As a professional scout of the team, Xie Jinyou has learned the craft of drawing maps, simply writing and drawing, and a general topographic map is presented in front of Li Qing.

"Well, this terrain...."

This tribe of gnolls is built on the edge of a river valley, and to the west of the valley is a steep slope that is largely negligible.

Behind the tribe was a very complex mound of hills, full of trees, vines and thorns, and it was not easy to walk from there.

Directly on their side is to the south, a lush primeval jungle.

The one on the right is the east, which is probably the direction in which the gnolls usually go out, although there are also trees, but they are relatively sparse, and there are many paths that are stepped out of by the gnolls.

According to Xie Jin's map, there is no terrain to use in the four directions, and if you want to attack this gnoll tribe, you can only attack in the east.

And the defense of the Gnoll tribe is not weak, it is estimated that the danger in this face fragment is not low, there are other enemies, although the wall that encloses the entire tribe is wooden, but it is a wooden wall made of thick logs, which is thick and high in Xie Jin's description.

While painting, Xie Jin said to Li Qing:

"With the size of our army now, a frontal attack would be a loss."

Xie Zhu also agreed:

"We may be able to find a suitable place to set up a temporary camp and establish a simple defense, and then find a way to lure some of the gnolls over and annihilate them, as long as we can eliminate some of the gnolls outside, it will be easy to fight later."

"Go on, is there any other way?"

Xie Zhu paused for a moment and continued:

"If we have siege equipment, that's fine."

He looked at Li Qing:

"Your Excellency Li Qing, do you have any of these war weapons in your Divine Domain?"

"Hmm!"

Li Qing shook his head and said:

"There are siege weapons, but I don't think they will be of much use."

"Do you think we need to attack the Gnoll tribe head-on?"

Xie Zhu was stunned:

"Shall we not attack?"

Li Qing smiled:

"Of course, it's just to destroy this group of gnolls, but it doesn't mean that we want to attack the city head-on."

"This.... Is there a difference? ”

Xie Zhuqi said:

"If you don't attack the city, how can you completely wipe out this gnoll tribe?"

"Of course there is a way, we can't afford to attack the city head-on, but we can turn around and let the gnolls attack our city."

“？？？”

Not only Xie Zhu, but the two brothers Xie Jin and Xie Heng are full of question marks.

Li Qing smiled slightly, sold a pass, and said:

"Keep it a secret, and you'll find out then."

Looking back at his subordinates, he said to Xie Jin:

"Let's touch it first, I need to do a field survey of the terrain outside the Gnoll tribe."

Although Xie Jin had a question mark on his face, even though Li Qing said so, he didn't ask anything more, just nodded and said:

"Let's take a different path, there is a gnolls' watchtower at the edge of the valley, there are sentinels on it, and we will find it when we walk the valley."

"By the way, these gnolls have cultivated some land on the bed of the dry river valley to the west, and planted some unknown plants, presumably their food."

Li Qing nodded:

"You lead the way."

After speaking, he turned his head to look at his subordinates, and ordered in a low voice:

"Everybody be light, try not to make a loud noise."

With a wave of his hand, the troops followed Xie Jin, who had already set off.

Xie Jin didn't walk the river valley, but plunged headlong into the twisted jungle about ten meters away from the river valley.

Although difficult to walk, it will not be detected by the gnolls.

If it is a person walking this primeval jungle, it must be very troublesome, there are poisonous insects and poisonous snakes everywhere, and it is very troublesome to be bitten, but they are all regular troops, and their bodies are thick leather armor and even chain mail, and generally small snakes can't bite through.

Along the way, he used a knife to open the way, and it didn't take long to come to a place not far from the gnoll tribe.

The team stopped here, and Xie Jin and Li Qing continued to move forward under the escort of Long Shou.

It didn't take long for the jungle in front of him to begin to thin, and Li Qing soon saw the fire between the trees in front of the jungle, and when he got closer, he saw a tribe of gnolls established on the high ground.

The outer tents, the wooden houses, the inner stone houses, and the innermost appearance seem to have a stone hall, which looks like a feeling of disgust

Li Qing asked Xie Jin to take him around the tribe and observe from other directions.

This tribe of gnolls was built on a high ground near the river, or south of a hill, with no road to the west and north, only the south and east to enter and exit.

To the south is dense jungle, slightly sparse only near the gnolls, but not suitable for the deployment of siege equipment.

Only to the east, is the main area where the gnolls enter and exit, and there is a large open space where the gates of the gnolls tribe are built.

As Xie Jin said, the defense of this gnoll tribe is indeed extraordinary, the wooden city wall made of thigh-thick logs is five or six meters high, plus the slope difference of two or three meters, and the frontal attack is very disadvantageous.

Even what Xie Jin said was too tactful, under normal circumstances, without one or two hundred elite soldiers and professional siege equipment, it was impossible to capture this tribe.

Li Qing stood behind a bush, pinching his chin and looking at the clearing, thinking about how to use the terrain.

Or to put it another way, how to open this hanging.

This gnoll tribe is settled.

If you can capture it before the end of the month, you will make a lot of money.

It's not a resource, a gnoll tribe like this doesn't have to expect any too good resources, but another benefit.

According to the rules of this new era, if a tribe like this with a decent family, a racial hero, and a foreign tribe with a heritage can break through, it will be 100% able to plunder a treasure chest of loot that condenses the entire tribe's severed destiny.

There is a small probability that there is active matter in it.

If there is no essentia, it will 100% condense a hero transformation card, according to the strength of this gnoll tribe, the hero card should be a one-star star, which can transform into a one-star hero.

Of course, there is also a very small chance of directly obtaining a Gnoll Hero Card, and directly obtaining a Gnoll Hero after use.

In addition, 100% of the time will condense some Gnoll Cards and Gnoll Class Cards.

This thing can be used for your own use, and you can raise a group of gnolls as slaves and cannon fodder in your own god's domain.

Of course, the above are the benefits in most cases, and it is also possible to condense other related treasures.

After pondering for a while, Li Qing asked them to stand by and opened the door of the Divine Domain by himself and went in.

In fact, Li Qing already had a vague idea in his heart at this time.

First of all, the original city wall had to be modified.

It turns out that the city wall is three meters wide and four meters wide, and this height is not as high as the wooden wall of the jackals, not to mention the slope height of one or two meters, and the height is not dominant, so how can it be fought.

So....

Li Qing first collected sections of the city wall into the space in his palm, then disassembled them into stone powder, and then resynthesized a new section of the city wall.

Or it can no longer be called a city wall, but a hollow circular stone pillar with a diameter of ten meters, which is exactly the limit of the space that can be accommodated in the palm of the hand, but the length is twenty meters.

The bottom of the stone pillar is hollowed out in the shape of a bowl, because the flat bottom is solid and will not stand stable if the ground is uneven.

A one-meter-and-five-deep groove was dug at the top of the stone pillar, and the edges were shaped into a female wall battlement.

Then dig out a second layer under the half-meter-thick layer of stone below the top, and dig out the holes at the edges, so that the archers can hide in these holes and shoot out.

With a height of more than sixteen meters, it is completely possible to suppress the outer wall of the jackal.

Li Qing only made two such stone pillars.

Coupled with the original two solid and four hollow arrows with a total of six ten-meter-high arrow towers, it is basically enough.

Then, there is the extremely important siege weapon.

He had retracted his previous thoughts, and felt that he still needed some siege weapons, at least to smash a hole in the city gate or wall.

Li Qing used thick logs to assemble huge components, including two huge counterweight solid stones, and then directly put them together at one time, forming them as a whole, and a large counterweight trebuchet was formed.

The main principle of the so-called counterweight trebuchet is to convert the potential energy of the falling weight into kinetic energy and shoot the cannonball at the other end of the lever.

The weight of its counterweight counterweight is usually more than five tons, and it is ten tons and twenty tons at every turn, which leads to the very large body of the catapult and is extremely inconvenient to move.

It is precisely because the counterweight stones are heavy enough that the stones thrown out are also heavy, hundreds of kilograms at every turn, and exaggerated can reach thousands of kilograms.

With such a heavy stone thrown out, even a strong stone wall can be forcibly smashed open.

The main difficulty in building this thing is to build such a large and strong enough shelf, and the ropes that can withstand the constant use of more than a dozen tons of counterweight boulders, and the boom bars that can withstand more than a dozen tons of torsion, but are not very thick.

But these are not big problems for Li Qing.

When the internal molecular structure of the wood is arranged tightly enough, the solidity of the wood increases.

This is also Li Qing's experience after many times of decomposition and synthesis, and he found that the arrangement of wood fibers will affect various factors of wood.

First, the wood is synthesized into tighter wood fibers according to the principle of wood fibers, and then a large number of wood fibers are combined into whole wooden strips, so that the same arrangement of wood fibers is combined into a wooden stick, and the hardness of this wooden stick is far greater than that of casually synthesized wood with the same tight texture.

This wood is very tough, and the strength of a small piece is very high, which can be used as a lever for a trebuchet.

Of course, after all, without other treatment, this thing is still not durable enough, and it may crack or break after a dozen uses.

But it's not a big problem, and it's good to be able to use it a dozen times.

A few hundred kilograms of stones thrown out, and it only takes a few hits to smash the wooden wall open, which is enough.

It's a pity that you can't fly, otherwise you can fly into the air at a height of thousands of meters and throw a ten-meter-sized stone down directly, and anything can collapse.

The rope is also operated in this way, Li Qing directly uses fine iron to pull out thin steel wires, and then twists them into a strand with the normal rope, so that the rope will not be too hard like steel, and will not be too fragile like a simple hemp rope.

Anyway, you only need to use it a dozen times, so make do with it.

Or the lack of resources at hand, if the resources are sufficient, many problems are not a problem.

Get ready, Li Qing walked out of the Divine Domain, and was about to find his subordinates to assign tasks, but he saw An Yiqiu coming over with a solemn face, and said in a low voice:

"Boss, someone wants to see you."

“？？？”

Li Qing didn't react to the meaning of this sentence at first.

But the next second realized something, and was surprised:

"Are there other teams nearby?"

An Yiqiu nodded:

"When you weren't there just now, Xie Jin found someone snooping near us, at first he thought it was some kind of ferocious beast, but later he found out that it was a stalker hero."

.....

"What about people?"

"Wait outside."

"Let him come."

An Yiqiu nodded and turned to leave.

After a while, he, Xie Zhu and the others walked over with a thin man dressed in black and his face covered with a black cloth.

Li Qing squinted at the man slightly and asked:

"Who are you with?"

The man replied:

"My boss is Chu Zaizhong."

"He's off too?"

Li Qing's eyebrows were slightly raised, but he was not surprised.

Chu Zai's easiest to awaken is the bloodline of the fierce horse giant beast, so he takes the same melee route as Cao Wenyuan, and he doesn't need to learn a bunch of law courses, so it's not strange to go out to practice in advance.

The man nodded:

"My boss set off half a month ago, I found this gnoll tribe a week ago, and I've been preparing, but I didn't expect to find your team today, the boss asked me to come over and inform you that this gnoll tribe was discovered by us first."

Li Qing frowned slightly:

"And then?"

"According to the rules, we first find out that this gnoll tribe belongs to us, unless we can't beat it, or give up."

.....

Li Qing rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"I know the rules, and I approve of them."

"But, how do I know that you found out first, anyway, I didn't find any trace of you before I came, there is no evidence, you have to give me a reason to believe."

Li Qing didn't panic, they really wanted to come up with evidence to prove that he turned around and left without saying a word.

In the wild, during an apprenticeship, there are some default unspoken rules to follow.

If you don't comply, the next time you encounter something like this, others can also disobey.

The black-clad stalker was silent for a moment, momentarily speechless.

Li Qing smiled:

"I keep the rules, but you have to prove that you really came before me, otherwise I can't just give up the immediate benefits and leave just by saying a word from you."

After a long moment, the black-clad stalker said:

"My boss's camp is nearby, let him come and talk to you."

"Yes, I'll wait for him here."

The man in black turned around and left, and after a dozen steps, his figure quickly faded and disappeared, at first Li Qing could still vaguely perceive it, but after a few seconds, this perception also disappeared.

Around twenty minutes, someone saw a few fires approaching in the dark forest.

After waiting for a few minutes, I saw that the fire was two torches, and a dozen infantry escorted an acquaintance.

They stopped not far from Li Qing's temporary camp, and Chu Zaizhong shouted:

"Your Excellency Li Qing, I'm here."

Li Qing also walked out under the escort of Long Shou, and the two stopped about ten meters opposite each other.

Chu Zaizhong looked at Long Shou, who was more than three meters tall and looked like a little giant, with envious eyes, and said to Li Qing a little:

"Ming people don't say dark words, although I arrived a week ago, but in order not to startle the snake, I didn't do anything to this gnoll tribe, and I can't show evidence to prove that I came first."

"I know that you will definitely not be willing to let you quit, in this way, I will give you 500,000, you give me three days, if I don't capture this tribe after three days, I will immediately turn around and leave, I don't care what you do later, how?"

"This ....."

Li Qing was silent for a moment, and was about to respond, when Xie Jin's figure suddenly appeared and whispered in his ear:

"Your Excellency Li Qing, I just went to their side for a turn, and found that they had just arrived."