Not long after all this work was done, the vanguard troops who rushed back to rescue Shao had arrived, and these warriors couldn't help but be a little flustered when they saw that the territory was occupied, Li Ran saw that there were only harpies and mid-level dark elf warriors in the vanguard troops, so naturally they would not be polite, and led many elven archers, minotaur warriors and leopard warriors out of the city to meet them, killing them and scattering and fleeing.

At this time, Zhou Xun and the others also took advantage of this attack, and the Phantom Ice Nan led thirty frost mastiffs to the back of these dungeon troops, and wiped out all these troops, although a few hawks escaped from the battlefield, Li Ran let Ian Hilder lead the high-level vampires to chase after them, and I believe that they could not escape from their palms.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Ran led the team back to the village and town again to rest, taking advantage of the absence of the vampire earl, let a few teammates hide some loot at the same time, and sent scouts to find out the news.

As expected, Ian Held, leading his high-ranking vampire troops, quickly caught up with the fleeing Harpys and wiped them all out.

At this time, Li Ran had an idea, and he had the idea of follow-up reinforcements, and set up an ambush outside the city, but he waited until the next morning, maybe the news was revealed, and the other party's reinforcements still did not come back. Li Ran had no choice but to give up and withdraw the soldiers who were lying in ambush outside the city.

After medical assistance, Wu Tongtong secretly reported the list that Li Ran not only lost more than fifty minotaur warriors in this battle, but also suffered heavy casualties among middle-level elven archers and mages, especially elven archers, who suffered more than 100 casualties in order to control the wall at the beginning, and there were no big casualties among other troops.

As for the captives, because the use is a decapitation operation, although the danger is a little greater, the corresponding gain is also much greater. There are more than 1,500 low-level cave people alone, more than 170 harpys, 235 mid-level dark elf warriors, 78 Medusa archers, 192 minotaurs and 43 dark elf witches in high-level troops. The Dark Elf Knights are up to 72 people.

In addition, in terms of materials, due to the urgency of time, there is no detailed inventory, and it is known that there are a large number of refined iron ores and famous crystals, as well as a lot of mercury and sulfur. The preliminary inventory of gold coins was about 70,000, and at that time, in order not to attract the attention of the vampire count, Wu Tongtong, who received Li Ran's reminder, put them into his storage space for safekeeping as soon as possible, and at the same time put some valuables in them. and hid high-ranking captives.

After all this was dealt with, Li Ran summoned everyone and briefly told the vampire count Ian Helder about the losses and gains this time. Of course, with the addition of water, his own casualties were doubled, but the benefits were less than half, and the gold coins were only a few thousand.

But the vampire count obviously didn't care about this, he was able to destroy the dungeon force in a village and town, and his life was finally saved, and after chatting a few words, he rushed back on the grounds that he would go back and report the results of the battle to the Grand Duke Rhaenys and try to apply for some funds for Li Ran.

At this moment, he looked at this underground city village and town, which was more than twice as large as his territory. Li Ran almost had the urge to move the surface territory over, but after thinking about it, he gave up. In addition to having two powerful enemies here, he is still used to developing on the surface, and now this territory can only be a stronghold for him to compete for resources.

So early the next morning, he asked Zhou Xun and others to pick up Morga for a while, after all, after the war, many things need to be dealt with by him. At the same time, he also brought back a lot of important materials, including all the captured high-level troops, as well as a large amount of mineral raw materials.

After nearly two weeks of back and forth, the old village chief Morga finally put everything in order, and at this time there were thousands of cavemen in the territory. Only the Harpies and Natives were left behind, and the rest were all transported back to the surface realm.

At this time, the remaining warriors were all replaced by Li Ran's previous team, nearly two hundred minotaurs, one hundred Modo warriors and two hundred leopard warriors, and about three hundred middle-level elven archers and mages were left. The Giant Warriors also left 50 people. In addition, there are several teammates with their troops,

In addition, the villagers and dwarves who came the most during this time, a total of nearly 1,500 people, worked hard to build and exploit several nearby mines. At this moment, the scale of the stronghold was initially formed.

At this moment, Li Ran has three territories, one of which is also a town-level territory, in addition to thousands of people to build a surface territory, there are also five mines, more than 2,000 residents are mining day and night, including two refined iron mines, a tungsten steel mine, a crystal mine and a sulfur mine.

Ten days later, the vampire count Ian Helder returned to the territory, and after expressing his satisfaction with Li Ran's performance, he even handed over the 50,000 gold gold compensation given by the Grand Duke of Rhaenys to Li Ran, much to the latter's delight.

Seeing everyone's expressions of seeing money, Ian Helde couldn't help but despise it in his heart, it was really a group of dirt buns who had never seen the world, and they could be ecstatic with just tens of thousands of gold coins, and when you had no use value, Archduke Rhaenys would naturally take back the principal with interest, and then you would naturally look good.

In the ensuing chat, the vampire count who finally got rid of the threat of being killed by the angry Grand Duke at any time, although his demeanor was still very elegant, but his tone was not as modest as before, and after saying the goal of the next cooperation, he walked away in a very chic manner accompanied by two high-level vampires.

Looking at the back of the departing vampire count, Li Ran, who was still ecstatic about receiving the gold coin, was quietly silent, the smile on his face slowly turned into a calm like water, and his eyes revealed an inexplicable cold light.

From the chat just now, Li Ran knew that there were eleven villages and towns in this known underground world, including six for the undead clan and five for the dungeon forces. The Grand Duke of Rhaenys of the Undead and Queen Sonaya of the Dungeon Force are each stationed in a real city, although the scale of this city is not as large as the third-order city like Edoron City that has been seen before, but the strength of the high-level troops is also more than 5,000 people. Combined with their scattered forces, the overall strength is not weak.

Looking at his teammates and Doric and the others, Li Ran silently calculated how he could survive between the two.

Through the previous battle, I believe that the information that my side came to the underground world is already known to Queen Sonaya.

But in the past half a month, the dungeon forces have not come to retaliate, on the one hand, it may be because Ian Helder said before because he is afraid of Archduke Rhaenys, and secondly, it may also be secretly observing his own strength. Once he reveals his flaws, I believe that the dungeon forces where Queen Sonaya is located will definitely pounce on him, and then I am afraid that the Grand Duke of Rhaenys will not really come to protect himself at all if he cannot ensure victory, and will even take his two territories first.

It seems that everything has to be relied on by oneself, in front of two powerful forces, although they can't win, then turn themselves into a piece of iron, or a hard bone, and let them know that whoever comes and wants to eat him will be knocked out of his teeth. In this way, these two territories can be firmly occupied, so as to obtain abundant resources for development.

Thinking of this, Li Ran decided not to keep his eyes on the ground, and quickly expanded his army under the premise of ensuring the development of the territory.

At the same time, Li Ran also asked Doric to return to the capital as soon as possible to dredge up, so that they could agree to upgrade their village-level territory to town-level territory, so that he could not only expand and expand his army in the name of righteousness, but also buy some elite troops in the capital.

Without further ado, after some discussion, all the teammates went on the road one after another, and Li Ran gritted his teeth and handed over Doric 100,000 gold coins, which is more than half of the funds that the territory can take out now, and I hope he will complete this matter as soon as possible.

As one of the main core people of the territory, Doric knows Li Ran's current situation, although it seems that the development is good, but because of the rapid development, many links in the territory are not stable, and now between the underground world and the two major forces, it can be said that there is a crisis of dancing with the devil, and if it is not done well, even the surface territory will be destroyed, so at this time, seeing Li Ran's cautious entrustment, he couldn't help but nod heavily. (To be continued.) )