In the Xiaobai camp and sheep camp ten miles south of Zhoushui City, forty-four NPC coppersmiths took turns to "study" tin smelting technology, although each research cost 300 copper coins, and each coppersmith spent 13,200 copper coins to study once. But in order to preempt other players to open the bronze technology, they also had to invest a huge amount of money.

There is a clear benefit to such a large-scale investment in research. That is, it is possible to select those who have the strongest "research" ability among the craftsmen and prepare for the establishment of a separate experimental laboratory in the future. The four main battle legions of more than 10,000 players in the Legion and the King Legion had already left for the front line early in the morning. Among them, the Blood Killing Legion is the vanguard, and the other three legions follow up in turn.

Their marching route was: Zhoushui Walled City - Gouhe - Beishuiquan - Eagle Hand Mining Area. Prepare to fight against the 70,000-strong army of Shanjung in the two places of Beishui Spring and the Eagle Hand Mining Area.

The mountain road is not easy to walk, but fortunately, I am familiar with the path in this area, so the blood killing army marched quickly, and at ten o'clock in the morning, it reached the ditch river more than twenty miles away.

The ditch river is the farthest place that the players of Zhoushui City have ever visited, and in the past, players hunted Shanjung, and the farthest way was to this place. Beyond that, it's almost an unfamiliar area, rarely visited, and can only follow the directions indicated on the map. On the way, they occasionally saw the villages of the Shanrong tribe, and they did not have the leisure time to attack.

That night, they walked more than 80 miles of mountain roads, and finally arrived at Beishuiquan, where they temporarily camped. To the surprise of the players of the Blood Slayer Legion. There are large mountains, forests, and grasslands in the North Water Spring, and there are many herbs and plants growing here. Just the herbs here. The value is incalculable, at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of copper coins. Several of the Bloody Legion Masters even wanted to stay here altogether and seize the large herb-producing area of the Beishui Spring Land.

Bloodkill sternly refuted their thoughts. Not to mention that the Shanjung army will be killed soon, just the three player legions behind will never let them monopolize this place. When the time came, there was a conflict because of the grabbing of herbs, and the battle was lost before it started. "Continue to the Eagle Hand Mining Area tomorrow, and whoever wants to stay, I will immediately send someone to report to the chief and remove him from his position as a Sima!"

The Blood Slaughter Legion was suddenly silenced.

The next day. Early in the morning of the 25th, the Bloody Killing Legion continued to advance for more than 40 miles and arrived at the Eagle Hand mining area. But the situation here shocked them even more than the North Water Spring.

Mines, large bare deposits, lay in front of their eyes like this.

The entire army of players suddenly dispersed and rushed towards the mine. A wild cry of surprise. "Copper mines, there are large copper deposits here, look!" "There's a silver mine here!" "This should be a limestone mine." "Oh my God, why are there so many!?"

Even the six Xing Simas such as the Blood Killer couldn't stay, and hurriedly ran to see the mineral deposits.

In fact, there are many places in the mountains where there are various mines, but the number is very small, and the distribution is very scattered, and it is too troublesome to find it, and it is impossible to build a mining field, which was only built for a day or two. The mine is finished.

However, a large area of more than ten miles here, except for the forest mountains and rocks, is almost all covered with various mineral deposits and veins, which can be seen everywhere, which is amazing. There are so many bare grounds, let alone hidden deep underground. The value of the Eagle Hand mining area. I don't know how many times higher than the herbs of the North Water Spring. At least a hundredfold and more. A mining farm is built here, which can be excavated for a long time.

The players of the Blood Slayer Legion frantically pounced on the ore deposits. Yelling and ecstasy. "Wealth, wealth! Money, it's money! "Haha, brothers, we will also be rich from now on!"

Crazy is crazy, but no one dares to shout openly, it's all mine. Make sure that when he shouts this sentence, he will be chopped into several pieces by other angry players in the blink of an eye, no, chopped into meat foam, not even slag.

The value of the mineral deposits here is not something that any player can swallow alone. Not to mention a single player, even the entire Bloodkill Legion can't swallow it. When the other legions found out about the situation here, they would be furious if they knew that the Bloodkill Legion wanted to monopolize this mining area. The Smiling Proud Legion, the Thousand Miles Legion, and the King Legion, which one is easy to mess with.

After a brief period of excitement, Bloodkill immediately calmed down.

It's impossible to keep the secrets of the minerals here. Thousands of players have come to the Blood Slayer Legion this time, and the news will soon spread throughout the entire Zhoushui Walled City, and a large number of players will soon come here to mine. Now that the price of copper ore in the market has risen rapidly, copper mining is no longer a cost-effective thing. If Zhoushui wants to repair the city, it also needs a large number of stone mines and limestone mines.

No, we have to figure out a solution. Even if you can't keep it alone, you must let yourself have an extra share and get a lot of wealth from it.

Soon, Blood Kill sneered, hehe.

Bloodkill stood up and shouted at the players, "Brothers, don't just worry about the mine and forget about the mission we came here for. Today is the morning of the third day, and the Shanjung army should have arrived at the Luanhe River, and will be killed soon, if they occupy this place, or defeat us, then we will have nothing. Everyone immediately instructed the NPCs to do their work, and immediately cut down trees to build fortifications. ”

"You, take a team of archers to occupy the narrow and dangerous high ground, and deploy the archers from a high position. Hurry, hurry, don't grind! ”

"You, immediately take a team of cavalry, and immediately rush to Luanhe to reconnoiter Shanjung and see where their troops are. Pay back now. Just go! ”

"What are you still doing in a daze, waiting for the Shanrong army to come and cut you!"

Bloody Kill waved his hand quickly to command the division of labor, urging the players to start acting. Players wake up from their mine dreams, remember what they are about to do, and run to command the NPC soldiers to build fortifications for battle. Reconnaissance of reconnaissance, deployment of deployment.

All the raw materials needed for the construction of the fortifications were obtained from the nearest source, and the stone and wood were all carried out by NPC soldiers. The construction of the fortifications was also very fast.

These large quantities of copper axes were all provided by Qin Xiaobai. Copper axes have an advantage over stone axes, that is, after the loss of sharpness. It only needs to be sent back for repair, and it can be used like a new axe, and it is not wasted. And the stone axe is broken, and it is simply discarded.

Of course, these copper axes were not provided by Qin Xiaobai for free.

In the market, the price of each copper axe is about 300 copper coins, and these 2,000 copper axes alone are worth as much as 600,000 copper coins. If you rely on military spending, you can't afford to buy these copper axes at all. Qin Xiaobai is using the method of "rental". Lease this large number of Bronze Axes to four legions of players.

Each Copper Axe is "damaged" once, and the repair cost is 10 Copper Coins.

The 2,000 copper axes in the hands of the Blood Killing Legion were all damaged once, and the total repair cost was 30,000 copper coins. In this way, the military cost was greatly reduced from 600,000 to 30,000 copper coins. At the same time, Xiaobai also got a large amount of copper money into the account.

This is an absolutely legitimate business, and there is no corruption or deduction. No one can blame Xiaobai for this. This repair cost is extremely low. It is more cost-effective than using a stone axe. It can even be said that Xiaobai is free of charge, providing great convenience for the army.

Blood Kill admired Qin Xiaobai's approach. and secretly jealous.

What I admire is that Xiaobai solved the problem of building a large number of tools for building fortifications with a very low military budget. Without this large number of felling tools, the army would not be able to build fortifications at all. Jealously, Xiaobai's monopoly on copper smelting and casting will be more firmly established, and it will be difficult to be shaken.

But if he wants to offend Xiaobai for no reason, he doesn't want to, and he doesn't dare. He has no conflict of interest with Xiaobai. Xiaobai is in charge of the Shang Fang Sword of logistics and ordnance, and whoever offends him will find his own bad luck.

With the order of the Bloodkill given, the Bloodkill Legion quickly went into action.

At the northernmost tip of the Eagle Hand mine is hundreds of meters wide. The 2,000-meter-long passage of a mountain pass quickly built numerous arrow towers, layers of fence defense walls, and horse rejection. This pass is the only way for the Luan River to go south and lead to the Eagle Hand Mining Area, Beishui Spring and Zhoushui Walled City.

Hold this section of the mountain pass to the death, at least be able to resist the Shanrong army for a while, and a few hours is no problem. The army of Shanjung was 70,000 empty. But in this small pass, there is no formation of a large army. At most, thousands of Shanjung charged together. The Bloodkill Legion was able to withstand this attack with ease.

What makes the blood slaughter very uneasy is that there are many forks in the mountains and mountains.

In case the Shanjung army finds a junction from the flank. Once his army of only 12,000 men was outflanked, it would be very bad. He sent a large number of players to find the fork in the mountain range from more than ten miles around, blocking the attack path of the mountain army as much as possible.

As it turned out, the caution of bloodshed was quite correct.

Eight miles to the east of this main pass, there is a narrow mountain passage that can be connected to the Eagle Hand mining area.

Bloody Slaughter quickly divided nearly 4,000 troops to guard the second passage.

These two passes are guarded, and the rear of the Eagle Hand mine is basically safe. If the Shan Rong takes a detour from a further distance, it will take a lot of time.

The Blood Slaughter didn't plan to last long here, as long as he resisted the mountain for a day, and let the Xiaoao Legion, Qianli Legion, and Wang Legion of Beishuiquan in the rear prepare sufficient fortifications, he led the army to retreat over to avoid the strength of the Blood Killing Legion from being consumed too much.

You must know that most of the NPC soldiers of the Blood Killing Legion are sent by ordinary players in Zhou Shuicheng, not his own soldiers, once too many soldiers are lost in battle, he will definitely be drowned by the spit of those ordinary players. The next time there is a war, who will put it again; He didn't think that as long as he could attack the Shanjung army here in a dangerous position, desperately block it for three or four days, and use his tens of thousands of soldiers to destroy the 20,000 or 30,000 troops of the Shanjung army, he would be able to get a warm welcome like a hero after he returned.

No, that's daydreaming.

Tens of thousands of Shanjung were wiped out here, and of course this huge credit belonged to him, but it was the thousands of ordinary players in Zhou Shuicheng who suffered heavy losses. If all the soldiers are gone, no matter what merits he has made, then when he returns, he will only be greeted by the saliva of countless ordinary players.

The most important thing is that if he wants to divide up as many mineral deposits as possible in this Eagle Hand mining area in the future, he must try to consume the strength of the other three main army corps, and at the same time try to preserve his own troops, so that he can have the capital to speak when dividing up the Eagle Hand mining area.

Achievements must be established in order to establish prestige among players. NPC soldiers must not die too much to avoid being accused by ordinary players of tearing down his platform. Moreover, he must have more military strength than the other three main armies, which is his capital to compete for the Eagle's Hand mining area.

Bloodkill sneered again, hey. Doing these three things, he will be able to get the most advantageous position in this Eagle Hand mine.