Lord Harland.

Chapter 420: Crusade against the Ogres

In this crusade against the legendary ogre, Richard personally led 6,000 soldiers to the north, while Thoros led an army of 12,000 to the south.

Because there were no ready-made roads when marching in the jungle, the Harland leader did not carry heavy magic crystal cannons this time.

The magic crystal cannon can still be pulled by iron horn horses on official roads, but in the mountainous areas of the Eagle Mountains, it can only be carried by officers and soldiers.

Even if a professional officer has great strength and endurance, carrying a magic crystal cannon and marching on the road will require at least thirty professional officers to rotate, plus the soldiers carrying the cannonballs, the transportation pressure will not be enough for Harland to lead the army. Unbearable.

Although the artillery could not accompany the army, both the northern and southern armies deployed elite soldiers and generals.

The 1st Infantry Brigade, the 2nd Infantry Brigade, the 3rd Infantry Brigade, the Guard Brigade, the 1st and 2nd Warcraft Cavalry Brigades, the 1st, 3rd, and 6th Magic Hot Air Balloon Reconnaissance Squadrons, the Gryphon Flying Squadron, the Wyvern Squadron, and the Hunter Squadron. Almost all the elites of the Harland leader, including the Demon Second Squadron, the Special Forces Squadron, and the Territory Mage Group, came out in full force to participate in this crusade against the ogres.

Wherever the army passed, the ogre tribe could not hide. After all, the sky was densely populated with flying troops. The ogres had a big target and a strong smell. There was no way to hide in the forest.

Richard led his troops to attack westward from Martins Castle, passing through the two baronies of Levin and Sokes, and approached the legendary ogre's lair. In just over a hundred kilometers, he searched more than 5,000 square meters. Kilometers of land, nine ogre gathering places were discovered. In just twenty days, the Northern Route Army killed more than 400 ogres, large and small.

Because he had a huge advantage during the battle, his losses were less than 300 people. Fighting against the ogres, this exchange ratio was considered a rare victory.

Before Richard sent troops to conquer, the number of ogres was less than 2,000. Now, 400 have been lost again. The number of ogres has been reduced by about one-fifth, with only about 1,600 remaining. .

Ogres are an intelligent race. Although they have the disadvantage of having difficulty in reproducing, they are actually capable of both magic and martial arts like dragons. They are very difficult to deal with in small-scale conflicts.

There are more than two thousand ogres, and their combat effectiveness is better than that of a regular army.

The legendary ogre Gresso has been cultivating spies in Northern Xinjiang for more than a hundred years and has formed a tight spy network. He is fully aware of the changes in the situation of various forces in Northern Xinjiang.

The news that Leader Harland possesses legendary fourth-level magic props cannot be hidden from the legendary ogre. After all, Richard and Sophia have publicly released star bombs many times. There may be more than tens of thousands of people in Northern Xinjiang who have seen star bombs explode. Number of people.

It was spread by word of mouth among tens of thousands of people, and the news could not be suppressed at all.

The spies controlled by Gresso also witnessed the explosion of the star bomb. With the threat of star bombs, Gresso did not dare to concentrate his forces and fight head-on with the army led by Haaland.

Since a few years ago, the ogre tribe has basically dispersed its operations, using elite ogre squads to raid and attack the soft belly of Martins County, destroying Martins County's production, farming, killing, and capturing contracts for working in the wild. slave.

At that time, in order to avoid a full-scale conflict with the ogres, Richard gave up a buffer zone of 20,000 square kilometers on the one hand, and on the other hand dispatched a special squadron. The demon hunter squadron led the elites to attack the ogre tribe head-on. The situation in the buffer zone is barely holding on.

Normally, this buffer zone, once formed, can last for many years.

However, the development of Harland Territory is not at a normal speed. In just a few years, Harland Territory has expanded five or six times, the number of troops has approximately doubled, the population has increased to more than 7 million, and the number of professionals has increased. More than six thousand people. Sylph, Sophia, Richard, Wendy, Soros, Jennings, and Wilde have all been promoted to professional levels, and their high-level combat capabilities have been further improved.

In less than five years, Haaland led the army north to defeat the Orcs, and south to severely inflict heavy losses on the combined forces of Delong and the East Coast. In the blink of an eye, it had developed into a behemoth.

In fact, after the Haaland family exchanged territory with Dukes Edward and Fox last winter, the legendary ogre Gresso had already planned to withdraw.

The legendary ogre, like Richard, has awakened the talent of danger perception, and Gresso has been vaguely aware of danger since last year. But there is no good place around the ogre's lair now.

To the north is the Orc Empire. Although the Eastern Front Army of the Orc Empire's Grassland Governor's Region was hurt by the beatings of Harland, they are still skinny camels, and their strength is far beyond that of the ogres. If you want to occupy a place on the northern prairie, the power of the ogre is far from enough.

Moreover, orcs have rough skin and thick flesh, which is far less delicious than humans, and does not fit the ogre's diet.

Going east and going south are both front-on battles with the Duke of Harland. If the ogres can defeat the Duke of Harland, there is no need to retreat. After all, the legendary ogre lair is a natural magic well bred by the Eagle Mountains. , controlling the natural magic well will be of great benefit to cultivating ogre magicians and awakening the ogre bloodline.

Nowadays, Haaland's leadership is getting stronger day by day. Once prepared, he will definitely not give the ogre a way to survive. On the whole, going east and going south is obviously a dead end.

The only way to survive now in front of Gresso is to escape westward.

Heading west from the ogre's lair, three hundred kilometers away is the Silver Wolf Mountains. Although there are also powerful legendary creatures in the Silver Wolf Mountains, Gresso knew that only after entering the Silver Wolf Mountains would the ogre tribe be able to There is a way to survive.

But now Harland has a large number of aerial scouts, and thousands of Warcraft cavalry behind him. It is also very difficult for the ogre tribe to escape to the Silver Wolf Mountains area 300 kilometers away. .

By the time Richard led his troops to approach the legendary ogre's lair, the South Route Army had also reached the Vera Valley, about thirty kilometers away from joining the North Route Army.

The Vera Mountains are a branch of the Eagle Mountains and are located in the west of the Eagle Mountains.

The Eagle Mountains run east-west and are about a thousand kilometers long. There are large branches in the east, middle, and west. Among them, the Annes Mountains are in the east, the Platos Mountains are in the middle, and the Vera Mountains are in the west.

The Edward family built Vera Castle in the south of the valley entrance with the best access conditions in the Vera Mountains. Because this area had been destroyed by orcs, the defenders of Vera Castle only had about two to three thousand people.

The foundation of Vera Castle is weak and the food reserves are very small. It cannot support Soros stationed for too long.

Soros's army of more than 10,000 people, plus Warcraft war horses, pack horses and other livestock, consumes about 100,000 kilograms of grain every day. To produce more than 100,000 kilograms of grain, more than 1,000 acres of land are needed.

More than a thousand acres of grain output are consumed in one day, and the foundation of Vera Castle cannot sustain it for long.

Because Vera Castle lacked food, Soros did not stay here for too long. After resting for a day, he led his troops into the depths of the Vera Mountains.

The Thoros army swept through and searched nearly 10,000 square kilometers of land, killing about 300 ogres during this period.

Richard killed more than 400 ogres in the northern part of the Vera Mountains, and the Thoros tribe also killed more than 300 ogres in the southern part of the Vera Mountains. At this moment, only the remaining ogres gathered around Gresso were One thousand three hundred heads. Seeing that the two enemy armies from the north and the south were about to join together, Gresso thought hard for a long time and finally decided to fight first. The only way was to severely injure the pursuers and bite off a few pieces of meat, so that the enemy would not dare to pursue too hard and retreat westward. Only then can there be a way to survive. Otherwise, there would be no way to evacuate along the 300-kilometer long retreat road under the harassment and pursuit of aerial scouts and Warcraft cavalry.

Seeing that there were few soldiers on the northern route of humanity, Gresso believed that the legendary fourth-level magic props must be in the hands of the enemy on the northern route, so he prepared to concentrate his forces and attack the southern route first.

Although the Southern Route Army had 12,000 soldiers, Gresso believed that the chances of victory were still good. After all, ogres are so powerful that they can fight one against ten in battle. Even if the ogre has not awakened his bloodline and has not been promoted to a professional, his strength is more than ten points, which is better than that of a second-level human professional.

Ogres are generally three to four meters tall, and the wooden sticks they hold in their hands generally weigh about fifty or sixty pounds. In addition, their skin is as hard as iron, and they are usually more difficult to deal with than a fully armed second-level warrior.

An ogre that has grown to the sixth level is more powerful in hand-to-hand combat than a ninth-level warrior like Thoros.

Although Gresso had few troops, he was very confident of winning.

Unexpectedly, just halfway through, he felt a strong heart palpitation. Gresso awakened his talent for danger perception. In an instant, he knew that if he continued to move forward, his life would be in danger.

After realizing that the situation was not good, Gresso immediately ordered to turn around and go north.

As soon as the ogres completed their assembly, they were immediately noticed by the Wyvern Knight and reported to the Thoros Department.

Thoros was just about to wait for work and fight an upright battle with the ogre. Unexpectedly, the ogre decided to escape decisively.

In desperation, Thoros could only order flying troops and Warcraft cavalry to harass and pursue Gresso's troops.

Although the Warcraft Cavalry can march in mountainous areas, there are no ready-made roads. In fact, the marching speed is not fast and can only barely keep up with the marching speed of the ogres.

However, the flying units in the air greatly slowed down the ogres' marching speed.

Whether it is a lion cavalry, a flying dragon knight, or a team of magic hot air balloons, they can throw alchemy bombs in the air, or they can descend from high altitudes and use bows and arrows to kill opponents.

The ogres, however, had no means to deal with the flying soldiers, so they could only try their best to throw stones at the flying soldiers.

With the flying troops to contain the enemy, the ogre army couldn't move fast at all. Gresso used a few ogres to leave behind, but was easily eaten by the bipedal dragon knight, which was of no use at all.

After all, the adult flying dragon is also a dragon-born monster with a professional level exceeding the seventh level, and its combat power is very outstanding.

With the control of flying troops, Thoros and Sophia finally led the Warcraft Cavalry to the front of the ogre team.

The two sides met in the northern part of the Vera Mountains. Sophia decisively released a star bomb on Gresso, and a thick starlight suddenly hit Gresso. The starlight fell at an extremely fast speed. Gresso made some calculations and felt that it was impossible to escape at his own speed, so he could only open the dimensional door and hide in the other-dimensional space.

Gresso is a two-headed ogre magician. Like Richard, his profession is both magic and martial arts. However, the two-headed ogre magician does not master many spell models, and his spell power is much worse than that of the legendary magician. However, Gresso's physical strength is much stronger than that of a ninth-level knight.

Gresso can become a tiger in the Eagle Mountains and occupy the natural magic well for many years. His strength is actually as difficult to deal with as the legendary black dragon Ramoos.

The starlight bomb fell next to Gresso, and in an instant, tens of thousands of square meters of ogres near Gresso were blown into dust. Even the extra-dimensional space that Gresso opened was annihilated by this huge energy.

The violent energy shattered the dimensional space and hit Gresso from all directions. Seeing that the dimensional gate did not block the enemy's attack, Gresso hurriedly used the seven-ring magic high force field protection, and then released a powerful magic rainbow light ball. .

In an instant, two more layers of protection appeared around Gresso. Although these two protections still did not block the star bomb, they allowed the thick-skinned Gresso to save his life and successfully escape from the star bomb attack.

After surviving the star bomb attack, Gresso's vitality was reduced by nearly one-third and his magic power was reduced by nine-tenths.

He ignored his children and grandchildren and chose to escape very decisively. By the time Sophia was about to release the second star bomb, Gresso had already fled far away.

Although Gresso escaped, the ogres around him suffered heavy casualties from the starlight bombs. More than a hundred people were directly killed by the starlight bombs, and nearly two hundred people were injured.

The ogre team is relatively scattered. If they are all concentrated in one place, I am afraid that one star bomb can take away all the more than a thousand ogres.

After being hit by the star bomb, the ogre team decisively chose to withdraw. About two hundred wounded ogre soldiers stayed behind on their own initiative, and were all killed by Harland's army.

Gresso assembled his team five kilometers away and found that the number of ogres was less than a thousand.

After the battle on the southern front failed, Gresso did not dare to provoke Richard's Northern Route Army anymore and hurriedly fled westward with the ogres.

Just after walking fifty kilometers, they were blocked by Sawyer Castle ahead.

Sawyer Castle was built on a battleground for military strategists. It is located at the intersection of two ridges and is a natural mountain fork.

If you want to bypass Sawyer Castle, you must turn around and go around fifty kilometers to the north.

The ogres under Gresso's command have been traveling for a day. They have been attacked and bombed by flying units in the past day, and have suffered hundreds of casualties. They really don't want to walk for two more days.

Although there were human defenders in the castle, Gresso still issued the order to storm. More than 900 ogres tried their best to capture Sawyer Castle and wiped out 3,000 auxiliary soldiers. They also suffered more than 200 casualties and delayed the work for most of the day.

As soon as the ogre had a feast, Richard led the Northern Route Army to surround Gresso.

At this moment, there are only more than 700 ogres under Gresso's command. Gresso has not recovered from his injuries and is actually at the end of his rope.

(End of this chapter)