Chapter 469": Snowy Territory
As Xia Houben roared again, Li Ran ordered the Blood Chain Golem to use the chain entanglement for steel defense, Zhou Xun and Ziyun Huakai rushed over with a stainless steel shield guard, and Tang Shi took this opportunity to quickly lead the elven archers and mages to the sentry platform.
At this moment, the next battle is under the control of Li Ran and the others, and the warriors of the Snow Leopard Clan, who lack sophisticated equipment, cannot quickly break through the defensive line built by the Blood Chain Golem and the Sulfur Steel Golem, even the Snow Giant, although the sturdy wooden sticks in their hands are far harder than the wooden sticks used by the giants in other places, it is obviously a little difficult to quickly deal with these steel golems in front of them.
And the blood chain golem itself belongs to the high-level troops, the comprehensive strength is not below them, after using the blood chain winding, although the attack power has been reduced a lot, but the overall defense ability has been greatly enhanced, after a long time, these snow giants and snow leopard warriors still can't completely break through, and even if some break through the defense composed of the blood chain golem and the sulfur steel golem, there are nearly five thousand steel shield guards in front of them, and there are thousands of brutal Modo berserkers and heroic minotaur warriors.
At this time, the elven archers and mages who occupied the wall were not polite, and they immediately began to shoot. After round of attacks, the opponent's snow leopard warriors fell in pieces, and even some snow giants were not spared.
And the dozens of archmages who were mixed in the middle-level mages before were finally able to stretch out their hands at this time, and the group magic went down one by one, which made these snow leopard warriors and snow giants feel a little panicked.
Before this battle, Li Ran was most afraid of two points, one of which was that he was worried that the army would encounter large biota on the way, such as the high-level wind and ice spirit group that had been detected before and the tens of thousands of high-level Glaite people and ice pythons they encountered last time with the shadow blade, which would make them return home.
And the second thing that made Li Ran a little worried was because he had scouted the terrain here before. It was felt that if the army came here, as long as the other side seized the opportunity to attack them on the way up the mountain, they would face a bitter battle, and they would most likely be defeated.
However, these two points that Li Ran was worried about had nothing to do with the war itself. It can also be seen from this that Li Ran is not worried about fighting head-on with these Snow Leopard Clan warriors, because Li Ran understands that there are two sides to everything, and the harsh environment promotes the strong personal abilities of these warriors and creatures in the endless snow region, but at the same time, it also limits their way of thinking and combat cooperation ability.
For example, when they are faced with a golem creature that they have never met before, they don't know how to deal with it at all. Take the gargoyle that changed form before, it's actually a very simple thing, as long as the two Storm Snow Peng cooperate. They could grab a gargoyle in the state of a stone statue, fly it and throw it on the raised peak, but they obviously didn't know how to do it. It took half a day of effort and magic power, and in the end, only a dozen or so were eliminated.
And now in the face of their own steel golems, these snow leopard warriors have no effective way, in addition to not knowing where the key points of these golems are, they also lack sophisticated weapons to break through the opponent's defenses, in fact, they only need to use the snow giant's weapons. The hard wooden rod was strapped to a stone at the end, and it was enough to deal with these steel golems with a tough exterior and a delicate interior. Pure weapons sometimes deal more damage than Divine Weapons.
Only a few dozen minutes passed, and these snow leopards and snow giants were already crushed, during which more than a thousand storm snow pengs, led by the leader, wanted to attack the ranged troops on the wall, but under the watchful eye of the gargoyles and slingers, they had no chance at all. He even took hundreds of companions for this purpose.
It wasn't until the battle was won that Zhou Xun and the others were surprised to find that there were only more than 1,000 casualties from beginning to end in the capture of the Snow Leopard Clan's territory, and most of them were only blood chain golems and sulfur steel golems. The top classes were not even injured, and the Minotaurs and Modo warriors did not suffer many casualties. While some of them are the work of pastors and physicians, they also see some reasons for this.
After collecting everyone's weapons, Wu Tongtong led people to quickly count the prisoners, while Li Ran was busy letting his entourage start repairing the outer buildings of the territory.
It took a few days for Li Ran to recruit the three leaders of the Snow Leopard Clan, the Snow Giant Clan, and the Storm Snow Peng, and at the same time, he also asked Xia Houben and Shadow Blade to rush back as soon as possible, and by the way, report the situation here, so that Doric and them were worried, and told them to let the old village chief Morga organize a group of production technicians to come over as soon as possible to strengthen the defense capability here.
As for the newly recruited snow troops, Li Ran only left five hundred Storm Snow Peng and a small number of Snow Leopard Clan high soldiers, and the other troops totaling nearly 10,000 were all handed over to them to bring back to sell or exchange the troops needed now in the town territory.
As for the remaining troops, most of them are golem troops, of which the number of blood chain golems and sulfur steel golems has reached 500 and 800 respectively, 5 cobweb golems, 300 bronze giant snakes, and 1000 gargoyles. In addition, in terms of long-range troops, in addition to 300 mid-level mages, there are also 1,000 elven archers, plus the 500 storm snow peng and the same number of snow leopard warriors that were recruited before, in addition to Li Ran also left all the full-covered hammer shield warriors. As for the top troops, there were a hundred three-star Nysbone warriors and two five-star captains left.
Seeing off everyone at the gate of the snowy territory, looking at the mighty army, Li Ran looked at Zhou Xun and Wu Tongtong beside him, smiled and said, "Okay, I can finally rest for a while, I'm tired during this time."
Wu Tongtong smiled and said: "If you can win such a battle every day, it doesn't matter if you are tired."
Li Ran and Zhou Xun couldn't help laughing when they heard what she said interestingly, and their spirits were also shocked. The continuous failure in the early stage made everyone feel extremely low, and the four expeditions lost nearly 6,000 middle and high-level troops, which made Zhou Xun and others even a little panicked, until finally Li Ran resolutely poured all his troops into the fifth expedition, they felt very worried and puzzled, and their morale was also low to the limit.
Then judging from the ending at this time, Li Ran's decision must have been carefully considered, and the whole battle was like a smooth flow from arranging troops to grasping the timing, and he would definitely not give the other party a chance to counterattack, but they couldn't understand it before
Thinking of this, Zhou Xun couldn't help but say with some regret: "Li Ran, I'm really sorry, as a follower, not only failed to help in this battle, but also dragged it back, and even before I suspected that you couldn't accept defeat because of your self-confidence, and you chose to fight without persuasion, I'm really sorry,"
Li Ran patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Actually, I don't have much confidence in this battle, after all, there are too many failure factors, and it is absolutely right to dissuade from your position, to be honest, some time ago, you came to persuade him every day, I was indeed a little helpless, but I know more in my heart that you are thinking about me, and I am deeply honored to have a partner like you."
After saying that, the two were naturally in a good mood, looked at each other and hugged each other after smiling, and got to know each other better. (To be continued.) )