Chapter 380: The Scorpion

As for the other barbarian tribe that poses a threat to the territory, it is a tribe with a somewhat strange class, except for thousands of low-ranking orcs. So far, it has only been ascertained that their main combat class is a kind of brute cavalry, the rank is unknown, the number is about three or four hundred, and there are also an astonishing number of ironclad giant bears, it is guessed that there are many beast trainers in this tribe, and the scouts have also found some rarer scorpions in this tribe.

I wanted to study the attack methods of these brute cavalry, but the information was limited, and I only knew that the brute beasts they rode were somewhat similar to rhinoceros, but they had three eyes, and some of them were also covered with heavy armor, and the weapon held by the rider was a broad-bladed combat knife. Through their predation, the ironclad giant bear preliminarily judged that its level should be around the eighth or ninth order, and the number reached an astonishing 700 or so. As for those extremely rare scorpion figures, although the number is only about 10, they are all above the thirteenth order, which belongs to the range of the top-tier troops.

Even if the territory now has the addition of the Minotaur, this is also a force that poses a great threat to the territory, and just the 10 scorpion people who have reached the top-level standard have already made everyone a little speechless just thinking about it.

After discussing for a while, seeing that there was not much progress, Li Ran waved his hand to stop everyone, since the information on the main combat arms of this tribe was incomplete, the first task now was to deal with the matter of the four-armed blood ape, and after determining the executors of the prevention plans discussed earlier, Li Ran ended the meeting.

The next day, all the affairs of the territory were carried out as usual, Shadow Blade and Purple Cloud Blossom went to harvest and collect, and Xia Houben took little Amer out to hunt a small herd of cloud deer and brought back some food. Wu Tongtong followed the old village chief Morga to supervise the construction and processing.

It has to be said that there is a dwarf training process. The clusters of arrows made basically meet the requirements of the elves, and even the spikes used to build houses are much easier to use than before. The wear and tear of fine iron was greatly reduced, and when they learned that they had a share of the houses under construction. In order to improve the efficiency of construction, they also forged many things such as wood cutters and gear saws, so that the speed of construction was significantly accelerated.

As for Tang Zhi, at Li Ran's request, he took his twelfth-order changeable bird druid and the scout leader Hisstein to reconnoiter the barbarian tribe, although there may not be a battle between the two, but at least they must find out the rank and intention of their main combat arms, so as to have a defense.

As the harvesting team led by Shadow Blade and Purple Cloud Blossom returned, the sky gradually darkened. And so the calm day passed.

At noon the next day, Tang Shi and the scout leader Histan returned, but before they could report the investigation to Li Ran, everyone saw a group of four-armed blood apes coming in the distance.

Unlike tribes, because there are many convoys of supplies and women and children, they generally do not move fast, while biological races are completely different, their movement speed depends on their own movement power. More often than not, it is entirely at the whims of the chief, who moves very quickly, sometimes for long distances in a day, and sometimes for a day in a slump and does not move.

So the four-armed blood ape group in front of him came to Li Ran's territory in this way. It seemed that he didn't expect that there would suddenly be an extra territory in front of him, and the speed of the four-armed blood ape group that came from afar quickly slowed down, but just as Li Ran thought that they would turn around and leave. The four-armed blood ape group may have seen that the territory was not large, and about half of them suddenly accelerated over.

Li Ran was shocked. Hurriedly ordered all the warriors who were already in a state of readiness to enter the state of war, only to see the elven archers draw their bows one after another. The mages began to recite attack spells themselves after adding support to their ranged units, and the giant warriors, under Doric's command, climbed the wall one after another, and came to their places to pick up the stones that had been prepared at their feet. In the square, several huge iron pots also began to heat and melt the grease.

Even though the other party's attitude had already decided that this was a war in front of him, Li Ran had no reason to retreat, silently staring at the four-armed blood ape group running over, but he was quickly calculating the next possibilities in his heart, and at the same time issued several instructions in a row.

Because of the addition of dwarves, the trap technology of the hunters has been greatly improved, although only a small batch has been created because of the short time of joining, but at this time the territory is still covered with a lot of improved animal traps and tow hooks.

Looking at the rushing four-armed blood ape group, those who ran in front were really hit and dragged in the trap area hundreds of meters away from the territory, although these traps could not cause fatal casualties to the strong four-armed blood ape, but for a while, the four-armed blood ape group still overturned, which greatly reduced the momentum of their running.

"Put~!" After seeing the four-armed blood ape behind him rushing up, Tang Shi let out a loud shout, and with his voice, more than a hundred elven archers shot out in unison.

The power of the elven arrow array was vividly demonstrated at this moment, although there were only a small number of more than a hundred people, but after a round of attacks, the four-armed blood ape also suffered a lot of casualties.

However, the ferocity of the four-armed blood ape was not in vain, and after looking at the same kind that suddenly fell from the arrow in front of them, their speed did not slow down at all, but on the contrary, they accelerated their speed with two fangs.

By the time the elven archers launched the second round of attacks, the four-armed blood ape had already entered the attack range of the mage, and at this time, the mages had already blurted out the spell that they had already recited silently, and the various fireballs and flashes quickly condensed with both hands, smashing into the four-armed blood ape group. As for the dozen or so archmages, they cast group spell attacks at this time, and several wall of fire spells and ice blade whirlwinds fell in the group of four-armed blood apes.

And in these magical attacks, dozens of stones the size of a human head flew out, and the four-armed blood ape that was directly hit could survive, which was naturally the credit of those dozens of catapults.

The four-armed blood apes obviously didn't expect such a small territory to have such a terrifying attack power, and for a while, the long-range blockade line composed of traps, arrow arrays, spells, and boulders caused huge casualties to them, and before they could rush to the territory, hundreds of their kind had already fallen to the ground, and the momentum of the forward attack couldn't help but slow down a little.

But as Li Ran thought, the war had already started, so there was still a reason to retreat, and with a sharp roar from behind the four-armed blood ape group, these blood apes rushed over like crazy again, and this time they all dispatched, even the hundreds of obviously stronger blood apes that had not moved at the beginning and at the end also roared and rushed over.

After losing hundreds of their kind, these four-armed blood apes finally rushed to the bottom of the territory, some of them rushed to the gate and began to hammer, and the rest climbed directly up the wall, the wall of the territory is mostly made of stones and wooden strips, although it is five or six meters high, but it is not a problem at all for these four-armed blood apes, it only takes a few seconds to climb up, which is one of the reasons why they dare to attack the territory, and once they let a surprising number of them enter the territory, the result is naturally self-evident.

Several times they almost climbed the wall, but were killed or kicked down by the warriors above, and these four-armed blood apes became even more crazy, while they had lost their minds by the fire and blood of war, but their strength became greater, and even the speed of climbing became faster.

However, just as dozens of them had already climbed the wall, thinking that they would soon be able to capture the wall, the four-armed blood ape who was climbing at the moment suddenly found hundreds of barrels of hot oil falling from above, pouring on their bodies, and they screamed so hotly that some of them were even seriously injured and unable to fight.

But then came the difficulty of climbing, the wall was poured with hot oil, so that they often slipped down before they were halfway up the climb, and the dozens of four-armed apes who had already climbed the wall, without support, were quickly killed by the Orcs of Zeriramo who were responsible for protecting the ranged troops, and their bodies were thrown off the wall.

At this time, the four-armed blood apes who attacked the gate also encountered problems, and the gate deliberately strengthened by the old village chief Morga made them smash for a long time with little effect, but fortunately, those stronger companions under the leader came behind, and under their attacks, the territory gate began to gradually deform, but at this time their kind had fallen a lot.

At this time, the battlefield was still on the side of Li Ran's favor, because of the reason for pouring grease from time to time, the four-armed blood ape who was good at climbing could not capture the wall, although some would climb up from time to time, but without support, they were quickly killed by the powerful Zeriramo orcs, and the corpse even became a weapon for the giants.

And because the long-range troops on Li Ran's side were not disturbed too much, the attack did not stop, but the spells of the mages seemed to be running out, and the casting speed was much slower than at the beginning. Although the situation of the elven archer is slightly better, but after several rounds of continuous strong bowing, the attack strength and accuracy have decreased due to physical exertion, but fortunately, at this moment, the four-armed blood ape is very close under the wall, so he doesn't have to worry about missing them, but because the attack strength is reduced, sometimes a few arrows can shoot one.

Glancing at a four-armed blood ape that had fallen under the knife of the personal guard Wuqi, Li Ran stepped forward and turned over its corpse, this four-armed blood ape was much stronger than the others, and the speed when climbing the wall just now was amazing, even the Zereramo orcs failed to stop it in time, and when they saw that they ran over without a weapon, they happened to be used by the personal guards Gilro and Wuqi to practice.

Glancing up at the group of four-armed blood apes below, Li Ran estimated in his heart that there were about less than two thousand of them, and the gate could only support a few minutes at most, once these four-armed blood apes were brought in, the threat to the territory was still quite big, it seemed that the key to victory or defeat was in the next few minutes, Li Ran thought silently in his heart at this time. (To be continued......)