Chapter 773: A new decisive weapon! Come on, let’s dig into the sky
Chapter 771 770. new decisive weapon! Come on, let’s dig to the end of the sky-add more [330].
(For brother “Frost Tooth and Claw” [3/5])
The Star World Wolves made a big mess, messing up the front line defense of the Shadow Valley, the jackals took advantage of the situation, immediately followed up when the wolves retreated in the ice fog, and took advantage of the winter wolves to reorganize the defense line to capture two of the three drawbridges in front of the valley, and launched an attack on the last drawbridge.
It was the players who reacted quickly at the critical moment.
When they realized that the jackals wanted to seize the bridge, these foreigners who had just fought with the Star World Wolves rushed over as fast as they could, and led by a group of high-end players who had rushed back to the valley, they fought with the jackals for more than an hour, and didn’t let them cross the bridge.
It was only after the Nords regrouped in the rear that the players withdrew from the battlefield, but even then, the defenses of the Phantom Valley had been partially dismantled.
The last bridge was taken by the Jackals, and a standard turtle-in-a-jar terrain was formed.
Command realized this risk, and under the command of the five pairs of wheels, the players walking in the pits made several attacks on the area occupied by the Jackals over the next two days and three nights, trying to force the Jackals back to the rear.
However, this strategy had already been spied by Hügesen.
He understood that this was the critical moment, as long as he could break through the Transylvanians’ last defense in the Shadow Valley, he would be able to capture this key point and then grasp the intricate tunnels in the Barren Mountain region from the source, and completely defeat the Transylvanians’ ambush strategy in this narrow region.
Therefore, not only did Xu Gesen not return to defense, instead, he put all of his elite into the attack on the Valley of Shadows.
They adopted a primitive but effective offense, and Hogson sent out all of his Dogheads to dig new tunnels underneath the mountain to infiltrate the valley.
The movement could not be hidden from the Earth Priests.
The dog-headed men would be the first to collapse the tunnels as soon as they dug them, but the jackals meanwhile kept stripping the mountain to shape a second path besides the drawbridge in the valley’s chasm with clumsy seismic techniques.
The two jobs were being done simultaneously, and with the Jackals’ huge numerical advantage, the Earth Priests were busy on their feet.
Anyone could see the Jackals’ sinister intentions, and the defenders in the valley realized that the day of the decisive battle was approaching.
The two sides on the surface were facing each other to prepare for the final battle, while in the pit, the intensity of the encounter had been raised to a new level.
“There are dog-heads in front and behind us! Boss, we can’t rush out, these dogs are blocking us.”
The “Pride of the Horde”, a large guild among the newcomers, was carrying out their daily mission to retrieve the water source, but they encountered a dangerous situation just after they had passed through the tunnels, and their group of fifty was blocked by the dog-heads in a long and narrow tunnels.
After realizing that a fierce battle was inevitable, Tatsuo decisively ordered his team to follow him towards the mission site.
It was already the consensus of the players that the dog-heads couldn’t stop them.
If the Jackals weren’t going to send out Hunting Chosen or send down brute soldiers, then such a small obstacle wouldn’t be enough to make the players abandon the quest.
The truth was as Tatsuo expected, in front of their one-two punch attack, the armed dogmen blocking the way ahead quickly collapsed, but before the players could kill their way out of the pit, a violent Spiritual Energy Rift erupted along the stone walls around the pit.
“Fuck!”
Tatsuo Dragon only had time to let out a roar before large chunks of dirt above his head slammed down in vibrations, crushing his brother in front of him.
This was just the beginning.
More Rift spells were soon unleashed, and after a few minutes, the entire pit collapsed, and the heavy dirt pressed down on the players, quickly suffocating them even if they weren’t crushed to death immediately.
The shallowest pit dug by the dwarves was five meters from the ground, and it was impossible to break the surface and rush out, so this kind of “terrain kill” was basically unsolvable in this situation.
This pit crack not only buried fifty players, but also buried more than a hundred Dogheads along the way, but the Blood Scar Priests who initiated the cracking spell at the back of the pit didn’t even look at this place, and didn’t go forward to clean up the ruins, recording this kill and then turning around to leave.
Obviously, the jackals have lost interest in this kind of “underground hide-and-seek”, they began to use more efficient ways to deal with the threat underground.
The news of Chen Long’s squad’s miserable demise was quickly posted on the forums by the angry chairman, as a way to alert other players and at the same time communicate this change in the details of the war to the commanding officer.
It was a good thing he hadn’t brought his most expensive set of Dwarven plate armor with him when he went out today, or else this loss would have been enough to make Tatsu Long spit blood.
“Another pit collapse? How many times is this?”
The current leader of the command department, “Five to Wheel”, had already realized that something was wrong, and he pulled together a group offline using a chat tool, and through the summaries of the young staff officers, a new situation was manifested.
“Five trench collapses in three days, that’s an unusual number, sir.”
National 007 summarized:
“I’ve discussed this with my classmates, and I think the Jackals are deliberately using this ‘terrain kill’ to limit our tactical penetration and freedom of movement; we’ve examined the construction of several of the collapsed tunnels, and we’ve discovered that the Jackals aren’t just creating random collapses; they’re artificially dividing our pits apart.
They are compressing our space to maneuver, forcing us to give up our flexibility to move through narrower terrain, and the end result of this tactic is that we will be squeezed into unconnected tunnels and forced to fight head-on duels with the Jackals.
They don’t have heavy weapons, but they have found a way to restrain us.”
“One more thing!”
The female staff officer from National 013 also spoke up:
“I think this is the Jackals executing ‘intimidation’ tactics, after the players realize that the pit they’re in could collapse at any time, our actions will become cautious with it, and even if the players aren’t afraid, the NPCs following the players’ actions will be afraid as well.
They are demoralizing us in this cruel way.
We have to think of a way.”
“The Earth Priests are tied up right now with the double action of the Dogheads’ constant digging into the valley and the Jackals’ cracking of the mountain, and there’s no way they can spare the time to help us reopen the pit.”
Five to Wheel mused:
“So the Jackals are not acting in a single brilliant move, this is a unified overall plan, do you have any ideas?”
“My suggestion is that rather than sit back and wait for the Jackals to terrorize us, we take the same approach.”
National 013 suggested:
“There’s no need to stick to the exit shafts that were originally set up in the pit, let the players move freely and launch ‘pressure’ operations against the Jackal base camp with more frequent cold shots. They are carbon-based creatures too, and they need rest!
Our players hit and run, move quickly through the pits, and bury them if they have the guts to come after us.”
“Well, that’s fine, what else?”
“I found that some players have reported that they have seen more than one time that the Jackals are hunting the Star Realm Wolves for fresh meat, those Star Realm Wolves are hard to find and are avoiding direct conflict with the Jackals, if we can find a way to aggravate the conflict between the two sides, at least we can hold back some of the Jackal’s energy.”
Another staff officer said:
“We have an advantage in this regard, the Jackals don’t have a systematic air force, their reconnaissance is far inferior to our side.”
“Since we’re talking about the air force, why can’t our air force launch a direct air attack on the Jackals’ main camp?”
National 007 asked suspiciously:
“Didn’t we have vampires using aerial bombs in warfare before? With more of those big killers, we can totally blow them up, air control is a very important part, but I haven’t even seen Master Qin use this advantage.”
“The arsenal is in the middle of a weapons replacement production, they don’t have the manpower to produce extra high altitude explosives.”
Five to Wheel explained:
“But the good news is that we’ll have new guns available soon, several times more firepower than the anemic ones we have now, but we’ll have to keep holding out until the new armaments are delivered.”
“What about explosives? The supply of ordinary explosives should be enough, right?”
A young staff officer who rarely noticed suddenly said:
“If we borrow the existing tunnels, without relying on the Earth Priests, and rely on the earthworks of the players and NPCs to dig tunnels into the underground of the Jackals’ base camp, choose a good spot and bury enough explosives .
Make an ‘earth plane’ for them to try.
We could even do a center-flowering operation on the enemy base camp through such chaos, even if it’s just to boost morale, I think we should try it.
In fact, I’ve always wanted to say, couldn’t something like digging tunnels be done without Earth Priests?
Our predecessors were able to dig tunnels quickly and well with sapper shovels, so isn’t relying on Earth Priests always the end of the story?
When old tunnels are blown up, new ones are dug.
When old tunnels are discovered, they are dug out by surprise and the battle continues.
This is the flexible essence of pitched battle.
Now this relies on a complete system of tunnels to fight convenient is convenient, but also lost the core of that flexible change.
I’m willing to take a trip to the front lines myself and try it out as I see it. I was an engineer before I went to military school, and I think it would work, and I’d need some men and enough explosives.
Five days! I only need five days!”
“003, you talk a good game, but you really just want to go to war and get high, don’t you?”
“Hey, you found out, so just tell me if it’s okay, right? If you don’t have one hundred percent confidence in your tactical plan, how can you be a good staff officer?”
“Good!”
Five Pairs of Wheels thought about it and clapped his hands, saying:
“I can mobilize and conduct a raid of about a thousand people based on your proposal, as for the players you need, go recruit them yourself on the forums. The others mobilize players and NPCs to clear those blasted pits, 003 is right, without Earth Priests are we not going to fight?
Since the People’s Army has been issued with engineer shovels, let’s use them in the right places.
Master Qin has given us command of the Phantom Valley, even if it’s just for the sake of this face of ours, we have to hold it until we complete our mission!”
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The authorized “Domestic 003” was very happy.
This guy excitedly boarded the game, did not wear his own People’s Army staff uniform, but like other newcomers to the game changed into a set of veteran leather armor, with the support of Master Qin’s expert adventuring assistant, and left the command headquarters in a decent manner.
He had just chatted with Tatsuo on the forums, and after learning that the guy had a plan that could help him and his brothers get out of the way, Tatsuo had readily agreed to cooperate, and had told him to go to the tavern to find his own brother, Ohio Pig.
Ohio Pig also got the news and waited in advance in the tavern’s second-floor box, seeing 003 push the door in, the vampire Ohio Pig froze at once.
“Huh, you ID you are a member of the commanding officer ah?”
Ohio Pig asked curiously:
“Aren’t you guys not taking part in specific operations? What? Dismissed by Master Qin for making a mistake?”
“Hahaha, just consider me fired.”
003 laughed, and didn’t tell Ohi Pig more about the command department, knowing that many players were speculating about the identities of the “professionals” that they had been recruited by Master Qin, so he skipped the self-introduction and went straight to business.
He took out a rough map of Spectral Shadow Valley and pointed to two points on it and said to Hei Pig:
“Elder brother Tatsuo Dragon has probably told you about it, right?
We are going to conduct a special pit combat, look, this point is the center area of pit 5, the straight line distance from here to the Jackals’ current base camp area is only 7 kilometers, we are going to use our hands to dig a pit to reach their heart area directly in the next five days, and then use explosives to complete an underground blasting.
I’ve been authorized to send a force of about 1,000 troops from Command to curtail our killing spree in the Jackal’s base camp as soon as our first phase of operations is complete.”
“F*ck, that sounds awesome! It’s a dirt plane ride!”
Ohio Pig laughed and his wings flapped behind him, but he quickly pointed at the map and said:
“That’s not right, why did you pick pit 5? Obviously, pit 11 is closer to the Jackals’ garrison, wouldn’t it be more convenient for us to start digging from here?”
“Because that place has already been discovered, there were 25 small and large scale battles around Trench 11 in the previous seven days, it’s a high-risk area, and there’s a high probability that earthwork operations there will be discovered. The first priority of this operation is to ensure concealment.”
003 explained patiently:
“And the Jackals aren’t fools, their psychics have been monitoring the movements under the nearby earth, so I chose Pit 5 only after careful selection.
It’s 61 meters from the deepest part of the earth’s surface, and the general depth is also around 30 meters, it’s one of the deepest pits dug by the dwarves, so our earthwork isn’t a straight line, to be precise, we have to dig a three-dimensional pit with an incline of around 11°, in order to make sure that we won’t be detected by the psychics to be moving as we approach our destination.”
“That’s a lot of work.”
Ohio Pig frowned and said:
“We don’t have a shield machine in our hands, just five days of digging with our hands . Is it okay?”
“If you look up the battle examples in the forums, you’ll know that the difficulty of such an earthwork job didn’t even rank in the top fifty in those war years of our forefathers.”
Domestic 003 shook his head:
“It really isn’t that hard, the only problem is time, which means our players might need enough willpower.”
“‘Our players’, that’s a strange way of putting it, makes it seem like you’re not one of us.”
Ohio Pig flicked his tongue and shook his head in an ‘old-fashioned’ manner:
“Brother, it’s not good to break away from the masses, you’re also a player, since it was you who came up with the plan, and since the Boss has agreed to it, there’s not much for the remaining seventy-odd brothers in our guild to say, just do it and be done with it!
Consider it a tribute to our forefathers, when will it start?”
“If it’s convenient, now.”
003 shrugged and said:
“It’s not too late.”
“Okay, you wait for me to gather my men.”
Ohio Pig was not ambiguous, and immediately went on the forum to call for friends.
003 grinned, feeling that the players were really so reckless and cute, they seemed to always be so trusting of their own people.
Thinking so, 003 stood up and intended to go to the tavern to experience the daily life of the players, but in the end, just as he pushed open the door, he saw the “star player” Giant Shark holding onto the wall with a weak face coming out from the house next to him, and Giant Shark was using a handkerchief to wipe away hickeys on his face and neck as he walked.
Mouth chanting what “too exciting”, what “I’m still small don’t be like this” and other nonsense.
When he saw 003 looking at him curiously, Shark’s face turned red, and a good Warm Berserker actually covered his face and ran out in shame, as if he had been caught doing something bad.
The country’s 003 curiously glanced at the house next to him, just in time to see the tavern’s shadow elf owner’s wife in rather “simple” clothes was leaning against the door to experience some kind of aftereffects of what she had just experienced, she sipped her wine, and even threw a wink at 003.
Now, the simple 003 finally realized what the giant shark was doing.
Crap!
Is this game so yellowish!
It’s still really 18+ ah, bull shit, bro!
National 003, also a good boy, fled and ran from the second floor to the first, and was about to order a drink to get close to Giant Shark and ask about certain intriguing details, but then he was stopped in his tracks by a bear-like Nord soldier.
“Hey, I just heard from the guys in the ‘Pride of the Undying’ mercenary group that you’re organizing a surprise attack on the Jackal base camp?”
The drunken Nord wiped his mouth and said:
“My brother was killed by the Jackals, and the rest of my brothers don’t want to just go on vacation with an unfinished defeat, will that plan of yours work? Do you still need men?”
“Blanch, this ‘strict’ sense of secrecy among the players is desperate.”
003 snapped and slapped his face and eyes, he sighed and looked at the giant man in front of him who was three heads taller than him, he said:
“Won’t your officer come after me if you just come with me?”
“My officer was bitten to death by the Star Realm Wolves, and Colonel Bartholomew Young was wounded, we’re still waiting to be reassigned, it’s a free-for-all during leave.”
The northerner cursed rudely:
“I don’t even say anything when my head’s on my pants, but why are you people so full of shit? Just say yes or no?”
“How many of you are there?”
003 said:
“I don’t want fewer people.”
“Over 200 men, more counting the wounded, is that enough?”
“Well, fine, all bring your sapper shovels, call out for people to gather, we’ll leave right away. But there’s one thing, you must obey orders and listen to command, it doesn’t matter if you lose your own head, if the battle fails because of you guys, you’re just waiting to be court-martialed.”
(End of chapter)