Chapter 38
Everyone in the Lion town felt that they were going through the calm before the storm. If they were able to resist the storm then they would go through a rainy day and see the beautiful rainbow.
Xiao Yu’s warriors had reached 1000 in this period of time. Xiao Yu sighed in relief as if the combat effectiveness of his troops would weaken if enough warriors weren’t produced by the time of battle.
He looked at 500 grunts, 100 footmen, 200 archers, 100 hunters and 100 riflemen. Xiao Yu was full of confidence as his eyes swept over his troops.
Xiao Yu ordered Grom, Tyrande and Antonidas to lead the warriors into depth of the Angaken mountains to kill demonic beasts and upgraded the levels of the new warriors.
Xiao Yu knew that the new warriors had to be baptized with war so that they could gain experience.
Xiao Yu knew that it was hard to use new grunts to fight the small bandit groups. However, in case the grunts leveled up then they were able to sweep through bandits without any damage. Moreover, with constant battles and fights the intelligence of the warriors increased too. Strength upgrade was important but intelligence was much more influential in battle. He didn’t want to have robots that would be destroyed by tricks of humans. He wanted to have warriors that could think and react according to the situation instead of blindly charging forward.
As a result, he decided to send the warriors into the mountains to have training and experience.
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The spies sent by Captain Hui reported that Carrie would begin the large-scale attack in four days. Everyone was relieved to know the date of the attack as they were mentally suffering by blindly waiting for the enemy’s charge.
Xiao Yu recalled all the warriors back to the Lion town. In addition, he sent hunters to investigate and send feedback regarding the position of the enemy.
Xiao Yu’s fourth sister-in-law Suesha was still wearing an armor and was planning to partic.i.p.ate in the war. Xiao Yu asked Captain Hui to secretly send people to protect her.
Carrie was coming with 20000 troops which was more in number in comparison to the last time. People knew about the facts but they hoped that their lord will create another miracle by using orcs and elves to destroy the enemy.
After 4 days, the hunters reported that Carrie’s army had left their base. Xiao Yu had given snacks and wine to the soldiers on the wall so they could relax until the battle begins.
Captain Hui was against Xiao Yu’s idea about providing soldiers with wines which would affect their morale before the battle. Xiao Yu didn’t insist on his decision. Instead he began to train grunts in chess to develop their intelligence. He wanted them to think for themselves and become real orcs and elves rather than robots that would follow his orders.
It was a fun game that even the soldiers joined to play. The rude and blunt grunts were holding pieces with their huge fingers and they shook their heads and pondered about their next move.
“You can’t do that! How can you take back the move that you already did? Master, this one is shameless and trying to cheat!” Beast 18 loudly protested against beast 50’s behavior and asked Xiao Yu to make the judgement.
"Play fair and act like gentlemen.” Xiao Yu said as he sat in his chair. He was holding a history book in his one hand while held a gla.s.s of red wine with the other. Tyrande and Antonidas were also drinking wine and playing Go as they sat on the table next to Xiao Yu.
Originally, the soldiers of the Lion town were nervous when they heard that Carrie was coming with a troop of 20000 soldiers. However, their mood relaxed when they saw Xiao Yu eat and drink at ease as if he was going to win without a problem.
Some soldiers didn’t dare to come over because of fear for Captain Hui but quietly watched the game from side. Clever soldiers quickly understood the rules of the chess and often told stupid orcs which move they should make.
Boom~
Everyone was feeling as if they were in banquet when a loud noise echoed. Afterwards the sounds of trumpets began to echo all around.
Carrie’s army had finally arrived.
“Come on! The enemies are here. We will pay another time.” Beast 7 shouted.
“I’m already winning this game. Don’t play that trick with me. If we stop now then it means my win.” Beast 21 responded.
Xiao Yu wasn’t anxious. He had about 1000 warriors and could easily arrange a formation to fend off the enemies by putting the warriors into queue. In addition, he had ordered all the hunters to stay within the town. Most of the hunters had reached level 2 while some of them were level 3. The ones who had reached 3rd level mastered a skill called Moon Glaive. They could throw a glaive that would act like a boomerang and come back after hitting the enemy.
Xiao Yu envied the hunters with this skill. He liked to play with boomerangs in the childhood but was never able to get it back after throwing it out.
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Carrie was sitting in a luxury carriage in the distance. His eyes were gloomy while his military advisor Dotu stood by his side in silence.
“Xiao Yu let’s see if you will be able to resist my army this time! I’ll make sure that you would regret to be born!” Carrie’s fingers overpushed the amber gla.s.s in his hand which got crushed.
The army of 20000 walked in orderly manner. They were arranged in neat rows. Soldiers had tacit understanding of each other after a month of training. They were full of confidence as they thought that this time they would be able to crush Lion town.
In addition, Carrie had promised a lot of rewards to soldiers who would have feats in the battle. For example, the person to enter the Lion town first would enjoy three days of plunder of the town on his own. There were more huge rewards about different things.
Carrie understood that the rewards must be so that the soldiers would be determined to face death! In his perspective, those rewards were worth it as long as he captured Xiao Yu.
He looked at his troops which were standing like tides. There was at least 20 times the difference in number between his troops and Xiao Yu’s which couldn’t be overcome in any way.
Boom~
The heavy infantry stamped on the ground. Their movement had a rhyme which didn’t even need drums to increase the moral of the infantry.
“Orcs ? Who cares about them? We have mages and warriors! Moreover we have cavalry too! We will kill these orcs and cut off their heads! It will be proof of our glory! We will show off those skulls when we get back!"
Soldiers didn’t fear orcs but were eager for the battle. They were not untrained bandits. All of them had gone through strict training and had sophisticated armor and weapons. Moreover, they had the advantage of the numbers. If orcs were so powerful then why are they extinct?
Carrie’s army stopped about thousand steps away from Lion town after half an hour.
The soldiers began to shout war cries! The sound of 20000 soldiers was too strong. It showed that they had confidence that they would be able to take Lion town.
The soldiers began to take their positions. The attack would start soon.