Lord of Hyranza

The bed crossbow operators turned the turntable quickly, and the crossbow strings of the shore ballista quickly stretched, and the crossbow strings creaked and cracked as they continued to charge.

Following the orders of the commanders, giant crossbow arrows flew towards the Red Ridge Giant Turtle through the air.

The red-spine giant tortoise walking in front felt that the crisis was approaching, and quickly retracted its head into the shell, and then water element shields appeared outside the shell, like glass bowls turned upside down.

When the giant crossbow arrows hit those water element shields, the glass-colored halo immediately dispersed, offsetting the momentum of the giant crossbow.

Three consecutive giant crossbow arrows hit the frontmost red-spine giant tortoise before they pierced the water element shield outside the tortoise's shell.

Then the giant crossbow arrows hit the exposed thick tortoise shell again, and the red-spine giant tortoises made a dull sound, and then stretched out their scale-covered heads. With a burst of power, countless water elements gathered around its body, and a huge water bomb condensed and formed in front of the red-spine giant tortoise.

Waiting for more than thirty water bombs to condense one after another, each one is very large.

These balls of light slammed into the cavalry camp of the lord army with a violent whistling sound. A group of warriors wearing thick tower shields rushed in front of the cavalry and formed a shield wall with the shields in their hands. Unfortunately, as the giant water polo roared, these lords The shield fighters in the army didn't have time to respond with all their strength, and were hit by water bombs spit out by a group of giant turtles.

The scene immediately became chaotic, and the shield warrior in front was blown away by the huge water polo.

As soon as the lord's army fought against the red-ridged giant tortoise, they were smashed by these concentrated water bombs.

At this moment, a whistling giant crossbow pierced through the head of the giant tortoise that was rushing forward. The red-spine giant tortoise didn't even have the time to scream, and the blood on its body gushed out crazily.

But other redback giant tortoises walked closer to the lake...

The water polo they spewed out caused huge casualties to the soldiers of the Lord Army. Although Samira's armed Thunder Rhino gave full support, the soldiers in the front row were still inevitably killed by the water polo.

Then Samira took out a giant magic crossbow, and the sound of the winch was heard again from all around.

As the lords gathered again to form a shield wall, since the giant red-ridged tortoise roared into the sky again, magic patterns were formed under the feet of the giant red-ridged tortoises, and the magic patterns on the back of the turtle behind them also lit up. When these giant red-spine tortoises opened their mouths, bunches of water cannons sprayed out.

These cylindrical blisters smashed the lord army's camp to pieces, and with the order of Commander Collins, the other lord army who could continue to fight took up their weapons and rushed towards the red spine giant tortoise.

When the battle broke out, the lord army suppressed these red-spine giant tortoises with their sophisticated magic bed crossbows and three second-rank powerhouses.

During the battle, the heavy armored infantry continued to fall, and the redback giant tortoise was killed by the joint efforts of Samira and Carrie Decker. The battle lasted from dusk to noon the next day. Almost all the remaining red-ridged giant tortoises were left by the lakeside by the lord army, but the lord army also paid a considerable price for this, and the number of casualties directly exceeded a thousand.

At the end of the battle, more than fifty red-ridged giant tortoises were all killed, and the farthest red-ridged tortoise climbed out of Loon Lake, which was nearly a kilometer away from the shore of the lake.

The lord's army began to clean up the battlefield and organize the spoils on the battlefield...

Chapter 1336 Evacuation

The first breakout battle of the redback giant tortoise in Loon Lake ended in failure.

Samira and Carrie Decker, two second-rank powerhouses, sit on the frontline battlefield, and basically kill half of the redback giant tortoises, especially Carrie Decker owns Santos After using the shotgun, as long as she gets close to the giant redback tortoise, a few shots can kill one on the spot.

To say that this group of red-ridged giant tortoises is undoubtedly the overlord of Loon Lake in the Three Rivers Plain, and their population has been entrenched here for an unknown number of generations. It is not that no adventure group has paid their attention to them. After all, these red-spine giant tortoises The giant ridge tortoises are almost all Tier [-] magical beasts, covered with precious magic materials, and the individuals are very large. Even if they successfully hunt down one, it will make the adventure group a fortune.

But the biggest difficulty in hunting these red-ridged giant tortoises is that they live at the bottom of the lake. In the past, if the adventure group wanted to hunt the red-ridged giant tortoise, they had to take a boat into the lakes around Loon Lake. In addition, the members of the adventure group were required to be proficient in water warfare. .

In fact, these red-spine giant tortoises are almost invincible in the water. Whether it is water bombs, water column impact, or water shields, these are not easily resisted by members of the adventure group. There have been many famous adventure groups on the Sanhe Plain. , due to the large number of salamander ghost snakes and the red-ridged giant tortoise living in the lake.

It's a pity that the Suldak Lord Army took advantage of the turn of winter and spring this time. After the water in Lake Loen dried up, the area where the red-ridged giant tortoises in the lake moved became narrower, and some red-ridged giant tortoises were forced to climb to the land to find new animals. Habitat.

When these redbacked giant tortoises came to land, they could only be beaten when facing the lord's cavalry. However, with their powerful combat power, they were still not something that ordinary cavalry regiments could handle. The Suldak lord's army also carried a batch of magic The bed crossbow, and two second-rank powerhouses were in command to hunt and kill the red-ridged giant tortoises that had landed.

Loon Lake is not deep, it evolved from a low-lying wetland.

In spring, the Sanhe Plain is relatively dry. Although the snow melted in the mountains, the dry southwest wind blows from the field, which blows away the moisture on the land. The water level of the entire Loon Lake plummets by three in March. Meter.

Even the leader of the giant red-ridged tortoise hiding in the center of the lake revealed its huge shell. The huge Loon Lake has now shrunk by two-thirds.

All the giant red-ridged tortoises living in the lake have exposed their shells, and the soldiers of the lord army have also attacked the giant red-ridged tortoises in the lake, but as long as they are in the lake, they will be erected by the lake. A row of magic bed crossbows is helpless against those redback giant tortoises.

In addition to having a solid turtle shell, they can also condense a water shield around the body. The magic bed crossbow can't penetrate these two layers of armor at all.

According to the investigation of the magicians, there are at least 170 red-ridged giant tortoises trapped in the center of the lake, and the leader of one of the red-ridged giant tortoises occupies the deepest part of the lake.

Due to the serious shrinkage of Loon Lake, a large number of fish and shrimps also gather in this lake, and the food of the red-ridge giant tortoises is relatively sufficient...

But if the red-ridged giant tortoise in Loon Lake is not cleaned up, the land in the southern area of ​​the Three Rivers Plain cannot be completely recovered, and Loon Lake cannot be drawn outside the territory.

The commanders of the various lord armies reported the matter to Suldak.

Suldak specially transferred fifty catapults from the bridgehead camp for this purpose. The range of the catapults is much longer than that of the bed crossbow, and the most important thing is that the catapults can throw flint and black powder kegs. The giant ridged tortoise is not a threat.

In the eyes of other Lord Army commanders, it is impossible for these black powder barrels to blow up the armor of the Redridge Giant Tortoise.

But when these catapults lined up by the lake, they continuously threw two thousand black powder kegs towards the center of the lake, and the entire lake was blown up by the black powder kegs, and almost everywhere was covered with black powder. Mud and dead fish, the red-ridged giant tortoise was still shrunk in its shell for a few days and endured the deafening explosion and refused to come out. After ten days, finally a red-ridged giant tortoise couldn't stand this muddy Loon Lake. At night, dozens of redback giant tortoises rushed to the shore again.

The cavalry regiment of the lord army who had been waiting on the shore was dispatched again and successfully hunted down these red-ridged giant tortoises.

The remaining giant red-ridged tortoises in the center of the lake even sank their bodies into the mud, and most of the giant tortoises entered a dormant state to avoid the damage caused to them by this quagmire-like environment.

The iron cavalry of the lord's army still couldn't step into the lake, so Suldak had to mobilize ten heavy armored infantry regiments to the lake of Loen again, and this time he even mobilized nearly [-] ghost pattern worker ants. On the first day when the ants came to Loon Lake, all the staff began to carry sand and gravel from the high hills by the lake, and forcibly used sand and gravel to fill in a flat road leading to the center of the lake from the lake.

This road in the lake penetrates into the center of the lake at a speed of almost [-] meters every day. This time, the leader of the giant red-ridge tortoise in the center of the lake finally realized the crisis of the giant red-ridge tortoise population.

He could only take more than a hundred red-ridged giant tortoises and fled to the southerly Qiandao Lake overnight, but this time Suldak did not let these cavalry regiments of the lord army launch a siege behind, only leaving behind more than [-] red-ridged turtles. After the corpse of the giant tortoise, nearly [-] redback giant tortoises were allowed to pass through the wetland between Loon Lake and Qiandao Lake, allowing them to escape into Qiandao Lake.

A group of commanders of the Lord Army stood on a high hill in the wetland, watching the group of giant redback turtles slowly leave.

The commander of the Ludwig family lord army asked Suldak a little puzzled:

"Lord Suldak, why don't we capture them all this time, this group of giant red-ridged tortoises is worth at least [-] magic spar..."

The commanders of other lord armies also looked at Suldak.

"Do you not understand my decision?" Suldak grabbed the reins of the horse, walked out from the crowd, controlled the horse and turned to face the commanders and asked.

"It's a little hard to understand..." Someone in the crowd replied.

Suldak held the reins of the horse in one hand and the whip in the other, pointed to the vast land and lakes in the distance, and said to the commanders: "Soon this will become our land, the land here is fertile and rich in products , and has excellent water resources, but what I consider is the comprehensive resources and sustainable development of this land."

"I let these giant red-ridged tortoises leave in the hope that they can enrich the population of monsters in Qiandao Lake, and their existence will also become a good resource here."

"In the future we will build small towns here, and Qiandao Lake in the south will be the closest hunting ground to us. I believe that by that time, many people will have researched the weaknesses of the redback giant tortoise, and will also There will be a large number of adventure groups coming to Sanhe Plain for hunting in Qiandao Lake.”

Hearing what Suldak said, all the commanders were also full of longing.

"If the summer rainy season comes, Loon Lake and Qiandao Lake become one, and those redback giant tortoises make a comeback again, what should we do?" A young officer standing in the back row asked Surdak loudly.

Suldak looked up at him.

All the commanders of the lord army looked at the young officer who asked the question with surprised eyes.

The young officer then realized that he had asked a silly question and covered his mouth.

……

Those hunted redback giant tortoises were almost all sold on the battlefield to military merchants who bid each other.

When cleaning the battlefield, a group of quartermasters from the logistics department are like auctioneers in the auction hall. Behind them is a group of merchants. Everyone completely ignores the mess and mud on the battlefield, and walks to one by one. In front of the redback giant tortoise with a small flag.

The quartermaster first had to record the hunter's name, and then assign merit points based on the name on it.

Then it was to check the appearance of the entire redback giant tortoise, the degree of damage, the integrity of the precious leather, etc., and then give a relatively low reserve price on the spot according to the previous auction price.

This kind of price assessment is basically done by experienced quartermasters.

Holding a small hammer in their hands, they stood beside the dead redback giant tortoise, shouting loudly: "The starting price is [-] magic spar, those who are willing to increase the price raise their hands, once they bid, they cannot go back on their word!"

The military merchants who followed him quickly opened their bids. The valuable materials on this kind of hill-like giant red-ridged tortoise can basically sell five hundred magic crystals. If the dismemberment is finer, the leftovers are The profit of each merchant accompanying the army, as long as everything goes well when dismantling the giant red-ridged tortoise, it is definitely a steady profit.

This is the violence of war. The victory of a battle will not only make the lord army a lot of money, but also often make huge profits for the military merchant group.

And the practice of auctioning on the battlefield is very fair. These redback giant tortoises are basically bought by the highest bidder.

Unless a certain red-ridged giant tortoise is taken by Lord Suldak, these red-ridged giant tortoises will be marked separately and placed in the final auction.

This part of the incomplete giant red-backed tortoise is often auctioned to those merchant groups that have made some special contributions to the lord's army.

Of course, there are some prerequisites for becoming a business group that is eligible to participate in the on-site auction.

Those who can participate in the on-site auction are basically those merchant groups who have become the Lord of Suldak's army.

This qualification is required to submit an application to Surdak, and at the same time, only caravans that will invest a part of the cost in the early stage of the war can hope to obtain it.

Each complete carcass of the giant red-ridged tortoise is often carried to about [-] magic crystals, and there is no profit margin any higher.

And there are a lot of red-spine giant tortoises on the battlefield, and the business groups don't need to go shopping in the bidding process. Often when the price reaches a certain level, the quartermasters acting as auctioneers will clamor to prepare for the next red-spine giant tortoise. Turtle over there.

Moreover, the loot captured this time is not that there are more wolves and less meat. Probably all the military merchant groups will be full, and the leftovers will be left to the ordinary merchant groups behind, and the starting price will be set very high...

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The Battle of Loon Lake in the southern part of the Three Rivers Plain lasted for one and a half months. The biggest harvest was not only the large fertile land around Loon Lake, but also 130 red-ridged giant tortoises like small hills. In order to catch up with these giant tortoises Before the flesh and blood on their bodies rotted, these giant tortoises were quickly dismembered, and almost all the people who had worked as butchers rushed to the front with the military business group.

Facts have proved that the potential of the Bena people is still unlimited. The redback giant tortoise harvested in each battle is quickly decomposed, the best meat and leather are put into the magic sealing box, and the remaining inferior ones will be boiled Put it in a jar or dry it out in the sun. The only thing that is a bit inconvenient to transport is those giant turtle shells.

It is said that these turtle shells can be made into a very good magic material after being ground into powder, but there are a lot of turtle shells harvested this time, and it is estimated that it will easily affect the price of those turtle shell powders in the magic market.

Although Suldak didn't participate in the carve-up of the large area of ​​the Sanhe Plain this time, the benefits brought to him by this part of the red-ridged giant tortoise were as much as [-] magic spar.

After fighting in the Sanhe Plain for a month, they finally managed to recover the Sanhe Plain this spring.

The next step is to wait for the clerk of the Territorial Administration in Wilkes City to come to measure the actual land area, and then according to the [-] land distribution method, the lords will select the best quality land to become their own territory.

Suldak is already preparing to withdraw his troops, but the commanders of the various lord armies still have to stay on the Three Rivers Plain, use boundary markers to delineate their respective territories, and leave a group of troops stationed on the Three Rivers Plain.

However, the main force of the alliance lord's army on the Ganbu plane wants to evacuate from the Bailin plane before the summer.

After two months of rapid construction of the dam on the Sanhe Plain, the main part has been fully formed, but there are still many trivial finishing work left. This time Aung San was transferred back from Ruyt City by Suldak, also for Can someone take charge of the situation here.

On the day when Suldak's lord army arrived in Wilkes City, the Malakom businessman who went to the imperial capital to purchase the sky crossbow also returned to Wilkes City through the portal.

The Malakom businessman learned that Suldak had arrived in Wilkes City, so he immediately ran over to invite Suldak himself, and he wanted to sit at home no matter what.

Suldak may be able to ignore such invitations sent by other merchants accompanying the military business group, but the Malakom merchant can be said to be the big businessman who cooperates most closely with Suldak, and his Thunder Rhino caravan has almost contracted In addition, the entire transportation business of copper and iron ore ingots, and the purchase of general large-scale military supplies, such as the army of Suldak, have been handed over to Malakom.

This time, at the request of Suldak, he went to San Carlos City to purchase a batch of shooting crossbows.

Therefore, Suldak still needs to give some face to the invitation of the merchant Malakom, and recently Suldak and the lords of the Bailin plane have completely fallen into a stalemate. When he came to Wilkes City, in addition to being able to There is almost nowhere to go except to go around the military headquarters and meet and chat with Chester Great Swordsman.

The procedure for the Lord’s Army to pass through the portal still needs to be approved by the military department and the Wilkes House of Representatives. It’s actually not a bad idea to take advantage of this spare time to sit at the Malakom merchant’s house...

Merchant Malakom has a large mansion in Wilkes City, but he is not eligible to live in the noble district. The mansion is located in the merchant residence area inside the city.

Chapter 1337 Surprise

The dusk in Wilkes City reveals the breath of spring. The white willows that have just sprouted buds on the street are swaying in the breeze. The whole block is filled with a faint scent of resin. Pedestrians have secretly changed into thinner The young girls even took off the fur socks in the skirts, and took off the bloated clothes to show their beautiful figures.

The street was rendered to look a bit twilight, and the setting sun had completely sunk below the horizon.

The carriages on the street seemed to increase their speed, and everyone was hurrying to get home before dark.

On the other hand, there are dozens of gorgeous carriages parked in front of the Malakom merchant's house. These carriages also have gold and silver patterns on the exterior. Compared with the carriages of the nobles, they just lack some emblems that show the family heritage.

This is the largest residence of the Malakom merchant in Wilkes City.

Although this house located at No. 51 Kelin Street is not the most gorgeous house on the commercial street, it is also a luxury house that can be ranked among the top few on the commercial street.

In the past, the Malakom businessman even felt that he would be under some inexplicable pressure living in this house. Watching the business of the Thunder Rhino business group shrink a little bit, the number of Thunder Rhinos in normal service in the business group decreased one by one. , he sat alone in the pavilion in the back garden and smoked.

But now, in just three years, the Malacombe merchant has transformed into one of the largest merchants in Wilkes City.

There is no doubt that he has been closely following Lord Suldak's footsteps step by step for the past three years. Unknowingly, his family's business group has expanded to what it is now. The imperial capital rushed back, and this time not only purchased two hundred Sky Shooting Crossbows in the city of San Carlos, but also purchased a large amount of supplies in the imperial capital. The magic crystals spent alone amounted to nearly [-].

It seems that it is impossible to tell how much the Malakom merchant spent. In the Green Empire, three copper plates can buy a pound of wheat flour, one gold coin can be exchanged for ten thousand copper plates, and one magic spar can be exchanged for one pound of wheat flour. Exchanged for seven gold coins (it used to be ten, the outbreak of the plane war caused the exchange rate between magic spar and gold coins to drop), then one hundred thousand magic spar is equivalent to 70 gold coins, and if it is converted into copper plates, it may be regarded as seventy a small goal.

Such large purchases by merchants are often closely related to the lord's army.

The Malakom merchant spent so much money this time, basically purchasing for the Lord Army of Suldak.

This time, what Suldak gained in the battle in the Dark Worm Valley, and what he gained from hunting the salamander ghost snake, probably just enough to make up the number of one hundred thousand magic crystals.

Of course, the follow-up pensions, merit awards, and war allowances would require him to spend a large amount of money. Fortunately, the battle at Loon Lake in the south of the Three Rivers Plain allowed Suldak to make up for the money.

Although war is a lucrative industry, Lord Suldak bought two hundred Sky Shooting Crossbows in order to defend against the Northern Pengniao, which is considered to be a huge capital.

These sky-shooting crossbows will be deployed in the dark worm valley and the two mines. At the same time, Suldak also plans to allocate 37 sky-shooting crossbows to the 37 aboriginal tribes in the Invercargill Forest to defend against those northern tribes. Peng bird.

The Malakom trader arrived in Wilkes City with two hundred sky crossbows.

The Suldak lord's army just arrived here, and these lords planned to return to Bena City through the portal, and then they would rush back to Ruyt City non-stop, and then return to the Ganbu plane.

The Malakom merchant in gorgeous clothes led his eleven wives to stand at the gate of the manor, welcoming the guests who came from the city.

The house was brightly lit, and the sound of melodious music came from the courtyard.

What followed was the clinking of glasses, the popping of corks in oak barrels, and the squeak of grease dripping on coals.

Almost all of his guests were businessmen from Wilkes City.

Hearing that Lord Suldak was going to visit Malakom's house as a guest, the merchants in Wilkes almost tried their best to get a ball invitation letter written by Malakom himself.