After cheating, I became the strongest beast master.

Chapter 297 Water Heart Flame Mine
Gu Yuzhi said: "If I remember correctly, when he was in the City Guard, Yin Hong's beast taming ability was the highest. I remember he was beyond the fourth level.

The second is Shi Yao. When you retired from the army, your beast taming was about to break through to the third level of transcendence."

Shi Yao clasped his hands together and said, "Your Excellency, I have already broken through to the fourth level of beast control."

Gu Yuzhi then looked at the remaining four people, "Du Yu, you are the most senior here. Your main beast tamer was sacrificed in a war, so you withdrew from the city guards. How are the main forces you have trained now?"

Du Yu didn't expect that the city lord still remembered him. He had retired from the city guards for nearly sixty years, and this time he was fighting again in order to seek some benefits for his descendants. With white hair and tears in his tiger eyes, he choked up and said, "Reporting to the lord, my subordinate has trained a new beast that has surpassed the fourth level."

Gu Yuzhi nodded gently, "Not bad, I look forward to your performance."

Others around looked at Du Yu in surprise. This old fellow's beast taming had actually been trained to the fourth level of transcendence again. It seemed that he had another adventure after leaving the city guards.

Next, Gu Yuzhi gave some pointers to the remaining three people, Gu Wu, Shi Chen, and Shi Luoshan.

The main beast masters of these three people have all surpassed the second level of heaven.

"Then we'll follow the old rules and divide the profits according to contributions on the battlefield. If you kill the opponent yourself, 90% of his profits will belong to you. However, the distribution of collective combat contributions will be based on Mr. Chen's opinion. You are all veterans in the army, so I don't need to explain some rules." Gu Yuzhi reminded the six people.

The six people understood that City Lord Gu was using this method to implicitly remind them that they must abide by the rules after joining the mercenary group, and that the right to distribute contributions to collective combat lies with Chen Xing.

Therefore, the six people understood that if they wanted to gain more benefits, they naturally had to establish a good relationship with Chen Xing.

"We understand," the six said in unison.

Gu Yuzhi turned to Chen Xing and said, "Then I will leave these good men to you. If there are any who don't follow the rules, come and tell me."

Chen Xing clasped his hands together and said, "Thank you, Lord City Lord."

After signing the contract, Chen Xing led everyone back to the base.

Six super-class beastmasters, plus five hundred and forty-seven high-level beastmasters.

Even if this force is isolated in Stone City, it is still a strong force. Some weaker families cannot gather six super-level beastmasters, let alone more than 500 high-level beastmasters.

According to Jin Yewei's intelligence, it is difficult for an ordinary large mercenary group to gather six super-class beastmasters.

Because a super-class beastmaster needs a lot of resources, Chen Xing has a deep understanding of this after becoming a super-class beastmaster.

For super-class beastmasters, there is no such thing as “enough” resources.

If they don't have enough resources of their own, how can they allow more super-class beastmasters to share resources with them, unless in very rare special cases, such as a mercenary group occupying a huge resource point. However, this kind of force will not develop into a single mercenary group structure, but will develop more complex industries. This kind of force is no longer considered a mercenary group.

Armed personnel who complete various tasks for the purpose of money, participate in armed conflicts for profit, and occasionally work as bandits are what foreigners consider mercenaries.

After returning to the mercenary group's base, Zhao Guangming asked Chen Xing, "All the people are here. These are retired city guards. Their combat qualities should be much better than ordinary beastmasters. They can be directly deployed to the battlefield after a little training. What should we do next?"

"Let me think about it." Chen Xing took out his tablet and opened the internal mapping tool.

Zhao Guangming came over and looked at the finely drawn map on the tablet. It not only showed the mountains and rivers of the northwest region, but also the precise coordinates of various cities and large resource points that had been detected, as well as the gathering places of dangerous monster tribes.

At the same time, there is a filter icon in the upper right corner, which can selectively filter which information to block.

This map tool is an internal software and can only be opened by senior officials within Daxia who have been given permission.

Moreover, the level of detail of the map information that can be viewed varies depending on the permissions.

As the Xinhuo Black Robe executive officer, Chen Xing naturally has extremely high authority and can view basically all map information.

Chen Xing first chose to hide the resource point in the upper right corner.

Suddenly, there was a lot less content on the tablet.

Chen Xing said, "Call the other six people over. After all, they are locals of Stone City. Let's see what they have to say."

Gong Yinhong and six others were called in, and Chen Xing briefly explained the current situation.

Du Yu thought for a moment, then said, "Sir, I wonder what your purpose is?"

"Since I have already hired you, and you are also the people brought by the city lord, I naturally trust you. In order to work together, I will tell you the core mission of our mercenary group - destroying the Nine Scarlet City."

The six people were stunned at the same time.

"what?"

"I?"

"Just us?"

"Mr. Chen, is it because you don't pronounce it correctly? Could it be the City of Wine and Chi?"

"There doesn't seem to be a place called the Wine Pool City nearby."

"Of course, we don't just rely on you." Chen Xing said, "Don't you know what's going on in Jiuchi City recently?"

"I know. Last month, the City of Nine Scarlet tried to seize the largest mineral vein in our Stone City.

I heard that the city lord killed several of their beastmasters, and the city guards fought several battles among themselves. "

"Those people from the Nine Red City are really disgusting. They have been trying to seize various resources in our Stone City in various ways, both openly and covertly, over the years."

"I heard that there are several mercenary groups fighting against the Nine Scarlet City, and there seems to be a mysterious force behind those mercenary groups."

"Could it be the city lord?"

Several people looked at each other, as if they had guessed the answer.

The conflicts between Stone City and Jiuchi City have been accumulating over the years. More importantly, there is a giant Burning Sky City behind Jiuchi City.

It is difficult to deal with the Nine Red City relying solely on the power of the Stone City, so the City Lord has allied with Daxia.

Thinking of this, the six super-class beastmasters felt that they might have guessed the truth.

After they came in, they felt that there were many experts among the dozens of beastmasters from Da Xia who originally lived here.

Now it seems that it was the force sent by Daxia.

"This is the best outcome, but it should be no problem for you to seize some resource points and hunt down the super-class beastmasters in Jiuchi City." Chen Xing looked at the six people.

"That's no problem." Du Yu nodded, "It's not the first time that the beastmaster of Jiuchi City has been killed."

Shi Yao thought about it and said, "Okay."

Gong Yinhong reminded: "It is best to gather intelligence before taking action, especially the strength of the beastmasters stationed at the target resource point."

Gu Wu said, "Leave it to me then. Intelligence gathering is my specialty, but it's too slow for me to gather information alone. Many of the mercenaries used to be in the scout camp. I saw several familiar faces. Mr. Chen wants some mercenaries to go with me to gather intelligence."

"No problem. I'll let Ning Yi accompany you to select people later. After the selection, we'll register them. These people will serve as scouts in the future."

"You can take a look at the map first. Our target is this area."

Chen Xing zoomed out the map and pointed to the area west of the Fire Lake two thousand miles northeast of Stone City.

Several of the six people actually noticed the tablet on the table when they came in.

It’s just that I didn’t look at it carefully when I was communicating with Chen Xing just now. Now that I look at it carefully, I feel a little frightened.

"The map here is so detailed." Gu Wu was very surprised.

He compared it with his memory and found that this map was more detailed than the map in the city guard camp. It could be zoomed in and out, and the pictures on it were extremely clear.

"I've heard that Daxia's mechanical creations are extraordinary, and now it seems to be true." Shi Yao praised.

Gong Yinhong said: "The northwest area of ​​Qianhu District? There are many resource points in this area. I think it's okay."

The Stone City is located two hundred miles southwest of the Fire Lake, and the Jiuchi City is located eight hundred miles northwest of the Fire Lake, with a large Fire Lake separating the two.

The eastern area of ​​the Fire Lake is a huge fire lake with a diameter of nearly 800 miles.

The Midwest region is made up of many scattered small lakes, so this area is also called the Thousand Lakes Region.

The more special the geographical environment, the easier it is to create resource points.

The monsters living in the large lake in the east are of higher quality, and the water level is quite deep, so many resource points are not convenient to mine.

Relatively speaking, the fire lakes in the central and western regions are much smaller in depth and area. Deep water breeds big dragons, while shallow water breeds turtles. Therefore, the resource points in the central and western regions have become the places where more forces compete for because they are easy to mine.

These resource points were previously occupied by the City of Nine Reds. Any beastmasters from the Stone City who approached would be killed or captured to work as laborers to mine resources.

However, as Stone City has grown and developed over the years, it has needed more resources. Therefore, the conflicts between the two cities over the past few hundred years have mainly been wars over competition for resource points within the Two Thousand Mile Fire Lake.

This is the history on the surface. After knowing Gu Yuzhi's identity, Chen Xing realized that the conflict between the two cities was inevitable.

The six of them then briefly discussed the details, and finally decided to gather the intelligence first before taking action.

Wait until the six people leave.

Chen Xing said, "Brother Zhao, there are six super-class beastmasters in the mercenary group, plus the beastmasters we brought with us, so we have a total of 19 super-class beastmasters."

Zhao Guangming nodded, "You, me, Ning Yi, Zhou San and the other four, each of Ning Yi, Zhou San's family has sent 4 super-class beastmasters to accompany us, and Qin Bo, a total of 19 people.

This is just the number of super-class beastmasters. Some people have more than one transcendent beastmaster, so it is normal for the number of transcendent beastmasters to double."

Chen Xing murmured, "I just don't know how much help the super-class beastmasters of Ning Yi and Zhou San's family will provide."

Zhao Guangming consoled him, "Since the families behind Ning Yi and Zhou San have already staked their money on us, they will definitely not do anything stupid. They may even work harder than the beastmasters in the mercenary group. Otherwise, they will end up pleasing neither side and their stake will be in vain."

After hearing what Zhao Guangming said, Chen Xing felt that it made a lot of sense.

At the same time, in a valley three hundred miles away from Stone City.

A group of beastmasters are stationed here.

In the core camp, a secret negotiation is going on.

"I heard that Xinhuo's people have arrived. Do you want to contact them to coordinate the action?"

"They are just a bunch of child soldiers. What's there to connect with? I heard that this organization is made up of young people who have just graduated or haven't graduated yet. Do you want them to get a piece of the pie?"

"The reason they were sent here from China should be for this purpose."

"Hehe, the child soldiers should not come to cause trouble. They can just pick up some soup to drink on the periphery. This way they can still ensure safety."

"Send them a piece of intelligence and tell them the area where the Nine Red City masters are stationed nearby."

"Old Han, do you want them to get involved?"

"Heh, I heard that the leader of Xinhuo this time has some relationship with their old Han family."

The man called Lao Han said calmly, “That guy is my niece’s student, but I have never seen him.

I didn't want him to be involved in the operation, and I gave him an intelligence map to prevent them from accidentally falling into a trap."

A person nearby said in a muffled voice: "I agree with Lao Han's opinion. We are all working towards a common goal. Fair competition is fine, but we should not let competition ruin our original intention!"

After selecting forty scouts, Gu Wu took the group of scouts to gather intelligence. Before leaving, Chen Xing told Gu Wu the locations of several resource points that he had focused on selecting.

Gu Wu didn't ask too many questions. He just noted the location of the resource point and set off.

That night, a mercenary who claimed to be from the Heart of Resistance brought Chen Xing a piece of information.

The data recorded in detail the resource points in the Fire Lake and the number and strength of beastmasters stationed in the other resource areas of Jiuchi City.

Although the intelligence about the number of enemy troops stationed in many areas is not very specific, only a rough number, and the strength of many strong men is only an intelligence estimate.

But this information is very important to Chen Xing.

Wars are fought with intelligence, Chen Xing understood this when he was playing games before.

The full-map fog of war and full-map vision unlocked are completely two different levels of difficulty in the game.

This information saved him a lot of energy.

It just came a little late. If the information had arrived a day earlier, Chen Xing would not have sent Gu Wu out.

Six days later, Gu Wu returned with intelligence.

Chen Xing convened the top leaders of the mercenary group to discuss and finally determined the target - the Shuixinyan Mine north of No. 174 Zhonghu Lake in the northern part of Qianhu District.

According to intelligence, the Shuixinyan Mine is a large and rich mine.

The force stationed here belongs to the Chi family, the overlord of Jiuchi City. There are more than 8 beast tamers, and the number of super-class beast tamers is no less than .

It is also known that the person in charge of the Shuixinyan Mine is Chi Xie, the seventh elder of the Chi family. He is a master with a reputation for hundreds of years, and his main beast tamer is at least above the sixth level of transcendence.

"It seems that I, a geologist, have discovered a rare and large precious mineral vein as soon as I arrived." Chen Xing said with a smile at the meeting.

Compared to Chen Xing's satisfaction, the others were not in such a good mood.

"Mr. Chen's Red Scorpion's main beast had already surpassed the sixth level thirty years ago, and it is said that his main beast is a dual-element of water and fire, and its strength is not affected in the Fire Lake Realm." Shi Yao's face suddenly changed.

What does it mean to transcend the sixth level? Even if there is only Red Scorpion alone, he can probably defeat all of them.

"It's okay, leave the Red Scorpion to me, and the rest are up to you." Chen Xing waved his hand.

Hearing this, the six people were surprised and stunned, this was an opponent beyond the sixth level.

But seeing Chen Xing's confident demeanor, the six people were skeptical, mainly because Chen Xing looked too young. But if he could really deal with him, the six people couldn't help but show a hint of awe on their faces.

After determining the target, Chen Xing set off with a large force.

But only when he actually managed more than 500 people did Chen Xing realize how terrifying Han Xin's talent of "the more the better" was.

Not to mention that the more Han Xins the better, Chen Xing felt that it was a headache just to manage more than 500 people.

The food, clothing, housing and transportation of more than 500 people, including how to act and command, and in addition to more than 500 people, each person has several beast tames, which adds up to thousands of beast tames!

The eating, drinking, defecation and urination of thousands of beasts need to be managed. How to arrange their patrols, camps and battlefield layout in the wild?
Originally he wanted to ask Zhao Guangming for help, but Zhao Guangming was not willing to take on such a hard job and quickly declined, saying that he was not capable enough.

Zhao Guangming immediately said to Chen Xing seriously: "You are the commander-in-chief of this operation. There are only a few people here, just over 500 people. It's a good opportunity for you to practice. You don't have to be proficient, but you can't be completely ignorant."

Practice is the best teacher. Fortunately, these 500 people were not novices on the battlefield. They stumbled at the beginning, but gradually became proficient. After a few days, Chen Xing became more proficient in managing the mercenary group, and the marching speed of the large army gradually increased.

(End of this chapter)