With the arrow and bow, Atletico Madrid's right hand is held in a virtual way, and the left arm is stretched out and swayed gently.

Following the tip of the arrow and quickly sweeping over the attacking enemy, he quickly selected a guy named Huluota, his clothes were obviously high-end, and his name was decorated with a tail, he should be a small boss or something.

The red crosshair contracted rapidly, and Atletico saw the opportunity to let go of his fingers, and the bowstring was reset and the arrow was ejected, and a beautiful arc trail flew straight towards the target.

In less than a breath, a scream came from the other side, and Huluotuo staggered to the ground with his left eye covered, and a blood-colored number representing fatal injuries appeared on his head, but he was already dead.

Slightly relieved, Atletico Madrid was also secretly a little lucky, he originally went according to his stomach, but the guy rode forward a few steps, but he sent a big face to the arrow.

His entourage didn't know this, and when they saw his marksmanship, they all became excited, shouting and cheering: "The captain is mighty!

Now the time in the game is October of the third year of the Great Han Dynasty (126 BC), and Hexi is already the beginning of winter when the grass and yellow leaves are falling, and the birds and beasts are hidden.

After the successful completion of the fishing law enforcement, the "Tianma Purchasing Group" returned to the mainland with the gold and gold horses, but some people stayed with Atletico Madrid. The apparent reason is that after this period of murder, they suffered from "post-war syndrome" and became obsessed with combat and unwilling to return to normal, but in fact, they were systematically assigned to players as private soldiers.

The business environment of 2,000 years ago cannot be compared with the peaceful years of later generations, and the Western Regions with poor living conditions and strong folk customs are even more so, so to create a caravan along the Silk Road, it is necessary to first establish a strong enough armed force. Otherwise, it is said that bandits, robbers, inferior gentry and evil officials, hungry wolves, tigers, poisonous insects, and diseases alone can kill the merchants who travel far away.

At the moment, these people are the team of the player Atletico Madrid.

They were originally Chang'an rangers, but now they are crossing horses and holding bows, and they have become his personal soldiers. Naturally, it is not okay to stay in the city and sit in the mountains, and then they will be pulled out by Atletico Madrid to suppress bandits for the winter.

Drawing on the successful experience of the "Tianma Purchasing Group", he deliberately asked people not to hide their movements to attract the enemy to attack, and sure enough, he caught a school of small fish. Knowing that a group of Han people escorting supplies passed by, a small group of bandits nearby went out to intercept them, and as a result, they all became "Silk Road Logistics".

With one blow, Atletico Madrid made persistent efforts, raised his wrist and touched his shoulder, pinched an arrow in his hand, put on the bowstring and shot again.

This time, the small leader named Ao Bai Ni was selected, and he shot in the stomach, but the one who was hit by the arrow was in the chest. Although it failed to hit the vital point of the heart, the arrow caused the target to miss his horse and be trampled to death by the bandits behind him. Of course, both the game system and the warring sides will count this kill result on Atletico's head.

After all, the bandits are a rabble, but after the death of two small leaders, their morale has dropped irrepressibly, and the speed of the forward rush has slowed down, but they have the idea of letting others rush to block the arrows first.

Seeing this situation, the big leader who was watching the battle in the rear of the bandits could no longer sit still, and took the lead in charging with his henchmen with a whip, trying to set off a new wave of offensive.

Cold weapon combat is extremely morale-heavy, and his choice is wise. It's just that the big boss took the lead in the charge and also sent himself into the range of Atletico Madrid, who quickly set up his arrow and bowed with a happy face, but this time it was his mount that was aimed at it, and he played well in advance.

The maximum flight speed of the arrow is only about 100 meters per second, which is about the same as the killing speed of a badminton player, which means that if you are flexible enough and have something similar to a badminton racket in your hand, you are likely to block the flying arrow. The bandit leader did not raise a shield in his hand, but his thick-backed knife was also not small, and Atletico did not want to gamble on luck, so he simply predicted to shoot the horse.

"Boom!"

The arrows flew out, and the big boss on the opposite side resolutely waved his sword to block, but he almost failed to block it, and then he was tragic. After all, the bandits are not professional cavalry, let alone iron can heavy cavalry, and they have no habit of armoring war horses. The mount was frightened by the arrow, and the momentum that the big boss had just brought up was suddenly stagnant.

That guy was also decisive, he turned over and jumped off the horse's back, and quickly rushed to Atletico Madrid with a big knife, but he also had the same calculation to destroy the enemy's leader.

can be the big leader of dozens of bandits, naturally it will not be an ordinary person, this guy named New Mud, who is tall and strong, has a knotted beard, and looks like a macho man.

It's a pity that Atletico Madrid didn't have any intention of going head-to-head with him, and directly issued an order when he saw the opportunity: "Pay attention to the bow and crossbow!

"Bang Bang

The bowstrings sounded in unison, and a light rain fell around the new mud, but it was dangerous enough.

The big boss's combat skills are really powerful, avoiding two arrows in small steps and swinging his knife to block three. However, there were a lot of arrows shot at the same time, and there were still three arrows on the chest, abdomen and torso.

Because it was not an arrow in the eye, throat, or heart, this tall and strong man did not die immediately, but still bravely rushed forward with a knife.

Atletico Madrid's subordinates hurriedly stepped forward to protect the master, but he was unmoved, calmly opened his bow and shot a fatal arrow.

Archers are known to be afraid of close proximity, but the closer the distance, the faster the speed of the arrow, and the straight and short arrow path is easy to aim but difficult to dodge, and the power is actually far greater than that of projectile.

In the end, Atletico's slimy face hit the target, and the tall Chinese character named New Mud, who staggered forward and rushed two steps forward, was kicked down by him and never got up again.

Seeing that the big boss was killed, the nearby henchmen immediately roared angrily and rushed up, but they were shot over three by Atletico Madrid's three arrows, and their arrogance suddenly disappeared and they turned around and ran away. As soon as they ran, the other minions turned and ran away when they saw the bad opportunity, and even waved iron knives at their own people because they were fighting for the road.

Atletico naturally knew the truth of beating the water dogs, and once again ordered a volley to shoot forward, so he put away his bow and changed his knife and jumped out of the car formation, and chased away first. Behind him, a group of private soldiers quickly followed, shouting and charging towards the enemy.

After all, it was just a fight of dozens of people, and a few backward bandits were slashed and killed, and Atletico felt empty in front of them. Glancing around, he didn't fight with his men for the last head, but jumped onto a boulder and looked at the battlefield.

Because it is the mainland version, there are no broken limbs, heads or anything like that on the ground, and there are not a lot of blue blood stains, but there are a lot of broken clothes, broken knives and arrows, and the screams of pain that the wounded sound from time to time, there is still the atmosphere of the battlefield.

Without his orders, his men spontaneously took action, counting casualties, collecting the spoils of prisoners, and reporting them to Atletico Madrid.

Because of the always dominant position and the right to clean up the battlefield, the casualties on the Atletico side are significantly smaller, with only one serious injury and four minor injuries, which may be troublesome in real antiquity, but in the game, it only needs to be bandaged and rested for two days. The situation of the bandits on the opposite side was a bit miserable, nine died, 14 were captured, and four intact war horses and a lot of materials were contributed to Atletico Madrid, which can be called "good logistics on the Silk Road".

The captives are all the lowest-level minions. The high-ranking bandits all had horses to ride, except for the few who hung up, the rest had already escaped, and only these poor fellows were left behind. With a wave of their hand, Atletico asked them to call them over for questioning.

From the name, clothing, and area of activity, it can be seen that these are all Huns.

The Huns once left a great name in history, but then suddenly disappeared. It is not like the Mayans and Aztecs who are extinct in human race, but like the ancient Egyptians and ancient Babylonians, who were assimilated by the civilizations that rose later, and scattered into other peoples, modern Mongolians, Bulgarians, and Hungarians have part of their blood, and even a small amount of Xiongnu blood in the Han nationality.

Ancient Egypt and ancient Babylon were settled agricultural civilizations, with a relatively stable language and culture, and later generations can get a glimpse of the years by virtue of the rich cultural relics left at the beginning, but the Xiongnu were steppe nomadic civilizations, leaving very few relics, and it has been impossible to restore the language and writing of the year.

Not only could the Xiongnu language not be reproduced, but also the languages of Loulan and Dawan, so Bee You had to use AI to learn a few specific languages to create a new one based on expert advice, with strong regional characteristics in pronunciation and writing, but different from the existing ones in the local area.

The Chinese language has been handed down, but the pronunciation has changed greatly, and it cannot be completely matched with today's Chinese dialects, which can be seen from the fact that some Tang and Song poems are not too rhymed. In "Silk Road", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Zhang Qian said that it was also a simulated ancient Chinese deduced with the help of AI, and the pronunciation was different from today, and they could only barely understand it.

All in all, they just didn't want to recreate the embarrassment of the Japanese army speaking Mandarin and the Warring States people speaking Mandarin, but they didn't want to cause trouble to the player. In the face of this group of captives who spoke "ancient Xiongnu", Atletico's character did not find a translator, and directly began the interrogation with "ancient Chinese", but in reality, Atletico ignored the pronunciation of the two, and his eyes fell directly on the simplified Chinese subtitles automatically displayed by the system.

With a threat with a stick in one hand and a promise of incorporation in the other, the interrogation did not encounter too many obstacles.

After the interrogation was completed, Atletico Madrid stretched out his hand and opened the map, and saw that the surrounding terrain automatically appeared on the scroll, and the corresponding icons such as rivers, roads, ruins, resources, settlements, and defensive passes were also automatically marked, but it saved him the effort of sending scouts to sweep the map.

Nodding with satisfaction, Atletico raised his hand to take the group of captives and drove towards the other party's station under their leadership. They had just killed the big boss and several small bosses, and it was a time when morale was low and chaotic, and attacking at this time would be twice as effective with half the effort.

After a short time, Atletico and his party found the bandits' camp.

The Hun bandits were also very mobile, and their base was only a hidden valley sheltered from the wind, and everyone lived in tents. This is certainly convenient to transfer, but there is almost no defensive ability, seeing Atletico before their arrival, the remaining bandits in the camp suddenly became chaotic, and people shouted and neighed and looked anxious for them.

Reluctantly giving up the idea of fire attack, Atletico waved his hand to let people surround this simple "camp", and shot a few times with bows and arrows across the perimeter fence, and let the Xiongnu men who had just been subdued go over to shout and make a forced landing.

The number of this gang of bandits was less than 100, and the main force of the young and strong was taken out to rob by the big bosses, and then the dead and the fallen were surrendered outside, and the rest were either old and weak, or disabled deserters, and the combat effectiveness was very problematic, but when they heard the surrender, they put down their weapons without much hesitation. Similar annexations occur every day in the Mobei grasslands, and although they are not in the grasslands, they are still used to this.

After all, the game is not reality, and there is never such a thing as a fraud. Atletico soon led the men into the camp and began to take stock of their gains.

The biggest harvest was three, the people, the horses, and the camp.

After taking over the camp, he was given 32 men and 13 horses, all of whom were still strong and healthy, and had apparently been eliminated as was customary in the winter.

Also because of the winter storage, the amount of grain and fur cloth in the camp is at a high level, counting the previous harvest, it is not a problem to survive the winter safely.

The location of the camp in front of him is also very good, and he intends to station his team here.

Unlike the northern steppe people, his Chang'an rangers can't spend this winter on fur tents alone, and they belong to the camp and need to be renovated.

As soon as he thought of it, Atletico Madrid did not delay any longer, and immediately asked the new and old men to act, one team went to the surrounding mountains to cut trees and strengthen the wooden fence, and the other team went to the rear to dig caves and dig holes, and he himself led the main force out of the camp and went to a nearby coal mine.

Oil, coal, and natural gas, collectively known as fossil fuels, are derived from ancient animals and plants. Oil and gas are fluids that are enriched in specific terrain to form oil fields and gas fields, while coal is a solid that is less prone to movement and agglomeration, and has a much wider distribution, and coal fields may exist under large forests as long as there are historical local areas. At this time, there were still many primeval forests in the Hexi Corridor, and it was not surprising that there was coal underground.

Modern people know what the coal-iron complex means, and when they heard that there were coal mines around, they naturally sent troops to occupy it as soon as possible. If you find an iron mine, recruit a few craftsmen in the mainland, and try iron-making and steel-making, it would be even better to engage in some industrial sprouts.

It's just a pity that the identity assigned to players in "Silk Road" is a native of ancient times, so even if Atletico Madrid has a full set of small coal kilns and small blast furnace technical materials in his head, and I have specialized in learning the building techniques of Longquan Sword and Miao Knife, I can only use craftsman NPCs and systems in the game like other players.

Thinking about these things, the man followed the team over a mountain, and then he saw a black land, which was actually an open-pit mine.

Opening the map and looking at it, as he arrived, the detailed data of the current location appeared on the map interface, including the reserves and production of coal mines.

Both values are very small, which is a little disappointing for Atletico Madrid, who are accustomed to seeing modern data.

However, it is normal to think about it, the ancients were limited to prospecting technology and could only use open-pit mines, and the probability of finding large mines was not high. Thanks to the fact that the bandits didn't know how to burn charcoal, otherwise they wouldn't even have the interest to mine a small amount of coal in this mine. For the grassland people who do not master the relevant technology, the strange smell (coal tar, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia) is strong, and the coal that is troublesome to use is not as much as charcoal.

(End of chapter)