Throne of the Warlord

Chapter 37 Preparations and surprises before the attack

As a professional scout of the team, Xie Jinyou had learned the craft of drawing maps. He simply wrote and drew, and a rough topographical map appeared in front of Li Qing.

"Well, this terrain"

This Gnoll tribe was built on the edge of the river valley, and the west side of the valley was a steep slope, which could basically be ignored.

Behind the tribe is a very complex hilly pile of hills, which is full of trees, vines and thorns, and it is not convenient to walk from there.

Facing them is the south side, which is a lush primeval jungle.

The one on the right is the east, which is probably the direction that the wolf man usually goes out. Although there are trees, they are relatively sparse, and there are many trails stepped on by the wolf man.

According to Xie Jin's map, there is no terrain available in the four directions. Normally, if you want to attack this gnoll tribe, you can only attack from the east.

And the defense of the wolf man tribe is not weak. It is estimated that the danger in this fragment is not low. There are other enemies. Although the wall surrounding the whole tribe is made of wood, it is a wooden city wall made of thick logs. Brocade is described as thick and tall.

While drawing, Xie Jin said to Li Qing:

"With the size of our current army, a frontal attack would be a disadvantage."

Xie Zhu also agreed:
"Maybe we can find a suitable place to build a temporary camp first, build a simple defense, and then find a way to lure some wolf people over to destroy them. As long as we can eliminate some wolf people outside, it will be easy to fight later."

"Go ahead, is there any other way?"

Xie Zhu paused, then continued:

"It would be fine if we had siege equipment."

He looked at Li Qing:
"Your Excellency Li Qing, do you have these weapons of war in your Divine Domain?"

"Well!"

Li Qing shook his head and said:
"There are actually siege weapons, but I don't think they will be of much use."

"Do you think we need to attack the Gnoll tribe head-on?"

Xie Zhu was stunned:

"Aren't we going to attack?"

Li Qing said with a smile:

"Of course we just want to eliminate this group of gnolls, but it doesn't mean we want to attack the city head-on."

"Does it make a difference?"

Xie Zhuqi said:

"If you don't attack the city, how can you completely wipe out this wolf man tribe?"

"Of course there is a way. We can't bear the loss by attacking the city head-on, but we can turn it around and let the gnolls attack our city."

"???"

Not only Xie Zhu, but the two brothers Xie Jin and Xie Heng were full of question marks.

Li Qing smiled slightly, pretended to be closed, and said:

"Secret it first, and you will know when the time comes."

Looking back at his subordinates, he said to Xie Jin:

"Let's touch it first. I need to inspect the terrain outside the Wolf Man tribe."

Although Xie Jin had a question mark on his face, since Li Qing had already said that, he didn't ask any more questions, just nodded and said:
"Let's change the way. There is a Gnoll sentry tower on the edge of the river valley, and there are sentries on it. If we walk in the river valley, we will be found."

"By the way, these jackals reclaimed some land in the dry river valley bed to the west, and planted some unknown plants, which are probably their food."

Li Qing nodded:

"You lead the way."

After speaking, he turned his head to look at his subordinates, and ordered in a low voice:
"Everyone move lightly and try not to make too much noise."

With a wave of his hand, the troops followed Xie Jin who had already set off.

Xie Jin didn't go into the river valley, but plunged into the twisted jungle about ten meters away from the river valley.

Although it is difficult to walk, it will not be discovered by gnolls.

It must be very troublesome to walk alone in this primitive jungle. There are poisonous insects and snakes everywhere, and it is very troublesome to be bitten, but they are all regular troops, and they are covered with thick leather armor and even chain armor. Generally, small snakes cannot bite. wear.

Opening the way with a knife, it didn't take long to come not far from the wolf man tribe.

The team stopped here, and Xie Jin led Li Qing to move forward under the guard of Long Shou.

Not long after, the forest in front of him began to thin out. Li Qing quickly saw the fire between the trees in front of the forest, and when he got closer, he saw a tribe of wolf men built on a high ground.

Outer tents, wooden houses, internal stone houses, and a stone temple in the innermost part, it looks disgusting
Li Qing asked Xie Jin to lead him around outside the tribe to observe from other directions.

This gnoll tribe was established on a highland near the river, or on the south side of a hill. There was no way to go to the west and north, and only the south and east could enter and exit.

The south is a dense jungle, only slightly sparser near the Gnoll tribe, but it is not suitable for deploying siege equipment.

Only on the east side is the main entry and exit area of ​​the wolf man. There is a large open space, and the gate of the wolf man tribe is built there.

As Xie Jin said, the defense of this gnoll tribe is indeed extraordinary. The wooden city wall made of thigh-thick logs is five or six meters high, and with a slope drop of two or three meters, it is very difficult to attack from the front.

Even what Xie Jin said was too tactful. Under normal circumstances, there would be no one or two hundred elite soldiers and professional siege equipment, so it would be impossible to capture this tribe.

Standing behind a bush, Li Qing pinched his chin and looked at the open space, thinking about how to use the terrain.

Or to put it another way, how should this hang be opened.

He has made up his mind about this gnoll tribe.

If it can be captured before the end of the month, it will be a big profit.

It's not resources, a tribe of wolf men like this doesn't need to expect any good resources, but another benefit.

The rules from this new era, such as this kind of tribal people with integrity, racial heroes, and inheritance, if a foreign tribe can break through, 100% can plunder a loot that condenses the destiny of the entire tribe that has been cut off treasure chest.

There is a small probability of source matter inside.

If there is no source quality, 100% will condense a hero conversion card. According to the strength of this wolf man tribe, the hero card should be one star, which can transform a one star hero.

Of course, there is also a very small probability of directly obtaining a wolf man hero card, and after using it, a wolf man hero will be directly obtained.

In addition, 100% will condense some Gnoll cards and Gnoll unit cards.

This thing can be used by oneself, and a group of wolf men can be raised as slaves and cannon fodder in one's own domain.

Of course, the above are the benefits in most cases, and it may also condense other related treasures.

After pondering for a while, Li Qing told them to stand by, opened the door of God's Domain and walked in.

In fact, Li Qing already had a vague idea in his mind at this time.

First of all, the original city wall must be modified first.

It turns out that the city wall is three meters wide and four meters wide. This height is not as high as the wooden wall of the wolf man, let alone a slope height of one or two meters. If the height is not dominant, how can we fight.

so.
Li Qing first took sections of the city wall into the space in his palm, then decomposed them into stone powder, and then re-synthesized a new section of city wall.

In other words, it can no longer be called a city wall, but a hollow circular stone pillar with a diameter of ten meters, which is exactly the limit of the space in the palm, but a length of 20 meters.

The bottom of the stone pillar is hollowed out to form a bowl-bottom shape, because if the ground is not flat, it will be unstable if the ground is solid.

A 1.5-meter-deep groove is dug on the top of the stone column, and the edge is shaped into a parapet battlement.

Then dig out the second layer under the half-meter-thick stone layer below the top, and dig out shooting holes on the edges. At that time, archers can hide in the shooting holes and shoot outwards.

With a height of more than 16 meters, it is completely possible to condescend and suppress the outer wall of the wolf man.

Li Qing only made two such stone pillars.

In addition to the original two solid and four hollow arrow towers, a total of six ten-meter-high arrow towers, it is basically enough.

Then, it is an extremely important siege weapon.

He had withdrawn his previous thoughts, and felt that he still needed some siege weapons, at least able to break a hole in the city gate or city wall.

Li Qing used thick logs to assemble huge components one by one, including two huge counterweight solid stones, and then directly put them together at one time to form one piece, and a large counterweight trebuchet was formed.

The main principle of the so-called counterweight trebuchet is to convert the potential energy of the falling weight into kinetic energy, and shoot the shell at the other end of the lever.

The weight of its counterweight counterweight is usually more than five tons, and it can move ten tons or twenty tons, which makes the trebuchet very bulky and extremely inconvenient to move.

Just because the counterweight stones are heavy enough, the stones thrown are also heavy, hundreds of kilograms at every turn, and thousands of kilograms in exaggerated cases.

Throwing such a heavy stone down, even a solid stone city wall can be forcibly smashed open.

The technical content of this thing is actually not high. The main difficulty lies in the construction of such a large and strong enough frame, the ropes that can withstand more than ten tons of counterweight boulders, and the ropes that can withstand more than ten tons of torsion but are not very thick. arm bar.

But these are not big problems for Li Qing.

When the internal molecular structure of wood is arranged tightly enough, the firmness of wood will increase.

This is also Li Qing's experience after many times of decomposition and synthesis. He found that the arrangement of wood fibers will affect various factors of wood.

First, the wood is synthesized into tighter wood fibers according to the principle of wood fibers, and then a large number of wood fibers are synthesized into a whole piece of wood. In this way, the wood fibers in the same arrangement are combined into a stick. The hardness of the stick It is far more than casually synthesized wood with the same tight texture.

This kind of wood is very tough, and a small piece can withstand very high strength, which can be used as a lever for a trebuchet.

Of course, after all, without other treatment, this thing is still not durable enough, and it may crack or break after being used more than a dozen times.

But it's not a big problem, and it's good enough to use it a dozen times.

A few hundred kilograms of stones are thrown out, and it only takes a few hits to break the wooden wall, which is enough.

It's a pity that I can't fly, otherwise I would fly thousands of meters above the tribe and throw a ten-meter-sized stone down, and everything would collapse.

The rope is also operated in the same way. Li Qing directly draws out thin steel wires with refined iron, and then twists them into a strand with a normal rope. In this way, the rope will not be too hard like steel, nor too fragile like a simple hemp rope .

Anyway, it only needs to be used a dozen times, so let's make do with it.

There are still insufficient resources at hand. If the resources are sufficient, many problems will not be problems.

Getting ready, Li Qing walked out of God's Domain, and was about to ask his subordinates to assign tasks, but saw An Yiqiu walking over with a solemn face, and said in a low voice:
"Boss, someone wants to see you."

"???"

Li Qing didn't realize the meaning of this sentence at first.

But he realized something in the next second, and said in surprise:
"Is there another team nearby?"

An Yiqiu nodded:
"Just now when you were not around, Xie Jin found someone spying near us. At first he thought it was a ferocious beast, but later he found out that it was a stalker hero."

"What about people?"

"Wait outside."

"Let him come over."

An Yiqiu nodded, turned and left.

After a while, he, Xie Zhu and others walked over with a thin man in black clothes and a black cloth covering his face.

Li Qing narrowed his eyes and looked at the man slightly, and asked:
"Who are you with?"

The man buzzed back:

"My boss is Chu Zaizhong."

"He's leaving too?"

Li Qing raised his eyebrows slightly, but he was not surprised.

It is the bloodline of the mammoth horse that Chu Zaizhong is most likely to awaken, so he is taking the same melee route as Cao Wenyuan. He does not need to study a bunch of legal courses, so it is not surprising that he goes out to practice in advance.

The man nodded:

"My boss set off half a month ago. He discovered this gnoll tribe a week ago and has been preparing for it. I didn't expect to find your team today. The boss asked me to come and inform you that we discovered this gnoll tribe first. "

Li Qing frowned slightly:

"and then?"

"According to the rules, we first find out that this wolf man tribe belongs to us, unless we can't beat it, or give up."

Li Qing rubbed his eyebrows and said:

"I understand the rules, and I agree."

"However, how do I know that you were the first to find out? Anyway, I didn't find any traces of you before I came. There is nothing to prove it. You have to give me a reason to believe it."

Li Qing didn't lie, they really wanted to produce evidence to prove it, so he turned around and left without saying a word.

In the wild, during the apprenticeship, there are some default unspoken rules that must be followed.

If you don't obey, the next time you encounter this kind of thing, others don't have to obey.

The stalker in black was silent for a moment, speechless for a while.

Li Qing said with a smile:

"I'll abide by the rules, but you have to prove that you really came earlier than me, otherwise I can't give up the immediate benefits and leave just because of your words."

After a while, the stalker in black said:
"My boss' camp is nearby, let him come and tell you."

"Okay, I'll wait for him here."

The man in black turned around and left. After a dozen or so steps, his figure quickly faded and disappeared. At first Li Qing could vaguely perceive it, but after a few seconds, this perception also disappeared.

About twenty minutes later, someone saw several fire lights approaching in the dark forest.

After waiting for a few minutes, I saw that the fire was two torches, and a dozen infantrymen came over guarding an acquaintance.

They stopped not far from Li Qing's temporary camp, Chu Zaizhong shouted:
"Your Excellency Li Qing, I'm here."

Li Qing also came out under the guard of Long Shou, and the two stopped about ten meters away from each other.

Chu Zaizhong looked at Long Shou, who was more than three meters tall and looked like a little giant, with envious eyes, and said to Li Qing slightly:

"Ming people don't talk dark words. Although I came a week ago, I didn't do anything to this tribe of wolf men in order not to startle the snake. I can't produce evidence to prove that I came first."

"I know that I will not be willing to let you quit. In this way, I will give you 50, and you will give me three days. If I don't capture this tribe after three days, I will turn around and leave immediately. I don't care what you do later, how?"

"This"

Li Qing was silent for a while, and was about to respond when Xie Jin's figure suddenly appeared, whispering in his ear:

"Your Excellency Li Qing, I just went to visit them and found that they have just arrived."

(End of this chapter)