Volume 5 Chapter 18: The Iron-Blooded End (2)
On the other hand, Lonely led an army of 25,000 to attack Potianmen. This gang was not too small, with 5,000 members (smaller gangs were picked as soft persimmons by other gangs in the big alliance), and it had a certain combat effectiveness. But who was Lonely? He had been in charge of all military affairs of the Thunder Alliance for a long time, and was familiar with all kinds of tactics for attacking cities and defending strongholds. How could he be stumped by such a small Potianmen?
Lonely is steady in employing troops and not interested in strange schemes. He has a brave and violent personality and likes to concentrate his forces to attack with heavy blows. It is not easy for him to create miracles on the battlefield, but when he has an advantage in military strength, few people can withstand his thundering blow!
Ji Mo ordered three thousand heavily armored soldiers to clear the way, using their flesh and blood to cover seven thousand ranged attackers as they rushed towards the Potianmen base. Another five thousand ranged troops suppressed the attack with fire. The attacking troops approached the opponent's fortifications at a close distance of less than twenty meters, and then all the ranged troops concentrated their fire on one point on the defense wall!
During this process, nearly two thousand of the three thousand soldiers were killed by the defenders of Potianmen and the shooting of the NPC archers, and only about five thousand of the seven thousand long-range troops were left. It can be said that once this attack fails, it will be difficult for Jimo to organize a similar attack again.
But this kind of attack is enough once!
The scene of five thousand players attacking one point at the same time was so spectacular that it was unimaginable. The density of the arrows could not be described as "like rain and clouds", and the bombardment of magic caused an earth-shaking explosion!
In the smoke, electric currents were running everywhere, fire snakes were dancing, strong winds were howling, and hail was crashing everywhere. Coupled with the earth magic, such as shocking spells, earth-splitting spells, and wall-breaking spells, even the earth was shaking!
After a round of attack ended and the smoke cleared, not only was there no enemy personnel left on the attacked section of the fortification, but the defensive wall itself also collapsed, leaving a five-meter-wide hole!
The well-trained members of the Jinglei League were not in a hurry to rush in through the gap, but instead separated to both sides. The sound of rapid hooves could be heard from behind, and two thousand cavalrymen rushed towards the gap like thunder!
Following the cavalry were swordsmen, light-armored warriors and other professional troops that were good at hand-to-hand combat. Their task was to follow the cavalry into the enemy's camp. If the enemy still had the ability to resist, they would fight with the enemy on the spot. If the enemy had been disrupted, they would directly enter the enemy's building area and engage in street fighting with the enemy's remnants.
Finally, the long-range troops will follow up. They only need to search for the remnants of the enemy and provide support to our infantry who are still fighting with the enemy who are still making their last resistance.
This set of tactics is one of the standard siege modes that the Thunder League has refined over and over again. It is simple and unpretentious, but effective. After our simulation exercises, we found that as long as the number of defenders does not exceed 50% of the attackers, it is almost impossible to resist. This breaks the traditional concept that "the attackers must have three times the number of defenders to have a chance of winning." In order to perfect this set of tactics, Lonely, Xiao Wu and I have spent a lot of effort. Today we tried it out, and it is indeed extremely powerful!
The only drawback of this tactic is that it will cause too many casualties in the process of approaching the enemy's fortifications, and if it fails once, there will not be enough strength to launch it a second time.
In fact, given the ratio of the number of people on both sides, even if Lonely adopted the most common mushroom-style attack and waited until the opponent's resurrection times were exhausted, he could still easily take down Potianmen. However, this was a rare opportunity to test the tactics in actual combat , and after the breakthrough, the casualties were minimal. In fact, the total loss was smaller than that of ordinary methods.
While Lonely was showing off his power, I was not idle either. I led 10,000 troops and the Thundering Regiment to the Aoyangmen headquarters.
Aoyang Sect has a staunch ally, Huowu Sect, which is known as Huowu Aoyang and Pojun Wushuang. However, despite all their boasting, Huowu Sect was destroyed by Fengchi Tianxia three days ago. As a result, everyone in Aoyang Sect is in a panic and their morale is low.
However, I cannot underestimate the Aoyang Sect because of this. After Huo Wu was killed, due to the close relationship between him and Aoyang, most of the disbanded gang members joined the Aoyang Sect, causing the total number of its members to increase rapidly to 8,000. With my 15,000 troops, even if they include the Thunder Group with amazing combat power, it will still take some effort to conquer Aoyang.
I adopted a different siege mode from Lonely. The five thousand soldiers of the Thunder Regiment were divided into five routes and attacked Aoyang's fortifications from five directions at the same time, forcing the opponent to stretch the defense line very long.
It is said that the Thunder Corps's forces are dispersed, and it is not easy to resist the opponent's long-range attacks. There will be a lot of casualties during the attack, but the elite is the elite. The Thunder Corps is skilled in small-scale cooperation. Ten people form a team. Each team is equipped with a full-professional combination of warriors, swordsmen, Taoist priests, magicians, archers, and priests. The warriors lead the way, and the Taoist priests put two substitute talismans, so one warrior becomes three, which greatly disperses the opponent's attack targets. The attacks that can threaten the warriors' entities are assisted by the swordsmen, who use superb swordsmanship skills to block some attacks. The rest can be blocked by the warriors with giant shields. Finally, there are priests to protect them, so even if they are hit a few times, it will not be a big deal, not to mention the continuous support of the priests' healing skills! The long-range attackers keep shooting while moving, suppressing the opponent's long-range attacks in reverse. This technique is obviously much more difficult than standing on fortifications and shooting.
The entire team advanced in a curved serpentine line, with each team separated by a certain distance. If the enemy concentrated their attacks, they could certainly destroy some of the teams, but the majority of the rest would be able to attack the defensive wall without interference; if the enemy dispersed their attacks, it would be even more useless, as the Thunder Corps would suffer almost no casualties!
However, such tactics require extremely high individual abilities and small group coordination. In the Thunder Alliance, only the Thunder Group can complete this tactic!
The Thunder Corps successfully reached the fortifications and launched an offensive. Ao Yang had the advantage of numbers and terrain. Although his individual combat power and coordination were far behind the Thunder Corps, he was still able to fight to a draw and even had a slight advantage.
However, since the Thunder Corps' attack points were scattered and the attack line was very long, the Aoyang defenders had to disperse accordingly.
At this time, the main force of my 10,000 troops attacked, and this time they concentrated on a breakthrough. The thin Aoyang defense line was simply unable to stop the attack of the army. Only the concentrated volleys of thousands of long-range troops killed all the defenders on a section of fortifications dozens of meters long in front. The vanguard soldiers successfully climbed over the defense wall with almost no hindrance and broke into the Aoyang base!
Once the gap was opened, the follow-up troops rushed forward. Aoyang urgently dispatched the last reserve troops to stop our attack, but how could he stop it? Not long after, not only was the breach further expanded, but even the gate of the garrison was occupied by our army. The gate of the village was opened, and a large group of cavalry immediately rushed in!
The Aoyang defenders finally collapsed, and there wasn't even a decent attack and defense of the headquarters building. Twenty minutes later, I strode into the Aoyang headquarters like a victor - no, now it's the fourth branch of the Jinglei League!
At this point, all of the Thunder Alliance's tactical goals for this campaign have been achieved, and news from other gangs in the Grand Alliance has also been that most of the progress has been smooth, with only three gangs encountering stubborn resistance from a large number of enemy forces.
As we expected, the Iron Blood Alliance knew that they did not have the strength to rescue all the gangs, so they withdrew their forces to ensure local advantages in some battlefields. Unfortunately, from a strategic point of view, the Iron Blood's local victory could not change their overall failure.
The battle of the day finally ended. According to the statistics, the Grand Alliance had taken down nine Iron Blood gangs, while the Grand Alliance lost two branch bases and one large gang was disbanded! It turned out that the gang had no branches. According to my suggestion, they should have only made war claims to the other party, but their leader was too greedy and put forward the conditions of declaring war to disband the gang. As a result, the Iron Blood concentrated its forces to stop them and eventually failed. In addition, the Thunder Alliance also lost a branch due to its feint attack on the Nine Cities, but we took down two Iron Blood bases, so it was a win-win situation.
Other bosses only dare to concentrate their forces to declare war on a small gang, so why would I be so bold as to divide my forces into three places? What if one of Potian or Aoyang has a large number of enemy defenders and I can't capture it? Wouldn't that be a big loss?
In fact, this is the main purpose of my feint attack on Jiucheng. The fifteen gangs of the Grand Alliance agreed to declare war on Tiexue at the same time. I took the initiative to bear the heavy responsibility of containing the troops of Jiucheng. The bosses thanked me and said that I was very loyal and sacrificed myself for the public good, but now I am afraid that they are secretly cursing me for being as cunning as a fox and sacrificing others for my own benefit! Although I declared war on Jiucheng at the agreed time, I declared war on the two subordinate gangs of Tiexue later. Tiexue had already assigned which gangs to protect, and it was too late to change the target and mobilize troops to defend Potian and Aoyang. Therefore, I am fully confident that Potian and Aoyang have only their own troops to defend at most, and some of them may be withdrawn. In addition, my Jinglei League has super combat power and carefully crafted siege tactics, so there is no possibility that I can't take it down. Compared with other gangs who have to take their chances to see if they encounter the main force of the enemy, I have taken a big advantage! And I did fulfill my duty perfectly, making Jiucheng dare not send a single soldier to support Tiexue. Besides that, I made some extra money for myself, and the other bosses had nothing to say.
After this battle, there were only seventeen small gangs left in the Iron Blood Alliance . Although they were able to recruit some of the dispersed gang members to strengthen the remaining gangs, they still suffered heavy casualties. The Grand Alliance became more prestigious, not only gaining more territory, but also absorbing some players from the other side's disbanded gangs. Some neutral gangs in Pojun City also began to show goodwill to the Grand Alliance and requested to join it. The power comparison between the two sides was very different from the beginning of the war, and the Iron Blood Alliance was gradually coming to an end!
