Chapter 94 Live
After my constant questioning, Hongyue and the others finally explained the current situation clearly. After Rose and I left, various people in our guild were still executing step by step according to the original plan. The battle took a very obvious turn not long ago, and the main reason was caused by the opponent himself.
The British and French guilds, which had always insisted on clearing the periphery first and then focusing on attacking key cities, suddenly changed their strategy. They shifted their attention to a large city of the Iron Crusaders. Unlike the small cities that gave up on their own initiative, in our plan the big cities were all defended by Feng Yin Piaomiao's Blood Alliance. From the beginning of the battle to now, it can be said that Han Xueyi has never directly participated in the battle. Naturally, they fought fiercely in this first battle. Although the Hot Blood Alliance still failed to defend the city due to the absolute numerical disadvantage, this tenacious resistance also dealt a big blow to the British and French guilds.
Since such a large amount of money was spent this time, the British and French guilds naturally attached great importance to it. They even invited real military personnel to help analyze the situation. However, after this battle, the analysis produced very fatal results. Those real military personnel told the British and French guilds that if all the large cities of the Iron Crusaders could guarantee this level of defense, their legions would completely lose their combat effectiveness if they could only capture three to five more cities. This still does not take into account the issue of time, because those military experts have clearly told them that at the speed of our sweep, the war will be over in ten hours at most. Even if the British and French coalition forces can take down all the Iron Crusaders' cities, It will take at least a hundred hours, and it is impossible to make it in time.
Anyway, military experts have analyzed and analyzed and come to the same conclusion - the British and French guilds will definitely lose, even if there is a miracle, there will be no salvation. Those experts told the heads of the British and French guilds that if they could put aside their grudges and divide their forces to fight at the beginning of the war, and have decent command, they might have a chance to win. As for now, even gods can't save him.
Why don't the leaders of Britain and France want to divide their forces? However, if such a colluding interest group separates, they will not make their own decisions. How many people can really fight seriously? So they are also very helpless.
Although there is no hope of victory, these military experts still made some suggestions. The main content of the suggestion is to control Essinger's actions. The balance of the entire battlefield was shifted because of Essinger's too sharp blow. Those military experts say that Isinger's attack power is like a nuclear weapon. However, there is no weapon in the game that can restrain Isinger's power, not even weapons of the same level that can deter us from each other. The current international community has established a strategic balance based on deterrence. However, in the game, only our guild controls this super weapon that is no less than a nuclear weapon, while other guilds are completely powerless against it. Such an unbalanced war is completely impossible to win. Therefore, the opinion of military experts is to delay Essinger at all costs. Only in this way can there be hope of victory.
The suggestion was accepted but not implemented as such. Military strategists are military strategists, and they are completely different from the heads of these British and French guilds. These leaders are businessmen rather than soldiers, and their basic starting point for doing things is different. The goal of a soldier is to win a battle or achieve a certain tactical goal. But the goal of a businessman is only two words: 'profit'.
The British and French guilds quickly divided the army into two. All the way, the army captured the headquarters city of the Iron Crusaders, but they surrounded it without attacking. In addition, they brought a lot of energy absorption machines along the way to find Isinger. These guys surrounded Isinger and planned to drain Isinger's energy if needed. Then attack. After setting up these two postures, the British and French guilds immediately sent people to negotiate with us. As for the Great White Shark being trapped, that was just an exaggerated statement by the other party. The exact statement should be that the Great White Shark was being surrounded. Rather than being trapped, if you want to leave, you can leave by paying some damage.
The demands of the Anglo-French guilds for this negotiation are closely linked to the siege plan. The other party first explained the current situation, of course, in the way the other party expressed it. The same thing may be understood differently by the listeners just because of different explanations. The British and French guilds seemed to be stating the facts, but in fact they were deliberately distorting the actual situation and causing everyone to misunderstand. After being explained by the other party, the situation is that the British and French guilds have surrounded the headquarters city of Isengard and the Iron Crusaders. If they attack, they can knock down these two places. However, they feel that if the two sides fight like this, even if they get the gambling money, everyone will actually suffer huge losses. Although the gambling money can repay part of the cost, there will not be much profit left in the end. Generally speaking, the other side just wants us to believe that no one will benefit from continuing this war.
After establishing this understanding, the British and French guilds further made their demands. Their intention is for the two sides to stop the war, and the British and French guilds to assist us in killing their original allies, the Beast Alliance and the Foster Alliance. This way the Iron Crusaders will be victorious. Moreover, neither the Iron Crusaders nor our guild had to pay a high price for this, and the British and French guilds also saved war expenses. Afterwards, they hope that our guild and the Iron Crusaders can hand over a proportion of the gambling money to them. This is a way of repaying them for helping us reduce our expenses. In this way, both parties can get money, but the Foster Alliance and the Beast Alliance are betrayed.
On the surface, this plan is indeed cost-effective. Reducing war investment, lowering costs, increasing profits, and preventing Isengard and the headquarters city of the Iron Crusaders from being captured are all issues worth considering. However, if you think about it carefully, you will find that this negotiation is actually beneficial. The benefit to us is minimal. It’s not that negotiation has no benefits, it’s just that the benefits are so small that it’s not worth doing anything about it.
After listening to this, I immediately started educating Hongyue and the others. "How could you guys really think about accepting such a negotiation? And Su Mei, aren't you usually very smart? Why did something go wrong at the critical moment?"
Su Mei immediately said: "Don't rely on me. I only arrived five minutes earlier than you. I also knew about the negotiations as soon as I got online. After that, I rushed to the scene with the staff team. You guys didn't have time to speak." almost there."
"No wonder! Why didn't you respond at all? Hongyue, you are too reckless. You should discuss such a big matter with a few more people!"
Hongyue's eyes began to sparkle as soon as I said that, and she was about to shed tears, but she still held back the tears in her eyes and kept them from flowing out. For a lively and unrestrained girl like her, the way she held back her tears was actually more lethal, which made it hard for me to say anything.
"Okay, okay, don't be sad. Fortunately, it hasn't been finalized yet. Just pay attention next time."
Feng Yin Piaomiao asked: "What exactly is the problem?"
"The problem lies in the balance of strength. Each of you is responsible for a department. Ashford and Hongyue are both offensive troops, and Feng Yinpiaomiao is a defensive force. There is no summary of information among ourselves, resulting in even the actual battlefield situation being unclear. Not sure. They said that the key issue in negotiating with us is interests. On the surface, ending the fighting can leave a large amount of war investment, which reduces the cost part of the gambling money earned and increases the profit part. It seems true. It’s a good deal, but haven’t you calculated it?”
"Forget it, you can indeed save a lot!" Ashford said: "Just the two cities of our two guilds were destroyed, and this amount of money is huge. My headquarters city is not cheap, your Essien I think it will only be more expensive than mine. If this is divided up, it will be dangerous to even protect the capital."
"Stupid!" I sighed: "Why do you want to include Isinger? Your headquarters city wants to give it away, but I don't want my Isinger yet. Don't you know how to settle the score? Surround Isinger , can they surround them? Those energy-absorbing machines are indeed troublesome, but they are not invincible. After our experience, I have understood that the protective shields of those things are activated by Essinger's power. As long as we take the initiative Shut down, and the opponent's protective shield will disappear after its own energy is exhausted. The opponent's absorber must not be too far away to absorb energy. At such a close distance, Essinger's fixed-point shooting ability may not be able to kill them. A huge machine? Even if it only has a hand-cranked cannon, I guarantee that I can kill these things. At that time, the enemy may not have even 'touched' the city wall! So Essinger will not be harmed at all. As for the other things One, your city is protected by the Blood Alliance, and Essinger, who has escaped the siege, can go over to support you at any time. It's weird if the other party can defeat it. So, these two cities don't need to be counted in the total cost at all. Dabai The fact that the shark was besieged is even more untrue. Even if we have to pay for the subsequent repair work without rebuilding, it won't cost much at all. Calculated in this way, the cost-saving plan that is beneficial to us is actually empty talk. If you can't save costs, there will be no practical benefits after our cooperation. The other party said that they would let Essinger and your headquarters city go, but it was actually a fraud, and they couldn't do it at all."
"So, aren't we completely fooled? The other party is trying to trick us again!" Feng Yin said Piaomiao: "Then we will immediately arrange to continue fighting with the other party, and we must let these liars know how powerful we are."
"No, negotiations can actually be profitable."