However, what Li Ran didn't expect was that such an arrangement actually caused a strong counterattack from this group of tomahawk birds, and they actually gathered more than thousands of them to attack the planting area, which not only caused nearly thirty percent of the crops in the territory, but also caused casualties among more than 200 elven archers and a large number of gargoyles.

Looking at the information reported by the old village chief Morga, Li Ran couldn't help frowning, thought for a long time and asked, "How did you deal with these tomahawk birds here before?" ”

Seeing that the lord was a little angry, the old village chief Morga hurriedly said: "Maybe because of the small size of our territory, we have never attracted their attention, although we are sometimes attacked by them, but most of them are just passing by, and at most we only lose dozens of cattle and sheep, and nothing like this has ever happened."

After listening to the words of the old village chief Morga, Li Ran thought for a long time and still had no good way, at this time Zhang Debiao on the side suddenly said: "My hometown is in the countryside, whenever spring and summer alternate, crops will also be harmed by small birds, people habitually make up some straw men to scare them, but if the birds come particularly often in a certain place, then there must be a large number of suitable places for nesting nearby, although the birds at home are different from these tomahawk birds in the third world that are about the same height as giants, but I think their habits should be similar, Can we find out if there are any of their nests nearby, and then just serve it?"

A sentence that woke up the dreamer, Li Ran couldn't help patting his head at this time, his head hurt, his feet hurt his feet, he was really stupid, although these tomahawk birds occupied air supremacy, he just had to find their nests and force them to fight head-on.

nodded at Zhang Debiao. Li Ran hurriedly handed over these matters to the scout leader Hisstein, and ordered him to take the dozen or so horned eagle beasts left in the territory to find the nest of these tomahawk birds as soon as possible.

Sure enough. After several rounds of sneak attacks from Tomahawks, the returning Scout leader Hisstein reported finding the creatures' lair. The location is on a peak in the Leices Mountains, not far from the elven territory.

When he knew that the number of these tomahawk birds was more than two thousand, Li Ran couldn't help but nod and finally knew why they were able to dispatch more than a thousand last time, and at the same time quickly decided who would fight.

The next morning, after the gate of the territory was opened, the first to bear the brunt were the king of the Tentacle Spirit Beetle and its more than 2,000 people, and after that, there were thousands of gargoyles and more than 1,000 elven archers, and as for the ground troops, Li Ran brought more than 2,000 high-grade tungsten steel war bears and 500 mantis warriors.

This is a war without suspense. Although the three Tomahawk Nests were all on dangerous peaks that the ground troops could not reach, they also panicked when they saw Li Ran's army arrive. In addition, thousands of gargoyles rushed straight into each other's lair, and the king of the Tentacle Spirit Beetle behind him slowly floated with his men, in order to protect the immature young birds in the nest, these tomahawk birds were forced to have no choice but to meet the enemy, but they were deliberately deceived by the two.

Faced with the blows of elven archers and high-level war bears and mantis warriors on the ground, these tomahawk birds, although not weak, were quickly defeated. Coupled with the appearance of the three green dragons, their leader, a red-covered top-tier tomahawk bird, quickly chose to surrender, and more than a thousand tomahawk birds plus hundreds of young birds in the nest became Li Ran's prisoners.

After the priest's rescue. Li Ran thought about it and went directly to the elven territory, and after spending some time recruiting all these tomahawk birds, Li Ran directly installed the nest of the tomahawk birds in the elven territory. After leaving all the young birds and their families behind, nearly 800 mature tomahawks were taken away.

To everyone's surprise. After seeing these mature tomahawk birds, the residents of the territory even revealed good news to Li Ran. In addition to being tamable, these huge birds can be trained to be combat mounts when they reach a high level of maturity if they are fed properly from an early age, and can carry warriors weighing no more than half their weight in battle with a special saddle.

A mature tomahawk weighs about 200 kilograms, and by feeding specialized food, they can increase their weight to 250 to 300 kilograms when they are mature, which means that they can carry no more than 150 kilograms of warriors, although a heavy guy like a minotaur is certainly not good, but there are quite a few suitable troops.

After carefully inquiring about the food and saddles needed to cultivate them into war horses, Li Ran thought for a while and asked Zhang Juan to rush to Edoron City to inquire about the food and the price of special saddles to cultivate them.

A few hours later, Zhang Juan came to the company's restaurant and found Li Ran, Xia Houben and others who were eating.

Because of the large number of diners at noon, Li Ran had to wait until everyone came to the lounge to find a box after eating.

Seeing Li Ran's inquiry, Zhang Juan nodded and replied: "Brother Ran, I have already checked out, if you want to train a tomahawk bird to become a war horse, in addition to hiring special personnel, the food to be fed is about 3 gold coins a catty, it takes a year from a young bird to an adult bird, which probably consumes nearly a thousand catties of such food, and the saddle needs to be ordered at a special place in the craftsman hall, and the price is about five hundred gold coins."

"It's too expensive, not only do you have to hire someone to feed it, but it will take a year, and it will cost 3,000 gold coins just to eat, and 500 gold coins to buy saddles, at the current price, such a trip is enough to buy several high-ranking soldiers, which is also too cost-effective" Sun Jianye, who happened to be in time to eat together, couldn't help but be surprised and said.

Seeing that all the teammates were a little surprised, Zhang Juan hurriedly said: "I asked several animal trainers to confirm, and I also found several restaurants to compare the price of that kind of special food, maybe it is because of this reason, so there are not many people who really train the tomahawk bird into a war horse, and even the only craftsman who can make this kind of saddle is very strange why I inquired so carefully."

At this time, even Zhou Xun said with a sigh of gratitude: "This is indeed a bit too high, I heard that the current high-level griffin is only 1500 gold coins in the auction house, although this thing is not very easy to buy, but the price is here after all, the mature body of the tomahawk is at most about the same as the griffin, not only need to hire people to feed but also hire people to train, and the final price is two or three times that of griffins, which is indeed a bit too outrageous, no wonder no one wants to train them"

"Yes, if you have that money, you might as well buy finished griffins directly, those guys are famous kings of air combat, and they can also train to become griffin knights in the future," Sun Jianye echoed. (To be continued.) )