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

Chapter 980 The Destruction of the Western Army (8000)

Chapter 97 The Destruction of the Western Army
Strictly speaking, the NPC forces in the southeast island country should be called Western powers. According to the official introduction, this faction originated from various Western colonial empires. Artillery and missionary, the main advantage is the use of firearms.

Of course, it is not that other power states do not have arms such as the "Musket Battalion", but their combat capability is far from being comparable to that of the western camp. It's just that what these musketeers hold is only an extremely old disposable bamboo musket that needs to be ignited with a fuse when firing. It is not only large in size and heavy in weight, but also has a range of less than 20 meters. The shooting range, hit rate and lethality are quite speechless, so this unit can only scare people at most, or in other words, the burst gun is actually more powerful fireworks.

The Western Musketeers, on the other hand, hold flintlock guns, that is, front-loading muskets that are ignited with flint. If you compare them specifically, they are almost the kind of muskets used by the Eight-Power Allied Forces when they invaded China. Not only are they relatively light in weight, It is easy to carry, and the hit rate, loading rate, reuse rate, rate of fire, range, and lethality are several orders of magnitude higher than that of the burst gun.

If we compare it again, Fang Jie has personally experienced the performance of this kind of musket before. More than 20 years ago, he used a golden pistol similar to the performance of a flintlock to kill Murong Feng. The power of the gun mainly depends on whether it can hit the enemy's vitals. If it misses the vital point, it will be a minor injury to the martial arts player at most, but once it is hit, it will be the result of being instantly killed.

Of course, the vital parts of the human body targeted by the flintlock gun are different from the vital parts of the martial art strike. If it is a martial art strike, there may be more than a dozen vital points on the whole body. , and the bullets fired by the flintlock will only cause a spike effect if they hit the forehead, temple, back of the head or chest heart. It can be seen that in this regard, the game system still imposes certain restrictions on the power of firearms.

To make a digression, in fact, during the Ming Dynasty, China had already invented flintlock guns, and firearms were widely used. Unfortunately, in the Qing Dynasty, the rulers were conservative in their thinking and did not pay attention to the development of science and technology. They only used flintlock guns in the palace. The aristocrats hunted and were not equipped with the army. During the period, they also invented a self-loading continuous gun, which was similar to modern mechanical machine guns, but it was still not promoted and adopted by the Qing court. If not, it would not be later. What about the Opium Wars...

Anyway, the game system still "respects" history, and did not let the Central Dynasty camp also have musketeers with semi-modern weapons and flintlocks. In this way, the advantages of the Western camp are more prominent. Imagine that if a group of people with cold weapons were to deal with a group of semi-modern soldiers with hot weapons, it would be as many deaths as they went up, and it would be a dead end. The 500 million NPC army of the Nanman Kingdom and the million beasts of the Beast Villa This is how the beast army was wiped out.

As for the disastrous defeat of Yaowanggu, a player sect belonging to the Nanman Kingdom, it was not caused by the Western Musketeers. After all, although the flintlock guns held by the Western Musketeers are very advanced, their effective range is only 80 meters, which is far lower than that of the Yaowang Valley. The 150-meter effective bow and arrow diffusion distance of Wanggu Hunter players, not to mention the 50-person special brigade of Yaowanggu is also equipped with five baht crossbows with an effective attack distance of 150-[-] meters, so this battle between the two sides, Western muskets Bing didn't get any cheap from the Yaowanggu players, but was shot and killed a lot by the opponent.

What really caused the destruction of the Yaowang Valley 38-person special brigade was actually the Western Artillery Corps. This unit is no nonsense. It is equipped with 1500 mm caliber Western guns with a range of [-] meters, completely covering the Yaowang Valley [-]-person special brigade. The effective attack range of the Yaowanggu Special Brigade that occupied Wuzhou City and was stationed at the top of the city in the early stage was completely killed and injured under the violent bombardment of the Western Artillery. Risking their lives to snatch back the priceless equipment from the corpses of their comrades-in-arms, Yaowanggu and its Babao Pavilion will lose at least one billion yuan this time.

After the start of the National War, the game system will record the process of each battle in detail and make it into a battle video for players who don't know the various camps and arms to study and learn from. The battle of Wuzhou City is no exception. After watching the video of this one-sided bloody battle, players from all factions were stunned, and at the same time, their faces were ashen, and they couldn't help thinking that if they went to this kind of battlefield full of gunfire, wouldn't they also end up with no bones left? end?

Not only ordinary players have this kind of panic, but the leaders of various factions also have a strong fear of the Western powers. Many sect leaders are secretly regretting why they did not join the Western power camp with advanced weapons before the national war. On the one hand, he had to think hard about good strategies to defeat the enemy, hoping to find tactics and methods to restrain firearms.

Just when everyone shifted their attention from Dongyi Kingdom to the Western Kingdom, which may have a great impact on the situation in the Central Plains, the NPC army of the Western Kingdom who captured Wuzhou City did not continue to attack Guilin, a strategically important place controlled by the Southern Man Kingdom. Instead, they nested in the city and did not move. On the contrary, a Western army of 500 million soldiers was drawn from Guangzhou City to go northward and attack Shaoguan Town, an important town at the junction of Guangdong, Hunan, and Guangxi!

When the various factions in the rivers and lakes learned of this military news, the Western Army had just set off from Guangzhou City. This also made the various factions in the Central Plains who believed that the ten powerful threats of the Western Powers felt that this was an opportunity to attack this force, especially during the war. In the previous consultation meeting, the Wudang faction, which stated that it would be responsible for the defense of the southern region, immediately held a pre-war mobilization meeting in the faction. While studying and arranging tactics against the enemy, it ordered its various teams to set off immediately and seize the front of the Western army. Shaoguan Town.

At the same time, the Beggars, who could not bear the loneliness, also announced that the Beggars' Clan would send 500 million troops to cooperate with the Wudang faction to resist the invasion of the Western Army.

In fact, the reason why these sects were so active after seeing the video of the Battle of Wuzhou City was mainly because they could not withstand the temptation of rewards from the National War. After gaining a firm foothold, he started to improve his military skills and martial arts training with peace of mind. As a major martial arts school, Wudang faction was also in the period of the national war. Even if the NPCs in the Western Country are holding modern weapons, they want to try the water first before talking about fried eggs.

As for the Beggar Gang, it is also for this purpose. After ordering a large number of rattan armor from Wangqing Pavilion, the Beggar Gang has surrounded Jiaxing City and frantically spawned Dongyi Kingdom NPCs. Of course, the beggars among the beggars with a huge source of troops and resources cannot be satisfied with such a small piece of national war cake in Jiaxing City. According to the strategic location of their sect, the only direction for further development is the south. After all, there are Wangqing Pavilion and the Central Plains sects in the west. , there is Shaolin Temple in the north, and these two directions must not be able to share the cake of the national war.

The Xiaoyao faction finally came to their senses after missing the big cake of dividing up the Dongyi country. , but the reason for going south is very sufficient. Moreover, the senior leaders of the Xiaoyao faction are very self-aware. They know that the famous sects such as the Wudang faction and the Beggar Gang must not take the mere Xiaoyao faction seriously, so the two parties basically have no basis for cooperation. It's better to go south on your own to get a share of the Western powers.

Interestingly, although these three factions have a total of more than 1000 million martial arts players who went south collectively, the final footholds of the three factions are different. The Wudang faction did their part to occupy Shaoguan Town, while the beggars occupied the town. As for the Xiaoyao faction, since there are no other important towns near Shaoguan, they simply camped in the suburbs and deep in the mountains.

On the surface, the factions of the Central Dynasty of the three parties seem to be fighting each other, but in fact, it is a bit like the Beggar Clan letting the Wudang faction stand in front as cannon fodder to test the waters, while the Xiaoyao faction is completely like The supporting roles are generally squeezed out of the frontal battlefield by the two big factions. If the western country is overwhelmed by a large army, the Wudang faction may be the protagonist of the show, but it is the Wudang faction who are most likely to suffer the most. At that time, the beggar gang hiding behind it Then they can stand up and clean up the mess, and the Xiaoyao faction who are squeezed aside may also be able to share some of the leftovers.

In short, although the three factions are in the same camp, they are at odds with each other because of their interests, and they never thought of joining forces to fight against the enemy.

More than ten days later, the army of Western countries, which moved slowly like snails, finally arrived at the city of Shaoguan. What needs to be said here is that after the research and observation of the players, it has been concluded that although the Western countries have a huge advantage in firearms, they are mobile The ability is the worst among all powers, almost all infantry units, and its combat ability is greatly affected by the geographical environment. For example, in the mountains and forests, the combat effectiveness of the Musketeers is less than [-]%. Even half of the combat power can't be displayed, after all, the Western cannon can't be moved up, and it can't be hit so high.

Many players have analyzed that the reason why the Western Kingdom camp did not continue to attack Guilin City after taking down Wuzhou City is mainly due to geographical constraints. Guilin area is a typical "karst", that is, karst peak forest landform. There will also be no reputation for "mountains and rivers are the best in the world". If you travel to Guilin, the scenery will naturally be pleasant and will not disappoint you, but if you go to war with guns and artillery, you must be making yourself uncomfortable. This NPCs who want to come to Western countries also understand the truth.

Therefore, in the early stage of the war, the senior leaders of the three factions had specially studied the corresponding tactics to address the weaknesses of Western soldiers. Take the Shaoguan town occupied by the Wudang faction as an example. The landform is dominated by hills, with many canyons and broken walls. Shaoguan and Nanxiong towns are located in two canyon basins between the three mountains. If they can rely on their terrain to resist the Western army, they will definitely not The result of the battle of Wuzhou City appeared.

Not only that, Shaoguan has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, and it is the most important land passage and gateway between the Central Plains and the South China coast. The land at the throat must not be occupied by the forces of the Western countries. This is also the fundamental reason why the various factions in the Central Plains, especially Wudang, which is directly threatened, sent troops south. The national war is not easy to fight.

However, even now that Shaoguan City is in the hands of the Wudang faction, this battle does not seem to be very easy to fight.

After the two sides fought hand-to-hand, the Wudang faction suffered a big loss from the opponent's carpet artillery bombardment. The 20 Central Dynasty pikemen who were originally used as cannon fodder to test the waters in Shaoguan city had not rushed out yet. The city gate was annihilated by the opponent's three rounds of bombardment. In addition, tens of thousands of Wudang faction players in the city were killed or injured. Almost everyone is good at ladders. Yun Zong hid in the sky, and the defenders in the city might not survive.

After personally verifying that sticking to the city will only become a target for bombardment by the Western Army, Fan Chaodan immediately ordered all the staff to evacuate Shaoguan Town, and dispersed to the mountains around the Shaoguan Basin in units of a thousand-man squadron to wait for the Western Army After entering the canyon basin, rely on the condescending terrain to launch a siege to the enemies on the official road from both sides.

The tactic of retreating and dispersing the siege formulated by Fan Chaodan achieved very good results in the following battles, because the official road leading to the Central Plains happened to be in the middle of the canyon, and everyone was able to fly over the walls of the Wudang faction Players can use Tiyun to leap and hide behind the peaks on both sides, so when the Western troops pass through the canyon, they can't attack the players at all, and they are almost useless in the face of the enemies rushing down from both sides. As a result, in the second stage of the battle, the Wudang faction pulled back a round and drove the Western army out of Shaoguan Town.

But before the scrambled eggs had time to be happy, the Western Army once again covered Shaoguan Town with artillery fire. As a result, many Wudang faction players who were too excited to charge and kill the Western soldiers who were hunted down by them were buried in the sea of ​​flames. After the war, Rice Scrambled Egg counted with his fingers, but he couldn't help feeling annoyed, because although he won the battle, he lost more money, which was completely outweighed by the gain.

However, Fan Chaodan's anger was not entirely due to the loss, but because the hundreds of thousands of Xiaoyao faction players who were clearly stationed in the mountains and forests outside the city could not save them. When soldiers were introduced into Shaoguan, the Western Artillery Corps was still walking slowly outside the city. If the Xiaoyao faction could come out of the mountains and forests when the Wudang faction launched an attack, and copy the artillery troops of the Western Army from behind, the Wudang faction would Not only will there be no losses this time, but it will definitely wipe out all the invading enemies in one go.

But the Xiaoyao faction hiding in the mountains did not take any countermeasures from the beginning to the end. They just watched the jokes of the Wudang faction from the sidelines. As a result, the Wudang faction suffered losses. In Fan Chaodan's view, the Xiaoyao Sect's group of people are simply short-sighted people, which makes him quite despise!
So, whether it was out of anger, or because the Wudang faction was unfavorable in the first battle and wanted to save face, Fan Chaodan then attributed the reason for the defeat of this battle to the Xiaoyao faction, and also announced the faction with righteous words Players and factions belonging to the Central Dynasty camp said that the Xiaoyao faction ignored the overall situation, resulting in missed opportunities. I hope that other factions can give a certain amount of public opinion pressure to the Xiaoyao faction, so that they can truly assume certain responsibilities for the national war.

However, the senior management of the Xiaoyao faction and its players are naturally very unconvinced by the remarks made by Fan Chaodan, saying that the Wudang faction bullied others first, and did not even give their allies a place to garrison troops. Now they have suffered a big loss in front of the Western army. Only then did I think of my ally, the Xiaoyao faction, and even accused the Xiaoyao faction of not cooperating with the Wudang faction in fighting. If I had known this, why did you Wudang faction do it in the first place?

In short, the senior officials of the Xiaoyao faction believe that, not to mention that the two factions did not reach any cooperation intention before the war, even if there was such an intention, the Wudang faction is not kind first, and the Xiaoyao faction is cold-eyed. If it is irresponsible, the Wudang faction should Review and review first, and then you are qualified to talk about the Xiaoyao faction.

While the two sides were arguing endlessly, the rested Western Army launched an attack again, but this time, the Western Army seemed to be smarter and chose Nanxiong, which is located in another canyon basin, instead of taking the Shaoguan route. town route.

What's interesting is that this move by the Western Army seems to have avoided the edge of the Wudang faction, but in fact, it was a trick of throwing themselves into the trap, because the situation around Nanxiong Town is very delicate, and other The destination in the north is Nanxiong Town, where the army of the Beggar Clan is located. The west of the canyon happens to be one of the mountains where the Wudang faction just ambushed the Western army, and the mountain to the east of the canyon is stationed with the Xiaoyao Sect army. The Western army passes through here. It is tantamount to facing a situation of attack from three sides.

Originally, if the Western army continued to invade the Central Plains from Shaoguan according to the original route, the worst case scenario would be that the Wudang faction would be sent back to the south of Shaoguan again. In terms of the cost of the war, the Western countries could still take advantage of it. The Xiaoyao faction who shirked responsibility with the Wudang faction will definitely continue to watch from the sidelines because of face. The safety of the Western army's rear will not be a problem.

But now that the Western Army has thrown themselves into their arms so actively, it has inadvertently tied the three factions that had no intention of cooperating firmly together, because whether it is from the perspective of the Wudang faction or the Xiaoyao faction, there are Based on the experience of the previous battle, the facts have proved that killing the Western army in the canyon area can achieve almost zero casualties. Since the Western army is now passing under the eyes of the two factions, there is no reason not to swallow the fat in the mouth ?
From the perspective of the beggar gang's interests, the mountains on the east and west sides have been occupied by the Allied forces. If the Wudang faction and the Xiaoyao faction are now allowed to withdraw from the mountains, and the disciples of the beggar gang take over the defense line of these two factions, the other party will definitely not I promised to hand over this piece of cake to the Beggar Clan, but if I don’t do this, the Beggar Clan in the basin in the northern section of the canyon will act as a roadblock for the two factions in vain. Some casualties will also be compensated.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the beggar among the beggars finally let go of his body, and before the Western army entered the canyon, he met with the high-level officials of the Wudang faction and the Xiaoyao faction, and proposed that in this battle, the three parties should abandon their previous suspicions, work together, and cooperate with each other to win the battle. In the canyon, all the invading Western troops were wiped out in one fell swoop, and the top leaders of the Wudang faction and the Xiaoyao faction, who had been accusing each other, finally temporarily put aside their previous grievances and agreed to cooperate with the three factions to carve up the Western country. this cake.

At the pre-war meeting, the three parties agreed that a regiment of the Beggar Clan and the million imperial spearmen jointly funded and purchased by the three parties would be responsible for a frontal feint attack to lure the enemy, the Wudang faction would be responsible for the early offensive of the western mountain range, and the Xiaoyao faction would be responsible for the offensive of the eastern mountain range. Help other teams to take over the defense line of the Wudang faction in the western mountains in the later stage, and several elite regiments of the Wudang faction collectively used the cloud ladder from the top of the mountain, flew to the sky above the artillery base of the Western Army and landed, and implemented the central flowering tactics to wipe them out in one fell swoop At the same time, the Beggar Gang and the Xiaoyao faction launched a general attack, and the three factions joined forces inside and outside to wipe out the enemy army!
What I have to say is that the sect masters like Rice Scrambled Eggs and Beggars Among Beggars are extremely shrewd people. The battle plan made by several people together can be said to be complete. If the plan is implemented If it succeeds, I am afraid that none of the Western troops who went north will be able to run back.

The key point of this battle plan is that after the beggar gang took over the Wudang faction's offensive, the Wudang faction's elite regiment directly "airborne" to the Western artillery positions. The main reason is that the periphery of the artillery positions of the Western Army is surrounded by Western swordsmen and boxers who are good at melee combat. If outsiders want to rush into the artillery positions, they must first face millions of Western melee troops. intercept.

In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why the Xiaoyao faction did not make up their minds to take away the artillery positions for the Wudang faction in the previous battle. After all, if the deal is a good deal, the Xiaoyao faction will definitely not give up the easy-to-get national war rewards for a little bit of resentment You know, the disciples of the Xiaoyao faction are especially good at body skills. Even if they shoot at the disciples of the Xiaoyao faction, most players can easily dodge the bullets, so if there is no melee troops blocking them, their body skills are completely fine. Dive into an artillery emplacement to destroy it in the blink of an eye, then slip away before the enemy can react.

Now that it is impossible to directly rush into the artillery position by land, and it may delay the fighter plane, this sacred task can only be completed by the players of the Wudang faction, and the Wudang faction is also willing to do this seemingly risky Great work, because there is a saying that risk and reward are directly proportional. If you can really parachute directly to the artillery camp, the artillery who are powerless and unable to fight back in melee are like ants in the eyes of Wudang players Generally, you can step on whatever you want. In short, spawning monsters in artillery positions is definitely much easier and more efficient than fighting monsters with Beggar Gang and Xiaoyao Sect disciples in the canyon.

I won't say much about the process of this battle. In short, the Western army that penetrated into the canyon for tens of miles was almost completely wiped out under the siege of Wudang, the Beggars' Gang, and the Xiaoyao faction. Some of them died in the canyon, and the rest of the Musketeers and Artillery Soldiers were killed by hundreds of thousands of airborne troops sent by Wudang. Carried out a crazy massacre with Western boxers, especially the players of the Happy School. With the help of their extremely good lightness kung fu, they chased and killed all the fish that slipped through the net one by one, so that there was not a single NPC in the nearly 300 million Western troops. Get over this calamity!

The three factions of the Central Plains united to win the battle of Shaoguan, which greatly boosted the morale of the players. At first, the Western firearms, which were regarded as invincible by the players, have now become a laughing stock. After the war, some amateur military analysts believed that the players The reason why they were able to win this battle at a very small cost was based on the fact that the three seemingly incompatible factions cooperated to complete the plan of this annihilation war, but the decisive factor was that there were no player sects behind the Western powers Support, lack of "brains" that can formulate tactical plans and avoid risks for NPC power countries, I believe that if there are players who can give Western countries some tactical advice before this battle, Western countries will not fall into the trap set by the three factions and suffer This may be a manifestation of the essential difference between the human brain and the computer.

After this battle, Wudang Clan, Beggar Clan, and Xiaoyao Clan also made a lot of money.

You must know that the cost of arms of the Western Army is much higher than that of other power countries. The auxiliary arms Western Boxer and Western Sword Master cost 10 taels of gold each, while Musketeers cost 100 taels of gold and Artillery Soldiers 1000 taels of gold. After the amount of ammunition is exhausted, additional funds have to be purchased from the National Warfare Soldier System, so the 500 million Western Army is actually equivalent to nearly 2000 million Dongyi soldiers, and its total value is as high as more than one billion. The first-line participating teams all received quite generous rewards for military merit points and martial arts training points, especially a certain airborne regiment of the Wudang faction that killed the most artillery soldiers. Each team member earned an average of hundreds of thousands of military merit points and martial arts training points , the highest one even earned millions, and its profit even surpassed that of Fang Jie, who worked so hard at killing monsters in BJ's Palace.

Just as the war in the south came to an end for the time being, the Emei Sect, located in the Central Dynasty of the Sichuan Basin, was facing a dangerous situation similar to that of the Western Army before the war.

At this time, after the forces of the Mongolian Kingdom, the Western Regions, and the Xixia Dali Kingdom moved eastward at the same time, they had already marched to the outskirts of the Sichuan Basin, that is, they occupied the three major plateaus of the Loess Plateau in the north, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south. The important towns bordering the Sichuan Basin, if these three forces want to invade the Central Plains, the best way is to attack the Central Plains first, especially the forces of the Western Regions who are blocked by the Hengduan Mountains. If they want to find an entrance to the Central Plains passage, It can only go west to occupy Sichuan.

Therefore, the Emei faction can no longer help themselves now, and can only bite the bullet to resist the offensive from three directions...

(End of this chapter)