Looking up at the lord to whom he was loyal at this time, Doric couldn't help but nod solemnly.

However, all this plan was disrupted by a message from the scouts at noon, from which a group of arachnoid elves had surrounded and attacked the stronghold guarded by the multi-headed lizard knight in front of them, who had now sent him a distress signal.

At this moment, for Li Ran, what he is facing is nothing more than a matter of saving or not saving, if he is saved, not only will he be in danger, but the stronghold he is building will also be discovered by the other party, and the risk in the next mission will increase. Although it is reasonable not to save it, after all, the task given to him by the empire is only to build a territory, but no one can say whether it will have an impact on the completion rate of the task.

But the current situation is urgent, and it is definitely not the time to sit down and discuss carefully, so after Li Ran thought about it for a while, he immediately issued an order to gather troops.

After sending a cavalry to tell the news to the stronghold in the rear, it took less than half an hour for Li Ran to personally lead a force of 3,000 people to the rescue.

As the information of the scouts in front continued to come, Li Ran knew that the number of these arachnified elves was about more than 3,000, and in addition to these arachnoid elves, there were thousands of high-level dark elf warriors and a small number of dark elf warlocks.

In the case of a rapid march, Li Ran rushed to the battlefield in about two hours, and after sending a signal to the personnel in the stronghold, Li Ran let the trumpeter blow the horn after a brief rest for a few minutes.

And with the sound of the horn, the five hundred undead cavalry led by the Shadow Blade rushed to the front, followed by the 1,500 high-level war bears led by Xia Houben.

The dark elves and spider elves who were about to take the stronghold obviously didn't expect the other party's reinforcements to arrive so quickly. The leader of the other party, a top-ranking female dark elf warlock, wanted to transfer troops back from the battlefield to contain them after seeing the undead cavalry who rushed over without saying a word.

However, when she saw more than a thousand high-level war bears rushing over the next moment, she quickly lost confidence, not to mention that there were obviously thousands of minotaurs and a group of strange-looking guys beside the leader of the reinforcements in the distance, so she was unwilling to scream. An order to retreat was given.

I didn't expect this dark elf warlock leader to be so decisive, which made Li Ran, who originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to eliminate them by attacking them from two sides, a little unexpected, plus these dark elves and spider elves were originally native creatures of the dark forest, so except for the beginning, the pursuit all the way had little effect, and only a few hundred wounded prisoners of war were captured.

"I didn't expect the troops here to be so good at fighting, and they could escape without hesitation in the face of danger, and at the same time, the troops in charge of the palace could also willingly resist to the death, even if they were enemies. But it's really admirable" After meeting with the captain of the other party's stronghold, Li Ran didn't wait for the other party to open his mouth to thank him, and first sighed.

Hearing Li Ran's words, the multi-headed lizard knight, who was also more than two meters tall after getting off the mount, couldn't help but nod secretly, to be able to praise the enemy like this, this lord's heart is not small, no wonder he can rush to the rescue at the first time.

So at this time, he clenched his fists and said with a smile: "This is a place of long-term war, as a leader. If the leader of the dark warlocks hadn't been able to do this, he wouldn't have lived until now, and he didn't know a neighbor was here until a few days ago. I didn't expect that I owe a life-saving grace after only a few days, I really don't know if I should be happy or ashamed, but here I still want to express my deep gratitude to you on behalf of my people."

Seeing the other party bending down and saluting, Li Ran hurriedly stepped forward and pulled him with a smile and said, "Even if you said that we are neighbors, it is also appropriate to take care of each other, not to mention that although you and I are meeting for the first time." But anyway, they are all people of the empire, if you are too polite, you will see the outside, I am also a newcomer, and I hope you can give me more guidance in the future."

Seeing that this lord has a gentle attitude, he is not arrogant. The words instantly shortened the distance between each other, and the captain of the multi-headed lizard knight couldn't help nodding his head again and again while admiring it, and after letting his own soldiers bring a glass of victory wine to Li Ran, he personally led the way and invited Li Ran and the team into the stronghold.

In the following chat, as a leader of the multi-headed lizard knights, this captain with the title of lord undoubtedly had the straightforwardness of a warrior, although he squeaked and concealed something in some places, but still revealed a lot of information that Li Ran did not know.

For example, there is a dark castle ruled by dark creatures about a hundred kilometers in front of them, and after so many years, its scale has almost reached the standard of the city, just because his master, Lord Benster's harpy troops, regularly reconnoitre, for fear that Lord Earl will seize the opportunity to take them to the nest, so he does not dare to send too many troops every time, including the dark elves and arachnoid elves who attacked him this time, obviously from there.

And on the right side of his stronghold, a little farther away than the previous dark castle, there is a real decay land, where there is an undead medium-sized city, originally according to this situation, they did not dare to establish a stronghold here, but because in the last imperial counterattack, Duke Sells's angel legion killed the death lord of the undead medium-sized city, so they arranged these defensive strongholds around it.

"According to what you said, then the task I received is actually to control the large stronghold built by this medium-sized undead city" Hearing this, Li Ran couldn't help but say with a sigh.

Because he had already passed through Doric, who had come to visit, he knew the purpose of Li Ran's trip, and at this time, the captain of the multi-headed lizard knight said with a sigh of gratitude: "It should be so, you can also see that our stronghold is poorly equipped, it has been abandoned for a long time before, and now it is just barely used, if there is a complete system of defensive buildings, if I just met those guys just now, I don't need to ask for help."

Speaking of this, the captain of the multi-headed lizard knight of the dungeon force suddenly stood up and solemnly saluted Li Ran and said: "If this is the case, I also hope that you can build the stronghold there as well as possible, so that no matter whether I am assigned in the future or not, it can also make our people have a greater hope of survival in the war, of course, I am by no means afraid of dying in battle, but I don't want to see my clansmen and comrades-in-arms die worthless due to these objective reasons" (to be continued.) )