Chapter 459 Night Attack
Just after midnight, Taplin Heights was silent in the moonlight.
The Undead army fought for several hours during the day, from the afternoon until late at night. All the birds and beasts within a radius of several miles were scared away and probably dared not come back in a short time. Only the occasional sound of insects could be heard from the sparse grass in the entire high ground.
Two sentries were standing and chatting under the arrow tower when they suddenly saw a large number of undead pouring out of the lonely tent in front of the camp.
"Again?!"
The sentry, who had just had some peace and quiet, suddenly felt a toothache. One of them continued on duty while the other rushed back to the main tent in the camp to report to his superior.
The garrison officer who was woken up just before going to bed was also stunned for a while when he learned that the undead had come to gather again in the middle of the night...
Those guys have only been at a truce for less than two hours!
These undead spirits really never get tired, do they?
"Are these guys here to help or to find a place to fight?"
The garrison officer was full of complaints, but he forced himself to get up and run to inform Lowell in person.
"Don't pay attention to them. We'll talk about it in the morning." Brother Lowell, who had already changed into his pajamas, was not moved at all. "You should go back and rest too. If you find it too noisy, just find something to plug your ears."
Garrison officer: “…”
At the same time, outside the Shiga camp.
Qin Guan, who was teleported online, glanced in the direction of the NPC camp unhappily, ignored the sentry under the arrow tower, pointed at the camp gate and said dissatisfiedly: "Damn, the NPCs have run away again. After all, it's a battlefield activity, why do they have to go off duty when it gets dark? It's so disgusting."
"It's okay. It's convenient for counting the number of prisoners. We don't have to worry about someone grabbing the prisoners and secretly handing them over." Miaobishenghua, who came online at the same time as Qin Guan, said casually.
The one who was online for a while said, "Since the rewards for prisoners can only be settled at dawn, how about adding a rule that those who join the battle before dawn will not get any money? Otherwise, it will be troublesome to settle the accounts of people who keep joining and leaving the group."
"I agree." Mingfeng Chunpu was busy inviting members of his own blood alliance to join the group. Hearing this, he took the time to raise his hand. "The time from dawn in the game to 4 a.m. in real life is the maximum. If you play a large-scale battlefield activity, you can't even last this long and get any money. It takes more than this time to play a World of Warcraft group."
"I have no opinion anyway. The bosses have the final say." The girl who was obsessed with studying said obediently.
"To be honest, changing people and keeping track of wages in the middle of a 40-man raid can be annoying enough for a commander. For a large-scale event with tens of thousands of people participating, we have to keep track of who gets half the salary and who gets 30% of the salary. It's really annoying." Huanling also said, "Whenever we organize a large-scale event, we have to divide the money by an hour or so. It's too annoying."
Take the group of players for example... no matter how lively the team fight is, it doesn't prevent the two sides from chatting when they are living in peace; these two groups of people who shout at each other to focus fire during the fight can chat for hours about the issue of auction profit sharing without getting bored.
When a group of team leaders were discussing this offending rule, the alliance leaders, Brother Lahong and Qin Guan, wisely stood aside and said nothing.
When both sides reached a consensus, Brother Lahong stood up and spoke cheerfully, "Everyone has a point, but it's a bit too much to not share the money if you don't play the whole game. You can't be sure that others will have urgent matters, right? How about this, everyone who can play for three hours will be paid a salary, how about that?"
Qin Guan secretly cursed La Hong for taking advantage of him, and at the same time, he also seemed to be generous enough to stand up and agree with La Hong's proposal...
Heavy players all hate slackers and lazy people very much, but when organizing large-scale events in the game, slackers and lazy people are inevitable, and players who take the lead in organizing events must tolerate and even indulge the existence of slackers and lazy people to a certain extent. If they really want to completely eliminate slackers and lazy people, not only will the scale of the events fail to grow, but player organizations such as blood alliances, guilds, and gangs will also not be able to grow big.
People like Qin Guan and La Hong, who are interested in building a player force in the Blood Alliance, would never exclude all non-hardcore players... They would flexibly apply the reward mechanism to increase the enthusiasm of lazy players and win over these medium and light players to their side.
A group of player leaders discussed and perfected the allocation details, and the few players in the large group on the battlefield were all teleported to their locations.
"We broke into the enemy camp this afternoon. I'm familiar with the route. Let me command the first wave of attack." Ming Feng was simple and generous. He took the initiative to take the lead. "Fight a round first. After everyone has learned the terrain, we can discuss the next tactics. Let's see whether we should divide the troops to attack or concentrate firepower to attack all one route. What do you think?"
"No problem, Afeng, we can definitely trust him." Seeing this, Qin Guan also tried to sell his magnanimous personality.
After deciding on the tactics in a few words, the assembled Undead army... once again charged in a completely horrible and scattered formation, heading westward in a cloud of dust.
The garrison officer who went to the camp gate to check the situation reluctantly pinched his brows.
This Shiga officer has already acknowledged the fighting power of the undead - there is absolutely no army on this continent that can quickly recover its fighting power after a short rest after a six-hour continuous fierce battle - but he still feels that the fighting quality of these undead is too shameful to watch.
"Fortunately, they gave up their internal strife... Wait! Where are they going?!"
The garrison officer belatedly realized and stared at the undead army that had disappeared into the darkness.
"——Night attack?!"
Ten minutes later, the Barnes coalition camp was about forty miles away from the Shiga garrison.
"What did you say? Night raid? Undead?!"
The coalition commander, who had just fallen asleep, jumped up from the bed in a daze.
"Yes, General!" The sweaty adjutant grinned, "The undead are coming again, and they are attacking our camp!"
The commander of the coalition forces took a deep breath and woke up instantly...
The commander of the coalition forces hurriedly jumped out of bed barefoot and put on his clothes and armor. While anxiously fastening the buckle on his armor, he asked a series of questions: "What's going on? Aren't those undead fighting among themselves? Didn't our scouts see those undead fighting in front of the Shiga army two hours ago?"
"I don't know, General!" The adjutant was sweating as he helped the commander put on his armor. "Our scouts didn't have time to report back the information before the undead came. You know, the undead run no slower than lizard horses. Maybe the scouts have been tied up by them... just like what happened in the afternoon."
Generally speaking, in a normal war, it is impossible for one side to drive straight into the other side's camp.
When two armies are facing each other, whether in a truce or a war, they will inevitably send out scouts for vigilance; if there are spellcasters in the formation, there will also be a wizard's eye in the air to monitor the overall situation.
Once the enemy enters their own warning zone, the scouts on the ground and the Mage's Eye in the air can always find the target and transmit the news back to the rear in time; the defenders can respond quickly, send troops to intercept, or annihilate the isolated enemy in one fell swoop.
But this kind of normal battlefield common sense is not suitable for the undead army...
The Undead army attacked in the afternoon and was discovered by the Barnes coalition's ground scouts and aerial mage eyes twenty miles away.
And then...the coalition forces had no way of arranging an interception.
The reason was very simple. The attack formation of the Undead Army was ridiculous. When they ran out of the Shiga camp, they could at least see that it was a long snake formation. But when they ran into the Barnes coalition’s alert zone, the long snake completely fell apart and scattered everywhere...
What's even more outrageous is that these undead can always find hidden scout outposts (after all, players all have identification skills).
As long as they found an exposed scout post, these undead who were disorganized and didn't care about marching discipline at all would rush over in dozens or even hundreds and chase them relentlessly, making the coalition commander's offensive formation, which was already difficult to start with, even more disorganized...
Before the undead that attacked during the day retreated due to internal strife, the Barnes coalition suffered the most losses in the scouts, and both men and horses were lost.
"These damn undead spirits will never end!"
The commander of the coalition forces rushed out of the tent, cursing, and asked his adjutant as he ran towards the camp gate, "Where is Ms. Karina?"
"Ms. Karina was the first to discover the traces of the undead army and set out to intercept them six minutes ago." The adjutant said with a bitter face, "But... you know, General, these undead are not that easy to stop."
The coalition commander gasped again.
Ms. Karina was a black magician hired to provide battlefield assistance to the coalition forces. During the day, it was Karina's Mage's Eye that first discovered the undead army entering the warning zone and the first to intercept them.
That's right... As I said before, the undead's attack formation is so scattered that it is even more outrageous than a lake bursting its dam. Although the spellcaster's interception is effective, he can only block one place, not the other ninety-nine .
These undead had no intention of rescuing their intercepted companions. The rear was bombarded by the air strike spellcasters, while the undead in front and on the left and right sides were still happily rushing towards the coalition camp...
The quality of running away and laughing while getting beaten by teammates is not only possessed by PUBG players.
"No matter what - we must hold on to the camp! We can't let those damned undead rush in again!"
Seeing flames rising into the sky and countless undead souls rushing madly towards the camp gate from afar, the commander of the coalition forces roared with veins all over his head.
Directly in front of the camp gate, about five hundred meters away.
"...This is the general situation of the battlefield map."
After arranging the attack, Mingfeng Chunpu turned around and pointed at the heavily guarded coalition camp and explained to Miaobishenghua and Enbuteng, "This monster camp is very solid, with high and thick outer walls, dense arrow towers, and high damage from ranged monsters. We tried twice when we came to fight in the afternoon, but it was difficult to break through from the side. Only the direction of the gate was easier to attack."
"It's indeed difficult. The outer wall of this monster camp is almost like a city wall. It is completely different from the monster camps that appeared in the random battlefield before." Miaobishenghua nodded.
The Kenyan Empire's army has the only alchemical artillery firepower advantage on the continent, so of course they don't need to pay as much attention to camp defense as regular armies...
"As for the wizard boss, it's not a big problem." Ming Feng Chunpu looked at the spellcaster flying in the air chasing a few players behind the army of players, and said calmly, "This boss doesn't have much endurance. It will disappear after a few minutes. It will take more than an hour for it to appear again. You can ignore it."
The wizard boss will kill anyone he clicks on instantly, and also has an AOE group attack. Players are completely unable to defeat him, which is really annoying.
But since the Mage BOSS also has a mana bar limit, and there are tens of thousands of players and they are impossible to kill... then it's okay.
