"After we quell the rebellion of the great nobles, let's take care of this problem."
Leoric made up his mind that the swamp was his back garden, and he had to clean it up, otherwise he would face enemies in the future when he fought against the barbarians.
At dusk, they arrived at the garrison of the Bronze Hands.
The place where the Bronze Hands Legion is stationed is called "Hegu Pass", which is the main throat between the Murloc tribe and Mithras City.2000 people from the Bronze Hand Legion were stationed here. When the enemy came, they would fight and garrison the fields when they were not fighting. When the Bronze Hand Legion saw a group of elf cavalry coming from behind, they quickly closed the gate of the city and blew the horn.I saw the soldiers standing on the wall of the stockade, bowing their bows and setting arrows, and the generals boarded the city gate to watch the situation.
Responses were quick enough, obviously trained, Leoric thought.
At this time, Shia asked everyone to stand by to avoid misunderstandings, and then went to the front to brush their faces by herself.Of course the guard knew his young lady, and Shia also brought a token.Afterwards, the gate opened, and Leoric and his party entered the city.The fortress of Hegu Pass is basically made of wood and stones, which is not too high, but the murlocs don't have siege weapons, so such fortifications should be able to withstand the enemy.
The soldiers in the stockade were all practicing, and they didn't panic when they saw the elf soldiers. There was no other noise in the city except for the chanting of the drill.Leoric glanced at it. The equipment on the weapon rack was wiped clean, and overall they were very satisfactory.
At this time, the head of the Bronze Hand Legion came up.This person introduced himself as "Molo Huck", just call him Huck, or bald Huck.The biggest characteristic of this person is that there is no hair on his head, and his head is shiny and shiny in the sun.It is said that his head was not shaved on purpose, but that he was born with no hair on his head.
The bald Huck can be considered a veteran, he will be in his forties next year, and he has fought with the Duke of Lei Kui during the 20 years he joined the army. He has won the trust of the Duke, so he was sent to guard this choke point.According to him, the same is true of the "Silver Hand Legion" next door. The leader of the Silver Hand Legion, Pilger, is also a reliable guy, and the quality of the legion is also very high, so he came to guard this road.
The two troops add up to a total of 5000 people, and they are usually stationed here.Leoric had heard from the Duke that there were 5000 people stationed here, and he thought they were all old, weak, sick, and disabled. They would provide for the elderly and farm to increase GDP. He didn't expect that the soldiers were all strong and strong guys, and their overall quality might not be as good as that of Mithras. The soldiers in the city are above the horizontal line.
Leoric thought to himself: It seems that this "fish disease" is quite troublesome, otherwise the Duke wouldn't waste manpower and material resources to station soldiers in this remote place.
Afterwards, Shia and "Bald Huck" explained their intentions, saying that they planned to negotiate peace with the murlocs, and if the talks could be concluded, they would transfer the two legions to support the southern battlefield.Upon hearing this, the bald Huck immediately said excitedly: "No, no! Isn't that courting death? You southerners, you just haven't seen the world! Miss, you are really messing around, how can you do such a thing? You don’t know how powerful the murlocs are! No, you can’t go, even if it’s the general’s order!”
This guy didn't ask anything when he came up, and he taught Shia a lesson, and Shia and Leoric would definitely be angry if they were normal.Fortunately, Duke Leigui said that the bald Huck is a straight-hearted and forthright man. He has a bad temper, but he is not a bad person. When you talk to him, don't get angry with him.
Leoric just watched the situation quietly and asked Shia to talk to him first. After all, Shia and him were both members of Lei Kui's family, so it would be easier to talk about things.
When Shia handles official affairs, she has the majesty of a warlord, and her words are decisive, beyond doubt, and her words are logical and reasonable. The bald regiment leader argued with her a few words, but he had no choice but to say: "Okay, since the military orders have been issued, Then I can't stop it, but before you go, you should know something about murlocs... let's see this."
this?which?
"follow me."
The soldiers rested on the spot, and the bald Huck led Leoric, Shia, and Romila all the way forward. They came to the center of the walled city, and there was a huge tent at the end of the camp. Leoric and Shia came to the tent, Shia asked him, "What's in here?" Huck replied, "It's where we put the spoils."
The three of them entered the tent. It was dusk at this time, and a ray of sunlight streamed in through the gap in the tent door, but it couldn't illuminate the things inside the tent.As soon as he entered the room, Leoric smelled a fishy smell, like stinky fish.
Bald Huck lit an oil lamp. When the oil lamp was lit, the three of them immediately saw many skeletons hanging in the middle of the tent. They had mentioned the spoils before, so the three of them were mentally prepared, at least they didn't scream out in fright.But seeing so many skeletons in the dark still gave me goosebumps.Shia asked, "What is this?"
Bald-headed Huck said: "Of course it's a murloc, miss. Look, this is the bone of a murloc warrior." He pushed it with his hand, and the bone frame shook with a clatter.Under the light of the oil lamp, Leoric could clearly see the bone—the thing was more than one meter tall, with a crooked chest, thick and short thighs and well-developed calves, with bone spurs growing on it.There are three toes and four fingers.The head is a triangle and looks like a fish.Presumably this is the bone of the murloc.
Huck asked, "How?"
Shia said, "I'm afraid even a child can't beat such a thing. Is there anything to be afraid of?"
Huck nodded, and said, "Miss, you can continue to look." Huck took a look at the side with an oil lamp, and the three saw that there was also a murloc skeleton hanging on it, but this one was obviously bigger. It needs to be more than 150cm tall, and its bones are also thicker, and it has sharp bony spurs on its hands and feet. Leoric gently broke it off with his hands. It feels quite strong, and it may be used as a weapon.
"This is an ordinary little boss."
Shia nodded: "At best, it's at the level of an ordinary soldier, and our soldiers are basically higher than it—don't be fooled, show me something really powerful."
"Okay, then look at this."
Huck continued to introduce that the murloc bones that appeared this time are very burly. This guy is at least 180cm, and the bones are even thicker than before.What's more striking is that this murloc has four arms and a short tail.
Seeing this bone, Shia's expression became serious, and she asked, "How many are there?"
"At most once... dozens of them." The bald Huck said, "Since five years ago, this kind of tall monsters have appeared among the murlocs. It was a lot of trouble, but it was animals after all, and we killed a lot with spears and crossbow bolts. But then they started wearing wooden armor and holding strange curved knives from nowhere, and we killed some people, so later we Fortified the walls, and started dealing with them as you would deal with barbarians, and that's what drove the rubbish back."
"It's very troublesome, I didn't know about it before." Shia nodded solemnly, "The fish problem is so serious, maybe we should send some more people, or... take the initiative to launch an attack."
The bald Huck sighed and said: "We told the Duke, but the Duke said that he has no money and no one. In fact, your father has tried his best; we contacted the King later, but the King said that he has no money. Even if he has Money ain't going to spend money on soldiers 'fishing', maybe he can give us some nets and bait, fuck it, damn it!"
Romila stared at the murloc bones and said: "I have dealt with this kind of creatures before, they are greedy and cunning, they are proud of sneak attacks, and they can use weapons, the most important thing is that they are very numerous and very tricky. Moreover, once the four-handed murlocs appear, it means that they have begun some kind of evolution, which is not right..." Romila said to herself, seeming to be recalling something.At this moment, Huck said, "But this is not the scariest thing, miss, this is not the biggest murloc."
This is not big?That's as tall as me, Leoric thought.
Shia asked, "Where is the biggest murloc?"
"It's right here." The bald Huck pointed to the ceiling.
The three of them looked up towards the ceiling, but they could only see the canvas and the keel of the tent. Wait, why is there something wrong with the keel?Section by section?
"Open the canvas!"
At first Leoric felt that this guy was making a big fuss, but after seeing that thing, Leoric didn't blame him—he did have a reason to be afraid.
The guards pushed aside the canvas outside the tent, and the golden light of the setting sun illuminated the bones of the giant beast.
It was a huge skeleton more than three meters high. Its upper body was human-shaped, and its lower body was a long tail. The bones of the tail were coiled into a circle, enclosing the space of the tent.Therefore, if the monster is standing or lying down, the total height (length) will definitely be more than three meters, and it may be nearly ten meters.
Leoric had an illusion at this moment: he was in a museum, looking at the fossils of Tyrannosaurus rex.
"What a strong body." Shia sighed.
Looking at the huge breastbone on the upper body of this giant beast is enough to imagine how strong it was when it was alive.The last time Leoric saw such a strong thing, it was the beast that made him famous.But this guy is probably more ferocious than a wild beast, because it has six arms.
Leoric imagined the appearance of this arm, and it must have competed with the big pendulum in the siege machine. If these six hands were armed with weapons and put on armor—there would be no need for any martial arts moves, just berserk Wang Baquan, who can stop it?Anyway, I'm afraid people will fly if I touch it.
Leoric squeezed the monster's bones and said, "The bones are so strong."
The head of the bald head said: "Yes, not only the bones are strong, but the scales are also strong. After we killed this thing, we used its scales to make armor, which is no less than any kind of metal. At that time, we used bed crossbows to kill it. Kill him, the monster survived for a while even after being hit by a crossbow bolt, we lost hundreds of people in that battle."
Shia silently nodded and said, "I understand."
Everyone walked out of the "tent", and it was almost dark at this time, and the huge fish bone shone with a strange light in the twilight.
The bald Huck said solemnly: "We hang the murloc warrior's body here as a trophy. On the one hand, it is to show the warriors' bravery, and on the other hand, it is also to remind us not to take it lightly. Miss, you should understand my painstaking efforts." right?"
Shia nodded and said, "I'll be careful, but we won't turn around and go back."
Huck said: "Okay, then, you have seen how terrifying these murlocs are, and then I need to tell you that they hate humans very much..."
At this time Romila shrugged and said, "It's okay, Lord Leoric and I can both be considered elves, and elves and murlocs are still friends..."
Hearing this, Bald Huck immediately pricked up his ears, "Leorick? You mean the Leorick who killed the barbarian king? Where is he!?"
When he said this, the light in Huck's eyeballs was brighter than the top of his head.
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Chapter 120 Four: Our King, You Are Here
Only then did Leoric recall that from the moment they entered the door, everyone was anxiously discussing business matters, and had never introduced themselves.Shia also slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, I'm so busy that I'm dizzy! Come on, let me introduce you, Captain Bronze Hands, the one next to you is the honorary Duke of Wild Wolf City, the commander of the Northern Expedition, who defeated the barbarian king The God of War of the plateau people with an army of [-], Leoric!" Xi Ya saluted gracefully, and "invited" Leoric out.
"And the elf next to him is..."
Shia wanted to continue introducing Romila, but the bald Huck was obviously not interested in elves, so he rushed up to hold Leoric's hand, and said excitedly, "Leoric? Ah, you are Leoric." Rick? Finally let me meet the real person, hahahaha..." He was as excited as a fan seeing an idol, vigorously shaking Leoric's arm, suddenly halfway through laughing, Huck's face turned pale, and he said, "Oh, yes Yes, you are a duke!"
Quickly stepped back three steps and knelt down on one knee to salute, saying, "I have seen Lord Leoric!"
Leoric wasn't quite used to others kneeling in front of him, "Uh, excuse me?" he tried.
The leader of the Bronze Hands stood up. At this moment, Leoric felt countless fiery eyes cast on him.The soldiers who were practicing on the playground just now heard the name "Leoric", but they didn't dare to come here to watch the excitement without the permission of the chief.The bald-headed Huck winked at the general next to him, so the man waved and said, "Take a rest for 10 minutes!" Many soldiers ran towards this side, screaming as they ran, as if the cafeteria was open for dinner.
He looked at the zombie-like fans and thought: Am I so popular?
Captain Huck saw this situation and quickly shouted: "Leoric is the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Army, the Lord of Wild Wolf City, he advocates etiquette!"
The lieutenant general also shouted: "That's right, not to mention that the eldest lady is still here! You guys, don't embarrass the legion!"
Upon hearing this, everyone braked one after another, and then saluted neatly under the command of the captains, saying, "I have seen the Duke."
Leoric thought to himself: My duke hasn't implemented it yet, so why does everyone know about it?Did Teves get the publicity?
"You don't need to be too polite, everyone... the soldiers guarding the frontier have really worked hard!" Leoric had never been a duke before, so he had to imitate the leader's speech and greet everyone, "I would like to express my condolences to everyone." Said Then he went to shake hands with the soldiers in the front row one by one.
In Leoric's view, leadership should be like this. However, in the feudal era—especially among the plateau people, who had a lot of red tape, this kind of behavior seemed unique.Because nobles generally keep a distance from commoners deliberately, not to mention shaking hands, even standing together will feel offended.Many soldiers who shook hands with him were flattered, and some even cried.The head of the regiment thought to himself: I heard that Lord Leoric loves soldiers like a son, and he has no airs. Seeing him today is really worthy of his name.
"I know you all have a lot to say to me..." Leoric cleared his throat and said loudly: "We will stay here overnight and leave tomorrow morning. We can have a good chat after dinner. What's happening outside." There was a deafening cheer from the soldiers at his words.
In the evening, Leoric dined with everyone in the open-air cafeteria.Lord Leoric is here, the Legion Commander will naturally treat him well, but there is nothing delicious in this place, it is nothing more than stewing some meat in a large pot, and then grilling all the game that has been stored recently.Captain Huck was very ashamed of this, and said that if he knew that the Lord was coming, he would prepare a banquet to entertain him even if he borrowed usury.But Leoric said: "Don't treat me as a nobleman, I am a soldier, and I will eat whatever my soldiers eat-whether it is here or in Wild Wolf City, I always do this, but I have a big appetite I'm happy to eat two bowls of rice."
Although in Wild Wolf City he is often forced to make minor mistakes, he should still pay attention to his image outside.
So, at dinner, Leoric ate and lived with the soldiers, then shook hands with fans like a handshake idol, answered questions, and later sang with everyone.Shia and Romila accompanied him the whole time. The two girls didn't speak, but watched their man shining in the center of the stage with heart-to-heart eyes.Occasionally, the two would look at each other, and then look away politely but not awkwardly.
After dinner, the bald leader said to Leoric: "If it's you, it's definitely fine! Because no matter how powerful the murloc is, it's definitely not as powerful as the barbarian king! I wish you success soon."
"thanks, I will."
"By the way, if you can make a deal, won't we follow you to fight?" the regiment leader asked expectantly.
"Yes, I will take you to fight Haiyan City and Bachelor City to quell this rebellion!"
"Long live!" Everyone shouted.
A good man should make contributions, expand the territory, and win glory for the country!Who the hell wants to guard a group of murlocs every day in this place where no shit?
All the soldiers will be "tearful of gratitude", and they all said that General Leorick must succeed immediately!To save them from this drudgery.
Leoric said that he would do his best, and then told them: "By the way, come back and inform the people of the Silver Shield Legion, so that they can also prepare. I will be back in two or three days, not too long."
……
The next morning, Leoric and his party left "River Valley Pass" under the farewell of the Bronze Hand Legion, and continued northward to the Murloc Tribe.
Before leaving, Captain Huck prepared a big gift package for him, which included the best horse in the village, the best equipment, various food, medicine, drinking water, and a heavy bag of gold coins, as well as twenty Carefully selected excellent soldiers.
He said to Leoric: "My lord may not look down on my poor thing, but this is indeed my heart, I hope you will not refuse!"
As Duke Requi said, although Huck the Bald has a bad temper, he is really a nice person.As he said, from yesterday's "gracious hospitality" Leoric can easily detect that the Bronze Hands Legion is poor, and under such circumstances, they can still prepare this "rich gift". This kind of friendship is really heartbreaking up.
But Leoric declined his offer, saying that if you take so many people to the murloc tribe, they'll think I'm here to fight.In this way, it's not that I don't want your gift, you save it for me first, so I can use it when I come back.
"I wish you a triumphant return!" Captain Huck saluted.
At this time, Leoric led the people to walk for a while, and came to a towering mountain range.Leoric looked at the map. If they could climb over the mountain ahead, they could reach the Wild Duck River. He still remembered that there was a murloc waiting for him by the river.This mountain is not high, but it is all steep rock walls. It would take a long time to go around, but it would save time if it could go up vertically.
The elves are all good climbers, and it's easy to climb mountains. It's just that Leoric and Shia are not very good at mountain climbing.Leoric thought of a way. He asked Pushira to fly up the cliff with a rope ladder and then let the ladder down, so that everyone could climb the ladder up the mountain, saving time and energy.
The flying unit is really easy to use, otherwise it would take a lot of time.
A group of people climbed over the mountain, and it didn't take long before they came to the Wild Duck River. The traces of the last battle with the big-mouthed dragon fish could still be seen by the river.Everyone's mounts stayed under the rock wall, so they walked all the way along the river.While walking, Romila muttered, "It feels a little strange, these murlocs..."
"What's wrong?" Leoric asked.
Romila said: "I was thinking about the big murloc I saw before. I remember that although the murloc race has breakthrough individuals, I have never heard of that big man like the 'six-armed giant'. This special variation must be due to something special."
Leoric was puzzled, and asked casually: "Romela, you are a half-blood elf queen, how can you know so much about murlocs? Is it because you elves like to eat fish?" He stared at Romila while talking. Romila is very beautiful with double ponytails, but there is not much girlishness left on her body, and even this older elf who is waiting to be married is somewhat young, so this pair of ponytails is tied on her head, and there is a subtle sense of shame. Feel.
Looking at the twin tails that swayed as he walked, Leoric couldn't help thinking of the horse's reins... Ah, sin!How can you have such dirty thoughts.Shia is still there!
When Romila heard Leoric's question, she showed a surprised expression, and said, "Because murlocs, like half-blood elves, are creatures created by high elves! Don't you know, my lord?"
It almost helped me fuck!
"Uh, I don't know much about these lower-level family members."
Romila nodded when she heard this, "Yes, I was confused, Lord Leoric's energy should not be used in this kind of place..."
Then Romila said that most of the humanoid life in this world is created.Like murlocs, half-blood elves, orcs, and many other strange beings.At that time, some people who had grasped the truth—mostly high elves—created these humanoid life forms with magic in order to explore the origin of life, or study the form of civilization, or simply want some slaves.Among them, the mixed-blood elves have the highest status, so even if the word "elf" can be added to the name, the others are all "despicable races".
Originally, these humanoid races scattered all over the world believed in the high elves. Later, the high elves disappeared, and these humanoid lives collapsed. Some are still clinging to the past beliefs, and some believe in other things. In short, after 200 years Years have changed, and Romila can't tell what these deformed guys have become.
So that's the case, Leoric nodded, thinking about it, from the perspective of species evolution, these things are a bit outrageous, obviously too many artificial ingredients.
Romila looked puzzled and said, "It stands to reason that only the high elves can control the mutation of life. How did these murlocs mutate?"
No one can answer this question, they can only wait until they arrive at the murloc tribe for a while.
Just then, Leoric smelled a foul smell, like rotting salted fish.Then Shia exclaimed, "What is this!?"
Shia pointed to a birch tree not far away, and there seemed to be a corpse nailed to the tree.The smell obviously came from here too.Leoric and others walked over to check, and saw a murloc corpse nailed to it.
"It's miserable." Romila frowned.
The scales of the corpse were scraped cruelly, and the blood all over his body dried up and stuck to his body, as if painted with a layer of black paint.
In the murloc culture, only the heinous
"It's like raw skin," Leoric said.
"Don't mention that." Shia shivered.
Leoric suddenly remembered that the savages also have this bad habit of skinning—those who can do such cruel things are basically not good people.
A wooden sign was hung under the corpse, and it was written in murloc language: Human, you are not welcome here.
Leoric sneered, thinking to himself: What do you mean, let me show you off?
Shia asked: "But didn't Guali Guali ask you to be king? What's going on here? Threatening you?"
Leoric shook his head and said, "Assuming it's a threat to me, why use the corpse of a murloc kin? It's like I'm going to threaten a kidnapper and kill my father with a knife, saying, 'If you dare Offend me, just like this father!' It's illogical, isn't it?"
"Indeed." Shia nodded.
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