Chapter 183: The Flames of War Begins
Because all this happened too quickly, knowing that the gun-wielding killer was killed by Xiao Hei, Li Mengting reacted, and asked in hindsight: "Xiao Hei, are there other killers?" ”
After spewing out a mouthful of flames and burning the body of the gun-wielding killer, Xiao Hei quickly rushed back to Li Mengting's side and replied to him: "That's right! I've solved it though! ”
"Oh! That's good. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut what is that? I thought I could lead to a few virus killers! It turned out that it was humans who ran into it first! ”
While Li Mengting was complaining, Xiao Hei had already destroyed the body of the killer who was killed by her dagger with flames. The man immediately called the police and told them about her assassination.
Of course, Li Mengting didn't expect those police officers to find out the instigators behind those killers, after all, since those guys dared to send killers to kill her, it proved that those guys were not afraid of these investigations at all. In fact, without investigation, Li Mengting can guess who the masterminds behind these killers are, as a qualified businessman, she knows one thing very well, that is, taking people's wealth is equivalent to killing parents. It's no surprise that those rivals would send someone to kill her. Her only regret is that she failed to attract one or two virus killers.
Early the next morning, the news of the assassination of Li Mengting, the CEO of WhatsMiner Company, spread all over the world, and when this kind of thing happened at the juncture when the virtual reality game of the digital world had just appeared, the onlookers who ate melons immediately turned their suspicious eyes to other big game companies that competed with Shenma. Unlike the foolish people in ancient times, now these well-informed melon-eating masses are better than the other. Although those game companies have launched a refutation of rumors after the incident, the psychology of the people who eat melons is bright, and they will not believe the quibbles of these guys at all.
For those disturbances from the outside world, Ives didn't pay much attention to them, and their current energy was all invested in the digital world, especially Song Desheng, the base team leader who lost his strength due to serious injuries, and even after entering the game, he began to practice frantically, hoping to recover his strength as soon as possible.
Due to the previous operation to rescue Long Aotian, Ives and the others can be said to have directly taken over the beam with those Vanderskerie pirates, so in order to hit this enemy as much as possible, Ives and the others also aimed at the pirates who were active near the Fields Coastline.
Unlike the stand-alone version of the Mount, in the Digital World, players cannot recruit recruits from various countries directly from various villages, and in order to recruit new recruits from that country in those villages, players must join the country and become the lord of the village after gaining a certain amount of prestige before they can recruit soldiers from that country in the village.
Therefore, at the beginning of the game, the only soldiers that the player can have are the various mercenaries in the tavern. Even Ives, the child of prophecy, was no exception. However, the mercenary mercenaries were frighteningly expensive compared to the regular army, and by the way, Ives, as an expedition hero, was the most expensive mercenary in the human camp before. Therefore, in order to save money as much as possible, Ives and the others did not use this normal channel to hire soldiers to expand the army, but specifically selected those pirate gangs with prisoners to attack, and after defeating those pirates, they rescued those prisoners from the other side and filled their troops.
At the same time, Ives, who is experienced in the game, also told everyone to use blunt weapons to meet the enemy as much as possible when they have the certainty of victory, so that they can only stun the pirates without killing them. Then they can turn these stunned pirates into captives and sell them to those slave traders. In the process of dealing with those slave traders, Ives and the others discovered a terrible fact, that is, the slave traders on the Pander continent seem to be in the hands of Ramon. This can really be said to be an extremely amazing fact, after all, on the war-torn Pande continent, slave traders are almost all over the continent, and the slave catchers and wealth in the hands of these guys are an extremely huge force.
According to a conservative estimate, if Ramon mobilizes the resources in his hands with all his might, he will be able to arm an elite army of about 20,000 people in just a few days, which is almost equivalent to the entire military strength of some weak countries. This also made Ives figure out why they were entangled by the dozens of thugs in Ramon's manor before, because according to the huge strength of Ramon's men, those dozens of thugs are almost equivalent to those king's Praetorian Guards! If you think about it this way, it's not surprising that those guys are so strong. Fortunately, Ramon's guy is obviously a guy who only loves money and not power, otherwise, this guy could completely subvert a certain country at any time and make a king.
After more than a week of hard work, Ives and the others all trained to level 30 and above, and at the same time, they also relied on the method of rescuing the prisoners from those pirates, and raised an army of more than 1,000 people. Although the arms of this army are really a little miscellaneous, there should not be too many requirements for these soldiers who can get them for free. In addition, by selling the booty and pirate prisoners of war, Ives and others made millions of dinars in this short period of time.
With the rapid increase in the strength of Ives, the rulers of the Fields Kingdom suddenly couldn't sit still, after all, an army of more than 1,000 people was already a large force, if they were at war with other countries, this uncontrolled army suddenly broke out, it would definitely be a huge disaster for the Fields Kingdom.
Therefore, in order to eliminate this huge hidden danger, Vidis, the king of Fieldsway, who was preparing to start a war with the Kingdom of Sarion, simply sent people to hire Ives and them as the vanguard of the attack on the Kingdom of Sarion.
However, it was not only the Fields family who thought of fighting those players, and the rulers of the Kingdom of Sarion were not stupid, and they also hired a group of players as spearheads to deal with Fieldsway's tentative attack. Moreover, the Kingdom of Sarion is even more ambitious, and the number of players hired and its private troops has reached a staggering more than 5,000 people.
And Ives and them, they only learned the news after they set off, when they learned that the vanguard army of players sent by the Kingdom of Sarion on the opposite side was actually more than 5,000 people, they almost had an urge to turn around and run with the troops, after all, the game of riding and slashing is a realistic game, even if you are really strong, it is impossible for one person to easily destroy thousands of people like in some games. Under normal circumstances, no matter how good your equipment, high technology, and strong attributes are, then you can only deal with dozens of top soldiers at most. Of course, some guys who open a third of the damage and turn the battlefield size to the minimum and concentrate on a single brush don't count. Among them, Shi Jinshui, a lewd guy, used to like to play like this the most, and in the later stages of the game, some wild monster group armies with thousands of people, this guy can be destroyed by himself with a kite stream. But there is no benefit at all in doing so, except for a little bit of weakness and exhausting yourself half to death. Only a game otaku like Shi Jinshui who is idle and has nothing to do would do such a thankless job.
And in the digital world, it is obvious that players will no longer be given this kind of convenience, once the war starts, all the armies will naturally appear at the same time, instead of a small team of brushes out for you to kill slowly. Therefore, in the face of a huge military disparity, even Ives, a veteran of the battle formation, is completely unsure of winning this battle.
However, after some discussion, Ives and the others decided to continue the fight. After all, this time it was King Vidis of Fields who personally invited them to participate in the war, which shows that their force has already aroused the idea of King Vidis, and as long as they win this battle, the other party is likely to throw an olive branch to Ives and make him a vassal of Fieldsway. This is definitely a great thing for Ives, who has begun to slowly get into a bottleneck in their development.
You must know that as a world that is still in the feudal period, the autonomy of the vassals of those kingdoms is very high, and you don't see the protagonists of many online novels, after crossing into the different worlds where civilizations came out of the feudal society, you have to try your best to get a territory where you can make your own decisions! That's because after you have a territory of your own, it is more convenient for you to develop your own power! After owning a territory of your own, you will have enough reserves and stable taxes, and you don't have to go to the tavern to hire mercenaries who are expensive and not very good at fighting, and you don't have to be busy fighting junglers all day long to make money in order to make up for the army's military expenses.
So in the face of the possible lucrative gains, Ives finally decided to take a gamble. In order to increase their chances of victory, Ives decided to go on the defensive. After deciding on this grand strategy, Ives and his team immediately ordered their troops to stop advancing, and then chose a terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and began to build a defensive line.
While Ives and the others were busy building defensive lines, the players hired by the Kingdom of Sarion were leading their private soldiers to fight this way. They have an absolute advantage in strength, and they all feel that this time their side is definitely winning.
"Humph! That damn Ives, he actually dared to kill Young Master Ben before, this time I must let him taste my awesomeness! At the front of the team, a player in gorgeous armor muttered to himself with a strong look of hatred on his face, it was clear that he was one of the players who had planned to rob Ives of the Dragon Tears Gem, but was killed by Ives. And it seems that this is still a master who is not short of money, otherwise he would not have pulled up such a large army in such a short period of time.
Just as the player, whose game name is RMB, is marching towards the battlefield with his army in a hurry, a friend of his suddenly sends him a message.
"RMB, that Ives just made his troops stop advancing and began to set up the defense line in place, it seems that he has made up his mind to defend it."
After seeing this information, RMB couldn't help but be shocked, once the other party calmly arranged the defense line, then even if he could win this battle, the loss would definitely be indispensable, and most of the army in his hands was hired by him with real money! Although he has a lot, he will feel distressed if he dies too much, after all, this damn digital world is frighteningly expensive in terms of various prices and army employment fees, and in order to pull up this army, he has already invested more than 10 million yuan in the game.
In order to prevent the other side from successfully arranging the defensive line, RMB made a quick decision and sent all the cavalry units in his hands to prepare for a surprise attack on the enemy army that had not gained a firm foothold. As long as the cavalry can hold off the opponent for a day or two, he can rush to the battlefield with his infantry and crossbowmen and launch a final general assault on the enemy.
Compared with other types of troops, the hiring price and salary of cavalry are much higher, so even the cavalry in the hands of local tyrants like RMB is only more than 600, including 30 expedition heroes, 20 expedition heroines, more than 150 adventurers and almost the same number of female adventurers, in addition to 50 Cato combat cavalry and more than 300 Cato lancers. In order to feed this cavalry unit, he had to spend hundreds of thousands of dinars every week, which is almost 200,000 according to the current exchange rate between the dinars and the real renminbi. More than 200,000 a week, this is just the cost of those cavalry, so this game burns money, or the powerful ability to make money. This is also one of the hole cards that Shi Jinshui was able to convince that Mr. Wang to invest in digital games.
Under the order of the renminbi, several of his cronies immediately led this cavalry force of more than 600 people to kill Ives's army at full speed, and under the high mobility of the cavalry, they only took less than half a day to reach their destination. At this time, Ives and the others had just set up their tents, and as for the defensive line or something, they only had to make a few pickets to resist horses or something.
Seeing this situation, the younger brothers of the renminbi were polite, and immediately rushed forward with their cavalry troops, and threw a large rain of arrows at the enemy soldiers who were having dinner, and shot dozens of people on the spot.