Chapter 96 Get closer, get closer, get closer
The torches on the fence have been extinguished, and the farmers have retreated to the village in an orderly manner under Su Ya's control.
In more than an hour at night, today’s fence task was basically completed, with only some gaps left on the west side of Qingfeng Village.
Su Ya took her cavalry troops to guard the only gap.
If the enemy takes a detour and breaks in from this side to massacre the farmers, Xu Lai is in the southeast, and there is really nothing he can do.
Xu Lai regretted it at this time. He only considered future development and did not consider that with the current manpower, there was no way to defend such a large village.
With only a small number of men, Xu Lai could only count on the opponent to attack from a long distance, and the horse power was not that sufficient.
Otherwise, Xu Lai would be exhausted just by going around in circles.
Xu Lai ordered that all the torches on the fence be extinguished to stop the movement.
In the night, Xu Lai, who has a 30% vision bonus, can spot the enemy earlier than the horse thieves on horseback.
But before Xu Lai could give the order to take aim, the marksman on the sentry tower had already raised his long bow on his own.
The sentry tower has a 25% range bonus and a 25% increase in long-range power, but these are not the point. The point is that the sentry tower automatically gives the watchman the command to alert.
Horse thieves are dark forces and have a natural hostile relationship with Xu Lai and others, unless Xu Lai also switches to dark forces and becomes a robber or horse thief.
So, when an enemy appears within the range of the marksman, he will tighten the bowstring himself without anyone giving orders.
The marksman's projectile can increase the range to 500 meters. Coupled with the range bonus of the sentry tower, the attack distance is a full 625 meters. Even modern rifles will be shocked.
In fact, in modern warfare, this attack distance has long been handled by sniper rifles or artillery shells.
An arrow soared into the sky, and when it reached the highest point, it suddenly fell down.
The characteristics of the projectile are 50% hit reduction and 70% damage reduction.
After the damage is offset by the bonus from the sentry tower, it is only reduced by 45%, which is higher than the halved damage within the extreme range.
Of course, Xu Lai didn't know whether this was the case. He couldn't even see clearly the arrows shot by the archers on the sentry tower.
Although the moonlight is bright tonight, it is not bright enough to allow people to see arrows hundreds of meters away.
The eagle-feathered long arrow fell, but unfortunately it did not hit. The projectile, which had originally reduced the hit rate by 50%, made the hit rate even worse in the night.
However, although the arrow missed, it frightened a running horse thief leader. He subconsciously pulled his horse, and in an instant he was hit by the horse thief behind him, both man and horse.
The remaining bosses each controlled their own horse thieves and asked them to avoid the colliding horse thieves.
But at this time, the marksmen on the ground were also within striking distance, and long arrows shot into the sky.
Even though Xu Lai only had five sharpshooters, still standing in the back row, these guys were almost all nearly two meters tall, and the long arrows they used were even more exaggerated.
The hit rate of the five projectile arrows was still extremely low. Xu Lai stood on the horse and had the eagle eye skill. He couldn't see the arrows but could still see the horse thief fall.
The two horse thieves fell straight down like that. Even if they didn't die at the time, they would have died after being trampled twice by the horse thieves behind them.
However, the huge group of horse thieves cannot be suppressed by falling down one or two people.
Yin Andy had a gloomy look on his face. He was followed by elite thieves and leaders who were equivalent to personal guards. Although they were only level 3 or 4, they all wore leather with armor plates. A, and almost all of them are real people.
Surrounded by knights on horseback, and located in the middle of the team, his field of vision is actually very limited.
However, as the leader of the horse thieves, Yin Andi was extremely experienced and had already estimated the distance between the two sides and his own speed before launching the attack.
When they were still 4,500 meters away from the enemy, knights began to fall off their horses. At this speed, there might be more than a dozen knights lost on the road alone.
Although Yin Andy's face was gloomy, he said nothing.
He must retaliate for his shortcomings, and he has already suffered losses. In his opinion, the only way to relieve his hatred is to massacre the entire village.
In fact, he was not the only leader of horse thieves who did this. These horse thieves and horse thieves relied on the fame of their killings to scare the caravans and villagers coming and going.
Otherwise in this uneven world, no caravan would hire guards and everyone would fight for them, how could they grow stronger.
There is an advantage to the horse thief not wearing armor, that is, he can still have a relatively fast speed even if his mount is relatively poor.
Even if it is a long-distance attack, the prairie horse carrying the horse thief can run at a speed of about 50 kilometers per hour, and can kill the 500-meter distance in about 40 seconds.
40 seconds is neither long nor short. In the projectile range of 500-300 meters, even a sharpshooter only launched twice.
However, at the direct shooting distance after 300 meters, the speed of the marksmen quickly increased. With the blessing of high agility, they could draw the bow, take the arrow, aim, and shoot, all in one go. Including the more than 20 elite thieves, there are nearly 400 horse thieves in total. Therefore, the marksman does not even need to aim. He can basically draw the bow and shoot, and the hit rate can be as high as 90% or more.
The long arrows are like spears. Even if the damage is reduced by half, the fragile horse thief is completely unable to resist.
The horse thieves charging in the front row fell one by one. After entering the 300-meter shooting range, the explosive shooter who had been forced to wait by Xu Lai also began to attack.
If a level 6 archer is equipped with an enhanced bow and enhanced arrows, the basic damage will exceed 100 points, and with Xu Lai's treasure and intermediate archery bonus.
The most important thing is that the explosive shooter also has fire explosion damage that is not limited by distance. Not only can it directly kill the opponent in an instant, it can also cause heavy damage to the horse thieves around the target.
In the group of horse thieves, there were suddenly more burning targets. The ordinary horse thieves were fine, but the horse thieves leaders were shocked.
Ordinary horse thieves are wild monsters. Unless their morale collapses, they will only execute orders and will not have any other emotions.
The leader of the horse thieves is different. Basically, they are all living people.
They are horse thieves, but they are here to get rich, not to die. Even if they are wearing leather armor, they cannot resist such obviously enchanted arrows.
However, Andy Yin was right behind them, and these horse thieves leaders did not dare to retreat or even slow down their horses.
But they still quietly moved their position and hid themselves behind ordinary horse thieves.
Under the darkness of night, Xu Lai could not notice the small movements of the horse thieves, but the other party had already rushed into the 200-meter cordon, but the number of fallen horse thieves was still only 2 or 30.
Longbowmen, archers, wood elf archers, even the ships in Swan Lake, and Xu Lai himself raised their bows and arrows to shoot.
Fortunately, Su Ya brought back 5 level 3 shooters at night. Although the number and level are not high, it is still good to let them target the burning horse thieves for last-ditch attacks.
The targets of burning horse thieves are conspicuous, and the hit rate of shooting them will not be reduced due to darkness, and the number of horse thieves can be quickly reduced.
With Xu Lai joining in person, the morale of the horse thieves has dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye. The special effects of his intermediate archery can ensure that enemies die at his hands and can demoralize all enemies he witnesses. At least 1 point lower.
And with the addition of this group of shooters, the horse thieves were beaten harder, and their morale dropped naturally faster.
However, this group of horse thieves have been plundering all the year round, and they also have the morale blessing of a winning streak. In addition, there is a commander on duty, so the morale is still very high, and no change will be seen for a while.
Within a hundred meters, both sides could almost see each other clearly. The spearmen and pikemen behind the fence were only 8 or 90 meters away from the nearest horse thief.
The sudden appearance of a row of spearmen made the thief who was the guide in the horse thief team feel terrified. As mentioned before, Yin Andi was not a leader who was easy to talk to.
Suddenly there were more than 20 pikemen targeting the cavalry, and there were even 4 pikemen in armor. How much extra damage would this cause to the horse thieves.
The two thieves could already imagine Andy Yin skinning and cramping them both after they returned.
However, before they could recover from their fear, a dark cloud enveloped them.
The sorcerer started casting spells as soon as he entered the range. The slow spell he released until the enemy approached 100 meters finally fell.
A coverage area of 100 square meters, even if it touches the edge, is still not a big number for horse thieves who are riding horses and keeping a distance from each other.
Only the dozen horse thieves in the front row were affected by the slowing spell, but their sudden deceleration prevented the horse thieves at the rear from reacting in time.
If you are lucky, you will rein in your horse in time. If you are unlucky, you will have to run into him. Fortunately, you are just slowing down, so the relative speed difference between the horse thieves is not big.
But this slow spell caused the enemies to swarm together. A close-range explosive arrow from the explosive shooter immediately caused an explosion of damage.
“Brothers,…”
The distance was too far, the sound of horse hooves was getting closer, and the shouts of the leader of the horse thieves were everywhere. Xu Lai couldn't hear clearly.
He only vaguely heard someone shouting from behind the horse thief, and then there was a burst of golden light, which brought back the morale of the horse thief who was already low in morale and was about to fall into a state of low morale.
Although morale is still low, the attributes have not dropped much.
The key is that the horse thieves are already approaching. As long as they get rid of this situation of being beaten without being able to fight back and cause effective damage to Xu Lai's troops, morale will be restored immediately.
Xu Lai has exhausted all his options and still cannot stop the horse thief from approaching.
At close range, the damage done by the shooters is even more terrifying. Even level 3 shooters, with Xu Lai's blessing, can directly kill horse thieves with a single strike of Xin Luck.
Xu Lai was more surprised by the wood elf who was also at level 3. This elf archer, who had been promoted from an elf all the way, had the ability of a continuous arrow that only a sharpshooter could have at only level 3.
Nearly a third of the horse thieves fell, but they finally rushed over.
The fence, which is nearly two meters high, cannot be crossed by prairie horses. What greets them is a spear thrust out from the gap in the fence.
(End of this chapter)