The time soon came to the afternoon, including "StarCraft", "Three Kingdoms 3", "Special Warfare Heroes", "FIFA2000", etc., the WCG competitions officially kicked off, and for a time the competition area composed of 300 computers was full of smoke, but with the help of headphones, the field seemed relatively quiet except for the occasional roar of the players.

The number of players participating in the "Three Kingdoms 3" competition is the largest, reaching 108 (including 128 if you include substitutes), but because of the special form of confrontation, it can only be counted as a confrontation between 18 teams. The previous "Three Kingdoms" series was still relatively close to the traditional real-time strategy game, and the most common online battle was 1vs1 or 2vs2, of course, there was also that kind of 8-party melee, but by the time of "Three Kingdoms 3", another kind of cooperative confrontation gradually became popular, and the participants in this mode must be even numbers, and they are divided into two camps to attack each other.

There are two branches of co-op matching, one is close to a traditional real-time strategy game, in which in the case of an eight-player battle, for example, the two sides actually have four units each, and then attack each other after forming an alliance. The other is more novel, the participants of the same camp have different identities, one of them is the commander of the overall situation, and the other personnel are under his leadership, or seize resources, or attack the enemy, or defend a certain area, in short, it is closer to a real real-time strategy game, rather than playing a tactical so-called real-time "strategy" game.

At this WCG, the competition mode of "Three Kingdoms 3" adopts the second way that is closer to a real real-time strategy game, requiring the participating teams to be no less than 6 people, and the officially registered team members can have up to 8 people (two of them are substitutes), after the official start of the game, if one side cannot provide 6 players, you can directly give up the game, or you can try to defeat the strong with the weak.

In the game, a team member is designated to use the game's general mode, which is nicknamed "commander-in-chief" or "emperor" by many players, and has the right to command the overall situation and give instructions to other team members. After receiving the instructions issued by the "commander-in-chief", the other team members can either fully obey or implement according to their own understanding, as for whether they can win in the end, it depends on the strategic vision of the "commander-in-chief", and then whether the team members under him cooperate tacitly, in short, "Three Kingdoms 3" is actually considering the overall strength of the team, not the strength of a certain person, unless his ability is strong enough to pick out the other six people alone.

There are a total of 18 teams participating in the finals of "Three Kingdoms 3", including 4 from the mainland, in addition to a mixed team from Hong Kong and Taiwan, 4 teams from South Korea and Japan, 2 teams from the United States, 1 from Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Judging from the number of participants alone, "Three Kingdoms 3" seems to have a great influence, but judging from the composition of the participating teams, "Three Kingdoms 3" still has a long way to go.

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Hu Binguo (ID: Red-apple) is the captain of the team that dominates the world, and he is also the default candidate for the "commander-in-chief" in the team, and he has five other companions, namely Wei Qidi (ID: Deep), Zhou Jiake (ID: Boat), Yang Fan (ID: AyaLyc), Wang Yinxiong (ID: Csa) and Lu Qianqian (ID: PinkCat), and this Lu Qianqian is still a rare beauty in the e-sports industry, because the players cooperate more tacitly and trust each other very much, they don't even have a substitute.

Next, the team is about to face their second opponent of the day, and in the previous first match, the team took less than forty minutes to easily defeat their opponent, Team San from Canada. The second match was against the Kyushu no Abuchi team from Japan, which consisted of Daisuke Maeda (Kyushu.DSK), Kotaro Takeuchi (Kyushu.Ta), Keisuke Okamoto (Kyushu.KSK), Teruyue Takahashi (Kyushu.TRT), and cousins Nobutaka Sakamoto (Kyushu.NBTK) and Yukio Sakamoto (Kyushu.Sac), which was also a team with no substitutes.

The two sides have never played each other in the form of a team before, but Hu Binguo has a certain understanding of Daisuke Maeda and Keisuke Okamoto in the Kyushu no Abyss team, and has also played against each other in 1vs1 and 2vs2 matches, knowing that one of the two is good at offense and the other is better at defense, as for the other players, he is very unfamiliar.

After the last five minutes of rest, a new round of battles in Three Kingdoms 3 begins, and each team returns to the computer they have already used once, and begins to make the final preparations before the battle, check the flexibility of the mouse and keyboard, and try the effect of the headset.

"Listen, everyone, the opponent in this round should not be so easy to deal with, cheer up and be careful!" Hu Binguo gave the first order through the headset, because the players in different game competitions were mixed and matched, he didn't have to worry about the Kyushu Abyss team hearing what he said, and even if he did, I was afraid that those guys wouldn't understand.

The game soon began, and the contest between the two sides was placed on a random map, with Shu, that is, Liu Bei's camp, and Kyushu's abyss being Wei, that is, Cao Cao's camp. "Three Kingdoms 3" because it is a 12-player game, so the map is larger than the average real-time strategy game, in this map, a river flowing east-west and bifurcating in the middle divides the map into three main parts, the area where the river forks has two small bridges that can only accommodate one person to pass, and the rest of the map is made up of large forests, highlands, Mountains and a handful of roads of varying widths, the only area that is the widest is a plain at the end of the river, which is likely to be the fiercest place for future fighting.

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At the start of the game, the "Dominators" have a village-level settlement (providing grain and taxes), a granary (storing 2000 grain and grass) and an initial capital of 1000 gold, as well as a force of 1600 primary infantry (every 100 people corresponds to an in-game icon, that is, 16 infantry icons represent 1600 primary infantry) and 400 cavalry.

There is no need for Hu Binguo's orders, everyone has tacitly operated according to their usual habits, Zhou Jiake and Yang Fan divided the 400 cavalry into four teams, one person controlled two teams, and explored the nearby situation in four directions, "Three Kingdoms 3" At the beginning of the game, the terrain of the map is visible, but there will be some things on the map, which can only be discovered by exploring, such as where there are settlements that provide funds and food and grass, and where there are field wandering troops (training troop level), discover these first, and only then will you have a chance to be invincible in the later wars.

Soon, through the shared vision, the group discovered two new village-level settlements, and Wei Qidi immediately rushed over with two teams of 100 junior infantry each, and immediately occupied them (the more troops used to occupy them, the stronger the defense of the settlement, and the less likely it was to be captured by opponents), and the resources at hand became slightly more abundant. Lu Qianqian immediately built a recruiting station, through this building, you can spend money in exchange for the most basic troops, the junior infantry, and then build a blacksmith shop and a schoolyard, with these two buildings, the junior infantry can be upgraded to a more powerful class, a balanced attack and defense of the sword and shield soldiers, a stronger attack power, a bonus to the cavalry, a defensive shield soldier, and a long-range attack archer.

Then it was Hu Binguo's turn to appear, and he needed to reasonably arrange the actions of other team members according to the amount of grain, grass and funds, such as letting Lu Qianqian upgrade the settlement while ensuring the minimum amount of funds and grain and grass for Wang Yinxiong to produce and upgrade the troops, and also make up for other buildings needed at a reasonable time, such as upgrading the stables of the cavalry, the official residence of summoning military generals, etc.

After a period of preparation, Hu Binguo issued an order to sweep the surrounding area, and Wei Qidi set off with the military general Guan Yu and 800 sword and shield men and 200 archers, and began to sweep the reconnaissance wandering troops near the spawn point in a clockwise direction, so as to open up a channel for further exploration, and by the way, also train the generals and the troops in their hands.

Under Wei Qidi's skillful operation, the two Yellow Turban armies guarding the main road were defeated one after another, and the price paid was only the loss of less than 100 sword and shield hands, and Guan Yu also got a "attack +1" broadsword. What's more, Zhou Jiake commanded 200 reconnaissance troops that had been upgraded to scouts (speed, vision +2) to continue to develop to the north (up) to explore whether enemy troops had infiltrated through the plain area and bridge area, while Yang Fan led 200 cavalry to follow the rear of the scout troops, ready to support at any time.

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The first battle took place in the bridge area, when the exploration of the plain area found no trace of the enemy, Zhou Jiake left 100 scout troops to stand on a small high ground in the plain area to continue to monitor, and then led another 100 scout troops and Yang Fan's 200 cavalry to rush to the middle of the river bifurcation area, before the time to cross the bridge, the scouts took advantage of the field of vision to find hundreds of sword and shield soldiers who were coming from the opposite side and trying to cross the bridge.

Zhou Jiake and Yang Fan, who often cooperate together, began to act tacitly, first using the speed advantage of the scout troops to touch a sword and shield soldier in front of the line, and then just like the east is far away, taking advantage of the other party's attention to be attracted, the 200 cavalry hidden on the side approached at high speed, and launched the "charge" stunt to cut the sword and shield soldiers who were crossing the bridge into two sections, causing nearly 100 casualties and running away. Guan Yu's troops had already rushed over, and the cavalry troops who had escaped from afar had come back in a circle.

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Kotaro Takeuchi controlled less than 600 sword and shield soldiers to cross the small bridge, and the sudden attack of the cavalry just now made him cautious, although his army was not the main force, and in the captain's plan, the advance of this force was just to test the reality of the other party, but if it retreated like this, the troops would not have any further losses, not to mention the captain's side, even he couldn't accept it.

In order to avoid another attack, Kotaro Takeuchi walked a half-moon formation transformed from a circular formation near the small bridge, and placed the most injured sword and shield soldiers in the formation, waiting to prevent the cavalry from charging again, who knew that he was waiting for not cavalry, but flying bows and arrows. For the sword and shield soldiers, there is a bonus to the defense of the bow and arrow, but before Takeuchi Kotaro disregarded the threat of the cavalry and planned to rush forward to destroy the 200 archers, the other party had already sent the sword and shield soldiers to form a circle to protect the archers in the formation, if he still planned to attack according to the original plan, he would definitely not be able to break through the circle of the opponent's full defense for a while, if the cavalry suddenly appeared behind the most vulnerable at this time, it would be a disastrous consequence for his small army.

Kotaro Takeuchi fell into an embarrassing situation all of a sudden, wanting to retreat but worrying about the surprise attack of the cavalry after the retreat, and if he didn't leave, he had to endure the constant attack of the opponent's bow and arrow, although the damage was not great, but this kind of knife could not stand it after a long time of slow sharpening.

"Captain Maeda, the main force of the other side has appeared, and it is initially estimated that there are 200 cavalry, 700 sword and shield soldiers and 200 archers. Kotaro Takeuchi sent back the hostile situation that appeared here, and tactfully hoped to get help from the headquarters.

"The Okamoto Wing has set out, and I hope you can hold out for at least ten minutes in order to buy enough time for the follow-up troops to deploy defenses. Daisuke Maeda replied in his headset, and at the same time used gestures to command Takahashi Terutsu beside him to organize his troops, bring civil engineering soldiers, and prepare to cross the river and go around behind enemy lines to launch a surprise attack.

With the support of Keisuke Okamoto, who is good at defense, Kotaro Takeuchi is much more relieved, but what makes him a little puzzled is that the opponent's cavalry has never appeared again after fleeing, and it seems that it has completely disappeared in the "mist" on the battlefield, and the 200 archers shot arrows for a while, and disappeared together with the defensive sword and shield soldiers, if it weren't for the scars on his hands, it would be as if the enemy had never appeared.

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The appearance of the enemy army made Hu Binguo quickly adjust the strategic direction, first upgraded the remaining 200 cavalry to scout troops, and then separated to expand the scope of surveillance, in addition to using 1 general, 800 sword and shield men, and 200 archers to continue to attack the nearly 600 sword and shield soldiers who had been in formation, although they could win, but the price paid was not small, so they left 100 scouts to continue to monitor. Guan Yu's troops adjusted the direction of their attack and continued to sweep those field troops, and the defense of the bridge area was handed over to the 500 sword and shield soldiers brought by Wang Yinxiong.

The first encounter between the two sides ended hastily, and the battlefield temporarily returned to calm, and both sides seemed to be reengaged in their own internal affairs, trying to accumulate more strength in order to be able to defeat their opponents once and for all, so the calm seemed more like the moment of tranquility before the battle......

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