Steel Chang'an

Chapter 121

Chapter 121

Three hours ago, Yongjiang.

No matter day or night, there is not a single boat on the big river that carries music and music boats to and fro.

The jasper-like river water seems not to be aware of this chilling atmosphere, and it is still calmly rippling with the bright spring scenery as in the past.

Reflected on the surface of the river are the reflections of row after row of steel warriors shining coldly.

Sanqian Yulin and Sanqian Tengjia stand on both sides of the river, just like Tianshou City and Yongjiang City facing each other across the river.

At the narrowest part of the river, the mecha on the opposite side can be clearly seen with the naked eye.

The wisps of river fog floating on the water waves gradually thinned and dissipated under the sunlight.

The battle of Donglin is about to break out.

Twelve hours had passed since Teng Wengong led the crowd into the Yin Ruins at this moment.

The Skeleton Knights advancing on the seabed are only four kilometers away from the coastline of the East China Sea.

Whether it is Yongjiang City or Tianshou City, they have entered a full-scale martial law.

The river bank is full of flowers, and the spring is just right. Normally, there are many tourists, but at this moment, there is not even a dog passing by.

The bright sunlight shone on the empty embankment, and even the sound of falling flowers hitting the stone slabs could be clearly heard.

There is also the sound of falling.

At some point, a white gazebo was erected under the most blooming poinciana tree.

In the gazebo, a burner of incense was lit, a jug of wine was placed, and a game of chess was placed. Three people were sitting there.

Two people play chess, one person watches chess.

It's just that people say they don't talk while watching chess, but they talk a lot when watching chess.

"In my opinion, there is no suspense about winning or losing this game of chess," Su Sheng sat cross-legged on the ground with a candied gourd in his mouth, and said old-fashionedly, "The winner of this game of chess is just a matter of watching Did Jiuge come out first, or did the Skull Knights land first? If my boss makes a move, no matter whether he is myna Jiuge or your elder brother, it must be to say goodbye to this world. You have the seal of the king hidden in your hand. An awesome hole card, when the time comes, throw it on the table, and the Skeleton Knights will play wherever they point, so why don’t you have to kneel down and call you grandpa?”

"Oh? In the eyes of His Royal Highness, this game of chess is as simple as that?" Xiao Teng Wang waved the folding fan in his hand, wearing a crane cloak of red feather gauze, with fallen flower petals in his wide sleeves, in a leisurely and graceful manner. It looks like a nobleman who came here to enjoy the flowers, "His Royal Highness is still a child after all, you are so innocent, your boss sold you, you will not count the money for him, will you?"

"A cute apprentice like me, my boss is not willing to sell me to anyone!" Su Sheng curled his lips and stretched his neck to look at the chessboard, only to find that apart from the two rows of black and white chess pieces symbolizing Habayashi Tengjia Besides, the chessboard is densely covered with hundreds of pieces, and he couldn't help but wonder, "Is this chess game really that complicated?"

"It's complicated, but it's actually simple," Xiao Teng Wang said, "because to win a war, there are only three things to do: destroy the enemy's army, capture the enemy's territory, and destroy the enemy's will.

"Of these three things, the destruction of the enemy's army always comes first.

"To put it more simply, if you want to subdue a person, you must beat him until he has no strength to fight back.

"So, if we regard this chessboard as the Donglin Continent, the troops we can mobilize as black pieces, and the troops the opponent can mobilize as white pieces, if the black pieces want to win, they must eat enough white pieces , to have an absolute advantage in numbers, and if Heizi wants to have an absolute advantage in numbers, then he must—”

"Every time I exchanged coins with the other party, I tried my best to take advantage of the other party. If I can exchange one more, it is one!" Su Sheng answered quickly.

"Uh, think about it again?" Xiao Teng Wang raised his forehead, Su Sheng's answer can't be said to be completely wrong, there have really been battles won by such careful calculation in this world, but when this kid said it, it sounded like nothing. What about philistines?
"Huh? Isn't that right? Could it be..." Su Sheng's eyes rolled wildly, and he saw Steward Ji picking up a chess piece and lightly tapping the largest number of white pieces on one side of the chessboard, apparently to give him a hint. "Master, I understand!" Su Sheng clapped his hands and said, "To gain an absolute advantage, you have to cut off the thickest thing on his second uncle's body!"

"Ahem, that's right," Xiao Teng Wang originally held a folding fan in his hand for the purpose of being romantic, not for fanning the wind, but after hearing every answer from His Royal Highness, he could do it so vulgarly, even Xiao Teng, who has always been casual King Teng was sweating when he heard that, he slapped his fan a few times, calmed down, and continued, "So in this battle, the most powerful armed forces of the enemy and us are—"

"Three thousand Yulin and three thousand Tengjia!" Su Sheng answered again.

"Wrong! Can you be quiet and listen to me?" Xiao Teng Wang wiped off his sweat, feeling a little sympathetic to Li Jing, it's not easy to take a bear!
But Su Sheng closed his eyes and raised a finger at him, "Shh, don't talk, I'm thinking about it, young master, and I'm about to come up with the answer. Hmmmm... That should be the case, Mr. I didn't expect it, I was careless..."

Little King Teng clenched the fan in his hand.

"The answer is this. You can't go wrong!" Just as Little Teng Wang was about to slap Su Sheng's head with a fan, Su Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, and said cracklingly like beans poured out of a bamboo tube:

"The key to understanding this game of chess is actually to consider Jiuge and the Skull Knights as the strength of both the enemy and us. If we want to prevent Jiuge from coming out and cut off the enemy's lifeblood, the enemy must also want to cut it off." Lose our lifeblood and destroy the Skull Knights, but the enemy should not be so stupid as to run directly to the East China Sea to kill the Skeleton Knights. Then they want us to have no lifeblood, there is only one way, and that is to capture Yongjiang City, directly from childhood Lord, grab the seal of the king from your hands. In this way, they have gained control of the Skull Knights, which is equivalent to cutting off our lifeblood, and growing another lifeblood on our body. Isn’t it flattering? Even if my boss has successfully prevented Jiu Ge from appearing in the world, he only lost a lifeline, and we have no life left. When the time comes, they will use the thick and thick skull knight order The big lifeblood repeatedly slapped us in the face, and we can only kneel down and lick and beg for mercy, right?"

"It's your sister! Can you use such a disgusting analogy?" King Xiao Teng couldn't calm down anymore. After the war, he sat here by the river, admiring the flowers, drinking wine, lighting incense and playing chess, looking at the big Jiangdong. Do, laughing at the hero through the ages, what a flirtatious picture, this brat ruined it all with one mouth, what kind of smacking his face and licking his knees made Xiao Teng Wang disgusted.

But Little King Teng was disgusting, and he had to admire the brat in front of him. With just a few hints from himself, this brat was able to push out the key to this battle—whether they could hold the city of Yongjiang.He really deserves to be Li Jing's apprentice, His Highness the eldest son of the Iron Alliance in the Northern Territory.

But Su Sheng blinked his big eyes, and asked with a puzzled face: "So, how complicated is this game? Since the enemy only needs to capture Yongjiang City, get the seal of the king, and win the title of the Skull Knights." We will lose the right to take off our underpants, then next, your eldest brother's long-legged female military division will definitely concentrate all troops to attack Yongjiang City, all we can do is to use all our troops to defend Yongjiang City, that's it A simple game of chess, is it possible that we can play some tricks - for example, let's give up defending the city, concentrate our forces to attack the castle tower, and arrest that beautiful female military adviser and spank her ass?"

King Xiao Teng shook his head, "Whether it is to capture the Tianshou City or capture the opponent's military division, it will not cause a fatal blow to the enemy, but if Yongjiang City falls, we will lose everything, so this game is really good. There is no flower board to play with. What the opponent has to do is to win Yongjiang City at all costs. The only option we can do is to defend Yongjiang City. That's why I just said that this game of chess is simple, but it is actually very simple. Simple."

"It's not easy, how to defend Yongjiang City." King Teng closed his folding fan and knocked on the chessboard. "From the surface, the enemy has three thousand Habayashi. In addition, among the seven families of Donglin, the Xiao family, Qi family, and Fei family The Patriarchs and Elders will support my eldest brother, each sending 600 knights, plus the [-] guard knights my elder brother left behind in Yinshan Mountain, the total number of [-]-ton battle armor that the enemy can mobilize is [-]; In addition to the three thousand Tengjia, the young master of the Li family formed an alliance with me during the spring hunting, and your boss also persuaded the Jing family and Xia family to stand by our side. There are more than [-] [-]-ton battle armors, which is not much different from the number of the enemy. As for the number of [-]-ton special battle armors, automatic mechanical troops, and sharp special forces that can be dispatched by both sides, I believe there is no difference. The disparity will be too great, and in terms of strength on paper, the two sides can be described as evenly matched."

"But in reality, the enemy and us together have nearly [-] battle armors. Of course, it is impossible to line up along the Yongjiang River. The two sides line up and bombard each other. It is as simple as hitting one side with no ammunition and food." Little Teng Wang said, "A war is composed of large and small battles. Don't look at the calm situation in Yongjiang at this moment. The three thousand Yulin and the three thousand tengjia are restraining each other, and they stand still. In fact, the battle of Donglin started as early as the moment when the Yin Ruins started. It has already started. Twenty hours ago, the [-] battle armors of the Li family, the Jing family, and the Xia family had already set off from their respective territories, divided into six groups, and rushed to Yongjiang City. Thousands of eight hundred battle armors have also been dispatched separately to intercept each other with our reinforcements, forming six battlefields around Yongjiang City.

"But the six families of Donglin didn't work for our Teng family brothers for nothing. They were willing to send troops in this battle of Donglin. , the opportunity to defend the emptiness, and bite off a piece of flesh from each other. Therefore, in addition to the six battlefields surrounding Yongjiang City, there are also nineteen offensive and defensive battles of different scales going on at the same time between the territories of the six major families. , in addition, the small lords of Donglin participated in the war as vassals of the six major families, and the small-scale battles between each other formed 27 battlefields... There are a total of 52 battles.

"These more than 50 large and small battles have influenced each other. Even the smallest battle may affect the final outcome of this war. For example, the Lan family and the Hu family are currently fighting in Qiushan on the western front. On the surface, neither of the two families is a vassal of the six major families of Donglin. The result of this battle seems to have nothing to do with the overall situation, but in fact, the Lan family and the Xiao family have secret business contacts. If the Lan family wins Qiushan, the Xiao family will deploy in Qiushan. The sixty battle armors in the vicinity can pass through Qiushan, surprise the main city of the Li family, and form strong support for the troops of the Xiao family who are attacking the main city of the Li family. In order to prevent the main city from being breached, the Fenglin road closest to the main city The garrison of the Li family in the area would have to mobilize their troops back to the defense, and once the Li family mobilized their troops back to the defense, it would be tantamount to giving up their control over Fenglin Road, allowing the troops of the Qi family who had planned to take a detour to pass through Fenglin Road. Join up with the [-] Xiao family knights who were intercepted by the Jing family in the south of Yongjiang City, and join forces to eat up the already dominant Jing family tiger cavalry, approaching Yongjiang City..."

"Wait, master, I'm a little dizzy..." Su Sheng looked at the densely packed chessboard, and there were black and white pieces fighting each other everywhere, just like the land of Donglin at this moment, just a game on the western front Small battles can induce so many variables, and the changes contained in this whole game seem to be endless.Although Su Sheng was extremely clever, he was still young after all. He followed Xiao Teng Wang's words to deduce the chess game, and within five moves, he was already dizzy and nauseated.Su Sheng shook his head, and wanted to be brave enough to continue the deduction, but saw Butler Ji smiled at him and shook his head, "Your Highness, you don't have to force yourself, this game of chess cannot be deduced by the calculation power of the human brain."

"That's right," King Teng slapped open his fan, "This game of chess involves the territory distribution of the entire Donglin nobles, defensive deployment, types of troops, weapons inventory, the behavior styles of the lords, and the use of troops by each general." Habits, the timing of launching each battle, the casualties of each exchange of fire, the mutual support and containment between the battlefields, the coordination and coordination between different families and different arms... plus the differences between the big and small families of Donglin. Each chess move contains tens of thousands of calculation variables, which can only be calculated by the super brain of the Zhizu, so don't be overwhelmed, you kid."

"Ah!" Only then did Su Sheng come to his senses. It turned out that Butler Ji seemed to be sitting here playing chess, but the real chess game was in his mind—at this moment, Butler Ji was using his super brain to At the same time, countless processes are activated to coordinate our coalition forces composed of the three families of Li, Beijing, and Xia and their vassal families to fight.

"It's a pity that Ji Yan's algorithm is still not as powerful as hers." As the butler Ji said, he picked up a white piece with his slender fingers, landed it on a corner of the chessboard, and took out several black pieces surrounded by white pieces on that corner. Putting it aside, "So far, every step Ji Yan has taken is within her calculations."

The "she" mentioned by Steward Ji is naturally the female military adviser of the Zhi nationality who is now taking the place of Teng Wengong to sit in the castle tower and command the enemy's army.

Although the white pieces held by Ji Steward had already eaten several pieces of black pieces on the chessboard, the space for the black pieces to move became larger, and the attack became more ferocious. They formed a momentum of encircling and suppressing the white pieces from the left, middle, and right at the same time. After losing a large number of white pieces, the black pieces actually have a faint advantage over the white pieces!
"It seems like I'm going to lose this game of chess!" Su Sheng couldn't help exclaiming anxiously as he counted the number of white stones eaten by black pieces.

"What are you panicking about?" Xiao Teng Wang waved his fan and said disapprovingly, "Even if I can't count on that woman, isn't there still a genius like me?"

"You?" Su Sheng glanced at King Teng, "It's not my master, I want to despise you, but isn't your pretense a little too much? Even Butler Ji can't count on that woman, no matter how talented you are , can it still be regarded as the electronic brain of the intelligent race?"

But King Xiao Teng shook his head, "It depends, we are no match for that woman.

"As early as at the banquet in the Tianshou Pavilion, Ji Yan had a short electronic battle with my eldest brother, a female military strategist of the Zhi tribe. Computing ability and computing speed, he absolutely can't beat the opponent.

"What's more, since this female military strategist was able to fight against the six masters of the East Forest by herself, and helped my elder brother to be the Lord of the East Forest, it can be seen that she is extremely good at tactics and strategies, and it is even possible that her The think tank category stored in the electronic brain is the war itself. The think tank category stored in Ji Yan’s electronic brain is a weapon, and tactics and strategies are not what he is best at. In terms of think tank categories, Ji Yan has nothing to do with her. The odds are good.

"Thus, long before the start of the Donglin battle, Ji Yan had already calculated that he would definitely lose this battle.

"So, Ji Yan and I worked out the tactics of this battle - that is, he is responsible for losing to that woman, and I, a genius, is responsible for winning this battle."

"Wait, master, I'm a little dizzy again..." Su Sheng found that his little head couldn't turn around, "Since it doesn't matter whether it's you or the housekeeper, a human brain and an electronic brain can't count against each other. Then how can I win? Why can't I figure it out, my lord?"

"If ordinary people can figure it out, how can it reflect my genius?" Xiao Teng Wang shook his fan.

"So what is this genius' answer?" Su Sheng asked.

Only King Teng slowly spit out two words: "Cheating."

"Cheating..." Su Sheng felt that his whole body was not good, and the answer was really beyond the reach of ordinary people.If you can't count on the other party, you want to cheat. Can ordinary people think like this?What most people think about is how to win in an upright manner, okay?
"You heard me right," Little King Teng said with a serious face, "We are playing chess upright, we are not opponents, so if we want to win, we can only play tricks on the chess pieces themselves—"

"So you secretly hid a handful of chess pieces in advance? This is too uncreative!" Su Sheng subconsciously looked under the chessboard.

"Of course not! How could such a low-level cheating be successful?" Xiao Teng Wang dissatisfied, "How many chess pieces should there be on the chessboard, just like how many nobles and soldiers there are in Donglin? It is impossible to hide a chess piece from the opponent. My way of cheating is not to secretly hide a ready-made chess piece under the chessboard, but to secretly put a brand new chess piece on the chessboard!"

"Sneakily put a brand new chess piece..." Su Sheng muttered these words, his eyes widened involuntarily, "Do you mean that, outside of Donglin's existing aristocratic influence, Create a new force that the other party didn't expect?"

"That's right!" Xiao Teng Wang snapped his fan shut and said, tapping on the chessboard, "No matter how fast and accurate the opponent's calculations are, they can only calculate the existing pieces on the chessboard. In other words, my elder brother's The female military division is included in the calculation, which is the entire force of all the noble forces in Donglin. However, there is one force, because it is too weak, it is not a noble, and there is no possibility of cooperating with nobles, so in the East In this game of chess played by Lin Zhan, he is not qualified to be placed on the chessboard at all, so he is not included in the calculation of the female military adviser.

"However, if this force, which was so weak that it was not even qualified to be counted, suddenly becomes stronger in a very short period of time, the consequences it will cause are like a new piece of chess suddenly popping up. Chess piece. A new variable suddenly appeared in a calculation formula, which means that the female military strategist who did not include it in the calculation, no matter how powerful her algorithm is, no matter how fast and accurate the calculation is, the calculated result is also wrong!
"So in this battle, Ji Yan is responsible for losing to this female military strategist, just to make her not realize that her calculation result is wrong; and I am responsible for winning this battle, just to make her lose with that In a way that the forces themselves can't even detect, let it become stronger, and make it willing to defend Yongjiang City for us, and become the winner of this game of chess!"

Su Sheng looked at the chessboard and scratched his head, "It's amazing, the cheating method of this genius is really extraordinary, but I have one more question - in this chess game, the part of the game that the butler is responsible for losing has been completed. It's almost there, but where is the piece of chess you are responsible for winning, why haven't I looked at it, young master?"

Xiao Teng Wang shook his fan, smiled and said nothing.

Butler Ji raised his head: "My lord has a clever plan, this piece of chess has already arrived at the gate of Yongjiang City."

(End of this chapter)

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