It takes a day to complete the mercenary camp. Yuan Chenfei chose the blacksmith shop as the next target. The improvement that the equipment brings to professionals is still very obvious.
The blacksmith shop requires eight kinds of resources, four of which Yuan Chenfei and the others already have, so they only need to obtain four of them for the next day.
But at this moment, news came from behind.
One of the mining areas was attacked.
As one of the mining areas was attacked, other mining areas began to be attacked one after another. Due to the large number of Qingkong tribe, the five mining areas fell almost at the same time.
Fortunately, because they were prepared in advance, the Cyclops immediately ran away after getting the news, and there was no loss.
After taking back the mining area, those Qingkong tribe settled down again and began to build defense facilities.
It is worth noting that this time they began to build forts.
After hearing the news, Yuan Chenfei thought for a moment and continued to lead the attack. He quickly captured four other mining areas and retreated in time after clearing a batch of resources.
Due to their relatively fast movements, the Cyclops were also promoted and their strength increased during the battle, so the battle today was much faster than before.
Li Zhanjun proposed to continue his efforts and simply clean up the remaining three mines, but Yuan Chenfei objected.
It was rare for him to give up when things were good and take the Cyclops back to his territory.
The day passed quickly, and at night, the construction of the mercenary camp was completed.
Yuan Chenfei used his authority and the first person he hired was Qu Wei.
Hiring requires crystal coins, but since the gods prohibit Yuan Chenfei and the others from using personal resources, they can only use resources obtained in the territory.
Fortunately, Qu Wei's price is not high, he is only level 28, and the first level costs one hundred crystal coins, which is 2,800 crystal coins, which is very cheap.
When he walked out of the mercenary camp, he saw Yuan Chenfei coming over and hugging him.
Although Qu Wei was mentally prepared, he was still a little surprised when he faced this scene: "Am I the first?"
"That's right, it's cheap for you." Li Zhanjun opened his mouth and had nothing good to say.
"Go away, don't listen to him. I have something to ask you. So I'll find you here first. Although you can also convey messages in the fairy world, it's still too troublesome." Yuan Chenfei said.
"Understood." Qu Wei nodded: "I have received the news this morning, and the staff department has also analyzed it. Do you want to hear it?"
"Looking forward to it."
Qu Wei said: "I guess you have also thought that the Qingkong Clan's garrison strength has also been improved step by step."
One sentence tells the key.
Although Yuan Chenfei and the others captured many prisoners of the Blue Sky Clan, only the upper echelons knew about the Blue Sky Clan's mission, so it was unrealistic to understand the Blue Sky Clan's mission through the prisoners, and could only be judged through their actions.
At this moment, Yuan Chenfei said: "But I think that the limitation of this strength garrison is not the strength of the soldiers, but the defensive measures."
"That's right." Qu Wei said: "The Qingkong clan clearly established a defensive stronghold in the buffer zone half a month in advance, but at the beginning there were only a few alchemy formations, which was unreasonable. After the counterattack came back, Start installing the turrets, and considering the previous mission mode, we can basically judge that every time they successfully counterattack, they will get a certain degree of defense improvement."
Yuan Chenfei nodded: "Yes, this should be the restriction given to us by the gods. If we want to use guerrilla tactics to collect resources and ensure that the Cyclops does not lose as much as possible, then in repeated battles, the resistance we face will be Getting stronger and stronger, until in the end, every stronghold captured may come at a heavy price.”
Qu Wei continued: "Besides that, there is another problem. You captured five mining areas in one go yesterday. Logically speaking, one day would be enough for the Qingkong tribe to counterattack. But in fact, they didn't. Instead, today They only launched a counterattack in the morning. If it is said that they acted slowly, it is somewhat unjustifiable."
Yuan Chenfei said: "There is only one explanation."
The two looked at each other and said in unison: "Limited time attack!"
The Qingkong tribe's counterattack is likely to be restricted. For example, they can only counterattack the day after the loss. Therefore, even if they know that the mining area has been lost, they will not immediately counterattack.
This is the opportunity the gods gave them.
Otherwise, once the twelve mining areas are lost, they will start fighting for them. Seventy thousand Cyclops alone cannot resist them.
Precisely because the total time was limited, when the time came on the second day, the five mining areas were attacked almost at the same time, giving the opponent no chance to resist. In other words, even if Yuan Chenfei and the others guard one point, they will not have time to defend the other four points.
Qu Weidao: "From this analysis, we can probably also draw a conclusion that there is only one chance to counterattack every day. If we didn't succeed this time, we can't counterattack again today."
Yuan Chenfei nodded: "That should be the case."
Xia Ning and others also suddenly realized: "So this is why you did not order an attack on the remaining three mines? Because there is no counterattack, they cannot upgrade the defense system."
"Yes." Yuan Chenfei sighed: "In this case, things will become contradictory again."
If you want to avoid being counterattacked by your opponent as much as possible, you have to clean up a mine and try to save it, but you cannot build any special buildings with a single resource.
A comprehensive sweep will give the opponent the opportunity to fully counterattack.
It can be said that in this mission, the gods have been creating contradictory choices for them.
Whether to build special buildings or not, and the balance of offense and defense in resource areas, all options have pros and cons, and Yuan Chenfei and the others must weigh the pros and cons.
Yuan Chenfei also had a headache because of this: "Things are very troublesome."
Qu Wei smiled and said, "Isn't this why you came to me?"
"Do you have any suggestions?" Yuan Chenfei asked.
Qu Wei said: "Before coming, I had some discussions with the above. We agreed that among the twenty special buildings, the really useful ones are the Heavenly Breeding Pool, the Jedi Stable, the Blacksmith Shop, the Mercenary Camp, the Guardian Statue, the Wrath Sky Stone, and the Spell There are ten types: Tower, Dark Spirit Path, Pure Land of Silence and Thick Earth Maze. So our planning should be centered around the materials needed for these ten types of construction."
Liu Li was surprised: "Although the Breeding Tianchi is useless in this battle, it can improve the overall strength of the Cyclops and is a necessary building for long-term development. I can understand its construction. But what is the purpose of the magic tower? Just to put a few Spell? It’s useless for the Cyclops. And it’s contradictory to the Pure Land of Silence.”
Qu Wei said: "If you think about it from a combat perspective, it is indeed useless. But have you forgotten how Yuan Chenfei controlled the goblin country in the first place?"
Everyone was stunned: "Apparition? Disappearance?"
"Yes!" Qu Wei said: "The spell tower is not used for fighting, but for dealing with methods such as disembodiment. Cyclops does not have such means, so it can only rely on the spell tower. Unless you don't care about the future development of Cyclops, Otherwise, it is best to build this thing for them no matter what. In fact, even in this guard war, we must consider the possibility of the Blue Sky clan sneaking in and destroying it. Don't forget, the mission only said that the attack can be carried out in a month, but it did not say anything about the attack. When will it end? Theoretically, as long as the other side's soldiers are not dead or give up, the fight can continue."
Only then did everyone realize that they had made a mistake. They only focused on the one-month non-combat period, but ignored how long the battle would last after it started. If the Qingkong tribe deliberately delays and takes advantage of resources to continuously consume, 70,000 troops can be very powerful.
But Qu Wei and the others noticed.
Now everyone knows the urine properties of the gods. As the saying goes, what you don't regulate is what I can use.
Since the gods do not stipulate how long they can fight after one month, the Blue Sky clan is likely to fight a time-consuming war and a resource war like the Fairy Fortress, slowly wearing down their opponents.
"The spell tower does have to be built." Yuan Chenfei affirmed: "It's just ten places, but it still involves twelve resource points."
Qu Wei smiled and said: "This is what you missed. I have analyzed and compared the resources required by these ten types of buildings before. We found that the resources required by these ten types of buildings are mainly concentrated in crescent stone and purple obsidian crystal. , Mantukin... Of the eight ores, the other four require very little.”
"But it's still needed, isn't it? Xia Ning asked."
"Yes, but if we concentrate our efforts, we can probably collect everything in one or two days."
After hearing this, everyone understood.
Yuan Chenfei said: "It takes one to two days to attack these four resources that are in low demand. As long as the needs of ten types of buildings are met, you can give up strategically."
Rouwa also said: "In other words, we will only have to compete for eight resource points."
"No." Qu Wei shook his head: "It's six places. There are also two special resources, pearl wood and lava agate, which can also be obtained in Qingkong City, not only in the buffer zone."
One of the missions is to attack the city. Through this mission, you can compete for those two resources, so there are only six places that really need to be entangled.
In this way, everyone's pressure is relieved a lot.
"Does this mean we have to fight for six locations and give up six locations? When it comes to the general attack, it will be 70,000 plus 9,000 people, and maybe 18,000 more people?" Xia Ning asked.
"Giving up does not necessarily mean giving up completely." Qu Wei explained: "Although it is just a speculation that stronghold guards can join the siege war, we have analyzed it and agreed that it is indeed very possible. Because according to the habits of the gods, all The hidden methods must be related, and there is rarely a direct increase in troops for no reason. Just like the Qingkong Clan's ambush, related tasks are released in advance rather than directly targeted. This is in line with the rules! So assuming that this inference is correct, can we Think about it the other way around?”
Yuan Chenfei said: "Before the end of the last day, clear out the strongholds we gave up. Because they can only counterattack on the second day. In this way, they will lose the opportunity, and these 18,000 people will not be able to appear. ”
"That's right. In this case, do you understand our attack sequence?"
Yuan Chenfei said: "Prioritize attacking the mines that are to be abandoned and collect all the required resources. Since the mission has just begun, when they launch a counterattack, they will definitely use the weakest force. But they will not expect that these six After this, the mine will no longer be attacked. Due to mission restrictions, they will no longer be able to strengthen their defenses and deploy troops until the last day, when we will solve them in one fell swoop!"