Chapter Twenty-Six: The Wolves
"Are you sure this is it?" Xu Yong, who unconsciously pinched the orchid finger, and the feminine voice that was quite beautiful and feminine without looking at it sounded, with a slightly puzzled tone.
The henchman who lowered his head and couldn't see his expression responded: "According to the intelligence and the results of the surrounding investigations, it is almost certain that this is the place." β
"Oh?" Xu Yong's shiny bald head was raised, and he looked at the crack in the pitch-black mountain that had been half blocked by the vines with one eye, a strange glimmer flashed on the green prosthetic eye, and muttered to himself, "It seems to be a loophole created when the 'earth dragon' turns over, and the existence of the back door." β
After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Xu Yong did not directly bring people in, but ordered: "Send a few clever scouts to check in and find out the safe path first." β
"Yes." The subordinate responded, then raised his head and hesitated: "Do you need to notify Xue Qinggongzi?" β
Xu Yong frowned, and said in a deep voice: "It's not too late to notify you when it's clear." β
The henchman nodded, turned around and beckoned a few small scouts into the crevice to investigate, while the others stood guard around.
Due to the fact that the beast tide has just passed, the demon beasts near the Longshou Mountain Range are still quite dense. Xu Yong and his entourage did not wait for the scout's reply, but first encountered a small group of demon beast attacks.
The attacking demon beast was a group of about fifty Qingfeng wolves, and the head wolf was a swift wind wolf that had reached the middle stage of the fierce beast. In addition, there are about five elite Qingfeng wolves who have also reached the middle stage of the fierce beast, and the others are ordinary green wind wolves in the early stage of the fierce beast.
The Qingfeng Wolf is fierce and cunning, moves quickly, and is very good at hunting and raiding methods, as the head wolf of the mutated breed of the Qingfeng Wolf, the Swift Wind Wolf has mastered the powerful ability of spitting the wind blade, and for a while, the people in charge of the perimeter guard of the "Torture Eye" Brigade in Koka City were beaten and retreated.
This is not because the strength of the members under the command of "Torture Eye" is very poor. However, the terrain on this side of Broken Tooth Mountain is really not conducive to the combat performance of Terran cultivators.
As the strongest existence in the mercenary corps-level organization in Koka City, the cultivation of each member of the "Torture Eye" brigade has reached the middle level or above, and the actual combat power of the individual can be regarded as the best in the same realm among the idle cultivators in Koka City. However, although mercenaries generally understand the essentials of squad combat, they are more often accustomed to some degree of personal force.
In other words, the city-state mercenaries and monsters seem to be fighting with each other when they fight, but most of them are actually fighting alone. It's just that in the face of monsters who like clusters, they have to be entangled with more than a dozen or twenty people to go one-on-one with monsters. There are teams that are good at cooperating, but the cooperation of most mercenaries cannot be called real cooperation.
Just like Xu Yong's subordinates, in addition to the henchmen of the "Eye of Torture" who came with him at the beginning, these new members recruited in Coca City.
When it comes to fighting alone and fighting bravely, it is indeed a good hand for one to one. It's basically easy to deal with those ordinary small groups of demon beasts. But when it comes to wolves, which are good at cooperating with monsters and are really not weak, it is a little dwarfed, and the shrubs like Broken Tooth Mountain, vines are everywhere, and the complex mountainous terrain makes everyone even worse.
What's more, there are five elite wolves equivalent to husband-level cultivators and head wolves that have mastered the ability to release attribute vitality at the human level, such as the Wind Blade, which only a high-end profession like a warlock can possess at the human level, so it is not surprising that the guards of the "Torture Eye" Brigade were beaten to the ground.
After paying a few lives, more than 50 people from the "Torture Eye" brigade that followed Xu Yong finally gathered on the relatively flat and open terrain at the corner between Broken Tooth Mountain and Houxu Mountain.
Xu Yong glanced back at the dark mountain crack behind him, turned his head to look at the demon beasts and wolves that were slowly surrounding, and glanced gloomily at the rather panicked mercenary team members in front of him.
Although the group of mercenaries recruited in Coca City was originally used to prop up the faΓ§ade and use it as cannon fodder, Xu Yong was still quite annoyed when he saw this group of guys performing so vulnerably.
"A bunch of rubbish!" Xu Yong scolded in a thin voice, then waved his hand to summon a henchman and ordered, "Owl, you lead the night owl team to deal with those five elite wolves, and let this group of wastes see how the real 'Torture Eye' members fight." β
The owl, a small man with short hair, has a cold look in his eyes, and maintains an expressionless look whenever and wherever he wants. His real name is unknown, codenamed "Night Stalker", he is the vice captain promoted by Xu Yong from the "Eye of Punishment" as the captain of the "Night Stalker" team, and became a husband-level cultivator after the bloody incident four years ago.
Night Stalker's indifferent eyes glanced back, and the team members spontaneously gathered behind them to form a two-three-three battle formation, with short soldiers in front, long soldiers in the middle, and long-range soldiers in the rear, and scouts who were not good at frontal combat roamed on their own sides.
The night owl turned his head and nodded at Xu Yong, and without saying a word, he led the "night owl" team to meet the elite Qingfeng wolf who was retreating from the front of everyone.
Xu Yong didn't think of the indifference of the owl, turned his head and frowned at the people who were still messing around, and scolded loudly in a hoarse and harsh voice like iron sand rubbing:
"A group of waste, I don't know how to fight in the face of a few demon wolves? Rubbish! What's the use of all this trash?! β
Then he commanded loudly: "All shield-bearers defend forward, swords attack on the flanks, long soldiers follow, archers shoot freely, scouts wander waiting for an opportunity to replenish their swords." Move for Lao Tzu! β
In Xu Yong's deliberately changed shrill voice, the panicked mercenaries finally calmed down a little, and the originally chaotic situation began to become orderly with Xu Yong's instructions.
In terms of fighting alone, the cultivators of the same realm are not false demon beasts, the chaos and casualties just now are purely due to the unfavorable terrain and the cunning of the wolves, and the local one-to-many battle situation was formed with the cooperation of the elite wolves and the head wolf, and the elite wolves and the head wolves took the opportunity to sneak attack, which led to casualties and chaos.
And the relatively open triangular terrain between Broken Tooth Mountain and Housu Mountain is enough terrain for the Terrans to perform, and under the command of Xu Yong, the mercenaries can be regarded as having found the backbone. After following the instructions to form a formation, the decline was finally stopped, and the retreat changed from step by step to attack and defense.
However, the group of mercenaries, the elite wolf and the head wolf, which are equivalent to husband-level cultivators, are still unwilling to face it. Therefore, the "Night Stalker" team, which was originally in the rear, took advantage of the situation to connect with the elite wolves, and soon fought.
The "Night Stalker" team was twelve people present, two shield-wielding warriors first took an elite wolf each, and then used a short crossbow to attract the attention of the other two elite wolves, three swordsmen and swordsmen attacked fiercely on the side of the shield battle, once an elite wolf turned around, they immediately turned to the other side of the shield battle to avoid the battle, three gun-wielding warriors took advantage of the length of the weapon to stab, and the three scouts wandered around the periphery of the battle, and went up to stab when they had the opportunity, and they kept wandering around the periphery if they didn't have a chance. and harass elite wolves from behind the flanks from time to time to relieve the pressure of shield battles.
As the actual leader of the squad and the only long-range attacker, the Night Stalker constantly observes the battle situation from a distance of four or five feet from the rear and directs the movement of the squad, while looking for opportunities to perform long-range kills.
Although the twelve-member "Night Stalker" team was able to block the five elite wolves with their tactical coordination and command, they could only rely on the powerful arrows fired by the Night Stalkers, who were husband-level cultivators, from time to time if they wanted to kill or defeat the opponent.
Seeing that the ordinary wolf pack had been resisted by the group of humans who had returned to their senses, the elite wolf was dragged by the human elite who suddenly appeared, and the Swift Wind Wolf, who was the head wolf, couldn't stay in the rear.
"Whew!" With a wolf howl, Swift Wind Wolf commanded several guard wolves left behind to help the elite wolves break the siege, and he rushed towards the group of mercenaries who had just stabilized their positions.
Halfway through, his mouth opened, and a cyan wind blade quickly formed in front of him, shooting towards the archers behind the mercenary.
One wind blade was followed by another wind blade, and after shooting five wind blades in a row, his figure was already close to the shield-wielding mercenary who was in charge of defense.
At the same time as the head wolf launched a series of attacks, Xu Yong, who saw the Swift Wind Wolf coming forward, looked cold, sneered and opened his mouth, and an invisible sound wave intercepted towards the wind blade on the way, and then dissipated in twos and twos.
Seeing that his wind blade was neutralized by some invisible attack halfway, the blue pupils of the Swift Wind Wolf who bit off the neck of a mercenary shrank and turned his head to look at Xu Yong.
At this time, Xu Yong also frowned, thinking that the invisible sound wave of the "Evil Sound" was enough to smash the wind blade and take advantage of the situation to plot against the swift wind wolf, but he didn't expect that the wind blade of this swift wind wolf was stronger than expected. The power of the two is only offset.
The reason why special talents such as "Voice of Evil" are powerful and respected is that the "Voice of Seven Feelings" talents such as "Voice of Evil" are rare talents that can allow cultivators of non-sorcerer professions to have long-range attribute attack ability at the human level, and they are also invisible sound attribute attacks.
Although the "Sound of Seven Feelings" is stimulated in different ways, the focus is on the word "sound". The "Voice of Evil" is the only pure attack of the "Voice of Seven Feelings", and the main way to stimulate it is the invisible sound wave.
This kind of sonic attack is silent and easy to hit if you don't pay attention to it, and it can be described as an excellent means of sneak attack and plotting. Of course, it is also possible to change your voice and use tangible sound to excite it, but that is a low-grade shallow operation.
As for Xu Yong, when he was in the resurrection hall, he didn't use invisible sound waves to plot against Scar and the others, it was because the entire city of Coca City was set as a forbidden zone by the city lord with the city's ability to write the rules of the heart. No one can use any supernatural power as long as they are not during the war and are stronger than the castle lord.
So at that time, Xu Yong could only use a knife to scrape the glass-like sound to disgust Scar and the others.
After locking on Xu Yong, Swift Wind Wolf did not hesitate to abandon the other mercenaries and rushed towards Xu Yong, and at the same time, several wind blades appeared in front of him again and shot towards Xu Yong.
A strange light flashed in Xu Yong's green fake eyes, and with one eye, he took his weapon from his subordinates and greeted the Swift Wind Wolf without any hesitation.
Xu Yong's weapon was a five-foot-long mace, which looked very violent. Although Xu Yong has not awakened his physical talent, his strong body that has been trained for a long time can be said to complement each other in terms of style and image.
Of course, this image does not include his feminine voice. In addition, Xu Yong's unawakened physical talents are the two best combinations of physical talents, "strength" and "fitness".
Xu Yong's mouth opened slightly, and another invisible sound wave greeted the wind blade that shot out, and after canceling each other, the distance between a man and a wolf was already close to three zhang.
The distance of three zhang passed in an instant, and at the moment of approaching, Xu Yong picked up the mace and smashed it at the head of the swift wind wolf that jumped in.