The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Although Xu Lai is used to killing people, since others are willing to surrender, he really doesn't have to kill them.

Of course, people can be spared, but they must be valuable.

Otherwise, he can't let go of a wolf rider hero who is already able to stand on his own and has awakened his talent.

Unlike local heroes, advent heroes have space backpacks.

Local heroes only need to take off their equipment and space rings, and the remaining ransom is picked up for free.

Advent heroes are different. The equipment they wear can be stripped, but there is only one way to take out the things in the space backpack.

Therefore, in most cases, advent heroes are difficult to be forgiven unless they can give unexpected rewards.

No matter how much they promise, killing them may get more.

And most advent heroes are alone, even if they are imprisoned, no family members are willing to pay the ransom.

In order to survive, this orc hero activated his diplomatic ability and was willing to use a ransom of 500,000 gold coins, plus an important message, in exchange for a chance to survive.

Even if Xu Lai is a good person, people will not easily believe that Xu Lai will keep his promise.

Using diplomatic skills can at least ensure that Xu Lai cannot harm or capture him for a period of time.

As for whether he can escape during this period, it depends on his own ability.

This guy used an important message to exchange for a chance to survive, and Xu Lai didn't know whether the other party would tell false news.

Therefore, Xu Lai also needs diplomatic skills to ensure the authenticity of the news said by the other party.

The two sides quickly reached an agreement and reached a deal through diplomatic skills and paid the ransom.

Xu Lai let the orc hero go, but only kept ordinary clothes, gave him 7 days of rations, and then stripped all his equipment and even confiscated the wolf under his crotch before letting him go.

During his absence, if this orc hero dares to take the initiative to attack any force affiliated with Xu Lai, it will be regarded as a violation of diplomacy, and Xu Lai will not bear any punishment if he kills him again.

Of course, Xu Lai's people cannot take the initiative to attack him, otherwise Xu Lai will also be unlucky.

So, he left a flag and a time limit document with a seal on it for this guy.

If he still fails to leave the country within the stipulated time, Xu Lai can still catch this guy and kill him at any time.

After watching the orc hero go away, Xu Lai pondered for a while and asked Tahan and Yan Feng:

"Do you believe what that guy just said?"

Yan Feng spoke first: "Since you have activated the diplomatic skill, then the news he passed to you must be true."

"No, the news may not be true. It can only be said that he really received such news, but the news is not necessarily true.

The front line just ended yesterday. Maybe the beast king did back down, but I think they must not be willing to leave like this."

Tahan added quickly.

Yan Feng scratched his head and smiled: "That's right, Tahan is much more rigorous than me."

Tahan and Yan Feng were born almost at the same time, and they were also Xu Lai's most indispensable left and right arms in the early stage.

The most important thing is that they have already led the army independently and come out to do things alone, and have a certain ability to judge themselves.

Unlike Roland, this guy is only interested in how to protect Xu Lai. It is best not to ask him for other things, and you can hardly get anything out of him.

The orc hero told Xu Lai a major and latest news that had just been conveyed.

Beast King Sachs, who could not contact Kenlo Hag last night, directly issued an order to all the heroes of the Wolf Rider Corps.

Sachs' order was to let these Wolf Rider commanders return to the camp immediately.

If it is inconvenient or impossible to return to the camp, just find a way to detour and return directly to the wilderness through the Pingfeng Mountains.

This posture is obviously a retreat.

The orc hero was also afraid that he had misunderstood, so he asked the priest who sent the message clearly.

The heroes who descended are generally more human. Even if they are not human, they will find a way to accept tasks and increase their favorability.

As one of the few spellcasters in the base, most priests and high priests have a good relationship with the heroes who descended.

So the other party revealed a little more information. It was said that most of the chieftains were upset because of a defeat during the day.

Most of the chieftains have expressed their intention to retreat.

Even the commander of the second largest tribe in the stronghold (York) and the patriarch, the Cyclops King, have made it clear that they are determined to take their people away, regardless of whether the Beast King agrees or not.

The specific losses of the orcs will certainly not be easily revealed.

Therefore, the orc hero does not know the specific number of casualties.

However, Xu Lai has a general idea.

Lena had already reported yesterday's battle report. In addition to her own casualties, there were also casualties of the other side.

However, the casualties of the other side were only up to the moment when the battle report appeared. If there were any deaths later, they would not be included in the scope of the battle report.

And as long as they did not die at the time or left the battlefield, no matter how much they were injured, even if they only had the last 0.1 of their health points hanging on, they would not be included in the statistics, after all, they had no experience.

In addition, the orcs were 100% certain to have no resurrection ability, so the actual number of casualties would only be greater than the 86,000 reported in the battle report.

With nearly 100,000 casualties, if Xu Lai was the tribe leader, he would also be angry.

Especially the orcs, I don't know how many have died in the past year.

With the whole camp's strength, 100,000 orc casualties are indeed nothing, but the casualties in the past year have exceeded one million.

The vanguard corps formed by the orcs has almost been completely destroyed, with hundreds of thousands of casualties here alone.

Xu Lai's raid has caused millions of casualties in the ogre tribe, and even if only one-tenth of the warriors here are more than 100,000.

Not to mention the ogre tribe, not to mention that all the people are soldiers, there is no problem that half of them can fight.

When we just passed through the Pingfeng Mountains, we lost tens of thousands of flying troops.

When we poisoned and attacked at night, we suffered the most casualties, with more than 100,000 casualties, and the subsequent treatment that could not keep up, tens of thousands more died.

The siege battle lost another 100,000, and the wolf cavalry corps also lost a unit, and even the commander died on the battlefield.

Such a continuous and fatal blow, many clan leaders and chiefs have not impeached Sachs until now, just because the Behemoth tribe has not been seriously injured so far.

This is also the only thing that many clan leaders rely on.

If the Behemoth Corps suffers further losses, with the existing hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the wilderness, they may not even be able to defend their hometown.

A large amount of territory will be divided up by the beast trainers.

Another key point is that Behemoth is not very helpful in siege, and using it for siege will only result in a loss.

Based on these analyses, Xu Lai also judged that the orcs would most likely withdraw.

But before they leave, whether they will make some small moves, Xu Lai is not sure, but highly suspicious.

"So, Tahan, Yan Feng, you each lead your knights to drive away the wolf cavalry in other positions.

They should have received the order to withdraw, and they will not stay in the rear.

If you show up, you only need to keep them at a distance and monitor them, and you don't have to fight with them.

Especially you, Yan Feng, don't think of taking advantage of the speed and horse archery, and deliberately get close to take advantage.

The assault speed of the wolf cavalry is not low, especially since you can't use equipment and props.

None of us knows what equipment and props those wolf cavalry commanders are wearing.

In short, you only need to keep them at a distance, form a deterrent to them, prevent them from continuing to destroy us in the rear, and witness them leave.

All our current strength must be preserved to deal with more dangerous wars in the future."

The hunting of Kenlo Hag was enough to make Xu Lai heartbroken.

Whether it was the previous attack with the flying legion or the sneak attack at night, his losses were not great.

But in the battle yesterday alone, more than 300 knights and knights' followers were killed.

Fortunately, Xu Lai now has enough priests, and the injured knights can all be properly treated.

If the 3,000 wolf riders were not just running for their lives, but stayed to fight, Xu Lai's losses would be even more serious.

After all, the Angel Legion is not here, and the dead are dead, and there is no way to revive them.

Tahan and Yan Feng looked at each other and bowed together, saying, "Yes!"

Originally, Xu Lai did not dare to divide his troops, just like the wolf riders he dealt with today. No matter how many people they had, they were all led by heroes.

After the division of troops, Tahan and his men not only did not have an advantage in terms of manpower, but without Xu Lai's blessing, their strength would be greatly reduced.

Once the troops were divided, the cavalry he had trained with great difficulty would probably be wasted.

But now that he has received the latest intelligence, it is different. After receiving the order, the wolf riders must not have much fighting spirit.

As long as Tahan and his men are not impulsive and do not take the initiative to fight these wolf riders, there should be no danger.

Doing this will not only save time and energy, but also deter the orcs from continuing to plunder along the way.

Xu Lai and others took a short break and had lunch, planning to set off immediately in the afternoon.

After a while, Su Ya, Jian Yuan and others also rode out of the city.

Jian Yuan and other scout knights were notified by Xu Lai to lead the way for Tahan, Yan Feng and others.

Su Ya heard that Xu Lai did not even enter the city, so she came out to visit Xu Lai.

Xu Lai has been living outdoors for a long time, and in the past three months, he has only had a few baths.

Although summer has not yet arrived, the exposed skin is still exposed to the sun on the grassland, and it is difficult to see the white appearance of the past.

The hair and beard on his body are all messy, and no one has time to take care of them.

After seeing this, Su Ya was so distressed that she almost cried.

She directly took action without saying anything, cleaned Xu Lai's face, and then watched Xu Lai lead a group of paladins to gallop towards the direction of the Stone City.

Without Xu Lai, even if Reina knew that the orcs wanted to retreat, she probably wouldn't react too much.

Her main task, which was also a task that could not be missed, was to guard the Stone City.

If the orcs tried to retreat and tricked her out of the city, and then fought a decisive battle in the wild, the Stone City would be in danger of destruction.

On the contrary, as long as she stayed in the Stone City and did not move, the orcs would have to send at least hundreds of thousands of casualties to take over the Stone City.

If Xu Lai was in Reina's position, he would definitely make the same decision.

But Xu Lai was really unwilling to let the orcs go.

After he rushed there, he could leave Reina to continue to stay in the Stone City, and he would take some troops with him to take advantage of the orcs' retreat.

Apart from anything else, this time the orcs must be beaten so hard that they will not dare to take advantage of humans in the next decades or even hundreds of years.

There was no need to tell Su Yaming about Xu Lai's thoughts. She ran over to take a look in person and understood everything.

After days of running around and non-stop fighting, the morale of the Paladin Legion could not help but drop to around 90 points, even if they were winning consecutive battles.

Recruiting soldiers needs to be forced to get 8 hours of rest every day, otherwise not only physical strength and endurance will not be restored to full value, but morale will also continue to decrease.

This time when returning to Stone City, there was no need to be as anxious as before. Xu Lai could rest as much as he wanted on the way.

The angel troops, which had completely seized the air superiority, were constantly hovering near the orc camp to conduct reconnaissance.

Elvi and the others were afraid of the wolf rider's net and did not dare to get too close to the camp. However, because of Elvi's presence, the orc flying troops did not dare to leave the camp.

With both sides in such a stalemate, the situation was ultimately favorable to Xu Lai.

Because even if he didn't dare to get too close, after all, he had the advantage of high-altitude vision, and all the specific movements of the orcs would still fall into Elvi's eyes.

However, according to Elvi's report, the orcs did not seem to have any plans to evacuate.

Supplies from the rear are still being transported to the camp in a steady stream.

The orc troops not only had no time to rest, but instead used the time to train.

The purpose of the training is not to improvise and try to advance into the orc army at this time, but to restore morale.

Neither Elvi nor Reina believed that the orcs had any intention of evacuating, but Xu Lai strengthened his judgment.

As expected, there was no real battle between Tahan and Yanfeng.

After the Wolf Cavalry saw a large number of Imperial knights, they immediately fled without any desire to fight.

As for Sachs, although the training and supplies continued, no new troops entered the camp.

This means that there are no new recruits coming over from the Pingfeng Mountains.

The lack of new soldiers means that morale cannot be improved quickly, and the orcs do not have enough troops to launch a new offensive.

So Xu Lai did not rush to Stone City, but contacted Lina, the former leader of the Sixth Knights.

Invite her to cooperate with him again to intercept the wolf cavalry driven away by Tahan and Yan Feng.

Lina faced Xu Lai's invitation and replied directly: "Knight Commander, please give us the order directly!"

Xu Lai smiled slightly, did not remain polite, and directed Lina to continue encircling the Wolf Cavalry troops on three sides.

So, he spent about three days outside, and once again surrounded and killed three groups of orc and wolf cavalry.

At this point, except for the remaining two thousand wolf riders led by Adjutant Kenlo Hager.

All the wolf cavalry sent by Sachs to Xu Lai's rear were wiped out by Xu Lai. (End of chapter)