Volume 2: The Shadow of the Wailing Cave (Remastered) Chapter 55: To the Treasure Cove
By the time the dust finally settled on Orgrimmar's rebellion, Red Black Hand had already left the Barren Lands with more than 500,000 Orcs of the Black Hand Clan, escorted by the pirate group "Bamiyan the Redbeard", in a sea of ships of various kinds. This is the most serious division within the orcs in the past 10,000 years, the Black Hand Clan has completely declared its independence from Orgrimmar, nearly 700,000 Black Hand Clan orcs have died or fled in this split, and the remaining 2 million Black Hand Clan civilians are mostly divided by several other big clans, and less than 300,000 have escaped from the barren land through various means, and a small half of them eventually joined the command of Red Black Hand.
Although Thrall won the rebellion with the help of the Warsong Clan, Orgrimmar suffered heavy losses, with half of the outer city almost destroyed, and the city guards and garrison killed more than 7,000 people. From instigating the Warlocks to occupy the Flame Rift, to leading his people away from Orgrimmar, the rebellion directed by Red Black Hand for more than a year has cost the orcs more than a million people and about 150,000 soldiers, which can be regarded as a disaster for the orcs with a total population of just over 20 million.
The problems exposed by Orgrimmar's city guards and garrisons in this defense battle made Thrall finally make up his mind to transform the orc's military structure, when the Black Hand Clan was the Great Chief, the entire orc military force was composed of two parts, one was the army controlled by Orgrimmar, including the city guard, garrison, patrol and garrison of various strongholds in the Barrens, with a total number of nearly 50,000, mainly composed of soldiers from the five major clans, and the salaries and weapons and armor of these soldiers were directly responsible for Orgrimmar, It can be said that it is a professional army that is completely out of production. The other part is the army controlled by each clan itself, this number is more or less, such as the Mafia clan, in peacetime, it still retains a military force of 30,000 people, this part of the soldiers is almost not paid, and their daily necessities and weapons and armor are provided by the clan to which they belong.
Once Orgrimmar's clan council has passed a resolution on all-out war mobilization, the clans will begin to rehabilitate veterans, recruit new soldiers, equip them with a minimum of weapons and equipment, and assemble at Orgrimmar or other designated locations within the specified time, obey Orgrimmar's command, and fight for the race. Due to the habit of almost all orcs to be soldiers, Orgrimmar has recruited nearly three million troops at one time in recorded history.
These figures show how much of an impact Red Black Hand's defection had on Orgrimmar. And a large part of the reason for this is due to the way the orcs are organized militarily. This kind of military structure, which is completely divided and combined according to clans, is prone to various problems.
Relying on the support of the Warsong Clan, Thrall finally let the clan council pass the decision to reorganize the Orgrimmar Standing Army under the condition of acknowledging that the three major clans of Thunder King, Shadow Moon and Dragonthroat divided the remaining civilians of the Mafir Clan, according to Thrall's requirements, the city guards, garrisons and patrols that originally belonged to Orgrimmar are no longer separately organized, but are unified and merged into the Orgrimmar Standing Army, the total number of standing troops remains 50,000, but the source of troops is no longer provided by the five major clans, but adopts a recruitment system, and openly recruits standing army soldiers from all orc clans, And adopt the method of free grouping, and no longer divide according to the number of clans.
In this way, the clan's influence on the standing army will be reduced to a very low level, ensuring that Orgrimmar can command the army with all his might.
In addition, the Kukaron Guard, which is directly subordinate to the Great Chief, has also been expanded, and the number of people has increased from the initial three thousand to five thousand, and the composition is mainly composed of the three major clans of Fire Blade, War Song and Frostwolf.
But all this is in the long-term interest, if you look at it purely in the short term, there is no doubt that the power of the three major clans will be greatly increased by dividing up the wealth of the Mafia clan, and Thrall's influence will temporarily decline until the reorganization of the standing army is completed.
The power struggle within the orcs also affected Yu Bin, due to the destruction of Orgrimmar in the war, Thrall had to use some of the materials to repair the outer city, and reduced the amount of materials to support the Fireblade Clan in disguise, which caused the Fireblade Clan to ask Yu Bin to expand the scale of trade, of course, this is a later story.
At the same time, due to the defection of the Black Hand Clan, the speed of the Fireblade Clan's move to the Sweetwater Oasis has been invisibly accelerated, which has stimulated the sensitive nerves of the Minotaurs living on Mogaolei, among which the terror totem tribe in the Minotaur has reacted the most fiercely, and under the impetus of this hard-line Minotaur tribe, the Minotaurs of Mogaolei have assembled an army to try to suppress the speed of the Orcs expansion and expel the Fireblade Clan, which eventually led to a war between the two races for the purpose of fighting for the Sweetwater Oasis. Of course, that's another story!
While Thrall was busy rectifying the order of Orgrimmar and resuming his daily life, Yu Bin took Alan and his party on a goblin airship, preparing to go to Hidden Treasure Bay, a port city controlled by the famous Rusty Water Chaebol.
It all started a few days ago. While Yu Bin was looking for monsters everywhere in the undead clan to level up for the last few levels, Alan and the others were under the protection of Thassarian, cleaning up the fish-man and boar-man bandits along the coast of the carter, while assisting the goblins of Ratchet City in anti-smuggling operations. Theoretically, this kind of anti-smuggling operation is impossible to hand over to a lowly player like Ailan and them, but the problem is that they are being protected according to Yu Bin's requirements.
As a result, the shrewd goblins found that for a small fee, they could hire a heroic undead knight to work for them in disguise, which was a temptation that could not be refused by goblins who could save a gold coin as much as earn a gold coin.
Smuggling is a very popular task for players, especially when it comes to officially authorized smuggling operations. The player can intercept a portion of the seized smuggling, anyway, the amount of smuggled goods harvested by the anti-smuggling operation is completely reported by the player, and no one except the smugglers and the player knows how much the real smuggled goods are, and no one will believe the former's words, and the latter is even less likely to obediently hand over the seized goods for a little experience.
Of course, with the extremely high income is accompanied by great risk, in order to fight against the anti-smuggling operations of various port cities, whether it is smugglers or pirates who sell stolen goods, they will be equipped with a large number of guards and weapons for safety, and the player groups with poor strength will even be killed, and if you are lucky, you can also find your body in the belly of the fishman in the offshore sea, and if you are unlucky, you can only watch your body be hung on the mast of the pirate ship, as a deterrent prop to set off the ferocity and strength of the pirates.
But these dangers are almost non-existent for Alan, because no smuggler has the strength to fight against a heroic undead knight, the heroic strength can already serve as the supreme governor of a small town, and a fool will do the smuggling business, except for some pirate groups may have one or two heroic combat power, the vast majority of pirates and smugglers are not strong.
In just one week's anti-smuggling mission, Ailan and the others each harvested nearly 2,000 gold coins, which shows the huge profits of smuggling!
When they returned to Ratchet City to renovate, a goblin was loudly announcing the information of an auction in the square of Ratchet City, and the three of them also had a certain acumen as they continued to grow their adventures, realizing that this was likely an auction initiated by a player, so they immediately contacted Yu Bin and told him this information.
After learning that the initiator of the auction was a goblin merchant named Garol Gold Coins, Yu Bin immediately thought of the goblin merchant Li Shouyi, and it was obvious that with Yu Bin's initial investment, this goblin merchant finally showed his business talent, laid a certain foundation in the goblin clan, and was even able to hold a player-oriented auction in Treasure Bay.
And what Elan saw in Ratchet City was naturally an advertisement by Li Shouyi in order to attract more players to participate in the auction.
Yu Bin immediately realized that this was a very good opportunity, his level was already about to reach the cap level of 1st and 100th, so he would soon face an advanced challenge, and if he could find a few suitable things from this auction, he might be able to have more confidence.
At the same time, the shield made of Kresh's back armor also needs a suitable opportunity to sell, and this auction is obviously a good platform, but I don't know if those participants have enough strength to buy this red rare level shield.
After deciding on the decision, Yu Bin also immediately got on the goblin airship that flew to Ratchet City, where he met with Alan and the others before heading to Treasure Bay together.
On the way to Ratchet City, Yu Bin also took the time to participate in the first virtual gathering of the Devouring Snake.
Hoffman White still didn't find any other badges in the end (nonsense, Yu Bin only gave away four at all), which frustrated him a little, but it didn't affect his judgment. Knowing that he might not be able to find the mastermind behind the scenes in a short time, the heir of the White family sent an invitation to Yu Bin, a mercenary, hoping to ask him to help investigate a plane crash.
Yu Bin didn't have to think about it to guess that it was the plane crash that Hoffman's father encountered, of course he knew some clues about the plane crash, and even knew who designed the plane crash, but Yu Bin couldn't say it, because he couldn't explain why he knew these clues. So he had to excuse himself as a mercenary rather than a detective, and signaled that Hoffman should go to Intergula to cooperate, the Helsing family has a deep relationship with British intelligence, and with the help of MI5, it should not be difficult to find the truth behind the plane crash.
In return, Hoffmann offered a financial aid to the Helsings family to renovate the dilapidated Helsing Castle.
Fillington's lab has had to close due to the loss of financial resources, and the Norwegian government is apparently forcing the mad scientist to abandon his research, much to the fur of Fillington Heimer. As a local tycoon, Hoffmann said he could support Filingheimer's work and invited the expert in genetics and biology to Germany.
Whether it is asking for someone or helping someone, it is undoubtedly a means for these people to take the initiative to deepen the relationship, Yu Bin of course will not be self-conscious, but he did not make any money or status requests, although it is not difficult to ask Hoffman for a few million euros or ask Intergula to give him a British knighthood.
Yu Bin's request is simple, but it is not simple. He gave Intergula and Hoffman a list and asked them to find a way to erase the identities of the people on the list and create a fake identity for them. Yu Bin's excuse for this is that his profession needs various identities as a cover, and the people on the list are all his subordinates or partners.
Although Intergula and Hoffman were a little strange about this, they still agreed, it was just the identity information of dozens of ordinary people, which was easier for them than eating and drinking, but no one knew that Yu Bin also stuffed himself and Shen Tianyi into that list. As for the other people on the list, they are the people that Yu Bin has secretly gathered through Li Shouyi during this time, they come from all walks of life, their identities are different, and the only thing they have in common is that they live in poverty, and they have spouses or children who need a lot of money for treatment.
These people are specially selected by Yu Bin, and they will develop more people based on this in the future, and when the world of Entagri is fully opened to players, these people will become Yu Bin's best helpers and subordinates in the world of Entagre.
The sooner you lay the foundation, the sooner you can reap the benefits!
After the four of them agreed on the time of the next meeting, the virtual assembly came to an end, and it was also at this meeting that the name "Devouring Snake" proposed by Yu Bin was unanimously approved, and this mysterious organization was truly established.
At this time, the Snake did not have a clear goal, because Intergula believed that the real mastermind had not yet appeared, and it was very dangerous to rashly judge with his own eyes without knowing what was hidden in all this.
Yu Bin is not worried about this, because he has unearthed some special functions about the ring, and now it seems that these rings that call themselves "terminals" are not just a prop to enter the world of Entagre, in addition to extracting the player's own soul power for strengthening, this small ring also hides a lot of secrets.