Chapter 361
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Chapter 361: Attack and Response
“Whoosh—”
A muffled horn blast echoed across the battlefield.
The beastmen army, which had been furiously assaulting Shangyuan City’s gate, began to slowly retreat at this moment.
Luo Ji’s brow slightly arched as he noticed this action.
After a moment of thought, he immediately understood. The beastman army’s advantage lay in frontal combat.
Being confined to the city wall area, due to space limitations, caused them to fight with restricted movements.
Li Yuanjie was attempting to play a trick of feigned retreat to advance.
But it didn’t matter.
His plan for this battle was already to settle the score with this beastman army.
Luo Ji truly didn’t believe that his well trained and well equipped army couldn’t defeat a bunch of beastmen who only knew how to haphazardly hack and charge.
“Maintain formation, push them out!”
With Luo Ji’s command and permission, Zhou Yi and Liu Meng immediately directed their army to push forward.
Seeing this scene, Li Yuanjie let out a sinister sneer.
Just now, he suddenly remembered a tactic the opponent had used during the previous night raid, feigned retreat to advance.
If the enemy could use it, so could he.
His beastman army was best at head-on clashes.
Retreating a certain distance first would lure the opposing army out.
When the two armies fully engaged in battle, his beastman army would definitely have the greater advantage!
From the current situation, his strategy was proceeding quite smoothly.
The human defenders were already pursuing.
Thinking of this, Li Yuanjie couldn’t help but feel increasingly smug.
“Hehehe, foolish humans.”
Seeing that the distance was sufficient, Li Yuanjie let out a ferocious laugh and decisively signaled the nearby messenger soldier to blow the horn again, indicating for the retreating beastman army to turn and engage.
The enemy’s counterattack was completely within Luo Ji’s expectations, naturally not causing him any panic.
The sword-shield unit maintained its formation, forcefully engaging, and the continuously thrusting spears fiercely suppressed the beastmen’s offensive momentum.
Another round of fierce fighting ensued.
Watching the battle unfold, Li Yuanjie gestured for the werewolf warrior driving the bronze war chariot to retreat further back.
He did not want to be caught in the fray.
After all, his own martial prowess ceiling was only 3-stars.
He couldn’t be called completely useless in battle, but he was basically unrelated to the term ‘fierce general’.
Thus, during major battles, he generally stayed in the back to command, rarely charging into the thick of things.
To put it bluntly, he was afraid of death.
Of course, from another perspective, he was a player.
If he died, wouldn’t the entire civilization be completely finished?
As such, protecting one’s own life was, in a sense, a mandatory course for a player.
The simplest way, of course, was to avoid the front lines, and even if on the front lines, to try not to charge forward.
Then, equipping oneself with a guard unit ensured absolute safety measures.
Many players did this, and Li Yuanjie was no exception.
The change in the situation here undoubtedly caught Guo Jia’s attention.
The discipline of the beastmen army was very poor.
Although their recent retreat was somewhat executed, during the retreat, their already dispersed formation instantly fell into complete disarray, dragging the entire army’s battle line very long.
Seeing this, Guo Jia quickly spoke.
“The time is right.”
“Go!”
“Charge into the middle of the enemy’s battle line and split that beastman army’s forces in half in one go!”
Upon hearing this, Guo Zhen’s spirits immediately lifted.
Without wasting any words, he swung the bronze battle axe in his hand.
“All troops, charge!!”
This ambush force, which had been lying in wait on the outskirts of the battlefield for a long time, quickly surged out, startling Li Yuanjie in the rear, whose wolf fur stood on end.
“Damn, they actually were holding something back?!”
As his thoughts raced, the army under Guo Zhen’s command, having gathered its strength, crashed directly into the middle of the enemy’s entire battle line according to Guo Jia’s instructions.
The beastman army’s forces were instantly cut in half.
Watching the battlefield that seemed to be split in two by the opponent, Li Yuanjie, whose emotions had slightly calmed down, regained some composure.
Although his beastman army, due to disciplinary issues, was not skilled at executing any formation tactics, this did not mean he had never seen them.
As the saying goes, even if you haven’t eaten pork, you’ve at least seen pigs run.
This wave of tactics from the opponent could be described as a classic method for devouring large enemy forces.
To put it plainly, if it’s a big cake that you can’t swallow in one bite, then cut it into several pieces and eat them slowly.
The opponent’s current actions were similar.
“You want to devour my beastman army? Aren’t you afraid of choking?!”
This tactic had been used against him before, but unfortunately…
As his thoughts raced, Li Yuanjie let out a ferocious laugh, “Elephantmen! Crush them for me!”
The Elephantman, upon receiving the command, immediately let out an angry roar.
A simple kicking motion, yet it unleashed devastating destructive power upon Guo Zhen’s troops.
At the same time, this Elephantman’s kicks disregarded friend or foe.
Several of his own Kobolds were mercilessly affected.
The terrifying force instantly sent a large number of people flying with a single kick.
The blood continuously gushing from their mouths and noses proved that those who took this kick had no chance of survival.
Guo Zhen’s eyes nearly split from rage at this sight.
He then let out a furious roar and charged towards the Elephantman.
“Beast, prepare to die!”
Guo Zhen, known as the human brute bear, looked truly ‘small’ facing the 10 meter tall Elephantman at this moment.
However, this did not stop him from unleashing the surging fury in his heart.
A blow from the specialized bronze battle axe in his hand landed on the Elephantman’s leg, which was as thick as a stone pillar.
With Guo Zhen’s strength, half of the axe blade almost sunk into the Elephantman’s flesh with that one strike.
The bronze battle axes currently used in Luo Ji’s army were specially designed in their external structure.
Enemies struck by these battle axes would find their wounds incredibly difficult to heal, and would also instantly suffer a bout of bleeding!
But that wasn’t all.
After the axe landed, Guo Zhen gripped the axe handle with both hands, then pulled forcefully.
Amidst splashing blood, Guo Zhen instantly left a tearing wound on the Elephantman’s leg!
Regardless of size, Guo Zhen’s furious strike certainly caused the Elephantman great pain.
Blood continued to profusely ooze from the gaping wound.
Frenzied wails assaulted everyone’s eardrums.
The Elephantman’s legs stomped repeatedly, as if trying to crush the human who had wounded it.
But as a fierce general capable of fighting back and forth amidst thousands of soldiers on a battlefield, if he couldn’t even evade such obvious attacks, he would have died on the battlefield long ago.
Guo Zhen dodged left and right, grappling with this colossal beast that could almost make ordinary soldiers despair.
However, his actions were not enough to change the tide of the battle, because there were a full 4 such colossal beasts in the beastmen army!
