Chapter 10 Second-level Tang Taizong Template

Nearly 400 soldiers and militiamen were disarmed and dejected.

They came from four different villages and were all captured in a battle.

Li Qian was very satisfied with the cavalry’s performance in this battle. Twenty light cavalrymen killed four player lords and broke through the reserve team of fifty militiamen. No one on his side was killed, and the casualty ratio was extremely exaggerated. This was also related to the cavalry’s sudden attack from the rear and Cheng Yaojin’s leading the way.

Cavalry is a sharp weapon.

Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, often personally led his cavalry to attack the enemy, defeating them at the first blow. Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu, led 30,000 cavalry on a long-distance raid and defeated Liu Bang’s army of 560,000, forcing him to flee.

Perhaps the only drawback of cavalry is that they are expensive.

No, expensive is not its disadvantage, but…

In the village stage, Li Qian formed a cavalry team of 20 people, led by Cheng Yaojin, and suddenly attacked, which was enough to become the decisive force on the battlefield.

Li Qian defeated four player lords, occupied their villages, and moved all the captured people to Tiance Village.

Li Qian’s goal is to concentrate all resources to upgrade Tiance Village and strive for the achievement of “the best town in the world”, so he does not need other villages, only Tiance Village. If he does not concentrate resources, he will not be able to compete with those wealthy players who spend money like water.

The four villages had a combined population of about 1800 people, all of whom moved to Tiance Village. Together with the population that had been plundered previously, the population of Tiance Village reached more than 1000 households and 5000 people.

The wasteland around Tiance Village has been reclaimed into farmland. Looking around, the roads are connected, chickens and dogs can be heard, and the village has become bustling.

Zhao Xiancai arranged for carpenters to build a market on the west side of the village for villagers and players to trade. The business of Tiance Village began to prosper. There was even a group of free players leveling up near Tiance Village. When they saw the market here, they came to set up stalls and trade.

Li Qian settled more than a thousand prisoners and selected a group of elite soldiers from among them.

The standing army of Tiance Village consists of 400 people, including 100 sword and shield soldiers, 180 spear soldiers, 50 crossbow soldiers, 50 longbow soldiers, and 20 cavalrymen.

Li Qian returned to his residence and checked the territory panel.

【Territory】: Tiance Village (medium-sized village)

【Lord】: Shengzuo a scholar (Li Qian)
【Affiliation】: Xinye County, Nanyang County
【Specialties】: Xinye Saozi, Chinese cabbage
【Population】: 5817/8000
【Regular players】：35
【People】: 73
【Public Security】：69
[Prosperity]: 520/1000
[Internal Affairs Efficiency]: 30/100
[Agricultural efficiency]: 42/100
【Business efficiency】: 25/100
【Cultural efficiency】: 13/100
【建筑】：初级酒馆×1、初级医馆×1、初级铁匠铺×1、初级市坊×1、土地庙×1、村塾×1……

[City Defense]: Wooden Fence, Wooden Arrow Tower x 2
[Troops]: 400
……

Tiance Village is approaching the standards of a large village.

“Global Warring States” has very strict requirements for territory.

A medium-sized village must have 1000 people, a large village must have 8000 people, and the population requirements for a town are even more stringent. It must have a population of at least 20000 to be called a town.

Li Qian robbed more than a dozen villages before he gathered more than 5000 people.

By this calculation, we would have to seize at least dozens more villages to meet the population requirement of the world’s number one town.

“It’s possible that we don’t need to plunder so many villages. After a round of annexation, a number of medium-sized villages may emerge. As long as we capture ten medium-sized villages, we should be able to gather the remaining 15,000 people.”

“I am only one level away from level 20, which will unlock the second stage of the Emperor Taizong template.”

Li Qian gave the stolen architectural drawings to Zhao Xiancai, asking him to build a fish market next to the market to improve the prosperity of Tiance Village. He also built a primary shipbuilding workshop by the Baihe River to build wooden boats for fishing. The Baihe River connects Wancheng, Xinye, and Xiangyang, and these boats can be used to transport grain in the future.

Afterwards, Li Qian left two hundred soldiers to guard the village and took two hundred soldiers out to level up.

Li Qian had almost wiped out all the surrounding villages and bandits, so he crossed the Baihe River and went to the west bank of the river to look for villages and bandits.

Soon, Li Qian discovered a group of hundreds of bandits.

Li Qian used the same trick again, using a small number of troops to lure the bandits out of the stronghold, and then personally led the cavalry to charge out, detouring behind the bandits and attacking them from both sides, thus defeating them.

Li Qian shot and killed ten bandits, and his experience bar only increased by half.

Li Qian sighed. The higher the level, the more experience points are needed to upgrade. This truly illustrates what it means that one general’s success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers.

Fortunately, the system will refresh the population, otherwise, by the end of the game, there would probably be only a few people left…

Li Qian continued to lead his troops upstream and encountered another group of bandits.

This group of bandits was small in number, so Li Qian did not order his troops to charge forward. Instead, he used the Mongolian cavalry’s kite tactics, with one man per horse, using archery on horseback to consume this group of bandits.

After killing ten more bandits, a white light flashed on Li Qian’s body, and he finally reached level 20!

“Ding, your level has been raised to level 20. You will randomly gain an attribute point, Force +1.”

“Ding, the Tang Taizong template you obtained has been upgraded to level 2, unlocking more effects, please pay attention to it.”

As he upgraded, Li Qian felt that he had become much stronger, with a sense of heroism that was as powerful as “the strength to pull mountains and the courage to conquer the world”.

This is how the same thing?

Li Qian clicked on the [Template] option on the character panel.

【Template】: Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin
[Level]: Level 2 (Level 40 at level 3, more effects unlocked)
【当前解锁属性】：统帅+20、武力+20、智力+10、政治+10、魅力+20。

【当前属性上限】：统帅90、武力90、智力90、政治90、魅力95。

[Currently unlocked features]: “Mastery of Archery” (Military), “Black Armor Army” (Military), “Fubing System” (Political), “Brave Cavalry Entering the Battlefield” (Military), “Holy Lord of Heaven’s Mandate” (Charm).

[Currently unlocked skills]: Shooting an arrow through a target from a hundred paces away (Wu), Nine Arrows in a Row (Wu), Taming a Good Horse (Wu), Morale Perception (Strategy), Battlefield Intuition (Strategy).

[Currently Unlocked Halo]: General of Tiance (covers the battlefield. When two armies are fighting, the morale of your own generals and troops is maintained at a high level and will not drop easily, while the enemy’s morale drops rapidly until it collapses; New effect: When your own morale is higher than 80, each additional point of morale increases your attack power by 1%, up to a maximum of +1%)

……

The second-level template of Emperor Taizong of Tang has a force +20, which is 10 points more than the first-level one. No wonder Li Qian felt that his arms seemed to have endless strength. The Liuhe Spear felt light in Li Qian’s hands.

Moreover, Li Qian mastered the skills of a strategist, and even the battlefield aura had an additional effect.

This is only the second stage!
The highest level of Emperor Taizong of Tang’s template is level five, which is a bit too strong.

(End of this chapter)