All players in Lujiang County know that the Wan County government is recruiting soldiers on a large scale to deal with a bandit player stronghold.
In the game, there is only one known company that has received this kind of treatment.
The other bandits were still struggling to develop in the mountains, working hard and keeping a low profile, while Hanjiang Village had defeated 5,000 imperial troops earlier, and was now receiving special treatment from the county magistrate, who recruited 20,000 soldiers to attack. Hulu Mountain became the focus of many players in Lujiang County.
Players can participate in recruiting soldiers, but few people are willing to participate.
The rewards for participating in the battle are too low, and the rate of return is too low, which makes it unattractive to them. Secondly, the game has a death penalty mechanism.
In Dynasty, death is limited by talent points. If you die ten times, your talent will be reduced to zero, your potential will be reduced to zero, and your strength will not be able to grow.
If you die again after ten times, all your attributes will regress.
This greatly limits the upper limit of the number of guilds and legions that individual players can form, because it is not so easy to form a legion of all players due to the existence of the game's death penalty mechanism.
Unless it is absolutely necessary, players will not fight to the death, let alone such a mission of attacking a stronghold with limited rewards and high risks.
However, some studios participated in the recruitment. They brought the guards in their own villages to sign up and were incorporated into the bandit-suppression army as a whole, which allowed them to gain a lot of military merit.
Military merit is one of the ways for refugee lords to rise.
Twenty thousand soldiers and horses marched in an orderly manner towards Hanjiang Village, attracting the curiosity of some players along the way, and all of them headed towards Hanjiang Village.
The heroic players dare not get close to the bandit suppression army and Hanjiang Village. During a war, if a person who does not belong to either side joins the battlefield, he will be regarded as an enemy by both sides. Both sides can attack him, and getting close is seeking death.
Here it comes.
On the wall of Hanjiang Village, Lin Han looked at the mighty army from afar, with smoke and dust rising everywhere.
The entire Hanjiang Village blew horns as if facing a powerful enemy.
"Wait for my order before lighting the beacon." Lin Han instructed the beacon soldiers.
He told Dian Wei that the beacon fire was the signal, which was the key to the surprise attack.
Twenty thousand soldiers stopped on the plain across the river, gazing across the water at the city wall embedded in Hulu Mountain Pass.
"Brother, there shouldn't be any problem with the 20,000 soldiers this time, right?" Yang Tianyun asked confidently while riding on his horse.
Their Tianyu Village is the closest to Hanjiang Village, just across the river, only about ten miles away. Once Hanjiang Village looks for someone to attack, they will be the first to do so, so they regard Hanjiang Village as a thorn in their side.
Especially last time, it was Hua Chonghuang who made the county magistrate agree to send troops, causing them to suffer heavy losses.
"It's hard to say. Last time, Hanjiang Village only had 3,000 soldiers. No one knows if their strength has increased in the past few days."
Yang Tianyu looked at Hanjiang Village on the other side of the river with envy.
Hanjiang Village occupies a geographical advantage, surrounded by mountains on three sides. To succeed, one only needs to defend one side, so the strength is concentrated.
The entrance to the valley was narrow and blocked by a river, making it unfavorable for a large-scale attack. Relying on the terrain advantage and defending the city, their 20,000 troops were not sure of victory.
During this battle, many players watched the excitement from a distance.
This was the largest battle in Lujiang County since the beginning of the game, except for Lu Kang's attack on Huang Rang.
Twenty thousand officers and soldiers can easily destroy the territories of most of the current players.
While the crowd was watching, Gao Ke, the county lieutenant of An County, rode out on his horse.
"Listen up, bandits in the stronghold! I order you to open the gates and surrender immediately. I only want the orders of the bandit leader. If you don't obey, the moment the stronghold is breached, you will be killed."
"My Hanjiang Village has never robbed civilians or killed innocent people. Why do you attack us again and again?" Lin Han took out the ancestral loudspeaker and shouted at the officers and soldiers.
"You daring thieves, how dare you quibble? You killed 5,000 defenders of Wan County. Your crime is unforgivable. Why don't you surrender obediently?"
"Since my crime is unforgivable and I'm going to die anyway, why should I surrender?"
"Sharp tongue."
"There's no point in talking any more. I urge you to leave immediately, or you'll bear the consequences."
"I'm so angry."
Gao Ke was so frightened that he had never seen such arrogant bandits.
"All troops, listen up and prepare to cross the river."
In the midst of the army, two teams of soldiers, holding shields, carried several small wooden boats and pushed them into the river. They stacked and chained them together, and covered them with wooden boards. Two three-meter-wide floating bridges were formed in the river.
Pretty smart.
Lin Han raised his eyebrows and immediately became alert.
The commander this time was much smarter than last time. He knew that one bridge was not enough to cross the river, so he built two pontoon bridges.
"Shield soldiers, cross the river." Gao Ke shouted.
The shield soldiers at the front stepped out, holding their shields in a line, and went up the bridge to cross the river.
"Archers, listen to the order, wrap the arrows in oilcloth, light them, and shoot."
As soon as Lin Han finished speaking, the archers on the city wall put the prepared arrows on.
"put!"
A ray of arrows shot up into the sky, forming a rain of fire in the air. The rockets hit the shields of the shield soldiers and fell on the pontoon bridge.
After three salvos, the pontoon bridge was covered with flames.
“Ahhh…”
The soldiers who were caught in the fire jumped into the river in panic to put out the fire, and the scene was in chaos.
"Put out the fire, wet the pontoon bridge, and continue crossing the river." Gao Ke shouted, "Archers, line up in front of the river and release your arrows."
The two sides fired at each other from a distance.
Lin Hanfang took advantage of the terrain and achieved remarkable results in just a short while.
"stop."
Lin Han raised his hand, signaling all archers to stop and allow the officers and soldiers to cross the river.
A quarter of an hour later, there were already three to four thousand officers and soldiers who had crossed the river and lined up in front of the river to defend.
"Archers, listen to my orders and shoot freely."
Lin Han commanded the archers again, and a volley of arrows shot up into the sky again, continuously, and fell on the team of soldiers crossing the river, and screams were heard one after another.
"Speed up the crossing of the river, all troops, listen to the order, attack the stronghold, and kill!"
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