The unexpected confrontation at the foot of the Hyjal Mountains gave Liu Yifei and Xue Lan a huge surprise!
After Xue Lan returned to the game and continued fighting, the demon side did not launch a fierce and direct attack as the two had previously imagined.
On the contrary, after testing the actual combat power of Xuelan's "mobile force", the other party uncharacteristically began to shrink its defenses...perhaps this can be understood as fear that the two human forces will join forces to lay siege to them.
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But if there are such concerns, then why don't you retreat? Is it because you think the human race will pursue you, so you don't dare to retreat?
If the anomalies on the devil's side are excusable, the movements of the human "allies" on the other side are simply bizarre!
After the other party's first "goodwill reinforcement" took effect, they did not send any further people who could communicate with each other to find Xuelan for in-depth cooperation...
This is simply unbelievable to Xue Lan!
Could it be said that such an army of forty or fifty thousand people did not have a hero of at least spiritual level to command it?
It’s a joke that even Xue Lan wouldn’t believe~
Seeing that the other party was silent for a long time, Xue Lan didn't want to waste her time in this boring confrontation, so after waiting for about twenty minutes, she had to take the initiative to try to get closer to the other party...
The next reaction of the human army formation made Xue Lan continue to be shocked~
Faced with Xue Lan's approach, the other party's reaction was actually "wary"!
Swearing to the Lord of Darkness, Xue Lan never expected that the other party would react like this. She almost thought it was a misunderstanding caused by her "dungeon" status.
However, the situation remained unchanged even after dispatching an angel team. This immediately made Xue Lan aware that the situation was unusual.
Then I think back to the strange but tacit understanding of the confrontation between the two camps when I went down the mountain and noticed the other's presence...
Could it be said that the human forces here have reached some kind of secret tacit understanding with the demonic forces?
Xue Lan couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Fortunately, the worst case did not occur. If the enemy's human and demon armies jointly attacked, they would not even have to deal with the garrison on Gesalan Mountain. After all, the two groups of enemies combined would have to number 100,000 people.
The scale of...
After a slight hesitation, Xuelan began to take the initiative to fight.
Liu Yifei's mission this time was actually not a problem in the face of the powerful military force. But as time goes by, the biggest problem now is the time limit of the mission!
There are only two days left for them, but the terrible thing is that they don't even know how big this "just opened copy" is!
I have played two rounds today for a total of three hours. But these are obviously just the prelude...
At such a fateful moment, follow-up reinforcements are about to arrive, and naturally they cannot be wasted in this meaningless confrontation at the foot of the mountain. Therefore, after Xue Lan ordered more fighting griffins and saints to stand on standby,
Leading three hundred angels, he took the initiative to launch a tentative attack on the devil's military formation over there. As for the remaining angels...
We still need to leave some support and manpower in case of unexpected events, right?
Facing the probing attacks of three hundred angels, the demons no longer showed the same excitement as before. They just used their numerical advantage to continuously push back Xue Lan's attempts, which made her quite curious about the purpose of the other party's gathering here.
What exactly is...
From the looks of it, it doesn't look like they plan to go up the mountain to attack them... Could it be that two groups of hostile forces just accidentally met here? But how is that possible?
There are countless roads leading to Mount Hyjal, and you can climb them from any slope that is not too steep. Why bother here?
If it is to block the retreat of Liu Yifei and his army...
Xue Lan seemed to have a clear understanding in his heart, but more questions came to him~
In any case, the purpose of their coming here is to eliminate the source of the undead disaster on Gesalan Mountain. Their intention can be seen from the fact that they did not take the initiative to disturb the other party when they came here.
Since Liu Yifei didn't bother the other party too much when he came here before, and his attitude was very clear, and he was seeking benefits for these local wandering forces, why would they want to cause trouble at this time?
Involuntarily, Xue Lan, who was commanding the battle, became more and more confused...
At the same time, in the strangely quiet human camp on the other side of the battlefield, a tall and strong knight hero stood on his divine horse and silently watched the angel regiment led by Xue Lan flying back and forth.
Direction. He was reciting a holy chapter praising the Lord of the Morning in a low voice. Perhaps, this behavior at the moment violates some of the original principles of the knight...
It's just that no matter whether the three parties in this weird confrontation clearly understand each other's purpose of gathering here, the confrontation situation still continues in such a weird way... Even until Xue Lan had to go offline, such an embarrassing situation could not be solved.
Be broken.
In addition to the almost exhausted mana of the angels and the few corpses of various demons of different strengths and weaknesses left behind by the demon army in the mountains and fields, Xue Lan has been "trying to attack" almost constantly for the past two or three hours, but he has been unable to do so.
Time and time again I was forced back by the opponent.
In the end, Xuelan chose to retreat to Saglan Mountain.
The situation here was so weird. She would never dare to put Liu Yifei's main and key troops here and then go offline.
God knows whether the other two strange parties will suddenly launch a sneak attack on her troops at night. In order to prevent Liu Yifei's remaining army on the mountain from being attacked by the other side due to the lack of mobile troops and saints, Xue Lan finally had to
The mobile unit pulled back again and went offline to discuss with Liu Yifei with strange news...
It seemed that the strange behavior of the demon army before was really worrying about the crash of the human race. When Xue Lan took the troops down the mountain after going online the next day, the demon army was indeed gone, but the human army also disappeared with it. He didn't even give them anything.
This expeditionary force from within the empire has some useful information and intelligence.
It's as if they have never appeared before~
But thankfully, Lei Hanyu and his army finally arrived safely! This may be the best news that Liu Yifei and Xue Lan have heard in the past two days!
An elite army of one hundred thousand mid- to high-grade mercenaries spread out like a tide over the last mountain gorge toward the vast and boundless wilderness!
When he received Lei Hanyu's army, even Xuelan couldn't help but feel angry when he stood on a high place and watched the large number of Human Kingdom troops spread out from the neat national roads into the free and rough forest.
A strange kind of shock~
The reflective wave, which seemed to be composed of armor, swords and guns, carried a sacred and indomitable momentum, attacking all creatures that dared to block it in front of it, whether it was a small number of undead wandering in the woods, or those who were free to survive.
The beasts are still spies arranged here by those barbaric forces whose enemies and friends are still unknown.
In the face of this wave of steel, everything was vulnerable to them. They just washed away like the tide overflowing the beach. There was nothing left except the forest~
This is the power of war, this is the power of destruction, and soon, this power will experience the glory that their "ancestors" once experienced in the mission copy... and the suffocating feeling.
despair......
Considering that Liu Yifei, the "dungeon activator", did not have enough time to go online, Liu Yifei did not go online until a group of people had completely gone up the mountain and completely reunited with Liu Yifei and his vanguard.
After reorganizing the army and bringing all soldiers, including players, back under his leadership, Liu Yifei entered the dungeon again.
Just as he expected!
If you want to enter this dungeon, you must be in the "team" of the player who started the mission~
Yesterday, Liu Yifei and the others only led the vanguard into the dungeon, so the "self-bred troops" of he and Xue Lan were only more than 10,000. Counting the military strength they saved and earned in the two rounds of battles, it was not even enough to add additional troops.
Make a full team.
But today, their "own military strength" has risen to nearly 100,000! It is already far more than the combat strength of an army. Even in the defensive war of 30 years ago, which was a mixture of hope and despair,
Definitely a backbone force powerful enough to turn the tide of the battle!
It's a pity that this is not a "real battle on the world map" after all. In the dungeon, the own dungeon maintains the script operation and the standard for measuring the difficulty of the battle. It does not mean that the influx of 100,000 troops can help Liu Yifei and the others win easily.
The victory of the copy...
However, the influx of a large number of new players quickly caused a fatal problem that no one had thought of before!
That’s the inequality of “copy progress”!
Due to the efforts of Liu Yifei and Xue Lan yesterday, the plot has advanced to the third act after entering the dungeon today. The two of them were promoted to the position of regimental commander due to their large number of points. They can command a maximum of 500 soldiers in the dungeon.
The battle regiment can already be regarded as a respectable combat power in the dungeon.
However, the other players are absolutely "new recruits"!
The dungeon does not exclude the influx of new players, but it will never give them any preferential treatment. How to catch up with other people's dungeon progress when falling behind depends on the deployment of the overall combat power of themselves and the player group~
The running time of the third act is three hours. Theoretically speaking, it is not entirely possible to create a group of captain-level players~
In addition to earning more military merit and increasing the strength of the player's team, when players obtain higher official positions in missions, the greatest value lies in "additional expansion of military power"!
In order to ensure that players can complete the dungeon and enjoy the fun of the game even if their "bringing military power" is slightly insufficient, the system will have a military power compensation link, giving players a certain amount of additional troops based on their military positions in this act.
For example, each player can get a full formation supplement at the beginning. Liu Yifei and Xue Lan's current non-full formation regiment each has a supplement of 300 troops.
It may not sound like much, but if all the players currently participating in the dungeon can be promoted to the rank of captain, it will be equivalent to adding an additional 600,000 troops to this campaign dungeon!!!
This kind of increase in military power can basically make the NPC military power in the original dungeon plot design cool down~ Even if you only rely on players, you can complete all legion battles!
Of course, this is just a theoretical value. It is impossible for the system to release so many tasks so that every player can get a high-level military position in the NPC army. The number of high-level military positions that can potentially be promoted depends on the legion.
The size of the instance and the ratio of the number of players to the number of tasks.
Simply put, the more resources are concentrated, the more senior officers can be promoted!
This way things will be simple~
Anyone who had experience in leading troops in the guild was naturally set as the main force to be promoted first. Even Liu Yifei was not stingy in restoring the number of mid-level angels to 500 and left 100 for these.
people to ensure that they can complete various tasks quickly.
One hundred mid-level angels were divided into twenty teams, with five players in each team, and twenty players expected to be trained as the main force were given to them. They were also given two battle griffins and three self-selected mercenaries.
In addition, there are 80 alternative non-commissioned officers. They are regarded as the core players in the player group. Each person will receive a quota of five battle griffins, two saints, and any mercenaries up to three.
In addition, Liu Yifei does not set up any special player sergeants who can be trained. Most of the remaining nearly two thousand people have no real leadership ability. To be honest, some of them can only act as "soldiers" and accept orders to fight. If so,
If such a person goes out to lead troops in battle, it's hard to say whether the result will be good or bad...
But of course Liu Yifei will not deprive them of the opportunity to enjoy the fun of the copy.
They can choose to bring the basic mercenaries configured for them by the system as a grassroots team leader to slowly train, or they can continue to join as a "soldier" in the team of command players trained by him, Xuelan or other main players to enjoy the dungeon.
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Of course, since Liu Yifei and Xue Lan are already the captains of the regiment, they can already start to carry out real combat missions. So compared to their side, there are really many players applying to join, and Liu Yifei and Xue Lan plan to take the initiative.
. So I carefully screened them, and really selected a group of players with good strength, who performed very well in the past two days, and were barely able to follow the rules and regulations, and brought them to the battlefield~
In fact, the system settings in these large and small legion copies have profound meanings!
Compared with mercenaries, the advantage of players is that they are more powerful individually, and their equipment can continue to amplify their strength, but the player group always has a fatal flaw!
That is laxity and uncontrollability in discipline!
Even those player teams or even professional teams supported by major bosses cannot have 100% discipline guarantee in this regard!
After all, people are alive, and we are not real soldiers. If you want to charge into battle like a real giant, there are too many problems that need to be overcome. First of all, a "thorny" type player hidden in the crowd who is always looking for trouble can make him
All the lords and player generals are having a headache~
Therefore, the legion copy is an excellent "trial place"!
This is not only a place for lord players to earn rewards, for general players to practice command, and for mercenaries to gain military merit and improve their strength, it is also a natural place for player legions to practice cooperation and command coordination!
For example, the "Hope Swamp" mini-legion dungeon in Dickwell Kingdom allows players to bring up to 100 troops into the dungeon. If the shortage is insufficient, the system will automatically make up for it, which means there is a basic guarantee of troops. If possible, players can also bring one hundred troops.
Hundreds of mercenaries or even a hundred players enter!
It's just that it was a "micro" dungeon, so it didn't even have a military promotion system. The player was just a "captain of a hundred people" and could only perform a clear retreat mission. Unlike the current campaign dungeon, you can choose various options.
Players can even choose the status of "soldier" or "commander".
If Liu Yifei is really ruthless, he and Xue Lan can even lead a regiment composed of pure players. In this way, why can't they improve the integration of the players' troops?
As long as there are more large dungeons like this and they are practiced more, real player corps will emerge in wars on the world map in the future...
Of course, this is all for later, but for Liu Yifei now, the biggest problem with this copy is a variable that caught him off guard...
After confirming that the third act of the battle had indeed begun, Liu Yifei suddenly received a separate prompt from the system before he even had time to choose what mission he wanted to do in this round:
Due to the influx of too many players in the dungeon, the enemy's troop strength has increased. The amount of increase is unknown, so players are advised to be more vigilant.
Damn~
Liu Yifei was stunned at the time!
He just said, if the system is set up like this, doesn't it mean that he can conjure hundreds of thousands more troops out of thin air? Then how difficult is this copy?
It turns out that the system’s judgment criteria are here!
It doesn’t matter how many mercenaries you bring into the dungeon. Anyway, no matter how many you bring, it’s meaningless if you can’t collect them for use. The real issue that is considered in the dungeon review process is the number of players!
An increase of two thousand people...
This shouldn't be a big problem, right?
Liu Yifei almost fainted when he flipped through the mission and selected the target as "regiment level"!
There are actually hundreds of missions similar to "intercepting enemy reinforcements"!
Damn~
Isn't this blatant cheating?
No wonder it is said that "the number of additional troops is unknown". It turns out that they still have to rely on their own efforts to reduce the number of enemy troops...
"what to do?"
Xue Lan obviously noticed something was wrong. After flipping through the mission, he frowned and asked with some uncertainty.
"This is really fatal...otherwise, what do you think of these two?"
Liu Yifei stretched out his hand and pointed at two tasks whose difficulty was marked with the suffix "difficult": Standing still and waiting for help, bloody tug of war.
The general background of the third act of the battle is that the defensive war has begun, but it is still in its early stages. At that time, there were not many demonic armies that had penetrated into the Hyjal Mountains. The coverage of the war was only the northern part of the mountain range, and the central and second half areas were still
It is considered safe, so this is naturally an area where new players come in and work hard to gain military merit.
If you want to effectively reduce the enemy's strength but don't want to waste time running missions back and forth, these two missions are definitely the best choice.
"Okay...but do we need to adjust our team composition?"
Xue Lan had obviously thought of something similar to Liu Yifei's, but looking at the more than three hundred players behind her who were eager to go to the front line to experience the atmosphere of the battlefield, she was somewhat hesitant to speak.
"No problem, let me tell you~"
Liu Yifei cleared his throat and turned to the more than 300 players gathered behind him and said:
"Dear brave 'soldiers', now our two 'regiment leaders' have each chosen a suitable war mission. However, due to the different content of the mission, we need to readjust the player ratio.
I am responsible for a... a tug-of-war mission, which requires players with strong mobility. All second-level warrior players with war horses and above level 80 can come to report, while Captain Xuelan is responsible for a defensive battle.
A mission of a certain nature. All players are required are archers and priests, with or without horses.
Due to limited troop strength, we need to make adjustments. If anyone regrets that they cannot go to the front line due to adjustments, I would like to express my heartfelt apology!
As compensation, if he chooses to lead the team again to gain military merit, I can support three additional light knights. Or five battle griffons, you can consider it~"
Liu Yifei's words caused a little commotion in the crowd, but the players who stayed here were already more disciplined, so it was not a big problem. In the end, only about thirty players left, and the rest were divided into two as required.
The batch was reorganized into Liu Yifei and Xue Lan's regiment.
Liu Yifei's remaining team positions are all filled with Angels. If we want to fight a tug-of-war, we must consider issues such as combat effectiveness, endurance, mobility, etc. There is really no unit in the human race that is more suitable than Angels.
On Xuelan's side, a large number of crossbowmen were added to enhance long-range firepower.
And until the mission begins, they, including those enthusiastic players, don't know what cruel considerations they will face...
