lizard lord

Chapter 157 War
"It's not surprising that guy, he's also very well informed, and he knows everything he should know."

Loza shrugged his shoulders, his tone changed slightly, apparently he was not too fond of beholders, and the two were in a state of dislike for each other.

【Anyway, that's what he told me. From the perspective of protecting your property, we should agree to him.Hobgoblin Overseer Baviro is a fifth-tier warrior, without that beholder, we wouldn't be able to deal with him. 】

The beholder doesn't have the ability to release fifth-order magic now, but the racial difference is here. One beholder can deal with two or three fourth-order human fighters at the same time. In terms of combat effectiveness, this guy can barely match the fifth-order earth The fine fighters are on the bit.

Loza looked at Tang Zhao helplessly: "Frankly speaking, his asking price is a bit too much. But considering that if I fail to stop those orcs outside the city, I will suffer a greater loss, which is true... ..."

Loza stood up, took two unsteady steps, took out a scroll from the display cabinet behind him, and began to write something on it.

Tang Zhao glanced at it. The emblem only gave him spoken language, and he needed to learn to read by himself. However, he has learned a lot in the past half a year. a commercial contract.

After a few minutes, Luoza put away the quill, picked up the scroll and showed it to Tang Zhao.

"You see, as long as that beholder does his best, he will get what he wants in the end. I always keep my word."

Tang Zhao didn't want to reveal the embarrassing fact that he was half illiterate, so he simply nodded slightly to show that he already knew.

[I will tell you the truth. 】

Loza didn't say much, and put away the scroll. According to him, this is just a draft. Later, professionals will write the contract, and then he sends someone to the beholder.

"Next, should we solve some practical problems? You know what I'm talking about. It's a good thing for those rich people to come over to drive consumption, especially since they don't have property in their hands and can't pose a threat to us local businessmen. If At another time, I think I will come to thank you personally, but at this time, it is not a good time to choose."

After writing the draft contract, Luoza was obviously not in a good mood, and he stopped being polite with Tang Zhao, but went straight to the point, discussing with Tang Zhao about those noble children.

[You are the city lord, I don't want to dictate your decision, just tell me what to do, I will try my best to cooperate if it is reasonable. 】

"Of course, of course," this answer made Loza more satisfied, "I will find a way to keep those noble children in Luford City. Now the news can't be leaked, and panic can't be spread. If there is a refugee wave, it will be a troublesome thing for us. But it is not difficult to keep those noble children without leaking the news.

Thinking about it from another angle, this might be a good thing for you, at least it can completely reverse the views of those noble children towards you, and those guys will stop bothering you in a short time. "

Luoza's answer reassured Tang Zhao a lot, the matter was simpler than he thought, and he thought he was going to bleed.

Looking at it now, it is estimated that Loza did not do too much for the sake of being neighbors who will not look up and look down in the future, so he focused his attention on those noble children.

For Tang Zhao, it must be a good thing.

After negotiating with Loza, the other party's transportation team will be unable to leave recently, and Tang Zhao did not force him, so he left the earl's mansion.

By the way, Tang Zhao learned another piece of news that was not insignificant—the Church of Helm had vaguely known that there were some creatures lurking in Luford's dark place, but they didn't know the specific situation.

With the enemy at hand, there is no need to cover up the existence of the beholder. When Tang Zhao was talking to Loza just now, he deliberately didn't send away the people from the Heim Church, just to let the other party get more information.

Judging by Loza's meaning, the purpose of the beholder is probably to be successfully achieved. Even if the Church of Heim is not willing, it will have to fight side by side with the beholder in the future. After all, the interests of both parties are the same. suffered too much damage.

Bock is stubborn, but he is not a person who disregards the overall situation. I believe that during the war, the Church of Heim will not turn against the beholder.

As for the future, it is out of Tang Zhao's control. Now we can only take one step at a time. The future is not within the scope of consideration. The fight between the two of them will not have a decisive impact on Tang Zhao.
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Walk out of the earl's mansion and return to Andrea's chamber of commerce.

A large-scale convoy has already gathered here, and there are also a lot of food that Tang Zhao needs in the warehouse.According to Andrea, most of the working capital has been spent on these grains.

The convoy will go upstream together with the fleet to unload near Insula. At the same time, the elves and dwarves will take over the convoy first. They will be responsible for going to the Kubango swamp to meet the lizardmen.

Although the drivers of the caravan were more trustworthy, Tang Zhao still felt a little uneasy about them, and they would also feel afraid of the lizardmen, which made it more troublesome to do things.

The migration of the lizardmen went smoothly, and the convoy was taking them away from the dangerous area in an orderly manner. The black lizardmen and hobgoblins in the swamp had no intention of chasing them.

In the first couple of times, the convoy had a brief confrontation with the human defenders on the city wall, but after Tang Zhao took out the letters from the Earl and the Church of Helm, things became much easier.

For safety reasons, the new lizardmen mainly moved into the valley, and some temporarily moved into the lake in Insula.

Obviously they need to adapt to life in the new place, the swamp environment is still very different from the forest.

Tang Zhao is not too worried about this kind of thing. Although the lizard people still have the thinking of beasts, the shaman has a strong restraint on them. As long as the shaman is willing to cooperate, the follow-up work is not difficult to carry out.

At the same time, the dwarves have begun to expedite the casting of weapons, allowing them to use metal weapons in the shortest possible time, which can really improve the combat capability of the entire settlement. After all, so many people cannot be kept for nothing.

After obtaining the consent of the Red Scale and other shamans, the armor manufacturing work was temporarily slowed down. After all, the scale armor of the Lizardmen was already useful on the battlefield, and they concentrated on forging weapons and shields.

What really bothered him was the food problem.

[I eat two meals less appropriately, but starving two meals obviously cannot fundamentally solve the problem. 】

The meat reserve in the warehouse has already come out, which is not too much, because all the races in the camp are omnivorous, and they only eat meat occasionally to improve their food.

At the same time, there are many ferocious animals in the settlement. They are good at small-scale combat and reconnaissance, but one or two are big eaters. They often eat several kilograms of meat for a meal, which leads to meat-eating in the settlement. Supply has not been great.

Tang Zhao pondered for a while, and asked Honglin to select the five hundred strongest fighters. They followed the dwarves for necessary battle training, and the rest of them all went to lakes and rivers to catch fish, and they counted as much as they could catch in a short period of time.

The flow of the Dewar River is not small, the fishery resources are abundant, and the resources of the surrounding small rivers and lakes are also acceptable, so we can only do this first.

Tang Zhao worked intensively for several days, and successively received letters and replies from several forces in Lu Fude.

The first is the beholder. It has clearly stated in the letter to Andrea that it will help Luford's defenders. It is doubtful how much help it will do, but it is always a good thing to have multiple helpers.

Not to mention anything else, the Cyclops gang will help when defending the city, which is very important.Poor quality is poor quality, at least it can fill the city wall, a group of aggressive gangsters, at any rate, can fight better than the civilians who were forcibly recruited.

Followed by the Church of Heim, they said that they would try their best to adapt to the cooperation with the beholders and "street hooligans".

There is strong dissatisfaction in the tone, and it is conceivable that there will be friction between the two sides after the armistice.But that doesn't matter, as long as the two of them don't know how to fight, they are both intelligent creatures with sense of proportion.

They also brought good news: the Heim church in the east will also send troops to support them, and now the letter of help is on the way.They would be supplemented by about three hundred heavily armed soldiers and a great deal of armament.

Finally, the news from the city lord: the arsenal has been opened, all the weapon workshops have been hired, and weapons are being produced at full capacity. The city lord's guard and city defense army are expanding their recruitment. They try their best to make the combat effectiveness of recruits reach the "visible" level as soon as possible.

In fact, from a certain point of view, the city lord still cherishes the lives of the residents he rules. In the Earl's view, a healthy young man's role in the dock or in the field is far more important than being cannon fodder in the army. big.

Tang Zhao also tried to contact several forces on his side.

The elves said they could do nothing, and they themselves had to face the main offensive of the hobgoblins, so they couldn't help Tang Zhao and the others.

Fortunately, they were able to distinguish priorities. After Tang Zhao expressed his desire for elf bread, the other party, after a brief internal discussion, allowed the residents of Karak Solma to eat elf bread.

They will send two carts of bread for emergency, which is actually quite a lot.The key follow-up Tang Zhao can let the elves in the territory supply bread, which can greatly relieve the pressure on the supply line that may exist, and at the same time, the food for the lizardmen can also be solved a lot.

The dwarves are more than capable and willing to help.

Tang Zhao was allocated a small batch of food and three squads of centurion dwarf soldiers, and the dwarf engineer that Tang Zhao was thinking of came with the army.

The engineer was only found now, not because of the delay at Longxue Pass, but since they agreed to Tang Zhao, they were doing their best to help find it.Dwarf engineer is a rather vague term. As long as dwarves study dwarf technology and have made some achievements in this field, they can be called dwarf engineers.

In other words, it may be researching gunpowder, steam, traditional ballista, or ancient exoskeleton armor, trying to make dwarves ascend as soon as possible, become dwarf states, and use extraterrestrial technology to fight Exploding all the aliens.

There are not many people who study gunpowder here, and even fewer are willing to leave the original dwarf city and leave their hometown to come to such a remote place.

In the end, it was the unicorn Lorraine. He wanted to help, but he was powerless.Most of the tracers of the natural gods such as Sivanus are elves, and they are busy with their own wars and can't get away.

Even the centaur tribe was hired away by the elves in advance. They lacked the power to move quickly outside the forest, and the centaur could barely make up for this deficiency.

The matter of asking for help ends here, and the rest depends on Tang Zhao's own performance.
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After waiting all winter, the hobgoblins of the Greenspear clan finally made their move.

A large number of cannon fodder goblins led the way, followed by several heavily equipped hobgoblin phalanxes, attacking the kobold defenders at the Roncevas Pass.

The order they received was not to resist desperately. After lighting the beacon fire and letting go of the carrier pigeon to deliver the message, they began to retreat.

This time the hobgoblins' command tended to be prudent, and they didn't even send Warg cavalry to pursue them to any extent. The team moved forward step by step, without giving too many opportunities to the elf rangers lurking in the surrounding forest.

Even so, they still broke through three temporary warning walls on the first day and formally entered the territory of Insula.

This time, their stationing plan was just as Bourne expected. In order to prevent the raids and consumption of the forest residents, they did not choose to stay in the forest, but moved closer to the Everlook Mountains, ran to the foot of the mountain, and camped on the opposite side with sparse vegetation.

The trouble is that it is a bit troublesome, and the safety factor is guaranteed.

They hadn't approached any of the abandoned dwarven fortresses yet, but Bourne was sure they would camp on them.

[Have you determined the approximate number of enemies? 】

Elena's tone was heavy: "Based on the number of tents, there are about fifteen hundred hobgoblins. It's hard to estimate the number of ordinary goblins because there is no reliable reference."

[Information obtained from the hobgoblin warlocks, generally speaking, the ratio of cannon fodder to elites of the Green Spear clan is three to one. We might as well make the data a little more secure. They should have [-] cannon fodder. 】

Adding up to [-] soldiers, not counting the follow-up support that will definitely be there, this is a difficult test for the defense capability of the fortress. The total number of residents in the fortress is nearly double that of the former fortress. No matter how much preparation he had done, Tang Zhao must still be a little worried.

[Besides, who is their supervisor, and is the patriarch here? 】

"This is good news. I didn't see the banner of the patriarch. The person who came is probably number three or four, which means that he doesn't have the strength of the fifth level, but looks like the fourth level."

The fourth level, with Tang Zhao's ability, can still be dealt with, but it will take some effort.Tier [-] fighters do not have as much influence on the battle situation as mages. They can be regarded as an elite heavy infantry centurion.

(End of this chapter)