Online Games Barbarism and Civilization

In less than ten days, the entire Dashi Kingdom has completely changed.

When Lang Xiaotian officially entered Heze City with ten thousand wolf cavalry, the last army of the Dashi Kingdom officially disappeared, and the name of the Dashi Kingdom completely became history.

When the Dashi Kingdom completely disappeared, Lankao City, which was more than 70 kilometers away from Heze City, was not aware of it.

Due to the heavy snow blocking the roads and the air blockade of the Condor Army in the sky, the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance in Lankao City are still enjoying their winter vacation.

In Lankao City, except for some players who like to play in the snow and play skiing on the horse path leading to the city wall, most other people stay in warm houses.

The players sat in groups of three and five around the warm stove.

Those who like to drink will light up the stove to roast various delicacies while constantly changing glasses.

When I don’t like drinking, I play homemade poker and mahjong.

The table in front of them was piled with gold, silver and copper currencies. Those who won had their faces glowing red, while those who lost were sweating profusely.

Since the snowfall in winter, their daily life has been basically the same.

Sleep when you are sleepy, eat when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty, and sleep when you are drunk.

Faced with this state of the players, as the supreme commander of the Northern Expedition Alliance in Henan, Lu Chenguang was also very helpless.

Since the last time they were forced to negotiate peace with the Big Stone Kingdom and then give up all the occupied land, the players who participated in that battle have become dissatisfied with their senior leaders in various ways.

In the eyes of the players, they fought desperately against the enemy on the front line. Those lands were bought with their lives. They belong to all the Northern Expedition Alliance players who participated in the battle, not to Ye Ziqing and the other so-called top leaders. .

However, with just one sentence, Ye Ziqing and others made them give up everything they had worked hard for and return it all to the enemy. Why? Just because they are leaders?

Although the players of the Northern Expedition finally chose to carry out the retreat order issued by Ye Ziqing and others, this incident deeply planted a thorn in their hearts.

After withdrawing to the Henan area, the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance began a journey of inactivity.

They were not involved in patrolling, defense and other tasks. During training exercises, more than half of them were absent without any reason. In the end, no one even participated in the exercises.

Faced with this kind of negative resistance from players, Lu Chenguang did not dare to catch typical examples to scare the monkeys. He was worried that this would further intensify conflicts and even cause mutiny.

So he directly handed over the patrol and defense tasks to the aboriginal soldiers, while turning a blind eye to the players.

As long as the players don't cause trouble everywhere, then he doesn't bother to care about what the players are doing hiding in the room.

When winter arrived and there were several heavy snowfalls in Henan, Lu Chenguang estimated that no one would make himself uncomfortable by going out in such weather, so he simply hid in Zhengzhou City to go to Maodong.

It just so happened that Shui Ruyan from Shuiyun Pavilion had been staying in Zhengzhou City.

Most normal men are very single-minded.

They both like young and beautiful women.

Lu Chenguang is also a normal man, so he plans to take advantage of this rare winter to cultivate a relationship with Shui Ruyan.

If Shui Ruyan happened to like an uncle-type man like him, then he might be able to win her over.

As the saying goes, frustration on the battlefield,

Proud in love.

So the possibility is still very high.

The news that Lu Chenguang went to Zhengzhou City to pick up girls couldn't be hidden from the discerning players.

When the players learn that their bosses have gone to pick up girls, can you imagine how indulgent they will be next?

All in all, except for the aboriginal troops in the Northern Expeditionary Alliance in the entire Henan region, all the player armies can basically no longer be called an army.

They have no military appearance, and military discipline has been trampled on. Everyone is doing what they like to do every day.

Morale as a thing has basically disappeared.

As for combat effectiveness, how much combat effectiveness do they have left after being indulged for so long?

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As the saying goes, those who are close to vermillion are red and those who are close to ink are black.

The player armies of the Northern Expedition Alliance have fallen into this state, and the indigenous armies that often accompany them are certainly not much better.

Although Lu Chenguang gave the aboriginal army a death order before going to pick up girls, asking them to strictly abide by various military disciplines.

But the commanders who manage the native armies are all players.

As the saying goes, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

After seeing their immediate bosses living happily in a warm house every day, while they have to brave the cold wind to patrol in the ice and snow, as time goes by, anyone will feel resentful in their hearts.

As a result, under the example of the players, many aboriginal soldiers gradually began to stop playing.

Many patrol teams go through the motions and show off every day. They want to arrive at the designated location immediately and then return immediately. No one carefully observes whether the patrol area is normal.

In the hearts of the soldiers, this kind of horrible weather meant that they were the only unlucky ones to go out and do activities in the cold wind.

As for whether there will be enemies?

Unless all the enemy's heads were kicked by donkeys, who would choose to march out in such horrible weather?

The weather outside is so cold and snowy. I'm afraid half of the army will be reduced before they even reach their destination.

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In fact, not only the people from the Northern Expedition Alliance think so, but also many other Chinese players think so.

In the eyes of the majority of Chinese players, with the heavy snowfall in the Central Plains this winter, several forces located there will definitely cease their activities temporarily and wait for the beginning of spring next year.

This winter, the place where large-scale and fierce battles are most likely to occur should be the battlefield on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

If they were Ningyuan, they would definitely take advantage of the Northern Expedition Alliance's efforts to support the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in winter and capture it in one fell swoop.

After all, the Condor Army occupies a geographical advantage like Vietnam County. Whether it is transporting troops or food, it is easier for them than the Northern Expedition Alliance.

However, what was going on in Ning Yuan's head was completely different from theirs.

When most people believed that a decisive battle should take place on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Ning Yuan decided to do the opposite. He led the Condor Army to appear in the Henan area that players thought was the least likely to happen.

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January 21, 34 years of brutality.

Before dawn, snowflakes were already flying in the sky.

Although the snow did not fall too heavily, after seeing the snow, all the soldiers of the Northern Expedition Alliance chose to stay inside the house.

Many players even have no intention of getting up at all. They plan to continue sleeping in the warm quilt, trying to sleep until noon, and then get up to play cards and drink.

After seeing the snow falling, the patrol team that was supposed to go out on patrol also started to be lazy and did not leave the city on time. The soldiers sat around the warm stove and talked quietly, waiting for the moment the snow stopped.

The time soon came to nine o'clock in the morning.

At this time, Lankao City was completely silent. There were no soldiers on duty at all on the city wall. Everyone hid in the tower to warm themselves by the fire.

As for the city, most players in the Northern Expedition Alliance have not gotten up yet, and even many aboriginal soldiers have begun to take a nap after eating breakfast.

At 9:30, a large number of white figures suddenly appeared near Hongmiao Town, which is more than ten kilometers away from Lankao County.

Soon those white figures flooded the town of Hongmiao.

After seeing those white figures, the defenders deployed by the Northern Expedition Alliance in Hongmiao Town didn't even have the courage to resist. They quickly laid down their weapons and chose to surrender.

It turned out that those white figures were none other than the Wolf Cavalry Legion of the Condor Empire.

In order to achieve the purpose of surprise, all the soldiers who went out to fight the Orc Legion this time were all dressed in snow-white.

They were wearing leather armor sewn with red flame fox fur, and a pure white coat on the outside. From a distance, they looked completely white, and it was difficult to spot their existence without careful observation.

In winter, wargs also change into silver-white hair, so when wolf cavalry wearing white furs ride on wargs, they blend perfectly into the snow.

When this wolf cavalry regiment raided Hongmiao Town, the defenders of Hongmiao Town did not notice them at all at first.

It wasn't until we got closer that we noticed their presence.

However, by this time it was already too late.

Facing the wolf cavalry all over the mountains and plains, the Red Temple garrison with only over a thousand people could not think of any resistance at all. They ignored the loud rebuke of the player general and directly chose to surrender to the Condor Army.

After occupying the town of Hongmiao, the Wolf Cavalry Corps of the Condor Army had no intention of stopping.

They crossed directly over Hongmiao Town and continued to move westward despite the snowflakes falling from the sky.

This time, Ning Yuan directly dispatched 250,000 wolf cavalry.

These 250,000 wolf cavalry carried three days' rations, and they all poured into the Henan area in just one morning.

Under the leadership of Lang Wudi, the Wolf Cavalry quickly broke into pieces after entering the Henan area, and then began to attack every village and town that appeared in their sights.

For those villages and towns without high walls, they simply cannot resist the attack of the wolf cavalry.

As a result, in just three days, except for Luoyang and Nanyang Basin, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack, all the towns and villages in the entire Henan region were lost. Only those counties with tall city walls were still in the hands of the Northern Expeditionary Alliance. .

After capturing all the villages and towns outside the city, the Wolf Cavalry of the Condor Empire used those villages and towns as their bases and began to blockade the nearby cities so that the enemies inside the cities could not have any contact with the outside world.

The Condor Army's wolf pack raid, division and encirclement tactics caught the Northern Expedition Alliance by surprise.

For two whole days, all the cities in the hands of the Northern Expedition Alliance fell into fighting on their own, completely losing all contact with the outside world.

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After discovering a large number of unknown wolf cavalry outside the city, Lu Chenguang, who was in Zhengzhou City, sent out multiple cavalry groups to break out.

Unfortunately, in this ice and snow, war horses were obviously no match for wargs. The cavalry sent by Lu Chenguang were all defeated by the swarming wolf cavalry.

Facing an unknown number of white wolf cavalry outside the city, Lu Chenguang did not dare to send any more cavalry to die, so he could only choose to defend the city and wait for the end of today's game time to understand what happened in reality. .

Anyway, the wolf cavalry in the game cannot attack the city, and most of the troops and supplies of the Northern Expedition Alliance are in the city, so Lu Chenguang is not too anxious.

In Lu Chenguang's view, this was probably something done by the Condor Army on the other side of the Yellow River, because now only the Condor Empire has a large number of wolf cavalry troops.

Although Lu Chenguang guessed that the Condor Army was responsible, he never thought that the Condor Army was serious about this winter offensive.

Because of the ice and snow, unless Ning Yuan's head was squeezed by the door, he would never do such a stupid thing.

As for the wolf cavalry who appeared outside the city, they were probably some kind of threshing strategy devised by Ning Yuan, hoping to further weaken their strength.

Because this is not the first time Ning Yuan has done this, but it has never been done in winter before.

Lu Chenguang thought that his analysis was accurate, but what he didn't know was that Lankao City was already in a huge crisis at this time.

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When the Baikal seals built ice and snow passages to the outskirts of Lankao County, the surging Condor Army immediately surrounded Lankao County.

After seeing the luxurious lineup of the Condor Army outside the city, the defenders in Lankao City immediately chose to seal the city gate and then defended the city.

Given the huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves, the tactics chosen by the Lankao City defenders were quite correct. However, they encountered a different Condor Army this time, so they were destined to die miserably.

When a group of prairie tengu pulled a counterweighted trebuchet to the outside of Lankao City, soon the Condor Army used the trebuchet to surround Lankao City in a circle.

Immediately afterwards, as the Baikal seals continued to condense a large number of ice balls, Lankao City immediately ushered in a rain of ice balls.

Facing the ice balls flying into the city from all directions, the defenders in the city did not dare to show their heads, because those who showed their heads had already become corpses on the snow.

This new type of counterweighted trebuchet of the Shenying Army is made of the best materials, such as stretch-resistant fine iron, cold iron wood produced on Ice and Fire Island, etc. The cost of each one is very high. Not cheap.

The advantage of the high cost is that this trebuchet is very durable and not easily damaged.

So when thousands of these new trebuchets began to bombard the city of Lankao day and night, the defenders in the city never had a chance to show their faces.

After two days and two nights, the Condor Army stopped its crazy offensive of throwing ice balls.

At this time, looking at the city of Lankao, it has become a world of ice.

There were broken ice balls everywhere, and ice cubes of various sizes had frozen the entire city of Lankao underneath.

After riding the Silver Pegasus and circling twice over Lankao City, Ning Yuan immediately ordered an army of wolf cavalry to be left behind to monitor every move in Lankao City. Then the army immediately broke camp and began to march towards Kaifeng.

When Lankao City was frozen, several cities in the southeast of Lankao County such as Minquan, Ningling, and Shangqiu also suffered the same fate.

This time the Condor Army was divided into four lines, each of which was equipped with a large number of trebuchets and Baikal seals.

Ning Yuan has made complete preparations and is determined to advance all the way west and freeze every city he encounters.