Chapter Seventy-One: The Poor and Weak Golden-winged Bee
Guo Dafu listened to the different suggestions put forward by the two parties, and began to weigh them in his heart, to be honest, these two suggestions have their own reasons.
If you listen to Su Li and them, then you can definitely take advantage of the internal strife in the Spirit Snake Empire to seize a lot of territory, and the reason why those fierce beast empires can cultivate so many extraordinary fierce beasts is because the territory they occupy is very rich and rich in resources. As long as he can nibble a little bit, it will be of great help to the development of the territory.
And if he chooses to support the Sacred Tree Kingdom, then there is no doubt that he will have to give up these benefits first, after all, he has limited troops now, and in the face of these huge beast kingdoms, he can't fight on both sides at all.
After some thought, Guo Dafu finally decided to send troops to aid the Sacred Tree Kingdom first.
After all, the White Elephant Empire was the most powerful beast empire on this Roaring Island, and the Holy Tree Kingdom was the weakest and smallest of the three beast kingdoms, so Guo Dafu was afraid that the other party would not be able to withstand the onslaught of the White Elephant Empire.
Seeing that Guo Dafu had already made a decision, Su Li did not persuade again, after all, she had already told the other party on the day she chose to cooperate with Guo Dafu, everything would be based on the other party, she would only make some suggestions at most, and would not interfere with the other party's final decision.
So, early the next morning, Guo Dafu gathered 20,000 elite soldiers and drove towards the Kingdom of the Holy Tree. And Su Li led the remaining more than 10,000 horses to guard the house.
Although this Sacred Tree Kingdom is adjacent to Guo Dafu's territory, it is actually quite far away, with a buffer zone hundreds of kilometers away in the middle.
In this area, there are also many powerful beasts whose strength is close to transcendent and is about to break through, such as the mantis beast that attacked Dr. Zhang before.
Not long after Guo Dafu entered this area with a large army, he also met this guy again, but this time in the face of the army under Guo Dafu's command, this mantis beast did not dare to be vicious, but instead expressed its desire to join Guo Dafu's command.
In order to show his sincerity, this guy also brought two sisters of his own and a nest of golden-winged bees and beasts to take refuge together.
The strength of the golden-winged bee clan is relatively weak, so most of them will choose to take refuge under the command of some powerful fierce beasts, and these three-headed mantis beasts are responsible for protecting these golden-winged bees at the same time, they can regularly obtain the honey paid by these golden-winged bees.
Don't look at the strength of this golden-winged bee clan, and the steel-toothed rat clan has to fight, but the honey it brews is a nutritious and good baby, other fierce beasts and spirit beasts can fill their stomachs when they eat it, and often a small sip of honey can make a fierce beast the size of a bone spur wild dog not hungry for several days.
After the insects and beasts are eaten, they have the effect of purifying the bloodline and stimulating evolution.
The three jasper mantis beasts, it is precisely for this reason that they will conscientiously protect these little bees, and they naturally received rich rewards in the end, and their strength has all reached the ninth level of the day after tomorrow, and the one headed by them is only a line away from the extraordinary.
Guo Dafu was very happy about the refuge of this group of insect beasts, speaking of which, this was the first flying beast to take refuge in him!
The previous blood-billed finches were just selected and domesticated by Gongsun Lie from the wild in a scattered manner, and the number was actually not much, and it could not be compared with this whole nest of refuge.
In addition, these golden-winged bees can also brew honey with such a miraculous effect, which also makes Guo Dafu attach great importance to it, feeling that this thing is used to refine some pills, which can greatly improve its medicinal properties.
After some counting, the number of golden-winged bees brought by the three jasper mantis to take refuge is more than 5,000, most of which are worker bees responsible for collecting nectar and feeding their offspring.
Most of these worker bees are about six centimeters long, the size of a fist, and have a pair of translucent wings with a pale golden glow on their backs, which is where their name comes from.
Compared with the bees on Oran Star, the size of this golden-winged bee is definitely a giant, but on this fierce ancient continent, it is only the lowest existence, and its strength is not as good as that of the steel-toothed rat, and the only weapon that can be used for self-defense is a poisonous needle on its buttocks, but unfortunately it is still a disposable, and this worker bee will soon die after use.
There are more than 4,000 such worker bees in the entire hive, and above them are the soldier bees responsible for guarding the hive.
These soldier bees are all more than ten centimeters long, the largest even reached about twenty centimeters, strong, very strong, with sharp hook claws and teeth, the poison needle on the butt can also be used repeatedly, the toxicity is stronger than that of the worker bee, the strength is about from the acquired double to the acquired three, only one soldier bee can be used to poison the venom about the acquired triple beast. If a large group of soldiers and bees go together, as long as they are not extraordinary beasts, then they will be besieged to death.
However, this kind of soldier bee with strong combat effectiveness is also very unsuitable for cultivation, and if it is not necessary, the queen bee of the golden-winged bee will not let these soldier bees die in vain. For example, this nest of golden-winged bees is not small, and the number of soldier bees is only about 500.
On the soldier bee, there is the queen bee, these queen bees are at least thirty centimeters long, and the largest can grow to about fifty centimeters, which is equivalent to a super strengthened version of the soldier bee, and the strength ranges from four to five the day after tomorrow. The most important thing is that the IQ is much higher than that of ordinary soldier bees and worker bees, and they are the actual commanders of the swarm and other fierce beasts, and there are only three in this hive.
Finally, there is this queen bee, theoretically the leader of the entire hive, its size is larger than the queen bee, but it is more bloated, and its combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the queen bee, and she usually spends most of her time in the hive, responsible for producing eggs, and constantly replenishing the hive with fresh blood.
Compared with the fierce beasts of other races, the insect beast grows much faster, but the lifespan is generally not long, the golden-winged bee, the worker bee can only live or about two years, the soldier bee can live for three or four years, and the queen bee and queen bee can live for about twenty years.
This means that once the queen bee appears, there is no fresh blood to replenish, at most two years, the hive will be completely abandoned, after all, once there are no more worker bees to collect food to feed, those soldier bees and queen bees will soon starve to death.
Guo Dafu is now going to the front line to fight, naturally he will not take these fragile little bees with him, after receiving the surrender of this nest of golden-winged bees, he sent a company of soldiers to escort these golden-winged bees to his own territory to settle down, and he led the army to continue to advance.
Since the road along the way was almost completely covered by trees and weeds, Guo Dafu and his army had a very difficult march, and finally relied on those rough-skinned and thick-skinned iron-backed wild boars to open the way in front, and it took more than three days before they finally entered the territory of the Holy Tree Kingdom.
Compared to other places, there are many large trees in this sacred tree kingdom, and the dense canopies of one after another tens of meters high are connected together, almost completely obscuring the sunlight in the sky, making the trees look particularly gloomy.
This kind of environment makes the soldiers under Guo Dafu's command very uncomfortable, especially those human soldiers, in this kind of poorly lit place, when marching, a careless person will trip over the dead branches and roots on the ground.
While Guo Dafu led his army to advance cautiously, he sent a lot of scouts, trying to find the Holy Tree King's men, so that the other party would know that they had come to support the place, so as not to cause accidental injuries.
However, it seems that because of too much pressure on the front line, the soldiers and horses in the rear of the Holy Tree Kingdom have almost been withdrawn, and Guo Dafu asked his subordinates to look for most of the day without seeing a single figure or beast trace.
It wasn't until the next day that Guo Dafu met a small group of patrols from the Holy Tree Kingdom and connected with the other party.
These patrols of the Sacred Tree Kingdom are actually all cavalry, riding a kind of deer called the white-haired spirit deer, which is a large-sized deer-like beast with white hair all over its body, a pair of short horns on the top of its head, and a body length of more than two meters.
And those patrols of the Holy Tree Kingdom are even stronger, judging from the aura on their bodies, the weakest one has the level of the seventh level of the day after tomorrow, and the one headed by them has the cultivation of the nine levels of the day after tomorrow.
From these Sacred Tree Kingdom soldiers, Guo Dafu couldn't tell if these guys were like Liu Meng and them, with fierce beast blood mixed in their bodies, because these Sacred Tree Kingdom soldiers were no different except that their faces looked a little fairer than ordinary people.
And their equipment is also uniform, indicating that this Sacred Tree Kingdom should have its own perfect military industry.
From the equipment on these patrols, Guo Dafu judged that these should all belong to lightly armed archers, because those white-haired spirit deer had no armor other than saddles and bridles, and those patrolmen of the Holy Tree Kingdom only wore a light green leather armor, and their weapons were a short knife hanging from his waist, a recurve bow with a short bow and two bags of feather arrows.
After the two sides met, Guo Dafu immediately identified himself and did not cause any accidental injuries.
And the patrol soldiers of the Sacred Tree Kingdom, after knowing Guo Dafu's identity and intentions, also felt that the matter was very important, and they did not dare to make a decision privately.
In the end, they could only let Guo Dafu and them stop moving forward for the time being, and they would immediately go back to report to their superiors, and let those who can really call the shots make decisions.
Guo Dafu had nothing to do with this, so he let the army camp on the spot, just taking the opportunity to repair.
After waiting for about half a day, the two innate masters came to the gate of Guo Dafu's camp.
Guo Dafu saw that this Holy Tree Kingdom had sent two innate martial artists out at once, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this Holy Tree Kingdom was worthy of being an old fierce beast country, and when it was at war with the White Elephant Empire, he was able to send two innate masters to come and contact them.
After the two sides met, Guo Dafu sensed that the strength of the man among the two innate masters was about the same as him, but the strength of the woman was much stronger than him, at least they all had innate triple cultivation.
And these two people claimed to be the city lord of Linglu City in the Holy Tree Kingdom and the captain of the city defense force, and their eyes were full of contempt and disgust when they looked at the troops under Guo Dafu's command.
After listening to Guo Dafu's intentions, he responded in a mocking tone: "Our Holy Tree Kingdom doesn't need any support, and with your strength, you can't help anything when you go to the battlefield, but you may lose your life in vain!" ”
Guo Dafu didn't get angry in the face of the arrogant attitude of these two people, after all, he had witnessed the strength of the Holy Tree King with his own eyes, just a clone beat the Spirit Snake King to the point of embarrassment and retreated, and how strong the strength of that body was, it can be imagined. With such a powerful boss as a backer, it is normal for the younger brother below to be arrogant.