Chapter 1038 It’s hard to even protect yourself
The dwarves did not act covertly. The sentry standing on the wall noticed their presence at a glance and reported to Shi Lei.
When the boar knights headed by Wojin Copperfurnace arrived outside the plain fortress, Shi Lei also came out.
“Long time no see, Lord Wojin!”
Listening to Shi Lei’s words of “long time no see,” Wojin was stunned for a moment.
Dwarves themselves are also a race with a very long natural lifespan. For them, a few years can basically be classified as "a while ago".
However, it is not that Wojin has never had contact with humans, and he naturally knows that the natural life span of humans is only a few decades.
A few years is extremely short for them, but for humans, it is already quite long.
Wojin quickly said after reacting...
"It has indeed been a while, Your Excellency Shi Lei."
After that, Wojin was unambiguous and directly stated his intention.
“I received news that a greenskin troop had slipped over, so I immediately led the troops and rushed over.”
While speaking, Wojin glanced at the greenskins all over the ground. corpse.
"It seems that I came a step too late."
During this period, Vol'jin's eyes flashed when he noticed the crossbow arrows stuck on the corpses of individual greenskin soldiers. After a while it became clear.
When it comes to dealing with greenskin troops, the individual crossbow is indeed a good weapon.
Wojin didn’t have any idea about the fact that Zhou had created individual crossbows. There were also humans in their coalition, and the other side also had crossbow troops.
But this does not mean that the human crossbowmen can compete with their dwarven heavy crossbowmen.
The advantage of dwarf heavy crossbowmen comes not only from the skill of making heavy crossbows, but also from their thick arms and strong bodies.
Dwarf soldiers generally possess significantly greater strength and physical strength than humans, which means that their arms can hold heavier individual crossbows, draw stronger crossbows at a faster speed, and launch attack!
To put it simply, human crossbowmen and dwarf heavy crossbowmen are not on the same level at all.
This is also the reason why Wojin is so confident, because even if humans develop individual crossbows, they will not be able to compete with them.
At this moment, after hearing Wo Jin's words, Shi Lei's thoughts moved and he said directly...
"The main reason is good luck. The green skin troops that invaded this time did not There are no ogres or goblin wolf cavalry. They have a single type of troops and are not many in number. There are only five to six hundred troops."
When he said this, Shi Lei showed a happy expression.
"If this number were more, the trouble would be big."
At this time, many green-skin corpses on the battlefield have been taken into the fortress, and the remaining ones that have not had time to be cleaned up are also Just three or four hundred.
This also made Wojin not see any clues.
Even speaking of it, Shi Lei's words were completely in line with his inner speculation.
Since letting the greenskin troops circle behind them, they have tightened the blockade.
Even if an accident occurs, some small units will slip in. It is impossible for large units to sneak in.
But now that the Great Zhou Dynasty has crossbow troops, their combat effectiveness is undoubtedly stronger than before. Thinking of this, Wojin couldn't help but send an invitation to Shi Lei again, asking him if he wanted to join the coalition and deal with it together. Greenskin troops.
In response, Shi Lei showed a wry smile.
"Your Excellency Wojin, it is difficult for us to protect ourselves now. We have tried our best in this battle, and there is really no room left to join the coalition." Needless to say, in the face of Wojin's invitation, Shi Lei declined again.
Wojin didn't think much about this and just nodded. He instinctively felt that in such a short time, the opponent's strength would not be able to grow much.
Without staying much after that, he said goodbye to Shi Lei neatly and left directly with his dwarf troops.
Every year in late autumn, the greenskins will launch operations in order to plunder food for the winter. At this time, they are busy and have no time to stay here.
Once again, the dwarf troops led by Wo Jin were sent away smoothly, and Shi Lei secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Needless to say, this is something that their Majesty has already ordered, and at the same time, the pros and cons of it have been clearly explained to him.
In this way, in this muddy water, they, Da Zhou, naturally hid whenever they could.
Under this premise, although Shi Lei's previous words meant to hide his strength and show weakness, they were not all lies.
This time the green-skinned troops do not have ogres and goblin wolf cavalry. In terms of strength and scale, they cannot be compared with the original green-skinned troops. They really cannot be taken too seriously.
They have indeed become stronger, this is a fact.
But under normal circumstances, the green-skinned troops are definitely not as weak as they appeared in this battle. This is also true.
By the time the battle report here was delivered to Zhou Xu, the season had already entered winter.
The green-skinned troops who had not appeared for a long time suddenly made such a fuss for him, which made Zhou Xu stunned when he saw the battle report.
But no matter what, it can be regarded as giving them a chance to test. Their crossbow unit has undoubtedly withstood this round of tests and proved their value.
Under this premise, Shi Lei had no problem responding to the reappearance of Wojin Copperfurnace and the other party's move to invite them to join the coalition again.
As for the war between the coalition forces and the greenskins over there, their thinking has always been to avoid interfering without interfering, hide their clumsiness as much as possible, keep a low profile, and then go all out for development.
Throughout the next winter, the general internal situation in Dazhou was relatively stable, and the green-skinned troops did not appear again at the Plain Fortress.
This is normal. Greenskin troops will appear here, which means there is a problem with the dwarves' defense.
After what happened, if the dwarves don't wake up, they are looking for death.
Putting down the report, Zhou Xu started writing the reward.
As Shi Lei said before, the strength of the greenskin troops this time was not high, which directly caused the gold content of this battle to become very limited. It would be too much to give a large reward.
Therefore, the overall rewards are mainly gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin.
In fact, for most soldiers, this is also the most practical.
Under this premise, Li Tie performed outstandingly, killing a Hundred Refining Realm general on the opposite side and seizing the opponent's body, allowing them to obtain another high-strength skeleton soldier.
At this stage, this is quite a feat.
Zhou Xu thought about it and decided to reward Li Tie with a 'Red Flame Battle Axe' forged by Li Gan, the head of the forging department.
The red flame weapon with the addition of 'Fire Crystal Stone' is still a rare thing at this stage. In addition, it can effectively improve the strength of their Great Zhou generals, so it is just right to use it for rewards.
In addition, Shi Lei, the commander-in-chief of the New Taipei District, will be rewarded with another mantra for his meritorious command.
Zhou Xu plans to give him the mantra of ‘summoning skeleton soldiers’ to further enrich Shi Lei’s skeleton soldier tactics.
First determine the reward, give it specifically, take time to arrange it and that's it.
(End of this chapter)