Chapter 13 Demonstration and Departure

The dark crowd stopped, not because they wanted to, but because of the rows of sharp spears hanging in front of them.

Years of wandering life made them very clear that facing fully armed soldiers, the status of hundreds of them was not as good as hundreds of pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

The crowd was in turmoil, intimidated by the threat of swords and weapons, and did not move forward.

"Let your leader come to see me."

Ji Lin looked at the hungry people, his face showed reluctance, and his heart was already full of joy.

After waiting for so long, people finally came.

The crowd broke out into a bigger commotion, and then an old man was pushed out of the crowd and walked to the spearmen tremblingly.

The longer the old man lived, the more prestigious he was. Ordinary young people could hardly survive in the famine, and the old men who survived were all shrewd people.

"Respected... respected... Lord, I wonder if there is still room in the village..."

The leading old man racked his brains to tell all the humility and respect he knew.

Ji Lin directly checked his attributes.

[Li Erlang]

[Officer (Level 2)]

[Features]: War-torn (Loyalty +10)

Although the level has reached Level 2, the characteristics are too poor. It is too reluctant to train him as a deputy. With only one characteristic of war-torn, the little loyalty given is useless. If you don't do too much, these people will not rebel. They are pure blank hero units.

However, since he is an officer, he can be arranged to act as an agent in the town center.

When the time comes, take Chongshan out, so that the house will not be idle without anyone.

Good thing.

"Chongshan, take them in and settle them down. Let them eat the default food gel first. I'm afraid they can't stand eating cooked food directly."

"Benefactor, you are our great benefactor!"

Li Erlang's knees softened, and he wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Ji Lin. From their perspective, they met a good landlord who was willing to accept them, the 400 refugees, and not only was he willing to accept them, but also arranged food and accommodation for them.

"Don't kneel, stand up, you, don't kneel either."

Ji Lin's eyes twitched twice, and he scolded Li Erlang who wanted to kneel down, and the group of refugees behind him who followed suit.

"Whoever kneels will not have dinner tonight!"

The refugees immediately stopped their actions in fear. Ji Lin asked Chongshan to complete the next steps and went to deal with other things first.

This second wave of population supply is much more spiritual than the initial population, just like the difference between a blank board and a paper full of handwriting. The emotions among those refugees are too strong, so strong that he was shocked.

This kind of spirituality is not necessarily a good thing.

It is always much easier to paint on a blank paper than on a paper full of handwriting, not to mention that there will always be a lot of bad things with emotions.

In the previous life, he chose the rat man because he could not get along with others. In the previous life, he became the pioneer of the expedition because he did not like to contact humans. Those rat men were more loyal to him.

He thought so, but it was impossible not to accept this group of people. After accepting this group of people, the proportion of his soldiers in the total population suddenly changed from 50% to 16%.

Although it is still very unhealthy, the operational pressure has been reduced a lot.

The work efficiency of soldiers is not as good as that of specialized farmers. After the emergence of various specialized units, blacksmiths and priests, the efficiency of soldiers is even worse.

Compared with the annoying population problem, the spearmen he sent out for reconnaissance brought him rare good news, so that he could temporarily stop thinking about how to govern these overly spiritual people in the future.

They found a new medium-sized mineral vein.

The town is a bit far away, about 5 kilometers away. While it is not dark yet, Ji Lin plans to go there to check and see if there are any monsters that he needs to deal with.

[Resources]: Mixed gold and iron vein (rich ore) - medium

[Reserves]: Stone: 1000 Iron ore: 2000 Gold: 2000

[Production]: 50 stones/day, 12 gold ore/day, 12 iron ore/day

[Development]: Mining field

[Capacity]: 50 people

[Introduction]: A mixed vein consisting of gold and iron ore, with a large amount of stone.

The description of the vein is very beautiful, but the garrison is not so beautiful.

Looking at the large group of skeleton soldiers roaming around the vein, which are completely composed of white bones and holding a variety of weapons, he would like to call it a haunted gold mine.

[Name]: Skeleton Warrior

[Type]: Undead - Classical Era

[Number]: 160

[Armor Strength]: 5

[Melee Defense]: 25

[Weapon Power]: 10

[Organization]: 30

[Ability]:

Cause Fear: This unit causes fear to all enemy units and non-kind friendly units around it, causing them to be punished by Organization.

Undead: Will not leave the battle due to morale failure, but will continue to be hurt when the organization is low.

[Introduction]: The life that should have died is driven by magic to walk again in the world. It cannot be said to be a model worker, but at least it has done its best.

Although the Skeleton Soldiers have no armor and cannot dodge, they still have five points of armor strength and up to 40 points of dodge. This has always been an unsolved mystery until a wise man pointed out: "Look at the many gaps on the Skeleton Soldiers. Ordinary cold weapons can't cause any damage at all?"

Dodge (passive).

Although this is a joke, it is generally acknowledged that skeleton soldiers are difficult to fight. Common cold weapons such as swords, spears, swords and halberds cannot deal with these skeletons well. Only blunt weapons can effectively cause damage. However, blunt weapons are not as effective as swords, spears, swords and halberds when facing other monsters. Many people will not manufacture blunt weapons in large quantities to equip troops to fight against simple skeletons.

Long-range attacks on skeletons are not very effective.

They will not stop moving because of the stopping force caused by ordinary slashing, unless the strength is strong enough to directly break its bones.

If you chop it, it can also chop you.

Breaking a few bones, it will not be worth it if it comes up to chop you.

Especially restrain the piercing attack of the spearman.

One hundred and sixty skeleton warriors are difficult to deal with with conventional thinking.

The solution is also very simple, just use traps.

In the past life, many people were bound by the thinking in the game, thinking that combat was a F2A confrontation between arms. Without exception, they suffered huge losses in future battles before learning to make progress.

After confirming the nearby terrain, Ji Lin called in fifty villagers to start digging a pit on the spot. He dug a pit that was thirty meters long, half a meter wide and two meters deep. He would put wood in it and light a fire. The rest would be left to the flames.

All he had to pay was the loss of resources caused by the transfer of villagers.

He could make up for it soon after he occupied the mineral vein.

The skeleton warriors did not have the wisdom and flexibility of the wild beasts of the gray wolf and the hunting spider. They were essentially a group of semi-automatic puppets, and walked straight into the pit without command.

He had to do this operation himself. If it was remote control, the infantry would stupidly rush up and fight the skeleton warriors and suffer heavy losses.

Being more familiar with the units can also be regarded as his first-mover advantage.

This is all the wisdom gained by the predecessors with blood.

Looking at the skeleton army collapsing and disintegrating in the fire, Ji Lin picked up a spear and smashed the skulls that were still struggling.

If he had been afraid of these skeletons in the past, he would have been afraid of these skeletons now.

He thought a lot and decided to call the 400 people to watch their extermination operation.

What did he want to do... Ji Lin was not very clear, but he thought it would be better for him to show the power of the army.

The best way to facilitate subsequent management is to demonstrate and be virtuous.

As he thought, those people watched the incoming skeleton warriors fall into the fire pit in fear, and the few skeleton warriors who bypassed could not withstand the cluster stabs of dozens of spears.

A beautiful battle.

The 400 hungry people who had eaten and bathed, no, now they were the villagers under his rule, were arranged on a small hill in the distance to observe this place.

After exterminating this group of skeletons, Ji Lin took a picture of the mining site and then withdrew his troops.

'You showed them the threat from outside the domain, stability +10. '

Deterrence, threat?

But at this time, Ji Lin did not understand that the fastest way to unite the people was to create an external enemy to make them understand that there was a threat approaching, but by mistake, a similar effect was achieved.

Before leaving, he arranged Li Erlang to the management position of the administrative department, and received Li Erlang's sincere thanks, and said that he would never let him down.

After everything was handled, he opened his task book, took out the task book of Steam and Steel from the warehouse, and clicked on the icon of the blue crystal and the steam engine.

Fortunately, the skeleton warriors encountered this time could be solved by tricks, if it was other second-level soldiers.

Now is not the era when a team of spearmen can conquer the world without damage.

To expand the troops, it is natural to do it in one step.

‘Do you want to open the task book: Steam and Steel, opener: Ji Lin, this time carry the hero units Chang Heng and Chongshan. ’

‘Please note that in the copy, you will not be able to summon supplies. Death in the copy is regarded as immediate settlement of the copy. Rewards will be obtained according to the assessment. If the assessment does not meet the standard, no rewards will be obtained. ’

‘No answer after one minute is regarded as giving up. ’

“Confirmed.”

Ji Lin did not hesitate and confirmed his intention to the system.

‘Confirmed, good luck. ’

‘I am looking forward to your performance. ’

Ji Lin was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, the blue vortex had already swallowed him up.