Chapter 69 Action and the Mentor's Assistance
"Well……"
Li Qing fell into deep thought.
“This method seems to be good.”
"No, this method is better."
The previous idea would require too much manpower and material resources. It is not easy to cut off water and food for a city. Even cutting off food is difficult, not to mention water.
The snake city is located at the junction of two rivers. It has both water and land transportation, and it is very difficult to completely cut off.
In addition, we must make sure that the snake city does not have much food reserves. If there is enough food reserves, this method will not work.
Moreover, the Mage Tower has a teleportation function. Although transporting a large amount of goods consumes a lot of energy, as long as it can be teleported, the siege plan will be extended for several months.
Relatively speaking, the first one has too much uncertainty.
“Are there any detailed operations?”
"have."
Xie Zhu perked up and said in a deep voice:
"We are very strong in frontal combat capability. The leather equipment prepared by the Lord is very powerful. With excellent shields and weapons, our comprehensive strength can directly defeat the nearly 10,000 defenders of the Serpent City. We can completely push through Serpent Town head-on."
"The only difficulty lies in the Mage Tower where the Grand Mage resides. As long as we can solve one of the two problems, this snakeman city will be a piece of cake for us."
"In my imagination, we can choose a town next to the snakeman city as the target for the attack."
At this point, Xie Zhu took out a map and placed it in front of everyone. He pointed to a riverside town south of the Snake Man City and said:
"I'm thinking of this town. It's close to us and completely within the teleportation range of the snakeman city. We should learn from Mo Wenxi and his men's lesson and divide the troops into two parts. We will only dispatch about 500 troops to attack the town, and keep the rest of the troops hidden."
"This scale can put pressure on the snake people's towns without alerting the snake people in the city."
"As long as the Archmage of the Snake Town sends troops to support us, we will immediately take action to keep the Archmage."
"As long as we can keep the snakeman wizard here, the plan will be considered a success."
"Well……"
"It's a good idea, we can try it."
Li Qing pondered for a moment and said to them:
"You can discuss the details. I'll go over and scout first."
Li Qing made the decision and decided on the battle plan.
Then he adjourned the meeting, left the castle alone on a giant eagle, and flew north.
Flying in the air, Li Qing carefully thought about Xie Zhu's idea. The more he thought about it , the more he felt that it was highly feasible.
With his current strength, as long as the Snake Master dares to come out, there is a possibility of successful sniping.
Moreover, this is a plan that kills two birds with one stone. Even if the snakeman wizard fails to be killed and escapes, the snakeman town will not be able to escape. It is completely possible to break through the snakeman town and gain a lot of benefits.
We got a lot of good things from destroying the snakeman town before.
There are two snakeman towns around this snakeman city. If we really can't do anything about it, destroying the two snakeman towns will be a good reward.
And this is also a new idea. After destroying these two snake towns, the same method can be used to destroy the towns of other nobles and lords in the Snake Kingdom.
There are still many towns like this now, and if you add them up, there are quite a lot of them.
The quality of the gains might not be as good as directly destroying a city and a wizard tower, but if he could destroy seven or eight of them, the total would be enough to significantly increase his strength.
Others cannot do this because most apprentices do not have the strength to confront an extraordinary wizard head-on, even the three under the four-star mentor Lu Jun.
They don't have a five-star hero who has reached the fifth level and is capable of jumping one level to confront the extraordinary strong men head-on.
For an extraordinary wizard, if there is no strong person of the same level to resist, those who are lower than his level are just a piece of cake. He is not afraid of any number of them, and he can escape at any time if he cannot defeat them.
Of course, the three people who were lucky enough to get a bargain some time ago must have received a generous reward after destroying a snakeman city. Even if the benefits were reduced because of getting a bargain, the foundation is there, and they will definitely get some super rare treasures and greatly improve their strength. Now they are estimated to be able to face a great wizard head-on.
But being able to confront someone head-on is one thing, being able to confront them head-on and win while ensuring that there won’t be too much loss is another.
Unless the three of them unite again to do it.
"No, once they have digested it, they will definitely unite and do it together."
However, Li Qing was not too worried. They were too far away and there was no competition for the time being.
When there is competition in the future, he may have the strength to compete against them head-on.
The giant eagle flew to a height of about one thousand meters above the target town and looked down. Under the light gray fog, it could roughly see the layout of the town, the figures on the city wall, and a huge ball of light hanging on the top of the tall magic tower, illuminating all directions.
This magic tower can launch three types of war magic. Normally, it will only keep the light of civilization illuminating the surroundings. Even if it finds him flying low over the city, it will not attack.
There was nothing special about the town. Li Qing walked around and went north along the river. Soon he saw a huge snake city standing on the river bank in the distance.
The surface of the tall wizard tower is surrounded by powerful magical aura. If you focus your eyes on the wizard tower from afar, you can feel a strong threat coming towards you.
There is a main road along the river between the town and the city, and snake patrols pass by on the road.
The vast areas of land between towns and cities are farmland, with a large number of snake-man villages scattered in between.
After flying westwards for a distance away from the river, we found that this large area was all plains with snakeman villages everywhere. After flying west for another fifty or sixty kilometers, we saw another snakeman town on the plains. This was the territory of another great snakeman noble.
Li Qing circled over the town and was about to return when he suddenly saw a snakeman village not far from the town being besieged by a human army.
He watched with interest and found that it was a group of apprentices from an unknown mentor who were killing the snake people.
He had no interest in observing, so he just circled in the air and left.
After returning to the base, Li Qing immediately issued a mobilization order to prepare for departure. At the same time, he opened the Divine Domain Network to contact his mentor and sent him the news that he was preparing to attack the snakeman city .
When Nie Yang received Li Qing's message, he was stunned for a moment, then he immediately opened the communication and asked:
"Are you sure?"
Li Qing smiled and said:
"I have some confidence, but not much. I'm just trying it out. If it works, that's great. If it doesn't, that's OK."
"Generally speaking, at such a short distance, the snake-man wizard who is in charge of the city not far away is likely to teleport over. Do you have the strength to resist an extraordinary wizard?"
Li Qing hesitated for a moment and replied:
“There is some certainty.”
"Just a little bit of confidence? This is not a joke. You'd better be somewhat confident and have the ability to get out of this unscathed. Otherwise, I don't recommend you to try it."
Li Qing pinched his brows and said:
"I'm quite confident."
…
Nie Yang frowned and wanted to continue persuading him, but Li Qing looked very confident, which made him hesitate.
To be honest, if Li Qing could succeed, the gains from this wave would be enough for him to stop immediately, and his ranking would be among the top three among all the apprentices of the six mentors after the training.
But if it fails...
After thinking for a while, he said:
"If you are sure, then give it a try. But before that, I will issue a notice on your behalf to tell everyone about your action."
"???"
Li Qing asked in surprise:
"What kind of announcement? Tell all the War Lord apprentices that I'm going to capture this Serpent Man city?"
"Yes."
"why is that?"
"It's simple. This is a tacit understanding between mentors and an unspoken rule. Within one month after my announcement, other apprentices will be bound by their respective mentors and will not hold you back."
Li Qing was immediately surprised:
"Is there such a thing?"
"Of course, you all have a default development range, which does not allow you to attack the natives of other races near the divine domain. Why can't we, the mentors, do the same?"
"Of course, each mentor only has two chances during the two-year development period. This time is for you. I hope you can succeed."
Li Qing nodded seriously:
"I will!"
"Um!"
Nie Yang nodded, and added before closing the communication:
"I will make the announcement in a week, so you can leave now and have an extra week to prepare."
"Thank you, Teacher!"
After turning off the communication, Li Qing pinched his chin and suddenly laughed.
It is indeed good to be noticed by the tutor. With this, I don’t have to worry about being taken advantage of by others.
Li Qing did not waste any time and began to deploy his troops the next morning. An Erqiu led about 200 soldiers to guard the home, and the remaining more than 1,200 troops gathered and set off.
It took almost four days to get out of the primitive jungle and go down the river to reach the destination.
On the other side of the river, only about one kilometer away from the snakeman town.
The huge army was soon discovered by the snake-man vassals who were working on the other side of the river. Soon, a shrill alarm sounded from the snake-man town one kilometer away, which could be heard from far away.
Li Qing ignored it and just ordered his troops to cross the river.
It was daytime for the snake people at this time. Many slaves who were farming in the fields outside the town fled towards the town in panic after hearing the alarm. There were many farm tools thrown all over the fields.
When the 100 vanguards led by Long Shou arrived outside the town, the gates of the snake town had been closed and the defenders were on high alert on the city walls.
There is no communication for the time being. One is a human, the other is a snakeman. They don't speak the same language, so there is no room for communication at all.
Some people may be surprised. They have been in this plane fragment for half a year and have captured no less than ten snake towns. Why doesn't the Snake Kingdom mobilize a large army to encircle and suppress them?
The reason is actually very simple, because of the suppression from the top brass of the War College.
This plane fragment was forcibly pulled from the void by the academy using the Black Rock Tower. Before they arrived, the academy used the Black Rock Tower to scan the entire plane inside and out, and must have had contact with the ruler of the plane.
Based on past experience, in a situation like this, the most likely scenario is that the War Academy has demonstrated unrivaled strength and reached an agreement with the Snake Kingdom.
The specific agreement is not very clear, but one thing is certain.
That is, the Snake Kingdom is not allowed to actively dispatch troops to encircle and suppress apprentices. In other words, unless the apprentices take the initiative to attack, they can fight back. If they do not take the initiative to attack, they are not allowed to dispatch troops to encircle and suppress, even if they know where the apprentices' divine domain is.
The vanguard was waiting two hundred meters away from the city wall, but Li Qing's main force did not rush over immediately. Instead, they began to deploy troops after crossing the river.
Now this army has a total of 550 infantrymen of various levels, 550 archers of various levels, 125 cavalrymen, all of which have been brought out, as well as a fire mage who has been upgraded to the second level, and 10 ogres.
The 550 infantrymen were divided into five infantry squadrons of 100 men each.
The 550 archers were also divided into five squadrons of 100 men each.
The 125 cavalrymen were divided into two squadrons, each with 50 horses.
The remaining troops will be organized into the central army and adjusted according to circumstances.
An infantry squadron and an archer squadron were combined into a combined squadron, for a total of five combined squadrons.
Li Qing left the third, fourth and fifth combined squadrons by the river, and led the first and second combined squadrons and the central cavalry to continue their march.
Soon the troops arrived at the snakeman town. The Second Combined Squadron was divided into two, distributed on the left and right wings. The First Combined Squadron plus the central army took on the main attack, and the cavalry followed behind.
After getting ready, Li Qing first measured the distance by eye and prepared to set up the counterweight trebuchet.
There were no arrow towers placed and the troops were not moved forward.
There is a magic tower in the town that can launch the war spell "Magic Lightning". If you get too close, you will definitely die if the magic lightning strikes.
He planned to use a catapult to break down the city wall from a distance, create a few gaps, and then attack in one go.
This is also to delay time and see if the snakeman city not far away will send support. If they send support before the full-scale attack, we can fight a field battle outside.
Based on past experience, Li Qing had already determined the specific attack distance of the counterweight trebuchet.
It's not just the distance, which has been determined long ago, but the throwing distance under the influence of different geology, terrain angles, stone size and other factors.
So now before he placed the catapult, he first took out a super thick wooden board that was ten meters square and one meter thick and placed it on the ground. Then he adjusted the height and flatness, determined the position according to the angle, and then placed the catapult on the board.
Seven minutes later, accompanied by a dull sound, a stone weighing several hundred kilograms flew up, drew an arc in the air and flew towards the city wall.
With a loud "bang", a big hole was smashed on the city wall, and countless pieces of rubble flew everywhere.
The distance of a counterweight trebuchet is affected by the size of the stone. The two enhanced counterweight trebuchets manufactured by Li Qing can theoretically throw two thousand kilograms of stone, but the throwing distance cannot be too far.
The town in front of us has a magic tower. If we are too far away, it will be easily bombarded by war magic. We can only use small stones to keep a distance and then slowly grind it down.
Fortunately, the stones used were all standard stones that he had combined using the space in his palm. They were exactly the same in size, weight, shape, and texture, which could ensure that even if they were thrown a hundred times in a row, they would hit the same target.
So even though the stones were not big, after throwing more than a dozen stones at the same location, he still managed to smash the city wall open.
After smashing two gaps in one breath, Li Qing did not order an attack, but continued to bombard.
Half an hour later, the second round created four gaps.
Li Qing frowned and was silent for a moment, then ordered to continue.
"No support?"
He was a little surprised.
At this time, Xie Zhu also came over and asked in a low voice:
"Boss, it's almost an hour now. Logically, if there was support, they should have arrived long ago. Let's..."
Li Qing waved his hand and said:
"Wait a little longer, and then break two more gaps. If there is still no support, we will attack the city directly."
"If you don't want to come, then don't come. There are also gains from conquering towns. If you don't come, it won't be worse for me to conquer ten towns in one go than to conquer one city. That way, the risk is even smaller."
