Chapter Eighty-Seven: Troll City
Early the next morning, the fleet arrived at the location that Grace had mentioned, and there were indeed several small islands.
Seven or eight large and small islands are distributed in an arc of forty or fifty kilometers long, and the small islands that expose the lake look very steep, and there are many natural harbors around the islands.
On one of the largest islands in the middle of the chain, there is even an abandoned port, according to Grace, before the war, Lake Zangar was completely the inner lake of the Zangar clan, and there were five troll cities around this lake, where tens of thousands of trolls lived, and Lake Zangar provided convenient water transportation for the Zangar clan, and at its peak, hundreds of boats shuttled around the lake every day, and that port was a place for ships to rest.
The Bai Qi fleet slowly approached the port, and after stopping the ship on the humble dock, it immediately sent people to search the small island, and there were no unexpected finds.
The Emerald Kingdom does not possess shipbuilding skills, the Green Dragons themselves are strong swimmers, and the Lizardmen are amphibious creatures who don't need ships at all, so they have no interest in this port and the barren island, and the Trolls are completely suppressed in Molinge City at this time, and they have no strength to retake this port.
This port is also nearly a hundred kilometers away from the nearest shore, and the people on the shore can't see the movement here at all, so Bai Qi and they directly occupy this place openly.
After settling in the station, Bai Qi selected a dozen agile warriors from among the Chosen Warriors, took Adrian and Barrian, and took them on a scout clipper. Head northwest towards the city of Mohringer.
The scout clippers arrived at the shore before dawn the next day, and according to the information provided by Grace. Found a hidden bay.
This bay is located in the valley of a hill near the lake, and has a small mouth and a large belly. The surrounding vegetation is so dense that you can't see inside from outside the valley unless you pass through the woods.
Bai Qi left the strict Gunder and another Chosen Warrior with a steady temperament to guard the warship, and left a communicator for Gunde, and sent sailors to climb the hill to establish a post, and then left with peace of mind and led everyone into the woods.
After they climbed the hill, they saw a path in the forest, in this forest with a near-tropical rainforest climate. Being able to see the path means that many creatures have walked here recently, and this should be the place where the Emerald Kingdom attacked Molinger City.
Carefully crossing the path, they walked a dozen kilometers away from the shore of the lake, and then walked in a direction parallel to the shore of the lake towards the city of Molinger.
It took Bai Qi and them a whole day to walk through more than a hundred kilometers of mountains and forests, and finally came to the vicinity of Molinger City at nightfall.
Bai Qi did not rashly take advantage of the night to approach Molinger, but was in the north of Molinger. On a hill about seven or eight kilometers from the city, a small makeshift camp was set up.
They set up camp in a small valley not far from the top of the hill to the north of the hill.
Under Bai Qi's command, the Chosen Warriors first chose three lookout points around the valley. A clearing was then cleared in the deepest part of the valley, and a conical shack was built on the foundation of the earth with tree branches. Cover the shack tightly with branches, and then a bonfire is lit in the shack.
The shack's dense branches, outer walls, and skills block the fire. The gaps between the branches are well ventilated, so as not to choke the smoke in the shack.
The crowd gathered around the fire and ate hot dry food.
Wait until everyone has dried their armor soaked with sweat and dew from the long journey. The ground in the shack was also roasted, and Bai Qi ordered the bonfire to be extinguished.
After assigning the order of taking turns to watch the night, everyone put leaves and branches on the ground and slept on the ground to recuperate their spirits.
The next day, Bai Qi led everyone to the top of the mountain and looked out towards the troll city in the distance.
It was an exotic city with a diameter of about five kilometers.
In the center of the city is a tall and majestic stone palace that houses the city's voodoo temple.
The temple is surrounded by a jumble of wooden buildings of various sizes, which look very rudimentary, in stark contrast to the majestic central temple.
The larger wooden buildings are conical wooden buildings, and the smaller ones are triangular wooden sheds.
Perhaps due to the proximity to the lake and the humid climate, the main body of these wooden buildings is held up in the air by wooden pillars about two meters above the ground.
The periphery of the city was a ring of walls that were approximately circular in shape.
Unlike human cities, this wall is not made of stones, but with huge logs inserted into the earth.
Behind the bar, every thirty meters, there is a huge tower of arrows, and part of the platform at the top of the tower sticks out of the bar, so that the view of the guards on the platform is not blocked by the city wall.
There are four gates open on the city wall, namely the southeast gate facing Lake Zanga, the northwest gate opposite, and the northeast gate and the southwest gate on the left and right sides.
Not far from the southeast gate, the northeast gate, and the southwest gate, there were three stone fortresses that were even more rudimentary and rough than the style of the troll city, which blocked these three gates, and only the northwest gate was still unimpeded.
Looking at this chaotic city, Bai Qi couldn't help frowning, looking for a few humans in this hostile alien city that can accommodate tens of thousands of people is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
After looking at the city for a long time, Bai Qi returned to the camp, he selected six of the most agile men from the Chosen Warriors he brought, and with Adrian, Barian and himself formed an exploration team, leaving all the rest in this camp, Rounda stayed, as the head of the camp, and left a communicator for Roundup.
Leaving the camp and climbing over the hill, Bai Qi led the people cautiously towards the northwest gate of Molinger.
Outside the northwestern gate of Morlinger, there was an open space of about one square kilometer, which was covered with traces of battle, broken spears, black bloodstains, almost every inch of this clearing.
Morlinger's northwest gate had been completely destroyed, and the trolls seemed to have no intention of repairing it, leaving it wide open.
Five hundred meters in front of the city gate, there is a fortress on the left and right, and the distance between the two fortresses is also about five hundred meters, and the two fortresses and the city gate behind them form a solid triangular formation.
The area of these two fortresses is not large, the diameter is only 100 meters, and the outer fence wall is even higher than the city wall, and the arrow towers on the wall are much denser than the city wall.
The two forts are strategically placed so that if the enemy attacks either fort, they will be attacked by the other fort and from the gate, and if they attack the gate, they will be attacked by two more forts from the rear.
The only way to break through this solid triangular defensive position was to attack three locations at the same time in a three-pronged manner, but this would undoubtedly require three times as many troops.
Bai Qi lay under a bush, observing the fortress and city gate in the distance.
Suddenly, the sentry soldiers warned that a group of aliens was approaching from the east.
Bai Qi could see from the gestures of the sentry warriors that there were not many enemies coming, and there was not much danger, so he immediately ordered everyone to disperse and hide, forming an ambush circle.
Soon, seven or eight sneaky-looking humanoids came into Bai Qi's line of sight, a dwarf creature that was only one meter two to one meter three in height.
They look a bit like miniature lizardmen, but they don't resemble humans in proportions.
Their legs are short, and when they stand, their legs are unconsciously spread to the sides, and with the thick lizard tail behind them, their lower body looks like a lizard walking upright.
Their upper body proportions look more human-like, and their head is a triangular lizard head like that of a lizardman, the only difference is that some of the creatures have short horns on their heads, and even if they don't have horns, they have two bulges in their corresponding positions.
They have tiny dark red scales and are dressed in rudimentary leather armor.
Bai Qi had heard of this creature in Gris's mouth, it was a kobold, and from the outside, the name seemed to be very incompatible, but in fact the name came from their bark, much like a puppy.
In the Emerald Kingdom, the Green Dragons are high, every Green Dragonman is a nobleman and an officer, the Lizardman acts as a soldier, and the Kobolds are outright slaves, they are not only enslaved by the Green Dragons, but even the Lizardmen, who are also slaves, have the right to enslave them, and in the event of war, they will be thrown into the battlefield as cannon fodder.
The kobold's combat effectiveness is very weak, even far inferior to that of humans, but because of their short stature, flexible movements, and not slow running speed, they are barely qualified for reconnaissance.
The kobolds sneakily groped towards the edge of the forest towards Morlinger.
The kobolds had very smart noses, and as soon as they walked into the ambush circle, they all stopped and sniffled, apparently discovering something.
Without hesitation, Bai Qi jumped out from behind the ambushed tree and stunned the kobold who was leading the way with a single punch.
The reaction of the other warriors was not slower than Bai Qi's, and the remaining seven or eight kobolds were killed like chopping melons and vegetables before they could make any sound.
Bai Qi couldn't help but congratulate himself on his fast movements, he grabbed the stunned kobold and retreated towards the depths of the forest. (To be continued......)