When they arrived at the giants' territory, the soft falling snow gradually turned into sharp hailstones. Countless tiny ice crystals are a great devastation to the fragile human body. Only then will people in other territories understand why Lingwu soldiers are all wearing heavy armor. I am afraid that only such airtight iron clothes can Withstood such harsh natural disasters.
It is not without reason that the giants and dragons are born with rough skin and thick flesh. Natural selection of the fittest survives. If it is not for their strong physique, the races living in this climate would have been extinct long ago.
In the first two days, people from other territories did not make a move, because Lingwu's army was indeed too capable of fighting. They seem to have figured out their own style of play in dealing with the giants. Whether it is searching for prey, laying traps, pulling and restraining, luring the enemy deep, or confronting them head-on, they have all played methodically.
Especially the heavy cavalry of Lingwu is obviously a level stronger than the cavalry of other territories. In the past, when others said that the Lingwu iron cavalry was the best in the world, Li De still didn't believe it. Now that they dared to launch a formidable charge in the face of a dozen or twenty meters tall giants, Li De began to doubt it.
Of course, the strength of the giant race is beyond doubt.
Lingwu's current tactic is to break down one by one, search for the single giant, and integrate the strength several times that of the opponent to beat them to death. Or take the initiative to lure the group of giants to different places to kill them. Generally speaking, the pace is very fast, and it is almost impossible to stay in the same place for too long. Li De has almost never dismounted since he left Lingwu.
But even with such a mature tactical system and terrible execution, casualties are still a number that cannot be ignored. After each round, a large number of Lingwu soldiers will die on the battlefield, most of them have no bones left, many of them have only one hand or one leg left, and it is impossible to tell who is who.
The hot blood quickly froze into red ice edges.
The general of Lingwu, Zhan Gui, is a burly middle-aged man. He is about 2.5 meters tall. Although he is far from a real giant, he is considered a small giant on the human side. His body was covered with strong brown tendon flesh covered with white scars, especially the pair of cross scars on his chest was full of hideous feeling.
War Ghost itself has a little more than Jiuzhong's strength, which is certainly not as good as that of top fighters, but it is more than enough for a strategist. After every battle, he would use his callused hands to forcefully scrape away the frozen soil on the ground, and bury all the remaining parts of the dead soldiers' bodies in it.
Then the war ghosts would fold their palms together and bow a ninety-degree bow to that side, silently thanking them for their sacrifices.
If the death toll exceeds 300, the survivors will gather spontaneously and sing the military song in Lingwu dialect loudly. Li De was not a person who grew up in Lingwu, so he didn't quite understand what they were singing, but he could feel the strong and fiery emotions in that voice. In this desolate land, the singing voice tightly united them together.
It wasn't until the third day that foreign aid from other territories came into play.
They didn't pay much attention to the military spirit they brought. After all, each family had at most a few thousand people, and they all fought on their own. Coupled with many factors such as climate and soil acclimatization, most of the army cannot play a real role. What Lingwu is more interested in is actually the masters sent by various territories, and those are the precious combat power that Lingwu really needs.
Lord Lingwu once said that going north does not need the weak. Because the weak can only live in groups, but people from different territories are destined not to be tightly grouped. Therefore, the ones who can really perform in the northward journey must be the strong ones who can stand alone, and only the top strong ones on the human side are qualified to leave the protection of the Great Array of Protecting the Nation and enter the territory of the Giants, one of the six tribes. Make contributions.
In the battle of the previous two days, Lingwu's army eliminated many densely populated giant tribes and gnawed down many hard bones. But they are also human beings, and as human beings, they have their own limits, and when they reach their limits, they need to rest. For the army, exhaustion from fighting will cause the overall combat effectiveness to plummet. The Lingwu lord does not intend to let them continue to fight, so in the next day or two, the Lingwu army will be stationed nearby, and people from various territories will Go out and free hunt.
According to the number of giants killed, you can get a lot of rewards from Lingwu. If you kill more giants, you can also get a good ranking in the subsequent publicity. Every year, a large number of top human geniuses die in the fight against giants, but there are also many people who shine on this battlefield, and after returning triumphantly, their value skyrockets, becoming the core figure in a territory.
Of course, at present, this has nothing to do with Yuxi City.
Most people don't even regard Lide's side as a combat force. A useless city lord, a kendo rookie who has completed the seventh level, and an assassin in the middle of the eighth level, this configuration may be lost in a remote human territory. It's a bit worth seeing, but it's really not enough to play against the giants with an average per capita of eight or nine.
"Just don't hold back."
This is the view of most people.
They may not say it publicly, but they really do think so in their hearts, and discuss it in private:
"I don't know why Lord Lingwu put these dishes into the team. I hope her old man won't get mad and ask us to allocate troops to protect them. That would be really disgusting."
Not everyone was malicious, and some people looked at Lide with obvious sympathy. The more you get into this kind of large-scale foreign war, the more you can see the background of each territory. Even Yunyang, which has always been underestimated, can bring out a few people above Jiuzhong to support Li Neng, but Lide, One Alayah and one Hilo seems to be the limit.
To be honest, with the background of Yuxi City, he shouldn't have come to head north.
Only Lid was still optimistic. He found a huge lake outside, and a thick layer of ice had formed on the surface of the lake. Lied was going to dig a hole in it and see if he could catch any fish. It has been two full days since he left the iron wall defense line, and he has not eaten a warm meal. The already hard pancake has a layer of frost on it, and it is obvious that his teeth are protesting when he bites down.
People are iron rice is steel, now I want to drink fish soup.
He was not in a hurry, and neither were Alaya and Shiloh.
Hilo also helped Lid dig a round hole in the ice with a small dagger. When Lid began to grind the fishhooks with iron sheets, Hilo dug in the surrounding frozen soil, trying to find A little bait such as earthworms, but in the end it was nothing.
Fortunately, the cake residue itself can also be used as bait.
So when the people in other territories, especially the Ceylon prince Mu Risheng who had a bet with Li De had already brought his brothers to fight the giants, Li De was sitting comfortably on the lake. Leisurely fishing.
"No hurry, let's fill up our stomachs first."