Chapter 344: The Conquest (I)
The King of Thorns, who successfully completed the mission, faded from the glory of the natural demigod at a speed visible to his eyes due to reaching the time limit for summoning, and Lu Bin immediately sent him back to the island closely connected to the Wilderness Crown through the Book of the Traveling Mage. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The newborn Dragontooth Soldier curiously walked over and huddled together, and through the crystal-textured portal, he saw the lush forest, and was in awe of the magical methods of the "father".
Lu Bin closed the portal with his hand, and looked sideways at the goddess of water draped on his body: "Letis, you are the master of the Elidanus River, tell me the distribution of forces in this great river basin." ā
Letis, who was beautiful at the ankle, thought about it carefully, and then picked out the important city-states and monster nests that he knew, and gave a brief explanation to Lu Bin's ears.
"Illyria, the son of Cadmus, the founder of Thebas, once ruled the land and became the ancestor of the region and its inhabitants. On the vast plain, there are seven cities, including Lisos and Epidamnos. Lake Ohrid, with its abundant water and grass, is home to Cadmus and Halmonia, who have become dragons, immortal beings, and are madly worshipped by the inhabitants of the neighborhood. ā
Lu Bin closed his eyes, listened to the narration of the goddess of water, and couldn't help but nod lightly: "I understand, the remnants of Thebai, the capital of the hundred gates, have established a loose seven-city alliance in Illyria, and the two-headed big snake that supports them behind their backs. ā
After a moment of silence, Lu Bin opened his eyes, and did not look at the shocked Letis, but looked at the heavily armed dragon tooth soldiers, who sowed the sons they had sown on the earth with their own hands, and issued orders to them: attack the city of Lisos, plunder the trophies of the warriors, and collect slaves to build the city.
Subsequently, Lu Bin asked Casio and the others to go to the nearby sparse forest to collect the wood necessary to build a shack, as well as the firewood and grass that was covered on it and laid on the ground.
It didn't take long for the two demigods to lead a hundred dragontooth soldiers who rivaled the heroes to march towards the nearest Lisos, with the aim of looting the city, and they would not stop if the profits were not rich enough.
Their march was fast, a distance of three hundred miles, and it took only two hours to reach their destination. Lu Bin, who led the way in front, saw the city built on the mountain, with layers of city walls, very similar to the Atlas City on Hilla Island.
Lu Bin took the initiative to slow down, and the dragon tooth soldier with an even breath behind him immediately understood, and also followed the rhythm of lowering the swing of his legs, and the ambition to make contributions quickly flourished after discovering the target, and his heart was even more burning.
A team of ten patrols appeared in Lu Bin's field of vision, they were lazy by nature, and even the leather armor inlaid with copper nails was too hot to wear, hanging on the spear, not like a battle flag, but a heavy burden. Even when they found the dragon tooth soldiers of the hundred-man team, they did not immediately enter the battle mode, but laughed at each other.
Lu Bin couldn't help but shake his head, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers, and in the first row at the front of the line, there were ten "sons" given by the earth who took the initiative to stand up, raised the copper-tipped spears in their hands, and threw them vigorously towards the patrol of Lisos City.
On the opposite side, the prey at a distance of nearly two hundred paces had not yet reacted, and was nailed to the ground by a spear like a meteor through the chest, even if it died, his face was still confused and puzzled.
Later, the team continued to advance, and after these weak chicken-like patrols, the ten sets of equipment unique to Lisos City immediately fell into Lu Bin's hands.
Before the official start of the war, the dragon tooth soldiers splashed blood with their own hands, and Lu Bin saw that on their faces, there was no nervousness of rookie recruits, only a fanatical desire to fight, and he couldn't help but nod lightly.
The tributaries of the Elidanus River circulate the city, and a simple irrigation system provides a steady stream of living water for crops to the land reclaimed outside the city.
Lu Bin saw hundreds of slaves scattered in the farmland outside the city, their heads buried deeply, almost touching the ground, exposing the dry and thin backs of the backbone, wet with sweat of hard work, sliding to the ground, wetting the ground under his feet.
"Kill the overseers with leather whips, take all the slaves captive, and kill those who disobey on the spot, and I will not spare the blood of my enemies, and the earth will not be disgusted with our sacrifice. ā
The Dragontooth soldiers roared wildly, armed with their innate armor and weapons, following their gaze on their target, scattering in all directions, charging towards the overwhelmed slave overseers.
Lu Bin saw the "son" whistling by, swept past his location, ran wildly in the field regardless of the terrain, and the slaves who couldn't avoid were directly knocked away, and then the delicate scarlet blood flowers continued to bloom, and when he heard the sound of heavy objects constantly falling to the ground, the skirt of the goddess of victory had already secretly lifted a corner.
What happened in the farmland outside the city of Lisos was soon discovered by the guards of the city walls, who sounded the battle horn and began to gather the regular army in the city.
The Dragon's Tooth soldiers killed thirty overseers, armed with ash spears, and drove the slaves scattered across the farmland to Lu Bin's location. The disobedient were killed on the spot, and death and blood were like invisible whips, whipping tame livestock, and no one was left behind or killed.
Hearing of the captivity of slaves being taken captive and slaughtering the overseers of the city's first warrior and the god-favored hero of the city, Axeith angrily threw down the finely carved silver platters and allowed the fresh fruit to fall on the carpet.
He suddenly got up, stretched out his hand to remove his sumptuous robes, and walked out of the door with his broad feet, where the temple warriors from noble backgrounds and warriors from famous families all left their abode with angry faces after hearing the bad news.
"Assemble!" Axet's roar echoed like thunder through the upper part of Lisos, and the heavily armed warriors left their homes and passed through the wide streets, like a trickle of water converging into a raging river.
The high priest of the temple suddenly palpitated inexplicably, as if he had been devoured by a poisonous snake, and in order to send his inner breath to be uneasy, he prayed to the gods sincerely for guidance, as was customary.
Immediately afterwards, the high priest found that the gods he was serving had not responded for a long time, and the eternal flame of the oracle was even more low than ever, and he couldn't help but be optimistic about the final outcome of this battle, and immediately ordered the temple warriors to stay where they were, in the name of his own authority and the gods.
Axet, the first warrior of the city of Lisos, immediately learned of the movement of the temple, he was also a person who was very favored by the gods, and the blood of Cadmus, the founder of Theba, the capital of a hundred gates, flowed in his body, and immediately changed his mind, and ordered the city wall guards to seal the city gate tightly after they passed, and prepare for battle.
When Lu Bin saw that his sons had gathered up the spoils of the plunder, he ordered ten of them to carry the slaves back, and more than a thousand tame cattle bowed their heads in panic and were driven out of the city of Lisos in a daze, and no one dared to resist, because those who resisted were killed.
The goddess of water, Letis, turned into a clear spring and covered Lu Bin's body, like a piece of silver armor, flowing back and forth. She leaned on Lu Bin's ear, commented on the sergeant of Lisos City, and pointed out the important people among them, so that Lu Bin could have a general understanding.
Axeith, the first warrior with full confidence, decided to go out of the city to fight, and led his companions who got along day and night, jumping directly from the ten-meter-high city wall to the ground outside.
When Lu Bin saw the soldiers pouring out like a tide, he couldn't help but compare them with his "sons", and found that except for a few of them, most of the soldiers were rookies on the battlefield.
"This is a noble soldier who is indulged in a good life, his armament is gradually relaxed, he has not experienced the baptism of battle, and he is useless. The dragon tooth soldiers I sown with my own hands will definitely be able to fight ten at a time. This also means that the battle formation of less than 500 people on the opposite side is not enough for us to slash and kill. ā
At this moment, the First Warrior Axeith received a pair of bows and arrows from his close companions, the weapons blessed in the temple of Apollo the Long-Range Shooter, the white curved bow like the moon in the sky, and the black arrows stained with deadly snake venom.
Aksheet stretched out his hand and drew his bow and arrows, pouring his anger and hatred into it, even from a long distance, he believed that he would definitely hit.
Lu Bin immediately found that he was being targeted, there was a pinprick like a tingling sensation in the center of his eyebrows, he squinted his eyes and scanned the opponent's battle formation, and he immediately found the target.
"How is it possible? I am at least a thousand paces away from him, and the effective killing distance of an ordinary bow and arrow is a hundred paces, is this a declaration of war? Or is it arrogance beyond my own strength?"
With a "sigh", the pitch-black arrow was like lightning, and it was shot out by a curved bow wrapped in white cow hair, and it crossed a long distance beyond common sense, heading straight for the target's front door.
Lu Bin felt a biting chill, and at the last moment, his right hand reached out as fast as lightning and grabbed the sharp arrow less than an inch from the center of his eyebrows.