541 The beginning of the expedition
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Now there are nearly 13,000 people in the entire camp, of which 10,000 are the expeditionary force carefully selected by the king's ** department, 1,000 are Morey's Red Leaf City troops, and the remaining nearly 2,000 people are the Augustin family expeditionary force led by Andre.
After negotiation, Wang ** left 1,000 people, Red Leaf City and the Augustine family left 500 people each, forming a large camp of 2,000 people, and the remaining 11,000 people were the main force of this expedition.
Because Andrei was most familiar with the situation in the New World, it was no surprise that the responsibility of commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force fell on his head.
Their destination was a small valley about fifty miles northwest of the camp surrounded by mountains on three sides, which was safer than the base camp with only a log wall for basic defense, and was rich in groundwater, making it a good place to defend and difficult to attack.
André wouldn't admit that he had chosen the three alternative city sites to protect the gold mine they had discovered.
Walking through the woods is no better than marching on a wide road, the dense woods make the marching team extremely hot, and the thick leaves are also a good place for countless snakes, insects, rats and ants to hide, rather than the whistles and fluttering birds that make the already highly nervous troops spend more physical effort to pay attention to observe.
"No! They have to rest, or they'll collapse before they get there! ”
Originally, they calculated that they would travel twenty miles a day, so that in three days, they would be able to reach their intended location.
But at the current pace, they can only cover a distance of ten miles a day, which is not only a matter of supplies, but also means that the risk of attack increases dramatically, which is not good news for the newcomers who have never seen a native attack.
What Morey and André had been fearing finally happened, when they found an open woodland near a river and were about to rest, a large group of one-man tall red dinosaurs suddenly jumped out of the jungle and launched a fierce attack on them.
These dinosaurs struck with their strong lower limbs, reaching speeds of up to 60 feet per second, so they didn't need to use their sharp teeth to pierce iron armor, and the impact alone was enough to crush a leather-clad warrior into serious injuries.
In an instant, the red herd was like an unstoppable torrent that destroyed everything it encountered!
"Hold on!"
With a shout, André raised a heavy hammer and led the way into the ranks of the dinosaurs.
Although this high-level magic war hammer could not exert its powerful enchantment ability in the New World, the sturdy material and light weight alone were enough for Andre to swing it easily, forming a steel wall in front of him, blocking the attacking dinosaurs one by one.
With him taking the lead, the expeditionary force that had recovered from his senses also began to turn to the counteroffensive, gradually pinning down the dinosaur group, and then constantly using swords, bows and crossbows to consume their numbers.
Among them, Morey, who is a mage, has the most eye-catching performance.
Needless to consider casting a failed spell, he put on the weight-reducing armor of the Saber Iron Guard, and with two giant swords in hand, he jumped straight into the dinosaur group.
The warriors outside often only saw the sword light flash, and the dinosaur that circled around him had already been cut into pieces.
Therefore, every time André saw Morey in distress and was about to send someone to rescue him, the baron was already covered in blood.
Xu was ruthless, and these dinosaurs, who were dominated by the bloodthirsty instinct of the beast, actually ran away in fear when they saw Morey.
"Good, do it a little more!"
"Be careful!"
André was about to puff up his breath to defeat these red demons once and for all, when he heard Morey's warning and the sharp sound of arrows piercing through the air.
Instinctively, he bent down, and an arrow passed through where he had been standing, and nailed to the thigh of one of the clan guards who couldn't dodge, and blood gushed out like a fountain down the bloodletting tank, but in a few breaths, his own guard passed out from blood loss.
"What a vicious bloodletting!"
With the muffled sound of arrows entering the body, hundreds of expeditionary forces acting as defensive fronts at the front of the troops fell in unison.
And through the dim sunlight in the woods, Morey faintly saw a group of natives with their upper bodies stretching their bows and crossbows on the canopy and branches, and under the trees was a group of special natives charging at them.
These natives were far taller than the natives of the small tribe that Morey had exterminated before, and they were all muscular, with huge rough battle axes, and with the white war streaks, a savage aura rushed towards them.
Underneath the crotch of these native knights was a dinosaur that was a full size larger than the previous attack on them.
It seems that they drove away the previous dinosaurs and launched an attack on the expeditionary force.
It was also the first time that Morey had seen an indigenous warrior charge other than a ranged attack.
There are tens of thousands of troops on their side, and the number of people on the other side is only a thousand at most, with such a huge disparity, the other party actually dares to attack them?
It's a pity that whether Morey believes it or not, the other side has attacked.
About two hundred dinosaur knights took the lead in the battle, and a warrior holding a steel shield in the king's ** kicked the mechanism under the tower shield with his right foot, and the heavy tower shield suddenly dropped a row of 10-inch-long sharp cones.
Piercing into the ground and pressing his right shoulder against the tower shield, the pikemen in the rear had tacitly put the spear on the tower shield, and in an instant, there was an extra steel spear forest in front of the dinosaur knight.
Roar!
In the face of this steel spear forest, these dinosaur knights not only did not slow down, but became more and more excited to urge the mounts under their crotches.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The warrior behind the tower shield silently counted the number of steps of the other party, judging from his own experience that he was about to start contacting, and then tensed his shoulder muscles hard. This will slow down some of the impact damage they take, and if they're lucky, they'll be able to stop them at the cost of a dislocated arm.
But the expected violent impact did not happen, but the troops in the rear were filled with the sound of fighting.
Before he could figure out what was going on, a thick dragon tail swept over and smashed him away.
Andre had a gloomy face at the moment, and it was the first time he had encountered this kind of dinosaur knight, so naturally he didn't expect that the other party would have such a bouncing ability, and he could directly cross over the gun forest he had formed and kill from the inside out.
The dinosaur knights rushed to the slaughter, and the ruthless archers were not idle.
They often target the warbands that are still entangled with the dinosaurs, and each attack can bring hundreds of casualties, and of course, the dinosaurs also suffer heavy casualties under this attack.
But it was precisely because of such indiscriminate blows that the dinosaurs drilled into the battle array more and more violently, and in their opinion, only there could they avoid the shadow of the arrow of death.
Just as Morey was wondering if he would go out again, his Red Leaf City Guards stood up at this time.
Working in groups of five, they quickly assembled a gigantic, strange-looking crossbow that looked more like a miniature bed crossbow to Morey.
Boom!
With a bow sound, a black shadow crashed into the jungle in an instant, and then exploded with a thud, and Morey could clearly see five or six charred figures fall from the canopy.
At this time, the city guards came with a total of attacks with assembled bows and crossbows, and special arrows equipped with goblin explosives, and it only took one round of attacks to completely mute the opponent's bow and arrow troops.
The Goblin Explosive is more of a chemical explosive than a chemical explosive, and it doesn't require magic.
And the first time they saw such a dense attack on their troops, those native knights thought of not turning over and running away or attacking with their lives, but one by one rolling off the dragon's back and landing on all fours in a desperate prayer.
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