In the early morning, a very fast-moving team arrived near the Demon Suppression City which was under construction.
This team is not large in number, but it is particularly eye-catching, because this time Richard not only brought the soldiers from the Stone Castle, but also brought most of the troops from Linzhong City.
There are a large number of centaurs and great elf archers in the team. Among other things, these elite centaurs holding battle axes and wearing half-body armor are quite capable of fighting at a glance.
If the leader hadn't been Lord Richard, the lord of Demon Suppression City, who had disappeared for a few days, the entire city would have been on alert by now.
When these elite centaurs were originally recruited from Linzhong City, they had a long-handled ax gun and a fairly sturdy helmet like in the game. In Richard's opinion, this equipment was a bit crude.
But games are games and reality is reality. When Richard discovered that the centaur elite were unarmored units, he immediately ordered the ordnance factory to create a batch of half-body cloth armor based on the centaur's physique. The front armor was also thickened.
With the elite strength of the centaur, wearing this armor does not affect the movement, and the combat effectiveness is greatly improved.
People's eyes are mainly attracted to the elite centaurs. Although there are centaurs on this continent, they are still separated from humans by the Kingdom of Orcs. Humans rarely see this legendary creature.
On the other hand, the appearance of the big elven archers seems to be relatively ordinary. Although they do look more handsome, it is a pity that the aesthetics of the Northlanders are not biased towards this. In the eyes of the Northlanders, they probably have to be as burly as Thor.
The real handsome guys are the strong ones,
Moreover, the appearance of the big elf was very similar to the half-elves common in the northern iron woods. They directly regarded the big elf and the war dancers in Richard's team as half-elves attached to Hirano Bo.
Inside the city lord's palace
After Richard entered the city, he summoned Lin Te to discuss the expedition.
"Only prepare dry food for three days?"
"right."
"Are you prepared to fight to support war?"
Richard nodded again.
"How many people are you planning to bring?"
"A capable force of no more than a thousand."
"I think we should take a long-term approach. This is too risky."
With Lin Te's wisdom, he could barely keep up with Richard's jumping thoughts and knew that Richard wanted to lead his group of extremely powerful elites to directly engage in a beheading battle against the ogre tribe.
It is not impossible,
Although there are many tribes in Grugesh, he has four major tribes as his base and has swallowed up a large number of small and medium-sized tribes. If they are gathered together, he can already raise a fighting army of 20,000 to 30,000 people.
However, ogres are still nomadic in the wilderness. It is impossible for so many people to gather together. Even the direct descendants of Grugesh will only gather when they are summoned. They are usually scattered in various places.
Living everywhere.
Generally, Grugesh only has a few thousand ogres and some kobold vassals around him.
Of course, other tribes are not far apart and can support each other if anything happens.
Richard led his army to directly behead Grugash. Not to mention that the strength around Grugash was not weak. It was hard to say whether Richard could take advantage of him.
Even if Richard can gain the upper hand, he is very likely to be surrounded by ogres and trapped. In Lint's view, Richard's plan is too risky and not advisable.
"It's okay. Just prepare as I told you. Just guard the Demon Suppression Castle and be ready to respond. Even if we can't win completely, I'm sure to escape unscathed."
Richard is such a life-loving person, so of course he will not make fun of his own life. He really has his own confidence, so he dares to say that he wants to go for a walk in the wilderness. At this time, the strength of his heroic invincible system army has greatly increased:
Elite Centaur (240), Halberdier (200), War Dancer (120), Marksman (170), Great Elf Archer (72), Royal Griffin (96), Crusader (73), Diamond Man (2
), Champion Knight (1), Manticore (1).
Halberdiers and centaur elites are already elites that can compete with ordinary ogre warriors. Although the defense ability of war dancers is worrying, they can still be seen with the bonus of Richard's intermediate defense skills, and they can also be seen in melees.
Good lethality,
Not to mention the Crusaders, a powerful unit that has reached the level of a peak knight with the double bonus of Ron and Richard. The key is scale.
A large ogre tribe will not have more than ten ogre warriors at most. Even if the ogres around Grugash are of higher quality, there will not be more than thirty ogre warriors. This is completely a problem.
The difference is twice as big,
In terms of high-end power, Richard also has Diamond Man, Champion Knight and Manticore Lion. Especially the Champion Knight and Manticore Lion. These two guys have the strength to enter the world for the first time. They can kill ordinary ogre warriors as well as chop melons and vegetables.
similar,
Richard himself can also exert the peak combat power of the Great Knight,
As long as Richard seizes the opportunity, it is not impossible to defeat the Grugesh camp and chop off the head of Grugesh.
Even if things don't go smoothly, Richard is sure to escape unscathed.
With the addition of magic boots and knight gloves, the system's army, which originally had a stronger marching ability than ordinary armies, has a marching speed that is almost as fast as that of a ghost.
With the griffons in the sky conducting reconnaissance, Richard was confident of avoiding unnecessary battles. Under the guidance of the royal griffons, he directly targeted the headquarters of Grugesh and launched a perfect surprise attack.
Of course, he couldn't explain these things to Lint clearly, so he could only forcefully express that he was sure and would not change his plan.
In the end, Richard had no choice but to act arbitrarily under Lin Te's suspicious eyes. Lin Te had no choice but to take orders and try his best to do the logistics and support work.
…
"Lord Earl, shall we set off now?"
The court mage Gandolf was following Richard on a red flame horse, followed by nearly a thousand soldiers produced by the system.
The dry food for nearly a thousand people was prepared very quickly. From the time Richard made the decision, it was ready to set off early the next morning.
However, Gandolf was a little dizzy after receiving Richard's order and has not yet come to his senses.
Although Gandolf cannot enjoy the bonus of Richard's treasure, equipping him with a red flame horse will not slow down the marching speed.
As long as Gandolf's body can bear it, but Richard sees that the old man is obviously in good health and energetic, so it shouldn't be unbearable.
After all, searching for possible magic crystals in the wilderness was one of the important purposes of his expedition to the wilderness. He had to bring a professional with him.
"Of course, haven't you been looking forward to this day for a long time?"
Gandolf scratched his head. Although he was looking forward to it, it did come suddenly. According to his idea, Richard sent an elite team to accompany him to secretly search and investigate. Richard looked like he was going to fight.
Looks like.
"Set off!"
Without waiting for Gandolf to ask, Richard issued the order to set off. For the system army, Richard does not need to make too many acting commitments to improve morale. He is an envoy of God. As long as he is where he is, the system army will
Morale is always at full value.
Seeing the troops starting to march, Gandolf quickly rode up to catch up. Although it was a little different from what he had initially thought, it was absolutely impossible for him to give up.
Gandolf's riding skills were average. Fortunately, the Red Flame Horse was quite docile under Richard's control and did not make Gandolf look bad.
Richard's expedition was very low-key and there were no ceremonies. After all, these loyal warriors did not need any sense of ceremony from Richard.
Only Lint appeared at the city gate.
"Don't die in the wilderness, you still owe me a lot of money."
Richard, who was riding on the horse, smiled when he heard this but did not respond.
He only led the army towards the wilderness at an extremely fast speed...