The Legend of Jin Yong's Legend of the Online Game

Chapter 979

Chapter 96: Rattan Armored Army

When Zhuge Liang captured Menghuo for the seventh time in the Three Kingdoms, the rattan armored soldiers defeated the Shu army and were burned to death by Zhuge Liang with fire. However, Fang Jie’s inspiration for creating this army did not come from this, but from a A South Front battle report of Yaowanggu, the battle report mentioned that when Yaowanggu, which belongs to the camp of Nanman Kingdom, cooperated with the NPC forces of Nanman Kingdom to attack Nanning and Guilin, the rattan armor units of Nanman Kingdom played an absolute role in the siege battle. effect.

Rattan armor is afraid of fire attack. This is a well-known weakness, but its advantages are also quite obvious. Not only is it light and tough, but its cost is relatively low. Unsinkable, its various advantages can be said to be invincible on the battlefield. If the rattan armor with strong physical defense is equipped on players who are already martial arts masters, it will be invincible!
Undoubtedly, if Wangqing Pavilion equips a rattan armor army to attack Dongyi Kingdom, it will definitely reduce the death rate to the greatest extent and increase the killing rate. A martial arts master equipped with rattan armor can not only almost ignore the arrow rain and display his body skills quickly Bullying the array of archers to deal a devastating blow to it, it can also effectively protect itself and kill more enemies in close combat with outnumbered enemies. Interference is also very limited.

The formally configured rattan armor includes a helmet, breastplate, apron, shoulder pads, arm guards, knee pads, and shield, a total of seven pieces. However, Fang Jie canceled the shield when designing this unit. The main reason is that the rattan armor shield It may be extremely important for ordinary soldiers, but for martial arts masters with a certain parry ability, after the vital parts and joints of the whole body have been protected by rattan armor, the role of rattan armor shields is dispensable, after all As long as the joints and vital parts are not hit, there will be no serious impact. The trauma caused can be recovered instantly with internal force, but if equipped with a rattan armor shield, it will affect the combat and mobility.

Secondly, the price and time cost of making a rattan armor shield is almost one-third of the cost of making a complete rattan armor suit. Therefore, regardless of its practicality or cost, the rattan armor shield should be included Cancel.

After canceling the standard configuration of the rattan armor shield, the price and time cost of making a rattan armor suit will become even cheaper.

In terms of price, a set of rattan armor sets that do not include a rattan armor shield requires 1 feet of green vines and a catty of tung oil. Calculated according to the current raw material prices of the living system, each meter of green vines is worth about 50 tael of gold, and each catty of tung oil 70 taels of gold, that is to say, regardless of labor costs, the cost of making a rattan armor suit is 10 taels of gold. If a team of 700 people is equipped, it only needs [-] million taels of gold.

In terms of time, if the supply of raw materials is not considered, a mid-level garment master can make three sets of rattan armor a day, and if a thousand garment masters follow a reasonable division of labor to carry out 24-hour assembly work, they can make ten sets in half a month. Ten thousand sets of rattan armor equip a team, and with the current production capacity of Wangqing Pavilion's living system, a rattan armor group with a scale of 10 people can be created within ten days.

Obviously, the cost of forming a rattan armor army is much lower than that of the puppet army and the wooden shield army, but its performance in all aspects is much higher than the latter two. This is why Fang Jie finally chose to form the rattan armor army to deal with it after careful consideration. The root cause of the NPC forces in the Dongyi Kingdom is that even when the factions of various countries have long-range units such as archers, the formation of the Rattan Armor Army can play a great role in fighting against other power countries in the future.

Therefore, when Fang Jie announced his plan to form the Rattan Armor Army at the elders meeting, it was unanimously approved and approved by everyone. After the meeting, the relevant departments of the Wangqing Pavilion were urged by their respective leaders to immediately operate at full capacity. .

The first to act was Lao Suntou's Running Chamber of Commerce. First, in the name of Wangqingge General Chamber of Commerce, he issued a large demand order for the purchase of two raw materials, ivy and tung oil, to chambers of commerce in various places in the rivers and lakes. Wanpao merchant players, under the protection of Muzihai's chamber of commerce guards, went to Yunnan, Guizhou and other special ivy and tung oil production areas to purchase raw materials.

Yi Ling, the deputy head of the Wangqing Pavilion, issued a production mobilization order inside the Wangqing Pavilion, requiring all garment manufacturing players to temporarily gather and carry out the division of labor, and collectively produce the rattan armor suits needed by the army. The department, under the unified arrangement and dispatch of profiteers, allocated a large amount of funds for this military production. The 200 million Wangqingge army in Ningbo and Taizhou, also under Fang Jie's instructions, temporarily retracted the line of defense and retreated to the town Stationed, waiting for the arrival of the first batch of rattan armor.

Of course, since this is the period of the national war, there are still many details that need to be resolved in this process. For example, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places have been fully occupied by Xixia and Nanman forces at this time. If you can’t get through, the opponent’s runners can’t get through, otherwise, they will be ruthlessly killed by hostile NPCs and players. Therefore, the runners on both sides can only agree to handover at the junction of the two sides’ spheres of influence, and the specific shipping fee will be calculated separately. .

Another example is that although the various ministries of the Wangqing Pavilion on the front line stopped their offensive and shrunk their defenses, it also boosted the arrogance of the NPC forces of the Dongyi Kingdom. The attack still brought a lot of casualties to the ministries of the Wangqing Pavilion. In view of this, Wangqing suggested that the elders would study and pass it, and had to let the ministries buy and equip wooden shields on the spot, planning to deal with it temporarily.

In short, there are many troubles of this kind. Fang Jie, the hands-off shopkeeper who went to BJ's palace to spawn monsters, naturally wouldn't bother. Everything is in charge and dispatched by the various departments in charge. Even if Fang Jie is not in charge of Wangqing Pavilion today , and he can continue to operate in a healthy manner. This is exactly the ideal effect that Fang Jie, who has been delegating power, wants to achieve.

Half a month later, the first batch of [-] sets of rattan armor suits had been produced and equipped for the front-line combat troops, of which [-] sets were given to the formation brigade guarding Ningbo City, and the rest were given to Yijian Dingjiang, Jun Haitian's elite brigade, Fang Jie, who was studying martial arts in the BJ Palace, specially got three sets of rattan armor for himself, Shuang'er, and the old naughty boy, and personally tested the effectiveness of the rattan armor against the enemy. time performance.

After wearing the Rattan Armor suit, Fang Jie's monster spawning efficiency has improved significantly. Before, he would only dare to release hidden weapons on the roof to kill those imperial spearmen who couldn't reach him from a long distance, or rush down to consume a lot of internal energy Exercising powerful physical attacks such as Nine Yin Divine Art and Killer Knife to kill NPCs in groups, but the efficiency of the former method of spawning monsters is too low, and the latter method is too dangerous, often stabbed by NPCs and having to go back to the roof to heal their wounds, which cannot last long In combat, the efficiency is not too high.

But now, with the rattan armor set to protect key parts, Fang Jie basically didn't have to go back to the roof to heal his injuries. Occasionally, he got a little injury, which could only be regarded as a flesh injury, and he would be able to recover with a little luck.

Not only that, after Fang Jie, who is already extremely powerful, has no scruples, it is as easy as killing a chicken with a knife. No matter how many enemies are in front of him, Fang Jie can directly rush into the crowd and forcefully carry the monsters. Attacks from all directions can use any skill and move at will, and instantly kill all the enemies around, and then take a breath, consume a little internal energy that is almost negligible for him to restore the previous minor injuries, and then continue to kill another group of enemies. The whole process didn't stop at all, and the efficiency of spawning monsters was further improved to the extreme!
In addition, Shuang'er and Old Naughty Boy, who are also equipped with rattan armor suits, have greatly improved their monster killing efficiency after their physical defense ability has been improved, although the monster spawning efficiency of these two is still not comparable to that of Fang Jie , but it has already caught up with Fang Jie's monster killing efficiency without wearing the rattan armor suit. As a result, after the monster spawning efficiency of the three of them has been greatly improved at the same time, the number of daily kills has increased from more than 30 to nearly a million in an instant. It wasn't that Fang Jie had an agreement with Hu Shua before, and all expenses exceeding the 30 budget would be paid by Fang Jie himself.

Efficient spawning of monsters every day brings a huge amount of rewards for martial arts points. Generally speaking, the reward for killing an NPC soldier is 50% of its cost. Fang Jie is in the BJ Palace The units that are brushed are the Imperial Forest Army spearmen, which cost ten taels of gold, so the martial arts training point reward for killing a Imperial Forest Army spearman is five points. Nearly a million spearmen are spawned every day, which is equivalent to a considerable amount of money. Accumulate 500 million martial arts cultivation points, and these martial arts cultivation points can almost increase the proficiency of a certain move in a martial art to the full level!
In other words, Fang Jie today is almost sweeping away all the martial arts skills he has learned with the crazy efficiency of practicing one move every day. According to this efficiency calculation, Fang Jie can at least forty in one year. One martial arts skill can be practiced to a great degree, and if the practice bonus provided by some practice suits that can be equipped at the same time is added, it may not be a problem to master fifty martial arts skills in one year!

If it is further deduced, 20 years later, that is, after the Five Kingdoms War, if Fang Jie can continue to practice like this, it is estimated that most of the martial arts skills in the game can be practiced to great success. The short-term goal is to achieve the short-term goal with the addition of martial arts and specialization skills, that is, to break through the [-]th level of hell dungeon before rushing through the Great Zhoutian meridian.

The rattan armor set not only brought great convenience to Fang Jie to spawn monsters, but also brought extremely powerful combat support to Wangqing Pavilion's front-line combat troops. The defense turned into a strategic offensive posture. A regiment of Yijian Dingjiangnan, which was first equipped with rattan armor suits, achieved remarkable results in various battles on the outskirts of Taizhou City. The first batch of 500 million NPC soldiers refreshed from the Yi Kingdom killed none left!
However, at this time, the total number of troops sent by Dongyi Kingdom has soared from the initial 500 million to more than 3000 million, of which more than 1000 million were sent to Jiaxing City. After arriving in Suzhou and Hangzhou, after Murong's family fell apart, Murongfeng ordered these soldiers to retreat to Jiaxing City in order to make up for their mistakes.

It is a pity that although Murong Feng intends to curry favor with the Beggars' Gang in order to make up for the previous losses of the Beggars' Gang, the Beggars' Gang is not equipped with rattan armor suits like the Wangqing Pavilion, so the monster spawning plan is not ideal. If it is not worth the loss, then the beggar saw the benefits of the rattan armor suit, and then paid a lot of money to buy the finished rattan armor suit in large quantities from Wangqing Pavilion, and gradually reversed this embarrassing situation.

In addition, more than 2000 million Dongyi troops have been stationed in the Taizhou city area, and more than half of them have already left the city. However, due to the siege of the Wangqing Pavilion stationed in Ningbo, Jinhua, Wenzhou and other places, they are currently only scattered among these cities. In the outskirts of Taizhou City, fierce fighting was carried out between the ministries of Wangqing Pavilion in the wild. The casualty rate remained high after the first-line teams of Wangqing Pavilion were equipped with rattan armor suits, and it seemed to be the source of soldiers for Wangqing Pavilion. .

Murong Feng, who wanted to take revenge on Fang Jie, was extremely unwilling and annoyed when he saw that he had made a wedding dress for Fang Jie with all his efforts, so he secretly suggested to Dongyi through the national warfare system to change the original tactics and let the archers The units use rockets with relatively low shooting frequency in combat, and use fire to restrain the opponent's Rattan Armor units!

It has to be said that, as the only remaining "brain" of the Dongyi Kingdom, this tactical suggestion put forward by Murong Feng really hit the nail on the back of the rattan armored soldiers. It caused extremely heavy losses. Fortunately, only the game system knew about Murong Feng's traitorous strategy. Otherwise, this person would definitely be besieged by all the people of the country again and eventually die without a place to bury him.

In fact, after the Dongyi Kingdom listened to Murong Feng's suggestion and switched to rockets, it did cause some losses to the rattan armor soldiers of the Wangqing Pavilion at the beginning, but the effect was relatively limited, not as expected by Murong Feng as Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms The reason why burning rattan armor soldiers caused a devastating blow to the opponent was mainly because the Wangqing Pavilion disciples wearing rattan armor were all martial arts players. Experts, mere rockets, it is difficult to cause substantial damage, at most it will make everyone embarrassed. The so-called loss mainly refers to the attrition rate of the rattan armor, not casualties.

Of course, the large loss of rattan armor also greatly increased the cost of combat, and its essence was no different from casualties, so for Fang Jie, Murong Feng did cause him some trouble.

However, this trouble is not too much trouble for Wangqing Pavilion. Due to the application of rattan armor and its excellent performance on the battlefield, the sects affiliated to each camp have become very interested in this kind of equipment, and have begun to form their own. The rattan armor army, but the problem is that the life system industries of various factions cannot produce enough rattan armor for them in a short period of time, so they can only order a large number of rattan armor from Wangqing Pavilion, which has a sound and huge life system, and Wangqing Pavilion can use this to make a lot of money. It was a windfall and solved the shortage of rattan armor loss on the battlefield.

As mentioned earlier, the cost of making a set of rattan armor is 70 taels of gold. If labor costs and raw material transportation and processing fees are included, it is about 100 taels of gold, while the selling price of each set of rattan armor in Wangqing Pavilion is 500 taels of gold. The set was five times the cost price. This price was not set by Fang Jie, but a profiteer who did not hesitate to argue for a long time with Fang Jie, who has always been fair and reasonable and has no shortage of money to spend, and finally made a big deal. Concessions only set the price!

In fact, the profiteer Fei initially asked for the price to be set at 3000 taels of gold on the grounds that "no profiteering, no business", but in Fang Jie's opinion... 100 taels, sold for 3000 times the price, really What is that is a bit unkind, but the profiteer Fei plausibly said that the value of this thing can not only calculate its labor costs and raw material transportation and processing costs, but also calculate its patent invention fees, pre-sales advertising fees, sales and operation fees, Factors such as after-sales service fees, labor commission fees, and intangible wealth brought about by resource monopoly advantages and market demand relations, let alone pricing 9000 taels of gold, even if it is tripled and priced at [-] taels of gold are reasonable.

Later, considering that Fang Jie was the immediate boss after all, the backbone and spiritual leader of Wangqing Pavilion, the profiteer finally made a big concession and set the price of the rattan armor suit at 500 taels of gold. Players in the court and related life departments have also made a lot of money because of this, so that Fang Jie once sighed: "How do rich people become rich? ——It is profiteers with thick faces and dark hearts who take advantage of the monopoly at hand. Sexual resources and relationships, process and package worthless things, and then sell them to the general public at dozens of times the price of art..."

As the best protective equipment in the era of cold weapons, the rattan armor was favored by the majority of players at the beginning of the national war. All factions in the rivers and lakes formed their own rattan armor troops. However, as the origin of the rattan armor, it was originally The Nanman Kingdom, which has a rattan armor army, has won countless victories with its rattan armor army, but soon suffered a big defeat because it relied too much on rattan armor.

This great defeat occurred in the first confrontation between the camp of the Nanman Kingdom and the southeast island country that went north from Leizhou and Guangzhou at the same time after occupying Guangzhou City. The two sides fought for Wuzhou City at the junction of Guangdong and Guangxi. A large-scale battle involving as many as 800 million people participated in the battle. Among them, the southeast island country camp had only 300 million troops, but it wiped out the 500 million troops of the Nanman Kingdom, the [-]-strong special brigade of the Yaowang Valley and the [-]-strong army with almost zero casualties. The army of one million beasts in Beast Villa was also wiped out in this battle, causing an uproar in the world.

After the war, players from various factions summed up the reasons for the defeat of Yaowang Valley, Wanshou Mountain Villa, and the Nanman Kingdom to which they belonged, and they only concluded one thing—the musketeers and artillery soldiers of the southeast island country had completely broken the era of cold weapons. The pattern of conventional warfare, not to mention the Nanman country, even if other power countries encounter the southeast island country camp, the end will not be so good...

(End of this chapter)