Chapter 319: Howell's Means

Xia Qi didn't care much about the attacks of these elves, after all, their strength was so small.

At the same time, Qingfeng City, which is located behind Gale Wind City, will never surpass Gale City in terms of troops, right?

According to Xia Qi's estimates, even if the soldiers and horses of the two cities were together, the total strength would not exceed 5,000.

Under this premise, how many elven archers can they divide to attack them?"

It would be a waste of time to deal with the elven archers scattered in the forest here, but it would be a waste of time.

Rather than this, it is better to ignore the harassment of these elven archers and continue to advance directly in the direction of Qingfeng City, and when the army is pressed outside the city, what threat can these elven archers pose to them?

Xia Qi's words were also heard by the elven general who was harassing the other party, and the other party's face instantly became ugly.

With a tactical style like this, the most fearful thing is to encounter this kind of opponent who can't pose much threat to him, and at the same time, people don't like you at all.

At this point, the position and situation of the party carrying out the harassment tactics will become very awkward.

"General, shall we continue?" An elven archer beside the elven general asked him,

Xia Qi brought 3,000 shield soldiers and 5,000 sword and shield soldiers this time, a full 8,000 troops, and cast two iron walls on both sides of the military formation.

Under such circumstances, how could hundreds of elven archers possibly cause any damage to Great Xia's army?

The elven general, who heard this, took a deep breath and said, "Give me a step......"

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, a cold arrow suddenly flew from the rear and directly shot him in the head!

This elven general was afraid that he didn't understand why a cold arrow was shot from behind him, and how they were ambushed by the other party.

"Enemy attack! Enemy ......"

The elven archer, who was next to the general, exclaimed in surprise, but as soon as he opened his mouth, several arrows pierced his body, causing his voice to stop abruptly.

At this time, the elven archers who were ambushed in the woods on both sides were also completely aware that they had become prey in the eyes of others!

The arrows that came from nowhere made them fall into a panic, and the scene instantly became a soul chain.

Listening to the movement coming from the forests on both sides, the corners of Xia Qi's mouth couldn't help but hook.

It can only be said that these elves are too confident in their ability to fight in the forest area.

But you can't blame them, after all, in their home stadium, they still use their best style of play, and it's hard to be confident or not.

But what they obviously didn't expect was that Xia Qi also had a force in his hands that was good at this style of play, and that was the Red Fox Archer he brought out this time!

After killing the elves that came their way last night, these red fox archers were in ambush in the forest.

These elves probably never thought that Xia Qi would give them a counter-ambush, let alone that he would directly use his main force as bait.

Now that I think about it, Xia Qi's previous words of advancing towards Qingfeng City were completely a trap.

While letting these elves let down their guard, they inevitably became anxious, and then the red fox archers followed.

After the death of the elven general, these elven archers suddenly lost their backbone, and in the case of self-chaos, how much ability can they still show?

Not to mention, the fox archers have an overwhelming advantage in numbers!

Looking at the soldiers with surprised expressions on their faces, Xia Qi said: "Don't care about them, keep advancing!" ”

The battle in the forest is left to the foxes, and his target today is Qingfeng City!

The morale of the main army under Xia Qi's command was greatly boosted, and they advanced all the way and continued to move forward.

After passing through the forest, the light around him was clearly starting to brighten, causing the soldiers in front of him to squint uncontrollably.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a round of arrow rain outside the forest directly crushed over.

I saw that at this moment, on the open space outside Qingfeng City, Howell was leading the troops defending the city under his command, waiting in a military formation.

After seeing the furious firepower of Xia Qi's thirty siege machines, where would he wait on the city wall for the other party to kill him?

He directly pulled the military array outside the city, wanting to see the moment when the other party left the forest area and give these invaders a little color.

However, the actual effect was far from what he had envisioned.

I saw that the big shield soldiers at the front of the opponent's main army had already carried the bronze shield at the beginning, and put on a posture to resist long-range attacks.

A rain of arrows was almost completely disintegrated by them.

While the soldiers were amazed that their Majesty was so well prepared, they also dealt a severe blow to the morale of the other side.

Faced with such a situation, Howell's face instantly turned pale, and he hurriedly signaled the mages in the back row of the military formation to start chanting spells, and at the same time signaled the elven archers to continue to attack.

However, the suppression of the enemy's range did not panic the soldiers of Great Xia.

Because, their Emperor Majesty is right behind.

Xia Qi's personal expedition can be said to have greatly improved the morale of the soldiers under his command.

Get out of the relatively narrow forest path.

The big shield soldiers raised the wide blue iron shield in their hands, spread out the formation step by step, and pushed forward.

The entire military formation quickly spread out, and the huge military momentum made the elves on the opposite side breathe for a moment.

"Lord Howell, the troops on the other side are at least several times our strength!" Sita, the defending general of Qingfeng City, said to Howell with a solemn face.

Howell turned to look at him and said, "We don't have a choice, Sita. ”

Howell's words, although he was said to Sita, had a hint of self-consolation in them.

"The enemy is coming so fast that all the measures I have prepared have unfortunately not worked."

Speaking of which, there was obvious helplessness in Howell's voice.

"Sita, this battle, prepare to evacuate from Qingfeng City."

Howell looked at Sita and continued, "Rather than taking all my soldiers to die here, I want to save my troops and wait for reinforcements from His Majesty the Elven King. ”

Hearing this, the expression on Sita's face changed in turns, and in the end, he nodded helplessly in agreement.

As the defending general of Qingfeng City, he is much more mature than Luther.

On the other side, Xia Qi, who had already set up a military formation outside Qingfeng City, raised the green iron spear in his hand and gave the signal to attack!

"The whole army charges !!"

Woo –

Boom! Knock knock!! Knock knock knock!!

The sound of the trumpets is magnificent, and the sound of war drums is majestic.

"Kill!"

The earth-shattering shouts of killing erupted outside Qingfeng City, following their Emperor Majesty, and at this time, the soldiers of the besieging army were in high spirits.

Faced with the approach of the army, Howell did not feel that he had much chance of winning this battle.

The other party came too fast, faster than he expected.

His continuous harassment plans and guerrilla tactics did not seem to have any effect, and were even completely seen through by the other side.

In the current situation, he couldn't simply abandon Qingfeng City as he did when he abandoned Gale Wind City.

There are not many cities in their elven civilization, and it was a helpless way to abandon Gale City at the beginning.

But now, if they abandon Qingfeng City again, then they will lose most of their territory to the west of the elven civilization.

In what he said to Sita just now, although he said that he was mentally prepared to evacuate Qingfeng City at any time, his own inner struggle during this period was obviously not as easy as he said.

This battle, how can he fight for it.

After the siege army in front of him rushed to a certain distance, the catapult that he had already moved outside the city immediately began to attack, and one after another boulders continued to smash towards the military formation of Xia Qi's main army.

This is Howell's advantage as the defender of the city, the reason why he directly pressed the army here, in addition to being afraid of Xia Qi's siege firepower, is also to seize the first move.

The attack of the siege machine takes a lot of time to prepare, and he just doesn't give Xia Qi a chance to prepare now.

In other words, now the catapults in Xia Qi's army formation that can cause a certain amount of lethality to the enemy's army formation cannot fire at all.

Xia Qi also knew this in his heart.

In the face of Howell's series of methods, he can see the moves, but he is helpless with this advantage.

The reason is simple, no matter how he sets it up, the eight-ox crossbow and catapult have to be pushed out of the forest area first, then set up in formation, and then need to be adjusted, and then reloaded.

This series of preparations, to say the least, will take more than ten minutes, which is still based on the premise that the goblin soldiers are skillful.

But the problem is that during this time, they have been within the attack range of the opposite elves.

Even if the big shield soldiers under his command were all well-trained elite soldiers, they couldn't withstand such a long unilateral beating.

Therefore, Xia Qi was simply at this time, relying on the advantage of troops, and went directly recklessly.

The catapults on the other side were not enough to threaten them, and the ferocity of momentum made Howell's cheeks twitch.

"Guardian Light, put!"

The large-scale spell buff cast by the mages in the back row quickly enveloped the entire army.

Howell didn't dare to rub it off, and hurriedly motioned for another team of elven mages to do it at the same time.

"Qingfeng bomb, put it!"

Azure magic bullets roared out from the military array on the opposite side and smashed towards Xia Qi's main army.

However, this is not the first time that the soldiers have faced such a magical attack, and they are all mentally prepared in advance.

At the same time, their Emperor Majesty had already told them that although those magic bullets looked scary, they could not actually cause fatal damage as long as they did not hit the vital point.

In the face of the magic bullets that were getting closer and closer, the big shield soldiers and sword and shield soldiers raised their shields at the same time, protected their hearts and skulls, and continued to rush forward.

The destruction formation of the Qingfeng bombs on the opposite side is indeed good, if they are facing an army with only a few thousand troops at this time, and a round of Qingfeng bombs smashes over, it is estimated that about one-third of the front defense line of the entire army will be destroyed.

But it's a pity that now they are facing tens of thousands of troops, and those few Qingfeng bombs are a bit insufficient.

This situation caused Howell's whole heart to sink continuously, and then he made a difficult decision.

The staff in his hand was slowly raised, and a harsh tone came out of his mouth.

With the chanting of the incantation, the surrounding air flow seemed to be pulled and began to surge violently, causing Howell's cloak and his full head of blonde hair to flutter in the wind!

As a difficult incantation was chanted, the jewel at the top of the staff shone blue!

"Go ahead and destroy them!!"

With Howell's roar, an invisible wind raged towards the military array of Great Xia.

"Ahh!!hh Save me! ”

In the panicked shouts of the soldiers, the iron wall defense line formed by the big shield soldiers in the front row was actually crushed in half from the middle!

During this period, there were even a large number of soldiers who were directly blown out!

Seeing this, Luthor and Sita, who were dressed in armor, perked up, drew their swords from their waists, and shouted, "Charge the whole army!! ”

The elven soldiers, whose morale had been suppressed by the siege army, saved a wave of morale under Howell's spell, and under the leadership of the two generals Luthor and Sita, roared and slaughtered the siege army that had been destroyed in formation.

At the same time, at the rear of the military formation, the strong wind blew here, and there was already only a wave, but it still blew the black flag on the Great Xia side.