Daqin: I, Fusu, can summon the undead

Chapter 108 A sneak attack in the dark
At the edge of the forest in the dark night, raging flames burned the trees. The thick smoke, illuminated by the firelight, cast an orange-red veil over the night. The moon hanging high in the night sky was also rendered blood-red in the orange-red smoke.

As the fire gradually spread deeper into the forest, the forest fire on the periphery was gradually extinguished.

On the charred land outside the forest, Enke watched the fire at the edge gradually die out, waved his hand behind him, and the skeleton soldiers immediately rushed into the charred forest where the flames had just been extinguished, wielding axes to cut down the trees that had not fallen yet, filling the pits, and clearing a path in the charred land for the catapults to pass.

Although the residual heat and thick smoke inside are still lethal to living things, there is no substantial harm to the undead except that they will be blackened.

It is even safer because of the presence of these thick smoke and residual heat and flames, and it is also the best time to clear obstacles and pave the road.

A bone eagle landed on the shoulder of a death warrior and cried for a while.

After a while, the Bone Eagle flew away, and the Death Warrior immediately came to Enke and reported: "Commander-in-chief, the Bone Eagle detected that the elves set fire to the firebreak they dug!"

"Oh!" Hearing this, Enke suddenly became serious, touching his chin with his bony fingers and muttering to himself: "The elves have never done this before. This will only speed up the burning of the forest, which is equivalent to helping us advance. This is not good for their tactics of delaying time. Now they dare to set fire on their own initiative. It seems that these elves have some tactics!"

"I have the advantage in numbers, and a direct battle is very disadvantageous to the elves, otherwise they would have rushed out yesterday. But they also know that we will not easily enter the forest and fight against their strengths in a complex environment. The elves must stop us from setting fire to the forest."

"In that case, their purpose in burning down the forest was to create an environment that would allow them to hide perfectly and catch us off guard!"

After a while, Enke roughly guessed the elves' tactics and immediately ordered the Bone Eagle to continue close reconnaissance.

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In the forest, the elves lit a new fire in the firebreaks that had been cut during the day. After the fire was over, the elves began to make final preparations.

They were seen picking up charred pieces of wood from the ground, and grabbing the dust and dirt on the ground to smear each other with. Not only their clothes, but also their hands, faces, and weapons were all smeared black, and they almost merged into the charred environment around them.

If there were any dwarves here seeing this scene, they would be stunned with astonishment.

These were the elves who used to be gentle, clean, and elegant even in battle. Isn't it harder to make elves ungraceful than to kill them? ! ! But at this moment, these elves were even sloppier than the dwarves. After all, the dwarves knew how to wash their faces.

“Is this a blood moon?”

Oropher, who was covered in black, looked at the orange-red full moon in the sky, and felt uneasy for no reason! At this moment, he even wanted to retreat with his army and give up this ambush.

But looking at the raging fire in the surrounding forest, Oropher gritted his teeth and decided to continue the action.

They must stop the undead from continuing to set fire to the forest and break this unfavorable situation.

Otherwise, the living space will be compressed step by step, which will only make the situation of the elves in the dark forest more unfavorable.

Oropher made up his mind and shouted to the elves around him, "Smear your bodies thoroughly, even the arrows, and then hide!"
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The next evening, the forest fire that had been burning for two days was extinguished again.

Oropher, who was hiding in the pit, quietly pushed open a little of the burnt wooden board, and looked outside with his eyes.

Outside, there were 30,000 skeleton soldiers cutting down trees that had not been burned down by the fire, clearing obstacles, digging up tree stumps, filling in potholes, and clearing out roads that could be used to pull catapults.

Behind the undead swordsmen, more undead were coming in formation, and hundreds of huge catapults were being pushed and pulled by the undead forward on the cleared road.

Oropher had heard the Elf Queen describe this situation in detail before, and had also seen it with his own eyes.

The next second, Oropher's eyes became solemn.

Because this time the undead's marching formation has changed, behind the catapults are not skeleton soldiers, but corpse soldiers holding strange weapons.

The Elf Queen had also told him about these corpse soldiers, but she didn't know their function because the corpse soldiers had always been in the middle of the undead formation and had never left.

At this time, seeing these corpse soldiers marching in front of the undead formation, closely followed by the catapults, made Oropher feel even more uneasy. But at this time, the arrow was on the string and had to be shot.

Because the skeleton soldiers had already cleared the area where they were ambushing.

In the charred forest, several skeleton soldiers worked together to move a piece of charred wood and began to clear the charred dead branches and level the ground.

One of the skeleton soldiers moved a piece of broken wood.

At this moment, a sharp arrow suddenly shot out from under the broken wood and directly pierced the skeleton soldier's head.

"Roar!"

Seeing this, several skeleton soldiers around immediately roared and rushed over with weapons in hand.

The hidden elf under the broken wood did not rush out, but continued to hold the bow and arrow horizontally and shoot arrows at the skeleton soldiers rushing over.

The movement here was like a fuse. In the charred ruins of the forest, sharp arrows suddenly shot out from the charred ground, accurately hitting the heads of the skeleton soldiers who were clearing the road.

For a moment, completely black arrows flew around in the charred environment, and it was difficult to find their trajectory. Skeleton soldiers kept falling down one after another. In just a moment, more than three thousand skeleton soldiers fell.

The skeleton soldiers who were clearing the road couldn't even find the enemy's position for a moment, so they could only hastily gather into small formations, holding up shields for defense, and slowly retreating in the direction of the army.

"As expected, they are planning an ambush. The zombie soldiers are on fire! Tell the artillery to position their guns immediately."

Looking at what was happening ahead, Enke gave orders in a cold voice.

After receiving the order, the eight thousand zombie soldiers around the catapult immediately formed a formation and began to load the muskets with powder. (The accuracy requirements for rifles and bullets are too high, and the current production is very low.)
In the center of the undead formation, another two thousand zombie soldiers quickly pushed two hundred red cannons to the front of the formation and pointed the muzzles at the charred forest ruins ahead.

"put!"

Following the command, the corpse musketeers who were ready first opened fire at the charred area in front of them.

"Bang bang bang!"

As the sound of muskets rang out densely, three thousand musket bullets were fired at the charred forest ruins four hundred meters ahead.

"Bang bang bang!"

Immediately afterwards, there was the second round of shooting, and the third round of shooting!

Dense waves of bullets hit the ruins of the forest, broken wood and stones, stirring up clouds of dust.

“How can it be so far!!!”

In the pit covered by broken wood, Oropher watched the skeleton soldiers slowly retreating. The corpse soldiers were attacking them from a distance of 400 meters. Some corpse soldiers even pushed the strange black lumps in front of the undead army. His expression suddenly changed.

The undead have such a long-range attack capability and their trajectory is difficult to see, which will undoubtedly suppress their bows and arrows.

The black lump that was pushed to the front of the formation by ten zombie soldiers made Orofere feel uneasy, because he knew that the undead would not waste their energy to put useless things in front of the army at such a critical moment.

(End of this chapter)