Looking at the solemn and even humble request of the captain of the multi-headed lizard knight, the teammates couldn't help but have a sneer, all along, in their minds, several races in the underground world, whether it is the dungeon force, the undead or the hell, are synonymous with insidious, despicable, and even conspiracy, but at this moment they are in this captain's body, they feel a trace of shock, although the mount multi-headed lizard next to him always makes people feel a little weird, but this is a real warrior, A warrior who is ready to fight for his people and comrades!

It was with this psychological understanding that both parties were much more frank in the following conversation, and while Li Ran swore that he would do his best to build his town-level stronghold, the captain of the multi-headed lizard knight finally showed a knowing smile.

It wasn't until noon the next day that Li Ran led his troops out of the stronghold under the eyes of all the other party's warriors, and there were no casualties in this battle because of the retreat of the opponent's dark warlock leader, especially under the rescue of the army priest, the casualties this time were almost negligible.

As for the harvest this time, in addition to the two truckloads of materials and equipment, there are more than 300 dark elf warriors and arachnoid elves, and there are also 13 dark elf warlocks, all of which are high-level troops, including the relatively rare magic class dark elf warlocks, probably because of the cruel living environment here, through chatting with the captain of the multi-headed lizard knight, Li Ran also knew at this time that they might need to face the dark creatures they might need to face here for a period of time in the future, and the lowest ones were this standard.

"No wonder the task given to us by the military and political lord is to eliminate 10,000 high-level creatures in the dark forest, if we are asked to find a middle-level class, it is really difficult to find" The teammates who also learned the news couldn't help but feel a little emotional, at this time Zhang Debiao looked at the hundreds of prisoners of war in front of him and couldn't help but say.

The march was inevitably a bit dull. Hearing Zhang Debiao say this at this time, Li Ranen said: "This can be regarded as an indirect reminder to us." Although we have completed the course of our mission well in the past few days, we must not relax our vigilance. Especially now that we're not only exposed, but also completely offended the dark castle, so we need to be even more careful."

What Li Ran said, in fact, all the teammates had already taken it into account from the beginning of the rescue, and when they heard Li Ran remind them again, they all nodded secretly.

"Zhang Debiao, when we return to the stronghold, you can go to Banoga City with Lord Doric, Team Zhou is almost arriving with the third batch of troops and supplies. You ask him to join the troops with Cai Chang, and then in addition to all the supplies, you bring Histan and the rest of the scouts over," Li Ran thought for a while and suddenly said.

Knowing that Li Ran wanted to strengthen the reconnaissance ability around the stronghold, Zhang Debiao nodded and asked, "What about the other troops brought by the Zhou team this time?" Is there anything I need to bring along?"

Li Ran thought for a moment and looked at him and said, "In this way, you can also bring the long-range troops this time, including all the fifty archmages, and let the Phantom Ice Nan bring five hundred silverback demon wolves over, when the scouts are insufficient, they can also serve as a guard mission."

After listening to Li Ran's words. Zhang Debiao immediately nodded to show that he understood, and after returning to the stronghold, he and Doric rushed to Banoga City with a team of cavalry before it was dark.

Facts proved that Li Ran's worries were correct, and only a few days passed. From time to time, information about the discovery of the opponent's dark creature scouts came from the scouts, and as this information accumulated more and more, Li Ran and all his teammates had a feeling that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings.

Fortunately, this time has passed. With more than 2,000 living residents who have mastered the rudimentary creature building under construction, the defense structure of this stronghold has basically taken shape. The walls have also been strengthened several times.

Looking at the city wall that could accommodate two slingers walking side by side, Li Ran breathed a sigh of relief. So when the scout leader Histan suddenly stood in front of him the next day and reported to him that a large number of dark creatures had been found more than thirty miles from the stronghold, he would not panic too much.

"Can you determine the approximate number of opposing troops?" Li Ran said with a sigh.

It seemed that he had been prepared, and at this time, the top-level scout leader nodded and replied: "Lord, after reconnaissance, the number of opponents is about four thousand, and the number of dark elf warriors and arachnoid elves is basically the same, and there are hundreds of dark elf warlocks."

"It seems that it is really possible that those guys last time" After knowing that the number of enemies had not reached a dangerous level, Li Ran smiled and said to his teammates beside him.

At this time, the teammates who were also relieved looked at each other and smiled, Zhang Debiao said with a smile: "These dark creatures are really small-bellied, and they have only come to take revenge in a few days, but if she thinks that she can destroy us in this way, it will be a miscalculation, and this time they will definitely have no return."

Hearing Zhang Debiao say this, all the teammates couldn't help but smile, the reason why they were so confident was that they were used to this kind of war involving thousands of people, mainly because of the troops stationed in the stronghold at this time.

As Xia Houben and Zhou Xun escorted the convoy twice and brought a large number of construction materials, they were accompanied by two or three thousand troops, and the number of troops stationed in the stronghold at this time exceeded eight thousand.

Among them, 4,000 minotaur warriors and tungsten steel war bears were the first batch of main combat troops brought by Li Ran, and there were also 500 Niusgut warriors and 1,000 elven archers, plus the 500 undead cavalry of Shadow Blade, which reached 6,000 people.

In addition, Xia Houben and Zhou Xun brought 1,500 ranged troops these two times, plus 500 silverback demon wolves and some ballista brutes, such a force is by no means something that the opponent's 4,000 or so dark creatures can regret, not to mention that now that the defensive structure has basically taken shape, they won't care about these guys.

Although he obviously had an advantage, there were still some things to do, and while asking Xi Qitan to continue to send scouts to investigate, Li Ran thought about it and wrote a letter, asking the former to immediately hand it over to the captain of the multi-headed lizard before.

"Brother Ran, you don't want the captain to come over and help, we can deal with this dark creature," Zhang Debiao continued to ask.

Li Ran nodded and said: "With our current situation, it is indeed no problem to defeat these attacking dark creatures, but if the performance is too public, I am afraid that it will attract the attention of that dark castle, so I will let Histan inform the captain and ask him to find an opportunity to ambush behind." Although we will have less loot this way, the defeated leader of the other side will definitely say that he was defeated by the front and back of the two teams when he returns, so that we can hide some of our forces and reduce the possibility of being targeted by the Dark Castle, and I also hope that through this cooperation with the captain of the multi-headed lizard, we can strengthen our unwritten strategic alliance and add some leverage to the dangers we may encounter in the future" (to be continued.) )