Chapter 147 Defending the Village
After a battle, the Korkar Centaurs did not retreat. They began to prepare to launch a fire attack on the Thorntooth Village.
Setting fire to the village is a common trick used by the Centaurs when looting. Fire attacks usually do not cause significant damage to the resistance of the living forces, but they often have the effect of disrupting the resistance, which is very useful for the Centaurs.
"Lord, the Korkar Centaurs have lit torches and are preparing to set fire." The old blind man reported to Yang Yi. He was now covered in blood, some of which were from the Korkar Centaurs and some from the old blind man himself.
"First send the injured murlocs back to the village square for treatment, and let all the fighting murlocs retreat." Yang Yi ordered.
Facing the fire attack that the Korkar Centaurs were about to launch, Yang Yi racked his brains to think of a solution.
Yang Yi wanted to lead the murlocs to fight the centaurs, but the centaurs ran faster than the murlocs. If Yang Yi let the fighting murlocs of Ratchet Village rush out, these centaurs could use their speed and longbow range to continuously consume the manpower of the murlocs.
"This time, the Kokar centaurs have learned their lesson. They have sent centaurs to scout on several nearby high grounds. It is impossible to divide and surround them like last time."
Yang Yi used the Eagle Eye Technique to check the situation outside. Verogo, who has rich combat experience, had sent centaur scouts to scout around the battlefield before the battle.
With the speed advantage of the centaurs, if the Ratchet Village divided its troops out like last time, the centaurs could concentrate their forces to deal with the murloc team on the plain outside first.
Facing the current situation in Ratchet Village, Yang Yi was in a dilemma on how to defeat these aggressive Kokar centaurs.
Verogo would not give Yang Yi more time to think, as the Kokar centaurs had already lit all the torches.
The centaurs, who were used to burning, killing and looting, had rich experience in setting fire to the village. At Verogo's command, the centaurs raised their hooves and launched an attack.
First, a team of centaurs ran to the wall of Ratchet Village with longbows, and a round of arrows were thrown to suppress the fishmen inside the wall.
The centaurs who followed took the opportunity to approach the wall, and then they used the momentum of running to throw burning torches into the fishman village.
Most of the buildings in Ratchet Village are wooden structures, and the roofs of the buildings are built with flammable materials such as weeds and algae. So although the environment in the fishman village is humid, as long as the torches fall on the buildings, these buildings will immediately burn.
Most of the functional buildings in Ratchet Village are built around the square in the center of the town, as well as on the east side of the village. The west side is mainly some fishman huts.
The fishman huts in the village were ignited one by one in the torches thrown by the centaurs.
Black smoke rose and the fire began to spread.
Black smoke filled the village of Ratchet, and the murlocs were in disarray.
Taking this opportunity, Verogo asked the centaurs to destroy the wall of Ratchet.
The level 3 wall of Ratchet was a log wall, and a breach soon appeared under the violent destruction of the centaurs.
"Lord." The old blind man's eyes were red with anger.
The old blind man had devoted all his efforts to the village of Ratchet. He watched the village of Ratchet built from scratch, step by step, and his feelings for the village were beyond words. This time, the Kokar centaurs set fire to the village of Ratchet, and the old blind man's eyes were red as fire. He was completely enraged.
"Village chief, let's take the murlocs in the village and fight them out!" The Brak brothers came up to ask for a fight. Seeing the buildings in the village engulfed in fire, they would rather fight their way out and then fight those damn Kokar centaurs to the death.
"Village leader, we have to kill those centaurs!" The fighting murlocs were excited. Ratchet Village was a home of beautiful life for the murlocs, and no murloc was willing to see their home destroyed.
The murlocs of Ratchet Village had to defend Ratchet Village.
"Arrange a team of murlocs to put out the fire. No one is allowed to move without the order of this lord!" Yang Yi did not agree to the murlocs who wanted to rush out and fight the centaurs.
Even though the centaurs had good arm strength, the distance of projecting torches was also limited. After the buildings near the wall were burned, the fire attack was ineffective. Yang Yi asked all the fighting murlocs to stay in the village.
Verogo had been observing the situation in the murloc village. The buildings in the Ratchet Village were burned and collapsed one by one.
For the predatory centaurs, everything in front of them was like a beautiful scenery, and Verogo's blood was boiling.
"Warriors of the Kokar Centaurs, you are the glory of the Kokar Centaurs. Let us kill all those inferior murlocs." Verogo raised the giant axe in his hand and shouted loudly.
Fanaticism is the byword for Verogo. The Centaur team he has been leading has been plundering everywhere on the land of Kalimdor. He pursues the innate wildness of the Centaur and vents this wildness to his heart's content.
Constantly waging war is the fighting style of the Centaur. When they heard the Khan's shout, they all raised their weapons and shouted and roared to their heart's content.
In the Ratchet Village, Yang Yi began to issue battle preparations.
"Old Blind Eye, bring out all the lobstermen in the slave pens in the village, as well as the wave crabs and thorny turtles in the livestock farm, and all the wild beasts in the taming and animal pens. When the Kokar Centaur rushes over, immediately drive them all to the Centaur. The more chaotic the battlefield, the better."
"Let the fighting fishmen apply deceleration ointment on their weapons. Take out all the corrosive acid in the village and let the fishmen spearmen get ready."
"Slark, take out all the remaining fire oil in the village, and have a team of murloc spearmen hang the fire oil on their short spears. You take them and wait for my order."
"Brack, you take a team of murloc beach walkers to guard the south gate of the village. When the battle starts, you take them to attack the centaur team from the side."
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Yang Yi passed down the orders one by one. These were the tactics he had used before, and all he could think of.
The murlocs in the village acted quickly.
Outside the village of Ratchet, under the pre-war encouragement of the fanatical Verrog, the Korkar centaurs were in high spirits, and they once again launched a fearless charge in the village of Ratchet.
There was a rumble of hooves outside the village of Ratchet, and the Korkar centaurs rushed into the village for the second time.
"Release all the lobster slaves and beasts!"
Yang Yi waited for the second attack launched by the Korkar centaurs. When the vanguard of the Korkar centaurs rushed into the village of Ratchet, he immediately ordered the murlocs in the village.
A large number of lobsters and beasts rushed to the Centaur team. Their role was to squeeze the space for the Centaur to move, causing chaos among the Centaur and preventing them from forming a battle formation quickly.
These lobsters and beasts could only stop the Kokar Centaur for a while. The giant weapons in the hands of the Centaur kept swinging, harvesting the lives of the lobsters and beasts.
"Shielded fishmen move forward!"
Yang Yi ordered, and the shielded fishmen moved forward quickly with their shields.
"Prepare to cast the net!"
"Target the Centaur in the front row!"
"Cast the net!"
There were more than two hundred Centaur who attacked, and Yang Yi immediately ordered the fighting fishmen to use the fish net to control the Centaur who rushed to the front.
A large number of fish nets fell, and the Centaur who had just entered the Ratchet Village found that he had been covered by the water grass net before he could use the impact of the Centaur charge to break the fish defense line.
Under the huge inertia of the centaurs' rapid charge, the centaurs in the front row who were covered by the fishmen's nets fell to the ground one after another, struggling in pain.
The Kokar centaurs outside the Ratchet Village continued to rush in, but found that the way forward was blocked by their fellow tribesmen who fell to the ground and could not move.
"Prepare for the spears!"
"Throw the spears!"
Yang Yi ordered, and the fishmen's spear throwers behind the shield-bearing fishmen threw out the short spears tied with corrosive acid.
The fearless and cruel Kokar centaurs did not show any weakness. Although the battlefield was in chaos, the centaurs in the front still raised their spears, axes and other large weapons in their hands to launch a fierce attack on the fishmen. The centaurs in the team also raised their longbows and shot at the fishmen's spear throwers.
"Ah! What the hell is that!"
"Be careful! The green thing is poisonous!"
The Kokar centaurs were not protected by thick shrimp shells like the lobster people. After their bodies were stained by corrosive acid, they immediately felt the pain of corroded and burned skin and flesh.
"Don't panic! Charge forward first and let the tribal warriors behind come in." Shi Qiang shouted loudly. He was the captain of the charge this time.
The Kokar Centaur is an intelligent race. The control of the fishnet on them is very limited. The trapped centaurs quickly got rid of the fishnet, and more and more centaurs poured into the Ratchet Village.
"Slark, throw all the flame oil at the centaurs!"
Yang Yi shouted and ordered Slark.
"Forward."
"Target the centaurs, throw spears!"
Slark led the fishman spear throwers forward, and all the short spears tied with flame oil were thrown at the centaurs.
After throwing the spears, a large amount of flame oil poured on the ground and the centaurs.
Several short spears with flames fell down, and the ground suddenly became ablaze, and the red flames engulfed a large area of the crowded centaurs.
The red flames rustled in the wind, and the centaurs' steps into the fishman village were blocked again.
In the Murloc Village, fishnets were constantly thrown at the Centaurs, and the Centaurs' sharp arrows and the Murlocs' short spears intertwined in the air.
The deceleration ointment and corrosive acid began to take effect, and the Centaurs' combat effectiveness dropped rapidly, and the Murlocs temporarily gained the upper hand.
The flame oil burned fiercely but not for a long time. The fire slowly slowed down, leaving a group of Centaurs' bodies that were burned beyond recognition and scalding land on the ground.
Previously blocked by the flames, Verogo had been waiting anxiously outside the village with the remaining Centaurs, and they roared vigorously.
When the flames gradually died down, Verogo launched a new round of charge on the bodies of his fellow warriors and the scalding land.
This time, all the Centaurs followed him into the Murloc Village.
As Verogo led the Centaurs into the battlefield, the Centaurs' strength increased greatly and their morale also rose.
The shield-bearing murlocs at the front could not withstand the fierce attack of the centaurs' weapons. The formation of the shield-bearing murlocs was broken into pieces, and the murlocs began to retreat continuously under the pressure of the centaurs.
Yang Yi fired a flare in his hand, and Brak, who had been sitting still, led a team of murloc beachwalkers to attack the centaurs from the side.
Seeing Brak's team also rushing out, Brak and the murloc beachwalkers following him rushed into the centaurs' formation, and the whole place was filled with demoralizing cries.
Yang Yi clenched the sea monster harpoon in his hand, and he also joined the battle.
The direction of the next battle was no longer under Yang Yi's control. The victory or defeat of the Kokar centaurs and the murlocs of the ratchet village was entirely determined by the weapons in their hands.
The battle in the ratchet village gradually evolved into a big melee between the centaurs and the murlocs.
The harpoon in Yang Yi's hand stabbed the centaurs to death one after another. After one centaur fell, a new centaur immediately came up to make up for it.
The two range-type attack skills of Sonic Spear and Shock Wave showed their power on the battlefield. Thousands of centaurs were knocked down and flew away by Yang Yi's two skills. However, the strength of a single person cannot influence the overall situation. .
The melee was like a meat grinding ground. Murlocs and centaurs fought bravely and kept falling.
Both the fishmen and centaurs had red eyes, and killing became everything in their eyes.
In the center of the battlefield, Yang Yi found that his desire to fight was getting stronger and the blood in his body seemed to be boiling.
"Perhaps, I really have a bloodthirsty gene, but now it seems there is nothing wrong with it." Yang Yi suddenly thought of this for some reason.
"If we continue to fight like this, we don't know how much the fighting murlocs in the village will lose." Yang Yi raised his head and glanced around, surrounded by murlocs and centaurs fighting hand to hand.
Centaur Khan Verogo was also fighting bloody battles. Suddenly he noticed that the Centaur scouts on the high ground outside the village sounded their horns.
Verogo hesitated for a moment, then sighed and issued a new order: "Warriors of the Kokar tribe, obey my order and exit the fishman village immediately!"
Verogo suddenly issued an order for the Kokar centaurs to retreat.
In such a stalemate battle, neither side dared to order a retreat easily, because once the order to retreat damaged the fighting morale of the tribesmen, it would probably lead to a great rout.
In centaur society, what the Khan said was everything. The Kokar centaurs gave up the fight and began to flee desperately.
Yang Yi didn't know what happened to the Kokar centaur, so he couldn't let go of the great opportunity to massacre the centaur in front of him.
Yang Yi used his last strength to use a sonic spear again, and the three centaurs surrounding him were instantly knocked away.
"Kill! Don't let them escape!" Yang Yi gave the decisive order after repelling the centaur in front of him.
"Wow!"
When the fighting murlocs in Ratchet Village discovered that the centaur was escaping, their morale was greatly boosted. They frantically pounced on the centaur who was fleeing in panic.
Boom... boom, boom...
Bursts of dull earth-shaking sounds came from outside Ratchet Village.
The rumbling dull sound suddenly felt very familiar to Yang Yi. It seemed to be exactly the same as the sound when the violent Kodo beast ran wildly from the direction of Thunder Peak.
The Kokar Centaur left a large number of corpses under the pursuit of the fishmen. In the end, only more than two hundred centaurs were left and successfully escaped from Ratchet Village.
Yang Yi chased the fishmen out of Ratchet Village. As soon as he came out, he looked in the direction of the sound.
On the West Avenue outside Ratchet Village, a large group of huge Kodo beasts rushed over. These Kodo beasts were all covered in bright armor, and they rode strong tauren on their bodies.
More than a hundred tauren and kodo knights attacked the Kokar centaur who had finally escaped from Ratchet Village. The centaur's body had no physical advantage in front of these huge kodo beasts.
The Tauren Kodo Cavalry directly broke up the Kokar Centaur team with absolute power.
On the back of a particularly strong Kodo beast, a burly tauren carrying a totem and holding a halberd appeared in Yang Yi's sight.
"Bane Bloodhoof!" Yang Yi was pleasantly surprised to find that the visitor turned out to be the tauren Bain, whom he had not seen for a long time. He also found that the tauren Jerick Gaoshan was also among them.
The tauren and kodo cavalry were rampaging. In this situation, the fanatical Verogo still retreated while commanding the Kokar centaur to fire bows and arrows at the kodos and tauren.
Baine Bloodhoof rode a Kodo beast to Yang Yi.
"The debt we owe you fishmen can only be repaid with blood. We are here to help you."
"Okay! Let's kill these Kokar centaurs first and then have a drink." Yang Yi was very grateful for the arrival of Bain Bloodhoof.
The murlocs and tauren of Ratchet Village fought side by side. In front of the tauren Kodo cavalry, the centaurs had no speed advantage, and the Kokar centaurs were quickly defeated.
Virogo Khan finally stopped trying to organize the actions of the Kokar centaur team. He gave the final order to let all the centaurs scatter and flee.
Baine Bloodhoof appeared in time with a group of tauren and kodo knights. Their appearance helped Ratchet Village win the battle.
The battle to defend Ratchet is over.
Looking at the battlefield littered with corpses, Yang Yi knew that the Ratchet fish-men were still too weak. .