Chapter 42: Light trebuchet
I wasn't very worried, but I just looked at my opponent carefully.
These players may not have discovered Xiang Qi's village, they may have just passed by nearby, and it is estimated that there are two or three hundred people.
The third village of Xiang Qi is located right on the path that these players must pass through.
"Boss, that village is almost here, there are five or six mines nearby, should we occupy the mines first or directly attack the village?"
"Run straight!" One of the leading players named Heiyan said that capturing the village is equivalent to mastering the nearby mines, and if you only capture the mines and not the village, these mines will change hands again sooner or later. This is the experience and consensus that players have summed up in the long-term battle.
Hei Yan continued to adjust the team, he guessed that the people of that village should not have discovered them yet, after tidying up the team and arranging the queue, he would take his troops, plus mercenaries, a total of more than 600 people, to surround the village from two directions, and then take the village with lightning speed. His men were divided into two parts, one staying here, about 300 people, and the other part of 300 people, covering the village in front of them from the other direction.
After the queue was completed, Hei Yan was preparing to act, walking to a nearby high slope, in order to gain a larger field of vision, he could command the overall situation of the battlefield, and his field of vision gradually expanded, Hei Yan suddenly saw a sentry tower embedded in the middle of the mountain in front of him, and his heart was shocked, it turned out that their actions had already fallen into the eyes of the other party, but it was ridiculous that he was still unknown just now, and adjusted the formation under the nose of the other party.
He sent more than a dozen groups of players over to explore Xiang Qi's No. 3 village, and marked all the locations of the sentry tower that Xiang Qi had found near No. 3 village, but he didn't find that Xiang Qi actually arranged a sentry tower in such a secret location.
This turned their originally secretive and well-prepared raid into a pointless frontal assault, all because the people he sent out did not find the watchtower that Xiang Qi had buried in the highland jungle.
"Our actions have been discovered!" Hei Yan said, there was some uneasy feeling in his heart, the guy he was about to face, it should not be simple, just the method of building a guard tower on the opposite high ground to bury nails is quite skillful, and the scenery on the back just blends into one, if you don't observe carefully enough, if you miss a little, you can't find that there is actually a guard tower here.
Good means! As a result of Hei Yan's investigation, there were often a large number of mercenaries in the village in front of him, and only two or three people were found, which was really a strange thing. Could it be that these two or three people have indulged so many mercenaries? Isn't that weird? You must know that the more mercenaries you have, the higher the requirements for your work, unless you are a super esports master.
It could be those people! Hei Yan has watched videos on the Internet, one of which is a video of Xiang Qi and the others fighting with the Black Snake Family, those people are indeed some difficult guys, and the Black Snake Family was unjustly defeated! However, Hei Yan didn't care about Xiang Qi's fortifications, because they had come with a secret weapon this time.
"Have we had our light trebuchets here?" Hei Yan asked, to the town stage to recruit skilled craftsmen to build the lowest light trebuchet, made entirely of wood, the attack power is the worst of all trebuchets, but it is easy to break through the fence of the village and level the fortifications. Black Flame's light trebuchet was accidentally acquired while on a mission.
"Still on the road, the trebuchet moves at 'extremely slow', so slow that it makes people a little broken!"
"Let's wait for the trebuchet to come, it's been discovered anyway!" Hei Yan said, now that it has been discovered, it is a big deal to storm the village in front, they have fought five or six such battles, and he has mastered five villages so far, three of which he has captured. The strength is second only to the five major families, and it is also a force to be reckoned with.
In the distance, on the plains, players and mercenaries slowly push a wooden cart made entirely of wood with four large wheels, the upper half of which is stacked together with a large lever for throwing stones. The trebuchet was quite rudimentary, the machinery was simple, it required more than twenty people to work together to use, and it was easily destroyed. However, the throwing stones are highly lethal to buildings and personnel.
Hei Yan used this stone-throwing machine to subdue a lot of forces, and calmly expanded, only to develop to the current point, the number of people is slightly less than the gladiator guild at its peak, but it is well-equipped, and its combat effectiveness is better than that of the original gladiator guild, plus there are killing weapons such as trebuchets, and the development has been smooth.
Hei Yan's sphere of influence was in the nearby Heihe River Valley, which was relatively close to Xiang Qi's sphere of influence, so when he was preparing to develop his power, the first place to expand was on this side of the Barbarian Plains.
Hei Yan, like Xiang Qi, could not participate in the battle for the Central Plains, the five major families were too powerful, and they would never allow any other forces to enter the Central Plains. The five families are like five sharks that share their prey, and once a seal appears and grabs them for food, they will quickly unite and strangle that seal. Unless there is another shark, who intervenes strongly, and they have their own fears, they will maintain a relatively balanced and stable state. At this time, Xiang Qi and Hei Yan were just seals in the eyes of the five major families, and they were not up to the level of sharks at all.
Xiang Qi's goal is the same as Hei Yan's, he is trying his best to expand his strength, constantly using the way of big fish eating small fish, expanding his power into a shark, and only then will he dare to intervene in the huge whirlpool of the Central Plains.
Entering the central plain is a road they must take, the resources in other places are too poor, it is still possible to maintain the development of villages and towns, but after the development of cities, the resources will definitely not be enough.
"A group of people were also found on the west side of the village!" Liu Tianming reminded.
Xiang Qi has also seen it, the red dots on the small map are very dense, checked it, and found that there are nearly three hundred people over there, so that together, a large team of more than six hundred people, Xiang Qi's expression is a little dignified, the opponent is so strong, it can already threaten them.
"Let Nightfall Snowfall gather his men! Meet at coordinates 385.285! "Xiang Qidao, it is a relatively hidden jungle, close to the village, let the people who fall and fly snow at night ambush there, maybe they can receive the effect of surprise soldiers.
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