Chapter 343: The War on the East Road
After repelling the bipedal wyvern, Richard, Wendini, and Sophia left the materials in the space props, half of this batch of materials has been consumed, and there are about 200 tons of grain and grass, which can last for two months if you save some.
The largest consumers of food were the captured bipedal wyverns, each of which consumed the equivalent of thirty soldiers per day.
In order to alleviate the pressure on food, high-level professionals such as Jennings, Wilde, and Soros also need to lead hunting teams to reduce food consumption.
In the end, it was decided that Sophia and Sylph would take the group to rest in the kobold cave for a while, and Richard and Wendini would lead a few soldiers back to the Harland territory.
After returning to the territory, they replenished a large number of supplies with space equipment and mobilized some reinforcements.
Due to supply constraints, Richard could only transfer more than 200 people. Among the more than 200 people, there are also some medical personnel to take care of the wounded soldiers.
From the kobold cave to Fort William, the core of Haaland's command, it is about 500 kilometers, and it takes 1,000 kilometers to travel a round trip. A large part of this road is barren mountains and mountains, and the speed of driving in the primeval forest is certainly not fast. Even if Richard dispatched a large number of elite soldiers, he would be able to walk sixty or seventy kilometers in one day.
Sixteen days later, Richard and Wendini arrived at the Kobold Cave.
Since defeating the Wyvern, the legendary dragon Olamus has not continued to send reinforcements to attack the Kobold Cave, instead focusing on advancing in the direction of the castle.
The Advance Castle is closer to the Dragon's Lair, and once the Jonathan family is allowed to gain a foothold in the Advance Castle, the Dragon's Lair is threatened by the Jonathan family at any time.
The Jonathan family has legendary dragon knights, who are Ramoos' worst enemies. After discovering that the enemy was strong in the direction of the kobold cave, Ramios did not dare to continue to divide his forces, but prepared to concentrate his forces to deal with the enemy in the advancing castle first.
To be sure, Ramios decided to go out himself.
Dragons are creatures with a strong sense of territory, especially pregnant female dragons, who will kill all powerful creatures in their territory, creating a safe environment for dragon eggs to hatch and young dragons to grow. When the baby dragon grows up, the mother dragon will also drive her offspring away and go to a new territory to survive.
The early dragons were actually not very good at managing their territory.
Because dragons are greedy by nature, dragons' nests are often filled with gold coins, gems, and magic crystals, which will naturally attract powerful professionals to slay dragons, and the dragon's lair is originally a natural magic well.
In the war between humans and dragons, of course, they will do everything they can to their advantage, and organize armies to hunt down dragons.
Although the dragon is powerful, and the demonic and martial arts dual cultivation also has a very powerful body, it can't defeat the elite soldiers composed of professionals.
An elite army of hundreds of professionals, under the command of legendary knights, can often succeed in slaying dragons.
In order to protect the dragon's nest, the dragons also have to find a way to train helpers to avoid falling into the dilemma of fighting alone.
The most suitable helpers are the direct descendants of the dragon, all kinds of dragon-descended monsters and half-dragons.
Dragons are lustful by nature, and once they are in heat, their minds are filled with the desire to mate, which is almost uncontrollable, and if they can't find dragons of the opposite sex, they will find different females to mate.
According to the thousand-year-old tradition of dragons, after estrus, dragons kill the creatures they mate with to prevent the birth of hybrids.
But in order to face the competition of humans, the dragons can only abandon the old traditions, especially the dragons in the Dawn plane, which are now almost all cultivating dragonborns, and they all have huge soldiers under their commands. Otherwise, you won't be able to keep the dragon's nest and become a wandering wild dragon.
Dragons are very intelligent creatures, and they have a very deep study of magic, since they have the enemy of humans, they dissect human corpses, create the magic of human transformation, use the power of magic to transform, and then blend into human society, learning the advantages of human society.
In the process, many dragons mated with humans to create the race of Half-Dragons, the famous Jonathan family of the Grant Kingdom, who were actually half-Dragons.
In the past thousand years, there have even been giant dragons who have created countries, the most famous is the Red Dragon Prince in the Orc Empire, the kingdom controlled by this legendary dragon, who has almost fully studied the social system of the Divine Radiance Empire, and has a very powerful army of dragonborns under his command. He even cultivated a legendary half-dragon man, and there are a large number of human slaves in the kingdom, who are responsible for production and logistics.
There is also a gem dragon kingdom in the southernmost part of the Dawn Continent, and the rulers are a pair of legendary gem dragons.
On the Eastern Continent, there are also legendary green dragons who have established the country of green dragons.
Ramoos is a legendary dragon in the prime of life that is hundreds of years old, and after years of business accumulation, the strength under its command is not weak at all. There were not only three hundred dragon vein kobolds, but also sixty bipedal wyverns, in addition to more than one hundred and thirty half-dragon soldiers. In addition, Ramios controlled six trolls, more than thirty ogres, domesticated dozens of terrain dragons, and controlled 1,600 gnoll soldiers.
With the dragon's nest as the center, the nearby two hundred kilometers are the territory of Ramos, and the land it can influence and control is already equivalent to a dukedom.
Wherever the dragon is in its territory, Ramios will attack all foreign armies, not only hostile to the kingdom of Grant, but also forbidding the orc armies to cross the border.
In the direction of the Grant Kingdom, Ramoos carefully balanced, when the human race is strong, it will choose to help the orcs, and when the human race is weak, it was Ramoos, Greso and the legendary lizardmen who blocked the orcs from going south in the Eagle Mountains.
In the past 100 years, the Grant Kingdom has been growing more and more prosperous, and first the Duke of Breena has won a brilliant victory, controlled the Dragon Canyon, and established the three provinces of Northern Xinjiang. Shortly thereafter, the three northern principalities of Edward, Fox, and Jonathan were created, extending their sphere of influence to the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, expanding more than 400,000 square kilometers of land.
Then came Richard's birth, a powerful duke of Harland, who controlled the central region of the Eagle Mountains, and in recent years, the force field of the legendary dragon and the legendary ogre has gradually shifted in favor of the orcs.
Since more than 100 years ago, Ramoos has consciously cooperated with the orcs in their southern expedition.
After Starreno advanced to the castle and built the city, Ramios tentatively attacked twice, but the Duke of Jonathan made a lot of preparations for this battle, and the tentative attack could not achieve satisfactory results at all.
Seeing that the Jonathan family was about to take root in the castle, Ramios decided to concentrate his forces and defeat this enemy first.
It personally led the bipedal wyvern and took the lead in the charge, Ramios opened its mouth and spewed out a powerful dragon flame breath, and in an instant, a huge fire dragon fell from the sky.
This flame has a hint of black, with a very strong toxicity, as long as it is burned by this stream, not only needs to treat the burn, but also needs to detoxify, unless it is a mid-to-high-level professional, ordinary soldiers can hardly save their lives in the dragon flame breath of the legendary black dragon.
With a single spell, Ramios killed and wounded dozens of soldiers, rendering Duke Jonathan a main squadron ineffective. At the same time, dozens of bipedal wyverns swooped after Ramios, spewing flames that also killed and injured more than 200 people.
The soldiers led by Starreno are the main force of Duke Jonathan's county, and they build a garrison to advance the castle, the road is relatively easy to walk, more than a hundred kilometers away from the core territory, and it is relatively easy to replenish, so the number of this army is as high as 6,000 people.
Although the army of 6,000 people is large, the number of professionals is not as good as that of Haaland.
The arrows fired by ordinary soldiers could hardly penetrate the wurm skin of the bipedal wyvern. They can only assume a supporting role under the command of professional officers.
However, now that Duke Jonathan's army is equipped with a lot of alchemy bombs, the grenadiers can still hurt the two-legged wyvern if they seize the opportunity.
Seeing that the bipedal wyvern descended from a high altitude in order to ensure the accuracy of Long Yan's breath, Starreno and his officers threw their claws one after another, trying to pull the bipedal wyvern down from the sky.
Despite suffering a round of dragon flame breath and suffering heavy casualties, Starrenor's army managed to hold back the seven slow-moving wyverns.
Seeing this, Ramios immediately turned around lightly, waving his wings and violently attacking the soldiers on the ground.
Dragons possess great power. Legendary dragons such as Ramios, with their own strength exceeding a hundred points, can easily lift ten-ton objects, and even legendary knights are only half of the dragon's strength and cannot compete with them at all.
As long as the person who is hit by the slap of the Ramoos dragon wing, the bones will shatter in an instant and kill them on the spot. Even the Epic Knight of the Ninth Order did not dare to be hard topped.
In the fight against the legendary dragon, the legendary knight must act as a meat shield at the critical moment, and the loss will be greatly reduced.
Seeing Ramoos wantonly killing and injuring the soldiers, several of the Duke of Jonathan's sharpshooters immediately unleashed enchanted arrows, and the high-grade armor-piercing arrows they used slashed through an arc of light, stabbing into Ramoos's skin fiercely, making a dull popping sound.
Although the dragon's defense is very strong, and the dragon skin can block a large number of attacks, it cannot block the high-level enchanted arrows that are specialized in armor-piercing.
Moreover, the archers who shoot arrows are all professionals, and all the arrows carry the power of fighting spirit. If you want to defend against this high-level armor-piercing arrow, the power of the spell can play a greater role.
Ramoos is not a diligent dragon, and he doesn't study magic very hard, even though he is already a hundred-year-old dragon, except for the spells integrated in his bloodline, Ramios's magic level is only equivalent to the level of the four rings.
The four-ring magic can't release a high-level defensive force field, and the second-ring magic protective arrows can only defend against one or two cold arrows, but there are as many as a dozen archers aiming at Ramoos, and the archery skills of these people are generally at the fourth-order and fifth-order levels, and one captain has even reached the sixth order, and the arrows they shoot are very amazing.
In an instant, Ramoos was filled with more than a dozen arrows, and one arrow even hit Ramios's neck.
The legendary dragon let out an angry roar, and another dragon flame breath spewed out at the surrounding soldiers, especially the sharpshooter who shot himself, and became Ramios's priority enemy, and most of the dragon flame breath was aimed at this person.
This fifth-order warrior, despite his good defensive power, still couldn't withstand the legendary dragon's targeted attack, and was attacked by poisonous fire in an instant, losing his life.
Ramoos's dragon flame almost emptied all the enemies fifty meters in front of him.
Seeing that his stand-in hand-to-hand combat played a decisive role, he rescued five fallen two-legged wyverns, as for the remaining two, they had been severely damaged by the army at this time and could not save their lives.
Despite being physically powerful and possessing very high spell resistance, dragons do not like hand-to-hand combat with armies.
In the battle just now, Ramios's casualties were not light, after all, an arrow was shot at the vital part. The arrow caused Ramios to lose a lot of his vitality, and the intense sting was a constant reminder to the dragon.
Although Ramios is fierce and bloodthirsty, he also knows the reason why porcelain does not touch crockpots, and will not easily risk his life to fight the enemy.
After killing the sixth-order archer who wounded him and successfully saving the bipedal wyvern, Ramoos swung his wings and flew into the sky again.
Just after Ramoos launched an aerial assault with a two-legged wyvern, the ground forces led by the half-drakes also charged the Dukedom of Jonathan's army.
The speed of the half-dragon man is very fast, and the strength is also very brave, under the command of a ninth-order half-dragon man, he broke through into Starenor's right flank at an extremely fast speed, and the two thousand people on the right flank could not withstand the attack of more than a hundred half-dragon people.
The vanguard of the half-dragon people is sixty dragoons, these half-dragons can control the terrain dragon with the help of the dragon scales that have faded from Ramoos, and the combination of the terrain dragon and the half-dragon is extremely strong, and the frontal impact is no less than the bipedal flying dragoons, the ace troops of the Divine Radiance Empire.
Although there were only sixty and a half dragoon cavalry, the right flank troops that had already fought retreated continuously, and obviously fell into disadvantage.
At the same time, trolls and ogres were also launched from the left flank, and 1,600 gnolls advanced to the center, cooperating with Ramios and the Wyvern.
Trolls and ogres are high-level troops, and although they are very few in number, they are not easy enemies to deal with. They are all highly intelligent creatures, and their strength is also amazing, and the stone projectiles thrown by trolls and ogres using slings weigh five or six kilograms, which are almost as powerful as those fired by trebuchets, but they are more accurate than trebuchets.
Fortunately, the ogre did not have an alchemy bomb in his hands, and if the ogre was to be equipped with a large number of alchemy bombs, it would become a very terrible thing.
Ramoos was watching from high altitude with a bipedal wyvern, spotting a fighter on the right flank, turning around and attacking the enemy on the right flank from the air.
Starrenor's right flank was already weak, and he fell to the upper hand in the battle with the half-dragons, and now he was hit by the legendary dragon, and he couldn't bear the pressure in an instant, and he was defeated.
The right flank was defeated, and the outcome of this battle was already sealed. In the end, only 1,200 soldiers survived.
In this battle, the Jonathan family was defeated and still could not gain a foothold in the castle.
(End of chapter)