Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 410 - 171: The Night Before the Final Battle · Are You Still Wearing Your Brass Bell?
So Fastrick hurried over and asked, "Lord, are you okay?"
Su Li waved his hand casually and said, "Just a minor injury, nothing serious. How about you and Ariana?"
Ariana flicked her golden lance to shake off the bloodstains, then flew over and said, "We are in high spirits, just a bunch of harpies, nothing threatening at all."
"But tonight is likely to be a sleepless night, with even Lord personally joining the battle, such fights are likely occurring everywhere."
Indeed, as Ariana said, the knights and mounted armored attendants of the territory were weaving through the beast tide of Green Dragon’s Fang across the Hesse Town.
The battles involving scouts, spies, and ambushes were erupting in every corner of the Central Plain. The knights were constantly engaging in battles to gradually discover the Green Dragon Legion’s deployments and directions and continuously reporting back to the command center within Heisen Castle.
Green Dragon, of course, could not tolerate this and continuously dispatched troops and ambushes to hunt down these wandering human scouts.
It must ensure its legion remains hidden behind a fog like an iron curtain, which is consistent with Green Dragon’s style of lurking in the shadows.
If its legion and deployments were completely exposed, the course of war would be entirely in the hands of the human knights.
And this kind of battle is undoubtedly very favorable for Green Dragon. Relying on a massive army, it can set up several hundred wandering beast war gangs ahead of the main forces. These creatures, grouped in dozens, are highly mobile and able to maximize the mobility of beasts, keeping the human cavalry scouts far away, several miles from the main forces of the Green Dragon Legion.
The dwarves riding combat rams suffered greatly in such deployments, almost leading to a mishap and total annihilation, causing the loss of the Thunder Horn.
It’s also because these combat dwarves were greedy, unwilling to sound the Thunder Horn facing dozens of monsters at the periphery and wanted to venture deeper before the monster main forces.
As a result, they were surrounded by four monster war gangs, almost unable to escape.
Finally, reluctantly, they sounded the Thunder Horn, summoning the peak Divine Chosen level heroic spirit of the dwarves, and fought their way out by slashing through dozens of monsters.
But having gone through this battle, the dwarves no longer dared to venture too deep. The subsequent effects were insignificant, and they simply retreated back to the territory.
In only the first two battles, the Divine Chosen level dwarf heroic spirit fought with extreme intensity, slaughtering nearly a hundred Green Dragon Followers.
However, this also led to a small regret, which is that Green Dragon’s Fang already saw through the flaw of this heroic spirit — he can only exist for a very short time each time.
All they need to do when he appears is to desperately flee, without thinking about brutality, honor, or formations. No creature can withstand a strike from his sharp war axe in front of this peak Divine Chosen level dwarf.
But despite the dwarf’s strength, he is short-legged. As long as the creatures don’t charge head-on toward him, his chasing efficiency is extremely low, causing little damage.
This also tested some of the Green Dragon Legion’s situations. Although these lower-level creatures have little cognitive ability, the Green Dragon as the commander-in-chief is extremely cunning and sly, able to effectively counter the deployments of Hesse Territory.
Under its command, Green Dragon’s Fang resolved Hesse Territory’s probes one by one and successfully flattened a large number of external territory strongholds.
Judging from tonight’s battle results alone, their Green Dragon Legion even holds the upper hand, they can be considered triumphant and unstoppable.
In the battles among the scouts, although both sides win some and lose some, Green Dragon is the least worried about this type of loss. In the situation of monster siege, the defenders can’t get reinforcements, weakening with every unit lost.
Meanwhile, the besieging army can continuously incorporate beast herds, enhancing their strength.
In this relative growth and decline, it is just a matter of time before Green Dragon breaks through this castle.
When Su Li returned to Heisen Castle, Freya was already waiting on the terrace. Upon seeing Su Li, she advised, "You should stop running around, or else get caught in Green Dragon’s ambush and disrupt our deployment. From the mounted armored attendants’ report, Green Dragon still has a few two-legged flying dragons under its command."
Su Li nodded without trying to be overly strong, handing the blood-stained warhammer to Fastrick beside him, then turned to Freya and asked, "What’s the current situation?"
Freya immediately replied, "Not optimistic, mainly the herds on Bloody Highlands are impossible to recover. We have ordered them to seek refuge at the foot of the Gray Mountain Range, hoping the dwarves can provide shelter."
Regarding this situation, Su Li was at a loss as well. War never waits until you are completely prepared to break out.
Or more accurately, in the face of a war that arrives passively, one can never achieve full preparation.
Especially since the intelligence of Hesse Territory was suddenly leaked a few days ago, the territory being able to achieve such a level of preparation and mobilization is already astonishingly organized by the knights.
"How’s the soldier assembly situation?"
"No need to worry about that; most of the secular soldiers in the territory have already assembled, and even those on the road can successfully gather in Hesse Town before the Green Dragon Legion arrives."
Su Li raised his eyebrows, sharply noticing the key issue in Freya’s response: "All the secular soldiers are successfully assembled? What about the church knights?"
