Chapter Fifteen: Designing Surrender

  The next day, Yang Tian had Wu Ma lead all the soldiers out for training. He wanted to quickly cultivate a batch of high-level soldiers to deal with the situation after upgrading the territory.

  Yang Tian himself then touched the tent of the Liuxian camp within their territory with Da Niu.

  The outside of the bandit camp was also surrounded by a fence, and inside it was densely packed with bandits, more powerful than when we came yesterday. Outside the fence, there were sentry posts every hundred meters. Perhaps in order to better hide, except for the trees along the main road leading to the gate, other places still had dense trees.

  Yang Tian took a closer look and found that the bandits here were even more shabby than those in Hei Yun Mountain Stronghold. Except for a small number of people wearing leather armor, most of them wore cloth clothes, but the weapons in their hands were about the same. This also reduced the difficulty of players fighting against the bandits to some extent.

  Within the territory of White Cloud Village, not only will monster respawns double, but also camps like this one have twice as many sentries outside, reaching a total of seven or eight people.

  As far as Yang Tian knew about the system rules: As long as the sentry posts outside the camp were cleared by about four-fifths, the bandits inside the camp would discover something was amiss and increase their patrol efforts. If the personnel decreased again, the bandit camp would launch a full-scale search within a five-mile radius of the camp. Of course, this would only happen if the bandit camp had not discovered any enemy tracks. If you were discovered by the sentry NPC while clearing the sentry posts and it sent out a signal, then the bandits would decide how to deal with these intruders based on the specific situation.

  Yang Tian's idea was simple, attacking the bandit camp now was unrealistic. If they let it develop and wait for them to attack the village, even with three heads and six arms, they wouldn't be able to defend it. The only feasible method was to kill the NPC sentries outside the camp to reduce their total population and delay their attack on the village.

  As for whether or not he can complete this goal, it depends on a bit of luck. If you make your move and the opponent discovers it right away, then be prepared to run for your life! However, Yang Tian couldn't think of any other way now, so he had no choice but to treat a dead horse as if it were alive. Moreover, Yang Tian still had the Great Bull, this special-grade warrior, in his hands, and he himself was also a proud primary-grade warrior. Because he had learned primary internal strength, although his martial power was only 51 points, his actual strength was not inferior to that of top-notch primary warriors. You should know that internal strength is the foundation for advancing to king-grade warrior; otherwise, even the most powerful special-grade warriors are nothing but brute force.

  After circling the camp, he didn't find anything out of the ordinary, so Yang Tian felt a lot more at ease. It seemed that at the beginning of the game, these NPCs were relatively well-behaved. As far as Yang Tian knew, later on, there would often be large groups of NPC bandits charging into player leveling areas and massacring players. At first, it really caused many players to suffer heavy losses.

  Found a relatively remote mobile sentry post, this team of eight were all riflemen, they didn't feel the danger slowly approaching at all, grumbling and complaining in their mouths, seemingly very dissatisfied with being arranged to come out on patrol. One of them was the squad leader, who was comforting everyone's emotions.

  Yang Tian and the other person hid behind a large tree beside the advancing route, with their long guns slung over their backs, holding a wooden bow in their hands, with arrows already strung, while on Da Niu's bow were three arrows.

  After these eight people passed by, they finally found an opportunity. The bowstring responded lightly, and four arrows had already pierced the necks of four of them, without even making a miserable cry.

  The remaining four people seemed to have not yet discovered their companion's abnormality and continued walking and talking.

  Yang Tian and the others would not let go of such a good opportunity. The big cow suddenly rushed out from behind the tree, pounced on several people with the momentum of a thunderbolt, and before these people could react, the big cow had already arrived behind them. With a swift draw of his gun, he stabbed out, neatly taking away the lives of four people.

  They perfectly completed the task, and Yang Tian and the two of them dragged the eight corpses into the woods to cover them up. It's worth knowing that the corpses will only refresh after twelve hours, and if they are seen by other bandits, it will have a great impact on their subsequent actions.

  However, Yang Tian was quite greedy and didn't plan to let go of the eight long guns and two pieces of leather armor. He tied them together, found a place to bury them, made a mark, and only then left with satisfaction.

  The action is still ongoing, the sentry posts are being continuously reduced, and although there have been some unexpected events in the middle, fortunately they were all safe.

  Killed nearly two hundred people, the camp inside seems to have noticed something unusual, and a group of bandits began to walk out from the wooden gate, dispersing in groups of seven or eight to the surroundings of the camp.

  These increased sentries had a certain impact on the actions of Yang Tian and others, after all, there is now a team of sentries in less than 100 meters, which requires them to have faster speeds and more accurate judgments.

  Fortunately, Yang Tian is not a fool, on the contrary, his mind is quite agile, and the speed of a martial general is not something that ordinary soldiers can keep up with. Therefore, the addition of these people only affected the speed at which Yang Tian and the other person removed the sentry post.

  It was almost noon when the drumbeat sounded in the camp, and then countless bandits rushed out from inside. The first one held a large knife and wore leather armor. This is not particularly unusual, but he was clearly different from others because **he rode a tall horse**.

  War horse! This is a rare strategic material, especially in Yangzhou, it's hard to find one.

  Yang Tian naturally also knew the situation here, and perhaps this was just what he had expected. However, when he saw this fine horse, his eyes were filled with a hatred that could have swallowed the knight whole.

  Yang Tian still knew what was important at this point.

  Now there are war horses in the opposing camp, which is slightly different from Yang Tian's previous estimate. However, this is not a bad thing and may even bring some unexpected joy.

  After this large group of people rushed out of the camp, the big cow appeared in front of these people according to Yang Tian's instructions, standing there with a golden sword.

  When he didn't understand the situation, one hand grasped the reins of his horse and shouted: "Little boy in front! Who are you? Why block this king's path?"

  The great bull laughed and said: "I'm here today to meet you guys, do you have the skills to come out and fight me for hundreds of rounds?"

  That man was scolded as a wastrel, and he was so angry that he shouted loudly, but he wasn't a fool either. He knew that the other party dared to stand here alone, naturally there must be something to rely on. Moreover, with nearly ten thousand subordinates behind him, it's not worth fighting to the death with him.

  "You dare to utter such arrogant words, what qualifications do you have to duel with me?! Brothers, charge forward and tear this ignorant child into a thousand pieces!" As soon as the voice fell, all the horses began to charge.

  The big cow didn't want to try the feeling of being a public enemy, and laughed loudly: "A coward is just a coward, I'm leaving! I won't play with you guys anymore." After finishing speaking, the big cow ran towards the direction of the hills.

  Although the leader was also suspicious, seeing his nearly ten thousand brothers, he became bolder. He believed that in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy would be a paper tiger. So he chased after them with abandon, but he didn't plan to show off his personal heroism, and although he rode a horse, his speed wasn't much different from these infantrymen.

  But at this speed, how can we catch up with a top-notch martial artist like Big Cow? In just a moment, Big Cow will be gone without a trace.

  Seeing the pursuit was hopeless, the leader's face turned blue with rage, but he had no choice but to give up. He led his bandits in a few circles around the campsite before withdrawing back to their camp.

  When Big Bull appeared again at the meeting with Yang Tian, he saw his master's face full of lustful smiles. That expression made Big Bull's whole body covered in goosebumps.

  What made Yang Tian so happy?

  It's very simple, because the population of the territory has increased again.

  In the village population attribute column, it suddenly became 723/100.