Fortunately, the elite soldiers who came over this time were all in the city, with many years of war experience, as Li Ran issued the order to the generals at all levels, under the leadership of their own commanders, these soldiers immediately took corresponding defensive measures, and at the same time, some of the soldiers began the first step of the trial counterattack, but the crossbow arrows shot from time to time in the dense forests on both sides made them suffer heavy casualties. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Seeing all this, Li Ran also acted quickly, instead of being surrounded and killed like this, after ordering Giodano to support the front with his swamp troops, he personally led the elite army to rush to the right side.

When the Minotaur Totem warrior in front killed the first Blood Jungle Troll, Li Ran knew that these were Duke Sells' troops, and considering the strong ability of these legendary troops in the jungle, Li Ran immediately sent some Ubasura from behind to meet them.

Although they had the advantage of the terrain and the number of troops ambushed here reached nearly 10,000, among which the hundreds of jungle trolls had reached the legendary level, they still failed to stop the assault of Li Ran's elite soldiers, and after leaving behind hundreds of corpses, the others also quickly chose to retreat, and for fear that there would be an ambush behind, Li Ran did not continue to pursue.

After nearly two hours of fighting, Li Ran's side finally repelled the enemy, but in addition to Liao Liao's hundreds of prisoners, they lost a lot of troops in this battle, the most important thing is that this time the Duke of Sells's sneak attack troops, whether it is a senior soldier or those crossbow archers, all the weapons are mostly smeared with poison, especially those crossbow archers, although they do not have the ability to kill an arrow, but many soldiers were seriously injured and poisoned, and the number of wounded accounted for almost one-third of the whole army for a time.

Looking at the battlefield full of screams, Li Ran frowned slightly, fortunately, there were hundreds of winged snake people in the troops who traveled this time, and their average strength was above the legendary level, and their healing ability was even more powerful, otherwise with only those elven priests, maybe the number of casualties would continue to increase.

"These damn mercenaries, it turns out that they are Sells' people"

"It's a good calculation to lure us to the mutant swamp giants and arrange ambushes on both sides."

"yes, and vile poison, what a sinister guy"

Although some soldiers were still cursing, and some were still burying their dead comrades, only an hour later, Li Ran gave the order to march quickly, and it was not until late in the evening that he came to a relatively wide area, and Li Ran ordered the whole army to rest and recuperate.

In one day, not only did they experience several hours of fighting, but then they traveled dozens of miles all the way, and at this time these soldiers were also exhausted, and before the logistics personnel could prop up their tents, some of them also fell to the ground.

After arranging the night patrol personnel, Li Ran personally investigated these soldiers, and after discovering that nearly 3,000 soldiers could not recover in a short period of time because they were seriously injured or poisoned, and nearly 10,000 others were more or less injured, Li Ran also frowned slightly.

In order to prevent those injured soldiers from aggravating their injuries due to fatigue, in the next two days, Li Ran chose to rest in place, and while allowing these soldiers to recover, he also sent people to re-investigate the front, because the thousands of mutated swamp giants before had indeed taught him a big lesson.

Although these guys except for a few leaders, the highest is only the strength of the super-level troops, but once they are dragged into the swamp, even the legendary troops are difficult to spare, to say that the thousands of people who were killed and injured in the last battle, most of them were done by these mutant swamp giants, and there are even some legendary ranks that have also suffered casualties because of this.

"Li Ran, don't you go down and sleep for a while" That night, Zhao Lanlan secretly ran to the camp, and after seeing that Li Ran was still there, she took out a bottle of drink from Tell City from behind her and handed it over.

Looking up and seeing that it was her, Li Ran smiled slightly and said, "It seems that you have hidden everything in your storage space."

In this regard, Zhao Lanlan smiled and said: "Otherwise, you can drink such a delicious juice now, let me tell you the truth, not only do I hide the food, but I also cheated several high-grade ice magic crystals from the people of Morga, do you feel a little cold when you drink it?" ”

After tasting it, he found that there was really a refreshing coolness, which lifted his spirits, Li Ran couldn't help but smile and said: "It seems that you will still enjoy it, but I have to take a good look at the people of Morga when I go back, I let him manage the warehouse, how can he let people take such a valuable magic crystal?" ”

Knowing that he was teasing himself, Zhao Lanlan said indifferently: "That's not the Morga man you are looking for is smart, you can see that the relationship between the two of us is not ordinary, so don't you stammer me as soon as possible."

However, as soon as she said this, she found that something was wrong, and when she heard Li Ran ask with a smile, what is our relationship, her face turned red all of a sudden, but her nature made her still pretend not to care, but this expression made Li Ran laugh again.

"Don't worry, it's okay for me, I'm just waiting for Histein's information" Knowing Zhao Lanlan's intentions, he wanted to deliberately make him happy, Li Ran looked at her and said with a slight smile.

And knowing that her little caution would definitely not be hidden here in Li Ran, Zhao Lanlan also pretended to be stupid and smiled, but the next moment she hugged Li Ran's right arm, and the little bird leaned forward like a human, at this moment she was dignified and gentle, and she was not eccentric at all.

But what was depressing was that just when she was very happy to find that Li Ran's right arm had hugged her into her arms, as two female warriors suddenly appeared, looking at the door vigilantly, the temperature in the camp also dropped sharply in an instant, and the illusory figure of the war banshee Lilacia appeared in the high altitude of the camp.

But then, when several guards at the door came, they disappeared again, and after a while, Zhao Lanlan saw Histen, the leader of the scouts, covered in blood, running over.

When he learned that the blood was not from this person, but from some of the fierce beasts he had killed on the way, Li Ran was also much relieved and asked about the results of the investigation he led the team.

Hearing the city lord's inquiry, at this time, the scout leader who had reached the strength of the super-level army immediately bowed down and said: "Report to your lordship, it has been preliminarily found that the castle of Cessis is still more than one hundred and seventy miles away from us, and it is already on alert, except for three ethnic groups on the way, no other threats have been found for the time being, it is worth noting that there is a rare moss troll territory among them, which is also located on the edge of the swamp, we may have to bypass it, if we want to pass directly, we need to prepare troops and fire mages first."

Li Ran nodded, and after asking him to point out the three ethnic territories on the map, he asked him to go down to wash and rest.

However, at this time, the scout leader spoke again: "Although the other party is fully guarded, we have not been able to find out the specific troops, but I have found a lot of dark elves and barbarian warriors in the guard, I suspect that there must be a local army among them, and there should be a lot of them, and seeing that they are wearing standard armor, I suspect that Duke Sells has already deployed troops here."

Li Ran didn't feel too surprised by this, as a duke who has been guarding here for decades, he dared to openly confront the empire here, it is impossible to say that there are no cats in it, and this is nothing more than hiding some strength.

But when he saw the scout leader at his next glance and found that he seemed to have something to say, Li Ran couldn't help but be a little curious.

"What's the matter, is there anything else?" Li Ran asked.

Bowing slightly, the scout leader spoke, "One more thing, after observing this stronghold and climbing a tall tree nearby, I noticed that the inner city of this stronghold seems strange."

At this time, even Zhao Lanlan was a little curious and asked, "What's so strange about the inner city?" ”

Looking at Li Ran, Hisstein replied: "It stands to reason that the materials of the territory should be similar, the outer walls and buildings of this stronghold are mixed with ordinary stone and mud to form a common blue-gray color, but the entire inner city is light purple, some similar to the smell of metal, I don't know if it's my feeling problem, but I always feel that something is wrong, and in my opinion, whether it is the city wall or the castle with the largest area, its architectural style is also obviously different from that of the outer city."

Hearing this, Li Ran and Zhao Lanlan, who were present at this time, also understood what he meant, especially in the former, and under curiosity, he even drew the shape of the inner city.

Although Hisstein, who is only good at hunting and scouting, is obviously not good at drawing, but judging from the sketches he draws, Li Ran also saw some clues, this inner city is indeed not very similar to the external buildings, because it has an obvious elven architectural style, and this style is somewhat similar to Li Ran's high elf tribes in the Sunset Mountains.

And after Li Ran expressed his opinion, Zhao Lanlan also spoke: "Then this may have been the territory of a high elf before, but with the more troops stationed here, the outer city may be built by other races or Duke Sells."

Originally, this matter was settled, as a scout leader, Histan just wanted to report the original text he had detected to Li Ran, the city lord, and Li Ran also agreed with Zhao Lanlan's opinion.

However, when he told his teammates the results of Hisstein's reconnaissance the next day, after Li Ran returned from the Sunset Mountain Range, the captain of the High Elf guard assigned to Zhang Juan accidentally saw this sketch, and exclaimed in surprise after hearing Li Ran casually say that the inner city was lilac. (To be continued.) )