Chapter 97 Capture the Thief and Capture the King
The horse thief is a typical representative of the strong in attack and the weak in defense.
The level 2 horse thief has a steel knife in his hand, which is much more lethal than Xu Lai's one-handed sword. It also has the additional speed damage brought by the prairie horse.
However, the horse thief, who has a horse and a sword, only wears civilian clothes, and his defense is almost non-existent.
Among all the spears that were stretched out, 4 of them were extraordinarily long. The horse thieves who collided with these 4 spears were all killed instantly.
The characteristic of the pikeman is that when all charging units attack the pikeman, they will suffer 200% of the charge damage.
The key is that the pikemen's spears are too long. These horse thieves can't reach the pikemen at all, so the pikemen themselves are not injured, but the horse thieves' attack is still fed back to them through their characteristics.
Coupled with the melee damage of the pikemen, which is not weak, the two phases are superimposed, and the fragile horse thieves are directly killed.
Before launching the attack, Andy Yin actually had two choices. He could choose to bypass the shooter. According to reports from his thieves, not all the fences in the village were built.
However, although the village fence is much stronger in defense and durability than the camp fence, it is still useless. After all, it is made of wood.
Although the fence in Xu Lai is taller and larger than those in other villages, in Andy Yin's opinion, it is still vulnerable.
This is indeed the case. If the one-meter fence is forced to be squeezed, at least three horse thieves can attack at the same time.
If it is a horse thief running all the way, with the additional damage of speed, he can break through the fence in one or two attacks.
However, although the night greatly reduced the shooter's hit rate, it also gave Xu Lai a little help.
The spearmen hiding behind the fence were not discovered by Andy Yin, so his horse thieves bumped into them all at once.
The spearmen did not have the characteristics of a forest of spears, but their spears were still very long. After the horse thieves who took the initiative to bump into suffered a huge penetration damage, they were constantly stabbed by the spearmen hiding behind the fence.
A burst of green light fell, and the wizard's second large-scale group spell fell. It was not a disease spell that took effect slowly, but an acid rain spell.
Acid rain covered a large area of 25 meters long and 25 meters wide. Not to mention all the horse thieves, at least none of the nearly a hundred horse thieves crowded near the fence were spared.
Because of the large coverage area, the damage caused by acid rain is not high. A mere 30 points cannot naturally burn these horse thieves to death.
However, the horse thief's defense, which was already low, dropped a little again due to the corrosion of acid rain.
Although the spearmen are only at level 3 and the spearmen are only at level 4, they are blessed by Xu Lai's offensive skills and supported by Xu Lai's treasures.
Facing the almost defenseless horse thieves, it was like a massacre.
The horse thieves could not get close to the fence guarded by the spearmen, but they were no longer the wild monsters Xu Lai usually bullied, but horse thieves led by a leader.
This group of horse thieves was like running water, flowing naturally to both sides. The spearmen could only attack the horse thieves in the front, but they could not stab the horse thieves running to the sides anyway.
The archers are still attacking. At close range, the high-level archers shoot one arrow at a time, and the low-level archers also frequently appear lucky rainbow lights.
But the 250-point durable fence was cut down before it could last even half a minute. The horse thieves still surrounded it despite the huge damage.
Under the control of his mind, the sharpshooter on the sentry tower sounded the alarm bell again. He was already on the verge of death, and the livid Yin Andi almost subconsciously wanted to order a retreat.
But after the horse thieves suffered heavy casualties, they finally broke through the fence and approached the shooter, and they were about to have a close-quarters fight.
Withdrawing at this time, didn’t these 200 horse thieves die in vain?
Before Yin Andi could hesitate, Su Ya, who only heard the shouts of killing and could not see the slightest bit of the fighting situation, was already worried.
If Xu Lai's order hadn't always been the first priority in her heart, she would have been unable to stay any longer.
Hearing the bell ringing, Su Ya finally roared and personally led the mercenaries and nomads to charge on the front line.
Her roar did not trigger any skills, but the emotions she had been suppressing finally burst out at this moment.
The mercenaries have charge skills, and when they are released, they rush to the front like arrows from a string.
Behind them are the slightly slower Rangers and Su Ya, and finally the level 3 nomads, and the gargoyles who are barely faster than the nomads.
But on the frontal battlefield, Xu Lai did not dare to take any chances. As soon as the horse thieves surrounded him, he decisively dismounted with the knights' retinue.
Holding a bone shield and a simple spear, Xu Lai personally protected the sorceress behind him.
On his left side was a knight's retinue holding a large steel shield and drawing a stainless steel sword, and on his right side were two infantrymen also holding large wooden shields.
The horse thief was condescending. Xu Lai was holding a long weapon and was able to stab the horse thief.
The infantry were obviously insufficient in defense and insufficient in attack. Even the tall knight's retinue could only chop off the horse's legs after dismounting. But above Xu Lai and the others, there were flying flower elves and flower demons. Although these little guys were more fragile than horse thieves, they attacked from above.
The spearmen slowly retreated under the control of Xu Lai, trying to surround the shooters. They did not have shields to protect themselves like the infantry, but their armor was pretty good and they were blessed with defensive skills. , it is not easy to be hacked to death in a short while.
The witch protected by Xu Lai throws out a ball of acid from time to time. The upgraded acid has a full 50 points of corrosion damage. After reducing the armor by 5 points, even the leader of the horse thieves can't bear it. .
However, it was Xu Lai who annoyed these horse thieves leaders the most.
Xu Lai was wearing a magical armor and talisman-patterned trousers. Even in the dark, he still looked very eye-catching, and was recognized by the leader of the horse thieves at a glance.
However, although the magical armor is conspicuous, its defensive power is not fake. With a full 50 points of physical defense, it is difficult for even the horse thief leader to break through the defense, let alone the horse thief.
Even if he uses heavy attack skills to break through the defense, Xu Lai's physical constitution is as high as 17 points, and he has 17 points of natural armor. His skin is so tough that ordinary swords cannot scratch it.
Therefore, even if Xu Lai was besieged by several horse thieves, including even a third-level horse thieves leader, it would still not hurt Xu Lai.
Under Xu Lai's order, the flower elves took off to attack the enemy.
At this time Xu Lai's shortcomings became apparent. When Su Ya went into battle in person before, she could easily dispatch her own people no matter how dangerous it was.
When Xu Lai fights with others, he devotes almost all his attention to the battle. After all, he has little fighting experience, and he is powerless to distract him at this time.
So he could only control the spearmen, cooperate with him and the knight retinue and other infantry, and surround the shooters.
As for the casualties, Xu Lai really couldn't care less. The most he could do was wait for the time to cast the spell and release a healer for all the infantry.
Don't mention it, after he dismounts with the knight retinue, the two of them can also be counted as infantry and can be treated together with the spearmen and others.
Xu Lai, who could not lose a few drops of blood, can heal 12 points of life in one treatment, so there is no need to worry.
Before Xu Lai could be proud, a heavy arrow flew from the distance. Xu Lai glanced out of the corner of his eye and it was too late to hide, so he reluctantly raised his shield to protect his head and face.
There was a crisp sound, Xu Lai's forehead hurt, and he flew out, knocking down two infantrymen by the way.
While Xu Lai and the infantrymen fell, a horse thief leader squeezed in directly with several horse thieves.
Xu Lai had an arrow stuck in his forehead. He thought he was dead. In fact, he only lost more than 30 points of health. He just had stars on his forehead and was very dizzy.
The bone shield with more than 120 points of durability left was destroyed by one arrow. The remaining power can also break through the physical armor with primary defense skills and cause more than 30 points of damage.
The arrow fired by the knight holding the bow in the distance was beyond imagination.
Suppressing the severe dizziness in his head, Xu Lai gave the order to the wizard to transform into an eagle, which not only increased his health but also allowed him to fly and increase his agility.
Unlike the explosive shooters and marksmen who directly draw their swords and fight the horse thieves, the witch, like the horse thieves, has almost no armor and low health.
However, Xu Lai could only care about the witch. The dizziness in his head made him unable to even do basic blocking. Fortunately, there were knights and followers around him.
He raised his steel shield and protected Xu Lai firmly behind him, causing all the subsequent two arrows from the knight on the horse to miss.
Two deep concave marks appeared on the big steel shield. The horse thief leader Yin Andy frowned and took out an armor-piercing arrow from his quiver, intending to shoot through the defense of the knight's retinue.
Even though Yin Andi and the knight's retinue are both at level 5, the knight's retinue may have better fighting experience than Yin Andi, but he will definitely not be Yin Andi's opponent in a real fight.
At least Xu Lai's sharp archers should not be able to break the shield and injure Xu Lai with one blow without using continuous arrows.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves trampling in the distance gradually came, but it was Su Ya who surrounded them from the outside of the fence.
When a large number of flower elves flew up behind Xu Lai, Yin Andi felt something was wrong, but at this time, his men were already fighting with each other.
If you want to run at this time, don't you completely let go of the opponent's archer's hands and feet?
Morale, which is already low, will completely collapse once they retreat without relying on hand-to-hand combat to lift it up, which is equivalent to the complete loss of this force.
So Yin Andi just restrained the guards around him and ignored the horse thieves who rushed forward.
In Andy Yin's view, there are still more than a hundred horse thieves, and they are superior in number to the opponent. Moreover, he has nearly 20 elite thieves with him to hold the battle, so there is no way he can lose.
It's just that he didn't expect that Xu Lai also learned spells and could increase the health of a group from time to time. The most important thing was that the eliteness of Xu Lai's troops completely exceeded Yin Andi's imagination.
Even though he was only a level 3 spearman, he was besieged by several horse thieves and still refused to fall. Instead, he was stabbed with one shot after another, but there were not many of his own horse thieves left.
Yin Andy knew that it was impossible to win with this group of horse thieves. There was only one way to win, which was to kill the opponent's leader.
If a hero's army does not have a hero, wouldn't it just be a lamb to be slaughtered?
(End of this chapter)