Strictly speaking, the NPC forces of the Southeast island countries should be called Western powers. According to official reports, this camp originated from various Western colonial empires, and its arms are mainly composed of Western swordsmen, Western boxers, musketeers, artillery soldiers and missionaries from afar. The main advantage is the use of firearms.

Of course, other countries have troops such as "melting camps", but their combat capabilities are far from comparable to musketeers in Western countries. For example, the Jurchen camp and the Central Dynasty camp have a kind of musketeer. However, these musketeers only hold extremely ancient disposable bamboo storm that needs to be lit with leads during launch. Not only is it large in size and heavy in weight, but it also has a range of less than twenty meters. Even if it is only a twenty meters range, its hit rate and lethality are quite speechless, so this military can only scare people at most. In other words, the musketeer is actually a powerful firework.

The Western musketeers held a flintlock rifle in their hands, that is, a front-mounted musket ignited with flint. If you compare it in detail, it is almost the kind of musket used by the Eight-Nation Alliance when invading China. Not only is it relatively light in weight and easy to carry, but it is also several orders of magnitude higher than the blast musket.

If you compare it, Fang Jie has personally experienced the performance of this musket before. More than 20 years ago, he used a golden pistol similar to the performance of the flintlock rifle to shoot Murong Feng in the head. In other words, the power of the flintlock rifle mainly depends on whether it can hit the enemy's key points. If it fails to hit the key points, it will be a minor injury for martial arts players at most, but once it is hit, it will be directly killed instantly.

Of course, the vital points of the human body targeted by the flintlock rifle are different from the vital points of martial arts strike. If it is a martial arts strike, there may be more than a dozen key points on the body as long as one is hit, it can cause instant killing or losing combat power. The bullets fired by the flintlock rifle will only cause instant killing effect when hitting the head, eyebrows, temples, back of the head or chest heart. It can be seen that in this regard, the game system still limits the power of the firearm.

To put it bluntly, in fact, during the Ming Dynasty, China had invented flintlock rifles, and firearms were widely used. Unfortunately, in the Qing Dynasty, the rulers were conservative in their thinking and did not pay attention to the development of science and technology. They only used flintlock rifles for hunting of nobles in the palace and were not equipped with the army. During this period, they also invented a bead gun that could be loaded automatically, which was similar to modern mechanical machine guns, but they were still not promoted and adopted by the Qing court. If this were not the case, there would be no Opium War later...

Anyway, no matter what, the game system still "respects" history, and did not allow the Central Dynasty camp to have musket soldiers holding semi-modern weapons. In this way, the advantages of the Western camp are more prominent. It is conceivable that if a group of people with cold weapons to deal with a group of semi-modern soldiers holding hot weapons, it would be like a death to go up and die, and it would be a complete suicide. The five million NPC army of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom and the million beast army of the Wanwan Villa were completely wiped out.

As for the reason for the defeat of the Magic King Valley, the player sect power belonging to the Southern Barbarians, it was not caused by Western musketeers. After all, although the flintlock gun held by Western musketeers is very advanced, its effective range is only 80 meters, far lower than the effective bow and arrow diffusion distance of the Magic King Valley hunter players. What's more, the 10,000-metre special team of Medicine King Valley is also equipped with a Wuzhu crossbow with an effective attack range. Therefore, in this battle between the two sides, the Western musketeers did not get any advantage from the players of Medicine King Valley, but were shot and killed by the opponent a lot.

The one who really caused the destruction of the 10,000-person special brigade of Medicine King Valley was actually Western artillery. This type of army was not nonsense. It was equipped with 38mm caliber Western artillery, with a range of 38mm, which completely covered the effective attack range of the 10,000-person special brigade of Medicine King Valley. The brigade of Medicine King Valley, which occupied Wuzhou City in advance and stationed at the top of the city, was killed or injured by the fierce bombing of Western artillery. If it weren't for some disciples of Medicine King Valley who survived by chance, they risked their lives to snatch the priceless equipment from the bodies of their comrades' bodies, Medicine King Valley and the Eight Treasure Pavilion would have lost at least one billion this time.

After the National War began, the game system will record the process in detail and make it into a battle video for players who do not understand the troops of various camps to study and learn from. The Battle of Wuzhou City is no exception. When players from various sects of the world watched this one-sided bloody battle video, they were shocked and looked as if they were dead. They couldn't help but wonder if they had been on this battlefield of artillery fire, wouldn't they also end up with no bones?

Not only ordinary players have this panic, but the top leaders of various factions also have a strong fear of the forces of Western countries. The heads of many sects secretly regretted why they did not join the Western countries with advanced weapons before the National War, while they had to think hard about good strategies to defeat the enemy, hoping to find tactics and methods to restrain firearms.

Just when everyone shifted their attention from the Dongyi Kingdom to the Western Kingdom, which might have a great impact on the situation in the Central Plains, the NPC army of the Western Kingdom that captured Wuzhou City did not continue to go north to attack Guilin City, a strategic important place controlled by the Southern Barbarians. Instead, they stayed in the city and stopped moving. Instead, they drew a Western army of five million from Guangzhou City to north and attacked Shaoguan Town, an important town in the junction of Guangdong, Hunan and Guangxi.

When the various factions in the martial arts world learned about this military news, the Western army had just set out from Guangzhou City. This also made the Central Plains factions, who believed that the ten powerful threats of the Western power, feel that this was an opportunity to attack the forces. Especially at the meeting of the Business Association of the Pre-War Association, the Wudang faction, who was responsible for the defense of the southern region, immediately held a pre-war mobilization meeting to study and arrange tactics against the enemy, and ordered its teams to set off immediately and occupy Shaoguan Town before the Western Army.

At the same time, the Beggars, who could not stand the loneliness, also announced that the Beggars' Sect would send five million troops to cooperate with the Wudang Sect to resist the invasion of the Western Army. Secondly, the Xiaoyao Sect also mobilized the entire Sect to go south alone to find an opportunity to defeat the enemy.

In fact, the reason why these sects were so active after seeing the video of the Battle of Wuzhou City was mainly because they could not withstand the temptation of national war rewards. The direct inducement was that Wangqing Pavilion gradually gained a foothold in the cities outside Taizhou City and began to feel at ease to improve military merits and martial arts cultivation points. As a martial arts sect, Wudang Sect was also in the period of the national war. He was jealous and naturally did not want to stay out of the matter. Now that he had the opportunity to send troops to do a big fight, even if the Western NPC was holding modern weapons, he wanted to try the fried eggs that were unwilling to give up.

As for the Beggars' Sect, for this purpose, the Beggars' Sect ordered a large number of vine armor from Wangqing Pavilion, and had surrounded Jiaxing City and started to slap the Dongyi Kingdom NPC. Since the overall situation in the east has been decided, the Beggars' Middle-aged Beggars with huge military resources cannot be satisfied with such a small piece of national war cake as Jiaxing City. According to the strategic location of its sect, the only direction that can further develop is the south. After all, there are Wangqing Pavilion and the Central Plains sects to the west, and Shaolin Temple to the north. These two directions must not be divided into the national war cake.

After missing the big cake of Dongyi Kingdom, the Xiaoyao Sect finally woke up. Its sect base was originally south of Yangzhou City. Although they dared not have the conditions to compete with the Wangqing Pavilion, which was smashing monsters in the east, the reason for going south was very sufficient. Moreover, the senior executives of the Xiaoyao Sect were very self-aware and knew that famous sects such as the Wudang Sect and the Beggars' Sect definitely did not take the Xiaoyao Sect seriously, so the two sides basically had no basis for cooperation. It would be better to go south and get a piece of the pie from the Western powers.

Interestingly, although the three factions had a total of more than 10 million martial arts players heading south together, the final destinations of the three factions were different. The Wudang faction took charge of Shaoguan Town, while the Beggars' Sect occupied the slightly behind Nanxiong Town. As for the Xiaoyao faction, since there were no other important towns near Shaoguan, they simply camped in the mountains of the suburbs.

On the surface, the sects of the central dynasty of these three parties seem to be in a strife with each other, but in fact, it is a bit like the Beggars' Sect letting the Wudang Sect be the one who is in front of the waters to try the waters. The Xiaoyao Sect is like a supporting role and is squeezed out of the front battlefield by two major sects. If the Western Army is in a formidable position, the protagonist of the opera may be the Wudang Sect, but the Wudang Sect is the one who is most likely to suffer a great loss. At that time, the Beggars' Sect who hides behind it can stand up and clean up the mess, and the Xiaoyao Sect squeezed aside may also be able to share some leftovers.

In short, although the three factions are in the same camp, they are incompatible with each other due to their interests, and they never thought of uniting to fight the enemy.

More than ten days later, the Western Army, which was as slow as a snail, finally arrived at the city of Shaoguan. What needs to be said more here is that after the players' research and observation, it has been concluded that although the Western forces have huge advantages in firearms, their mobility is the worst among all power countries, almost all infantry troops. Moreover, their combat capabilities are greatly affected by the geographical environment. For example, in the mountains and forests, the combat power of the musketeers is less than 30%, and the artillery can't even exert half of the combat power. After all, Western artillery cannons cannot be moved up at all and cannot be so high.

Many players analyzed that the reason why the Western camp did not continue to attack Guilin City after capturing Wuzhou City was mainly due to geographical restrictions. Guilin area is a typical "karst", that is, the karst peak forest landform. If this were not the case, Guilin would not have the reputation of "the best mountains and rivers in the world". If it were to travel to Guilin, the scenery would naturally be pleasant and would not be disappointing. However, if you were to fight with muskets and artillery, you would definitely not feel happy for yourself. This is an ideal way to come to Western countries.

Therefore, in the early stages of the war, the top leaders of the three factions had specially studied corresponding tactics for the weaknesses of Western soldiers. Take the Shaoguan Town occupied by the Wudang Sect for example. The geological landforms in this area are more complex, with widespread karst landforms, and mainly hilly landforms. There are many canyons in the territory and the Broken Wall Mountains are crisscrossing. Shaoguan and Nanxiong are located in two canyon basins between the three major mountains. If they can withstand the army of Western countries with their terrain, there will definitely be no result of the Battle of Wuzhou City.

Not only that, Shaoguan has been a must-fight for military strategists since ancient times, and is the most important land passage and pass between the Central Plains and the coastal areas of South China. Once Shaoguan is broken, the gate of the Central Plains will be completely open to the Western countries. Therefore, the throat of Shaoguan Town must not be occupied by the Western countries. This is also the fundamental reason why all the factions in the Central Plains, especially the Wudang Sect, who were directly threatened, went south. Otherwise, once the Western countries advance into the plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the subsequent national war will be difficult to fight.

However, even if Shaoguan City is now in the hands of the Wudang Sect, this battle seems not very easy to fight.

After the two sides fought each other, the Wudang Sect suffered a great loss under the opponent's carpet artillery bombardment. The fried eggs paid out of their own pocket and refreshed the 200,000 Central Dynasty spearmen who were originally used as cannon fodder to test the waters in Shaoguan City before they rushed out of the city gate, they were killed and injured by the opponent's three rounds of cannons. In addition, the Wudang Sect players in the city also killed and injured tens of thousands of people. If it weren't for the other Wudang Sect players seeing something wrong, they would have used it as soon as possible. Almost everyone was good at Tiyun Zong hid in the sky, and the defenders in the city might not have lived.

After personally verifying that defending the city would only become a target for being bombarded by the Western Army, Fried Eggs made a quick decision to order all the personnel to evacuate from Shaoguan Town, and scattered themselves to the mountains around the Shaoguan Basin in a unit of a thousand-person squadron. After the Western Army entered the Canyon Basin, it would then siege the enemies on the official road from both sides with its condescending terrain.

The tactic of scattered siege developed by Fried Eggs, which was based on retreat to advance and dispersed siege, achieved good results in the subsequent battle. Since the official road to the Central Plains was just in the center of the canyon, and everyone could fly over the eaves and walls to hide behind the mountains on both sides, the Western army could not attack the players at all when passing through the canyon. Faced with the enemies who rushed down from both sides, they were almost powerless to resist. As a result, in the second stage of the battle, the Wudang faction won a game back and drove the Western army out of Shaoguan Town.

But before the fried eggs were too happy, the Western Army once again covered Shaoguan Town with artillery fire. As a result, many Wudang players who rushed too far out of excitement and the Western soldiers they were hunting were destroyed by the fire. After the war, Fried eggs from Fried eggs took their fingers and calculated, but they couldn't help but be angry, because although they won the battle, they had already lost more and it was not worth the loss.

However, the furious fried eggs were not entirely because of the loss, but because of the anger that hundreds of thousands of Xiaoyao Sect players who were stationed in the mountains and forests outside the city were in danger of being rescued. The Wudang Sect used a trick to ask Jun to get into the trap to lead the main Western army into Shaoguan, the Western artillery was still moving slowly outside the city. If the Wudang Sect launches an attack, the Xiaoyao Sect can come out of the mountains and forests and scrap the Western artillery troops from behind, the Wudang Sect will not only not suffer any losses this time, but will definitely be able to wipe out all invading enemies in one go.

But the Xiaoyao Sect, who was hiding in the mountains, did not take any support from beginning to end, and was completely watching the Wudang Sect jokes. As a result, the Wudang Sect personnel suffered losses, but also missed the great opportunity to destroy the Western Army in one fell swoop. In the eyes of fried eggs, the Xiaoyao Sect's people were simply short-sighted people, which made him look very despised.

Therefore, whether out of anger or out of the unfavorable war in the Wudang Sect, he wanted to save some face, and then attributed the reasons for the defeat in this battle to the Xiaoyao Sect, and also righteously announced the players of this sect and the various factions belonging to the Central Dynasty camp, saying that the Xiaoyao Sect ignored the overall situation and led to the missed opportunity. He hoped that other sects could give Xiaoyao Sect a certain amount of public opinion pressure to truly assume certain national war responsibilities.

The senior executives of the Xiaoyao Sect and their players were naturally very dissatisfied with the remarks of fried eggs, saying that the Wudang Sect was bullying the people first and did not even give them to their allies. Now they suffered a great loss in front of the Western Army. Then they remembered their allies, Xiaoyao Sect, and they turned their backs on the saying that the Xiaoyao Sect did not cooperate with the Wudang Sect in combat. If they had known this, why would you have been in the Wudang Sect?

In short, the senior executives of the Xiaoyao Sect believed that not to mention that the two factions had not reached any intention of cooperation before the war, even if they had such an intention, the Wudang Sect was not kind first, and the Xiaoyao Sect was coldly watching, and if they wanted to say that they were irresponsible, the Wudang Sect should first review and review before they were qualified to talk about the Xiaoyao Sect.

Just as the two sides were quarreling, the army of Western countries, which had been resting and recuperating, launched an attack again. However, this time, Western countries seemed to have learned their cleverness and did not choose to take the Shaoguan route, but chose the Nanxiong Town route located in another canyon basin.

Interestingly, the move taken by the Western Army seemed to avoid the edge of the Wudang Sect, but in fact, it was a trick of self-scrow. Because the situation around Nanxiong Town is very delicate, the destination in the north of Nanxiong Town is headed by the Beggars' Army. The west side of the canyon happened to be one of the mountains where the Wudang Sect had just ambushed the Western Army. The mountains to the east of the canyon were stationed by the Xiaoyao Sect. The Western Army passed by from now on, which was equivalent to facing a three-sided attack.

Originally, if the Western army continued to invade the Central Plains from Shaoguan according to the original route, the worst case would be that the Wudang faction would be defeated back to the south of Shaoguan again. Moreover, in terms of war costs, the Western countries could still take advantage. After all, the Xiaoyao faction, which was shirking responsibility with the Wudang faction, would definitely continue to watch coldly because of the face. The security behind the Western army would not be problematic. When the Wudang faction was driven back to Shaoguan, it would be impossible to plow it with artillery again.

But now after the Western army took the initiative to throw themselves into their arms, they accidentally tied the three factions that had no intention of cooperation together, because whether from the perspective of the Wudang faction or the Xiaoyao faction, with the experience of the previous battle, the facts have proved that killing the Western army in the canyon area can almost achieve zero casualties. Since the Western army is now passing under the noses of the two factions, how can there be no reason to swallow the fat from the mouth without swallowing the belly?

From the perspective of the interests of the Beggars' Gang, the mountains on both sides of the east and west have been occupied by the Allies. If the Wudang Sect and Xiaoyao Sect are now allowed to withdraw from the mountains and the Beggars' disciples will take over the defense line of these two factions by themselves, the other party will definitely not agree to hand over the cake to the Beggars' Gang. But if you don't do this, the Beggars' Gang in the northern section of the canyon is just a waste of blocking the two factions. In the end, not only can they not get any benefits, but they may also lose some of the casualties.

Therefore, weighing the pros and cons, the beggar finally let go of his figure and met with the senior executives of the Wudang Sect and the Xiaoyao Sect before the Western army entered the canyon. They proposed that in this battle, the three parties should abandon past grudges, work together, and cooperate with each other to destroy all the invading Western troops in the canyon. The senior executives of the Wudang Sect and the Xiaoyao Sect, who have been accusing each other, finally temporarily put aside their previous grudges and agreed to cooperate with the three factions to divide the cake of Western countries.

At the pre-war meeting, the three parties agreed that a group of the Beggars' Gang and a million dynasty spearmen purchased jointly by the three parties were responsible for the front feint attack and luring the enemy. The Wudang Sect was responsible for the early offensive of the western mountains, and the Xiaoyao Sect was responsible for the offensive of the eastern mountains. The other teams of the Beggars' Gang took over the defense line of the Wudang Sect in the later period. Several elite groups of the Wudang Sect collectively used the Tidal Clouds from the top of the mountain, flew to the Western Army's artillery base and landed on the Western Army's artillery base, and implemented the central flowering tactics to wipe it out in one fell swoop. At the same time, the Beggars' Gang and the Xiaoyao Sect launched a general attack. The three factions cooperated with each other and wiped out the enemy.

It has to be said that the heads of sects such as Fried Eggs and Beggars and Beggars are all extremely smart people. The combat plan that several people have decided together is completely omitted. If the plan is successfully implemented, none of the Western Army going north will run back.

The key to this combat plan is that after the Beggars' Gang replaced the Wudang Sect's offensive, the Wudang Sect's elite regiment directly "airborne" to the Western artillery position. The reason why it was "airborne" instead of rushing into the rear of the Western Army was mainly because the Western artillery position was protected by Western swordsmen and Western boxers who were good at melee combat. If people outside wanted to rush into the artillery position, they had to face the interception of millions of Western melee troops.

In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why the Xiaoyao Sect did not make up their mind to take down the artillery position for the Wudang Sect in the previous battle. After all, if the deal is cost-effective, the Xiaoyao Sect will definitely not give up the national war rewards that are easy to get for a little resentment. You should know that the Xiaoyao Sect disciples are especially good at body skills. Even if they shoot in front of Xiaoyao Sect disciples, most players can easily dodge bullets. Therefore, if there is no melee troops blocking them, their body skills can break into the artillery position in the blink of an eye and then escape before the enemy reacts.

Now that we cannot directly rush into the artillery position by land, and it is possible to delay the fighter planes, this sacred mission can only be handed over to the players of the Wudang Sect to complete. Moreover, the Wudang Sect is willing to do this seemingly risky job, because there is a saying that risk and reward are proportional. If we can really airborne the artillery camp directly, the artillery soldiers who are powerless and unable to fight back in close combat will step on whatever they want in the Wudang Sect players like ants. In short, sweeping monsters in the artillery position is definitely much easier and much more efficient than snatching monsters with disciples of the Beggar Gang and Xiaoyao Sect in the canyon.

I won't say much about the process of this battle. In short, the Western Army that broke into the canyon for dozens of miles was almost wiped out under the siege of Wudang, Beggar Gang, and Xiaoyao Sect. Most of the three million main armies of the Western Army died in the canyon. The remaining musketeers and artillery soldiers were killed by hundreds of thousands of airborne troops of Wudang. In the final stage of the battle, millions of players slaughtered the remaining Western swordsmen and Western boxers, especially the players of the Xiaoyao Sect, who used their extremely good light skills to chase and kill all the fish that had escaped, so that none of the nearly five million Western army escaped this disaster.

The joint battle between the three factions of the Central Plains won the victory of the Battle of Shaoguan, which greatly boosted the morale of the players. The Western firearms, which were initially regarded as invincible by the players, have now become a laughing stock. After the war, some amateur military analysts believed that the reason why players could win this battle at a very small price was that the three factions, which were originally in harmony and separation, cooperated to complete the annihilation plan. However, the decisive factor was that the forces of the Western countries did not have the support of the player sects behind them, and lacked the "brain" that could formulate tactical plans for the NPC power countries and avoid risks. I believe that if a player could give Western countries some tactical advice before this battle, Western countries would not plunge into the trap set by the three factions and be wiped out and were wiped out. This may be a reflection of the difference between human brain and qualitative.

After this battle, the Wudang Sect, the Beggars' Sect and the Xiaoyao Sect also made a fortune.

You should know that the cost of the Western Army's arms is much higher than that of other countries. The auxiliary arms of Western boxers and Western swordsmen are 10 taels of gold, while the standard ammunition for muskets and 1000 taels of gold and artillery soldiers. After the standard ammunition for combat is completed, additional funds must be paid for from the national war military brushing system. Therefore, the five million Western Army is actually equivalent to nearly 20 million Dongyi soldiers, with a total value of more than one billion. All the front-line teams that kill the most enemies have received generous rewards for military merit points and martial arts cultivation points, especially the Wudang Sect airborne regiment with the most artillery soldiers. Each team member has won hundreds of thousands of military merits and martial arts cultivation on average, and the highest one has even won millions. The profit even exceeds Fang Jie, who was exhausted and exhausted in the Beijing Palace.

While the war in the south came to an end, the Emei Sect, located in the central dynasty of the Sichuan Basin, faced a dangerous situation similar to that of the Western Army before the war.

At this time, the Mongolian forces, the Western Regions, and the Western Xia Dali forces advanced eastward at the same time, and had already marched to the outer areas of the Sichuan Basin, that is, they occupied important towns in the area bordering the three major plateaus of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the north, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the west, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the south. If these three forces want to invade the Central Plains, the best way for them to attack Shuzhong first, especially the forces of the Western Regions blocked by the Hengduan Mountains. If they want to find an entrance to open the Central Plains channel, they can only go west to occupy Sichuan.

Therefore, the Emei Sect now has no choice but to bite the bullet and resist the offensive in three directions...
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