Chapter 696: Mercury Refining
Hearing Li Ran's warning with a smile, Huang Jiwei hurriedly nodded and said: "Brother Ran, don't worry, we didn't come out on the first day to mix, I still understand this, if you don't do it, you won't do it, if you do it, you will get them to death, I will let the scouts find out first."
Li Ran said with a sigh: "I believe in you, if you can really open up new mining areas and territories in the underground world, you will be a great achievement, you have about 4,000 troops above the middle level now, if you need support, even if you say that there are no more, you can still make up one or two thousand."
Knowing that Li Ran's words were said to their team, Duan Bo hurriedly got up and said that he knew, now that he had such a good foundation and backup, it was a good opportunity for them to do a big job and show their skills.
However, only three days have passed, 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, and now the other party's nearly 7,000 men and horses are killing their town stungeon stronghold all the way to their town ladder dungeon.
"What's the matter, isn't there only four or five hundred people on the other side?" Waving his hand to stop Zhang Debiao and the others, who were a little impatient, Li Ran asked with some puzzlement.
Zhong Qingyi, whose face was a little red, said: "It's our fault, we let the scouts probe out of the opponent's territory, and estimated that the opponent's total strength is only about three or four thousand, so I thought about solving these four or five hundred people first, but I didn't expect that the other party still has a hidden territory, and the other party has already discovered our intentions, when we surrounded these four or five hundred people, the other two players with more than two thousand troops carried out a counter-encirclement of us"
Knowing what happened, Li Ran couldn't help but sigh, this is the harm caused by lack of experience.
But now that the situation is urgent, Li Ran doesn't care who to blame, he thought about it and said to Cao Dayong and the others: "Although the total strength of the other party is only about 7,000, such a force may not be able to take down Captain Duan and them, but for the sake of safety, you and Zhou Tong, Niu Yue Zhiwu, and Cai Chang will still go over, and I will transfer Laidia and Kurt and their 3,000 troops to you." At the same time, you will bring another 400 top-level Nysbone warriors over and strive to take down the other party in one fell swoop."
Hearing Li Ran's words, these people hurriedly got up and said yes, Li Ran looked at them and thought for a while and then admonished: "You go over this time." You don't have to defend in the city, if conditions permit, you can also set up defenses outside the city, since the other party has come to fight against the encirclement, you can also attack while they are in a confrontation with the Duan team. In this way, the inside and outside should be combined, and the effect may be better."
So in this case, another two days passed, and Duan Bo couldn't help but let out a long sigh as he looked at the enemy army that was attacking the city in front of him.
As a city lord, he shoulders the lives of tens of thousands of people in the entire city, if it is converted into cash, it is a war of one or two houses in this international metropolis where every inch of land is valuable, at this moment. Only then did he know clearly how heavy the burden was on his body.
Fortunately, the stronghold of this town level is well defended, and it can hold out for a while from the current point of view, plus the reinforcements brought by Zhong Qingyi outside the city have arrived, and they will set up an ambush not far from the city, otherwise he is afraid that he will already be desperate at this time.
Originally, I thought that the opponent only had about 7,000 people, and they might not be able to capture their city, but the result was that the opponent used the proper deployment of troops, and soon broke through the gate of his own tightly defended city, and the arrow tower of the ranged troops was also controlled by the opponent's mist magic, which could not play its due effect at all.
After a while. Duan Bo looked at the situation off the field, waved his hand and ordered Cheng Yufeng to lead the team to rush to the vicinity of the city gate, trying his best to block the opponent's troops who had attacked the city, at this time he thought for a while. As he spoke, the trumpeter beside him held hands and sent out a magic arrow into the sky, accompanied by a soft whistle, and this valuable trumpet arrow burst into a dazzling fireworks in the sky.
A few hours later, the results of the battle were reported to Li Ran, and it was said that under the cooperation of Cao Dayong and others, they had completely annihilated these invaders who were trying to attack the city. 1,700 soldiers were killed, 3,000 were killed, and about 1,900 prisoners were captured.
Under Li Ran's order, Zhang Debiao, Duan Bo and others led a corps of about 5,000 people two days later, crossed the river of the underground world, marched all the way, besieged the opponent's first territory on the fifth day, and captured it in two days, during which a total of about 2,000 soldiers were lost, and finally only Liao Liao's more than 300 middle and low-level soldiers and a large number of underground residents were captured.
At this time, the players in another city saw this situation, and without waiting for Cao Dayong and Duan's army to arrive, they fled to the depths of the underground world with the only remaining hundreds of high-level troops and disappeared, leaving a hidden danger.
The battle between players and players, at this time, finally taught a lesson to the teammates, that is, in the face of a war that cannot be lost, if one of the leaders is not beheaded, the player would rather choose to die than easily admit defeat, and even if he loses, the player who escapes will become his own hidden danger, maybe that day will come out of there again and bite you hard.
For this incident, he didn't blame Huang Jiwei and Duan Bo, Li Ran just took this opportunity to explain the key relationship to his teammates, and at the same time ordered Duan Bo to occupy the nearby mining area after occupying these two territories, and then send scouts to reconnoiter inward, he wanted to see how big this underground world could be and how it could lead there.
Although he lost nearly a thousand troops this time, he also gained two territories and several minerals because of this, Li Ran chatted with them for a while and said: "Don't occupy the territory for the time being, as for the aborigines of the underground world, sell what you can, and give it to Shen Yidan if you can't sell it, Master Hu is developing a dungeon force, these aborigines should also need it, if you want to, 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 iron ore concentrates and one mercury mine, because they were in a state of mining before, I have arranged for six hundred miners to go over, but I want to build a mercury refining room, and I need to transfer some professional goblin mechanics from you."
Li Ran nodded and said that there was no problem, but for the specific work, he still asked him to contact Shen Yidan and them, from now on, he has been slowly letting go and handing over these things to these professionals, as long as this is the case, he can free his hands and concentrate on dealing with military affairs, but on the other hand, he also asked Zhang Juan and others to pay attention to this matter. (To be continued.) )