And in the direction of seeing the path of this duke's army, those city lords and lords along the way naturally knew the goal of this lord in their hearts, and at this time they sent a large amount of armaments, food and grass to show their goodwill, and even some city lords took the initiative to petition, asking to bring their soldiers to join his legion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As for those who want to go with him, Li Ran will use this to danger, he doesn't know what the result will be, he doesn't want to drag them down and politely declines, only Count Giodano, who has long been his follower, Li Ran saw that he was resolute, so he had to take him and his three thousand swamp clan soldiers and horses with him.

This person fought with Li Ran in the battle of Elisimo two years ago, Li Ran was still very sure of his ability, seeing that his city was broken by the army of the Duke of Maidnaqi and suffered heavy losses, after the victory, Li Ran also expressed his willingness to provide him with materials to rebuild the city, and specially selected a lot of good troops for him among the captured troops.

However, the heroic count of the swamp tribe was reluctant to rebuild the city in its place, and led his people and subordinates to become Li Ran's followers, hoping that he would help him kill Mednaqi.

After investigation, Li Ran learned that this person made this decision not only because his friend Count Klich was killed, but also because his wife, when she was hiding from the army of the Duke of Maidnaqi, she and her clansmen escaped because of an ambush on the way, and finally died along with the child in his womb, so he had no will to rebuild the city in situ, so he simply ran to Li Ran.

Seeing that this person was so persistent, Li Ran finally reluctantly agreed to him, and arranged him to continue to be the city lord in a medium-sized city he had captured before, and since then, this person is still an earl city lord of the empire on the surface, but in fact, in private, everyone knows that he is actually a person from the Duke of Terris.

However, for this person, Li Randao did not treat him badly, not only sent people to help him take over this medium-sized city in the shortest possible time, but also gave a lot of funding in materials, so that in just one or two years, the strength of the city was even stronger than before, and the number of troops above the high-level alone reached more than 50,000, becoming a real earl of strength.

After more than ten days of traveling, Li Ran's army finally arrived near the dark forest, and after rejecting the invitations of several city lords, he directly led his troops into a medium-sized city.

It was once a city of viscounts, the lord of which was a follower of Sells, who followed Sells into the Dark Forest after his rebellion, and although there were still some natives and warriors who did not want to leave, it was actually a borderless city.

If it was the bandits who came like before, the local residents and some warriors here would definitely resist in order to protect their homeland, but when they found out that it was the tens of thousands of troops of the imperial duke who came at this time, those warriors had to immediately open the city gates.

Looking at the deserted scene in front of them, the residents looked nervously at their army through their own windows, except for one or two stray children competing with wild dogs from time to time, there was a bleak scene along the way, and Li Ran also sighed slightly.

After taking out some of the food sent by those city lords on this road and distributing it, Li Ran lived directly in the city lord's mansion here, and after a few days of rest, he left behind about 20,000 material support personnel and high-level soldiers, and then the streamlined army entered the dark forest that morning.

Because of the preparation in advance, this time it was an experienced mercenary team that led the way, the captain of which was a barbarian warrior, and the more than 30 teammates of various clans below were also quite extraordinary.

And being able to serve a duke of the empire was perhaps the biggest business they had ever received in decades, and in order to fulfill this commission, they had obviously prepared their homework early, and as the army began to march, they also divided into several teams to lead the way.

Of course, as a commander, Li Ran would definitely not hand over all the actions of the army to these mercenaries so hastily, and in the case of already knowing the approximate location of Sells, the scout leader Histan also left the large army with his men, and around the march of the army, there were many high elves.

The army of 45,000 people, as well as the logistics support force of nearly 20,000 people, is like a winding dragon in the dark forest, heading towards the goal, although there will be some attacks from time to time on the way, but it is mostly the instinct of the creatures here, coupled with the strength of Li Ran's expedition this time, it did not have much impact on the army, only some naturally formed mire and poisonous fog, but it is the key to the most troublesome army.

Fortunately, with this experienced mercenary team leading the way, it saved them a lot of trouble, and Li Ran also brought Lydia and Kurt this time, one of these two is a dark elf warlock with good tactical ideas, and the other is the leader of the minotaur, who were both native creatures of the dark forest before, and they are very familiar with the environment here, so in the first half of the journey, they did not encounter much threat.

But as they went deeper into the dark forest, Li Ran and the others also realized the danger here, those ferocious and dangerous native creatures, even in the face of such a large legion, dared to attack, from time to time there were soldiers killed or dragged away, especially after camping at night, sometimes there were even groups of dark creatures sneaking up on their camp, causing a lot of casualties, and the highest day even wounded nearly seven hundred.

For this kind of thing, these mercenaries have no good way at this time, after all, a legion of tens of thousands of people, just marching and camping for several kilometers, it is really difficult to prevent these dangerous creatures, and these guys see that there is an opportunity, and the number and scale of their sneak attacks are also increasing, it can be said that if it weren't for the troops brought by Li Ran this time are all above the top rank, this kind of defense will definitely be greater.

But this is obviously not a long-term solution, if they continue to suffer casualties like this, they may not reach the castle of Sells, and their side will have no troops available.

If Li Ran was placed in the past, maybe there was nothing he could do about it, but at this time, his biggest advantage was the high military strength, since the creatures here were so fierce and tricky, then he would return his body with his human way, when more than a hundred Sphinx giant wolves above the legendary level, including the strange beast, the floating cloud floating leopard and other creatures appeared in the camp, those native creatures of the dark forest suffered.

Looking at these terrible creatures, dragging back several creature corpses from time to time, the most powerful of which even reached the legendary level, these warriors were a little scared at first, but finally got acquainted with each other, and every time they saw them come back, they were full of joy, and they all took out the food they were reluctant to eat and fed them, because they knew very well that every creature they killed could be the murderer of themselves or their companions.

I didn't expect this duke to have such a terrifying biological legion, at this time, these mercenaries were amazed, but they found that their role was getting smaller and smaller, through the observation of this time, the other party was obviously very clear about their target location, and there were high-level silver moon patrols far above them in front of them, including the left and right of the army.

These high-level silver moon patrols with the lowest strength are at the legendary level all over the area of dozens of kilometers around the army, and the alarm will be sounded whenever there is a disturbance, and the army will then enter a state of alert, and those terrible monsters are killing the surrounding creatures day and night, if there is a biological race, this duke's army will immediately divide more or less elite troops according to the situation to encircle and suppress, these exposed biological races have lost the advantages of terrain and environment, and they are powerless in front of these steel divisions.

And at the same time as Li Ran's army was acting, in a dark castle more than three hundred miles away, several people were standing in front of a magic sand table, silently watching the changes on it.

Duke Sells doesn't like to be disturbed when he thinks about problems, and there was an adjutant who had to express his opinion when he was considering a problem because of Duke Sells's trust, and was finally killed by him directly, which is something that everyone knows, so at this moment, except for the soft chanting of the magician, the entire conference hall is also very quiet.

After a long time, Duke Sells looked up at these people and said: "I believe what was demonstrated just now, you have all seen it, this is still this afternoon, I believe that at this time, the army of this Duke of Terres is less than three hundred miles away from us, do you have any opinions?" ”

Hearing Duke Sells' inquiry, several people present gasped loudly at this time, and one of them said disdainfully: "Their soldiers are only more than 40,000 people, and now there are so many wounded, we are still afraid of him, so we will let him stay here forever when he comes."

However, at this time, a man in a robe beside him shook his head and said: "I think it's better to be careful, although I don't know if he has subdued that Moluga King, but after all, this is a person with dozens of epic creatures, especially those cloud giants, who are very strong in siege battles."

Hearing him say this, the man just now said with some indifference: "Isn't it the cloud giant?" Why do we use so many star-breaking crossbows, even the King of Moluga can be leveled at the beginning, and we are still afraid of these cloud giants, and besides, we still have more than 100,000 elite soldiers on our side, and we are afraid that he will come from afar with only 40,000 people? ”

Hearing him say this, not only did the middle-aged man in the robe just now not speak, but even the others nodded slightly, although the enemy this time was the famous Duke of Terreth in the Empire, they were still quite confident in defending this place. (To be continued.) )