Chapter 104: Brother, Don't Die (2nd Update)
50,000 heavily armed warriors swept out of the city gate, like an ant colony leaving the nest, densely rushing towards the Demon Eye Fortress more than ten kilometers away.
As a heavy warrior with basic human combat power, his whole body is covered with solid black armor, and only a narrow gap is left in his eyes, and the visual effect is quite shocking, but this is actually a helpless choice.
Ordinary human warriors who have not been strengthened into magic wives are far behind the demon dwarves in terms of strength, agility and other melee data, and if they are not reloaded and protected, at the moment of contact with the demon dwarves, the fragile bodies of ordinary humans will not be able to block the claws of the demon dwarves.
Only this kind of warrior with heavy armor wrapped in heavy armor and holding a shield blade can use the mutual cooperation of formations to have a slight advantage when facing demon dwarves on the plains, and it also plays a certain role in providing long-range protection for magicians.
However, if you enter the jungle to fight the demon dwarves, the narrow and obstructive terrain cannot form an effective battle formation, and the heavy warriors who fight separately will be completely fresh meat under the claws of the demon dwarves unless they have more than three times the advantage in numbers and have the courage to do whatever it takes.
Lin Lei and Johnnedy's team, dressed in camouflage suits, dressed as hoplites, mixed in with the heavy protection of hoplites.
The camouflage suit is a common way of camouflage for mages in the military, so that vulnerable mages are not prematurely exposed to the enemy's sight, and avoid mages becoming targeted by troll dwarves before they can make a move.
Fifty thousand heavily armed warriors, and hundreds of demon warriors mixed in it, formed a rectangular phalanx, and advanced towards the Xilian Pass at a speed that was not in a hurry or slow, and could best maintain the physical strength of the warriors.
In the wars of the wizarding world, mounts are rarely used, and there are no primitive troops in the cold weapon era such as "cavalry".
Ordinary soldiers are cannon fodder-like existence, cannon fodder is to try to be as "good as possible and cheap", not to mention that there is no ordinary animal like "horse" in the forgotten land, which is specially designed for people to ride, and even if there is, there is no need to configure it at all.
As for the rideable demonic beasts that haunt the eastern and western regions, the role in the war is not great, at most it saves some physical strength and magic for long-distance marches, but it is cost-effective to train and raise, and the role of pretending to be forced is far greater than the actual significance, and it is far less cost-effective than directly activating the magic source equipment with wind and life systems.
The demon dwarf's reaction was extremely fast, the hoplite warriors had just arrived at the entrance of the Xilian Pass, and the jungle on both sides was already full of demon dwarves, as long as the human warriors dared to enter the Xilian Pass, in the passage that was several kilometers long and only more than ten meters wide, they would be constantly attacked by the demon dwarves on the slopes on both sides.
Demon dwarves don't even need to run down to fight the human warriors, as long as they keep pushing down the stone and tree trunks from a height of tens of meters, it is enough to make the human warriors ********.
And the mage will be more dangerous, with a condescending advantage, the troll dwarf has a better vision, and the javelin projection is more powerful, but the heavy warrior cannot use the body and shield to form an effective protection for the mage, and all the mages in the battle array, once exposed, are small fresh meat under the troll dwarf javelin.
In such a situation, if you really want to attack, I am afraid that before you reach the fortress, these 50,000 warriors and hundreds of magicians will be slaughtered by the demon dwarves.
When the team came to the passage, they slowly gathered into a phalanx that could be attacked and defended, separated by hundreds of meters, and held the demon dwarf from afar.
Entering the passage is tantamount to committing suicide, but the demon dwarves on the plains are no match for human warriors, these common sense, the two races that have fought countless times in the Western Regions, there is nothing that they don't know.
"Why do I think something is wrong?"
Lin Lei, who was in the battle array, quietly communicated with Johnnedy beside him.
"It's really wrong...... Johnnedy nodded and said: "I looked carefully, the opposite side is all cannon fodder, not a single troll dwarf is missing, even the high-level elite demon dwarf is very few, this is unreasonable, according to the intelligence of the mobile battalion, they still have at least more than a hundred troll dwarves, even if not all of them are sent, there are dozens of them enough for us to drink a pot."
If we hadn't sent all the sixth-level archmages out, without the troll dwarf leader, relying on these deflated triads would only be the targets of our slaughter, unless we ......"
Although Johnnedy's face could not be seen under the camouflage suit, the doubts and anxieties in his heart could be heard in his heavy voice.
"Unless they already know our plans, all the troll dwarves have been sent to ambush our raid party......"
Lin Lei felt a chill in his heart.
The raid team has a total of less than sixty people, although they are all level 6 or above great magicians, and there are 20 level 7 great magicians of the goddess hall to suppress the formation, fighting in an open place like the fortress, it is enough to crush hundreds of troll dwarves, but if you are surrounded by more than 100 troll dwarves in the jungle, leading hundreds of elite demon dwarves, sneak attack and besiege at close range......
Lin Lei couldn't imagine what a catastrophic consequence it would be.
"Oops, something must have happened...... Johnnedy lifted his disguised hood and said with a shocked expression: "According to the time, the raiding party should have arrived at the fortress and started to annihilate the demon dwarves, why hasn't there been any signal so far?"
Before leaving, Lin Lei had already told Johnnedy about the route, Johnnedy was far more familiar with Xilian Mountain than Lin Lei, and at this time, under Lin Lei's reminder, he calculated the time a little and couldn't help but be shocked.
"I'm going to find Tinas. ”
Lin Lei lifted his camouflage suit, took out the big bow with a cold face, and was about to rush out with a step.
"Are you going to die?" Johnnedy suddenly grabbed Lin Lei: "If things are really as we deduced, we should storm the fortress now, and strive to attract their high-end combat power, you are alone, and if you go, you will be sent to death." ”
"It's too late...... Lin Lei flashed a little spiritual light in his mind, and he couldn't help but shake all over, and said in a trembling voice: "I suddenly understand that the purpose of their attack on the Southern Regions is to eliminate our Great Magician...... From the last time he ambushed the Noble Guards, to the Sky Elf Killer, and this time, they were all aimed at the Great Mage.
They are completely sure of it early in the morning, but they have not broken through the defense line of Xifu City for a long time, this is a 'corpse reinforcement', which is to attract our great magicians to join the battlefield in a steady stream, and then find a way to eliminate them. The meat ball troll dwarf I saw in the Rune Forest has been hiding from the surface, probably just to catch our archmage off guard at a critical time......"
"This ......"
Although Johnnedy had never heard of what "corpse reinforcement" was, he could understand the general meaning, and at this time his mind had come to a standstill, and when he came back to his senses, Lin Lei had already rushed out of the army and single-handedly killed the mountain.
In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Johnnedy's mind, and finally, with a ruthless look on his face, he yelled: "Team Bruce, kill me out." ”
Johnnedy was the first to rush out of the formation, followed by eleven followers without hesitation.
The people of the Bruce family's personal guard, the captain of the guard and the great magician above the sixth level, have all been transferred to the raid team, and the rest of the team, although they do not know Johnnedy's intentions, but at this time, there is undoubtedly Johnnedy's highest status, without too much hesitation, they also emerged from everywhere and followed behind Johnnedy.
Lin Lei, who was already close to the bottom of the mountain, turned his head in a hurry, although his face remained unchanged, his heart was moved.
"Brother...... Don't die!"
Lin Lei muttered in his heart, woke up the little guy in the spiritual world, pulled the bow and wound it, and shot an arrow at the oncoming elite demon dwarf, and smashed into the demon dwarf defense line like a bamboo.
With the protection of "Hellfire Roar", Lin Lei and the other demon dwarves got close to the nearest distance before they suddenly shot the most magic-saving fireball technique, smashing the ugly face of the demon dwarves, although they still can't kill them with one hit, but destroying their eyes is enough to make them lose their combat power. As for the few elite demon dwarves, they are basically headshots one by one.
In the absence of the troll dwarf to suppress the formation, Lin Lei was like a sharp arrow, with the strength of one person, he broke through the demon dwarf defense line and opened a flesh passage for the Johnnedy team in the rear.
Soon, Lin Lei's figure disappeared into the jungle.
Although there are only more than 100 people in the team led by Johnnedy, except for a few followers who are only level 4, the rest are also level 5 demon warriors, and in the face of ordinary demon dwarf cannon fodder, they also show a one-sided crushing trend.
The rest of the noble clan, thinking that the Bruce family had discovered something good, and seeing that the demon dwarf was so easy to bully, they slowly moved, one, two...... Soon, all the noble teams, under the "herd effect", followed the Bruce family and fought into the jungle.
In the end, there were 60 demon warriors left in the goddess hall, seeing that everyone was fighting so wonderfully, and finally couldn't be idle, and the leader gave an order to kill all of them on Xilian Mountain.
The battalion leader in charge of the commander of the military department couldn't help but wonder when he saw that he was fighting so fiercely for no reason, but none of these honorable magicians were his subordinates, and even if he wanted to take care of it, no one would listen.
"My lord, the demon dwarves can't seem to resist, should we take the opportunity to kill them and take the fortress back?" asked the adjutant beside the battalion leader in a low voice.
"No, we can't act rashly without a signal from Lord Eureka, and if we fall for the ruse of the ground rats, we will have no place to run. ”
The battalion leader of this duty doesn't know yet, because of his conservative duty, an opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune for nothing was missed.