Chapter 235
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Chapter 235: City Placement
In short, after confirming the resource advantages of all five cities, the main city, which had a large population, concentrated resources, advanced development, but no special or rare resource output, and a vulgar name to boot, didn’t need much thought.
Once its resources were transferred to Mirror City, it would be placed on the outer perimeter of his entire civilization, serving as the first line of defense against player invasions.
Because with such a city, even if it was breached by invaders, those invaders would have almost no resource points to plunder, preventing the loss of large amounts of resources.
As for the placement of the other four cities, Luo Ji needed to consider them a bit more.
He didn’t dwell on it for too long, only a few minutes, then he decided to place the city rich in agricultural resources on the outer perimeter of the western plains.
Due to the expansion of Mirror City, the system determined that the territory of Mirror City had already encompassed a little over half of the western plains.
Luo Ji pinpointed a location and placed the agricultural city near the Giant Wood Tribe.
This was done, on one hand, to seamlessly connect the area from Mirror City westward to the Giant Wood Tribe, and on the other hand, to facilitate the direct merger of the Giant Wood Tribe with that agricultural city into a large city after its expansion was complete.
The remaining three cities all had ore resource points, with two having copper mines and one having tin mine.
Since he had already smelted bronze, his civilization definitely had copper and tin ores, so Luo Ji was not surprised at all.
After a brief thought, Luo Ji placed the city with tin ore resources near the White River Tribe, while the two cities with copper ore were placed on the other side.
The purpose was similar to before, to partly connect the territory around the White River Tribe, and another reason was his plan to merge the White River Tribe with that city after further development.
Unless absolutely necessary, Luo Ji didn’t like creating too many small tribes or small cities, because it was very troublesome, and small tribes had limited development speed due to population and construction restrictions.
Merging all small tribes that could be merged was Luo Ji’s current plan.
[System notification: Do you confirm the city placement locations?]
Hearing this system notification, Luo Ji was not careless.
To be safe, he carefully re-confirmed the positions of each city and the connection of the territories.
After confirming there were no issues, he clicked to confirm.
Wang Luzong’s entire civilization was swallowed by him in that instant.
The city he had placed on the outer perimeter of the western plains even appeared out of thin air within his line of sight.
Luo Ji subconsciously glanced at the reactions of Luo Cheng and the others beside him and found that none of their faces showed any abnormalities.
It seemed to be some kind of system power that made them unconsciously accept the existence of these cities.
There was no time to waste.
With five additional large-scale cities, he estimated he would be busy for the next month, once again entering a race against time.
Moreover, the current large fire could not be allowed to continue burning unchecked.
He ordered Luo Cheng to stay here and command his cavalry unit to control the fire, while he himself returned to Mirror City with the captured soldiers who were rounded up later.
However, on the way back, he didn’t forget to open his attribute panel to check his newly comprehended skills and tactics.
Scanning them in order, the first thing he saw was obviously the skill.
[Recruit Defectors (Active): When the player makes appropriate recruitment attempts, there is a 30% chance to reduce the loyalty of the target unit by 10 points, and a 15% chance to directly recruit the target.]
After reading this skill effect, Luo Ji’s eyes immediately lit up.
This skill was good, and it could perfectly complement his ‘Overlord’s Stance’ effect.
As long as he seized the opportunity, it could greatly reduce the difficulty of recruiting enemy units, which was a pleasant surprise.
On the other hand, the ‘Arson Attack’ tactic was relatively more subtle.
The attribute panel displayed it as follows.
[Arson Attack: All offensives initiated with fire have their effect increased by 30%.]
Luo Ji’s first reaction was that it had limitations.
The Arson Attack was highly dependent on the situation.
Environment, wind direction, and weather would all affect it.
But if used well, it could truly be a super kill move in the cold weapon era.
Looking at the history of their Celestial Dynasty, the most famous arson battle was undoubtedly the Battle of Red Cliffs!
Even those unfamiliar with history must have heard of it.
How many people did Zhou Yu’s fire burn to death?
But that fire wasn’t set carelessly, it had to be done very precisely, ignited only after combining the right timing, geographical advantage, and human factors, which then started the most famous Red Cliffs fire of the Three Kingdoms period!
After finishing with the new skill and tactic, Luo Ji didn’t forget to casually tap into the development section nearby to upgrade various development projects.
He had already set up a complete plan for the upgrade order of these development projects.
Any dilemmas had already been resolved during the planning stage, so clicking through them now was very efficient.
Afterward, he rode back to Mirror City at top speed.
Regarding the reception of the surrendered soldiers, Liu Meng handled it quite well.
After all, he could be considered experienced in this matter.
Previously, when Guo Zhen and Guo Jia’s two brothers campaigned in the east and west, the surrendered soldiers sent back to Mirror City were basically all settled by Liu Meng.
Who else could do it, since old military generals like Zhao Pan and Liu Zheng were not in Mirror City right now?
At a time like this, Liu Meng was the military’s top man here.
As soon as he dismounted, just as Luo Ji instructed Liu Meng to take people to confirm and receive the new population of the five cities, a soldier he had sent to clear the battlefield quickly ran over.
“Leader, while counting the spoils of war, we found some things…”
Hearing this, Luo Ji raised an eyebrow.
Following the soldier, he saw that it was indeed the repeating crossbows and siege engines that Wang Luzong had left behind in his haste to escape!
Looking at these two items, for other Bronze-tier players, it might have been like striking gold, but for Luo Ji, it was rather subtle.
Because he possessed the superior three-bow repeating crossbows, these early repeating crossbows were basically useless to him, like chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, but a pity to discard.
After pondering for a while, Luo Ji slowly spoke.
“Send one of them to the military equipment research department, hand it over to Minister Ye.”
“The other one can be temporarily stored in the military camp warehouse.”
