Volume 5 Chapter 21 Joint Forces Exercise
This battle can be said to be the most brutal battle since the war between the Grand Alliance and Iron Blood!
The Grand Alliance certainly hopes to pursue the enemy relentlessly and take advantage of the situation to defeat the Iron Blood Alliance in one fell swoop . Moreover, since the condition for declaring war is that the other party must disband its gang, each gang cannot afford to not do their best, otherwise the branches they won back before will have to be lost again.
The Iron Blood Alliance knew that this battle was a matter of life and death, so they exerted every bit of their strength and courage, trying their best and vowing to fight the Grand Alliance to the end. With the addition of the 150,000 reinforcements sent by Jiucheng, the defensive strength of most of the Iron Blood gang garrisons reached more than 20,000. Under normal circumstances, it would take more than 60,000 troops to capture the city. In the Grand Alliance, not every gang could muster such a large force (after all, not all gang members were online).
Tieti almost achieved his goal - to protect more than ten gangs!
However, on many battlefields, when the battle reached the most critical moment, Jiucheng’s troops could not hold on any longer!
In any case, Jiucheng did not feel as much pain as the Iron Blood Alliance, they just came to support their allies. Although the failure of Iron Blood would be quite disadvantageous to Jiucheng in the long run, their interests would not be immediately harmed at present. On the contrary, those grassroots gang members felt that if they came to help Iron Blood and died once, it would be okay, but if they died three times in a row, the equipment that was exploded and the experience that was lost would be very heartbreaking!
Therefore, after some of the Nine Cities soldiers died and resurrected, they did not return to the battlefield, but quietly left the line or slipped away. Even those who insisted on fighting were unwilling to fight to the death when facing the enemy's fierce attack and the danger of death, and they all retreated. Sometimes wars are fought with momentum. As the saying goes, the brave wins when two sides meet in a narrow road. If the momentum of one side is suppressed by the other side, the two sides that are originally evenly matched may be defeated in an instant.
The retreat of the Nine Cities caused loopholes in the defense line on many battlefields. Although the Iron Blood warriors tried their best to remedy the situation, it was like a dam that was breached by a flood and soon collapsed! As a result, by the end of the battle, the Grand Alliance had captured ten garrisons, and the Iron Blood Alliance had won on seven battlefields.
The Grand Alliance had a slight advantage in this battle, but ultimately failed to deal a fatal blow to the Iron Blood, giving the Iron Hoof a chance to catch its breath.
Jiucheng suffered heavy losses. Not only did the Thunder Alliance capture the original Silver Moon garrison, leaving only one base in Pojun City, but Tieti was furious because of the poor performance in this battle. Jiucheng had mobilized a large number of its own troops to support Tiexue, so its two major enemy forces in Lianzhen, Menghui Shengtang and Yi Boyuntian, took the opportunity to launch an attack and defeated two gangs under Jiucheng! Jiucheng then sent people to negotiate with Tieti, hoping that Tiexue could compensate for Jiucheng's losses and give one or two of the seven garrisons won by Tiexue in this battle to Jiucheng. Tieti was furious and had a big fight with the envoy of Jiucheng on the spot, and the two sides officially broke up!
Without the external aid of Jiucheng, the strength of the Iron Blood Alliance cannot be compared with that of the Grand Alliance. It can be said that the Grand Alliance can send troops to destroy the Iron Blood at any time, but due to the continuous fighting, the alliance members are a little tired. Although the gangs have obtained some branch bases, the financial expenditure is also not small (although they can ask for war compensation, but because they have declared war on those small gangs, many times the compensation is not enough to cover the war expenses, and the captured bases also need to be rebuilt at a cost). If they force themselves to launch a general attack on the Iron Blood, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses. Therefore, at the alliance meeting, the bosses proposed to rest for a while.
Compared with other gangs, the funds of the Jinglei League have reached the point of being exhausted. There was not much inventory before the war, and the standards of the Jinglei League's war subsidies and death pensions were set higher than most gangs. Not only have the two million been spent, but also the daily income in the recent period has been put into it. If it weren't for the fact that the professional skill players recruited when the gang was first established are now of a high level, according to the requirements of the alliance rules, the foundry must repair the equipment of the members at cost price during the alliance war, and the pharmacist must also provide medicine supplies to the members at cost price, etc., I am afraid that I have gone bankrupt now! Although the Jinglei League has conquered four branches during this series of wars (Silver Moon Light returned to their original base, and the branch that the Jinglei League lent them has now been returned), I can't squeeze out a penny to rebuild them, so I can only let them remain in the broken state they just finished the battle.
Now I am really looking forward to the return of the profiteer, but that will take at least ten days.
Of course, as long as there is no war in the short term, the Thunder Alliance can still quickly accumulate a sum of money. With the increase in the number of members, the rapid development of consumption within the alliance, and more and more knights being promoted to level 60 every day, and many members saving money to buy land and houses, the Thunder Alliance can now earn 50,000 gold coins every day, and this amount is still growing rapidly, so a period of rest is even more necessary for us.
In addition to economic considerations, the Thunder Alliance has recently recruited a lot of new members, most of whom are members of gangs that have been eliminated. They have come to join the Thunder Alliance because they have experienced its tyrannical strength and believe that the Alliance has a bright future. These players are not low in level, but their quality in all aspects is far inferior to that of the old members of the Alliance. Therefore, they need to be rectified urgently and allowed to integrate into the group as soon as possible. Otherwise, due to differences in their thoughts and styles of doing things, conflicts are likely to arise. If not handled properly, it is not impossible that the Thunder Alliance will fall apart. In addition, due to their lack of training in the past, it will be difficult for them to cooperate well with the old members in future battles.
For various reasons, I slightly adjusted the structure of the Thunder Alliance, adding the Heavenly Thunder and Earthly Thunder Halls in addition to the original four halls. These two halls are dedicated to receiving new members, and Fengyun and Shenjieshen are the hall masters. They are both my old subordinates who have followed me since the founding of the gang. Later, they served as the captain of the squad under the four halls, the captain of the combat brigade under the Thunder Group, and were promoted to the deputy hall master of the four halls after being transferred back to the headquarters. They are very experienced in how to manage and train their subordinates, and their own levels are quite high, and they can shock people. It is very appropriate for them to train these members who are considered "newbies" to the Thunder Alliance. In terms of status, the Heavenly Thunder and Earthly Halls are half a level lower than the four major branch halls. The members of these two halls can be selected to enter the four major branch halls after a period of training and passing the assessment.
At this point, the Thunder Alliance has become a large gang with six halls, one group, and four groups, with a total of 80,000 members! And there is also a powerful affiliated gang: Silver Moon Glory.
After a few days of rest, the alliance members are full of energy and desire to fight!
The situation of other gangs was similar, so a general attack on Iron Blood was put on the agenda.
However, I suggested that in order to attack the Iron Blood headquarters, a coalition of all factions must be formed. So far, except for the years of joint defense, the gangs have not really joined forces to fight. Even that battle exposed many problems. For the sake of safety, I suggested that before the general attack, a joint exercise that was proposed at the alliance but interrupted because of the war with Iron Blood should be held - anyway, Iron Blood does not have the strength to launch an attack on the Grand Alliance! After Jiucheng fell out with Iron Blood, it seems that he has given up the idea of intervening in Pojun City. Now Jiucheng has only symbolic troops stationed in the only garrison in Pojun City. Wumeng has withdrawn all the troops and is currently attacking Shengtang and Yuntian. He must have realized that the Grand Alliance will unify Pojun in the near future. He can only have the capital to fight against the Grand Alliance if he unifies Lianzhen as soon as possible.
My proposal was responded to by all the bosses. In these battles, the performance of the Thunder Alliance was the most outstanding. Not only did it capture the most branches, but also in the three battles before and after, the Thunder Alliance had competed with the powerful Jiucheng. In the first and second battles, the Thunder Alliance was able to tie down Jiucheng's army of about 100,000 with a small number of troops. The third battle made Jiucheng suffer a great loss. If there had been no confrontation between the Thunder Alliance and Jiucheng, the situation might not have developed into what it is today. In particular, the Thunder Alliance suppressed Jiucheng in the second battle so that it dared not send troops. This was the turning point in the breakdown of the relationship between Jiucheng and Tiexue.
Although the number of members of the Thunder Alliance is small, they have such powerful combat capability, which has raised everyone's awareness of the importance of training to a new level, so they all attach great importance to this large-scale exercise.
On November 28, the sky was clear and cloudless. Under the early winter sunshine, one could not feel the slightest bit of coldness. The clear air provided excellent visibility. The Thunder Alliance had specially built a high platform in front of its headquarters, from which one could have a clear view of the scenery within a radius of ten miles. More than a dozen big bosses from the Grand Alliance stood on the platform, staring at every move below, waiting for the exercise to officially begin.
The first item of the exercise is the mixed march, which is the simplest and most challenging in terms of basic skills!
According to the agreement, each gang will gather its troops 20 kilometers away from the Thunder Alliance’s headquarters, and then march in formation towards the alliance’s headquarters.
After a while, a black line appeared in the distance and gradually approached. Upon closer inspection, it was found that the black line was composed of tens of thousands of players!
A large flag fluttered in the wind, with a blue lightning symbol in the middle of the silver flag. That was the flag of the alliance. As the host, the Jinglei Alliance's troops took the lead, which also included the etiquette of leading the way and welcoming guests.
The Jinglei League's formation was neat and tidy. Even though they were marching, the square formation was not in disarray. Under the command of the drums, even the pace of all the infantry was completely consistent. Although the cavalry could not make all the hooves of their mounts rise and fall in the same rhythm, their forward speed was also controlled very evenly. There were thieves and assassins patrolling in front, on the left, and on the right of the team, and several cavalrymen were passing on messages. Although it was just an exercise, the Jinglei League did it meticulously.
Following closely behind the Jinglei League troops was the Xuehe Sect, which flew red flags and had neatly organized troops, looking not much different from the Jinglei League. The Xuehe Sect was an old ally of our alliance, and under our influence, they had noticed the training of their gang members early on, and had learned a lot of training experience from us. Seeing that his subordinates were performing well, Xuehai Wuya showed a satisfied smile on his face.
After that, the troops of various factions appeared one after another, and their levels were a bit uneven. Some were very neat and impeccable; some had decent formations, but the soldiers' steps were chaotic; some couldn't even keep their formations straight, and were crooked and ugly. The worst performing troops were the troops of the Pure Land in the Chaos World under the general leader Beibei. They had no formation at all, and the gang members were in a mess like a swarm of bees, not even as good as the formations of elementary school students going on a spring outing.
The bosses all had interesting looks on their faces, some looked smug, some looked embarrassed and ashamed. I secretly laughed at those smug people. Now it's just the simplest routine march. When other exercises are launched later, I wonder if you can still be proud?
At this time, a request came from the joint command: The army has approached within five kilometers of the base, should we enter the second item of the exercise?
In order to try to get closer to the actual combat situation, each gang selected its most capable commanders to form a joint command center. The planning and temporary command of this exercise were all in the charge of this command center. We, the bosses, watched from the high platform, which was also the director center. When the real coalition forces went to the battlefield, the bosses were not allowed to intervene in the command, and everything was left to the command center.
Everyone agreed to move to the second item, so the command center issued an order for the marching army to start a forced march for the last five kilometers!
With just one order, the gap in the levels of each gang's troops immediately widened!
The Jinglei League suddenly accelerated its marching pace almost at the same time the order arrived, and this change in speed did not cause any confusion to the team. The transformation was completed so naturally that it was almost imperceptible.
The Blood River Sect reacted a little slower, and the distance between the front and the back of the team widened a lot during the acceleration process. It was not until they had walked for a while that they gradually restored their original formation.
Among the other factions, some of them had originally performed as well as the Blood River Faction, but now their weaknesses were exposed. Not only were they slow to respond to orders, and took two or three minutes to accelerate, but once they sped up, the formation began to deform, and they could barely be seen as an army. This situation showed that they had undergone emergency training before the exercise, so they could march in a normal formation, but the qualities of a soldier had not yet penetrated into their minds or even their bodies, so as long as the difficulty was slightly increased, flaws would appear.
As for those who couldn't even conduct regular marches before, they were now in chaos. Dust was flying all over the plain. If the monsters nearby had not been cleared beforehand, there would have been even more chaos!
For this exercise, the Thunder Alliance dispatched 30,000 troops, all of whom were old members, so they were able to have such quality. If it were replaced by the recently recruited people from the Heaven and Earth Halls, they would probably perform the same as them!
Finally, the coalition entered the Thunder Alliance's base. The scale was quite spectacular, with a total of 500,000 troops! The three gates of the alliance's defenses were opened, and it took a full half an hour for all the troops to enter the exercise field.
Afterwards, the coalition forces conducted exercises such as gathering all gangs to form a cavalry unit of tens of thousands of people for a large-scale cavalry assault, a plain battle of 200,000 people against 200,000 people, and an all-coalition siege. The people in the command center are indeed composed of elites from various factions. I feel that the later the exercise is, the more they can reasonably allocate tasks to different gangs according to the training levels of each faction to achieve the best combat effect.
After the exercise, a group of people studied the defects and shortcomings exposed in it, and the army dispersed. They will all gather in Pojun City tomorrow and then head straight to the Tiexue headquarters. That will be the last battle for the Grand Alliance to unify Pojun!
