The entire outpost was blown up and completely destroyed, all the buildings were structurally damaged, and the underground pipes were completely useless. The Human Empire is experienced in this kind of thing, and the large amount of special potions that have been spilled on the outpost has destroyed the environment around the outpost, killing all plants and even insects.

Watson is a dark human with a thriving stature. Like Lacemesses and the previously dead Spider Demon Sir Li Wenxiang, he is also the kind of dark nobleman who has no family background support, completely relies on himself, and climbs from the lowest level of the dark world step by step. The title of earl is in itself a recognition of Watson's ability. Watson's canonization ceremony was very formal, and it was favored by a marquis, and because he dared to kill, it was logical, starting as a knight and rising all the way up to the current earl.

A large number of dark warriors were released, forming a guard within a radius of several kilometers. Dozens of Dark Knights swarmed around Watson, slowly walking through the devastated outpost.

There was blood and death everywhere.

It was no longer possible to distinguish the true nature of the corpses, each of them was chopped to pieces, and the blood had long since been absorbed by the mud and turned into a dry silt-like substance solidified on the surface of the clods. The decaying effect of the special potion was very obvious, all the pieces of flesh turned into slime, the broken bones were thrown everywhere, and the air was covered with dense black and gray flying insects. The effects of the Substance's Corruption have ended, and its toxicity has been greatly reduced. Although there wasn't much left, it was still an extremely hearty meal for them.

The Earl of Watson put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked leisurely along the ruins. He rejected Jianyi, who was accompanied by his cronies and knights, and walked into the outpost alone, staring at everything he could see with his gloomy and cold eyes.

The outpost in my impression is a place with ordinary defense capabilities but full functions. Whether it is the human empire or the dark world, the key to winning or losing a battle is often not the number of exhibitors, or the number of weapons and equipment. Logistics is a topic and main reason that no one can ignore. The reason why Count Watson is favored by the high dark nobles is also because he pays attention to the aspects that the dark creatures ignore, and he is particularly outstanding in the transfer and storage of materials, and the distribution of materials. Count Watson has always believed that his soldiers must be fed, and then they will have enough strength to kill and get more benefits for themselves.

The blazing sun shone straight down from the sky, and Count Watson's face was completely overshadowed. Although it was silent and its steps were light, those who knew it well knew that it meant that the Count's heart was full of rage, and that it could erupt like a volcano at any moment.

The live farm was the first important facility to be established at the outpost. Its basic composition, including a frozen sperm bank, and a biological womb that produced the first living human bodies. These two things cost a lot of money, and usually, only the long-established nobles could afford to buy them. Watson is just a new dark aristocrat with limited financial and resource resources at his disposal. It had to settle for the next best thing, and its exorbitant price, buying thirty human slave girls from the Dark World slave market. Then, he ordered his Dark Knight to lead the battle squad and slaughter in the neighboring area, bringing back a dozen strong men.

It's not an idea, it's just the best idea.

To be precise, it was just a plan drawn up by Earl Watson five years ago. Beautiful and fertile female slaves are expensive, and with Watson's financial resources, he can buy less than ten people at most. The plundering and capture of human males is not as simple as imagined. It took Watson several years to put together a complete system of food production, with fifty-two slave girls and a steady and continuous food supply.

Within the dark world, it is extremely difficult to expand the wealth. Even if you are in business, you must have a lot of capital. The aristocratic family has a firm grip on various resources, and it becomes awkward and difficult for a new aristocrat like Watson to really get ahead. There are only two ways to be powerful, first, take the initiative to join a ready-made aristocratic family, act as a strong hunting dog, or a thug. In this case, you can add a surname to your first name, but it doesn't have to be a family lineage or valued. You will always be just an outsider, a speculator who wants to take advantage of the convenience of your family and be despised by others.

Another way is to go to the gray area between the two powers and plunder the human empire.

Watson's outpost, which has been built for more than a year. It's not in a straight line between Konoha and the Dark World, but closer to some small human settlements to the west. Watson was cunning, knowing that he was too weak to fight the human army directly like the other Dark Earls with the support of the Maison. Watson has always kept his true strength hidden, and every time he goes out to plunder, the leader will not exceed two knights. This kind of battle usually goes unnoticed by the human army, and Watson did benefit from it, capturing more than six hundred human captives back and forth.

With the exception of a few strong, handsome, specially selected men for breeding, all the remaining captives were sold by Watson on the slave market in the Dark World.

Watson loved the hunter-like life he was living now. It didn't need to go back to the dark world and bow down to the Marquis who had bestowed it the title of Earl. Both humans and dark creatures love freedom. Watson's greatest dream was to accumulate capital through this brutal and barbaric plunder, so as to produce his own family.

This is probably the common idea of every dark creature, but it is really difficult to make it a reality.

Looking at the half-dry dirt beneath his feet, Watson was expressionless. After a few minutes, it turned and hooked its finger at one of its cronies standing in the distance, and the knight immediately ran over and stood respectfully beside him.

"Did you find it? Who did it, exactly? Watson asked.

The knight was not as tall as Watson, but the muscles on his body were unusually strong and powerful. It kept its head down, and replied in a low but clear voice: "We found some tracks left by human armored combat vehicles, five in all. Based on the narrowness of the track and the depth of the traces, it can be roughly inferred that the number of attackers was not less than fifty. The mutilation of the flames indicates that the weapon belongs to the Human Imperial Legion, and that most of the bone fragments were caused by the Chainsaw Sword. ”

Count Watson nodded, a hint of ferocity in his slender glasses: "In other words, the main army of the human race is nearby." Are they ruining this place? ”

The Dark Knight replied respectfully, "Indeed. The problem is that we don't know exactly how many of each other there are. If all the attackers were members of the legion, then we ...... I'm afraid it's not their opponent. ”

This is an obvious fact. Although Watson was an earl, he was not strong enough to dare to go head-to-head with the main army of the Empire. Even if the opponent is just a legion tactical squad, the comprehensive combat effectiveness far exceeds the poor family of Count Watson. Of course, if you take off the power armor, it's different. Watson could have led his vast arsenal of Dark Knights to slaughter the damned legionnaires. Unfortunately, this assumption can never become a reality. It was precisely because of seeing the huge difference in physique between humans and dark creatures that the Emperor himself developed the Power Battle Armor. The power of this weapon is far beyond imagination, and with the perfect tacit cooperation, even a dark marquis would never take the initiative to provoke the main human army that is not afraid of death on the battlefield.

This Dark Knight is of ordinary strength, and the reason why he was able to become a cronie of Watson's side was not only because he was absolutely obedient to the Count's orders, but also because he was smarter than the rest of his kind and knew what to say and when. For example, now, with Watson's ability, it is impossible to win the Legion combat unit. The Dark Knight didn't puncture the problem, but very cleverly extended the problem to the number of opponents. It knew that the Earl could understand the meaning of the words, and since it couldn't even defeat ten legionnaires, it simply raised the number a little, fifty, hundred, two hundred...... Anyway, the result is all the same.

Watson was not angry. It smiled calmly and did not speak.

The anger in the heart should not be visible to the subordinates. Otherwise, it means that a counterattack must be launched now. Doing so is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. What's more, now I don't even know where the opponent is.

Watson was quick to decide.

"Issue a summoning order to assemble all combatants. Send out scouts and follow the trails. I want to see who is so bold as to burn and loot my territory. ”

By the time he said this, Watson's eyes had been clouded with a layer of bright red. Of course, the Dark Knight understood his master's inner thoughts at this moment, so he added very timely: "This is an insult to you, Lord Earl. We must take back the losses from those damned humans. ”

Watson's anger was comforted by this remark. It nodded approvingly: "That's right, they have to pay a price, a terrible price!" ”

……

Su Hao didn't know that a group of extremely vindictive followers appeared behind him. Leaving the dark creatures' outpost, the convoy began to turn and begin to move in a northeasterly direction, on the side of Konoha Town.

When Dai Xiaolou handed the regiment major badge to Su Hao, his words were very clear: This is a very high position, a special military rank comparable to that of a brigadier general of the National Defense Army. If it weren't for the fact that Coxen's special biological samples were favored by the Imperial Research Institute, thus replacing a large number of imperial contribution points, Su Hao would not have been able to become a major in the legion at all. Under normal circumstances, he would have to endure at least five years, or even longer, in his original position, and hundreds of fierce and brutal battles before he could become a team commander.

There is such a thing as "lucky". However, while you get it, it often means more, greater responsibility.

On the power map of the "Iron Warriors" legion, a small place in Konoha Town has been added. It is designated as the source of premium zircon and is managed as a defensive area that must be carefully guarded. Under this premise, Su Hao's responsibilities become particularly obvious. He had to expand the outer space of Konoha Town as much as possible to obtain a buffer zone that was spacious enough. Because of this, Count Watson's outpost was included in Su Hao's attack range and must be cleared.

When the convoy entered Lartasen, it was just around noon.

It is a small settlement more than 100 kilometers away from Konoha Town in a straight line. The area is not too large, equivalent to about one-third of Konoha Town. There are also bars and inns, a casino and a bakery, a small solar power plant and a cement production workshop.

The population of Lartassen is about 4,000, which is not an exact number, but varies according to the season and time of day. Summer is the hunting season for all hunters and mercenaries, and when they gather in large numbers, prostitutes, women and merchants appear. These people's noses are always very bright, and they can smell money accurately, just like flies are especially sensitive to blood and rancid stench, hence the bustle.

Like all human settlements in the border zone, Lartasen has its own armed forces. It was a mercenary force of about 300 men, subordinate to the mayor. The construction and development of Laltasen and its creation are exactly the same as those of Konoha Town, because the merchants want to reduce the cost of traveling between the inner regions of the empire because they want to reduce the cost of traveling between the borders and the inner regions of the empire, so as to establish their own small towns here.

From the map, Larta Forest is located right on the edge of Konoha Town's defensive radius. This is a very vague concept, and the Legion Headquarters did not issue a specific index on the defensive radius of Konoha Town, nor did it issue a document on a specific combat area. This is the equivalent of a higher being handing over a position to the troops, demanding that you have to hold it, without further detailed instructions. What to do in the end depends entirely on the commander's own judgment.

Lartasen's defenses were very tight. High walls and barbed wire, mines were planted nearby, and the weapons on the guard towers were also heavy machine guns and combined machine guns. This shows that the defenders are capable of keeping out foreign enemies and protecting their homeland.

The arrival of Su Hao's team set off a sensation in Lartasen. Not everyone had the opportunity to get up close and personal with the Legionnaires, their equipment was extremely mysterious, and various stories about the battles were widely circulated among the population. The mayor was an old man who had already left things like the operation of the caravan to his son. He invited Su Hao and the others to drink together, and was amazed by the changes in Konoha Town. The reason why Su Hao chose Lartasen to return to Konoha Town was on the one hand for food supply considerations, and on the other hand, it was also for the communication between the settlements. He promised: If Lartasen is attacked by the Dark World, as long as he receives a call for help, he will definitely lead his troops to come as quickly as possible.

At dawn the next day, Su Hao's convoy left Lartasen.

……

Summoning all the armed forces from the dark world is an extremely time-consuming task. Despite Earl Watson's repeated beard and glare, the build-up of his troops still lasted more than thirty hours.

Count Watson was well aware that he was definitely no match for a fully stocked Imperial Legion battle squad. But it's not the same to concentrate all the forces under your command. It has two dark knights, more than fifty dark knights, and about 3,000 dark warriors who can directly participate in the battle. This is almost all of Earl Watson's family background, and it can be seen that it is indeed difficult for the dark nobles without the support of the family to expand their power. You must know that if it is a wealthy earl, under normal circumstances, there are often more than ten dark knights under his command alone.

The traces left by the "Seeker" armored combat vehicle driving over the ground are very clear. Led by the scouts sent in advance, Count Watson's dark legion arrived on the outskirts of Lartason at midnight on the fourth day.

The Dark Legion showed no traces, and according to the Count's orders, all the dark creatures stopped in the wilderness more than two kilometers away from Lartasen, waiting for further orders.

Count Watson stood on a higher mound and watched Lartason in the night.

It was caught in a dilemma: according to scouts, the human legionnaires who had destroyed Miè's own outpost had left the area a few days earlier. The number of opponents is indeed not as large as expected, and more than half of them are just servant armies with average combat effectiveness. Judging by the direction of the armored vehicle, its target is likely to be Konoha Town, which is located on the border of the Human Empire.

In all fairness, Count Watson really wants to pick things up and catch up with those who are ruining their base. Individual combat is indeed not an opponent, but there are as many as 3,000 dark warriors under his command, and he can use the tactics of crowds to pile those guys to death.

This is only the most perfect idea, and the key factor for success, must be built on the basis of field warfare. Once the opponent enters a human town settlement and relies on fortifications for defense, the odds of victory and defeat will be greatly reduced. Perhaps, there is no hope of victory on his side.

Watson clenched his fists hard, his eyes filled with resentment.

It's not impatient. I just feel that if I lose this opportunity, I am afraid it will be difficult to find the same time to fight. Those humans were running too fast, and although they had vehicles on their side, not all of the Dark Warriors had them. Count Watson also had the financial resources to do this for them. In addition, the consumption of food is also a big problem. Moreover, the key factor for success must be built on the basis of field warfare. Once the opponent enters a human town settlement and relies on fortifications for defense, the odds of victory and defeat will be greatly reduced. Perhaps, there is no hope of victory on his side.

Watson clenched his fists hard, his eyes filled with resentment.

It's not impatient. I just feel that if I lose this opportunity, I am afraid it will be difficult to find the same time to fight. Those humans were running too fast, and although they had vehicles on their side, not all of the Dark Warriors had them. Count Watson also had the financial resources to do this for them. In addition, the consumption of food is also a big problem.