Chapter 63: Destroying with overwhelming force
Out of a hundred War Lord apprentices, perhaps less than half can leave this plane safely in the end.
Don’t think this is too outrageous. The word “War Lord” is not spoken, but fought out.
There will always be casualties in war. Even apprentices have to go to the battlefield in person.
Besides, the pioneering mission does not force you to do anything, it just sets a general task framework for you to choose.
If you choose a dangerous mission in order to gain more benefits and resources, who can you blame if you die?
Then Li Qing chatted with them for a while and learned about what happened during his retreat. They could also communicate with other divine realms through the divine realm and knew most things.
After chatting for a while, Li Qing returned to the Divine Realm Tower.
Mo Wenxi's tragedy also serves as a reminder to everyone that attacking towns is risky.
Who could have thought that a great wizard would use the wizard tower to teleport troops directly over, and react so quickly.
Fortunately, Li Qing had destroyed the town directly using the meteorite technique. It was estimated that the nobles in the snakeman city were confused as to whether there was also a great wizard taking action, so they did not dare to teleport over rashly.
The strength of the archmage who left the Mage Tower dropped sharply, so he dared not take any risks.
"So, next time we act, we should act quickly or change our target!"
Returning to the core tower, he reopened the Divine Domain network, found those intelligence dealers, and spent some money to update the original map.
In less than a month, more than a dozen newly opened divine domains were re-marked on the updated map.
In addition, the markings of various places are more detailed, and several new alien tribes have been added.
Li Qing carefully checked the new map, pondered for a while, and set his target on an alien tribe in the mountains more than 40 kilometers west of his own divine domain.
A year later, the wind of chaos blew and the Scourge Lord invaded. Without sufficient strength, it was impossible to resist the Scourge Lord.
He had to work hard during this year to destroy more snake towns or alien tribes.
If all goes well, he might be able to try to capture a city-level target. Of course, it would be best if there is a treasure chest.
If it can be completed, the strength will definitely be greatly improved. At that time, not only will we be able to protect ourselves, but we may even be able to achieve something.
The specific location of this target is to cross the river to the west, then cross a small plain and enter a mountain range.
This is a newly marked alien tribe after the update. It is a mixed population of gnolls and kobolds. They have domesticated many ferocious beasts. It is not very large in scale, with the total number of gnolls and kobolds being less than two thousand.
He is not very strong, but is suitable for training and seeing how effective war spells are after his men are equipped with pseudo dragon skins.
The reason why this small tribe still exists and has not been destroyed by other war lord apprentices is not only because of the inconvenient terrain in the mountains, but also because this werewolf tribe actually has a small group of ogres.
An ogre is a large humanoid creature, often over four meters tall, with thick skin and flesh, high defense resistance, amazing strength, and extremely powerful combat capability.
The lowest level of Ogre Warrior is level 36, the elite template. After promotion, it is level 46 Elite Ogre Hammerman. After further promotion, it is level 58 Elite Template Ogre Chief.
But it is also possible for mutations to occur. An ogre warrior can be promoted to an ogre mage with an elite template of level 52, and then to a two-headed ogre mage with a horror template of level 69. This means that he has both a strong body and strong spellcasting ability, and his combat power is extremely fierce.
A group of ogres must have an ogre leader.
Their strong strength, coupled with the complex terrain in the mountainous area, makes them very difficult to deal with.
But for Li Qing...
It can be dealt with even without using meteorite magic.
Four days later, after An Erqiu and Long Shou who were away came back, Li Qing ordered them to rest for three days and set off three days later.
Because the Divine Domain had already been deployed and could not be closed within a year, the functions of the Divine Domain could not be used this time. Li Qing could only make preparations in advance and built a section of city wall, some arrow towers, two siege counterweight catapults, and some throwing stones.
Of course, there are also a few meteorites as backup. If we really can't take it down, we can only use this killer trick.
Three days later, Li Qing sold ten arrow towers to his mentor and earned 5 million yuan, which he immediately spent to buy a large amount of supplies.
Including a large number of military type cards, energy cards, and some supplies.
In addition to replenishing the divine energy pool, the main function of energy cards is to cast war spells.
He now has no divine power and his own mana is less than 100. Under normal circumstances, he cannot cast war spells by himself and can only use energy cards instead.
The troop card is currently useless.
Then he spent several days making a large number of pseudo-dragon leather armors and re-dressed his subordinates. Except for the five Mo Dao soldiers, all other troops, including several heroic professionals, were equipped with pseudo-dragon leather armors.
After making preparations, Li Qing selected two-thirds of the troops from the Divine Realm to set off, leaving An Erqiu to guard the house, while the three Xie brothers and Long Shou followed the army.
With about a hundred soldiers fully equipped with pseudo-dragon leather armor and a ten-meter-high city wall, it would be impossible to attack unless the snake people led an army of more than a thousand plus a great wizard to jointly attack the city.
It is difficult to climb up the ten-meter-high city wall alone. His divine domain is located in this primitive jungle, and siege weapons cannot be transported in. Without siege weapons and extraordinary wizards, it is basically impossible to attack.
By the time they built siege equipment on the spot and started the siege, Li Qing had already received the news and returned.
There is no need to bother reporting the news. When his divine domain is attacked, as the lord of the divine domain, he can sense it no matter where he is.
A troop of about two hundred people left the divine domain, crossed the jungle, crossed the river, passed through the abandoned farmland west of the river, and came to the edge of the mountains.
The troops slowed down here. Li Qing asked Long Shou to lead the troops to continue forward along the canyon, while he himself rode a giant eagle into the sky to conduct reconnaissance first.
We soon arrived above the location marked on the map and found the werewolf tribe at the junction of three small ridges.
The three exits were blocked by stone walls, and inside were a mess of wooden sheds and houses, with only a few large stone houses in the center.
The defenses were crude, and if you took some time you wouldn't even need to attack the city, you could just climb over one of the ridges.
But such a simple defense can exist here, and no war lord apprentice has come to attack so far. In addition to the dozen or so ogres inside being difficult to deal with, the environment here is not good and it is not convenient for troops to deploy.
Looking down from a height of several hundred meters, you can clearly see the dozen or so big guys living behind the werewolf tribe.
After taking a circle and feeling that nothing was missed, Li Qing returned on the giant eagle.
There is nothing much to say about what happened next. It took the troops almost a whole day to reach the outside of the werewolf tribe.
Surrounded by his men, Li Qing took out the war magic book, turned to the second page, took out a card containing 100 standard energies and placed it in his palm. He stretched out his hand and pressed it on the dragon leather page, and began to mutter something.
The next energy card shattered, and the surging energy poured directly into the dragon skin. The complex magic circle began to brighten and emit light, submerging his hand.
After a few spells were recited, a dazzling ball of light condensed and formed above the magic circle. Li Qing reached out, grabbed the ball of light and threw it upwards.
A dazzling white light shot up into the sky and exploded thousands of meters in the air. In an instant, it was as if a sun exploded overhead. The dazzling light illuminated an area within a radius of five kilometers.
Then, everyone saw a group of gnolls driving a group of kobolds away from the city gate not far away. It seemed that the hunting team was out looking for food and they happened to run into them.
Li Qing decisively ordered in the shocked eyes of his subordinates:
"Xie Zhu, you lead the First Infantry Squadron and the First Shooter Squadron to go around and intercept the rear. Long Shou, you lead the Second Infantry Squadron and the Second Shooter Squadron to directly launch an attack. The others are on standby."
"Damn it, it looks like there aren't enough heroes. We need to recruit enough."
The troops must be divided up and led by a hero, otherwise it will just be a rigid execution. Once the enemy changes its formation, the troops without a hero leading them will not be able to respond.
But that's a matter for the future. Let's finish this fight first.
The gnolls and kobolds were unable to adapt to the sudden dazzling light, and their first reaction was to cover their eyes and lower their heads.
But with the heavy footsteps of the soldiers, coupled with the noisy reminders of their companions on the city wall not far away, they discovered the human army launching an attack not far away. After a period of chaos, some prepared to flee, while others took up arms to resist.
"Raise the shield!"
"Archers, ready, shoot!"
With uniform movements, a wave of arrows rained down, and a large number of gnolls and kobolds were shot down, which aggravated the chaos. More gnolls and kobolds gave up resistance and fled towards the city wall.
"mob!"
Li Qing was too lazy to even waste energy casting war magic.
With pursuers behind and interceptors in front, Xie Zhu arrived at the designated location before the jackals could react and stopped the jackals outside the city wall.
Attacking from both sides, the gnolls and kobolds, who were totally unaccustomed to the sudden bright light of day, suffered a one-sided defeat.
None of them were able to escape and all were killed, while the subordinates equipped with pseudo-dragon leather armor were unharmed.
The gnolls and kobolds in the tribe had no support. The light of war covered an area with a diameter of five kilometers. The entire tribe was affected. Even the ogres were in a rage at this time and had no time to support the outside world.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Qing routinely took out four arrow towers and lined them up in a row, and placed two ten-meter-long sections of city walls in front.
Then two counterweight catapults were taken out, set up at the estimated distance, and the trebuchets began.
After two adjustments, the boulder hit the stone wall accurately, smashing it down with one strike.
After five or six rounds, two huge gaps were smashed into the stone wall.
Then Li Qing put away the catapult and ordered Xie Zhu and Long Shou to lead a squadron each to attack from the two gaps.
At this time, some of the gnolls in the tribe had already reacted and began to gather under the call of the gnoll leader.
At this time, Li Qing had taken out a larger arrow tower and placed it outside the stone wall of the Gnoll tribe. From his high vantage point, he could see the Gnolls and Kobolds gathering. At the same time, the ogres behind them had slowly adapted to the strong light and were now holding their weapons ready to join the battle.
He opened the war magic book without hesitation, took out the second energy card and pressed it on it.
As the energy card collapsed and energy was injected, the war spell was cast and turned into a thunder ball that kept flashing tiny electric lights. The war magic book in his hand was gently thrown, the thunder ball rose up, the magic book was closed, and the thunder ball was lightly thrown with his right hand.
A thick bolt of lightning shot into the village, crossing a distance of more than 300 meters in an instant and hitting the gathered group of gnolls and dog-headed people.
"boom!"
The lightning exploded with the landing point as the center, and countless thick lightning bolts radiated in all directions until they were thirty meters away.
The power of a first-level spell is not very great, but considering the physique of kobolds and ordinary gnolls, it is definitely powerful enough to kill them instantly. When the lightning covering a range of 30 meters disappeared, a pile of charred corpses was left in its place.
Most of them were killed instantly, and only the leader and a few strong enough jackals managed to survive, but they were also on the verge of death.
"War spells?"
Xie Zhu, who had already led his troops into the stone wall, turned around with an expression of shock that he could not suppress:
"Shit, you actually have a war magic book?"
He stared at the dragon-skin book he had put away, as if he had seen something incredible.
But to be honest, at this stage, it is indeed incredible to see a war magic book in the hands of a war lord apprentice at their level.
If there wasn't a war going on right now, he would definitely come up and see it for himself.
Seeing his shocked expression, Li Qing waved his hand and said:
"Don't be surprised yet. I'll show you after the beating. Remember not to tell anyone."
This wave of earth-shattering magic lightning instantly destroyed the resistance that the werewolves had just gathered. The werewolf leader, who was at the fourth level, was still alive, but the most elite group of the tribe was wiped out, and they could not organize a resistance for a while.
What's even more despairing is that this kind of war magic can be released more than once.
However, although he had the advantage, Li Qing was not careless. There were thirteen ogres coming from behind, and this was the biggest threat.
He adjusted the troops and asked Xie Zhu's troops to wipe out the fleeing gnolls and kobolds, while Long Shou led the main force to engage in direct combat against the incoming ogres.
In addition, Li Qing also transferred the five Modao soldiers over.
The ogres did not rush forward all at once. Only three of them arrived first. Three rocks as big as heads came from a very long distance away and knocked down three infantrymen in the front row. Two thick wooden shields were shattered on the spot, and one iron shield was dented. The huge force caused bones to be broken and they lost their combat effectiveness on the spot.
But Li Qing immediately retaliated by marking the three ogres and ordering more than seventy archers to focus their fire on ogre number one.
At the same time, Long Shou was not idle either. He pulled out a fine steel javelin made by Li Qing himself from the javelin bag behind him and threw it hard.
The javelin flew out like lightning and pierced the ogre's chest, followed by a rain of arrows that rained down, instantly turning the ogre into a hedgehog and making him fall down.
No matter how thick your skin and flesh are, you cannot withstand this kind of concentrated fire.
Soon the second ogre rushed over. Three Modao soldiers rushed forward with swords in hand. One of them held the thick wooden stick with his sword, while the other two went around from the left and right and chopped it down with the three-meter-long Modao. Blood spurted out and the two thick arms of the ogre were directly cut off.
Before the third one arrived, Long Shou pulled out a two-handed sword specially made for him by Li Qing from behind and rushed forward, followed by the other two Modao soldiers.
