Chapter 1498 Hobgoblin Lord

Unfortunately, Joan's luck tonight seems to have run out.

He did not analyze anything new in the blood sample of "Battle Mage" Barom.

Joan put away the instrument in disappointment, and kicked Ballom's useless corpse out of the "shelter hut".

The long night is long, only the torrential river below the mountain is with Joan.

Taking advantage of the absence of enemies, he set up the magic siren and used the rare free time to meditate. This is also a technique for restoring energy. Apart from being unable to reset spell slots and "power of myth", it only relieves fatigue. In terms of efficacy, meditation is not much worse than sleeping.

Joan meditated for half an hour, and felt that her mental and physical strength had recovered.

Glancing at his pocket watch, it was almost early morning. Joan vaguely heard a noise coming from a distance, so he cast his gaze outside the house.

Looking through the vast night, Joan saw that the water level of the river below the mountain had dropped significantly. It seemed that the torrent accumulated during the day had almost poured out.

Due to the drop in water level, the riverbanks on both sides of the valley were exposed again, and there were many dark figures gathered, all of which were the goblins and wargs that had been washed away by the flood before, and they were regrouping.

Joan made a simple estimate. There are only five or six hundred hobgoblin knights left in sight. The number of wargs is slightly more, probably because wargs are more proficient in water than hobgoblins and survived the flood. It's more likely to come down.

As for the remaining ordinary goblins, the number is even smaller than that of wargs and hobgoblins, and there are only about 500 of them.

Joan remembered that when Letu set off, he had a total of 1,000 elite wolf riders, plus 2,000 goblin minions.

Now after a flood, the number of wolf riders has almost halved, and the goblin minions are only a quarter of what they were when they set out. The loss can be described as extremely heavy.

The casualties were also heavy, but the death methods of elite wolf cavalry and goblin minions were not the same.

Most of the goblin minions drowned in the flood. As for the wolf cavalry, more than 70% were stopped by Joan on the way to escape, and their corpses lay on the hillside on the left side of the valley, turning into cold and stiff stone statues.

In the center of the crowd stood a huge tyrannosaurus rex with a saddle on its back, carrying a warrior in black armor with a slanted epee. It was the hobgoblin lord Letu.

The distance was too far, and Joan couldn't see Leto's expression clearly, and he thought his face would not be very good-looking.

What will Leto do next?

Should he lead the remaining troops to pursue the Lizardmen, or simply ignore the Lizardmen, and stay on the river beach until the flood recedes completely, and continue marching towards Delin Town tomorrow?

Joan secretly speculated.

Letu chatted with several attendants beside him in a low voice, and sometimes turned to look at the hillside where Joan was hiding, as if searching for something.

Seeing the abnormal behavior of the hobgoblin lord, Joan suddenly felt a warning sign.

"This guy, Letu, wouldn't he go up the mountain himself to trouble me?"

Sure enough, Letu waved his hand, took eight guard wolf riders, and drove the Tyrannosaurus towards the hillside.

After a brief surprise, Joan regained his composure and quickly calculated.

Letu is said to be a high-ranking "Dark Guard", also known as the "Anti-Paladin".

Joan was not absolutely sure against the hobgoblin lord, so it seemed wise to run away as soon as possible.

However, he was unwilling to miss the opportunity to fight Letu just like that. If he could kill the hobgoblin lord here, the goblin clan would fall into chaos because the dragons had no leader, and the troops in the valley would probably collapse on their own. The garrison cuts off a major threat.

Just when he was hesitating whether to take a gamble, there was a wave of magic power in front of him, and a ball of red light emerged.

Qiao An was slightly taken aback, no matter who it was, sending him a magic text message in the early hours of the morning, there must be something big happening.

With an uneasy premonition, Joan held the light ball to read the information, and then received a letter from Weiss.

As expected, this is bad news.

Just this evening, at the same time that Joan and Weiss planned the flooded goblin army, the Jumonville Corps stationed far outside Delin Town also launched an offensive against Delin Town under the cover of twilight.

General Jumonville's direct descendant knights launched a feint attack from the west side of the town, and the wolf queen Alpha led her twelve regiments, secretly crossing the jungle, over the mountains, and launched a surprise attack from the north of Delin Town, catching the defenders by surprise.

Just an hour ago, the gnoll army had broken into the woodland north of Delin Town, and was fighting fiercely with the Asa hunting cavalry and militia that rushed to stop the enemy.

Delin Town is now beset by enemies, and the situation is not optimistic. Weiss received an urgent order from Colonel Vasa, so he had to suspend his pursuit of the goblin army that was trapped in the mud, instead he took a shortcut across the swamp and rushed to support the defenders of Delin.

Before leaving, Weiss remembered that Joan was still stationed alone on the mountain near the valley, so he hurriedly sent him a letter reminding him to retreat quickly.

After reading the letter from Weiss, Joan let out a breath slowly, lost in thought.

General Jumonville's offensive tonight was actually using the goblin troops who came to join the battle as bait to attract opponents.

When Weiss' troops left the garrison and went to ambush Leto's troops, the Jumonville Corps got rid of the embarrassing situation of being flanked by the lizard people and the garrison of Delin Town, and could devote all their troops to the attack without any worries. During the battle in Delin Town.

Joan had thought of this possibility a long time ago, but he still supported the ambush of the goblin army, which was nothing more than the lesser of two evils.

The ambush of the Leto Corps will certainly liberate Jumonville's troops and allow them to move freely, but the strength of the garrison in Delin Town is not much worse than that of the Jumonville Corps. In addition, the defensive side always has an advantage over the offensive side. This wave of offensive is still sure.

On the other hand, if Letu's troops are left alone, when the 3000 goblin army enters the battlefield and joins forces with General Jumonville's troops, then in the face of the enemy's overwhelming force superiority, neither Delin Town nor the Lizardmen will be helpless. Redeem usher in the end.

Between these two possibilities, Joan can only choose the former and take risks for making this decision.

At the beginning, he insisted on coming alone to assist Weiss, and refused to accompany the Asa hunter, just to guard against the possible surprise attack by General Jumonville.

Up to now, the evolution of the battle situation has verified that Joan's concerns are not to scare himself.

Five hundred Asa hunters stayed in Delin Town, and there was still hope for the town to hold, but if Asa hunters had followed him to the swamp valley, Delin Town might have been captured by the enemy.

Both sides on the battlefield have already played their last cards. Joan must carefully consider what he should do next?