There are a total of 8 player main cities in the empire. Counting Yun Xiaohan's Viscounty of Corsica, there are only 16 player territories in total, with an average of two for each main city, which shows how rare they are. In Snowman City, only one player main city is concentrated.
With 4 player territories, its strength is evident.
In this battle, Balgruuf's 20,000 men were led by an NPC general named Viscount Lasalle. The general in charge of Liya's team was an NPC general named David.
Lassalle's grandfather was once one of the important generals of the empire, and had presided over battles involving hundreds of thousands of people. Therefore, his family was a serious military aristocracy. It was obvious to everyone that Lassalle's abilities were also quite outstanding.
It is well-known among Xueman collar.
In comparison, David is much inferior. He is not a particularly outstanding general, but three generations of his family have served the Duke of Sardinia, so he is relatively reliable in terms of loyalty. In addition, his combat style is relatively conservative and calm.
, better at commanding defensive battles.
Due to economic reasons, Liya does not want to fight with the Merchant Alliance again this time. Besides, if the merchant alliance nobles in the Masset area suffer too much losses and feel that they cannot defend the Masset area, they are likely to file a lawsuit with the Merchant Alliance Council.
Asking for help, Liya's pressure will increase. On the contrary, if the merchant alliance nobles in the Masset area feel that the stalemate can continue, they will not let foreign nobles come to join the war for a long time, which will harm their interests.
For Liya, the best result is to beat up the merchant alliance nobles in the Masset area without causing them to lose too much armed force, so David is a very suitable candidate.
Before coming this time, Liya and David talked about their thoughts, trying to avoid the kind of positional battle that would cause great losses to both sides. If there is a chance to weaken the enemy, just weaken it. If there is no chance, just hold on to Gloya City.
.And briefly mentioned Yun Xiaohan's sea delivery tactics, but in order to prevent the news from leaking, Liya did not tell David the specific landing place of Yun Xiaohan, nor did she mention the looting of supplies.
In addition, Liya also asked David not to rush to tell the friendly forces about this, but to wait patiently for a "turning point." This so-called "turning point" was naturally when Yun Xiaohan forced the enemy back. But because this was the first time that sea projection tactics were used,
Liya didn't have much confidence in her heart, so she asked David to wait until a turning point actually appeared before mentioning the matter to the friendly forces. If the turning point didn't appear, he simply stopped talking about it.
Faced with a situation where the enemy's and our own forces were not much different, Napoleon proposed to seize the opportunity to fight before the enemy's follow-up troops arrived. David had been specifically told by Liya before coming, so naturally he did not agree to go to war. Viscount Lasalle no matter what
Be it seniority, military status, or title, he was higher than Napoleon, and he would not listen to him. Besides, Balgruuf was also a cunning guy, and he probably had the same idea as Liya, so the battle was completely in a stalemate.
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NPCs can be there in a daze, but players can't. They can't be left to wait there for one to two hours, so at this time, new tasks appear on both sides.
The Empire's side is an infiltration mission, and the Merchant Alliance's side is a counter-infiltration mission. In fact, it's a scout war.
The Merchant Alliance chose the large village directly west of Gloya City as its camp site. It was still some distance away from Gloya City, leaving enough space for players on both sides to play. Besides, there were 8 villages outside Gloya City.
Although the population of the village has been moved into Gloya City, the Merchant Alliance will still send people to see if they can collect some supplies that cannot be taken away, so it is easy for players from both sides to find opportunities to fight.
In this player confrontation, both sides can be said to have their own advantages.
The advantage of the Merchant Alliance is that it has its own NPC assistance. After all, the Merchant Alliance's army is outside the city. It is impossible to send out scouts and collect supplies only by sending players without sending NPCs. Therefore, most of the time, players in the Merchant Alliance are assisted by NPC soldiers.
, although the NPC soldiers are not particularly powerful, they are still capable.
The advantage of the Empire is the command BUFF. Although the Merchant Alliance also has hero-level command NPCs, the BUFF provided cannot be compared with the BUFF provided by Napoleon, and the command range is much smaller. There are several nearby
The activities in the village were okay, but there was no command BUFF on players from the business alliance in the villages that were far away.
What needs to be mentioned here is that the only people in the empire who can enjoy the Napoleon command BUFF are the 100 empire players who participated in the first and second acts of the battle. The 15 imperial player lords who joined in the third act cannot enjoy Napoleon.
The command BUFF bonus is given because they are not subordinates of Napoleon, but are subordinate to Lassalle.
Among these player lords, three player lords, including Longyin Cangqiong, are vassals of the Xueman Kingdom, so there is no doubt that the player lords in other main cities are temporarily defaulted by the system to be under the command of Lasalle.
Although Lasalle is also a heroic NPC and the command BUFF he provides is quite good, it is still much worse than Napoleon.
In addition, the empire has another advantage, that is, the number of lords. There are only 10 player lords in the merchant alliance, which is one-third less than the 15 player lords in the empire. (Yun Xiaohan is not on the frontal battlefield, so he is excluded.
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However, the player lord has limited troops. Servants must be converted into private soldiers before they can participate in the war. To convert a private soldier requires the title of viscount, so these servant lords of the player lord cannot participate in the war; the territorial soldiers are all temporarily recruited for the battle.
Yes, they have levels but no training. Their combat effectiveness is very weak. They are much weaker than ordinary NPC soldiers. They will quit after dying three times. Many lords are even unwilling to bring out territorial soldiers.
I just want to wait until the siege battle starts, so the five more lords can only be regarded as a very small advantage.
At this time, some of the empire's player lords were getting together to talk about him, including several of his "old acquaintances".
"It's strange, isn't this awesome Yun Xiaohan from Xueman? Why didn't you see him?" asked Xinghui Lieyan, who is the president of the Xinghui Guild in Solupe City.
"Why are you looking for him? It's not like we can't win if he doesn't come." Longyin Cangqiong said. Although he was not as hostile to Yun Xiaohan as before because of the dissolution of the Three Associations, he was always very hostile to Yun Xiaohan.
Guys who are in the limelight are still very unhappy.
"Don't say that, he is still very strong. Our winning rate will be higher if he comes." Shiyun Mingxin said, "By the way, Zero, didn't your guild work with Yun Xiaohan before? Didn't you contact him this time?