Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

Alas, a nice thought, but the desert residents could only gather around five thousand camel cavalry, roughly the same size as the desert robbers, but to gather such a scattered, untrained and scattered group was not an easy task….

Naeli anxiously watches the battlefield, moving her gaze back and forth, finally yelling at Sofia in frustration: “It’s been fifteen minutes, where are my knights?!”

Sofia, her face dripping with drool from the dragon, her eardrums near deafened, doesn’t dare to wipe her face, just shrinks her neck and answers: “They’re coming, everyone’s rushing over. Last time I sent them to wipe out the desert robbers, it took them seven to eight hours to gather a thousand people.”

“Seven to eight hours? Are they sloths? In seven to eight hours, a sloth could climb up,” Naeli forgets her anger in her shock.

“No, no, it wasn’t urgent then. This time you’ve called them personally, they’ll definitely gather in half an hour,” Sofia reassures Naeli confidently.

“Half an hour? Don’t be too late, the battle might be over by then,” Naeli says irked.

If Sofia had just mentioned half an hour at the start, Naeli would’ve exploded, but with the previous mention of seven to eight hours, Naeli suddenly found half an hour somewhat acceptable. Yet, she was still anxious; any later and the enemy might be completely wiped out.

“Hey? Does the half hour start from when I made the call, or from now?” Naeli suddenly thought of a question.

Sofia pretends not to hear, while picking at the dragon drool on her body and slowly moves away.

No wonder Naeli was so anxious. Ange’s team might be small in numbers, but it had shown great strength, especially Ange’s battle capabilities, which were incredibly strange.

Facing thousands of incoming desert robbers, Negris starts yelling, “Don’t panic, maintain your formation! Ange, let the heavy armor shield soldiers protect you, dig a trench in front, and erect an earth wall on our side of the trench.”

With the previous experience of house building, Ange quickly constructs a thirty-meter-long earth wall in front with a trench of the same length on their side of the wall.

This arrangement would mean a fall of two meters into the trench and the one-meter-high earth wall – a change in level of three meters, its slope providing no leverage for climbing.

Constructing the trench and wall takes Ange about ten minutes. By the time it is done, the first batch of desert robbers has reached the nearest dune, looking down on Ange and his team from above.

Spotting the trench and earth wall, the robbers instinctively slow their advance, draw their bows and shoot.

The heavy armor shield soldiers slightly tilt their shields back, everyone hides behind the shield, and with a ding ding sound, the arrow rain strikes the shields.

These heavy shields are essentially giant steel plates taller than a person, one finger thick. Even a spear can’t penetrate it.

The soldiers carrying the heavy shields don’t have weapons, because they have no hands free to wield them. The thin armor on their bodies won’t stop attacks that get past the shield.

Sure enough, a desert robber pulls out a spear, speeds up on his horse, and exerts force from his waist on the back of the horse. A specially made spear rotates and flies over, strikes the heavy shield with a bang, creating a small pit, and the spear shatters into pieces.

Facing such steel pulse troops, the desert robbers immediately abandon long-range attacks. Unless they were carrying weapons like the Siege Crossbow Magic Crystal Cannon, they couldn’t get past these heavy shields.

But if they had these weapons, wouldn’t they be desert robbers in the first place?

They dismount their horses and yell as they charge forward in a disorderly formation.

The earthen wall and the trench deter the untrained horses, making them halt in fear before the formation; it’s better to just give up the horses and charge on foot.

Ange sticks out his head to start casting, rapidly firing off compressed exploding fireballs, targeting the closest desert robbers one by one.

This batch of desert robbers does not have the same strength as Ma Yuer’s vanguard desert robbers. Basically, one or two fireballs can overthrow one. The explosion of fireballs produces a shock wave, which pushes them back into their companions behind them.

Boom, boom, boom, a firing rate of three per second, the desert robbers directly across couldn’t rush forward.

Dead or unconscious robbers burnt by fire or turned into coke by the fireballs fall to the ground.

An old robber in the back observes this and shouts urgently: “Dragon Crossbow, Dragon Crossbow, move the Flying Knight’s Dragon Crossbow up, and bring the scale-breaking arrows as well.”

Three robust robbers grunt as they carry up a Dragon Crossbow, set it on the ground, and start cocking it.

Ange spots the crossbow straight away and targets it with a stream of exploding fireballs.

However, the position of the Dragon Crossbow exceeded the range of the Fireball Technique. The fireballs dispersing before they reached the crossbow.

Whoosh! The sound of the crossbow string echoes, and the scale-breaking arrow shoots straight at the heavy shield. Ding! It penetrates the heavy shield, pierces the heavy armored shield soldier, and protrudes from his back.

“Yes! Bless the Wind God, got him.” The old robber excitedly claps, saying:

“We’ve hit a heavy armor shield soldier. They’re highly valuable. I heard it takes an amount of silver coins equal to his weight to train one. Apart from training battle qi, they also need to carry heavy loads for a long time, which is very nutritious. To qualify, they need to keep up with the marching speed of foot soldiers while carrying that heavy shield. Killing a heavy armor shield soldier with one arrow, we’ve hit the jackpot.”