Volume 5: The Elegant Tea Party (Remastered) Chapter 12: The Battle of the Shadowfang (2)
"We're just waiting here?" Lei Guang asked boredly playing with his staff.
"You can learn from Keldilla, memorize spells or something." Yu Bin replied as he wiped the oiled weapon in his hand with soft silk.
Equipment needs to be maintained, especially for melee class weapons. Therefore, as long as Yu Bin has time every day, he will maintain his equipment in this way, which is also one of the habits that Yu Bin developed in his previous life.
Lei Guang still seemed to want to say something, but unfortunately he didn't say it in the end, and Yu Bin was glad that he didn't have to listen to this second thing anymore.
What prevented Lei Guang from speaking was the past that came back from the reconnaissance, and the past with the ability to ghost, it could be said that he was the most suitable scout among the five people present.
The truth is, this German boy did a good job of doing this job.
"They've already begun to test Shadowfang Castle!"
"I know, say something I don't know!" Yu Bin nodded, signaling the past not to talk such nonsense.
"Ugh!" The relationship between Raphael and Yu Bin, the German young man didn't know, "Okay, I went to see their material reserve point, and the guards there were some dwarves and human warriors armed with swords and shields. ”
"Heavy Guards! Looks like those guys are still worried about logistics! Chen Tao shook his head, "Nearly 100,000 people eating, drinking, and Lazar is not a trivial matter. ”
"Unless Tibbest can make sure there is not a single werewolf in the entire forest, he'll have to do this. Otherwise, the shortage of food alone will starve them to death! Yu Bin didn't care, "That's not what I want to hear, Suifeng, have you scouted the vicinity of their camp?" Are there any signs of cutting down trees and making siege equipment? ”
"I've scouted, and although some trees have been cut down, there are not many of them, and they are of different thicknesses, so they don't look like they're making siege equipment." The past has been a scout for this team for a while.,But most of them are scouts for a squad.,This means,A lot of times, the past with the wind only needs to be responsible for detecting which direction there are monsters.,And which direction has a boss.,How the terrain is and so on related to the content of leveling.,Like today, it's the first time to be in charge of tactical reconnaissance.,So I'm worried about what I'll miss.。
"What is the extent of the felling?" Yu Bin continued to ask.
"Uh, I didn't pay attention to this!"
"Alan, you and the wind go again, I want to know the exact information of those guys!" Yu Bin looked at Chen Tao and said.
Although Yu Bin didn't blame the past, it was obvious that this German guy who had always wanted to make achievements still felt that he had not fulfilled his duties well, and looked at Alan with some shame.
Alan got up from the ground, patted the shoulder of the past with the wind, and signaled him not to worry: "No problem, let's go right away!" ”
After the two left, Keldila put away the magic notes in his hand: "Isn't there information from Raphael?" Is it necessary to let them go? ”
"Tibest is not stupid, Raphael was almost able to replace Tadrar before, because Tibest was not there, and now that the real commander is back, and Raphael shows too much concern for those intelligence, it will affect Tibest's perception, and it will not be worth the loss for Raphael, so I let her only stay with those princesses for the past few days, and nothing else." Yu Bin put aside the prepared weapons and began to wipe the armor with a strip of cloth soaked in oil, "Moreover, after the matter here is over, I need to do something with the wind, if I don't take this opportunity to exercise this guy, I'm worried about ......"
"You look more and more like an old fox! Binzi! Thunderlight put away his staff and wrote a magic spell on the ground.
Yu Bin didn't answer, because he knew that what Lei Guang said was the truth, but he couldn't refute it.
After more than two hours, the two thieves finally returned to another new makeshift camp.
"They scattered the scouts to the farthest five kilometers from the camp, about six kilometers to the northeast, there is a trace of being cut down, look at the incision, it is still very fresh, it should be a matter of the past few days, the intensity of the frontal battle is not high, the main thing is that those players are fighting, and those soldiers are not moving." Alan sat down to rest and said, "Also, that little lake to the southeast is under total martial law, and we can't get in, and those guys have set up a guard detection magic around there!" ”
"The size of the felled trees?"
"Enough to make any engineering equipment anyway!"
"Well, are you resting?" Yu Bin stood up, "It's time for us to change places!" ”
"Don't be so careful!" Lei Guang sighed, this is the sixth transfer today, each temporary camp only stayed for less than half an hour before being transferred, it was simply unbearable for Lei Guang, this is not a real war, is it necessary to make it so serious?
"Follow the wind, you use stealth, stay here, and after fifteen minutes no one comes, go to the next camp and join us." Yu Bin also showed an impatient expression when he saw the past, and it seemed that he was the same as Lei Guang, thinking that Yu Bin was making a big fuss. Therefore, Yu Bin decided to speak with facts and let these guys know that fighting a war is completely different from fighting monsters.
Yu Bin and the others arrived at the next rest point less than five minutes later, and the past hurried over with the wind.
"How many people came?" Yu Bin seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and it was not surprising that he asked about the past.
Of course, Lei Guang was also confused, and he couldn't imagine that someone would really go there to search.
"Twelve halberders, four archers, two sword and shield guards, two priests, and a griffon in the sky!" Obviously, the past has also put away his scattered thoughts, at least he can say the numbers so accurately, indicating that he is still investigating very carefully.
"A standard field skirmishment team!" Yu Bin nodded, "It's worthy of Tibest, this is not a chance for Arugao to fight back at all!" ”
"So we're just suffering from the pond fish?" Alan asked, playing with the dagger.
"Well, logistics is their fatal point, even if it is just a fire, it can make Tibest miserable, out of caution, I can guarantee that Tibest must have arranged more than a hundred such search teams."
"Damn, I'm really willing to spend my money, there are scouts on the periphery, and this kind of search team is arranged within a range of five kilometers, what does this old guy want to do? Does he still have the strength to storm Shadowfang Castle? ”
"If you change me and have so many qualified cannon fodder in your hands, why don't you do it? I bet there are at least five cavalry teams patrolling within a three-kilometer radius! "Yu Bin was not surprised at all, to be honest, this kind of vigilance is not excessive, in the previous life, when those super guilds were fighting wild bosses, the defensive troops, search teams, and patrol teams arranged were even more excessive than this." As long as Arugao doesn't have a chance to gather the logistics hoarded by the werewolf raids, and when the players who are not afraid of death completely surround Shadowfang Castle, Tibest can use these soldiers for sieges. ”
"Why aren't those players going to siege the city?" Lei Guang asked.
"If you were replaced, would you be willing to go up and be cannon fodder for the siege?" Yu Bin glanced at Lei Guang.
"Haha, that's right, it's impossible to kill those guys and do such a self-sacrificing thing!"
"Why is he so worried about supplies? Could it be that there is a shortage of supplies, so he can't fight? "As a European, it's hard to understand Tibest's concerns.
"The Mosena swamp cannot be used to transport supplies, so the supplies provided by the Ashwood Kingdom can only be transferred by sea, but the town of Nanhai is too far away, they must have built a temporary dock on the nearest coastline, and even then, there is no way to transport supplies to the expeditionary force in large quantities." Yu Bin may be the person who understands Tibest the most, "If the materials in Tibest's hand are really lost, of course he can ask the Eagle's Nest Mountain to provide emergency supplies, due to the friendly relationship between the two sides now, those brute hammers will not object, but this is not a thing to boast about, whether it is the Arnas Empire or the Holy See of Light!" ”
"In other words, to die to suffer the sin?" Alan summed it up, and Yu Bin nodded that it was right.
"Alright, it's time to transfer!"
This time, no one showed an impatient expression, obediently packed up their things, erased the traces left behind, and quickly disappeared into the dense forest.
On the other side, when the search party of twenty soldiers left the last camp where Yu Bin and they stayed, the two human players canceled their stealth and appeared in the shade of the trees.
"I'm really convinced of that Tibest, if you have to let us sneak behind those soldiers and conduct a second search, the merit given is only so much, it's better to go to the front and kill a werewolf to make more money!" One of the smaller human players grumbled as he sat on the ground with his dagger stuck at his side.
"Don't say it, at least this job is safe, although the merit is less, at least it won't be killed! Besides, if you want to go to the front to kill the werewolf, you have to have this ability, it's only because we came late, those low-level werewolves have long been killed by those who were lucky, and the werewolves that can be found now are at least fourth-order, let me tell you, at the level of the two of us, it's not to deliver food when we go up! The other human player, with a short beard, looked older, but even worse than his companions, and lay straight on the ground.
"Forget it, let's not talk about it, let's rest for a while! Shadowfang Castle is almost completely besieged, and I don't believe any werewolves can get out of it! ”
Until the sun goes down and the moon rises, Yu Bin and the others have been spending time in the constant transition of safety points.
However, with the arrival of night, Yu Bin and the others can finally breathe a sigh of relief and take a good rest offline, without worrying about encountering the human search team again.
For elves and humans, dwarves and gnomes, night is not their home field, so Tibest wisely chose to defend at night, and all the search teams that were scattered out were also recovered, so as not to cause unnecessary losses due to the disadvantage of night.
As for the players, for the sake of experience and merit, they have long ignored the inconveniences of the night, which also caused constant pressure on Arugao to draw enough werewolves to carry out the sneak attack.
In the second half of the night, a werewolf force of about 100 people tried to sneak attack the material warehouse of the expeditionary force, but unfortunately they were defeated by Tibest, who had been prepared for a long time, and after leaving most of the corpses, the remaining werewolves fled with their injuries.
Of course, the expeditionary force was not without losses. In the panic of facing the werewolves, the material warehouse was still touched by a few troll thieves, although the materials that were burned in the end were not much, not to mention affecting Tibest's siege plan, but it greatly increased Tibest's pressure, so that he had to draw more manpower to guard the material warehouse, and worried about these elusive thieves all the time.
This pervasive pressure and sense of urgency eventually forced Tibest to choose to launch a general offensive ahead of schedule.
At eight o'clock in the morning of the next day, as soon as Yu Bin and the others went online, they heard the sound of a horn coming from the direction of Shadow Fang Castle.
"This is the siege?" Alan is a little baffled, according to yesterday's reconnaissance, Tibest is obviously using players to consume the number of werewolves in Shadowfang Castle, and at the same time preparing enough siege equipment, and these two goals, no matter which one, can be completed in one night.
"Looks like something must have happened last night, I guess someone sneaked up on Tibest's supplies, forcing him to choose an early decisive battle." Yu Bin thought about it and roughly guessed the reason.
"So what do we do?"
"Go offline to sleep, just take turns guarding online!" Yu Bin's decision was a bit out of Alan's expectations, and he thought that Yu Bin would choose to take advantage of the chaos to get into Tibest's material warehouse and make those humans even worse.
"Impossible, if someone really attacked the material warehouse last night, the garrison there must have been the most meticulous in the past few days." Yu Bin shook his head and vetoed Alan's proposal, "And the Shadow Fang Castle is not so easy to capture, human players will not use their strength to die, just relying on those soldiers under Tibest, it will take at least a few days to attack the Mage Tower." ”
It is true that according to the information provided by Raphael, who temporarily went offline for dinner at noon this day, the siege of this morning was not going well, at first Tibest asked those players to be the main force of the siege, but unfortunately, in the face of this kind of lifeless, purely attritional siege battle, the players obviously chose to paddle lazy, which made Tibest lose a lot of siege equipment, although it was just a simple siege ladder.
Although Tibest immediately changed his method after an hour, letting those soldiers be the main force of the siege, and the player provided long-range support to suppress the city, but the previous hour of siege was weak, which obviously made those werewolves feel that the humans in front of them were not remarkable, and the result was that the morale of the werewolf side was high, and the morale of the player side was low.
Forced to do so, Tibest had no choice but to fight again in the afternoon.