new level.

After a fierce debate, Wang Pengli overrode the public opinion, and selected 3,000 people from the young and strong people in the northern part of the mountain, 2,000 people were incorporated into the cavalry, and the remaining 1,000 people joined the infantry battalion, so that the total strength of Heiyu City exceeded 8,000.

These 8,000 soldiers are not all the strength of Black Domain City, there are 1,000 patrols and 1,000 mercenaries in Black Domain City, and the number of people who can fight has reached more than 10,000.

"This battle with the northern part of the mountain has exposed many problems in Black Domain City, some of which cannot be solved by Black Domain City at present, such as the problem of insufficient training of soldiers, such as the problem of soldiers' weapons and equipment, and then the problem of Black Domain City's control over the surroundings, these problems can not be solved at once, the foundation of Black Domain City in Murowei is still shallow, and it is indispensable to develop to this point today, without your support and efforts!"

"But there are also some problems that we have neglected before, and this war has all been exposed, so I don't need to say that you all know where the problem is!"

After the end of the war, many people were thinking about this question, and it was this problem that almost brought the city to a point of no return, that is, the city was built on low-lying sandy ground.

When the Black Domain City was built here, he considered the fierce fire oil underground, and he didn't realize that Murowei would also attack with water. It's ridiculous to say, everyone subconsciously thinks that the Murowei people are really savages, and the Murowei people are indeed not smart, which is related to the regional environment in which they live, if they really think that Murowei is a fool, then they will become fools one day.

"yes!" Zhen Thirty-three frowned and said worriedly: "It is true that we didn't take this into account when we built the city, which made us fall into passivity in this war with the northern part of the mountain, and almost put the Black Domain City into a state of no return!" However, I have carefully investigated in the past few days, and it is not wrong to build the Black Domain City here, the fierce fire oil is the foundation of our foothold in Murowei, if we can't control the oil wells of the fierce fire oil, we will also be in a disadvantageous position in the next battle with the Murowei people? ”

"Is this really a problem?"

Zhen Thirty-three is right, the reason why Black Domain City was built in the current place is entirely because considering the safety of the supply of fierce fire oil, even if the time is moved back half a year ago, in order to gain a firm foothold here in Murowei, I am afraid that in the end, I will still choose to build Black Domain City here again.

"Then there are only two options to make up for the current loophole, one is to build another city between the north and south of the Black Domain Haizi to block the possibility of digging a levee from the east of the Black Domain Haizi, and the other is to build a castle next to the Black Domain Haizi Levee to protect the safety of the embankment! Which one do you think fits the current state? ”

Wang Peng has problems with both plans, the castle is too small, and it is not suitable to build too big, and it is lonely, in case someone sneaks up on the castle, it will become an outpost for the enemy to attack the Black Domain City. If another city is built between the north and south of the Black Domain, the amount of work is too large, and in addition to protecting the rear of the Black Domain City, the functional role is not significant, but it will become a chicken rib.

"I propose to build another city between Xiangyang Mountain and Heiyu Haizi?" A voice suddenly sounded, making everyone stunned, and they looked over to find that the person who spoke was Ma Sui.

(End of chapter)