(Add update for the "Frostfang Claws" brother [3/5])

The Wolves of the Astral Plane made a big fuss, making a mess of the front line defenses in the Shadow Valley, and the Gnolls took advantage of the opportunity to follow up as the wolves retreated in the ice fog, taking advantage of the Winter Wolf Legion's efforts to reorganize their defenses, taking two of the three drawbridges in front of the valley in one fell swoop, and launching an assault on the last drawbridge.

The key moment is also the player's quick reaction.

When they realized that the gnolls were going to take the bridge, these aliens who had just fought with the astral wolves rushed over as fast as they could, and fought with the gnolls for more than an hour under the leadership of a group of high-end players who rushed back to the valley, but they were not allowed to cross the bridge.

The players withdrew from the battlefield as the Nords regrouped in the rear, but even then, the defenses of the Shadow Valley had been partially disintegrated.

Then the last bridge was in the hands of the jackals, and a standard urn was formed.

Aware of this risk, Command commanded five pairs of wheels, and the players walking in the tunnels carried out several attacks on the area occupied by the gnolls over the next two days and three nights, trying to force the gnolls back to the rear.

However, this strategy has already been spied on by Hügson.

It knew that it had reached a critical moment at this point, and as long as it could break through the last defense of the Tranians in the Valley of the Shadows, it would be able to occupy this point and grasp the intricate system of tunnels in the Barren Mountain region from the source, completely defeating the Trancian ambush strategy in this narrow area.

Therefore, Xu Gesen not only did not return to the defense, but instead devoted all his elite to the attack on the Shadow Valley.

They took a primitive but effective offensive, with Shügesen sending out all the kobolds under his command to dig new tunnels beneath the mountain and sneak into the valley.

This movement could not be concealed from the priests of the earth.

The kobolds would collapse as soon as they dug a tunnel, but the gnolls also used clumsy seismographies in the rift of the valley to peel back the mountain and create a second path besides the drawbridge.

The two tasks were carried out at the same time, and with the huge numerical superiority of the gnolls, the priests of the earth were busy with their feet on the ground.

Anyone could see the sinister intentions of the gnolls, and the defenders of the valley realized that the day of the decisive battle was approaching.

The two sides on the surface face off in preparation for the final showdown, but in the tunnels, the intensity of the encounters has been raised to a new level.

"There are kobolds in front and behind! Boss, we can't rush out, this group of dogs is blocking us. ”

The "Pride of the Tribes", a large guild among the budding newcomers, is on a daily mission to reclaim the water source, but they are in danger as soon as they pass through the tunnel, and the team of fifty people is blocked in a narrow tunnel by kobolds.

After realizing that a vicious battle was inevitable, Chen Long decisively ordered his team members to follow him to the mission location.

Kobolds can't stop them, this is already the consensus of players.

If the Gnolls don't plan to hunt the electorate or send out brutes, then this little obstacle is not enough to make the player abandon the mission.

As Chen Long expected, in the face of their fierce attack, the armed kobolds blocking the way in front of them quickly broke apart, but before the players could break out of the tunnel, a violent psionic crackdown erupted along the stone walls around the tunnel.

"!"

Before Chenlong could let out a roar of rage, a large chunk of dirt fell from the top of his head in a tremor, crushing his brother in front of him.

This is just the beginning.

Soon more Lysis was unleashed, and after a few minutes, the entire tunnel collapsed, and the heavy dirt weighed down on the players, suffocating them quickly if not immediately.

The shallowest of the tunnels dug by the dwarves is five meters from the ground, and it is impossible to break the surface and rush out, so this kind of "terrain killing" is basically unsolvable in this situation.

Not only did the tunnel cleavage bury fifty players, but it also buried more than a hundred kobolds along the way, but the Bloodscar priests who performed the cleavage at the back of the pit didn't look at it, nor did they go to clean up the ruins, and after recording the kill, they turned and left.

Clearly, the Jackals have lost interest in this "underground peek-a-boo" and are beginning to deal with the underground threat in a more efficient way.

The news of the tragic demise of Chenlong's squad was quickly posted on the forums by the angry leader, in this way to warn the other players and communicate this change in the details of the war to the command.

It's a good thing he didn't bring his most expensive set of dwarven plate armor with him when he went out today, otherwise this loss would have been enough to make Chenlong vomit blood.

"Another tunnel collapse? How many times has this been? ”

The current leader of the command, "Five Pairs of Wheels", has realized that something is wrong, and he has used chat tools to pull a group offline, and through the summary of young staff officers, a new situation has been reflected.

"There have been five tunnel collapses in three days, which is an unusual number, sir."

Domestic 007 concluded:

"I discussed it with my classmates, and I think the gnolls are deliberately using this kind of 'terrain killing' to limit our tactical interspersing and free movement, and we checked the structure of several collapsed tunnels, and found that the gnolls are not creating a collapse at random, they are artificially dividing our tunnels.

They are compressing our space and forcing us to abandon our flexibility to move through tighter terrain, and the end result of this tactic is that we are squeezed into unreachable tunnels and forced to fight the gnolls head-on.

They don't have heavy weapons, but they have found a way to restrain us. ”

"One more point!"

Domestic 013 The female staff officer also spoke:

"I think it's the Jackals performing a 'scare' tactic, and when the players realize that the tunnel they're in is likely to collapse at any time, we become cautious in our actions, and even if the players are not afraid, the NPCs who follow the players will be afraid.

They are demoralizing us in this cruel way.

We have to find a way. ”

"The Earth Priests are now caught up in the kobolds' constant digging into the valley and the gnolls splitting the mountain, and they can't find the time to help us reopen the tunnel."

The five pairs of wheels groaned and said:

"So, the actions of the Jackals are not a single masterpiece, this is a unified overall plan, do you have any ideas?"

"My suggestion is that instead of waiting for the gnolls to intimidate us, we should do the same."

Domestic 013 proposed:

"There's no need to stick to the original exit shaft in the tunnel, allowing players to move freely and launch a 'pressure' battle against the Gnoll base camp with more frequent cold guns and cannons. They're also carbon-based creatures, and they need rest too!

Our players run after the fight, quickly move through the tunnels, and bury them if they have the courage to chase them. ”

"Well, yes, what else?"

"I've found that some players have reported that they have seen more than one time that the gnolls are chasing the astral wolves for fresh meat, and those astral wolves are hard to find and are avoiding direct conflicts with the gnolls, if we can find a way to intensify the conflict between the two sides, at least we can contain part of the gnoll's energy."

Another staff officer said:

"We have an advantage in this, the Gnolls do not have a systematic air force, and their reconnaissance is far inferior to ours."

"Since we are talking about the Air Force, why can't our Air Force directly launch an air attack on the Jackal base camp?"

Domestic 007 asked suspiciously:

"Didn't there be a vampire tactic that used aerial bombs before? There are more of those big killing weapons, we can completely blow them up, air supremacy is a very important part, but I haven't seen Qin Ye use this advantage. ”

"The arsenal is producing weapons for replacement, and they don't have the manpower to produce excess high-altitude explosives."

The five pairs of wheels explain:

"But the good news is that we will soon have new guns available, several times more than the meagre firepower we have now, but we will have to keep going until the new weapons are delivered."

"What about explosives? The supply of ordinary explosives should be enough, right? ”

A young staff officer, who had rarely been discovered, suddenly said:

"If we borrow the existing tunnels and dig tunnels under the gnolls' base camp without relying on the Earth Priests, rely on the earthwork of the players and NPCs to dig tunnels under the gnolls' base camp, choose a good location and bury enough explosives.

Make them a 'dirt plane' and try it.

Even if we can use this chaos to carry out a central flowering operation against the enemy's base camp, even if it is just to boost morale, I feel that we should give it a try.

In fact, I've always wanted to say, can't digging tunnels be done without the Earth Priests?

Our predecessors were able to dig tunnels quickly and well with sapper shovels, and they always relied on the priests of the earth.

The old tunnels were blown up and new ones were dug.

When the old tunnels were discovered, they dug out of the surprise and continued the battle.

This is the essence of flexibility in tunnel warfare.

Now it is convenient to rely on a complete tunnel system to fight, but it has also lost the core of flexible change.

I'm willing to go to the front line myself and try it as I want.

I was a sapper before I went to the military academy, and I think it works, I need some people and enough explosives.

Five days! All I need is five days! ”

"003, that's a nice thing to say, but you really just want to go to the battlefield and have a good time, right?"

"Hey, if you find out, you just say it's okay, right? How can you be a good staff officer if you don't have 100% confidence in your tactical plan? ”

"Good!"

The five pairs of wheels thought for a while, and clapped the board and said:

"I can mobilize and carry out a raid of about 1,000 people according to your proposal, and as for the players you need, go and recruit them on the forums yourself. Others mobilize players and NPCs to unblock the blown up tunnels, and 003 is right, wouldn't we be fighting without the Earth Priests?

Since the KPA has been issued with an engineer shovel, it is to use it in the right place.

Qin Ye gave us the command of the Shadow Valley, even if it was just for our face, we will defend it until we complete the task! ”

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The authorized "domestic 003" is very happy.

This guy happily boarded the game, did not wear his KPA staff officer's military uniform, but changed into a set of veteran leather armor like other Meng Xin, took the expert adventure assistant supported by Qin Ye, and left the headquarters in a decent manner.

He had just chatted with Chenlong on the forum, and after learning that this guy had a plan that could help him and his brothers vent their anger, Chenlong readily agreed to cooperate, and asked him to go to the tavern to find his brother Hai Pig.

Hai Pig also got the news, and waited in the box on the second floor of the tavern in advance, and saw 003 push the door in, and the vampire Hai Pig was stunned for a moment.

"Hey, you're a member of the command with your ID?"

Hai Zhu asked curiously:

"Don't you take part in specific actions? How? Made a mistake and was fired by Qin Ye? ”

"Hahaha, you're going to let me get fired."

003 laughed, and didn't say anything more about the headquarters to Hai Zhu, he knew that many players were speculating about the identities of these "professionals" recruited by Qin Ye, so he skipped to introduce himself and got down to business.

He took out a general map of the Shadow Valley, pointed to the two points on it, and said to Hai Pig:

"Brother Chenlong probably told you, right?

We're going to have a special tunnel operation, you see, this point is the central area of Tunnel 5, and the distance from here to the current base camp area of the Gnolls is only 7 kilometers in a straight line, and we have to dig a tunnel with our hands for the next five days to reach their heart area, and then complete an underground blast with explosives.

I've been authorized to send about 1,000 troops to our Gnoll base camp as soon as the first phase of our operations is complete. ”

"Damn, that sounds exciting! It's a dirt plane! ”

Hai Zhu laughed, and his wings were fanned on his back, but he quickly pointed to the map and said:

"No, why did you choose Tunnel 5? Obviously Tunnel 11 is closer to the gnolls' station, isn't it more convenient for us to start digging from here? ”

"Because it has been discovered, there have been 25 battles of various sizes around Tunnel 11 in the past seven days, which is a high-risk area, and there is a high probability that earthwork there will be discovered. The first priority of this operation is to ensure concealment. ”

003 patiently explained:

"And the gnolls aren't stupid, their psionics are constantly monitoring what's going on beneath the nearby ground, so I chose Tunnel 5 after careful selection.

It is 61 meters from the deepest part of the earth's surface, and the general depth is also about 30 meters, which is one of the deepest tunnels dug by the dwarves, so our earthwork is not a straight line, to be precise, we have to dig a three-dimensional tunnel with an inclination of about 11 degrees, in order to ensure that the psychic will not be detected when approaching the destination. ”

"That's a lot of work."

Hai Zhu frowned and said:

"We don't have a shield machine in our hands, so we have five days to dig with our hands. Okay, huh? ”

"If you look through the examples in the forum, you will know that the difficulty of such a soil work is not even ranked in the top 50 in the war years of our ancestors."

Domestic 003 shook his head and said:

"It's really not that hard, the only problem is time, which means our players may need enough willpower."

"'Our players,' that's a strange statement, and it makes you look like you're not one of us."

Hai Zhu flicked his tongue, shook his head with a "old qualification" look, and said:

"Brother, it's not good to break away from the masses, you are also a player, since it is the plan you proposed, since the boss has agreed, then the remaining seventy or so brothers in our guild have nothing to say, just do it!

It's a tribute to the ancestors, when did it start? ”

"Now if it's convenient."

003 shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Without further ado."

"Okay, you wait for me to gather my men."

Hai Zhu was not ambiguous, and immediately went to the forum to call friends.

003 grinned, feeling that the players were so reckless and cute, they seemed to trust their own people forever.

Thinking so, 003 stood up and planned to go to the tavern to experience the daily life of the players, but as soon as he pushed the door open, he saw the "star player" Giant Shark walking out of the next house with a weak face against the wall, and the Giant Shark wiped the kiss marks on his face and neck with a handkerchief as he walked.

Talking about "it's too exciting", what kind of nonsense like "I'm still young, don't be like this".

When he saw 003 looking at him curiously, the old shark blushed, and a good Vam berserker actually ran out with his face covered and ashamed, as if he had been discovered for doing something bad.

Domestic 003 curiously glanced at the house next to her, and just saw that the shadow elf proprietress of the tavern was wearing quite "simple" clothes and was leaning against the door to experience some afterglow just now, she drank wine, and shook a wink at 003.

Now, the simple 003 finally knew what the giant shark was doing.

it!

Is this game so violent!

It's 18+, awesome, bro!

Domestic 003 is also a good boy, and he ran from the second floor to the first floor as if he was running away, and was about to ask for a glass of wine and a giant shark to ask for some interesting details, but then he was stopped by a bear-like Nord soldier.

"Hey, I just heard from the guys of the 'Pride of Nothing' mercenary group that you're organizing a surprise attack on the Gnoll base camp?"

The drunken Nord wiped his mouth and said:

"My brother was killed by the Gnolls, and my other brothers don't want to go on vacation with an unfinished failure, will your plan work? Do you still need manpower? ”

"Blanch, the players' 'rigorous' sense of secrecy is really desperate."

003 slapped his face and eyes, he sighed, looked at the giant man in front of him who was three heads taller than him, and said:

"You just left with me, won't your chief trouble me?"

"My chief was bitten to death by the astral wolf, Colonel Basomiyan was wounded again, and we are still waiting for reassignment, and now we are free to move around during our vacation."

The North guy rudely scolded:

"Don't say anything with your head on your waistband, why are you so busy? You just say it's okay, right? ”

"How many of you are there?"

003 says:

"I don't want people less."

"More than 200 people, counting more wounded soldiers, is it enough?"

"Well, okay, bring the sapper shovels, call for people to gather, and we'll go at once. But there is one rule, you must obey orders and listen to commands, it doesn't matter if your own head is gone, if you cause the defeat of the battle, you have to wait to go to court-martial. ”

(End of chapter)