Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle of West Valley City (Part I)
Guo Dafu looked at the soldiers of the Holy Tree Kingdom who were cheering and celebrating, but he felt in his heart that this White Elephant King was really not easy to deal with!
Everything just now is obviously the temptation that the White Elephant King has been planning for a long time! If the Sacred Tree King hadn't been strong enough just now, then the White Elephant King might have taken the opportunity to strike together.
Compared to those reckless and impulsive beasts, this cautious beast king is the biggest threat!
Presumably, the Sacred Tree King also saw the other party's plan, so although he repelled the 'three-legged golden crow' with one move, he did not continue to chase and fight, and did not expose more of his means, so that the white elephant king still had scruples and did not dare to make a move in person.
After another two hours or so, the White Elephant Empire's army attacking West Valley City finally arrived.
Guo Dafu took a telescope and secretly observed, and found that the number of enemy troops was more than what Dark Green said, about 60,000 people.
Among them, about 40,000 are cannon fodder composed of fierce beasts of various races, and the remaining 20,000 are the soldiers and horses that really belong to the White Elephant Empire.
Those cannon fodder were obviously cobbled together everywhere along the way, and there were many types, including more common beasts such as bone spur wild dogs and terrifying caracals, as well as some types of fierce beasts that Guo Dafu saw for the first time.
Among them, there are two that Guo Dafu pays the most attention to, one is the long-tailed leopard, and the other is the giant toothed jackal.
The strength of these two fierce beasts is very strong, and the weakest of them all have the degree of the acquired fivefold, of which the number of the acquired sevenfold is more than a hundred, and their leaders are all second-order transcendent beasts, judging from the aura they exude, they are stronger than Guo Dafu.
Most of the long-tailed leopard beasts are more than two meters long, with a large tail longer than its body behind it, two sharp saber teeth in its mouth, and its black claws shining with metallic luster, which is also very lethal at first glance.
As for the jackal, the size is similar to that of the long-tailed leopard, but it does not have the long tail of the other party, that is, the head appears relatively large, which makes its overall look a little top-heavy.
And behind these cannon fodder troops, there are the core troops of the White Elephant Empire, and the strongest of them are obviously six giant elephants whose strength has also reached the second order, and these giant elephants are all more than ten meters tall and nearly twenty meters long. A pair of tusks poking out of its mouth are also more than two meters long, like two sharp knives, once these giant elephants charge, relying on this tusks alone, they can easily poke most of the enemies to death.
On the backs of these six giant elephants, there are still many riders, and these riders are obviously fused with some of the blood of the white elephant king, and some have some mutations on their bodies, some have grown ivory, and some have grown elephant trunks and the like. The more seriously mutated the elephant warriors, the taller they are, and the tallest batch is more than two meters tall, which is a head taller than Guo Dafu.
As the core force of the White Elephant Empire, these giant elephants and elephant warriors are also very well-equipped, and they are all covered with heavy iron armor, and most of those elephant warriors also carry large shields covered with iron skin, obviously to resist the rain of arrows from the archers of the Holy Tree Kingdom.
In terms of weapons, there are more variety, such as broadswords, axes, maces, and so on. The elephant-man warriors on the backs of the giant elephants were armed with long-range weapons such as bows and arrows and javelins.
With the sound of a loud horn, about two thousand beast soldiers were immediately separated from the cannon fodder troops on the opposite side, and began to slowly approach Xigu City.
This is mainly because the terrain in front of Xigu City is too narrow, there is only a passage tens of meters wide, and there are too many troops to let it go.
And the strength of this first wave of cannon fodder is also the weakest, and it is obviously specially used to find a way to die.
Although they knew this, Guo Dafu and they could not let the enemy army get close to the city, and after the other party approached about a hundred meters in front of Xigu City, rows of crossbowmen popped up on the walls of Xigu City, and then shot a dense number of arrows at the fierce beasts and cannon fodder who were downwind.
At the same time, on the mountain walls on both sides, the crossbowmen who had been hiding among the branches of the dryads also struck one after another, shooting arrows at the poor cannon fodder.
Faced with arrows attacking from three sides at the same time, those cannon fodder beasts were suddenly shot down in pieces like wheat in front of the harvester, and the trebuchets and bed crossbows on the city wall did not have time to fire, and the two thousand enemy troops were almost killed, leaving only a large number of fierce beast corpses with arrows stuck in their bodies.
The commander of the enemy army who was observing the battle situation in the rear couldn't help but feel numb on his scalp when he saw this, such a dense rain of arrows, no one could please him!
It's a pity that since the above order has come down, he can't disobey it, and now he can only hope that the cannon fodder along the road can help them consume more enemy arrows, once the two sides start a melee battle, he believes that his warriors can definitely easily hammer the sissies who can only play with bows in the Holy Tree Kingdom.
With a wave of his big hand, the second attack began, this time with two thousand beast soldiers on the ground, and thousands of evil fire crows in their mouths to cover them.
Guo Dafu saw that those evil fire crows in his mouth were quickly approaching, and immediately changed the target of the attack, after all, these evil fire crows can breathe fire!
Wood is the most afraid of fire, and it would be terrible to let these guys light a fire on the dryads.
In fact, not only Guo Dafu thought of this, but the other crossbowmen also thought of this, so for a while, the dense rain of arrows suddenly enveloped the evil fire crows who were rapidly approaching.
However, these evil fire crows will not be stupidly shot down by arrows, and they open their mouths one by one, and spit out tongues of fire several meters long from their mouths.
Under the scorching flames, the shafts and feathers of the arrows were quickly scorched and destroyed, and then one by one fell from the sky, many of which even smashed into the dryads, which stimulated these big guys to hurriedly twist together the branches and form arms on their bodies for fear of fighting fires.
Seeing that the arrows were difficult to effectively damage these evil fire crows, the crossbowmen could only stop shooting, and then the trebuchet on the city wall fired a stone bullet, which smashed into the big crows, and the tree spirits, who also scooped up the huge stones with the size of a millstone, and threw them at the evil fire crows.
In the face of these big stones, the flames are not good, except for a few second-order evil fire crows who can rely on excellent reflexes and speed to dodge, other evil fire crows, once locked by these big stones, have almost no chance of surviving, after all, the body structure of bird beasts is much more fragile than land beasts, and even the bones are hollow, not to mention a frontal hit, even if they are rubbed to the edge, they will be shaken off by the huge force carried on the stone projectile, and then fall from the air.
Unfortunately, the number of trebuchets and tree spirits was limited, and it was impossible to stop all the evil fire crows, and soon many evil fire crows successfully broke through the blockade and began to spit out pillars of fire at those tree spirits.
The flames spewed out by these fire crows were very hot, and once they were spit out on the dryads, they would ignite clusters of flames, burning the dryads with a low roar of pain.
And the spread of the flames also greatly affected the soldiers of the Holy Tree Kingdom who fired bows and arrows on the tree spirits, and the arrows shot were suddenly much thinner, allowing the beast soldiers attacking from the ground below to take the opportunity to approach the city wall little by little.
Guo Dafu was also on one of the tree spirits, and seeing that there were several evil fire crows surrounding him, spitting flames from his mouth, he immediately waved his hands in a row, and used the power of his palm palm to instantly absorb these flames, and finally condensed into a large fireball with a diameter of more than one meter in front of him.
"Come and taste the flames, too!" Guo Dafu roared, pushed forward with both palms, and bombarded this big fireball at an evil fire flying crow with a wingspan of more than five meters.
This evil fire crow obviously didn't expect that the other party would be able to push back the flames they spit out, and without defense, it was immediately bombarded, and the fireball wrapped in Guo Dafu's strong palm power shattered the internal organs of this evil fire crow at once, screaming and spitting out a mouthful of blood before falling from the air.
At the same time, those dryads were also desperately fighting back, but unfortunately their movements were too slow, and they often slapped them over, and those evil fire crows had already dodged early, so that these dryads could only pounce on the air.
After Guo Dafu discovered this, he instantly entered the transformation form, turning into a small giant with a height of more than three meters, and then kicked the trunk of the tree, and rushed out like a cannonball, and in the blink of an eye, he came to the body of an evil fire flying crow with second-order strength, and grabbed the opponent's two bird claws.
This evil fire flying crow with a wingspan of more than ten meters, the pillar of fire spit out of its mouth is extremely thick, and it can spit out the pillar of fire twenty or thirty meters away, which can be said to be the most threatening kind for the tree spirits, so Guo Dafu was the first to target the other party.
His legs were suddenly grabbed, and the evil fire crow suddenly felt its body sink, and it was almost torn off the air by Guo Dafu.
And just as he was trying to flap his wings and try to stabilize his body again, the tree spirit below that had already been reminded by Guo Dafu's divine thoughts suddenly raised two thick arms composed of many branches, like a mosquito, and suddenly closed his palms together at this evil fire flying crow.
After a crack, the Flame Raven was snapped to pieces, and after the dryad retracted its palm, it fell from the air like a broken doll.
At this time, Guo Dafu kicked his legs hard in the air, relying on his own strong internal force to volley into the void, and continued to chase towards an evil fire flying crow with the ninefold strength of the day after tomorrow not far away.
After the martial artist breaks through to the innate realm, he can rely on the pure internal force that has undergone qualitative changes to fly in the air for a short time like Guo Dafu, but this consumes a lot of internal force, so Guo Dafu has never done this before, and this time it is also to solve these evil fire crows as soon as possible, so he will play air combat for the first time regardless of the loss of internal force.
The evil fire flying crow with the ninefold strength of the day after tomorrow saw Guo Dafu quickly approaching him, and immediately panicked, after all, it had seen the tragic death of his companion just now, so it didn't want to follow in his footsteps!
However, just as it was trying to flap its wings to speed up its escape from Guo Dafu's pursuit, Dark Green quietly appeared on its escape route, and then raised one of its forelimbs and slashed at it.
With a pop, the left wing of this evil fire crow was suddenly slashed by a dark green knife and shot blood, leaving only a little bit of flesh and skin still connected.