In the last seventeen to eighteen days, the storyline of the Struggle for Xu Province had begun to die down. Apart from the sporadic clashes between Yuan Shu and Liu Bei in Pengcheng and Xiapi, the entire Struggle for Xu Province had become the main battlefield for the players.
In this aspect, Liu Bei had always held the advantage over Yuan Shu. Although Liu Bei's faction had suffered heavy losses in the beginning, they still held an absolute advantage in terms of numbers.
Therefore, in the battles between Pengcheng and Xiapi, Liu Bei's faction had won the majority of the battles. In fact, Liu Bei's faction had been able to slowly push their territory into Pengcheng by relying on the strength of the player group.
However, as the two feudal lords did not seem to have much interest in participating, Liu Bei's faction was limited in how far they could push. If they pushed too far, they would often encounter Yuan Shu's troops. The past few days of battle results would be nullified by the counterattacks of Yuan Shu's troops.
At the end of the day, the main interest of the players was killing. Most of the time, they only killed for equipment, skills and other items. At the same time, they also accumulated story completion rates. Overall, they were too scattered. Moreover, they lacked a strong general to lead them. It was impossible for them to become a true opponent of the feudal lords.
Even so, in order to maintain the balance between the two sides, Yuan Shu's troops suffered a lot of casualties when facing the large number of players. This made Yuan Shu so angry that he stomped his feet.
It was not just the players in Yuan Shu and Liu Bei's factions. The 40,000 plus players under Trace Dragon Soul were also happy to participate. They split up and crossed the Wenshui, Sishui and Juye Swamp to find Yuan Shu and Liu Bei's faction.
In comparison, Trace Dragon Soul and the other player groups were more disciplined. Their average strength was also much higher. They held a considerable advantage in the battles. Therefore, they were very happy to kill.
However, the leaders of Trace Dragon Soul and the other player groups did not confront Yuan Shu and Liu Bei's troops head-on.
Perhaps it was because the lesson they had learned from the battle with Lu Bu was too painful, the leaders of Dragon Soul and other player organizations had strictly limited the number of players they could participate in. They were all in small parties to clear the storyline.
Otherwise, if Dragon Soul and the others had the intention of conquering cities, it was still possible for them to take down one or two cities.
However, Dragon Soul and the others also understood this very well. Even if the city was in their hands now, the final ownership would still belong to Yang Rui's side. It was almost a thankless task, and if things went wrong, there would be a lot of losses. Therefore, there was no need to do such a thing.
Moreover, the Dragon Soul had already reached a preliminary agreement with Yang Rui. If nothing unexpected happened, Yang Rui should be able to offer a city in exchange for it. All Yang Rui needed to do was to satisfy the other party's conditions. That was why the Dragon Soul did not have much of a purpose.
On the other hand, the leaders of Trace Dragon Soul and other player organizations placed Burning Snow beside Yang Rui. For the past few days, she had been talking to Yang Rui twice a day, hoping that Yang Rui could make a decision as soon as possible. In the end, it would be reflected in the form of a specific agreement.
For this reason, Blazing Snow even took the initiative to give Yang Rui hints about the conditions. Moreover, most of them were conditions from the real world, such as money, beautiful women, and businesses. For a normal man, it could be said that they were full of temptation.
Burning Snow was even like Boss Rose, including herself as one of the conditions of the deal. However, back then, Boss Rose was more obscure. When it was Burning Snow, she was very frank and straightforward.
Yang Rui was not too surprised by this. However, it was still very tempting for a normal man to hear this kind of thing from the mouth of a realistic woman so frankly and frankly.
If Yang Rui was the kind of person who was more casual and went with the flow, it would be normal for him to have something with Burning Snow. However, Yang Rui was not the kind of person who was casual. He was even more unwilling to ruin the other party's normal life because of a deal.
If outsiders knew about this, there might be many people who did not agree with Yang Rui. There would even be a few people who would mock him. There would be many people who would say things like "Heaven wants to give me something, but I don't take it. I'll just let others take advantage of me" and so on.
However, Yang Rui's environment and the moral education he had received since he was young made it so that he would not easily lower his bottom line in this kind of matter. Moreover, Yang Rui had a lot of wives in the game, which had always been a headache for him.
Ever since the mishap with Han Dai. He did not know if Zhang Ning, Ding Yao, and the others had noticed this matter. Yang Rui felt that something was not right with these people recently.
At this moment, Yang Rui had obtained all the target territories in Xuzhou. Yang Rui had summoned the generals stationed in various places. Guo Jia, Zhang Ning, Han Dai, Ding Yao, and Huang Wudie were all summoned by Yang Rui to Siwu County. Therefore, Yang Rui discovered the abnormalities of Zhang Ning, Han Dai, Ding Yao, and the others.
Among the remaining generals, Zhao Yun was stationed in Liu County, Huang Zhong was stationed in Wuyuan County, and Dian Wei was stationed in Quyang County. Each county had 10,000 soldiers. Guang Qi, Fu Yang, and Jiexi County had 20,000 soldiers stationed in each of the three counties. As for the other cities in the north, each had only a few thousand to 10,000 soldiers.
At this moment, Yang Rui was not concerned about the intentions of the trade with Dragon Soul and the others. Since he intended to give Dragon Soul a city in Xuzhou, then he would finally take one for him. It was just that Yang Rui had not decided on what conditions to propose. He was more inclined to the conditions in the game.
Yang Rui considered several times to no avail. In the end, he still put the trade with Dragon Soul and the others to the side.
At this moment, there were several things that Yang Rui was more concerned about. The first was Cao Cao's movements after his defeat. The second was the situation after Sun Jian's departure for Shouchun. Yang Rui was also paying attention to the situation of Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, Ma Teng, Han Sui, Li Jue, Guo Si, Gongsun Zan, and the other feudal lords.
Yang Rui's initial goal in participating in the Xuzhou plot was not to seize as much territory as possible, but to weaken and even eliminate the threat of Cao Cao as much as possible.
However, by chance, Cao Cao had managed to escape. The plot of the Xuzhou struggle had also changed. Only then did Yang Rui decide to extend his territory to the Wenshui, Sishui, and Juye Lake valleys, cooperating with Gan Ning's navy to complete the inner defenses.
At this point, the situation in Xuzhou did not have much suspense. In the past few days, Yang Rui had once again begun to consider the matter of Cao Cao and the other feudal lords. If not for the fact that Xuzhou still needed troops to stabilize the situation, Yang Rui had planned to attack Cao Cao before he recovered. (To be continued.)
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