Chapter 170: A Difficult March
As the commander-in-chief of the Bright Empire's Hengduan Fortress, Marquis Roy has not had a good time lately, and his only son was killed in the Warcraft Forest. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn order to find out the murderer of his son, he conducted a strict inventory of the goods entering and leaving the fortress some time ago, and almost offended the nobles in the empire, so he still didn't get even a clue.
Until some time ago, the family reported to himself that someone had seen Anne in Moxia City, but now the person is no longer in Moxia City, but has returned to the territory of the Warcraft Forest with a new pioneer lord named Li Jun. Combined with the place where his son was killed, he was immediately sure that the murderer of his son must be this newly promoted pioneer lord, and he was going to take the 200,000 troops of Hengduan Fortress to avenge his son on the spot.
And then he was stopped by the Inspector sent by the Empire as a matter of course, just kidding! If Marquis Roy is allowed to take all the troops to avenge his son, no matter what the final result is, whether there is anything wrong with the Hengduan Fortress, and what punishment will Marquis Roy receive in the end, anyway, the Inspector's own head will definitely have to move. After a big quarrel with the Inspector to no avail, Marquis Roy secretly left the fortress that night with the 25,000 troops he could mobilize, and killed them towards the Warcraft Forest.
Ten days after leaving the Hengduan Fortress with his troops, Marquis Roy came to the second territory of his enemy, and he originally wanted to arrest all the people in this territory and put them to death, and collect a little interest for his son's death first. However, when he arrived at the villages in the territory, he found that there was no one in the village, and all of them had disappeared, and the angry Marquis Roy ordered the village to be set on fire, and the fields around the village were also burned. In the end, he was still angry, and led people to the quarry in the territory, and completely destroyed all the facilities and supports in the quarry. However, it may be that the soldiers were playing too well, causing a small-scale landslide when destroying the quarry, directly burying more than a dozen soldiers in it, and directly making Marquis Roy half angry.
After a night's rest in the ruined territory, the next morning was about to continue the march when the Marquis of Roy received the thunderous news that several of his officers had been assassinated the previous night, and the guards in charge of the night patrol were unaware of it. After wasting half a day of thorough investigation to no avail, the enraged Marquis Roy could only severely punish the soldiers in charge of patrolling outside several officers' tents before continuing with a large force.
In the evening, when the team was camping in the field again, the Marquis of Roy specially increased his night duty, and as a result, no officers were assassinated that night, but the temporary warehouse where the grain and grass were stored caught fire, and all the soldiers guarding the grain and grass were killed with sharp blades. This time, the marquis couldn't find someone to punish him, and how could he punish the soldiers who guarded the grain and grass when they died? You can't arrest the guards who are not responsible for guarding the food and grass and beat them, right? In the end, he could only hold this breath back into his stomach.
Because the grain and grass were burned, the troops could not continue to advance, so Marquis Roy had no choice but to go to the nearby town of Sanca to buy a batch of food, and by the way, he also went to the mercenary union to hire a group of assassins at a high price and went to the Alchemy Association to buy a batch of props that could detect invisibility, which took half a day back and forth. As a result, the officers were fine that night, and the food and grass were fine, but half of the Assassins hired at great expense were directly dead, and a few lone soldiers were killed by the way. In the end, in desperation, Marquis Roy could only prohibit the soldiers from acting alone, even if they wanted to and pee, they had to gather ten people.
After continuing to advance like this for two days, the large army finally reached the entrance of the Southern Plains to the new territory of the Empire, and not long after the team in front entered the forest, several violent explosions were heard. When Marquis Roy took the men and horses to the explosion site, he couldn't help but gasp, only to see the soldiers in front of him looking at the ground with a frightened face, and several large pits suddenly appeared on the originally smooth road, and around the pits were scattered the stumps and broken arms of the soldiers who had been killed.
Just when Marquis Roy was scolding because the soldier was killed by a mine, he suddenly noticed that the soldiers around him were looking up at something, and when he looked at the soldiers, he saw several large demonic beasts with two heads flying in their direction. Marquis Roy looked at the two-headed demonic beasts flying closer and closer to them, and felt a strong uneasiness in his heart, and shouted loudly to the team behind him: "All pay attention to concealment, what about the crossbowmen?" What the hell are you still in a daze? Shoot them down for me! Let all the griffons rise into the air and bring these two-headed monsters down to me! After shouting, Marquis Roy's whole body surged, condensed into the form of a giant wolf, and then the long sword in his hand swung into the air, and a visible pick-up quickly took shape, and there were two heads, one red and one blue, and the largest demonic beast hit it.
Facing the sword qi that was coming towards him, Jakiro threw his two heads back together, and the two breaths, one ice and one fire, met the sword qi that was hitting the Marquis of Roy together, and the breath and the sword qi collided in mid-air, making a loud "bang", and then both dissipated in mid-air. At this time, Jakiro had already led the Chimera troops to the top of Marquis Roy's troops, and the crossbowmen were still at the rear of the team, and they would not be able to catch up for a while, and the griffin had just received the order of the beast tamer at this time, and had not yet had time to take off.
After Jakiro came to the top of the team, he didn't talk nonsense, and directly spit at the team below with a mixture of ice and fire, and the Chimera who followed him also spat out lightning bolts at the troops on the ground. The Marquis of Roy, who was below, watched his subordinates scream at the sudden appearance of the two-headed demonic beast, but he couldn't fight back, and he was almost so angry that he vomited blood, so he could only fight back against the demonic beasts in the sky with the same fighting spirit as a few of his subordinates, and as a result, a row of fighting qi skills just hit it, and a frozen path of Jackilo appeared directly in mid-air, blocking all the fighting spirit of this counterattack at once.
After two rounds of attacks, Jakiro was not greedy, the blue head threw up his head and roared, and the red head spat out a mouthful of liquid fire to the ground, and then quickly pulled up with the Chimera, and turned his head to start retreating. Only then did the griffons at the back of the team rise into the air, and looking at Jakiro and Chimera, who had already begun to retreat, a thousand griffons let out a sharp chirp and chased after Jakiro and Chimera, who were retreating.
Jakiro turned his head to look at the griffon that was following closely behind him, and with a successful expression on his two heads, he continued to fly towards the depths of the forest with the Chimera. Marquis Roy on the ground looked at the retreating two-headed demonic beast in the sky with a serious expression, decisively put his hand into his arms, took out a horn, put it in his mouth and blew it hard. Hearing the sound of the horn, the griffon paused in the sky, reluctantly glanced at the Chimera, which was flying farther and farther away, reluctantly stopped the pursuit, and began to deploy in the sky above the troops.
After Jakiro noticed that the griffin had stopped pursuing, he stopped in mid-air, glanced at the griffin who was arranged, and then at the crossbowman who was already in place, and after the two heads looked deeply at Roy with the horn in his hand, they raised their heads together and let out a roar. Not long after Jakiro let out a roar, Zagonus, who was lying in ambush around, led the system air force to take off in unison, flew to Jakiro's side to meet him, and slowly flew towards the depths of the forest.
Marquis Roy looked at the various air forces that were retreating in the sky, especially the more than a hundred huge frost dragons in the enemy team, the expression on his face was unprecedentedly solemn, and at the same time, he secretly made up his mind in his heart that without the assistance of the crossbowmen, the griffin would never be allowed to fight alone with the enemy's air force.
In the next march, the Marquis of Roy divided a hundred light cavalry, each of ten as a squad, each squad with ten griffons, set off to the front to explore the way, and then sent a hundred light cavalry with logistics soldiers to the river to fetch water.
Not long after the troops advanced, they heard another loud "boom" in front, and a light cavalry squad that had just set off returned. Ten people were turned into nine, two light cavalry were seriously wounded, and four horses were hit by fragments from the explosion of the mine, and they did not look like they would survive. Marquis Roy looked at the light cavalry squad in front of him irritably, and waved his hand to let them take the wounded to the rear to recuperate first.
In the evening of the same day, Marquis Roy sat in the marching tent with a pale face, and the cavalry and griffons of the other nine squads had not returned until now, except for the first team that had been forced to return because he had stepped on a mine not long after departure. There were also light cavalry units and logistics troops who went to the river to fetch water, and they did not come back, as if they had disappeared out of thin air, and they must have encountered some accident without guessing.
Excluding the scouts and the water fetching team, the march of the large army was also not smooth, and not long after the scout team was dispatched, the large army stepped on two more mines and lost more than a dozen soldiers. After several times, in the end, the soldiers did not dare to walk on the road, for fear that one of them would not be able to step on a mine, so they gave up their lives in vain, and only dared to walk through the woods on both sides of the road. But even so, not long after the team advanced, a soldier stepped on a mine again, and several lives were reimbursed, so that the soldiers did not dare to continue moving forward.