Chapter 133
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Chapter 133: Tracking and Reinforcements
After Zhao Pan left the tent, Luo Ji decisively opened the military development panel to check the effects of the two new projects…
[Retirement System (Level 0): Every soldier’s life after retirement is guaranteed. Soldiers, freed from worries, fight more bravely. Default morale +3]
[Instructor System (Level 0): “While I was charging on the battlefield, you were still playing with mud!” New recruits, strictly trained by instructors, have their training efficiency increased by 20%]
After reading the effects of the two new projects, Luo Ji’s eyebrows raised slightly.
He hadn’t expected to accidentally trigger two incredibly useful military projects.
However, he always spent military points quickly.
Although he had been careful to hoard them, he currently only has sixteen military points, just enough to upgrade one project…
After pondering for a while, Luo Ji ultimately chose to prioritize upgrading the Instructor System project.
After all, his army’s framework was already established.
As the tribe rapidly developed, he would inevitably need to greatly expand his forces, making new recruit training efficiency especially crucial.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Luo Jin, who had been roughing it for several days, tracking Zhou Kai and his group, now looked grim.
The enemy was too cunning, they wouldn’t stay in the same place for more than half a day, giving the scouts no chance to return to Mirror Tribe to report.
Even if they did report, the distance was too great for their tribe’s people to catch up.
Using the surrounding cover, Luo Jin’s gaze quickly shifted away after observing Zhou Kai and his group resting in the distance, turning instead to survey the surrounding environment.
In this era without landmarks, they could only determine their current location this way.
The moment his gaze swept over a large mountain in the distance, Luo Jin’s brow furrowed slightly.
“This mountain… looks familiar…”
As this thought flashed, Luo Jin decisively turned his head, beckoning to Zhang Ji, a fellow scout team member beside him.
Zhang Ji immediately understood, quickly pulling out a map and spreading it on the ground.
“This location is…”
Rapidly comparing it to the map spread on the ground, Luo Jin’s pupils constricted slightly.
Although the viewing angle had changed due to their position, if his judgment was correct, their current location should be on the other side of that copper mine mountain range!
In other words, the expedition team their Chief had sent out earlier should now be not far from them!
Realizing this, Luo Jin’s mind began to race.
Although most of the expedition team members were new recruits with limited strength, Liu Zheng was also there!
And these outsiders had suffered heavy casualties after the previous siege battle, coupled with non-stop travel day and night, their condition had remained poor…
At this moment, Luo Jin was weighing the pros and cons in his mind.
As the captain of the scout team, a person with a maximum intelligence of 4-stars, Luo Ji had given him enough trust and authority for improvisation.
But precisely because of this, he found it exceptionally difficult to make a decision, not wanting to betray Luo Ji’s trust.
What if his judgment was wrong, leading to losses, and even Liu Zheng being defeated here?
This was a heavy responsibility.
After repeated deliberation, Luo Jin let out a long breath and made his decision.
“The tribe’s expedition team should be somewhere near this area…”
As he spoke, Luo Jin pointed to a spot on the map.
“Liu Chuan is with that team. You should loop around and meet with Liu Chuan, explain the situation here to them, and request their support.”
“Understood.”
Zhang Ji nodded in agreement and then quietly departed, displaying remarkably excellent stealth techniques.
Time continued to flow.
A night passed, and Zhou Kai and his group, having rested for a night, planned to continue eastward.
Two more days!
Just two more days of enduring, and they could retreat!
These past few days had been incredibly difficult for him, not because of his injuries, but due to mental exhaustion.
The consecutive defeats had caused the morale of his entire army to almost drop below the acceptable sixty point mark, and even his subordinates’ loyalty was decreasing.
Zhou Kai felt like he was about to collapse.
Among unranked players, his highest record had been in the top ten, alright?
Yet, he had been consecutively defeated twice by a player he had never even heard of.
Ultimately, where did this Luo Ji guy come from?
Judging by the city walls and weaponry, he definitely wasn’t a newcomer.
But among the top hundred unranked players, he hadn’t seen this name either.
Could it be that this guy had been developing stealthily outside the top hundred all this time?
But even if he was stealthy, he couldn’t be so stealthy as to have no presence at all, right?
Zhou Kai’s mind was a jumble of thoughts, and he couldn’t come up with any answers.
That Luo guy seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
However, just then, a few figures suddenly appeared on a nearby hill.
Before he could react, two volleys of arrows had already rained down on them!
“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!”
The low-morale troops panicked noticeably after being ambushed.
No one had expected an ambush in this place.
Zhou Kai’s face was filled with disbelief.
How could the enemy’s ambushers possibly appear in this location?
And they had actually gotten ahead of them?!
The scene was chaotic.
Caught off guard, the shield-axemen, in the crucial moment, only bothered to protect themselves, leaving the archers in the back completely exposed to the enemy’s arrows.
In the blink of an eye, several people were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, filling Zhou Kai with anger and alarm.
“Defensive formation! Quickly form a defensive formation!”
At this moment, facing such a disadvantage, Zhou Kai’s flaw of having too low a leadership level was fully exposed.
He simply couldn’t command his completely disorganized troops.
Compared to Zhou Kai’s orders, the continuously plummeting morale of the soldiers made them fear their impending death even more.
This only made Zhou Kai’s face turn uglier.
Left with no choice, he forced himself to gather his spirits and activated his ‘Inspire Morale’ skill.
He finally managed to pull morale back up a bit just before the troops completely collapsed.
Some soldiers began to form a defensive formation according to his orders, and the overall situation slightly improved.
And at this moment, Guo Jia, hiding behind the high ground and observing the entire scene, had a look of understanding in his eyes.
The enemy had a significant advantage in numbers.
His previous archer attack was merely a test.
If the situation had turned bad, he would have immediately taken his men and left, not staying a second longer.
But now, it was clear that wasn’t necessary.
