Daba Mountain is almost impossible for flightless humans to climb, but for macaques and golden snub-nosed monkeys who look at the cliffs as if they were walking on the ground, the only problems they have to climb over Daba Mountain are food sources and some carnivorous beasts.

In order to ensure that 300,000 monkeys could safely cross Daba Mountain, Ning Yuan first ordered the flying legion of the Condor Empire to increase its patrol over Daba Mountain, and firmly controlled the sky control around Daba Mountain.

He then ordered a mixed hunting team consisting of Silver Pegasus Knights and Owl Warriors to establish numerous temporary strongholds along the route the Monkey Legion was to pass, and then began a large-scale hunt of nearby predators with the strongholds as the center.

After emptying the route of the predators that could threaten the monkeys, Ning Yuan ordered the Swan Man Flying Legion to airdrop a large amount of food to each stronghold, so that the Monkey Legion could replenish each stronghold with sufficient food.

After arranging all this, the next step is to act as bodyguards for the Monkey Legion.

Considering that the Northern Expedition Alliance still had a flying legion in its hands that could not be ignored, Ning Yuan not only transferred 20,000 silver Pegasus knights from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to escort the Monkey Legion, but also urgently transferred an army of 100,000 owls and an angel army of 50,000 from the northeast hometown of the Condor Empire, as well as 200 golden-crowned griffins.

After everything was ready, the monkey army, which was the main force of threshing grass this time, took the lead in entering Daba Mountain.

The Monkey Legion is a family unit that spreads all over the mountains.

At the front of the line is a group of large male monkeys in the family, followed by some half-sized monkeys and a group of female monkeys with small milk monkeys on their backs and one in their stomachs.

Riding a silver pegasus and flying above the monkey army, looking at the group of monkeys on the hillside that were black and oppressive like locusts transiting, Ning Yuan couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

Fortunately, he took the first step to think of a way to use the monkey army to rob and destroy, and the Condor Empire had already occupied most of the areas in China where monkeys were distributed, and formed a large monkey army, occupying an absolute advantage.

Otherwise, if someone else thinks of this solution first, it is likely that he will have a headache.

Because the monkeys are so agile that they can not only jump and shuttle freely over the canopy, but also ignore the terrain and see the mountains as flat ground, and can run from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain in the blink of an eye.

In addition to their great agility, they also have locust-like appetites, and as long as it's something with leaves, there's nothing they can't eat.

The reason why the wild monkeys have a huge territory is because the territory is small, and the plants and insects in it are simply not enough for them to eat.

Because leaves and wild plants can provide limited energy, they have to eat and drink every day.

If there are too many monkeys in an area, they must kill the weaker ones, otherwise all the monkeys will starve.

After entering the modern society, many mountain parks have raised some wild macaques to attract tourists.

Since there are no natural predators to suppress the monkey population, many mountain parks are eventually overcrowded with monkeys.

The monkeys swept away everything they could eat in the park, leaving the mountains with bare ground.

Looking at the hungry monkeys, staring at those big pitiful eyes, some people's hearts were touched with pity.

In order to stop the monkeys from starving, some people began to spontaneously feed the monkeys every day, bringing them plenty of food.

As a result, many of the park's wild monkeys have become semi-wild and dependent on tourists and well-wishers for food.

Ning Yuan had seen with his own eyes how hungry monkeys were fighting for food, and the scene was truly spectacular.

In order to fill their stomachs, the monkeys all rushed to the food and piled up a mountain of monkeys directly on the food.

In a state of hunger, what monkey king, what gold nobles, have to lean aside, who will recognize you as the monkey king if you are not full?

Ning Yuan had seen some monkey kings squeezed forward and backward by the monkeys in the family, and no monkeys cared about their identity as monkey kings in front of food.

Hey, the former king can only temporarily take a second seat in front of food.

It was precisely because he had seen the powerful destructive power of the monkeys competing for food that Ning Yuan had the idea of forming a monkey army.

Wild monkeys are usually only a few hundred monkeys at most, and their destructive power is so terrifying that if they are specially trained, the scene is unimaginable.

The Monkey Legion is currently a rare thing, and people don't know much about it, so a surprise attack from it would definitely be a heavy loss.

Even the Condor Empire is defenseless and unable to resist the harassment of a legion of monkeys that have been trained for purpose.

Because they were so fast, so fast that they were gone before people could react.

If they were to be equipped with some invincible bodyguards to protect them, they would be in shambles.

Thinking of this, looking at the monkeys below who stretched out their thief hands from time to time to something to eat along the way, and looking at some of the bare surface that they revealed later, Ning Yuan's compassion suddenly came up.

Now he only hopes that the aborigines in Hubei can wake up sooner, and then move east quickly with the food in their homes, otherwise they will probably starve to death on the way if they leave late.

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Due to the fact that there were a lot of edible plants along the way, and the strongholds along the road could replenish some food, under the escort of 200 golden-crowned griffins and some silver pegasus knights, a huge group of 300,000 monkeys crossed the Shennongjia forest area without danger.

After passing the Shennongjia forest area, it entered the territory of Baokang County, Hubei, and the Northern Expedition Alliance stationed a garrison corps of 5,000 people in Baokang County, and Ningyuan's monkey army must first take Baokang County if they want to continue to advance.

Baokang County is an important transportation hub connecting Zhuxi County and Nanzhang County, and now the Condor Army is facing off in Pingli County and Zhuxi County, where the Northern Expedition Alliance is located.

Although Baokang County is not the only passage connecting Zhuxi County in the plain area, once Baokang County is lost, I believe that the Northern Expedition Alliance will not give up, so it has hesitated for a while about whether to capture Ningyuan in Baokang County.

Considering that the Flying Legion of the Condor Army needed a stable station, and the 300,000 monkeys also needed a hiding place that could hide at any time to save their lives, Ning Yuan finally decided to attack Baokang County.

When the monkey army successfully crossed the Shennongjia forest area, the more than 100,000 flying corps of the Condor Army stationed in the Sichuan Basin immediately took off and flew towards Baokang County after being notified.

After successfully reconciling with Ning Yuan and his party in the sky above the Shennongjia Forest Area, Ning Yuanqin led a 170,000 flying army and 200 golden-crowned griffins to Baokang County, and at the same time, a group of 10,000 ape soldiers who had previously infiltrated the Shennongjia Forest Area also accelerated towards Baokang County.

More than 100,000 flying legions can be described as overwhelming, far away, those Northern Expedition Alliance players stationed in Baokang County have already seen the black and oppressive dark clouds pressing from the west.

"It's not good, the flying legion of the Condor Empire has called, hurry up and send fast horses to deliver messages to other places, and the others hurry up and bring dry food and follow me into the mountain, fourth, you take someone to burn down the granary, and then go into the mountain to find us."

Seeing that the flying legion of the Condor Empire suddenly appeared to the west of Baokang County, the players of the Northern Expedition Alliance stationed in Baokang County immediately made the most correct response after a short shock.

However, Ning Yuan came prepared, how could he give them a chance to report the news?

As soon as a dozen fast horses galloped out of Baokang County, the knights on their bodies were cut off their horses by the Seraphic warriors who fell from the sky, and those Northern Expedition Alliance players who wanted to burn down the granary were also killed by the Seraphic warriors who landed around the granary.

Before Ning Yuan led the flying legion to Baokang County, nearly a thousand Seraphic soldiers had already completed the occupation of Baokang County.

Such a scene occurred not only in Baokang County, but also in all the strongholds between Baokang County and Nanzhang County.

As long as there are granaries near those strongholds, then there will be Seraph warriors descending from the sky and directly killing people and seizing the warehouse.

Although Nanzhang County is located in the central region of Hubei Province, it will not be much threatened until the outer defense line is breached, but after the Condor Empire occupied the Sichuan Basin, the Northern Expedition Alliance still stationed 20,000 elite elven ranger legions in Nanzhang County.

There is no way, the air power of the Condor Empire is too powerful.

Although the Hubei and Sichuan basins are separated by an almost impassable Daba Mountain, it is almost impossible for the Condor Air Force to attack Nanzhang County alone without army support.

However, as the real masters of the Hubei region, Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu still did not dare to take it lightly, and they arranged a certain number of garrisons in each of the backer counties that could enter the Jianghan Plain from the Daba Mountains, in order to prevent the Condor Air Force from taking it by surprise.

Because Nanzhang County is located in the central part of Hubei and is relatively close to the Xiangyang area, the number of garrisons here is still small, such as Yiling and Yichang, which are located at the east exit of the Yangtze River in Wushan, they have arranged heavy troops to defend.

Li Yufeng and the others also knew that if the elite of the Condor Air Force was exhausted, it would be impossible for the 20,000 Elven Ranger army to resist the attack of the Condor Air Force alone.

The real purpose of his deployment of these 20,000 elven ranger troops was actually to hold the county seat of Nanzhang and ensure that this transportation artery that could lead to Hanzhong would not be lost.

As for whether the Condor Air Force will make a detour into the Jianghan Plain from the side to cause sabotage, it is not something that Li Yufeng and the others can manage.

After the total annihilation of the flying legion of the Northern Expedition Alliance, they could no longer wrestle with the Condor Air Force in terms of air power.

Therefore, in order to deal with the possible harassment of the Condor Air Force, the defensive strategy formulated by Dongfang Ming and others was to concentrate all the food and materials in the city and take care of them in a unified manner, and abandon the villages and towns in the plain area.

If the Condor Air Force comes to harass them, then let them come, and when the number of harassed Condor Air Force is invincible, they will choose to avoid its edge and let the Condor Air Force sabotage it.

When there are not many harassing Condor Air Force, they will concentrate the air power within the Northern Expedition Alliance and wait for an opportunity to encircle and suppress the Condor Air Force that has entered the Hubei region to harass them.

Although the air power of the Condor Empire occupies an absolute advantage, it is also a great risk to go deep into the enemy's hinterland to fight cross-border without the support of the army, so Ning Yuan, out of caution, has not sent the Condor Air Force to harass the Hubei region sandwiched between Dabie Mountain and Daba Mountain.

As a result, after the Condor Air Force did not move for a long time, the people in Hubei gradually forgot about the Condor Air Force.

In addition, all players now know that the two ace flying knights of the Condor Empire are on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and the defenders are most afraid of the Silver Pegasus Knights, so gradually, those players who are responsible for guarding in the Hubei region have begun to relax.

In nature where the fittest survive, herbivores have to maintain a high level of attention at all times, because they are not qualified to slack off at all.

If slackening occurs, then they are likely to pay with their lives.

The relationship between the current Condor Empire and the Northern Expedition Alliance is like that between the predator and the preyed.

Although the predator of the Condor Empire has not made much movement, it has always been secretly watching every move of the Northern Expedition Alliance, as a predator, the Northern Expedition Alliance should always be vigilant, otherwise it will pay a heavy price.

When Ning Yuan led the Flying Legion to raid the Northern Expedition Alliance's defensive line between Baokang County and Nanzhang County, the defenders on this defensive line paid the price for their laxity.

The first is the vulnerability of the defenders of Baokang County, after discovering the invasion of the Condor Air Force, they did not have the slightest will to fight, under the surprise attack of the Seraphic Army, they did not even do a decent resistance and lost control of the entire Baokang County.

Nanzhang County is home to an army of 20,000 aboriginal elven rangers, so the performance there is much better.

After the granary in Nanzhang County was suddenly attacked by the Seraphic Army, although it was soon declared lost, under the organization of the Nanzhang County guard, an army of 5,000 aboriginal elf rangers soon launched a counterattack on the granary area.

In the face of the elven ranger army with an absolute advantage in numbers, the Seraphic army of the Condor Army that attacked the granary did not dare to stay at all, so the granary in Nanzhang County was quickly regained.

Just when the guards of Nanzhang County were glad that they had resisted the harassment of the Condor Army, an overwhelming dark cloud suddenly appeared in the sky west of the city, and their good fortune ended there.

After the Silver Pegasus Knights attacked, the elven ranger army stationed in Nanzhang County was immediately defeated.

There is no other reason, it is not that the elven ranger army is not elite enough, but that they are naturally restrained by the Silver Pegasus Knights.

When the Silver Pegasus Knights are free to shoot them at will, but they can't reach the Silver Pegasus Knights, there is no suspense in this battle.

In the end, all the Northern Expedition players in the city were killed, the 20,000-strong Elven Ranger army lost more than 3,000 people, and the others laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Condor Army.

At this point, the Condor Air Force led by Ning Yuan successfully occupied a bridgehead on the Jianghan Plain, and at this time, everything was ready, just waiting for the monkeys.