A thick blue-white smoke shot straight into the sky in front of this ancient watchtower that had been forgotten by the Yunqin military.
Lin Xi frowned slightly and looked at the body of a cave barbarian in front of her.
When the cave barbarians retreated, they also took away all the corpses of their other companions. Only the body of this cave barbarian was pressed down by the stone bars he smashed and was too close to the watchtower, so it remained.
This was also the first time for him to see clearly what the previously rumored cave barbarian looked like from such a close distance.
Compared with the body of this cave barbarian, the two hundred and dozens of kilograms of stone bars seemed a bit too small, so much so that the stone bar seemed to be embedded in the cave barbarian's sunken chest.
The broad forehead and lips, the bulging muscles on the body, and the posture of these beasts when they were running made Lin Xi naturally think of those 100-meter race champions known as flying men, but these beasts are not black.
His skin is bronze in color, and he is at least 1.9 meters tall.
Looking at this burly body with only a dozen pieces of steel and pieces of leather armor hanging all over his body, dead but still giving people a strong sense of oppression, Lin Xi understood even more why the Yunqin Empire had been trying to destroy these pieces at all costs over the past few decades.
The cave barbarians are blocked behind the Dragon Snake Mountain Range.
Food is in short supply for the cave barbarians in the mid-autumn and winter seasons of the Great Wasteland. There should not be many steel minerals in the Great Wasteland. Therefore, although these cave barbarians can smelt flying spears for throwing, they are not in large numbers, only some particularly strong ones.
Only warriors are qualified to wear some of the extremely crude armors in the eyes of sergeants Yunqin.
Due to their limited stature, even if they obtained the armor from the Yunqin soldiers who died in battle, these cave barbarians could only find a way to crack it into pieces like this and hang them on their bodies.
However, even with insufficient food and weapons, and relying almost solely on physical instincts to fight, Yunqin's most elite army still had to maintain a four-to-one ratio in numbers to ensure victory. Even so, these decades and decades later
Compared to years ago, the Yunqin Empire had no advantage over the cave barbarians, as evidenced by the tower behind him.
At that time, the Yunqin military's watchtowers could stand here, standing on a hill in the "Sheep's Horn" extending into the Great Wilderness, which shows that the Yunqin military at that time still had a great deal of interest in this area close to the Great Wilderness.
However, today, in order to avoid heavy casualties, the Yunqin military garrison has been forced to retreat significantly.
Under the current circumstances, if the cave barbarians are allowed to cross the Dragon Snake Mountains and have more abundant food and steel ore than before, it is difficult to estimate how big and far-reaching the impact will be on the Yunqin Empire.
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Lin Xi looked at this extremely oppressive corpse. Due to the profuse sweating all over her body, her body temperature began to drop. She suddenly felt that the cold and mental exhaustion were beginning to erode her body.
From this day to the present, he has secretly followed the patrol army in the mountains and forests, and has not had much time to rest. The wild running and shooting just now, especially the three big rocks, consumed a lot of physical and soul power in an instant.
, at this moment, he could feel that only about half of the soul power in his body was left.
"This is bitter ginger juice. It can prevent you from catching wind and cold and make your body feel better."
At this moment, Xin Weike and Kang Qianjue walked up to him and handed him a water bag. Xin Weike said in a deep voice, "Three brothers have been lost."
Although Lin Xi still had to learn how to truly control the army and still put the command of the Patrol Army in Xin Weike's hands, for Xin Weike and all the sergeants of the Patrol Army, Lin Xi was already the highest-ranking person they accepted.
Sir, let Lin Xi know about any matters or decisions.
Lin Xi didn't say anything, she just pulled out the stopper of the water bag and took a big sip of the bitter ginger juice that Xin Weidai mentioned.
An extremely harsh and spicy taste spread throughout his body.
"What kind of mission did the patrol army perform here this time?" Lin Xi took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled it, looking at Xin Weige and Kang Qianjue and asked.
Xin Weigai's throat was already a little hoarse. He swallowed hard, looked at the dense forest in the distance where the caves were retreating, and said: "The order from above said that a three-person exploration team from the forward battalion failed to return to life.
Before noon tomorrow, we will pass through both sides of the Blackland Canyon and search to
It ends within five miles of the Great Wilderness."
Lin Xi asked: "In the previous military intelligence report, were there any signs of large-scale cave barbarian activities nearby, or were there any major battles?"
Xin Weige shook his head: "I didn't mention it."
Lin Xi also shook his head and said softly: "So we still know nothing about the purpose and whereabouts of this caveman."
"I don't know what happened, but these cave barbarians are completely different from last autumn and winter." Xin Weige was silent for a moment, and then said with some unclear meaning: "Mr. Lin, maybe you don't
I don’t know...Before last autumn and winter, in the past few decades, although each of these adult cave barbarians had amazing fighting power, their heads were extremely stupid."
"You can easily understand how stupid they were before by just using this watchtower as an example." Xin Weige took a deep breath and tried his best to calm down his emotions.
Regarding the watchtower at the rear, Lin Xi continued to explain: "If this watchtower is not a fully enclosed watchtower, the top is empty. As long as our people don't lead them up, they will never think of climbing.
Go to the top and jump down from the top to attack us, or you will just charge head-on from the front."
"Even though this kind of climbing is very simple for their abilities, they just wouldn't have thought of it. This kind of chopping down a big tree and working together to hit it... has never happened in the previous battles. Let alone sending a small team to touch it.
Behind us, cut off our retreat."
Lin Xi was stunned.
He is not a high-level figure in the Yunqin military, nor is he the emperor of Yunqin. He does not know many deeper things. He has only heard that the cave barbarians are very barbaric and stupid. In his opinion, the cave barbarians he encountered tonight have already
Extremely stupid, but he didn't expect that Xunman was even stupider than this before, so stupid that he didn't know any maneuvers at all.
After the initial shock, his brows furrowed deeply, and he was a little shocked. He began to understand the meaning of Xin Weike's words. He looked at Xin Weike and said: "You mean... press
The original behavior of these cave barbarians was that they would either not flee, and after fleeing, it would be impossible to pursue them. However, now we have no idea what they will do next?"
"They would never be like this before." Xin Weige glanced at Lin Xi, her expression getting increasingly ugly: "Unless they find that there are only a few of their people left, they will escape...the number is less than four or five.
If they compete with each other, they will win. This is also the most direct impression that has penetrated into their blood in the past decades of fighting with the border troops."
"In this situation where they still have an absolute advantage in numbers, even if we have one or two more practitioners on our side, they would never have been able to retreat before."
Xin Weigai's breathing paused slightly, and she swallowed hard before she could continue to speak, saying hoarsely and heavily: "So it feels to me... that they just retreated on their own to avoid too many casualties."
"That's why you want to completely block this watchtower and stay here to ask for help."
Seeing the sergeants of the patrol army in the rear who had exhausted a lot of energy taking out all the stone bars and other objects from the watchtower and beginning to completely seal the watchtower, Lin Xi thought for a while, looked at Xin Weige seriously, and said: "You
Now it is impossible to determine whether they are lurking in the mountains and forests, waiting for us to go out, or waiting for a more powerful cave barbarian brigade to come. If it is the former, our response is the most correct. But if it is the latter, if there is
The stronger cave barbarian troops arrived before our reinforcements arrived, so it would be almost impossible for us to resist them."
"No, you don't know much about the battle between the armies here."
Xin Weige shook his head and looked at Lin Xi bluntly: "It should be safe for us to stay here. Because this is a cave barbarian brigade, an army of cave barbarians, not scattered cave barbarians without organization. There are more than a hundred people.
, which is already a large organization for the cave barbarians."
"Any mobilization of the army has its strategic significance. Although the cave barbarians are stupid, they must have a strategic purpose."
After hearing these words, Lin Xi knew that he still had some misunderstandings and things he had not thought of, so he continued to be taught and listened carefully.
"What is the strategic purpose of the cave barbarian army?"
Xin Weige himself was thinking hard, and while thinking, he said in a deep voice: "If it is just this team without a larger strategic purpose, it is impossible to defeat us now. If there are others, they will definitely
There are more important strategic purposes, and our place is too small for them... We only have so many people, and it is impossible to block their actions... They cannot waste precious time to eat up this small piece of ours.
bone."
"The style of the cave barbarians in the past was like this, like a hammer, knock here, knock there, and if it can't knock, they won't get entangled, because although they are stupid, they have also known for decades that the border army's ability to mobilize troops is not good.
What they can compare to is that they will all fall into the siege of the border army unknowingly as they fight, because the overall view of some of our frontier army generals is simply not comparable to theirs. Now these cave barbarians have such major changes.
, if it is because they have an unprecedented leader, then since this leader is so smart, he will naturally understand that the most important thing for the army is not to eliminate more enemies and less enemies, but to
To accomplish the real purpose of their dispatch, this leader’s purpose will definitely become clearer.”
Lin Xi's brows relaxed. He already fully understood that what Xin Weige was worried about now was not their life and death, but the real purpose of this barbarian army, because this might lead to the sacrifice of more Yunqin soldiers.
"I'll go check it out."
After giving Xin Weige and Kang Qianjue a reassuring look, he did not stop and began to rush towards the direction where the cave barbarians had previously retreated.