Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 162: Each Has His Own Plans
I was depressed. It was really too depressing. The other battlefields were full of fighting, but the Tongxin League was peaceful. The player corps sent by the Church of Light to participate in the "Holy War of Light" stayed in place, using the "Holy Light Barrier" connected by tens of thousands of priests of light as protection, confronting us from a distance, but not attacking. No war happened, so I summoned a powerful undead corps in vain, but there was no place to use them. If the Blood Witch Corps was not scattered in various places for defense, it would be inconvenient to move and assemble. Compared with the 40,000 enemies who had an absolute advantage in numbers, the number of bone dragons was too small, and it would be difficult to exchange for too much results. I really wanted to lead my men to attack and rush outside the garrison to fight those enemies who should have taken the initiative to attack. I think the various arrangements made by the Church of Light before, even arranging the highest honor of "visiting here", may be to contain the Tongxin League or me, so that we dare not take the risk to rescue the blue Falun.
The situation in Longteng was soon stabilized. The elite corps that participated in the attack were not from the Church of Light, and they encountered strong resistance. Long Xingtianxia even led the team to launch a counterattack to curb the enemy's actions to destroy the buildings in the garrison, so as to minimize the losses and prevent the enemy from earning more merits, so that they could not achieve much results. After a fierce attack at first, after testing Longteng's strength, they retreated and turned from offense to defense, forming a defensive formation outside the garrison and confronting Longteng from a distance. It seems that they did not want to start a war rashly and cause more casualties, which would be a bargain for us.
Neither of our two families were the main targets of the Church of Light. According to the information promptly transmitted back by intelligence personnel who constantly traveled between the three continents, the situations of Jiaoyang and Xingyue were similar to ours. They did not encounter the main forces of the Church of Light. After a fierce attack and without being able to gain any advantage, they stopped attacking actively, and the war evolved into a "sit-in war."
There were six battlefields and feint attacks everywhere. There was no doubt that unless the current group of Supreme Honor Senators of Light wanted to be dismissed by the Church of Light immediately, the remaining Zhongtian and Blue Falun would definitely be their main targets. Although Zhongtian's status and reputation were not as good as those of Tongxinmeng, Longteng, Jiaoyang and Xingri, its strength was the weakest in comparison and it was slightly easier to attack. If it was paired with a blue Falun, it would be able to capture the two main mercenary groups of the Resistance Alliance in one fell swoop. For the Church of Light, it should be considered a glorious victory, which could almost offset the negative impact brought about by the destruction of Huadu.
The Church of Light planned such a big scene, mobilized more than 200,000 Light players, and even arranged for the Sun Never Sets to challenge the Blue Wheel in a team battle. They really took great pains. They set up a maze, making it difficult for us to distinguish the real from the fake. It is also directly related to our own interests. Even though we inferred that they are likely to attack the Blue Wheel, we dare not take the risk of sending a few top masters to support them and fall into their calculations. I just hope that Qiu Shui Chang Tian and the God of War of the Ganges can hold on. As long as we can hold on for twelve hours and the meeting hall is not occupied, it will be our victory.
The development of the situation is just as we expected. The fierce attacks on Zhongtian and Blue Falun have never stopped, especially for Blue Falun, the situation is particularly dangerous. They can seek help from other forces in the group battle with the Sun Never Sets, but the strongest top masters of the resistance alliance, such as me, Long Xing Tianxia, A Feng, Desert Eagle, etc., are restricted to their own mercenary groups for defense and cannot split themselves to support them. As for some other top masters in the alliance, their high-level holy weapons and other good equipment have been lent to our five major mercenary groups. According to the relevant provisions of the equipment rental terms, they cannot be taken back immediately. Even if they rush to Blue Falun to participate in the defense, it will inevitably affect the performance of their respective strengths. According to the latest battle report, hundreds of the strongest players of the Supreme Honor, Holy Heaven, Olympia, etc. have appeared in the Blue Falun’s base and directly participated in the attack on the meeting hall. It seems that Blue Falun is indeed the main target of the Church of Light. The future is worrying!
Compared to the Blue Falun, Zhongtian's situation is slightly better. At least the attacking force lacks top masters such as Supreme Honor, which should be good news for their defense of the council hall and can reduce some pressure. However, compared to the previous two "Holy Wars of Light" that were fought by the United Alliance alone, this time five places need to be taken into consideration. Zhongtian did not receive full support from the resistance alliance, but only obtained the largest quota among them. The remaining nearly 40,000 light players who participated in the war are all the most elite masters of the Church of Light, and they also have the strength to destroy them. It can be said that the strength of both sides is not in the strongest state, and they offset each other to some extent. It is still a hard battle. At the same time, the Church of Light seemed to be prepared for both situations. On the one hand, after opening a passage directly to the meeting hall, it dispatched elite divisions to launch fierce attacks on the meeting hall in turn, intending to capture the meeting hall and completely destroy Zhongtian. On the other hand, probably considering that there were not enough top masters participating in the attack on the meeting hall, they could not continue to put too much pressure on Qiu Shui Changtian and others, and they would not be able to capture the meeting hall within the twelve-hour war time limit. Therefore, relying on a number of people four times that of Zhongtian, they did not turn to defense around the meeting hall, but continued to take the initiative to attack and expand the results of the war, destroying the buildings in Zhongtian’s garrison one by one, and implementing a scorched earth strategy of razing them to the ground. In this way, even if Zhongtian was not destroyed in the end, it would not suffer too much and gain nothing.
We outsiders don't know the specific battle process, but the final result is not satisfactory to us. The Blue Falun, which lacks enough top masters to help, was ultimately unable to withstand the fierce attacks launched by the enemy, including Supreme Honor. After persisting for more than eleven hours, all the players stationed in the meeting hall were killed. After that, the counterattack launched in the outer area was unsuccessful and could not enter the meeting hall. It failed at the last moment and was destroyed. Fortunately, Qiu Shui Chang Tian's Zhong Tian finally gritted his teeth and persisted, successfully defending the meeting hall. It is said that a lot of pseudo-artifacts were consumed. Almost every player stationed in the meeting hall used at least one. The Guangming players lacked top masters such as Supreme Honor to fight, and their combat effectiveness was insufficient. They had no way to seize the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to Qiu Shui Chang Tian and his team, which delayed the battle and lasted for twelve hours. However, most of the buildings in the station were destroyed, and there were only a few intact ones left. The loss was extremely heavy. After all, the Church of Light's strength against a mercenary group, especially a mercenary group that did not have the full support of the resistance alliance, originally had a relatively high chance of winning. In this case, even if Long Teng, Jiaoyang and Xingyue faced an all-out attack from the Legion of Light led by the Supreme Honor, they might not be able to hold on.
As for our four mercenary groups, the Tongxin Alliance was naturally unscathed. I have been paying attention to the fierce battle between Zhongtian and Blue Falun, and I am worried about their situation. I am not in the mood to trouble the bright garrisons outside. Longteng, Jiaoyang and Xingyue only damaged some buildings in the edge of the garrison, and the loss was not great. With the advantage of the "Holy War of Light", the six major mercenary groups involved in the war, one fell and one was severely damaged. For the Church of Light, it was not a big victory. It was just enough to make up for the impact of the destruction of Huadu, but it was not enough to cause too much damage to our resistance alliance. Moreover, the momentum set off in the early stage was too great, but the results of the battle were not too surprising. It was quite a thunderous but small raindrops. Although they tried their best to excuse their actions with the "suspense strategy", under the sharp rebuttal of our resistance alliance, many of their weaknesses were exposed one by one, indicating that such a war was more of a rib advantage in system settings, not a reflection of the true strength of the Church of Light, so that they did not have the upper hand in public opinion.
After the Dark Council discussed and decided, the quota of Huadu was allocated to the Ganges War God as compensation to re-establish the Blue Wheel, while the quota of the Blue Wheel that fell into the hands of the Sun Never Sets was obtained by Hua Mantian without any surprise, and he was actively preparing for the relevant matters of the re-establishment. Although both parties obtained the quota of the large mercenary group of 10,000 people, all their previous achievements had vanished with the destruction of the original mercenary group. Now they can only start all over again, first to complete the task of establishing a small mercenary group, to form a small mercenary group of 100 people, and then to complete the task of establishing a medium-sized mercenary group after reaching the relevant standards, and upgrade to a medium-sized mercenary group of 1,000 people. By analogy, they will develop step by step into a large mercenary group of 10,000 people, and they cannot directly establish a large mercenary group in one step. This also means that although the registered city of the two parties is still Tokyo City, they are only new mercenary groups, and they no longer have as much influence on the power structure of Tokyo City as before, forming a situation where the Sun Never Sets is the only one in power.
Naturally, the Church of Light would not miss such a good opportunity. After the war, the Never-Setting Sun with the Yamato spirit came forward and openly raised the banner of "peaceful seizure of power". They began to vigorously attract various small and medium-sized mercenary groups registered in Tokyo City. Although the Church of Light did not stand in the forefront, it secretly gave great support and mobilized those forces that were inclined towards the Church of Light to cooperate with the Never-Setting Sun's actions. According to insider intelligence, it may have allocated a huge sum of money to serve as the Never-Setting Sun's activity funds. It began intensively the preliminary preparations for the "peaceful seizure of power". As soon as it obtained the support of a sufficient proportion of the city's mercenary groups and players, it could formally submit an application for "peaceful seizure of power" to the system and start a referendum to decide the ownership of Tokyo City.
A necessary condition for our resistance alliance to promote the final battle between light and darkness is to destroy all the Cathedrals of Light in the 36 cities of the East, South and North continents. The situation where a city is controlled by the Church of Light is absolutely not allowed to happen. However, the destruction of the blue Falun has made us lose the ability to use the local forces of Tokyo City to confront the Sun Never Sets head-on. It is very likely that they will take advantage of the opportunity to win over more small and medium-sized forces and achieve the goal of "peaceful seizure of power". For now, the best way is to cut off the firewood from the bottom of the pot and simply destroy the Sun Never Sets, so as to completely crush the plan of the Church of Light to control Tokyo City.
However, we have experienced a series of wars recently, and we need to purchase necessary war materials and pay every player who participated in the war... The military expenditure is quite huge, and we need to fully compensate the losses of Zhongtian, Longteng and other mercenary groups. As for Blue Falun, in addition to giving them the quota of Huadu, we also need to allocate a part of the expenses to help them rebuild as soon as possible, indicating that we will never treat badly any force that tends to resist the alliance of forces, so as not to affect the confidence of other mercenary groups of similar nature to join us. We have just controlled three cities, and we need to share the profits with other forces. We are far less wealthy than the Church of Light. In addition to the five cities in the Western Continent where they "peacefully seized power", the Holy City, where the headquarters of the Temple of Light is located, has been under their control from the beginning, and they can enjoy the profits alone. At present, there is really no money to launch a "dark holy war" with the sun that never sets. Moreover, in just over a month, it will be August, the traditional annual "World Heroes Conference" in "Tianxia". There is news that the reward for the first place in this team competition may be a "Prince Order". Many expert players want to preserve some strength and become famous in individual or team competitions. They are unwilling to consume limited pseudo-seeds on other wars. Even some directors oppose it on the grounds of lack of funds, or the lessons learned from the Battle of Flower City, the Church of Light will definitely be more cautious, and there is little confidence in attacking the more powerful British Empire. As a result, this proposal has no way to obtain the support of more than 80% of the directors, reach a consensus, and make a decision to go to war.
The internal personnel's struggle for power and making plans for themselves is inevitable in any organization. The disagreements and mutual obstruction between different factions often make it impossible to implement the best plan. The blue Falun covered the sky, Zhongtian was severely damaged, and the biggest impact was on Qiu Shui Chang Tian's faction. They certainly don't have much spare energy to participate in other actions in the near future. The merits they have earned will inevitably be affected, which may affect their position in the Dark Council. Naturally, they are unwilling to let us take the opportunity to earn more merits and further consolidate and expand our power, so they will unite with the Desert Eagle to oppose the subsequent launch of the "Dark Holy War" against the Sun Never Sets. I was really depressed that I didn't get the desired results through the Dark Council. If I had known this would happen, I should have prayed to the Church of Light to destroy Zhongtian in the holy war and find a way to squeeze Qiu Shui Changtian out of the council. It seems that we must speed up the process and cultivate suitable players to replace those directors who are attached to Qiu Shui Changtian and Desert Eagle, and ensure that the number of directors under their control does not exceed 20%, so that we can be free from constraints and reach various favorable resolutions as soon as possible when necessary.
Although the Dark Council rejected my proposal to start a war against the British Sun as soon as possible, in order to effectively curb the British Sun's "peaceful seizure of power" plot, Long Xing Tianxia proposed a "false containment" plan, spreading rumors in Tianxia, claiming that the resistance alliance has decided to launch a "dark holy war" against the British Sun, and that the war may start soon, so that the British Sun has to be distracted and cannot devote all its efforts to the preparations for the "peaceful seizure of power". Anyway, they should have expected such a result. Regardless of whether there is any related rumor, they will definitely pay attention to strengthening defense. We might as well make the news public, so that they will be more nervous. It can also deter the local forces and players in Tokyo City, indicating that our resistance alliance firmly opposes the "peaceful seizure of power" action implemented by the British Sun, the representative of the Church of Light in the Western Continent. When necessary, we will even attack Tokyo City and launch a city war to destroy everything and make it no longer prosperous, so that they dare not easily choose to support the British Sun, and try to delay the progress of the "peaceful seizure of power" plan, and it is impossible to enter the substantive operation stage in the short term. The implementation of this plan does not cause any loss to the resistance alliance. It can be regarded as a compromise plan to delay the British Empire's "peaceful seizure of power" plan. It has finally been approved. Hopefully, it can buy us enough time.
Another thing that bothered me was that Hua Mantian, who had just lost Huadu, had obtained the quota of the Blue Falun large mercenary group, which gave him a chance to make a comeback. If he could develop it and cooperate with the Sun Never Sets to seize control of Tokyo City, he might even be able to get a city lord. Wouldn't that boost his ambition? It's a bit strange to say that Afeng, if he had firmly supported the opinions of Xue Wuxia and me when discussing with Long Xingtianxia and asked me to support the Blue Falun, perhaps the Church of Light would not have succeeded and given Hua Mantian hope to rise.
Facing my complaints, Afeng seemed confident and had another explanation - our subjugation of Huadu would be a heavy blow to Hua Mantian, but it was far from completely destroying him. Without his power, it would not be so easy to continue to directly attack him. Now it seems that Hua Mantian has been given a chance to make a comeback, but from another perspective, he has been exposed, giving us another chance to attack him. It is painful to have no hope, but the cruelest thing is that you have seen hope, but it was ruthlessly taken away in the end. If we can choose a suitable time to bring him another catastrophe before Hua Mantian develops, I believe this blow will be more memorable for him.
