Gradually, more and more information about the barbarians almost filled the rooms of the Provisional Marshal's Palace.

Military deployment, defense facilities, population distribution...... The vague data is becoming clearer, but Alexei's directives are becoming more and more unbelievable.

Not only did he not organize the army and march forward, even if he sent an advance team to test it, the new marshal was constantly merging the colonists' camps and shrinking their directions, so that every remaining camp was crowded with hundreds of thousands of people.

Millions of pioneers squeezed into the same territory, and in just a few days, the environment, supplies, and law and order quickly became bad.

Alexei ignored these reactions, and continued to strengthen the defenses of the new camp, using the constant watering of the ground to build layers of thick walls of frozen earth.

This practice is completely turning the camp fortress into a fortress.

However, there are people who are not satisfied.

"This is as if we are afraid of the enemy's initiative."

The complaints were not only in the middle and lower ranks of the officer circles, but even Deputy Marshal Dura did not understand them.

However, out of trust in the Empire's famous generals, he still did not express his opinion for the time being.

In the eyes of the deputy marshal, the only reliable move Alexei has made at present is to continuously send more scouts into Xue Songlin.

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Soon, the large camps were covered with a circle of walls, and the new marshal issued a new order—

Abandoned camps are built with sentry posts, connecting lanes, and new walls to build a larger colony defense!

All the Imperial Pioneers were forced to halt their mining work and build the defenses in the camp with the Imperial Army under the orders of the new marshal.

The permafrost walls stretched from the center to the east and west, and a large number of posts were added around the only river that extended to the north, and lanes were built for large chariots, and even used as train tracks if they were laid with sleepers.

Maybe the Imperials can't see it, but the night with God's perspective can see it clearly.

The arrangement of adding a defensive line along the way to the camp is exactly the only way to sneak attack the camps of the major colonists all the way south from the Great Snow Mountain.

Without these trails, the rest of the trails would have been either obstructed by mountainous terrain or led to deeper, colder snowy areas.

Alexei aimed to build a large camp perimeter, with lanes as connecting points, and permafrost walls and sentry facilities as outer guards, forming a vast network of colonies.

And most importantly, 40% of the food source of the northern barbarians is obtained from the post-colonial snowfields, and the only river in the north that is not frozen produces a large amount of fish every year, which is the most important source of meat for the barbarians.

Originally, the barbarians could choose a lot of routes to hunt in the south, and the imperial people could not restrict them from all aspects first, but now after systematization, it is equivalent to the barbarians taking the initiative to give up other lands other than the Great Snow Mountain.

Most of the routes to the south were blocked, so that the barbarians who came out of the Great Snow Mountains were left with only a few designed portals to attack.

Because the other positions have been surrounded by tall and thick frozen earth walls, once you take the initiative to bump into it, you will definitely break your head and bleed, and you will not be able to break through the defense line at a terrible price.

It can be said that this is not only to protect the development base of the empire, but also to isolate the activities of the barbarians in the north, constantly daring the barbarians to go deeper into the snowy regions, and at the same time allowing the colony to grow more safely.

A famous general deserves to be a famous general, and this kind of practice is simply naked forcing the barbarians to take the initiative!

However, it is a pity that the barbarians under the command of the night are no longer a group of beasts that scream with excitement when they see their homes fenced down, they have become more crazy and dangerous.

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After several days of busyness and the cost of a total stagnation in the mining industry, the foundation of the Colony's defenses has been successfully laid, and it will take months to upgrade the next optimizations.

Alexei didn't have that time to prepare, and the empire didn't have a chance, so under the marshal's expectations, the barbarians would definitely take the initiative to survive when they saw that their fishing grounds were besieged, and they only had to sit in the defensive circle and wait for work, and kill them one by one.

From the information gathered, it was known that the food inside the Great Snow Mountain alone could not meet the daily needs of the entire barbarians, and in the deeper snowy regions, there was a real land where there was nothing but snow.

However, the situation was somewhat beyond Alexei's expectations.

For several days in a row, the barbarians had not seen any tendency to take the initiative, and the food reserves of their respective tribes seemed to be inexhaustible, and there was no intention of acting at all.

The barbarians can bear it, but their own side can't bear it.

The new supplies brought in will soon be bottoming out, and the new supplies seem to be seriously lagging behind due to the expansion of the war.

Abandoning most of the territory and forcibly constricting all the pioneers into a few cages, the local food production is simply not enough to sustain such a large population, after all, in Alexei's plan, the colonization will not begin until the barbarians are defeated.

All the pioneers who came to the north to pioneer came with the promise of 'enough to eat', and if they couldn't even fulfill this last promise, Alexei was forced by an existential crisis to carry out a series of counterinsurgency operations before starting a war with the barbarians.

Similarly, the resentment in the army is getting heavier and heavier, some people are eager to make meritorious contributions, some people are fed up with the dirty and crowded living environment, and even more fed up with the inexplicable and wonderful instructions of the new marshal.

Seeing that it was almost impossible to suppress, fortunately, Alexei was really ready to swing the Northern Expedition as everyone expected.

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The 300,000-strong army moved in an orderly manner.

Along the newly built defensive deployment, the army was divided into four formations, each setting out from a different portal.

The newly built driveway has greatly improved the traffic situation in the north, and more than 200,000 people have been transported to the entrance of the Daisetsuzan Mountains in less than a day.

After leaving tens of thousands of people as defensive guards, the remaining army was all pressed down.

The strong military force was like a hot whirlwind piercing into the icy cedar forest.

The once Great Snow Mountain, now the Demon World, has been waiting for this army for a long time.

The creeping mountain walls, the swaying tree trunks, and the network of branches and leaves shaped like tentacles convey the message of visitors to the entire park.

All the twisted creatures, they have opened their bloody mouths, and they can't wait for the guests to come to the door.