"Hmm"

Li Qing fell into deep thought.

"This method seems to be good."

"No, it's better."

The previous idea requires too much manpower and material resources, and it is not easy to cut off water and food for a city, not to mention the water cut-off, just the food is difficult.

The snake city is located at the junction of two rivers, and there are two methods of transportation, water and land, so it is very troublesome to completely cut it off.

In addition, it is necessary to make sure that the snake people do not have much food in the city, and if there is enough food storage, this method will not work.

Moreover, the Mage Tower has a teleportation function, and although it is a large loss of energy to transmit a large amount of goods, as long as it can be teleported, the siege plan will have to be extended for several months.

Relatively speaking, the first is too uncertain.

"Is there a detailed operation?"

"Yes."

Xie Zhu cheered up and said in a deep voice:

"In terms of frontal combat ability, we are very strong, the leather equipment prepared by His Excellency the lord is very strong, with sophisticated shields and weapons, the comprehensive strength can defeat nearly 10,000 defenders of the snake man city head-on, like the snake man town can be pushed head-on."

"The only difficulty lies in the mage tower with the archmage sitting in charge, as long as one of the two can be solved, this snake man city is a dish on our board."

"In my vision, I can choose a town on the edge of the snake man city to attack as a target."

Speaking of this, Xie Zhu took out a map and put it in front of everyone, and pointed to a riverside town in the south of the snake man city and said:

"What I think is that this town, which is close to us and is completely within the teleportation range of the snake city, learned from Mo Wenxi's lesson, divided the troops into two parts, and only transferred about five hundred troops to attack the town, and the other troops were hidden."

"This scale can put pressure on the snake people town, but it will not make the snake people city direction vigilant."

"As long as the Snake Man Town Archmage brings troops to support, we will immediately take action and leave the Snake Man Master behind."

"As long as we can keep the snake master man, the plan will be considered a success."

"Hmm"

"The idea is okay, you can try it."

Li Qing pondered for a moment and said to them:

"You can discuss the details again, I'll go over and scout first."

Li Qing made a decision on this and decided on the battle plan.

Then the meeting was adjourned, and he left the castle alone in a giant eagle and flew north.

Flying in mid-air, Li Qing thought carefully about Xie Zhu's idea, and the more he thought about it, the more feasible he felt.

With his current strength, as long as the snake master dares to come out, there is a possibility of successful sniping.

And this is a plan to kill two birds with one stone, even if it is not killed, let the snake man mage escape, this snake man town will not be able to run, and it is completely possible to break this snake man town by the way, and you can also get a lot of benefits.

I got a lot of good things from destroying that snake town before.

There are two snake towns around this snake man city, and if you really can't help it, the harvest of destroying the two snake people towns is not bad.

And this is also a new idea, after destroying these two snake towns, you can use the same method to destroy the towns of other big nobles and lords of the snake man kingdom.

There are quite a few such towns now, and they all add up to a lot.

It may not be as good as the harvest of directly destroying the City Addition Tower, but if he can destroy seven or eight, it will all add up to a big increase in his strength.

Others couldn't do this because the vast majority of apprentices didn't have the strength to confront an extraordinary archmage head-on, even the three under the name of the four-star mentor Lu Jun.

They didn't have a five-star hero whose strength had reached the fifth rank and had the ability to compete head-on with the superbly strong at the first rank.

For a transcendent archmage, there is no strong person of the same level to resist, and those below his own level are all a dish, and he is not afraid of how many comes, and he can escape at any time if he can't beat him.

Of course, some time ago, the three people who were lucky enough to pick up a cheap one must have received a rich reward after destroying a snake man city, even if the benefits of picking up cheap will shrink, but the foundation is there, and they will definitely get some super rare treasures and greatly improve their strength, and now it is estimated that they have the ability to carry an archmage head-on.

But it's one thing to be able to go head-to-head, it's another thing to be able to win head-to-head and be sure that you won't lose much.

Unless the three of them join forces again to do it together.

"No, when they finish digesting it, they will definitely continue to work together together."

However, Li Qing was not too worried, they were too far away, and there was no competition for the time being.

By the time there is competition in the future, he may already have the strength to confront them head-on.

The giant eagle flew to a height of about a thousand meters above the target town and looked down, and under the faint gray fog, it could roughly see the layout of the town, the figures on the city wall, and a huge ball of light hanging from the top of the high magic tower illuminated the four directions.

This magic tower can shoot three types of war magic, and usually only keeps the light of civilization illuminating, even if it sees it flying low over the city, it will not attack.

There was nothing special about the town, Li Qing turned around, went north along the big river, and soon saw a huge snake city standing by the river in front of him.

The surface of the tall mage tower was surrounded by powerful magical aura, and when you looked at the mage tower from afar, you could feel a strong threat rushing towards you.

There is a large road along the river between towns and cities, along which there are patrols of snake men.

The area between towns and cities is farmland, with a large number of snake villages scattered in between.

Away from the big river, I flew some distance to the west, this large area is a plain, full of snake villages, and then I flew fifty or sixty kilometers west to see another snake town on the plain, which is already the territory of another snake nobleman.

Li Qing took a spin around the town and was about to return home, when he suddenly saw a snake man city not far from the town being besieged by a human army.

He looked at it with interest and saw that it was a group of apprentices under the name of an unknown mentor who were killing the snake people.

He had no interest in observing, just walked around in the sky and left.

Back at the base, Li Qing immediately issued a mobilization order to prepare to set off, and at the same time opened the Divine Domain Network to contact the mentor and sent the news that he was preparing to attack the snake man city.

Nie Yang was stunned for a moment when he received Li Qing's message, and immediately opened the communication and asked:

"Are you sure?"

Li Qing smiled:

"There is a certain certainty, but it's not big, just try it, it's best to be natural, and it's okay if you can't do it."

"Generally speaking, at such a close distance, there is a high probability that the Snake Master Mage sitting in a city not far away will teleport over, do you have the strength to resist an extraordinary archmage?"

Li Qing pondered for a moment and replied:

"There is some certainty."

"Just some certainty? This is no joke, you had better be sure and have the ability to get out of the way, otherwise I wouldn't recommend you try it. ”

Li Qing pinched his eyebrows and said:

"There's a lot of certainty."

Nie Yang's brows furrowed, and he wanted to continue to persuade, but Li Qing looked quite sure, which made him hesitate a little.

To be honest, if Li Qing can succeed, this wave of gains will be enough for him to stop immediately, and the ranking will also be in the top three of the total ranking of all the apprentices of the six mentors after the training.

But if it fails.

After a little contemplation, he said:

"If you're sure, then give it a try, but until then, I'll send you a notice on your behalf and tell everyone about this operation."

“？？？”

Li Qing asked with a surprised expression:

"What kind of announcement, telling all the War Lord apprentices that I'm going to raid this snake city?"

"Yes."

"Why is that?"

"It's very simple, this is a tacit understanding between mentors, and it is also an unspoken rule, within a month of my announcement, the other apprentices will be bound by their respective mentors and will not hold you back."

Li Qing was suddenly surprised:

"And that kind of thing?"

"Of course, you all have a default development range, and you are not allowed to attack others to expand the alien natives near the Divine Domain, why can't we have mentors."

"Of course, each mentor only has two opportunities during the two-year pioneering period, and this time it will be used on you, and I hope you will succeed."

Li Qing nodded seriously:

"I will!"

"Hmm!"

Nie Yang nodded, and added another sentence when he was about to close the communication:

"I'll make an announcement in a week, so you can get ready for another week now."

"Thank you, Mentor!"

Turning off the communication, Li Qing pinched his chin and suddenly laughed.

Sure enough, it's good to be favored by the mentor, and with this, it saves the worry of being left behind.

Then Li Qing did not have ink, and the next morning began to dispatch troops, with An Erqiu leading about 200 soldiers to guard the house, and the remaining more than 1,002 troops gathered and set off.

Coming out of the primeval jungle and down the river, it took almost four days to reach the target location.

It's only about a kilometer away from the snake people town on the other side of the river.

The huge force was soon spotted by the snake people who were working on the other side of the river, and soon the snake people town a kilometer away emitted a piercing siren that could be heard from afar.

Li Qing ignored it and just ordered the troops to cross the river.

It was daytime for the snake people, and many slave races who were farming in the fields outside the town fled in panic because they heard the siren, and there were many farm tools thrown around.

By the time the 100 forwards led by the dragon guard arrived outside the town, the gates of the snake town had been closed, and the city walls were full of defenders.

For the time being, there is no communication, one is a human being, the other is a snake man of a different race, the language barrier, there is no room for communication at all.

Some people may be surprised, they have been descending on this plane fragment for half a year, and the total number of snake people towns they have conquered is no less than ten, why doesn't the snake people kingdom mobilize a large army to encircle and suppress it?

The reason is actually very simple, because there is suppression from the upper echelons of the War College.

This plane fragment was forcibly pulled from the void by the Academy using the Blackstone Tower, and before they arrived, the Academy used the Blackstone Tower to sweep the entire plane inside and out, and must have had a relationship with the ruler of the plane.

According to past experience, it is likely that in this case, the War College has demonstrated unrivaled strength and reached an agreement with the Snake Man Kingdom.

The exact protocol is not clear, but one thing is certain.

That is, the snake kingdom is not allowed to take the initiative to transfer a large army to encircle and suppress the apprentices, that is to say, unless the apprentices take the initiative to attack, they can fight back, if they do not take the initiative to attack, it is not allowed to transfer troops to encircle and suppress, even if they know where the apprentices' divine domain is.

The strikers waited two hundred meters from the city wall, but Li Qing's main force did not rush over immediately, but began to dispatch troops after crossing the river.

Now this force has a total of 550 infantry of all ranks, 550 archers of all ranks, 125 cavalry, all of whom have been brought out, as well as a pyromancer who has been promoted to the second rank, and 10 ogres.

550 infantry were divided into five infantry squadrons of 100 men each.

The 550 archers were similarly divided into five squadrons of 100 each.

125 cavalrymen were divided into two squadrons of 50 cavalry each.

The remaining will be combined into the Chinese Army, which will be adjusted according to the situation.

One infantry squadron was combined with one archer squadron to form a combined squadron, for a total of five combined squadrons.

Li Qing left the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Combined Squadrons by the river, and he led the 1st and 2nd Combined Squadrons and the Chinese cavalry to continue the departure.

Soon the troops rushed to the bottom of the snake town, and the second combined squadron was divided into two, distributed on the left and right flanks, with the first combined squadron and the Chinese army as the main attacker, and the cavalry swept behind.

Ready, Li Qingxian visually measured the distance and prepared to put down the counterweight trebuchet.

There was no swinging arrow tower, there was no letting the troops go forward.

There is a magic tower in the town, which can shoot the war spell 'magic lightning', and if you get too close, a magic lightning will definitely kill you.

He was going to smash the wall open with a trebuchet from a distance, smash a few more gaps, and then attack it in one go.

This is also to delay time, to see if the snake city not far away will teleport support, if it is teleported before the full-scale attack, it can be in the field outside.

With past experience, Li Qing had already determined the specific attack distance of the counterweight trebuchet at this time.

It is not a simple distance, which has long been determined, but the distance of the stone thrown under the influence of different geology, topographic angles, stone sizes, etc.

So now, before he places the trebuchet, he first takes out a 10-meter-square, one-meter-thick ultra-thick solid wooden board and places it on the ground, then adjusts the height and level, determines the position according to the angle, and then places the trebuchet on the wooden plank.

Seven minutes later, with a dull sound, a stone of several hundred kilograms flew up, drawing an arc in the air and flying in the direction of the city wall.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, a large pit was smashed into the city wall, and countless rubble flew one after another.

The distance of the counterweight trebuchet is affected by the size of the stone, and the two strengthened counterweight trebuchets made by Li Qing can theoretically throw 2,000 kilograms of stones, but the projection distance cannot be too far.

There is a magic tower in this town in front of you, and it is too far away to be bombarded by war magic, so you can only use small stones to distance yourself and grind slowly.

Fortunately, the stones used are all standard stones that he has put together with the space in his palm, and the size, weight, shape, and texture are all exactly the same, which can ensure that even if they are projected a hundred times in a row, they will bombard the same target.

Therefore, although the stones were not big, after throwing more than a dozen stones in the same position in a row, the city wall was still smashed open by him.

Smashing open two gaps in one go, Li Qing did not give the order to attack, but continued to bombard.

Half an hour later, the second round smashed four gaps.

Li Qing frowned and was silent for a moment, then ordered to continue.

"Don't you support it?"

He was a little surprised.

At this time, Xie Zhu also came over and asked in a low voice:

"Boss, it's almost an hour now, it stands to reason that if there will be support, it should be early, let's."

Li Qing waved his hand and said:

"Wait a little longer, smash two more gaps, and if there is no support, we will attack the city directly."

"If you don't come, you won't come, and there will be gains from capturing towns, if you don't come all the time, it won't be worse for me to capture ten towns in one go than to capture one city, and the risk is even less."

(End of chapter)