Chapter 53: Artificial Meteorite Technique
Xue Yunling is one of the eighteen War Lord apprentices under the three-star mentor Ji Yuanjia, and is currently ranked fifth.
As soon as the two-month study period ended, he began to expand outward. He was the first of the 18 apprentices to enter this large plane fragment, and also the most radical.
After a brief reconnaissance, he led his troops into the depths of the plane just as the other apprentices entered.
After crossing a hilly area with complex terrain and arriving at a plain area, the scouting hero discovered a snakeman village.
After determining the strength of the snakeman village and finding out the general situation of the snakeman town not far away, Xue Yunling formulated a blitzkrieg plan.
Be prepared to eliminate the guards of this snakeman village and complete the looting before the snakeman town reacts and sends out troops.
"The weather is fine!"
Xue Yunling looked up at the gray-black sky. After reconnaissance, he found that this was the time when the snake people and the slaves were about to finish their work. After a while, the slaves who were busy in the fields would return to the village one after another. At that time, they could sneak to the edge of the village and launch an attack quietly.
Just as his eyes swept across the sky, he saw a large shadow passing over his head.
But he didn't care. There were a few aerial birds of prey in this plane, which posed no threat to them.
An hour later, a clear horn sounded in the valley, and a loud voice rang out:
"Everyone, the First Infantry Squadron and the First Archer Squadron will form the First Regiment under the command of Wang Yiheng, and attack the gate of the snakeman village from the front."
"The 2nd Infantry Squadron and the 2nd Archer Squadron will form the 2nd Regiment, commanded by Danjie, and will attack the snakeman village from the left."
"The cavalry squadron is commanded by Li Bin, and will raid the rear to intercept the fleeing snake people."
"The other troops will form the Third Regiment, which will be under my command."
"Let's go now!"
Following an order , Li Qing looked down from the sky and saw the troops that had been squatting in the valley slowly move out, split into two groups, and move towards the snakeman village under the cover of darkness.
At this time, the slaves working in the fields had already gone back, and the fields were empty. No one could notice that a regular army was approaching the village.
It was not until it was less than a hundred meters away from the village that it was discovered by the snake man on the sentry tower at the entrance of the village, and a shrill alarm sounded in the village.
The human troops rushed straight to the village entrance without stopping.
The snake people were not afraid at all. Only twenty or so regular snake soldiers led forty or fifty vassal lizardmen to rush out with weapons and blocked the human troops at the entrance of the village.
A large number of snakemen and vassal lizardmen archers armed with bows climbed up the two wooden watchtowers at the entrance of the village and shot from above.
These snakemen are very powerful in frontal combat. Any one of them can suppress a fully armed regular infantry head-on. If they fight against human infantry alone, they will definitely not be able to defeat them.
Unfortunately, there are too few snake people, and humans have the upper hand here.
By the time Xue Yunling led the third regiment to arrive, the snake people leader in the village had already driven out a large number of slaves with hoes, axes and other farm tools.
There were four or five hundred people in the entire village. Even if only half of the slaves were driven here, it would still be a considerable scale.
These slaves had been enslaved for generations and had long lost the will to resist. Driven by the snake people, they rushed to the village entrance, and their momentum was quite strong for a while.
But slaves are slaves, no matter how high their morale is, they can never be a match for the regular army.
The commander Wang Yiheng only sent out a small infantry unit, and then ordered all the archers to focus their fire on the slaves. A wave of arrows killed less than ten slaves and injured a dozen, but the blow to the slaves' morale was fatal, and they immediately became fearful.
After three waves of arrows, more than 200 slaves lost their morale and were too afraid to move forward.
Seeing this, Xue Yunling immediately ordered the cavalry to charge the slave soldiers, and the sound of horse hooves sounded like thunder on the battlefield.
At the same time, the Second Regiment had already circled to the back gate at the rear of the village and launched an attack on the unguarded back gate.
At this moment, more than a dozen snakemen with better equipment rushed out of the village. The leader was a red-scaled snakeman whose scales were different from those of the other green-scaled snakemen. He opened his mouth and uttered some snake language that they could not understand.
Of course there was no response, no one could understand .
Seeing this, the snake man snorted coldly and waved his hand. Most of the snake people rushed to the battlefield. He himself put his hands together and formed a seal, muttering something. A little red flame condensed between his hands and quickly formed a huge fireball. The scorching heat quickly attracted the attention of humans not far away.
"Damn, there is a third-level magician in such a small village?"
Xue Yunling was stunned for a moment. It was too late to give any warning. He only saw a red fireball flying into the battlefield.
"boom!"
A dazzling flame exploded on the battlefield, instantly covering an area of about five meters, and exploded directly in the middle of the first shooter squadron of the first regiment. The screams lasted only for a moment before stopping abruptly.
“Fuck!”
This red-scaled snakeman was a warlock hero, and his fireball spell was a hero spell. More than half of a squadron of fifty archers were killed instantly, which was a heavy loss.
This loss also scared Li Qing. Like Xue Yunling, he did not expect that a small snakeman village would have a magic hero above level three. This was completely beyond their expectations.
There is information asymmetry on the battlefield, and this is the consequence.
After casting one fireball, the snakeman warlock began to cast the second fireball.
But by this time Xue Yunling had already reacted, or rather, the stealth hero in the team had already reacted and disappeared silently.
But the second fireball could not be stopped. Even though Wang Yiheng, the commander of the First Regiment, ordered the back row to disperse, the killing range of five meters in diameter was too large. If it hit, even the fourth-tier soldiers would not be able to withstand it.
When the second ball of flames exploded, six shooters were burned to charcoal.
At the same time, other troops were affected by the explosion and their morale dropped significantly .
The Divine Realm troops are upgraded by promotion cards. Affected by the magic array in the promotion array, their morale threshold is very high. If it were an indigenous army, they would have collapsed long ago.
The snake-man warlock fired two fireballs in a row, a cruel look on his face. He looked at the human infantry in the front row and started to cast the third fireball.
But when he was about to cast the spell, he suddenly felt a chill on his back. He turned around subconsciously and saw a flash of cold light in his peripheral vision. Then he felt a pain in his neck and the scene in front of him seemed to be spinning.
A black figure suddenly appeared and then quickly disappeared, leaving behind a headless snake man who staggered and fell heavily to the ground.
At this time, the four snake guards around them finally reacted, but it was too late.
"it's over!"
Li Qing said lightly while sitting on the giant eagle.
Without heroes, no matter how many snakemen guards a village has, they can be a match for this force.
Even though the snake people themselves have stronger physical fitness than humans, the lowest level of these snake people is level 9, and they can advance once to become formal warriors of level 18. They are all elite templates, and their physical fitness is 30% stronger than humans of the same level. They can challenge higher-level soldiers of non-powerful races, but their numbers are too small.
However, this battle also reminded him that the snakeman civilization in this dimension is a civilization with a complete heritage. Its regular army is composed entirely of elite soldiers, and there are a large number of powerful heroes. It is not the werewolf tribe that he had dealt with before.
Li Qing did not stay for long. After seeing the snake people being defeated, he drove the giant eagle back.
When we returned to the temporary base, we saw from afar a group of about thirty snakemen and a hundred lizardmen gathered not far from the arrow tower. Beside the arrow tower lay more than a dozen lizardmen corpses, some shot by arrows and some burnt.
The giant eagle stopped above the arrow tower, and Li Qing jumped down. Long Shou stepped forward and said to him:
"Sir, not long after you left, a snake army arrived and attempted an attack, but I repelled them."
Li Qing nodded, walked to the parapet and looked outside, then leaned back the next second and a crossbow arrow flew past him.
“Very fierce!”
Li Qing looked out again and then retracted his head and said to Long Shou:
"Don't worry about it, wait until Xie Zhu and the others come back!"
The arrow tower is ten meters high, thick at the top and bottom and narrow in the middle, like a dumbbell. As long as the door at the bottom is blocked, they will not be able to come up.
Turning around and going down to the next level where the weapons were stored, Li Qing opened the door to the divine realm and entered.
The scene he just saw taught him a lesson, and he decided to modify his original attack plan.
Even a small village has a third-level snakeman warlock, so this town must have several, or even fourth- or fifth-level warlocks?
If he were to attack rashly, a heroic spell with a larger range might kill all the soldiers he had trained with great effort in one wave.
If you want to capture this town with minimal losses, you must first find a way to break down its defenses and kill any powerful magic heroes.
So the question is, how to do it?
Li Qing was thinking hard.
His original idea was very simple. He would put a few stone balls with a diameter of nearly ten meters in the space in his palm, fly to the sky above the town on a giant eagle and drop them down.
With the density of the stone he synthesized, thousands of cubic meters would weigh about three thousand tons. If dropped from a height of more than one thousand meters, even a super-human beast would be turned into meat paste if hit.
The city walls were of no use to him.
Even the magic tower in the center of the town couldn't withstand the bombardment.
However, this boulder is only effective at hitting fixed targets, but it is basically unlikely to hit a powerful hero.
A powerful hero has a strong sense of danger and may be able to sense and dodge a boulder before it falls.
If a powerful hero doesn’t die, he’ll have to fight with the lives of his men.
Therefore, he had to find a way to destroy the town’s defenses while killing the powerful heroes and defenders in the town.
So the general plan will not change, but the details will have to be adjusted.
Unfortunately, there was not enough steel on hand, only more than a hundred square meters, and even if they were all gathered together, they would not be very big.
If a solid steel ball with a diameter of ten meters was made from thousands of cubic meters of fine steel and dropped from a height of one or two thousand meters, it would definitely be able to destroy the entire town in one blow.
He temporarily demolished some city walls in the divine domain and made them into huge stone balls, which he stored in the space in his palm.
After coming out of the divine realm, the next thing is to wait for An Erqiu and the others to come.
He waited for several days and even drove away the snakes outside.
They hid inside and didn't come out, and the snake people couldn't do anything to them.
When the two armies joined together, there were a total of just over a hundred people, which was a decent size.
But this was not enough. Li Qing returned to the Divine Realm and took out the one hundred Imperial Infantrymen and one hundred Imperial Archers, as well as the twenty Imperial Cavalry cards that he had purchased from his mentor when he left. He summoned two hundred and twenty civilians from the farm and loaded the military promotion cards.
By the way, he also made a few large ships and stored them in his palm space.
When leaving, Li Qing had already purchased a total of 500 human cards and a batch of imperial military promotion cards from his mentor.
Taking quantity into consideration, this batch of cards has not been upgraded to elite or elite. Combining five cards into one feels too uneconomical, at least not when there are insufficient troops in the early stage.
At the same level, one elite soldier definitely cannot beat five ordinary soldiers.
Moreover, the number of troops at this stage is too small. If they are all elite, who will be used as cannon fodder?
There must be cannon fodder, otherwise it would be a waste to use these elite troops or elites synthesized at a great cost as cannon fodder.
The troops were mobilized, the arrow towers were put away, several large wooden boats were taken out and thrown into the water, and the troops boarded the boats one after another to cross the river.
After crossing the river, Li Qing first sent Xie Jin to sneak over, while the main force slowly followed behind.
After a while, Xie Jin returned and brought the news that there was no one in the fields ahead. When they crossed the river, they had already determined that this plane was in a rest period.
Li Qing ordered An Erqiu to lead the troops next, and asked him to march and fight according to the predetermined plan, and then he soared into the sky on the giant eagle.
To the west of the town, a small group of people was hiding in the farmland less than two hundred meters away from the town.
Xue Yunling looked up at the tall magic tower in the center of the town with a frown on his face.
His subordinate Wang Yiheng glanced at the guards patrolling back and forth on the city wall and whispered:
"Boss, we can't take this town."
Another subordinate nodded:
"Not to mention how powerful the magic tower in the center is, the regular snakemen defenders alone are more numerous than us. Add to that the advantage of the city walls, and it's impossible for us to capture it with our strength."
Xue Yunling nodded and said:
"We really can't capture this town. If there is a fourth or fifth level wizard in charge of the magic tower, it will be difficult to capture it even if my subordinates increase tenfold."
"What about us?"
"Change location. If we can't attack the town, we can attack the village. There are many snake nobles in this area, and there are dozens of affiliated villages. If we destroy more villages, the harvest will not be bad, and more importantly, there is no risk."
"Then we retreat?"
"Retreat!"
Xue Yunling nodded, stood up and left.
Just as he was about to leave, Li Qing had already flown to an altitude of more than 8,000 meters above the town on a giant eagle. Looking down at this time, the town looked like a small model.
The field of vision was gray, with only the ball of light on top of the magic tower standing out.
He used this ball of light as a coordinate and summoned a ball of light magic that floated between his line of sight and the ball of light on the top of the tower. The three points formed a straight line. He opened the space in his palm without hesitation, and a stone ball with a diameter of ten meters flew out of the vortex and hung straight down.
The stone ball was very fast at first, and it kept getting faster and faster until it reached its maximum speed.
The weight of several thousand tons generated heat from friction with the air at high speed, and soon a red light appeared on the falling surface, becoming brighter and brighter, and finally turned into flames that enveloped the stone ball.
Xue Yunling, who had just taken a few steps, sensed something and turned his head, quickly raised his head, his pupils slightly dilated, and a look of surprise quickly appeared on his face.
"this……"
High in the sky, a huge red meteorite fell from the sky with a long tail of flame.
Just like a falling sun, the dim sky and earth quickly became brighter, and the temperature in the air rose rapidly. Xue Yunling felt like some terrifying existence was falling from the sky. A terrifying pressure that made his scalp tingle and his soul tremble came towards him.
