The fact that Shiuan City was breached by bronze tier players in half a day serve as a wake-up call for him.

Initially, he thought that with him personally stationed at the rear, he could support Shiuan City at any time, which should have been foolproof.

However, the city was breached, showing that these bronze tier players were not to be underestimated, and he could not afford to be careless.

After arranging some matters at hand, Lu Gi took a sip of tea and recalled the golden treasure chest he had received earlier.

Looking at the golden treasure chest, he couldn't help but feel a bit complicated.

After letting out a gentle sigh, he chose to open it directly, accompanied by a burst of golden light.

The systems prompt echoed in his mind.

System prompt.

Congratulations to player Luog G for obtaining the golden level item declaration of war.

Total war.

Listening to the systems announcement and seeing the golden level item named declaration of war in his backpack, a hint of surprise appeared on Lu G's face, followed by a sudden fierce laugh.

This was just perfect.

It had been mentioned before that wars between players could be divided into two modes, invasion mode and war mode.

The war mode is further divided into ordinary war mode and total war mode.

The ordinary war mode refers to battles where both players bring equal-sized armies to fight on a randomly chosen or predetermined map.

In contrast, the total war mode merges both player civilizations into the same world.

And a true total war takes place when both players possess cities and fortresses.

However, the war mode cannot be initiated casually.

It requires the consumption of corresponding items, specifically the declaration of war.

Alongside these two modes, the declaration of war also comes in silver and gold levels.

The silver level declaration of war can only initiate ordinary war mode, while the golden level declaration of war can initiate total war mode.

Each of these modes has its advantages.

For instance, the ordinary war mode commonly occurs among highranked player civilization wars.

When a player from a powerful civilization wants to invade another powerful civilization, but is unsure of the opponent's strength, they may choose to consume a silver level declaration of war to initiate an ordinary war, thereby confirming the opponent's unit configuration and tactics.

As for the total war mode, using a term from their gaming circle, it is referred to as a grudge match.

When both sides have grievances and are determined to fight to the death, they will consume a golden level declaration of war to initiate a total war, fighting to the bitter end.

It is worth mentioning that due to the strategic value of the declaration of war, this item is in high demand.

A single silver level declaration of war has a market price of over a million civilization points, and once it is put on the auction house, it is snatched up immediately.

The golden level declaration of war has rarely appeared in the auction house.

After all, for these consumable strategic items, it depends not only on whether one has the money to buy them, but also on whether one can obtain them from chess.

Sometimes having money doesn't guarantee a purchase.

This is why low-ranked players, even if they have one, wouldn't use it.

spending a silver level declaration of war worth over a million civilization points to engage in an invasion battle that might only yield two to 300,000 points at best.

That would be foolish.

Of course, having a deep grudge is a different matter altogether.

With a heavy sigh, Lu G's mind was racing.

In this invasion battle, he had not only killed a powerful general underho Dong Nan, but had also almost completely wiped out the opponent's 5,000 troops.

With Wong Lutsung's total troop count as a reference, Lu Gi was convinced that after this battle, Zhao Dong would likely be gravely wounded.

If he wanted to kill him, this was an opportunity once successful.

After he had already killed two bronze ranked players, the members of the Zonghong Tintin Alliance would have to weigh their own strength before attempting to move against him again.

With this thought in mind, Luji decisively opened his friend list and sent a message to Ying Shian.

Ching Xian, I need your help with something.

What is it? Yinguan<unk>s reply came quickly.

I need to purchase food.

How much do you need? As much as you have, Lu Gi replied straightforwardly, but Ying Shin frowned.

According to her understanding, Lu Gi's civilization should have been developing steadily.

Suddenly, needing a lot of food was not unusual, but saying, "As much as you have," was a big problem.

After all, considering her thousands of acres of colorful terrace fields and their food production, how much do you think that would amount to? Thinking of this, Yiqing Xen quickly replied, "What happened?" Lu Gi did not hide this matter from her as he needed Yiqinguan<unk>s full support this time.

After explaining the whole situation to her, Lu G stated decisively, "I plan to reduce the number of people in the food production industry and significantly expand my military and build walls.

However, this adjustment will likely lead to a food supply shortage in my civilization.

So, I hope you can support me with enough food.

To put it bluntly, Lu Gi hoped that Yiqing Shien, who had colorful terrace fields and was backed by a rich mountainous area, could become his granary, instantly understanding Lu G's meaning, Yiqing Xen became a bit worried.

Would directly launching a total war be too risky? Don't worry.

In this invasion battle, I wiped out 5,000 of the opponent's troops.

They are already gravely injured.

I'm just going to give them a final blow to eliminate future threats.

Seeing this message, Yiqing took a deep breath.

Her expression becoming resolute.

All right, you tell me how much food you need, and I'll give you that much until all your city's granaries can't hold anymore.

Besides, do you need copper ingots? Of course.

Did you discover copper ore? Seeing the words copper ingots, Lu G's eyes flashed with joy.

Although he already had three copper mines, the processes from gathering to refining and then smelting in a bronze took a lot of time.

If he could directly trade for ready-made copper ingots, it would be a great boon for him, especially his time was of the essence.

No, I just sold two crossbows recently, and that player had copper ingots, so I let him use copper ingots for payment.

The update is here.

Thanks to the book friend by Xihei Z for the reward.

End of this chapter.

Chapter 257.

Actively preparing for war after a round of trading.

The granary in Mingjing city, which had just sent away 10 carts of grain to support Shiuan City, was suddenly overflowing.

Left with no choice, Lajia had to requisition the empty military camp storage as well.

Watching the soldiers frantically transporting the grain, Lajia realized this was just the first round.

As Iingin put it, she would continue to trade five more rounds of grain.

Thinking of this, Luaja couldn't help but gasp.

He knew Ying Schuan's threestar wonder, the colorful terrace fields had an explosive grain yield, but he didn't expect it to explode to this extent based on the quantity from each round, trading five more rounds.

Moreover, under this premise, she still had surplus grain to sustain her civilization's operations.

Luagia felt he needed to reassess the grain production of Yiqinguan civilization.

Speaking of which, among the players without ranks just by selling grain to those who were short on food, she must have made a fortune.

There was no time to think further.

He was truly racing against time.

He quickly issued a conscription order and while massively expanding his military strength also pulled a large number of personnel from various food production departments to temporarily assist in repairing the west city gate wall of Shiuan city and constructing walls in other cities.

The grain that Ying Shien had traded over almost filled all the graneries of Lajia's subordinate cities.

After solving the food problem, Luaja's entire civilization could suddenly allocate a large workforce.

If time was insufficient, they would use manpower to pile up.

Originally, if 10 people were supposed to repair a wall in 10 days, he would send a 100 people over.

He couldn't believe they wound T speed up.

Of course, this meant the head of the construction engineering department would definitely have to work himself to exhaustion.

Additionally, during this extraordinary pre-war period, the armament forging department was evidently busy as well.

Inside, a group of bald heads was fervently forging weapons, and the clang clang sound had not stopped for 24 hours.

It must be mentioned that the bald heads in the forging department were not bald from overwork, but had shaved their heads themselves.

The reason was that the temperature from so many forging furnaces was too high.

Anyone with hair would be drenched in sweat after just a few minutes.

Long hair would stick to their bodies when wet, which was quite uncomfortable.

So, they simply shave their heads, feeling cooler instead.

Besides, these big men didn't mind it.

And from that moment on, baldness inexplicably became one of the symbols of their forging department.

However, in this context, the busiest department in Lajia civilization was neither the construction engineering department nor the armament forging department, but the quarry.

The managers of various mines were nearly driven mad during this time, having to deliver bricks and stones to the construction engineering department and metal ores to the armament forging department.

The worst part was they also had to prepare stones for the stonethrowers, making their workload enormous to the point where finding a rock by the roadside felt like discovering an important resource.

If this continued, they would surely level a small mountain.