"Boss, my reconnaissance cavalry captain has made an official contact with the leader of the opposing army, which is a well-known player bandit army active in the area around Lingzhi Country, and the leader is the famous 'Merry Bandit' in this area, with four or five hundred players under his command, and about three or four thousand soldiers. This time, they heard that a huge trading caravan from my Zhoushui Walled City passed here, and all of them deliberately guarded this pass, hoping to collect a little money to buy the road and improve their lives. The bandit's leader also said that as long as they left a tenth of the goods, they would give way. Otherwise, this road is not passable, and the caravan should be rerouted to other roads, otherwise ~, the sword has no eyes in the fight, and the captain did not give them an answer, let me come back and ask the boss what he meant. ”

The Scout Cavalry whispered, carefully watching the God King's expression.

The God King had never heard of the name "Merry Bandit", and when he heard the scout finish speaking, he was immediately furious, "Phew, the money has been received on my head." The sword has no eyes, and I want to see if it's my sword or his. One-tenth, he thought he was the king of Yan Kingdom, and the monarch did not charge 10% tax. If I had made so much money by robbing, I would have done it myself, and it would have been his turn to do it! Go back immediately and tell them, wash your neck, and wait for Lao Tzu to cut it tomorrow. ”

The scout shrank his head and was about to withdraw.

Shanhai hurriedly said: "Don't, don't turn your face with them first, just say that we need to think about it, they charge one-tenth too much." It must be reduced. You go tell the Recon Cavalry Captain and ask him to bargain with the bandits. ”

The God King said angrily: "Still bargaining? Not a single copper coin can be given! If one is given today, tomorrow they will have a hundred! ”

Shanhai persuaded: "Brother God King, turning your face is also a matter of tomorrow, let's sleep peacefully tonight, lest they send troops to harass us." Anyway, it's just a matter of letting the captain of the reconnaissance cavalry delay for as long as he can. Tomorrow, when we're full of sleep and food, we'll kill them again and serve them in one pot. You say, don't you? ”

The God-King didn't say anything this time.

The scout cavalry understood Shanhai's intentions, and then left the military tent. Hurry to the pass ten miles away, and report the decision of the God King and the mountains and seas to the captain. Scout Cavalry Captain is clever. Comprehending the intentions of the mountains and seas, he began to bargain with those bandits. They think their asking price is too high, and they must lower it.

The bandit players who were guarding the pass were very surprised, and they casually offered a one-tenth of the asking price, and they really bargained against it. This was clearly not what they expected. Because most of them were robbed, they would directly refuse their unreasonable demands.

Moreover, the caravan today is very large, and the number of soldiers is even twice as large as theirs.

Okay, since the other party is making a counteroffer. Don't want to go to war. Let's continue to negotiate the price of the fare.

The leaders of this bandit land discussed it and decided to negotiate with the caravan.

The bandit players also sent several player representatives. Negotiate the price with the Recon Cavalry Captain. Every time the bandit players offered a price, the captain of the reconnaissance cavalry said that he could not make a decision, and that he had to send someone back to "ask" the caravan's superiors. Look at what the above says - this back and forth, grinding and grinding, just an hour passes, and it is very time-consuming. The negotiations were talked for several hours and little progress was made.

The bandits lowered their asking price to one-fiftieth, and the two sides still couldn't reach a deal. After grinding for five or six hours, the player negotiators on both sides were so exhausted that they almost fell asleep at the narrow negotiating table.

At dawn the next day, five o'clock sharp.

Under the organization of the God King, Shanhai and others, the players have gone online one after another, and the entire caravan has quietly packed up the camp. Five thousand troops walked in front, two thousand troops escorted a huge caravan behind, all of them quickly advanced to the pass, and all the NPC soldiers had entered the first level of combat readiness, and they wanted to take advantage of this group of daring bandits.

They didn't plan to give this group of bandits a penny, they wanted to collect their money for buying roads, in the next life!

Five or six o'clock is when most people are most sleepy.

The army of the God King Land had quietly arrived at the pass, less than a few hundred meters away from the bandit camp. The God King coldly waved the bronze sword in his hand, and more than 5,000 NPC soldiers rushed towards the bandit camp under the leadership of the players, "Kill-!" ”。

Thousands of soldiers quickly broke through the fence, jumped over the traps, and rushed into the tents of the bandit army's camp, turning the entire camp inside and out. To their surprise, though, there was no one. Except for a few bandit players at the negotiating table who were still sleeping in a daze, the dozens of large tents in the entire bandit camp were empty, and this was a disguised camp.

The players and soldiers looked around the entire bandits' camp, and for a moment they were a little confused. "Their camp is empty, and they're all gone? How did they guess that we would sneak up overnight? "Could it be that they were scared away last night?"

The God-King was also amazed in his heart.

What's going on?

He faintly felt something bad in his heart, and immediately sent someone to wake up the two negotiator players on his own side and the two negotiator players on the bandit side at the negotiating table, and asked them what was going on, why was there no one here?

Both the own players and the bandit players are weird.

The negotiator replied, "There are a lot of people in this camp, and we saw thousands of them when we came." But while talking, they all went to sleep in their tents. All of us are here talking and falling asleep. What happened later is not clear. ”

The player on the bandit side said honestly: "As we said, your negotiation is deliberately wasting time and trying to disadvantage us. Since you want to grind time, I will grind with you, and our two bandit negotiators are here to accompany you to grind time. The head also said that the fox always has to be more patient than the prey, he has time, so he doesn't mind you grinding time, he will accompany him to the end. ”

The god king was so angry that he almost vomited blood. This merry bandit, is he trying to tease him?

As they were talking, suddenly a few miles away, they remembered a violent shout of killing.

The God King's face changed, that was where the caravan was. He dispatched 5,000 soldiers to exterminate this group of 3,000 or 4,000 bandits in one fell swoop, and in order to prevent the caravan transport carriage from being swept away by swords, he left the caravan about three miles behind, guarded by 2,000 soldiers.

"Oh no, they have set up an empty city plan and ambushed in another place, the goal is to attack the caravan left behind! Assemble, assemble, and return to the caravan! ”

The God-King was startled and immediately roared to gather his own army. The army of 5,000 soldiers was quickly gathered and led by hundreds of players, rushing to the rear three miles to rush to the caravan to reinforce the caravan.

It's just three miles, which is less than a few minutes away. At this time, it seems to be a long journey, and 5,000 soldiers are running desperately under the leadership of the players. They ran very fast, but by the time they were back to the caravan, the short battle was over, and the bandits' army had seen the army in front of them come back, and they quickly retreated into the forest.

The 2,000 troops guarding the caravan did not dare to pursue, fearing an ambush.

The God King rushed back to the caravan and was relieved to see that most of the carriages of the entire caravan were safe and sound, and that the more than 2,000 soldiers had not lost much. About 100 corpses were left on the ground, 80 of them were bandits, and 20 were of the soldiers guarding the caravan.

The god-king asks how much cargo Shankai has lost.

Shanhai smiled bitterly, "A group of fierce bandits, they are twice as many as us, and the goods of four or five carriages were looted by this group of bandits, accounting for 1% of the total number of carriages, although there are no valuables, but they are also worth hundreds of thousands." For these things, they paid the price of fifty soldiers and injured hundreds of soldiers, but in fact, they did not take much advantage. Fortunately, the combat effectiveness of our 2,000 soldiers is not much worse than that of their more than 4,000 soldiers. ”

The god-king stroked his sword, gloomy. His sword was not stained with blood, and the other party had already given him a cold knife.

This time it was unexpectedly attacked, and the loss was not large, but it greatly hit the confidence of Shanhai and the God King. They originally planned to sneak attack and exterminate this bandit, so as to establish their authority and deter other bandits, but they didn't expect to be bitten by this bandit force.

The caravan players were a little demoralized, and after reorganizing their army, they regrouped and escorted the caravan onwards. Passed through the pass and entered the territory of the Lingzhi country. As long as this bandit force has nothing to do with the army of Lingzhi, it is safe for them to enter the territory of Lingzhiguo.

In the morning of the same day, they arrived in the capital of the Lingzhi Kingdom, where they conducted a trade.

The Lingzhi country is dominated by 100,000 NPC nationals, but there are also many players living here.

Those players who violated the laws of Yan Kingdom, were expelled from Yan Kingdom, and were expelled from the country, as well as a large number of bandit players and criminal players, all like to come to this "foreign" place, because the laws of Yan Kingdom cannot control here, they can enter and exit the city of Lingzhi Country at will, kill people and goods in other places in Yan Country, rob property, and then hide here to eat and drink spicy food, and be happy. If you can join the nationality of the Lingzhi country, you can even get the protection of the Lingzhi team.

The number of players in Yan Country who changed their nationality to this Lingzhi country is by no means a minority, at least tens of thousands of players.