Chapter 565: Tower Defense-II
While the ten or so Pyro foxes pursued the five of them, the two red soldiers who split up once again changed the directions and ran after the pyro foxes. They only ran away to distract the blue team so that their reaction would be delayed and they wouldn't notice the Pyro foxes instantly.
Now that their goal is achieved, it is better for them to go after the Pyro foxes and act as a backup just in case the blue team didn't die.
There is no way the team could outrun the foxes as they are too slow compared to the beasts.
After confirming there are only ten of them, the five-man team made a move suddenly and engaged with the foxes.
These beasts are somewhat vengeful and wouldn't calm down easily.
But the soldiers are coordinated and managed to overpower the foxes in exchange for receiving some critical damage.
At this moment, the red soldiers are still beyond their sensory range and are watching the battle which was in its final stage.
As soon as the battle was about to be finished, the two soldiers made their move and before the enemy commander could see them on the map and react, the two of them already killed the exhausted soldiers.
One of the traps Sam laid succeeded.
A similar scenario was happening in another place of Sam's territory. But here the red soldiers didn't even have to kill themselves, a pride of lions tore apart every blue soldier that was in the way and they didn't stop right there, they ran after the two red soldiers who are a distance away.
Sam looked at the scenario and chuckled before saying to the two of them.
"Both of you split up. One of you go to the right and another go straight. Both of you will meet two more blue teams if you can hold on, but if you cannot hold on, turn left from your spot and run forward. A red team of ten is moving there and you can deal with lions."
After he gave the instructions, he noticed that the red soldiers couldn't handle this and Sam immediately ordered the ten-man team that was slowly moving towards the blue team's territory and the ten of them intercepted the two soldiers and the Pride of lions.
The battle was not as intense. The eight lions first attacked the five-man team of the blue team. Even though, they won they lost two lions and another two are injured, the remaining four lines only ran after the two because they can outnumber the two of them. Otherwise, they wouldn't have made a move at all.
Which nascent stage beast would be dumb? But the ten members' addition now tilted the scales. They were completely done with the lions and the two red soldiers also joined this ten-man team and walked forward.
These people are also walking beside the stream, but they are walking on the other side and they are moving in a moderate manner.
After reaching a certain distance, they hid in various spots and waited there on Sam's orders. At this moment, ten men from the Blue team were eliminated and they have an upper hand, here they are waiting for another team.
But the trap is different, they didn't want to kill these men directly, instead, they have other plans.
When the five men from the Blue team really came, the ten men ambushed them and forced them to enter the water.
This has been the plan all along. The commander of the blue team has been yelled at them as soon as he discovered the red team members, but he has been too later, and then only he realized something else.
The water is infested with some dangerous fish.
These fish are as large as a normal alligator and looked a lot like Piranhas. They started attacking the five men team. The number of fish is not exactly large and their defense is not too strong.
They are somewhat vulnerable, normally they wouldn't prey on humans, but the haul is too big and they were greedy.
So, they arrived and as soon as they started fighting with the five members, the twelve red soldiers came out of the hiding and started attacking from the shore.
They didn't just attack the humans, after leaving the corpses of the soldiers there and attracting the remaining fish there, they killed all the fish from the shore.
After some time, they simply created a small area that covered all the fish habitat and boiled all of it to make sure no fish survived. They made sure that the stream went back to normal and continued their journey once again.
In this way, the blue team lost fifteen members, while the red team lost none. There is a reason for it, and it is not because Sam guessed the paths that the blue team would take, rather he marked every possible path they could take and three paths are within that scope.
As for his own members that are assigned to invade the enemy territory, they actually didn't infiltrate at this moment. Sam didn't set their starting points right at the border of the two territories as his opponent did, instead, he put them at a moderate distance from the border and even asked them to move at a moderate speed.
That is because he wanted them to help with the defense by dealing with some of the enemy soldiers that infiltrated. Since they will outnumber the enemies and also in their own turf with the help of traps, they wouldn't need so much energy.
Meanwhile, the enemy troops are still infiltrating. After counting, Sam figured that a total of forty members infiltrated into his territory, and out of the fifteen members are already done for.
Now only twenty-five members are still moving forward and most of them escaped the traps and some of them managed to deal with the two red soldiers that are dealing with the traps.
Sam finally started seeing casualties, but there are no more than six of them at this moment.
He doesn't know how many men, his opponent put up for defense near the tower and how many of them are in ambush.
But he was not nervous in the least, because ten-men teams are not easy to take down and they are moving in a certain way that they will cover the maximum area with their sensory range that will give him more view of the territory.
The twenty-five blue soldiers within his territory didn't fall for anything else and even stayed in place after reaching a certain distance. It seems like they are trying their best to recuperate to their best state.
At this moment, Sam's people are also infiltrating the enemy's territory.
The Blue commander noticed that Sam's troops are mostly concentrated near the stream area.
There are many people there and a cluster of red dots are there on either side of the river and most of them are even crossing the river time and time again to exchange information.
Apart from this cluster of twenty dots, there are three more small clusters in different places.
Apparently, Sam chose the most difficult routes of all as their infiltration points, except for the stream.
The stream is actually a better infiltration path for Sam than the blue team because the stream will directly lead them to the area near the tower. They don't even have to wait and hide.
Seeing the large teams, the blue commander was really frustrated. But he is not entirely disappointed.
For the first time, Sam was surprised because the traps set by the other party are almost the same. But they used more people to lure a family of tigers towards Sam's ten-man team, but there are only five blue soldiers and they hid and attacked the red soldiers along with the tigers without giving them any chance to be alive or escape. At the same time, they also finished off half of the tigers and once again lured them.
They didn't lure them to another team, rather they lured them to another habitat.
After some initial clash, the beasts joined and followed the team that already moved far away with a decent head start.
But the beasts didn't leave them alone and went on following.
Sam lost ten men and he doesn't know if he will lose more men. Last time, he wasn't able to give them orders on time, causing him to lose ten members.
He became vigilant again and scolded in his head because of his cockiness and underestimating the opponent.
He estimated the next attack and started giving orders to the next ten-man team that is most probably going to be attacked. He must say that the other party is pretty ballsy to lure the beasts purely with his men.
But he knew it wouldn't be easy. And his guess was right, the beasts caught up and the blue team lost another five soldiers, but the beasts moved on to the next red team, to whom Sam is already giving orders.