Chapter 251
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Chapter 251: Morale-Based Tactic
“No need to conserve arrows, archer unit, unleash a full volley!”
With Liu Kai’s assistance, Luo Ji, having found the optimal firing position for the archer unit, decisively ordered the archers to unleash their full firepower.
In battles on this terrain, if the archer unit missed the best initial firing opportunity, they would basically be ineffective for the rest of the battle.
However, what was unexpected was that Luo Ji’s ultimate move in this raid relied precisely on the archer unit!
It was those fire arrows, shot like fiery meteors!
At this moment, in front of each archer unit, there were two large barrels.
One barrel burned with raging flames, while the other was filled with arrows.
After each archer fired an arrow, they would quickly draw a new arrow from the barrel in front of them.
Then, as the arrow passed over the fire barrel, it would instantly ignite.
That’s right, the large barrel filled with arrows contained lamp oil!
Luo Ji didn’t have much lamp oil left, so setting the forest on fire was clearly impossible, but making some fire arrows was more than enough.
In addition, to increase the power of the fire arrows, Luo Ji had specifically wrapped each arrow with a layer of linen cloth.
Then, he soaked the end of the arrow wrapped with linen cloth in the lamp oil barrel.
Once the linen cloth absorbed enough lamp oil, the fire arrow would burn longer and brighter.
At the same time, anyone could see that he had truly gone all out this round.
Not only did he use up all his lamp oil reserves, but he even used the linen cloth that he had just traded from Ye Qingxuan a while ago.
He could not yet produce linen cloth himself, which meant it was currently a rare resource.
In his civilization, buying a piece of linen clothing was not cheap.
Each fire arrow shot out in this round was essentially money!
But it was undeniable that the effect was outstanding.
What was clearing a firebreak?
Had they ever seen fire arrows raining down from the sky?
“Put out the fire! Quickly put out the fire!”
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
Those fire arrows, fully soaked in high-purity lamp oil, instantly set Zhou Dongnan’s entire camp ablaze.
The panicking soldiers ignored everything else and quickly lifted pots of boiling hot water to pour onto the burning tents beside them.
As a result, not only did this fail to extinguish the fire, but it instead fueled its spread.
At the same time, the instantly splattering flames scalded the few soldiers trying to put out the fire, making them roll on the ground.
Without even having time to put on his bronze armor, Zhou Dongnan, seeing this scene, immediately shouted loudly.
“It’s lamp oil! Don’t pour water on it, it will burn even more fiercely!”
While shouting, Zhou Dongnan’s eyes constantly scanned the direction from which the fire arrows came, searching for the attackers’ position!
Then, when he spotted the opponent’s archer unit on the high ground in the distance, his entire facial muscles twitched uncontrollably.
Taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, the enemy did not choose to quietly approach, but instead directly circled to a position where he could see them but could not hit them!
This type of tactic could only be executed by defending players who were completely familiar with the terrain!
Ultimately, familiarity with the terrain had always been a weakness for invading players.
How to utilize terrain advantage and city wall advantage to fight invading players had always been a key research topic for defending players.
“Retreat! Quickly evacuate the camp!”
There was a firebreak around the perimeter of the camp.
In other words, as long as they retreated from the camp’s position, no matter how fiercely the fire burned inside the camp afterward, the blaze would basically not be able to spread beyond that firebreak.
At this moment, Luo Ji, looking down at the commotion below, naturally saw this clearly.
Then, he extended a hand, and the soldier beside him immediately understood, quickly raising the black horn in his hand.
Then, accompanied by a soaring horn blast, from the dimly lit forests around, a roar of killing intent instantly erupted, shaking the heavens and earth.
Taking advantage of the archer unit distracting the enemy with fire arrows, the shield-axe soldier unit and halberdier unit, who had already reached the vicinity of the enemy camp, charged out all at once with the sound of the horn.
The hatred for abusing Sun He and setting the city on fire was laid bare before them.
At this moment, enemies met with blazing eyes.
Those soldiers, filled with indignation, furiously charged towards the enemies before them!
The soldiers, who were panicking from the fire arrow attack on the camp just a moment before, were then subjected to a full-force charge by enemy soldiers.
Caught between these two attacks, they had no time to react.
A group of people were instantly stunned, even Zhou Dongnan, as a player, was greatly surprised and frantically shouted.
“Calm down, all of you!”
“We have a numerical advantage, there’s no need to fear them.”
“Form a battle formation and meet them!”
Zhou Dongnan had clearly activated a morale-boosting skill, stabilizing a wave of morale and preventing Luo Ji from easily routing them.
But this could not lessen his inner shock.
He had never expected to see a ‘morale-based tactic’ from a newcomer.
The ‘morale-based tactic’ heavily emphasized tactical arrangement and execution, and familiarity with the terrain was also crucial.
Generally, fierce general-type players would be unable to implement such a tactic due to insufficient leadership or inability to make reasonable tactical arrangements.
Therefore, this tactic was one of the explosive tactics commonly used by high-intelligence, high-leadership players.
Simply put, it involved first successfully striking the enemy army’s morale with a surprise attack or some other offensive.
Then, while the enemy army’s morale was falling, suddenly launching a second surprise attack from another direction, dealing a two-stage blow to the enemy army’s morale.
Continuous blows could easily cause the opponent’s soldiers’ morale to plummet, leading them into a collapse, and finally being wiped out in one go.
Of course, while this tactic seemed simple, it was not so easy to use, and there were countless variations of its execution.
Players who used it well were very smooth, while players who used it poorly could easily dig their own graves, creating a misconception that they weren’t using the same tactic.
Seeing this tactic from a newcomer truly surprised Zhou Dongnan.
The most crucial part was that he himself was almost completely defeated by this wave.
He dared not be careless.
Surviving two waves of morale attacks only meant not being completely defeated in one go.
The ‘morale-based tactic’ was not that simple, because while continuously striking the enemy’s morale, his own side’s morale would also be boosted, at least to the point of ‘momentum,’ or even ‘invincible.’
The upcoming real battle would likely be tough for him.
To be honest, he already regretted taking on this task.
Those two Silver-grade items were truly not that easy to earn.
He had never initially imagined that a newcomer would be so difficult to deal with.
Now that hostility had already been established, what reason was there to back down?
