Chapter 105: The Eve of the Great War
After receiving detailed information and a simple map from Adrian, the leaders of the major teams quickly made a judgment, and one after another orders were passed on to the Darkwalker and Ranger who were scouting on the grassland.
With the right guidance, the scouts quickly achieved results and found the Grand Prince's department, which was marching south.
The orc military system was relatively primitive, with no flags or anything like that, but the scouts quickly determined the origin of the orc army.
The number of this orc army is about three thousand, far more than Bai Qi's previous estimate, according to the simple military system of orcs, one hundred orc soldiers are a team, there is a captain, this captain must be served by wolf cavalry, an orc army of three thousand people, generally speaking, there are only thirty wolf cavalry, and there will be no more than fifty at most.
But in this large army, there were more than two hundred wolf cavalry, except for a small number of wolf cavalry mixed among the soldiers, acting as a command, the other one hundred and seventy or eighty wolf cavalry all walked in the center of the team, surrounded by a burly orc riding a white wolf.
With so many wolf cavalry, combined with the direction of the army, it was clear to the scouts that this was exactly what they were looking for.
The location and size of the Great Prince's army were determined, and after a short discussion, the leaders of the major teams quickly formulated a rough plan of action.
After Bai Qi got this rough action plan, he carefully considered it and found no trace of a trap against him.
He was not surprised by this, this kind of action involving the huge interests of five large teams was no longer something that a tiger could control.
Determining the plan of action, Bai Qi persuaded the Messiah and Ushtu with land and gold coins. A heavy reward was also promised to the indigenous fighters, and a brief mobilization was made. After that, he left several fighters, disabled by serious injuries, and let them return to the fleet on their own. Only then did he urge the native warriors, who had had enough rest, to mount their horses and set off, and hurried towards the planned rendezvous and place.
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In the bay where the Bai Qi fleet was anchored, there was a small river that flowed into the Suluo River, and the width of this small river at the mouth of the river was only ten meters, and ordinary people could wade through it by pulling up their trousers, and it was completely inconspicuous and did not even have a name.
However, on the simple steppe map that Bai Qi obtained from the Leony City Gang, the stream was clearly marked. Because this creek is a safe corridor for human scouts to enter the grasslands.
The creek originates in a lake in the grassland, more than 200 kilometers away, in the northwest.
Perhaps because of the nourishment of the stream, there is a forest strip five or six kilometers wide on both sides of the creek, which connects the forest of the river and the woods around the lake. Because nomadic orcs rarely enter the forest, this forest belt serves as a safe corridor for human scouts entering the grasslands.
A grassland on the northwest side of the lake was a necessary route for the orc armies to enter the valley of the Arare River, and the Silver Hand chose the meeting point in the forest by the lake.
Bai Qi: They are the team furthest away from the meeting place. He summoned out his warriors, and galloped along the riverbank forest.
More than 200 kilometers of road. After more than five hours of wild running, when Bai Qi and they arrived near the lake, it was already completely dark.
Approaching the lake, Bai Qi took out the communicator. The frequency was adjusted, and the communicator's light curtain immediately showed the exact location of the Silver Hand of them.
Bai Qi thought for a moment and turned the horse's head. Led the party into the forest.
The lake is about 30 kilometers in circumference and about 100 kilometers from the remnants of the Arare Mountains to the south. It is still in the area of influence of the Arare Mountains, and the terrain is undulating. Surrounded by low hillsides.
The lake influences the microclimate around it, and along the lake, there is a sparse forest belt, which is more than ten kilometers wide at its widest point and five or six kilometers at its narrowest point.
Bai Qi and the others were on the southeast shore of the lake at this time, which was the thickest part of the forest.
Entering the forest, Bai Qi found a clearing and asked his soldiers to set up a rudimentary camp, leaving all the horses behind, and a dozen warriors who had been wounded when they strangled the wolf cavalry before to guard the camp.
After that, he took the remaining thirty or so warriors along the shore of the lake and rushed on foot to the rendezvous point on the northwest shore of the lake.
At this time, Bai Qi calmed down and was not in a hurry, anyway, according to the news from the mouth of the wolf cavalry commander, the army of the eldest prince should still be a day's journey from here, as long as they arrived at the meeting and place tonight, they were not afraid of missing the battle.
If you are riding a horse at this time, the horse's hooves rumble, and you can hear it more than ten miles away, in case the tiger breaks the contract, and ambushes them for a while, then it will not be able to row.
It was already midnight when they marched to the shore of the lake and arrived at the confluence camp.
The meeting point is located in a sparse woodland on the northern shore of the lake, where more than a dozen medium-sized military tents and nearly a hundred small tents are erected.
There were patrolling space soldiers on the periphery of the camp, and they asked Bai Qi about their identities before letting them into the camp.
In the camp, except for a few medium-sized tents in the middle, there are still lights on, and there are a few tents on the outermost part that look like Bai Qi, and the latecomers have just set up, the lights are on, and there are people moving. The vast majority of tents have been plunged into darkness.
For these tents, the indigenous warriors all showed a certain curiosity, and Bai Qi could only explain it with divine charisma items.
He chose a clearing on the outermost part, cut down some branches, and erected a few humble huts.
Of course, there was also a tent in Bai Qi's storage space, but that tent was only big enough for five people, and there were too many things in the tent that didn't fit this era, so it was really troublesome to explain, so he never took it out in front of the indigenous warriors.
After arranging for his men to build a shack, Bai Qi took the captured orc commander and went to visit the Silver Hand.
The Silver Hand was very satisfied with Bai Qi's greeting gift, and promised to take care of him.
Bai Qi didn't ask for it, but put it forward again, and he still had hundreds of war horses under his hands, and he was willing to contribute.
After the silver hand nodded and smiled, Bai Qi took the opportunity to propose, hoping to lead a team alone, and hoped that the thirty indigenous warriors under his command would not be disrupted, and also proposed that when the personnel were redistributed, he could be assigned more ranged attackers, which happened to cooperate with the indigenous warriors who were good at close combat.
Most of Bai Qi's requests were reasonable, and the Silver Hand naturally agreed.
When they returned to the camp, their men had already set up a hut, lit a bonfire, had eaten some dry food, and arranged the night watch, and everyone hurried to sleep and rest.
There was nothing wrong all night, and the Huya team that made Bai Qi worried did not move.
In fact, what Bai Qi didn't know was that the clues they provided made all the teams that had already gotten the exact news into excitement.
Generally speaking, the challenge mission is roughly divided into two types, one is like in the Iron Blood Alien, the key elements to complete the mission are there, but the strength is extremely strong, and if you don't find a breakthrough, you can't defeat it at all.
The other is like the challenge mission "Dawn", where the elements of completing the mission are hidden in the intricacies of the battle, and in order to complete the mission, you must find the elements.
Many people speculate that the former task is to test the soldiers' ability to change planes, and the latter is to test the soldiers' insight into the battle situation.
Generally speaking, in the latter case, the enemy's strength will be slightly weaker than in the previous case, and although it is still strong, it is already within the range of being able to deal with it with strength.
Of course, space missions are ever-changing, and there is no specific model, and this classification is the general feeling of space soldiers.
After receiving the news sent back by the scouts in front and analyzing the strength of the orc army, the team leaders found that this mission was indeed a typical second-class mission, with the current strength of the space soldiers, as long as the tactics were appropriate, there was a considerable possibility of assassinating the orc prince.
Generally speaking, every time the mission space is opened, the space soldier can complete only 12/10 of the challenge tasks. Once you can complete the challenge mission, the overall clearance evaluation can even be increased by two notches, and the rewards obtained will be multiplied.
Judging from the current situation, the probability of completing the space challenge mission is as high as more than 50%.
It's no wonder that the team that got the news was in a state of excitement and frenzy, and completing the challenge was a rare opportunity for every space soldier.
Even the tiger had to put aside his brother's hatred and devote himself wholeheartedly to the challenge task, after all, no matter how important the hatred is, it is not as important as his own survival, although the tiger is strong, but it is far from enough to say that it can already sit back and relax in the space. (To be continued......)