The time has entered August, autumn has come, the heat has passed, Haaland has begun to slowly cool down, but the widespread rain in the eastern region has not ended, just when Richard and the high-level officials of the territory are busy with disaster relief, Sutton and Silf near the mouth of the Black River have ushered in a battle.

Sutton came to camp near the mouth of the Heihe River in January, and has gradually gained a foothold for about half a year now.

In the past six months, Sutton has met three elven tribes and met more than fifty elves, large and small.

With the arrival of the legendary professional Sylph, several scattered elven tribes decided to surrender to Sylph and migrated to the mouth of the Black River.

The elves of the East Coast Province led by Harland are all fugitive slaves who have left their homeland, and they are all captured by slave groups in the East Continent, either because of a storm or because the ship is grounded, and they escape to the East Coast Province by chance.

Because of the harsh living environment, the elves want to find a strong backer, hoping to be sheltered and avoid the fate of being slaves again.

The reason why Sutton and Sylph did not return to the core of the territory was that they hoped to find other elven tribes, and then subdue them one by one to increase the tribe's heritage.

According to the information they have, there are more than 300 elves operating in the eastern coast provinces, and if all these elves can be subdued, there will be a medium-sized elven tribe under the command of Sylph.

This new tribe will be larger than the Radiant tribe.

The Dawnlight tribe from which Sylph was born is only a small tribe in the Eastern Continent, with a total of more than a hundred elves, and there is not even a single sapling of the Tree of Life.

One day in early August, Sylph was just about to contact a newly discovered elven tribe when she received information from Driven that a large magical ship was preparing to land in the southern part of the eastern province.

Sutton and Silver's detachment have a total of four bipedal dragon knights, and their main task is to monitor the enemy in the coastal area. In the past six months, Drifin has discovered three small and medium-sized magic ships operating along the coast of the East Coast Province, searching for traces of elves, and preparing to enter the East Coast Province to catch slaves.

These slave catchers on magic ships have many elite fighters in them. They also have an aerial scout class, and basically a magic ship is equipped with a small number of gions.

Because of the frequent battles, the bipedal Wyvern Knight has been exposed to the sight of the slave catchers.

The Knights of the Wyvern is the iconic class of the Duke of Haaland, and with Richard's southern and northern wars over the years, the nearby nobles have become clear. The coastal slave catchers actually knew that the highland forests in the coastal area were already the territory of the Harland family.

But the Haaland family does not have a strong sea power, and the magic ships of the slave catchers still come and go whenever they want, because the coastal coastal defense is useless, relying on Richard's false name can't scare these lawless people at all.

In the past six months, the bipedal dragon knight team led by Drifin has fought with the lion knights who have gone deep into the continent more than a dozen times, killing nine lion knights and capturing four lion birds alive.

The air power of the three small and medium-sized magic ships could not defeat the bipedal Wyvern Knight, they could not detect in the air, it was difficult to find the elven tribe, and they could only withdraw from this sea area in the end.

Unexpectedly, after a while, a large magic ship came, and there were more than thirty lion cavalry on board.

Although the bipedal wyvern was powerful, it was no match for ten times the number of lions, and Drifain saw that the situation was not good, so he could only withdraw decisively and ask for reinforcements from the rear.

Sylph also had the experience of being captured by a slave group, and knew very well that a large magic ship with an armed force of about three hundred to a thousand people.

The members of the slave catchers are basically professionals, and the leaders of the large slave catchers are even legends. The ship not only has an air reconnaissance force, but also arranges magic traps and is equipped with a lot of magic crossbows.

Attacking a large magic ship head-on is very difficult. Even if you are promoted to Legendary, you may fail, unless you continue to ask for reinforcements from headquarters, draw good hands from all over the territory, and concentrate your efforts to succeed.

Sylph opened a map, pointed to the landing base of the large magic ship and asked, "Is there any elven tribal activity in this place?"

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Sigoness, who was in charge of liaising with other elven tribes, shook her head and said, "This area is close to the Marquis of Allen, and occasionally humans come in to chop wood and hunt, although the climate is milder, there will be no elven tribal activities. As far as I know, the Elven tribes are mainly active in the central and northern provinces of the Eastern Coast. There is almost no human activity in this area, so the elves can survive."

"Send someone to inform these elven tribes that a large magic ship has appeared nearby, and tell them to watch out for the lion birds in the sky. I am ready to attract the enemy to the mouth of the Heihe River and completely annihilate the opponent near the mouth of the Heihe River. Derifen, you will immediately send someone to inform the Duke of Richard, and ask the Duke to send a group of good men to reinforce us."

From the mouth of the Black River to the Sutton Viscounty, the straight-line distance is about four hundred kilometers, and the bipedal wyvern can fly about one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour, and it only takes four hours to fly to the Twin Star Castle.

However, the bipedal flying dragon, a large flying demonic beast, can continue to fly for three or four hours at most, and it needs to eat and rest, and the average detection radius of a day is actually three or four hundred kilometers. The distance flown per day is basically no more than 800 kilometers.

Although the flight speed of the lion is faster, its strength is far less than that of the bipedal wyvern, especially after manning, it can fly about 500 kilometers a day at most. After all, adding hundreds of kilograms of weight on your back is also a heavy burden on the flying monster.

After the Lion Crane landed in the Twin Star Castle, Soros immediately dispatched the Lion Crane cavalry to deliver the news to Richard.

After receiving Sylph's letter for help, Richard made a very decisive decision and immediately mobilized the lion knights of the territory, and the bipedal dragon knights acted as the first echelon.

Then the elite is drawn from the whole army and acts as the second echelon in a magic hot air balloon.

In just one and a half days, fifty bipedal dragon knights and eighty-six lions appeared near the mouth of the Heihe River.

After another two days, the Magic Hot Air Balloon Force also caught the direction of the wind and arrived at the scheduled battlefield on time.

This time to fight against the slave catchers, Richard drew a lot of good hands. In particular, the Harland Mage Association had about two hundred official members participating in the war. Even Wendini, who was half a year pregnant, repeatedly asked to participate in this battle.

Although the reinforcements brought by Richard were not many, only 500 in total, they were all elite players led by Haaland. Among the reinforcements were fifty bipedal dragon knights and eighty-six lion cavalry, and the combat effectiveness of the Warcraft alone was very strong.

The bipedal Wyvern knight is carefully selected by the whole territory, each of them is a mid-level or above professional, there are six six-level squad leaders, and the combat effectiveness of fifty bipedal Wyvern knights is more than one step higher than that of a Warcraft cavalry brigade. After all, with twenty Warcraft cavalry, it is difficult to beat a high-level Warcraft, let alone a two-legged Wyvern on the back, there are equally powerful riders.

The Lion Cavalry is also a good player, basically a third-order professional, with more than ten years of military experience, not only has strong combat effectiveness, but also has a level of archery above the third order, and is very experienced, and it is difficult to cultivate.

The rest of the soldiers who rode in the magic hot air balloon were basically magicians and professional soldiers, a total of three hundred and fifty people.

Five hundred reinforcements have been added, and there are already more than 1,000 soldiers near the mouth of the Heihe River, of which there are more than 900 soldiers led by Haaland, all of whom are carefully selected by the whole territory. The elves subdued by Silver, with a total of more than 50 people, are equipped with enchanted bows and crossbows brought from Haraland, which is also an elite army.

Reinforcements had arrived, and after consulting with Silver, Richard decided to lure the enemy to attack and place the battlefield in the middle of the province on the east coast, near the stronghold at the mouth of the Heihe River.

Since it has been decided to lure the enemy, Haaland cannot easily lead the flying troops, so as not to expose his strength.

Because the Harland Leader hid his battle intentions, the Lion Crane of the Cloud Sea Slave Trap in the sky became the overlord of this airspace.

The griffins kept skimming in the air, and the elven tribes hidden in the forest couldn't hide at all. As a last resort, these elves could only slowly converge and choose to take refuge in Silver. ap..

Although many elves are more conservative and unwilling to submit to human lords. Sylph is very dissatisfied with mixing with humans, and is unwilling to bow down to Sylph and admit defeat. But the external environment forced them to rely on Silver.

Otherwise, if they are caught by the slave group, the male elves will become slave warriors

, the fate of the female elves is even more tragic, and they will be reduced to the fertility tools of the aristocracy, collectively.

Before the decisive battle with the slave hunters, there were more than ten elven tribes that had come to seek refuge in Silph, and the total number had reached about two hundred and thirty.

The remaining elven tribes are all in the northern part of the province on the east coast, far away from the battlefield, and can only wait for the battle to be subdued.

Because of the flaws deliberately exposed by Richard, the slave catchers have discovered the stronghold where Sylph and Sutton have been operating for half a year.

Sutton and Sylph were relatively small in number, and they were all elite professional troops, and the stronghold did not build many fortifications, only a few wooden houses.

Through aerial reconnaissance, the slave catchers have found that the fortifications of this stronghold are insufficient, and the defensive force is about 1,000 people. Although the number of defenders is twice as large as that of the slave catchers, the confidence of Rick, the leader of the Yunhai slave catchers, is still very strong.

The elves gathered together, saving time for the slave catchers to search for them one by one.

Rick comes from a family of dukes in the Sith Kingdom.

The Sith Kingdom is located in the south of the United Kingdom on the east coast, and is also a country on the eastern coast of the Middle Continent. The power of the Sith Kingdom is not much different from that of the United Kingdom of the East Coast, with a total population of about 35 million, but the power of this country is more concentrated and more difficult to deal with.

In addition to the royal family, the Sith Kingdom has only two ducal families and six earl families. Due to the small number of great nobles, although the strength of the Duke family of the Hiss Kingdom is not as strong as the Haaland family, it is far superior to Dukes such as Edward and Guise.

Rick is an important member of the Dukedom of Ott, the son of the previous duke and the sixth uncle of the duke. The Yunhai Slave Hunting Group where he is located is actually the official institution of the Sith Kingdom, and the shareholders within the slave hunting group are all nobles and nobles of the Sith Kingdom.

After being involved in capturing the elven slave industry, the Sith Kingdom made a lot of money. After hundreds of years of development, the Sith Kingdom has become a part of the chain of capturing elven slaves, and is inextricably linked with the nobles of the Holy Radiance Empire, who have purchased thirty magic ships of all sizes from the Holy Radiance Empire, and their sea power is superior to that of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, and they are considered the sea overlords of this sea. ap..

Because of the support of the state behind them, the members of the Yunhai Slave Hunting Group are all good hands drawn from the Sith Kingdom, and each member is a professional with a full set of enchanted armor.

Although the soldiers under Rick's command are about six hundred, there are more than fifty high-level professionals and hundreds of magicians, even in the large slave hunting team in the Eastern Continent, the Yunhai slave hunting group is not a weak brigade.

Although Rick had occasionally heard of Lord Haaland's prestige at sea, Rick did not expect the legendary duke to be here. After all, he only went ashore to capture the elves, and had no idea of invading the territory of the Haaland family, Duke Haaland had already made many enemies, and there was no need to offend the nobles of the Sith Kingdom.

Rick's idea, although good, is more in line with the thinking of the traditional aristocracy. But he didn't know Richard at all, Richard was very bold, as long as there were interests, he was not afraid of offending the so-called great nobles of the Sith Kingdom at all.

The Duke of Haaland is very far away from the Sith Kingdom, can the Sith Kingdom still send troops to attack the Haaland Kingdom from 1,800 kilometers away?

Even if the Sith Kingdom sends a large army, lands from the East Coast Province, and establishes a military station and grain storage point in the deserted East Coast Province, Haaland will be at ease, and the 180,000 Sith King *** team is not an opponent at all.

If you attack from the south to the north, and wait for the Sith Kingdom and the United Kingdom of the East Coast to coordinate their positions, I don't know how many years it will take, besides, the Duke of Haaland and the Grant Kingdom are the meat shield in the south, as long as it is delayed for a few years, according to the current development speed of the Haaland Territory, the strength will be turned upside down in a few years, even if the two countries join forces to fight, the Labor Expedition is not the opponent of Haaland.

Rick lightly advanced with the enemy, and the soldiers of the Yunhai Slave Catcher Regiment fell into the trap set by Richard, and they had just appeared near the stronghold at the mouth of the Black River, and the bipedal wyvern, the lion knight, and the magic hot air balloon team hidden in the stronghold flew into the sky one after another.

In the face of Haaland's flying troops, the Lion Knight on a large magic ship is no match at all.

Despite the lion knights of the sea of clouds and slave hunters

Desperately resisted, but in the end he could not avoid the fate of being killed and shot down.

After all, there are too many flying classes led by Haaland, and thirty lions are far from being the opponent of fifty bipedal dragon knights, and they have to face more than eighty lions and hundreds of magic hot air balloons to chase and intercept.

There are enemies on all sides, and they have fallen into the trap prepared in advance by Haraland's leader, and the flying troops of the Yunhai Slave Catching Regiment have no way to survive at all.

The air battle lasted less than half an hour, and all the lion knights of the Yunhai slave hunting group were killed, and in the battle, Haaland led the capture of fourteen adult lions, plus the capture of several previous battles of Drifin, this year Haaland led the capture of eighteen lions.

Haaland has had a lot of luck in recent years, catching a herd of lions in the western part of the Eagle Mountains last year and another 18 in battle this year. Now there are more than 80 lions raised by the Grant royal family, and with this batch of captured lions, there are 140 lions raised by Haaland. The combined number of lions in the two families is more than 220.

However, there are only one hundred and sixty adult lions that can fight, of which one hundred and four are under the command of Haaland and fifty-six are from the Grant royal family.