Time was short, and even though the whole party was tired, Alan needed some time to recover. Shevell decided to travel through the night, determined to make up all the ground lost in the battle. Good as the idea is, there are still some difficulties in its execution.
"You need to know, Mr. Shevell, that while the forest is dark by day, it is much darker by night!" Grenn expressed strong opposition to Shevell's plan to march by night fire. Although in the true sense of the forest's shading of the sun, dozens of large pieces of bacteria are blocked, no direct sunlight can hit the ground, but the sunlight can still reach the bed of bacteria through several reflections.
"In the dark, our only environmental light source is the fluorescent mushrooms in the deep forest and the luminous mushrooms," added Luan Zhuo, a veteran of jungle survival. "One fireball is not enough in such a dark environment. At least three to five fireballs are needed to avoid visual problems." If people can only see a particularly bright light source in the dark, there will be certain visual impairment, the sense of distance will have a certain degree of loss, and in such a humid environment has been staring at the bright light source, will lead to dizziness, even there will be temporary blindness caused by inflammation.
"And Xavier," Shen agreed with the selectmen, "we've come all this way, and though we're running out of living things, there's a lot of poisonous snakes and worms and things like that. We'll get in trouble if we light so many fireballs." While there are many Arcane artists in the group, there are still many ordinary people, and if the fire attracts these poisons and a member of the group is accidentally infected with snake venom, it is almost impossible to detoxify them quickly.
"We have antidotes, but they're very expensive, and we don't bring much." Luan Zhuo added in unison.
"Tell the house Arcane to keep more eyes, and burn any animal that doesn't have eyes!" Xavier's words left the three men at a loss for words. They could only acquiesce.
"It wouldn't be safe for us to light the fire." Abel was frustrated and worried about Shevell's overconfidence. "From a security point of view, the dark total Fireball allows the enemy to pinpoint our position from a distance."
And if this light source is knocked out, it will inevitably lead to panic, stampede, disorder, and so on. Even if the Arcane Shield can deploy quickly, who knows if anyone will get nervous and run outside? In this dark and dangerous forest, it would have been extremely dangerous to wander outside the crowd, not to mention that there might be other enemies to attack.
"How much of a problem can an army in a small place have? It matters to take over Sekwibo!"
Several of them had to look at Gordon. After all, Shevell and Gordon are the most powerful, the oldest, and the most senior, and if anyone can talk Shevell out of it, it's Gordon. But they were disappointed, and Gordon showed his hand. He knew all too well the temper of his old partner, who had studied Arcane in Sekwibur in his early years, and his feelings for the Arcane city were not ordinary. His handling of problems was not ordinary rough, and he had insisted on bringing Abel's favorite Alan into the team. Fortunately, Tumoen is not very powerful at the moment, and Shevell, Abel, and the three otherworldly men are a crushing force, if not so careful, and not so deadly.
So the family's march began again. The mushroom tree in the way, burn; Invisible road, fireball; Meet the figure man, the tortoise array to wait, kill until the collapse!
If there had been a large mercenary regiment that had been hammered to the head by Shevell, it would have been avoided by this time. However, the toughness of the Tumen soldiers was indeed worthy of their profession. They were dispersed three times in a row and still stubbornly organized the fourth and fifth times.
The initial magic of the turtle phalanx soon became useless, and the Tumen repeatedly failed to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the turtle phalanx, and soon found a solution - attack from multiple angles. An important factor in the strength of the turtle army of the Deco family is Shen and Grenn, who have individual courage and can achieve the tactical goal by themselves. These two need to quickly defeat any invading enemy, and they also need to quickly make the opponent lose their fighting ability when the turtle shell is near.
The Tumen solution to the problem is very simple, can't beat, I can't hide. After too many failed attempts at active and passive defense, Tomen's command shifted to a strategy of harassment and attrition, leaving Shen and Grant with no chance to charge. The enemy in my troubles, the enemy into my retreat strategy effect is also perfect, coupled with Xavier to open fire, even if not catch up, always can quickly find traces of the people at rest.
The class ratio has been adjusted to equip more soldiers with ranged weapons such as crossbows and significantly reduce the number of melee soldiers. Commander Tumen divided the archers into three groups. They took turns attacking the shells, and then retreated with the shells to the next fortified position. This was a good way to restore the strength of each group of archers, who were, after all, the core of the strategy -- endurance. The task of the melee soldier, armed with a knife and axe, was much simpler, simply Shouting when the archers attacked, feinting, then charging in another place, scaring a wave of tortoise shells, and withdrawing before they could react. Until Tortoise Shell charges away from the position at full speed, he sends out his scouts to lie dormant and follow him until he can seize the opportunity to make the same harassment again.
Over time, because the Deco family line has been in the spirit of high tension, physical consumption is very fast. After several attacks, the reaction speed and counterattack force were significantly reduced, and the personnel inevitably took some injuries more or less.
Under repeated consumption, everyone is unbearable to disturb, Abel's Arcane reserves first to the bottom, if you want to insist on releasing the arcane, then you have to honestly read the spell and the arcane energy in place, compared to before it is a lot of trouble. As a result of this change, the resistance to surprise attacks became so low that they had to change their strategy.
"Two extraordinary men, Abel is in no condition to continue this breakthrough." Shen's tone took a rare sulk, "The next part of the road we can no longer hard rush, such consumption we can bear, young people can not bear."
Whether it is strength or status in the family is not lower than the two peaks of the extraordinary, just because he is not named Deke, after all, so will not strongly express opinions. Shevell and Gordon saw that they had no choice but to take a detour from the way they had gone down the river. The Fireball was gone, and the Sellsword was brought up behind them to erase the trail. The effect was remarkable, and Abel's energy reserves did not run out, which would have been two or three waves of Tumen harassment by this time.