Chapter 31: The City

After defeating the players of the Dominating Guild, Lu Shuang did not choose to pursue, and let people quickly clean up the battlefield, those are all trophies, the only pity is that the things that burst out after the domain was killed could not be obtained, otherwise there must be a lot of good things on his body after a while.

On the first day of June in the fifth year of Guanghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the service was launched for a whole month, and many players gradually gained momentum, not as weak as they were at the beginning. In addition, the beginning of each month has other good things for the player forces, such as being able to start planting seeds and collecting wild fruits, and not having to buy food from NPC merchants all the time, and finally being able to put a little down the tight financial pressure and develop other aspects.

In "Real World", although the time to sow seeds is the first five days of each month, after which the seeds cannot be planted, the farmer can grow vegetables for a living. Although the grain yield of vegetable cultivation is not as high as that of farming, it is fortunate that its cycle is once a week. Converted, a villager who is not yet a farmer can feed 5 people a month by planting one acre of land, and only 2 people can be fed by planting vegetables four times.

One might ask, why not a few more butchers, and how quickly the food comes? The problem is that butchers are ordinary occupations, but they are the most difficult to brush out, and the probability of refreshing to butchers in the early stage is quite small when the population base is not large, and the effect of refreshing them after the population is more is not very good, because there are a large number of villagers engaged in agricultural and fishery production, which is not bad for the butcher's grain.

Feitian Village is a little different, not to mention that he has just refreshed to a senior butcher, each of his apprentices is an NPC with B qualification or above qualification, and he understands 100% of the primary skills to become a junior butcher, and the scale can become bigger and bigger. But B qualifications are treasures in the villages of other players' forces, how can they bear to be used as butchers, and even C and D qualifications can't take much to be butchers, and if you want to rely on butchers to process and produce food in large quantities, you can't start.

Today has been almost a week since the Hegemony Guild attacked King Kong Village, and the population of King Kong Village has soared to 20,000 with the support of the large rear, and the garrison has also reached 3,000 people, and many of them are high-level soldiers, all kinds of equipment are complete, if a large number of players come to attack the support of reinforcements that can hold up to the valley.

The development of Feitian Village is even more remarkable, with a total population of more than 70,000 people, and all walks of life are thriving. In terms of the army, under Lu Shuang's adjustment, only half of the A-qualified NPCs are recruited, and the B-qualified ones are not as good as the A-qualified soldiers in all aspects, so they plan to only serve as a guard army and bring recruits to level up, which will reduce the proportion of this part of the B-qualified soldiers and increase the proportion of A-qualified soldiers. But even so, the army still grew to 10,000 people, this 7:1 ratio made Lu Shuang more worried, in case of some accidents in the territory one day, maybe this disparity in ratio will turn into a crisis.

However, there is no shortage of food in Feitian Village, and more than 10,000 junior and intermediate farmers have already started planting seeds in the wasteland, and these farmers have gained a lot of experience in growing vegetables when they can't sow seeds in May. A junior farmer can double the cultivated area and double the grain production of an ordinary villager, which can produce 900 units of grain a month with a God-given bonus, and an intermediate farmer is also twice as large as a junior farmer. Therefore, when the next month comes, Feitian Village will harvest more than 10 million units of grain in agriculture, enough to consume 200,000 villagers and at least 20,000 soldiers.

These days, Lu Shuang has been working as his small landlord in the territory, so he is so uneasy, and suddenly news came from a military general, saying that a systematic cottage was found in the east, and it was a small city-level cottage, that is, a third-level cottage.

Small town? Level 3 cottage?

Lu Shuang was shocked, why was she so unlucky to encounter a small city-level cottage in the valley within the territory?

Lu Shuang, a second-level cottage, once sent people to attack, and a special military general led all the subordinates of fifth-order soldiers, although there were no dead people on his side at that time, it took a lot of effort to take it down. Of course, the greater the risk, the greater the gain, and directly provided Lu Shuang with a township-level territory, but in this defense battle, more than thirty eighth-order soldiers and an S-qualified special military general were killed, which made Lu Shuang feel distressed for a while. Fortunately, a king-level general who worked hard to kill broke out a good king-level mastery, a combat specialty and a reconnaissance skill, which slightly made up for the loss, which also made Lu Shuang have the idea of smashing the general's promotion order, and having a general above the king level sometimes helps a lot.

Lu Shuang's head didn't heat up for a while, but quietly came to the vicinity of the system cottage with his subordinates. This cottage is called Fog Shadow Cottage, although it is called a cottage, but it is a veritable first-class small city, with this three-zhang high city wall, and it is self-contained, and there are buildings in the imperial court town Fog Shadow Cottage is also basically complete. Different from the first- and second-level cottages that were attacked before, the third-level cottages can be said to be a force, because he has farmers, woodcutters, etc., and to a certain extent, he can be self-sufficient.

Lu Shuang looked at the Fog Shadow Cottage from afar, and her first feeling was not worry, but envy.

That's right, it's envy. If every one of his territories had a city wall, what a good thing it would be, Lu Shuang secretly made up his mind that he was determined to reach the level of a small city in Feitian Village, King Kong Village.

Lu Shuang retracted his thoughts to the Fog Shadow Cottage and began to think about how to attack it, otherwise the Fog Shadow Cottage would be like a stab in the flesh to strangle the eastward strategy of Feitian Village.

A day and a night passed, and Lu Shuang was still hiding near the Fog Shadow Cottage, observing and recording every move and the rules of entry and exit inside. The opening law of the gate of the Fog Shadow Cottage is actually the same as that of other system towns, there are many people coming in and out during the day, some go to farm, some go hunting or something, the problem is how to hide from the guards on duty outside the gate, once the operation fails again or the grass and snakes may be startled next time It will be much more difficult, Lu Shuang is at a loss for this.

According to what I learned from some movies and television or classic battles, if you want to attack a city with walls, in addition to frontal attack, it is more important to secretly control a gate to transport troops in, or control a section of city wall to quietly climb the wall to enter. But these methods seem simple, but in fact, they have to consider many aspects, and they must be improvised.

In the end, Lu Shuang chose to go back first to get ready, now it is not good to touch the tiger's ass for a while, and a thorough plan must be made.

This is not to say that Lu Shuang can't take it, this Fog Shadow Cottage is about 50,000 to 70,000 people, according to the ratio of 10:1 to 10:2 between the military and the people, or 10:2 at a higher point, there are more than 10,000 troops at most, unlike Feitian Village, where a villager can top a few villagers, and the ratio of soldiers and civilians can be so large. In addition, through Lu Shuang's reconnaissance skills, he found that many of the soldiers were fourth-order soldiers, and it didn't seem that all of them were fifth-order soldiers like second-level cottages. Lu Shuang guessed that some of the soldiers of this kind of third-level cottage should be recruited from the villagers, and the qualifications and how many ranks of soldiers they can grow into depend on their personal efforts, not directly set by the system as fifth-order soldiers.

Of course, the small city has a qualitative leap compared to the towns and villages, and the army naturally cannot lag behind, Lu Shuang secretly observed that there are teams of fifth-order soldiers guarding several places, and it is estimated that there will be no fewer sixth-order soldiers. Lu Shuang's biggest worry is that the king-level generals in this city wall and the cottage, the three-zhang high city wall can increase the range of the archers a lot, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the king-level generals as high-end forces can break the deadlock and reverse the situation at a critical moment, Lu Shuang does not want to encounter any uncertainties.

Back in Feitian Village, Lu Shuang put aside the matter of the Fog Shadow Cottage for the time being, and at the same time instructed his subordinates to wait until this matter was resolved before heading east, so as not to be discovered when they went east, and it might be difficult to attack after being prepared.

At present, the most pressing task at present is to focus on economic and military development.