Chapter 1288: The fourth natural disaster and the theoretical upper limit of territory

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The lords who are driven by profit dare to break through even the swords and mountains and seas of fire.

It would be better to expect their morale to collapse than to expect the sun to rise from the west.

As long as the rewards of the mission are generous enough, the lords can complete it until death.

To Archduke Jonathan, this war was a senseless war against banditry.

But for the lords, it was a good opportunity to make a fortune.

In these two days of fighting, the surviving lords had more or less gained something.

Through point redemption, their strength is gradually increasing.

Overall, the gains of the lords are greater than their losses, which is why Lord Jonathan feels like the enemies are getting more and more.

Not just because new lords flocked from the surrounding areas to join the battle.

There are also reasons why the surviving lords quickly restored their forces.

Of course, if you want to benefit from this battle, the most important prerequisite is to survive.

Those lords who died in the battle were eliminated and naturally received nothing.

The essence of these temporary tasks is still a kind of screening and elimination.

Zong Shen's strong rise made it difficult for the regional lords to keep up with their development progress.

In order to balance the average development progress of the region, there is a lord mission for the total population under his command between 500 and 3,000 people.

It still follows the same principle of winners rising and losers eliminated.

Like Zong Shen, lords with tens of millions of people are obviously not within the scope of the mission's invitation.

His strength has already far exceeded the level.

Besides, the giant city of Lentax was completely wiped out by him.

Even Grand Duke Jonathan's decision to send troops there was inseparable from Zong Shen's behavior.

The battle in the great city of Lentax continued day and night.

The lords occupied the relatively intact second and first circles there, and even the Marquis Castle at the core was not spared.

In fact, there is also a clear competitive relationship within the lords.

However, this competitive relationship will not continue to get worse before facing a common enemy.

Most lords unite with each other in units of [legions] and squads.

Each occupied a certain tower or fortress.

The same goes for the Marquis Castle.

Now the entire castle is occupied by hundreds of lords, and they have brought tens of thousands of soldiers together, which can fill all the battle positions.

Thanks to the aboriginal buildings of the Endless Continent, the buildings are very spacious and magnificent.

Various defensive buildings can basically accommodate a large number of soldiers.

This was a good time for the lords and their soldiers to have a roof over their heads.

However, the defensive equipment originally deployed in these buildings, as well as the defensive runes and magic circles engraved on them were all dismantled by Penny's people.

So what these lords occupy is just an empty shell.

You can only use your own props to enhance protection as much as possible.

This resulted in chaos throughout the giant city of Lentax.

Magic energy shields of various colors and sizes lay east and west.

After two or three days of fierce fighting, many towers in the second circle were destroyed.

The ice outside was also severely damaged.

The houses that were originally frozen in the ice were gradually revealed.

The fighting lasted almost all night.

Putting aside the side of Grand Duke Jonathan, the lords had no concept of rest.

Even in the dead of night, there are still lords taking turns.

Because only various war actions can earn points.

In any case, this war will probably last for some time.

Either Archduke Jonathan dies, or the lords' mission is over or they are completely defeated.

Neither side has a reason to back down.

Lord Jonathan, who seemed to have the upper hand, was being dragged into the quagmire by the stubborn and rogue lords.

This involves a process of ebb and flow.

The biggest factor that affects the results of interference is the lord system.

The points earned by the lords can be quickly converted into combat effectiveness.

Under such circumstances, even a battle loss ratio of 10 to 1 is meaningless.

Archduke Jonathan understood the horror of the fourth natural disaster.

This kind of enemy that cannot be defeated and kills more and more will make anyone feel troublesome.

Those legendary strong men can harvest hundreds or even thousands of lives every time they go out.

But such figures are nothing compared to the total number of tens of millions.

Those guard-level demigods were even more devastating when they took action, but to be able to kill tens of thousands in the face of various treacherous means was remarkable.

You must know that the lords will not sit back and wait for death.

Even their attacks pale in comparison to the powerful demigods.

But quantitative changes can always lead to qualitative changes.

You must know that on a battlefield with tens of millions of people, a demigod-level expert is not absolutely invincible.

Many of the blood-burning demons that invaded the Endless Continent in the last era were defeated by the human wave tactics.

To be able to achieve stable output, you have to rely on a large army.

The dragonborn military formation increased the combat effectiveness of the legionnaires under Jonathan.

Attack and defense can be integrated.

As long as the opponent just sends out a slightly larger team, they will soon be met by the legion.

The rangers in the rear fired longbow volleys, and the cavalry regiments repeatedly charged and trampled them, like a meat grinder.

This was how the initial shocking casualties were caused.

The second is the seventh-level natural disaster-level magic jointly performed by various siege equipment and the mage group.

All of these caused huge damage to the lord.

However, after suffering several losses, the lords became wiser.

They gave up on gathering a large army numbering over a hundred thousand.

Each dispersed into separate teams, in the form of a team of 3,000 to 10,000 people, to attack the troops and camp supplies under Archduke Jonathan in different directions, time periods, and targets.

Troops and horses were killed and robbed every day, and supplies of food and grass were often attacked.

After the large formation is deployed, it is really difficult to defend against.

And for those guys who came to harass, they killed one wave after another, just like a wave.

Although it doesn't hurt my muscles or bones, it really gives me a headache.

Now Archduke Jonathan only hopes that when the reinforcements arrive, they can annihilate these bandits in one go!

Twenty million troops are not all the troops under his command, but they are most of the troops he can mobilize in this area!

Even though the territory of the kingdom is vast, there are countless giant cities and states.

The population is even more numerous.

However, the Kingdom's army, which has received strict training and wears standard equipment, is still not a cabbage.

On average, a giant city can send a million soldiers to join this crusade, which is considered good.

At the very least, some troops must be left to defend the city.

Some of the new giant cities cannot even muster a million soldiers.

Regardless of the outcome of this war, Grand Duke Jonathan is destined to suffer a big loss.

His victory is not a victory.

In this battle, all the lords who participated and survived could gain and make progress more or less.

Therefore, the lord's loss is not considered a loss.

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The next morning.

Zong Shen received the news after getting up.

During the three days of bloodletting in the ice cave, he blocked all channel information.

And there is no time to pay attention to the dynamics of the lords.

After getting up and washing up in the early morning, Zong Shen felt refreshed and walked around the territory with Luna.

Then he went to City Hall.

They looked at the [Endless Continent Terrain and Urban Distribution Area Huge Re-enactment Sand Table (Special)] respectively.

Checked the surrounding giant cities.

These are all areas that cannot be avoided in the next stage of territorial expansion.

This sand table can be called a three-dimensional map of the entire continent. Not only are giant cities marked on it, but also various terrains, including mountains, forests, and lakes, are clearly visible.

Not only that, the weather in each region is also reflected.

Different clouds and climates, including snowfall and frost, can be seen vividly.

The most important thing is that Zong Shen discovered that this sand table is completely dynamic.

At this time, in the Kingdom of Nord, there was a battle line with two villains fighting each other.

The Kingdom of Avalon is also divided into several parts with dotted lines.

In the Kingdom of Vaegia in the north, the area north of the Great Wall of Despair was shrouded in black clouds, making it difficult to see.

There are also dotted lines in the kingdom that represent opposition, and one side has the emblem of the Lister family.

There is a lot of situation information evolving throughout the sandbox.

Even if Zong Shen doesn't go out, he can know the general trend of the world as long as he keeps an eye on the changes in this sand table.

Of course, the information in the sand table reaction is macroscopic, and there are no causes, consequences, or details.

But this is nothing to Zong Shen, he has a strategy module.

If you find any interesting information on the sandbox, just ask the guide to learn more specific information.

The sand table in Endless Continent occupies a large area.

It is placed alone on the second floor of the city hall.

This city hall is not a drawing, but a self-built building.

At present, it seems that the lords do not have the finished drawings of the [City Hall].

I don’t know if it’s not the time yet, or if it’s more difficult to obtain.

Zong Shen walked around the sand table and immediately went up to the third floor.

This is where Howie, Mariel and others usually work.

In addition to the workbench stacked with documents, there is also a [territory construction sand table (Yao Guang Level VII)].

This thing not only intuitively reflects the current construction situation of the territory, but also comes with a variety of quick construction privileges.

By staying here, you can easily control the construction of the entire territory.

The premise is that you have the construction authority approved by Zong Shen.

Using a sandbox for construction is many times more efficient than going to the construction site to place ghosts in person.

It also supports one-click placement, transfer and removal.

It is precisely because of this that the large-scale construction of the territory started so quickly.

The current construction pattern of the territory has begun to take shape.

The overall area is nearly twenty times that of Bosbon.

But compared with the giant city of Lentax, it is only about one-fifteenth of the area.

Because the layout of the territory is more reasonable, it is not built slowly year by year, but based on prior planning. The entire area is more compact and there is not much useless space.

In addition, Zong Shen's territory did not include those nobles who frequently built large manors and castles.

This part also saves a lot of land.

Whether in terms of practicality or development potential, the more compact the layout of urban construction, the better.

As long as there are no functional deficiencies.

The planning of each urban area fully takes into account various functional areas.

Commercial streets, small squares, parks, opera houses, pubs, hotels, stables, etc.

Zong Shen’s principle for these functional areas is very simple, that is, you can use them without them, but you can never live without them.

Many buildings are currently being prepared for a rainy day.

It is not easy to transform from an ordinary territory to a city. In fact, Zong Shen encountered many difficulties when selling this step.

This is actually related to his rapid development and transformation.

Ninety-nine percent of the lords now have no awareness of territorial city construction.

In the final analysis, the scale is still not up to standard.

At present, the lords who are doing well only have a population of 10,000.

If they are not doing well, there are also lords with a population of one or two thousand.

For example, the limited mission in the giant city of Lentax mainly focuses on those lords who are currently doing poorly. It is both a test and an opportunity to accelerate development.

With a population of 10,000, if the layout is more compact.

In other words, two or three streets of housing can solve the problem.

You must know that some large communities on the earth can even accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Fortunately, Zong Shen successfully completed the transformation of urbanization and opened up the pattern of a big city.

In the future, we just need to expand outward based on today's foundation.

However, Zong Shen actually has more in-depth thoughts about the territory.

That is the relationship between territory and population.

You must know that the current territory of the lord is determined by the lord's courtyard and territory level.

Its development limit is like that of a giant city-state.

The shape of the giant city in the Endless Continent is deformed enough.

After all, in a place with such a primitive production structure, a huge city can accommodate tens of millions of people.

The final shape of the territory will only become more deformed.

What Zong Shen considered was how many people the territory could eventually accommodate.

It is not a kingdom. At best, it has become a super city-state. Even if it occupies a territory of thousands of miles in radius, it will always have limitations compared with the kingdom.

Now it seems that a population of tens of millions is obviously not the upper limit.

So this threshold may be hundreds of millions, or it may be billions.

At that time, the development of the territory will face a real bottleneck.

And the second courtyard is not a privilege that everyone can have.

But then again.

For most lords, it is not a territory that accommodates hundreds of millions of people.

Even a territory that accommodates tens of millions of people is worth their lifetime struggle.

This is by no means alarmist.

Zong Shen's current level is the upper limit of many lords.

So much so that there are even more lords who may not be able to reach this level.

It is possible to reach the upper limit by gathering a population of more than ten or two hundred thousand people.

This is not their theoretical upper limit, but that their development speed lags behind that of the lords at the same time, which leads to the overall situation being decided.

Just like the current aboriginal kingdoms, those giant cities and state cities may have been left behind by the "runners" among the previous lords.

And when the other lords had no idea at all.

Zong Shen is already thinking about a higher limit.

It seems that the opportunity to break the upper limit of the territory lies in the Kingdom Fragments.

Even the second courtyard is not the real solution.

Only the establishment of a kingdom is the true way to break the shackles.

Zong Shen narrowed his eyes and his expression couldn't help but become serious.

Creating a kingdom is what he should focus on in the next stage.

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