The sound of someone tiptoeing into the tent woke Darius from his sleep, and he abruptly got up and picked up the axe at the head of the bed, only to find that it was two warriors in shifts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Apparently overly alert, his movements startled the two warriors, Darius smiled and shook his hand to signal that they didn't care, he picked up his axe and quietly exited the tent.

In the distance, the sky showed a touch of fish's belly, the moist air was scented with earth, and the bonfire lit at night was about to be extinguished, and the flickering fire gave off its last light and heat.

Odell and Demmens stood not far from the campfire and whispered a discussion, and Odell smiled and said hello when he saw Darius come out.

"Darius, you're awake, don't rest any more?"

"Well, that's enough, it's not a good habit to covet mattresses." Darius replied.

The soldiers of the quadrangle gradually packed their bags, walked out of the tent, and slowly converged towards Odell. Odell gestured, and the warriors quickly rallied in front of him.

The movements are clean and neat, no one gossips, the quality of the fourth team is much stronger than that of the second team, it seems that Odell is much better than himself in this regard, but Darius is not discouraged, there is nothing to be ashamed of, after all, the age and experience of the people are in that position, and he is still a long way from a qualified leader.

Odell counted the men, then took a small cloth bag from his bosom and handed it to Darius, which from his cautious appearance was extremely important.

"This is an early warning crystal, every reconnaissance post will be equipped with one, this is a very precious consumable, you crush it, it can reproduce the sound of no more than twenty words back to Lord Bud, I believe that the name of this crystal has already told you its meaning, although I personally hope that you will never use it, but the current form is that war is imminent, in a critical moment, your early warning can save the lives of countless comrades."

Odell clenched his left hand into a fist and gently hammered Darius's left chest, "I will withdraw with my men first, be careful in everything, may the will of the earth and the mountains protect you, long live Noxus." ”

Darius carefully put the crystal into the inside of his leather armor, and in his own way, he hammered his chest with his hand: "I will do my best, you take care all the way, long live Noxus." ”

Odell did not drag his feet, he immediately led the subordinates of the fourth detachment to leave, and it didn't take long for these people to disappear into the distant forest.

"What's the situation now, Demons?"

As his deputy, a veteran of the 1st Swordsman Battalion, De Mons asked Odell about the details of the lizardmen in the Rhodes Corridor as soon as he returned, and when he heard Darius ask, he replied, "Not too optimistic, captain." ”

"According to the situation that Odell and they detected, this year's lizardmen are a little abnormal, you know, the lizardmen tribe is not engaged in production, they all rely on fishing, hunting and looting to get food, so the previous lizardmen will not delay too long when they are preparing for battle, because their supplies can't keep up, they have to start a war quickly."

"But this time, the lizardmen legion of more than fifteen tribes began to assemble in the Rhodes corridor, and there are more lizardmen rushing here, we haven't found out the reason why they have gathered so many tribes this time, but it will definitely not be good news, and judging from the current situation, they don't know where to get a large amount of food reserves, so they can spend so much time to gather troops, it should be to prepare for attacking our fortress."

Darius looked towards the Rhodes Corridor in the distance, which seemed silent and peaceful in the white fog rising in the early morning, which was actually a narrow and winding rift valley that cut off the east-west Alstow Mountains, and through the Rhodes Corridor, you could save the effort of climbing the mountains and reach the outermost side of the mountains directly from the depths of the mountains.

"I've never understood that while the sturdy scales and thick muscles of the lizardmen make them naturally formidable warriors, this race is too ignorant to produce and produce spellcasters, and it is impossible for them to defeat us with civilization and wisdom and attack fortresses? What is not to die? ”

De Mons glanced at Darius with a complicated expression, "I'm afraid, that's how they planned it." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Captain, you are from the city-state of Noxus, and you have not experienced the winter of this mountain, although it is not as cold and snowy as the frozen tundra of Freljord, but the winter of Ulstow is also exceptionally cold, and before the arrival of the spring dawn moon, all the creatures in the mountains will only care about one thing, that is, food."

When De Mons said this, he motioned for Darius to go to the campfire, and he fetched a few dried logs and threw them into the fire that had not been completely extinguished, and went back to the tent and put the iron pot and rack on the fire, and began to boil a few eggs that he had gotten out of nowhere.

After doing all this, he looked at the food churning in the boiling water, and continued to say to Darius: "A three-month cold winter will put the whole mountain into hibernation, and the creatures that don't have enough food will never survive, so they must enter our human areas to raid, that is the best way for them to increase their winter reserves, but the magnificent fortress of 'Butters' blocks their way south, which is a barrier for them to step through." ”

Darius thought about Taizu, who had invented guerrilla warfare in his previous life, and then thought about the huge city wall covered with runes, and asked, "Why don't you go around it?" Bypassing the fortress and heading south, the lizardmen are very flexible, as long as they are reduced to zero, our garrison forces do not have the ability to pursue them. ”

"Nope." De Mons gave a straight answer in the negative.

"When they only carry weapons, they avoid the fortress and go directly to the hinterland of the province, we really can't do anything about it, but the lizardmen are only adapted to life in the mountains, and they will definitely return with a lot of supplies after raiding, which will greatly delay their march, so they become a live target, so the fortress is something they can't get around. That's why every once in a while, they attack the fortress. ”

"Lizardmen only have a lifespan of twenty-five years, and only a few strong and even rarer spellcasters who have broken through the bloodline limit can break through this limit. Therefore, they will gather their members over the age of fifteen to fight this inevitable war, and they would rather die under the walls of Butters Fortress and leave food for the young beasts that have not yet grown up, rather than starve to death in the cold winter of the mountains. ”

White steam rose from the boiling pot, and De Mences fished the eggs out of the pot, let them cool, and handed them to Darius: "Although I am a mountain dweller, I still admire them in this regard. ”

Darius peeled the eggshell open and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Yes, with such extraordinary determination. What a respectable and terrible enemy. ”