Chapter Forty-Eight: The Battle

Chi Yun was covered in sweat. He never imagined that he could be forced to such a point. As the third group of people who tried the grand strategy game of marching chess, Chi Yun, the deputy general of the Left Army of the Praetorian Guard, was the main general, and the group composed of all young officers was undoubtedly the most professional personnel, and they believed that their understanding of commanding operations was far better than that of the previous two groups. Indeed, they have enough reason to have such pride.

The two sides who played the grand strategy game for the first time were personnel from Ye's related companies, which means that the Ye's workshop team played against the IKEA team composed of the staff of the soon-to-be-opened IKEA Danyang store. The composition of this battle performance is far greater than the component of the battle for victory and defeat, and both sides of the battle are Yip's employees who have long understood the grand strategy gameplay, and the script has been arranged in advance, turning a war chess battle into a show with many dramatic factors. Although this kind of battle made those lovers of marching chess hearty and eager to try, and also played a role in showing the grand strategy gameplay, it made those cutting-edge officers who had already seen from the grand strategy gameplay that they could carry out military deduction functions were not very satisfied.

The second game was played by a team of servants from Ye's Workshop, IKEA and the Ye family against a team of marching chess enthusiasts from Danyang. The Danyang Wing, which could not be elected with a commander that everyone was convinced of, carried out the operational command very democratically, and the final result was only two words: sweeping. Everyone in Yip's team has received basic math training and knows the formulas used in the game. As the commander-in-chief of the Ye team, Suo Zheng even participated in the formulation of detailed rules. Although there is a suspicion of unfair competition, in the case of letting 30% of the troops, the Danyang United team from the beginning to the end, from the whole to the part, has not taken even a little advantage of the situation is really unexpected.

At this time, Zhuo Mang, who was very interested after learning a little about the grand strategy gameplay, led the team to try it. Chi Yun is only twenty-four years old this year, he was born in the general's door, he can be so young has reached the position of deputy general is not luck or the blessing of the family, in fact, has always hoped that Chi Yun can become the first Chi family to become a civil minister rather than a military general Chi Yun's father Chi Xianping has always thought that Chi Yun studied in Lucheng, the most prosperous country in Dongping, did not know at all that in fact, not long after arriving in Lucheng at the age of eighteen, Chi Yun quietly joined the army, and then started from a small soldier, In less than three years, he became a lieutenant of the Lucheng City Defense Army because of his outstanding performance. It was also at this time that Chi Xianping was surprised to discover Chi Yun's name in the roster of generals sent by Lucheng that year. And at this time, he said that it was too late to say anything. After another year, according to the principle of rotation of troops in various parts of Dongping, Chi Yun was transferred to Danyang, and then because of his outstanding performance, he was transferred to the Left Army of the Praetorian Guard. This strange resume really made many people who knew Danyang and the Chi family feel funny, if they had known that this was the case, why bother to let Chi Yun toss around outside. However, Chi Yun has thus become one of the few officers of the younger generation who has both a relatively comprehensive military theory and a solid grassroots experience in the military. The twenty-four-year-old lieutenant general is very favored by everyone, I am afraid that before the age of thirty, he will be able to become a veritable general, because he has received a civilian type of education since he was a child, Chi Yun, who is no stranger to government affairs, may even become the youngest local governor in the history of Dongping.

The staff and auxiliary commanders selected by Chi Yun are also relatively talented in the forbidden army system, and at the same time, they are also quite fond of the marching chess system, at least the middle-level officers who are no strangers to them, many of them are from generals, or at least the military doors of previous generations. Twenty years later, the team formed by such a group of people can definitely be said to be star-studded, but now, they have to face a group of carpenters, metalworkers, coopers, clerks and even cooks, and there is even more than one girl like Kassandra in the Yip team.

However, even if the Ye Clan United put on a lineup that these arrogant young officers looked down on, it was not the same at all when it came to the actual battle. In these battles, all the battlefields are virtual terrain, but they don't use any maps with real geographical blueprints. This time, however, the draw between the two sides was the most complex of all the maps that had been released in the first batch. A map of plateaus, alpine meadows, Gobi and deserts, and a few river topography, but the whole map has a negligible degree of undulation.

It was supposed to be a map that would be perfect for a regular Legion battle, but things didn't go the way everyone who followed the battle expected. The forbidden army marched in three directions, hoping for a quick victory, but fell into the quagmire of guerrilla warfare and sparrow warfare.

In the battle, one moment represents one day, that is, one hour represents eight days, and the two teams are divided into lunch breaks every day, and the total battle time is no more than four hours, which is equivalent to the game time of thirty-two days, slightly more than one month. The first two games were decided in one day, but the match between the forbidden army and the Ye United team lasted for six full days. Converted into this, it will take almost half a year to play.

The attack of the three-way army set aside by Chi Yun was originally expected to squeeze the activity space of the Ye Clan's troops and force the Ye Clan's Wing to engage in a decisive battle with himself. However, where could Suo Zheng let Chi Yun succeed so easily? Since the large army could not be put on the table, it was necessary to break up the troops into small units, and carry out long-distance raids, interspersed, and constantly harass the supply lines of the troops of the forbidden army and the small garrisons in the loosely controlled areas. Sometimes, some squads would come together to form a local superior force and annihilate the forces of the Forbidden Army of a slight size one by one. This kind of incompatible art of war, some nonsense tactics really made Chi Yun unable to turn his head for a while. That's how the first day passed.

After a night of consultation, Chi Yun discussed with those he had selected, and discovered a very important problem with the Ye Clan's United's tactics: supply. In this type of operation, it is impossible for the marching army to carry a large number of supplies, nor can it be possible to assign too many troops to deliver supplies, and the only possible way is to agree on the supply point in advance, and the various detachments will rush to the supply point at the agreed time to resupply. So, the next day, Chi Yun let most of the troops stay in place, and sent the most powerful light cavalry troops to follow the small group of troops they encountered, so that the other party had no chance to replenish them, and once the supplies were exhausted, they calmly packed up. If this small force is forced to resupply, then find an opportunity to eliminate the supply team. However, unexpectedly, after a half-hour lunch break, the situation changed again in the afternoon. Those small units of the Ye Clan's Wing used two methods to crack Chi Yun's tactics. One is to accurately adjust the supply time of different squads to a certain hour, and when the time comes, the various squads will gather together, and they will not be afraid of Chi Yun's detachment at all, but they will have a good chance to bite back. The other is to send some small detachments to deliberately contact Chi Yun's detachment and lead Chi Yun's detachment to the predetermined ambush area to annihilate it.

On the third day, Chi Yun adopted another tactic. He endured the losses suffered by the front-line troops, used his troops to consolidate the areas he had already occupied, and began to obtain more resources from the occupied areas according to the rules, and then he began to use these resources to build a large number of small and medium-sized castle towers along the way, very similar to the cage tactics of the Japanese devils. Suo Zheng soon discovered this, and simply harassed the front line with a small number of troops, and also adopted similar tactics to consolidate the occupied area. The two sides formed a relatively solid front.

The fourth day of fighting was perhaps the most exciting, with both sides engaged in a series of break-up battles around the battle line. The Ye's wing won because of the large number of troops and the number of troops that could be mobilized, while although the forbidden army invested a lot of resources to build the city tower and the number of troops was much smaller, the solid tactical literacy they showed every time they commanded on the spot fully made up for this, and the Ye's wing was defeated and retreated. Just when everyone thought that the forbidden army was about to begin to seize the initiative on the battlefield, in the afternoon, a rather strong army of the Ye Clan's Wing took advantage of the fact that a large number of troops on the front line of the forbidden army were digesting the fruits of victory, and went straight into the control area of the forbidden army, and took a rather solid small city only forty miles away from the headquarters set up by the forbidden army and began to hold on. This is like a nail in the heart of the enemy, which makes Chi Yun and the generals under his "command" extremely uncomfortable.

Will the question of whether to remove the nail or drive it deeper will be revealed on the fifth day? On the one hand, Suo Zheng let that army hold on to the fortified city, and on the other hand, he changed the way the other troops fought. He didn't mean to rescue the lone army at all, but let the lone army hold on, constantly consuming Chi Yun's troops. In order to pull out this nail, Chi Yun had no choice but to continuously deploy troops to support and maintain the superiority of troops, but many of the reinforcements transferred from all over the control area were blocked, besieged and annihilated by Suo Zheng's troops with superior forces. On this day, both sides showed tenacity and rich skills, although the losses of both sides were extremely huge, but the result of the fight made all outsiders fascinated.

Finally, on the sixth day, the two sides, both of which had been bleeding too much, had to fight a decisive battle under the dilapidated town. But no matter which side it is, no matter how precisely it is arranged and calculated, it is found that as long as no serious mistake is made, the victory or defeat of both sides may be determined by the number of dice thrown at certain collisions.

In the lecture hall, when Lu Dan, who has always adhered to a fair position to explain, announced the situation, the audience was boiling. Who would have thought that in such a wonderful battle, the final victory or defeat would be pinned on such an accidental situation as dice? However, no matter who they are, they have to be convinced, this battle can be fought like this, and both sides have used real kung fu. The agility and agility of both sides in the entire battle command are really impressive.

In the end, Chi Yun led the forbidden army to victory. However, this victory really made him a little ashamed. In the last two rounds of the battle, where the difference in strength was almost negligible, twenty-sided dice rolled two nineteens in succession in his hand...... That's all.

In the warm applause of the lecture hall, Chi Yun and Suo Zheng both stepped onto the stage with red eyes, and shook hands with their opponents who had been fighting for six days in front of everyone. And at this time, Chi Yun and the generals under his "command" no longer dared to look down on the super miscellaneous troops of the Ye Clan's team. Maybe they really don't understand what the military is all about, but being able to force these young officers who think highly of themselves to this point in such a realistic game is enough to prove their wisdom. The young officers also realized that, with a little training, they would at least be able to perform the duties of counsellors.