Chapter 165: Battle for the Sardinia Territory 6 (March)
The Sea Lion Legion is an amphibious corps on land and sea, in addition to a sea lion fleet composed of 80 combat ships, there is also a transport fleet directly under the legion that is only about half the size of the conventional transport fleet, both of which are 6,000 people.
As an elite legion, the Sea Lion Legion has impressed players with its naval combat strength, and its land combat strength is equally strong, the only drawback is that as an amphibious force on land and sea, it lacks cavalry, only a small number of officer mounts, and is a pure infantry corps.
However, although there were no cavalry units, a hoplite regiment of about 500 men in the Sea Lion Legion was famous throughout the continent of Yar.
The assembly of the player's troops was relatively smooth, and by 8:30 the players had already arrived.
Yun Xiaohan immediately led the team to Cagliari City.
Marching seems simple, just walking, but with more players, this simple thing is not simple, and it can even be said to be the biggest problem a commander encounters.
In the past, it was good to use ships as units, and the ships were more conspicuous, and the number was only in the early 300s, but now there are 2,000 players, and it is easy to fall behind.
2000 people walking on the road, the formation is naturally dragged long, and some players are not very focused on the march, often run to both sides of the road to take a look, open the map, and players who have learned gathering life skills will go to the vicinity from time to time to dig up materials. (Combat professions can also learn life skills, because the collection of materials in the 28th period is not affected, and the harvest rate is reduced to 50% in the 38th period, so there are still many combat professional players who learn to collect skills.) )
In this case, the number of players that the commander can take care of alone is very limited, and it is inevitable that someone will fall behind. In exaggerated cases, about 1/4 of the players may run away, not to mention that the march of this campaign is still relatively long.
However, because Yun Xiaohan has experience in this area, he has already made targeted arrangements.
Yun Xiaohan selected 14 players with a good sense of direction in the Ling Dome Pavilion to help him manage the march, 9 of them plus Yun Xiaohan, divided the team into 10 sections, each person took care of 1 section, and the other 5 people were responsible for transmitting information up and down, and checking and filling in the gaps, and giving some guidance to those players who were far away from the marching team.
Yun Xiaohan deliberately explained to these 5 players before the battle, asking them not to persuade or block the players' casual behavior, if someone runs out of the team to do their own thing, they just need to follow the past, no need to say anything, just let the other party know that someone is with him, staring at him, not so comfortable.
After many times, most players with normal psychology will still feel embarrassed, and naturally they will not run around anymore.
For the kind of person who is staring more and more, just remember his ID, you can't do anything about this kind of person, it's useless to say it, just don't take him next time.
After walking for about 5 minutes, the team passed by the city of Sassari, which was a small city and was not in the scoring rules of this battle, so Yun Xiaohan naturally would not waste his troops to attack the city.
However, Yun Xiaohan suddenly saw a figure suddenly appear under the city of Sassari, and the figure was running towards the player team.
When the other party ran closer, Yun Xiaohan saw clearly that the other party was an NPC, and he immediately thought of the NPC that his friend mentioned when collecting information was an NPC who temporarily joined the player's troops.
However, contrary to what my friend said, this NPC is not riding a horse.
This NPC wears a bowler hat, fluffy blond hair on his head, and a thick beard, and his appearance is relatively old-fashioned, giving people a very mature and stable feeling.
After the NPC ran closer, he directly found Yun Xiaohan who was the head, and made a standard knight bow. Because Yun Xiaohan was in front of his right, he held the center of the front brim of his hat with his left hand and removed it. With the right hand hanging down, the body is aligned, in a standing posture, the eyes are fixed on Yun Xiaohan, and the upper part of the body is tilted forward about 15 degrees, and then it returns to its original state.
At the end of the salute, Yun Xiaohan was pulled into the plot interaction mode, and the other party asked directly: "May I ask Sir, are you the commander of this army?" ”
Yun Xiaohan replied yes, and the NPC continued: "I'm Giuseppe Garibaldi, I want to join your army temporarily, Sardinia is my hometown, but I studied at the Central Imperial Army Academy for 5 years. I believe that joining the Empire is the best option for the Sardinia Lord. ”
Yun Xiaohan naturally wouldn't refuse, so he agreed.
Giuseppe breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his request had been granted. But then he said a little hesitantly: "Sir, I'm sorry, I'm a knight, I was going to take advantage of your arrival to get a horse in the city of Sassari, but I didn't expect your troops to arrive so soon, so"
Yun Xiaohan immediately received a system prompt: "Giuseppe Garibaldi is a knight-type NPC, but he does not own horses, which greatly affects his combat effectiveness, players can provide him with horses, which will not only significantly improve his combat effectiveness, but his friendliness will also change according to your choice." ”
Yun Xiaohan immediately popped up with 3 options in front of him:
1。 Refusal to provide horses.
2。 Lend him a horse for the time being.
3。 Give him a horse, and note that once the choice is confirmed, the ownership of the horse will be permanently transferred, and it will not be able to be retrieved even if the campaign is lost, and no compensation will be received.
Seeing these three choices, Yun Xiaohan was a little happy, because there are not many people who have horses in the server at present, after all, horses are not cheap, they cost 1 gold, and the knight profession also costs 50 silver, and Yun Xiaohan has 1 gold, 29 silver and 30 bronze so far.
The option of providing horses was obviously very beneficial to him, and he probably missed out on whether there was a shop in the village.
Yun Xiaohan is still a little gambling, in line with the idea that he is reluctant to have children and can't trap wolves, he gritted his teeth and decisively chose option 3.
With a single click, the story-based interactive mode immediately begins to evolve automatically, with several dialogue options appearing and even options for complete free-play.
Yun Xiaohan was still confident in his eloquence, so he chose to play freely, and said: "Give me my mount to you, my riding skills are not good, and the horse is a waste in my hands, so I should give it to you and let it play a greater role." ”
Giuseppe did not speak, but bowed again, only this time at an angle of almost 60 degrees.
Then Yun Xiaohan's yellow horse immediately appeared in front of the two, and 2 prompts appeared, one was a reminder of the transfer of horse ownership, and the other was a reminder that Giuseppe's favorability towards Yun Xiaohan had reached trust, and the plot interaction mode also ended.