Just because you're under attack doesn't mean you're off the road, and the attacked Sekwibo is still waiting for backup. So, for the Deco family, even if they succeeded in defeating the hostile forces they had encountered unexpectedly in the forest, it was a failure not to reach the Sekweibo team. Dealing with the Tumens is only an obstacle in the journey, not a mortal enemy. The key is not to let any other factors slow down their journey. Previously, the Apuyi believed that there would be no one on the road who would not be able to attack them and that they would be beaten into complete confusion only if they despised them intellectually. This time, we must not be slowed down by anyone! Shevell almost gave the order of death in a fit of rage.
After retracing the path of the morning, and the men were now familiar with it, and lunging unconvinced, it was about dusk when the group returned to the spot where they had been attacked, though they could not get the exact time from daylight, only a rough estimate of what time it was. Many of the mercenaries had already unstrung their arrows. Abel, Shevell, and Gordon were also on the periphery of the group, while Grenn and Shin were hidden in the center of the group, contrary to the norm of the Arcanists protecting the Arcanists. After all, they were the core force in this situation.
The Tumens are just a bunch of non-arcane people. How can they beat them when the Deco family is on their guard? That's the one thing all Arcane masters agree on. However, despite some seemingly irrational arrangements, the team began to play loose and tight defense, ready to give a blow to those who used cheap sneak attacks. Learned the experience of the last time, the defense inner circle is not only the sellsword top in the front, but the sellsword and Arcanist mixed, if the figure blind chooses close to hand to hand combat, but also really good luck to kill near, the team under attack at the first time can immediately counterattack or even counterattack, rather than simply passive. Don't underestimate such a small change, because an immediate counterattack can break up the enemy's offensive formation, slow the enemy's offensive efficiency, and provide valuable time to regroup, strategize, and respond in the rear. And in such small terrain, it's hard for either side to spread out, and once they can take out a man or two, the enemy may stop attacking because they can't get around the fire and obstacles quickly enough.
Allen was part of the team, of course, but he was still protected and in a relatively safe position, where even Shen could defend him if necessary.
"Don't be afraid. You're the safest of us all." Seeing that Alan still seemed a little dazed, Wood smiled and reassured him.
Alan managed a slight smile and thanked Wood, but his hands trembled slightly, and the runes on his windboots were unsteady, as if under the influence of a state of mind, but they seemed better than they had been half a day before.
Wood was pleased to see how much Alan seemed to be recovering. Within half a day Alan had recovered, much better than most. Alan isn't a wimp, but he's not ready for the dead, or else he wouldn't have had the courage to attack the giant crab squid from the boat with Reggie.
It was not long before the Tumens arrived, as they had been promised, and launched a second attack from all sides. From the noise and the crack of the arrows, there were more men than before, and the idea was to crush the Deco crowd and drive them back to where they had come from. With a whoosh of air tearing, three enhanced arrows were fired first from three different directions toward the outermost part of the group, followed by a shower of arrows.
This time it was no longer chaos and confusion, but the Arcane shield on three sides, countless runes of Hexagon flashed, threatening arrows bounced off, and the team protected by the shield unscathed, immovable, just like a turtle shell, invulnerable!
Shevell and Gordon were transcendents at the top of their game, and a layer of impenetrable armor had to be added before Abel managed to stop them all. By the time the Sellsword was ready for a long-range counterattack, no more arrows had been fired, but there was a murmur and a murmur, and the Tumen archers seemed to have retreated along the planned route. Everyone thought that the attack of the Tumen army was coming soon, and they were on guard as they moved forward, but they waited left and right, and there was not even a single person in sight so everyone thought that they could fight back in vain.
Two or three of these long runs went on, straining the nerves of the party, and though no injuries were sustained, the tactic of running away without a hit kept the party on edge all the time. The feeling of mental detachment led to a kind of fatigue for this kind of attack, knowing that we should pay attention to it, but inevitably relaxed. And the Tumens, grasping this moment, chose to attack in force.
On the front of the tree mushrooms appeared several warriors with spears and small round shields, and on the sides were several archers. As soon as the first wave of arrows ended, there was still no way to break through the Arcane wall remotely. Just when everyone thought the Tumens were retreating and playing hide and seek again, the soldiers jumped from the trees on either side and ran straight at the Deco family. Taking advantage of the sudden situation, they quickly shortened the distance.
Behind them Shen and Grenn, as battle-hardened warriors, were quick to react, Shouting "just in time." As planned, the weapons were out of their sheaths, waiting for the Tumen warriors to come closer, even through the Arcane walls, and then they were slashed down. The other sellerswordsmen were also unflinching, and weapons of all kinds were called to them. The soldiers who rushed into the line were chopped into mincemeat in a moment and sank slowly into a bed of fungus. And this wave of counterattack is to let the potential in the back of the Deco sniper team stunned before also rushing the scattered people, how did the instant become so tiger? Enter but dare not enter, retreat and dare not retreat, so awkward.
Deco's home plan finally wish, how can give up this precious opportunity, the tortoise arrayed in bruising the other side of the attack after the spirit, Abel began to command counter-impact. Three large shields surrounded the crowd to ensure that there was no weakness in all directions of the tortoise formation. The people behind and in the middle only needed to follow the rhythm of the shield's eyes to push their positions forward. A wave of arrows flew down from Tunmun's panic, lighting up almost all the Arcane stars of the group's tortoise array and edging the shape of the shield.
The Tumen men's stubborn fight is precisely what Xavier wants, full-speed drive wind boots, leading the front constantly forward, almost is the previous Tumen round shield soldiers charge a copy, but more powerful!
The Tumens also wanted to try. At the call of a ringleader, the Round Shield warriors, under the cover of archers, made a second charge, trying to open a breach in the shell. All they need is a breach! The three Deco Arcanists are all very fierce, but ordinary mercenaries and ordinary Arcanists are still weak in the face of the regular army, once the internal chaos, Turtle Shell will take care of each other, and have to retreat again.
Worse than better.
Shen Shen this knife fight veteran a look at the posture, the heart has already known, if the charge is again in vain, then the Tumen people should retreat. So, free and free, he stood directly at the place where the Tumen charged, waiting like a tiger and a leopard for the arrival of the Tumen.