Chapter 45: The Fourth Night
"You see, she understands. Pannis held his head to dodge Catherine's slap: "It shows that the end of this story is still very reasonable, oops, don't hit." ”
"I'm talking about longevity. Catherine said: "The lifespan of elves is two thousand years, and that of humans is only one hundred years, and the concept of time is twenty times worse. ”
"Apologize to all the girls who are looking forward to an interracial romance between elves and humans, bastard Pannis. Lina scolded indignantly, "Give me back my dreams of girlhood, damn it." ”
In a sense, the ending of this story is actually very close to reality, and it is said that the habits of elves are indeed like this. Vivian had also heard a lot of fairy tales or love stories when she was bedridden, and she had the longing of a girl, and at this time she also said with some amazement: "However, you make up such a story, be careful that the elves are desperately trying to assassinate you, Eun, President Antuin is an elf." ”
"Don't worry, this story was first made up by the elves and used to mock themselves. Pannis didn't care, and said lazily: "They all sing very energetically, and the processing extends much deeper than mine." ”
"Thank you, Mr. Pannis. There was a commotion outside, but Freya in the carriage suddenly whispered: "I remember your persuasion." ”
"Thank me for what to do, thank me for telling the story?" asked Pannis, dumbfounded, "And I didn't say anything about persuasion." ”
"Hehe, that's it. Perhaps, what seems to be perfect love is not perfect, maybe, perfect love is not necessarily the love that suits you, or maybe, treating love only with your own thoughts and habits often leads to a tragic ending, right?" Freya's voice was a little low, but she was not depressed: "Mr. Pennis, you are not only the first man to hate me. And he was the first person who wanted to wake me up from my dream, and I accepted this kindness anyway. ”
"You're thinking too much, I'm just telling a story. Pannis shrugged. Looking up at the sky: "Today's weather is good, it's a good weather to sleep, let's go, go back to sleep." ”
Freya didn't say anything to keep Pannis, who was leaving, but just watched the back of Pannis from the car window and whispered, "Big sister." You've had the good fortune to meet a very kind teammate. ”
"I also think we had a lot of luck. Catherine nodded, "I don't fully understand the full implications of your conversation, but I want you to know, Freya, that sometimes he makes a lot of sense, and it's not just a joke, so if you understand something, I hope you'll think about it." ”
"I do need to think about it seriously. Freya was silent for a while before she said, "Maybe something, I've really done something wrong." But it has come to this point, even if it is wrong. I can only go on. Hehe, I hope he won't let me down, as long as the road can continue, I will definitely change my previous mistakes. ”
"Rest early, we have to hurry tomorrow. Catherine patted the door of the carriage as a farewell: "Let's go, good night." ”
As soon as he returned to his tent group, he saw Erlan and Pannis huddle together and whisper something. When I walked over and listened, it seemed that I was arguing about tomorrow's course of action.
"Is there anything special?" asked Catherine, "what are you arguing about?"
"Nothing. Pannis said, "Captain Erlan just proposed to speed up tomorrow and reduce the number of scouts. I don't quite understand. Asking why. ”
"Tomorrow?" Catherine was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized, "It turns out that they have already arrived in their territory." ”
"Who are they?" Pannis asked curiously, "Special Monsters?"
"It's just two armored cows. Catherine replied unconcernedly, "Legendary Armored Bull." ”
The armored cow is a very special kind of magical beast, and it is also very distinctive. They tend to be around one hundred and seventy centimeters tall and about three meters long. It has a single horn at the tip of its head, and its whole body is wrapped in thick keratinized skin, and it has no weaknesses on its body except for its eyes. They have a docile personality and rarely attack humans, and will automatically avoid them even when harassed by humans, but they are quiet by nature. If there is too much noise, it may make them irritable and irritable. Their attack method is very simple, that is, using a single horn and a strong body of more than 3,000 kilograms to directly ram and trample the enemy, the higher the rank, the more powerful the impact. But that's not to say they're special, what's really special about them is that they're a pure herbivorous beast, but they may have a legendary-tier individual, which is an extremely rare special case in the Warcraft system.
In fact, there are quite a few individuals of this kind of magical beast, but most of them live in the orc grassland, and other areas are very scarce, and Pannis did not expect that there were a few on the plains of Rhea, let alone that he would pass through their territory.
"Their presence is why I'm proposing to speed things up. "We're already making a lot of progress, but I don't know how many more attacks the attackers will take, and whether it will slow us down for the next few days, so I want to make the most of the time I can, and this is the best place to grab it." ”
"There won't be too many powerful Warcraft in the territory of the Armored Cow, and there won't even be too many Warcraft, because Warcraft are not like humans, they don't control their volume, especially when hunting, so the Warcraft in the territory of the Armored Ox, except for a few special species, the rest of the Warcraft are difficult to survive. Therefore, when traveling in the territory of the armored cow, you generally don't have to worry about the attack from the demonic beast. Erlan explained in detail, lest Pannis not understand clearly enough and cause problems to happen tomorrow: "As for the attack from humans, don't worry, unless the other party wants to die together, no one is willing to attack the territory of the armored ox, that is too dangerous." ”
"But what if it's an attack from an armored bull?" Pannis asked.
"Armored cows rarely attack humans. Catherine explained for Erlan: "The armored cow is a very interesting magical beast, and their relationship with humans is actually quite good, it is said that in the orc grassland, there are often orc tribes and small groups of armored cows symbiotic, and the armored cow can even tolerate the noise made by the symbiotic orcs. But for strange humans, they are very vigilant, once they see it, they will take the initiative to avoid, hide and observe quietly, and will never attack first. ”
"No, no, you're mistaken. Pannis shook his head and said, "I also know a little bit about the characteristics of the armored cow. Knowing that they won't actively attack humans. But do you remember a classic battle on the orc steppe one hundred and sixty years ago?"
In the summer of 3532 in the continental calendar, there was a slight commotion in the orc steppe with a large area. Minor friction between dozens of small and medium-sized tribes turned into low-intensity local wars. This kind of local war is actually very common in the orc steppe, and can be regarded as a regular means for them to train warriors, every once in a while, even if there is no reason to fight. It is also necessary to create reasons to provoke wars.
Everything was normal at the beginning of the war, and the number of deaths of the warriors was also within an acceptable range, so the three tribal alliances of the orcs did not intervene, wanting to let the war develop naturally and then end naturally. Everything was going on as normal, and this continued until September 3532.
During that month, the war between the two tribes, which had a deep disagreement with each other in normal times, got out of control, and there was a tendency to move from a local war to a full-scale war. One of the tribes united several friendly tribes to form a coalition of six thousand men, ready to directly attack the steppe of the rival tribe and completely destroy this feud. The rival tribes, with a population of only two thousand, were clearly unable to resist this ferocious coalition army. The casualties were heavy, and he could only complain to the tribal alliance while temporarily evacuating his steppe, and when he evacuated, the original tribe of 2,000 people had less than 800 people left.
On the third day after the evacuation, the hesitation was too far away for the mediator of the tribal alliance to arrive, and four young men who had lost their homeland and loved ones devised a plan with bitter hatred for their enemies.
Three of them blended into the enemy's troops, and the other was always on the outside. Of the three people who infiltrated, two were quickly discovered and killed. But one managed to survive, and one of the two dead people was even killed by the survivor's own hands, and because of this, the strange hostile tribesmen did not suspect that the warrior was not their own. So he is not in danger of being exposed for the time being. In this way, the remaining coalition forces of more than 5,000 people unknowingly walked into the trap laid by the four men and approached a large herd of armored cattle.
The tribes on the grassland have long been accustomed to the existence of armored cattle, and many times they will even hunt some gold-level armored cattle as emergency food, so they don't care about the armored cattle at all, and continue to return to their tribe according to the original route. But. The one who wandered outside took advantage of the Armored Ox's ability to avoid strangers, and through careful calculation of angles and directions, the Armored Ox was artificially induced to keep approaching the enemy's troops.
After the two approached a certain distance, the young man who was lurking activated a mechanical device on his body. The device was excavated from the goblin ruins a long time ago, and its function is simple, it is to automatically play some strange sounds at a loud volume, and there is no practical use. But this strange sound, which had no use for nothing, became the death knell of more than 5,000 people at a special moment. The volume was loud and continuous, and the tribes on the march could not find the source of the sound for a while. And the armored ox, who hates noise very much, changed his usual docility and turned into a group of killing chariots, launching a death attack on the coalition army.
It is difficult to say what happened later, but the result is very clear, the coalition of 6,000 people was reduced to less than 500 people in the war, but under the subsequent impact of the armored ox, more than 4,000 corpses were left, and only a few hundred people escaped back to their tribes, and since then they have been in a state of collapse and were soon annexed by other tribes.
Since then, this four-to-five war case has been regarded as a classic case of taking advantage of the environment, and there is no other case that can shake its position.
"You're saying that the other party might use this tactic?" asked Erlan.
"It's not impossible. Pannis said, "You have to take precautions." ”
"It's unlikely, the other party doesn't want to kill us, if we use this method to make trouble, we should have a heavy drag, and it is impossible to escape the attack of the two Legendary-level demonic beasts. Catherine said, "But Pannis's concerns should not be guarded against, it is better to be careful." ”
"Oh well. Erlan accepted everyone's suggestion: "Tomorrow we should march at a normal pace, and send more scouts, always keep an eye on the movements of the armored oxen." (To be continued.) )
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