Chapter Thirty-Nine: Chu Zaizhong's Return to the Horse Gun
A large number of kobolds staggered through the wooden houses, the stone houses, to the stone hall in the center of the tribe.
The distance was too far, coupled with the fact that the plane was dark, the light in front of the stone hall was not very sufficient, and most importantly, there seemed to be a layer of fog shrouded near the stone hall, Li Qing couldn't see clearly what some shadows around the stone hall were.
I don't know if it's the guards of the stone hall or the statue.
Anyway, these kobolds have never appeared again since they entered the stone hall, but the palpitations coming from the direction of the stone hall are getting stronger and stronger, and at the same time, the fog in the direction of the stone hall has begun to slowly turn gray.
Li Qing didn't do anything, and even stopped suppressing it remotely.
He just took the opportunity to open the door of the Divine Domain, collected all the corpses of the wounded soldiers and the soldiers killed in battle, and put the two heavy stone pillars with a diameter of ten meters and a height of twenty meters that existed in the Divine Domain into the space in his palm.
After coming out of the Divine Domain, he directly took out one of them and placed it in front of the arrow tower, and transferred all the infantry and long-range to the top of the stone pillar.
From the teacher's teaching, in the face of this kind of situation that you have never seen and cannot know, and you feel that it is not good, prepare for the worst first, wait and see what happens, and don't bury your head in the past, there is a high probability that you will suffer.
Unless you are crushed by your own strength, you will focus on stability.
At the same time, in the jungle about a kilometer from the gnoll tribe, there was an army on a rapid march.
Chu Zaizhong looked up into the distance and smiled happily:
"He Li Qing definitely didn't expect that I would kill a horse pistol, this time I want to disintegrate his force and destroy his living forces, I see what he will fight with us in half a month."
Stalker hero Wang Qiyong echoed with a smile:
"Destroy his army, let's capture this gnoll tribe again, the benefits we get will definitely make our strength go further, and we will at least be able to enter the top three at that time."
Chu Zaizhong nodded and said:
"At least the top three, if there are good things in the condensed treasure chest, maybe you can go further and compete for one!"
Chu Zaizhong did not hide his ambitions, and said in a deep voice:
"The first place in the year-end summary under the name of each mentor is eligible to participate in the first-year camp of the joint training camp jointly organized by many realm masters under the command of the Supreme Order Divine Throne in a year's time, and if you can get good results in the joint training camp, you will receive a large number of rewards that ordinary war lords will be jealous of."
"Rankings or anything are not something I can covet, I just want to be on the list of heroes!"
Wang Qiyong laughed and said:
"Boss, your bloodline is a fierce beast, this is the top strong battle bloodline in the middle bloodline, as long as you can awaken before the final exam, no one under Nie Yang's name can compete with you."
Chu Zaizhong smiled slightly and did not refute.
Time passed, and after about ten minutes, after the gray mist in the direction of the stone tower was thick to a certain point, it suddenly shrank into the stone hall, and then Li Qing sensed a powerful evil aura emerging.
"What is this?"
A bad feeling suddenly appeared in Li Qing's heart.
This feeling made him alarmed, and almost without hesitation ordered:
"Can't fight, prepare to retreat!"
There's no real threat to this thing, but it feels very bad to him.
A Gnoll hero has already pinned down two of his strongest forces, and if there is anything unpredictable, once the loss is too great, it will seriously affect his growth rate.
His current capital is too small to allow him to try and make mistakes.
The troops quickly descended the ladder inside the stone pillar, and then retreated under the command of An Yiqiu.
Halfway through the retreat, he suddenly heard a low roar from the direction of the Gnoll Tribe, Li Qing quickly turned around and saw a gray light rising in the direction of the central stone hall of the Gnoll Tribe.
Immediately after, a tall figure walked out of the stone hall.
It's too far away to see clearly, but you can feel a strong aura of death.
"The undead?"
Soon a second, equally tall figure was seen walking out, followed by a third.
"!"
Li Qing instantly understood what it was.
If you guessed correctly, it was a dead gnoll warrior of the past generations, and the corpse was kept in the stone hall with a secret method, and it could be forcibly awakened to battle through necromancy.
Although this thing is dead, it will temporarily regain its combat effectiveness after a large amount of flesh and blood sacrifices, and in a short period of time, each combat power will not be inferior to the leader of the gnolls just now.
"Hurry up!"
After a rush to withdraw the army, and when everyone evacuated from the stone pillar, Li Qing quickly opened the space in his palm and put the stone pillar back away, and retreated under the protection of Long Shou.
Fortunately, that thing had just woken up, and Li Qing reacted quickly, and only after cleaning up the first few tall figures that came out did he start to leave the stone hall and rush towards the city gate.
The troops quickly left the gnolls and ran towards the camp not far away.
As soon as he rushed into the jungle, there was a sudden shout from ahead:
"What people!"
"There are enemies."
Li Qing immediately stretched out his hand and pointed, and a ball of light flew out and floated forward.
Under the illumination of the light technique, he saw an army rushing out of the jungle in front of him, which was almost twice the size of his own, and the infantry in the center surrounded a familiar figure, which was none other than Chu Zaizhong, who had withdrawn before.
He clasped his hands and looked proud:
"What a coincidence, we meet again."
Li Qing didn't answer at all, but only hesitated for less than two seconds before making a decision, and ordered in a loud voice:
"Long Shou, you lead the second and third squads of infantry to intercept them, and the other troops continue to retreat towards the camp."
Then he whispered in Long Shou's ear:
"Save your life, retreat in thirty seconds!"
Long Shou did not hesitate to receive the order, drew his sword from behind and strode towards Chu Zaizhong.
"The 2nd and 3rd Infantry Squads follow me!"
Chu Zaizhong was stunned for a moment, grinning and laughing:
"You all saw it, it was him Li Qing who made the first move, and I was just defending myself."
In the next second, he quickly drew his sword and stabbed forward:
"The first squadron of infantry advances, the long-range squadron assists in suppression, and the cavalry squad flanks and detours."
Li Qing ignored the battle behind and led the remaining troops to quickly rush to the camp not far away.
Wang Qiyong asked Chu Zaizhong in a low voice:
"Boss, do you want to intercept it?"
Chu Zaizhong shook his head:
"Don't be in a hurry, let's eat the infantry of these two squads first, and then slowly concoct it later."
Fortunately, the camp was not very far from the jackal camp that had been established before, and after half a minute, the outline of the camp in the darkness had already been seen, and An Yiqiu, who was running at the front, shouted from afar:
"Open the door!"
The people who were guarding the camp saw them by the light of the fire, and quickly shouted to the guards below:
"Open the door, the lord is back."
With a dull sound of the door opening, the team quickly rushed into the city gates.
"Close the door!"
"What about the brothers in the back?"
"The door is ajar, leaving only a crack!"
At this time, Li Qingyi entered the camp, exhaled lightly, and immediately ordered:
"All men go up to the walls and get ready for battle."
He himself went up to the city wall as soon as possible, and saw that the battle in the distance was nearing the end, and Chu Zaizhong's large army was chasing and killing a remnant of the army.
One team is ten people, and two teams of twenty people are only about half of the effort.
Most of his infantrymen who survived so much were elite, physically stronger, and ran faster.
"Remotely prepare to cover suppress!"
Dozens of arrows were thrown into the enemy line, and a crisp sound of arrows entering the wood and a few muffled snorts and screams were heard.
Chu Zaizhong's long-range troops immediately returned the color, and another rain of arrows sprinkled over, and two of the ten figures fell.
A few seconds later, a second rain of arrows fell as the infantry reached the gates, and two more fell.
In the end, only six infantry fled into the city, and with a muffled thud, the thick wooden door slammed shut.
Seeing this, Chu Zaizhong loudly ordered his subordinates to stop attacking,
"Stop!"
The striker stopped an arrow away from the city wall, and seeing this, Li Qing also ordered his subordinates to stop attacking.
Chu Zaizhong walked out of his subordinates surrounded by several third-order elite infantry wearing scale armor, and shouted at the city wall:
"I wonder if you thought you would be here a few days ago?"
Li Qing didn't answer his words, but looked up at the side of the Gnoll Tribe, and there was a sly smile on his face that made Chu Zaizhong feel bad:
"I really didn't expect you to be so patient and be able to stay up for so long, I admit this."
"Before taunting, though, you'd better make sure you've really won."
As soon as the words fell, a low roar that did not resemble a human voice suddenly came from the direction of the gnoll tribe.
The roar is not loud, but it contains a deterrent power that makes people feel palpitations.
Chu Zaizhong's face changed slightly, and he ordered immediately:
"The whole army retreated fifty paces, the second infantry squadron was ready to meet the battle, the long-range squadron turned direction, the first squadron left one and two squads to continue to maintain a defensive posture, and the third and fourth squadrons were on standby."
After giving the order in one breath, he looked at Li Qing and asked with a little hesitation:
"You knew I was going to be back?"
Li Qing shook his head and said:
"Although I really want to kill people, the truth is that I really didn't expect you to be so tolerant, and you really killed a horse gun."
"It's just that I'm a little lucky, you just came here just when you retreated, and retreated before you intercepted it."
Speaking of this, Li Qing really wiped his sweat for narrowly avoiding a catastrophe.
It's not that he didn't think that Chu Zaizhong was a fake evacuation, but he had the space in his palm to store the arrow tower and various fortifications of the city wall, thinking that he really wanted to be killed by him and hide directly in the arrow tower and the high wall, whether it was the jackal or Chu Zaizhong, he couldn't help himself.
But he didn't expect this group of gnolls to have such a thing.
Judging from the intensity of the aura exuded by those guys and the height of the jump, it is unlikely that they will jump up directly.
But if there were enough third-order creatures like the uncommon template of the gnoll leader Larson, and if there was a powerful gnolll necromancer behind the stone hall, the pillar would not be so safe.
The mage's methods are unpredictable, even if it is only a third-order mage, there is a way to bring down his stone tower.
Fortunately, he was lucky and decisive enough, so he narrowly escaped.
And he escaped, and Chu Zaizhong, who ran headlong into this group of jackal death warriors, was unlucky.
Chu Zaizhong didn't have time to continue asking, and the infantry in place had already seen a tall figure rushing quickly, and there were several figures rushing quickly behind.
At the same time, a second-order mage hero who accompanied the army had already cast a light spell, and a ball of light rose and floated forward, seeing the dense blood-colored magic patterns and corpse pustules on the bodies of the tall figures.
"Damn, it's the undead!"
At the same time, the gates of the gnolls tribe not far away had been opened, and a large number of gnolls drove the kobolds towards this direction.
Chu Zaizhong quickly calculated the number of these jackals compared to his own strength, and felt that he could fight.
But the premise is that Li Qing's side is not involved.
But
On his side, he had just killed more than a dozen of Li Qing's subordinates
Chu Zaizhong's people are numb.
He looked up at the city wall and saw Li Qing looking over with a smile on his face.
He opened his mouth to speak, but Li Qing directly stretched out his hand to stop him:
"Don't say it, it's useless to say anything, I will definitely stab you when you are in the most danger, otherwise I will be sorry for my dead subordinates."
Chu Zaizhong was stunned.
But he didn't stay stunned for long, because there was no time, and the fastest gnoll undead had already rushed in front of him.
With the speed of this gnolloll undead, it was impossible for him to get rid of it.
If there was only one, there were several behind the problem, plus the following jackals and kobolds, as well as Li Qing, who was looking at him and was delayed, he would not be able to escape at all.
The Gnoll Undead is transformed from the dead Gnoll Leader, and although they lose the hero template outside of their death, they are also the horror template above the elite, second only to the Lord template, and are very powerful.
Although he was not equipped with weapons, his pair of arms did not look intrinsic, but were connected to the claws of other fierce beasts with the suture surgery of the undead, and the sharp claws more than ten centimeters long were slapped down, directly chiseling through the thick wooden shields of the infantry in the front row.
With a twist and a force, the wooden shield that was chiseled through cracked.
But before it could make a move, the prey in front of it was dragged behind, and the other infantry squeezed over and continued to shield the follow-up attack.
At the same time, seven or eight long swords were cut down, and three or four long swords poked down from the cracks of the people, and more than a dozen wounds of different sizes immediately appeared on the body of the jackal undead warrior, many pustules were cut, and the dark green corpse water soared, and a disgusting stench came to the face.
The few infantrymen who were close to the corpse water immediately felt extremely nauseous and felt a little dizzy.
Chu Zaizhong was keenly aware of this and shouted loudly:
"The corpse water is poisonous, be careful not to get too much on your body."
"The pikemen stepped forward, ready to prop up the undead."
At this time, the second gnolwolf undead had already rushed forward with a rain of arrows, and several infantry formed a formation to meet them.
The arrows stuck in their bodies felt nothing, and even one of them stuck in the center of their eyebrows did not affect its movement.
This is not an ordinary zombie, it should be similar to a spliced undead golem, compared to the fatal wounds of normal zombies, they can no longer be affected.
A succession of gnolls rushed over, and the infantry in the front row stepped forward to resist, and the pikemen stabbed hard into the gnolls along the front of the infantry, and the corpses flew in the water, but they still could not be killed.
Some warriors swung their swords to cut off the arms of these gnolls undead, but although the outer skin of these gnolls was not hard, the flesh and blood inside were extremely tight and resilient after being treated by necromancy.
The infantry's sharp swords cut down, and they couldn't get an inch into the flesh for an inch or two.
The spear is sharp and can pierce deeper, but it is not a fatal wound.
Chu Zaizhong frowned and observed a little, and asked the man wearing a magic robe and holding a magic staff behind him:
"Is there a way to fix it?"
(End of chapter)