Chapter 89 Making Wedding Dresses for Others
When the players who were joining in the fun arrived from the city wall, Fang Zhiwen had already entered the county government office, and Wenpin also started to rectify the army in the city. The players came and returned in disappointment. They saw nothing except the black armored guards guarding at the county government office.
In fact, smart players already know that Wenpin should be the plot character of the "Rescue Queyuegang" mission posted on the bulletin board. At that time, everyone was wondering why there was such a task that seemed almost impossible to complete, but they didn't know that the protagonist of this task was Wenpin. If I had known that this was the case, I'm afraid that no matter how difficult it was, someone would have done it.
Unfortunately, the word "knowed before" has never been recognized in this world. Instead of regretting it now, it is better to do something more practical and hurry up to the city wall to earn meritorious value.
Wen Pin now understood that the prefect Fang had already known his plans, but he still helped him realize his ideas and temporarily controlled the military power in Hanyang City. And depending on what Lord Fang meant, he was not going to take action or speak out in military strategy. Whether he could successfully defend Hanyang City depends entirely on himself.
Wen Pin felt a little guilty. Of course, it was more grateful to Fang Zhiwen. Fang Zhiwen did not expose himself, but silently set up the stage to show his talents, like an elder who helped him build a ladder to the sky.
Therefore, Wenpin's attitude towards this opportunity is no longer "doing his best" to do his best, but his attitude of being good at all. Wenpin brought his private soldiers from each family to add to the city walls, and then with the help of Yuwen Boyan, he strongly took down the guy who was originally in the position of corpse and replaced him with a more capable person to take charge of the army.
Not long after, the militia recruited by Fang Zhiwen gradually came into place. Although he had not been trained, he could always shoot the crossbow slowly, and he could always raise a large shield. Moreover, there were regular soldiers in front of the city walls. These militias who were uneasy and low morale gradually stabilized.
In fact, the barbarians outside the city are about 50,000, and there are still 50,000 players. Although the game has been on the game for several years, the average number of soldiers in generals is less than 100. Due to the expensive recruitment price and maintenance price, the total number of players playing generals has always accounted for less than 20% of the total number of players. There are many people who are taking advantage of the troubled waters, and more of them are developing territory honestly, or fighting each other at village level, and they really dare to invest money to do plot tasks. The number is really not very large.
Under Hanyang City, more than 2,000 players can gather both positive and negative aspects, which is already a relatively large battle scale. For example, the last time the Wuhuan Battle in Youbeiping gathered more than 5,000 players, which is the battlefield.
What's even more, due to the uneven power of players, some bring cavalry, some can only bring spearmen, and even more so, some bring militia to make contributions and fame, which is really shameful.
Compared with less than a thousand players outside the city, there are more players in the city. After all, there are more players doing great merit missions. The so-called righteousness is still very useful. At least recruiting soldiers or even martial arts will have the advantage.
With the strength of players outside the city, it is absolutely impossible to make progress in siege battles. Siege is definitely the most technical job in all battles, otherwise the powerful nomadic people would not always be blocked by the high walls of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the only ones that can truly pose a threat to Hanyang City are the 50,000 barbarian soldiers.
Hanyang City is a second-level city with a wall of four meters and a population of more than 20,000. It can urgently recruit 5,000 people. In addition, the original defense force was 1,500, and hundreds of private soldiers. According to the Han Dynasty's siege loss ratio, the attacking party should need more than 30,000 troops and attack at least ten days. This is still in the state of siege equipment. If there are no siege equipment, then go home quickly.
Although the barbarians lived in Jiangxia for a while, they only stayed at the level of the ladder for siege equipment. Some wealthy players have purchased a lot of giant crossbows and even siege weapons. However, similarly, under the stimulation of their merits, players who defended the city are willing to spend money to buy wooden rocks and city-defense crossbows for defense.
Therefore, the previous plan made by Wen Pin was basically in line with the actual situation. In addition, he replaced the original commander and unified the orders. As well as Fang Zhiwen, a powerful reserve team, he almost won steadily.
In the afternoon, after the barbarians set up their camp, they began their first siege. Fang Zhiwen did not want to interfere with Wen Pin's command, but they still wanted to see the situation of the siege and see how these southern barbarians were different from those in the north. So Wen Pin was guarding the south gate, and Fang Zhiwen arrived north. He did not reveal his identity. He just mingled with Xiangxiang among the players on the top of the city, holding an ordinary longbow, slowly shooting arrows under the city, while observing the barbarians attacking like a tide.
"Hey, buddy, you are here to make meritorious achievements too? Hehe, so are I, my militias dead."
A young man next to him who looked less than twenty smiled like Fang Zhiwen. He pulled the bow slowly while saying this, and he was very relaxed. He turned a blind eye to the soldiers who occasionally pounced on the soil under the city wall, and the occasional shooting on the city wall screamed desperately.
"Oh, yes."
"What position do you have, my buddy? Is it enough to be promoted to captain?"
"No, it's early."
"Hehe, I'm almost done. After so long, I can finally get to the captain."
"Congratulations, brother, but recruiting soldiers will cost a lot of money."
"Hehe, do you want me to introduce you to a guild? After joining, as long as you are willing to help the guild fight, they will pay the money for recruiting soldiers."
Fang Zhiwen smiled, raised his hand and released an arrow, but didn't see what he shot. He lowered his head and pulled out a feather arrow from the arrow bag, slowly placed it on the bowstring, and said disdainfully: "Tsk, that's not working for people."
"You don't understand this. Although the guild has a lot of fighting, it won't fight every day. In those free time, you can take the soldiers you have recruited to help you make money by brushing the dungeons. When you have money, you can just recruit soldiers yourself. This is called borrowing chickens to lay eggs! Haha..."
Fang Zhiwen couldn't help but feel a little funny. These players are really interesting. No wonder there are more and more players in this game. It's just that because there are so many ways to play, individuals can find their own way, so they like this game.
Fang Zhiwen smiled and looked up. He happened to see a player rushing forward, raising his hand and arrow, hitting this guy's throat and killing him in seconds!
"Damn! I'm lucky. It's a pity that I've killed the player without merit. If you're a barbarian leader, you'll make a profit."
"Haha, I'm thinking, that's called a blind cat hitting a dead mouse!"
Before he finished speaking, he let go of his fingers and flew out, looked at the landing point, shook his head regretfully, and didn't even touch a single hair.
The young master of meritorious shook his head and smiled, "Brother, have you seen Wenpin today?"
"I saw it. I happened to be there at the south gate at that time. Why?"
"What does this guy look like?"
"Isn't there any information released? I'm just very young and nothing special."
"It's a pity that I didn't meet, his sister. Who knew that the smart brain was so ugly that she actually hid Wenpin in that Queyuegang. At that time, I saw the mission and wanted to take it. Later, I heard that there were rebels there, and all the tasks had been taken out, so I didn't take it. If I took it, maybe I could make friends with the above interview."
"Hehe, why don't you say what you answered, you've already died?"
"Uh, that's true! Oh, I was hit by a soldier. Damn, it's okay, and I'm running very fast!"
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Fang Zhiwen can never achieve this mentality of players. However, even though Fang Zhiwen disagrees with the players' optimism and open-minded attitude, he has to admit that in a sense, players do have a huge psychological advantage, and NPC is under great pressure!
Wenpin has been on the city wall for several days, from the south gate to the north gate, from the north gate to the south gate, but he never went to the county government to find Fang Zhiwen. Fang Zhiwen was with Xiangxiang every day, sometimes he went to the city wall to gang up and make contributions, and sometimes he went to the public notice board at the city gate to take on some tasks. Anyway, he just played with Xiangxiang, and occasionally he had to reply to Li Xueyin. As the cavalrymen of the Strategy General Reserve Team, Yuwen Boyan watched.
The barbarians outside the city attacked for three days, but finally failed to capture Hanyang City. Seeing that the support of the Han army was coming, they were afraid of being attacked by the Han army. On the third night, the barbarians sneaked away with the player's back. As for how they crossed the river, this question seemed to be asked by Zhizhu, or they had colluded with the water thieves, who knows?
"Minister Wen, the thief has made outstanding achievements in this retreat. I have already written to the magistrate of Jiangxia County to explain the matter carefully. The position of this county thief should be confirmed. Since the barbarian thief retreated, it is not convenient for us to stay here for a long time. Let's leave today."
Fang Zhiwen did not notify others, but just found Wenpin. His current image is definitely not a victorious general, but like a defeated general, with a ragged armor on his body and a cloth strip on his arm. He was obviously injured. When he heard that Fang Zhiwen was about to leave, Wenpin felt extremely complicated and didn't know what to say, but just gave a deep greeting.
"Hotel, thank you for your support!"
"Haha, that's the merit you earned yourself, what do you have to do with me? County Magistrate Wen, there will be a date later!"
"Teach me and give it to my elders."
Wen Pin silently watched Fang Zhiwen and his team of cavalry go away with dust until they can't see it, and then turned around and took their personal soldiers back to the city.
Fang Zhiwen and his party headed straight to Queyue Port and joined the fleet hired by Shi A and his own. Who knew that Zhou Tai had already returned and was following Shi A to visit the fort in Queyue Port.
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