Damn it, this boss really has no normal skills.

Chapter 378 That day, the brave people decided to embark on the journey of steam

expedition.

It sounds very domineering, but for the countries in the Yangyue world, this is actually almost a daily routine.

Firstly, as the Little White Eagle of Yangyue, the Deep Forest Kingdom has almost never stopped waging foreign wars, focusing on its strong martial virtues, and every year after the autumn harvest, it would go to the western part of the Glowing Kingdom to rob food without fail, almost forming an aristocratic culture.

As a country that was able to form an alien alliance with Britain and France and fight a Hundred Years' War with it, the Khanate of Peymos would often look for opportunities to use its big iron hooves to violently attack the small border defense line of the Hongru Deep Forest, letting them feel what it felt like to be attacked.

There is no need to say more about the Wolf King's Court. The drama "Extinguishing the Sheep and Destroying the Wolf: Across the Grassland" co-starred by them and the Shadow Church has been popular all winter. All the tribes in the wilderness have praised it after watching it, and they are all running to the north with joy.

Although the Lingxi Kingdom, which is isolated overseas and occupies a continent alone to play stand-alone games, has enjoyed peace for a long time, as a maritime civilization, the business talent and adventurous spirit engraved in their bones make them pull a ship and sail out to sea whenever they have time, which can be regarded as an expedition to some extent.

Therefore, in this huge Yangyue world, there is only the Glowing Kingdom...

He slumped down in a chair, holding a bird cage with a cup of tea beside him.

"What are you doing? What's the matter? Why are you wasting your time on these fancy things?"

"Learn from Master Xuexue. Coming from the north to the south to visit a new club is like going on a long journey. It's like a great adventure!"

Therefore, the nobles present here even felt a little unfamiliar after hearing the word "expedition". The first thing that came to their minds was the war that took place more than ten years ago.

...No, no, that battle was clearly fought on our own territory. Lord Changge did not fight beyond the border, so how could this be considered an expedition?

I thought about it carefully for a while, and almost exhausted all the historical knowledge in my mind.

I just remembered that more than a hundred years ago, when Shenlin went down the mountain to plunder for the first time, I vaguely remembered that a duke seemed to have brought his men to the plateau and had a heated exchange of views with them in Shenlin.

Although this meeting started quickly, and the Duke was defeated after only one battle, with tens of thousands of soldiers surrendering like a group of grandsons, they died in another country after all.

At least compared with those of other weird characters, it can barely be considered an expedition, right?
……

So this is the second time after a hundred years, how majestic!
It has to be said that the Glorious Nobles, who have been defeated time and again, at least have maxed out their talent in celebrating funerals.

So they were silent for a moment, and then became excited on their own.

"Yes, we are on an expedition!"

"Haha, actually, I've long wanted to taste the girl from the grassland... No, I've long wanted to promote the glory of my family!"

"Okay, to be honest with you, I have Admiral Pan Fengn, who can cut off the head of the Wolf King!"

Seeing this, Ji Ming, who was sitting at the top, couldn't help but close his eyes and sighed in his heart.

——Shit, they are opening a champagne market! ?

Moreover, not everyone here can live without war for decades, so they can safely devote all their skills to exploiting the common people.

So when the priests of various churches saw the Glorious Nobles actually starting to laugh and chat about how to divide the pork after their expedition was successful, they were all stunned.

While I was shocked, I was also thinking, aren't we going to the Savage Plains? The mountainous area there is even steeper and more complicated than here. We are not going to the grassland to seek death!
But they are not other people's parents or teachers, and they have no responsibility to correct children's wrong ideas.

So everyone just watched and decided to pretend they didn't hear anything, leaving them a beautiful sky, which would make it easier for them to be cannon fodder later.

But Earl Yanshan, feeling that he had lost all face, could not bear to watch it any longer. He knocked on the table with the gold ring on his thumb and cursed.

"Silence! This expedition is of great importance. The Chosen One obviously has something important to discuss. How can you be so eager to speak?"

Damn it, how come you, old man, are even more of a lackey than us!

Although the lesser nobles felt angry in their hearts when facing the Earl's suppression, they quickly suppressed their complacency and apologized to the Chosen One.

"Please forgive our sins, Lord Chosen One. It is such an honor to cooperate with your church. We are so excited!"

Ji Ming: I have no objection. I didn’t even say anything. In fact, what I love most is watching the Idiots pop open champagne at halftime.

The chosen one of God is magnanimous. He waved his hand to express his mercy, enlarged the map of the Savage Plain, and continued.

"That's fine. Since everyone thinks my suggestion is feasible, I'll explain it in more detail."

Ji Ming's complete plan was actually very simple, which was to let them work hard to recruit soldiers and gather people, and then form a group to go to the wilderness to deliver food to the players.

This has three benefits.

First, if they want the expedition to be successful, the current military force they have is definitely not enough, and they must spend a lot of money to hire various armed forces roaming in the southern part of the kingdom or even further.

They could be mercenaries willing to risk their lives on the blade, or they could be lurking monsters, or even just bandits raised by nobles, like the fake bandits in Mr. Huang's house, who are specially hired to cooperate with the gangs to rob each other.

But no matter what, this group of scum is definitely a stumbling block that interferes with the players' joy of gaming, and in "Double Moon's Struggle" this is considered a violation of heaven's law.

So instead of letting them continue to spread out in clumps all over the kingdom, it would be better to let the hardworking nobles transform into dung beetles, roll them into balls, and send them directly to the Savage Plains for cremation.

As for this group of nobles and even the church, if they were desperate and forced the people to use them as cannon fodder...

"A word of advice. Expeditions are very difficult large-scale activities. Letting ordinary people without ranks participate will only hinder the team. So you must bring the most reliable and powerful people with you. A select group of elite soldiers!"

Secondly, the player base in Savage Plains is still in a difficult situation of difficulty in hiring. Almost all guilds are continuously recruiting more, and the more official they are, the crazier they are, and there is even no upper limit on the number of recruits.

Because of the ties to the real world, players are indeed reliable and capable of handling some important positions.

However, the corresponding required salaries are relatively high, and many key positions have strict requirements for academic qualifications and work experience, so talent is really hard to come by.

Although a large number of local indigenous people were hired, they were willing to do heavy labor for money.

But the total cost is an astronomical figure and cannot fill all the labor gaps.

Well, apart from continuing to raise the terms and make friends, legally obtaining prisoners of war through various means is their easiest and top priority option to increase their production capacity.

But the wasteland is the territory of the Wolf King's Court and we dare not go there. As for the kingdom side...mainly because of the pass blocking it, we can't get in.

Therefore, relying solely on these noobs in Savage Plains, there are really too many wolves and too little meat, so that the major guilds can only bite the bullet and open cross-level dungeons. Using blood and sacrifice to exchange for victory has almost become the norm.

To use a complaint from Lao Zhao at the meeting: "Raw melon eggs are not tasty, but if you don't eat them, you won't have any." So as a gentle and kind game producer, although it is difficult for Ji Ming to help players save money, he can still do it if he wants to open up a source.

——Come on, baby, enjoy the freshest glow dung ball set.

Third, the players have been going a bit too far recently. In less than a month, they have been able to unite half of the southern half of the kingdom. What will happen if this continues?

Although the name of the plan is "The Fourth Disaster", Ji Ming is fighting for a hundred days to be the savior, not to start a world war, so he should step on the brakes immediately.

The easiest way to put the brakes on is to divert attention, such as letting players who are having fun stealing other people's homes feel the feeling of having their homes stolen.

Anyway, I will be in charge at that time. No matter how weak the dung ball coalition is, they can pick a few soft persimmons from the players and season them before serving them on the table!
In addition to these three points, there is actually another half reason, which comes from the news Ji Ming received from the wilderness.

——The Wolf King’s Court finally ended its spring offensive and began to withdraw its troops, switching from offense to defense.

In the short term, it is a good thing. At least there will be no war in the next quarter. Everyone can develop with peace of mind and spend a peaceful summer.

It sounds like a good thing, but as you develop, others are also developing, and they are originally more powerful than you, and now their territory is also larger than yours.

And according to martial arts knowledge, when a person retracts his fist, it is usually to deliver a charged critical hit, a heavy punch that deals maximum damage.

So with the players' strength, can they withstand the autumn offensive that the Wolf King's Court will definitely launch after the autumn harvest?

It's very difficult.

Moreover, now all their attention is focused on the colorful world of the Glowing Kingdom, and the speed at which their real strength is growing really makes Ji Ming a little worried.

So why not use a small dose to boost immunity before the real tough stuff strikes, so that they can turn their eager eyes back to their hometown.

In this way, when the Wolf King finally brings the old sheep head to climb the hillside, he will definitely be very surprised to find that the hillside is full of light prism towers, magnetic storm coils, and Gat machine guns.

"This……"

After listening to the plan chosen by God, the priests and nobles exchanged glances and realized that the plan could only be described as thorough.

First of all, whether it is battlefield intelligence or main pressure, all these difficult parts will be borne by the Shadow Church.

They also promised to provide a complete map of the Hessian Territory and the Savage Plains, and to send main forces from south to north to launch a pincer attack when the coalition forces launched a surprise attack from north to south.

There was only one thing the coalition forces had to do, and that was to prepare for war as quickly as possible, attack as quickly as possible, and destroy the pioneers' production bases as much as possible at the fastest speed.

As for the latter, they are quite experienced. Everyone knows how to destroy things. It's just a matter of fighting, killing, smashing, and then putting the things in a sack and leaving. It's really not difficult.

So the only question now is how fast they can do it.

"Uh……"

Everyone pondered for a moment, then muttered to each other for a long time, and finally seemed to have made some particularly important decision.

"One month!"

A month?

Feeling something was not right, Ji Ming quickly did another calculation.

First of all, the total number of the coalition forces is the smallest, and must be counted in the thousands. Therefore, the only place that can accommodate their smooth gathering is the Yanshan Territory of Earl Yanshan.

The distance from Yanshan Territory to Sunshine City is not much closer than that from Fengying Territory, and many places along the way have undergone changes due to the recent chaos, which will definitely cause trouble.

Considering the various difficulties inherent in a large-scale advance of nearly 10,000 people, it would take at least a week for them to reach Sunshine City.

If we are conservative, it may even be two weeks, but this is only the transit point outside Sunshine City.

I want to enter the Savage Plains, avoid being seen, find a suitable and valuable target, make arrangements, surround, and take action... I don't even dare to think too much, and it will take another week.

In other words, even if we ignore the time wasted on resting outside Sunshine City, quietly moving within the Savage Plains, and dealing with various accidents on the road, the coalition forces will still need a full three weeks after setting out to achieve the first result.

Even so, this is all based on the implicit premise that "all problems can be solved smoothly", which can only be achieved under ideal circumstances.

But as we all know, plans cannot keep up with changes, and who knows what outrageous things will happen at that time.

At the very least, players cannot sit back and wait for others to encircle them.

What would mean that the coalition forces would have spent a full month and a half of hard work, only to have not yet entered the dungeon and just reached the town map outside, when the hungry and thirsty boss rushed out of the level and tore them apart in public in front of the prop store like they were roasted whole lambs?

This won't work. It will have the opposite effect and make the players lose their minds immediately.

Therefore, Ji Ming certainly could not allow them to prepare for a month, but he could not force them too much, lest this dung ball be sent for cremation before it was pushed to the maximum.

Therefore, he made an agreement with the nobles and the church, with a one-month period as the bottom line. Every day earlier they set out, the Shadow Church would have an additional thousand elite soldiers.

"Okay! Let's do it then!"

Seeing that the Chosen One dared to take such a big gamble, Earl Yanshan immediately agreed in a firm tone, fearing that the other party would go back on his word.

Ji Ming also cooperated and expressed a little regret. He was silent for three seconds and sighed softly.

"It doesn't matter. As long as we can get rid of these damn pioneers, my church will fully cooperate with your actions. Please rest assured."

"God's choice of justice!"

Led by the Earl, everyone at the long table made promises, saying that they would do their best to fight for the interests and dignity of everyone.

While Ji Ming nodded in greeting, he cursed in his heart - come on, even dogs don't believe what the nobles say!
But no matter what, that day, the brave people decided to embark on the journey.

Of course, this “steaming” is whether our business is thriving or whether we are being treated by the enemy as a blooming steamed bun and the steamer is being taken away in one pot…

That's hard to say.

(End of this chapter)