Although their outer city has been deliberately reinforced and heightened before, the ranged troops standing on it have a condescending attack advantage, especially in the shooting distance, they will directly cross one or two levels, that is, mid-level archers, and can play the range of high-level or even top-level archers, and the attack power will also be much improved. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, all this could not make up for the gap between them and the High Elf Archers, not to mention that many of these Archers had reached the rank of Legendary or above.

Although most of these long-range crossbowmen of Duke Sells are above the high level, and there are many top-level troops, but outside their attack range, the Legendary-level High Elf archers can still attack them relatively easily, and even if they fail to enter the city, these stray arrows will be a threat to the warriors and residents of the city.

So it only lasted for one day, and by the morning of the next day, there were no long-range troops on the outer city walls that dared to fight back, only some shield bearers arranged by Duke Sells observed Li Ran's movements in case they suddenly launched an attack on the city.

Although the effect of this battle was not great, except for the initial stage, not many crossbowmen were killed, but it was even worse for the already low morale of the Sells' side, especially after those warriors saw that their city lord did not dare to fight back in the face of the enemy's attack, they would not ask what strategy this was, but they were even more flustered.

Seeing the increasingly low morale, Duke Sells was also a little anxious, and at noon that day, he gathered some of his commanders and generals and set a plan to lure the enemy.

In this plan, Duke Sells wanted to use the scouts who went out to attract a small group of troops to annihilate him, although this did not have much impact on Duke Terris's army, but he could effectively boost the morale of his side through a victory.

Hearing that Duke Sells was finally going to make a move, these generals present at this time couldn't help but excitedly touch the weapons on their waists, for them, these days have indeed suffocated them, once upon a time, they would be blocked by the enemy at home and dare not attack, so after hearing Duke Sells's decision at this time, they also got up and expressed their willingness to go.

But at this moment, the man in the robe before stood up and said: "Your Excellency can't send troops easily, Duke Terreus doesn't dare to attack the city now, he is deliberately suppressing our morale, if this victory is naturally the best, but once defeated, I am afraid that the morale will be even more sluggish, those soldiers followed us here, I was a little uneasy in my heart, if the morale is extremely low at this time, I am afraid that we will be defeated before we fight."

Knowing the relationship between this person and the Duke, so hearing his words, although the generals present were a little dissatisfied, they did not dare to accuse them in person, but the Duke of Sells frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "Is it okay for us to do nothing like this?" Surrounded by them, isn't our morale declining day by day? ”

After saying this, the Duke also turned to look at this person and said in a slightly slower tone: "I have also thought about what you said, so I have also thought about this attack carefully, and I dare not say that I will win completely, but there should be no problem in killing their first batch of rescue troops, and our morale will be able to improve a little at that time."

Originally, this person wanted to continue to persuade Sells not to send troops, and it was a big deal to give up the outer city and go directly to the inner city, until the other party ran out of food and grass and left automatically, but at this time, when he heard Sells say so, he looked up at this slightly haggard friend and brother, and the man in the robe nodded with a soft heart.

The next afternoon, when they used scouts to attract a team of High Elves to patrol the opponent, and prepared to destroy them through the jungle trolls and some dark elves that had been ambushed in advance, they found that a group of Sphinx wolves also rushed over.

Originally, in Duke Sells's plan, these dozens of legendary-level Sphinx giant wolves were also among the targets, as long as they killed these most difficult guys, with the elite jungle troll regiment above the legendary level in his hands, they were not afraid of any one in the dark forest, so when they ambushed the other party's high elves to patrol, they had already guessed that these Sphinx giant wolves would come as soon as possible, so he let another Terran army in his hand rush over from the city.

This Terran legion is composed of a hundred Legendary-level holy warriors and three hundred Templar sword and shield bearers, and it is also the elite legion of his own clan except for the jungle trolls, and in order to solve the battle as soon as possible, these four hundred people came on horseback, just to kill these Sphinx wolves and return quickly.

However, just as they saw these Sphinx wolves, jumped off their horses and surrounded them, they noticed a group of silver fire dragons overhead.

This was the first time that the Silver Fire Dragon had appeared in the sky above the Dark Forest, but it had dealt them a heavy blow, and even the Holy Warriors who had also reached the Legendary Rank could not inflict fatal damage to these Silver Fire Dragons with extremely high defense and proficient in hand-to-hand combat.

And by the time they reacted and wanted to escape, they had already fallen into layers of encirclement, especially those strange female warriors with white porcelain masks who seemed to appear from the void, they first attacked and killed several captains of this corps in groups, and then like a group of ghosts hiding in the dark, so that they could not retreat at all, and when they finally withdrew their territory with the help of reinforcements, there were only more than 200 or 70 people left in the high-level troops of nearly 1,000 people dispatched this time. Among them, there were a hundred Legendary-rank holy warriors, and only thirty-two returned.

Although compared to the 120,000 army, these hundreds of casualties are nothing, but these hundreds of people are all high-level soldiers, at this time standing on the city wall to see these defeated warriors, even Sells is distressed, and after the city gate closed, he set his eyes on the silver fire dragons that appeared in the distance.

"Damn! How can this guy still have so many epic high-level half-blood dragons! When he saw that some of the nearly a hundred Silver Fire Dragons were obviously larger adult dragons, the Duke of Sells couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

Originally, I thought that the other party only had dozens of epic-level cloud giants with huge sizes, but now not only have there been so many ferocious Sphinx giant wolves and difficult high elves, but now there are nearly a hundred high-level half-blood dragons, and many of them are epic-level, this Duke of Sells finally couldn't help it.

For a territory without an air defense system, a large air creature like the dragon clan is undoubtedly the most dangerous, so after thinking about it again, he still decided to retreat to the inner city with all his members, and use the defense advantage there and the Star Breaking Crossbow to defend.

But the news of the frustration of the battle, and the defeat of even the holy warriors, soon spread throughout this already small territory, and now when the Duke told them to give up the outer city and retreat to the inner city, these warriors once again felt hopeless, not to mention morale, and some warriors even took advantage of the chaos to sneak out of the territory.

For Li Ran, the opportunity he finally seized this time was to let himself take a few steps closer to the other party, standing on a small hillside, seeing that the other party was constantly moving towards the inner city, Li Ran also smiled slightly.

With such an almost impossible castle to be breached, this Sells will definitely take it as the core of his defense, and even if he can't break through this real obstacle, he has to attack the invisible obstacle, which is the heart of the opposing warrior.

Being able to follow Sells to rebel from his empire, Li Ran believes that these warriors are loyal subordinates of adults, but treason is a big crime after all, and these warriors will definitely change psychologically, especially when they see that the hope they rely on is in jeopardy, the worries and fears in their hearts will make their morale drop faster, which is one of the reasons why Li Ran did not use the Dragon Clan Legion to launch a surprise attack in the first place.

On the other hand, if you send a large army to capture their weaker outer city at the beginning, and your hands are stained with too much of their blood, it will easily irritate these already hesitant warriors, making them even more desperate in a desperate situation.

At this time, seeing that the other party chose to withdraw to the inner city, Li Ran also gave an order, and his teammates quickly organized the whole army to dispatch, creating a posture of decisive battle, which made them even more flustered and left a lot of supplies and grain and grass.

Although when they set out on the expedition, in addition to the baggage brought by the logistics staff, even the storage space of Li Ran and several teammates was stuffed with food, but for an army of nearly 70,000 people, what they could bring was limited after all, although the High Elves and the Sphinx Giant Wolf would bring back some food from time to time, but it was also a drop in the bucket for the army.

What's more, before they set out on the expedition, including Li Ran, it was impossible to think that there would be such a ruins castle of ancient elves here, originally thought that after coming, with their troops, they would definitely be able to fight, but now that it has been delayed for so long, in fact, their food and grass have long been left, so there will be a move to let the Sphinx giant wolf clean up the surrounding fifty miles, on the one hand, to sweep away the surrounding threats, on the other hand, to give the other party's army the feeling of being overwhelmed, and on the other hand, Li Ran is also looking for a source of food.

Compared with the inner city, the outer city occupies a large part of the territory after all, at this time, under the atmosphere deliberately created by Li Ran, the panicked warriors on the opposite side are eager to rush into the inner city as soon as possible, and there is still time to take care of other things, so here, Li Ran and they really found a lot of food, not to mention those soldiers left, just the food in the two warehouses is enough for them to eat for half a month. (To be continued.) )