Chapter 203: Attack and Defense of Celestial Elephant Town
In February of the first year of Zhongping, the Yellow Turban Rebellion that broke out in advance in the Eastern Han Dynasty quickly swept the country, and even in Jiaozhou and other places, the Yellow Turban Army appeared due to the appearance of players.
In the early stage of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yellow Turban camp had the upper hand, and almost all of the Yellow Turban camps in the thirteen states of the Eastern Han Dynasty pressed the imperial court camp to fight, but the people in the imperial court camp had no choice, who let the local government not send troops, and it was difficult to defeat the Yellow Turban Army with the player's power alone, so in many places there was a phenomenon that the Yellow Turban Army destroyed several towns and towns in a row and ran rampant in the counties.
Hailing County, after the Yellow Turban Army marched towards Hailing County in two ways, except for the Yellow Turban Army led by Yu was attacked by cavalry at night, the rest were the victory of the Yellow Turban camp, the current situation is that the people in the imperial court camp are defeated and retreated one after another because of the government's slow refusal to send troops to attack, many towns and villages were destroyed, and even the smiling iron-blooded town had to self-destruct and transfer the population, materials and village building orders.
This tactic of clearing the wall is very effective against the Yellow Turban Army, they cannot obtain food and other strategic materials on the spot, and the lost Yellow Turban Army cannot be well replenished, and the number of troops of the Yellow Turban Army of millions of people, every day of food consumption is an astronomical amount, in the case of not being able to feed the war with war, they need to transport food from the territory. Once the battle line is extended, the burden of transporting the people or the grain and grass soldiers will be very large, not to mention transporting food to the soldiers on the front line, they themselves will have to eat a lot of food, so the pressure on the domain is still quite large.
However, not all lords will self-destruct their territory, and there are some lords who stick to their territory, such as the Celestial Guild.
The Celestial Phenomena Guild began in June and July, attracting a large number of players to join them, and the number of guilds has also expanded rapidly from thousands to more than 100,000 people, the reason is that the system of exchanging points for items implemented by the Celestial Phenomena Guild has aroused the interest of new players.
One player was very lucky enough to complete a big task and get a general's transfer order, which can be said to be a step to the sky. Although the number of generals who can be exchanged for the transfer order is limited, and there is one less if you exchange one, this does not hinder the player's yearning for the general's transfer order, and more new players join the Celestial Elephant Guild, and even some players from other guilds or casual players have jumped over, at this speed of development, it is only a matter of time before it becomes the first guild in Hailing County, which is also a reason for the anxiety of the domain, and the hegemony guild can only continue to maintain its position in Hailing County by choosing the Yellow Turban camp and defeating other challengers.
But the strength of the Celestial Elephant Guild, which has the support of Flying Sky City, is not as simple as it seems, the strength reported by Tianyu and Jia Cong when they participated in the meeting with a smile is only the strength at that time, and it will be another situation in Celestial Elephant Town a few days later.
After learning that Tianxiang Town was also the target of the Yellow Turban Army's offensive route, the three of them decided to distribute the remaining skill books, and quickly improve the strength of the army in a short period of time, who made Lu Shuang's junior and intermediate skill books a large number, and accumulated 20,000 primary skill books, 5,000 intermediate skill books and 1,000 advanced skill books in two months, and only spent 10,000 primary skill books and 1,000 intermediate skill books for point exchange, and there were still many leftovers.
If the remaining skill books are used up, Tianxiang Town can immediately have 10,000 more fifth-order soldiers, 4,000 sixth-order soldiers and 1,000 seventh-order soldiers, and Tianyu will exchange the more than 60,000 points obtained from killing the Yellow Turban Army for nearly two hundred sixth-order soldiers, plus the new players are all fourth-order soldiers at least, the combat power of these 100,000 troops is actually the top among the player forces in Hailing County.
However, it is not enough for these 100,000 people to defeat the million Yellow Turban Army, and many guild leaders, core members, or people from other guilds suggest following the example of Smiling and others, and keep the green mountains behind, not afraid of running out of firewood. But no matter how they persuaded them, the three people who held the decision of the guild insisted on staying and defending, saying that there was no room for loss in Celestial Town, and that they had brought trustworthy reinforcements to fight.
In fact, as early as after Lu Shuang sent cavalry to attack the Yellow Turban Army at night, Lu Shuang sent a legion to camp near a subsidiary town of the Celestial Phenomenon Guild, and that subsidiary town has already transferred players to Celestial Elephant Town, so there is no need to worry that this legion will be discovered by players. And this affiliated town is not far from Celestial Elephant Town, and the soldiers of the Legion are at least seventh-order soldiers, and their movement speed is relatively fast, if you want to support, you can reach Celestial Elephant Town on foot for an hour or two.
Regarding which legion to send over, Lu Shuang thought for a long time, and finally decided to send the Heavenly Absolute Legion over. The Heavenly Absolute Legion is a legion composed of archers and crossbowmen, and recently Lu Shuang has set up an additional 5,000 material officer crossbowmen in the Heavenly Absolute Legion, but Lu Shuang does not want to expose the crossbow too early, so the material officer crossbowmen did not go out with the legion, but stayed in other legions, waiting for orders.
The reason why he chose the Heavenly Absolute Legion is because Lu Shuang thinks that there is no need to let the main army of Flying Sky City fight bayonets on the battlefield, after all, the Yellow Turban Army has a large number of people, although the soldiers of the main army are all seventh-order soldiers, and the highest on the Yellow Turban Army is the seventh-order soldiers, and any main army will have the upper hand in a real confrontation, but anything can happen on the battlefield, and Lu Shuang does not want any soldier to die at this time. Moreover, there are more than 25,000 people in the Heavenly Absolute Legion, and once a long-range attack of this scale is fired, those Yellow Turban Army without any armor will instantly fall a large piece, and the killing effect achieved is very significant.
In addition, in response to the general psychology of players, they do not have real death in the game, so everything can be bold. It seems that the number of the Yellow Turban Army is nearly ten times that of Tianxiang Town, but if it really starts, these players do not have the slightest fear, but the Yellow Turban Army in yellow clothes in front of them is a fragrant gluttonous point and experience in their eyes, when the level of new players is not high, killing a few Yellow Turbans can increase the experience by more than half, even if the death is downgraded, it is not a loss, because as long as there are people who kill the Yellow Turban camp, they can get the corresponding guild points, and their group of fourth-order new players are coveted by the primary skill book.
Regarding the points obtained by killing the opposing faction units, generally speaking, casual players take more and less depending on their own strength, while lord players are different, and they are dealt with in two situations, one is that all enemy units killed by NPCs under lord players are counted on the lord's head, and the other is that players under the lord player get the right to use the points in the player's hand, which can be transferred to the lord or kept for their own use.
However, whether it is the points obtained by NPCs or players, the total points are counted on the lord's head, for example, Lu Shuang has ten NPC soldiers and ten players under him, and they each get a hundred points, then Lu Shuang's total points on the points list are two thousand, but the actual points that can be used are only the one thousand of NPC soldiers, and the remaining one thousand points are in the hands of players, they have the right to use their own points, or use them themselves or transfer them, but they can only transfer them to the lords of their own forces, It cannot be transferred to other forces.
Because the points in the player's hand are too small, they can't be exchanged for any items, and they are generally transferred to the lord in exchange for real rewards. The incentive policy of the Celestial Elephant Guild is that anyone who kills the Yellow Turban camp can get guild points that can be used to exchange skill books and internal skills, and if you transfer the points in your hand to the guild, you can get twice as many guild points as you kill enemy units, so the players of the Celestial Guild are very active in the battle, eager to kill a few more Yellow Turban Army.
When Domain took his army to burn and loot all the way to Celestial Elephant Town, he encountered not a pile of ruins, but the defenders of Celestial Elephant Town, who had already lined up to meet the enemy. The domain naturally looks down on the defenders of more than 100,000 people, these days, with the bonus of ten times the experience, many Yellow Turbans have successfully advanced to the fourth-order soldiers, which is more than twice as strong as the previous first- and second-order soldiers, which is also one of the confidence of the domain, even if the Yellow Turban elite is not sent, these hundreds of thousands of fourth-order Yellow Turban troops alone can raze the Celestial Elephant Town to the ground.
Many players say that they want to go to the front line, but the first time they see the Yellow Turban Army all over the mountains, they also feel a sense of despair, and even some players who have fought with the Yellow Turban Army also feel the same way, the difference in strength between the two sides is too great.
Tianyu and Jia Cong glanced at each other, at this time, the battle between the two sides was imminent, and Lu Shuang only brought 25,000 reinforcements. Of course, Lu Shuang is not in Celestial Elephant Town now, but the commander of the Heavenly Absolute Legion said that he would go to other places to carry out the mission, so that they would not give up, and there would be other reinforcements arriving soon.
For Lu Shuang's words, Tianyu and Jia Cong did not question it, in fact, thinking about it, people have invested a lot in Tiantian Qingyu to have Tianxiang Town what it is now, if he destroys the town without saying a word, and takes people and builds a village to transfer the strategy, it will be a big loss for him, and they are all working for Mantian Qingyu, the boss naturally has his intentions in ordering this, and people did send reinforcements over.
Speaking of the Heavenly Legion, it has refreshed their perception of the Legion, because this Legion has comprehensively crushed the legion of some player forces they know in terms of soldier strength, weapons and equipment, or high-end force, and it is not comparable to any force simply from the point of using seven or eighth-order soldiers as archers, and they know the goods through some reconnaissance skills, they know that the weapons and armor of the Heavenly Legion are first-class, don't look at them as long-range troops, if they are hand-to-hand combat, they are no worse than fifth- and sixth-order soldiers in melee combat, With them, the odds of winning are at least two percent more.
There was no superfluous action in the domain, and in the face of this rising star, of course, he wanted to destroy it, and directly ordered the fourth-order Yellow Turban Army to attack, and the fifth- and sixth-order Yellow Turban Army to stand by and wait, ready to tear apart the defenders' battle line.
Seeing the swarm of Yellow Turban Army rushing over, Zhou Zhen, the commander of the Heavenly Absolute Legion, did not panic, let alone hide in the shield hand's shou face and release arrows, but lined up directly in front of the formation, so that he could launch an attack as soon as the Yellow Turban Army entered the firing range.
Five hundred meters.
Four hundred meters.
"Eighth-order archers prepare."
Three hundred meters.
"Seventh-Order Archer prepares."
Two hundred meters.
"Shoot the arrows!"
When the Yellow Turban Army was close to two hundred meters away from the Heavenly Absolute Army, Zhou Zhen directly ordered to shoot, and the people who dominated the guild saw that there were still more than two hundred meters to release the arrows, and almost laughed out loud, laughing that this general really had never been on the battlefield, and released arrows more than two hundred meters, wasn't that shooting the air in front of the Yellow Turban Army? Such a waste of arrows to send arrows to the Yellow Turbans?
But as soon as the corners of their mouths rose, a scene occurred that stunned them, when the Yellow Turban Army had just stepped into a distance of two hundred meters, the forward was suddenly hit by a rain of thousands of arrows, and the screams were endless, and they could reach the ears of the domain from afar, and the five thousand people of the forward were almost wiped out! 2k reading web