"The villain comes from Shangbi Village, twenty-five miles away, and discovered gold sand while mining. Our village chief originally prohibited us from revealing this to the outside world, but a group of horse thieves attacked our village and the village was occupied by the horse thieves.

The village chief also fled to Langya City..."

A miner was brought to the Lord's Mansion by Elder Li and explained the location of the gold mine.

Special resources are very important in "Lord". As the saying goes, you can rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water. Special resources can be divided into pastures, gold mountains, silver mountains, copper mountains, iron mountains, hot springs, sulfur, fisheries, etc.

The mining site in Xia Town relies on the first-class iron mountain resource, and the copper mountain, silver mountain, and gold mountain are countless times rarer than the iron mountain.

Hearing that there were traces of gold mines, Chutian immediately asked the miner to come see him.

The Shangbi Village where the gold mine was discovered was occupied by horse thieves. It seems that it is not that easy to obtain the gold mine.

The village chief of Shangbi Village is also a lord, but he has no ability to resist the horse thieves.

"An ordinary man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade. How many horse thieves are there?"

"There were forty or fifty horse thieves, and each of them had a war horse. Our village chief organized two hundred village warriors, but they were defeated by the horse thieves."

"Elder Li, prepare a place for this brother to live, and you will have to trouble this brother to take us to Shangbi Village in the future."

Chu Tian understood the situation of the gold mine and asked Elder Li to take the miners down.

There are forty or fifty horse thieves. Xia Town, with the strength of a first-level town, should be enough to eliminate them.

"I didn't expect there was a small gold mine nearby. I wonder what level of gold mine it is?"

Chu Tian couldn't wait.

The level of special resources is also ten. The higher the level, the richer the resources.

Hua Mulan led the light cavalry to scout the surrounding area for three days before returning to Xia Town.

Based on the intelligence from previous investigations and Hua Mulan's investigation in the past three days, Chu Tian drew a map near Xia Town.

"Currently, there are 7 third-level villages and 19 second-level villages discovered around our Xia Town. Shangbi Village is one of the second-level villages."

Chutian originally planned to annex the third-level village, but the emergence of gold mines may make him change his plan.

A second-level village with a gold mine seems more attractive than an ordinary third-level village.

"All light cavalry and infantry assemble!"

The second batch of light infantry, Xuzhou archers are still training. Chu Tian believes that 30 light cavalry and 70 elite infantry, plus several generals such as Hua Mulan, Liu Sandao, and Wu Shang, should be able to defeat the horse thieves.

At the school grounds in Xia Town, three rows of light cavalry and seven rows of infantry gathered, which looked impressive.

Most of the bows and arrows were used to train Xuzhou archers. Only less than thirty infantrymen had bows and arrows. The other infantrymen were equipped with iron spears and a wooden shield.

"Let's set off and aim for Shangbi Village, which is twenty-five miles away!"

Chu Tian left Xia Town with a hundred professional soldiers and marched non-stop to Shangbi Village.

The miner from Shangbi Village led the way. He seemed a little nervous: "Mayor Mayor, they are fierce horse thieves. Can you really drive them away?"

"believe us."

After a journey of twenty-five miles, in order to save energy, Xia Zhen's team took three hours to reach Shangbi Village.

"Brother, a group of officers and soldiers are coming to surround us!"

The horse thief sentries occupying Shangbi Village saw Xia Zhen's small team of soldiers and horses blocking the entrance to the village, and immediately reported to the horse thief leader.

"Why did the officers and soldiers come so fast? Someone who escaped must have tipped off the news!"

"Boss, what should we do?"

"The wind is strong, retreat!"

"But the officers and soldiers blocked the door."

"..."

The leader of the horse thieves was stunned. There was only one village gate in Shangbi Village, surrounded by a wooden fence. They could climb over the wooden fence to escape, but their horses could not climb over the wall.

Without war horses, how can they become horse thieves in the future?

A group of horse thieves came to the entrance of the village and saw about a hundred soldiers blocking the road outside.

"These people are not officers and soldiers of Langya City, they are just soldiers of some small lords around. Defeat them!"

The leader of the horse thieves thought of the gold mine in Shangbi Village and became jealous.

Forty or fifty horse thieves may not be able to kill a hundred soldiers, let alone the soldiers of a small lord.

"Brothers, kill the enemy and everyone will be rewarded!"

The leader of the horse thieves led forty-six horse thieves to attack the Xia Town team outside the village!

"kill!"

The horse thieves waved their sabers, and their fighting spirit was high after learning that there was a reward.

In their eyes, the soldiers of these small lords were vulnerable.

However, reality made them understand the huge gap between professional soldiers and ordinary country warriors.

Forty infantrymen formed a spear formation with spears and shields. Behind them were thirty infantrymen with bows and arrows, and fifteen cavalry on each side.

"Fire the arrow!"

Dozens of arrows flew out, and more than a dozen horse thieves were hit by arrows one after another!

Hua Mulan directly sniped the leader of the horse thieves.

The leader of the horse thieves relied on his intuition and turned his body to the right. He only felt a pain in his shoulder. The impact of the bow and arrow almost knocked him off his horse!

The newly recruited gold-level general Liu Sandao was also a master of archery. He shot a horse thief in the throat with an arrow. The ordinary horse thief was obviously not as good as their leader. He died after being hit in the vital part.

Horse thieves can also be considered a type of cavalry. They are extremely fast when they burst out. They can rush in front of the Xia Town team in two rounds of arrows.

What faced the horse thieves were two rows of hedgehog-like spears. The spears stabbed the horse thieves on the war horses to death!

The first row of infantry faced the impact of war horses, and several infantrymen were hacked to death by horse thieves. Fortunately, the second row of infantry withstood the charge in time.

Hua Mulan, Liu Sandao and the infantrymen in the back row switched to melee weapons and killed a dozen horse thieves.

The leader of the horse thieves was picked off by Hua Mulan with a spear. Only when he was dying did he realize that he was not an ordinary lord.

The horse thief behind saw that the situation was not good, and fled to one side with his horse.

"Leave them behind!"

Chu Tian was jealous of the war horse ridden by the horse thief and asked the light cavalry to chase the horse thief.

Without the light cavalry, Chu Tian could only watch the horse thieves flee, but with the light cavalry, he could pursue and kill the fleeing enemies and expand the results of the battle.

The small-scale battle in Shangbi Village came to an end quickly. The level of the horse thieves was not low. Xia Zhen used more strikes to kill 9 infantrymen and 16 horse thieves. During the pursuit, Xia Zhen cavalry killed 5 more horse thieves. The other horse thieves were killed.

And escape.

"The power of a cavalry charge is indeed powerful."

Chu Tian felt sorry for the infantrymen who died in battle, but people would always die in battles, and one general's achievements would result in tens of thousands of bones being withered. The loot was worth 14 taels of gold, as well as an intermediate skill book, and most importantly, 12 war horses were captured.

"Take me to your mine."

After Chutian expelled the horse thieves, he was led by the miners to the mine in Shangbi Village.

"Ding! Congratulations to the player, you have discovered a third-level gold resource. The reserves are unknown and the mining difficulty is unknown."

Chutian came to the mine and soon received a reminder.

It turned out to be a level three gold mine!

The first-level iron ore is enough to support the year-round iron ore demand of the first-level town, and the output of the third-level gold mine is estimated to be high.
Chapter completed!