Chapter 29: The Musketeers Take Action

  Karus, who had just eaten a mouthful of sand, stared at the beastmen lined up in front of him and Xiao Yu standing on the wall head.

  "Are you the one who led the beastmen to raid our nearby stronghold?" Calmly, the great stronghold master Carus asked coldly.

  Xiao Yu raised his chin, adjusted his wide cloak, and coughed lightly twice. In a very arrogant tone, he said: "That's right, I am the lord of Lion King Ridge. You are occupying my territory, which is simply unreasonable. I give you one minute to kneel down and surrender. Otherwise, you will only become food for my soldiers."

  "Hmph, the lord of Lion's Pride? Even if you were the emperor of the Celestial Lion Dynasty, it wouldn't matter to us. You think gathering a bunch of beastmen from who-knows-where makes you capable of defeating us? What a joke. I was just thinking of beheading a few beastmen to use as decorations." Karus sneered coldly, having fully recovered from the shock of the sudden ambush earlier, and seemed completely unafraid of Xiao Yu's beastman troops.

  Cutting off the beastman's head as a trophy is a very ancient tradition. On this continent, there were many young nobles who went to the deep mountains to hunt and kill beastmen in order to show off their bravery, then hung the heads on the wall as decorations to gain admiration from others.

  It is said that even now, many people go to the deep mountains to hunt and kill beastmen, in order to show off their glory and status. However, as beastmen are almost extinct now, it's already very rare for someone to be able to obtain such decorations.

  At this time, Dazhai's main force arrived, and the other bandits had also stabilized their formation. They gathered in front of the city gate, about 100 meters away, with more than 2,000 people forming a basic battle array.

  As for the fire in the rear, someone has already gone to deal with it. With such a fast speed, we can completely grasp the situation.

  From this point on, it can be seen that these bandits have a set of skills and are no less powerful than regular troops.

  However, although they had the strength of a regular army, under the combination of beastman soldiers and elven archers, they were still at a disadvantage. Just now, in their previous charge, more than 600 people had already died unknowingly, but because they were shocked by the appearance of the beastman soldiers, they didn't pay much attention to this point.

  Xiao Yu sneered, saying: "You think you can defeat my beastman troops just because you have more people? That's a joke. Since I dared to come here today, I'm confident that I can wipe all of you out and turn it into my achievement. The Emperor doesn't care about this, but I do. By the way, I'll ask you something, Chief. What's your mother's surname? Humans are born from human mothers, beasts are born from beast mothers... what kind of thing gave birth to someone like you? You look even uglier than my beastman soldiers. Are you a hybrid of humans and beasts?"

  "Ah...... you bastard......" Karus heard Xiao Yu's insult and suddenly became furious, waving his hand: "Shield soldiers in front, charge for me, kill these beastmen, leave that bastard to me."

  This Carus is a tall and sturdy man, over two meters in height, not inferior to the beastman soldiers. He has a bald head, a rough face with several scars, looking very ugly indeed.

  Xiao Yu then scolded him like this, instantly making him furious.

  Xiao Yu's move was just a psychological tactic. Now that he has taken the high ground, he needs to lure his opponent into attacking him in order for this formation to take effect.

  So he uses this method, intentionally provoking the enemy, forcing them to attack without fully calming down and thinking of a countermeasure against his formation, which is greatly advantageous for his side.

  Once the other side sees through one's formation and finds a breakthrough point, the loss will definitely be great.

  Seeing the opponent rushing to attack, Xiao Yu suddenly narrowed his eyes and smiled, everything was under his control, and now it's up to these soldiers to perform.

  Kill...

  Roar...

  Both sides let out a mighty roar, boosting their morale. Although the beastmen were outnumbered, their voices were no weaker than those of their opponents. The louder the voice, the stronger the momentum - this was a law on the battlefield. If one side's battle cry weakened, it basically meant they were done for.

  That Kalos also led by example, wielding a large knife on his back, with a yellow aura of Dou Qi, and jumped up in an instant, wanting to rush onto the city wall to kill Xiao Yu.

  Catch the thief first catch the king, this truth Carus also understand.

  But just as he jumped up, he found that another guy also jumped high, a strong Dou Qi light blade chopped towards him.

  Kalos was shocked and immediately swung his great sword to block this sword energy.

  Rumble...

  Two clashing auras of energy collided, followed by a deafening crash. Both individuals were sent flying backward. After regaining his footing, Carus found himself facing a beastman, roughly two and a half meters tall, grasping a long sword and exuding an aura of frenzied combat intent as he glared at him.

  "This beastman warrior is so strong, when can the beastmen also cultivate Dou Qi?" Karlus was slightly startled, as it was with Dou Qi and magic that humans had driven out the beastmen back then.

  The one who stopped him was naturally Grom, whose Invincible Slash had reached level 4. With a full-force strike earlier, the momentum was extremely fierce and immediately stopped the powerful Karus.

  Karus's Dou Qi level had already reached the second stage, but Grom's overall strength was actually still a notch below his. However, Grom's fourth-level Invincible Slash combined with the Beastman's powerful battle intent surprisingly sent Karus flying back.

  "Alright, today I will take down this beastman and make a wine vessel out of its skull to display my glory." Kalos thought to himself as he made several hand gestures to the deputy commanders on both sides, instructing them to find a way to climb over the city walls and kill Xiao Yu. Then, he once again charged towards Gromm. As a second-tier warrior, although he felt Gromm's strength, he still had confidence in being able to cut him down with his sword.

  Apart from the Great Inn's owner, Karlus himself, he had around a dozen deputy inn owners under him, all of whom were fighters and whose strength had already reached the late stage of the first rank, extremely powerful. At this moment, they received the order from the Great Inn's owner and prepared to charge up the city wall from both sides to kill Xiao Yu as well as the great magician standing beside Xiao Yu.

  Just now when they launched their first wave of attack, the great magician had already ruthlessly cast a sheet of ice spikes, instantly covering an area with third-level ice spikes and directly piercing dozens of bandits.

  Although they were slightly surprised that Xiao Yu had a magician, they weren't too shocked. After all, magicians were rare, but it wasn't unusual for a territory to have one or two. Even their mountain stronghold had a magician.

  The magician is extremely powerful in terms of damage output, but as soon as he gets caught up in close combat, it's very easy to get killed.

  Several deputy camps mainly want to climb the city wall, they must go up from the steps on both sides. They don't have the skill to jump onto the city wall at once, and once they can't jump up, it's easy to be shot through by the archers above.

  They are also gradually discovering that the other's city walls hide countless archers, and these archers seem to be able to conceal themselves like assassins, making it difficult to find their positions, let alone know how many there are.

  These archers are easy to deal with, as they are all fighters. With a shield in hand, relying on their own weapons and the power of Dou Qi, they can block most of the feathered arrows.

  But what baffled them was that the other side seemed to have a powerful weapon, making a loud noise, shooting out something that couldn't be seen with the naked eye, yet producing a strong lethal force.

  One of the fighters was accidentally hit, and his calf was instantly pierced. He didn't know what had pierced it. The wound was ten times more severe than a normal arrow wound, the pain was unbearable, as if one leg was about to be severed.

  The advantage of a musketeer was evident at this moment. In this world, powerful warriors could defy bows and arrows, but found it difficult to resist muskets.

  Dwarven handgunners have slow firing speed and poor accuracy, but their advantages are not comparable to those of archers. The speed of bullets is much faster than that of arrows, and the intensity of attacks is also much stronger than that of arrows.

  Xiao Yu ordered the dwarf gunners to fire at the fighters, regardless of whether they could aim accurately or not, as long as they shot in that direction.

  In this way, those warriors were suppressed and some were in a flurry, while the human shield soldiers who blocked the stairs were not easy to deal with. Although they still had a big gap with the warriors in terms of combat power, relying on their exquisite blocking skills, they still managed to prevent them from rushing up the stairs.

  In this way, they became living targets for the dwarf marksmen below.

  Bang bang...

  A guy with bad luck was hit by several guns at the same time, and even if he was a fighter, he still got killed. If they were shot by arrows, they could rely on their armor and fighting spirit to avoid instant death, but when bullets hit them, they couldn't defend themselves anymore.

  These warriors can't climb up the city walls, archers and great mages are extremely powerful against threats from below.

  Innumerable arrows shot out with precision, coordinating with the beastman infantry below, reaping the lives of the opposing bandit soldiers like harvesting wheat.

  These bandit soldiers are not bad, wherever they are put, they are absolutely excellent soldiers, but when they encounter the beastman soldier's strong formation, they have difficulty breaking through, and the elven archers in the rear who never miss a shot become the real reapers.

  "They're too powerful, gather our mages and blast their formation open." A deputy commander loudly shouted, after a prolonged attack with no success, he thought of the all-powerful mages.

  Mages in this era are like self-propelled cannons. Wherever they attack, a few spells can basically open up the situation.

  The robber's magician soon arrived, actually he was already nearby, waiting for the right opportunity to strike.

  Under the protection of a dozen shield-bearing soldiers, the magician arrived at a suitable distance from the formation and muttered an incantation. The powerful archer team on Xiao Yu's side also made the magician somewhat apprehensive.

  But the distance of magic was always farther than that of archers, so he didn't worry much under the protection of these shieldmen.

  But what he didn't know was that Xiao Yu had Thailan and also a dwarf gunner.

  Hiss...

  A rocket came screaming in, directly blasting two shield-bearing soldiers to smithereens. Immediately following that, a series of loud explosions rang out, and before this magician could even release a single spell, his body was riddled with holes, dead beyond all doubt.

  "Nima, the mage dares to show off in front of me, that's just asking for death." Xiao Yu was extremely pleased with Tairan and Huo Qiangshou's performance.

  These musketeers are finally worth raising, although their aim is poor, but they can concentrate fire and shoot together, with so many people shooting at the same time, one or two of them will definitely hit.

  It's just like a machine gun.