Zehir smiled freely: "Your Highness, don't worry, we have nothing to do but sleep on the way, we have already recuperated our spirits on the airship, and we are looking for something to move our muscles, so we will go and give a 'meeting gift' to the group of sand bandits who don't know whether they are alive or dead." "Three airships from Icewind Dale, two of which were used to transport the Second Armored Knights, and Zehir's "Victory" was loaded with aerial bombs and two half-wings of giant eagles, and they couldn't wait to rain a full cabin of bombs on the sandbands' heads.

"Hey! I said, Brother Roland, don't just think about the Air Force, our Second Armored Knight Regiment is not here to see the excitement! Bloom couldn't help but take the initiative.

"Yes, Your Royal Highness, we have been training in Icewind Dale for a whole year, and we have a rare opportunity to participate in actual combat, so let's show it." Kirov said.

Roland looked at the bespectacled young officer beside Bloom, and realized that this dwarf with a completely different temperament from Bloom's big brother was actually a level 9 mage, and looked at the other party curiously.

"Oh! This kid is my cousin Kirov Wrought Iron, the smartest guy of our younger generation in Icewind Dale, and the chief of staff of the Second Armored Knights. Bloom patted his brother on the shoulder and introduced him to Roland.

Roland remembered that Bloom had indeed asked him for the appointment of a chief of staff, and it turned out to be this dwarven mage, who did seem to be a "military advisor" type of character, which complemented Bloom's personality.

"Your mechanical armor hasn't been modified for the sandy environment, can you fight on the Gobi Desert?" Lyudmila interjected worriedly.

"No problem! Our mechanical armor is equipped with skis and magic aerostats, and we can run freely on soft snow, except that the desert is hotter than the snowy mountains, and the ground environment is actually about the same! Bloom said confidently.

Roland thought about it, the soft sand is indeed similar to the snow environment, since the mechanical armor can calmly fight in the snow, it should not be a big problem on the desert battlefield, so he nodded and agreed that Bloom and Kirov would lead the second regiment of armored knights to fight - the mechanical armor on the airship has not yet been moved, which is just a matter of saving trouble.

Before the airship set sail, Roland made a request to Zehir and Bloom, emphasizing that the bandits should not be allowed to enter the Crescent River Valley to avoid the destruction of local farmland.

"This war must be fought according to our own ideas, on the battlefield we have chosen," Roland unfolded the military map and drew a large circle with a pencil on the area where the Crescent River Valley meets the Canaan border, "This area is the Gobi Desert that stretches for hundreds of miles, and with the speed of an airship, there is no time to intercept the sand bandits before they enter the Crescent River Valley, and if all goes well, this desolate Gobi will become a cemetery for the sand bandits tonight!" ”

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"Eldest sister, do you see the river in front of you? Cross the Crescent River, and not far from the town of Sweetwater. Tars "Blade" rode on his horse, pointing out the direction of the march for Jenna, the "Red Widow", who was walking on foot beside him.

The half-scorpion was taller than the half-giants of Sweetwater, and Jenna stood on foot in the sand, shoulder-level with Tars on horseback, and four pairs of feet moved quickly on the sand, easily catching up with the galloping horses.

Chuck "Axe" and his group of jackals are somewhere between human and half-scorpion, riding tall camels and marching at a slow pace.

The "Undead Regiment" of the "mad demon" Coze is composed of more than 200 desert trolls, although the trolls are known for their endurance, and they will not get tired after running long distances in the desert for three days and three nights, but their speed is not so good, and they can march up to 20 miles per hour on average.

Trolls are eccentric and irritable, unable to ride horses or camels as skillfully as other bandits, and livestock have an innate fear of trolls, which can be frightened out of control when they come close to them. So this coalition of the four great Kou had to accommodate the speed of the trolls: they set out from Medes at six o'clock in the evening, arrived at the border between Canaan and the Far East at half past eight, crossed the border smoothly with the help of the giant eagles patrolling in the sky with the help of Pegasus Sentinels, and trekked on the Gobi Desert for three hours, and it was almost midnight before they saw the landmark of the Crescent Valley, the sparkling river on the horizon.

"Tails, how do we cross the river?" Jenna asked the Mantis Man.

"There are two wooden bridges on the river, so let's move quickly, and we can cross it in half an hour at most." Tails is familiar with the environment in this area.

"What if the bridge is demolished by the half-giants across the river?" Chuck suddenly interjected, "Can we just swim through?" ”

"I know that there is a place where the river is relatively narrow, the water is no more than five feet deep, in case the wooden bridge is demolished, we can just swim across it on horses and camels, Sister Jenna's people are tall, the river is not up to their waist at most, and as for Brother Coze's people, they don't have to worry, so shallow water can't drown trolls." Tails replied patiently.

The "Four Great Kou" were discussing how to cross the river when a strange buzzing sound suddenly came from the air. Jenna looked up in surprise, looking for the direction the noise was coming from. A gust of cold wind blew away the moonlight overhead, and the scene in front of her made her can't help but shrink her pupils!

In the moonlight, three massive silver-gray ship-shaped objects were suspended at a height of 1,000 feet. The giant whale-like steel monster was equipped with huge propellers on both sides and tail, buzzing and spinning under the power of the Magic Crystal Steam Engine, and the swirling fan blades drove the air current, forming a strong power, propelling the hull of the ship to fly towards the other side of the Crescent River at a speed far exceeding that of the Eagle Falcon.

"That's the air battleship of the Far Easterners? It's more spectacular than the legend......" Jenna muttered to herself.

"It's strange, I only saw one airship in Sweetwater before, why are there suddenly two more?" Tails' face was gloomy, and his heart was inexplicably uneasy.

"It's not surprising that after the Prince of Korath captured Mochizuki City, he sent a large group of giant eagles to patrol the border line day and night, which shows that he is also worried about the retaliation of Lord Mayer, and it is reasonable to send two airships to the southern Xinjiang to strengthen the defense." Jenna thought about it.

"According to Chief of Staff Steg's battle plan, the enemy airship should have come to the rescue after we launched a night attack on Sweetwater, and now we haven't crossed the Crescent River before the airship appeared, which means that our attack tonight has been detected by the other side in advance, everyone, do you think it is necessary to continue to carry out the original plan?" Tails looked at the three partners solemnly.

Jenna's face changed, and she took out a high-grade communication stone from her storage bag: "It's not up to us to change the battle plan or not, I'll report to Lord Mayer what happened here!" ”