Chapter XLVIII The same accident above
Richard looked at the map and added a small marker to one of the areas, which he had calculated as the landing point of another wave of invaders. Although I don't know where the other party comes from, it definitely won't be a soldier. In a plane war, teaming up with an Outer Plane Explorer is actually more dangerous than forming an alliance with the natives.
After Richard deduced a few routes, he couldn't help but hesitate. The forward base must be abandoned, the location here has long been exposed, and once it is encircled and suppressed, there is a danger that the whole army will be annihilated. Coming back here is just to pack up your things and to mislead your opponent into delaying a little longer.
He was hesitant to stay in the barony's domain any longer. After several major battles, Richard has completely crippled Baron Fosa, as long as he can give reinforcements to Count Galeon, then the barony's territory is like a door open, and he can take what he wants. At that time, a castle would never be able to stop Richard and his wolf-like men. But there are still risks associated with doing so, because the most taboo thing for guerrilla warfare is to linger in one place for too long and be found out about strength and behavior. In the final analysis, Richard is just an outsider, although he has the support of Norland's higher-level power system and culture, but he can't reverse the fact that he is isolated and helpless in his own plane.
The key to the operation now lies in the reinforcements on the side of Baron Fosa.
Richard took out another piece of information, and on the face was a very detailed map of the distribution of power in the Principality of Baiyan, under the Grand Duke of Baiyan, there was a marquis, three earls, two ordinary earls, more than a dozen viscounts, and more than fifty barons. In terms of geography and affiliation, Galeon, one of the three major counts, was the most likely candidate to send reinforcements. Under the Count of Galeon, there is a viscount, four barons, a knight general, and the names of two archmages. When he saw Pelisakin's name and introduction, Richard's pupils shrank slightly.
Baron Pelisakin has similar characteristics to Sir Mintai, that is, he is a strong man and can lead troops into battle. It is said that he is also one of the famous generals of the entire Principality of White Rock. If the Earl's reinforcements were led by this man, it would be wishful thinking to attack them head-on.
Richard does not have an absolute superiority in troops, even if he does not consider the level of ordinary soldiers, with the existing core strength in his hands, if he directly confronts Pelisakin and his inevitable guards, I am afraid that it can only be a miserable victory, and it is impossible not to die a small half. Unless we can seize the opportunity to divide and attack it again as we have done the previous times, and find a battlefield where the terrain is suitable, but this possibility is too slim. And the reinforcements brought by Pelisagin must be far superior to Baron Fosa's, that is to say, Richard's side not only has a huge disparity in overall combat power, but also has no advantage in terms of high-end combat power.
Inspector Richard let out a long sigh of relief, and finally dismissed the idea of sacking the Baron Castle of Fosa, although the attraction of the wealth accumulated over the years in the Baron's Castle was unparalleled. But no matter how he deduces, he has almost no chance of winning in the face of the earl's reinforcements, and if it is Pelisakin who leads the army, there is no chance at all.
So he picked up the map again and began to study the route of the westward and northward journey, and traced a zigzag route on the map all the way to the northwest. Along the junction of the Land of Turmoil and the Duke of Wolves, passing north through the Kingdom of Sequoia, to which Duke Wolf belongs, you will enter a desolate and ** land: the Land of Blood.
The Bloodstained Lands are a region where humans meet barbarians and sandfolk peoples, where the land is rich and barren, and the terrain is complex and diverse, but there is little food to be produced. It was a paradise for criminals, thieves and murderers, as well as a nightmare for ordinary people. Countless vicious bands of thieves and slave traders inhabit the land, like hyenas in the highlands, and regard all creatures that come and go as their prey.
This chaotic and blood-stained land is just right for Richard to survive.
As for Baron Fosa, the seed has been planted, and he is waiting for the time to harvest, and the harvest season may not be too far away.
However, Richard did not know at this time that at the end of the extension of the route he had planned, a very fierce battle had just taken place. There was a distance from that place to the other intruder spot he had marked.
Dozens of kilometers north of the Bloodstained Lands, there is an unusually tall portal. The portal stood erect and opened to the ground, and the door appeared along various bands of light, flickering, and then annihilated. Even gravity has been disrupted, and many of the gravel clods have lost their gravity and float randomly in the air. But other gravel was firmly nailed to the ground, even sinking deeper and deeper into the earth.
All kinds of vague scenes flashed in the air, and some fierce beasts and monsters swept across the air. When they suddenly twist and disappear, they realize that they are nothing more than phantoms. The portal was so large that the surrounding space began to show signs of distortion and disorder, and from time to time some dark streaks floated by, which was an extremely dangerous spatial rift, and if they hit it, even Norland's Sanctuary powerhouse would be cut off.
The portal continued to expand and contract, and one after another, heavily armored knights in black armor leaped out of it. They are all extremely tall, hideous-looking, and the ** war horses are also very strange, all of them are dark black, their hair is thick and thick, and there are two long fangs sticking out of their mouths.
The area around the portal was not calm, but full of fighting and shouting, as if it was a fierce battlefield, and groups of well-equipped native warriors and Templar knights had completely surrounded the portal area, and were desperately attacking the blades formed by the black-armored knights to break through this world. Behind this group of warriors, priests and priests were chanting incantations, their hands wrapped around dazzling holy light, and blessing the bodies of their warriors one by one.
The warriors blessed with divine arts were clearly a level higher, and they roared and roared, praising the gods and cursing their enemies with the same loud voice. Even if the enemy's double-edged greatsword pierced into their bodies, or even if they could feel the serrations of the blade coldly slicing through the internal organs, these warriors would howl and smash their weapons into the opponent's body, and as long as they inflicted a little damage on the enemy, it would be worth it in their hearts.
The bravery of the unafraid of death and the sheer superiority in numbers did have an effect, and the black-armored knights of the heterogeneous plane who poured out of the portal were pulled off their horses one by one, and then overwhelmed by the large number of warriors. However, every time a black-armored knight dies in battle, he is surrounded by more than ten times as many warriors. The knights' fanged horses were also fierce, and even if they lost their owners, as long as they were not completely cut down, they still galloped and charged on the battlefield, and their hooves and sharp teeth were their deadly weapons. And after an ownerless war horse bit off half of a warrior's head, it actually stretched out a thorny ** and began to eat brains!
The horrific scene frightened a few timid warriors, but completely angered most of them.
One of the Templars roared wildly, slammed into the horse's side, and stabbed its heart with his sword. The horse's dark black fur was extremely tough, comparable to the defense of a demon bear, but under the full force of the Templar Knight's desperate blow, the fur could not completely protect the vital point. The war horse neighed, and the sound was somewhat similar to the roar of the demonic beast. At this point, more than a dozen weapons of various kinds were pierced into its body, most of them were exhausted after only penetrating a dozen centimeters, but a few also pierced deeply into the body of the war horse.
The dying horse twitched, rushed forward with the last of its strength, opened its mouth and bit a Templar knight, the fangs instantly pierced his armor, and the strong bite also caused the armor to deform violently, and finally the knight's shoulders and half of his chest were completely flattened, and the screams also stopped abruptly.
Although the warriors slammed into each other with their own flesh and blood, the blades of the black-armored knights stood like a reef in the rapids. A steady stream of black-armored knights stepped out of the portal, and the blades began to elongate, forming a strong defensive line, and as time passed, the black line began to slowly expand outward.