Chapter 351: A War Without Martial Ethics (VIII)
Although players are generally free-spirited and willful, they do at least some tactics.
Since we know that the enemy is heading straight from South Street to Central Avenue, even a standard PVE player like me who usually only likes to lead a group to kill monsters and has little interest in group battles, PVP, and monster battlefields, knows that there should be an ambush tactic here...
After all, the Chinese people grew up watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and playing "Three Kingdoms" IP games. No matter how little interest they have in war, they can still count a few of the Thirty-Six Strategies.
Of course...knowing tactics doesn't mean a player can execute them professionally.
The players had no idea of the importance of concealment, and they were exposed countless times when they gathered in ambush points on both sides of the central avenue - that was how the undead that the Red Flame Serpent Legion had to drive away so many times came to be.
Even the players who successfully reached the ambush site had no idea how to write the word "serious"...
"Keep quiet, the enemy is coming, don't expose yourself!"
Three minutes before the enemy entered the ambush circle, in the back alleys that were crowded with undead and as noisy as a vegetable market, a PLA brother with the ID "Qitian" couldn't help but remind the players in his group.
This brother whose ID is Qi Tian, his real name is also Qi Tian.
He joined the army two years later than Ji Tang and was a comrade in the same war zone.
When he and another comrade entered the game, they got the novice set from Ji Tang, which saved them the effort of brushing zombie NPCs and moving bricks.
By getting the novice set before others, coupled with his own strong combat power (which came naturally), he quickly became friends with the newbies in the third test and even became a senior executive in a decent-sized blood alliance.
After spending more than a month (Earth time) together, Qi Tian and his comrades have barely adapted to the players' unfocused character when doing anything serious; but in this formal occasion of fighting with the local regular army, the players' attitudes are still so casual, and Qi Tian really can't adapt to it.
"Yeah!" Several players squatting near Qi Tian nodded vigorously.
Before Qi Tian could be satisfied that these long-term friends were indeed more reliable, the players who had been clinging to Qi Tian's thighs since the third test started to yell: "Brother Qi said quiet down! Stop making so much noise!"
"If you want to chat, let's do it later. We are on the battlefield! Be serious!"
The players in the same group responded with laughter: "Okay, okay, everyone stop talking, the fight is about to begin!"
“Quiet, quiet!”
Qi Tian: “…”
Qi Tianzheng had a blank expression on his face as a group of players came running into the already narrow back alley.
When the players saw the crowd that had already filled up the alley, they shouted, "Damn, there are people here too?"
"Go forward! Go forward!"
"Brothers, please lend me the way so we can pass!"
Two groups of players were crossing each other in an alley that was narrow to begin with and could only accommodate a small two-seater carriage. From time to time, shouts of "make way, make way", "Dude, stay close to the wall", "Why doesn't this crappy game allow people to play through characters" and so on were heard.
Qi Tian, whose face was pressed against the wall, didn't want to say anything...
It’s said to be an ambush for the enemy, but people hiding in the alley behind the street can even hear the noisy noise coming from the alley across the street. This really can’t be called an ambush!
Qi Tian, who was extremely annoyed, quietly opened the team channel, hoping that some player commander would emphasize to these idiots the importance of concealed actions.
The team-forming mode of this "game" can bring players from different teams into one group to form a large group, or it can bring players from different teams into one channel to form a super large group.
In this kind of super large group, team members cannot speak in the team channel. Only the team captain and the team leader can speak in the channel.
Then... in the team channel where only the captain and the team leader can speak, at the serious moment when the battle is about to begin, the screen is still full of nonsense:
"Gays, add me, I'm the big brother Lahong!"
"Gay, add me, I'm a big vanilla pudding, with a beautiful voice and a big body, good at sex!"
"Chinese Valentine's Day is coming soon, and I don't know how my wife is doing recently, whether her work is going well, whether she is happy in life, what her name is, and where she lives."
"Wake up, you don't have a wife... ah you really don't have a wife, that's okay."
" Is there anyone who wants to take my number? I want to adopt my number. My name is Ziqiang. Adopt me. Only rich ladies are allowed~"
…and so on.
Qi Tian just glanced at it casually and felt a pain in his balls again, so he closed the team channel.
These crazy guys, are they going to be able to do anything?
Qi Tian had no choice but to silently hope that everything would go well... He had also read a lot of the intelligence about Dutata City that Zhao Zhenzhen had collected. The more he knew about this place, the more it made people feel physically uncomfortable. Qi Tian really hoped to be liberated as soon as possible.
Qi Tian was feeling worried when he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the street outside.
With a tense heart, this dedicated PLA brother quickly opened the team channel and spoke with his team leader authority: "Everyone, pay attention, the enemy is coming!"
As soon as the message was sent, Qi Tian's message was pushed up by the frantically refreshing "Monsters are coming" and instantly disappeared above the message box...
Not only in the team channel, Qi Tian also heard countless players excitedly shouting "Monsters are coming", "Attention", "Get ready", etc., which made his eyes go dark.
"We are clearly setting an ambush, why are we alerting the enemy?" Qi Tian also wanted to roar regardless of the consequences.
Just when this PLA brother was about to collapse... groups of armored cavalry rumbled through the streets, and the enemies on horseback didn't even look at the streets on both sides.
Qi Tian: “???”
Qi Tian was stunned for 0.5 seconds before he finally reacted - most of the natives couldn't hear the sounds made by the players. They could only hear the sound of the upper and lower jaws of the skulls controlled by the players colliding!
With just these few clicking and wah-ah-ah noises, of course the marching cavalry regiment could not hear them.
In other words, as long as they can get to the ambush site smoothly and in time, no matter how noisy they are, it won't be a problem...
" Is this the real reason why Lord Yang let the players possess the skeleton? Lord Yang also knows that the players will not follow tactical common sense, and possessing a carrier that can make normal sounds will cause trouble?"
Qi Tian couldn't help but think too much...
While he was daydreaming, the screen of the team leader's pen suddenly cleared and a conspicuous bold red font appeared: "Get started!"
Qi Tian, who was participating in a super group event for the first time, hadn't reacted yet when the players squatting with him rushed out shouting excitedly.
Qi Tian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he followed the crowd out...
Having spent such a long time in Exile Town with a bunch of newbies in the third test, they had fought against spiders bigger than round tables and monsters of all shapes and sizes. However, this was the first time for Qi Tian to see these players fight against the local regular army at close range.
It has to be said that even Qi Tian, a PLA brother who knows very well that players are just ordinary people, was shocked by the players' overly unrestrained fighting style.
It was naturally very risky for infantry to raid the marching cavalry. Many players who rushed into the enemy's army were directly swept under the horses' hooves and turned into white light on the spot.
Despite the staggering losses, the players had no idea what regression meant.
The cute girl who usually cried for a long time when clearing the spider nest, even though she saw the people in front of her turned into white light right before her eyes, she still threw herself into the torrent of heavy armored cavalry without fear...
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of players were transformed into white light and sent back to the resurrection point; and thanks to the players' fearless and courageous spirit of fighting, the cavalry team was intercepted.
After stopping the enemy on such a wide road with only six lanes, the players relied on the fact that they had enough people, could afford to die, and the resurrection point was close, and frantically penetrated into the enemy's position.
Qi Tian, who had practiced
There were about 10,000 players who managed to rush over and set up an ambush in a hurry. However, despite their large numbers, the gap in combat power was quite large. Just a few seconds after they intercepted the enemy, hundreds of players were sent back to the resurrection point.
But... this casualty rate is still not enough to deter players. No matter if they are knights, warriors or fragile walkers who can resist a little longer, they all bravely rush into the enemy's position and use their skills.
As soon as the ones in front die, the ones behind will take over, leaving no chance for the enemy troops that have been divided into pieces to reassemble themselves - anyway, this place is really close to the resurrection point!
The teleportation point that Lahong and his team had first sent over to was located in the carriage parking lot. The straight-line distance from this section of the street was only two hundred meters. At the player's speed, it would only take a few seconds to get there!
The only mage players who didn't charge into the battle line stood on the sidewalk without caring about their lives, throwing curse magic into the crowd... Even if they were killed by a light cavalryman with a bow, the mage player would run back not much slower than the warrior or knight player.
This is a perfect interpretation of what it means to be indifferent to life and death, and to fight against it if you don't agree.
Qi Tian initially tried to use his fighting skills, but he found that it didn't work; after all, the power of the undead was really unreliable, and it was impossible to knock a professional soldier, whose weight plus armor and weapons weighed at least 200 kilograms, off his horse by just relying on grappling skills.
After trying a few times, this PLA brother simply gave up on treatment and just kept fighting and running back and forth like an ordinary player...
After the initial panic of the Red Flame Serpent Legion officer passed, he soon discovered that the individual combat effectiveness of these undead was even weaker than he had imagined.
The vast majority of the undead are only slightly stronger than slightly trained civilians, and only a very small number can barely reach the threshold of quasi-professional level and can fight with his soldiers for a few moves before being hacked to death.
But this discovery... is of no use at all!
The Red Flame Serpent officer, swinging his command sword vigorously and hacking at the undead under the protection of his personal soldiers, chopped into white light two undead who were shamelessly pulling at his thighs (actually trying to steal his sword), then anxiously took the time to look up and survey the battle situation.
After taking a look, the officer's forehead was covered with cold sweat...
Although he had killed countless undead, his army was still in a miserable state as it was overwhelmed by the undead army!
At first glance, all you see are densely packed bald skulls!
What’s even more terrifying is... the officer discovered that there seemed to be more and more undead on this street!
"Is this an illusion?! It must be an illusion!"
The officer could hear his own heart beating very fast, and he couldn't tell whether it was because he had just killed several undead in a row, or... because of fear!
He couldn't help but want to ignore this unacceptable reality - the number of undead seemed to have increased from three times that of his own side at the beginning to four times, no, five times that of his own side!
It is a basic quality for a professional officer to visually estimate the approximate number of people moving within the visual range, not to mention that he has 3,000 soldiers on the scene for reference, so the possibility of error is not great.
But the more the officers observed the battle situation instinctively, the more they resisted accepting this reality... They couldn't kill them all, and there were more and more of them. This was simply a nightmare!
"If we had known that the number of Tarantan Undead had increased so much without our knowledge, we should have joined forces with the National Guard before taking action. It would be too reckless to rush into the city like this!"
This thought flashed through the officer's mind with annoyance .
It was no use regretting now. The fierce battle situation did not allow the officer to beat his chest and stamp his feet. He had just taken two breaths when several more undead broke through the defense line of the bodyguards, stretched out their evil and dirty bone claws, and grabbed the officer.
The officer gritted his teeth, saved his energy to curse, and killed the undead that tried to offend him one by one.
The officer had also heard about the tragic scene of the Knights of the Order of the Fiery Sun being dragged off their horses alive by the undead. He could not tolerate being treated so brutally by this group of dirty undead!
The officer, who is protected by his personal soldiers, is not at risk of being captured for the time being, even though he is wearing good equipment that is extremely valuable in the eyes of the players.
His 3,000 cavalrymen, who were also coveted by players, were not as lucky as their officers.
The officer didn’t remember how many undead that tried to offend him he had killed. When his breathing frequency increased to the point where he vaguely felt that it was a bit difficult to breathe, one of the cavalrymen who had been resisting ten minutes tenaciously finally failed to knock away the claws of the undead that were grabbing him in time, and was dragged off his horse by several undead that were close to him...
“Aaaaaa——!!”
The exhausted heavy-armored cavalry let out a long howl in despair, and tried to resist by waving their sore limbs vigorously, but it was useless. Countless bone claws were still pulling at the gaps and buckles of their armor, and they were dragged away with the harsh sound of metal rubbing against the ground...
The unfortunate heavy cavalryman's companions' eyes turned red. One of them roared and tried to rush over to rescue him. However, because he leaned forward a little on his horse, the lizard horse trapped by the undead failed to speed up in time to give him the mobility to escape from the undead. An undead seized the opportunity and stretched its hand under his butt, pulled him to the side and front, and used inertia to knock him off his horse...
With a loud bang, the heavily armored cavalryman, who weighed more than 250 kilograms including armor, fell off his horse and hit the ground heavily.
Qi Tian, who had used a miraculous move, quickly retreated to avoid being crushed to death.
"As expected of Brother Qi, awesome!!"
The players in the same group all gave the thumbs up and worked together to move forward, some dragging people, some picking up weapons, and some leading horses.
