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Zhang Liao's last words made Yang Rui overjoyed. The Flaming Horse was indeed effective. His friendship with Zhang Liao had finally taken a step forward! However, due to the large number of players present, Yang Rui still followed Cheng Yu's instructions and did not stop to interact with Zhang Liao. Instead, he rode the Flying Carpet straight to the Yanmen Pass.
By the time he arrived at the Gate of Goose, Gao Shun was already waiting for Yang Rui with a group of cavalrymen and bandit leaders. Yang Rui was already familiar with the guards at the Yanmen Pass. After meeting up with Gao Shun, he led his troops through the pass and rushed back to Dashan City.
After entering the Yanmen Pass, these troops would not be threatened. Yang Rui placed Zhang Ning and Cheng Yu in the storage ring and chatted about Zhang Liao for a while. Then, he leisurely sat on his horse and browsed through the game's forum.
The post Yang Rui posted about the attack on Dashan City was still pinned at the top and was very eye-catching. However, Yang Rui himself was attracted by two new posts that were pinned at the top. These two posts were related to Yang Rui. One was about the punitive expedition against the Xiongnu people and the other was about Zhang Liao.
From the post about the punitive expedition against the Xiongnu people, Yang Rui learned that the players from the Six Great Factions had been defeated by the remaining forces of the Qiu Lin Tribe and the Xu Bu Tribe along with the other four Xiongnu Tribes.
According to the introduction of the post, the area from the south of Shuofang City to the north of the Great Wall was the main area of activity for the Xiongnu people. The Six Great Factions were the first to face the counterattack of the Qiu Lin Tribe's Qiu Linyan. Soon after, the Xu Bu Tribe's Shaogu Duhou and Xu Bu Falcon came to their aid. At this time, the players were already at their limit. However, they did not expect reinforcements from the four Xiongnu tribes to arrive from the south of the old city. Thus, the group of players was quickly defeated!
It could be said that the failure of the players was mainly due to the difference in strength between the generals and the teleportation point of the punitive expedition against the Hun Tribe. The location of the Hun Tribe was beyond the expectations of the players. No one had thought that there would be so many Hun Tribe in the Hetao region, so they were caught unprepared.
At this point, Yang Rui was able to roughly analyze the reason. The token used to conquer the Xiongnu was an item from the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the power distribution of the Xiongnu was naturally very different from now. That was why the current situation had occurred in the settings of the teleportation point.
The post also mentioned Yang Rui's participation in the punitive expedition against the Xiongnu, but it was only briefly mentioned. Since Dashan City was ambushed, Dashan City did not play a part in the subsequent battle against the Xiongnu tribes. Everyone felt that this was normal. It was believed that very few people would have thought that Yang Rui was forced to leave the Six Great Powers!
Overall, the punitive expedition against the Hun Tribe by the players was not successful. In comparison, Yang Rui was the only one who didn't suffer any losses. He defeated two Xiongnu tribes one after another and obtained their central tent. He also plundered quite a bit of wealth and captured the tribe leader as well as many captives.
It could be said that Cheng Yu and Sun Qian had played an important role in Yang Rui's success. Without the two's advice and skills, Yang Rui would not have been able to achieve such results. At most, he could have successfully ambushed the Qiulin Tribe with the other players. It was obviously impossible to cross the desert and attack the Xu Bu Tribe.
Another post about Zhang Liao in the forum had just been posted. It was very likely that it was written by a player who had been watching Zhang Liao for a long time but was ultimately caught off guard! The post described the entire process of watching Zhang Liao over the past few days. It also described the "Masked Man" completing the mission of capturing Zhang Liao's leader. The entire description was filled with resentment towards the "Masked Man" for interfering.
The "Masked Man" in the post was, of course, Yang Rui. However, it was believed that the players present would not be able to guess Yang Rui's identity. This was because Dashan City had just been ambushed the day before. The players would not easily link it to Yang Rui.
It was not until some players discovered the 2,000 Dashan City Cavalrymen returning from Yanmen Pass that people began to link the two incidents together. However, the players did not discover Yang Rui's figure among the Cavalrymen. They also did not have much time to search for Yang Rui. This was because the Cavalrymen led by Gao Shun did not come out after entering Daixian County.
It turned out that Yang Rui felt that the Cavalrymen were too slow. Moreover, the terrain around Bing Province was originally rugged and uneven. Yang Rui did not want to use the Cavalrymen to travel. However, it was not convenient for Yang Rui to leave. The 2,000 Cavalrymen were already a big target. Moreover, there was a historical general like Gao Shun. Who knew what kind of thoughts the players along the way would have and cause trouble?
Therefore, after entering Daixian County, Yang Rui separated all the Cavalrymen and horses. Everyone was stored in Yang Rui's Storage Ring. As for the horses, Yang Rui directly entrusted them to the relay station for transport. Transporting the horses from Daixian County to Dashan City only cost 10 silver coins per horse. It was almost a few percent of the teleportation price. This was the most economical and most efficient way of transporting the Cavalrymen that Yang Rui could think of.
However, this method was only effective for people like Yang Rui who had the Storage Ring and was not in a hurry to use the horses. Otherwise, the Cavalrymen themselves would not be able to transport the horses. Even if they could transport the horses, the speed would be much slower than the Cavalrymen themselves. It would not increase the efficiency.
After Yang Rui decided to rest and recuperate, he realized that there were many urgent matters that needed to be dealt with. This was also the reason why Yang Rui was in a hurry to return to Dashan City.
First of all, he had to focus on the basic production, especially the food production. Due to the construction of the Dragon King Temple in Dashan City, the problem of drought was no longer a problem. The land area had also exceeded 200,000 mu for the first time. There was also a special crop, the sweet potato. It could be said that there were not many places in the entire Great Han Dynasty that had better farming conditions than Dashan City.
However, at the same time that the land area was increasing rapidly, the number of Liegeman who were engaged in farming had also increased by a lot. In addition, Dashan City was also experiencing a fertility boom. Many women who were engaged in farming were temporarily unable to leave. Therefore, he had to further increase the number of Liegeman who were involved in farming.
Reed Tang Village had always been recruiting refugees and disaster victims. Furthermore, its geographical location had a natural advantage. However, it was still not enough. Yang Rui planned to split the Cavalrymen into groups to patrol the area after returning to Dashan City. This would allow him to recruit more refugees and disaster victims. This way, he could also strengthen the security of Dashan City's outer perimeter. At the same time, he could also train.
Secondly, he had to talk about the leveling resources. Apart from the ten thousand Second Grade and Third Grade Yellow Scarf Soldiers that Zhang Ning had obtained after her class change, the number of soldiers that Dashan City had developed had already exceeded 20000. With so many soldiers, the amount of resources required to level up had increased severalfold.
Yang Rui had already excavated or leveled up all the native and associated monster communities in Black Dragon Valley, Ao Lai Peak, and Gourd Cave. They had formed a resource circle that mainly consisted of low-grade monsters near and high-grade monsters further away. This had greatly increased the efficiency of farming. However, these monster communities were only enough for 20000 soldiers of various grades to level up.
With the gradual increase in the number of soldiers in Dashan City, Yang Rui felt that it was necessary to open up a new training area for soldiers. He decided to make use of the monster communities in the area between the Wenshui Pirate Camp and Reed Tang Village. He wanted to turn this area into a radiation zone for Dashan City.
At the same time, Yang Rui decided to activate the 'The Vanishing House of Mo' brocade box quest. Yang Rui knew that some quest dungeons could be fixed as normal leveling areas after clearing them. The 'The Vanishing House of Mo' brocade box quest was in Gourd Cave. It was worth a try for Yang Rui.
Yang Rui had originally planned to activate the 'The Origin of the Qiang Tribe' brocade box quest after completing it. Now, it seemed that the two didn't contradict each other. In fact, when Yang Rui received the reward for the Yellow Scarf Uprising storyline quest, he had also drawn a 'Crusade against the Other Tribes of Bingzhou' quest scroll. It should have been targeted at the Wuheng and Xianbei tribes. However, it wasn't suitable for him to use it now.
The third aspect was the construction of the territory. When he came to pick up Gao Shun and the others through Reed Tang Village, Yang Rui noticed that Reed Tang Village's status had changed. This was most likely the reason why Yang Rui had obtained the position of Provincial Governor of Qingzhou. Only when one's position reached the required level could they upgrade their territory!?
If there were no accidents, since Reed Tang Village could be upgraded, then Xiayi Village and Jiangji Wutun Town could also be upgraded. Yang Rui planned to upgrade all of these territories after returning.
Other than that, Yang Rui hadn't used the blueprint for the Drill Hall that he had obtained after the Yellow Scarf Uprising storyline because he needed an expert carpenter. In order to produce the dagger-axes, he needed to build a higher level dock. Now that Yang Rui had found the beggar carpenter Jiao Wen in Luoyang City, who happened to be at the expert level, he could start building these buildings.
The fourth aspect was the improvement of the special forces. The various matters in the territory determined the improvement of Yang Rui's overall strength. However, he couldn't stop obtaining the skill books for the core combat forces such as generals, cavalry, archers, and special forces.
This was especially true for the Tier-5 special forces such as the Pioneer Warriors. Yang Rui had already established himself in Western Liang's Ledu City. He could obtain this special force through exterminating the Western Qiang rebels, as well as the corresponding skill books for generals, cavalry, archers, and horses.
In fact, if all the miscellaneous things were taken into account, Yang Rui needed to do far more than this. Moreover, according to the time, the second large-scale storyline of the game wouldn't be too far away. Before that, there was bound to be a storyline! Yang Rui needed to use this time to strengthen himself as much as possible in order to deal with the second large-scale storyline of the game.
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