Chapter-29

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Gaia, 1st Year, 2nd Month, 1st Day.

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# **Chapter 29: "Beast Siege, Part Two"**

At dawn, three horsemen rode away from the Barracks within Shanhai Village and directly to the outpost towers outside of the village. The construction division had built three outposts in the outlying areas, each of them two kilometers away. Lack of manpower being the limiting factor, only a single soldier was assigned to each station, their jobs were all the same, watching the movement of the beast packs, and raising smoke signals to warn the village when they were sighted.

At the same time, the first, third, and fifth squads of the Crossbow Cavalry, under the command of Lin Yi, rode away from the western gates of Shanhai Village, heading toward the mining field area at the southern edge of the territory, three hundred meters from the western end of the woods. Due to the surrounding terrain, the beasts could not approach from the south, as the foot of the mountain was there. Likewise, the east, where a wide river and the canyon were. Therefore, the main appearance of the beasts would be from the **western side of the woods** and coming **down from the north**, along the Friendship River. Ouyang Shuo was commanding the second squad of Crossbow Cavalry at the **Northern Gate**, while General Shi was commanding the fourth squad of Crossbow Cavalry at the **Western Gate**. As for the eastern gate, Ouyang Shuo had entrusted it to Lin Yi's older brother, Lin Yue who was leading more than **twenty martial arts students** from his dojo.

Acting in accord with Gu Xiuwen's proposal for the defense strategy, Ouyang Shuo formed two huge militia reserve teams. All of the members of the reserve teams had been trained by the soldiers to be able to skilfully throw javelins. **Militia Reserve Team A**, a total of 120 people, was captained by Zhao Dexian, the Secretary of the Land Reclamation Division, with Quarry Manager Zheng Shanpao as a temporary lieutenant, they were stationed at the Western Gate. **Militia Reserve Team B,** a total of 100 people, had the Deputy Secretary of the Construction Division, Zhao Dewang, as a captain, with Mining Field Manager Yuan Shaoping as his Lieutenant. They were stationed at the **Northern Gate**. The rest of the people, in addition to the elderly, women, and children, were all in the **wartime logistics department**. This numbered close to **two hundred people**, and Cui Yingyu, the Secretary of the Material Reserves Division, was the **Interim Director**.

The **Logistics Department** was divided into four groups. The first was the **Medical Rescue group**, led by Dr. Song, with his twenty apprentices and twenty women to assist, responsible for the treatment of the wounded. The second was the **Material Handling Group**, sixty people, headed by Lumber Field Manager Zhao Youfang, responsible for the movement, resupply, and retrieving of arrows and javelins. The third was the **Material Collection Group**, headed by Advanced Tailor Mu Qingsi, responsible for the collection of beast corpses and fur. The fourth and last group was the **Cooking Group**, twenty people led by Senior Cook Gu Sanniang, responsible for everyone's food and drinking water supply.

At 8 AM, a Global announcement sounded out, and rippled thrice:

> "World Announcement: The Mandatory Global Territory Defence Quest - Siege of Beasts, has officially opened! Regional, National, and Global rankings are also opening at the same time! Best wishes to the lords for their victory!"
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In less than a minute following the triple announcement, smoke was rising from the distant top of a sentry tower, the Beast Siege was starting. At the edge of the territory where Ouyang Shuo couldn't see, thousands of wild dogs under a Wild Dog King were rushing out of the woods, heading down toward Shanhai Village to kill everyone. Running through the traps, falling down pits with spiked stakes within them, and bashing into walls, by the time the Wild Dogs even saw the walls of the village, they had been reduced to half of their original number. As they reached the wall, three hundred of the Wild Dogs under the leadership of the Elite Wild Dogs split off for the group and started moving toward the **Northern Gate** side of the village while the main group, led by the Wild Dog King, charged at the **Western Gate**.
As the Wild Dogs got closer, both the Crossbow Cavalry and the **Militia Reserves Team** fired their Crossbows, Bows, and Javelins at the Wild Dogs, decimating their numbers. With so few left, the Second team of the Cavalry, led by San Gouzi, bust out of the **Northern Gate** and went after the dogs in a burst of slaughter. In less than ten minutes, the entire northern pack of wild dogs were annihilated. This signaled the end of the first wave, and with it, the ring of the regional system announcements:

> "Regional Announcement: Liuzhou area Xiaogang Village failed to resist the beast attack, its name is expunged!"
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> "Regional Announcement: Lianzhou area Rich Village failed to resist the beast attack, its name is expunged!"
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> "Regional Announcement: Guilin area Green Water Village failed to resist the beast attack, its name is expunged!"
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Even though this was only the first wave of the attacking packs, many villages did not manage to resist and were destroyed by the packs, their territories removed. After these players resurrected, they could only choose to reincarnate in personal adventure mode to continue their game career, the option of being a lord completely removed from them.

Ouyang Shuo told the logistics department to rush outside the walls and collect as much as they could and rushed alone over to the **Western side** to see the situation over there. By the time he'd reached the Western gate, the fighting was almost over. Although nearly 700 dogs attacked, they were quickly eliminated, mainly by the cavalry waiting in ambush by the mining field, led by Lin Yi. The Wild Dog King was personally beheaded by General Shi, dropping a booklet. Ouyang Shuo took it from him to look over, he found that it was a Silkworm Breeding Technology Manual, though it would prove to be difficult to use right now as he had neither mulberry leaves nor silkworms. After inspecting the **Western Gate**, Ouyang Shuo rode over to the **Eastern Gate**, finding that only thirty Wild Dogs had attacked there and were killed easily. He soon rode back to the **Northern Gate**, expecting the second wave of the attack to begin imminently.

## CHARACTERS

* Ouyang Shuo
* Lin Yi (Lieutenant, Shanhai Village Militia)
* General Shi (Lieutenant, Shanhai Village Militia)
* Lin Yue (Martial Artist, Dojo Instructor)
* Gu Xiuwen (Secretary, Household Registration Office)
* Zhao Dexian (Secretary, Land Reclamation Division & Militia Reserve Team A Temporary Captain)
* Zheng Shanpao (Quarry Manager & Militia Reserve Team A Temporary Lieutenant)
* Zhao Dewang (Deputy Secretary, Construction Division & Militia Reserve Team B Temporary Captain)
* Yuan Shaoping (Mining Field Manager & Militia Reserve Team B Temporary Lieutenant)
* Cui Yingyu (Secretary, Materials Reserves Division & Temporary Interim Director of the Logistics Department)
* Dr. Song (Head Doctor, Shanhai Village)
* Zhao Youfang (Manager, Lumber Field Manager & Temporary Manager of the Material Handling Group)
* Mu Qingsi (Adopted Sister of Ouyang Shuo, Advanced Tailor, and Temporary Manager of the Material Collection Group)
* Gu Sanniang (Senior Cook & Temporary Manager of the Cooking Group)
* San Gouzi (Sergeant, Second Squad, Cavalry Crossbowmen.)

## ENEMIES

* Over two-thousand Wild Dogs, including:
	+ 1 Wild Dog King (Level 8)
	+ Hundreds of Elite Wild Dogs (Level 5)
	+ At least a thousand Ordinary Wild Dogs (Level 3)