Chapter Ten: Sleeping Dragon Army

  "System Announcement: For the first time in the system, a player team has two different private armies. The Mercenary System is triggered. From now on, more than two different player private armies can form a mercenary group."

  "System Message: Players Zhang Haogu and Zhuge Zhan have triggered the Vagrant Army system. The system rewards both players with a one-level upgrade to their military rank, and permanently provides all future military supplies for both players."

  "System Message: Player Zhang Haogu's reward has been doubled, and their military rank has been upgraded by one level. Additionally, the player's life value and magic value have been bound."

  "System message: Player Zhang Haogu can now invite other players to form a vagabond army."

  Seeing me with a stunned expression, Sun Shangxiang asked kindly: "Your military rank has increased, your brother's has also increased, do you still want to continue recruiting soldiers?"

  I finally came back to my senses: "Want, want, of course I want. Since the system provides supplies, if I don't take advantage of such a good deal, I'd be an idiot."

  Sun Shangxiang then laid out the recruitment table on the ground, 3 seconds later, my private army became 10,000 people, and Zhuge Dan's also became 2,000 people.

  After Sun Shangxiang put away the table, she smiled at me and said: "Now you can organize your wandering army, but I won't be able to help you. You'd better find your military advisor for help." After that, she floated away without a trace.

  I took a look at the 12,000-strong army, since it's a system-supplied logistics team, why am I not organizing a wandering army yet?

  So I stood in the wilderness and cried out: "Military instructor."

  After a moment, an ethereal and refined old Taoist stood before me: "I am Sima Hui, at your service."

  Seeing this old Taoist, I didn't find anything strange, many Three Kingdoms games use this person to guide new players.

  So I politely said to Sima Hui: "Mr. Shuijing, I want to organize a wandering army."

  Simarui smiled and said: "Alright, you now have your own private army. You can form a vagabond army with other players who also have private armies. Please send invitations to other players who have private armies."

  As soon as the words fell, a turntable appeared in front of me, and I filled in the name of the player I wanted to invite in the turntable. I filled in "Zhuge Zhan" and clicked "OK".

  After a few seconds, Sima Hui still smiled and said to me: "Congratulations, player Zhuge Zhan has agreed to form a vagabond army with you. Since your level is the highest in the vagabond army, you will become the owner of the vagabond army. Please name the vagabond army now."

  Another wheel appeared in front of me, asking me to enter the name of the wandering army. I thought to myself, this time I'm here to find Zhuge Liang, and I'm forming a wandering army with Zhuge Zhan, so let's call it "Wolong Army". I filled in the three words "Wolong Army" and clicked "OK".

  The turntable disappeared, and Sima Hui continued with a smile: "Now, please design the military flag for 'Dormant Dragon Army'."

  Another wheel appeared in front of me, with three options on the wheel: background, main pattern and text. I chose the sea and sky intersection as the background, with the lower half being navy blue and the upper half being light blue, with waves and white clouds. I chose a goose feather fan as the main pattern, placed in the center of the military flag. I chose red seal characters as the text, placed on the right side of the military flag. Then I clicked "OK".

  At last, Sima Hui broke into a smile: "Congratulations, the Sleeping Dragon Army has been successfully established."

  The annoying male voice sounded again:

  "System Message: Player Zhang Haogu and player Zhuge Zhan have formed a vagabond army 'Wolong Army'. The owner of the vagabond army is Zhang Haogu. The Great General is Zhuge Zhan. The original private soldiers belonging to players Zhang Haogu and Zhuge Zhan will still be under their respective jurisdictions."

  "System Announcement: Players Zhang Haogu and Zhuge Zhan have established the first vagabond army 'Wolong Army'. The system rewards both players with a one-level upgrade in their military rank. At the same time, Military Advisor Sima Hui is rewarded as the behind-the-scenes military strategist of 'Wolong Army'."

  "System Announcement: Player Zhang Haogu's rewards have been doubled. The system has also upgraded the player's military rank by one level. At the same time, Military Advisor Sima Hui has become the 'Dormant Dragon Army's behind-the-scenes military strategist."

  "System Message: Military Advisor Sima Hui has already become the 'Dormant Dragon Army's' behind-the-scenes military strategist, reward zero execution. System compensation: 'Dormant Dragon Army' NPC General x3."

  It's great to be walking in the front. I didn't expect that in less than three hours, not only did I get a free army, but also Sima Hui as an awesome backstage military advisor. And what makes me even happier is that I can actually get three NPC great generals.

  At this time, a panel appeared in front of me, asking me to choose an NPC general. I thought that Zhang would eventually be mine, so I chose Lü Bu, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun as the three NPC generals.

  The annoying male voice sounded again:

  "System Announcement: Lü Bu, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun three NPCs have entered the game. Players can now find these three NPCs to receive quests."

  Here are the rewards for the three NPC generals after they join your army:

  After doubling the reward, all generals and soldiers of the Sleeping Dragon Army receive a 60-point increase in their martial arts attributes; After doubling the reward, all generals and soldiers of the Sleeping Dragon Army are upgraded to level 30; After doubling, the Lu, Guan, and Zhao surname generals and soldiers of the Sleeping Dragon Army receive an additional 10-level upgrade; After doubling, the cavalry, infantry, and archers of the Sleeping Dragon Army are all upgraded by 6 levels; The above rewards are valid for soldiers recruited in the next two times; The above rewards are valid for the first six generals who enter the Sleeping Dragon Army in the future.

  Because Lv Bu, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun's levels all rose by 40, the three of them have a 100% recognition rate and loyalty towards both Sleeping Dragon Army and myself, as well as a 100% favorability rate towards me. Since there are more than three NPCs with a 100% recognition rate, loyalty and favorability rate towards me, the system rewards all my characters to be able to hide in any unspawned NPC. At the same time, I can also replace the original character hiding in an NPC with a new one at any time.

  Because I and Zhuge Zhan are not of the same surname as the three Wu generals, I only rose 30 levels. When I checked my level again, it had already reached 63. As for Zhuge Zhan, he directly rose from a blank slate to 30 levels. The soldiers I recruited were originally all five levels lower than me, but now they have all reached 58 levels, and some soldiers with the surname Lü, Guan, or Zhao have even risen to 68 levels, which is five levels higher than mine.

  I called out "Beautiful Teacher", and Sun Shangxiang appeared. Smart NPCs are great, they even remembered the nickname I gave her.

  I only saw Sun Shangxiang's smiling face, I knew she knew that I had made a small fortune. I also smiled with deep meaning and asked her to continue helping me recruit soldiers.

  Unexpectedly, Sun Shangxiang said: "You are now holding three 120-level NPCs and not letting them recruit soldiers. In the future, you will regret it to death."

  I immediately understood what Sun Shangxiang meant. Now I'm recruiting soldiers, and at most I can recruit 58-level soldiers, but these three people can recruit 115-level soldiers. Fortunately, she reminded me, otherwise I would really regret it later. In my heart, I couldn't help but praise the "humanized service" tens of thousands of times, using all the unique techniques of Xing Su Hai.

  Now, I can have 100,000 private soldiers, and Zhuge Liang can have 10,000. Originally, I only had 10,000, and Zhuge Liang only had 2,000. Now I need to recruit 45,000 infantrymen, 22,500 cavalrymen, and 22,500 archers; Zhuge Liang needs to recruit 4,000 infantrymen, and 2,000 each of cavalrymen and archers. I assigned the task of recruiting soldiers to three NPC generals, letting Lü Bu and Guan Yu each recruit 24,500 cavalrymen and archers, and then letting Zhao Yun recruit 49,000 infantrymen. In this way, my army of 110,000 is complete.

  At this time, adding the 50,000 private soldiers brought by Lü Bu, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun, the military strength of Sleeping Dragon has reached 260,000. The newly added 98,000 soldiers have undergone systematic rewards and upgrades, and now they are already at level 145, with some even reaching level 155. This kind of abnormal military strength, not to mention players, is probably unmatched even by the imperial court's army. After all, Sleeping Dragon's three great generals are only at level 120 for now.

  I had just finished recruiting soldiers when the system brought me two pieces of good news.

  The first good news is that my private army exceeded one million for the first time, and the system sent Sun Shangxiang to be my private army coach. I checked Sun Shangxiang's level, and it was actually as high as 160 levels, so abnormal. It seems that in the future, recruitment will have to let her do it herself.

  Sun Shangxiang's arrival has upgraded the entire Wudragon Army by 5 levels, and Sun-named soldiers have been upgraded by 10 levels. Each type of soldier has also been upgraded by one level. Unfortunately, this time they encountered a 20% chance again, and the reward was not doubled.

  But now it's already enough to make people happy. I'm currently level 68, Zhuge Zhan is level 35, the three great generals are level 125, Sun Shangxiang herself leveled up by 10 levels and became level 170. The highest soldier is level 165, and the lowest is also level 35. With the current player strength, even if I take out those blank soldiers that Zhuge Zhan recruited at the beginning, it's enough to sweep away the heroes. More importantly, my infantry, cavalry, and archers have all leveled up to level 8, just one more level to reach the top.

  The second piece of good news is a reward that every player who plays the Three Kingdoms game has been looking forward to: because the army's strength has exceeded 200,000, the court sent an envoy to appoint me as the governor of Qingzhou and Xuzhou. Due to the double reward, I also got Yanzhou and Yuzhou. Now, almost the entire Central Plains are in my hands, and the horse-drawn carriage from the novice village can go directly to Luoyang.

  Hearing this news, I can only describe my current state as shocked. The increase in ability, the awesomeness of the soldiers, the material and monetary rewards - although these are also enviable, they are all one-time rewards. What does a governor eat? Having territory, having military and political power, having economic benefits. That is to say, from now on, I will have four聚宝盆 (treasure basins) that regularly produce silver for me.

  Zhuge was also stunned at this time, and he naturally understood that these benefits were not only mine, but also his. Compared to Zhang Daolao, who had super dogshit luck, it was slightly insufficient, but compared to others, it was already more than enough.

  Unexpected! Things often go like this. Zhuge Dan and I can only sigh about it.