Chapter 146 The final accumulation before the battle
The battle took longer than Xu Lai expected, but fortunately, with the glory of the God of War in his body, their physical strength, including that of the war horse, was not depleted but increased.
The main reason is that the Harpy level is too low. If you want to gain a foothold in the wild, you have to rely on numbers to win.
The second target is not that far away, only a little more than one kilometer away.
However, Xu Lai skipped this target. He was a ranger. The mercenaries had very few arrows left and needed to stop to replenish them.
The second is that this group of targets is the fourth-level heavy infantry of the human race. Xu Lai's map shows that there are more than 30 of them. Xu Lai hopes to be able to diplomacy with them.
Of course, the stronger Xu Lai's military is, the higher the probability of diplomatic success, and now if diplomacy succeeds, Xu Lai will not be able to move forward with these burdens.
Sending it back is a waste of time, why not try again later.
The third target is still not far away, a group of swamp poisonous flies and dragon flies.
Xu Lai must admit that he had underestimated these things before. Their bodies were not even comparable to those of harpies, and their levels were only third and fourth levels, but they caused him a lot of suffering. .
Especially the fourth-level dragon flies, which are actually faster than the gargoyles blessed by the speed force. If Xu Lai and the others don't charge, they won't be able to get rid of these dragon flies at all.
The damage done by the dragon fly is not outrageous. After all, the fourth-level monster has a low health value for its size.
But if you are bitten by them, you will immediately fall into a weak state, and your strength will be reduced by at least 6 points.
Xu Lai has long been accustomed to the powerful feeling brought by his 16 points of strength. After being weakened by 6 points, the equipment all over his body has become heavier, and the steel knife in his hand feels a little unable to swing.
No wonder these guys are called poisonous flies. These unlucky things that come with a zero-cost negative buff are really quite poisonous.
Unfortunately, the weakness of these guys lasted quite a long time, a full hour.
The key is that these guys are guarding the poisonous fly nest, which is their own home. Xu Lai doesn't want to invite such a possibility, so there is no benefit at all.
And after Xu Lai struggled to kill these things, he didn't get anything good, only a few bottles of weakness potion, which can be applied to weapons or arrows.
Xu Lai had no choice but to take advantage of this opportunity and ordered him to rest, drink water and cook to restore his horse's strength.
In this way, Xu Lai ran for more than two days based on the map provided by Jian Yuan. When he was close to the final town, he chose to turn around and go home.
Going forward, there are no wild monsters left. They have all been wiped out by other people's towns. There is no point in going forward.
Besides, a long time has passed, and they did not have much time to rush on the road. Instead, the time spent fighting and resting, especially picking up loot, took up most of it.
Along the way, many difficult and valuable goals have been skipped by Xu Lai, so it may take more time to go back.
There is not enough time for him to communicate with this town, and in the event of a conflict, even if his own side has no losses, it will only delay the mobilization of the war, which will be enough for Xu Lai.
Throughout the various battles, Xu Lai's entire team has undergone a change, and Xu Lai's space backpack also contains a lot more supplies and gold coins.
However, this was not complete yet. Xu Lai waved his hand and the troops turned around and ran towards the last target they had skipped before, which was the target closest to them.
It was a group of lizard man shooters, more than 80 of them, ranging from level 2 lizard men to level 3 lizard man archers and level 4 lizard man warriors.
The lizardmen are from the fortress camp and have a neutral relationship with Xu Lai and the others, and are targets of diplomacy with a probability.
But Xu Lai jumped over them just because the opponent was a long-range unit, and the concentrated fire might cause the death of his own gargoyles.
“Many lizardmen admire you and are willing to join your army.
But they have asked you for settlement allowance, a total of 12,600 gold coins. Do you accept it? "
Xu Lai hesitated for a moment, lizardmen, they look a bit ugly. After all, they are long-range units. There are more than 80 here.
But his hesitation was hesitation. In mind and in action, the charging speed of the entire team did not slow down at all.
After rushing 50 meters, the message in Xu Lai's heart changed directly.
"The lizard people are afraid of your force. Rout, pursue or not? ”
Do you still need to choose this kind of thing? Xu Lai's horse speed didn't stop at all. A large number of rangers and mercenaries straightened their spears, like sharp arrows, directly pierced through this group of lizard men.
If the lizard men were to fight back at this time, it would already be too late. More than 30 of them had been lost in just one contact, and the remaining 50 or so were unable to focus their fire because they had to draw out their knives and attack them first. Destroy the opponents in front of you.
After randomly picking up some gold coins on the ground, Xu Lai urged the team to rush to the next target without stopping.
The glory of the God of War has disappeared. After running for 5 kilometers, Xu Lai ordered to rest on the spot and restore the strength of the war horse.
This is also a difficult target to deal with, a group of three-headed hounds from hell, level four.
They have no other abilities. They have three heads and can attack three targets at the same time.
The leader is a three-headed hell dog. In addition to being larger than the average three-headed hound, the main head in the middle can spit out corrosive flames like a giant dragon. These hellhounds were guarding a teleportation gate. Xu Lai was not interested in knowing where the teleportation gate led, because it was a one-way teleportation gate. As long as it was transmitted out, he would have to find another way back.
It is more troublesome to deal with these things.
There are not many of them, only 50, but if Xu Lai gathers his troops, he will have to withstand the bite of 150 fourth-level units.
So he divided the cavalry into three groups and launched attacks on the three-headed hounds from different directions. Several rangers, under the command of Yan Feng, took the lead in raising their bows and shooting.
The huge three-headed hell dog, which could occupy the space of two or three warriors, was killed by heavy arrows before it could roar.
The rest of the three-headed dogs were easier to deal with. The three arrows arranged by Xu Lai did not require any force from the cavalry, and most of them were eliminated with just one charge.
Without the glory of the God of War, Xu Lai and others also paid a price for their hand-to-hand combat. Almost everyone was injured, and of course the loss of life points was not much.
Xu Lai took this opportunity to take out the tent to restore life to everyone and restore the strength of the war horses. He himself took Tahan, Yan Feng and Yu Lan to pick up the loot.
His time is very tight, he has to fight at least eight battles every day, so that he can rush back to Qingfeng Town in 4 to 5 days.
Therefore, the rest of the troops has always been intermittent, either when picking up trophies, or during lunch or dinner.
Each break is about an hour, which means that after solving a battle at night, I may rest for 4 or 5 hours.
Even a strong man like Xu Lai, who has a physical constitution of 18 points, feels exhausted after being like this for several days in a row, and is a "monster" soldier who has no thoughts at all. He can rest when he is told and go out when he is told.
The journey home was just as Xu Lai expected, more difficult than when he came.
In addition to the more difficult targets left behind, there were also some choices that Xu Lai had to face.
For example, the lizardmen before, as well as a group of level 4 dryads and level 5 dryads encountered on the way.
This is a creature from its own ally, the barrier camp, the advanced form of the forest demon, with super high defense power.
The level 5 dryads are even more abnormal. Their defense and health are comparable to the higher level sixth or even seventh level soldiers. However, this creature also sacrifices its own agility and moves very slowly for this purpose. , even worse than zombies.
Of course, with the blessing of Xu Lai's speed force, it would definitely be much stronger than zombies.
And although the tree spirit itself moves slowly, this creature is extremely large and its root system is extremely developed.
In the rooted state, not only is the defense and recovery power amazing, it can also restrain the enemy in front of you, forcing you to fight with it, providing a perfect output environment for the elf shooter behind you.
It can be said that the tree spirit is a solid line of defense in the forest that is harder than steel.
There are forest troops under Xu Lai. If he returns home now, there may be forest demons who have advanced into tree demons.
Therefore, recruiting the opponent will not affect morale. On the contrary, if you fight with them, you will be involved in this group of tree spirits for a long time.
But for the sake of the overall speed of the army, Xu Lai had to give up again, even though there was a huge pile of gold coins visible to the naked eye behind the tree spirit.
Furthermore, if you can engage in diplomacy without recruiting this time, the probability of successful diplomacy will be significantly reduced next time, and you will basically have to go to war.
But for the sake of the overall strategy, Xu Lai had no choice but to give up.
Skip this group of tree spirits that Xu Lai likes very much, and there will be no one that can impress Xu Lai. Regardless of whether he admires Xu Lai or not, there is only one order to charge.
Xu Lai charges at the forefront of every battle in order to achieve one of the strategic goals before departure, which is to improve his level.
As a hero, in addition to sharing the overall combat experience, Xu Lai also gains experience from the targets he kills entirely personally.
So his experience bar increased quickly, but when he was about to go home, his experience was still a little behind.
At this critical moment, if only the wave of heavy infantry left by Xu Lai from the beginning was left, Xu Lai would not hesitate to launch a charge.
Fortunately, Xu Lai had upgraded before that, but unfortunately, his elementary diplomacy skills failed to successfully reach these heavy infantry, and Xu Lai still had no choice but to launch a charge.
Taking advantage of the darkness, Xu Lai returned to Qingfeng Town at around three o'clock in the middle of the night. There were still two full days before the deadline for the war mobilization order.
But it would take time to rush to Hard Rock Castle, and Xu Lai still needed to rest. Besides him, Yu Lan and others were also exhausted.
On the fifth day, Xu Lai slept until three o'clock in the morning before getting up. This sleep was refreshing. When he woke up, he had ready-made meals, which made Xu Lai, who had been sleeping outdoors for many days, feel Arriving at some warmth of home.
But after he got up, he had no time to slowly reminisce with Su Ya and the others. Even Elena, the village chief Lazi and the others only dealt with it hastily.
Asking Dier to help him assemble the army, Xu Lai took Su Ya and headed straight into the woods.
Thanks to qq book friend: Drunken Sand Frontier, late stage of diving disease for the reward
(End of this chapter)