Chapter 760: Who Entered the Game?

"What is this wound?"

"A wound from blood-sucking." Humanoid, likes to suck blood. He Lingchuan was not only familiar with this kind of monster, but he had also been dealing with it every day not long ago.

The personal guards behind him changed their expressions upon hearing this.

Humans are naturally disgusted and afraid of blood-sucking monsters.

Unexpectedly, a Ba would appear among the Longchuan bandits.

He Lingchuan couldn't bear to tell Chao Qian that a Ba didn't like to eat the blood of the dead. So when it was sucking blood, Miao Mingming shouldn't have breathed his last yet.

"Other teams that were attacked didn't have this kind of wound. So that blood-sucking guy must have been full after the first battle."

Yes, besides the victimization of Miao Mingming's team, three other patrol teams on the southern trade route had also been attacked in the past twelve hours, with thirty-nine dead and fourteen injured.

There were more martyrs than injured, which showed the tragedy of the battle and the ferocity of the opponents.

In terms of time, Miao Mingming's team was the first team to be victimized.

"This is a counterattack by the water bandits." He Lingchuan stood up and walked out of the courtyard, and everyone hurriedly followed, all secretly breathing a sigh of relief.

The stench of corpses in the room was suffocating, and those with poor composure would have vomited on the spot.

"We have been very effective in cleaning up the southern trade route recently, so the other side intends to change their way of fighting us."

The victory in the defense of Yuheng City struck a blow to the arrogance of the Longchuan water bandits; after that, Yuheng City made persistent efforts, organizing the newly trained troops into patrol teams and putting them into the patrol and defense of the southern trade route and nearby villages, on one hand, to train troops in actual combat, and on the other, to suppress bandits and clear out hazards.

This was also the first step of He Lingchuan's plan, and also the most basic step: strictly grasp the security environment of the southern trade route and compress the living space of the water bandits.

There were more than fifty Longchuan bandit gangs; once they couldn't grab enough wealth, there would definitely be problems within the water bandits.

However, the Longchuan water bandits were after all more cunning than their counterparts on the Panlong Wasteland, and they still came up with countermeasures, actually daring to attack the Yuheng City patrol guards in broad daylight.

This was a public challenge.

Menban said bitterly: "Rush into this bandit stronghold and kill them all!"

He Lingchuan asked Chao Qian: "Do you know which bandit gang it is?"

Chao Qian shook his head: "There are no signs on their clothes or weapons. They took away the bodies of the dead bandit gang themselves."

"In which bandit gangs' spheres of influence did these attacks occur?"

"I only know that the Manjia Village area was designated by the Qiu Hua Gang as their own looting territory; I don't know about the others." Chao Qian replied. "These bandit gangs also fight among themselves frequently, and the division of power changes frequently, so we have to ask the undercover agents stationed in Longchuan to be clear."

He Lingchuan frowned.

Since the capture of Xi Ji from Panlongcheng, Yuheng City had been suppressing bandits for several months in a row, yet it hadn't even fully figured out the power composition and territory division within the bandit gangs; wasn't this a kind of arrogance? Government troops naturally look down on bandits; the army from Panlongcheng looks down on the rabble hiding in the Longchuan water marshes.

However, this bandit suppression might not be so simple or easy.

"There is outside power intervening in Longchuan."

Chao Qian immediately said: "Jin Tao Nation."

Jin Tao doesn't enter the game itself, but secretly funds the Longchuan water bandits and rebels; Yuheng City has already become vigilant about this matter.

He Lingchuan looked at him: "More than that? There is also the Northern Demon Nation."

"Beijia?" Everyone was moved. "Beijia is intervening in Longchuan?"

"The wound in Miao Mingming's neck was caused by a Ba." He Lingchuan turned to look at them. "In the present world, I have only heard that the Northern Demon Nation has a Ba!"

Calculating the time, it was just when Fu Shanyue's father was beginning to show his talent in Beijia. Without earth-shattering military merit, what qualifications would it have to establish the Thirteenth Feudal Demon Nation in the future? Seeing the shocked expressions on everyone's faces, He Lingchuan said slowly: "You are all experienced in battle and look down on the Longchuan water bandits; now that Beijia is likely intervening, do you still dare to continue being slow and arrogant?"

His gaze was like a torch, sweeping across everyone's faces, and the latter lowered their heads one after another, saying they didn't dare.

"Listen well, I also want to kill into Longchuan and kill them all, but it's not the time yet. Commander Xiao has already done so, but unfortunately, the effect was minimal." He Lingchuan said in a deep voice. "The subsequent struggle will be protracted and persistent, and the counterattack of the water bandits will definitely be more ferocious, but our squeezing of Longchuan will also be tougher. This is a time to compare endurance; let's see who can't hold on first!"

Chao Qian, Liu Tiao, Menban, and others all patted their chests hard and said loudly: "Panlong, will win!"

Upholding the belief of the Panlongcheng army, they never admitted defeat, no matter what kind of competition it was.

"Transport the remains of the brothers back to Yuheng City for a thick burial; increase ten more patrol teams on the southern trade route, each team increased to thirty people; recently, we must suppress the outer Longchuan water bandits twice more; offer a heavy reward for the murderers who killed our brothers." He Lingchuan ordered. "Those who can report important clues will also be rewarded with fifty taels of gold. Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men."

Everyone responded and went to get busy.

Chao Qian wanted to say something but stopped.

The identities of the water bandits who killed Miao Mingming and others were unknown, and he didn't know which bandit gang did it, so why did the commander directly order the suppression of the outer Longchuan bandits?

He Lingchuan saw his confusion and explained: "The interior of Longchuan is not of one mind, and we strengthen the suppression; the Longchuan bandit gangs will only think that the murderers angered the officialdom and caused crazy retaliation, and they will also be dissatisfied with the murderers."

It wasn't them who did it, yet they had to bear the consequences. Who wouldn't have resentment?

The situation inside Longchuan is complex, and all bandit gangs shouldn't have been seen as a whole in the first place; it is better to divide and conquer.

He Lingchuan had also read the materials and records left by Commander Xiao. After taking over General Hong's work and clearing out the rebels in Xi Ji, Captain Xiao Maoliang Maoliang set about rectifying the Longchuan banditry.

He initially held the idea of cutting the Gordian knot and suppressing them by surrounding them, but he failed.

He also tried decapitation operations, directly leading the army to rush into Longchuan to strike the largest local bandit gang; that battle suppressed more than six hundred bandits.

The effect was equally poor, because there were more than fifty bandit gangs in Longchuan; he wiped out one, and its territory and power were naturally divided by the remaining ones; in the end, nothing changed, and he instead cleared obstacles for other bandit gangs to grow bigger and stronger.

Wen Daolun said that Commander Xiao did a good job of eliminating bandits, which was actually a compliment.

Commander Xiao did everything else well, except for eliminating bandits... conversely, if he were effective in suppressing bandits, why would Panlongcheng replace him with He Lingchuan? This was a new task arranged by Panlongcheng for He Lingchuan, which must be completed, but the Longchuan banditry was probably not so easy to handle.

He Lingchuan thought, he had to use multiple measures simultaneously.

However, why did the Northern Demon Nation stare at Longchuan and Yuheng City again?

Was it the consistent style of being a stirrer, creating local wars and conflicts here? After all, the gods worshipped by Beijia needed nightmare energy.

Or were they still suspicious of Mitian, suspicious of Panlongcheng?

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