85. Start fighting
Overlapping, the mist like marshmallow kept smashing into Jiajing's face, the height was unbearable, dancing to figure out the shadow, how it seemed to be in the world, overlooking the earth from a high altitude, everything became as small as gravel, and the endless strong wind made Jiajing shiver, Jiajing already felt the chill invade his body.
The prairie outside Punksa City is surrounded by swamps and treants, and other forces that want to invade this vast prairie will have to cross the treants, swamps, and elite spheres of influence.
The strength of the swamp tribe is poor, but relying on the treacherous terrain, it is difficult for outside forces to penetrate.
The military strength of the Treants and the Elite Empire is evenly matched, so foreign forces cannot invade the grasslands through them.
Thanks to the fact that the Treants are born peace-loving and never take the initiative to invade other races, and there are several steppe elf tribes in the prairie, the Treants and the elves are like two races that depend on each other, and they will not invade the prairie.
And the Elite didn't want to set foot in the grasslands to thrive, so as not to cheapen the swamp wars year after year, so they just stationed their main forces in Punksa City, making the prairies a buffer zone between the Elites and the swamp forces.
The swamp people also did not dare to settle on the prairie, for fear that one day they would get a devil to enter the village and sweep them on a whim. The resourceful swamp tribes never kill the herdsmen who live in the savannah so that they can be their own farmers, and they rush up to the prairie to loot the herdsmen's livestock and grain every day when the autumn wind blows.
The swamp people will not do everything, even if they round up the herdsmen, they will not rob them of all their food, but will always leave them some food and mother beasts, so that they can continue to reproduce and survive.
The herders also know this, so every autumn, they will spontaneously prepare food, in case the swamp people come to kill them, they can not dodge, but also can use the grain and livestock to exchange their lives.
It is precisely because of this abnormal balance that the herdsmen of the steppe are multiplying more and more, and in addition, many goblins and Gebrin tribes have moved to the steppe.
When the swamp tribes invaded, they all rounded up the steppe herdsmen and goblin tribes in a scattered manner. In the event that a large army gathers together, the swamp people, who are not good at cavalry warfare, fall into the trap of the elite cavalry regiment and the Heavenly Punishment Legion, it cannot be described as a crushing defeat, and it is likely to be a situation of total annihilation.
There are pros and cons to being spread out. The advantage is that nomads and other tribes living in the steppe can be rounded up on a large scale, more food can be plundered, and the overall strength can be preserved in case of danger. The disadvantage is obvious, the scattered swamp army is not strong in combat, and it is not even as good as the sparsely numbered steppe elf tribe, and it will continue to be sniped by mercenaries who come to pan for gold.
Jiajing and the others encountered a group of more than 30 giant locust air cavalry.
The Locust Sky Cavalry is the powerful air force of the Swamp People, and the Locust King has the racial ability of sonic rays, even more powerful than the human Lion Heron Cavalry.
The giant locust is an insect beast that is a specialty of the swamp people. The average locust is only the size of a fist, but there is a rare chance that the locust will produce a mutated giant locust, and the swamp people are generally called the locust kings. The Locust King is huge, almost the size of a horse, with a hard exoskeleton that can block knives and spears, and has sonic ray abilities, making it very difficult to deal with.
The Swamp People's air force has always been a weak point, and there is no large-scale air force except for the poison flies and blood-sucking giant mosquitoes of the beast tamers. They knew that in the event that other forces invaded the swamp, the preferred type of force would definitely be the air force, so they did not hesitate to capture this giant locust king at the cost of their troops, and artificially cultivate offspring. Whenever they encountered a mutated locust king, the swamp people separated it and cultivated it, and the ordinary locusts served as food for the tamers to tame the beasts. Even when food is scarce, the swamp people fill their stomachs with these hard-to-eat giant locusts.
Although the probability of the Giant Locust King being produced is extremely low, after years of large-scale cultivation by the swamp people, they have really cultivated a Giant Locust Sky Cavalry with a scale of three or four thousand. Although these three or four thousand giant locust cavalry are not their opponents compared to the superb 20,000 lion and heron cavalry, the swamp tribe has always cherished these giant locust air cavalry, and rarely let them leave the swamp territory. If you want to destroy the giant locust sky cavalry in the swamp, even if all the 20,000 elite lion and heron cavalry are dispatched, at least more than half of them must be left. Those poisonous flies, blood-sucking giant mosquitoes, bipedal wyverns, and poisonous lizard shooters can all pose a great threat to the lion and heron cavalry.
Now Muhan actually encountered a team of giant locust air cavalry that rarely appeared, he knew about these giant locust air cavalry through the intelligence information of the empire, and he couldn't help but feel a move in his heart, wanting to personally try the strength of these giant locust air cavalry, anyway, the empire will meet them sooner or later, and it is more conducive to the empire to formulate a plan to capture the castle of ten thousand beasts.
When Payne sent him to help Paulizons, he had already informed Muhand, of his plans to capture the castle of the beasts.
However, Muhan was also secretly worried in his heart, he did not expect that the swamp people actually sent the giant locust air cavalry to search, it seems that this time they are very short of food, I am afraid that they will not easily retreat to the swamp, attack the castle of ten thousand beasts, presumably will encounter more fierce resistance. Muhan was already considering whether to ask His Majesty Payne to cancel the operation and wait until the next year to send troops.
Thinking about it, to test the strength of the locust air cavalry, Muhan will inevitably do it. He motioned for Disney Nani to slow down, smiled at Jiajing, and said, "Brother, do you want to see how our dragon knights fight?"
Jiajing had already noticed the giant insect creature like locusts below, and said, "You're going to deal with those air forces? ”
Muhand laughed and said, "Don't say it's more than thirty giant locust air cavalry, even if it's more than three hundred, it's not in the eyes of me and Disney. Brother, just hold on to it. But pay attention to those knights, I heard that they are all lizardman warriors who are proficient in bows and arrows, and their combat effectiveness in close quarters is not weak. In case you are not accustomed to air combat, you can't support it, just speak out. ”