Chapter 149: Temporary Retreat
The soldiers on the head of the tin city wall were in a commotion, even Wang Ling, who was the general of the tin city guard, was stunned at the moment, while being shocked by the existence of these monsters, he was also amazed at the magic of this world, it was really like what His Majesty said, the world is so big, there are no surprises!
But fortunately, with Xia Qi's preventive shots, as well as the active or passive skills of many generals, the morale of many soldiers present was not greatly affected.
At the same time, the command task of this city defense battle, Xia Qi was handed over to Li Qing, who had a certain amount of experience in the battle, and Xia Qi's main purpose today was to observe, and he wanted to personally observe the strength of this orc army.
After commanding his orc army to advance to a certain distance, Nadodor rested for a while, and then apparently launched a direct siege.
Three mahouts were at the front of the line, but unlike the last time, this time, Duoduo directly ordered the minotaurs, kobolds, and werewolf warriors to advance behind the mahouts, and even his own "own son" Lionman was sent out, falling far behind the rear of all the armies.
That posture looked like it was going to be a wave of toughness and directly attack Xicheng.
In the face of this battle, Xia Qi glanced at Li Qing, Li Qing was still calm, and quickly commanded the eight-bull crossbow on the wall to begin to adjust its position, adopting the tactics of breaking them one by one, and letting them gather fire on one of the elephant men.
Xia Qi brought several bed crossbows this time, plus the original ones in Xicheng, and now on the city wall of Xicheng, there are seven bed crossbows on the wall of the main attack of the orcs.
The scene of seven Eight Ox Crossbows firing at the same time was undoubtedly extremely spectacular, after all, in the previous city defense battles in Great Xia, such a number of Eight Ox Crossbows had never been dispatched.
Or it can be said that whether it is defending or besieging a city, Xia Qi has never dispatched such a number of eight-bull crossbows. After all, the military budget of this thing is too expensive, seven eight-bull crossbows, it takes hundreds of thousands of civilization points, and after an invasion war, maybe it will be lost.
However, at this moment, under the spectacular scene of seven eight-bull crossbows firing at the same time, what shocked Xia Qi was another thing, that is, the elephant man who was set on fire could still withstand it!
For this giant elephant class, although Xia Qi knows that it is not easy to deal with, but this special mother is too fierce, right?
Looking at the elephant man who was frantically shaking his proboscis and constantly sending the heavy crossbow arrows that came over him, Xia Qi was shocked.
However, after three rounds of salvos from seven eight-bull crossbows, the nose that obviously became bloody showed that the other party was not all without a price, but even so, the strength of the orc class of elephant people still made Xia Qi feel amazed, after all, such an output is not something that anyone can afford.
Compared with the exclamation in Xia Qi's heart, as the besieging party, Duoduo's face was undoubtedly ugly. The ultra-rare Elephant Terran troops under its command were attacked by the fire from the opposite side, and it was so angry that it scolded its mother again and again.
If other players do this, Duoduo is absolutely disdainful, and will even laugh at the other side for being too stupid, the elephant under its command has rough skin and thick flesh, and a strong physique, and an ordinary bed crossbow will cause a flesh wound if it is killed, which is not to be afraid at all, under this premise, it can attract a lot of firepower, which is very good for him.
But this is called Xia Qi's difference, the destructive power of the bed crossbow on the opposite side is much stronger than the ordinary one, even if it is the elephant man under its command, it is not easy to bear the front hard carry, the elephant man who fell before, although part of the reason is because of the wound infection, but it cannot be denied that the injury is also a reason.
After a few days of rescue, thanks to the super immunity of the orc clan to the disease, the fate was saved, but if you want to recover, you don't have ten days and half a month to slowly recuperate, and it is estimated that it is no fun.
In other words, there are only four young mahouts in the Elephant Race who can go to war, and now one has fallen, and it doesn't want to fall a second one, as soon as he thought of this, Duoduo immediately ordered the elephant man who was set on fire to retreat.
Regarding the other party's actions, Li Qing obviously knew it for a long time, and calmly commanded seven eight-bull crossbows to turn another elephant man.
At the same time, after taking a general visual look at the distance, Li Qing said to Xia Qi, who was observing the orc class opposite: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid there will be a little danger next, please step back." ”
Hearing this, Xia Qi's eyes flashed with a hint of understanding, and he retreated to the back quite cooperatively, and with his retreating action, the two teams of big shield soldiers also formed a shield wall, protecting him layer by layer.
In this regard, Xia Qi said that he was a little helpless, in this way, wouldn't he be able to see anything? Just as he was thinking this, a deafening roar suddenly slammed into his eardrums in an extremely violent way!
"Damn!"
Even if you don't look at it, Xia Qidu has already figured out what happened, it was the two elephant men who did it after entering the attack range, and Li Qing had emphasized this point when he was deducing the Battle of Tongcheng before, but this personal experience is another feeling.
At the moment when the giant tree hit the city wall of Xicheng, Xia Qi felt that the city wall under his feet shook twice, and his ears hurt a little from the violent sound.
However, this was only the beginning, the two elephants on the other side began to fire frantically at their walls, and the other elephant man who had been forced back by seven eight-bull crossbows all the way to the fire also had a tendency to fight again, and the whole battle was undoubtedly completely started at this moment.
In the face of such an attack, Li Qing still had a calm face, and signaled the archers on the city wall to start suppressing the rushing orc army with a rain of arrows.
This time, it was different from the battle in the Copper City, he had plenty of archers on his side, and the overwhelming rain of arrows directly attacked the orc army outside the city, constantly increasing the casualties on the opposite side.
At this time, Duoduo was also preoccupied with directing the front-line battle.
The focus is naturally on the three elephant people, leaving aside the relationship between relatives and relatives, those three elephant talents are its most valuable and rarest troops on this battlefield.
Just as Dodor was wondering if the wall was almost smashed, and whether to remove the three elephant men just in case, the barrels that suddenly fell on the opposite wall made his facial muscles twitch.
"Grass! Again?! ”
At this moment, Duoduo was undoubtedly angry in his heart, and he didn't dare to hesitate at all, and hurriedly signaled the herald beside him to give a retreat signal.
The raging flames swept up again, forcibly restraining Dord's follow-up attack, making his face look ugly.
"I'd like to see how long your fire can burn!"
The orc army retreated very simply, after all, no one planned to attack the city in the face of the sea of fire. The short siege battle just now seemed to be fierce, but in fact, the only one who was really injured was probably the elephant man.
This rough skin and thick flesh is really not casually said, at this moment Xia Qi can't help but understand why the system will reduce the productivity of the orc civilization, look at the orc soldiers, they are already rough and thick, very resistant to beating and can fight, if they put on a piece of armor, how fierce will it be?
The retreat of the orc army was expected, and in this battle, it was not possible to say who won and who lost, and the generals such as Xia Qi and Li Qing obviously understood this in their hearts.
But the soldiers didn't understand, and when the soldiers saw the orc army retreating, they just thought they had won, and they cheered and celebrated one after another.
In this regard, Xia Qi and the others did not say anything, it is a good thing to be able to improve morale, there is no need to dwell on this little thing, the focus is on what Duoduo will do next.
Just in case, Xia Qi decisively sent a team of scouts, signaled them to go out of the city from the other end with the help of a cloud ladder, and quietly followed to confirm the situation.
If the other party plans to retreat, the scouts may be able to interrupt at that critical moment, and it may not be possible to destroy the timing of Dordor retreat.
Of course, before the scouts left, considering the orcs' keen sense of smell like wild beasts, Xia Qi repeatedly told them to be more careful, let them be cautious, treat those orcs as beasts with a keen sense of smell, not only to guard against the eyes and ears of the opposite side, but also to guard against the nose of the opposite side, and not to relax carelessly.
One thing was ordered, Xia Qi looked at the opposite side carefully, and after confirming that the other party had really retreated, he ordered the soldiers to carry sand and soil to prepare to extinguish the fire outside the city.
The fire lit by this fire oil, the temperature is quite amazing, the previous several attacks on the elephant man, has already smashed several pits on the wall, and now it is burned, after this battle, repairing the city wall of Xicheng is estimated to be another big project, and the minister of the engineering department may have to vomit blood again.
After extinguishing the fire with sand, cleaning the battlefield is naturally a top priority, and the arrows and heavy crossbow arrows that were shot out before are all recyclable, so try to recycle them, although they are consumables, but they can't really be used as disposables.
However, this time, the focus of Xia Qi and the others was obviously not on the recovered arrows and heavy crossbow arrows.
Looking at the orc corpses that were painstakingly carried in by several soldiers, the generals and soldiers in the city let out an exclamation, at such a close distance, seeing these orcs that looked very different from them was undoubtedly another feeling for everyone, and even Li Qing couldn't help but take a few more looks.
However, no one acted rashly, for these strange creatures, everyone still had a little jealousy in their hearts, but it was Xia Qi, compared to fear, he was more interested.
This is an orc, for him, a modern man from Blue Star, who only exists in fantasy and film and television games, to say that he is not a little curious, it must be fake.
With a sense of curiosity, Xia Qi's gaze quickly shifted to the corpse of a kobold, which was obviously killed by several arrows in his body, and was covered in blood.
After signaling a soldier to bring a bucket of water over and simply wash away the blood stains on this corpse, Xia Qi finally saw the true appearance of this kobold.
To be honest, it is not the same as the image of the kobold made up in his brain, if he wants to say it, it is uglier than he expected, the whole face is wrinkled, from the appearance, it looks a little like a Shar Pei, with a huge nose, and two obvious fangs in the lower lip, which can be said to be quite hideous.
Xia Qi stretched out his hand and rubbed the kobold's epidermis, the feel was unusually rough, but it was also quite tough, different from humans, for kobolds, just its natural skin was equivalent to a layer of leather armor!
Xia Qi, who realized this, felt a trace of pressure in his heart.