Chapter 27
Editor: ZeXu
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Carrie was training his soldiers for siege tactics against the orc warriors, but didn’t know that he was also giving Xiao Yu extra ti to prepare for the upcoming battle.
Xiao Yu’s hadn’t completely finished producing footn and riflen of the human race and only had two Glaive Throwers. If Carrie imdiately attacked then his chances to win the battle were high.
Xiao Yu was sure that Carrie would co over in at least a month because of the intelligence gathered by spies. It ant that he could accomplish a lot before the next siege.
Carrie also sent spies to gather intelligence about Xiao Yu’s troops. However, the elven hunters were effective in disabling those spies. The hunters were using leopards, which made them fast and flexible. Moreover, they could hide both themselves and their mounts in the shadows. In addition, their vision was much better at night when compared to humans. As a result, any spy from the enemy side that got close to ten miles to the Lion town was killed in a rciless manner.
In addition, Xiao Yu had 10 hunters patrol the surroundings of Lion town and monitor activity.
“The Glaive Throwers are produced. Now it’s ti to attack a bandit camp to see how powerful they are in the action.” Xiao Yu looked at the two orcs who were carrying a Glaive Thrower on their shoulders. If it was another army then they would have to use horses to carry such machines. However, two grunts were able to carry one Glaive Thrower without any problem.
Xiao Yu had chosen a dium-sized bandit camp as his next target. According to Fox, there were about 3,000 to 4,000 people in the camp. However, this bandit group was totally different from the last one. There were no old people, won or children in the camp. All of them were bandits.
This bandit group was very cold-blooded. All they did was burn, loot, and rape. They didn’t leave anyone alive. In addition, they constantly recruited new mbers, choosing only the strong. They didn’t like to carry “baggage”.
According to Fox, the leader of the group was very famous; even more so than Xiao Yu.
In addition, Fox told him that there would be at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins and other valuables in the bandit camp.
Xiao Yu needed to rob such a place. At this point, he needed money more than anything else. He had abolished taxes for three years so he had to rely on robbery to provide inco for the territory. As a result, Xiao Yu had to go after such wealthy bandit camps. In addition, this was a new challenge to his troops. He had to test both the strength of his new troops and his commanding ability at the sa ti.
A real battle was the only place where he could test the effectiveness of the cooperation between his troops. His troops were all elite warriors, but they belonged to different races; this was a big problem for him. If he couldn’t manage them well then the result would only be failure.
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Xiao Yu took 300 grunts, 50 footn, 200 elven archers, 50 riflen, 50 hunters, and both Glaive Throwers with him for this battle. The rest of troops were left at the base. The problem was that not all of them were produced yet.
As usual, Xiao Yu and Grom went over to observe the place in advance. He was planning to see if he could use any tricks to sway the battle to his advantage. However, he found out that the simple tricks that he used before wouldn’t be effective against this bandit group.
Fox wasn’t familiar with this group of bandits so the trick that they used last ti wasn’t going to be effective. Moreover, because of the annihilation of Ma Tong’s group the other bandit groups had begun to pay attention to the mysterious situation that was developing.
The rumors that orcs have attacked several bandit camps began to spread.
In addition, this camp was built within the mountains. There was a four ter tall stone wall that protected it against the outside. It was totally different from other bandit camps that were protected by wooden fences. In short, this bandit camp was more like a small town.
Xiao Yu didn’t have any experience in besieging towns or villages. He knew that the thick wall in front of his eyes wasn’t as strong as the Lion town’s walls, but it wouldn’t be easy to break through. He couldn’t help but get worried about what tactics he could choose.
He didn’t want to attack blindly like Carrie did. If he didn’t understand the enemy then he was sure to lose warriors. Moreover, he had less than 1000 warriors so he was afraid to see his warriors casually die.
The Glaive Throwers were his siege equipnt. He thought that the crescent blades that the Glaive Throwers fired could maybe smash the wall into pieces if they were a distance of 50 ters away. However, if he did so then storming into the place would be the next step and he would have heavy losses afterward.
Moreover, the patrols on the wall were working very ticulously.
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After pondering for a while, Xiao Yu decided to attack in the night since his warriors held a great advantage in the night ti in comparison to the enemy.
The elves would play an extraordinary role during a night battle. Firstly, they could hide in the shadows of darkness. Secondly, they had night vision ability which lets them see clearly for a long-distance. This ant that their archery would be ridiculously advantageous at night.
The Dwarves were bad at night ti. Their vision wasn’t good even though they drilled, mined, and lived in caves. Xiao Yu thought that the 50 riflen wouldn’t be properly used. While the eyesight of grunts wasn’t as good as that of the elves at night ti, it was still much better than that of the dwarves. In addition, he wasn’t worried about footn as they were excellent human warriors and could cope with night warfare.
As a result, they stayed in the forest until it got dark.
The moon was in the shape of a small crescent tonight. The stars were shining down and it was the opportune ti for this battle.
An ordinary human wouldn’t be able to see even 50 ters ahead in the darkness, but elves were able to clearly see 100 ters in front of them.
Xiao Yu led Grom, Tyrande, and two hundred archers as they slowly moved to the side of the wall. About 10 of the elven archers had reached level 3 and were able to use the skill Precise Shooting. Shadow Escape was already sothing that all the elves were able to use. The patrols above the wall didn’t see anything abnormal even though Xiao Yu and others had reached the foot of the wall.
Xiao Yu and Grom climbed up from the corner of the wall. The four-ter wall wasn’t an obstacle for Grom. His height was already around 2.5 or 2.6 ters; he could climb to the top of the wall with a single jump. Xiao Yu, however, faced difficulty. A four-ter wall was equivalent to a two story building. It was very difficult for him to climb up. As he didn’t have any tricks to get up, he firmly grabbed Grom’s huge feet so that Grom could help him up.
Xiao Yu almost choked to death from the sll. How many years has it been since the last ti Grom washed his feet? He decided that he would order the orcs to collectively wash themselves later.
They used Wind Walk with stealth mode on so that the patrols wouldn’t detect their presence.
Neither Grom nor Xiao Yu used swords to attack the patrols because the moonlight would reflect off their swords, making the others aware of their attack. As a result, Grom directly approached the patroln one by one. He would grab their head, cover their mouth, and then twist their neck. The enemy patrols weren’t able to say even a word before their death.
Tyrande and the ten other archers who had reached level 3 began to fire arrows directly at the throats of the patroln. In a short ti, about a dozen patroln were killed. Normally, each patrolman held a torch as they moved around but the torches had been snuffed out one by one.
However, the other patrols didn’t have the ti to find out what happened as the archers began their attack. The arrows pierced their throats. Two patroln remained but Grom was able to grab them by their necks and crush their throats.
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