Volume 19, Chapter 42: Strange Troop Configuration

The player meeting in Fulcrum City lasted for a whole day. During this period, our guild's troops kept moving south, and finally all retreated to the Osumi Peninsula area. However, this is not a place suitable for defense, so the team only did it here. Temporarily stationed.

According to our guild's campaign plan, after completing the strategic adjustment of Japan's four main islands, our guild's troops will gradually withdraw to the small islands on the periphery of Japan. Unlike the coast of China, there are a large number of small islands outside the Japanese islands. These islands are not connected to the mainland of Japan, but they are very close. If the island chain composed of this series of islands is used properly and combined with the maritime power of our guild, it is not difficult to form a complete maritime defense line. Of course, since we have planned to use Masamoto Matsumoto for indirect Japanese management, there is no need to occupy this island chain. After all, these islands are too close to Japan. If we want to directly control these islands, we will inevitably have frequent conflicts with Japanese players in the future. That is something we do not want to see, so we have not included this island chain system. Occupation plan. Of course, even if the island chain is not included in the long-term occupation plan, the basic form will still have to be taken.

According to our plan, we will station people to garrison these small islands around Japan, and then after completing the adjustment of Japanese power, Matsumoto Masaga will lead the Ghost Dragon Society, which has been transformed into the Japanese National Defense Force, to start sweeping these islands one by one. This kind of "sweeping" behavior can allow Japanese players to truly see that the Japanese National Defense Forces under the leadership of Matsumoto Masaga has indeed achieved its due results, so that the leaders of the Japanese guilds will have no excuse to say Matsumoto Masaga. Of course, occupying these islands is only part of the entire plan, and the key to the plan is not actually these offshore islands, but Jeju Island in South Korea.

If you open a map of Asia, you will find that this tourist resort in South Korea is right between Japan and China. The fleet starting from here can easily intercept the fleet between the two countries, and the more important key point is that it Does not belong to either China or Japan.

Jeju Island is Korean territory, which also means that its acquisition and loss are not a big deal to our Frost Rose Alliance and Matsumoto Masa’s Ghost Dragon Society. After getting Jeju Island, we can get praise from domestic players, and losing it will not have much impact on our reputation, because it is not our territory at all. Getting it is an unexpected surprise, and losing it is nothing to be sad about. Precisely because of this characteristic of Jeju Island, in our strategy, Jeju Island will be completely occupied by the Japanese under the attack of the Ghost Dragon Society led by Matsumoto Masaga, and then South Korea will ask us for help, and we will take it After snatching it back, Masamoto Matsumoto counterattacked again and regained it. After several back and forth fights, a confrontation situation was almost formed on the island. However, this kind of confrontation requires the consumption of supplies, so who will provide the supplies? Of course they are Japanese players. Masa Matsumoto's Ghost Dragon Club is now the Japanese National Defense Force, and Japanese players have to pay for foreign operations. As long as our battle with the Ghost Dragon Club does not end, those Japanese players will never stop sponsoring the Ghost Dragon Club. This is It's called raising a thief to respect himself.

In this strategy, we are the thieves, and Matsumoto Masaga is the official. If we thieves are completely defeated, then Japanese players will wonder whether it makes sense for them to spend so much money to keep this officer in vain. However, if we are not eliminated, but make a lot of noise, then Matsumoto Masamoto's status It will become more and more stable, because the Japanese are aware of the seriousness of us thieves, so they must rely more on Matsumoto Masaga. This mutually reinforcing relationship is what we hope to achieve with the Ghost Dragon Society in the future. Model of external relations.

Once this mutually reinforcing relationship model is established, then we and the Ghost Dragon Society can unscrupulously exchange supplies with each other in the war. We can continue to capture each other's supplies in the name of trophies, and then absorb Japan's resources for our guild to use, or we can send some insignificant consumables produced by our guild to Japan for sale. This exchange model is actually very similar to bilateral trade, except that neither side pays, and the materials are flowing in the name of spoils.

This special trading model can save a lot of tax on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can prevent outsiders from seeing through our relationship with the Ghost Dragon Society. As for these three... it is actually to complete our original purpose—— Absorb Japanese resources.

If the Ghost Dragon Society really fights us, then the money spent by the Japanese guild on the Ghost Dragon Society will naturally be consumed in the battle, but the question is, will we really fight? Although two-thirds of the Ghost Dragon Club players don't know the truth, Matsumoto Masaga is ours after all, so our Frost Rose Alliance and the Ghost Dragon Club are actually one family. The war between us is definitely impossible to actually fight, at most it will just be a show. So, why are supplies "consumed" in this kind of staged battle? The answer is naturally in our hands.

Because of the National Defense Forces Transformation Agreement, Japanese players have to constantly transfer their money to the Ghost Dragon Club, and the Ghost Dragon Club keeps transferring money to us on the battlefield. This is equivalent to the Japanese paying taxes to us. , except for the need to turn a hand in the middle to increase some losses, this model has almost no obvious shortcomings. Using this method will neither cause resistance among the Japanese nor consume too much of our energy. Compared with direct occupation, this is actually the best way to occupy.

While various forces on the Japanese side are busy, China is not stopping much either. Although the Russians have been driven out of the border, the tens of millions of troops piled up on the border are still quite depressing. What's even worse is that the Russians have no awareness of this at all. Not only do they have no plans to evacuate or reduce their troops. , and they are still increasing their troops.

"What on earth do the Russians want to do?" Zhongying held the information in the conference hall of Essinger, his brows almost squeezing into a pile.

Matsumoto Masahiro congratulated them for having a one-day meeting, and our side was not much better. Of course, unlike Matsumoto Masahiro and the others who were wrangling over there, our side only held a one-day meeting because there were too many things. During the meeting last night, we were discussing the Japanese issue. Late at night, after finalizing the Japanese plan, we began to work on the internal adjustment plan of the guild. Then, everyone went offline to rest in the early morning. As soon as we came online in the early morning, everyone started discussing the Russian invasion. Now, It's almost noon, and the results meeting hasn't ended yet.

The military god said with some embarrassment: "Sorry, I really can't determine the strategic intentions of the Russians based on the current information. At first, I thought they wanted to continue to counterattack our country, but although they are constantly adding troops to the front, they can't The additional troops were all cannon fodder, and the elite troops with higher combat effectiveness were secretly transferred away from the front line. This obviously reduced the combat effectiveness of the frontline garrison. If they really plan to counterattack us, this arrangement is obviously unreasonable."

Hongyue said: "Do you know where the elite troops have been transferred?"

The three-dimensional map in the center of the conference hall suddenly enlarged, and then displayed a bright spot. "Here." Military God replied after the bright spot appeared.

"What are they doing there?" The location shown on the map is very strange. The coordinates of this place are 88 degrees east longitude and 50 degrees north latitude. According to the location on the map, it is just north of Urumqi in our country, on the Russian side of the Sino-Russian border. This place can be said to be very special, because in addition to being the border between China and Russia, it actually connects two countries. A little to the east is Mongolia, and a little to the west is Kazakhstan. It can be said that this location almost includes the borders of four countries. Although the borders of Kazakhstan and Mongolia do not intersect, they are very close. With the mobility of the mount creatures in the game, you can basically circle around the borders of the four countries and return to the starting point in an hour. . With such a short distance, there is a lot to write about.

King Chuang looked at the map and said. "Hey, God of War, are you sure the information is correct? This is a large mountainous area. Even though I am a naval player and not very familiar with ground warfare, I at least know that such a large local army cannot be deployed. The Russians What are you planning to do by gathering the troops here? Are you going to play guerrilla warfare with us?"

"Guerrilla warfare is impossible." Rose said: "This is neither the center of our country nor the center of Russia. There is no point in playing game warfare. Besides, guerrilla warfare must have a mass base or individual soldiers with outstanding combat effectiveness. I hope the Russians are not obviously uncomfortable comparing themselves to us?"

Su Mei suddenly said: "What if the Russians don't intend to invade?"

"Although I agree with this inference, there is no direct evidence to prove it." The military god said helplessly.

"Evidence cannot be found by sitting in a conference room. I think we still need to send more force to investigate." Hongyue said.

Eagle asked: "What about the front line?"

"Use a moderate strategy for the time being. If they increase their troops, we will also increase our troops to ensure a strategic balance." Rose answered Eagle's question, which can be regarded as directly supporting Hongyue's idea.

Since both Rose and Hongyue said this method was feasible, I simply turned around and looked around at the other people in the conference hall and asked, "What do you think? Should we dissolve the meeting first and look for clues?"

"agree."

"agree."

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Everyone in the conference hall quickly raised their hands to express their agreement. In the end, we had no choice but to follow Hongyue's instructions and add troops to the border first. As for the rest, we had to wait until we got detailed information. Modern warfare is all about information. If you know nothing about the enemy's purpose, you are not fighting but seeking death.

Although everyone said that the meeting was dismissed to investigate the intelligence, after all, only I could go. Unlike everyone else, I am one of the few free people in this conference hall who does not have guild tasks to bear, and my attributes have a relatively high NPC affinity, which means that the probability of me getting rid of tasks is higher than Others are taller. People with this attribute are usually the most suitable for intelligence investigations, because the number of NPCs in "Zero" is far more than the number of players. Any player's plan will inevitably be known to some NPCs, and they can frequently People who trigger the tasks carried by NPCs will be more likely to get the information they need from NPCs. This can be regarded as one of the other benefits of affinity.

After being driven out of Isengard by Rose and others in the name of those who can do more, I was directly teleported to a city called Westmine. The *** area in the game is not the same as in reality. Although the terrain and landforms are roughly the same, many mountains have been added to the map and the terrain structure is no longer dominated by deserts. Moreover, the population is relatively smaller than in reality. Different from the situation with relatively low density, the *** population in the game is quite dense. Of course, this is talking about the NPC population, and the players are still similar to reality.

Because there are more people, there are naturally more cities. This Westminster City is a small city built systematically, but there is no corresponding city for this city in reality.

Westminster City is located northwest of the real Altay City, relatively close to Kazakhstan, and the city's construction location is quite weird. It is not built on flat ground, but between a bunch of dense peaks. Although the entire Westminster City is less than one-tenth the size of Essinger, there is a height difference of more than 350 meters between the highest point and the lowest point in the city. In such a small area, with such a terrifying gap, you can imagine what kind of city this is.

As soon as you come out of the Teleportation Hall in Westminster City, there is a winding staircase in front of the door. Because there is almost no flat land in the entire city of Westminster, there are no normal streets in the city. The streets here are steps. Except for some slopes between some sections with relatively small differences, basically the roads in the entire city are It is made up of steps.

Since Westminster is full of stairs, wheeled transport is a complete waste here. Whether it's an animal-drawn cart, a handcart, or a bicycle, anything with wheels is completely useless here.

The players and NPCs in the city seemed very surprised by my appearance. Of course there is a reason for my popularity, but more importantly it is because of my equipment.

Westminster is a mountain city, and the leveling areas near it are also on steep hillsides and cliffs. Here, basically no one wears heavy equipment like mine, because the flexibility of these armor-type equipment is generally not high, except for artifact-level armor like my Shenlong suit, which can be used without affecting the use at all. In addition to movements, basically as long as it is armor, it will always restrict some body flexibility. For example, Holy Spirit-level armor is better, but if it were lower equipment, it would be ruined. Wrapping yourself up like a tin can and fighting on a mountainside that is over 60 degrees is something even a fool can't do.

Precisely because armor-type equipment is not suitable for mountain warfare, there are almost no people wearing armor in the entire Westminster City. The player professions here are basically archers. On steep cliffs that are inconvenient to move, archers who can attack without moving are obviously the most suitable profession. Of course, the mage can also stand still and attack, but the poor physical attributes of the mage make it troublesome when he needs to move. Although the archers can stand still and attack, at least they are very flexible and are absolutely unambiguous when they need to move. But once the mage needs to move, it will be troublesome. Therefore, although there are mages here, their number is not very large.

Archers, mages, hunters, assassins, these are the main professional composition here. Except for the above four universal professions, most universal professions are not very suitable for this kind of place, especially knight-type professions. It's hard to imagine what it would be like for a knight in full steel armor to charge on a steep hillside of more than 60 degrees on a fully armored horse. Anyway, I think that would be more like 'suicide'. Of course, this does not mean that all knights are not suitable here. Some special cavalry are actually very suitable for this kind of terrain. For example, the big pot rice guy.

Do you still remember the profession of the guy with a big pot of rice? He was a knight, not of course a knight on a white horse, but a boar rider. Don't underestimate wild boars, they can run much faster in the mountains and forests than Marco. At least wild boars can still climb mountains, but war horses basically have to stop eating once they encounter a hillside with a slope of more than 40 degrees.

I was looking at the surrounding environment, and unexpectedly, a young beauty wearing leather armor suddenly approached me. The reason why I call her a little beauty is not because of her age. Of course, she is definitely not much older, but this is not the reason why I call her a little beauty. I call her Little Beauty because of her figure. This little beauty is probably only less than 1.5 meters tall, but she is not a dwarf. Although she is short, her body structure is perfect, and she feels like a miniature model of a normal person.

"Excuse me, are you Ziri?" The little beauty rushed to me and immediately raised her head and asked.

To be honest, I don’t often get looked up to by others. After all, my height is here. Even after wearing the Shenlong suit, my height is definitely less than 1.75 meters. This height is basically relatively short in the game. Type, but standing in front of this little beauty, I feel like I am a giant.

I nodded slightly to the little beauty's question, and then asked, "What can I do for you?"

"I'm fine." The little beauty's answer almost made me roll down the stairs to the city gate.

"It's okay, why did you call me?"

"Oh, I just wanted to ask if you are okay." As soon as the little beauty finished speaking, she realized that what she said seemed inappropriate, so she quickly explained: "That's right. I am actually a guide. You may I don’t know, our Westminster City has a special city structure, so there are many players who come here to experience the special environment. But because of the terrain here, unfamiliar people may suffer accidental casualties and get lost. They are all very tall, so some of us here started working as guides. I wonder if you also need to hire a guide?"