Chapter 397: Amazing Strategy
Although the words of the second captain who left were not very touching, his words were the most realistic. This fleet is not actually a fleet belonging to a certain guild, or in other words, it is not a fleet of a certain country at all, but a task force fleet.
This so-called task force is not a task force composed of an aircraft carrier and a bunch of small battleships, but a special mixed fleet composed of battleships from countless guilds. The warships in this fleet come from more than a dozen countries in Europe, including even the German fleet. Although the relationship between the Iron Cross and our guild is very good, and they have become the dominant guild in Germany, not all players in Germany are supporters of the Iron Cross.
The Iron Crusaders indeed have extremely strong control over Germany, and their sphere of influence covers almost the entire Germany. It can be said that in Germany, all guilds are either vassals of the Iron Crusaders or micro-guilds that are not even on the table. This status seems very strong, but in fact it is not all of Germany.
One hundred people have one hundred thoughts, and it is difficult for everyone to unify their will. Even if the Iron Crusaders are doing better in China, they can only be said to be the mainstream trend of controlling players, and it is impossible to control everyone. If in reality they could still refer to the Nazi stuff during World War II, but the problem is that this is a game, and no one will be willing to be oppressed here. Their resistance will be very remote, even if they die, they will not hesitate. After all, Death is actually not unacceptable in the game.
Just because the situation in the game is so complicated, the Iron Cross cannot really control every German player. What they can do is to prevent any guild that resists the Iron Cross from appearing on German soil. Of course, this is just an illustration and a scale. If there are only a few dozen players forming a super micro guild, even if that guild publicly clamored to resist the Iron Crusaders, no one would pay attention to them, right?
However, although the Iron Crusaders can control local resistance forces, they cannot control foreign resistance forces. After all, the relationship between the Germans and the French has not been very good. These two countries are at odds with each other even in the game. Since the Iron Cross has become the dominant guild in Germany, they must also assume certain obligations while enjoying their rights. And this task is to lead German players to resist the French invasion.
Precisely because the Iron Crusaders needed to fight the French on a regular basis, those German players who resisted the Iron Crusaders gradually ran to France, because the Iron Crusaders had no way to do anything to them here. These German players who arrived in France spontaneously grouped together with the funding of some French people, and soon formed guilds. These guilds are essentially German guilds. Although they are registered in France, they are indeed composed of German players.
These German players know that our Frost Rose Alliance is a staunch ally of the Iron Crusaders. They also knew very well that if they wanted to shake the Iron Cross' strong position in Germany. It's not enough to deal with the Iron Crusaders. Our guild and the Iron Crusaders have now formed a relatively stable community of interests, so if the Iron Crusaders suffer a devastating blow, our Frost Rose Alliance will definitely join the war and directly support the Iron Crusaders in protecting our common people. Interests.
Precisely because we have such a relationship with the Iron Crusaders, these guilds realized that in order to deal with the Iron Crusaders, they must first deal with our Frost Rose Alliance, so some of their guilds began to develop navies, hoping to come to Asia and us The Frost Rose Alliance will fight over each other.
These Germans are certainly not the only anti-Frost Rose Alliance forces. As the saying goes, as long as you stand at the top of the world, many people will look down upon you. Even if you do nothing, this position alone can bring you countless hatred.
Almost all the guilds in this fleet hate our Frost Rose Alliance for various reasons, but we actually don't know the existence of these guilds at all. It's not that there is a problem with our intelligence, but that most of these guilds are small and medium-sized guilds, and there is really no way to investigate. Otherwise, the information collected alone would bore us to death.
Although these small guilds are usually inconspicuous, it is said that there is strength in numbers. I don’t know what’s wrong with me this time. A British guild suddenly began to spread the threat theory of our Frost Rose Alliance in Europe, so the guild began to recruit those supporters to participate in the formation of a joint fleet. This large British guild will provide technology and productivity, and then use the cost price to help surrounding guilds that are willing to join the Anti-Frost Rose Alliance to start building large warships. If a guild does not have enough funds, several familiar guilds can jointly fund the construction of a warship.
This method is equivalent to turning the fleet into a joint-stock enterprise, in which everyone can participate in the shares, and then the money is used to purchase warships. Your position in the fleet will then be determined based on your equity stake.
Let’s not talk about whether this plan can defeat our Frost Rose Alliance, but as far as the purchase of warships is concerned, the British guild that launched the plan has actually won. Of course, when I say win, I don’t mean that they won against our Frost Rose Alliance, but that they have won in terms of their own goals.
First of all, after this plan is launched, they will receive a large amount of funds to start building warships. Although they said it was cost price. But the problem is that no one knows how this cost price is defined. Therefore, no one knows whether they have hacked the money of those guilds.
Second, even if these warships are really produced at cost price, wouldn't this be beneficial to them? Ask other shipyards, is there no benefit if they produce ships at cost price? The answer is definitely no. It’s not that they don’t have benefits, they just don’t have many benefits.
First of all, the shipyard's cost price must include personnel wages, so this cost price has actually won the shipyard a considerable amount of labor fees. Secondly, shipbuilding requires the purchase of materials, which has a lot to say. Even if you don’t take into account the gray income part, even if it is a serious transaction, won’t large purchases produce collateral benefits?
Which of the guilds that own shipyards really only has one shipyard? They have iron ore, right? Is there a magic crystal mining area? Are there other sources of construction materials? Even if the warships are sold at a fair price and make no money, the resources produced cannot be at a fair price, right? So, there is definitely a profit, it’s just a matter of how much. However, considering that the guild has raised so many warships now, it means that the transaction volume here is actually very large. So, even if their interests are very thin, the total income will definitely not be low.
So no matter what happens in the subsequent battle, the British guild has already reaped the benefits.
In fact, in addition to the benefits directly gained by the British guild, they also have many other hidden benefits.
First of all, they gathered such a fleet, which is said to be a joint-stock system. Everyone has different command rights based on their share capital, but is that really the case? as the mastermind of this plan. Do you believe they don’t have the most command authority in this fleet? I don't believe it anyway. So, just like those listed companies, although they have issued a large number of stocks, the managers of the company are still the same people, and there has not been much change at all. The same is true for this fleet. Even though so many people here control fleet shares, this fleet is actually the guild's own fleet. As long as they don't go too far, the entire fleet is actually just a toy in their hands. .
The above is still the first benefit. Then the second benefit is the joint effect of mastering a fleet. This British guild controls such a powerful naval force. Do you think their status can still be the same as before? I don't think so anyway.
After this British guild gained such power, its status among the domestic guilds in the UK was bound to rise. You must know that Britain is actually an island country, and its main strength is its navy. Therefore, if you do not have a decent navy in the British guilds, it cannot be said to be a big guild at all. Now this British guild not only controls naval power. And with such a large naval force, their status will inevitably be improved unprecedentedly. From then on, many of their actions will slowly reflect the potential benefits brought by this status improvement, although these benefits are not that These are tangible benefits, but you can't deny their existence.
It is precisely because of the existence of this interest. Therefore, this guild has already received a lot of benefits from this fundraising fleet before it even started taking action, so they can be said to have won from the moment this plan was implemented.
Of course, this kind of victory is not all their interests, because the greed of this guild is so great that it is unimaginable.
It would be fine if they just built this fleet and started looking for excuses to avoid attacking our Frost Rose Alliance. But in fact, not only did they not do this, they actually left Europe with their fleet and went to Asia. . This behavior shows that the other party is really planning to have a firefight with our Frost Rose Alliance. The only question is what their purpose is after that, or they don't expect any results at all.
It is not nonsense to say that they did not expect any result, because if this fleet conflicts with the fleet of our guild, then two things will happen.
One, they won, and two, they lost.
If they win, then nothing needs to be said. As the world's number one guild, our Frost Rose Alliance has countless interests under our control, and a large number of our Frost Rose Alliance's interests exist in Southeast Asia. Under this situation, once our guild had a naval battle here and was defeated. Then our spheres of influence will inevitably make adjustments. Of course there will be losses during this adjustment process, but no matter how much the losses are, the winners like them will definitely reap a considerable benefit. Therefore, once they win the battle, their benefits will come rolling in.
As the initiator of this operation, this British guild is also the force with the most warships in the fleet. So, when the benefits are distributed after the war, do you think they will get less? The answer is definitely no. As the majority shareholder of this fleet. This British guild will definitely get the most and the best benefits after the battle, and then make a lot of money. But what if the battle is lost?
In fact, losing the battle does not mean that there will be no benefits.
The plan of this British guild is very vicious, and the evil part lies in using other people's money to fight wars. If this naval battle is defeated, then they will lead the remaining fleets of these guilds back to the country to once again clamor for the threat of the Frost Rose Alliance, and then continue to recruit those enthusiastic fools to join this super mass grave, and then they will If you do, you can continue to control those guilds while earning shipbuilding fees, and enhance your actual presence in Europe. Moreover, even if those guilds no longer have the courage to buy a second batch of warships to join the war after this battle is defeated, what loss will this cause them? The answer is no. The money for the battleships is all paid for by others. Even if there is a loss, no compensation is required. certainly. They themselves also had battleships participating in the battle, and they were the largest in number. However, since they are the commander-in-chief, wouldn't they be cunning and arrange all their warships in safe positions during battle? Therefore, unless they suffer a disastrous defeat and are completely wiped out, if there is a battleship that can successfully escape. Their guild definitely has the most warships.
Besides, even if the situation is extremely bad. Not a single ship in this fleet escaped. Their warships were wiped out. so what? If you want benefits, aren't you going to pay something? When other guilds built warships before, they actually made a lot of money. In this case, even if they can't make back the money for their fleet, they shouldn't be much behind, right? The little cost lost is not proportional to the benefits they will gain if they succeed. If they don't dare to do this kind of thing with huge profits, they can just die.
Because of the above reasons, I say that this guild's calculations can be said to be very precise. No matter how they calculate, they will not suffer a loss.
However, they actually missed a little bit. That is, the enemy they chose is not an ordinary guild, but our Frost Rose Alliance. The biggest difference between our Frost Rose Alliance and other guilds is that we have such a powerful combat presence, so I can investigate a lot of information that ordinary people can't get. As for the above things, how do I know? Just look at the ghost bug stuck on the wall behind the guy named Hagers.
How could I be just here watching them sail after circling this fleet for so long? Battleships are actually not very fast. Even the fastest battleships in the world are actually much slower than cars on the ground. Moreover, distances on the sea are often farther than on the ground. Therefore, the pace of naval battles is actually not as fast as land battles. Although this task force fleet and our guild's fleet are heading towards each other, the distance between the two sides is actually very far.
At the speed of a battleship, it actually takes a long time to cover this distance, and I am a restless person, so I took advantage of this time and threw a lot of ghost bugs down.
The ghost bug itself can fly, but its flying ability is not very outstanding. But I dropped it from high altitude. They only need to glide and land on the target warship, which is very simple for ghost bugs.
As the flagship of the fleet, the battleship that the guy named Haggis is on is the largest battleship in itself. Of course, I have to pay special attention to this kind of target, so I deliberately threw several ghost bugs on this ship. I didn’t expect it. Several ghost bugs overheard several players from the British guild bragging about their plans this time.
Because the battle is about to begin, the captains in the task force have now returned to their own battleships, so they are the only ones left on the British battleship. This is also the main reason why their behavior has become unscrupulous. Otherwise, even if the British are unreliable, they will never take out such secrets as a joke.
When I first heard this secret, I was shocked that someone could come up with such a method to gain benefits. This is not only an enemy of our Frost Rose Alliance, but also a trap for those guilds that have participated in the fleet. Although these guilds will never benefit, the only way they can benefit is to defeat our guild's fleet and then get some benefits from our guild's sphere of influence in Southeast Asia. This is completely different from the situation of the guild to which Hagers belonged, which suffered from droughts and floods and guaranteed harvests!
"What? There are actually such shameless people?" Sophie also shouted in surprise after hearing what I conveyed. Even Kristina, who is a European, was so angry that her teeth itched.
Although she is a European, Kristina actually doesn't have much nostalgia for these countries such as Britain, France, and Germany. This is mainly related to European concepts. In fact, Asians with such a strong national concept are very rare in Europe. Europeans' national changes have been very frequent since the feudal period. Often a region was divided among several countries after the death of an old king. The princes became many countries, and then a princess married another prince and brought part of the land to that country as a dowry. There were even cases where the entire country was merged into it.
Precisely because state changes such as marriages and inheritance divisions occur more frequently in Europe, Europeans are not so serious about the concept of the state. Although this situation has changed to some extent in modern times, just like the Chinese cannot change many habits left over from the feudal period even in the 21st century, many habits of Europeans cannot be changed, the most important of which are One point is the issue of understanding the country. It can be said that Europeans also have a strong sense of loyalty, but their loyalty is not simply to a certain country, but to the people they serve. In other words, if a person works for the Germans, he will be loyal to the Germans, and if he works for the British, he will be loyal to the British. It is not stable anyway. Kristina is this type. She is now a member of the Frost Rose Alliance, so she is no more loyal to Europeans than the Frost Rose Alliance. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)