The first clash in the filthy swamp ended in four hours.

Although the intensity of this battle was high, the scale was actually not large, more than a thousand people were dispatched on the Gnoll's side, and the reinforcements were similar on the Translancian side, although the result of the battle was that the Translancian side won the victory, but this was not enough to affect the Gnolls' advance in the south.

However, this conflict also proved that Hygson's attempt to open a passage from the underground failed, and after knowing that the kobolds were digging around underground, the Transian soldiers, who were already familiar with the tunnels, went out under the leadership of the players, and the kobolds dug the tunnels would be raided by them with earthwork, and then the place would be blown up, leaving behind some mines or exploding rune stones as gifts.

Over the next few days, these covert encounters became more frequent, and the Earth Priests of the Silver Dwarves, who had taken the player's advice, were involved.

What was originally just used to move and carry things quickly has now become an "art of assassination".

Priests who have become ferocious by the angry will of Mother Earth will often carry large quantities of explosives, jump into the target area with precise geophysical techniques, silently plant the explosives, and flee before exploding.

Or sprinkle a large bag of vicious butterfly thunder on an area where the jackals think it is safe, and then hide nearby and watch the bastards scream in the explosion with a hearty sneer.

This kind of "Tuxingsun" type of vicious explosion without warning made the jackals even more suspicious, and there were also sharpshooters and sharpshooters who were spilled by Qin Ye in large quantities and hunted coldly in the swamp area.

Especially the gnolls hunters who are far from their base camps, although they are blessed by the lord of the hunt, they have to face dangerous swamp creatures and constantly guard against bombs from under their feet or arrows in the dark, and quickly become tired and nervous.

The gnolls were still pushing through the swamp, but the deeper they went, the more they could feel the web of death that had wrapped around them tightening.

Compared with the failure of the head-on confrontation, the barbarians are obviously more resistant to the current sudden death of no one who can see people.

But that's exactly what Command wants to see.

The swamp may not be able to stop the gnolls, but it will certainly leave a terrible psychological shadow on the gnolls that will weaken their will to fight when they reach the Maginot Line, while using all means to inflict more damage on the enemy, thus dragging down their logistics that are already on the verge of collapse.

This is not just a pressure tactic in asymmetric warfare, it is itself part of the "total warfare" constructed by the General Staff.

The assault on the Gnoll's food route from Fort Courage continues, and once the Gnolls are mired in the filthy swamp, the tunnels in the Barren Hills can be reactivated, and the vast area from the Maginot Line to Fort Courage will become a battlefield for the Tranians to fight.

The decisive battle between the two sides will indeed take place on the Maginot Line, but the scope of the decisive battle is definitely not limited to that line!

When the time is right, the warriors of Translancia will rekindle all the places they have fought and turn them into flames of war flying in the sky, completely shattering the black plague ambitions of the gnolls, and making this "natural phenomenon" that has plagued the continent for hundreds of years a swan song.

However, for Lao Qin and his young staff group in Wolf Castle, the special operation in this dangerous swamp was more like a "check and fill in the gaps" and "tactical upgrade".

The evaluation of the results of tunnel warfare in the barren mountain area is not good, and it has been proved that the rigid set of combat examples cannot be all-encompassing.

Now that the Command has reworked a new mode of action based on previous missteps, they have taken the psionic factor into account in combat, and have begun to use geo-movement and teleportation tactics more frequently to flexibly dispatch.

The most intuitive manifestation of this change in combat thinking is the sudden increase in pressure on the side of the jackals.

In the perception of Hygeson the Chosen and his Overseers, the Transians seem to have truly become ghosts in this swamp, and they have gone about attacking in a way that has reached a point of unscrupulousness.

In the past few days, he has lost more than three thousand pioneers, and this intensity has increased by more than one level compared to the tunnel warfare in Barren Mountain, and as for the casualties of the kobolds, well, no one cares about the kobolds at this time.

This is a provocation!

Hurgeson knew that the Transansians were using this method to force it to send more soldiers to sweep and clear the way it was going.

But it's also a trap!

If there are too many people, it will slow down the progress, and if there are fewer people, it can only give the other party a chance to break them one by one.

Despite the blessing of the Lord of the Hunt, once their warriors dispersed in the swamp, they were also targeted by the hidden Trancians, which had happened more than once in the past few days.

What's worse is that the morale of the pioneers has been severely damaged.

This damned swamp has been turned into weapons by the enemy, and what was supposed to be the most suitable terrain for the gnolls has turned into a rope to strangle them, and in this swamp danger comes not only from the enemies in front of them, but even a leaf under his own feet will seize every opportunity to try to kill the gnolls who come close to it

Anyone can become restless and restless in such situations, and gnolls are no exception.

Can't go on any longer!

You must end your warriors' hard march in the swamp as soon as possible, or your morale will soon be completely worn out by the harsh and dangerous environment.

It is true that the gods of the gnolls don't care who sheds blood, but Xu Gesen, as the commander, can't help but care.

"Keep going! Ignore their harassment. ”

Hurgesen quickly made a decision, and the harassment of the enemy was certainly a problem, but Hurgesen knew that he still had one last card to play, and that it would soon have enough manpower available.

"Where are the members of the Splitting Claw Clan now?"

In the advancing camp of the Filthy Swamp, Shügesen summoned a hunting priest and asked him, to which he immediately responded:

"Your people are passing through the Black Flame Pass, and they will be able to approach the Dark Valley tonight, where they will receive supplies and weapons, and then come here to join you in your conquest."

"Send someone to tell them and get them up to speed."

Xu Gesen ordered:

"Leave the old and weak women and children in the Valley of the Shadows, the remaining males must arrive here within three days, so that the hunters who have received the blessing are ready, and when the members of the Splittal Clan arrive, each hunter will lead twenty people as a patrol, and I will give these militiamen all the tasks of sweeping patrols and advancing forward.

My warriors just need to recharge their batteries and wait for the decisive battle to come. ”

"My lord! This will cost your people a lot of money! ”

The hunting priest was startled, and exclaimed:

"Elite warriors are not up to the complex environment of filthy swamps, and your people are fierce but inexperienced reserves, and the cannibalistic plants and explosives scattered here and there are enough to kill them."

"Aren't there kobolds?"

Xu Gesen said in a calm tone:

"Each patrol has an additional fifty kobolds, so that my people can avoid at least a few disasters before the kobolds are exhausted.

We must adapt to this swamp as soon as possible!

It's not just an order.

You may not know it, but the gnolls were born here, and compared to the Dark Mountains, this swamp is our true home, how can we be afraid of the home where we have grown minions."

The Chosen One sighed and glanced at the dazed Hunting Priest, whose expression led to a guess that the guy might have thought he had gone mad.

But it didn't bother to explain this, just waved its paw and let it relay the command.

On the other side, in Wolfsburg.

Lao Qin, who was collecting the results of several battles that had been completed today to evaluate the new tactics, got a definite piece of information, and after he saw the news that he was urgently sent back from Fort Courage, Lao Qin immediately summoned the members of the Avalon Church who were currently operating in the swamp and the president of the player guild "Pride of the Immortals".

In the case that elite players will be summoned by Lord Pa Ying to go to the Moss Valley to kill gods at any time, it is the turn of the former second-tier players to carry the banner of battle in the swampy area, but this is not a bad thing, just like a stage can never have only one singing, everyone should have the opportunity to perform.

Judging from the results of the previous battle, the combat effectiveness, execution, and combat determination shown by the second-tier players in this large-scale war are not inferior to those of elite players, which makes Lord Murphy and Qin Ye very satisfied.

"Miss Fimis, who is in Fort Courage, has just sent back the exact information! The members of the Splitting Claw Clan are entering the Barren Mountains through the Black Flame Pass on a large scale, and the number is very impressive. ”

Qin Ye said to the NPC and player leader in front of him in his office:

"Those gnolls are either elite soldiers or the most ordinary gnolls, but they have reached the battlefield in a great migration across the small half of the dark mountains, and according to Fort Courage's estimates, the number of support is at least 300,000 or more, which is a migration that cannot be stopped by conventional means.

In other words, Hygeson will at least have enough male gnolls to supplement his troops, no wonder he dares to waste time with us here, that dog thing has been waiting for support, and we have been tricked by it. ”

"Black plague! This is the real black plague! ”

Old Eugene, who is currently leading the Avalonian believers in the battle in the filthy swamp, said with a serious expression:

"It's not the kind of battle that only the Gnoll warriors dealt with before, it's an all-out attack similar to the first four Black Plagues that leaves no bottom line, and the Gnoll in this state will burst out with the most extreme combat power in order to survive.

When their numbers reach a certain limit, their morale, destructive power, and marching speed are boosted!

Wherever such a black plague goes, there is no grass to grow, and even the current filthy swamps cannot stop their wild steps.

It seems that Hurgeson has lost the patience to continue the game with us, and it wants to crush all our defenses with this primitive and brutal quantitative warfare.

The beasts of the swamps, the carnivorous plants, will be swept away by them with extreme numerical superiority, a road will be opened to the Maginot Line, and the decisive battle will come sooner than we think. ”

"What about astral tears?"

After listening to the conversation, Chen Long hugged his helmet and said:

"If there is a stellar tear of the scale of the Black Flame Pass in the filthy swamp, tens of thousands of people can be wiped out at once, and no matter how many gnolls there are, it is only a matter of a few more times."

"Have you counted the area of the filthy swamp?"

The five pairs of wheels beside Qin Ye asked rhetorically:

"Even a stellar rift of the size of the Black Flame Pass would not be able to cover such a combat width, and Ugson would not be stupid enough to gather his army together and wait for us to annihilate it, and the astral tear would destroy the terrain, which would instead clear the carnivorous forest that would hinder the Gnolls from their advance.

Even if they were to use such extreme tactics, they would have to wait until they rallied on the Maginot Line.

Now that the numerical superiority of the gnolls has been infinitely magnified, the most correct way to deal with it is not to try to stop them head-on, but to dilute their forces

The General Staff made a plan for such a situation!

Launching the Astral Tear requires a huge amount of psionic energy to support it, and under normal circumstances, only the location of the psionic node can meet such conditions, and there are three psionic nodes in the Filthy Swamp, all of which are currently under our control.

With the exception of Wolfsburg, the other two nodes are on the flanks of the Gnolls' marching route.

There we can prepare for a astral tearing posture, inducing Hygson to send forces against us, and then use the special environment of the filthy swamp to hold them back.

However, this tactic can only barely weaken the advantages of some jackals, but it will not change the overall situation, and the Maginot line will soon usher in a real impact.

Let's hope Commander Kuder is ready. ”

"There is no end to the preparations in the rear, but judging from what we have gathered so far, thanks to the time gained from the three blocking wars, the integrity of the Maginot Line is already very high."

Qin Ye moved his fingers and said:

"Now there are not only Lord Kuder and tens of thousands of KPA soldiers who are recuperated, but also the Winter Wolf Legion and the Great Wilderness Legion from Nordtov guarding the eastern section of the border with the Crimean Fortress.

The western sector is home to the elite of vampire races such as the Knights of the Blood Alliance, the Blooddread Pirates, the Thorn Clan, and the Blood Vulture Clan.

Lord Murphy and Lady Triss sat there in person, as well as the dwarves and elves to support them, and the mountaineers of the Ancestral Woodlands sent as many young defenders as they could.

The westernmost part of the Maginot Line, Cato, had also gathered most of the Pioneer Legion, Loren's short man had even placed his marshal's camp in the Dorod Fortress, and the Plantagenet Kingdom had abandoned its foolish isolationism and no longer intended to sacrifice Transncia to the gnolls in exchange for time.

An iron curtain has fallen through the middle of the continent, and after the collapse of the Brass Fortress, the Maginot Line stands behind us as the last bulwark of civilization and the last backbone of all the righteous determined to fight the Scourge!

The battle of a hundred years ago is going to be repeated here, but we are stronger than then, and the opposite Xu Gesen is not a united alien commander like the King of the Biting Bone.

Brothers, more than three months ago, when we left Transia for the Black Flame Pass, only the lone Translancians on that position were intent on burning, but now, behind us, we have gathered the best power from the entire civilization camp.

If this can't be kept, then it can only be said that the fate of this continent is like this.

Don't think so much, our defense zone is in the filthy swamp! The gnolls haven't broken through here for a day, and we must continue to hold on here. ”

"Master Qin! Check out the forums! The development team has made a new announcement! ”

Just after Lao Qin said this morale-encouraging speech, the young staff officer next to him, Domestic 013, reminded him in a whisper, and all the players present opened the forum almost at the same time, and the latest post on the homepage was a prompt posted by a development team:

Good news! Good news! Alpha's second hardware production line is put into operation today, and it is expected that the production of gaming helmets will break through a new high in the near future! 》

I only saw this post that became a hot post of the day within a few minutes of being issued, and players from all walks of life were carnivaling in it as if it was the New Year, and Lao Qin suddenly laughed dumbly after being stunned, and it seemed that the pressure had weakened by a small half.

He didn't even look at the content of the post before returning to the game, looking at the players with different expressions in front of him, the old man shrugged his shoulders and grinned:

"Look, it seems that it's not just us who are anxious about this decisive battle, some guys who are sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai seem to be in a hurry, does this count as printing cards for players on the spot? So, with such timely 'off-the-field support', is there any doubt about our victory? ”

"Well, that's all that goes into this, so let's be more direct."

Chen Long looked left and right, and said to Qin Ye with some twists:

"Why don't you always use 'magic' and play a bean sprinkling soldier, I think more than 2,000 well-trained soldiers are obviously much more valuable than a group of budding soldiers in this situation."

"Alas, that's the next step, not to mention that 2,000 people can't start a group against the wind in this scenario, even if everyone is Rambo."

Qin Ye sighed and said:

"But I'll make a plan and keep it as an alternative."

(End of chapter)