Chapter 359
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Chapter 359: Another Siege
Turning the perspective back to Luo Ji, the 7th day had passed.
The system notification sound did not ring, indicating that Li Yuanjie intended to fight him to the bitter end.
However, being a bronze-tier player after all, and with the invasion time extended to a month, Li Yuanjie evidently held his breath and did not immediately launch another attack the very next day.
Although his beastman army suffered light casualties in the 7th day siege battle, taking a day or two to adjust their status was still necessary.
During this period, Luo Ji naturally wouldn’t be polite either.
He directly made Shangyuan City’s military camp his frontline office.
Those who needed to farm, farmed. Those who needed to hoard resources, hoarded them.
As time stretched on, he wasn’t flustered at all.
Leveraging the advantages of a defensive strategy, he became steadier with each battle.
It wasn’t until the 10th day of the invasion battle that Li Yuanjie, realizing he couldn’t adjust for too long, as prolonged adjustment would be detrimental to him as the invading party, decisively rallied his beastman army and launched another round of siege warfare.
The beastmen’s physiques were extraordinary.
Although only 3 days had passed, many Minotaurs’ and Elephantmen’s arrow wounds had already scabbed over and healed after applying herbs, demonstrating astonishing recovery capabilities.
This was Li Yuanjie’s greatest reliance for daring to stay and fight to the death, and also one of the advantages of the beastman civilization.
Heavy footsteps announced the beastman army’s renewed approach.
Luo Ji’s pupils constricted as he watched the beastman army appear in his binoculars’ view.
This time, the enemy actually had 4 Elephantmen.
Zhao Pan’s expression also became solemn.
In the previous siege battle, Li Yuanjie had deployed 3 Elephantmen.
He had thought his previous tactics had worked and eliminated one, but he didn’t expect that Elephantman was still alive.
Indeed, this fourth Elephantman, which had returned to the battlefield, was another one of Li Yuanjie’s strong cards.
Counting the time, this Elephantman, which had retreated earlier, had already recuperated for nearly 9 days.
While it couldn’t be said that it had fully recovered, its basic combat power had returned.
Bringing it out this time was mainly to deter the enemy and put some pressure on the opposing player.
As for charging into battle, this Elephantman would certainly not be allowed to lead the front.
It would stay behind, occasionally throwing giant stones to damage the enemy’s city wall.
Li Yuanjie was very lenient with these 4 rare Elephantman troop types.
The horn of war had been sounded once again.
Luo Ji, in full military attire, quickly ascended the city wall and signaled a soldier nearby to light the wolf smoke on the beacon tower.
The billowing wolf smoke, impervious to the wind, soared straight into the sky.
This was a signal to other units.
Undoubtedly, in this battle, he intended to genuinely fight the enemy to the death.
Under this premise, considering the rationality of the defensive setup, it was clearly impossible to deploy 7 triple-bow crossbows on the city wall again.
After all, as seen in the previous defensive battle, with 7 triple-bow crossbows occupying wall space and leading to insufficient troops, the enemy’s main force could not be suppressed.
They were pushed to the base of Shangyuan City’s wall in a short time, and then they could only throw oil barrels and set fires to forcefully deter the enemy.
The battle began.
Luo Ji still entrusted the command of the city wall for this defensive battle to Zhao Pan.
Within his entire Myriad World Civilization, probably no one understood how to fight a defensive battle better than Zhao Pan.
5 triple-bow crossbows fired simultaneously.
Zhao Pan’s intention was clearly to attack the two previously wounded Elephantmen on the enemy side, thereby rapidly reducing the enemy’s siege combat power.
However, Li Yuanjie was not foolish.
Knowing that the previously wounded Elephantmen would be targeted, he did not arrange the 4 Elephantmen in a single line to advance simultaneously in this siege battle as he did before.
Instead, he deployed them in a square formation.
The two basically uninjured Elephantmen were made to draw damage, while the two wounded Elephantmen skulked in the back, clearly only intended to provide ranged attacks.
The reduction in the number of triple-bow crossbows undoubtedly reduced the pressure on the Elephantmen, making their advance relatively easier.
But Luo Ji and Zhao Pan were not flustered at all, because both knew that the main event was yet to come.
Gritting their teeth, they endured the giant stone throws from the 4 Elephantmen.
Seizing the opportunity, the prepared archer units unleashed a volley, creating an arrow rain attack even more powerful than before.
A volley of sharp arrows continuously bombarded the beastmen army outside the city.
Facing such dense arrow suppression, even the strong-bodied beastman troop types clearly couldn’t remain entirely unaffected.
Their overall advance speed noticeably decreased.
This obviously deteriorating situation made Li Yuanjie’s expression grim.
He then let out continuous roars.
“Tell the Elephantmen to aim for the crossbows on the enemy’s city wall!”
However, at this moment, his few roars clearly had no effect.
Elephantman slingers were not invincible.
Standing 300 meters away, for it to be able to hurl a giant stone onto the surface of the enemy’s city wall was already an extraordinary feat of strength.
And after the giant stone was released, due to its significant weight, it would inevitably fly lower and lower.
Trying to hit those few triple-bow crossbows positioned on the city wall was simply a pipe dream.
Unless they closed the attack distance to 100 to 200 meters.
But once at that range, they would have to face 2 other realities.
One reality was that Elephantman slingers’ accuracy was actually very poor.
Even the triple-bow crossbows in Luo Ji’s hands couldn’t claim 100% accuracy, let alone Elephantmen throwing giant stones by hand.
Not to mention, these giant stones were oddly shaped due to their large size and difficulty in grinding, making their accuracy very hard to control.
The other reality was that at a distance of 100 to 200 meters, those 5 triple-bow crossbows on the city wall would also inflict very painful damage on them.
Taking two deep breaths to calm down, Li Yuanjie clearly realized this.
He, of course, understood the weaknesses of Elephantman slingers.
It was just that for a moment, his emotions had slightly exploded.
At this point, retreat was impossible.
Having fought to this extent, the price had already been paid.
It wouldn’t make sense to return without seizing some human slaves and resources.
Of course, another important reason was that beastmen worshipped strength.
Continuous victories could greatly increase their loyalty to you. This increase was far greater than that for humans. Conversely, once defeated, their loyalty would drop sharply.
What usually followed was a rebellion.
To consolidate his rule, even if it was a bitter victory, he absolutely had to win this battle!
