Lord Highlander

  Chapter 743 732. On the eve of the beast tide

   "They may have the idea that they want to get out of this monster forest and see the outside world, but before the end of the beast tide, the tribe's survival situation is worrying."

  The native great elder frowned, but his voice was unusually calm, looking like an old magician.

   He tightly held the black wooden staff in his hand, stood up from the chair, and glanced wisely at the young native warrior beside him, and continued to say to Suldak:

   "We need more warriors to protect the tribe, so I can't promise you."

  The native elders did not agree to allow the young natives to be employed by Suldak.

  In fact, he also has other ideas in his heart: he needs more indigenous fighters to consolidate his power, in order to firmly rule the entire indigenous tribe.

Every native warrior is his wealth, and he dare not let these young people enter the civilized world, because he seems to have been to Wilkes City when he was young, and he has seen the prosperity there and the mighty Green Empire How man expands his land.

  In addition, in the past few years, some slave hunting groups have gathered in the town of Dodan, and they wantonly hunted and killed the local aborigines in the Invercargill Warcraft Forest.

  Many natives are full of hatred for the imperial people, and this hatred in their hearts will not be eliminated overnight.

  Suldak just asked a casual question, and didn't say anything more when he heard the native elder directly refused.

"Then continue our previous transaction. If you have any needs, you can come to Dodan Town to find me. I can guarantee the personal safety of the Dakuni tribe fighters. These magic herbs, monster leather, and magic cores can be brought to Dodan. Dan Town in exchange for what you need, and I will live at the barracks." Suldak said to the native elder.

  He patted the two herb baskets beside him, and felt that the leaves on the dried herb roots seemed to be falling off constantly.

   then quickly stopped.

  Although these herbs are not worth much in the eyes of this group of local aborigines, they are definitely the most sought-after magic materials in the Grimm Empire.

  The native elder sat back on the chair again, and the young native lifted him up, holding a black wooden cane in his hand.

Said to Suldak: "This is fine, I don't know how long this beast tide will last, a few months or longer... We need more material reserves. When there is a harvest of magic herbs, I will let the tribe The warriors sent to you will be exchanged for more weapons and living supplies."

  Suldak held the hilt of Blood Red Crescent with one hand, turned on the horse lightly, tapped his chest with his fist, and said to the native elder:

   "Okay, it's a deal, I wish us a happy cooperation next time."

   Watching the indigenous tribesmen disappear into the dense forest at the mouth of the Duodan Canyon, Suldak took all the cavalry on his way back, and the way back was also not easy. There are now several large groups of monsters gathered in the canyon.

   With the strength of the cavalry squadron, they are currently unable to hunt and kill these herds.

  Sami pulled the rein of the horse and approached Surdak, whispering in his ear:

   "How about I follow them and see where is the passage that can pass through the thorns and thorns?"

  Suldak hesitated for a moment before saying:

   "Forget it, we don't need to hide there, let them keep a little secret, otherwise if they lose their sense of security, they may migrate elsewhere."

  Samira curled her lips disapprovingly, and said:

   "Where else could they go?"

  Suldak looked at the Invercargill Warcraft Forest in the distance, followed the cavalry team into the Dodan Canyon, turned his head to stare at Samira, and asked her:

   "Do you think these indigenous tribes lived in the Warcraft Forest before?"

   Without waiting for Samira to answer, Suldak sighed softly and said:

   "They only hid in the Invercargill Warcraft Forest because of the continuous expansion of our land."

  Suldak smiled helplessly and said:

"They are neither willing to surrender nor to change their original way of life, so their living space can only be continuously compressed by us. Now they are hiding in the forest of monsters, and they can barely live on. Although life is a bit difficult, it has not yet into a desperate situation."

  He pointed to the Warcraft Forest on the other side of the hilly land, and said:

"We can't even count how many indigenous tribes like Dakuni in the Vulkagil Warcraft Forest. If they feel that they can no longer survive, they have another way to fight us desperately besides continuing to migrate... This It's not what we want, although we have an extremely powerful Constructed Knights, but I think their journey should be the sea of ​​stars."

"So I think that wanting to occupy a plane is not to drive out the aborigines here, but to assimilate them to the greatest extent, let them get used to our way of life, let them understand our civilization, touch our food, accept our beliefs and endorse the ideals we aspire to."

  After saying this, Suldak wanted to ride to the front of the team.

  Samila whipped the **** of the horse for a while, followed, and continued to ask:

   "Like the city of Vojmara?"

  Suldak shook his head and said:

   "The city of Wojmara has not done well in this regard. They need to have a higher sense of identity with the local aborigines."

  Samira looked at Suldak blankly.

  Suldak smiled and continued to explain: "The sense of identity I'm talking about is not the usual high-level pity and charity for the weak, but equality in the true sense."

   "..."

  Samila fixed her light red eyes on the knight in front of the team who was riding a horse and hurried to the front of the team, pulled the rein of the horse, and stood there in a daze.

   "I didn't expect him to think that way."

  Samira exhaled, feeling that the Dodan Canyon in front of her eyes had become much wider.

  Andrew caught up from behind, and when he passed by Samira, he said something: "Having been with him for so long, don't you feel that he has always done this?"

  Looking at Andrew's back, the half-elf archer muttered in a low voice:

   "I'm not an aboriginal Nanai, how can I feel this way!"

  After she finished speaking, she couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled, and chased after her with a whip in her hand.

  This half-elf girl has a shockingly beautiful smile, so much so that she has always been wearing a hood, unwilling to show her true colors.

  Riding on a horse and galloping, the breeze is blowing.

   Unknowingly, she took off the silk hood on her head, revealing a head of soft blonde hair blowing in the wind...

  …

The herds of beasts in the Warcraft Forest wanted to avoid the ghost-striped red ants. Relying on the memories imprinted in their lives, they wanted to migrate south, but the passage of the Dodan Canyon was blocked by the Green Empire with a high wall, and all the beasts The flocks are crowded in the narrow Dodan Gorge.

  Now some groups of monsters have also entered the canyon one after another, making the Dodan Canyon, which has been very quiet, appear overcrowded.

  The residents of the small town showed two completely different views on this beast tide, and many imperial immigrants did not want to continue living here.

  They worried that once the wall couldn't stop the monsters outside, everyone in the town would become food for the monsters.

  They came here just to start a small business and make their lives more nourishing.

   They didn’t come here to die, so these days, some shops closed one after another, and many businessmen left Dodan Town.

   On the contrary, the vast majority of aborigines choose to continue to live here, but in fact they have nowhere to go.

Although they have almost nothing, there is at least one wooden house that can shelter from the wind and rain, and family and friends who are willing to hug each other for warmth. A bunch of rex rabbits on a rope.

  The nobles hope that the Wilkes Military Department can send more troops, they don't want the property here to turn into a bunch of bubbles overnight.

   In recent days, Andrew led the cavalry battalion to go hunting in the Dodan Canyon.

  As more monsters flooded into the Dodan Canyon, the types of monsters hunted became more abundant, but the active area was constantly compressed, gradually only within a few kilometers outside the north city wall.

  Once a large group of monsters rushed up, they quickly approached the north city wall.

   As long as they run within the range of the bed crossbow, it is considered safe. When those monsters rush up, the bed crossbow on the city wall will shoot and kill at the longest distance unceremoniously.

  Of course, the prey thus obtained also belonged to the City Defense Guard Brigade.

  These bed crossbows are all manufactured by the Imperial Capital Ordnance Workshop of the Grimm Empire. Usually, a bed ballista is roughly divided into three parts: the base, the pitching frame, and the crossbow body.

  The base is a heavy-duty four-wheel flatbed truck, which is mainly used to carry the pitching frame and crossbow body.

  General craftsmen will inlay magical rune plates such as 'Strength' and 'Wind Control' on the axle at the lower part of the base, in order to make the entire bed crossbow stronger and more durable, and save effort when dragging.

  The pitch frame is the control system of the bed crossbow. This part has two winches that control the left and right rotation and up and down rotation.

  The crossbow body is the most important part of the bed crossbow. The magic crossbow arm is the most valuable component of a bed crossbow. The arrow slot in the middle can place a giant crossbow arrow up to three meters long.

  A bed crossbow is usually operated jointly by two soldiers, and one of the soldiers needs to constantly adjust the shooting angle of the bed crossbow.

  Another soldier stood on the seat behind the crossbow body, and was responsible for pulling the bowstring of the bed crossbow with a winch, and using words to guide the soldiers below to adjust the shooting angle.

  The soldier who performs aimed shooting also needs to have a good foundation in archery.

  Recently, the soldiers of the city defense brigade have taken turns to operate the bed crossbow every day, shooting and killing the monsters brought by the cavalry, so that the accuracy of their control of the bed crossbow has been significantly improved.

  Many demonic beasts possessed elementary intelligence, and would never rashly rush into the range of the bed crossbow on the northern city wall. Only some greedy and bloodthirsty moonblade fire wolves would trail behind the cavalry, trying to bite off a large piece of flesh from the cavalry.

  In the past few days, Suldak, Andrew, Samira, and Gulitham took turns leading the cavalry out of the north city wall to hunt down the monsters in the canyon.

  Suldak stood on the city wall, and a group of cavalry in the distance stepped across the wild grass in front of the canyon, bringing up a cloud of dust behind them.

The vegetation here has been gnawed by those herbivores until the loess layer was exposed. A large group of monsters chased up from behind. In addition to a large group of moonblade fire wolves and maned beasts, there were also a few tall ones in the herd. A black-backed ice-horned rhinoceros, followed by three slow-moving subway-backed bears.

  There was the sound of a winch turning on the side of the city wall. Suldak supported the wall with both hands, and said to Andrew beside him, "Why did you attract so many?"

  Andrew was also a little surprised, and quickly ran down the city wall with the butcher's battle ax in his hand, preparing to bring back the cavalry outside the city.

  On the canyon grass below the city wall, I can still hear Gulitum's shouts, and I don't know what kind of excitement is in his heart...

  Samira stared at the herd of beasts gradually entering the range, and saw the cavalry running into a safe distance, so she ordered: "Shoot!"

Immediately a row of thirty-five giant crossbow bolts flew straight out from the top of the city amidst the buzzing sound. These giant crossbow bolts flew across a distance of nearly a thousand meters in an instant, and the huge crossbow bolts killed the row of moon blade fire wolves in front of them. nailed to the ground.

  The rest of the monsters were aroused to be ferocious, and they continued to rush forward over these giant crossbow arrows.

  The pair of cavalry quickly gathered under the city wall and passed through the long and narrow doorway in the north city wall. Gulitham followed at the end of the team, with an unconscious cavalryman under his arm.

   While running just now, the cavalry's war horse accidentally stepped its front legs into the rabbit's nest dug out by the rex rabbit.

  The leg of the horse broke directly, and the knight was also thrown off the horse, and fell unconscious on the ground.

  If Gulitum hadn't grabbed him from the ground at a critical moment, he would have been torn to pieces by the group of monsters behind him at this moment.

   Now there is still a sigh of relief, Andrew was the last to run into the city gate, and the city guard almost fell against the iron fence against Andrew's back.

Still so, a few moonblade fire wolves who were biting behind him took the opportunity to rush in, but separated the other monsters from the iron fence, and a large group of veterans in full metal armor held spears in their hands. , rushing up from both sides, and cooperating with Gulitum who stopped, stabbing the rushing Moonblade fire wolves to death one after another.

  There is only such a large space in the city gate, and even if the bodies of these moonblade fire wolves are flexible, they cannot avoid these spears.

On the other hand, the monsters outside the fence sprayed flame knives into the city gate through the iron fence. A row of veterans quickly raised their shields to block the wave of magic, and a group of people quickly withdrew from the city gate. .

  The city guards on the city wall drew their alloy bows to full capacity, and the cavalry on the city wall carried a five-shot standard crossbow and shot a round of arrows.

  The monsters who had gathered under the city left in embarrassment with their tails between their legs.

  Andrew ran down the city with an angry face, and asked the cavalry squadron leader who looked like he had survived the disaster: "What's going on, I don't want to die?"

  The cavalry squadron leader didn't speak, and Andrew knew that the ogre Gullitum was probably to blame. Gullitum was also a bachelor, so he didn't make any excuses at all, but just smirked at Andrew.

  (end of this chapter)