Chapter 42: The Baptism of Arrows
The army of 500 men was mighty, like a sharp sword smashing straight into the Yellow Dragon.
Since I came to clean up the wild creatures, it was natural to clean up the entire area around the small mine.
According to the information sent back by the scouts, the army cleaned up the kobolds, jackals and other creatures roaming in the area like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves.
Before that, the city guards of Garl City would also regularly come out to clean up the wandering creatures around them to prevent the number of monsters in the wild from gathering too much.
Speaking of which, these wild creatures are like goblins, they can give birth to several litters every year, but their intelligence is not very high.
An army of five hundred people, under the command of Tang Feng, basically surrounded the small mine without any formation.
The small mine was a little different from before, and the lizardmen had some rudimentary defenses on the periphery.
They reinforced the original wooden fence and erected several guard towers.
An army of five hundred men couldn't hide from these lizardmen, especially on this kind of flat land.
The lizardmen guards on the watchtower hissed loudly and raised the alarm, and a large number of lizardmen poured out of the humble shacks.
"That's a lot!"
After the baptism of aura, Tang Feng's eyesight could see far away, and it was very clear. He could instantly see that the number of lizardmen in the mine far exceeded the army he had brought.
The shock brought by the 500-strong regular army was still enough, and there was a panic in the mine.
Whoosh!
Several short spears were scattered and thrown at Tang Feng's army, but they did not have any effect.
Tang Feng looked at these lizardmen with interest, it was the first time he had seen such an alien creature.
The species of lizardfolk near Gard City should be the Sand Lizardfolk to be precise, and this type of lizardfolk is more suitable for living in desert areas or gravel areas.
Sand lizardmen are mostly six to seven feet tall and have a strong physique and are covered in light brown scales. Its tail is three to four feet long, which is used to maintain the balance of its body and is also an important means of attack.
Their pupils are usually amber and have an evil aura, as well as a hint of hypnotic potency.
In the legends on the ground, people are told not to look at the eyes of the lizardmen, their evil eyes can pull the souls of good people into hell.
Their scaly skin is about the thickness of chain mail, and this powerful defense caused a lot of trouble for nearby cities until they ran into the black dwarves.
The Black Dwarves are an offshoot of the Dwarven clan who are proficient in forging, and even if their forging skills are poor, the weapons they create can easily penetrate the scales of the Lizardmen.
So, since the black dwarves took over Garl City, the lizardmen have restrained a lot.
During this time, when they heard that Garl City had changed hands again, the group of sand lizardmen was a little nervous.
After a few simple trials, I don't know how they were discussed, but the result of the discussion was that the new owners of Garl City were a bunch of soft eggs.
Then they concentrated their forces and brazenly launched an attack on the small mines.
With their numerical superiority, they did force the small detachment stationed here out of the small mine and then occupied it.
The lizardfolk higher-ups saw this as a great victory, executing the black dwarves, goblins, and other slaves left in the small mines, and offering their bones to the rudimentary stone altars to bless their gods.
"I've heard that the language of the lizardfolk is dragon?"
Tang Feng thought of a legend circulating on the ground again, and asked the military mage beside him curiously.
This is a fifth-level gold mage, who is mainly responsible for observing and recording the combat capabilities of new troops, and does not undertake combat missions.
Hearing Tang Feng's question, he bowed slightly, then pursed his lips mockingly, and said disdainfully: "Honorable lord, not all lizardmen can speak dragon language, only a very few of them are lucky enough to master one or two dragon syllables, and they usually communicate in a disorganized lizardman language. ”
After a pause, the mage continued, "But, as long as they can master one or two dragon voice segments, they will gain spellcasting abilities and thus advance to a lizardman warlock. In this mine, there should be lizardmen warlocks. ”
The lizardmen in the mine watched the army approaching gradually, and the initial deterrent effect gradually lost its effect, and these lizardmen looked excitedly at the army outside and shouted loudly.
Their originally amber pupils gradually appeared a blood-red color due to their excitement, and they looked unusually bloody and hideous.
Lizards are fierce and aggressive, and they don't produce on their own, so they often go to war with the creatures around them.
After decades of being suppressed by the black dwarves, the sand lizardmen have long since stopped being angry, and now that Garl City has changed hands, the sand lizardmen feel that their chance to rise to prominence has come.
The Sand Lizardmen hope to reassert their rise to the Sand Lizardmen to the creatures around them through a battle with the new owners of Garl City.
Therefore, after seeing the army under Tang Feng's command, these sand lizard people did not flinch, but automatically stimulated the bloodthirsty racial talent.
Tang Feng defeated the black dwarves and gained control of Gar City, and with a simple reasoning, it can also be known that Tang Feng's strength is much stronger than that of the black dwarves.
But the sand lizardmen never think about this, and it can be said that most of the natural races do not think about it.
There is an unspoken rule in nature, and that is that the law of the jungle is the strong. If you want to become a hegemon, you must defeat all enemies.
Like estimating strength from the side, most races won't do this, and these races with bad brains will definitely challenge it themselves.
And the sand lizardmen belonged to the category of people with bad brains, if they didn't really feel Tang Feng's strength, they wouldn't recognize Tang Feng's status.
"Archer prepare!"
Seeing that the army had arrived at the predetermined position, Tang Feng immediately ordered.
Two hundred of them formed a defensive formation, and the remaining three hundred all took their longbows from behind, mounted arrows, and drew their bowstrings, aiming at the mines.
"Shoot!"
With an order, the rain of arrows instantly baptized the entire mine.
Even if the strength is suppressed to the third level, the power formed by these arrow rains is not something that these low-level sand lizard people can withstand.
The sounds of panic and wails in the mine continued to sound, and the sand lizardmen cried and shouted to find a place to hide from the rain of arrows, completely devoid of the majestic appearance just now.
"It's... This..."
In a shack in the middle of the mine, the only lizardman warlock was dumbfounded, and kept jumping to his feet and scolding.
Normal lizardmen warriors are only good at melee combat, especially sand lizardmen, who like to fight enemies hand-to-hand.
When they first started the war with the black dwarves, the sand lizardmen also used melee combat with the black dwarves to determine the winner or loser.
It's not that sand lizardmen can't fight ranged, it's just that they lack ranged weapons.
The Sand Lizardmen are not proficient in blacksmithing, so even if they occupy the mines, they only melt a small number of short spears.
These short spears were all shot out when Tang Feng's army first arrived, but they didn't have any effect.
The sand lizardmen, who had no long-range attack capabilities, were unable to withstand the archers' attacks, so they had to huddle in a corner, dodging the rain of arrows.