MTL - Bloodline Lord of War-Chapter 169 Arrive at Blood King City
Chapter 169 Reaching the Blood King City
Further north of the wilderness is what people call the "Endless Mountains", which is an unknown territory that humans have never set foot on.
Looking down from the sky, the countless mountain ranges are like giant wild beasts crawling on the earth. Mountain ranges are connected to one another, spreading to the north of the world, seemingly without end—this is also the "Endless Mountain Range" origin of the name.
Legend has it that in ancient times, human power once reached the other end of the Endless Mountain Range, but now, in the official documents of the Redman Empire, there are very few records of the Endless Mountain Range.
The remaining veins of the two endless mountains extend to the wasteland, like two tentacles protruding from the endless mountains, and the Blood King City is right in the middle of these two remaining veins.
The Blood King City is equivalent to the portal of the Endless Mountain Range. Once you pass the Blood King City, you will enter the Endless Mountain Range.
"Patter——"
The icy autumn rain was still falling, and a white rabbit poked its head out of a piece of green grass half a person's height.
This kind of prairie rabbit can be seen everywhere in the wasteland. Their meat is delicious, and it is one of the favorite game of the iron guards.
The prairie rabbit carefully hides in the grass, with its three-petal beak squirming against the wet ground, nibbling on the newly grown grass shoots with relish.
Suddenly, the prairie rabbit's ears twitched. It seemed to hear something. It slid into the depths of the grass and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Immediately afterwards, a "rustling" sound came from the grass, and immediately, two figures emerged from the grass, it was Robin and Luke.
Robin and Robin made their way to the outside of the Blood King City with the help of grass and rain. The two of them lay on their stomachs in the wet grass, only showing four pairs of bright eyes, quietly observing the Blood King City in the distance.
At this time, the Blood King City was less than 200 meters away from them, and this was the first time that Robin observed the Blood City so closely.
The scale of the Blood King City is larger than Robin expected, even larger than the Dragon's Back Fort. The dark city wall is nearly ten meters high.
The flag of the Duke of Blood is hung on the city wall, and a **** white fang is painted on the flag. In addition, you can also see many wilderness natives standing guard and patrolling, with small heads moving around on the city wall.
Blood King City lay quietly in the rain, like a sleeping ancient beast. Behind the Blood King City, there is a large stretch of mountains, so dark that it is hard to see clearly under the rain.
The blood city was built in a very dangerous location. There are towering mountains on both sides of the city. If you want to attack the city, you can only attack from the south of the city.
There is a huge iron-clad city gate to the south of the Blood King City, which is closed tightly at the moment. From the city gate to the outside, there is a wide road, and the traces of people walking and horses can be clearly seen. However, it has been watered by autumn rain for nearly a month, and the dirt road has become very muddy, with small potholes and small blisters everywhere.
From anywhere, this looks like an ordinary human city. If it weren't for the aboriginal soldiers standing guard on the city wall, Robin would never have connected this city with vampires.
Robin also had a hard time imagining that in the depths of the deserted wasteland, the Duke of Blood could build such a majestic city.
It has been three days since the vanguard arrived at the outer edge of the Blood King City. During this time, Robin scouted all the outer areas of the Blood King City. Sometimes, in order to ensure the accuracy of the information, he would even risk being named by the enemy archers, as he did now, and personally go forward to investigate.
The closed gates of the Blood King City would sometimes be opened for a moment, and a few wolf cavalry scouts riding giant wolves would be released to scout around for intelligence.
Robin's deer cavalry fought against each other several times, but they didn't take much advantage. In terms of archery, these wolf cavalry are far from the opponents of the stag cavalry, but these wolf cavalry are also blood warriors. The stag cavalry can shoot them, but it is difficult to kill them.
The improved elf longbow is too heavy and too big to be used by stag cavalry. The bow used by stag cavalry is a shorter horse bow. It is difficult to kill the enemy wolf cavalry directly with archery.
Often, the wolf cavalry was shot several times by the half-elf, and finally ran back to the Blood King City like a hedgehog with a head of arrows, making Tess and the stag cavalry very angry.
However, although they couldn't kill the wolf cavalry on the opposite side, the deer cavalry were not without any results. They wandered around the Blood King City, reducing the wolf cavalry's reconnaissance range and disconnecting the Blood King City from the outside world.
Even if there were occasional wolf cavalry who could break through the blockade of the deer cavalry, too few scouts went out to provide enough information to the Blood King City.
Robin brought Luke up to scout for a while. The reason why he brought Luke was because half-elves have stronger eyesight than humans. In such a rainy day, the field of vision of humans is greatly compressed, while the interference of half-elves is very small.
Robin was lying in the damp grass, looking at this huge city from a distance, he suddenly had a strange feeling, except for the few native guards scattered on the city wall, Robin couldn't feel anything from this city at all. The smell of living things, it seems that the whole city is dead, behind the tall city walls, there seems to be nothing in the city.
Robin thought that there should be residents in this city. The vanguard came all the way, but they didn't see a single native village. Robin suspected that these wilderness natives were captured by the Duke of Blood and entered the city. Otherwise, she simply wouldn't have enough population to fill a city.
After the investigation was over, Robin and Luke quietly left in the grass with their waists bowed.
The vanguard camp was stationed ten miles away from the Blood King City. Robin and his troops were too small to dare to get too close to the Blood King City, for fear of being suddenly attacked by the Blood Duke.
Robin and Luke returned to the camp, opened the curtain, and as soon as they entered their tent, Robin saw Baron Lauren sitting obediently on the pony saddle beside him, quietly waiting for him.
"Baron Lauren, why are you here? What's the matter?" Robin took off his waterproof cloak and handed it to Seaman.
Baron Lauren stood up with a happy expression on his face: "Baron Robin, I'm here to tell you something special. Just now, the main force sent messengers over. In about five days, Earl Longji's large force will arrive. About to arrive!"
After hearing the news, Robin didn't appear too happy. Instead, he was a little careless. He nodded slightly and replied, "Well, good."
Baron Lauren was very excited. He waved his fist vigorously and said with great pride: "As soon as the large army arrives, we can prepare to attack the city and destroy this group of blood clans!"
In stark contrast to Baron Lauren's restlessness, Robin was very calm.
In the past few days, Robin has been feeling a little disturbed for no reason, and he can't say why, maybe it's because of the bad weather, maybe it's because of the severely delayed battle plan, maybe it's because of those endless and endless monsters that can't be killed Wolf cavalry scouts.
According to the original battle plan, the siege battle should have officially started a week ago. Robin felt that this war had been out of everyone's control from the very beginning, and that they seemed to have gone down a wrong path.
But once the war machine turns, it will not stop until it hits the head and bleeds. They can only follow this wrong road and walk until the dark with their heads depressed.
No one knows whether this road will be a victory or a failure in the end.
Wars are always like this. Most of the time, both sides fight in a mess. The winner wins out of nowhere, and the loser loses out of nowhere.
Many military masters call war an art, but Robin feels that war is actually more like a gamble. Whether you are an advantage or a disadvantage, no one knows whether you will win or lose before the sieve cup is picked up.
Before the main force arrives, Robin and their vanguard still have a lot of work to do.
Robin has already selected a suitable location as the barracks of the large army. It is a large mound with high terrain, which is the commanding height of the surrounding area. There is a small river under the mound, which flows around the mound, and it is raining every day now, even if there is no water source for this small river, it will not be a problem.
On the south side of the mound, 500 meters away is a forest. The soldiers of Rock City drove their carriages to the woods one after another. They put down their long swords and picked up their axes for logging. They went to the woods to mine wood, and then transported the wood one by one. Back to the camp, the wood will be used to build the camp, guard towers, fences, and siege equipment are all needed.
After being irrigated by rain for almost a month, the land on the wasteland became wet and slippery, and the wheels of the carriage often got stuck in the mud. At this time, the soldiers had to jump out of the carriage and started pushing the cart in the mud under the cold autumn rain. .
When the army is out on the field, it often needs to obtain local materials. If all materials need to be transported from the rear, the cost will be too high.
War is always the game that burns the most money. In addition to weapons and equipment, food and drinks for soldiers, rewards and pensions, logistics supplies and transportation are also a big money burner.
Taking the most basic grain as an example, if ten carts of grain are sent to the front line, only one cart may be delivered in the end, and the remaining nine carts are eaten up by the escorted farmers on the road.
The vanguard first set up a temporary camp on the mound, and then expanded it to the outside little by little. Before the arrival of the main force, they can expand as much as possible, which is also one of the tasks of the vanguard.
During the expansion of the camp, Robin's deer cavalry kept a close eye on the movement of the Blood King City. But it was strange that the Blood King City did not take any action, allowing Robin and the others to expand the camp under their noses, and did not even send troops to harass them.
Robin talked to Baron Lauren about this abnormal situation, but Baron Lauren didn't take it seriously. He was very optimistic and said to Robin: "Perhaps that **** **** has been scared by our army, so he huddled in the city and dared not come out." gone."
Robin agrees with Baron Lauren's positive and optimistic attitude, but he thinks that the Duke of Blood dared to openly ask the human lord on the wasteland for blood slaves, which shows that she is not only very courageous, but also very arrogant.
How could such a person be scared and hide in the city without daring to come out?
Having said that, Robin can't guess what the Duke of Blood is thinking. Apart from sending more surveillance personnel, Robin has no other better way. He can only take one step at a time and take advantage of this opportunity to speed up the expansion of the camp.
Six days passed without incident, and one day later than previously announced, the main force of the Wilderness Alliance finally arrived.
Although there are only 10,000 combat troops of the Wilderness Alliance Army, with the addition of civilian husbands who transport logistics supplies, entourages who take care of the daily life of knights and lords, and businessmen who are eager to make war fortunes, all kinds of people add up. As many as 20,000 to 30,000 people.
If you look down from the sky, the mighty army is like a long snake, slowly moving northward on the grassland under the rain, without seeing the end at a glance. The marching scene is quite spectacular and shocking.
The army arrived at the temporary camp that was being expanded, and the troops of the various lords immediately set up their camps. Earl Longji, as the commander of the Wilderness Alliance Army, had the largest and most luxurious military tent. Dozens of soldiers worked together to move this huge army. The tent is pitched in the center of the camp.
"Hahaha, come in and take shelter from the rain."
The guards opened the door curtain, Earl Goode of Dragon's Back, dressed in bronze-colored exquisite armor, with a sword hanging on his waist, walked into the military tent with big strides.
Robin and Baron Lauren followed behind him and also entered the military tent.
In the military tent, Earl Goode's retinues were busy non-stop, arranging all kinds of salutes brought by the army in the military tent.
The two followers moved three small horses, one for Earl Longji and Robin.
"Please sit down first."
Earl Longji looked very happy, with a smile on his face. The long march did not kill the fighting spirit in his heart. At this time, the Blood King City was in front of him, and Gude's desire to make contributions was higher than ever.
After Robin and Baron Lauren sat down, Earl Goode began to speak: "You two have worked hard along the way. As the eyes and ears of the army, you have made great contributions to the Wilderness Alliance."
Good said, looking at Baron Lauren.
"Baron Lauren, as the commander of the vanguard, you have done a good job, especially you have also built a fortress of the blood race, clearing the obstacles for the main force. After the war is over, I will reward you heavily. "
But after Earl Goode finished speaking, Baron Lauren didn't show any joy at all. He turned his head and glanced at Robin, stood up, and said:
"Sorry, Lord Earl, I have let you down. I cannot claim this credit. In fact, Baron Robin broke the blood fortress, and the command of the vanguard also relied on Baron Robin. I only played an auxiliary role. "
Earl Good immediately showed a surprised expression. He received the battle report from Baron Lauren, but because of the long distance, the battle report should be written as concisely as possible, so Baron Lauren only said that he had laid down a blood fortress, but he did not have the specific battle process. Say it in detail.
Baron Laurent is the commander of the vanguard and has more troops under him. Therefore, Earl Goode took it for granted that he built the blood fortress. After all, Robin has only one hundred troops.
(end of this chapter)
