Chapter 626: Thoughts in War
After two days at Duncan's Fortress, Victor and Roland set off to return to Greyhound Village to join the main force of the Vanguard. Gillian and her entourage of more than 100 people remained at Fort Duncan.
The main reinforcements of the Kingdom of Gombis are still half a month away, how can the elite of the vanguard army led by the two highnesses only take one Greyhound Village? Victor and Roland decided to take advantage of this time to recapture all the pioneering villages and towns on the east side of the Duncan Fortress War Zone, and expand the defense of the war zone by 80 kilometers.
Expanding the depth of defense is not as simple as dispersing a group of entrenched orcs and recapturing the village, but also involves repairing houses, expanding fortifications, clearing the wilderness, garrisoning infantry, and supplying materials, but in the final analysis, it is a matter of manpower and material resources. Whoever takes the three mobile forces of the eastern fortress first will be able to replenish high-quality soldiers and supplies first. Highly qualified garrisons can assist the mobile cavalry in combat, which can reduce the casualties of the main reinforcements of Gombis, and the supply of armaments is a top priority, and Gillian is responsible for these matters in connection with the logistics officers of the Sarsangs at Duncan Fortress.
Victor and Roland returned to Greyhound Village and immediately led the vanguard to sweep through the nearby Orc-occupied pioneer villages. These entrenched orcs do not have particularly powerful leaders, and the Gambis vanguard army has legendary marksmen, a golden knight, and 5 silver-level knights, who are completely crushed in strength, but they are a little insufficient in number, and it is a little difficult to clear out the scattered and fleeing orcs. However, at this time, the most important thing is to gain time to clear the field and build a camp, and there is no need to consider the problem of annihilating the orcs. Victor simply changed his combat style, and every time he took the lead in breaking into the village, activating the field of furious winds, full firepower, wind blades dancing, the blue moon and blue blades traversing the whole field, killing orcs with rivers of blood, wolves rushing to the chest, fully demonstrating his strong power to dominate the battlefield.
The Raging Wind Domain is Victor's group combat skill, which can be called the nemesis of small and medium-sized ordinary orcs, although the Azure Wind Blade he released has a limited killing effect on the physically strong and ferocious monsters, but the Furious Wind Domain's efficient and accurate terrorist slaughter of ordinary orcs makes the violent orcs fearful, and the reckless and irascible ogre barbarians charged Victor against the wind blade, and then the head was cut off by the sharp blue blade, as for the fierce orcs who escaped, Roland naturally had Roland to intercept and kill outside.
In fact, the Rage Realm is quite energy-consuming, and Victor must keep the energy to protect himself on the battlefield, and he can only maintain the Rage Realm for four minutes at present. It was these short four minutes that completely crushed the will to resist entrenched orcs, and also subverted everyone's impression of His Highness Randall, especially when Victor brazenly split a silver-level raging ogre in half from shoulder to chest with a single sword, and the high-ranking female knights of Gombis looked at him with tears in their eyes. On the battlefield, there is nothing more inspiring than the power of a hard fight, and the clergy who fought with the army were dumbfounded.
It turns out that His Royal Highness Randall is also a legendary swordsman.
When Victor swept three orc forces in a row with the same attitude, everyone was used to it.
As long as the powerful and violent orcs are killed, those goblins and gnolls who are fleeing in all directions are not a problem, and the Sassanian militia garrison that follows is fully capable of dealing with the scattered orc bandits. The vanguard of the Cambys broke through a pioneer village, rested for only one day, cleaned up the battlefield, released a letter crow to inform Duncan's Fortress, sent a garrison militia to take over the village, and then pounced on the next target.
On the eleventh day, the vanguard finally encountered a slightly more similar opponent, to be precise, Roland deliberately increased the difficulty of the battle.
Maverick Village is the last frontier village to be recovered in the Duncan Fort Defense. Victor had to complain about the custom of the pioneers naming the village, and the first thing that impressed the village chief the most before the pioneer chose to build the village was the name of the village. When the village chief sees a greyhound peeing on the ground, it is called Greyhound Village, when the village chief makes a bonfire, it is called Bonfire Village, and when he sees a mushroom ring, it is called Mushroom Village...... There are also horse manure villages, hen villages, and goose egg villages...... In short, the village chief can call it whatever he sees, so that the name of the village can be auspicious.
What is this?
It is said that the name of Maverick Village comes from the fact that the cow of the village chief's family happened to give birth to a calf at the development site, but the mascot of Maverick Village must have turned into orc dung. The village is now home to a large number of orcs, totaling more than 10,000, mainly goblins and kobolds, and the goblins also have 17 ogre bodyguards and more than 300 bear goblins, and their leader is a silver-tier dragon vein kobold.
The number of these orcs is indeed a little scary, but they have only been together for a short time, and they have not formed the cohesion of the orc tribe, and they have barely succeeded by relying on the intimidation of the dragon vein kobold leader. They were just a rabble, Victor killed the kobold leader first, and when the fight really started, the timid goblins first trampled on each other, and then scattered, and the threat to the vanguard was negligible.
Silver-tier dragon vein kobolds are extremely rare, and their racial talent is quite terrifying. According to the literature of monsterology, the silver-level dragon vein kobold is a transcendent creature, with hard dragon scales on its back, its strong strength is comparable to that of a raging ogre, and it has the regenerative ability and good elemental resistance beyond that of a swamp dragon lizard, and the scorching liquid flame in its mouth cannot be extinguished with water, and the temperature is high enough to melt metal, even if the ogre overseer encounters a silver-level dragon vein kobold, he will choose to avoid it. The most terrifying thing is that they have the legendary dragon power, which can continue to intimidate creatures, making them fear kobolds, weak-willed creatures will succumb to dragon power, and strong-willed creatures must always suppress the fear instinct, and if they are not careful, they will be affected by dragon power and have the idea of escaping, which is extremely fatal in battle.
With their powerful flame breath and dragon might, the silver-tier dragon vein kobold can be regarded as a gold-tier monster. They have a high level of intelligence, so they don't have the psychic power of wild intuition, and their actual combat ability is greatly reduced, and humans have not discovered more powerful dragon vein kobolds so far, so they are classified as silver-level creatures.
As the personal servants of the dragon, the silver dragon vein kobold is full of treasures, their blood can make regeneration potions and dragon vein potions, the back scales are extraordinary materials, using their hearts to mix dragon blood potions can improve the life level of ordinary people, strength and physique change, life span doubled, aging slowed down, maybe they can also have the ability to dim vision.
The difference in value between a living dragon vein kobold and a dead kobold is like Mithril and silver.
Victor personally scouted Maverick Village and confirmed that the orc leader was a rare dragon-vein kobold, and he advocated killing the orc leader to minimize the unnecessary casualties of the vanguard soldiers. Roland insisted on capturing the Dragonvein Kobold alive, and she summoned the Silver Knights in the vanguard army to discuss the plan to attack Maverick Village.
"Let me declare first, the leader of the dragon vein kobold is my trophy, I will capture it alive myself, and none of you will rob it from me. Roland was dressed in a dark gold armor dress, with one hand on his waist, and said to everyone, but his green eyes were slanted at Victor.
Of course, the great knight of the Swift Dragon Knights raised his hands and feet to support the eldest princess, and the wealth fan Gillian was not present, and among the silver female knights of the other three families, only Margaret did not appreciate the majesty of Roland, and asked coldly:
"How?"
Roland had nothing to do with the frosty Miss Wellington, she was the blood of the Marquis of Golon.
"I captured it alive and transported it back to Blinor City, where it was raised by Kite Castle for two years, and the blood was extracted, and the regeneration potion and dragon vein potion made from the extracted essence were divided equally among the five families. Roland paused, and then said quickly: "I estimate that the heart of the dragon vein kobold can concoct several dragon blood potions, and I guarantee that all the extraordinary knights participating in this battle can obtain at least one dragon blood potion, but you must pay to buy it from me, priced at 150,000 gold soles." ”
Hey, Roland is following my example to collect money? Did she do it on purpose, or did she do it by chance?
Victor was full of suspicion, he didn't know that the Kite Castle had been imitating his various moves, and even the useless soft silver ore, August had secretly stockpiled a large number of them.
Dragon's blood potions are rare and precious, and they have little effect on the Extraordinary Knight and Victor, but it is a rare and extraordinary resource, whether it is resold at a high price or left to important ordinary members of the family. Everyone nodded their heads, satisfied with Roland's assignment.
Margaret asked again: "There are too many orcs, how can you fight?"
There are more than 10,000 orcs near Maverick Village, and even if they are all goblins, they can bury hundreds of vanguard soldiers alive by throwing stones with a bow. The vanguard army of Gombis is all the elite selected by various families, and it is impossible for them to be buried by goblins with stones, but goblins and kobolds are typically bold and timid. The disparity between the two sides made their morale high, and the warlike nature of the orcs overrode cowardice and became extremely aggressive.
It is precisely because of this factor that Victor proposes to kill the kobold leader first, he has already locked on the characteristics of the other party, and an all-out attack will definitely kill the kobold leader on the spot and turn it into a pile of minced meat.
Roland wants to live the dragon vein kobold, the battle head tactics will not work, and the vanguard army can only storm Maverick Village.
The casualties of the vanguard army are something that must be considered.
Roland patted the dark golden Mithril breastplate and said confidently, "It doesn't matter, I can call someone." ”
Margaret blinked her eyes and said lightly: "The main reinforcements haven't arrived yet, and His Highness Randall doesn't have time to wait." ”
“...... Hey. The corners of Roland's mouth hooked up into a charming smile, and he said with a sly look in his eyes: "I will immediately go and write a letter to the eldest son of Emperor Sasang, and ask him to bring a garrison militia to support us...... It doesn't take many people, 2,000 is enough, and they don't need to participate in the battle, as long as they stand in a row, those goblins and kobolds are scared to death, and then we drive away the goblins and kobolds outside and let them hide in the calf village, so many goblins and kobolds are crowded in the village, squeezed and flattened, how can they throw stones?"
Margaret didn't ask any more questions, she had accepted Roland's proposal. Everyone dispersed to prepare for the battle of the Maverick Village.
As he said he would do, Roland returned to his tent on the march, ordered pen and ink and lambskin letterhead, sat down on the ground with his legs bent, and leaned on her mount, Golden Fleece, and wrote a short message to Siegfried.
Victor came over, she glanced up, handed the written letter to the squire, and commanded, "Send this letter with the white feather letter from Frederick's royal family...... Stand down, and don't let anyone eavesdrop on my conversation with my proud disciple. ”
Hu Cong took the letterhead and bowed back, and the others also avoided it. Victor asked in a low voice, "Dragon-vein kobold, you caught it for Master Tofowen?"
Roland stood up, took off his gorgeous and heavy shoulder armor, stretched his waist, raised his willow eyebrows and said, "Not necessarily...... Maybe it's for my dwarf riddler...... It's not for you anyway. ”
She grimaced lovingly at Victor to hide her duplicity.
Wizard Tofowen lived for more than a hundred years by adjusting his bloodline, and the dragon's blood potion had little effect on him. In fact, dragon blood potions are of little use to Father Miller, but they are valuable to Lilia and Emerson, and Victor is willing to spend 300,000 gold soles for them. Just like Roland's insistence on capturing a rare dragon-veined kobold for Tofowen, the old wizard has studied pharmacy all his life, and Roland's gift will definitely make him very happy. It's just that Roland would actually charm the eldest son of Emperor Siegfried, and Victor didn't have this treatment, thinking of this, his mood was inexplicably depressed.
Maybe...... She looks too similar to Catherine, and Catherine's daughter and I have already been born, right?
Roland bit the quill, looked into Victor's deep eyes, and suddenly asked with a coquettish smile: "My student, you can't be jealous of the eldest son of Emperor Sassan, right?"
Victor glanced lightly at the eldest princess whose eyebrows were fluttering, and said with a gentle smile: "I suddenly miss something...... Many people. The war suddenly became more meaningful. ”