Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 763 Looking for the Barbarians

The Misty Forest is located in the vast area north of the northern border of the Hanhai Empire. The northernmost point reaches the ice field where dripping water turns into ice. Therefore, the further north the Misty Forest is, the harsher the environmental conditions are, and it is difficult to survive. It is full of poisonous insects and beasts. Even the most powerful servants The soldiers did not dare to go deep into it.

Because the environment in the misty forest is extremely harsh, the barbarians living in it grew up in this harsh environment since childhood. Natural selection of the fittest survives, and the barbarians have become as powerful as wild beasts. The death rate of the barbarians is extremely high, and their population size has not been able to grow explosively.

Coupled with the encirclement and hunting laws of the Hanhai Empire for many years, facing the powerful Hanhai Empire, the barbarians have been driven to the worse area north of the central part of the misty forest, and it is becoming more and more difficult for the barbarians to survive.

Although the leaders of several generations of barbarians wanted to lead the barbarian warriors southward to defeat the Hanhai Empire, so that the barbarians could live in the moist and fertile land in the south, but the Hanhai Empire is so powerful that it only built a thousand-mile-long city wall and garrisoned 20 Thousands of frontier guards have become an insurmountable moat for them.

Thousands of barbarian soldiers die near the city walls every year. If they continue for a long time, they will face the crisis of genocide. Although the frequency of barbarian attacks to the south has become more and more frequent in recent years, facing the well-equipped vast sea The border guards, they failed in addition to failure, and their strength was weakened more and more.

The hunting order issued by the Hanhai Empire made the living conditions of the barbarians even worse. Originally, the living environment was very harsh. With the arrival of those hunting and killing mercenary teams, countless barbarian tribes were destroyed, and the captured barbarians were regarded as Slaves were sold to various places and lived a life that was worse than death.

Because of the constant killings, the barbarians have an unspeakable blood feud against the Hanhai Empire soldiers of the mercenary group that entered the foggy forest. The fighting between the two sides in the foggy forest has never stopped. There are still a steady stream of people entering the misty forest to hunt and capture the barbarians, because in their eyes, the barbarians are like wild beasts, they drink blood like fur, and only know how to kill, so they are not worthy of sympathy.

The confrontation caused by hatred cannot be reconciled. The behind-the-scenes drivers of all this are the officials of the Hanhai Empire, because they want to eliminate the barbarians and solve the hidden dangers from the northern region, even if they use cruel methods.

Lin Chuan, the Marshal of the Nanchuan Army, sent people all the way to the misty forest to contact the barbarians, hoping to form an alliance with the barbarians who are struggling to survive. In Lin Chuan's mind, the barbarians are not as miserable as the Hanhai Empire described them, they also have their own Their beliefs are not born for killing, but are forced by the harsh environment. If they are allowed to migrate to warm and humid areas, they will definitely settle down.

The so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend. Lin Chuan wants to seize the Far East, but the strength of the Nanchuan Army is difficult to compete with the Hanhai Empire, so he hopes that the barbarians can contain the troops of the Hanhai Empire in the northern area of ​​​​the Hanhai Empire, and what he gave to the barbarians The promise is to allow them to thrive in the Far East, which can be regarded as sympathy for what happened to them.

The reason why Lin Chuan did this was not only beneficial to the Hanhai Empire, but also contained a trace of selfishness, that is, the barbarian warriors are very powerful. If they can be made to belong to the Nanchuan Army and become a part of the Nanchuan Army, then the Nanchuan Army's The strength will be further improved.

After Jia Hong and the Nanchuan guards crossed the wall of the northern border of the Hanhai Empire, they went straight into the foggy forest to find the barbarian tribe, hoping to contact the leader of the barbarians and finally form an alliance.

However, the foggy forest is too vast. The towering ancient trees cover the sunlight densely. Walking in the foggy forest, the light is extremely dim. From time to time, you will encounter attacks from unknown beasts. The soldiers who guarded the forest lost ten Many, but the barbarian is still nowhere to be seen.

In the forest covered with dead branches and rotting leaves, Thunder Dragon and others are advancing towards the depths of the forest in a battle formation. All the soldiers have their swords out of their sheaths, guarding the envoy Jia Hong in the center, ready to fight at any time.

The one-armed Sergeant Major Thunder Dragon held a huge battle ax in his hand and observed the surrounding situation indifferently. Suddenly there was the sound of dead branches being crushed in front of him. He immediately raised his right hand and stopped. All the soldiers were tense, staring straight ahead as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

Several nimble scout soldiers got out of the thick thorns and appeared in the sight of Lei Long and the others. The sergeant Zhou Rui rushed to Lei Long panting and said: "Sir, there is no way ahead, it is a steep road. cliff."

After Thunder Dragon heard the words, he ordered the soldiers to be vigilant. He took out the map of the foggy forest that he bought from the people of Hanhai and spread it on the ground.

"Sergeant Lei Long, what's the matter?" the envoy Jia Hong saw Lei Long's frown and asked.

Thunder Dragon replied: "We have reached the edge of the map, and there is an unexplored area ahead."

These maps were drawn by the mercenary team who went deep into the foggy forest based on their memory, so they are not only rough, but many places are not marked, and more importantly, there are large blank spaces in many places, which are the so-called dangerous areas.

"From here to the northwest, there are mercenary regiments who have encountered barbarians before, let's turn to the northwest." Sergeant Major Thunder Dragon ordered after putting away the map after pondering for a moment.

The team continued to set off, going straight to the northwest where the barbarians once haunted.

Sergeant Zhou Rui and five scouts walked in front of the team and continued to explore the road, but there was no road in the dense forest, so they could only cut a road at the same time, and their speed was greatly affected.

"Be careful!" Sergeant Zhou Rui suddenly saw a black figure jumping out from the left front, shouted loudly, and the saber had already been slashed out.

"Pfft!"

Blood splattered, and the body of an unknown beast with fangs was split in two by a sharp sword. The internal organs were sprinkled on one of the scout soldiers, and the scout soldiers who were attacked were also terrified.

"Leave quickly, the smell of blood will attract other ferocious beasts." Sergeant Major Thunder Dragon rushed up from behind, and when he saw the slain beast, he immediately ordered, and everyone dared not delay, and continued to move past the corpse. After a while, a group of burly wolves appeared at the position where they had just stayed and began to bite the dead barbarian, dripping with blood.

Until night fell, Thunder Dragon and his group failed to find the location marked on the map. The foggy forest was like a huge maze, which made them exhausted and found nothing. Finally, they had to find a leeward col to set up camp camp.

(End of this chapter)