Chapter 140
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Chapter 140: The Impact of Weather
Outside the Mirror Tribe’s camp, a strong roar of battle broke the rainy silence.
A team of warriors clad in leather armor, armed with stone spears and stone axes, trampled the muddy ground, pushing their siege engine towards Mirror Tribe’s city gate, launching a charge!
Within the ancient city walls, under Zhao Pan’s steady command, the slingers divided into three groups, continuously launching stone projectile bombardments against the invaders charging outside the city wall.
The suppressive power of this strong defensive force was enough to cause despair.
“All troops charge!!”
The player leading this force roared furiously.
“As long as we get within thirty meters, those slingers won’t be able to hit us!”
“Everyone charge!!”
However, fate had other plans.
The slingers’ exaggerated high-frequency stone volleys were already despair-inducing, and coincidentally, the world’s season had just entered the rainy season.
At that moment, a “clang” sound echoed, instantly startling the player.
Before he could personally confirm, the anxious and panicked voices of his subordinate warriors already reached his ears.
“C-Chief! The siege engine’s wheel is stuck in the mud pit!”
The player’s vision immediately went dark.
In ancient times, the already uneven ground, once the rainy season began, became riddled with potholes due to continuous rain.
For invading players needing to transport siege equipment, it was practically a natural trap zone!
“Shield-axemen form a defensive formation for cover!”
“Spearmen quickly push the siege engine out of the mud pit!!”
Faced with such a situation, what else could they do but push?
Zhao Pan, who also witnessed this scene and knew that an accident had occurred on the invaders’ side, showed a flicker of joy in his eyes.
With a wave of his hand, he quickly gave instructions in his calm voice.
“Adjust the attack angle thirty degrees to the left!”
“All slinger units prepare.”
“Fire!!”
At his command, unlike the previous stone projectile bombardments, he ordered a full volley in one go to completely crush the enemy’s siege engine.
Instantly, under Zhao Pan’s direction, large numbers of stone projectiles, mixed with splashing rainwater, furiously hurled towards the enemy siege engine’s location.
This scene made the invading player’s heart race.
“Raise shields for defense!”
“Quick! Everyone raise shields for defense!”
“Protect the siege engine!”
No sooner said than done, by the time the player’s order was given, it was already too late.
Heavy round stone projectiles smashed down frantically.
The slingers’ sudden full volley increased their destructive power by more than double.
How could a thin layer of wooden shields withstand that?
The entire defensive formation instantly disintegrated, and a second full volley immediately slammed into the spearmen who were desperately pushing the siege engine from behind!
Cruel blood blossoms mixed with screams continuously bloomed in the pouring rain.
The outcome of this battle was already decided at this moment.
Luo Ji had never expected that the rainy season, which made him so uncomfortable, would at this moment become a great aid in their city defense battle.
What surprised him even more was that in this city defense battle, he discovered another advantage of slingers!
That is, they were less affected by weather effects!
In past strategy war games, few included a weather system, and even if they did, it was often merely symbolic, without any particularly obvious impact.
After all, ordinary games wouldn’t have scenarios like roads becoming muddy due to rain, leading to siege engine wheels getting stuck in mud pits and being unable to move.
This caused Luo Ji to overlook this point until this battle, where the slingers’ excellent performance made him clearly aware of the weather issue.
In real warfare, it’s about favorable timing, advantageous terrain, and harmonious human relations!
What does favorable timing refer to?
Simply put, natural climate, or weather!
Weather has a huge impact on a battle.
For example, in this battle, Luo Ji’s archer troops were also present, but they were mostly just spectators.
The reason was simple, this heavy rain had too great an impact on them.
The first impact was on visibility, and the second was on the fired arrows.
An arrow isn’t very heavy, and raindrops continuously hitting the flying arrow caused its carefully aimed trajectory to shift, directly robbing the archers of their greatest advantage, which was accuracy!
In contrast, the heavy stone projectiles of the slingers didn’t care about a few raindrops.
Their attack trajectory and power were barely affected.
It must be said, setting aside the weakness of being too heavy and thus having poor mobility, only suitable for city defense battles, the slingers, as an ancient ranged unit, truly had incredibly strong adaptability!
At this point, Luo Ji couldn’t help but admire his past self for decisively spending a million civilization points to instantly acquire the ‘Gold-tier Slinger Mastery’ skill book.
That split-second decision was incredibly wise!
Furthermore, in this city defense battle, he was extremely satisfied with Zhao Pan’s performance.
That’s right, throughout the entire city defense battle, Luo Ji did almost nothing.
Zhao Pan commanded his slinger unit to engage the enemy from start to finish.
The result proved that he was indeed the general he needed to worry about the least in the entire tribe.
Under his command, the invaders were ruthlessly defeated before they could even get within thirty meters.
“Chief, should we send a squad of shield-axemen to pursue?”
Looking at the fleeing invading forces, Zhao Pan, still calm, asked Luo Ji for instructions in a composed tone.
Hearing this, Luo Ji didn’t answer directly but instead asked Zhao Pan a question in return.
“What do you think? Should we pursue?”
“Your subordinate believes we should not pursue.”
Zhao Pan answered exceptionally decisively to Luo Ji’s question.
“Oh?”
Luo Ji’s eyebrows raised, and the slight curve of his lips indicated his good mood.
“The reason? Why shouldn’t we pursue?”
“Firstly, the weather. Standing inside the city, as the defending side, this heavy rain naturally has limited impact on us, it’s an advantage for us as defenders. But once we leave the city to pursue, this advantage is lost.”
“Secondly, the invaders’ condition. Although they retreated, when they withdrew, they appeared defeated but were not actually panicked. They even didn’t forget to forcibly push their siege engine away. This indicates that they still have the strength to fight. Perhaps this is a tactic to intentionally lure us into sending troops out of the city to pursue and kill them. Once our troops pursue and enter the forest, they might be ambushed.”
At this point, Zhao Pan paused, then glanced at the annoyed faces of Luo Yong and Guo Zhen before speaking again.
“Of course, with Guo Zhen and Luo Yong’s strength, even if ambushed, they could probably easily defeat the enemy.”
“But during that time, it’s inevitable that our subordinate soldiers would suffer casualties, and there’s simply no need for that.”
