Chapter 696: Mercury Refining
Hearing Li Ranyu's smiling warning, Huang Jiwei nodded quickly and said, "Brother Ran, don't worry, it's not the first day we've come out to make a living. I still understand this. If you don't do it, don't do it. If you do it, you'll kill them. I will ask the scout to find out first."
Li Ranen said, "I believe that if you can really open up new mining areas and territory in the underground world, you will be a great achievement. There are about 4,000 or above troops in your mid-level place. If you need support, even if there is no more, you can still get one or two thousand."
Knowing that Li Ran's words were said to them, Duan Bo quickly stood up and said that he knew that with such a good foundation and support now, it was a good opportunity for them to do a big fight and show their skills.
However, just three days later, Li Ran received an urgent request for help from the underground world. Duan Bo asked Zhong Qingyi to go offline to find them. Because of a miscalculation, the three of them suffered a defeat outside the city. Now the other side is nearly 7,000 troops, and they are following the clues and rushing towards their town stairs dungeon stronghold.
"What's going on? Don't the other party have only four or five hundred people?" Li Ran asked in confusion after waving his hand to stop Zhang Debiao and others who were a little impatient.
Zhong Qingyi, with a little red face, said, "It's up to us. We asked the scout to find out the other party's territory and estimated that the opponent's total strength was only about three or four thousand, so we thought about solving the four or five hundred people first, but we didn't expect that the other party had a hidden territory, and the other party had long discovered our intentions. When we surrounded the four or five hundred people, the other two players brought more than two thousand troops to counter-encircle us."
After knowing what happened, Li Ran couldn't help but say. This is the harm caused by lack of experience.
But the situation is urgent, and Li Ran didn't care about anyone blamed him. After thinking about it, he said to Cao Dayong and others: "Although the opponent's total strength is only about 7,000, such a force may not be able to defeat Captain Duan and others, but for safety reasons, you, Zhou Tong, Niu Yuezhiwu, and Cai Chang, will go there. In addition, I will transfer all the three thousand troops of Ladyya, Kurtuo and their subordinates to you. At the same time, you will bring 400 top-level Niusgu special warriors over to fight to defeat the other side in one fell swoop."
Hearing Li Ran's words, the people quickly stood up and said yes. Li Ran looked at them and thought for a while and reminded him: "You don't have to defend in the city this time. If conditions permit, you can also set up defenses outside the city. Since the opponent has come to fight against the siege, you can also attack while they are fighting with Duan Team. This way, the effect may be better."
So under this situation, two more days passed. Duan Bo looked at the enemy army in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.
As a city lord, he shoulders the lives of tens of thousands of people in the entire city. If converted into cash, it would be a war between one or two houses in this international metropolis where every inch of land is valuable. At this moment, he knew clearly how heavy the burden on him was.
Fortunately, the defense equipment of this town stairs is complete. From the momentum, we can still hold on for a while. In addition, the reinforcements brought by Zhong Qingyi outside the city have arrived and ambushed not far outside the city. Otherwise, he would have been desperate at this time.
It turned out that the opponent had only about 7,000 people and might not be able to capture their city, but the result was that the opponent used the appropriate military arrangements and quickly broke through the city gates that he had defended closely. Moreover, the arrow towers of the long-range military were also controlled by the opponent's fog magic and could not achieve the desired effect at all.
After a while, Duan Bo looked at the situation off the court and waved his hand to order Cheng Yufeng to lead the team to rush to the city gate, trying to block the opponent's troops that had already attacked the city. At this time, he thought for a moment and asked the trumpets around him to send a magic trumpet arrow into the sky. With a crisp sound of a whistle, this valuable trumpet arrow bloomed with dazzling fireworks in the sky.
After a few hours of the battle, he reported to Li Ran. It said that with the internal and external cooperation of Cao Dayong and others, all the invaders who did not want to attack the city were wiped out. They lost 1,700 soldiers and killed 3,000 enemies, and captured about 1,900 prisoners.
Under Li Ran's order, Zhang Debiao, Duan Bo and others led a legion of about 5,000 people two days later, crossing the rivers of the underground world, marched all the way, and on the fifth day, they besieged the other's first territory and captured it in two days. During this period, about 2,000 soldiers were lost, and in the end, only more than 300 middle and low-level soldiers and a large number of underground residents were captured.
At this time, players from another city saw this situation. Before Cao Dayong and Duan's army arrived, they fled to the depths of the underground world with only hundreds of high-level troops. They disappeared, leaving a hidden danger.
The battle between players finally taught a lesson to all teammates, which is to face a war that cannot be defeated. If one of the leaders of one side is not beheaded, the player would rather choose to kill all the leaders than give in easily. Even if he loses, the escaped player will become a hidden danger to himself. Maybe he will emerge from there again that day and bite you hard.
Regarding this incident, he did not blame Huang Jiwei and Duan Bo. Li Ran just took this opportunity to explain the key points to his teammates. At the same time, he ordered Duan Bo to occupy the nearby mining area first after occupying these two territories, and then sent scouts to investigate inward. He wanted to see how big this underground world could be and where it could lead.
Although he lost nearly a thousand troops this time, he also obtained two territories and several minerals. Li Ran chatted with them for a while and said, "Don't occupy the territory for the time being. As for the indigenous people in the underground world, if you can sell it, you can give it to Shen Yidan and the others. Commander Hu developed the dungeon power, and these indigenous people should also need it. If you want it, you need to transport it."
Duan Bo nodded and said, "I will deal with this matter as soon as possible. As for the three mining areas discovered now, they are two refined iron ore and one mercury mine. Because they were in mining before, I have arranged 600 miners to go there, but I want to build a mercury refining room and need to transfer some professional goblin technicians from you."
Li Ran nodded to this and said there was no problem, but he still asked him to contact Shen Yidan and the others for the specific work. From now on, he has slowly let go and handed over these matters to these professionals. As long as this is the case, he can free up his hands and concentrate on handling military affairs. But on the other hand, he also asked Zhang Juan and others to pay attention to this matter.
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Chapter completed!