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Under the command of Azar, this team moved forward bit by bit. The biggest loss in the process was not the battle, but the disease.

As the weather got hotter, more and more people on the team fell ill, mostly malaria.After finally crossing the Arakan Mountains and entering Myanmar, the number of sick people reached two-thirds of the entire army.

It wasn't until Haitli commanded the spaceship to find them that the problem was solved. Because Zhang Bai was also worried about the epidemic in the team, a lot of cinchona was put in the spacecraft, which immediately solved the urgent need.

Azar, who had been frowning for many days, finally felt relieved.

The biggest difficulty in the expedition was the morale of the troops. Back then, Alexander the Great of Macedonia triumphed all the way from Greece to the Middle East and then to India, and was invincible. In the end, he had to retreat because he was too far away from home and his military morale was slack.

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In mid-May, life in Miss City changed dramatically.The city walls began to be extended and new residential areas were built.Azar's army brought more than 100 ordinary craftsmen.A considerable number of these people are stonemasons, coppersmiths, and blacksmiths.

Although the resources in the surrounding mountains of Secret City are not rich enough, there are still stones.

The slaves went to work, digging into the mountain and breaking up the rocks.The inside and outside of Miss City began to be reinforced with stones. Large stones were used in the city walls and city center buildings, and the gravel was used in cement concrete.

Azar brought quite a lot of slaves, and they were no longer the hundreds of people he brought from Peshawar.The slaves at that time had gone through escapes, wars, hunger and disease, and now almost no one is left.

Today's slaves were all captured by Azar along the way, mainly indigenous residents of the Indian subcontinent, and their number reached more than 2000.

These slaves worked actively with little supervision by a foreman.It's not that these slaves are very conscious, the reason is that Zhang Bai insists on releasing them all as civilians.

Zhang Bai announced the conditions of his release in public. All slaves will work until this autumn. Before then, they will complete the reinforcement of the city wall and all buildings, build houses, cultivate and harvest farmland crops, manufacture cement, and build water conservancy projects.

As long as these tasks are completed, he is willing to free all slaves and make them civilians in Mystic City.

At that time, he will give land or jobs to those who are willing to stay in Mi City.If you are unwilling to stay and want to return to your hometown, let them stay.

The slaves were very happy because they had hope, so no one thought about resisting or sabotaging work, and their work efficiency was greatly improved.

Most of the people in Secret City were Zoroastrian believers and local natives, and no one was a slave owner, so no one went out of their way to despise or torture slaves.

They saw that the slaves worked hard and knew that these slaves would be released by Ahurama sooner or later. The common people naturally regarded them as ordinary people like themselves.

Coupled with the Zoroastrians' zeal to spread their teachings, some slaves even joined Zoroastrianism soon after, and these new Zoroastrian believers were therefore even more accepted.

Azar was busy training his cavalry, and stirrups were quickly equipped.Under Zhang Bai's guidance, Azar personally tried out the stirrups.

He grew up in the army and was very skilled in soldiers and horses. He understood everything after just one try.

These stirrups, especially the double stirrups, are indeed a good thing.

First of all, the rider no longer needs to use his legs to tightly clamp the horse's chest.This posture requires holding the legs up for a long time, which is comparable to practicing yoga and is very physically demanding on the rider.

Secondly, the hand that originally needed to hold the reins is now free.As long as the rider sits on the horse, he can shoot arrows with both hands continuously without having to release an arrow to control the horse, which greatly increases the shooting speed.

Thirdly, with the stirrups, skilled riders can now stand on the stirrups for a short period of time and shoot arrows 360 degrees around without blind spots.

There is no need to let the cavalry risk a short charge with arrows like the expeditionary force did in the Arakan Mountains. They only need to use the tactics mentioned by Zhang Bai, circle around the opponent, and use the range and rate of fire of the bow and arrow to kill the opponent.

In this way, when the opponent counterattacks, your own army can use the speed of the horse's sprint to retreat calmly and avoid its edge.Once the opponent retreats, your troops can stick up again and continue to shoot the opponent.

This is a nightmare tactic.

Finally, the appearance of stirrups gave the rider a place to focus on his feet. If he used a spear to sprint, he would not stab the enemy and fall off the horse.As a result, the power of the heavy cavalry has also been greatly increased.

Azar understood that with the stirrups and the war horses from the Western Regions, he had every chance of forming an undefeated cavalry across the world.

He was even looking forward to the war. In short, for the first time, he felt that this expedition was worth it.

The cavalry in Secret City were quickly divided into two parts by Azar for training.One part is light cavalry, about 3000 men and horses, and the other part is heavy cavalry, about 2000 men and horses.

Most of Azar's original cavalry were heavily armored cavalry, some on horseback and some on camels, and they all wore Parthian armor nicknamed "Bottles".

It was hot in Nanzhong, and the men and horses could not wear such heavy armor.So Azar ordered his men to reassemble the armor. Instead of wearing three layers of armor inside and three outside, each person only needed to wear one layer.

As a result, there were thousands more pieces of armor.

In addition to the spear points, leather armor, bows and arrows, flags, etc. that Zhang Bai brought from Shu, the infantry also began to be equipped.

The army in Secret City has quickly taken shape.

In his excitement, Zhang Bai gave them a name.The cavalry was modeled after Napoleon's cavalry unit, called Chasseurs, or Chasseurs for short.The entire army followed the Soviet Union and was called the First Guards Army.

The construction and raising of soldiers in Mi City cost a lot, especially food supply.

A lot of fields were cultivated around the city, and Zhang Bai deliberately used some wood magic to help the plants grow, but after all, the time was too short to expect a harvest.

The main supply still had to come from Chengdu. Zhang Bai, the porter, was so busy running around Chengdu Mi City. Not to mention other things, he was very skilled in the art of stars.But this is not a problem for a long time. After all, it takes up his cultivation time, and the progress of his cultivation has almost stalled recently.

In fact, the spiritual energy collected in the moonstone is sufficient, and the dream world is also full of spiritual energy, but time is too precious.

In Chengdu, the pressure on supply is also increasing. For other things, it is easy to say, mainly food.The food reserves in Azar's army have long been exhausted, and the food reserves in Secret City are being depleted rapidly.

Zhang Bai was so anxious that he went to the military garrison in Qingcheng Mountain several times to cast spells and supervise farming. However, the distant water could not save the nearby fire.In the end, you still have to rely on Liu Ba.Zhang Bai came to the house in person and asked Liu Ba to borrow a batch of grain, which solved his urgent need.

It seems that although finance can make money, food must be grown one grain at a time.

When Liu Ba borrowed food, he agreed readily because Zhang Bai had helped him a lot.

This job is to issue public bonds.

Public bonds are national bonds. Zhang Bai designed a sample and asked craftsmen to make thin sheets out of copper to serve as certificates and issue them to the public.