Chapter 111 Duckbill Dragoons
Joan found Brother Tyndale among the ranks of non-commissioned officers, and the two were accompanied only by Tom, a dwarf blacksmith in armor and holding a hammer. Joan went to meet up with three teammates and asked Dick, "Wes and the others haven't come yet?"
"Wes, Gray, and Jamie live in the back mountain hut, which is far from the assembly point, and it will take a little longer to get here." Dick explained, looking into the distance from time to time.
Joan followed his line of sight, and the first thing he saw was the "rejecting horses" neatly lined up at the entrance of the town. These huge defense devices are made of thick and long wooden stakes. The structure is simple but very practical. The wooden stakes pointing forward obliquely are all sharpened, which can effectively prevent the enemy cavalry from charging.
The periphery of the double-deck refusal horse is a circle of temporary excavated trenches. Over the past few days, the mayor of Tyndale mobilized all the townspeople to work day and night, and finally dug a trench surrounding the town, with an average width of fifteen feet and a depth of six feet, before the lizardman bandits launched an attack. If you fall into a wooden stake, don't try to climb out easily.
In addition to these two temporary defensive measures, the wall of Delin Town has also been reinforced, and militia squads with crossbows are arranged around the wall. A spear with a range of thousands of feet.
Seeing these careful defensive measures, Qiao An felt a lot more at ease in his heart. Looking further away, through the early morning mist, he saw a large-scale army stationed on the river beach about 300 yards away from the entrance of the town. A huge army, with a total strength of no less than a thousand people by visual estimation.
This menacing army is the Lizardman Corps of the Cold-Blooded Tribe, three quarters of which are infantry warriors with spears and javelins on their backs, and more than 200 elite cavalry. Composition, all wearing leather armor and holding spears. The lizardman's mount is not an ordinary war horse, but a kind of omnivorous ornithischian dinosaur that inhabits swampy areas, and the locals call it "Hasbill".
In the New World, dinosaurs can be seen everywhere from south to north. There are so many species that even the most knowledgeable people cannot count them all. The aborigines of the New World have tried to domesticate dinosaurs since ancient times as camel beasts and even military mounts. Carnivorous dinosaurs are too ferocious and costly to raise, so they are usually not a good choice for artificial domestication. Only characters such as rangers and druids who are good at dealing with wild beasts dare to try to domesticate carnivorous dinosaurs. "Dragon" as an animal companion. Compared with carnivorous dinosaurs, herbivorous and omnivorous dinosaurs have milder temperaments, are easier to domesticate, and have much lower feeding costs than carnivorous dinosaurs.
During Joan's sojourn in the Algonquin Valley, he witnessed an ogre riding a domesticated "paw-headed dragon" as a mount to charge into battle, which was far more magnificent than a war horse. In the great swamp where the lizardmen live, there are also dinosaurs like pachycephalosaurs that are suitable for domestication as military mounts, that is, the "hask-billed dinosaurs" that wear saddles and look like a group of huge water birds on the opposite side. The image of the hadrosaur is very special. It is different from the "dinosaur" that people generally recognize. It has a duckbill and duck webs, but it is covered with smooth gray feathers! Before witnessing the "Hasbill" with his own eyes, Qiao An didn't know that there were dinosaurs with no scales but feathers in the world. It seemed a bit awkward!
Although its appearance is a bit strange, the Hadrosaurus is not easy to mess with. It gallops as fast as a horse, and its broad and hard beak looks like a large shovel, which can easily knock a heavy knight to the ground. The only thing that made Joan feel lucky was that the hadrosaur had feathers but no wings, so it couldn't soar like a real water bird. Otherwise, all the defense measures in Delin Town would be in vain.
There is a very prominent figure in the center of the lizardman warrior riding the marsh hadrosaur. This person's mount is different, it is a red seven-headed snake lizard. The body of this monster is as huge as a giant dragon, with a ferocious lizard head on each of its seven slender necks, with black smoke coming out of its nostrils, and flames spitting out between its teeth.
The cold-blooded knight on the back of the seven-headed snake lizard has black and red complexion, and a black and white cloak flutters in the wind. His ferocious face, black bat wings and horns on his forehead all remind Joan of a demon in the abyss. Looking at the bloody trident held tightly in his hand, one can guess without questioning that this person is the new patriarch of the Cold-Blooded Tribe, "Son of the Devil" Kotal - a high-ranking half-wife favored by the abyss lord Seth Inek. Purgatory Lizardman Warrior.
Joan squinted his eyes and looked at Cottard for a long time. He didn't need to use detection magic to see that the man was surrounded by strong and evil magic fluctuations. The trident in his hand and the cloak he was wearing were also magical equipment. , Unfortunately, the distance is too far to use rune runes to identify the details of these two pieces of equipment. Joan shifted his gaze a little, and noticed that the old lizard man riding the hadrosaur in the swamp beside Cottal was not an ordinary person either. Judging from the shaman robe he was wearing, it must have been launched in conjunction with Cottard. Elder Bassong who killed former patriarch Mirik in a coup.
Joan also noticed that Elder Bassoon was holding a two-foot-long thin stick, which looked like it was carved from the bones of some kind of animal. , reflecting the morning light and giving off a dreamlike halo.
Based on his knowledge of magic, Joan guessed that Elder Bassoon was probably holding a "magic wand". Items such as wands, staves, and scepters are usually inlaid with jewels. It would be a mistake to think of these jewels as simple decorations. In fact, different jewels have different functions, and most of them can enhance specific types of spells. For example, sapphire has the miraculous effect of enhancing summoning spells. Since Elder Bassoon's wand is inlaid with a large sapphire, Joan has reason to guess that his wand can release druid magic that summons natural allies such as tigers, leopards, bears, and wolves. , As for the specific rings of summoning spells, Joan couldn't guess.
Cottard and Bassoon led the lizardman army to approach Delin Town but were not in a hurry to attack. They obviously realized that this human town had already taken precautions. They dug trenches in advance to set up a barrier, and it was not as easy to conquer as they thought. If a strong attack is launched from the front, it is inevitable to pay huge casualties.
Cottard, who just sat on the throne of the patriarch and whose foundation is not yet solid, doesn't want to take the risk of losing his troops, so he decides to conduct a detailed investigation of the internal situation of Delin Town before launching the general attack, and by the way, bring it to the opposite group who dared to fight against the cold-blooded army. As soon as the low-level scaleless creature got off its horse, it winked at Elder Basong beside him.
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