All the players in the Annan District suddenly received a system announcement.
"System announcement: The lord of China has initiated a national war. The Annan District has entered the national war mode. King City River has entered the second level of alert. Please check the specific situation yourself! "
As soon as the announcement came out, the whole country was in an uproar.
For the players in the Annan District, this national war came too suddenly.
According to the information disclosed by Gaia on the official website, there were two main points in the national war mode.
First, the merit point setting.
The two sides of the national war would kill each other, and there would be merit points as a reward, just like in the battle map. Unlike the battle map, there was no setting for the battle contribution points in the wilderness.
Killing an ordinary soldier of the enemy country would directly get one merit point as a reward. Rich merit points were one of the main motivations for the future lord to launch a national war.
Second, the rules for determining the outcome.
The national war was divided into a full-scale war and a local war. The basis of the difference between the two was whether the king city was captured or not. Simply put, as long as the two countries were at war, it would trigger a local war; but once the war spread to the king city, or the king city's army took the initiative to participate in the war, it would immediately turn into a full-scale war.
The outcome of the two wars was also different.
For a local war, it had nothing to do with the overall outcome, but entirely depended on the battle situation at that time; but for a full-scale war, the outcome must end with one side completely annihilating the other side.
Therefore, a full-scale war was almost equivalent to a war to destroy a country.
The system announcement in the Annan District mentioned that King City River had entered the second level of alert, which meant that this national war was just a local war.
If it was a full-scale war, then the king city would be in the highest level of alert.
In addition, for a local war, whether the players participated in the war or not was entirely voluntary.
And if it was a full-scale war, all the players on the attacked side, whether they were adventure players or lord players, would be forced to participate in the war by the system.
Therefore, it was very difficult to destroy a country. At the most tragic time, all the players in the country had to be eliminated before the war ended.
In this regard, the China region had the advantage.
The number of players in the China region basically guaranteed that there was no risk of the country being destroyed.
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The information of the national war disclosed by Gaia immediately caused an uproar in the Annan District.
On the forum, there were endless requests for war. For the players, it was unbearable to be attacked at their doorstep.
Needless to say, the one who started the war was merely a lord. Even though Not Wearing Clothes was famous all over the world, it couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the Annan District players to join the battle.
Although the area of Annan District was not large, its population density was extremely high, nearly twice that of China. There were more than five million players in the entire Annan District.
Even if the old, weak, women, and children were excluded, it was still a terrifying number. Just the total number of adult adventurer players exceeded two million. It was a country that could not be underestimated.
Excluding the Lifestyle players, the total number of Combat players was close to one million.
So, how could they tolerate Shanhai City's provocation?
Soon, the frontline battle report was revealed.
This time, the attack came from the sea. Shanhai City had sent out a huge fleet, and they were ferociously charging over.
All of a sudden, the feudal lords along the coast of Annan became restless. They issued a level 1 war alert in their territories, and a large number of warships were activated, preparing to go out to sea for battle.
The hot-blooded adventurer players didn't want to be left out, and they volunteered to take them on the warships of the lords. They were going to have a decisive battle with Shanhai City's army at sea.
Some of the more impatient ones simply rented merchant ships and set sail just like that.
For a time, thousands of sails raced along the coast of Annan District, which was quite spectacular.
The drawback was that the technology tree of Annan District had neither the modern technology of the West nor the ancient shipbuilding heritage of China. Its strongest warship was not as good as the second-class warship of Shanhai City.
Therefore, their only way to win was to rely on the tactic of overwhelming numbers.
If the players of the Annan District had always been in such a chaotic state, then they were just scattered sand, which was not enough to pose any threat to the Shanhai City fleet.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, someone stood up.
He was the feudal lord of Haifang City, Ruan Tianque, the leader of the Annan Northern Alliance. Ruan Tianque called on everyone to unite and coordinate, strive to annihilate the invading enemy in one fell swoop, and defend the honor of the country.
As the top feudal lord of the Annan District, Ruan Tianque was undoubtedly very successful, and his appeal among the players was not trivial.
Soon, hundreds of feudal lords along the coast united around Ruan Tianque.
After some discussion, a huge allied fleet was quickly formed. However, the coastline of the northern Annan District was long, and it would take some time to integrate the fleet together.
In desperation, in response to the strong appeal of adventurous players, Ruan Tianque could only order more than 20 feudal lords of Haifang County and Rongping County as the vanguard to take the lead.
Some players who could not wait had already gone to sea.
North Bay, on Dragon Head.
The moment he received the system prompt, Ouyang Shuo was ready to fight a tough battle.
"Quickly clean up the battlefield and advance at full speed." Ouyang Shuo ordered.
"Understood!"
Zheng He also realized that there seemed to be a huge change in the battle.
After hurriedly cleaning up the battlefield, Zheng He ordered the formations to release a large number of Scarlet Horse Boats. Like casting a net, they laid it in the sea in front of them, in order to find traces of enemy ships and spy on the enemy.
Soon, Zheng He's intuition was fulfilled.
Not long after the fleet sailed, they encountered waves of enemy ships. The strange thing was that these enemy ships were very weak and scattered, without any sort of organization to speak of.
Even some merchant ships and fishing boats were mixed among them.
"This is considered a navy?" Zheng He was speechless. "Just sink them!"
"Yes, sir!"
Zheng He did not want to use precious cannons to deal with these small fries. After the modification, the fortress ships and the Taowu warships were all equipped with sharp iron tips that looked like beaks, and even more powerful iron collars.
Ordinary small and medium-sized warships were directly cut in half by their collisions.
Although the warships of the Annan District were not good, the players were very enthusiastic. Each warship carried a large number of adventurous players, ranging from hundreds to thousands.
They were still thinking of having a hot battle with the fleet of Shanhai City.
Hand-To-Hand combat was a battle between men.
When they saw the fortress ships that were several stories high, the horse-like Taowu warships, and the ghost-like Scarlet Horse Boats, they realized how big the world was.
In front of the fortress ships, their warships were just babies.
They could already foresee the tragedy that was about to happen.
Sure enough, under the collision, a large number of players fell into the sea like dumplings. Suddenly, countless black heads emerged from the calm sea, which was quite a spectacular scene.
Zheng He did not even bother to waste arrows on these players who fell into the sea. Because once they fell into the sea, the chance of survival was close to zero, so there was no need to waste precious arrows.
It should be noted that the number of arrows carried by the warships was limited by the load.
Only the players who tried to climb into the sea and fight with the warships of Shanhai City would be shot. After all, among these adventurous players, there were still some with unique skills.
Martial arts were not unique to the China region.
Ouyang Shuo stood on the Dragon Head in silence, letting Zheng He command him. His merit points were rising at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In just two battles, Ouyang Shuo had gained more than 20,000 merit points, which was really terrifying.
Such a great harvest was also related to the characteristics of naval battles. After all, once a warship was sunk, almost all the soldiers would be wiped out. The casualty rate was unusually high.
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The two battles were just the prelude to the national war.
In the port of Haiphong, a huge fleet had already assembled and was attacking the fleet of Shanhai City. Further away, on the coastline, tens of thousands of warships were gathering at the port of Haiphong.
The headquarters of the allied forces was located in Haiphong, which was also the base camp of Ruan Tianque.
Apart from these two fleets, the fleet of Shanhai City was also sailing with increasing difficulty.
The further they went, the more enemy warships appeared.
The enthusiasm of the players of the Annan District shocked Ouyang Shuo.
The adventurous players were not real fools. The miserable experience of the first fleet made them quickly calm down. They realized that if they continued to rush forward in a disorderly manner, they would only be sending themselves to their deaths.
Therefore, the following fleets of players were quickly divided into two camps. Some returned to the port of Haiphong and met up with the allied fleets, while the others gathered together and marched forward again.
When the fleet of Shanhai City once again encountered the enemy fleet, the spectacular scene stunned Zheng He.
He saw thousands of warships gathered on the vast sea. There were all kinds of warships covering the sea, and as far as the eye could see, there were all kinds of sails.
Zheng He was not crazy to crash into the enemy fleet with only 300 warships of the allied fleet.
As the saying went, ants could bite an elephant to death.
If they used the same tactic as before, the biggest possibility was not to sink the enemy ships, but to be drowned in the endless fleet of warships, never to come out again.
"Pass the order, fire all cannons!" Zheng He ordered.
"Yes, sir!"
The familiar rumbling sound of cannons exploded on the sea again.
Under the bombardment, the fleet of warships on the opposite side was immediately in chaos. The order of battle, which had been orderly just now, was immediately shot to the left and right.
It was as if a basket of stones had suddenly been thrown into a calm lake.
Even so, the fleet of warships still stood firm.
Braving the cannons, they launched a fearless charge against the fleet of Shanhai City.
Along with the horn to charge, a dense barrage of arrows poured down mercilessly toward the Shanhai City fleet. Because of the large number of people, the arrows even weaved a pitch-black arrow net in the air.
The fleet of Shanhai City was facing a life-and-death test.
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