One o'clock in the morning!

Neutral Zone east of the Stormwind Empire! East Sky Castle!

This is the time of day when the number of people online is the least.

Most of the players are still asleep at this time, and those who stay in the game are night owls who are used to staying all night.

On the tall city wall, the city lord of the Eastern Heavenly City, 'Red Cloud', and his subordinates looked excitedly at the neat cavalry queue on the square.

About two months ago, the Anti-Heaven clan broke through the NPC guards of Dongtian City and occupied this small border city at that time.

As a core member of the family, 'Red Cloud' was appointed by the Anti-Tian family as the administrator of this small city because of his outstanding performance in siege battles and his long-term excellent command ability.

Although this is just a game, the economic benefits of a city are still quite staggering.

Dongtian City is located in a vast neutral area, surrounded by a large area of forests and mineral resources, and there are also many advanced leveling locations, which can be said to be a city quite suitable for construction and development, so in addition to the 'Red Cloud' dispatched by the Anti-Tian family, it is also equipped with a garrison army of 20,000 people as the city's garrison force.

During this time, 'Red Cloud' has shown its amazing ability to build internal affairs, and has developed and upgraded this small border city into a four-star city.

The so-called four-star city means that the city has developed into an independent kingdom that is self-sufficient.

Today, Dongtian City has been built: an auction house, four shopping streets, four barracks, 40,000 houses, four war factories, four mines, four lumberyards, four alchemies, four pastures, and four large farms, and these infrastructures have been upgraded to the four-star level.

With this infrastructure, the Eastern Sky City is capable of accommodating an army of 40,000 NPCs.

And the scale level continues to increase.

Strong garrison, stable leveling environment, abundant product resources, and free trade commercial streets attract a large number of players from all over the world.

There are a lot of people who are willing to spend money in the game, and the influx of these players has also led to the economic development of the city.

If everything develops normally, nothing else, the trade tax from the commercial street alone can make this Dongtian City bring 10 million daily economic benefits to the anti-Tian family.

It's just a match for real urban development.

It can be said that as long as you have this city, it is equivalent to having an inexhaustible mountain of gold, and it is no longer enough to describe its speed of accumulating money.

In addition to a large number of economic benefits, the development of Dongtian City has also greatly improved the military strength of the Anti-Heaven family.

For a long time, the Kangtian family has only recruited elite talents, and they don't have a certain ability, and they don't care about it at all, which also makes their personnel development have certain limitations.

Although they have strong economic strength, they can also absorb a lot of peripheral legions as subordinate institutions, such as the King Corps or the Tiger Corps, to strengthen their military power.

But the Kangtian family has never had any intention of this, and they have always taken the elite route since the establishment of the family.

Compared to Dragons and Snakes, many players believe in NPC armies that are absolutely obedient to orders, so they have been vigorously developing NPC armies since the early days of the game.

There are a handful of elite members who lead their own NPC armies, and this is their development combo pattern.

Unlike real players, NPC armies are absolutely under the command of the city lord, as long as the commander orders, they will not hesitate to execute any tactics and any way of fighting, maybe an NPC warrior can't beat a real player in a single situation.

However, when the size of the party has increased by thousands of years, an army of NPCs who are forbidden and absolutely obey orders is by no means comparable to the combat effectiveness of an army composed of the same number of players.

Of course, the premise is that the level of this NPC army must not be much different, and the equipment must also be kept at an approximate level.

In addition, a good conductor is also essential.

Because of this, the amount of money required to form an NPC army is unimaginably high.

Take the NPC army of 40,000 in Dongdong Celestial City as an example.

In order to form such an NPC army, it is necessary to produce four barracks, and only then can you ensure that you can produce enough NPC warriors.

Once produced, these NPC warriors must also undergo rigorous training, which is why there are four large training grounds.

Of course, training alone is not enough, a 40,000 army consumes quite a lot of food every day, so in order to maintain the food supply of the army, it must be supported by four large farms, otherwise because of the lack of food, it will not only demoralize the NPC soldiers, but even produce desertions or even mutiny and rebellion.

It is not enough to have enough training intensity, it is also necessary to have the corresponding equipment to arm these NPC soldiers, only in this way can their combat effectiveness be improved, so there must be four war factories to produce this type of equipment.

And even if it is a war factory, there are high and low levels, and the higher the level, the higher the NP[C soldier standard equipment attribute can be produced, and the stronger the combat effectiveness of NPC soldiers.

If you want to train cavalry troops, you must also have a certain number of large pastures.

In addition, in order to ensure the continuous combat ability of NPC soldiers on the battlefield, it is also necessary to ensure that each of them is equipped with a certain amount of blood replenishment and magic potions.

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All this is by no means more cumbersome than the reality of building a real army, and the amount of money invested is unimaginable.

As a long-established traditional force, the Anti-Heaven family is quite aware that a strong NPC army is far more reliable than a ragtag army composed of players.

So no matter how big the cost is, they still enjoy it.

Now, after two months of development, the first step of the preparation of the Anti-Heaven family has finally been completed.

Just when Hongyun was thinking about it.

Suddenly, a series of avatars popped up in the communication channel.

It's the bosses of them!

There are only 8 people in the core channel of the Anti-Tian family.

At this moment, 8 people are actually online at the same time.

Hongyun immediately straightened up and said respectfully, "Big brother." ”

The other people in the channel also shouted respectfully: "Big brother." ”

"The people are here." The voice from the other end of the channel was cold and calm: "Report back to each other." ”

"Yes."

The crowd responded in unison.

Hongyun said in a deep voice: "There are many forty thousand Hongyun iron horsemen, and they can participate in the battle at any time." ”

"40,000 Lightning Cavalry ready."

"4,000 Thunderhawk Knights ready."

"100,000 Purgatory Warriors ready."

"400,000 Lingfeng warriors are ready."

"All post-supplies are ready."

There wasn't a word of nonsense in the channel, and everyone quickly and briefly reported on their situation.

"The lightning tactics are officially activated." Dugu Kangtian said calmly: "Within an hour, all the people in the Eastern Heaven Plain will gather. ”

"Great, we can't wait." Aotian was excited: "Who is the first target?" ”

"The Frost City of the Flying Snow Corps." Dugu said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" The crowd shouted in unison.