Chapter 1167 Balai comes to visit
Seeing that something was wrong, the Green King gave the order to withdraw troops simply.
The greenskin who can become the king will always have much better brains than the ordinary greenskin. In the view of the greenskin king, their misjudgment in this battle has already allowed the dwarves to take the initiative and fight. Rhythm.
The green skin's ability to execute tactics is very poor, let alone adjust tactics temporarily.
In this case, whether he chooses to deploy troops to support other battlefields, or simply fight to the end, they will have to pay a higher price than usual.
Rather than that, it would be better to simply withdraw the troops and fight another day after regrouping.
With the signal to withdraw troops here, the green-skinned army quickly retreated.
To be honest, the greenskins retreated earlier than they expected. Balai, who confirmed this situation, did not have much joy on his face. Even the battle in the middle of the night was not successful. Shi Lei, who was not relaxed, also frowned deeply.
Such a crisp retreat shows that the commander on the opposite side has sufficient decisiveness.
Bale was definitely not willing to let the greenskins retreat. He directly ordered the large forces to cooperate with the boar knights to launch a proper pursuit and expand their results.
As for Shi Lei, he didn't do this.
In this late-night environment, human troops without night vision would not have a big problem in positional warfare as a defender, but if they launched a pursuit, it would be a bit desperate.
Shi Lei had a clear mind and would give up when he saw fit. He would leave the pursuit to the dwarves and they would not interfere.
It was almost four or five hours before dawn, and it was unclear whether the greenskins on the opposite side would suddenly kill them and respond.
Out of caution, Shi Lei arranged for enough troops to keep vigil to ensure that the greenskins would not take advantage of the loopholes. He also took a rest after finishing some post-war tasks at hand.
Although he didn't go to bed until early in the morning, Shi Lei still had enough professionalism to wake up on time at seven o'clock the next morning.
The fact that he can sleep until now is enough to prove that the greenskins did not come back after withdrawing their troops last night.
After breakfast, Shi Lei took a proper sleep.
During the day, the Greenskin didn’t know if he would continue to launch an offensive, and he had to keep his spirits high.
This time, he slept until noon and then woke up, finally having enough sleep.
The greenskins had been silent during this period. Obviously, after experiencing yesterday's daytime and nighttime attacks, the greenskins no longer had the energy to continue the offensive.
After all, they are not made of iron. As long as they are flesh and blood, they need rest.
Taking this opportunity, Shi Lei quickly adjusted his defenses and gave his soldiers a rest in shifts.
As a defender, this is not good. The dominance is completely in the hands of the enemy. You don't know when the enemy will suddenly attack. This situation will make people uneasy.
While Shi Lei was making arrangements, a soldier walked in quickly.
"General, General Balai from Copperhearth Castle is here."
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The moment he heard the report, many thoughts flashed through Shi Lei's mind, but For the moment, it was impossible to confirm the purpose of Balai's sudden arrival.
After the personal report, Balai was taken to the conference room of the camp and met Shi Lei.
After experiencing the battle last night, Balai has undoubtedly further realized the value of gunpowder in a war.
With the desire for gunpowder, he had actually wanted to come.
However, considering that the essence of this matter was that he was asking for help, and in the early morning, they had just finished a battle with the greenskins. If they came too early, the other party might still be sleeping and resting. Taking this into consideration, Balai was patient and waited until after noon before calling his little nephew Wojin to come with him.
"Your Excellency Shi Lei!"
After seeing Shi Lei, Balai took the initiative to step forward and hold hands with him. This situation made Shi Lei think more. .
Ever since the two of them had some quarrels over defense issues, in order to avoid some disputes and conflicts, he would basically disappear and disappear, relying entirely on Wojin as the intermediary messenger to negotiate.
Now that Balai came to him on his own initiative and obviously lowered his attitude, Shi Lei had to think more.
While Shi Lei was thinking this, Balai had already expressed his gratitude for the battle last night.
Although that night attack was most likely launched by the greenskins against Da Zhou's troops, it cannot be denied that Da Zhou had already helped them fight two battles, and the results of both battles were very good, especially It was the battle last night that allowed them to seize the opportunity and kill many green-skinned soldiers, which could be regarded as effectively reducing the green-skinned troops.
As soon as he talked about this matter, Balai became excited.
After all, ever since they were forced to shrink their defense by the greenskins, their troops in Copperforge have been being consumed by the greenskins, and it has been a long time since there has been a change like this.
“Thanks to the continuous efforts of your troops, you put pressure on the greenskins on the frontal battlefield. Otherwise, if we continue to fight at that momentum, the situation on our side may not be optimistic.”
In this regard, Shi Lei just responded with a smile and did not forget about Balai's compliments.
At the same time, he didn't lie. In the battle last night, the pressure they endured was far greater than during the day.
It can only be said that the specific situation here is different from what he expected at the beginning.
He didn't expect the greenskins to be so large, and at the same time, they were divided into several battlefields around Copperhearth Castle.
According to his original plan, the dwarf army would charge on the frontal battlefield, and they would provide support on the flank battlefield, focusing on pulling the battle line, but not taking much risks.
As a result, who would have thought that Copperforge's defensive tactics would force them to take charge of part of the main battlefield, which would increase the pressure they need to bear.
Like last night, I received the green skin's "key care".
This is undoubtedly contrary to his initial thinking.
But just before Balai came over, Shi Lei looked at the battlefield map and pondered it for a while.
After all, the area they are stationed in is just a corner of the Copperforge battlefield, but because of the loopholes in the extended section, the greenskins will take care of it from time to time.
However, after last night’s battle, the greenskins should also know that this loophole has been closed.
Under this premise, the key battle situation on this battlefield is ultimately the frontal battlefield. If the greenskins want to achieve results, the main force must be placed on the frontal battlefield. It depends on what the greenskins will do next. What kind of offensive idea is this?
Shi Lei and Balai had another in-depth discussion about the possible measures that the greenskins might take next.
During this process, Shi Lei actually knew that Balai was definitely not here to talk to him about this, but if the other party didn't mention it, he would pretend not to know. Until the discussion was over, Balai had nothing to say for a while. The scene fell into a brief stalemate.
Just when Shi Lei was about to stand up and end the conversation on the grounds that there were still military affairs to deal with, Balai let out two dry coughs and forced himself to speak...
"Speaking of which, Sir Shi Lei, when you fought against the greenskins yesterday, you used a special weapon"
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(End of this chapter)