"kill!"

The sound of killing sounds appeared on a simple settlement formed by gravel. More than 20 fully armed soldiers, led by an extremely powerful soldier, entered the settlement occupied by the gnolls. A charge directly dispersed the soldiers gathered in the gnoll tribe. Gu Xuan waved his hand and divided the soldiers into two strands, blocking the left and right exits of the settlement, surrounding the gnolls and killing wildly.

A battle lasted only less than an hour, and the werewolf tribe, which had just exceeded one hundred, was completely wiped out, and no one was left.

I simply searched the settlement and found a pile of robbers of property that were robbed by zombies in a pile of garbage in the corner of the settlement. I gave up too much and only took some small and valuable things, including a pile of silver coins with a total of hundreds of dinars. The zombies snatched the silver coins, which were basically impossible to use.

Sweep away a werewolf tribe with more than 100 people, gain more than 100 points of experience, two points of reputation, two points of influence, less than a thousand dinars of money, and two imperial infantry can be promoted to imperial skilled infantry.

Packing the property on the horse's back, Guxuan led the team to continue to move forward to the next goal.

According to the principle of proximity on the map, targets are killed one by one, most of them are zombies. Occasionally there is a team of desert robbers hiding in this area. There is only one other alien race - desert lizard people. The lizard people living in desert areas have stronger combat power than were zombies, but not many.

These desert lizardmen are even more cruel than werewolves, and they didn't have any psychological discomfort and just took them all.

It is worth mentioning that when he killed these alien tribes, there were actually zombies who surrendered. According to a certain game setting, those who surrendered can also be included in the combat system and can also be upgraded, such as the second-level zombie upgraded to a third-level zombie warrior, then to a fourth-level heroic zombie warrior, and the fifth-level zombie warrior. It is said that there are also level 6 troops among the zombie, called the zombie warrior Lianjia, and the weapon is Lianjia with amazing lethality, and can withstand the elite human equipment cavalry head-on.

But Gu Xuan did not accept it. One is that the interracial intercourse affects morale, and the other is that he does not like gnolls. Moreover, this thing comes from unexpectedly and has no source of troops at all, and it will disappear if it dies.

Two months later, after exterminated a group of horse thieves who had entered the desert area, Gu Xuan finally reached the first level of influence and reputation, and immediately obtained an additional command limit of 100. In addition, he could now command a total of 130 soldiers.

At this time, there were only eleven soldiers left under his command, and the others were all killed in battle within the past two months.

But after so many wars, all of these eleven soldiers have accumulated enough experience and have been upgraded to the elite troops of the fifth-level imperial Empire.

It is worth mentioning that in the battle to wipe out the last group of horse bandits, he captured a batch of desert horses, and by the way, he upgraded the four veterans who were upgraded in this battle to level five heavy cavalry.

At any time, the most powerful army on the battlefield will always be cavalry, especially large-scale heavy cavalry. When the cavalry speed increases and hits, no army can withstand it.

If heavy infantry can block it, it also relies on the front row casualties to resist the impact of heavy cavalry. No matter what the result is after the war, heavy infantry hit by the front will basically not survive long, either being hit or being injured by the internal organs.

For the same level five-level troops, the combat effectiveness of heavy cavalry is definitely much stronger than that of elite infantry.

Of course, the lethality of heavy cavalry is limited before it is formed. The biggest role in small-scale combat is to rely on powerful impact forces to disperse the enemy's formation, and then allow frontal troops to take the opportunity to launch an attack.

Just like a game called Dota and League of Legends that Guxuan once played. There are some particularly fleshy face-rushing heroes who directly break into the enemy formation when they start a team. They don’t care about anything and fight with a key hero. They can immediately disrupt the enemy’s formation and then join the teammates, which can easily break the enemy down, and team battles can naturally win.

Only in this way can the maximum effect of this army be played in the case of insufficient number of heavy cavalry. Guxuan is not ready to train too many heavy cavalry for the time being. At this stage, there are only within ten at most. Even if the robbers' hiding place and the large zodiac tribe are ready to explore, they will not be able to do too many.

This thing is not only expensive to upgrade, but also requires you to bring your own horse. The most basic desert horse is 300 dinars. After upgrading, you will need two rations and expensive salary to maintain.

Don’t think that you don’t have to worry about anything when you recruit, that’s impossible. In addition to three meals a day, the recruited troops also need to pay a salary equivalent to a certain ratio of the current recruitment price of the troops every month. You can understand it as maintenance fees.

This ratio is not fixed. Different types of soldiers have different salaries. The same second-level soldiers, the salary of werewolves and imperial recruits is definitely different. The former generally does not have salary, but it should be better for supplements. Imperial recruits may survive by eating white rice every day. The werewolves must have meat every meal without paying, otherwise their morale will drop.

An Imperial recruit is worth fifty dinars and an additional salary of two dinars per month.

A level 5 heavy cavalry recruited directly from a big city, and needed a total of 3,000 dinars to be recruited. Not to mention that it is necessary to establish a good relationship with the city lord to achieve the conditions for recruitment. The salary is as high as fifty dinars. There are four heavy cavalrymen. They alone need to pay a salary of 200 dinars per month, as well as double rations, including meat, fruit and other foods.

The more advanced the troops, the higher the maintenance conditions, the more small lords generally cannot afford to support them, including him now.

When the reputation level was upgraded to the first level, the first phase of Guxuan's plan came to an end. Then return to Huangsha Town, sell all the seized during this period and exchange it for money, and then start recruiting soldiers everywhere, recruiting imperial recruits in Huangsha Town and several nearby villages. After spending a total of 5,950 dinars, a total of 119 imperial recruits were recruited. Together with the remaining 11 soldiers before, it just reached his current command limit of 130.

The next step is naturally to train troops, but the training of troops made him worry. Because of the crazy killing during this period, the robbers and horse thieves nearby were killed by him. Except for some far-away places in the entire area, the only robbers hiding place has enough enemies to train troops with the large werewolf tribe.

"Come on now?"

It takes more than ten days to go around too far, and it is too inefficient, so it is even more unreliable to leave this area and go to another area. As a result, there seems to be no other choice.

Gu Xuan is not an indecisive person. He immediately made a decision and started to do it now, but he had to take a good look at how to do it, and it depends on which one is suitable to do it first.

He left the garrison alone to go to the robber's hiding place, a gathering place located in a barren mountain. After just one look, he knew it would be more appropriate to attack the Gnoll Stone Throat Tribe first, even if he had not seen the situation of the Gnoll Tribe yet.

The robber's hiding place is so complex that it is simply astonishing. The terrain in this barren mountain is like a karst landform. The terrain is complex. Not to mention that the cavalry cannot charge at all, and even infantry cannot launch a large-scale attack. This is very suitable for the robbers, but it is not so friendly to the regular Imperial Army, which is good at large-scale coordinated combat.

No wonder this place was chosen as a hiding place by many robbers and horse bandits, and the terrain was truly awesome.

If you want to destroy this hiding place, you must rely on large-scale troops to encircle head-on and block all exits. As long as you can surround for a certain period of time, you will naturally surrender.

However, this method is to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of them. If you want to encircle this place, you must mobilize heavy troops to encircle them. So many soldiers eat horses every day, and consume much more than robbers. After a long time, the lord couldn't support it.

The most important thing is that it is useless to capture the robber's hiding place. There is not much water source in it. There are only some deep wells, which are okay for people to drink. It is not enough to use it for farming. If you cannot farm and produce grain in a place, you cannot use it as a settlement.

Five days later, Gu Xuan appeared in a ruin two miles away from the Stone-throated Gnoll tribe. This was probably a settlement but was abandoned. In the middle of the ruins, he also saw a dry pond with a layer of wet mud inside. It was obvious that there was plenty of groundwater underneath. If a well could lead to water and move some civilians to rebuild a small settlement and barely survive a small village with dozens of people.

Unfortunately, this place is too close to the large werewolf tribe, and a hunting team of werewolfs will appear at any time. The output is too different from the effort. The great lord cannot come to clear out such a large werewolf tribe in order to build such a small village that is basically unproductive.

Let his subordinates station and set up a temporary camp here, and Guxuan left alone on horseback. He wanted to go to the near the Stone-throated Gnoll Tribe to investigate the specific situation.

The hot wind in the desert wrapped in sand and hit his body, and Gu Xuan was wearing a sandproof cloak on his head and a thin cloth shirt on his body. He didn't wear any armor. The armor that he could afford was not as hard as his body. It could not afford it, so he simply stopped wearing it, so he could not get it in trouble.

The desert under the heat wave was blurry in the distance, and the heat was floating up and everything was twisted. He rode a desert horse up a dune, and at first glance he saw a stone-throated zombie tribe on the other side of the dune... The zombie, a desert lizardman and a robber, was mixed with a small team of desert cavalry.

Gu Xuan's eyes swept over this army with complex composition, and was soon attracted by a figure surrounded by the army, and his eyes were involuntarily narrowed:

"Absent from the foreign land!"
Chapter completed!