Chapter 18 If you can't die, you will be dragged to death
Anyway, there is no way back, if you don't fight, you will die, and if you fight, it is better to give it a go. In this kind of situation of falling behind in one game, the nine who fought against the water was completely stimulated.
At the beginning of the second game, without any way to explore, Nine directly built the first supply at the entrance of his base, if he was dealing with a Terran and Protoss player who was better than himself, it was understandable to directly plug the mouth with a building, but Liu Zhulang was a random player, if a Zerg appeared randomly, Nine was likely to put himself in a dangerous situation at the beginning.
Nine did this in the first place, which was tantamount to gambling. But Nine got it right.
Liu Zhulang's random appearance in this game was not a zerg, but a god clan.
And what put Liu Zhulang in a disadvantageous position was that at the beginning of this game, Liu Zhulang wanted to rush off the opponent directly, so the start taken by Liu Zhulang was directly a very fast fork rush.
Liu Zhulang put the crystal on the edge of the high ground on his base, and then when Probe ran out to explore the way, he put a barracks in the area where the crystal energy could be enveloped at the bottom of the slope.
The reason why Liu Zhulang chose to fork the fork rush is because in many battles with nine, Liu Zhulang has come to an experience, in the face of random players, nine will basically not directly gag, but will be like most top players, after finding out what the opponent is, plan and then move.
But Liu Zhulang's experience ignores one point, that is, nine has never been in such a desperate situation before.
So Liu Zhulang was wrong. By the time his probe reached Nine's base, Nine's supply and barracks had completely blocked the intersection. At this time, Liu Zhulang's first fork was almost completed, and Liu Zhulang's second barracks was almost half completed.
Then Rush is definitely not good, because Nine is not a rookie, and his SCV has also probed Liu Zhulang's base and seen Liu Zhulang's intentions.
Liu Zhulang immediately built a gas mine and began to make the technology tree needed to make the dragon knight.
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Liu Zhulang's changes can't be said to be unpleasant, although his gas mine was only slowed down for less than half a minute, but this half a minute is already much slower for the peak duel between the two supreme masters.
What really affects the outcome of the battle is the range of the dragon knight.
Because Liu Zhulang immediately replenished the gas ore and made a technology tree at the same time, at the same time as the technology tree was completed, Liu Zhulang had basically collected the gas needed to make the dragon knight, so there was not much difference in the time when the dragon knight came out at the beginning. However, the gas he collected was basically for the Dragon Knight to be made in the first place, so that the Dragon Knight could be produced to resist the minelayer that Nine made as fast as possible. For a long time, he didn't have extra gas to upgrade the range of the Dragon Knight.
Basically, anyone who knows a certain amount of about the Protoss knows that the Dragon Knight who has upgraded its range and the Dragon Knight who has not upgraded its range are completely different when facing the Rush of the Minecar. Because of that slight difference in range, it is very likely that the Dragon Knight will hit the minelayer with one less shell.
In other words, when the minelayer car rushed to the side of the dragon knight to bury mines, a dragon knight might be able to hit it two shots in a row, but if the range was not upgraded, it might only be able to hit one shot. For a dragon knight, there is not much difference between hitting one less shot and hitting one more. Because a single shot can't blow up a minelayer.
But for a few dragon knights, it had a completely different meaning. Because a combined attack of several dragon knights can instantly kill a minelaying car, this kind of combined attack is called a point kill.
In other words, a few dragon knights who originally rushed over and upgraded their range might be able to kill two or three of them in an instant when several minelayers rushed over. But what about the Dragon Knight who didn't upgrade his range? Maybe only one of them can be killed.
It's definitely a scary gap. Because with just two properly planted mines, four or five dragon knights can be turned into a puddle of blue water at once.
When other Protoss players have not upgraded the range of the Dragon Knight, they can also retreat to the slope to defend themselves, so that the minelaying carts cannot rush around the Dragon Knight. But Liu Zhulang can't now.
Because Liu Zhulang's barracks are made at the bottom of the slope. If Liu Zhulang's dragoon retreated to the slope, his two barracks would be lost immediately. At other times, even if it is sent to two barracks, it is not particularly important, but in the early days of the war, the loss of two barracks means that the troops cannot be replenished for a long time, and even if Fang Shaoyun is replaced, he will definitely not be able to turn over.
Seeing this, even Fang Shaoyun, who was very confident in Liu Zhulang, couldn't help but say, this guy nine is very tough.
Upgrade the range of Dragoons as soon as possible? Do photon turrets come out to defend? … At this moment, many coping plans flashed through Lin Shanya's mind at once. But Lin Shanya immediately felt that these coping plans were not very good methods. And at this time, Liu Zhulang has already made a way to deal with it.
The coping method he chose was not any of the many methods that Lin Shanya thought of at this moment, but as soon as he saw the method adopted by Liu Zhulang, Lin Shanya couldn't help but smile slightly.
The reason why Lin Shanya laughed was because Lin Shanya found that with Liu Zhulang's current state and level, she didn't need to worry about him anymore.
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Liu Zhulang didn't use the reduction of the dragon knight's production to upgrade the dragon knight's range as soon as possible, and when most people thought he would do it, he immediately added another crystal, and then another barracks.
"Three Barracks Start?!" After most of the people let out an exclamation, they found that after putting down a crystal and a barracks, the originally open passage in front of Liu Zhulang was so narrow that only two mine-laying trucks could drive side by side.
"What a trick!" When Fang Shaoyun couldn't help but applaud Liu Zhulang's move, he also ignored one point. Among Liu Zhulang's informal masters, there is also a sword from the west, flying immortals outside the sky, and seeing Lin Potian, who was the first in the world at the beginning of the move.
At this time, Liu Zhulang had just integrated the mastery of these grandmasters and used them as he wanted.
When Nine's two mine-laying carts roared in, Liu Zhulang made a dragon knight, but one of Liu Zhulang's forks and this dragon knight blocked the intersection.
When the reinforcements of the third minelayer arrived, Liu Zhulang's second dragon knight also walked out of the barracks.
Of course, Nine also saw that Liu Zhulang's move was like an antelope hanging its horns, which was very wonderful, but at this time, his state was also at its peak.
In the eyes of many people, his three minelaying vehicles did not have any advantage over one fork and two dragon knights in such a narrow area, but after gathering the three minelaying vehicles, without the slightest hesitation, he directly commanded his three minelaying vehicles to rush towards Liu Zhulang's troops.
While the audience was in an uproar, Nine added another heavy work in the base. This third heavy industry has only one meaning at this time, that is, nine wants to start a thorough decisive battle with Liu Zhulang before Liu Zhulang's ore division.
Three minelayers are indeed not advantageous in such a small area. However, Nine knew very well that the speed of his mine-laying car was definitely faster than that of Liu Zhulang's dragon horse. Even if you lose a little more minelaying car, as long as you can keep consuming the dragon knight who is chasing the waves, the situation is still absolutely favorable to you.
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As soon as Nine's three minelaying trucks rushed up, Nine's heart was happy again. Because Nine suddenly found that although Liu Zhulang occupied this narrow intersection, his terrain advantage was much smaller than he imagined.
Because at this time, Liu Zhulang's back was an open flat land, and although Liu Zhulang's troops occupied the passage, they were also unable to retreat.
In Nine's original calculations, it might cost him three minelayers to kill a fork and a dragoon. But when NINE's two minelayers burst, one of Liu Zhulang's forks and a dragoon had also been killed by NINE's forcible mine-laying operations.
It was only with the help of a new dragon knight that Liu Zhulang was able to block the remaining mine-laying vehicle of NINE, and did not let NINE's mine-laying vehicle rush into the base through the gap.
Two mine-laying cars killed a fork and a dragoon, Liu Zhulang definitely suffered a big loss, and at this time, nine's mine-laying cars had already rushed towards Liu Zhulang's intersection one after another. Nine fought very resolutely, in this case, Nine has given up any idea of expansion, and he has only one goal, that is, he can't directly rush Liu Zhulang to death, but also drag Liu Zhulang to death.
(To be continued)