Verse 78: The sauerkraut fishman comes to challenge
The fish-man boy passed through the caravan and finally infiltrated the fish-man town.
On the surface, he is silent, but in fact he carefully observes his surroundings with the huge eyes of the fish-man.
Although there are many fish-people in the fish-man town, the facilities are very basic.
Most of the houses inhabited by fish-people are small caves carved out of the coral or natural gaps in the coral bushes.
The roofs or windows of houses are made of large and small shells. The fastening method between the building structures is usually to tie up seaweed.
There are also some large underwater caverns, where many fish-men and civilians live together.
The degree of overall building processing is very low, only a little stronger than that of the primitive tribes.
Don't look so backward, from a military point of view, these are all strong and durable defenses.
Fighting in the sea is between land warfare and air warfare, and the combat environment is more complicated. The enemy can swim and levitate overhead for a long time. Therefore, not only in all directions, but also on the top of the head and the soles of the feet, it may be the route of the enemy's attack.
In this environment, the inkstone caves provide strict and thorough protection for the fish.
The passages between the caves are mostly narrow and slippery, and the terrain is complex. Only the fish people who have lived here for a long time can get acquainted with the terrain. The fish-man has the ability to absorb the fingers of his hands and feet, and is good at swimming, so he can move quickly in the passage.
Fighting here, the fish people have a great geographical advantage.
Every Fishman town is quite easy to defend and difficult to attack.
"At present, there are thousands of righteous pirates, but don't want to attack such an undersea fish town. The fish-man population here is about the same size as the pirate group. And most pirates are ordinary people who can't go to the bottom of the sea at all. The pressure of the water can kill them. ”
"Even if the water pressure is counteracted with magic and the pirates are temporarily given the ability to breathe underwater, it will be difficult for these ordinary pirates to fight in a watery environment. ”
"Instead, the pirates are sacrificed, and at the same time, the precious mana of your own magicians is wasted. ”
The boy remembered that he had discussed this with Mango about how to effectively capture a fish-man village under the sea.
Mango's advice is to raid with elite soldiers.
Send an elite team of Transcendents made up of bronze, black iron, and silver, and with the help of magic, temporarily possess the ability to fight underwater. Then carry out a surprise attack, charge in a short time, break through the defense line of the fishmen, quickly behead the leader of the fishmen, etc., causing the fishmen to rout, and finally take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill.
At the same time, Mango also put forward several points that need special attention.
First, hide your army before the raid. If the intelligence leaks and the fish people move ahead of schedule, it will be bad.
The Terrans can't catch up if they want to. Swimming underwater, they are no match for the Fishmen. This is an innate difference between different races.
If the fish people keep running away, it will be almost impossible to recover the cost of the war that they have invested. Fish-people villages and towns are very simple, and there are very few things of value.
It would be even more dangerous if the fish people stopped and hung the Terran troops. The spells on the Terran transcendents are time-limited, and if the fish people choose to attack when the spell time limit is approaching, the Terran team will inevitably be in danger.
Second, if the fish people don't have time to escape, they will resist stubbornly. If the Terran team fails to surprise and decapitate, they should also try to avoid confrontation with these fishmen.
Because of this, the Terran forces will lose the transcendental, and the fish people will sacrifice more ordinary fishmen.
This kind of exchange of troops, unless it is the realization of very important tactics and strategies, is very loss-making.
Attacking the fish-man's undersea settlement is almost impossible for the Righteous Pirates.
Attack by force, the risk of war is too great!
Therefore, after the fish-man boy entered the village and town, he observed for a while, and he was even more glad that he had a blood core and was able to mutate and disguise himself as a fish-man.
"Thanks to the Fishman Wiseman, without his bloodline, I wouldn't be able to understand the Fishman language. ”
"What a fishman. ”
The caravan entered the town, causing more and more fishmen to emerge from their habitats and look at the caravans.
"Welcome home. Soon after, the fishmen parted ways of their own accord, and an old fishman shaman stepped out of the crowd.
She was armed with a cane, her back was rickety, and her whiskers were numerous and drooping.
At first glance, the fish-man boy thought it was a fish-man grandfather, but when the fish-man spoke, he found that it was a female voice, and then he understood the gender of the old fish-man.
Speaking of which, the gender characteristics of the fish-people are not obvious, and although there are men and women, it is difficult for outsiders to distinguish between them. The same goes for Fish-Man Boy.
"All stand!" roared the caravan leader, the old fishman.
The people of the caravan stood together.
The old fish-man is among them.
The old fishman shaman began to chant and then cast a spell, and for a moment the sea water shone brightly.
The blood-like light shone on all the members of the caravan, and nothing unusual happened until the light gradually died out.
This is clearly a means of investigation.
Seeing this result, the old fishman shaman breathed a sigh of relief and said again: "Welcome home, children, you have worked hard all the way. ”
The fish-man boy relaxed slightly.
The caravan leader Old Fishman also breathed a sigh of relief, he had been focusing on the Fishman Boy just now, and at this moment he patted the latter's shoulder: "You are not from the Blade Fin Tribe, we can all rest assured." ”
The fish-man boy shrugged, "I said, I'm a wandering hunter. ”
The old fish said: "If it weren't for the fact that you and I are both brown scales, I wouldn't have brought you." But that's not insurance either. The Bladefins are our hostile forces, having sent fishmen to lurk in our town. ”
The fish-men are intelligent species, and the words of the caravan leader Lao Fish-Man illustrate that the fish-men have contradictions with each other, and at the same time value intelligence in the competition, and have espionage tactics.
This reminded the fish-man boy that he had offered to join the caravan before, and the caravan leader, the old fish-man, did obviously hesitate for a moment.
So, the boy continued to explain: "I just want to find a safe environment to rest for a few days, and I will leave in a few days." ”
As soon as he said this, the other fishmen suddenly relaxed a little.
But the old merger of the caravan had a new idea.
He led the young man, and after arranging his lodgings, he secretly called his apprentice.
His apprentice was a green-scaled fishman with large yellow eyes.
"Sauerkraut. The old fishman of the caravan slapped the sturdy back of his apprentice sauerkraut, "I have a task for you, you go and challenge the newcomer." ”
Sauerkraut was very respectful to the old fishman: "Understand, Master, how far do you want me to teach?"
The old fishman said: "It's not for you to bully outsiders, it's for you to test his strength." If he's weaker, then you'll be a little more restrained. ”
"Oh, I see, Master. ”
The old fishman looked at the stupid apprentice, and was a little uneasy, and said: "Be careful of his scimitar, he can kill two iron manta rays at once, he is not so easy to deal with." ”
"Yes, Master!"
Sauerkraut has always carried out Master's orders with all his might.
Therefore, he found the fish-man boy as soon as possible.
"You're going to challenge me?" the fish-man boy looked at the green-scaled and yellow-eyed fish-man in front of him.
Compared to the other fish-men, he is noticeably stronger and taller, and the muscles in his legs and feet are more pronounced.
He is also of the Black Iron rank.
"I've heard, your scimitar is powerful. I am Master's only apprentice, and I have inherited Master's sword skills, and none of the other fish-man fighters in the town are my opponents. So this time, I'm here to make a formal challenge to you. Do you dare to take it?" shouted Sauerkraut, his voice deliberately amplified, immediately attracting the attention of the other fishmen.
"Of course. The fish-man boy immediately agreed.
This temptation was expected by him.
The fish-people live in backward conditions, live on the bottom of the sea, and have many predators that threaten the fish-people, so they are all very martial.
If you don't practice martial arts, you can't survive.
Sauerkraut to challenge the same black iron level rush, there is nothing wrong with it. In fact, if he doesn't challenge, the other fishmen will already be eager to try.
However, sauerkraut is considered to be the strongest among young adult fishmen.
As soon as the news of his official challenge spread, the other fishmen chose to watch.
In the afternoon of the same day, the duel between the fish-man boy and the sauerkraut was surrounded by the fish-man early.
The boy arrived on time, and the onlookers stared at him and got out of the way.
"He's just rushing?"
"So young, it's black iron? Sure enough, it's the same as the rumors, it's the same genius as sauerkraut!"
"Sauerkraut is the blood of the Barbarian Fish tribe, he looks like a brown scale, how can he be so young and reach Black Iron?"
The fish people were talking and curious.
When the fish-man boy made his way through the crowd and came to the center of the field, the early sauerkraut stood up, picked up the scimitar on the ground, and held it tightly in his hand.
He used two scimitars, which were two-knife streams.
"Come on, I'll let you attack first!" sauerkraut grinned, deliberately colliding his two knives against each other, making a loud bang.
The fish-man boy flipped his wrist and played the scimitar into a cloud of knife flowers, causing the other fishmen to exclaim.
The sauerkraut was dissatisfied and snorted coldly: "All the bells and whistles." ”
Despite this, he stared at the scimitar in the young man's hand, his gaze still very solemn.
Because the quality of the boy's scimitar reached that of black iron, this weapon was rare among the fish-man settlements.
The caravan leader, Old Brown Scale, is also black iron, and he has struggled all his life, and he only has two bronze-level scimitars. Sauerkraut himself only has an ordinary scimitar, and the pair of bronze scimitars in his hand now were specially lent to him by the old brown scales of the master.
His master usually treasures this pair of bronze scimitars, so this is the first time that sauerkraut has used them in a bright light.
Sauerkraut was both excited and nervous: "I wonder if Master's baby can resist the black iron scimitar on the other side?"
The fish-man boy played with the knife flower and slowly approached the sauerkraut.
Sauerkraut was very cautious, holding the knife in both hands in front of his chest, bending his back and constantly moving his steps.
Suddenly!
The fish-man boy lunged forward.
The besieging fish people thought that the two sides were going to fight for a while, but they didn't expect to rush around and raid, and they all exclaimed.
In the exclamation of everyone, the fish-man boy pounced in front of the sauerkraut in the blink of an eye.
Sauerkraut has been waiting for him, he has no accidents, and calmly raises his double knives, wanting to block the boy's direct split.
The boy suddenly changed his movements, and he threw it violently, and he actually used the scimitar as a throwing knife, and threw it hard.
Sauerkraut was stunned: "Such a good weapon, you actually threw it away?!"