175 Hard-to-go battles
The three major shipping chambers of commerce of the Zhoushui Alliance and the Zhoushui Shipyard used the simplest method to try to block the Bohai Shipyard on the large bronze nails that must be used in the shipbuilding, so that it could not continue to build ships.
However, this trick was obviously flawed, because they soon had now incorporated the two original bronze manufacturers in Bohai City, which had gone out of business, and were able to independently manufacture the large bronze nails needed for the cabin ships, and only needed to produce a small amount of bronze to meet the needs of shipbuilding, and there was no need to buy them from other walled cities.
This blockade of the Zhoushui Alliance failed to achieve any effect. The Bohai Shipyard is still rapidly building all kinds of transport ships, selling ships, and growing, and quickly annexing other player forces in Bohai City, uniting into a larger monopoly power - monopolizing the shipbuilding industry, researching large, multi-purpose ships, and even armed ships. A water overlord has already shown its momentum of leaping forward.
The Zhoushui Alliance immediately passed an emergency bill, and it must not allow the Bohai Shipyard to expand so unscrupulously.
Zhoushui Shipyard was forced to start building light, medium, and heavy cabin ships at the same time, and snatched player customers from all over the country with Bohai Shipyard, so that all the merchant ships on the Jihe River would not become Bohai Shipyard's ships.
The two shipyards inevitably entered into a direct confrontation.
These two have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Zhoushui Shipyard, relying on the vast Zhoushui Lake, has built as many as 20 docks. It is possible to build a large number of ships at the same time. And don't worry that there won't be enough lake to house these boats.
Even if you expand the dockyard by 100 more, there will be no problem at all. Moreover, the Zhoushui Alliance has built fortifications around the shipyard and fenced off the shipbuilding base, which is also safe.
The Bohai Shipyard, built on the banks of the Canglang River, has built more than a dozen docks, and the number of shipbuilders is a little less than that of the Zhoushui Shipyard, and there is not enough space for hoarding ships, which is limited. However, it also has a huge advantage, the Canglang River is much deeper than the Zhoushui River. Heavy cabin boats loaded with cargo can also navigate the river without hindrance, and even larger vessels have no problem.
It's just a matter of geography. It does not include anything else. In terms of strong financial resources, the local consortium behind Zhoushui Shipyard is strong. It was enough to crush the Bohai shipyard. However, in terms of shipyard technology, the two shipyards are now evenly matched, and there is no obvious gap.
Zhoushui Shipyard started shipbuilding at full capacity, with a daily output of 70~80 cabin ships. Sell the boat to all places, no longer limited to Zhou Shui. A large number of Zhoushui tank ships appeared in various river basins, directly squeezing the ground tank ships of Bohai Shipyard.
Bohai Shipyard immediately appeared this fierce opponent from Zhoushuihe, and did not hesitate to counterattack.
Solitude sent out some merchant players. Enter the vicinity of Zhoushui Walled City. Find out the location of the Zhoushui Shipyard. Subsequently, a raiding force of 300 men was dispatched. Equipped with excellent leather armor, war bows, and bronze spears, he tried to directly destroy the Zhoushui Shipyard by force. This is the easiest and most straightforward way to get rid of your opponents.
However, loneliness also makes the same low-level mistake as the three major shipping companies. That is, underestimating the strength of the opponent and treating the opponent as a force that is not very strong. Not a competitor who needs to go all out to defeat the other party.
Lonely did not find out the details behind the Zhoushui Shipyard, nor did he make careful deployment, so he directly launched a surprise attack by force. This can't be blamed for his carelessness, under the rapid expansion of his own power territory, the rapid annexation of other forces in the Bohai Walled City, and the extreme expansion of ambition, he still has a lot of important things to do, where does he have so much thought to carefully deploy every action?!
This 300-pawn raid force, led by more than a dozen players, entered the Zhoushui River system in a heavy cabin ship in the middle of the night, and went straight up to Zhoushui Lake against the current. There are a lot of merchant ships in the river, and it is not easy to attract attention, and it is easy to mix with the base of the lake to deal with.
There is no particular reason why heavy cabin ships are used to transport troops, and the heavy cabin ships have a maximum load of 300, which allows the raiding force to be completely loaded without having to be dispersed.
Their instinct was that since the Zhoushui Shipyard produced heavy cabin ships, the Zhoushui River must be deep enough to carry heavy cabin ships - it was indeed possible, but it had to be empty.
Because of this lack of understanding, they did not expect to be in big trouble halfway through the road - the heavy cabin boat ran aground on the river. The leader of this raid force was very annoyed, how could Zhou Shuihe be so shallow, he knew that it was better to use a light cabin ship.
This raiding force had to abandon the boat and go ashore, march quickly from Route 6, and go up the bank of the Zhoushui River to Zhoushui Lake. Although there was cover in the middle of the night, their raiding force could not hide their whereabouts at all, and the meaning of the raid had been lost.
The territory of Zhoushui Walled City is full of camps established by players, densely packed throughout the plain. Any foreign army entering the territory of Zhoushui Walled City will be quickly detected by ordinary players in Zhoushui. Even late at night, there are still players online.
The tens of thousands of players in Zhoushui Walled City are not a scattered group of players, and basically belong to the same player organization - "Zhoushui Industry, Commerce and Security Alliance". An alien army sneaked into the territory of Zhoushui, as long as it is revealed by a player, it will soon be known by other players, so it will not take long for the security department of the Zhoushui Alliance to know.
This 300 raid troops from Bohai City had only entered the territory of Zhoushui for more than ten miles, and before they could touch the land of Zhoushui Lake, they were intercepted by a bronze cavalry of nearly 1,000 troops. It should be mentioned that in order to protect the interests of the Zhoushui Alliance, the cavalry unit of the alliance has been expanded to three standing bronze cavalry forces of 1,000 people. They are deployed in three cavalry barracks ten miles away from the Zhoushui Walled City, surrounding and protecting the safety of the entire Zhoushui Walled City player camp. If an outside army tries to attack the camp of the Zhou Shui player, then these three bronze cavalry will soon be dispatched to encircle and suppress the incoming army.
The 300 raiding troops of Bohai City had not yet reacted, and this bronze cavalry army of nearly 1,000 people had already fanned them in a fan-shape. The players who raided the troops were stunned, surprised at how Zhou Shui's players' troops were dispatched so quickly, and they were still quite terrifying Bronze Cavalry troops. They were all infantry, and they would never be able to escape.
I only have to see if I can fool around and deceive it.
Blood Dance Sun, a member of the Little White Army, the deputy captain of this thousand-man bronze cavalry, rode out on horseback, and condescendingly asked the players in the middle of the 300-pawn army, "What are you doing?" ”
The leader of the raid unit, of course, would not admit that he was here for something, and quibbled:
"Don't do anything, wander around."
Blood Dance Remnant Yang said coldly: "Oh, from other walled cities, sneaked to our Zhoushui?" Looks like you're here to die, right? ”
The leader's eyes flashed, and he said loudly: "We are not here to fight with you, we are just passing by, you can't kill us!" Otherwise, we will sue Bohai and let the Great Chief of Bohai personally seek justice from your Great Chief of Zhoushui The Bloody Dance Remnant Yang sneered cruelly, "Oh, it turned out to be a brother from Bohai, I know what you want to do." Sneaking around in the middle of the night, it's either robbing or trying to sabotage my shipyard in Zhoushui. Since you won't say anything, then I have nothing to be polite about! He raised his shield and said coldly, "Brothers, don't use your swords and arrows, squeeze them all into the river for me, and feed the fish!" ”
This thousand-strong cavalry force immediately put away the bronze spears in their hands, lined up in a tight formation, held their shields, and squeezed towards this raiding force of only 300.
There is a question of the laws of the Yan Kingdom - whoever makes the first move and kills the other player's NPCs must pay compensation. If you are attacked and fight back in self-defense, you do not need to pay any compensation. This law applies to all the walled cities of Yanguo, whether it is the walled city of Zhoushui or the walled city of Bohai.
The entire assault results in a record of the battle report as evidence of who did it first, which is presented to the NPC officers as the basis for a ruling, and then reparations. Those who refuse to compensate will be punished according to the severity of the circumstances such as "expulsion from the hometown of the nobles of the Yan State and expulsion from the country".
Therefore, before killing the opponent's NPC, players must consider whether it is cost-effective and whether they can afford to pay compensation.
This raid force 300 did not dare to make the first move, and once it did so, it would be a malicious attacker and would be retaliated against by the other party at will. As for their sneaking to Zhoushui Walled City in the middle of the night, this cannot be regarded as evidence.
And the thousand-man cavalry did not want to take the initiative, and once they did it first, they would need to pay a lot of compensation.
The thousand-man cavalry troops lined up in a tight formation, jokingly squeezing towards the 300-strong infantry, squeezing them towards the nearby Zhoushui River. The pressure formed by the thousand cavalry was enough to push 300 people into the river.
There was no war between the two sides, no one was injured, and there would have been no war reports at all, let alone compensation.
The players who raided the troops immediately showed the cunning of this move, and they all yelled in panic and scolded, "Despicable, shameless, and obscene!" If you have the ability, you directly killed us, what kind of ability is it to use this kind of indiscriminate means? "Go to war, go to war immediately, they're going to squeeze us down the river!"