Yang Rui felt that the system was trying to delay the plot. The system would always try its best to complete the plot for characters like Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. This was not the first time Yang Rui felt this way. Liu Bei, Yuan Shu, and even Lu Bu had experienced similar situations before.
Therefore, Yang Rui did not have much hope of eliminating Cao Cao and Yuan Shao in one fell swoop, or even unifying the three civilizations. At least, Yang Rui felt that the system would not allow anyone to do so at this stage.
At the same time, Yang Rui admitted that it was difficult for his forces to meet the requirements of a large scale expansion. After Yang Rui took over Hanoi County, he already felt that he was short of manpower.
Currently, the entire Hanoi County was managed by Cheng Yu. Guo Jia, Xun You, Sun Qian, and the others could only provide him with supplies, suggestions, and other logistical support. The ones who cooperated with Cheng Yu in Hanoi County were mainly the Northern Mobile Corps.
Most of the areas that the Northern Mobile Corps needed to be stationed in were taken over by Yang Rui's wives. A small number of them were borrowed from the Southern Mobile Corps. At the same time, the Southern Mobile Corps was sent back by Yang Rui after the war had calmed down a little. At this time, they were still on their way.
It was worth mentioning that Yang Rui's wives were stationed in the North as commanders. In fact, it was the result of many of them volunteering to be deployed by Yang Rui. Of course, they did have the ability to do so. At the current stage where they were short of manpower, even if Yang Rui was unwilling, there was not much room to maneuver.
Of course, Yang Rui only lacked a general and a commander. As for military strength, Yang Rui did not need much. In addition, large player organizations such as Dragon Soul also occupied a few strategic nodes north of the Yellow River. Yang Rui's northern defense line was not too tight.
Yang Rui's army, which was stationed at a strategic location in the north of Green Province and Yan Province, was affectionately called the "Princess Consort's Army" by the NPCs in the area. Moreover, this name quickly spread throughout Yang Rui's territory and the entire region of the Three Kingdoms.
Moreover, the influence of the Princess's wives was close to Yang Rui's. They were not only responsible for the defense of the various strategic nodes, but most of them would also care about the hardships of the people in their territory. It could be said that they had gained a lot of reputation.
Based on the current situation, if the Princess's Army wanted to leave the northern defense line, it would have to wait until the snow melted in the third month of spring. When the Yellow River was open to navigation again, the fleet commanded by General Jin Fan Gan Ning would be able to shoulder most of the pressure from the northern defense line.
Yang Rui inspected the garrisons and production situation of the various regions. He also stayed for a long time in the newly acquired Hanoi prefecture. After only two gaming days, Yang Rui once again threw himself into the Battle Royale event.
Yang Rui wanted to make use of all three Battle Royale events. Even if the Soul-type items he obtained each time weren't ideal, it was still better than nothing. After all, this was the fastest way for Yang Rui to obtain Soul-type items at this stage of the game.
Including the previous series of big and small quests, they were also the main channels for Yang Rui to obtain Soul items. At this time, Yang Rui actually had a lot of Soul items in his hands. Whether it was the overall number or the top-grade items, Yang Rui could be said to have a lot of Soul items in his hands.
However, the absolute number of Soul items that met the conditions of Silver rank and above was very pitiful compared to the population of the real world. Yang Rui had made a rough calculation. At this time, he had no more than 20000 Soul items of Silver rank and above, and no more than 10000 Soul items of Gold rank and above.
Most of these Soul items came from the system's big and small quests. However, in the early stages, Yang Rui mainly used the quests to exchange for troop classes, skill books, and some of the highest-grade Soul items. No matter which of the three items he exchanged for, it was not easy to deal with. He easily spent eighty to ninety percent of the quests he accumulated.
Take the big items such as Sky City's soul and Mount Tai Palace's soul for example, they were all exchanged with a lot of points from the original quests. On the other hand, Yang Rui did not invest too much in the exchange of ordinary Soul items. He mainly focused on the needs.
Only after several storylines later on did Yang Rui realize the usefulness of soul-type items in the real world. Once, he had stocked up on soul-type items, easily purchasing 100,000 or even 200,000 soul-type items. However, among these soul-type items, the ones Yang Rui purchased the most were mainly Bronze and Iron ranked soul-type items. His main purpose was to control the market share and reap benefits from it.
It was not until Yang Rui understood the possible scattering of the Force that he started to purposefully accumulate Soul items of Silver rank and above for future consideration.
At this time, Yang Rui was in a hurry to hoard more of these Soul items and did not have a better channel. However, Yang Rui soon did not dwell on this matter. Even if he wanted to save more people, it was useless if he did not have the conditions. Perhaps taking care of the people around him was the most important thing for him to do.
At the same time, although Yang Rui wanted to help everyone, he would not distribute the Soul items without any cost. Yang Rui's starting point was naturally not to maximize the benefits, but he would also choose the target of his help carefully and exchange for the Soul items with conditions that Yang Rui thought were suitable.
Of course, Yang Rui did not need to worry too much about this. He believed that before the scattering of the Force truly arrived, there would be some people who would first get wind of it and leak the relevant information. When that time came, there would naturally be people who would come looking for Yang Rui who was sitting on a large number of Soul items.
In fact, Trace Dragon Soul and the others had probed Yang Rui about the Soul items several times, but Yang Rui avoided talking about it. Yang Rui indeed needed to carefully consider the whereabouts of some of the Soul items in his hands. At the very least, he needed to make use of them at the right time and bring out their proper value.
Yang Rui felt that it was not yet time to think about this problem in detail, so he did not waste too much energy at this time. At the same time, Yang Rui carefully thought about the civilization areas that he would go to in the remaining two Great Escape opportunities.
In the end, Yang Rui decided to use one of the opportunities to go to the Egyptian civilization area. According to the information that Yang Rui obtained from the game's built-in forum, it seemed that Cleopatra and Cleopatra, who had taken the initiative to appear back then, had encountered some trouble. It was time to pay them a visit.
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