Chapter 143: Night Battle
Looking at those pairs of green eyes, Li Qing was startled for a moment, and he quickly reacted, he couldn't wait to slap himself, a monster like this, he had indeed never encountered it before, but he had encountered a beast.
Most of the beasts that haunt the night have the same eye structure as humans, and at night, those eyes look green, allowing them to have a clear vision in the dark, and in this respect, they are exactly like these monsters!
At this moment, Li Qing suddenly figured out a lot of things, these monsters are definitely similar to beasts, even if they are not beasts, they are definitely related to beasts, so some of the characteristics that beasts have, these monsters also have all of them, and they were trapped by the conventional idea of defending the city before, and he didn't realize this earlier, and took strict precautions, it was his fault!!
And now, the city wall of the copper city has obviously fallen, and the four eight-bull crossbows on the city wall, nine times out of ten, have to fall into the hands of these monsters, the situation is already worse, just when Li Qing's thoughts are flying, in the night, a spear stabbed directly at him!
"Lao Li! Be careful! ”
At the last moment, Qin Yi killed in time, and with a wave of the long knife in his hand, the sharp blade instantly cut the spear into two pieces.
Li Qing, who had escaped death, flashed a trace of palpitation in his eyes, and then hurriedly shouted: "Light up all the braziers and torches!" ”
With Li Qing's order, one after another firelight suddenly lit up, illuminating all the surroundings, and it was at this moment that Li Qing completely saw the true face of these monsters.
The elephant slingers and minotaur infantry that impressed him during the day did not seem to be there, mainly because these two races did not have good night vision, so this wave of night attacks by Duoduo used kobold spearmen, red fox archers, and werewolf warriors.
After taking over the wall in a wave with the help of a rain of arrows and ladders, Duoduo left the Red Fox Archers on the wall, and the archers did not have a high status in its civilization, mainly due to another flaw in its current civilization, namely low technology and productivity.
Its civilization is very primitive and crude, too complicated or too technical things, those orcs under its hands can't do it at all, so if you want sophisticated weapons and equipment, there is only one way, and that is to go to humans to grab it!
In this way, the red fox archers under its command, the bows and arrows in their hands can be said to be quite backward and inferior, not only the accuracy is poor, the range is also close, in the siege war, unless its large army has been pressed under the opposite city wall, or according to the range of the red fox archers, a battle is basically not very useful, of course, in the night attack, with the strength of the nocturnal animals to capture the wall of the human city is still very useful, no matter how bad the accuracy is, how close the range, as long as the distance is narrowed, a few rounds of arrow rain past, You can always shoot a few.
At this moment, Duoduo, who has successfully attacked the copper city, can be said to have a chance of winning, fighting hard head-on, in the bronze rank, it really doesn't know how many will be the opponents of its orc army!
With a wave of the bronze war knife in his hand, he directly signaled the kobold spearmen under his hand to advance forward.
It stands to reason that the powerful lionmen should be at the front, but now they are gathered around Duoduo, and they have time to watch the other races desperately.
No way, who made them "pro-sons"?
A battle was staged directly in the night and firelight, don't look at the small size of the kobolds, but the strength is not small at all, and the reaction is also quite keen, just one round of confrontation, the defending army of the copper city is directly on the side of obvious casualties!
When Li Qing, who had already retreated to the rear, saw this, his heart suddenly sank, and he hurriedly began to command the troops defending the city to form a formation while brushing up a wave of morale to stabilize the situation.
"The big shield troops form a front row of shield walls, the spearmen cooperate with the big shield soldiers to counterattack, and the axe shield soldiers and halberd soldiers protect the left and right wings!"
After paying a certain amount of casualties as a price, the defending army formed in the battle formation finally stabilized the situation temporarily, and Qin Yi and other generals who arrived later also began to command their respective troops to resist the attack of kobold spearmen.
After the situation was stalemate for a few minutes, Li Qing, who saw the situation clearly, suddenly had a plan.
"All maintain the military formation and retreat five steps!"
One step is not much, one step is not less, with the issuance of Li Qing's order, the soldiers quickly retreated five steps, and in the process of retreating, the entire army formation was basically immovable, and the quality of the soldiers was reflected at once, so that Duoduo on the opposite side clearly realized that this garrison army was well-trained.
Just when it was pondering what trick the other party wanted to play, the kobold spearmen, who had been unable to push up after the formation of the opponent's battle formation, saw the opportunity and rushed in, but what greeted them in front of them were cold and ruthless spears!
"Thorn!"
Li Qing roared angrily, and sharp spears quickly stabbed out from the gap in the big shield in an instant, mercilessly giving the enemy in front of him a head-on blow! The group of kobolds who rushed to the front were stabbed into a sieve on the spot!
Hot blood splattered on their faces, and the spear that came out of their bodies startled the kobolds who followed behind, and their steps were subconsciously slowed down by two beats.
At the same time, at this moment, Duoduo completely reacted, and the other side was playing with it to retreat into advance! Originally, both sides of them were crowded at the entrance of the barracks, and the relatively narrow entrance made it impossible for the opposing military formation to spread out.
But Li Qing's retreat, after giving up the small space at the entrance of the barracks and retreating into the barracks, the space that allowed him to arrange his troops suddenly became larger.
On the contrary, they seemed to push forward, but in fact, they squeezed themselves into the narrow entrance space, and they were suddenly hit by the opposite side!
But can it be returned? No! It's the side of the siege, and if it retreats, it's going to be a fart!
"Push me up!" With a dull roar, Dodor gave a ruthless command from behind, apparently trying to take the kobold's life to his advantage.
The lion's roar in the rear was a warning, but also a threat, and the kobolds obviously did not dare to resist the rule of the werewolf clan, and in the face of the attacks of those humans on the opposite side, they clenched the old and inferior spears in their hands, and roared forward one by one.
The bravery of the kobolds was beyond Li Qing's imagination, and these monsters rushed towards their military formation as if they were not afraid of death.
After several rounds of fighting, although the battle formation is still stable, Li Qing's mood is becoming more and more heavy, he originally wanted to retreat as advance, use the battle formation to consume several waves of the opponent's troops, and wait until the gap between the two sides of the combat power is narrowed, and then according to the specific situation at the time, decide whether to fight to the death, rush out all the way, and recapture the walls of the copper city, or break through the situation, withdraw all the way from the city gate at the other end, and retreat to Shangyuan City in the rear.
And now, he suddenly discovered a bad thing, that is, his battle formation could not be pushed out, and the attack of these monsters was too fierce, so that the soldiers under his command were completely in a bad situation of passive defense, but unable to fight back.
Li Qing's eyes kept sweeping over the entire battle situation, he was looking for an opportunity, a chance to break this situation!
At the same time, on the other side, on the top of the wall of the copper city, a red fox archer had already occupied the place, saying that he was staying here to take the guard, but in fact, all of them seemed to have finished the battle, and they were quite comfortable gathered in groups of three or five, and there was a word of chatter there.
After all, in their impressions, this night attack is basically nine out of ten, and after their orc army entered the city, they fought hard head-on, and there was really no precedent for losing to humans!
At that moment, a soldier hiding among the corpses resolutely pounced on a wooden barrel not far away, and then slashed at the barrel.
In the gap split by the bronze war knife, the transparent liquid continued to overflow, looking at the fire oil flowing out, his consciousness had begun to blur, his brain was blank, and his pupils became dilated.
I saw him quickly slash through the bricks of the city wall with his war knife, and in an instant, several sparks burst out.
"Boom-"
The moment the spark was contaminated with the high concentration of fire oil, the raging flames filled his entire pupil at once, and the surging fire spread wildly on the wall with the spreading fire oil, and then swallowed the barrels one after another.
"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"
The deafening roar struck everyone's eardrums, almost deaf to their ears, and the terrifying serial explosions made people feel like the entire copper city was constantly shaking in the impact of the explosion.
And the warrior also lay down in the fire forever.
Li Qing didn't know what was going on in the city, and it was estimated that no one would know in the future, but at this moment, the only thing he knew was that this violent serial explosion distracted the orc army, and their chance to break through came!
"Maintain the formation, the whole army breaks through!"
Li Qing shouted loudly, but he couldn't hear anything, and the exaggerated explosion made his ears deaf, and the other soldiers were no exception.
At this moment, only one person moved, that person was Qin Yi, the tacit understanding between the two for many years made him understand what Li Qing meant, and with a wave of the long knife in his hand, he saw that he directly crossed the defense line of his own big shield soldiers, and rushed up first, and the other soldiers also understood the current situation after reacting, and then followed one after another, and a silent breakthrough battle started here.
Qin Yi is also a four-star existence with a brave martial arts value, with Geng Jie's excellent weapons and equipment, he directly turned into a sharp knife at the front of the battle array, wildly dancing the Spring and Autumn Broadsword in his hand, rushing and killing all the way, just one face, and instantly slashed the three kobolds under his knife!