"We can't break through, our soldiers simply can't break through!"
"It seems the method of climbing in has problems. With the defensive capabilities of the Qin soldiers, we can't climb over them at all!"
"Damn it, these Qin soldiers are truly detestable. Their combat effectiveness is inferior to ours, yet they use their defensive weapons! If it weren't for those weapons, they would have already died by our hands!"
The people of Lingnan were still dwelling on the fact that Qin soldiers had used weapons to block their attack.
At the same time, they were also extremely indignant.
In their eyes, the Qin army was not actually formidable. In terms of individual combat power, they were even inferior to the people of Lingnan.
However, the Qin army possessed very powerful weapons.
With those weapons, it became extremely difficult for them to charge through the Qin army.
Even if they got close to the Qin army, they could not break through the Qin army's defenses.
This was an agonizing torment for them.
At the same time, it was also incredibly fatal for them.
Just like now, they could not break through the Qin army's defenses, and the Qin army had no intention of letting them go.
After repelling the attacks of the Lingnan soldiers, Lin Tian issued his order.
"Have our soldiers advance fifty zhang forward, holding their shields!"
"Yes!"
Fifty zhang was not a great distance, but for the people of Lingnan at this moment, it was entirely different.
The Qin army was already very close to their tribal villages.
They had even charged into the range of the Qin army with just one rush.
Under such circumstances, for Lin Tian to have the Qin army advance another fifty zhang would directly shrink the territorial scope of the Lingnan people considerably.
Even a few dozen more zhang forward would be entering their tribal villages.
Therefore, as the Qin army advanced, the Lingnan soldiers became extremely nervous.
"Stop them, you must stop them! Don't let them get close to our tribal villages!"
"Ahead lies our tribal village. Once they get close to our village, everyone in our village will suffer. Therefore, you must stop them!"
"Hold the line, everyone resist together! You must stop these Qin soldiers!"
The thoughts of these Lingnan people were very simple: they just wanted to halt the Qin army's advance.
No matter what the method, they had to resist.
However, their thoughts were very beautiful, but when they actually took action, the situation was completely different from what they had imagined.
Although they were desperately resisting the Qin army's advance, their resistance had no effect on the Qin army.
The Qin soldiers advanced bit by bit, holding their shields, and they had no way to stop them.
Faced with the advancing shields, they could only retreat.
Because they knew that once they got close to the shields, a spear might come out from the gaps of the shield to attack them.
Such an attack would undoubtedly be fatal to them.
Based on the strength of their armor, they could not withstand such powerful assaults.
Therefore, although they were constantly hacking at the advancing shields, they were also constantly retreating.
This constant retreat was more like a humiliation for them.
After all, they had just declared that no matter what, they would resist the Qin army's offensive.
And in the next moment, under the Qin army's offensive, they were retreating steadily.
This was definitely not a situation they were willing to see.
But once this situation appeared, they had no choice but to face it.
"Hold on, you must hold on! Behind us are our tribal villages!"
"Ah! I want to hold on, but I simply can't hold on!"
"Save me, quick, save me! I don't want to die, I don't want to die here!"
"What about the traps? What about the traps we set? Have all the traps we set become useless?"
The traps set by the Lingnan people did have some effect.
Quite a few Qin soldiers had fallen into their traps.
However, most of these traps were hunting traps.
Although these traps were numerous, they were not malicious.
They were mostly set to capture their prey alive.
Because of this, many Qin soldiers, although trapped, were not in mortal danger.
And as soon as someone in front was trapped, someone behind immediately filled their place.
When they filled the gap, it had no impact on the Qin army.
Such a situation was truly beyond what the Lingnan people had expected.
Seeing those Qin soldiers who were trapped, they were filled with regret.
"Damn it, we should have set some lethal traps before!"
"Exactly! If we had set those lethal traps earlier, even if we couldn't kill a large number of Qin soldiers, we could at least have intimidated them!"
"It's over, it's over! We are now in a very passive position. If we retreat further, we might retreat into our tribal villages! We might even have them attack our tribal villages directly!"
Upon hearing that their tribal villages might be attacked, many people became nervous.
If the Qin army were to attack their tribal villages, their villages might not survive.
Once the Qin army entered their tribal villages, they might slaughter them and their tribesmen.
This was definitely bad news for them.
At the same time, it was a situation they did not want to see.
If this were truly the case, they would have no choice but to fight with all their might.
With this thought, the gazes of many among them turned fierce.
Quite a few of them had already prepared to fight a desperate battle with the Qin army.
However, before they could truly fight a desperate battle with the Qin army, the Qin soldiers stopped their advance.
Lin Tian had said to advance fifty zhang, and they would advance fifty zhang. Not more, not less.
And this distance of fifty zhang was also within the range that the Lingnan people could accept.
If the Qin army pressed further, these Lingnan people would fight the Qin soldiers to the death.
But after advancing fifty zhang, the Lingnan people felt that they still had room to maneuver.
It was precisely this room to maneuver that made them abandon the idea of a desperate fight with the Qin army.
They still chose to resist the Qin army while preserving their own lives.
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