Chapter 529 Our War (XI)
The Innadri Broadcasting Station released the "War Preparation News" smoke bomb, delaying the annihilation of the Nosk Federation Vanguard Army by forty-eight hours. There were two purposes for this.
The first purpose was to serve politics - to expose the true face of the Rhine royal family, let Prince Hood and the eldest prince expose the irreconcilable contradictions between the local and central governments in the Rhine, and let the Rhine royal family expose themselves in front of the people of the whole country.
The newspapers that the royal family urged the royal capital newspaper to print and distribute across the country, "respectfully inviting friendly countries to come and help", will forever nail the royal family to the pillar of shame; from now on, anyone who wants to summon the souls of the Rhine royal family and restore the traditional feudal monarchy in the Rhine Kingdom will be drowned by the spit of the people of the whole country without the need for the undead regime to take action.
The second purpose is to serve the military - to show weakness to the enemy in order to confuse the enemy and attack them unexpectedly.
Of course... the Nosk Federation is full of talented people. After losing contact with the front-line vanguards for too long, someone would always notice something was wrong. Yang Qiu did not expect that broadcasting a show of weakness could delay the war for long. The Rhine People's Army rushed to send the prisoners back to the rear, and Yang Qiu released the undead army and officially launched a counterattack.
For the players, it was like they had just finished a large-scale battlefield the day before, which was frustrating in the process but still had a great result, and the next day another large-scale battlefield activity was opened.
What is open this time is the "National War Copy", where you can explore new maps while fighting on the battlefield, which is as exciting as it can be.
What makes players a little unhappy is that when pushing the map, they have to follow the friendly NPC, can't be too far away from the friendly NPC, and have to protect the friendly NPC, otherwise there will be no resurrection point & teleportation point...
Teacher Yuchi did not have classes on Monday morning. After attending the school flag-raising ceremony and a meeting, he hurried back to the staff dormitory, put on his helmet and entered the game.
It was still morning on Earth, but it was almost dusk in the game. Mr. Yuchi, who was online in Exile Town, hurried to the Undead Canteen. Taking advantage of the fact that there were not many players online in the morning on weekdays, he happily completed a few daily tasks of the Chamber of Commerce.
Next... According to his usual gaming habits, Mr. Yuchi should have gone to find life players to team up with and go out of Exile Town to practice gathering together. However, he did not go to the Life Lane to form a team. Instead, he accepted a "frontline material supply" mission in the Undead Canteen and received two boxes of "mission props" from the Chamber of Commerce NPC.
After stuffing two boxes of mission items into his bag, Teacher Yuchi hurried to the Exile Town teleportation point and was directly teleported to the "battlefield map" - the territory of the Nosk Federation and the Principality of Lionel.
The Principality of Lionel probably never dreamed that the Kingdom of the Rhine, which had invaded with a large army, would still have the power to counterattack, and there were not many troops stationed on the border; the border troops, which had been taught a lesson by three thousand undead at the beginning of last year, had no power to resist the surging undead army, and were swept away by the undead in less than twenty minutes.
The Undead army that had entered the enemy territory was even more uncontrollable. They robbed all the way from the border... ahem, and pushed forward inward. On the way, they would rob any organized military forces (private soldiers of the nobles & town garrisons) they encountered, and would continue to advance if they didn't. In one night (Earth time), they had reached the foot of the royal city.
The friendly forces, composed of 4,000 friendly NPCs (Rhine People's Army) and 600 logistic civilian NPCs (Rhine grassroots cadres), were marching at full speed to barely keep up with the undead army, which was in chaos but not scattered, and was unrestrained and unrestrained.
At this moment, standing outside the friendly NPC camp and looking to the northeast, about two kilometers away, tens of thousands of undead armies are encircling the principality's royal city from multiple directions and multiple points, and from time to time, skill lights are flashing under the gradually darkening sky.
“Why are there so many people online at this time?”
Teacher Yuchi came out of the battlefield teleportation point , looked in the direction of the battlefield, and without hesitation... turned around and walked towards the logistics civilian NPC who was handing in the task.
As a casual player, Teacher Yuchi usually does not participate in battlefield battles; even in the great battle in the eastern part of Odysseus a day ago, Teacher Yuchi just played a supporting role, followed the main force to die a few times and then squatted in the back to do nothing.
After handing over the two boxes of supplies brought from Exile Town to the logistics NPC, Mr. Yuchi skillfully interacted with the logistics NPC and accepted a battlefield logistics mission that did not require combat:
"Gathering Fodder"
The supplies needed by the human army, such as food, weapons and ammunition, can be transported by players at any time, and the consumption of horses must be replenished on the spot.
It is obviously impractical to let players cut grass. These skeletons are not afraid of cutting themselves, but you can't expect these guys who have to rely on takeout to feed themselves to be efficient in farming... The easiest way to get fodder is to exchange supplies with locals.
After accepting the mission, Mr. Yuchi followed the NPC's instructions and walked around the soldiers who were busy setting up tents for the night and came to the rear of the camp, which was as simple as an open-air autumn outing camp. Two female logistics NPCs (clerks) and a dozen players were already waiting there, and a long row of human-powered tricycles was parked next to the team.
"Teacher Yuchi is here too?"
Players who would ignore the exhilarating siege battle and run to do non-combat missions must be casual players; these casual players who were waiting for the mission to begin all knew each other well, and one of the skeletons with a gentle, mature and female voice greeted Teacher Yuchi in a friendly manner.
"It's Yujia's mother." Teacher Yuchi walked over with a smile, "I don't have classes in the morning, so I came up to play for a while."
Yu Jia’s mother is a housewife, and her child is a student at Teacher Yuchi’s school. The mother and daughter applied for the “Alien World” internal test account at the same time during the third test. The mother passed successfully, but the child was rejected because he was a minor... What a sad story.
"I came in early and finished a round of tasks. I'll do a few more tasks and then go offline to buy groceries." Yu Jia's mother chose a "male character" who looked particularly majestic even though he was just a skeleton. She said happily, "I sold my reputation a while ago and got a few months' worth of groceries for free. The child's father is too embarrassed to say anything to me."
"Yu Jia's father has no right to say anything to you. Playing games is better than playing mahjong." Teacher Yuchi agreed with a smile.
After waiting for a while, a few more casual players came and made up a total of 20 people. The two clerks leading the team announced the departure, and Teacher Yuchi and Yu Jia's mother skillfully rode their tricycles and followed the team...
The first group of players who ran the fastest found the capital of the duchy two hours ago (Earth time). With such a big city there, the players naturally didn't care about the small fish and shrimps around it, allowing the suburban towns to escape.
The Rhine People's Army arrived at the scene more than two hours later than the main force of the Undead Army, and had no time to care whether there were any remaining resistance forces around the Principality's royal city... After more than twenty hours (in the alien world time) of high-intensity marching, with only a few hours of short rest in between, even the earth lizard horses with Warcraft bloodline were almost exhausted, not to mention the humans.
Although the Rhine side did not harm anyone, the locals were frightened by the mighty army of undead and human troops... The towns and villages around the Rhine camp were all closed, and there was no one to be seen.
The clerk led the tricycle team collecting fodder into a village and knocked on every door.
The locals who heard the young woman's voice and came to open the door with courage, saw that the tricycle fleet parked outside was full of undead souls, and naturally cried for a while... until the experienced clerk thrust the supplies for exchanging fodder in the locals' faces and explained their purpose with gestures, and they calmed down a little.
The locals would naturally not refuse to exchange horse fodder and beans for oil, salt, hot sauce, noodles, high-calorie compressed biscuits, dried meat and other supplies. After visiting one village, a convoy of twenty tricycles were all filled with fresh grass and fodder beans.
After transporting the fodder back to the camp, the two clerks asked the undead if they were willing to continue the mission. After getting their answers, they loaded up the supplies and continued on their way...
After repeating this three times, the already exhausted clerk could no longer bear it and declared the mission over.
The casual players who had just completed three repetitive tasks were not satisfied so easily, and ran to other forage exchange groups to receive tasks...
The "Collecting Fodder" task was not stopped until it was completely dark.
"I have to go buy groceries. I'll log off first, Teacher Yuchi." Housewife Yu Jia glanced at the Earth time displayed on the system interface, said hello to her friends, and teleported back to Exile Town to log off - if you log off in Exile Town or other main cities, you can do the errands of transporting supplies to the front line when you log on.
Teacher Yuchi decided to eat takeout, but he still wandered around the camp and continued to look for logistical tasks to do.
At eleven o'clock in the evening of the alien world time, the capital of the principality was breached, and the army of undead, which had been "fighting bloody battle" for more than six hours, cheered and rushed into the capital.
Jerome, who had just had a quick rest for a few hours, was woken up and, with sleepy eyes, called everyone to assemble.
After gathering the soldiers who had forced themselves to get up and assemble, Jerome went to pick the undead "assistants".
Seeing Teacher Yuchi, whose ID is "Your teacher is always" above his head, passing by, Jerome immediately waved and greeted him: "Undead warrior, please come over here."
Teacher Yuchi trotted over enthusiastically...
After gathering several hundred players who looked like Mr. Yuchi and were "helpful and casual players" who did not participate in battles and just wandered around in the camp, Jerome, who was almost sober, led the team into the city to receive prisoners and recover the players' spoils.
In the Lionel Palace which was almost emptied by the army of the undead, Jerome met the Archduke who tried to escape through the sewers but was caught by the undead.
Witnessed by Ms. Shirley, who represented the Rhine Civil Service Group, and Tattle Joe, who represented the Rhine Lords Group, Corps Commander Jerome, who represented the Rhine officials, had an in-depth and friendly conversation with Grand Duke Lionel. The Grand Duke signed a truce letter in good faith, promising to oppose the unjust war launched by the Norsk Federation on behalf of all the citizens of the Principality, and promising not to provide civilians, troops, food and supplies for the aggressive war launched by the Norsk Federation.
Legion Commander Jerome also reciprocated the favor, promising that the Rhine People's Army would help the Grand Duke restore order in the royal capital before leaving, and that the combatants and non-combatants captured by the undead would not be "packed away" but would be released later.
As for the property that was robbed... and seized by the undead, both sides wisely ignored it.
Leaving behind a historical photo of the two sides signing the "peace agreement", the Rhine People's Army then implemented the agreement, arresting looters in the royal city of the principality and restoring order in the streets.
Teacher Yuchi and other casual players who had taken on logistical tasks like her diligently helped count the prisoners and register the spoils collected from the participating players...
"It's still faster to earn reputation by participating in the battlefield. Capturing a prisoner will earn you 100 reputation points. How much do we get after completing a mission?"
The casual player who was helping to count the prisoners said with envy.
"That's not the case. There are certain requirements for joining a battlefield group. If your equipment is not good, the leader will not take you. Even if he takes you, others will think you are a drag." Teacher Yuchi did not have such an idea. He said calmly, "It's easy for people like us who only do missions. We can get by with a set of novice clothes. We are more flexible and can log off at any time if something happens. We don't need to ask for leave or report to anyone."
"That's right. Just getting that set of equipment will cost a lot of money, and the operation must be able to keep up, otherwise people will look down on me for being clumsy." The greedy player muttered, "Forget it, I'll just mess around."
Teacher Yuchi played until nearly two in the afternoon, and only logged off because he had to prepare for class.
By the time Teacher Yuchi finished teaching for an afternoon and had dinner and went online again, it was already dawn in the game.
The main force of players has also left the capital of the duchy and is sweeping towards the next destination... and pushing forward smoothly.
Teacher Yuchi didn't have the energy to follow the player's army around, so he accepted an "escort mission" and just followed the friendly NPC army... The escort mission was boring, but the reward was stable. As long as you stayed near the friendly NPC, you could increase your reputation regularly.
The speed at which the NPC army moves cannot catch up with the speed of the player's large army. Fortunately, these natural disasters are not fully focused on getting on the road... They rob cities when they see them, rob noble manors when they see them, and bypass civilian villages and towns while cursing, so that they don't leave their friendly forces too far behind.
After more than ten hours of high-intensity "marching" (game time ), late at night on Earth, Mr. Yuchi, who thought the escort mission was too boring and ran back to Exile Town to practice his gathering skills, heard from a casual player who had infiltrated the Blood Alliance that a large group of players on the battlefield had been "triggered" to a random battlefield.
Well... actually, the player army has already rushed out of the border of the Principality of Lionel and engaged in battle with the border troops of the Kingdom of Kashmir.
Teacher Yuchi's eyes lit up, and he immediately finished collecting supplies and ran back to Exile Town to accept a mission to transport supplies to the front line. He returned to the front line with two boxes of supplies, and excitedly continued to complete logistics tasks in the friendly camp where they stopped to set up camp...
The Kingdom of Kashmir, one of the four axis powers of the Norsk Federation, has a population of over 100 million and a land area approximately equal to three dimensions of Germany on the Earth. It has abundant soil and water and a pleasant climate. If it had not been incorporated into the Norsk Federation , its international status would have been within the "multiple powers" category of the "one superpower and multiple powers" in the eastern part of the Napoleonic continent.
The Kingdom of Kashmir, which already possesses considerable military power, was the leading country of the Federal Republic that responded to the invitation of the Rhine royal family and sent troops to "help" its friendly countries. Half of the boxes of gold sent by Prince Hood were happily accepted by the Kashmir royal family.
Among the federal legions captured in the vanguard, four cavalry regiments and two infantry regiments belonged to the Kingdom of Kashmir… It was also for this reason that the noble officers of Kashmir were qualified to come forward and discuss the division of the war dividends with the federal generals.
Of course... With the vanguard army completely wiped out, the discussion about division was meaningless.
Only four and a half days had passed since the vanguard army was annihilated and the Principality of Lionel was breached. Before the Federation could react and the Kashmir royal family had time to respond, the border troops were faced with a severe challenge - an army of two hundred thousand undead invaded the Kashmir border at night.
The battle officially started the moment the Kashmir border camp was exposed to the players' field of vision, and no one could stop it...
"I'm not going to log off tonight. I'm going to play all night long!"
Countless players cheered similar slogans, and swept towards the enemy camp in the night in an unstoppable manner.
The Kingdom of Kashmir was known for its strong military power, and the combat effectiveness of its border troops was not bad, and was even stronger than the capital garrison of the Kingdom of the Rhine. However, no matter how powerful the conventional troops were, they could not withstand the wave of natural disasters for long in the unfavorable environment of night. A group of players who clamored to play all night had not even reached the early morning when the border army's defense line was broken.
"Damn, this is too weak!"
The slow players didn't even catch a single prisoner, and they spread out in all directions, cursing and trying to catch a few wild monsters...
As a result, the Kashmiri noble manors and farms near the border suffered - any building with aristocratic emblems was a monster spawning point for players.
Even so, players were still quite dissatisfied, and they angrily criticized their friendly forces (human NPCs) for being useless; not only were they slow to move, but they also had to set up camp to rest at night, which slowed down the pace of monster spawning...
Tattle Joe, who stayed up all night to receive the prisoners despite feeling sleepy, had veins gradually bulging on his forehead.
Another group of players brought prisoners back to "deliver" and continued to talk dirty. Tuttle raised his hand behind his back with an expressionless face, took out a longbow, and shot several players in succession in front of a group of dusty prisoners.
“Fuck! Not only is he a drag, but he’s also killing people! Are the NPCs in this game going to be awesome?!” The newbies in the fourth test were all stunned.
"I told you to keep your mouth shut when there are high-level NPCs around." The veteran players gloated.
Yang Qiu, who was in Moses Port, stood up from his chair when he saw the large group of players successfully enter Kashmir.
"It's time to fulfill the agreement."
Yang Qiu, who had been waiting patiently for a long time, walked out of the Moses Port City Hall in high spirits, summoned the bone griffin, and flew to the east.
