The patrol team followed the usual patrol route, away from the small town of Greenvita, and after traveling about five kilometers to the southwest, a mountain range came into view in the distance.
This mountain range was the largest mountain range in the southern part of the original Frankish Kingdom, called the Gritius Mountains.
If you continue to go south from the small town of Greenvitai, if you don’t want to pass through the valley southwest of the small town of Greenvitai, you can only go east or west for hundreds of kilometers to get around Grixiu. mountains.
Therefore, this mountain range became a clear dividing line between the north and south in the eastern part of the original Frankish Kingdom.
Nearly a month ago, under the attack of the Marfa coalition, the army of the Lampali Kingdom retreated all the way to the Grisius Mountains. Relying on the fortifications they had built in advance in the Tianming Valley, the only passable path in the Grisius Mountains, Withstood the attack of the Marfa coalition.
It has to be said that the defenses built by the Lampali Kingdom here are too strong.
In this month, the Marfa coalition launched a total of fourteen attacks on this valley. Many of them were attacked by four magisters who led the most powerful group of magicians in the coalition. However, Still can't break through the defense here.
Even under the counterattack of the Lampali Kingdom's army, the Marfa coalition suffered heavy losses. In less than a month of fighting, more than 20,000 soldiers were killed directly, and the remaining number of people seriously injured was more than 40,000, and the number of minor injuries was countless.
And this is nothing. The real loss is that in these fourteen battles, more than a hundred high-level magicians were killed by the Marfa coalition forces under the counterattack of the Lampali Kingdom army, and even two great magicians were killed. .
Coupled with the fact that even the four magicians were unable to do anything at the same time, this mountain range suddenly became an insurmountable barrier in front of the Marfa coalition, preventing them from continuing to expand their results and win from the hands of the Lampali Kingdom. Recover the territory originally belonging to the Frankish Kingdom.
In the past week, the top leaders of the Marfa coalition temporarily gave up the attack on Tianming Valley and decided to stabilize the situation in the territory of the Frankish Kingdom that they had regained from the Lampali Kingdom before making any plans.
So now the armies of both sides are temporarily on fire near the Grisius Mountains and are in a state of confrontation.
certainly. This does not mean that the two sides will truly live in peace.
Whether it is the Marfa coalition or the Lampali Kingdom, they will definitely find an opportunity to launch another attack.
Therefore, the Marfa coalition forces have been strengthening reconnaissance patrols in the Grisius Mountains area during this period, on the one hand to prevent a sudden counterattack by the Lampali Kingdom, and on the other hand to find loopholes in the Lampali Kingdom's army. Breaking through the Grisius Mountains in one fell swoop.
Lieutenant Nokomo and the scout team he led, composed of seventeen Frankish soldiers, were one of the many teams responsible for reconnaissance missions.
Lieutenant Nokomo and his men have patrolled the nearby area many times in the past few days. They can almost tell where they are with their eyes closed, so there is no need to explore much.
Now that they have entered a place where they can see the Grisius Mountains in the distance with the naked eye, they have reached an area where they really need to be more vigilant.
Based on the intelligence obtained during the previous battle with the Lampali Kingdom's army. The Lampali Kingdom's army is now equipped with the latest magic artillery provided by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and its flat range can exceed four kilometers.
And if the attack is from top to bottom from above the Grisius Mountains, the range can easily exceed five kilometers.
Therefore, when Lieutenant Nokomo and his men enter this area, it means that they may be attacked by magic artillery from the Lampali Kingdom army at any time, and their lives are in danger at any time.
Of course, this is just a theoretical consideration.
In fact, the Lampali Kingdom will certainly not waste precious magic shells on the Marfa coalition reconnaissance team who knows where. This precious resource is usually used only in frontal firefights.
In terms of reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, in addition to using magic airships in the sky to conduct condescending reconnaissance, the Kingdom of Lampali also sends out scout teams to leave the Grisius Mountains for reconnaissance most of the time.
After the huge and seemingly unrivaled image of the magic airship floated through his mind, Lieutenant Nokomo raised his head and looked at the sky. Finding that there were no suspicious black spots flying in the sky at this time, he nodded and felt relieved.
The Marfa Alliance suffered a lot in this regard because the Lampali Kingdom had a magic airship, so its overall movements and a lot of information could be easily detected.
Just two days ago, three reconnaissance teams of the Marfa coalition were attacked by the Lampali Kingdom's army when they were near the Grisius Mountains, and not even a single person was recovered.
So even though Lieutenant Nokomo and his team had not seen a single shadow of a Lampali Kingdom army for a week, he was still cautious at this time and tried to avoid becoming a conspicuous target.
After leading his men in the lush forest at the foot of the Grisius Mountains and approaching the Grisius Mountains for about two kilometers, Lieutenant Nokomo signaled everyone to stop. Then with a wave of his hand, the team members took up their positions and were on full alert.
Lieutenant Nokomo believed in being prepared. The team he led was enough to easily destroy an unprepared Frank Kingdom team.
But once the other party is prepared for warning...it's better not to think too much and just run for your life.
The fact that they had fought countless battles with the Lampali Kingdom before proved that although the Marfa coalition had several times the strength of the Lampali Kingdom, the real advantage was only the help provided by the four magisters.
Without the help of the four magisters, on the frontal battlefield. Traditional soldiers like Lieutenant Nokomo who were still equipped with swords, and those soldiers of the Lampali Kingdom who were fully armed with military magic machines could probably take down a whole group of them alone.
"Hey, it would be great if there was a lone soldier from the Lampali Kingdom. If you get rid of him when he is not prepared, you can snatch the equipment from him."
Thinking of the various artifacts and powerful individual military magic machines on the soldiers of the Lampali Kingdom, Lieutenant Nokomo couldn't help but drool.
If he could have such a set of equipment, he might have a chance of success if he singled out a magician.
Of course, he also knew that even if he did encounter a lone Lampali Kingdom soldier and snatched the military magic machine from him, the result would eventually be taken away by the superiors.
Now the Malo Empire is in great need of various military magic machines equipped by the Lampali Kingdom's army, just to have more examples for research and imitation.
It is said that within the Maro Empire, a huge team of magicians and craftsmen has been organized, and they are going all out to research military magic machinery, in order to close the arms gap with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce camp as much as possible.
However, this kind of thing obviously cannot be achieved in a short time. At least Lieutenant Nokomo did not see how many military magic machines suddenly appeared in the troops of the Maro Empire.
After seeing that his men were already lurking in their respective positions, Lieutenant Nokomo climbed up a tree, hid himself in the trunk, took out a telescope, and looked through the gaps in the branches and leaves at the Grisius Mountains in the distance. go.
In fact, it’s nothing to see.
During the previous week-long reconnaissance, every time Lieutenant Nokomo led his men to observe nearby, they would find that the Lampali Kingdom army on the Grisius Mountains was honestly in their position built on the mountains. , doesn’t pop up much at all.
Even if you occasionally see a few figures, they only flash by momentarily, and no specific movement can be seen at all.
However, Lieutenant Nokomo's mission was to observe whether there was any abnormal behavior in the Lampali Kingdom. As long as he stayed here to monitor for one day, he would have completed his mission.
After watching for a while and confirming that there was nothing unusual in the camp of the Lampali Kingdom army in the distance, Lieutenant Nokomo yawned out of boredom and prepared to take back his telescope and rest for a while.
Just when this idea came up, a black spot suddenly appeared in the field of view of his telescope.
Lieutenant Nokomo was startled, and quickly looked at it carefully, and quickly judged that this should be a magic airship.
This magic airship flew from the sky south of the Grisius Mountains, and then slowly descended to the position of the Lampali Kingdom on the mountains.
Because there was a wall blocking it, Lieutenant Nokomo did not see any people or goods coming down from the magic airship.
However, according to the information provided by other previous investigation teams, the Lampali Kingdom often has magic airships flying from the south. It is speculated that some materials are transported from the south to the Lampali Kingdom army stationed in the Grisius Mountains.
When he heard this information before, Lieutenant Nokomo still didn't believe it, because even the Maro Empire currently only has twenty magic airships, all of which were given by the people with the highest status in the Maro Empire. After being divided up, there is currently only one ship in the Marfa coalition, which shows how precious this thing is.
And according to Lieutenant Nokomo's knowledge, the magic airship consumes a lot of money to fly, and it is obviously not cost-effective to use this thing to transport supplies.
Even if the Lampali Kingdom has a large number of magic airships, it should not be so extravagant and wasteful.
But as if he was deliberately hitting Lieutenant Nokomo in the face, as soon as this idea came to his mind, another magic airship came into view.
Before he could react, magic airships appeared one after another in the sky far to the south, and soon a black cloud formed in the sky, almost covering the entire Grisius Mountains.
Seeing this abnormal situation, no matter how ignorant Lieutenant Nokomo was, he knew that something was bound to happen. (~^~)