Chapter 216
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Chapter 216: Territory Judgment
For new recruits, Luo Ji’s demands weren’t high yet.
However, even if his demands were lower, he’d still have to wait until they completed basic training, right?
After that, he would then disperse this batch of trained new recruits and assign them to the garrison forces of various sub-cities.
At the same time, in exchange, he would pull out some veterans from those garrison forces to form a new unit.
As for the period of new recruit training, he would let Bai Ze and Luo Yong busy themselves.
It would count as gaining experience for them.
Even if something truly unforeseen happened, Iron Wall Tribe could send emergency reinforcements.
A bunch of grasslanders, could they really turn the world upside down?
During this time, Luo Ji himself was quite busy.
Besides needing to keep a slight eye on the construction of the city walls, he also had to seriously consider the issue of connecting territories.
Players with certain similar game experiences would surely understand that the territories between cities are best connected.
This way, it wouldn’t give enemies any loopholes to exploit.
And now, Luo Ji was precisely pondering this issue.
The game’s territory judgment was actually quite friendly.
It wasn’t that only the land within the city walls would be identified as his own territory.
Opening the system map, Luo Ji could very clearly see that including the forest surrounding Mirror Tribe, the entire circle was counted as Mirror Tribe’s territory on the system map’s classification.
Of course, beyond that, the system’s judgment effect did not apply.
Note, this system judgment effect was very important!
Because other invading players, although randomly teleported, would absolutely not be teleported within the defending player’s territory.
They would only be teleported near the territory!
This was why every time players invaded, if they invaded Mirror Tribe’s side, they would almost certainly appear on the western plains.
At this time, Luo Ji was pondering whether he could make the territories of Mirror Tribe and Black Rock Tribe connect.
Once this was achieved, the land between the two tribes would have no gaps whatsoever.
At that point, if other players invaded, they would basically only have two paths to take, one was the western plains, and the other was the eastern hills.
Once he could confirm where enemies would attack from, wouldn’t defense be easy?
However, connecting territories, while easy to say, was not so easy to do.
If this were in a game, Luo Ji would definitely directly build another sub-city between Mirror Tribe and Black Rock Tribe to occupy land.
Using this sub-city, he would link the territories of Mirror Tribe and Black Rock Tribe.
Then, once the scale of development was sufficient in the later stages, he would just dismantle that sub-city.
Unfortunately, this was reality.
Many other things had to be considered.
Even building a casual sub-city would waste a lot of manpower, material resources, and time.
One doesn’t know the cost of necessities until one manages a household.
Such a practice, purely wasteful of time and resources, was something the current Luo Ji would absolutely not do.
Since clever tricks weren’t working, he could only honestly develop his tribe’s scale.
However, under the conditions of this era, Mirror Tribe’s scale had already reached a certain limit.
It would be quite difficult to continue expanding before a significant surge in the tribe’s population again.
Thus, since Mirror Tribe’s side wasn’t feasible, Luo Ji could only exert effort on Black Rock Tribe’s side.
The surrounding land area was sufficient, there were suitable farmlands nearby, and it was backed by a mine.
To be honest, Black Rock Tribe’s resource conditions were quite good.
If developed seriously, it could absolutely become a large industrial city in the future!
The original small amount of land and the ancient city walls didn’t need to be demolished.
That area would simply be treated as a coal mine.
Then Luo Ji unceremoniously allocated a large chunk of the outer region land entirely to Black Rock Tribe.
Since he was going to develop it seriously, he might as well go big.
When drawing the urban layout design for Black Rock Tribe, he meticulously planned it.
He clearly marked the locations for the commercial district, residential district, industrial district, production district, agricultural district, and military camp area.
After drawing the blueprint, construction naturally began immediately.
Under Luo Ji’s vigorous development, Black Rock Tribe’s changes could be described as rapid.
This even made the miners who had always lived there feel dumbfounded.
Meanwhile, on the grasslands, Bai Ze and Burigude, the grasslanders and Wild Horse Tribe, another new fierce battle was intensely unfolding!
Ever since experiencing that previous defeat, Burigude had clearly become smarter.
He abandoned his original plan of forceful assault for rescue.
He switched to the mounted archery fighting style they grasslanders were more adept at, which Luo Ji called the kiting tactic.
Then, he came daily to harass Wild Horse Tribe.
This caused Wild Horse Tribe’s development speed to almost halt during this period, making Sun Li worry and gain several grey hairs.
The purpose of these grasslanders was evident, to harass them until they couldn’t stand it anymore, and then they would voluntarily release their chief, Batu.
Facing this approach from the grasslanders, Bai Ze was somewhat helpless.
Putting a knife to Batu’s neck and threatening them to lay down their weapons and surrender was useless.
Because they wouldn’t accept it.
Any fool would know that once weapons were laid down, they would be at the mercy of others.
How could they still have a say?
They wanted to save the person, but they would absolutely not lay down their weapons.
This was their bottom line!
They would rescue the person with weapons in hand, not lay down their weapons and leave everything to fate.
Of course, if Batu died during this period, Batu’s son Burigude would naturally become the new chieftain of their tribe, and then avenge Batu.
This was the way of the grasslanders.
Bai Ze knew this very well.
So Batu was merely a bait in his hands from beginning to end.
And now, this bait had served its purpose, luring the prey.
But whether they could devour this prey depended on the hunter’s skill!
“Disperse!”
Bai Ze waved his hand, and the cavalry unit behind him immediately scattered.
Since the opponent was using old tactics against him, he naturally didn’t mind repeating the same trick to deal with this move.
Looking at the cavalry unit spreading out its formation and charging, Burigude’s mood became heavy.
After some time, although Wild Horse Tribe had been the one constantly harassed, they weren’t actually having an easy time either.
Their tribe survived by plundering cattle, sheep, and horses from other tribes.
However, during this period, every attack was detected by Bai Ze in advance.
They couldn’t plunder any food resources at all.
This situation made their lives very difficult…
