Once surrounded by obsidian avenues and bustling suburban towns, the Forge's surroundings have been flooded with dark forests that can startle countless birds with a single stone.

"This is the dwarven imperial capital known as the City of Steel?"

Sissi sits on a flying dragon and uses a million-dollar monocular to admire the Fort Furnace, which sits dozens of miles away.

Because it is inhabited by dwarves and dragonmen, the city is not completely dark, there are some dim sparks dotted with sparks, and the towering watchtower on the tower of the city is hung with large spar lanterns, which emit a light that can be seen from afar, representing the territory of the Red Dragon King, and the trespasser dies.

The dwarven forging and building craftsmanship is worthy of being ranked among the top three races in the Western Earth Continent, and the Forge's Fort was directly hollowed out and built in a large mountain peak up to 3,000 meters high, and the exquisite craftsmanship has no trace of knife sharpening and axe chiseling, making the city and nature natural, as if it was naturally formed.

"Found it!"

A mercenary's shout broke the silence, and everyone gathered towards him with excited expressions.

Felled trees were piled up next to them, torches crackled and lit up the holes in the ground, and a group of mercenaries had just dug a large entrance, and before they had cleared the dirt, five scouts had already entered with crossbows under the orders of the deputy regiment.

The Forge Fortress is covered with cobweb-like tunnels that cover a radius of fifty kilometers outside the city.

This is a dwarven defense, and any invading legion will be subjected to constant sneak attacks before it can approach the imperial capital, and whether it is pursued or not, it will slow down the march.

For the dwarves who are good at mining and digging tunnels, this amount of work is simply unbearable. They are natural experts in tunnel warfare.

In their defense plan, even if the empire fell, they could hide underground and attack the enemy, but after so many years, no empire could capture the royal capital. Instead, he was driven out by Smaug.

"The idea of tunnel warfare is good, why did Smaug still stay?"

Perrin was surprised that he would have a headache if he encountered this kind of tactic.

"At that time, the dwarves were defeated in the war with the dark elves, and the men lost more than fifty percent, and Smaug killed the king of the dwarves at that time, and the princes had no intention of dealing with foreign enemies, and they were all vying for the throne of the king, in short, the situation at that time was a mess. ”

Dupont shrugged his shoulders.

"The dwarves don't want to give up the Crucible either. In the final battle, the eldest prince won a crushing victory and occupied the place, but in the face of Smaug, he was gradually weakened until he died. ”

Valentine's loud voice rang out, wanting to make a gesture in front of Sissi.

"The dwarven king of the second continent is not strictly orthodox, just an unlucky ghost who has been defeated. He himself definitely didn't expect to go to the second layer back then, but let him sit on the throne. By the way, the two princes who went to the fourth layer were defeated by the Drow elves and made into dark mummies. ”

Alonzo interjected, not letting his opponent concentrate on the front.

"Mummy?"

Sissi exclaimed.

"Yes, the High Priests of the Drow Elves can use dark magic and vast amounts of potions to mummify those who are strong. Fight for them. ”

Valentine deliberately lowered his tone to add to the atmosphere of terror.

"Living?"

Sissi was a little scared.

"Yes, corpses are fine, but they are not as powerful as those made from living people. Dupont sighed, "In the hands of the Drow Elves." You can't die if you want to. ”

"It should be said that there is no peace when they die, and their souls will be used by them, either to sacrifice to the queen of the Roseworm spider, or to awaken the puppets and feed the beasts. ”

Alonzo has been underground for a long time, and is most familiar with the deeds of these drows.

"What if I get lost in there?"

Sissi looked at the entrance of the tunnel, a little worried, as for the beast, she knew that it was a demonic beast that was domesticated and fed artificially, but it was almost lost by now, and it was only a race like Zhuoer that retained a trace of ancient inheritance that would be lucky enough to have a secret method of cultivation.

"If you get lost, you can only wait to die, but it doesn't usually happen. ”

As soon as I heard this, it was said by the adventure rookie, if it was someone else, Valente would have spit out a mouthful of saliva, but if it was Sissi, he patiently explained.

Mercenaries have at least five ways to determine their route, and they should be concerned about collapse, flooding, gas, etc., and if they encounter a sneak attack, it will be even more troublesome.

The atmosphere gradually solidified as time passed, and after half an hour, according to the regulations, the first scout should come back to report the preliminary situation, but so far he has not even seen a figure.

"They're not going to die, are they?" Sissi tugged at Downton's sleeve and asked quietly, "What's next?"

"It should be the whole group marching. ”

Downton frowned slightly, looking at this situation, sending people to death would be sent to death, so it was better to set off with the whole group.

The two regimental commanders and Dupont found Mueller together, and after making sure that the map was fine, they gave the order for the whole regiment to march.

"You're right. ”

Sissi was both excited and uneasy.

Downton was silent, there was no need to guess at all, if he was the head of the regiment, he would not stop because of the death of a few people, otherwise the manpower and material resources consumed before would be in vain, and there was a country's treasury waiting in front of him, which was enough to lift the spirit of the regimental members.

"Bad luck!" Valentine failed to draw lots, tore up the note and left, "The vanguard group prepares, and will set off in ten minutes." ”

On the surface, the two teams can summon more than 10,000 mercenaries casually, but here, due to the geographical relationship, they only have more than 600 people available, even if they are all magicians, they don't dare to be careless.

Downton and his party took advantage of Sissi, they could stay at the back of the team, which was the safest position, even if they encountered a sneak attack from the back of the team, they didn't have to take the lead, and when they retreated, they could also leave the tunnel as soon as possible.

"Princess!"

Perrin jumped out of the tunnel, raised his arms, and went to pick up Sissi.

"I can do it!"

Sissi gave Perrin a blank look and jumped off, so many people watched, she didn't want to be seen as a squeamish burden.

"Your Highness's attitude is good. It can boost morale. ”

DuPont complimented him in due course.

The corners of Perrin's mouth twitched, he felt that DuPont was a greater threat than Downton, after all, this guy was from the Dupont family and had a very prominent identity.

Sissi entered the tunnel and immediately felt a clammy breath hit her face. It's like a cold-blooded grass snake cutting through her skin, making her shiver uncontrollably.

After walking less than thirty meters, Sissi glanced back and wanted to quit, but it was too depressing, as if she was imprisoned in a cage, which made people uncomfortable.

The tunnel is only two meters high and three meters wide, which is quite a lot of space for the size of a dwarf. But human beings can't do it, especially Su Ya, a naturally tall and long alien race and a hybrid like Valentine, it's just uncomfortable to die, and when you encounter an enemy here, it's inconvenient to flash and move, and your combat effectiveness is reduced by at least half.

Listening to the cold call next to her, Sissi didn't want to be underestimated, and bit her lip. Gritted his teeth and moved forward.

"Go ahead of me!"

Downton keeps Juliet and Twilight in his field of vision at all times, leaving them to Suya and Tanan.

Old Bu and Cindy didn't resist the temptation of the vault. And it followed.

The tunnels were intricate, dark and damp, the light of the lanterns was imprinted on the walls of the caves, and the figures swayed like the minions of monsters.

"No, I can't hear anything. ”

Hu Tao gave up. The tunnel was full of footsteps and the echo of the clash of armor, and no other sound could be heard, and it was impossible to be vigilant.

"Leave it to the vanguard, just pay attention to the forks in the road. ”

Downton warns Hu Tao not to run around, or he will not find it if he loses it.

Fifteen minutes later. A battle erupted in front of him, and the sound of fighting almost tore through his eardrums.

Valentine had expected this situation, so he arranged for the elite of the Judgment Rank of Yishui, so the enemy's footsteps were blocked.

"Not bad!"

Perrin breathed a sigh of relief, if there was a collapse and crowding in the tunnel, he would be trampled to death if he was not killed.

The shouting continued for twenty minutes before stopping, and the enemy's tactics were clearly trying to frighten the invaders with a ferocious offensive and make them retreat, but failed.

"It's a kobold of garbage, don't worry, keep going!"

The tunnels echoed the shouts of the heralds.

When the smell of blood became stronger, Sissi also saw the corpses of kobolds, all tattered and piled up in the tunnel, the ground soaked in blood and minced flesh, drowning ankles.

After walking for more than a hundred meters, this flesh and blood corridor was not over, and Sissi finally couldn't help it anymore and vomited by holding on to the cave wall.

"Rinse your mouth!"

DuPont handed over the water bladder.

"You don't have to worry about me, go command the team!"

Sissi felt that she was very useless, so many people, she vomited by herself, but she was a little lucky, fortunately she was wearing knee-high boots, otherwise she would have to die of disgust if she poured those flesh into the boots.

Kobolds have a low IQ, have a natural possessive appetite for sands, and are natural mining experts, always relying on their sense of smell to find gold mines and then make holes to live in.

It is the wish of every kobold to cover the cave with gold, and these in the tunnel are obviously forcibly relocated to the people, because they only want to live in the gold mines.

After all, the dwarves loyal to Smaug are a minority, and they can't deploy in all areas, so they can only use kobolds, but the combat effectiveness of these guys is really worrying, and they have left hundreds of corpses themselves, and even the tribal shaman has killed two, and not even a single mercenary has been killed.

"It's boring!"

Hu Tao looked on his toes, but he couldn't see anything but his back, so he looked left and right towards the tunnel he passed by.

"Kill!"

A burst of shouting rang out, and out of the forks on both sides of the tunnel rushed out kobolds with machetes, scarlet eyes, and fierce pounces.

"Don't retreat, defend on the spot!"

The commanders immediately shouted, but the tunnel was too noisy to hear anything, but fortunately, the mercenaries' tactical literacy was not bad, and those who were close to the fork in the road went up directly, and those behind hurriedly put arrows on the crossbows. (To be continued......)

PS: I'm a little cold, but keep working hard to update!