Volume 3 Chapter 18: Successive Victories
After suffering a setback, the gang members finally became cautious and did not launch . Instead, they began to adjust their formation. A group of muscular warriors who looked like blood cows stood up. A group of mages whose team had shrunk a lot followed behind them, advancing slowly. When they reached a position 150 meters away from the defense wall, they stopped and started another fire attack to clear the remaining two-thirds of the thorn net.
Hehe, to be honest, you can't expect a little thing like the thorn net to be of great use. Maybe it can be effective in blocking mindless monsters from attacking the gang, but against players, it can only delay a little time. Of course, if we have large equipment such as catapults with ultra-long range, that would be a different story. However, now that the opponent is on guard, it will be difficult to achieve results by sending archers to fight, so I signaled the alliance members to wait and see.
But... I don't know whose idea it was, but on the wall, the members of the Thunder Alliance sang loudly: "Violent gang, vile gang, you are three levels more shameless and vulgar, you don't know your own limits and come to fight, you waste your energy setting off fireworks, you are cowardly and afraid of death, you'd better disband and go home, I will make you run away and lose your prestige!"
I was sitting on the podium, drinking tea leisurely. When I heard it, I spat out all the tea. I looked carefully and saw that Ah Wei was directing the chorus of the members diligently...
Damn, I knew this kid was weird. Fortunately, the lemmings are not here. If the two of them were to get along well with each other, I don’t know what kind of things they would come up with. However, I like this scene!
After singing, the alliance members collectively made the international hand gesture to the gang, followed by the classic move, clenching their fists, extending the index finger and thumb, palms facing inward, and placing both hands in front of the chest... Haha, all the people in the gang turned green, with sparks flashing in their eyes. Hehe, being irritated to this extent, I estimate that as soon as we clear the passage, you will all rush up and fight hard, and you will no longer notice the "gifts" we have arranged, right?
A quarter of an hour later, after consuming a large amount of magic potions, the gang's wizard finally cleared a gap of more than two hundred meters in the thorn net. About a thousand gang members immediately rushed over, most of them cursing. Of course, that kind of insulting and rubbish was far inferior to the taste of the Thunder League. Not only did the members not get angry, they just treated it as a joke.
The gang members rushed over with murderous intent, so we naturally wouldn't be polite. We rained down arrows and magic. Although the other side had learned to be smarter, with the knights leading the charge and the fragile mage archers falling behind, we had wasted so much time clearing the thorn nets. We had already deployed manpower and increased the density of personnel on the defensive wall facing their attack. The mage team and the archer team each had a dedicated commander. Every attack was focused on the target and shot at the same time. Countless knights of the gang were pierced into a hornet's nest by the heavy rain of arrows, or were hit by dozens of fireballs and lightning at the same time, falling off their horses one after another and turning into a group of light spots. On this section of the wall, the three archery guards NPC were even more powerful. The skill they used was "continuous shooting", which was more than ten arrows in a row in one attack, and the attack power was extremely strong. How many knight players have exceeded level 42 and learned "iron wall"? At least I don't seem to have found such "talents" in the gangs. Most of those who were unfortunately targeted by the archer guards were killed instantly. Even if there were a few with extremely high HP who withstood the first round, the AI of the level 50 NPCs was high, and they would not change their targets unless they eliminated their opponents! Once the second round of arrows was released, you couldn't replenish your HP even if you took medicine, right? Therefore, the precious high-level knights of the gangs were consumed in large quantities... Unfortunately, the archer guards were different from the sword guards. Once they were fixed in a certain place, they could not move. Otherwise, I would gather 42 archer guards together, and I estimate that none of these thousands of people would be able to rush to us!
After suffering more than a hundred casualties, the gang members finally rushed to 10 meters in front of the defense wall. Their mages and archers also began suppressing fire on the top of our wall. Naturally, we were unwilling to show weakness and immediately launched a counterattack. The long-range troops of both sides fought fiercely and the battle was difficult to determine for a while.
The gang's fighters and the few remaining knights took advantage of our firepower being tied down and accelerated their advance, intending to attack the top of the wall in one go. However, they ignored the ground below them...
In front of the defensive wall, groups of white light flashed, and the violent group members shouted in surprise and anger. Hehe, although the average level of thieves is lower than that of other professions, the Thunder Alliance is at least a gang with thousands of members. It is not a problem to find dozens of thieves who have learned the "trap" skill. In the hour after the declaration of war and before the war , I ordered these thieves to speed up the work and set a large number of traps along the foot of the wall... In theory, there are not many high-level thieves, and the traps are all crude products. As long as you pay attention, it is not difficult to find them. However, the violent group was so angry by Ah Wei's performance that they actually forgot a sentence that every child would be taught by their mother: "Watch your feet when walking..." As a result, most of the more than 100 people who rushed to the front stepped on the trap. Although this low-level trap has no lethality, being trapped for ten seconds and unable to move, how can we miss this opportunity? Three hundred elite masters who had been selected long ago, led by Ba Dao and Han Jiang, jumped off the wall and killed them!
The trapped members of the gang were in bad luck. Three hundred people rushed up and took advantage of the fact that they could not move, and chopped them down two by two without any negotiation. The other party did not even have a chance to fight back and was chopped to pieces. When hundreds of people followed, our 300 members fought and retreated, and quickly retreated to the bottom of the defensive wall, then turned over and climbed onto the top of the wall. The gang members wanted to take the opportunity to chop them a few more times on the back, but the members on the top of the wall who were well prepared and armed with long weapons, took all their attacks with weapons such as spears, lances and long swords, and brought back our attacking members.
After suffering continuous attacks, there were only about 700 members left out of the thousand-plus members of the violent gang. Logically, they had already witnessed the strength of the Thunder Alliance and should have known that nothing could be done. At the very least, they should have retreated, regrouped, and launched a second attack. But strangely, these people continued to rush up as if they were risking their lives, and engaged in a melee with our members on the wall.
At this moment, the battle entered the melee stage. The melee personnel of both sides were mixed together. The long-range attack profession could not play a big role. I ordered them to withdraw and rest, and mobilized the warrior profession members of the same number as the enemy to fight against them. After all, we have the advantage of defense. Except for a few members of the violent group who climbed up the wall, the rest can only stand under the wall and swing their weapons at the height of their heads, which is extremely inconvenient; and our members just need to chop down vigorously, and naturally have the upper hand. What's more, the violent group seems to have lost the orderly command. Everyone fights on their own. Under the command of the captains and team leaders, our personnel are divided into groups of 10 people, cooperating in combat, and attacking and defending well. Often, a violent group member stabs the enemy in front of him with a sword, but is blocked by the companion beside the opponent. The long sword in the opponent's hand and the long spear stabbed from both sides pierce into his body at the same time. The lower-level ones are killed in one round...
Within ten minutes, the outcome was obvious. The gang's members were getting smaller and smaller, and now there were only about 200 people fighting a desperate battle. The more than 600 members of the Thunder Alliance divided and surrounded them. It was a one-sided battle.
The remaining gang members fought to the death, but of course, they couldn't retreat now unless they used the random scroll to fly away. Under the siege of our allies, they were all killed in less than five minutes, and only the potions and equipment that had exploded were left on the battlefield.
The members cheered and started to clean up the station, but I frowned and asked Lonely and Xiaowu: "What do you think?"
"It was a feint." Lonely said with certainty: "Even if the gang was bad, there was no way they could let us win so easily, and their performance was too abnormal."
"Yes!" Xiao Wu continued, "And the most important thing is that no one has discovered the existence of the Violent King. In a gang war, it is impossible for the other party's boss not to lead the battle personally, and the equipment and level of this group of people are only average. It is certain that the other party's elite troops have not yet been dispatched!"
"Well, but the feint cost such a huge loss. The strength of the gang may be beyond our expectations! And they are not reckless to resort to such extraordinary means. We must prepare carefully for the next real battle."
Both of them nodded heavily. Victory is still a long way off!
In any case, the violent group could not launch a large-scale attack in a short period of time. The more than 1,000 people who just died would need an hour to rush back from Pojun City after resurrection. At this time, all the members of the Thunder Alliance were basically online, including the more than 100 people who just died and rushed back from the Samsara Hall in the base. There were more than 3,000 members above level 30. Many of them woke up late and were regretting not being able to catch up with this battle. I announced loudly: "Brothers, the battle is not over yet. The opponent's declaration of war time is 10 hours! The violent group will definitely attack again. The members who just fought can go and rest for a while. Brothers who didn't catch up, pick up your weapons and go to the defense line to guard it well! There will definitely be more battles to fight. Let's see if you can perform better than the previous brothers!"
After hearing what I said, the members of the alliance stood on the wall excitedly. The more than 1,000 people who had experienced the fierce battle were actually not satisfied. No one was willing to leave. They just sat down with their swords and guns to rest. Therefore, the number of people on the defense line was greatly strengthened. At this moment, it would be more difficult for the violent group to attack. To be honest, I still haven't figured it out. No matter how much the violent group expands its army, it can't develop into a large gang with more than 10,000 masters in one night. Without such strength, there is no way to defeat the Thunder Alliance. This alliance has been established for more than half a month, and its approximate size is no secret. How could their boss be so confident to declare war on us?
An hour later, several patrol officers came to report: "We have discovered a large number of violent enemy troops moving towards us!"
According to the detailed statistics in the report, the violent gang should have gone all out this time, divided into three groups: left, center and right, with more than 3,000 people coming.
I'm passing the order down, all alliance members are to be on combat alert, the enemy will appear soon!
Sure enough, almost at the same time, the lookouts shouted from three directions: "Enemy attack!"
I immediately ordered Lonely and Xiao Wu to command the situation at the east and west ends respectively, while I stayed in the middle to see if the gang would make any progress in the second round of fighting.
The enemy troops appeared. Well, they were not neat, but at least they were orderly. The knights and warriors led the way, followed by the ranged troops, and there were also special personnel at the end. The leader could organize the untrained members like this, and he could be said to have a command level above the standard. When they were close to the archers' shooting range, the violent group stopped, and a group of mages came out without any new ideas and began to clear the thorn net (this direction was not the location of the first attack, so the thorn net here was still intact).
What surprised me was that the other side didn’t send any soldiers to protect us. Didn’t they learn their lesson?
In this case, why should I be polite? Order a squad leader to lead a team of archers to slide down the wall, do as instructed, and strike hard at the opponent's mage troops first!
However, the situation changed from before. Arrows rained down, but the gang's mages ignored them and continued to burn the thorn web despite the blows. Well, are they really not afraid of death because it's a game?
I took a closer look and discovered the problem. These mages were all below level 30, and most of them would be killed instantly if hit by our archers. However, the enemy was obviously using these rubbish that would be of no use in actual combat as cannon fodder. Although the method was simple, I really had no good tricks to deal with it.
The archers easily wiped out the opponent's trash mages, but under that kind of attack that didn't care about casualties, the thorn net was also burned to pieces. At this time, the opponent's regular high-level mages came up and were covered by a large number of soldiers. The archers could no longer stop the opponent from destroying the thorn net, so I ordered them to withdraw.
The enemy's main force began to advance, and our long-range troops were not idle either. They "greeted" the "guests" very enthusiastically. Everything seemed to be a repeat of the first battle.
I coldly watched the gang members approach the defensive wall at the cost of huge casualties. Of course, this time not so many people stepped into the trap, and they started the battle of attack and defense on the wall directly. However, their performance was still poor. With the skilled cooperation of the members of our alliance, they did nothing except leaving a large number of corpses at the foot of the wall. Obviously, the main force of the gang was still hidden. Hey, what is this violent king up to? Even if he knew that he couldn't win, he had already declared war and couldn't regret it. He set such a strict victory and defeat condition. Since it was related to the survival of the gang, he should fight with all his strength anyway. Maybe a miracle would happen? How long will he keep this trump card before playing it?
Seeing my brothers killing the enemy and making them throw away their weapons, I couldn't help myself. The Tiger Soul in my hand was buzzing. Was it also thirsting for blood? Baby, be patient for a while. When the enemy's main force appears, I will definitely let you kill them happily!
The more the members killed, the more excited they became. The gang members could not even climb the wall, but were gradually forced to retreat. I was so greedy that I commanded the members to rush out of the defensive wall, outflanking the gang from the left and right, and surrounding the gang from behind. In fact, the difference in the number of people on both sides was not big. The gang could still break out of the encirclement if they concentrated their efforts at this moment. But I don't know if their leader had died or if the other side was confused and didn't think about it, but took advantage of our division to attack and killed back to the wall!
Oh, I see, they want to kill all of these people and get rid of our archer guards! Well, the idea is good. A level 50 archer guard is almost as threatening to them as a D-level Boss in terms of attack power. Many gang members died under the guards' arrows. If we can kill a few guards, there will inevitably be weaknesses in this section of defense, and their next attack will be much easier. Unfortunately, I was prepared. Not only did I put a small team of soldiers next to each guard, and issued a death order not to leave the guards for half a step. Their mission is to protect the guards, but I also specially arranged several priests to cast healing spells on the guards. How could the gang kill the guards in a short time? It was just a waste of the opportunity to escape. As the enemy members died one after another, our encirclement was closed, and it was only a matter of time to end the battle.
Twenty minutes later, we also defeated the gang's second attack. This time, all three of their armies were wiped out. We got a lot of equipment for free. Although most of them were garbage, it was still good to put them in the armory and let the low-level alliance members borrow them to level up.
It was almost noon, and the gang's third attack came! This time, their attack force was as many as 4,000 people. The reason why the gang could expand to such a scale in such a short time was explained by the intelligence sent by our insider: Last night, the gang was frantically expanding its army and announced that anyone was welcome to join the gang, and players over level 30 could get 10 gold coins as a membership fee (Oh my god, this is completely the opposite, in other powerful groups, the so-called membership fee is paid by players who want to join the gang). If they win the battle with the Thunder Alliance, each person can get 50 gold coins as a reward, and if they die, the gang will be responsible for compensating for the loss of equipment. Therefore, they quickly recruited more than 5,000 members, of which more than 4,000 were over level 30. Most of them joined the gang with the mentality of playing around, so they could participate in the first gang war of fantasy and earn 10 gold coins. Why not?
Damn, this violent guy is mentally ill. Even if he wins, the 200,000 gold coins he claims for compensation is not enough to pay bonuses to team members. Is it really that he has too much money and has nowhere to spend it?
However, 4,000 people outnumber the combatants of our Jinglei League, but without supporting troops, they are definitely no match for us even in a field battle on the plains, not to mention that we have the support of fortifications? Come on, your advantage in numbers will only make the Jinglei League's victory even more glorious!
