Chapter 403: End of the Liang Province Civil War
In "Rate the Land Under Heaven," each province is separated by mountain ranges, and you cannot directly cross between different provinces. Every so often along the mountains, there is a pass. If you want to go to another province, you must first break through the pass.
Passes are relatively high-level and cannot be taken down in the early stages. It requires several dozen people from the entire alliance, with hundreds of troops, to have a chance at capturing one. Once captured, the pass is occupied by that alliance, allowing entry into the neighboring province.
However, breaking through a pass also means declaring war and invasion, which inevitably provokes resistance from the opponent. Both sides often end up locked in a prolonged stalemate near the pass.
But if, like Xu Province, the alliance leader offers no resistance at all, then Qing Province and Yang Province can advance very quickly, even carving up the entire Xu Province within a few days.
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That night, the final battle of the Liang Province civil war and the pass-breaking battles of Qing and Yang Provinces kicked off almost simultaneously!
After seeing that both his main city and sub-city were completely surrounded by fortresses from [Dragon Battle], the alliance leader of [How Can We Be Without Clothes] roughly sensed the dire situation and chose to abdicate his position early by passing it on.
But abdication requires a 12-hour preparation period. During this time, the players of [Dragon Battle] launched simultaneous attacks on both the main city and sub-city of the [How Can We Be Without Clothes] alliance leader!
In the first wave of attacks, the [How Can We Be Without Clothes] alliance leader activated a defense stance, successfully stalling for five hours.
The [Dragon Battle] players directly recruited troops in their fortresses. After the five hours ended, at 4:15 a.m., they launched another assault!
This time, the [How Can We Be Without Clothes] alliance leader had no escape. Both his main city and sub-city fell almost simultaneously, and at the same time, all members of the [How Can We Be Without Clothes] alliance also fell!
This Liang Province civil war lasted nearly a week, ending with [Dragon Battle] ultimately victorious and unifying Liang Province.
The world channel and Liang Province channel inevitably buzzed with discussion again, but few people from [How Can We Be Without Clothes] spoke up. After all, the war of words had dragged on from the start of the civil war to its end, and everyone was tired of arguing.
The entire [How Can We Be Without Clothes] alliance had long guessed this outcome, since their strength was far inferior to [Dragon Battle]'s. A small portion of the alliance's players had already defected to [Dragon Battle] during the civil war. After the alliance leader fell, some chose to roll a new server and start over, some chose to wander, and some chose to submit.
(Wandering allows you to go to other provinces, but you abandon all your land within the current province and start from scratch. This is very damaging to players, so most people don't choose to wander.)
With that, the Liang Province civil war finally ended, and the chat group of [Dragon Battle] erupted in celebration!
Everyone was exhausted. Having fought for nearly a week, many core players in the group hadn't had a good night's sleep in a long time. With the civil war over, everyone could finally rest.
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On the other side, the pass-breaking battles of Qing Province and Yang Province proceeded almost simultaneously!
These two provinces clearly deployed their elite forces. The neutral garrison troops at the passes didn't cause them much trouble, just like when [Dragon Battle] attacked cities, they captured them smoothly.
After taking the two border passes, Qing Province advanced from north to south, and Yang Province from south to north, paving roads toward the nearest cities in Xu Province.
According to the rules in "Rate the Land Under Heaven," an alliance from Qing Province cannot recruit members from Xu Province directly. They must first occupy a city within Xu Province before they can accept Xu Province members.
Therefore, both Qing Province and Yang Province, in order to take in Xu Province players, chose the nearest small city to themselves as their first strategic target.
On the Xu Province side, because the alliance leader, Sky Erosion, was actually a mole from Qing Province, this act of selling out the province was despised by most players, causing the entire alliance to split.
Sky Erosion assured the members in the alliance: If they joined Qing Province, after Qing Province broke through the passes into the resource provinces or even unified, these people would qualify to enter the resource provinces. Moreover, Qing Province was strong and fully capable of unifying, so joining early would earn them more attention.
Obviously, these words were half true and half false. But since most people were still newbies with only a partial understanding of the game mechanics, more than half believed Sky Erosion's words, prepared to offer no resistance, accept his arrangements, and join Qing Province.
The others were deeply disgusted by Sky Erosion's betrayal of the province. They had already withdrawn from the guild, becoming wild players, waiting for Yang Province to enter the pass and then defecting to Yang Province.
For now, both Qing Province and Yang Province clearly prioritized absorbing Xu Province as their top task. They had dedicated road-paving teams working day and night to extend their territory across all of Xu Province. Whoever paved faster would seize more land.
Both Qing Province and Yang Province were extremely powerful, but they obviously wouldn't start a war at this time, as it would be pointless. Qing Province had Ji Province next to it, and Yang Province had Jing Province. Before the situation became clear, if Qing and Yang went to war, it would likely give other provinces an opportunity.
Therefore, the first province war of the server would likely end with Qing and Yang carving up Xu Province, drawing boundaries, and mutually not invading each other.
This first province war could only be considered a one-sided battle, but it served as a warning to all other provinces: some of the stronger provinces could already break through passes and invade others. Xu Province was the first, but it certainly wouldn't be the last.
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After the civil war ended, the players of Liang Province entered a temporary period of recovery and development. [How Can We Be Without Clothes] had disbanded, and [Dragon Battle] needed to take over the players who had left the alliance, recapture all the cities that [How Can We Be Without Clothes] had taken, and handle various disputes over land grabs.
Moreover, everyone was already exhausted and longed for a period of good rest.
In the [Dragon Battle] chat group.
Jian Ping Tu General: "In the coming days, everyone should focus on catching up on development. Our alliance members' power rankings on the leaderboard have clearly fallen behind other provinces. After all, the Liang Province civil war lasted the longest and has taken a toll."
"Those responsible for recruiting should bring in all the scattered players from [How Can We Be Without Clothes]. Poach people from those small alliances as needed. We are now the largest alliance in Liang Province, so we need to quickly achieve complete unification and bring in all Liang Province players. Otherwise, we'll be at a disadvantage later."
Someone asked: "Alliance leader, now that Qing and Yang have carved up Xu Province, does that mean province wars are about to start on a large scale? Are we in danger here?"
Jian Ping Tu General: "The provinces bordering Liang are Bing Province and Yi Province. Bing Province is nothing to worry about. They have few players, and it's a land surrounded by enemies, bordering Liang, Ji, and You Provinces. They won't actively invade Liang Province. I've also contacted the alliance leader of Yi Province, and their reply was that Liang Province is not their target. So for now, we should be safe."
Someone said: "If Yi Province isn't attacking Liang, does that mean they're going to attack Jing Province?"
"Or are they planning to just farm in silence without breaking through any passes?"
Jian Ping Tu General: "Farming in silence is impossible. Yi Province has several big spenders; there's no way they won't fight province wars. I think it's possible that Yi Province and Yang Province will carve up Jing Province, just like they carved up Xu Province."
"If that's the case, then we in Liang Province should be safe for now. But don't let your guard down. Everyone saw how Qing and Yang broke through the Xu Province passes—it only took a few hours. In the next few days, when you have nothing to do, keep an eye on the passes along the Liang and Yi Province border. If you notice Yi Province building a large number of fortresses, notify me immediately."
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