Hearing what Li Ran said, all the teammates also understood what Li Ran meant, after all, it would take a while for them to build a town-level stronghold here, and it would be troublesome if they were targeted by a powerful opponent, and sacrificing a part of their interests in exchange for more security was naturally the best choice.

"Brother Ran is still thoughtful, if I had rushed out to get these dark creatures out a long time ago," Zhang Debiao scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

At this time, Shadow Blade said with a smile on the side: "It's not necessary to rush out, if you really want to completely annihilate this group of dark creatures, just secretly arrange two or three thousand high-speed troops outside the city, and when the time comes, when the war is together, you can let them block the opponent's back road, I guarantee that you can't run a few dark creatures that come to attack."

Hearing Shadow Blade say this, all the teammates nodded again and again, this was what they thought was the best choice for war, but the next moment they thought of Li Ran's tactics, but they had already surpassed these, and directly considered the overall battle situation, which was a step higher, and they couldn't help but sigh a little emotionally.

If the war launched by Zhang Debiao can defeat the enemy, and the war of the shadow blade can wipe out the enemy, then Li Ran's war plan is to weave the enemy in a huge sticky net unconsciously, no matter how you struggle, in exchange for exhaustion, in the end, you have no choice but to hand over the choice of life and death, and let others take what they want.

Although it was only a small war, the teammates couldn't help but sigh at this time, this is the real war! With more careful planning and action, slowly turn the enemy's various plans into their own advantages, and finally destroy them all with a thunderous blow.

In this way, Li Ran chatted with everyone for a while and determined the candidates for the battle if there was a war. At the same time, he also instructed Zhang Debiao to personally lead people to tell them about the barbarian chief in the rear when the war was about to end. See how the other person reacts.

At this time, everyone knew that every order given by Li Ran must have a purpose. So although Zhang Debiao was a little disappointed that he couldn't fight to the end, he nodded immediately at this time.

The next day, these dark creatures that were getting closer and closer to the stronghold first started a tentative reconnaissance attack, and when Li Ran and his teammates deliberately showed weakness, the other party became more and more emboldened, and finally directly stationed their troops on a scorched hillside less than five miles away from them.

"Brother Ran, these guys only have more than a thousand troops stationed on the hillside, and most of the dark elf warriors are ambushed in the gray wood forests on the left and right, it seems that they want to ambush us," Zhang Juan, who was standing on the city wall at this time, said with a smile.

Seeing Li Ran nodded. Zhang Debiao on the side also smiled and said: "That's because they didn't find the scouts we were responsible for investigating, I have to say that the scouts in our territory are really strong, I think half of the more than 20 scouts brought by Histan have reached the top level, which is not a grade higher than other sentinels and centaur scouts."

Hearing this, Wu Tongtong sighed and said, "The adult hunters of the Yali clan must meet the standards of high-level troops, and then go through the professional training of scouts, and they are also permanent residents of the Endless Snow Region, so they have very good potential. Therefore, it is reasonable to advance, and using the top-level troops as scouts is naturally a great advantage, and it is also one of the main reasons why we have been distracted by information."

After listening to Wu Tongtong's introduction, Zhou Xun and the others couldn't help but nodded. At the same time, he is also deeply aware of the importance of information to the battlefield, just like the dark creatures on the other side, he thinks he has set up a comprehensive ambush. As everyone knows, Li Ran and others have already seen through it, and they are watching their jokes at this time.

After a while. Shadow Blade suddenly asked, "Brother Ran, should we take advantage of this opportunity?" Let's strike at the troops they are ambushing first."

"If it's just a blow to one side, I'm confident that the battle can be resolved within ten minutes, and I have enough time to retreat" Seeing Li Ran turn to look at him, Shadow Blade spoke again.

After thinking for a while, Li Ran finally nodded and said: "Okay, there are only about 1,000 troops at most on the side of their ambush, in addition to the five hundred undead cavalry you bring, I will select a thousand minotaur warriors to Xia Houben and Cao Dayong, this operation is in charge of the three of you, Wu Tongtong and Qian Hui are with you, I will give you 500 elven archers and 100 priests, as for how to fight, I will leave it to you."

Seeing that several of them nodded solemnly, Li Ran continued: "But there is one thing you must pay attention to, you must fight quickly, no matter what the result is, you must not be entangled with the other party's reinforcements."

Knowing what Li Ran meant, they were afraid that they would want to fight, these people all nodded, and after several hours of preparation, they led the troops out quietly.

Because they were not far apart, only a few hours apart, everyone saw the warriors trotting back from afar.

Through the excited expression on the face of Saquill, the leader of the Minotaur who ran to the front, Li Ran and his teammates knew that the operation was successful, and sure enough, through the brief report of Shadow Blade and Xia Houben, they went out for this meeting and killed more than 400 enemies in total through raids, of which high-level dark elf warriors accounted for the vast majority, and the casualties were very few.

While ordering these returning soldiers to rest in the rear of the stronghold, Li Ran also let the other soldiers enter the pre-battle preparation state, and the other party was inexplicably sneak attacked, believing that with their character, they will soon come to take revenge.

Sure enough, only half an hour had passed, and the army of dark creatures on the opposite side had appeared in front of them with great momentum.

Last time, because I didn't know that this stronghold was already stationed in troops, I was attacked by them from behind when I saw that I was capturing another stronghold, but I didn't expect that this time I had just set up an ambush, and I was actually attacked by the other party again, and at this time, the female dark elf warlock leader could no longer calm down.

However, when she rushed over angrily with the troops, she couldn't help but be a little surprised when she saw the other party's stronghold, remembering that the last time she passed by here was more than a month ago, but she didn't expect that in such a short time, this abandoned stronghold would have a new look.

Ordering the troops to stop, the female dark sorcerer came to the front of the formation and began to look at the stronghold, only to see her suddenly fold her hands over her chest and begin to chant a series of subtle incantations in her mouth.

As she chanted her incantation, a ball of light intertwined with dark red and black appeared out of thin air in front of her, and this ball of light slowly grew and condensed as she continued to chant, until it finally rose to the size of a football and then stopped. (To be continued.) )