159: Abacus of Chang Zhan

Li Xiao opened the Life Pool; at this moment, the Life Points line had 14 million points.

Although the Xiao Yao Army had only annihilated nearly 50,000 soldiers of the Black Hawk Unit in this battle, as the second-line main force of the Black Hawk Empire, the soldiers of the 129th Group Army had a very high average strength rating, and high-ranking soldiers were everywhere.

Compared to Life Points, the Durability Points were a huge profit; the total number of vehicles destroyed provided over 220 million in total.

However, the Durability Points obtained from the first and second waves of vehicles destroyed on the main battlefield after the general offensive began had already been used, so he actually only had a little over 200 million at the moment.

If the greatest gain for the Xiao Yao Army from capturing Weixing City was more resources, tax revenue, and equipment production, then the values extracted from this were Li Xiao's greatest gain.

"Looks like I've made another haul..."

Li Xiao had Li Le immediately notify Wang Si and Nangong Yan; he needed to cash out these values as soon as possible and then step up the procurement of combat vehicles and ammunition.

The benefits brought by Weixing City and the attribute bonuses of the Xiao Yao Army really attracted a large number of nearby players to join; under Xuan Yu's careful screening, nearly 6,000 to 7,000 people joined the army in two days.

The vast majority of these people were solo players, and a small portion were squads; Xuan Yu rejected all medium and large squads.

This was mainly because she was worried about the formation of cliques within the army, which would be very detrimental to the development of the army.

The new members joining the army were reorganized into the Fourth and Fifth Regiments, and the position of Regiment Commander was temporarily held by him and Liu Nian, to be appointed later when suitable candidates were found.

Under Yun Ying's arrangement, based on geographical location, she had the Fourth Regiment, Fifth Regiment, and Third Regiment share the daily collection volume of 10 million resources from Weixing City.

As for the wild resources west and north of Hengshui, they were given to Zhaoming and Xi City, which would allow all players to have higher collection efficiency.

However, they soon had some trouble; some people in the army saw discussions about the Xiao Yao Army capturing Weixing City on several local channels in Yun City Province.

Many local squads had already started to become dissatisfied because they were forced by the system to pay a 30% tax to the Xiao Yao Army, and some squads even wanted to unite to give the Xiao Yao Army, whose forces had been greatly reduced, a rough welcome.

In fact, Li Xiao saw in the army territory system that this tax rate could be adjusted, with the minimum being 10%, but why should he adjust it?

Having paid such a high price, losing over a million troops, and even having more than 20 members killed by aerial bombs, he had to minimize the losses no matter what.

When Yun Dongliu reported these situations, Li Xiao said directly: "Just let them come and fight; I haven't found a reason to occupy their cities yet!"

"It seems our Army Commander is getting tougher and tougher!"

Yun Dongliu seemed to appreciate this tough style as well; he pondered for a moment and said to Li Xiao: "Then I can tell Xuan Yu to have her online team steer the public opinion to show the conquest will of the Xiao Yao Army!"

"Absolutely, but don't engage in personal attacks; we are not a bandit army."

"OK!"

Returning to the base, it was already noon, when Chang Zhan called on the satellite phone.

"Captain Li... oh no, now I should call you Regiment Commander Li. Congratulations to Regiment Commander Li for successfully defeating the 129th Group Army and recovering Weixing City for our Tianyu Republic."

For...

Li Xiao suddenly felt that Chang Zhan's words sounded a bit awkward, but there didn't seem to be any problem.

The fact that they, the Outlanders, appeared on Hanhai Star and within the territory of the Tianyu Republic did indeed have a bit of the flavor of the Blue Star's Eagle Sauce going to the Middle East.

Didn't the Eagle Sauce also go in with the slogan of helping out and then frantically rake in the benefits?

Li Le had already explained their current organization when he contacted Chang Zhan before, so it was not surprising that Chang Zhan called him Regiment Commander Li.

It's just that this "Regiment Commander Li" title sounded a bit like that big shot from the Battle of Ping'an.

"Battalion Commander Chang, if you have something to say, just say it directly. I still have a lot of things to handle on my end."

Li Xiao really didn't have time to chit-chat with Chang Zhan. Besides being busy making money, he also had to find a way to solve the ink crystal problem. This time, the ability to severely damage the armored forces of the 129th Group Army was due to the key role played by the two waves of ink crystal anti-tank missiles from the Blades and AMX infantry fighting vehicles.

"It's like this: there are a few military bases within the territory of Weixing City that you can actually take together; otherwise, the enemy might use those military bases to launch attacks on Weixing City."

"Military bases? It seems there are no benefits, right?"

"How could there be no benefits?" Chang Zhan laughed: "The ammunition storage points of the 129th Group Army are all scattered in these bases. If you can capture them all, you can make up for a huge amount of losses."

Ammunition storage points? This reminded him of the Transit Yard two kilometers south of the base. At that time, he had relied on the supplies and ammunition from the Transit Yard to get through the difficult days in the early stages.

"Uh, you called me just to let me make a little fortune?"

"Ah... ahem, actually, I do have a bit of selfishness. I think you have already controlled the city and the main resource points. These military bases are useless to you except for the supplies, so why not hand them over to us? You see, my battalion is drifting around and doesn't even have a place to stay..."

Chang Zhan said pitifully.

Li Xiao knew that these people from Tian Yu weren't simple-minded; it must be that those military bases were hard to crack, so they were asking Li Xiao to fight for them.

"Fine, then it's settled. I'll have someone arrange it immediately."

"Then I wish you a huge fortune!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Le handed over a handheld computer and said: "Boss, Battalion Commander Chang Zhan has already sent the coordinates of these four bases."

"Looks like he really couldn't wait."

Li Xiao sent the coordinate information to Yun Dongliu. These military bases were basically guarded by 3,000 to 5,000 Black Hawk Unit soldiers, and they did not have much heavy equipment. Apart from a dozen or twenty armored vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles, there were no more means of attack.

Yun Dongliu only needed to arrange a few battalions and dispatch two armored companies to get it done.

After returning to the headquarters, Li Xiao took a nap first, and then went to the military factory in the afternoon to check on the work of Yi Ling and Mavis.

Now the vehicle production of the military factory was normal, but the production speed of ink crystal ammunition had dropped, because the ink crystal raw materials could not keep up, so only one production line was working.

He had asked Chang Zhan before; now Tian Yu did not have any port resources that could be used, and ink crystal was only available in the Arctic, which was currently firmly controlled by the Black Hawk Empire, and no individual or organization could touch it.

"Looks like I have to find a way..."

In the evening, Li Xiao had Li Le drive him to Fengyu Lake to go fishing again.

Sitting on the bank, Li Xiao was rubbing the bait while thinking about the ink crystal problem, but it started to drizzle from the sky.