Chapter 344: War in the East
After defeating the wyverns, Richard, Undine, and Sophia left the supplies in the space props. Half of this batch of supplies had been consumed, and there were still about 200 tons of food and grass. If some were saved, it could last for two months.
The biggest food consumer was the captured wyverns. The daily consumption of a wyvern was equivalent to that of 30 soldiers.
In order to reduce the food pressure, high-level professionals such as Jennings, Wilde, and Soros also needed to lead a hunting team to reduce food consumption.
In the end, it was decided that Sophia and Sylph would take everyone to rest temporarily in the dog-headed cave, and Richard and Undine would lead a few soldiers back to Harland.
After returning to the territory, they used space equipment to replenish a large amount of supplies and mobilized some reinforcements.
Due to the supply restrictions, Richard could only mobilize more than 200 people. Among these 200 people, there were also some medical staff to take care of the wounded.
From the dog-headed cave to William Castle, the core of Harland, it is about 500 kilometers away, and it takes a thousand kilometers to go back and forth. A large part of this road is in the wilderness, and traveling in the primeval forest is of course not fast. Even if Richard mobilized a large number of elite soldiers, he could only travel 60 to 70 kilometers a day.
Sixteen days later, Richard and Undine arrived at the Kobold Cave.
Since repelling the wyvern, the legendary dragon Auramos did not continue to send reinforcements to attack the Kobold Cave, but focused on the direction of the Forward Castle.
The Forward Castle is closer to the Dragon's Nest. Once the Jonathan family gains a foothold in the Forward Castle, the Dragon's Nest will be threatened by the Jonathan family at any time.
The Jonathan family has a legendary dragon knight, who is the biggest enemy in Ramos's mind. After discovering that the enemy in the direction of the Kobold Cave is very strong, Ramos did not dare to continue to divide his troops, but prepared to concentrate his strength to solve the enemy in the Forward Castle first.
In order to be foolproof, Ramos decided to go out in person.
Dragons are creatures with a strong sense of territory, especially pregnant mother dragons. They will kill all powerful creatures in the territory to create a safe environment for the hatching of dragon eggs and the growth of young dragons. When the young dragons grow up, the mother dragon will drive away their offspring to survive in new territories.
Early dragons were not actually good at managing their territories.
Because dragons are greedy by nature, dragon nests are often filled with gold coins, gems, and magic crystals, which naturally attract powerful professionals to slay dragons. Moreover, the dragon's nest is originally a natural magic well.
In the war between humans and dragons, of course, they will do everything they can to play their own advantages and organize armies to hunt dragons.
Although dragons are powerful, they have a very strong body and can't beat the elite soldiers composed of professionals.
Hundreds of elite troops composed of professionals can often successfully slay dragons under the command of legendary knights.
In order to protect the dragon's nest, the dragons must also find ways to train helpers to avoid falling into the dilemma of fighting alone.
The most suitable helpers are the direct descendants of dragons, various dragon-born monsters and half-dragons.
Dragons are lustful by nature. Once they enter the estrus period, their minds will be full of the desire to mate, and this desire is almost uncontrollable. If they can't find dragons of the opposite sex, they will find different female creatures to mate.
According to the tradition of dragons for thousands of years, after the estrus period, dragons will kill the creatures they mate with to prevent the birth of hybrids.
However, in order to face the competition of humans, dragons can only abandon the old tradition, especially the dragons in the Dawn Plane, now almost all of them are cultivating dragons, and they have a large number of soldiers under their command. Otherwise, they can't protect the dragon nest and become wandering wild dragons.
Dragons are very intelligent creatures, and they have a deep study of magic. Since they have humans as their enemy, they dissected human corpses and created the magic of human transformation. They use the power of magic to transform, and then mix into human society and learn the advantages of human society.
In this process, many dragons mated with humans and created the half-dragon race. The famous Jonathan family of the Grant Kingdom is actually a half-dragon.
In the past thousand years, some dragons have even created countries. The most famous one is the Red Dragon Prince in the Orc Empire. The kingdom controlled by this legendary dragon has almost completely learned the social system of the Holy Glorious Empire, and has a very powerful dragon army under his command. He even cultivated a legendary half-dragon, and there are also a large number of human slaves in the kingdom, who are responsible for production and logistics.
There is also a gem dragon kingdom in the southernmost part of the Dawn Continent, ruled by a pair of legendary gem dragons.
On the East Continent, there is also a legendary green dragon that established the Green Dragon Kingdom.
Ramos is a legendary middle-aged dragon who is hundreds of years old. After years of operation and accumulation, the power under his command is not weak at all. There are not only 300 dragon vein dog-headed men, but also 60 two-legged flying dragons, and more than 130 half-dragon soldiers. In addition, Ramos also controls six trolls, more than 30 ogres, tames dozens of terrain dragons, and controls 1,600 jackal soldiers.
With the Dragon's Nest as the center, the surrounding 200 kilometers are all Ramos's territory. The land it can influence and control is equivalent to a dukedom.
As long as it is in the dragon territory, Ramos will attack all foreign armies. It is not only hostile to the Kingdom of Grant, but also prohibits the orc army from crossing the border.
In the direction of the Kingdom of Grant, Ramos carefully strikes a balance. When humans are strong, it will choose to help the orcs. When humans are weak, it is Ramos, Greso and the legendary lizardman who blocked the orcs from going south in the Eagle Mountains.
In the past hundred years, the Kingdom of Grant has been developing and prospering. First, Duke Brener won a brilliant victory, controlled the Dragon Canyon, and established the three northern provinces. Soon after, the three northern duchies of Edward, Fox, and Jonathan were created, extending their sphere of influence to the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains, expanding more than 400,000 square kilometers of land.
Then Richard emerged, creating a powerful Duke of Harland and controlling the central area of the Eagle Mountains. In recent years, the force fields of legendary dragons and legendary ogres have gradually leaned towards the orcs.
More than a hundred years ago, Ramos consciously cooperated with the orcs' southern expedition.
After Stareno built the Forward Castle, Ramos tentatively attacked twice, but the Duke of Jonathan made a lot of preparations for this battle, and the tentative attack could not achieve satisfactory results at all.
Seeing that the Jonathan family was about to take root in the Forward Castle, Ramos decided to concentrate his strength and defeat this enemy first.
It personally led the wyvern and took the lead in launching the charge. Ramos opened his mouth and blew out a powerful dragon flame breath. In an instant, a huge fire dragon fell from the sky.
This flame was a little black and had a very strong toxicity. Once burned by this flame, not only the burns need to be treated, but also the poison needs to be detoxified. Unless they are mid-to-high-level professionals, ordinary soldiers can hardly survive the dragon flame breath of the legendary black dragon.
Ramos killed and injured dozens of soldiers with just one spell, causing the main squadron of Duke Jonathan to lose its combat effectiveness. At the same time, dozens of wyverns followed Ramos to dive, and the flames they spewed also burned and burned more than 200 people.
The soldiers led by Stareno were the main force of Duke Jonathan. They built the forward castle where they were stationed. The road was relatively easy to walk. It was more than 100 kilometers away from the core territory and was relatively easy to replenish, so the number of this army was as many as 6,000.
Although the army of 6,000 people was large, the number of professionals was not as good as that of Harland.
The arrows shot by ordinary soldiers could hardly penetrate the sub-dragon skin of the wyvern. They could only play an auxiliary role under the command of professional officers.
However, Duke Jonathan's army is now equipped with a lot of alchemical bombs, and the grenadiers can still hurt the wyvern if they seize the opportunity.
Seeing the wyvern descend from a high altitude to ensure the accuracy of the dragon's breath, Stareno led the officers to throw out flying claws, trying to pull the wyvern down from the sky.
Despite suffering heavy casualties from a round of dragon's breath, Stareno's army also successfully pulled seven wyverns that reacted slowly.
Seeing this scene, Ramos immediately turned around lightly, waving his wings and fiercely attacking the soldiers on the ground.
The dragon has great power. A legendary dragon like Ramos has more than 100 points of strength and can easily lift objects weighing ten tons. Even a legendary knight has less than half the strength of a dragon and cannot compete with it at all.
Anyone hit by the dragon wings of Ramos will be killed instantly with broken bones. Even the ninth-level epic knights dare not stand up to it.
When fighting with legendary dragons, legendary knights must act as meat shields at critical moments, so that the losses will be greatly reduced.
Seeing Ramos killing soldiers wantonly, several sharpshooters from Duke Jonathan's territory immediately released enchanted arrows. The high-level armor-piercing arrows they used drew an arc of light and pierced Ramos' skin fiercely, making a dull puffing sound.
Although the dragon's defense is very strong, the dragon skin can block a large number of attacks, but it can't block the high-level enchanted arrows that are specially designed to penetrate armor.
Moreover, the archers who shoot arrows are all professionals, and all the arrows carry the power of fighting spirit. To defend against such high-level armor-piercing arrows, the power of spells can play a greater role.
Ramoos was not a diligent dragon, and he was not very attentive in learning magic. Although he was already a mature dragon of several hundred years old, except for the spells integrated in his blood, Ramoos's magic level was only equivalent to the fourth ring level.
The fourth ring magic could not release a high-level defense field, and the second ring magic arrow protection could only defend against one or two cold arrows. However, there were more than a dozen archers aiming at Ramoos, and their archery skills were generally at the fourth and fifth levels. One captain even reached the sixth level, and the arrows they shot were very accurate.
In an instant, Ramoos was full of more than ten arrows, and one arrow even hit Ramoos' neck.
The legendary dragon let out an angry roar, and another dragon flame breath sprayed at the surrounding soldiers, especially the archer who shot him in the vitals, who became Ramoos's priority enemy, and most of the dragon flame breath was aimed at this person.
This fifth-level warrior, despite his good defense, still couldn't withstand the targeted attack of the legendary dragon. He was attacked by poisonous fire in an instant and lost his life.
Ramoos's dragon flame almost cleared all the enemies in the front 50 meters.
Seeing that his stand-in melee played a decisive role, he rescued five fallen wyverns. As for the remaining two, they were severely injured by the army and could not save their lives.
Although the body is very strong and has very high spell resistance, the dragon does not like to fight with the army in close combat.
In the previous battle, Ramoos's casualties were not light, after all, he was shot in the vital part. This arrow made Ramoos lose a lot of vitality, and the strong stinging was also reminding the dragon at any time.
Although Ramoos was cruel and bloodthirsty, he also knew the truth that porcelain should not touch earthenware jars, and would not easily risk his life to fight the enemy.
After killing the sixth-level archer who shot him and successfully saving the wyvern, Ramos flapped his wings vigorously and flew into the sky again.
Just after Ramos launched an air assault with the wyvern, the ground forces led by the half-dragons also charged towards the army led by Duke Jonathan.
The half-dragons were very fast and very brave. Under the command of a ninth-level half-dragon, they broke into Stareno's right wing at a very fast speed. The two thousand people on the right wing could not withstand the attack of more than one hundred half-dragons.
The vanguard of the half-dragons was sixty dragon cavalry. With the help of the dragon scales shed from Ramos, these half-dragons could control the terrain dragons. The combination of terrain dragons and half-dragons was extremely powerful, and the frontal impact was no less than that of the ace force of the Holy Glorious Empire, the wyvern cavalry.
Although there were only sixty half-dragon cavalry, the right-wing troops had been beaten back continuously and were obviously at a disadvantage.
At the same time, the trolls and ogres also launched from the left wing. 1,600 gnolls advanced to the middle road, cooperating with Ramos and the wyverns.
Trolls and ogres are both high-level troops. Although their numbers are very small, they are not easy enemies to deal with. They are all highly intelligent creatures with amazing strength. The stone bullets thrown by trolls and ogres using slings weigh five or six kilograms, and their power is almost as great as that of the stone bullets fired by catapults, but they are more accurate than catapults.
Fortunately, the ogres did not have alchemical bombs. If the ogres were equipped with a large number of alchemical bombs, it would become a very terrible thing.
Ramos took the wyverns to observe from a high altitude and found that fighter planes appeared on the right wing. He turned around and attacked the enemies on the right wing from the air.
Stareno's right wing was originally weak, and it fell into a disadvantage in the battle with the half-dragons. Now it was attacked by the legendary dragon. It could not withstand the pressure and collapsed in an instant.
The right wing collapsed, and the result of this battle was doomed. In the end, only 1,200 soldiers survived.
In this battle, the Jonathan family suffered a great defeat and still could not gain a foothold in the Forward Castle.