Xue Yunling is one of the eighteen War Lord apprentices under the name of the three-star mentor Era Jia, and is currently ranked fifth.

As soon as the two-month study period ended, he began to explore the outside world, and was the first of the eighteen apprentices to enter this large plane fragment, and it was also the most radical.

After a short period of reconnaissance, the other apprentices had just entered the plane, and he had already led his troops into the depths of the plane.

After crossing a hilly terrain and reaching a plain area, the scouting hero discovers a snake village.

Determining the strength of the snake man village, and finding out the general situation of the snake man town not far away, Xue Yunling formulated a blitzkrieg plan.

Prepare to wipe out the guards of this snake village and complete the sack before the snake town reacts and sends out troops.

"The weather is fair!"

Xue Yunling looked up at the gray and black sky, after reconnaissance, this time should be the time when the snake people and the slaves are close to the end of work, and after a while, the slaves who are busy in the farmland will return to the village one after another, and then they can quietly touch the edge of the village and launch an attack.

Just as he swept his gaze across the sky, he saw a rather large shadow in the sky pass overhead.

However, he didn't care, there were a small number of aerial raptors in this plane, and there was no threat to them.

An hour later, a crisp trumpet sounded in the valley, and a coaxing voice sounded:

"There are all of them, the first infantry squadron and the first archer squadron form the first wing, commanded by Wang Yiheng, and attack the gate of the snake village from the front."

"The 2nd Infantry Squadron and the 2nd Marksman Squadron form the 2nd Wing, commanded by a single section, and attack the snake man village from the left."

"The cavalry squadron is commanded by Li Bin, and the rear sweeps the formation to intercept the fleeing snake people."

"The other troops form the third wing, which is under my command."

"Let's go!"

With an order, Li Qing descended from a high altitude and saw the troops that had been squatting in the valley slowly driving out, dividing into two groups and touching the snake man village under the cover of night.

By this time the slaves who had been working in the fields had returned, and the fields were deserted, and no one could detect that a regular army was approaching the village.

It wasn't until he was less than 100 meters close to the village that he was spotted by the snake man on the village sentry tower, and a piercing alarm bell sounded in the village.

The human forces did not pause and rushed straight to the entrance of the village.

And the snake people were not afraid, only two dozen regular snake people soldiers led forty or fifty vassal lizardmen with weapons rushed out, blocking the human troops at the entrance of the village.

A large number of snake men and vassal lizardmen archers with bows climbed up to the two wooden guard towers at the entrance of the village and shot condescendingly.

These snake men are very strong in frontal combat, and any one of them can suppress a fully armed regular infantry head-on, and if you take on the human infantry alone, you will definitely not be able to do it.

It's a pity that there are too few snake people, and here the human side has the advantage in numbers.

By the time Xue Yunling led the Third Wing to arrive, the leader of the snake people in the village had already driven a large number of slaves and rushed out with hoes, axes and other farm tools.

There were four or five hundred people in the whole village, and even if only half of the slaves were driven over, it was not small.

These slaves have been enslaved for generations, and they have long had no intention of resisting, and they flocked to the entrance of the village under the drive of the snake people, and their momentum was not low for a while.

But a slave is a slave, and no matter how high the morale is, it is no match for the regular army.

Wang Yiheng, who commanded the command, only divided a small army of infantry to go up, and then ordered all the archers to gather fire on the slaves, and a wave of arrows rained down less than ten slaves and wounded more than a dozen, but the morale of the slaves was fatal, and he suddenly became afraid.

After three waves of arrows, more than 200 slaves lost their morale and did not dare to step forward.

Later, Xue Yunling saw this and immediately ordered the cavalry to charge the slave soldiers, and the horse's hooves sounded like thunder on the battlefield.

At the same time, the 2nd Wing had gone around to the back door at the rear of the village and launched an attack on the back door that was guarding the emptiness.

At this moment, more than a dozen more well-equipped snake people from the village rushed out, led by a red-scaled snake man with scales different from other green snake people, and he opened his mouth to spat out some snake people they didn't understand.

Of course, there was no response, and no one understood.

Seeing this, the snake man snorted coldly, stretched out his hand, and most of the snake man rushed to the battlefield, and he himself closed his hands to form a seal, and there were words in his mouth, a little red fire condensed between his hands, and quickly condensed into a huge fireball, and the blazing heat quickly attracted the attention of humans not far away.

"Ma, there are also third-order mages in the small village?"

Xue Yunling was dumbfounded for a moment, and it was too late to remind him at this time, only to see a blazing red fireball flying into the battlefield.

"Boom!"

The dazzling flames exploded on the battlefield, instantly covering a range of about five meters, and exploded directly in the middle of the first shooter of the First Wing, and the screams only lasted for a moment before they stopped.

"Holy!"

This red-scaled snake man is a warlock hero, and this fireball technique is a hero spell, and more than half of the fifty or so archers in a squadron are lost in an instant, which can be called a heavy loss.

This loss also startled Li Qing, he, like Xue Yunling, didn't expect that a small snake man village would have a third-order or higher law hero, which was completely unexpected.

Information asymmetry on the battlefield, this is the consequence.

After one fireball, the snake man warlock continued to rub the second fireball.

But at this time, Xue Yunling had already reacted, or the stalker hero in the team had reacted and disappeared silently.

But the second fireball technique could not be stopped, even if Wang Yiheng, who commanded the first wing, ordered the back row to disperse, but the killing range of five meters in diameter was too large, as long as it hit, even the fourth-order troops could not carry it.

When the second flame exploded, the six shooters burned to charcoal.

At the same time, other units were affected by the explosion, and their morale dropped significantly.

It is also the Divine Domain troops that are upgraded from the promotion card, and they are affected by the magic circle in the promotion circle, and the morale threshold is very high, and the indigenous army will collapse early.

The snake man warlock released two fireballs in a row, his face showed a cruel look, his eyes looked at the human infantry in front of him, and began to rub the third fireball.

But when he started to prepare to cast the spell, he suddenly felt a chill behind him, and subconsciously turned around, and saw a flash of cold light in his afterglow, and then a pain in his neck, and his foreground seemed to be spinning.

The black-clothed figure suddenly appeared, and then quickly disappeared, leaving behind a snake man who had lost his head and staggered and fell to the ground.

At this time, the four snake guards around reacted, but it was too late.

"It's over!"

Li Qing sat on the giant eagle and said lightly.

Without heroes, how many snake man guards can there be in a village, it is impossible to be the opponent of this army.

Even if the snake people themselves have stronger physical fitness than humans, these snake people have a minimum level of 9, and they are level 18 official warriors once advanced, all of them are elite templates, and their physical fitness is 30% stronger than that of humans of the same level, and they can challenge the higher level of non-powerful races, but the number is too small.

However, this battle also reminded him that the snake civilization of this plane is a civilization with a complete inheritance, the regular army is all elite, and there are a large number of powerful heroes, but it is not the gnoll tribe that he dealt with before.

Li Qing didn't stay long, only to see the snake man rout and drive the giant eagle back.

When I returned to the temporary station, I saw a group of about 30 snake people and about 100 lizardmen gathered not far from the arrow tower, and there were more than a dozen lizardmen corpses lying next to the arrow tower or charred.

The giant eagle stopped above the arrow tower, Li Qing jumped down, and Long Shou stepped forward and said to him:

"My lord, not long after you left, an army of snake people came, and they tried to attack once, but I repulsed them."

Li Qing nodded, walked to the women's wall and looked outside, and the next second he leaned back, and a crossbow arrow grazed his body.

"Fierce!"

Li Qing took another look at the probe and then retracted his head, and said to Long Shou:

"Don't worry about it, wait for Xie Zhu and them to come back!"

The arrow tower is ten meters high, thick at the top and narrow in the middle, like a dumbbell, as long as the door below is blocked, they can't come up.

Turning around and going down to the next layer of the Tibetan soldier layer, Li Qing opened the door of the Divine Domain and entered.

The scene he had just seen taught him a lesson, and he decided to revise his original attack plan.

Even a small village has a third-order snake man warlock, and there must not be a few in this town, or a fourth- or fifth-order warlock?

This is to be rashly attacked, and a larger range of heroic spells will be smashed down, and a wave may kill all the soldiers he has worked so hard to train in one wave.

If you want to take this town with minimal losses, you must first find a way to break down its defenses and take out possible powerful French heroes.

So the question is, how to do it?

Li Qing pondered.

His original idea was very simple, install several stone balls with a diameter of nearly ten meters in the space in his palm, and fly the giant eagle to the high altitude of the town and throw them down.

With the density of the stones he synthesized, the weight of thousands of cubic meters is about three thousand tons, and it is thrown down from a height of more than a thousand meters, even if the transcendent-level giant beast is hit, it will be turned into pulp.

The walls were nothing to him.

Even the magic tower in the middle of the town couldn't withstand the bombardment.

However, this boulder smashes the fixed target okay, and it is basically impossible for a powerful hero to hit it.

Powerful heroes also have a strong sense of danger, and the boulder may have sensed and dodged before it falls.

If a powerful hero doesn't die, he has to fight with the lives of his subordinates.

So, he had to find a way to destroy the town's defenses while taking out the powerful heroes and defenders in the town.

So the general plan will not change, and the details have to be deducted.

It's a pity that there is not enough steel at hand, there are only more than a hundred sides, and it is not much of a big group to gather together.

If a solid steel ball made of thousands of square meters of steel with a diameter of ten meters was smashed down from a height of one or two thousand meters, it would definitely be able to smash the entire town with one blow.

Some of the city walls in the Divine Domain were temporarily demolished and made into huge stone balls, which were put into the space in the palm of your hand.

Coming out of the Divine Domain, the next thing is to wait, waiting for An Erqiu and them to come over.

He waited for several days, and even the snakes outside were taken away by him.

They hid themselves in it and did not come out, and the serpents could not help them at all.

The two armies converged, with a total of more than 100 people, and the scale was okay.

But this was not enough, Li Qing returned to the Divine Domain, took out the 100 Imperial Infantry and 100 Imperial Archers, as well as the 20 Imperial Cavalry cards that he had purchased from his mentor when he left before, and summoned 220 civilians from the farm to load the class promotion cards.

By the way, I made a few big boats into the palm of my hand.

By the time he left, Li Qing had already purchased a full five hundred human cards from his mentor, as well as a batch of imperial class promotion cards.

Considering the number factor, this batch of cards has not been strengthened into elite or elite, five in one, it feels too much to draw, at least when the troops are insufficient in the early stage.

At the same level, one elite will definitely not be able to beat five ordinary templates.

And the number of troops at this stage is too small, if they are all elite, who will be used as cannon fodder?

There must be cannon fodder, otherwise it would be too wasteful to use these elites or elites who spend a lot of money to synthesize as cannon fodder.

The troops were transferred out, the arrow towers were put away, several large wooden boats were taken out and thrown into the water, and the troops got on the boats one after another to cross the river.

Crossing the river, Li Qing first sent Xie Jin to sneak over, and the large army slowly hurried behind.

After a while, Xie Jin returned, bringing the news that there was no one in the field ahead, and when they crossed the river, they had already determined that this plane was in a rest period at this time.

Li Qing ordered the next troops to be presided over by An Erqiu, and after letting him march and fight according to the predetermined plan, he rode the giant eagle into the sky.

To the west of the town, a small group of people is hidden in the farmland less than two hundred meters from the town.

Xue Yunling looked up at the tall magic tower in the middle of the town, his brows furrowed.

His subordinate Wang Yiheng swept his gaze over the defenders who were patrolling back and forth on the city wall, and said in a low voice:

"Boss, we can't fight this town."

The other subordinate also nodded:

"Not to mention the power of the magic tower in the center, there are more regular snake defenders than us alone, and with the advantage of the city wall, it is impossible to capture it with our strength."

Xue Yunling nodded a little and said:

"We really can't take this town, if there is a fourth- or fifth-order mage in the magic tower, even if my subordinates are ten times over, it will be difficult to conquer."

"What about us?"

"Change places, if you can't fight the town, you will attack the village, there are a lot of snake nobles in this area, and there are dozens of affiliated villages, let's destroy some more villages, the harvest will not be bad, and more importantly, there is no risk."

"Shall we withdraw then?"

"Withdraw!"

Xue Yunling nodded and got up to leave.

Just as he was about to leave, Li Qing had already flown to an altitude of more than 8,000 meters above the town in a giant eagle, and looking down at the town at this time was like a small model.

The field of vision was gray, and only the ball of light at the top of the magic tower was still very conspicuous.

He took this ball of light as the coordinates, summoned a ball of light of light to float between his line of sight and the ball of light at the top of the tower, three points and one line, it was a straight line, and without hesitation, he opened the space in his palm, and a stone ball with a diameter of ten meters flew out of the whirlpool and hung straight down.

The stone ball was very fast at the beginning, getting faster and faster, and soon reaching an extreme speed.

The weight of several thousand tons was rubbed against the air at high speed to generate heat, and soon a red light appeared on the surface of the fall, which became brighter and brighter, and finally turned into flames and wrapped the stone ball.

Xue Yunling, who had just walked a few steps, sensed something and turned his head, quickly raised his head, his pupils opened slightly, and a shocked face quickly appeared.

"This"

High in the sky, a huge reddish meteorite dragged a long tail flame down from the sky.

Like a scorching sun falling, the dim sky and earth quickly brightened, the temperature in the air rose rapidly, Xue Yunling felt like some terrifying existence was falling from the sky, and a terrifying coercion that made his scalp tingle and his soul trembled for it.

(End of chapter)