Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

When the lord of that territory saw that Linlang's territory had instantly upgraded to a level four territory, he knew that he couldn't conquer it for the time being. Although he was a little disappointed, he still called everyone to leave temporarily, planning to come back to fight when their level increased.

He believed that upgrading a territory to level five would take a long time, and he had enough time to manage the territory.

But he didn't know that after upgrading to a level four territory, the territory could not only form more guard teams, but also set up engineering camps and form system engineers.

Actually, the guard team could also recruit NPCs from the system, but the salaries of system NPCs are much higher, so Linlang just recruited residents from her territory to serve as guards, which also created jobs, how great is that?

However, since they were residents of the territory, Linlang only assigned them to patrol duties within the territory, without requiring them to defend the territory. This was to avoid escalating the issue to the point where many people were afraid of fighting and thus unwilling to join the guard team. Alternatively, the guard team would have to increase their salaries before anyone would dare to join.

The group of people led by the lord of Fengyun Territory, who attacked Linlang Territory, were their territory's guard.

For engineering camps in level four territories, all engineers must be recruited from the system; residents of the territory cannot be recruited.

Of course, if you really want to find residents from your territory to serve, that's fine too; the system doesn't prevent it. But Linlang won't choose residents from her territory. Loyalty is an issue, and also, what if they die in battle? How will she explain it to their families? System engineers are better. They're a bit more expensive, but they're 100% loyal. Also, if something happens, there's no need to worry about the engineer dying, because when they're at low health, the system will recall them. The engineer can slowly recover health by returning to the engineer camp. But if they're residents of the territory, they don't have this function; they'll die if they run out of health.

The engineers won't die; they just need to return to the engineer camp to heal. Linlang likes this arrangement.

Although they are NPCs, what if they develop feelings for each other? Linlang doesn't want to treat them like fake people, and naturally doesn't want them to die. It would be a good thing if they didn't die.

Why are there both guards and engineers? Doesn't this create overlap in their roles?

That's different. The nature of the guards and engineers is like the distinction between the military and the police. The former focuses on maintaining order, while the latter focuses on combat. It is precisely because they focus on combat that Linlang uses system engineers, because she is afraid that if she uses local residents, it would be difficult to explain if they die.

After Linlang upgraded her territory to level four, she only upgraded the walls and arrow towers. After scaring away the attacking enemies, Linlang did not upgrade other buildings in the territory for the time being, but instead quickly built an engineer camp.

If a level 3 territory is like a village, then a level 4 territory is like a town. The area is much larger, so there is naturally room to build an engineering camp.

Lord Fengyun previously led a hundred experts from his territory to attack. Now, Linlang has hired engineers to fight back, and plans to first purchase two hundred level 15 engineers. With the advantage of numbers and levels, they should be able to defeat the enemy.

Indeed, Linlang not only planned to conquer the enemy's territory, but also to deal with all the people who would attack in the future. After all, these people followed Lord Fengyun and had caused countless families to be destroyed and killed. They all had blood on their hands, so how could they not be dealt with? It would be good to deal with these people and replenish the stock.

There's no need to worry about not knowing who's attacking. Lord Fengyun only brought a hundred people to attack, and she's already recorded their appearances with her little bee. When she sees them, she'll have the system engineers mark them, and she'll definitely be able to deal with them. Even if she can't deal with them this time, she can deal with them next time. There's plenty of time to deal with them.

Purchasing a level 15 engineer costs a lot of money. Actually, you could buy a level 1 engineer and slowly level up by fighting monsters, but Linlang is currently focused on managing the Fengyun Territory and doesn't have time to upgrade engineers slowly. So, she simply spent more money to buy a level 15 engineer. This is the highest level engineer available for purchase in a level 4 territory. After all, the game doesn't allow players to buy engineers far exceeding the world average; otherwise, they would be invincible, killing everyone in their path. That's impossible.

In fact, since the average level of players and monsters is around level ten—as the game panel shows, indicating an average world level of ten—it is very expensive for Linlang to hire these engineers who are five levels above the average level.

The cost of hiring is not fixed, but is calculated based on the world average.

If a unit's level is below the world average, the daily cost of hiring it is lower; conversely, if its level is above the world average, the cost of hiring it is higher. This is clearly intended to balance the game and prevent engineers from becoming too powerful and disrupting the game's balance.

It costs money to buy engineers, and when you hire them, you will be charged a daily fee.

Fortunately, once you buy them and don't hire them, the engineers are in an unrecruited state and only need a small minimum guarantee fee each day. The cost will be higher once you hire them, so you don't have to worry about buying a large number of engineers and incurring exorbitant daily hiring fees.

Linlang purchased two hundred level 15 engineers, hired them all, and led them out of the territory.

This engineering camp was built in a deserted corner of the territory after it was upgraded, so no one noticed that a large group of people had left the territory.

Linlang led two hundred level 15 engineers, fighting monsters as they went.

With such a large and high-level team, they were naturally unstoppable against the average level 10 monsters outside, clearing out all the monsters along the way.

If Linlang hadn't wanted to deal with the Fengyun Territory first, she would have taken this opportunity to eliminate those powerful monsters as well, since she had her little bee and knew which ones were nearby.

Linlang doesn't know for now, she plans to wait until she returns to settle the matter. After all, she's spent so much money hiring these people, so she naturally wants to make good use of them, otherwise she'll suffer a huge loss.

The Fengyun territory is actually 20 kilometers away from Linlang's territory. However, since the other party has cleared out the territories around them, they have also set their sights on Linlang's territory, which is 20 kilometers away. Otherwise, given the distance and the presence of other territories in between, they wouldn't have attacked them.

When Linlang's large army appeared outside Fengyun Territory and began attacking it, the lord of Fengyun Territory never imagined that he would be attacked and one day the other side would retaliate. After all, he had conquered nearly ten territories, and none of the lords of those territories had the power to fight back.

This situation gave him boundless confidence, allowing him to provoke Linlang's territory, believing that if he could win, he could fight, and if he couldn't, he wouldn't lose anything.

The lord of the Wind and Cloud Territory noticed Linlang's counterattack immediately. Firstly, his territory's guards discovered it while patrolling outside; secondly, the territory's walls were rapidly losing health. Either way, he knew someone was attacking his territory. (End of Chapter)