Chapter 140: Night Attack
wilderness
Richard's army was staying in a natural lake to replenish fresh water,
For this expedition, Richard did a lot of work, and naturally knew where to replenish fresh water.
The poisonous scorpion lion who sparked joy took advantage of a short rest to hunt a bison,
However, the bison was apparently impaled by the scorpion tail of the venerable scorpion, and was stained with the venom of the venerable scorpion, so it could only enjoy it on its own.
After trying that the water in the lake is non-toxic, the army began to replenish fresh water, and the system army also needed to be replenished.
The previous battles were all fought on human territory, and they were basically internal operations, and the logistical pressure was not great.
Now the expedition to the wilderness has to take into account the logistics,
In order to speed up the march, Richard ordered to rush into the wilderness with only three days' dry rations, which would have been a crazy decision for anyone who had tried to do military things.
Fighting to feed war is just an idea, and the specific implementation must be adapted to local conditions, and ogres can ignore logistics to engage in the tactics of fighting and fighting against human beings, that is because human beings are accustomed to settling,
The population is denser at night, and it is easy to get to the human village.
The ogre tribe in the wilderness is mainly nomadic, it is not easy to find, and the population is still sparse, and if you want to fight the ogre, no matter whether you have fought or not, it is very likely that you will get lost in the wilderness before you find the ogre tribe.
But neither of these points was a problem for Richard,
With the royal griffon's cheating detection, Richard actually had a general idea of the mountains and landscapes of the wilderness.
Dozens of griffons were scattered out, completely becoming an accurate scanner, avoiding all the ogre tribes along the way,
With the addition of the knight's glove and the Divine Walking Boots, Richard led his army into the wilderness in just three days and walked a terrifying distance of more than 800 miles, penetrating into the hinterland of the wilderness without alarming an ogre tribe.
This kind of marching speed, not to mention the army of the same era, even the mechanized troops of the World War II period on Earth are difficult to achieve this marching speed.
Fortunately, the physique of the soldiers produced by these systems is one by one, and the three-day forced march hardly produces any discomfort.
On the contrary, Gandalf, who had been riding on a horse and being taken care of, was already tired like a dead dog, just gritting his teeth and insisting on it for the sake of the magic energy crystal.
"So that the soldiers don't have to save rations anymore, eat all the dry food on their bodies today, maintain their strength, we are almost there."
Richard himself commanded Ron as he chewed on the dry food.
In order to facilitate the portability of this thing, it does not occupy an area, and it is a little steady, and it bites a little bite, and the taste is actually worse, and Richard is generally a person who likes to enjoy life, this kind of dry food is no different from pig food compared to Richard's usual food,
However, when the army was marching and fighting, Richard could not tolerate hypocrisy, and after a few clicks with the soldiers, he swallowed dry food with water and got up to prepare for departure.
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It was getting dark, and the army was marching more and more carefully, and they had reached a place less than thirty miles from the tribe where Grugosh was.
With the help of the royal griffon's scouting, they directly bypassed the large ogre tribe scattered around the Grugesh tribe,
Most recently, they were no more than ten miles away from a tribe, almost passing by.
"My lord, there should be the ogre's camp ahead."
In fact, there is no need for Ron to remind him, Richard also knows that the most core tribe of ogres is in front of him, and the largest tent in the middle should be where Grugersh lives.
Richard had been locked in for a long time through aerial scouting by the Royal Griffin.
At this time, Richard was looking at the ogre camp in the dark and couldn't help but lick his lips,
There were still some bonfires lit in the camp, and you could vaguely see the ogre warriors patrolling through the firelight.
As the core tribe of ogres, the descendants of the lineage, the ogre guarding Grugesh does have a little meaning,
Judging from the layout of the camp, it has been detached from the ogre's primitive random camping method, and the whole layout has a bit of a human army.
It's a pity that Richard saw it clearly through the royal griffin in the air and found a flaw in the camp.
"Whole army, don't make a noise, approach slowly!"
After observing the ogre camp from a distance, Richard gave the order to approach again.
The order not to make any noise is harsh for the average army, but the system army can carry it out almost to the end, and even the centaur elite will lift the horse's hooves lightly, trying not to cause too much movement.
Five miles
Three miles
One mile
The night is the best cover, and there is hardly any light source in the wilderness except for the ogre camp in front of you.
Richard led the army directly in front of the camp.
One hundred and fifty meters
One hundred meters
"Woooooo
A low horn sounded, and Richard blew the harpy horn he had been carrying,
The more alert ogre sensed something when he heard the horn, but it was too late.
After Richard blew the horn, he "banged" and pulled out the Vulcan Sword at his waist, and under the infusion of fighting energy, the Vulcan Sword emitted dazzling fire light throughout its body, and spit out a two-foot tongue of fire.
It stands out in the dark night sky.
"Follow me!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
As Richard reached the distance of a hundred meters, there was no longer much point in continuing to hide,
Immediately led the centaur elite to charge, while the scorpion lion and Zebuble followed left and right, both as arrows and to protect Richard's safety, if there were no two high-end forces to protect Richard, how dare Richard easily take risks.
Although Richard led the centaurs to rush to the front, it was the long-range troops in Richard's army that were the first to strike.
The rune ballista machine sounded softly, each crossbow could take the life of an ogre, and the night had no effect on the rune ballista.
Equally unaffected by the night are dozens of elven archers, whose arrows accurately hit the ogre warriors who were patrolling and standing.
The ogre, who was not too afraid of arrows, seemed to have lost his previous resistance in the face of these heavy arrows, and even the parts wearing iron armor would be pierced by the elves' arrows and suffer some minor injuries.
Of course, with the archery skills of the elves, more arrows directly faced the door and neck, which were not armored fatal, causing greater casualties to the ogre.
Only the marksmen were slightly inferior, and with a long distance and no line of sight in the night, they could only rely on their numerical superiority to shoot at the campfire in a covering way, causing some trouble for the ogre.
The silent night suddenly boiled,
The ogre tribe that was suddenly attacked was a little flustered,
The patrolling and sentry ogres were hit by focused long-range strikes, and royal griffons were constantly fluttering down in the air to attack the ogre warriors who were trying to gather to resist.
The ogre camp fell into a brief period of chaos,
"Bang!"
When Richard led the centaur elite into the ogre camp, he didn't encounter any decent resistance, and broke through the fence and crashed into the tent...