The cavemen in the lumber yard soon discovered that a team of adventurers appeared on the other side of the river beach—one led by a fighter, a combination of two crossbowmen and wizards, a configuration that is common in Eruin and Cruz areas— The appearance of this team of humans is undoubtedly a stimulus to the creatures of Qiaogang Digan, who has a strong territorial consciousness, so the camp quickly sounded a sharp whistle and the sound of the wooden gate creaking and opening, underground creatures In a rush, about two teams of more than thirty cavemen waded toward the side of the river beach.
They split up and tried to double-team. The adventurer apparently noticed the movement here. The crossbowman dropped two arrows and missed one, and the other one shot but it didn’t have any effect. The crossbow arrow hit a caveman’s chest. It was huge. The force of the impact caused it to step back in the river water and splash-but that's it. The caveman shook his head, then raised his spear and followed the team again.
"The skin is really thick," Kerencia, who was hiding in the bushes, frowned. "The rumors are really true. If we don't say a thousand things, we can hardly deal with them even if they are a hundred."
"It's fast, it's about three hundred feet from the river to this side. They only took a few seconds." Uta replied, "This speed is really scary, faster than the best cavalry!"
"Faster than the best cavalry?" The tall firefighter group commander smiled indifferently. "That's because you haven't seen a good cavalry, Miss Yuta."
The head of the red-haired mercenary suffocated, and immediately turned his head and stared at this guy.
But Brando nodded, the caveman's speed was about as fast as the second-line cavalry. Slower than the best quality horses. But most of Vaughan’s really good cavalry don’t use war horses as mounts. For example, Eluin’s strongest air cavalry patrol cavalry—the name describes the way these knights cross the battlefield, calm and indifferent—in fact, he is talking about flying dragoons. Regiments, they are organized in all regiments of Eruin, and they are often the elite of the air cavalry.
"Don't fight," Kerencia interrupted between Fern and the female captain. "Look, there are at least two hundred cavemen in that lumbering yard. Such a huge number, no matter what. Our mercenaries can hardly endure—" the middle-aged man said while shaking his head, his head full of silver hair shining in the sunlight between the woods: "Lord Lord, do you have any countermeasures?"
His eyes fell on Brando, intentionally or unintentionally.
Antitina snorted softly on the side, and she saw clearly the guy's plan. It is true that relying on the strength of Brando and Akane, even if it is a positive breakthrough, it will not appear difficult. There is basically no problem with two golds against 100 black iron. There are still many mercenaries and the help of three large group leaders, and at most two hours, they will be able to storm this logging yard.
But if these guys are led by the nose step by step, then Lord Lord has any prestige to speak of. What's more, she looked at Brando's calm and confident expression, and knew that the young man she had always followed must have been successful.
Therefore, the noble daughter replied coldly: "Cavemen are not good at attacking cities. Sir Ron of Bassor once went deep to deal with these creatures. He clearly described the habits of these creatures in his book. Cavemen's. Ability is most restricted in this kind of river beach area, and even the best way to dig tunnels is lost. No matter how thick their skin is or how fast they run, as long as we take down the logging yard and turn offense to defense, they There is no other way."
Fern turned his head and glanced at Brando, and replied with some surprise: "Is there such a thing? Lord Lord chose this place as the starting point for the offensive. Did he consider this?"
Brando heard that although he was calm on the surface, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but cramp, and he secretly said that there was really no such thing.
It is actually a common phenomenon for logging yards to be located close to the river. One is to facilitate downstream transportation, and the other is to build waterwheels to allow water to drive sawmills. After all, magic power is still rare in these remote areas. thing.
But he didn't have much research on places like Tonigel. It is the limit to know that there are four logging yards beside Fir City. As for the state of these logging yards, only ghosts really know.
"There is a countermeasure," Brando nodded, "It depends on how much our decoy can draw out the opponent's troops." The young man turned his head and smiled at these nominal subordinates, "but you can relax. The battle is not as difficult as you think. Just treat it as a warm-up for the mercenaries to run in with each other."
warm up
Not only the three large group leaders, but also the leaders of many small mercenary groups were all taken aback. More than three hundred mercenaries faced more than two hundred cavemen. What kind of warm-up was this? It was a tough battle evenly matched.
"Wait and see." Brando sank, and his eyes fell on the river beach. The battle on the river beach has just begun at this moment. When the'adventurers' noticed the cavemen's intentions, they began to retreat to the side of the forest. Their speed was very fast, but they still couldn't match the natural advantages of cavemen. Was caught up at the edge of the forest for a long time.
However, the wizards in the team immediately knocked on the ground with their wands, and chanted a spell loudly. The pebbles and dirt under their feet rose from the ground and lifted the four people upwards. The dirt rose to form a tower of almost two meters. The three-meter-high castle—the breast wall and the fortresses are all available, and the city body is made of hard earth and stone—guarding the four people in the center.
Fortification.
Everyone was taken aback. The three-ring spell of protective phrases in the law of magic can almost have such an effect-although it is still far from the realm of the magician who shaped the city out of thin air in the legend, but At least it can prove that the rule wizard on the field at least has the strength of the peak of black iron.
Who is so extravagant.
Others turned their heads one after another, wanting to see who was willing to send their next three-ring rule wizard to the front line as bait. But only Kerencia caught a slight smile on Fern's face beside him.
"Fern, is that yours?" he asked in a low voice.
The chief of the firefighter nodded nonchalantly. "Mafili, is the best wizard in my regiment." He replied.
"You are really willing." Kerencia did not feel relieved after confirming the thoughts in her heart, but instead developed a sense of crisis. The silver-haired middle-aged man looked at the tall and silent Fern, and then at Brando, who didn't say a word, and suddenly felt his position shaken.
At first, in the battle that night, he fought side by side with the young lord for the longest time, thinking that it should be no problem for him to make a first impression in front of Brando by his performance. Unexpectedly, this seemingly taciturn and honest veteran had already reached a tacit understanding with the young man unknowingly.
Maybe there is another agreement reached.
Kerencia cursed inwardly and gritted her teeth. But immediately his gaze was subconsciously attracted by the battle on the edge of the forest—when Maferry cast the fortification technique and retreated behind the warriors and crossbowmen to rest, the middle-aged mage leaned his entire body on the cane and gasped for breath. , The previous three-ring spell obviously consumed his enormous physical strength and energy.
But the effect is obvious.
As Antitina said, cavemen are not good at attacking cities. These underground creatures have strong hind limbs, but their forelimbs are short and thin; they often do not rely on the strength of the upper limbs when attacking, because the forelimbs are only used To use tools and clenched spears, cavemen use the power of their hind limbs to sprint when attacking, attacking the enemy by transforming potential energy.
However, a wall caused them huge trouble. The two-meter-high city wall was not high, but the cavemen discovered that once they jumped up high and prepared to attack those humans, they were greeted by a shimmering sword blade— And they have no way to dodge in mid-air.
Only one face, the caveman was split back to two face to face. The short corpses flew back and landed on the river beach and rolled for several laps before stopping. Their companions stepped aside, and then slowed down somewhat at a loss.
Through sonic feedback, they have discovered that there is a towering earth and stone castle in front of them.
The cavemen looked at each other, but the'Muru' cavemen who came up from behind immediately made a sharp whistle sound, causing them to spread out and start a siege from all sides.
"Too reluctant..." The head of the red-haired female mercenary frowned. She knew that the four mercenaries who acted as decoys were all good players selected by Brando from their underlings, and all of them possessed the upper reaches of the black iron or even the peak strength. The elite. It would be able to support it for a while on the flat ground under the siege of thirty cavemen, not to mention the fact that it was under the circumstance of taking advantage of the geographical advantage.
But in any case, it was still too reluctant to survive the siege of thirty cavemen to induce the opponent to send more support.
But what she didn't expect was that after the fuchsia caveman warrior forced his companion to launch two rounds of offensive, he decisively used a sharp whistle to make all the cavemen retreat and waited around the earth and stone castle.
How is this going
The four mercenaries were standing by the breast wall. The previous battles had consumed a lot of their physical strength. As long as the cavemen worked harder, they might be able to take down this temporary fortress in one fell swoop, but they didn't expect it to be at this time. Return.
You must know that the wizard Maferi has been relieved, and he will be able to fight again after a while.
"Caveman is unwilling to pay the price. At this time, although the storm can be done in one fell swoop, it is impossible to attack when the location and personal strength are not conducive to one's own side. It is impossible not to pay a lot of casualties." Brando felt that there were many around him. The mercenary captain was surprised, explained.
Although these people are old at all kinds of battles, they have not necessarily dealt with these underground creatures of Qiaogang Digan. In the fiercely competitive underground, both population and military strength are very precious resources, and they are not allowed to be wasted at will.
This is why the average individual strength of the underground world is generally higher.
"So that's it," Kerencia glanced at Brando. As mercenaries on the battlefield, they don't necessarily see noble-born nobles and scholars, but being able to apply these secret knowledge to the battlefield can't help but make people high. Have a look. "But I didn't expect cavemen to have such a weak attacking ability, don't those underground creatures have the habit of building cities?"
Brando almost didn't get choked by this question. He thought to himself that the guys in Qiao Gendigang's underground can build cities much better than human cattle. Because underground castles were first born to prevent the invasion of demons. The thick and strong walls can even make a human fortress city like Braggs ashamed. As for the art of fortifications, it comes from the dwarves in the mountains, like Fir City. That kind of city defense is not enough to compare with one.
"Cavemen are not without the ability to siege," he replied, "They are Qiao Gendigang's first-level organization, and they usually act with another first-level organization, bear goblins."
"Bear goblin?" Fern asked.