Chapter Sixteen: The Derivative Effects of Surrender

  The whole thing was actually very simple, the key lies in the surrender skill. According to the requirements of the surrender skill, it can only be used effectively when both sides are holding out or during the battle process. So Yang Tian came up with a very despicable idea, which is that the big cow would attract their attention in front of these bandits, and Yang Tian would use the surrender skill from behind.

  Seven or eight thousand bandits were persuaded to surrender by Yang Tian, with three or four hundred of them basically reaching the highest proportion of 5%. It can be said that his character had a big explosion. However, at that time, Yang Tian did not dare to let these newly surrendered people immediately rise up and compete with other bandits.

  In "Tian Xia", for the convenience of player command, within a certain number and geographical range, players can control their subordinates with their minds. Generally speaking, this number is used to form the Lord's personal guard army. Now Yang Tian is just making reasonable use of the rules.

  So the moment Yang Tian successfully surrendered, he ordered these surrendered people to stand still and wait until nightfall before finding an excuse to slip out of the camp. Anyway, they were all familiar faces in the bandit camp, and the system didn't give the player's characteristics to the bandit leader, so he naturally didn't know that some of his subordinates had already defected.

  Anyway, the bandit army is still roaming around, and I don't dare to pluck hair from a tiger's mouth that has already been alerted.

  Then I calmed down and took a look at what I had gained earlier: the first thing that caught my eye was indeed an S-level NPC, with no profession or skills.

  Yang Tian once again sighed at the power of the White Gold Village Lord! Although this White Gold Village Lord was now making him live a life where he couldn't even guarantee his safety from morning to night, it didn't stop Yang Tian from evaluating it objectively.

  A one in five hundred chance, and I got a second S-grade NPC among over seven hundred people. My luck isn't bad after all. Although this S-grade NPC doesn't have any skills or occupation, it allows Yang Tian to make better arrangements based on his own situation.

  And this S-level NPC had already been arranged in Yang Tian's heart.

  Apart from this S-level NPC, there are also 11 A-level NPCs and 30 B-level NPCs who have surrendered. This time, Yang Tian can completely double his army of soldiers.

  However, what made Yang Tian somewhat disappointed was that perhaps these NPCs were provided by the system for players to brush up on their levels, yet among nearly four hundred people, not a single one had professional skills. It couldn't help but make Yang Tian lament the system's stinginess. However, there were also some advantages - all of these people were young and strong, with no elderly or children who would drag down the labor force; it was just that there were more men than women.

  The bandit army will not return to the camp for a while, so Yang Tian went underground. Before going underground, he instructed Da Niu to go back to the village and gather some people to carry the captured weapons back.

  After eating lunch, Yang Tian went online again and didn't find anyone around. I guess the big cow has also returned to the village!

  The bandit army is also about to return to their camp. After they return, there will still be sentries left around the camp, but after what happened this morning, I estimate that they will leave even more sentries behind this time, and I don't know if we can still take them down.

  Back in Baiyun Village, seeing the villagers coming and going, Yang Tian was very satisfied, and his heart was even more determined to solve the current trouble, not letting his hard work be destroyed in an instant.

  However, throughout the entire morning, he only obtained 3 points of merit, which means he had only killed around three hundred bandits. Adding to that the ones he had surrendered, it was roughly seven hundred people. Even if the afternoon went just as smoothly as the morning, he would at most kill another three hundred or so people. Not to mention that the cooldown time for his surrender skill was a whole day, and he wouldn't be able to use it in the afternoon.

  That is to say, even if we can reduce the population of the bandit camp by 1,000 people in a day, this damn White Gold Village Lord has twice the normal village's monster spawn rate. A thousand people are only half of the daily refresh amount, and even if we kill 1,000 every day, it will only delay things for two days at most.

  Seeing some villagers whispering on the street, Yang Tian suddenly had another idea in his heart...

  Immediately find a big cow, let him go and call back the Wuma who is practicing outside with his troops. Then he returned to the warehouse in the village and saw nearly 300 pieces of various weapons and dozens of pieces of leather armor that had appeared inside. Yang Tian knew that he had made another fortune. However, this was due to the great cow's powerful martial arts, most of the bandits were killed before they could even react, otherwise, in a head-on confrontation, the wear and tear rate of the weapons would be very high, and it would be difficult to say whether these weapons could be collected or not.

  Suddenly thought of his own intermediate market should also be built. If not taking advantage of the current situation where player villages are extremely scarce and hoarding a large amount of raw materials, Yang Tian would not forgive himself.

  Call several villagers and bring more than 200 various weapons to the market.

  The mid-market is almost as big as the primary market, with the largest difference being that the area has nearly doubled.

  First, I took a look at the market situation and still didn't find anyone selling weapons. Maybe there were some, but I just couldn't see them. The prices of raw materials are mostly around 2 copper coins. Although Yang Tian's sale of weapons and purchase of raw materials had some impact on the market in Shuining County yesterday, his trading range has now expanded to the entire county, and no one is buying materials from other places.

  Yang Tian estimated that there are already several player villages in the entire Guiji Prefecture. However, for early players, copper coins are even scarcer than resources. Resources can be collected by villagers, but copper coins cannot be manufactured by them. Moreover, early players do not lack resources much, except for food, which has been a persistent problem throughout the Three Kingdoms period, especially in some impoverished and cold regions.

  At the previous price, Yang Tian started to make a big splash in the market again. After finishing, Yang Tian acquired various raw materials totaling 300,000 units and still had more than 2 million copper coins left over. Now Yang Tian can be considered a truly wealthy man. Even if it was the development of the past year, it couldn't compare to the gains of these few days.

  Afterwards, Yang Tian ordered Wang Lao to build two rafts in the afternoon. He planned to go to the other side of the river to take a look, just in case there was another bandit camp or something on the opposite bank, so he could make early preparations for himself.

  Incidentally, I inquired about other news and unexpectedly discovered an iron ore mine this morning. Arrangements are already being made for the villagers to excavate it. However, since there is still a sufficient amount of iron ore in storage, not many people have been dispatched. As for the coal mine, nothing has been settled yet. Without a coal mine, high-quality steel cannot be produced, and naturally, more advanced weapons also cannot be manufactured. Yang Tian was also helpless about this. Although he had nearly a year's worth of gaming experience compared to others, he wasn't a god and couldn't possibly know things like where the coal mine was located.

  The big cow led Wu Ma and others back, and a group of people walked towards the direction of the Liukou camp.

  Yang Tian let Wu Ma lead the soldiers to wait in place, while he himself sneaked into the patrol area of the Liang bandits' camp again.

  At this time, the number of patrolling mobs outside was more than at the beginning in the morning, but still less than the number after the increase later, or maybe it's also for players to level up! Otherwise, as soon as they appear, it would be a large group, and players probably wouldn't survive.

  However, this time Yang Tian did not make a big splash by pulling out the sentry, but only killed 70 or 80 people and came to the side of the fence. Seeing many green dots moving on the map, Yang Tian smiled triumphantly.

  After doing so, Yang Tian and Da Niu met with a group of people led by Wuma.

  At this time, the bandit camp began to stir, and some of the bandits started to incite people around them to leave the camp to find that despicable scoundrel from this morning. It's a great achievement to catch someone, and the leader will surely reward them greatly.

  Many of the deserters were moved, and together with those who had incited them, they slipped out of the camp. Each group consisted of between 10 to over 20 people, and under the deliberate leadership of some individuals, they began to sneak towards the rear of the camp.

  A team of people walked out of the camp for less than five or six miles, and suddenly dozens of arrows shot out from the forest, and a group of people fell down in an instant. In the chaos, I saw a large cavalry rushing out of the forest, frightened and panicked, turned around and ran away.

  It wasn't easy to escape from the ambush, and soon this group of people was eliminated, leaving only two people. However, at this time, both sides had stopped fighting. Moreover, the remaining two people also saluted Yang Tian. It turned out that these two were the ones who surrendered to Yang Tian in the morning, while the others were just unlucky eggs who were deceived by them.

  Yang Tian saw that these two were both A-level qualifications, so he didn't plan to let them return to the camp. Instead, he had a soldier take them back to the village and receive training in the military camp, becoming a qualified soldier as soon as possible.

  Carefully sweep the battlefield clean, leaving no gaps. Before long, another group of people came over, this time only a dozen or so, fewer than last time.

  As expected, under Yang Tian's deliberate calculation, these bandits were completely defeated. The remaining "bandit" was then invited to one side and hidden away.