The patrol team followed the usual patrol route, away from the small town of Greenwita, and after traveling about five kilometers to the southwest, a mountain range came into view in the distance.

This mountain range is the largest mountain range in the southern part of the former Frankish kingdom and is called the Gretius Mountains.

If you continue south from Greenwitai Lesser Town, if you don't want to pass through this valley southwest of Greenwitai Lesser Town, you can only bypass the Gresius Mountains by detouring hundreds of kilometers to the east or west.

As a result, this mountain range became a clear dividing line between the north and south sides of the eastern part of the former Frankish kingdom.

Nearly a month ago, under the attack of the Marfa coalition army, the army of the Lampari Kingdom retreated all the way to the area of the Gretius Mountains, and withstood the attack of the Marfa coalition army with the fortifications they had built in advance in the only passable valley in the Gresius Mountains.

It has to be said that the fact that the Lampari Kingdom has built the fortifications here is too strong.

In this month, the Marfa coalition launched a total of fourteen attacks on the valley, many of which were attacked by four magisters leading the most powerful mages in the alliance, but they were still unable to break through the defenses.

Even under the counterattack of the army of the Lampari Kingdom, the Marfa coalition army suffered heavy losses, and in less than a month of fighting, more than 20,000 soldiers were directly killed, and the rest were seriously injured more than 40,000, and countless minor injuries were numerous.

And that's not all, the real loss is that in these fourteen battles, the Marfa coalition army has killed more than a hundred high-level magicians under the counterattack of the army of the Lampari Kingdom, and even two great magicians have been killed in battle.

In addition, even the four magicians together can't do anything. For a time, this mountain range became an insurmountable barrier in front of the Marfa coalition army. Preventing them from continuing to expand their gains. Take back the territory that originally belonged to the Frankish kingdom from the Lampari Kingdom.

In the past week, the top brass of the Marfa coalition has temporarily abandoned the attack on the Tianming Valley, deciding to stabilize the situation in the territory of the former Frankish Kingdom recaptured from the Lampari Kingdom before making plans.

So now the armies of the two sides are temporarily on fire near the Gresius Mountains and are in a state of standoff.

Of course, this does not mean that the two sides will really be at peace.

Whether it is the Marfa coalition or the Lampari kingdom, they will inevitably find an opportunity to attack again.

Therefore, the Marfa coalition has been stepping up reconnaissance patrols in the area of the Gresius Mountains during this time, on the one hand, to prevent a sudden counterattack by the Lampari Kingdom. On the one hand, it is also to find loopholes in the army of the Lampari Kingdom and break through the Gretius Mountains in one fell swoop.

Lieutenant Nokmo and his scout team of seventeen Frankish soldiers were one of the many squads tasked with the reconnaissance mission.

Lieutenant Nokmo and his men have patrolled the area so many times these days that they can tell where they are going with their eyes almost closed, so naturally there is no need to explore.

Now that they have entered a place where they can see the Greshuus Mountains in the distance with the naked eye, they have reached the area where they really need to be vigilant.

According to the information obtained during the previous battle with the army of the Lampari Kingdom, the army of the Lampari Kingdom is now equipped with the latest type of magic artillery provided by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and the range of flat ground can already exceed four kilometers.

And if you attack from above the Greshuus Mountains from top to bottom, the range can easily exceed five kilometers.

Therefore, Lieutenant Nokmo and his men entered this area, which meant that they could be attacked by the magic artillery of the Lampari Kingdom army at any time. Life is in danger at any time.

Of course, this is only a theoretical consideration.

In fact, the Lampari Kingdom certainly wouldn't waste its precious magic cannonballs on the Marfa Coalition reconnaissance team, who knows where. This precious resource is usually used only in head-to-head fire.

In terms of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, in addition to using the magic airship in the sky to conduct reconnaissance, the Lampari Kingdom will also send scout teams to leave the Gresius Mountains for reconnaissance most of the time.

After the huge and seemingly incomparable image of the magic airship drifted through his mind, Lieutenant Nokmo raised his head and looked at the sky, and found that there were no suspicious black dots flying in the sky at this time, so he nodded and calmed down.

Because the Lampari Kingdom has a magic airship, the overall movement and a lot of information will be easily detected, which has suffered a lot in this regard.

Just two days ago, three reconnaissance teams of the Marfa coalition army were attacked by the army of the Lampari Kingdom when they approached the vicinity of the Greshuus Mountains, and not even a single one of them was recovered.

So, even though Lieutenant Nokmo and his squad hadn't seen a single Lampari Kingdom army for a week, he was still careful at this time to avoid being a high-profile target.

After leading his men to the Gresius Mountains in the lush forest at the foot of the Gresius Mountains, about two kilometers closer, Lieutenant Nokmo signaled everyone to stop, and then waved his hand, and the team members were in full alert.

Prepared for this, Lieutenant Nockmo believed that the squad he led would be enough to easily wipe out an unprepared squad of the Frankish Kingdom.

But once the other party has a warning preparation...... Don't think too much about it, it's better to run for your life.

The countless battles with the Lampari Kingdom before have proved that although the Marfa coalition army has several times the strength of the Lampari Kingdom, the real advantage is only the help provided by the four Magisters.

Without the help of the four Magisters, on the frontal battlefield, traditional soldiers like Lieutenant Nokmo, who were still armed with swords, and the soldiers of the Lampari Kingdom who had fully armed themselves with military magic machines would probably be able to take them away.

"Hey, if only there was a lone Lampari soldier. If you take advantage of his unpreparedness to solve him, you will be able to snatch the equipment on him. ”

Thinking of the various artifacts and powerful individual military magic machines on the soldiers of the Lampari Kingdom, Lieutenant Nokmo couldn't help but drool a little.

If he could have such a set of equipment, I am afraid that a single mage would have a hope of success.

Of course, he also knew that even if he really ran into the lone Lampari Kingdom soldier and snatched the military magic machinery from the other party, the final result would be taken away by the above.

At present, the Maro Empire is in great need of various military magic machinery equipped by the army of the Lampari Kingdom, just to be able to have more examples to study and imitate.

It is said that within the Maro Empire, a large team of magicians and craftsmen has been organized, and they are going all out to study military magic machinery, in order to close the arms gap with the camp of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as much as possible.

However, this kind of thing obviously can't be fruitful in a short period of time, at least Lieutenant Nokmo didn't see how many military magic machines were suddenly in the armies of the Marlow Empire.

Seeing that his men were already lurking in their respective positions, Lieutenant Nockmo climbed a tree, hid himself in the trunk, took out a telescope, and peered through the gaps in the branches and leaves to the distant Gretius Mountains.

Actually, it's nothing to look at.

In the previous week-long reconnaissance, every time Lieutenant Nokmo and his men came to observe the vicinity, they would find that the army of the Kingdom of Lampari on the Gretius Mountains was honestly located in the positions they had built on the mountains, and they did not come out at all.

Even if I saw a few figures occasionally, it would only flash by for a moment, and I couldn't see any specific movement at all.

However, Lieutenant Nokmo was tasked with observing whether there was any unusual behavior on the part of the Lampari Kingdom, and as long as he was here to monitor for a day, he would be considered to have completed his mission.

After looking at it for a while, after making sure that there was nothing unusual in the camp of the Lampari Kingdom army in the distance, Lieutenant Nokmo yawned boredly and prepared to retract his binoculars and rest for a while.

As soon as this thought came to him, a dark spot suddenly appeared in the field of view of his telescope.

Lieutenant Nokmo was stunned for a moment, and quickly looked at it, and quickly judged that this should be a magic airship.

The magical airship flew from the southern skies of the Gretius Mountains, and then slowly descended into the position of the Lampari Kingdom on the mountains.

Because of the fence, Lieutenant Nokmo didn't see anyone or cargo coming down from the magic airship.

However, according to the information provided by other reconnaissance teams before, the Lampari Kingdom often has magic airships flying from the south, and it is speculated that what supplies are being transported from the south to the Lampari Kingdom troops stationed in the Gretius Mountains.

When he heard this information before, Lieutenant Nokmo was still a little unconvinced, because there are only twenty magic airships in the Maro Empire, and all of them have been divided among the highest-ranking people in the Maro Empire, and there is only one in the Marfa Alliance, which shows how precious this thing is.

And as far as Lieutenant Nokmo knows, the flight of the magic airship is very expensive, and it is obviously not cost-effective to use this thing to transport supplies.

Even if the Lampari Kingdom had a large number of magical airships, it should not be so extravagant and wasteful.

But as if he had deliberately tried to slap Lieutenant Nokmo in the face, the idea came to his mind when another magical airship came into his sight.

Before he could react, one magic airship after another appeared in the sky in the far south, and soon a black cloud formed in the sky, almost covering the entire Gretius Mountains.

Seeing this abnormal situation, no matter how ignorant Lieutenant Nokmo was, he knew that something was going to happen. (To be continued......)