Chapter 27
Carrie was training his soldiers for siege tactics against the orc warriors but didn’t know that he was giving extra time to Xiao Yu to prepare for the upcoming battle.
Xiao Yu’s hadn’t completely produced footmen and riflemen from human race and only had two Glaive Throwers. If Carrie immediately attacked then his chances were high to win the battle.
Xiao Yu was sure that Carrie would come over at least in a month because of the intelligence gathered by the spies. It meant that he could accomplish a lot before the next siege.
Carrie also sent spies to gather intelligence about Xiao Yu’s troops. However, hunters were effective in disabling those spies. The hunters were using leopards which meant that they were fast and flexible. Moreover, they could hide both themselves and their mounts in the shadows. In addition, their vision was much better at nights in comparison 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 merciless manner.
In addition, Xiao Yu was using 10 hunters as patrols that surrounded the Lion town to monitor the activities.
“The Glaive Throwers are produced now its time to attack a bandit camp to see how powerful they are in the action.” Xiao Yu looked at two orcs who were carrying a Glaive Thrower on their shoulders. If it was another army then they had to use horses to carry such a machine. However, two grunts were able to carry one Glaive Thrower without any problem.
Xiao Yu had chosen a medium-sized bandit camp as his next target. According to Fox there were about 3000 to 4000 people in the camp. However, this bandit group was totally different from the last one. There were no old people, women 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 members and choose only strong people. They didn’t like to carry "baggage" with them.
According to Fox the leader of the group was very famous. He was even more famous 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 income 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 the strength of his new troops and see how good his commanding ability was at the same time.
A real battle was the only place where he could test the effective cooperation between his troops. His troops were all elite warriors. But they belonged to different races which was a big problem to him. If he couldn’t manage them well then the result would be failure.
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Xiao Yu took 300 grunts, 50 footmen, 200 elf archers, 50 riflemen, 50 hunters and both Glaive Throwers with him for the 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. 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 wouldn’t be effective against this bandit group.
Fox wasn’t familiar with this group of bandits. So the last trick that they used 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 occurring.
The rumors begin to spread out that orcs has attacked several bandit camps.
In addition, the camp was built within the mountains. There was a four meter tall stone wall that protected it from 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 sieging 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 so easy to break through. He couldn’t help but get worried about the tactic that he was going to choose.
He didn’t want to attack blindly like Carrie did. If he didn’t understood the enemy then he was going to lose warriors. Moreover, he had less than 1000 warriors so he was afraid to see his warriors casually die.
He had Glaive Throwers as a siege equipment. He thought that the crescent blades that the Glaive Throwers fired could smash the wall into pieces if there was a distance of 50 meters. However, storming into the place was the first step and he could have heavy losses afterwards.
Moreover, the patrols on the wall were working very meticulously.
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After pondering for a while Xiao Yu decided to attack in the night. Because, his warriors held great advantage in the night time in comparison to the enemy.
The elves would play an extraordinary role during a night battle. Firstly, they could use shadows of the darkness to hide themselves. Secondly they had night vision ability which could make them see clearly for a long-distance. It meant that their archery would be ridiculously good at night.
Dwarves were bad at night time. Their vision wasn’t good even though they drilled, mined and lived in caves. Xiao Yu thought that 50 riflemen wouldn’t be properly used. The eyesight of grunts weren’t as good as elves at the night time but it was still much better than humans. In addition, he wasn’t worried about footmen 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 shape of a small crescent this night. The stars were shining down and it was the best time for this war.
An ordinary human couldn’t see what was going on fifty meters ahead in the darkness. However, elves were able to clearly see 100 meters 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 elf archers had reached level 3 and were able to use skill Precise Shooting. The Shadow Escape was already something that all the elves were able to use. The patrols above the wall couldn’t see anything abnormal even though Xiao Yu and others were at the feet of the wall.
Xiao Yu and Grom climbed up from the corner of the wall. Four meter wall wasn’t an obstacle for Grom. His height was already around 2.5 or 2.6 meters. He could climb to the top of the wall with a single jump. But Xiao Yu was facing a difficulty. A four meter wall was equivalent to 2 story height. It was very difficult for him to climb up. He saw that he didn’t have any tricks to get up so he firmly grabbed from Grom’s huge feet so that Grom could help him up.
Xiao Yu almost choked down to death. How many years has it been that Grom hasn’t washed his feet? He decided that he had to order orcs to collectively wash themselves up.
They were using Wind Walk with stealth mode on. So the patrols couldn’t detect their presence.
Neither Grom nor Xiao Yu used swords to attack the patrols. Because the light would be reflected on the sword attack and others would be aware of their attacks. As a result, Grom directly approached the patrols one by one. He grabbed their heads, covered their mouth and twisted their necks. The enemy patrols couldn’t even say a word before their death.
Tyrande and ten other archers who had reached level 3 began to use arrows to directly shoot the patrols on their throats. In a short time about dozen patrols were killed. Normally, patrols were holding torches as they moved around but the torches had gone off.
However, the other patrols couldn’t find out what has happened as archers began to attack them. The arrows pierced their throats. Two patrols remained but Grom was able to grab them by their necks and crush their throats.