Chapter Twenty-Four: The Burning Battle
These fish-people are generally dark green and blue-blue scales, with a bunch of white snowflakes on the outside, which is quite eye-catching. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Moreover, they seemed to be of class—in the center, two fish-men, draped in a seaweed shawl, inlaid with large pearls and beautiful bone ornaments, and with distinctive weapons—shiny bony spears, topped with coral carved into a twisted shape, clearly more decorative than practical.
Their riding beasts, the odd crocodiles, range in length from four to six meters, with long limbs and a muscular but not bloated body, which is nearly two meters tall at the shoulders, and it seems that they are definitely not slow to run.
The crocodile's signature mouth is also slightly different from its counterparts on earth - the front half of this mouth has more than a dozen dagger-like sharp teeth like wild boars, growing in pairs up and down, and the level of horror is not below that of a saber-toothed tiger.
"This thing looks so ugly...... But I like it! See if I can catch some live ......."
Relatively speaking, the sea lizards that crawl like turtles on the quagmire are not so cute, don't mention it.
It was supposed to be afternoon, but the endless spring rain and the occasional lightning streaked across the sky made it look more like the evening.
In the heavy rain, the fish-people seemed to like the climate, and they soon spotted the kobold tunnels and began to try to explore them.
It's a pity that the entrance of this hole is too small, except for a few holes that have been specially widened in order to facilitate Liu Jingtian's actions, and the other parts are only allowed to pass through the kobolds.
The fish-man entered a few caves with difficulty, and then, finding nothing, made a cooing sound, walked out, and turned his gaze to a higher altitude - a place of lush vegetation, through the rain curtain, you could faintly see terraces, animal pens, and occasionally a rain and thunder to see cattle and sheep.
It's just that there's another building over there that makes the fish-people quite jealous: the fortress!
On the other side, the kobold also began to act.
A group of dogs who had been assembled pushed up the cart in the heavy rain, pushing the cart high with one foot of water and one foot of mud, looking really embarrassed. And in front of them, I don't know when, a large group of cattle and sheep appeared, the number is probably three or four hundred, what a spectacular group!
In the herd, there were kobold herdsmen riding landing birds, driving cattle and sheep and gathering behind the fortress.
The bait worked well, and the fish, who were still hesitant, immediately became excited, and even the scales on their bodies that were not green or green began to turn blue, and it seemed that these guys would change color.
The two 'noble fish' in the 'school of fish' were not calm, they met and muttered, and immediately turned over and rode on the wild boar crocodile, and the leader ran to the front of the team.
So, the fishmen who were still grinding and grinding all took action and turned over as crocodiles. Liu Jingtian and the others only saw that a large area of scales of various colors flashed around on the ground in the distance, which was also very spectacular.
However, after all, the riverbank and the fortress are almost two kilometers apart, and there is a kobold with a bad stomach in the middle squatting in countless holes, and the speed of the fish-man cannot be improved on the next road......
Every now and then, a stake suddenly rises from the ground and knocks the wild boar crocodile on the ground while sprinting, not to mention the poor worms on the crocodile's back. And what kind of 'tripping crocodile ropes', small holes in the ground just big enough to stick your feet into, slabs and bricks that flew from nowhere...... The kobold relied on the advantage of the narrow hole in the ground to concoct this charging team fiercely.
However, after all, the goal was to lure the enemy away from the river, and the kobold ambushers also took it when they saw it, and after causing countless wounded, they stopped.
After all, the bait was still too sweet, and the fish-man cavalry finally got up and insisted on gritting their teeth to move forward.
Fish-man Elder 'Goodgol' gasped for breath, leaning almost his entire body against his staff. Although the Fish-People have both gills and lungs, they are not professional land creatures after all, especially after a few hard falls.
However, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can't give up!
Because it is difficult for the fish-men to stay out of the water for too long, and their combat effectiveness is low, they can only pick up the spring when they go ashore to collect supplies--the rain is moistened, the soldiers can fight on the shore longer, and the fierce beasts on the shore are afraid of thunder and lightning, and generally hide far away.
The problem is also here, the animals are hiding, and the income from going ashore is greatly affected, although the fish-people are better at fighting thunder and lightning than the creatures on the ground, but what is the use of no profits, often only get a pile of wood and forage back, which is really bad.
But this time it was different! Suddenly I found a small creature that could herd livestock, and it was very rich! Even better, they were even weaker than the fish-men! Such a precious opportunity to miss it will regret several rainy seasons!
However, although the speed of the opponent's escape was very slow, the two hundred warriors under his command were hindered by various obstacles for so long, and watched the enemy flee behind the fortress...... That's a problem!
At this time, another fish-man elder, 'Rum', came to him and said to him in the fish-man language in shock:
"Look! Thunder and lightning only attack these strange bald trees! Why?"
Ruml pointed to a watchtower in front of him that had been transformed into a lightning rod, and the lightning rod on it had been struck by lightning, and the metal parts were shining white, like a light tube!
At the same time, the kobold convoy and livestock also stopped, a kilometer behind the bastion, where the last lightning rods were.
The fish-man, who had penetrated nearly two kilometers into the land, also stopped. If you continue walking, you will get close to the strange fortress. Although I don't know what kobolds have in mind, there are many creatures in the underwater world who like to build huge nests, so we have to be cautious. The fish-people may not be very smart, but they have survived to this day and are not extinct, and there is still basic caution.
The two sides confronted each other silently, and from time to time, lightning struck the lightning rods around them......
The old 'Gudgolon' had experience in dozens of shore raids, and was the leader of this team. And witnessing the lightning hitting the lightning rod many times finally made him grasp the point - the weak enemy did not move, probably not daring to leave the shelter of the bald tree, otherwise he would be killed by the lightning like other land creatures!?
No matter how stupid you are, you can see that this is an opportunity.
With interests in front of them, the fortress is not terrible, and you only need to send a few people to go up to explore, maybe it is not so dangerous.
The Fish-Man Elder let out a few unpleasant grunts, and then swung his spear: Attack!