Surdak rode out of the dark and narrow city gate, and a wide valley appeared in front of him.
On both sides of the valley are majestic and steep mountains. There are still green woods at the foot of these mountains. Looking up into the middle of the mountains, you can see huge rock spurs as sharp as knives rising into the sky. The peaks of the mountains on both sides of the valley reach into the sky and are covered with white snow.
Hidden in the clouds.
Many local natives of the White Forest Plane hide in the valleys and forests among the high mountains. These tribes live a life of half hunting and half herding.
Looking through this valley, you can see the red pine forest on the edge of the Warcraft Forest north of Duodan Town.
The aboriginal groom from the town hall was riding at the front along a winding mountain road.
There are some large and small water pools on both sides of the road. Some of the water pools have dried up, exposing the dry and cracked soil at the bottom of the pools. Some small pools are filled with red insects, attracting many water birds to gather around the pools and chirp.
non-stop.
A river in the valley has dried up. The valley is covered with fine-leaved glass grass, and the grass stalks half a meter high are already covered with heavy grass seeds.
Stepping out of Dodan Town means truly entering the White Forest Plane. Although this valley is also the territory of the Green Empire, without the city wall behind it, there will be a feeling that the local natives may come out of the mountains at any time.
In fact, the garrison patrols in Duodan Town pass through this city gate every day and walk to the end of the valley. The undulating slopes are truly the border of the occupied area of the Bailin plane.
If you want to expand territory in the northern part of the Bailin plane, you must continue to expand northward from that border.
Of course, it is not difficult for all noble lords to expand territory.
The difficult part is how to hold on to this territory, build walls to block wild beasts, build some sentries, or eliminate all potential dangers that may exist in this area. Although these methods can temporarily include a large area of land in the valley north of the city... But Bai
The tide of monsters in the forest plane has declined. Unless a northern city wall similar to the one in Duodan Town is built at the exit of the valley, it will be difficult to block the ferocious beasts in the forest.
The landform here is very different from that of Halanza City. The mountains are taller and more majestic, the pine forests are denser and more compact, and the mountains are clearly layered. Looking at the mountains reaching into the sky in front of you, you feel like you are seeing a miniature of the four seasons of the year.
This guide only heard that an adventure group was robbed by a bandit group mixed with local indigenous people in the mountain forest to the north and east of the city. He only knew the general direction of the incident and had not been there.
He rode his horse along the mountain road for a while. When he saw a fork in the road ahead, he walked towards the pine forest at the foot of the mountain ridge on the east side.
The wilderness in front of us seems to be inaccessible, and the little beasts living here are very cute. They are not afraid of people. When they hear some disturbance, they will swish into the hiding place. After a few minutes, these little beasts will come again.
He emerged from the cave and watched curiously as Surdak led a cavalry team passing by the moss-covered grassland not far away.
Andrew looked around and saw that residents of Dodan Town rarely came to the north of the city wall. There were no traces of cultivation on the fertile soil here. Clusters of low shrubs grew on the ground, with some dried berries hanging on them.
Unexpectedly, the land north of Duodan Town is also quite fertile. The grassland in the valley in front of me is very suitable for grazing.
Suldak planned that he would not need to prepare fodder every day in the future. He would open the city gate, drive out the ancient Bolai horses, and let them graze in this valley. It is estimated that most of the forage could be saved.
The pine forest at the foot of the mountain is very lush and overgrown. If the cavalry wants to pass through this jungle, it must use a machete to open a path in the woods. Fortunately, the horseman guide is very familiar with this place and leads everyone to find a path.
Hidden in the pine forest, this path is overgrown with weeds, but there are no horizontal branches blocking the path.
Sure enough, in such a lush mountain forest, you still need a guide who is familiar with the surrounding conditions.
As we go deeper into the pine forest, it takes several people to surround each of these tall and strong red pine trees. The gaps between the big trees also become wider, and the crowns above their heads are tightly connected, almost blocking everything.
There was no direct sunlight, and the shrubs and trees in the woods were very sparse. What often troubled the cavalry battalion were the huge tree trunks that fell in the forest.
The thickest diameter of these tree trunks is more than two meters, and they are dozens of meters long in the forest.
The cavalry had no way to climb over the tree trunk and could only ride around on their horses.
The aboriginal guide stopped in front and said to Suldak: "Although it is very close to Dodan Town, it is already the territory of the Inta tribe. The Inta tribe occupies a large area of mountain forest to the east of the valley.
This mountain forest is only a corner of the forest we see, and the woods at the foot of these mountains are everywhere in this mountain range."
Probably this aboriginal guide has completely integrated into the life of the town, so I heard him say:
“It is difficult for our cavalry and heavy infantry to form battle formations in this mountain forest, so the warriors of the Inta tribe have been active in this mountain forest.”
Surdak looked at this pine forest. There were almost no large beasts in the forest. It was probably the hunting ground of the Inta tribe. Maybe the adventure group was robbed by the indigenous people of the Inta tribe. Thinking of this, Su
Erdak said to the aboriginal horseman guide: "Can you tell us about the situation of the adventure group that was looted?"
The guide looked a little unnatural, and forced a smile towards Suldak, showing his big yellow teeth, and the dark purple gums looked a bit oozing.
Suldak thought he wanted some benefits. He felt that it was not easy for the guide to ride hard and lead the cavalry battalion into the mountains and forests, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with taking out a few silver coins and casually took them out of his arms.
Ten silver coins were stuffed into the guide's hand holding the reins.
The groom guide stared blankly at the silver coin in his hand, hesitated for a moment, then approached Suldak and whispered: "Although I don't know much about them, I also know that they are not a regular adventure group.
They usually mainly travel through these mountains and forests, looking for lone prey in the mountains and forests."
“If they want to hunt Warcraft, shouldn’t they go to the Warcraft Forest further north?” Surdak asked strangely.
Andrew said with a cold face: "Only slave traders do not need to venture to the Warcraft Forest. They only need to wander around in the mountains and forests around the indigenous tribes to capture some local indigenous slaves."
The coachman and guide’s expression was a little unnatural, but he still said:
“That’s right, now that the beast tide is approaching, almost all adventure groups that entered the Warcraft Forest to hunt Warcraft have evacuated Dodan Town. Only those slave traders can still find opportunities to capture slaves in the mountains and forests.”
Andrew snorted. As an indigenous warrior of the Nanai tribe, this kind of thing probably happens from time to time in the Maka plane. Just listen to what he said:
“This group of slave traders may have offended all the tribes in the area around Dodan Town.”
The groom guide couldn't help but take another look at Andrew. His thick-lined face was obviously different from that of the Green Empire people, and he realized that he was an aborigine. His eyes were a little more friendly, and he said to Andrew:
“Yes, no one in our town dares to leave the city alone for fear of encountering retaliation from tribal warriors along the way.”
Suldak frowned and said:
“Mayor Marco brought his men just to help these slave traders and find their lost property?”
Unexpectedly, the coachman and guide failed to control his mouth. He said so many secrets at once and muttered:
“The mayor has to come out and show off, but they probably won’t find anyone.”
Suldak asked the groom and guide: "Why?"
At this time, Andrew explained to Suldak on behalf of the groom guide: "The people who have the ability to rob this group of slave traders cannot be people from the indigenous tribes. It is estimated that they do not have this strength yet, and another group of people should be eyeing this group."
Slave traders, maybe other unclean adventure groups taking advantage of others."
The group of people walked through the pine forest and soon met the team that followed Mayor Marco to search for the missing members of the adventure group. These people had already spread out to search in the mountain forest.
When Suldak saw the search team, they were handling a freshly slaughtered porcupine in the forest clearing. They also lit a bonfire in the forest. It seemed that they were preparing to deal with the porcupine.
Have to bake on the spot.
The search team members saw a large group of cavalry emerging from the pine forest. They looked at each other for a moment, not knowing what to do.
One of the search team members held up the porcupine in his hand, stood up subconsciously, and gave a military salute to Surdak.
“Where is Mayor Marco?” Surdak asked the search team condescendingly while riding on his horse.
The search team member quickly put down the porcupine in his hand, pointed to the depths of the woods and said: "Sir, the mayor is searching in that direction."
Suldak nodded, turned and left without saying a word.
Seeing Suldak leaving with more than 200 cavalrymen, the search team members took a long breath and sat down next to the campfire.
“Who are those warriors?” Surdak asked the guide.
The guide quickly said: "They are members of the armed team of the trading group. They are usually responsible for guarding the goods transported by the trading company. They are a team organized with money from the trading company. This time, the mayor brought their men here, probably because he was worried about this."
There’s not enough manpower on the side.”
Suldak and his party were quite lucky. They actually found Mayor Marco who was gathering members of the search team in the forest before dinner.
I saw dozens of search team members surrounding him, riding a green-scaled horse, walking majestically at the front of the team. Wearing half a set of magic pattern structure, a strong man with a beard and a red nose, he looked at the people around him.
The entourage scolded: "There are only a few people, and they are allowed to escape. What a bunch of losers..."
“Mayor, look across the way...”
One of the attendants following him reminded him in a low voice.
At this time, the strong man with beard raised his head, rolled his eyes and looked towards Suldak. He could not see clearly in the jungle. When the two sides got closer, the man with beard
The strong man took the lead and walked towards Suldak.
Said loudly to Surdak:
"Oh, I am Marco, and you must be Baron Suldak. Your letter of appointment has arrived a few days ago. I have been waiting for three days in Dodan Town. I didn't expect that the person we met for the first time would be here.
here."
His voice was loud and rough. When he looked at Suldak, a cold light flashed in his eyes.
Although it disappeared briefly, it fell into Suldak's eyes. Surdak puffed up his chest, rode on his horse, and gave him a military salute before saying:
“Mayor Marco and the Lutheran Legion Independent Cavalry Battalion are here to report.”
Search teams were constantly gathering around the pine forest. Mayor Marco sat on his horse and said to Suldak arrogantly:
"I guess you have also heard that an adventure group in the town was robbed by a gang of robbers here. I brought people here to search the mountain last night. I have to give an explanation to the members of the adventure group who were killed. Unfortunately, I just asked
That gang of robbers slipped away. It's great that you came in time to help me share the trouble."
“Mayor, should we collect the team?” the attendant beside him asked in a low voice.
Mayor Marco angrily scolded the entourage: "If you don't close the team, you will just be a savage in the mountains and forests. Go back!"
Surdak didn't expect that Mayor Marko was such a powerful nobleman. He looked more like an officer leading troops fighting on the front line. Without any discussion with Surdak, he just scattered the people in the forest.
The search team gathered together and returned to Duodan Town in a mighty manner.
This time the cavalry group had just arrived at its destination and returned to the town along the same route.
Back to the small town, the sky has completely darkened.
Hundreds of people rode back to the town in a mighty manner, and many town residents immediately came out to watch. Suldak originally thought about returning to the station and having dinner with the cavalry. Unexpectedly, when they separated, Marco Town
The captain suddenly turned around and said to Suldak: "Baron Suldak, there will be a trial of the bandit gang members at the town hall tomorrow. You should also attend!"
“Okay!” Surdak agreed.
For a moment, he was a little confused. Didn't it mean that all the bandit gangs had escaped? Then who would be judged?