Throne of Vientiane Civilization

The actions of the dwarves were not secretive. The sentry standing on the wall noticed their presence at a glance and reported to Shi Lei.

When the boar knights headed by Wojin Copperfurnace arrived outside the plain fortress, Shi Lei also came out.

"Long time no see, Lord Woking!"

Hearing Shi Lei's voice, which he hadn't seen for a long time, Wo Jin was stunned for a moment.

Dwarves themselves are also a race with a very long natural lifespan. For them, a few years can basically be classified as "a while ago".

However, it is not that Wojin has never had contact with humans, and he naturally knows that the natural life span of humans is only a few decades.

A few years is extremely short for them, but for humans, it is already quite long.

Vol'jin quickly said after reacting...

"It's true that I haven't seen you for a while, Your Excellency Shi Lei."

After that, Wojin was unambiguous and directly stated his intention.

"I received news that a green-skinned army had slipped over, so I immediately led my troops and rushed over."

While speaking, Vol'jin glanced at the green-skinned corpses on the ground.

"It seems that I came a step too late."

During this period, Vol'jin's eyes flashed with understanding when he noticed the crossbow arrows stuck on the corpses of individual green-skinned soldiers.

When it comes to dealing with greenskin troops, the individual crossbow is indeed a good weapon.

Wojin didn't have any idea about the fact that Zhou had created a personal crossbow. There were also humans in their coalition, and the other side also had crossbow troops.

But this does not mean that the human crossbowmen can compete with their dwarven heavy crossbowmen.

The advantage of dwarf heavy crossbowmen comes not only from the skill of making heavy crossbows, but also from their thick arms and strong bodies.

Dwarf soldiers generally possess significantly greater strength and physical strength than humans, which means that their arms can hold up heavier individual crossbows, draw stronger crossbows at a faster speed, and launch attacks!

To put it simply, human crossbowmen and dwarf heavy crossbowmen are not on the same level at all.

This is also the reason why Wojin is so confident, because even if humans develop individual crossbows, they will not be able to compete with them.

At this moment, after hearing Wo Jin's words, Shi Lei's mind moved and he said directly...

"It's mainly due to luck. The green-skinned troops that invaded this time have no ogres or goblin wolf cavalry. They have a single type of troops and are not large in number. They only have five or six hundred troops."

Having said this, Shi Lei showed a happy expression.

"If this number were any higher, we would be in big trouble."

At this time, many green-skinned corpses on the battlefield have been taken into the fortress by them, and there are only three to four hundred corpses that have not yet been cleaned up.

This also made Wojin not see any clues.

Even speaking of it, Shi Lei's words were completely consistent with his inner speculation.

Since letting the greenskins move around their rear, they have tightened the blockade.

Even if an accident occurs, some small units will slip in. It is impossible for large units to sneak in.

However, now that the Great Zhou Dynasty has crossbow troops, their combat effectiveness is undoubtedly stronger than before. Thinking of this, Wo Jin couldn't help but send an invitation to Shi Lei again, asking him if he wanted to join the coalition to deal with the greenskin troops.

In response, Shi Lei showed a wry smile.

"Your Excellency Woking, it is difficult for us to protect ourselves now. We have tried our best in this battle, and there really is no room left to join the coalition."

Needless to say, when faced with Wojin's invitation, Shi Lei declined again.

Wojin didn't think much about this and just nodded. He instinctively felt that in such a short time, the opponent's strength would not be able to grow much.

He didn't stay much after that, said goodbye to Shi Lei neatly, and left directly with his dwarf troops.

Every year in late autumn, the greenskins would launch operations in order to plunder food for the winter. At this time, they were busy and had no time to stay here.

Once again, the dwarf troops led by Wo Jin were sent away smoothly, and Shi Lei secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Needless to say, this is something that their Majesty has already ordered, and the pros and cons of it have also been clearly explained to him.

In this way, in this muddy water, they, Da Zhou, naturally hid whenever they could.

Under this premise, although Shi Lei's previous words had the intention of hiding his strength and actively showing weakness, they were not all lies.

This time, the green-skinned troops do not have ogres and goblin wolf cavalry. In terms of strength and scale, they cannot be compared with the original green-skinned troops, so they really cannot be taken too seriously.

They did get stronger, that's a fact.

But under normal circumstances, the green-skinned troops are definitely not as weak as they appeared in this battle, and this is also true.

By the time the battle report here was delivered to Zhou Xu, the season had already entered winter.

The green-skinned troops, who had not appeared for a long time, suddenly made such a fuss for him, which made Zhou Xu stunned when he saw the battle report.

But in any case, it can be regarded as giving them a chance to test. Their crossbow unit has undoubtedly withstood this round of tests and proved their value.

Under this premise, Shi Lei had no problem in dealing with the reappearance of Wojin Copperfurnace and the other party's move to invite them to join the coalition again.

Regarding the war between the coalition forces and the greenskins over there, their thinking has always been to avoid interfering as much as possible, hide their clumsiness as much as possible, keep a low profile, and then go all out for development.

For the whole winter that followed, the Great Zhou was generally stable, and the greenskin troops did not appear again at the Plain Fortress.

This was normal. The greenskin troops appeared here, which meant that there was a problem with the dwarfs' defense.

After such an incident, if the dwarves did not wake up, they would be looking for death.

Putting down the report, Zhou Xu picked up a pen and started writing rewards.

As Shi Lei said before, the greenskin troops were not strong this time, which directly led to the limited value of this battle. It would be a bit too much to give out large rewards.

Therefore, the overall rewards were mainly gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin.

In fact, for most soldiers, this was also the most practical.

Under this premise, Li Tie performed outstandingly, beheaded a general in the Hundred Refining Realm on the opposite side, and seized the opponent's body, allowing their Great Zhou to obtain another high-strength skeleton soldier.

At this stage, this is a considerable achievement.

Zhou Xu thought about it and decided to reward Li Tie with a ‘Red Flame Battle Axe’ forged by Li Gan, the head of the forging department.

Red Flame weapons with ‘fire crystals’ are still rare at this stage, and they can effectively improve the strength of their Great Zhou generals, so it is just right to use them for rewards.

In addition, Shi Lei, the commander-in-chief of the New North District, has made meritorious service in command, and he will be rewarded with a mantra.

Zhou Xu plans to give him the mantra of ‘summoning skeleton soldiers’, so as to further enrich Shi Lei’s skeleton soldier tactics.

First, determine the reward, and the specific granting will be arranged at a time.