Online Game: Barbarism And Civilization

Chapter 440-The Twilight of the Guild

Since Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu dared to attack the guild coalition forces, they must have made sufficient preparations. They must have their own strategic goals, so temptation or something must not work for them.

After the collusion failed, the guild coalition forces immediately stopped their offensive against the orcs in order to regain the initiative.

They mobilized several elite legions to launch a fierce attack on Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu, and the two sides fought fiercely in Nanyang and Susong.

In the Nanyang battlefield, Li Yufeng relied on Nanyang City to successfully block the guild’s coalition forces under the city for 30 days.

After being unable to attack for a long time, the guild coalition forces immediately separated a part of their troops to attack Xiangyang City. They wanted to give Li Yufeng a siege to save Zhao, forcing Li Yufeng to attack, or to take away his lair.

As a result, when the army marched near Xinye, an army suddenly broke out and attacked the flank of the guild coalition forces. After a day and night battle, the guild coalition forces that wanted to attack Xiangyang were completely defeated.

It turned out that the army stationed in Nanyang City was not the elite of Li Yufeng’s men. Li Yufeng left only 20,000 Modao soldiers in Nanyang City, and the other soldiers were all descendants and strong men gathered along the way.

The elite army under Li Yufeng’s hands was actually stationed in Xinyecheng.

His plan was to use Nanyang City to drag the guild coalition forces there, and then wait until the opponent could not attack for a long time, and then send troops from the new field to launch a surprise attack on the guild coalition forces from behind.

The guild coalition’s plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao was in his arms, so he immediately led his army to launch a surprise attack on the guild coalition from the flanks after learning that the opponent had taken the initiative to divide the troops.

After defeating this southern guild coalition army, Li Yufeng led the army to Nanyang non-stop.

Outside the city of Nanyang, the enemy and us launched a fierce battle, and finally, with the cooperation of the Modao Army that smashed out of the city, Li Yufeng wiped out the guild coalition forces.

At this point, the West Route Army sent by the guild coalition forces was completely wiped out.

In the south, the three hundred thousand guild coalition forces launched a fierce attack on Su Songcheng.

In order to be able to attack Su Songcheng as soon as possible, they divided the 300,000 army into four echelons and launched an offensive against Su Songcheng day and night.

Unlike Li Yufeng, Zhao Guangfu did not hide the main force elsewhere, and his main force was basically in Susong City.

Many people know that the Beiwei Army is invincible in field battles, and even the most elite army of the Kingdom of Jin is not their opponent.

However, people ignore their real housekeeping skills. In fact, compared with offense, their defense can make the enemy feel desperate.

Due to the lack of horses in the Southern Song Dynasty, their cavalry had always been difficult to contend with the Jinren, so in order to make up for this defect, they invented the God Arm Bow and the Chariot Formation.

In the face of the enemy’s cavalry charge, the Southern Song army would use vehicles to enclose a line of defense, relying on this line of defense to fight against the golden soldiers.

In the chariot formation, except for the melee units in the front row, all the other soldiers were armed with bows and crossbows.

These crossbowmen will strike at the enemy and the horse indiscriminately from a long distance, and shoot as much as possible their active force before the enemy rushes over.

If in a positional battle, the enemy still has a high probability of defeating the Southern Song army, then in a defensive battle, it is not so easy to break through the city they are defending.

In the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, the two most famous battles of defending the city were none other than the Battle of Diaoyucheng and the Battle of Xiangfan.

At that time, the Mongols could be said to have defeated the world’s invincibles, but under these two cities, they were beaten to blood.

In the Battle of Diaoyu City, the Mongolian army not only suffered heavy losses, even their profligate Mengge died under the city. Until the Southern Song Dynasty was completely destroyed, the Mongols could not conquer this strong city.Diaoyucheng persisted for 36 years, and never lost it. Finally, after learning of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the soldiers and civilians in the city surrendered.

The battle of Xiangfan was even more tragic. The Southern Song and Mongolia fought under the city of Xiangyang for six years. Both sides suffered countless casualties. In the end, it would be difficult for the Mongols to conquer Xiangyang city if it weren’t for food shortages in the city.

So, someone may ask, why are Diaoyu City and Xiangyang City so difficult to break?

The answer is simple, because there is a sharp weapon for defending the city.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the cavalry was weak and strong, so in order to fight the enemy’s cavalry, they put more energy on the development of long-range weapons used by the infantry, so the God Arm Bow was born.

Compared with ordinary crossbows, the god arm bow has a longer range and greater lethality. If the distance is too close, it can even shoot through some iron armor.

The god-arm bow can be said to be a nightmare for light-armored soldiers, and most of the siege soldiers are light-armored infantry, so using the god-arm bow to defend the city can be described as a multiplier.

The guild’s coalition forces besieged Su Songcheng for more than a month. During this period, they successively transferred two legions from the front line. They are bound to win against Su Songcheng.

But a month later, they took the initiative to withdraw their troops.

When the 500,000 army left, only more than 200,000 were left, but Su Songcheng showed no signs of being breached. The defenders in the city were raining arrows every day, as if the arrows in their hands were like no money. , Just waste it.

If we continue to fight like this, I am afraid that the remaining 200,000 people will have to confess here, so even if the guild coalition forces are not reconciled, even if they know that the defenders in the city are almost reaching their limits, they will not dare anymore. The bet went on.

In fact, if they can hold on for another month, the arrows in the city will be exhausted, but unfortunately they have been smashed, so Zhao Guangfu had the last laugh.

With the defeat of the Southwest Army, the situation of the guild coalition forces suddenly became passive.

Although the orc army has experienced several big defeats, they still have the power to fight. If you don’t pay attention, the guild coalition may be overturned by them.

Although Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu didn’t take the opportunity to fuse the guild alliance back and forth with the orc army, they succeeded in cutting off the retreat and supply line of the guild alliance. Once the guild coalition’s food and grass are exhausted, the tens of millions of troops will soon fall apart.

There are now two paths before the guild coalition forces.

One is to send people to guard the main road behind, and then attack the Ten Thousand Beast Empire with all their strength. As long as they can completely eliminate the Ten Thousand Beast Empire, all problems will be solved.

One is to immediately return to the division, concentrate the superior forces to eliminate Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu, and then go to deal with the Ten Thousand Beast Empire.

These two paths, no matter which one you choose, are very risky.

The first path looks pretty good. After all, the morale of the orcs is sluggish, and they can take this opportunity to smash each other out.

But after this period of disarming, the orcs have been relieved a lot, and they really don’t have much confidence in destroying each other.

And once they are defeated by the orcs, with the back road blocked, they may be completely finished.

If you choose the second path, no matter how elite the Mo Dao soldiers, Xuanjia cavalry and Beiwei troops are, they will undoubtedly be defeated under the encirclement and suppression of tens of millions of troops.

It stands to reason that the second road is more secure, but it requires the cooperation of the orcs if it is to be implemented.

If the army returns to the division, it is equivalent to selling the back to the orcs. If the orcs choose to chase and are attacked by the enemy, they may lose faster.

And if a part of the army is left to defend some key points, and the main force is to return to the division, it will be difficult for them to resist the attack of the orcs when the troops are not dominant.

So no matter which path you choose, you must take risks.

As the matter was of great importance, the leaders of the major guilds did not dare to make a decision lightly, so they let the army be stationed in place and collected as much food as possible in case of emergency, and they started on this. intense discussions.

Some of the guild leaders thought that they should concentrate their efforts on dealing with the orcs while the food was sufficient. As for the two flies behind, let them buzz for a while.

After the orcs were wiped out, the two flies were the turtles in the urn.

Some people think that the foundations of the Ten Thousand Beast Empire are still there, and it will take a long time to completely destroy the Ten Thousand Beast Empire.

While discussing countermeasures, they once again sent someone to contact Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu, hoping that they could change their minds.

It’s a pity that these two people are determined to keep the main force of the guild’s coalition forces here, so they are still not speculative and parted.

Faced with the arrogant attitude of the two, the senior leaders of the guild coalition were completely furious, so after a vote of the majority of people, they chose the second way, first patted the annoying flies, and then went to deal with the beasts empire.

In order to prevent the orc army from taking the opportunity to make trouble from behind, they left half of the army to defend, and all the other army returned to the division to deal with Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu.

Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu laughed at the same time after learning the news of the division of the guild’s coalition forces.

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Just when the guild coalition forces had just entered the territory of Hubei, the orc army that was still on the defensive suddenly launched a frantic counterattack.

Although the guild coalition had expected that the orc army would not be honest, they did not expect that this counterattack would be so fierce.

The orc army almost came out this time. Facing the overwhelming orc army, the defenders of the guild alliance left in place made a tenacious resistance.

While defending stubbornly, they asked for help from the rear. After insisting on five days and five nights, they were finally defeated by the orc army because the reinforcements were not able to arrive.

With the defeat of this defender, the guild coalition forces immediately fell into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy.

At this time, they were no longer in the mood to deal with Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu. After learning that the orc army was chasing them, they immediately stopped and began to build fortifications on the spot.

After the orc army won a big victory, the morale was greatly boosted. Although there were still a lot of player spies mixed in it, after the orcs took the order of defeat, the players were immediately isolated.

The so-called losing order is that once the battle is defeated, the entire army will be severely punished, and in severe cases, the entire army will be executed.

Under the harsh punishment measures, the orcs only believed in people of the same race who knew their roots, and as long as they did not know them, even if they were of the same race, they would be excluded.

As a result, under the mutual identification of the orcs through tribes and ethnic groups, a large number of unknown orcs were quickly removed from their army, and most of these orcs were players.

After the player was eliminated, the orc army never saw any defection in battle, so the invincible army of beasts returned.

The trenches dug by the coalition forces and the earth walls built by the coalition forces could not stop the orc army’s footsteps at all, and soon the two armies directly smashed together.

Although the combat power of the player coalition is not as good as the orcs, they win in a large number. Therefore, although they fight extremely hard every day, they have never collapsed, temporarily maintaining a evenly matched situation with the orcs.

When the player coalition and the orc army are in a stalemate, the army under Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu has become the key force that can determine the outcome.

Just when the player coalition was worried that the two armies would suddenly come from behind and cooperate with the orc army to attack them back and forth, Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu unexpectedly chose to stand on the sidelines.

Although they can’t figure out why the two men would stand still, this result is very beneficial to the player coalition forces, which is exactly what they want to see.

Many players even think that these two people have figured it out. They are afraid of completely offending the players in China, so they dare not do things too far.They thought that the two of them had thin faces and couldn’t pull the face down to admit their mistakes, so they took the initiative to send someone to contact the two again, hoping to bring them to their own camp.

It’s a pity that they failed again. Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu’s attitude was still so determined. They not only refused to make peace with the guild coalition forces, they even refused to let the guild coalition troops come.

After being rejected again, the players finally understood what they wanted to do.

The reason why they didn’t cooperate with the orc army to attack the guild coalition forces back and forth should be to preserve their strength.

They definitely want to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight first, and then suddenly jump in at the right time in order to make the most profit.

Obviously, this idea of ​​the two was very short-sighted, but the guild coalition forces wished that they would keep watching, so the players just watched them carefully, and then devoted their main energy to the battle with the orcs.

When the guild coalition was fighting with the orc army, Li Yufeng and Li Yufeng obviously had many opportunities to severely damage the guild coalition, but they didn’t seem to be able to see it, and they didn’t have any intention to attack.

However, they also did not want to let go of the guild coalition forces. The major guilds organized several reinforcements, but they all blocked them.

In this way, the guild coalition army and the orc army attacked each other every day, and neither of them would let each other go.

In this protracted battle, the weakness of the guild’s coalition forces without logistical supplies gradually began to be magnified.

Although the orc army has suffered heavy losses, they can replenish soldiers and food from the rear in time.

The guild coalition forces not only were unable to replenish their soldiers in time, but even their food and grass were not enough. Had they not killed a large number of soldiers, they would have encountered a food crisis long ago.

Under the circumstances, the guild coalition forces finally began to lose support after persisting for more than four months.

As the forward positions continued to fall, they still did not escape the fate of failure in the end.

The guild coalition forces on the west road were blocked by Li Yufeng, so they chose to die with the orc army with nowhere to go.

Except for a handful of the four million troops who escaped, most of the others were gloriously killed.

However, they did not sacrifice in vain, and their dying counterattack also brought great casualties to the orc army.

The guild forces on the South Road originally wanted to escape to the south bank of the Yangtze River by crossing the river, but when they were crossing the river, a large number of mermaid fighters suddenly appeared in the Yangtze River.

The mermaid warriors scuttled all their ships, so under the attack of the orcs and the mermaid, the South Route Army was finally annihilated.

At this point, the 16-month-long counteroffensive operation ended with the annihilation of the allied forces of the guild.

In this battle, the guild coalition forces lost a total of 12 million elite troops, which can be said to have hurt the bone marrow, and many guilds have been directly depressed ever since.

Although the Ten Thousand Beast Empire won the final victory, they also won a tragic victory. After this battle, many elite orc legions simply cancelled their designations. They want to return to their heyday, and it will take at least thirty years.

There were only two real victors in this battle, namely Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu.

They took advantage of the guild coalition forces and the orcs to successfully occupy the entire territory of Hubei and occupy some strategic points from Sichuan to Hubei. As a member of the Ten Thousand Beast Empire, they can be said to have made a lot of money.

After this battle, the big guilds in China not only suffered heavy losses to the army, but their influence in China also plummeted.

After this failure, they completely lost control of the China area. They can no longer suppress the powerful players. The China area has gradually entered the era of lords melee.

After this battle, the Great Guild in China gradually stepped down from the altar, and the princes and players gradually ushered in the own spring, so people referred to this battle as the dusk of the guild.