Li Fan had already prepared his land-clearing lineup.
Ma Chao and the Empress Dowager.
The main reason was that this wasn’t like a Conquest Season, where the Vanguard Camp and 8c were unlocked right away.
With only two generals and 5.5c to work with, this was one of the reasons why early-game land clearing was so difficult.
Because you had to take your transition into account. Otherwise, if you threw the team away after clearing land, you would lose not only levels but also tactic experience.
And resetting really wasn’t something you could do whenever you wanted. There was a time limit.
After that, he proceeded step by step according to the missions.
Mainly, since he had good land-clearing generals, Li Fan didn’t need to scrape and save resources like free-to-play players.
And the resources arranged by the system were enough for him to upgrade to a level-three main base.
As for leveling up, with enough tactics, it was indeed fairly simple. He sent them straight out to sweep level-three tiles.
The main thing was that Ma Chao’s main tactic was far too powerful. At max level, Blood Splashes the Yellow Sand provided a 120% damage bonus, allowing him to unleash unimaginable burst damage with basic attacks alone.
Under these circumstances, it was perfectly normal for him to become the absolute god of early-game land clearing at this stage.
Not to mention that Li Fan had tactic bonuses. With bonuses from tactics like Battle Must and Vanguard, he very easily took down that level-three tile.
The team’s level also shot straight up to level six.
Opening with a level-three tile right after landing?
That made Yonggan Guanren beside him stare until his eyes nearly popped out.
Where had this big shot come from? He had originally seen that there didn’t seem to be any whales nearby, so he had planned to save up for base upgrades, unlock the barracks, and then go sweep level-five tiles.
Before that, he would keep a low profile, only hit level-three and level-four tiles, and slowly grind levels.
But if a big brother had appeared, then he could change his strategy a little.
He opened Xia丶Li Xunhuan’s profile and sent over a private message.
[Big shot, opening with level-three tiles right after landing? What land-clearing team are you using?]
After all, in S1, the usual process for everyone was: 1,200 troops to open level threes, 3,000 to open level fours, and 5,000 to open level fives.
These were all things that would be written directly in the alliance announcement.
Although there would be plenty of compensation after crashing in S1, you would still lose conscription time and resources. Under such circumstances, it simply wasn’t worth it.
To put it simply, land clearing had always prioritized stability.
Being a little slower didn’t matter. As long as you didn’t crash, you were winning.
But there were many people who, upon seeing someone else open a level-five tile, would inexplicably become anxious. Once they got anxious, they couldn’t control their hands. They wouldn’t consider whether their strength was enough and would ram themselves straight to death.
Then… they could only go online and find a power-leveling service.
Without hiring a power leveler, they would never turn things around in this lifetime.
This was commonly known as “repairing the car.”
While Li Fan was still fully focused on clearing land, he saw a small red dot appear on the interface.
Generally speaking, these were scammers who said they wanted to buy your account. They would ask what generals you had, then say they wanted to buy it, but in reality, they were scamming money, testing to see if anyone was greedy for a small advantage.
After all, many people had only recharged sixty-six yuan, and the other side would offer you two hundred.
Thinking about it, it seemed like a good deal. And since the other side was the one spending money, surely you wouldn’t get scammed.
All one could say was that scammers were still clever. They had people’s minds figured out completely.
But as long as you always remembered that pies didn’t fall from the sky, scammers wouldn’t be able to scam you.
Li Fan opened the interface and saw the question about his land-clearing team. Feeling that it was a scammer, he prepared to block him outright.
But when he saw the next message…
He stopped his hand from blocking him.
People like this generally couldn’t open level-five tiles in a short time, and on top of that, they had rather thick skin.
In reality, there was no harm in asking. What if the big shot saw it, took pity on little noobs like them, and really helped open a level-five tile? Wouldn’t that be a huge gain?
After all, the defending troops now weren’t something you could just keep whittling down. You had to force a draw, then rely on your second team to finish them off.
Li Fan casually replied with something…
Then he stopped paying attention to this Guanren.
After all, if he wanted to help someone else open a level-five tile, he would have to wait until he had finished opening his own first.
Level-five tiles weren’t anything difficult either.
There was one other point: when a little ghost like this hadn’t exposed any problem yet, there was no need to take the initiative to offend him.
What if, later on, his branch city was secretly demolished? That would be disgusting enough.
Even though in S1 there was an unwritten rule that a branch city that hadn’t sent troops out could not be demolished.
There were always some blockheads who liked doing it.
As for why this rule existed?
Mainly because S1 was for training. There were no true mortal enemies.
Later, when servers merged, those in the same war zone would end up in the same alliance.
In other words, no matter which province you were from in the entire server, everyone would eventually mix together.
Just like that, he played for more than an hour.
Li Fan had already completed all the missions, and his main city had successfully reached level four.
Because his tactics and generals were both fairly powerful, he had now reached level 11 as well, and he had opened four level-four tiles.
Then the third general, Sun Yu, had also reached level nine.
Sun Yu was not some high-grade general. He was a two-star general drawn with copper coins.
But he had one advantage: his cost was low. At only 1c, he was an extremely easy general to fit into a lineup.
When command cost was relatively low, unlocking the vanguard and adding one more general meant several hundred extra troops, and it could make the carry take fewer hits.
This was the capital needed to open level-five tiles.
Li Fan was also preparing to start brute-forcing level fives.
After scouting the path and confirming that the difficulty wasn’t high, he sent the troops straight out.
Then he glanced at the alliance channel. At this moment, everyone was already chatting heatedly.
Mainly because during this period… the vast majority really were new players, and there weren’t many server-rolling veterans.
Everyone was hot-blooded, and also chuunibyou.
They cared a lot about brotherhood. If a brother was bullied, they didn’t care whether the other side was a whale or not; they all wanted to win back face.
So whenever anyone drew any card, they would excitedly chat about it in the alliance channel.
The alliance Li Fan had joined was also Yangzhou’s second alliance, Gu Long Qunxia Zhuan.
It was precisely because the alliance had this name that Li Fan did not join the first alliance, Zui Jiu Dang Ge.
For some reason, alliance leaders at this stage might all be drunkards. Open the alliance rankings, and nine out of ten had “wine” in their names. Perhaps this was the trend.
Evil Peach: Is Cao Cao useful for anything? I just drew Cao Cao.
Wulan Vanguard: Cao Cao isn’t useful. There aren’t even any dedicated teams for him. Dismantle him.
Donut: Secret Stratagem of Long-Range Attack looks powerful at a glance. It increases attack range. Divine tactic! Dismantle him.
Bank Vanguard: Don’t listen to them. Cao Cao is very strong whether in Great Wei Cavalry or a blade team. Bro, what other generals do you have?
Evil Peach: But I already dismantled him. Though I drew a Liu Bei too.
Wulan Vanguard: ?
I Really Am the Luck Emperor: ?
Bank Vanguard: You fool!
Evil Peach: But I feel like Raid isn’t useful.
Bank Vanguard: ??? nmlgb!
Looking at the chat in the alliance, Li Fan couldn’t help but laugh.
Sure enough, there were all kinds of talented people in The Shore of the Land, and they spoke so nicely too.
And at that moment, the sound effect of clashing with the defending troops rang out.
It was a draw!
They hadn’t returned… He felt slightly more confident.
He hurriedly opened the battle report.
He could see that he still had 2,500 troops left, while the defenders had 4,000 left.
Nice!
It was stable now!
At this moment, Abu felt like he had gone insane. He had actually sat in Li Fan’s livestream room and watched for two whole hours!
For some reason, he just felt that it was inexplicably captivating…