Even if he couldn't push forward, relying on the crossbows range, he should have been able to score points in two rounds without losing.

You didn't bring crossbows, did you? A he? Another string of awkward chuckles clearly indicated the answer.

Seeing this response, couldn't help but cover his face.

Your identity might be exposed.

Uh, no way.

Jeang thought Xiao Nan was overthinking that Lu Jing didn't know him.

So, how could he possibly determine he was a player from Zong Hing Tinia? I ask you, in a bronze rank, which player goes into an invasion battle without crossbows? This message left Jeang stunned, and as he reacted, his expression changed drastically.

The cost of deploying such heavy machinery as crossbows was very high, and at that moment, he was only thinking about those civilization points.

Furthermore, he was merely going to scout the opponent's details, not actually fight.

So, he initially set up an invasion configuration with the aim of saving money, completely forgetting this aspect.

Now that Jeanna mentioned it, he was a bit dumbfounded.

I've told you how many times.

Don't be so petty.

Stop thinking about saving a few small benefits all the time if you only care about those civilization points.

How can you expect to achieve anything? Do you have no memory of being surpassed by Zhao Dong Nan in the rankings before? Between the lines, it was clear that Xiao Nan was quite upset.

While Xangi Chang realizing the situation was left in tears fearing that Xiao and would kick him out as a useless teammate, he quickly sent several messages.

Nango, I really didn't t mean it.

I didn't t think of it at the time.

Nango, I absolutely one t do this next time.

Really, Nango, please respond.

What should we do next? I'll follow your lead.

Watching Jeang Yi Chengs incessant messages, Xiao and Nan sighed heavily.

According to his original plan, he should disguise himself as an ordinary player, gather as much information about the opponent as possible without raising their suspicion, and then make targeted arrangements to take them down in one fell swoop.

But now, the opponent might have noticed, or they might not have.

What he feared the most was that the Luo Jing would make some countermeasures after realizing it.

This genuinely gave him a headache.

Chapter 308.

Good strategy.

Meanwhile, on the other side, after the invasion battle ended and the truce banner was raised, Luo Jing, having figured out the opponent's identity and purpose, felt a bit troubled.

The bronze rank was the home ground of the Zong Hung Tincha Alliance players.

In other words, the opponent had the numbers while he was outnumbered.

Launching a rash attack was too unwise.

Let them come.

We'll defend.

Let's play a few rounds of siege battles and focus on developing for a while.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Jing made this decision.

Following his defensive development strategy, he wasn't t particularly afraid of enemy invasions.

Your majesty, if the enemy comes to test us again, should we hold back a bit? Xiaopan, following behind Luo Jing while inspecting the development of Iron Wall City, quietly asked.

No need.

Luo Jing waved his hand.

He knew Xiao Pan was referring to the triple crossbows, but such things couldn't be hidden.

After he had taken down Wong, Lu Kong, and Joe Dong Nan, the player from Zong Hing Tinia would undoubtedly be on high alert.

Therefore, in the upcoming reconnaissance battles, the opponent would surely spare no effort to probe his details.

However, if they found nothing in the end, it would only heighten their vigilance.

An opponent who is extremely alert was the most troublesome.

At such times, appropriately exposing some information to the opponent to prompt them to make targeted arrangements.

While he himself would make further counter measures was indeed the best strategy.

By the way, Xiaoan after this battle, the tactics of the stonethrowers are probably going to be targeted by the enemy.

Do you understand what I mean? As he walked, Luajius said to following him.

Upon hearing this, Pan remained calm.

As the one most familiar with the stone throwers among all of Laji's generals, he certainly knew how the enemy's countermeasures would give him a headache.

The advantage of the stonethrower troops lies in the powerful suppression formed by their numbers.

If the enemy spreads out their formation and chooses to advance slowly, it will be very difficult for the stonethrowers to achieve comprehensive suppression.

Luaja nodded.

Since you have already considered this, I can rest assured.

Luagia did not stay long at Iron Wall City.

After inspecting the development situation here, he hurried back to Mirror City.

There was still a lot to do here.

Take Inscription as an example.

After the previous battle, so many soldiers were killed or retired.

And this manpower definitely needed to be replenished.

In fact, Laja even had to expand his forces since the number of cities under his command had increased.

But the problem arose.

Once the conscription order was issued, the effect was not particularly ideal.

According to Loajia's initial plan, he aimed to conscript 3,000 soldiers.

However, after issuing the conscription order following the comprehensive war, only half of the 3,000 soldiers had been recruited by now.

Undoubtedly, this was a headacheinducing situation.

The reason was that within his civilization, those willing to serve had already signed up during the previous rounds of conscription.

The remaining population mostly lack the willingness to enlist.

And with the total population fixed, one could not expect people to voluntarily join the military indefinitely.

Moreover, the common people of the great Joe had just experienced a baptism of war, and many of them were even more resistant to the idea of enlisting.

These two reasons led to his current predicament of being unable to recruit soldiers.

However, Lajia did not intend to force them as the citizens of the great Joe had just come under his rule and the loyalty of most of them fluctuated around 60 to 70 points.

In such a situation, if he were to impose force conscription, their loyalty would plummet in an instant.

At that time, if someone were to stir up trouble, shouting something like, "The heavens have died, the yellow sky shall rise," it would lead to significant trouble.

However, the issue of conscription had to be resolved sooner or later.

The first thing Lajia thought of was military service.

After implementing the military service system, he believed that after a few years of development based on the current population of his civilization, it should be possible to achieve a state of universal military service to some extent.

But to officially implement this system, you would have to wait another 3 to four months or even consider waiting for half a year or a year for safety's sake.

Otherwise, introducing this system at this critical juncture would likely yield results similar to force conscription.

Being an emperor is truly not easy.

Flipping through the troop strength statistics report in front of him.

Lajia felt a headache coming on.

In his civilization, the treatment of enlisted soldiers was quite good, and it would be nearly impossible to raise it further in a short time.

With no other choice, he could only temporarily adjust the troop strength.

For now, it was manageable.

Sigh.

I now hope that those people from conquering the world can fight a few more rounds of reconnaissance battles.

That way, I could have a few more months to develop.

Just as he was pondering this, a few calls suddenly interrupted Lajia's thoughts.

Your majesty, it is time for lunch.

At the same time, looking at Lu Yi who walked in from outside, Laji smiled.

Little Yzi, this little guy is much more punctual than you now.

While speaking, Ludic gestured towards the small eagle on the eagle perch nearby.

The earlier calls had come from this little fellow.

Earlier, Bise and Brigid had presented him with a nest of three young eagles, claiming they were descendants of the divine eagles of the grasslands.

Since two of his generals had specifically presented them, Laja naturally could not ignore them.

But he couldn't raise three young eagles alone.

So he simply rewarded the pure white one to Ba, the golden one to Brigid, and kept the black one for himself.

Loia, who had no knowledge of eagle breeds, distributed them casually, as he didn't care much about these things.