Volume 5 Chapter 30: Marching into the Nine Cities

When I entered the game again, I received a notice from the major leagues asking me to attend a meeting.
The purpose of this meeting was to discuss how to attack the Nine Cities. Actually, the rest time had dragged on for a very long time and everyone was getting a little impatient. However, in order to coordinate the interests of all parties, most importantly the newly joined small gangs, if each small gang was promised a base after the war, it would obviously not be enough. This involved the division of the spoils. After a round of almost endless negotiations, they finally came up with a package plan, and then they could officially plan to send troops.
The structure of the coalition, which has been tested in actual combat, naturally does not need to be changed, but with only 500,000 coalition troops, it is not enough to conquer Jiucheng, whose strength is even stronger than that of the Iron Blood Alliance. Moreover, the recent intelligence shows that Jiucheng, Shengtang, and Yuntian have a tendency to reconcile due to the pressure of the Grand Alliance. Maybe they will unite to resist the invasion of the Grand Alliance, so we have to recruit troops from various small gangs. However, for the command of a large force of more than 500,000 people, everyone in the command center is embarrassed. According to their deduction, without synthetic training and the emergence of long-distance communication magic by senior magicians, it is impossible to flexibly command so many troops.
Therefore, we decided to divide the army into three routes, with the original coalition forces as the main force. In addition, all the small gangs together can gather about 600,000 troops, divided into the left and right armies of 300,000 people each. The three armies will launch offensives on three fronts simultaneously!
Before the army officially sets out to attack Lianzhen, we have to remove the last nail of Jiucheng in Pojun City, which is the branch that the Thunder Alliance used to attack Yinyue’s base.
There is nothing much to say about this battle. Jiucheng knew that even if they tried their best to come to the rescue, they could not stop the coalition forces which had the advantage of time, place and people. Therefore, they only carried out a symbolic defense. The coalition forces took the place easily without any effort.
After the initial victory, the coalition forces were in high spirits and the three armies attacked Lianzhen City fiercely!
The three largest forces in Lian Zhen are the Ninth City, Dream Back to the Prosperous Tang Dynasty and Righteousness and Loyalty. Among them, the Ninth City occupies the northern part of Lian Zhen City and faces Po Jun forces most directly. This is probably why Wu Meng was eager to intervene in Po Jun, because once Po Jun City is unified, the first to bear the brunt will be his Ninth City.
Jiucheng itself has more than 100,000 members and more than 30 small gangs under its jurisdiction. Its strength should not be underestimated. The Grand Alliance never thought that it could take it down in one fell swoop. When formulating the tactical plan, it was prepared for a protracted war. The tactical goal of this attack in the first phase is to capture several garrisons. After Lian Zhen has a garrison base, the next step of the attack can be launched.
The battle went much smoother than we expected! On December 14, three armies attacked six affiliated gangs of Jiucheng respectively. We intended to capture three of them. However, the number of defenders organized by Jiucheng did not seem to be as large as expected. We had an absolute advantage in force in the six battlefields. Except for a small gang on the left wing that made too many mistakes in command and failed to exert its due combat effectiveness, we captured five garrisons in total!
On December 15, the coalition forces continued their fierce attack, defeated nine cities again, and lost four garrisons.
On the 16th, the coalition forces pursued the victory and defeated nine cities again, losing another four places.
By this point, the Grand Alliance had eliminated one third of the small gangs under the Nine Cities. As a result, the Nine Cities no longer had the strength to fight against the coalition forces.
However, the leaders of the Grand Alliance and the elites of the command center all had concerns. The combat power of the Nine Cities was definitely not that weak. It was more like they were implementing a strategy of luring the enemy deep into their territory.
At the joint military meeting held that night, dozens of people studied the large map for a long time and finally confirmed that Jiucheng was trading space for time.
Jiucheng and its subordinate gangs probably have 40 or 50 headquarters and branches in total. Every time the coalition forces conquer a place, they must send troops to garrison. Even if there are 10,000 troops stationed in each place, in the end, only half of the coalition forces will be left. If Jiucheng is prepared in advance, then the personnel of those small gangs eliminated by the coalition forces will not be lost too much, but will be absorbed by Jiucheng to strengthen its own strength. When Jiucheng believes that its strength is enough to fight the remaining coalition forces, it will choose a time to fight a decisive battle with the coalition forces. Once the coalition forces fail, they will probably be beaten and rolled back to Pojun City with their tails between their legs. Jiucheng will follow suit and it will not be difficult to recover all the lost territory in one fell swoop, just like the story of Tian Dan saving Qi.
If it were only the above strategies, the Grand Alliance would not be difficult to deal with. The more critical thing is that we have not yet figured out the positions of Sheng Tang and Yun Tian.
Although Shengtang Yuntian and Jiucheng are old rivals, they are both forces that established their gangs in Lianzhen. Relatively speaking, the Big Alliance is an external enemy. Therefore, it is hard to say whether they will unite at the critical moment.
Of course, we will not ignore these two forces. As early as after solving the problem of Tiexue, we began to frequently send messengers to contact these two gangs, hoping to win them over to the Grand Alliance to fight against Jiucheng together. The conditions we set are : Jiucheng once joined forces with Tiexue to fight against the Grand Alliance. Now the Grand Alliance attacks Jiucheng for revenge, not to annex Lianzhen. If the two gangs are willing to cooperate with the Grand Alliance, after destroying Jiucheng, the territory of Jiucheng will be divided into three, and the Grand Alliance will only take one, and is willing to support Shengtang and Yuntian to wipe out the other small forces and become the master of Lianzhen.
In private, he hinted to Sheng Tang and Yun Tian respectively that whoever joined the Grand Alliance first would be supported by the Grand Alliance to destroy the other party and allow him to dominate Lian Zhen alone.
Although everyone understands that this kind of promise is without any credibility and can be reneged on at any time, but people are profit-seeking, and with the great alliance tempting them with such amazing benefits, it is hard to say whether anyone in Sheng Tang and Yun Tian will be tempted.
However, the leaders of these two gangs were very smart. They never gave a positive answer. They neither rejected the proposal of the Grand Alliance nor said that they had suffered too much loss in the last battle with Jiucheng and needed to recuperate, so they were temporarily unable to send troops.
It's really weird. Although the last three-way war was brutal, ever since the Grand Alliance pacified the Iron Blood, a truce was immediately declared here. After nearly half a month of rest, the energy should have been restored, right?
However, in diplomacy, you really can't find any fault with others using this excuse in their response. After all, the situation of the troops is someone else's internal affairs. Even if you have real intelligence, you can't put it on the table, right?
In this regard, the Grand Alliance analyzed the intentions of Shengtang and Yuntian, and there are only two possibilities: First, Shengtang Yuntian has secretly formed an alliance with Jiucheng and will send troops to support Jiucheng at a critical moment. Second, Shengtang Yuntian is sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight. If the coalition forces are strong and Jiucheng is defeated, the two gangs will join the Grand Alliance to attack Jiucheng and take advantage; if Jiucheng tries its best to drive the Grand Alliance out of Lianzhen, it will definitely be seriously injured, and the two gangs can take the opportunity to send troops to Jiucheng and be the fishermen who benefit.
Let's ignore the second situation for now, the first one is worrying. If the three major forces of Lianzhen have really united, plus the nine cities mentioned above to lure the enemy deep into the city and wait for an opportunity to fight, in that battle, the army of Shengtang and Yuntian suddenly rushed out, the great alliance might really return empty-handed and go home to farm!
Therefore, the command center proposed to change the strategy of advancing step by step and no longer attack the small gangs under Jiucheng, but to concentrate the army and head straight for Jiucheng headquarters!
Once the Nine City Headquarters falls, it will not only be an extremely heavy blow to its morale and reputation, but even though it still has other branches and will not be destroyed in one day, the construction of the branches is certainly far inferior to the headquarters, and the defense is much worse. As long as the coalition forces seize the place where its main force is transferred and pursue it relentlessly, they will be able to completely defeat the Ninth City in the shortest time. At that time, even if Sheng Tang Yuntian joins forces, the Grand Alliance will have nothing to fear.
Even if Sheng Tang Yun Tian comes to help when we attack Jiucheng headquarters, it is better than having a decisive battle with him when our forces are dispersed in the future. At least now the initiative is in our hands, and when our strength is complete, the coalition forces may not lose to the combined forces of the three Lian Zhen gangs. Even if they lose, it will be less than the loss of being defeated and losing cities and territories in the future.
It can be said that this is a desperate plan. Whether the Major Alliance can capture Lian Zhen depends on this one move!
Since tomorrow's battle is so important, each faction in the alliance will naturally send out its best soldiers and generals to increase the probability of winning. So after the meeting, the bosses hurried back to arrange their troops.
For this coalition expedition, the Jinglei League sent a total of 40,000 troops, including 10,000 drawn from its subordinate Pojun Tiexue League, 5,000 drawn from its subordinate Yinyue Guanghua, the headquarters sent 5,000 people from the Elite Hall and 5,000 people from each of the four major halls, but the Thunder Corps was not mobilized. Even so, in terms of combat effectiveness, the Jinglei League is the best among all the alliance's troops. My personal strength will play an extremely important role, so as planned I will serve as the vanguard tomorrow.
The next morning, all members of the coalition forces put on their helmets and armor, gathered at the designated location, and prepared to launch an attack on the Jiucheng headquarters!
Before the main force was dispatched, in order to confuse the enemy, the command center also sent out several decoy troops. Just like the previous three days, they declared war on several subordinate gangs of Jiucheng. It didn't matter if we lost these places. Even if we would lose a few garrisons, as long as we could capture the Jiucheng headquarters, it would be a strategic victory!
Excluding the troops defending the captured garrisons and the scattered troops, the coalition forces also assembled a super-large-scale force of 800,000 people, marched towards Jiucheng in a mighty manner, and officially declared war on Jiucheng when they were expected to arrive at the headquarters of Jiucheng in another hour's march!
Perhaps it was because the attack on Jiucheng’s headquarters came so suddenly that Jiucheng had not been prepared beforehand, and therefore the army did not encounter any ambushes along the way and successfully entered the attack position.
The Ninth City... As soon as you hear the name, you know that it is a gang that aspires to build a city, and their headquarters is built according to this goal. It is magnificent, especially the fortifications are extremely solid. It is not a simple earthen fence, but has some appearance of a small city wall. It can be seen that the Ninth City has spent a huge amount of money on it, and there are outstanding construction craftsmen in the gang - this level of fortifications is beyond the capabilities of the system NPC.
However, the Grand Alliance also came prepared. Haomen Villa contributed their carefully developed catapults. Although they were still simple and crude primary equipment, the defense line of the Nine Cities was not a real city wall. They were all equally matched and could compete with each other.
Before the coalition forces officially launched the attack, the leader who was destined to be the star of this battle came on the scene.
In the upgrade on December 1, the company added some new elements to the alliance war in Fantasy, one of the most interesting ones is the emergence of the one-on-one mode!
When two armies are facing each other, either side is allowed to challenge the other side. If the other side accepts, each side will send a general to challenge in front of the battle. The attack and defense of all soldiers of the winning side will be temporarily increased by 3%, and the attack and defense of all soldiers of the losing side will be reduced by 3%. If the other side refuses, the attack and defense of the party that actively initiates the challenge will increase by 2%, and the attack and defense of the party that refuses will decrease by 2%.
If the two sides have had a duel, the losing side can ask for another one. If they lose again, their attack and defense will be -2%, and the winning side will be +2%. They can continue to fight. If they lose again, their attack and defense will be -1%, and the winning side will be +1%. However, if the losing side wins the game, their attack and defense will be +3%, and the losing side will be -3%. A maximum of three duels are allowed, and one person can only fight in one game.
Among them, the party that wins the first game can also refuse the other party's request to continue the duel, but the same rule applies: the refusing party's attack and defense -2%, and the initiating party's attack and defense +2%. And as long as either party refuses, the duel ends and the large-scale battle begins.
There is no doubt that the emergence of the duel rule has strengthened the role of individual strength in the alliance war. If the party with a strong master wins the duel, the attack and defense of the entire army will be improved by one level, and the opponent will also decline. The difference is 6%, which is almost equivalent to gaining one level of average level! In addition, from a psychological perspective, the morale of the winning party will be greatly boosted, which is more conducive to exerting combat effectiveness.
So, how could the coalition let me, the top master of fantasy, go and not use me? In wartime, the power of the headquarters is above that of the gang boss. The order given to me by the headquarters is to go out and challenge, and I can only win and not lose!
Of course, as for me personally, I was also eager to give it a try, so I mounted my Benlei, head held high, and shouted towards the Nine Cities headquarters: "The Bloody Sky is here, is there any hero in the Nine Cities who dares to fight me?"
After waiting for half a minute, there was no movement from Jiucheng. I shouted again, but it was still quiet.
Shouting is just a formality. According to the system rules, the general who takes the initiative to go into battle can select a duel request in the system menu to send to the opponent. The other party's general will receive this request through the system message and decide whether to accept it and who to send to fight. The decision must be made within three minutes, otherwise it will be automatically judged as a rejection.
I shouted again. Seeing that the three-minute limit was about to expire, I estimated that the other party would most likely not accept the challenge. Come to think of it, knowing that the opponent was me, the probability of Jiucheng winning the duel was close to zero. So it would be better to refuse. Losing 4% (the total gap) in attack and defense is better than 6%, right?
But suddenly I received a message: Jiucheng accepted your challenge request!
The gate of the village opened and a big man walked out slowly!
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