The Biggest Surprise
He opened Shi Lei's report. It mainly contained a detailed account of what had happened afterward.
Xie Liancheng had woken up after being unconscious for an entire night. He was no longer in any danger, which made Zhou Xu breathe a sigh of relief.
At the very end of the report, Shi Lei had naturally mentioned the situation in Pingyuan City.
After annexing Liang this time, the total population of their Great Zhou had suddenly increased by more than twenty thousand.
As a border city that had originally belonged to Liang, Pingyuan City's population was relatively small, numbering just over three thousand. Yet during the green-skin invasion, fewer than a thousand people had managed to flee alive to Yuan City.
Of the five hundred troops their Great Zhou had stationed in Pingyuan City, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they had been almost completely wiped out.
Adding in the casualties suffered by their Great Zhou cavalry during the subsequent battle for Yuan City, their losses in this campaign had been immense.
In Shi Lei's view, the presence of the green skins was very likely to turn Pingyuan City's location into a high-risk area.
Pingyuan City had become an empty city either way. Since that was the case, they might as well take advantage of the situation and convert it into a fortress specifically for stockpiling troops, comprehensively improving its defenses. In the future, whether resisting the green skins or an attack by the dwarves, it would perform much better.
Clearly, after carefully pondering the matter, Shi Lei had figured it out as well. He no longer dared to think too highly of that group of dwarves.
It had to be said that on this matter, Shi Lei and he had arrived at the same