Chapter 338: Accidentally, the deposed Talke
Calculating the time, although the troops under Xue Li's command were mainly cavalry, their mobility far exceeded that of the infantry units.
But it would take at least nearly a month to get to the forest where the wood elves lived.
But this doesn't mean that Xia Qi doesn't have to worry about this side of things.
If you want to occupy the residence of the Wood Elf clan, then there will be a large piece of land on the side of Great Xia.
But the problem now is that the area where the wood elves live is not connected to the elven administrative district, and there is a large open space between the two.
This vacant land is not something that can be solved by building a city or a few post stations.
There are many aspects to consider.
If you don't think it through, then this point of convergence is the weakest point.
When other players invade in the future, after discovering this weak point, they only need to send troops to break it, and then send troops to block it.
When the time comes, the reinforcements from the elf administrative region will not be able to pass, and the wood elves on the opposite side will not be able to come out.
Isn't this all at once divided and raped by the enemy?
Therefore, just like playing a puzzle, if you want to connect this piece of territory, Xia Qi needs to use a large number of cities to fill the gap.
By the time he had built an entire area of territory into a monolith, he had controlled the direction in which the player could invade.
Now to get back to the point, it's a good thing to successfully incorporate the Wood Elves, but the location is a headache.
Leaning on the office chair in the service hall, Xia Qi closed his eyes tightly, and he felt that he had to sort out his development plan for next year.
According to his original plan, there is already an elven administrative area in the south, and the subsequent development can be slowed down a little, and next year he should concentrate on the development of the two areas of the bitter cold land and the prairie.
As a result, there was the Wood Elf.
It's true that the plan can't keep up with the changes.
The days went by day by day.
At this time, most of the winter of Great Summer has passed.
Ordinary people may not feel it, but judging from the report compiled by the Meteorological Bureau, the temperature in the summer has begun to warm, but it is not very obvious.
After all, the difference between minus 25 degrees and minus 24 degrees can really be noticed by ordinary people?
On the other side, after a long journey of more than a month, Xue Li and the others finally arrived near the place where the wood elves lived, and it was probably less than a hundred miles away from the forest where the wood elves lived.
"After such a long journey, everyone is tired. Just take a break and eat something here. Xue Li, who was riding on horseback, turned his head and said to Arthur Wang and Tarke.
Hearing this, Arthur immediately nodded.
Tarke's words, even if he is now like an arrow, he can only obediently rest with the large army.
The troops rested for about two hours before setting off again.
The road city of more than a hundred miles is nothing in front of the mobility of the cavalry troops.
Soon, the large army was already approaching the residence of the Wood Elves.
The Wood Elves in the forest actually discovered their existence at the first time, but with Talk leading the way, they entered the Wood Elf forest unimpeded.
Then, the city of the Wood Elves entered everyone's eyes.
From the outside, the city is a bit ordinary, with walls less than ten meters high and moss and vines crawling on the walls.
Just as everyone was about to enter the city under the guidance of the surrounding wood elves, an anxious voice suddenly came from the depths of the forest.
"Don't go in! That's a trap!! ”
Hearing this shout, Xue Li and the surrounding wood elves changed their faces at the same time.
After that, I don't know who shouted again, and in the woods on both sides, sharp arrows suddenly flew towards them!
"Everyone, be careful!!"
While roaring loudly, Xue Li directly waved the spear in his hand and swept away the arrows that were shooting at him one by one.
However, not all soldiers had the skills of his, and in the midst of the chaotic arrows, screams rang out one after another.
Listening to these sounds, Xue Li's face instantly turned extremely hideous, and there was a ball of anger burning in his chest.
"Talke! What the hell is going on?! ”
As his soldiers continued to die, the furious Xue Li questioned Tarke.
At this moment, Tarke, who was also in the rain of arrows, was also a little dazed.
Because, even he himself is under attack.
Tark really never even dreamed that he, the patriarch of the wood elves, would be besieged and attacked by the wood elves!
Looking at Talke, who was treated like him, Xue Li suddenly understood in his heart that even he didn't know the reason for this matter.
If this wave of ambushes had been planned by him in advance, then the random arrows that had just been shot from the rounds would not have long eyes, what if he himself was killed?
There's no way Tarke wouldn't even want his own life in order to ambush them, right?
At the same time, he had no reason to ambush them.
After seeing the prosperity and strength of Great Xia, unless Tarke himself showed off his brain, he would never do such a thing.
The current situation, according to Xue Li's guess, is obviously what happened inside the Wood Elf clan during Tarke's absence.
Like rebellion or something.
After a few rounds of indiscriminate arrows, a large number of wood elves, with shields in their hands, struck out from both sides of the woods, and then launched a siege on them.
It was as if they were going to besiege and kill them here, and even Talke, who was the patriarch of the wood elves, became their target at this time.
"Stop it all! What do you want to do? I'm your patriarch!! ”
Tark roared frantically, trying to stop the Wood Elf soldiers' attacks.
However, as soon as these words were shouted, a cold voice came.
"Tarke, you have been deposed, and from now on, you are no longer our patriarch."
Tark subconsciously looked in the direction where the voice came from, and saw that the figure standing on the wall turned out to be the third elder of their clan, Luke!
"Recall?" The expression on Tarke's face changed dramatically in an instant.
"Luke, what authority do you have to remove me?!"
Hearing this, Luke smiled coldly and replied, "It's not that I have any power, it's the decision of the entire Wood Elf clan!" You have abandoned the traditions and glory of your ancestors and taken refuge in the High Elves and Humans, what qualifications do you have to continue to serve as the patriarch of the Wood Elf clan?! ”
Tarke's face turned pale in an instant, and when the Wood Elf clan chose the patriarch, it was not hereditary, but through the support of the clansmen.
If you can be supported by most of the people in the whole clan, then you can become the patriarch.
Therefore, the clansmen also have the power to remove the current patriarch.
It's just that Tark doesn't understand that he has been running around for the food of his people for several months, and as a result, when he is not in the clan, he was unilaterally deposed by his people?
Thinking of this, Tark couldn't help but feel like ashes, and his face also showed a sad expression.
Just then, the voice that had reminded them rang out again.
"This way! Talk to break through!! ”
"It's Adolf's voice!"
Hearing this, Tark's spirit was shocked, and he followed the direction from which the voice came, and saw the figure of his friend somewhere in the forest.
Adolf was surrounded by a troop of Wood Elves.
At this moment, his nose was inexplicably sour.
Then he hurriedly shouted at Xue Li: "General Xue Li, go this way!" ”
Xue Li, who heard this, after a slight hesitation, resolutely gritted his teeth and rushed in the direction pointed by Talke.
"Brothers, break through with me!!"
Xue Li's cavalry team formed a sharp knife when they rushed to kill, and he himself was the head of this sharp knife.
At this time, he led the remaining troops to break through strongly.
With a knife in his left hand and a gun in his right, Xue Li stabbed left and right in the local army, and in just a moment, he killed several Wood Elf soldiers who were trying to block his way.
After tearing a gap, the cavalry rushed out.
However, the complex terrain in the forest, and the surrounding trees are even more obstructive, which greatly affects the mobility of the cavalry, resulting in their speed not being able to increase at all.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the Elk Knights on the Wood Elf side, Talk's henchmen, were imprisoned at the beginning.
Otherwise, in this chase battle, Xue Li and they will fall into a more passive position.
They fled all the way, and the Wood Elf soldiers behind them chased them all the way.
These wood elves, when fighting in the forest, are so flexible that they can't fall off if they want to, which makes Xue Li upset.
It's not a way to go on like this, how difficult the wood elves are in the forest, Arthur Wang also knows in his heart that he has to think of some way.
In the blink of an eye, he had slowed down.
"You go first, I'll break off!"
With Xue Li and them, Arthur Wang didn't have a deep friendship, and he dared to stay and break the queen, so he naturally relied on it.
Seeing the moment those wood elves in the rear caught up, Arthur Wang waved the sigh of the wind in his hand, and directly swept towards those wood elves with a gust of wind.
Spells of the same rank can be cast by mages of different strengths, and their power will be different.
The Storm Technique attached to his Wind Sigh can only be said to be decent, but it is enough to deal with the Wood Elf chasers behind.
With a wave, a large number of pursuers were swept out on the spot.
However, at this time, after all, it was on the territory of the Wood Elves, and there were a large number of pursuers, and one storm spell was not enough to crush them all, and the Wood Elf soldiers who successfully avoided a storm spell in the back row quickly killed them.
Faced with such a situation, Arthur Wang was not ambiguous at all, and the sigh of the wind in his hand was waved again, and the second storm technique was directly crushed.
Then, regardless of the commotion behind him, King Arthur, who had swung two rounds of storm spells, rode the war horse under his crotch and turned his head and left.
At this moment, the wind demon core embedded in the sigh of the wind had once again become dim.
Arthur Wang's two wind spells bought everyone time to retreat.
Tark and the other wood elves who met them in front also jumped up the tree and covered them with bows and arrows on their backs.
Just when they thought they could maintain this momentum and escape from the forest in one go, a sharp and piercing eagle chirp suddenly came.
Directly above the forest, a giant eagle appeared chasing them!
Tarke, who had galloped to the front on horseback, saw this, and his whole face suddenly turned pale.