Chapter 420: Defeat the Ogre

This time, Richard personally led 6,000 soldiers to the north to fight against the legendary ogre, while Soros led 12,000 troops to the south.

Because there were no ready-made roads in the jungle, the troops of Harland did not carry heavy magic crystal cannons.

The magic crystal cannons can be pulled by iron-horned horses on the official road, but in the mountainous area of ​​the Eagle Mountains, they can only be carried by officers and soldiers.

Even if the professional officers are very strong and have enough endurance, at least 30 professional officers are required to take turns to carry a magic crystal cannon on the march, plus the soldiers carrying the shells, the transportation pressure of Harland's army is simply unbearable.

Although the artillery could not accompany the army, the armies in the north and south were both selected for elite soldiers.

The first, second, and third infantry battalions, the guard battalion, the first and second beast cavalry battalions, the first, third, and sixth magic balloon reconnaissance squadrons, the lion-duck flying squadron, the wyvern squadron, the second demon hunter squadron, the special squadron, the territory mage regiment, and other elite troops of Harland, almost all came out in full force to participate in this crusade against the ogres.

Wherever the army passed, the ogre tribe had nowhere to hide. After all, the sky was densely packed with flying troops. The ogres were big targets and smelled very strong. There was no way to hide in the forest.

Richard led his troops to attack westward from Martins Castle, passing through the two baronies of Levin and Sox, and approached the lair of the legendary ogre. In just over a hundred kilometers, he searched more than five thousand square kilometers of land and found nine ogre gathering places. In just twenty days, the northern army killed more than four hundred ogres of all sizes.

Because of the huge advantage in the battle, his own losses were less than three hundred people. In the battle against the ogres, this exchange ratio is already a rare victory.

Before Richard sent troops to attack, the number of ogres was less than 2,000. Now, 400 have been lost again. The number of ogres has been reduced by about one-fifth, leaving only about 1,600.

Ogres are an intelligent race. Although they have the disadvantage of difficulty in reproduction, they are actually both magic and martial arts like dragons, and are very difficult to deal with in small-scale conflicts.

More than 2,000 ogres have a combat effectiveness that is superior to that of a regular army.

For more than a hundred years, the legendary ogre Greso has cultivated spies in the northern border area and has formed a strict spy network. He knows the changes in the situation of various forces in the northern border.

The news that Harland has a legendary fourth-level magic prop cannot be concealed from the legendary ogre. After all, Richard and Sophia have publicly released starlight bombs many times, and the number of people in the northern border who have seen the explosion of starlight bombs may exceed tens of thousands.

The news spread by word of mouth among tens of thousands of people cannot be covered up at all.

The spies controlled by Greso also witnessed the explosion of the starlight bomb. With the deterrence of the starlight bomb, Greso did not dare to concentrate his forces and fight head-on with the army of Harland.

Since a few years ago, the ogre tribe has basically been dispersed, using elite ogre teams to raid, attack the soft belly of Martins County, destroy Martins County's production and farming, and kill and capture contract slaves working in the wild.

At that time, in order to avoid a full-scale conflict with the ogres, Richard gave up a buffer zone of 20,000 square kilometers on the one hand, and sent a special squadron and a demon hunter squadron with elite troops to attack the ogre tribe head-on, barely maintaining the buffer zone situation.

Normally, once this buffer zone is formed, it can last for many years.

But the development of Harland Territory was not normal. In just a few years, the territory of Harland expanded five or six times, the number of troops doubled, the population increased to more than seven million, and the number of professionals increased by more than 6,000. Sylph, Sophia, Richard, Wendy, Soros, Jennings, and Wilde have all been promoted to higher levels, and their high-level combat power has been further improved.

In less than five years, Harland defeated the orcs in the north and severely damaged the coalition forces of Delon and East Coast in the south. In the blink of an eye, it has developed into a behemoth.

In fact, since the Harland family exchanged territories with the two Dukes Edward and Fox last winter, the legendary ogre Greso has planned to withdraw.

The legendary ogre, like Richard, has awakened the talent of danger perception. Greso has vaguely felt the danger since last year. But there is no good place around the ogre's nest now.

The north is the Orc Empire. Although the Eastern Front of the Orc Empire's Grassland Governor's District was hurt by Harland, it is still a lean camel, and its strength is far greater than that of the ogre. If you want to occupy a place on the northern prairie, the ogre's power is far from enough.

Besides, the orcs are thick-skinned and thick-fleshed, far less delicious than humans, which does not fit the ogre's diet.

Going east and going south are both direct battles with the Duke of Harland. If the ogres can defeat the Duke of Harland, there is no need to withdraw. After all, the legendary ogre nest is a natural magic well nurtured by the Eagle Mountains. Controlling the natural magic well is of great benefit to the cultivation of ogre mages and the awakening of the ogre bloodline.

Now that the power of Harland is getting stronger day by day, once it is well prepared, it will definitely not give the ogres a way to survive. Overall, going east and going south are obviously dead ends.

The only way to survive now is to escape to the west.

From the ogre nest all the way west, 300 kilometers away is the Silver Wolf Mountains. Although there are also powerful legendary creatures in the Silver Wolf Mountains, Greso knows that only by entering the Silver Wolf Mountains can the ogre tribe survive.

But now Harland has a large number of air scouts and thousands of Warcraft cavalry following behind him. It is also very difficult for the ogre tribe to escape to the Silver Wolf Mountains area 300 kilometers away.

When Richard led his troops to approach the legendary ogre's lair, the southern army also reached the Vera Valley, about 30 kilometers away from the confluence with the northern army.

The Vera Mountains are a branch of the Eagle Mountains, located in the west of the Eagle Mountains.

The Eagle Mountains run east-west and are about 1,000 kilometers long. There is a large branch in the east, middle and west. The east is the Annis Mountains, the middle is the Platos Mountains, and the west is the Vera Mountains.

The Edward family built the Vera Castle in the south of the valley entrance with the best traffic conditions in the Vera Mountains. Because this area was destroyed by orcs, the garrison of the Vera Castle was only about two or three thousand people.

The Vera Castle has a weak foundation and little food reserves, and it cannot support Soros to stay for too long.

Soros's army of more than 10,000 people, plus beasts of war horses, pack horses and other livestock, consumes about 100,000 kilograms of food every day. To produce 100,000 kilograms of food, it needs about 1,000 acres of land.

Consuming more than 1,000 acres of food output a day, with the foundation of Vera Castle, it can't support it for too long.

Because Vera Castle lacks food, Soros didn't stay here for too long. After a day of rest, he led his troops into the depths of the Vera Mountains.

Soros's army swept and searched nearly 10,000 square kilometers of land, killing about 300 ogres during this period.

Richard killed more than 400 ogres in the north of the Vera Mountains, and Soros's troops also killed more than 300 in the south of the Vera Mountains. At this moment, there are only 1,300 ogres gathered around Greso.

Seeing that the two enemy troops in the north and south are about to meet, Greso thought hard for a long time and finally made up his mind to fight a battle first. Only by severely damaging the pursuers and biting off a few pieces of meat, so that the enemy dare not chase too hard, retreating to the west can there be a way to survive. Otherwise, the 300-kilometer-long retreat route would have been impossible to evacuate under the harassment and pursuit of aerial scouts and Warcraft cavalry.

Seeing that the human northern route had few soldiers, Gresso believed that the legendary fourth-level magic prop must be in the hands of the enemy on the northern line, so he prepared to concentrate his forces and attack the southern route first.

Although the southern route army had 12,000 soldiers, Gresso believed that the chances of winning were still sufficient. After all, the ogres were powerful and could fight ten against one in battle. Even ogres who had not awakened their bloodline and had not been promoted to professionals had a strength of more than ten points, which was better than human second-level professionals.

Ogres were generally three or four meters tall, and the wooden sticks they held were generally about fifty or sixty kilograms. In addition, their skin was as hard as iron, so they were usually more difficult to deal with than a fully armed second-level warrior.

An ogre who grew to the sixth level was better than a ninth-level warrior like Soros in hand-to-hand combat.

Although Gresso had few soldiers under his command, he was very confident of winning.

Unexpectedly, just halfway through the journey, a strong palpitation came. Greso awakened his talent for danger perception, and instantly knew that if he continued to move forward, his life would be in danger.

After realizing that the situation was not good, Greso immediately ordered to turn around and head north.

The ogres had just finished their assembly, and were immediately discovered by the Wyvern Knights, who reported it to the Soros Division.

Soros was just about to wait for the opportunity to fight the ogres in a fair fight, but he did not expect the ogres to decisively choose to escape.

In desperation, Soros could only order the flying troops and the Warcraft Cavalry to harass and chase the Greso Division.

Although the Warcraft Cavalry could march in the mountains, there were no ready-made roads, and the marching speed was not fast, and they could only barely keep up with the marching speed of the ogres.

However, the flying troops in the air greatly slowed down the marching speed of the ogres.

Whether it was the Lion Cavalry, the Wyvern Knights, or the Magic Hot Air Balloon Group, they could throw alchemical bombs in the air, or they could descend to a higher altitude and use bows and arrows to kill their opponents.

The ogres had no means to deal with the flying troops, so they could only throw stones at them with all their might.

With the flying troops to hold back the enemy, the ogre army could not move fast at all. Greso used a few ogres to stay behind, but they were easily eaten by the wyvern riders, and they were of no use at all.

After all, adult wyverns are also dragon-born monsters with a professional level of more than level seven, and their combat effectiveness is very outstanding.

With the flying troops to hold back, Soros and Sofia finally led the monster cavalry to the front of the ogre team.

The two sides met in the north of the Vera Mountains. Sofia decisively released a starlight bomb to Greso, and a thick starlight suddenly hit Greso. The starlight fell very quickly. Greso made a slight estimate and felt that he could not escape at his speed. He could only open the dimension door and hide in the other-dimensional space.

Greso is a two-headed ogre magician. Like Richard, he practices both magic and martial arts. However, the two-headed ogre magician does not master many spell models, and his spell power is much weaker than that of a legendary magician. However, Greso's physical strength is more than one level stronger than that of a ninth-level knight.

Greso can become a local tiger in the Eagle Mountains and occupy the natural magic well for many years. In fact, his strength is as difficult to deal with as the legendary black dragon Ramos.

The starlight bomb fell beside Greso, and in an instant, it blew tens of thousands of square meters of ogres near Greso into dust. Even the other-dimensional space opened by Greso was annihilated by this huge energy.

The violent energy shattered the dimensional space and attacked Greso from all directions. Seeing that the dimensional gate did not block the enemy's attack, Greso hurriedly used the seven-ring magic high-level force field protection, and then released the powerful magic rainbow light ball.

In an instant, Greso had two more layers of protection around him. Although these two layers of protection still did not block the starlight bomb, they also saved Greso's life and successfully escaped from the attack of the starlight bomb.

After surviving the attack of the starlight bomb, Greso's vitality was reduced by nearly one-third, and his magic power was reduced by nine-tenths.

He did not care about his descendants and chose to escape very decisively. When Sofia was about to release the second starlight bomb, Greso had already fled far away.

Although Greso escaped, the ogres around him suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the starlight bomb. More than one hundred people were killed by the starlight bomb, and nearly two hundred were injured.

The ogre team was relatively scattered. If they were all gathered in one place, a starlight bomb would probably take away more than a thousand ogres.

After being hit by the starlight bomb, the ogre team decisively chose to withdraw. About two hundred ogre wounded soldiers took the initiative to stay behind and were killed by Harland's army.

Greso assembled the team five kilometers away and found that the number of ogres was less than one thousand.

The battle on the southern front failed. Greso did not dare to continue to provoke Richard's northern army, and hurriedly fled to the west with the ogres.

Just after walking fifty kilometers, they were blocked by the Soya Castle in front.

Soya Castle was built in a place that must be fought for by military strategists. It is located at the intersection of two ridges and is a natural mountain fork.

If you want to bypass Soya Castle, you must turn around and go around fifty kilometers to the north.

The ogres under Greso's command have been on the road for a day. They have been attacked and bombed by flying soldiers this day, and more than a hundred people have been killed and wounded. They really don't want to walk for two more days.

Although there were human defenders in the castle, Gresso still issued an order to storm. More than 900 ogres fought hard to capture Soya Castle, annihilated 3,000 auxiliary soldiers, and suffered more than 200 casualties, which delayed the battle for most of the day.

The ogres had just had a full meal, and Richard led the northern army to surround Gresso.

At this moment, there were only more than 700 ogres left under Gresso's command. Gresso's injuries had not yet recovered, and he was actually at the end of his rope.