Chapter 577

Chapter 577: Rushing and Hurrying

Walking out of the military camp, his soldiers were currently replenishing their water.

The casualty statistics were soon delivered to Luo Ji’s eyes.

After confirming the numbers, Luo Ji couldn’t help but frown slightly.

The casualty count was a bit higher than he had anticipated.

However, according to his analysis, this Long Taojia likely stationed the vast majority of his civilization’s military forces in various border cities for the long term.

In other words, the cities within the interior of the civilization should have very few garrison forces.

At most, a group of troops might be gathered at the capital city just in case.

With this thought, Luo Ji immediately made a decision.

He wanted to launch a surprise raid on Oasis City before sunset!

It must be mentioned here that the beastmen units have an advantage in terms of physical constitution.

Because their physical fitness significantly exceeds that of ordinary human soldiers, they can sustain continuous combat over a short period.

This provided enough execution power for Luo Ji’s surprise raid plan.

Quickly issuing orders, he told the accompanying military doctors to perform simple treatment on the wounds of the lightly injured soldiers.

Then, he left the heavily injured beastmen soldiers in this city and dispatched an additional 100 troops to garrison it.

Luo Ji activated the “Speed is of the Essence in War” tactic, brought enough fresh water, and rushed quickly toward the direction of Oasis City.

Oasis City, marked on the map, soon appeared in Luo Ji’s field of vision.

After all, in this desert filled with yellow sand, that patch of oasis was simply too conspicuous!

After the army underwent a short period of rest, they directly blew the horn of attack.

Facts proved that Luo Ji’s analysis was correct.

Oasis City’s garrison of a few hundred men simply could not stop him.

Although the opponent had considered special circumstances and placed 2 war elephants here as a trump card, it was a pity.

This trump card was useless in front of Luo Ji’s Elephant men.

The entire siege battle, from start to finish, likely didn’t even exceed 1 hour.

The military strength of a civilization is limited.

Therefore, when deploying troops, there will inevitably be a distinction between priorities.

Among them, border cities will certainly have more troops deployed due to frequent attacks by foreign enemies.

Cities within the civilization are much safer, so the garrison forces will naturally be fewer.

Under this premise, the more border defense forces there are, the fewer troops are left to be allocated to other cities.

This can be said to be an iron rule.

Not to mention Long Taojia’s civilization, which is located in a desert.

Luo Ji did not think this ghostly place could have much of a population.

With this wave of the invasion war, having successfully occupied Oasis City and obtained a large area of oasis lakes, Luo Ji’s entire plan could be said to be halfway completed.

But Luo Ji did not intend to stop there.

Holding Oasis City to the death was unwise.

In the event that Long Taojia surrounded this city, causing him to be unable to exit the combat state by the 7 day time limit, wouldn’t he be unable to leave?

He did not want to stay in this desert for a month.

That amount of time would be enough for the opponent to gather all their forces to attack him.

No matter how he thought about it, it would be hard to have a chance of winning.

As such, offense is the best defense!

However, before that, he clearly needed to rest for a night in Oasis City.

After nightfall, the temperature in the desert quickly turned cold.

Luo Ji was already mentally prepared for this.

In desert regions, he still knew common sense issues like it being hot during the day and cold at night.

After a night of rest, according to the beastmen soldiers’ physical constitutions, the fatigue accumulated from yesterday had mostly recovered by now.

On the second day of the invasion war, Luo Ji was not in a hurry at all.

As usual, he left 100 troops to garrison Oasis City and then led the rest of the troops to the third city.

Relying on absolute strength, he pushed all the way.

A city with only a few hundred garrison troops simply could not block his attack!

The third city fell within a short time without any surprises.

Afterward, Luo Ji made no new moves.

The army began to rest, and resources began to be transported.

In his view, occupying these 3 cities was enough.

He wanted to build up his strength in this third city and then meet Long Taojia’s army in battle!

At the same time, a messenger riding a camel also traveled day and night to reach their royal city, bringing the news to Long Taojia, who was located inside.

After learning that the ones invading this time were actually a beastmen army, Long Taojia’s expression clearly turned gloomy all at once.

A beastmen army—it wasn’t that he hadn’t fought one before.

Relying on his desert-specialized War Elephant soldiers and Camel Cavalry, and with the help of the desert’s climate and geographical advantages, he had the strength to fight even against a beastmen army.

However, the risk involved was still very high.

With no time to hesitate, Long Taojia decisively began to gather his forces for a personal expedition!

As it turned out, before his royal city army had even officially left the city, the second battle report from the front line was delivered.

His border city, Yellow Sand City, had fallen…

Upon learning this news, Long Taojia’s face became even more unsightly.

But in his heart, there wasn’t much surprise.

To break through his Yellow Sand City within 1 day—according to the aggressiveness of a beastmen army, they indeed had that strength.

To be safe, Long Taojia had to delay a bit more time and sent out several more hand-written orders.

He ordered other cities to begin gathering troops toward this direction, just in case.

Afterward, he hurriedly led the 10 war elephants from the royal city and 3,000 troops toward the border.

On the way there, Long Taojia repeatedly encountered several messengers riding camels who were bringing urgent reports.

The news obtained from these messengers’ urgent reports made Long Taojia’s face look so bad it was almost twisted.

Following the fall of Yellow Sand City, Oasis City and Boulder City had actually fallen one after another?

Isn’t the opponent’s offensive efficiency a bit too high?

If he were a step slower, wouldn’t the opponent fight all the way to the gates of the royal city?

With this thought, Long Taojia decisively began a forced march.

Rushing and hurrying all the way, he finally arrived at the front-line city before sunset on the 4th day.

The fourth city along the way had not been captured.

This situation allowed his hanging heart to settle down slightly.

In other words, the opponent either ran away after looting the resources or was stationed at Boulder City to rest.

To tell the truth, running away after looting resources was infuriating, but at this moment, Long Taojia actually somewhat hoped the opponent would do that.

Because in that case, he could avoid another battle with the beastmen army.

Fighting a beastmen army, the casualties for human soldiers are truly too great.

No matter how he thought about it, it wasn’t worth it.

With such thoughts, Long Taojia ordered the army to rest in this city for 1 day.

On one hand, it was to recover from the fatigue accumulated by the army’s continuous forced march, and on the other hand, it was to wait a little for the reinforcement troops from the surrounding cities!

Facing a beastmen army, if one insisted on fighting, the more troops, the better!