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Ling Feng had already determined that the Fire Bamboo City would be his next target of expansion!

Not only was Fire Bamboo City's construction scale rather large, it also had to possess an extremely rich amount of resources. It could be said to be a rare treasure ground, and its potential for development was also enormous! And the final product was the firecracker, a high-grade material that could be used to make bows and arrows! With Fire Bamboo City, it was equivalent to having a powerful team of archers!

No matter in that world, there was no lack of money in order to build a power! With Ling Feng's current strength, money was meaningless to him. However, his influence needed money, and even more so, a lot of money!

It took money to build an army, money to pay military salaries, money to equip the army, money to reward and money to even the casualties … In addition to developing military strength, intelligence organizations, assassination organizations, territory construction, and so on all required a large amount of money!

Take Ling Feng's Blood Wolf Army for example. Right now, the Blood Wolf Army only has over 90,000 people, and not even 100,000! However, for a set of high-quality equipment, the cost would be several tens or even hundreds of gold coins.

However, if more than 90,000 people wanted to equip their equipment at the same time, this number would reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of gold coins! This number was not something that a normal power could afford. Even Jin Yuyan's Treasure House would find it hard to raise this amount of money in a short period of time!

Therefore, the majority of Ling Feng's current 90,000 Blood Wolf Army equipment was still the same as before. Their weapons and armors were not the same! It would take at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins to get this army to use a uniform set of equipment, and this was only the lowest of them all!

And Ling Feng's ideal team wasn't only limited to these 90,000 people. They needed even more, even more powerful teams! Archers were an indispensable part of the military force. However, the cost of building a good bow was even more terrifying. The cost of a good bow alone was more than ten gold coins, and this was not a constant consumption of arrows!

Thus, on the battlefield, every round of arrow attacks required a massive amount of gold coins. This was basically using money to fight!

Although Ling Feng still had some money, it was not enough to spend. Even the standard equipment of the Blood Wolf Army was very difficult to do! This was also the reason why Ling Feng chose Fire Bamboo City. Not only could he obtain the wealth of Fire Bamboo City, he could also obtain the Fire Bamboo which could produce high grade bows and arrows!

Not only did this solve the problem of Ling Feng's lack of funds, it could also allow Ling Feng to form a new army, an army of archers, killing two birds with one stone!

Although it could not compare to the Qingfeng Stronghold, it was still a large alliance formed by many forces. Even if Ling Feng had more than 90,000 Blood Wolves under his command, he still had to pay a heavy price to obtain the Fire Bamboo City!

Not to mention that Fire Bamboo City was full of arrows. There were many archers in the city. If they tried to attack, they would be at a disadvantage. If the arrows flew across the sky and covered the earth, it would be hard to say whether they would make it through!

To Ling Feng, who had just started, the price he had to pay was absolutely unbearable! Therefore, a forceful attack was not advisable. One could only use wits! However, it would not be easy to take down Fire Bamboo City with just his intelligence!

As Ling Feng was frowning, he suddenly remembered that he still had a strategist under his command, Lu Tianji!

Thus, Ling Feng hurriedly found Lu Tianji and told him his plan. At the same time, he also told him about the situation in Fire Bamboo City! Let's see if this brain-dead Lu Tianji can come up with a good idea!

"Young master, you don't want to lose too much of your strength. Taking down Fire Bamboo City is indeed an extremely difficult task!" Fire Bamboo City is much weaker than the Qingfeng Stronghold, but this time, they are going to attack.

"As everyone knows, if you want to take down a city, you have to at least double the number of people on the other side! However, our current Blood Wolf Army only has around 90,000 troops and Fire Bamboo City's garrison army has over 40,000 soldiers. In addition, the total number of subordinates of the major powers in Fire Bamboo City is over 100,000.

Ling Feng frowned and asked: "Is there nothing we can do about it?"

"Actually, it's not like there's no other way!" On the other hand, Lu Tianji said, "Fire Bamboo City is considered a treasure trove in the Bedlam Lands. Anyone who can occupy a spot in the city would have a certain level of strength and trump card!" The reason why they formed an alliance is because no force will be able to take over Fire Bamboo City on their own! "

"Therefore, there must be conflicts and conflicts within Fire Bamboo City. As long as we can provoke the hatred between them, Fire Bamboo City will destroy itself. When the Blood Wolf Army comes out, Fire Bamboo City will definitely fall into young master's hands!"

"The opposite!" Ling Feng thought to himself!

This was indeed a good idea. The more powerful something was, the more it would be destroyed from the inside! As long as there was a conflict within Fire Bamboo City, Ling Feng would not even need to act. Fire Bamboo City would be on its own!

"Then, what method do you have to provoke the internal forces of Fire Bamboo City?" Ling Feng continued asking!

Lu Tianji said, "Actually, this is very simple. The alliance in Fire Bamboo City is working together because of benefits. If you want them to become enemies, you only need benefits to do so!" As long as the internal balance of interests in Fire Bamboo City is broken, conflicts would definitely arise between them. When that time comes, young master only needs to reap the benefits of being a fisherman! "

Lu Tianji was originally the second in command of Sky Dragon Stronghold, and was also the brain of Sky Dragon Stronghold! However, after he was subdued by Ling Feng, he had pledged his allegiance to Ling Feng. However, he had never been able to show off his abilities, and Ling Feng's plan to take down Fire Bamboo City had allowed this brain of his to finally have a perfect opportunity to show off his talents!

"Your plan isn't bad. Since it's like this, I'll leave this matter to you!" After discovering Lu Tianji's talent, Ling Feng directly handed this mission to Lu Tianji!

Allowing each of his subordinates to display their skills was also Ling Feng's way of handling people, and Ling Feng was also willing to be a hands-off manager! After all, Ling Feng still needed to continuously increase his own strength. If the power he created needed to be done personally, then he would definitely die from exhaustion!

By using a counterattack, many of the factions within Fire Bamboo City had turned their backs on each other. The next step was to agitate the conflicts between these factions and break down the alliance within Fire Bamboo City! What Ling Feng needed to do was to lead more than 90,000 Blood Wolves straight into Fire Bamboo City at its most chaotic time!

This process was very simple, but actually doing it was very troublesome. Furthermore, it was also very important to seize the opportunity! A place like Fire Bamboo City would definitely attract the attention of many other forces!

At this time, if an internal conflict were to break out in Fire Bamboo City, the other forces would definitely take action against Fire Bamboo City! Therefore, Ling Feng had to grasp the timing well. If he was too early, this plan would fail, and if it was too late, the other forces would definitely have snatched it! Therefore, Ling Feng had to find a suitable time to take action!

Everything had really been prepared. Now, all he had to do was wait for Lu Tianji's counterattack to take effect. Next, he would wait for the right moment to take action! As long as they could take down Fire Bamboo City in one fell swoop, not only would they have the Blood Wolf Army's equipment, they would also be able to form a formidable archer troop!