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Chapter 217 The Battle of the Downstream River

In this Takahashi blocking battle, the strategic intentions of both sides are very obvious.

On the side of the elf kingdom, they only need to hold back the army of gnolls, and the battle is considered a victory.

But the army of gnolls was different.

From the fact that they preferred to march in the unsuitable, brightly lit day, and only slept for five hours at a time, it can be seen that the wolf man army wants to move forward at a faster speed, and wants to complete a certain military intention of theirs.

No matter what the intention is, once it slows down, the wolf man army will be considered a failure!

Takahashi has already been blocked by the army of the Elf Kingdom. Given the degree of entanglement, it is not certain whether he can be taken down.

Even if it is possible, it is impossible without ten days and half a month.

However, even if they wiped out all the elf army here after half a month of gnoll fighting fiercely, they would still lose if they crossed this high bridge!
The commander of this gnoll army also has brains. He found that there were tens of thousands of soldiers in the elf army ahead. After fighting for more than a day, he didn't even make any progress. The commander realized that he wanted to rely on the current army to break through the high The bridge must pay a heavy price and a long time.

But they can't wait.

Therefore, the Gnoll Commander came up with a countermeasure.

That is to send elite troops to cross the river from other locations on the river, and attack the rear of the elf army around the long distance.

"However, the other party underestimated our elves after all. The forest and nature are our elves' friends. He thought that he hid those elite troops in the forest and left under the cover of the forest. It is convenient for the scouts of our elves to inquire about the news."

In the camp, the old general stood under a map and explained the current situation to Zhou Ming and Elidan, but in his words, he couldn't help showing a trace of contempt for the wolf man.

"Look at this map."

The old general pointed to the map, and said: "The jackals don't like to work, and they don't know how to give birth. If our elves are in a military war, if there is a big river blocking the way, we can build bridges, but the jackals will not. With this skill, if they want to cross the river, they can only go to the lower reaches of the river, where the current is gentle and the river is shallow."

As for swimming... huh, wolf swimming?Isn't this a joke?
If it was an ordinary small river or a calm lake, the Jackal man might be able to swim across it with his own abilities, but for such a wide and fast-moving river, let alone swimming across it, if he just entered the river, he might be swept away by the river.

Swimming across the river, for the Wolf man, is simply going to die.

Aridan said: "Why don't you just stop and stop those gnolls?"

The old general said: "The jackal army is coming fiercely, we still have a little less troops here, since the jackals want to divide their troops and take the initiative to reduce their own troops, it is naturally up to them, why stop it?

Moreover, the ones who were transferred were all the elite of the Gnoll army. If they stayed on the battlefield, under the cover of the army, they would cause countless casualties to the elf soldiers. is a good thing. "

Elidan said: "The task that the general wants to give us is to let us stop that elite team?"

"That's right." The old general nodded and said, "I know they are difficult to deal with, so I will send an order to the cities near the downstream river to send elite soldiers to support them."

Aridan immediately wanted to agree, but before he could speak, he turned to look at Zhou Ming and asked, "Master Linley, what do you think?"

Zhou Ming said: "I have no problem, you make the decision."

"Okay, let's take over this task!"

So it was a task assigned by the old general, but it was impossible for the barracks on Gaoqiao's side to send troops to cooperate with them.

After all, there is a shortage of troops here. If some people are still sent out, then the pressure on Takahashi will be even greater.

So, after taking over the mission, only Zhou Ming and Ailidan flew to the lower reaches of the river, driving the golden roc.

After coming here, Zhou Ming discovered that the terrain of this place is really a bit special.

When the river flowed here, it suddenly encountered a cliff. Under the water flow, a large waterfall was formed. Naturally, there was a deep pool under the waterfall, but the river channel formed by the water flowing out of the deep pool was wide and shallow. From here go straight across the river.

But this river is a short distance ahead, but there is another cliff and a waterfall, and the river below is even shallower.

That is to say, when the river flows to this place, there are two areas that can be directly waded through.

Gnolls can walk through the upper waterfall or the lower waterfall.

And the short distance between the two waterfalls is seven to eighty meters, which is enough to separate the battlefield.

"This kind of terrain is not very conducive to defense."

Zhou Ming said.

Of course, the specific situation still depends on the strength of the elf army that comes to support. If there are many, then naturally there is no need to worry, but if there are few, they will have a headache.

The two went down to the ground to investigate in detail, and were suddenly surprised to find that behind the big waterfall above was actually a natural cave.

Walking back along the cave, it is an underground river with almost no water.

Zhou Ming felt that the flow direction of this underground river was exactly the same as the big river above, and its height seemed to be equal to the waterfall below.

The two walked down the river, and when they reached the end, they saw a water flow from top to bottom blocking the opening of the river.

Walking out of the cave, looking behind him, it was the lower waterfall among the two waterfalls.

Aridan was surprised and said: "Fortunately, we came here first and explored the terrain first, otherwise the underground river channel would be known by those gnolls, and they could catch us by surprise."

Zhou Ming shook his head.

Although this underground river channel is somewhat useful, it is by no means as great as what Aridan said.

In the final analysis, it is only seven or eighty meters.

If those jackals walked through this river, they would just go from the upper waterfall to the lower waterfall. The distance is too short, and it can exert a little effect, but the effect is not great.

However, the same sentence still depends on the strength of the troops.

Many troops do whatever they want, while few troops develop indecently.

Two days later, Zhou Ming drove Jinpeng to fly in the sky, staring at the elite gnoll troops below.

This group of elites is truly worthy of the name of elites. The total number is about [-], but [-] of them are composed of wolf man biters, and judging from the equipment on their bodies, they seem to be the strongest among the biters.

The remaining one thousand are all wolf man arsonists.

The fur on the bodies of these arsonists is orange-red, as bright as fire, and their eyes are red. They are not ordinary arsonists at first glance.

In addition, there are a large number of hyenas raised by the Gnolls, and hundreds of Peleton eagles.

The hyenas didn't know what they ate to grow up. Each of them was no less than 1.5 meters tall, nearly [-] meters long, and had sharp teeth. At first glance, they looked like extremely difficult beasts.

The Peleton Eagle is a creature created by evil and twisted magic power. It is also huge, nearly three meters high, and its wings may be seven or eight meters long.

The most terrible thing is that as a kind of eagle, the Peleton Eagle is a flying creature. Except for archers, ordinary soldiers can't reach them at all, even mages and druids. Because of the attack distance, unless the Peleton Eagle Fly at low altitude, otherwise you won't be able to hit it.

"According to their speed, it will take about three hours to reach the shallow water downstream. However, counting the time, the elves' army should also arrive."

Zhou Ming drove Jinpeng and flew away quickly.

Back to the shallow water before, I saw an elf army forming camp.

And Aridan is confronting an elf.

This man was wearing a mage's robe, with blond hair reaching the sky, and his face was slightly similar to Aridan's. He was Aridan's brother Ariven.

The relationship between the two brothers is not very good, so when they meet at this moment, they will naturally confront each other.

When the Jin Peng landed, Zhou Ming jumped off the top of the Jin Peng. Seeing this, the two brothers said together: "Master Lin Lei!"

After speaking, he glared at the other party, as if he was complaining about the other party, why did he talk to himself.

"I've checked it out just now. The army of gnolls will arrive here in about three hours. Let's prepare for defense first!"

"So fast?!"

Aridan was startled, and he didn't care about the conflict between himself and Ariwen, and asked quickly: "Is there any other support?"

Erwin shook his head.

"How is it possible! Only these 5000 people?"

Zhou Ming was not surprised.

Flying in the sky on a golden roc, he was able to spot the elite gnoll troops hiding in the forest, and naturally he could also see the elf army coming over in an open and honest manner.

So before this elf army arrived, Zhou Ming had already made contact with them.

So he knew very well that among the troops who came to support him, there was such a strong man as Ariven.

At the same time, he also knew why there were only five thousand reinforcements.

Ai Ruiwen sighed, and said: "It seems that Master Linley didn't tell you before... Ai Lidan, in fact, the situation in the entire elf kingdom is not very good now. Enemies appear all over the country, and every city There are challenges ahead.”

"What?!" Aridan was startled: "How is it possible! A mere gnoll...could it be said that other races also..."

"That's right, in addition to the gnolls, ogres, satyrs, gnomes, even the twilight elves, and the spider empire, all sent troops this time to attack the elf kingdom. The most frightening thing is that they don't know how long they have been planning , together with the war, it will permeate the entire kingdom!"

With so many races, it is not a day's work to unite.

What's more, the opponent can make all the races start the war on the same day, so that all the cities in the entire elf kingdom are challenged almost at the same time.

I'm afraid, this is a conspiracy that has been in preparation for an unknown amount of time, and it has only just been launched now!
Ai Ruiwen said: "The huge red cedar is located in the middle of the elf kingdom, and the terrain is special, so there are relatively few enemies to face, so the remaining troops are dispatched. In other places, even if orders are received, no troops are sent to support .”

He lived in the giant red cedar for a long time, so the troops he brought naturally also came from the huge red cedar.

Among the five thousand soldiers, there are two thousand ordinary soldiers, one thousand archers, one thousand mages, and one thousand druids.

However, the general of the giant red cedar seemed to know that what they were going to deal with was the elite gnolls, so they also sent elite troops.

Not to mention the other three arms, just the two thousand soldiers, not only were they all fully armed, but all of them were armed with double knives and longbows on their waists. Their equipment was similar to that of Aridan.

Previously, the soldiers in Huiya Port and Takahashi were all armed with single swords and did not have longbows, so the difference can be seen from this.

This group of elite soldiers can do both melee and long-distance combat!

Hearing that the elf kingdom had undergone such a great change, Alidan was agitated for a moment, a little out of his wits, Zhou Ming clapped his hands to wake him up, and said: "The elf kingdom is facing such a situation, we should do what we have to do now. Otherwise, Let this elite Gnoll troop pass through the river, the situation will probably be even earlier."

Aridan was not a weak-hearted person, so he quickly calmed down and said, "That's right!"

"We only have three hours to prepare. We need to come up with a solution as soon as possible. There are two shallow waters to cross the river. If we want to defend them all, we have to divide our troops. I'm afraid it won't work."

Ai Ruiwen said: "Master Linley, did he have an idea?"

Zhou Ming nodded.

"It's only tens of meters from the waterfall above to the bottom. It's better to dig the upper river deep so that they can't pass through it, so they can only go down."

"Although the water above is shallow, the water is knee-deep. How do you dig?"

"Isn't there an underground channel?"

Zhou Ming took the two of them to the waterfall above, controlled the water flow to form a slope, and then used the freezing light to freeze it into ice.

In this way, the water flowing down from the waterfall above will be introduced into the big hole behind the waterfall, and then poured into the underground channel.

In the absence of running water, the river above will naturally dry up slowly. At this time, as long as those mages cast spells, the river can be easily dug deep.

However, the water in the underground channel flows directly to the waterfall below, so in this way, the water below will also deepen.

Therefore, Zhou Ming then used the freezing light on the waterfall below, blocking the entrance of the cave with ice, so that the river could not flow away.

Under the action of magic, this process was completed very quickly, but Zhou Ming did not unfreeze the ice immediately, but waited until the underground channel was completely filled with water before unfreezing the waterfall above.

The water of the waterfall rolled down and quickly filled the river.

After being dug deep, the water is more than two meters deep.

This height is actually just right, even the tallest Gnoll Biter will be submerged for more than half of his body.

So in the water, naturally there is no fighting power.

As for hyenas and arsonists, they will be completely submerged.

In this case, the Gnoll will inevitably choose the shallow water below.

Even if there is already an army of elves stationed there while diving, it's the same.

After all, the jackals have a violent personality. Unless they are really facing an enemy whose strength is so great that it is absolutely impossible to defeat them, they will rush to fight.

If they really had a brain twitch and chose the path above, that would be a good thing instead!
Not long after, the Jackal army emerged from the woods on the other side of the river. After taking a look at the river, they returned directly to the woods and gave up.

Although the transformed river looked a bit strange, the Jackals were obviously not a race of brains. They didn't think about it that much at all. They just saw that the river was too deep to pass, so forget it.

When they came to the shallow water below, the jackals were overjoyed.

A biter who seemed to be the leader held up the hammer in his hand and shouted: "All gnolls, cross the river from here!"

The jackals roared in unison, stepped onto the river, and began to cross the river.

The depth of the shallow river below is only twenty or thirty centimeters, which is really nothing to the wolf man.

However, the jackals had just set foot on the river when an army of elves came out from the opposite side, lined up by the river, staring at it.

Sure enough, the gnolls didn't have any brains, or they didn't need any brains at this time. When they saw the elf army, all the wolves couldn't help but have red eyes, bared their teeth and claws, and rushed out directly.

After all, the elite, even though they charged out, they maintained a certain posture. First of all, the ferocious hyena rushed to the forefront of the entire army by virtue of its own speed, then came the biters in close combat, and finally the arsonists .

The Peleton Eagle flew above their heads, but did not rush out directly, but moved forward with the army.

In the elven army, there were originally a thousand archers. Although the two thousand soldiers were not as good as professional archers in terms of bows and arrows, they could beat half of them with a longbow.

When the team of gnolls entered the shooting range, they immediately started shooting.

The only long-range unit of the Gnoll is the arsonist, but these arsonists do not have such a long attack range. For a while, the entire army was suppressed by the arrow rain and could only be killed.

Ai Lidan, Ai Ruiwen and Zhou Ming also started to attack. Of course, Zhou Ming was the fastest to kill the enemy. Although the two brothers Ai Lidan used bows and arrows and the other used magic, they were almost the same.

The firing of each skill can easily kill one or two biteers, but if there are too many, they don't have the ability to kill them.

Withstanding these attacks, it took the jackals more than ten minutes before the first hyena landed on the river bank and immediately rushed towards the army of elves.

Ai Ruiwen threw a fireball at him and killed him. Seeing that other gnolls also boarded the river bank one after another, he shouted: "The whole army retreats. The soldiers in the first ten rows give up shooting and prepare for close combat."

4000 people is quite a lot. Some people have already landed on the river bank here, but there are still people who have not entered the river behind.

Zhou Ming and Ailidan rushed those who got to the river bank first, but there were more and more gnoll armies behind them, and they couldn't kill them.

But after all, it was delayed for some time, and the elf army had already retreated.

Although for these elite soldiers, it is also possible to fight while retreating, but after all, the action is a bit hasty.

The distance was widened, and the elf army maintained its long-range advantage again, shooting continuously.And the number of gnolls was indeed decreasing. Seeing that the river was stained with blood, none of the elves died.

At this time, everyone understands that this battle is bound to be lost, and they should retreat in time to stop losses.

But it's a pity that the wolf man has always been brainless. Once on the battlefield, he was stimulated by blood and pain, and became even more angry.

When close to a thousand biters were dead, the Gnoll arsonist finally stepped into the river.

Zhou Ming focused his eyes and thought, "It's time."

He jumped into the air, used the wind escape technique to fly to the edge of the waterfall, and then disintegrated the ice blockage of the underground channel in the waterfall.

Immediately, the endless river water spewed out from under the waterfall like an angry giant dragon, rushing towards the river.

At this time, at least two-thirds of the Jackals were crossing the river.

In fact, strictly speaking, the river water accumulated for only a few hours is impossible to cause too serious impact, especially the river below is wider, and once the river rushes out, it will disperse along the river.

If these rivers were really allowed to rush out directly, I'm afraid that when they actually rushed to the wolf people, they would at most have some impact on them.

But it doesn't matter, isn't there still Zhou Ming?

Standing beside the waterfall, he seemed to be a general commanding an army, and the gushing river water was his army.

He controls the river water to condense and not disperse due to the width of the river.

He secretly increased the flow rate of the river, which greatly increased the hidden impact of the river.

He also quietly condensed a small part of the water in the river into ice, turned into ice spikes, and rushed down the river.

As a result, the raging water dragon rammed headlong into the army of wolf men, and countless wolf men were either driven away by the surging water, or pierced to death by the ice thorns hidden in the dark.

When the vigorous river left along the river, the shallow water returned to normal, and the Wolf man army lost at least two thousand soldiers in one fell swoop!

And that includes all the gnoll firemakers!
Such a quick and huge loss made even the brainless Wolf man feel a deep sense of unease.

In my mind, the idea of ​​retreat finally appeared.

But at this moment, even if they want to retreat, the elf army can't let it go!

"kill!"

Ai Ruiwen shouted: "Don't let a jackal man escape!"

The total attack is coming!
All the elf soldiers put down their longbows, picked up their two knives and charged away.

The jackals were stunned for a moment. After all, their ferocious nature saved the upper hand. They suppressed the slightest thought of running away.

And the outcome of this battle was clearly doomed, only the Gnoll Biters in their early thousand were left, and they were no natural opponents for this elite elf force.

Half an hour later, the war was completely over, and all the gnolls were eliminated.

However, the Gnoll's counterattack before his death also injured or even killed many elf soldiers.

But the total number of injuries did not exceed five hundred, and the total number of deaths did not even exceed thirty.

All in all, it's an out-and-out win.

After the battle was over and the elves packed up the battlefield, they were ready to return to the giant redwood.

Elidan thought for a while and said to Zhou Ming: "Master Linley, I want to go to the capital of the elves. Your golden roc is very fast, so... can you give me a ride?"

(End of this chapter)