Chapter Fourteen: The Bandit Camp

  Arriving at the military camp, this batch of soldiers had already completed their training. Yang led these people out and let the remaining 10 villagers who had risen to level 7, as well as a new A-level villager recruited that morning, enter the military camp for training.

  Although the current situation is quite critical, Yang Tian has no intention of changing his military structure and will resolutely implement the elite soldier strategy.

  In "Tian Xia", players also have maps, but they only show the areas that have been explored within their territory. Moreover, within the territory, one can enjoy a broader field of vision.

  Seeing the big cow and others were currently leveling up at a large monster spawn point in the north, Yang Tian led his 20 level 7 pawns to rush over. The wild monsters along the way had clearly been cleaned up by the big cow and others, leaving only a few newly spawned beasts.

  The poor beast was still bewildered by this strange new world when it was ruthlessly turned into fertilizer for the earth. These 20 soldiers had all reached level 7, and with their original combat strength, even those 15 B-class soldiers became fourth-rank soldiers, although they were just stepping into the threshold of the fourth rank, but it was not something that this highest-level beast could shake off.

  Upon arrival, Yang Tian discovered that the four of them were leveling up with an even more frantic efficiency than this morning. This was a large-scale campsite for 20-level wild oxen. The Ox held a steel spear as the vanguard at the front, two A-class soldiers had already leveled up to 9 and were authentic fourth-tier peak soldiers, holding long spears they protected both flanks with ease, while Wu Ma, who had the lowest combat power, walked in between the three of them, providing strength buffs for the trio. Now Wu Ma had leveled up to 10. Although the mid-level general's limitation made his command only add up to 70, the 35% strength buff still had a significant effect on this leveling party. And the steel spear in his hand was not just for show, occasionally there would be some stray monster that couldn't even harm him.

  In just two short hours, they have already killed nearly half of the thousands of bison here. It is estimated that in another half hour, all the bison here will be killed off.

  With Da Niu and a few others, Yang Tian let Wu Ma group everyone together. The extreme monster-killing has officially begun...

  A team of twenty-five people just made two trips and the entire bison camp was plowed through. Yang Tian no longer fought monsters, but instead collected cowhide from the crowd. Although he is now relatively wealthy, even a small mosquito is still meat! Waste is shameful.

  If other players saw Yang Tian's monster-killing scene, their eyes would probably pop out. If they wanted to achieve this effect, it would be at least a few months later. After all, the lowest level of this team was fourth-order soldier, and there was also a special-grade general. However, most players were now around level 11, with combat power estimated to be less than 30, which was roughly the same as a level 20 beast, making it difficult to achieve instant kills.

  After killing the camp, the group began to move on to other places. On the way, they passed through a village and brought out 11 newly trained soldiers from the village. They also promoted Uhma to senior general at the same time.

  A group of people swept through the remaining seven large primary monster camps in the territory like a hurricane. As for the intermediate camp, Yang Tian only dared to move the small ones for the time being, but he did discover some bad news - there was a large intermediate monster camp eight or nine miles southwest of White Cloud Village, the Grass Bandit Camp.

  It seems Yang Tian's prayers have not been answered.

  This bandit camp was hidden in the dense forest, and it was really hard to find from a distance. The occupied area was not large, less than one kilometer in diameter. However, the densely packed bandits inside made Yang Tian's scalp numb.

  As it was already late at that time, Yang Tian decided not to provoke these death-seeking Yan Wangs for the time being.

  In addition, there are five medium-sized monster camps that are also human-shaped NPCs, and now more than 700 people have accumulated. It is estimated that at least 500 of them can fight, so Yang Tian does not dare to touch it for the time being.

  The entire afternoon's crazy leveling harvest was rich. I finally leveled up to 19, and in just one afternoon, I advanced by more than half a level. What's not satisfying about that? Adding the free attribute points I gained to my strength, I can finally change my profession to Warrior now.

  The 28 privates brought along also grew into fourth-tier soldiers. Among them, the levels of the 7 A-grade privates reached level 11, and the last A-grade private's level also reached level 8, while the other 25 B-grade privates were all at level 10 or 11.

  Although Da Niu also leveled up to level 14 and Wuma leveled up to level 12, they were both unable to upgrade their attributes due to the limitations of their respective ranks.

  But the gains in terms of materials were enormous, with over 700 pieces of animal hide collected. If it weren't for the fact that the collection technique had a success rate of only 1% against these low-level ordinary wild beasts, the quantity would have been tens of times higher. In fact, due to time constraints, many wild beasts didn't even have time to be collected before they left.

  But the greatest gain is getting two more drawings: Intermediate Market Construction Drawing and Fence Construction Drawing.

  The blueprint for the fence construction doesn't make much sense, because as long as you upgrade to a 2nd level village, you can build fences anyway. Now it's just a matter of building them a few days earlier. If only the primary city wall construction blueprint... Hehe! Yang Tian's mind started to wander. But ideals are good, reality is cruel.

  And mid-level market maps are more realistic, because the mid-level market allows remote transactions to reach the entire county. In the early days, this was an important source of raw materials for Yang Tian!

  Taking everyone back to the village, Yang Tian first had Da Niu and Wu Ma take 18 soldiers to the military camp for archery training, while the remaining soldiers waited outside for the next batch of training.

  "Master! Today, a total of 12 vagrants were recruited in the village. The only A-level villager has been taken away by Master to join the army. Except for Master's military officers and soldiers, there are now 314 villagers in the entire village, with 7 people having professions." Yang Tian returned to the village chief's office, and Wang Lao began to report on today's situation.

  Yang Tian nodded silently, and Wang Lao continued: "Starting this afternoon, the shipyard will begin manufacturing fishing boats. The intermediate shipyard can produce 5 intermediate fishing boats per day, and with the help of 20 apprentices, it can produce 10 fishing boats. There are already 4 fishing boats that have been completed, and we can start fishing tomorrow. In terms of personnel arrangements, since the woodwork house and medical clinic have been built, I have arranged for 10 C-level NPCs to go in and learn. So now there are a total of 60 people serving as apprentices in various industries. Since our village has an abundance of raw materials, everyone is working at full capacity, and it's estimated that this batch of apprentices will be able to graduate in 10 days. I have arranged for 100 people to clear the land and plant crops, while 90 people are assigned to fell trees for shipbuilding, and 50 people are assigned to quarry stones. The remaining four people are building structures, and today they built three civilian houses, one primary woodwork house, one primary medical clinic, and upgraded a high-level military camp. Additionally, I have sent 10 people to explore the iron mine and coal mine, but there is no news yet."

  "Today's production and collection of materials, in addition to the four fishing boats, include 20 pieces of leather armor, 16 long guns. The daily output of the tailor's shop and the blacksmith's shop is 10 pieces, which can reach 20 pieces with the help of apprentices. A total of 450 units of wood and 230 units of stone were harvested."

  Iron ore and coal mines are not what Yang Tian is worried about, the system settings in this regard are still very humane. In the early stages of the game, there are large and small mining pits everywhere, but these mineral veins belong to one-time resources and will not refresh after excavation. If a real mineral vein is found, it's a different story, after all, mineral veins are confirmed by the system as renewable resource points, as long as the daily excavation amount does not exceed the daily refresh amount, there won't be a situation where they are depleted. Therefore, for now, Yang Tian is not worried about not being able to find iron ore and coal mines.

  Yang Tiandao said, "Let Wang Lao take care of it. From now on, just let Wang Lao arrange these things and there's no need to tell me every day. Our village is currently facing a great danger, with a large bandit camp less than 9 miles southwest. More than 6,000 bandits have gathered. Once they gather to 10,000 people, they will come to attack our village... However, Wang Lao doesn't need to worry too much, I already have a plan in mind, and if it succeeds, not only can we eliminate this hidden danger, but also increase the strength of our village."

  "Who would have thought of such a thing? Master, you must be extremely careful this time!" Since he heard Yang Tian say that there was already a clue, Wang Lao did not stop him. He also knew that people like Yang Tian were equivalent to having an immortal body.

  "Ah! I knew that... By the way, today I got a blueprint for an intermediate market building and a blueprint for a fence building. Tomorrow, can you arrange a few people to build them? The scope of the fence will be about 2 square kilometers based on the area of the secondary village!" Now upgrading the village is just a matter of time, Yang Tian doesn't want to build the fence himself only to tear it down again. After all, building a fence is also a relatively large project, even if 10 people work together, it will take about 5 or 6 days to complete.