Chapter 997: The Fall of the Western Army (8000)
[Please keep in mind the domain name of this site" ", or search in Baidu: Sanlian Literature Network] The NP forces of the southeast island countries, strictly speaking, should be called the Western powers, according to the official introduction, the camp originated from the Western colonial empires, and its military composition is mainly Western swordsmen, Western boxers, musketeers, artillery and missionaries from afar, and the main advantage is the use of firearms. 9078.8C3A4I6h5o7n8g67e9n8x0u2e30.9c7o9m8
Of course, other power countries are not without "musket battalions" and other types of troops, but their combat capabilities are far from being comparable with the musketeers of the Western camp, such as the Jurchen camp and the Central Dynasty camp have a kind of musketeer troops, but these musketeers are only holding extremely ancient disposable consumables bamboo assault rifles that need to be ignited with a lead when firing, which is not only large in size and heavy in weight, but also has a range of less than 20 meters, even if it is only a range of 20 meters, its hit rate and lethality are quite speechless, Therefore, this class can only play the role of scaring people at most, or rather, the assault rifle is actually just a powerful fireworks.
The Western musketeers, holding flintlock pistols in their hands, that is, front-loading muskets ignited by flint fire, if you compare them specifically, they are almost the kind of muskets used by the Eight-Nation Coalition when they invaded China, which are not only relatively light in weight and easy to carry, but also have a hit rate, reload rate, reuse rate, rate of fire, range, and lethality are several orders of magnitude higher than that of assault muskets.
If you make another analogy, Fang Jie has personally experienced the performance of this musket before, more than twenty years ago, he used a golden pistol similar to the performance of a flintlock pistol to shoot Murong Feng in the head, in other words, the power of the flintlock pistol mainly depends on whether it can hit the enemy's vital point, if it does not hit the vital point, it will be a slight injury to martial arts players at most, but once it is hit by the vital point, it is the result of being directly killed in seconds.
Of course, the flintlock pistol is aimed at the vital parts of the human body and the vital parts of the martial arts strike are two different things, if it is a martial arts strike, there may be more than a dozen vital points in the whole body as long as one is hit, it can cause the effect of instant kill or loss of combat effectiveness, and the bullet fired by the flintlock pistol will only cause the effect of instant kill if it hits the center of the head, eyebrows, temples, back of the head or chest heart, it can be seen that in this regard, the game system still limits the power of firearms.
As an aside, in fact, during the Ming Dynasty, China had invented the flintlock pistol, and the use of firearms was very extensive, but it was a pity that in the Qing Dynasty, the rulers were conservative in their thinking and did not attach importance to the development of science and technology, but only used the flintlock pistol for the hunting of the palace nobles, and was not equipped with the army......
Anyway, the game system is still very "respectful" of history, and it does not let the central dynasty camp also have musketeers armed with semi-modern weapons flintlock pistols, so that the advantages of the Western camp are more prominent, it is conceivable that let a group of people with cold weapons deal with a group of semi-modern soldiers with hot weapons, it is simply how many people die on the top, it is completely self-defeating, the five million NP army of the Southern Barbarian State and the million beast army of the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Villa are so completely annihilated.
As for the reason for the fiasco of the Yaowang Valley, the player sect to which the Southern Barbarian Kingdom belongs, it was not caused by the Western musketeers, after all, although the flintlock pistols held by the Western musketeers were very advanced, their effective range was only eighty meters, far lower than the one hundred and fifty meters effective bow and arrow diffuse distance of the Yaowang Valley hunter players, not to mention that the Yaowang Valley 10,000-person special brigade was also equipped with a five-baht repeater with an effective attack distance of 50-150 meters, so in this big battle between the two sides, the Western musketeers did not bargain from the players of the Medicine King Valley, On the contrary, he was shot a lot by the other party.
What really caused the destruction of the Yaowang Valley 10,000-person special brigade was actually the Western artillery, this branch of the army is not nonsense, it is equipped with 38 mm caliber Western guns, with a range of 1500 meters, which completely covers the effective attack range of the Yaowang Valley 10,000-person special brigade, and the Yaowanggu special brigade that occupied Wuzhou City and garrisoned the city head in the early stage was killed and wounded almost without a shot under the fierce bombardment of Western artillery. If it weren't for the fact that some of the Medicine King Valley disciples who survived risked their lives to snatch back the priceless equipment on the corpses of their comrades, the Medicine King Valley and its Eight Treasure Pavilion would have lost at least one billion yuan this time.
After the start of the national war, every big war, the game system will record its process in detail and make it into a battle video for players who do not understand the arms of the various camps to study and learn from, the battle of Wuzhou City is naturally no exception, when the players of all factions in the rivers and lakes watched this one-sided bloody battle video, they were speechless at the same time, but also like ashes, I can't help but secretly think that if I go on this kind of battlefield with artillery fire, wouldn't it also end up with no bones?
Not only ordinary players have this panic psychology, but the high-level leaders of various factions also have a strong fear of the Western forces, and the heads of many sects are secretly regretting how they did not join the camp of the Western countries with advanced weapons before the national war, and at the same time they have to think hard about the best way to defeat the enemy, hoping to find tactics and methods to restrain the firearms and arms.
Just when everyone's attention was shifted from Dongyi to the Western States, which might have a great impact on the situation in the Central Plains, the NP army of the Western States that had conquered Wuzhou City did not continue to go north to attack Guilin City, a strategic place controlled by the Southern Barbarian State, but stayed in the city and did not move, but instead brushed out a Western army with a size of 5 million from Guangzhou City to the north to 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 out from the city of Guangzhou, and this also made the Central Plains factions, which believed that the ten powerful threats of the Western forces, felt that this was an opportunity to strike at this force, especially at the pre-war consultation meeting of the industry association, which said that they would be responsible for the defense of the southern region, and immediately held a pre-war mobilization meeting of their own faction to study and arrange tactics against the enemy, and at the same time, they ordered their various units to immediately set off and occupy Shaoguan Town in front of the Western army.
At the same time, the beggars who couldn't bear the loneliness also announced that the beggar gang would send 5 million troops to cooperate with the Wudang faction to resist the invasion of the Western army.
In fact, the reason why these sects are so active after seeing the video of the battle of Wuzhou City is mainly because they can't withstand the temptation of the national war reward, and the direct reason is that the Forgetful Pavilion has gradually gained a firm foothold in the outer cities of Taizhou City, and has begun to brush up the military merits and martial arts cultivation points with peace of mind. If you are unwilling to scrambled eggs, you want to try the water first.
As for the beggar gang, it is also for this purpose, after the beggar gang ordered a large number of rattan armor from the Forgetful Pavilion, it has surrounded Jiaxing City and brushed up the Dongyi National NP, since the overall situation in the east has been decided, the beggars with huge military resources and resources can certainly not be satisfied with such a small piece of national war cake in Jiaxing City, and according to the strategic location where its sect is located, the only direction that can be further developed is the south, after all, there are Forgetful Pavilion and Central Plains factions in the west, and Shaolin Temple in the north, these two directions must not be able to divide the national war cake.
And the Xiaoyao faction, after missing the big cake of carving up the Dongyi country, finally woke up, its sect base was originally in the south of Yangzhou City, although it did not dare and did not have the conditions to fight with the forgetful pavilion in the east, but the reason for going south was very sufficient, and the high-level of the Xiaoyao faction was very self-aware, knowing that the Wudang faction and the beggar gang such a famous faction must not have taken the Xiaoyao faction in their eyes, so the two sides basically had no basis for cooperation, and it was better to go south on their own to get a piece of the pie from the Western forces.
Interestingly, although the three factions totaled more than 10 million martial arts players collectively went south, the final foothold of the three factions was different, the Wudang faction occupied Shaoguan Town, while the beggar gang occupied Nanxiong Town, which was slightly behind, as for the Xiaoyao faction, because there were no other important towns near Shaoguan, they simply camped in the suburbs and mountains.
On the surface, the sect teams of the Central Dynasty to which these three parties belong seem to be fighting each other, but in fact, it is a bit like the beggar gang letting the Wudang faction test the water in front of the cannon fodder, and the Xiaoyao faction is completely like a supporting role and is squeezed out of the frontal battlefield by the two major factions.
In short, although the three factions are in the same camp, because of the relationship between interests, they do not agree with each other, and they never think of uniting to resist the enemy.
More than ten days later, the army of the Western countries that moved as slowly as a snail 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 forces have a huge advantage in firearms, but the mobility ability is the worst of all the power countries, almost all the infantry arms, and its combat ability is greatly affected by the geographical environment, such as in the mountains and forests, the combat effectiveness of its musketeers is less than thirty percent, and the artillery is not even half of the combat effectiveness, after all, the Western cannon can't be moved up at all, and it can't hit so high.
There are many players who analyze that the reason why the Western camp did not continue to attack Guilin City after defeating Wuzhou City is mainly because of the geographical environment restrictions, Guilin area is a typical "karst", that is, karst peak forest landform, if not, Guilin will not have the reputation of "landscape in the world", if you go to Guilin for tourism, it is naturally pleasant scenery and will not disappoint, but if you go to war with muskets and artillery, you must be unhappy for yourself, and this ideal to Western country NP also understands.
Therefore, in the early stage of the war, the three high-level factions have studied the corresponding tactics for the weakness of the Western soldiers, take the Shaoguan town occupied by the Wudang faction as an example, the geological landform in this area is more complex, the karst landform is extensive, and the hilly landform is the mainstay, there are many canyons in the territory, the broken wall and the mountains are vertical and horizontal, and the two towns of Shaoguan and Nanxiong are respectively located in the two canyon basins between the three major mountains.
Not only that, Shaoguan has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, it is the most important land passage and pass between the Central Plains and the South China coast, once Shaoguan is broken, the gate of the Central Plains is equivalent to being completely open to the Western countries, so the throat of Shaoguan Town must not be occupied by the Western forces, which is also the fundamental reason why the Central Plains factions, especially the Wudang faction that was directly threatened, sent troops south, if not, once the Western army advanced into the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plain, then the next national war will not be 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 met in close arms, the Wudang faction suffered a big loss under the opponent's carpet artillery bombardment, and the 200,000 Central Dynasty pikemen who were originally used as cannon fodder to test the water were refreshed in Shaoguan City out of their own pockets before they rushed out of the city gate, and they were annihilated under the opponent's three rounds of shelling, in addition, the Wudang faction players in the city also suffered tens of thousands of casualties.
After personally verifying that holding on to the city would only become a target for being bombarded by the Western army, Fan Scrambled Egg immediately ordered all the staff to evacuate Shaoguan Town, and dispersed to the mountains around the Shaoguan Basin with a squadron of 1,000 people.
Because the official road to the Central Plains is exactly in the middle of the canyon, and the Wudang faction players who can fly the eaves and walk the wall can also use the ladder cloud to jump behind the peaks on both sides to hide, so when the Western army passes through the canyon, they can't attack the players at all, and in the face of the enemy who quickly rushed down from both sides, they were almost powerless to parry, and as a result, in the second phase of the battle, the Wudang faction pulled back a game, He drove the Western army out of Shaoguan Town.
But before the rice and scrambled eggs had time to be happy, the Western army once again covered Shaoguan Town with artillery fire, and as a result, many Wudang players who rushed to kill too much because of excitement buried the sea of fire together with the Western soldiers who were chased and killed.
However, the anger of the fried eggs is not entirely because of the loss, but the anger of the hundreds of thousands of players stationed in the mountains and forests outside the city did not save them when they saw death, and the Wudang faction played a trick to ask Jun into the urn to introduce the main Western army musketeers into Shaoguan, the Western artillery was still moving slowly outside the city, if the Wudang faction launched an attack, the Xiaoyao faction could kill from the mountains and forests, and copy the artillery units of the Western army from behind, the Wudang faction not only would not have any losses this time, but would definitely be able to destroy all the enemies who came in one go.
But the Xiaoyao faction hiding in the mountains and forests did not take any countermeasures from beginning to end, and completely watched the jokes of the Wudang faction from the sidelines, which led to the loss of the Wudang faction's personnel, not to mention, and also missed the great opportunity to destroy this Western army in one fell swoop
So, whether it was out of anger or out of the Wudang faction's disadvantage in the first battle and wanted to save some face, the rice scrambled eggs then attributed the reason for the defeat of the battle to the Xiaoyao faction, and also righteously announced the players of this faction and the factions to which the Central Dynasty camp belonged, saying that the Xiaoyao faction did not care about the overall situation and caused the opportunity to be missed, and hoped that the other factions could give the Xiaoyao faction a certain amount of public opinion pressure, so that it could truly assume a certain responsibility for the national war.
And the high-level leaders of the Xiaoyao faction and their players are naturally very unconvinced by the remarks of rice and fried eggs, saying that the Wudang faction bullied people first, and did not even give a place to the allies, and now they have suffered a big loss in front of the Western army, so they remembered the allies of the Xiaoyao faction, and also said that the Xiaoyao faction did not cooperate with the Wudang faction to fight, I knew this, why did you Wudang faction bother in the first place?
In short, the high-level leaders of the Xiaoyao faction believe that not to mention that the two factions did not reach any intention of cooperation before the war, and even if they had such intentions, the Wudang faction was not kind first, and the Xiaoyao faction was the last to look at it coldly.
Just when the two sides were arguing, the rested army of the Western Kingdom attacked again, but this time, the Western Kingdom seemed to have learned wisely, and did not choose to take the Shaoguan route, but chose the Nanxiong Town route, which is located in another canyon basin.
Interestingly, this move taken by the Western army seems to avoid the edge of the Wudang faction, but in fact, it is a stupid move to throw itself into the net, because the situation around Nanxiong Town is very delicate, and its northern destination Nanxiong Town is the beggar army, and the west side of the canyon happens to be one of the mountains where the Wudang faction has just ambushed the Western army, and the mountain range to the east of the canyon is stationed with the army of the Xiaoyao faction, and the Western army passes through this place, which is equivalent to facing a situation of being attacked from three sides.
Originally, if the Western army continued to invade the Central Plains from Shaoguan according to the original route, the worst situation would be that the Wudang faction would be beaten back to the south of Shaoguan again, and in terms of the cost of the war, the Western countries could still take some advantage, after all, the Xiaoyao faction who was shirking responsibility with the Wudang faction would definitely continue to watch coldly from the sidelines because of their face, and there would be no problem with the security of the rear of the Western army.
But now that the Western army has taken the initiative to throw itself into its arms, it has inadvertently tied the three factions that had no intention of cooperation firmly together, because whether it is from the perspective of the Wudang faction or the free faction, with the experience of the previous war, the facts have proved that killing the Western army in the canyon area can achieve almost zero casualties.
From the perspective of the interests of the beggar gang, the mountains on the east and west sides have been occupied by the allies, if the Wudang faction and the Xiaoyao faction are allowed to withdraw from the mountain range now, and the beggar gang disciples themselves take over the defense line of these two factions, the other party will definitely not agree to give up this cake to the beggar gang, but if you don't do this, the beggar gang in the northern basin of the canyon is equivalent to acting as a roadblock for the two factions in vain, and in the end, not only will you not get any benefits, but you may also pay for some casualties.
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the beggars finally put down their figures, and before the Western army entered the canyon, he made an appointment with the high-level of the Wudang faction and the Xiaoyao faction, and proposed that in this battle, the three parties should abandon their previous suspicions, work together, cooperate with each other, and strive to destroy all the Western armies in the canyon in one fell swoop, and the Wudang faction and the high-level of the Xiaoyao faction, who have been accusing each other, finally put aside the previous grievances for the time being, and agreed to cooperate with the three factions to carve up the cake of the Western country.
At the pre-war meeting, the three parties agreed that a certain regiment of the Beggar Gang and the million Dynasty pikemen jointly funded by the three parties would be responsible for the frontal feint to lure the enemy, the Wudang faction would be responsible for the early offensive of the western mountain range, the Xiaoyao faction would be responsible for the offensive of the eastern mountain range, and the other teams of the beggar gang would take over the defense line of the Wudang faction in the western mountain range in the later stage, and several elite regiments of the Wudang faction would collectively use the ladder cloud column from the top of the mountain, take off and fly to the artillery base of the Western Army to land, and implement the central flowering tactics to destroy it in one fell swoop. The three factions should join forces to annihilate the enemy army
I have to say that the heads of sects like rice and scrambled eggs and beggars among beggars are all extremely shrewd people, and this battle plan made by several people together can be said to be nothing missing, if the plan is successfully implemented, I am afraid that none of this group of Western troops going north will be able to run back.
The key point of this battle plan is that after the beggars took over the offensive of the Wudang faction, the elite regiment of the Wudang faction directly "parachuted" into the Western artillery position, and the reason why it was "airborne" instead of directly rushing into the rear of the Western army was mainly because the periphery of the artillery position of the Western army was protected by Western swordsmen and Western boxers who were good at close combat.
In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why the Xiaoyao faction did not make up their minds to end the artillery position for the Wudang faction in the previous battle, after all, if this deal is a good deal, the Xiaoyao faction will definitely not give up the low-hanging fruit of the national war for a little resentment, you know, the Xiaoyao disciples are especially good at their own strength, even if they shoot in the face of the Xiaoyao disciples, most players can easily dodge the bullets, so if there is no melee force to block it, With their skills, they could break into the artillery position in the blink of an eye and destroy it, and then slip away before the enemy could react.
And now since it is impossible to directly break into the artillery position by land, and it is possible to delay the fighters because of this, then this sacred task can only be handed over to the players of the Wudang faction to complete, and the Wudang faction is also willing to do this seemingly extremely risky work, because there is a saying that the risk and reward are proportional, if you can really parachute directly to the artillery camp, the artillery who are powerless and unable to fight back in close combat are like ants in the eyes of the Wudang faction players. It's definitely much easier and more efficient than robbing monsters with the beggars and the disciples of the Loose Sect in the canyon.
The process of this battle is not much to say, in short, the Western army that broke into the canyon area for dozens of miles was almost wiped out under the siege of Wudang, the beggar gang, and the free faction, and most of the three million main arms of the Western army died in the canyon, and the rest of the musketeers and artillery were killed by hundreds of thousands of airborne troops sent by the Wudang faction. With the help of his extremely good light skills, he chased and killed all the fish that slipped through the net one by one, so that not a single NP in the nearly five million Western army escaped this catastrophe
After the war, some amateur military analysts believe that the reason why the players were able to win the battle at a very small cost is that the premise is that the three factions that originally looked like they were separated from each other cooperated and worked together to complete the annihilation war plan, but the decisive factor was that there was no support from the player sect behind the Western forces. Lacking a "brain" that can make tactical plans and avoid risks for NP power countries, I believe that if a player can give a little tactical advice to the Western countries before this battle, the Western countries will not fall headlong into the trap laid by the three factions and be wiped out, which may be a manifestation of the essential difference between the human brain and the computer.
After this battle, the Wudang faction, the beggar gang, and the free faction also made a lot of money.
You must know that the cost of the Western army is much higher than that of other power countries, the auxiliary arms of the Western boxer and the Western sword division are 10 taels of gold, and the musketeers are 100 taels of gold, and the artillery is 1000 taels of gold. They have all won quite rich military merit points and martial arts cultivation points, especially a certain airborne regiment of the Wudang faction that killed the most artillerymen, and each team member brushed an average of hundreds of thousands of military merits and martial arts cultivation, and the highest even brushed millions, and its profits even exceeded that of Fang Jie, who was tired and tired of brushing monsters in the Beijing Imperial Palace.
At the same time that the war in the south was temporarily over, the Emei faction, which was located in the central imperial dynasty of the Sichuan Basin, was facing a dangerous situation similar to that of the Western army before the war.
At this time, the Mongolian forces, the Western Regions forces, and the Western Xia Dali forces marched eastward at the same time, and had marched to the periphery of the Sichuan Basin, that is, they occupied the Loess Plateau in the north, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south.
Therefore, the Emei faction can no longer help itself, and can only resist the offensive in three directions...
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