Warhammer Throne

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After a short break, the imperial team stationed on the beach immediately began to study the current situation.

In the camp's largest march tent, the crowd gathered to discuss the next step of the Imperial Ruthia Expeditionary Force.

The participants were Imperial Vanguard officers and Captain Richard.

Empire general Alaric, from Rick collar.

General empire hunter Eric von Shangel, he came from the hunting corps of Marquis Wolfhart, the famous hunter of the empire.

Since Marcus Wolfhart was enlisted as Marshal of the Empire Hunter by Karl Franz, he gained his own power to recruit soldiers. This strongman of the Holy Land is considered to be one of the emperor's most trusted cronies. The Marcus Wolfhart Hunting Regiment was formed.

The elite hunters of this hunting group were selected by Marcus from the territory of the empire. The entire hunting group was filled with excellent hunters from all provinces of the empire, although Midden-led hunters always despised the hunters of Aiweiling. (On the contrary, Ivy-led hunters always despise Midden-led hunters.) Rick-collared hunters always despise Stil-collared hunters. They are a group of country gangsters who have no culture, but in the hunter Marshal Marcus Wolff Under the special leadership, these excellent hunters from all empire leaders gradually united together in war and hunting, and they quickly cultivated a close sympathy for each other, thereby eliminating each other's dissatisfaction and geographical differences.

Under their efforts and under the strong leadership of Hunter Marshal Marcus Wolfhart, the Wolfhart Hunting Regiment soon became the most powerful Warcraft Hunting Regiment in the empire, whether it was Stir The collared claw beast, the ice dragon led by Ostermark is also the big horn bull in the Drakwald forest, the four-armed bull demon in the Rickwald forest, or the Chimera evil beast that nests above the black mountains. The Wolfhart Hunting Regiment successfully completed the hunt, which earned them honor and status. Emperor Karl Franz praised the outstanding hunters of these empires more than once, and promoted some of them to hunter generals.

In this Imperial Ruthia Expeditionary Force, in addition to providing a certain amount of military supplies and convening some provincial soldiers and militia, these military nobles naturally know that these basic troops want to conquer Ruthia is very difficult, but the cost of trying to mobilize the elite emperors is very special. It has to convince the emperor to approve, and it must provide enough real gold and silver to hire. This is not worth the gains for the expedition that has not been harvested temporarily. of.

Therefore, the Rick-cold nobles decided to first set up an expeditionary army to explore Ruthia, set up a few outposts, and tried to enter the jungle to search for ruins in order to get a generous return, as long as the expeditionary army can bring generosity to the empire. In return, then the empire will naturally send more elite reinforcements.

Some Rick-collar nobles even hoped that Marshal Hunter could personally participate in this expedition, but this was obviously impossible. As the only two emperors under the emperor ’s command, the illegal sanctuary powerhouses (Zhang Qi) Officer Ludwig and Hunter Marshal Marcus Wolfhart), how could the Emperor Karl Franz make Wolfhart personally dispatched for this kind of thing?

Only the emperor or Wolfhart had a problem in his mind to make this hunter marshal expedition to Ruthia.

Then retired, the nobles led by Rick paid a large sum of money to hire a hunter general in the hunting group, and the fixed annual salary was as high as 1,000 gold marks. He was invited to go to Ruthia for the expedition.

In the big account, three officers surrounded a huge wooden table and a map on the wooden table.

"Although the Expeditionary Force built an outpost here, our situation is still not good." Richard, the Imperial Pioneer officer, pointed to the map and said: "Look, we only have one base on the coast, We have neither sufficient food sources nor sufficient strategic depth. Although the soldiers of the Ashen Legion came to intimidate us, some of their words are not without reason. "

"How to say?" General Hunter Eric asked, "How much do you know about the current situation?"

"Since we arrived here, we sent a lot of scouts, a lot." Pioneer officer Richard put his finger on the map: "As we all know, our location is called the Temple of Tokan, but in fact the coast is away from us. The relics are still 60 kilometers away. "

"Eastern, according to the ashes of the Legion, it is the territory of the vampire pirate. Is it not clear to us, because the scouts we sent out did not come back at all, none at all."

"The west is indeed as they said, there are traces of green skin tribes, those green skins are very special, some green skins are blue, and the combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. As for the south, the scouts have only entered the temple ruins and searched a little. The treasure returned, but we still lost half of our staff. "

"As for the north, Fuggen and his ashes are currently occupying three coastal towns, namely Skoggi, Marauder Harbor and Marsh Town, and we are across the sea," Pioneer Officer continued. "After many times The staff of Ashes now has nearly 40,000 soldiers alone, and has a population of about 100,000. They seem to have reached a certain tacit understanding with the Lizardmen. They rarely enter the jungle, and the Lizardmen also The coastal ports were safely given to them. The two sides had several trading points near the jungle. The Legion of Ash used marine products, livestock, and wood to trade with the Lizardmen. The Lizardmen provided them with gold, silver, and good medical care. Medicines and magic jewelry, and even some domesticated cold lizards. "

"Damn, **** traitor!" Empire General Alaric shouted with dissatisfaction. The veteran hammered the wooden table hard and hated his teeth: "Sooner or later, we must include all of these places In the arms of the empire, we are the ones who bring civilization to these stupid and backward places! "

General Hunter and the Pioneer Officer were also impressed by the huge profits. Eric took a few breaths and wanted to say something. As a result, the Pioneer Officer hurriedly said: "No, we must not fight the Legion of Ashes now. Yes, when we first arrived here, they provided us with a guide, and we do n’t have enough food supply at the moment, we also rely on buying from the Ashes Legion! "

Eric and Alaric frowned almost at the same time. After he heard this, Eric hesitated and told the Pioneer Officer: "So, can you send a man to the Marauder Harbor to tell Commander Fuggen, If he is willing to surrender all the troops and towns, I can propose to the emperor to keep him an empire! "

Pioneer officer Richard smiled bitterly: "General Eric, if you change this to you, would you like it?"

The General Hunter was silent for a few seconds and shook his head somewhat self-deprecatingly: "Okay, then needless to say, we sailed from the empire to this place for a few months and lost a lot of troops and died a lot. Soldiers, if there is no gain, how should we face the expectations of the nobles and imperial people who support us? "

Thinking of the amazing wealth and large number of troops held by the Ember Legion, I thought of waiting for the elimination of the Lizardmen. These disobedient towns and residents were destined to be defeated by the Imperial Army and honestly surrender their wealth, and these people Actually kindly reminded himself of danger, Eric shook his head, but our elite emperor team, is it that you, a group of congregations made up of conscripts and weak mercenaries, can be compared?

"Other things will be discussed for now. The first thing we need to do now is to get enough harvest. In this way, we will rest for another day, and then I will lead two thousand people to go south, looting the Tokan Temple, and this All the wealth within the ruins is brought into my arms, and the rest will wait until later. "General Hunter made a decision immediately.

"Yes!" The military discussion temporarily came to an end, and the three officers stepped out of the account.

Pioneer Officer Richard guided General Hunter to an open field in the camp: "Look at this, General, this thing will be ready today, and it will definitely help you in this war!"

Above the open space, the artisans of the empire are carrying out the final finishing work, and a chariot assembled from wooden boards is undergoing the final test.

"Old-fashioned imperial chariots, which have long been eliminated by steam tanks, but I didn't expect it to work well in the jungle." Pioneer officer Richard said to General Hunter: "The horses provided by the locals are really Too few, we simply have no way to organize a strong cavalry, but we can use local materials and use mixed packs of horses and war horses to keep the musketeers on a relatively safe chariot, which is conducive to maintaining firepower output and retreat."

"Very good." Eric nodded again and again: "Let's prepare!"

"The only regret is that the expeditionary knight left." The Empire general was a little disappointed, but he was a legendary pinnacle.

"Don't expect those Brittany knights, in the long history, we are not always friends." Eric sighed: "In this dark age, we can only rely on ourselves."

"This is the Empire!"

............ I am for the dividing line of the empire ............

One day later, in the forest sea in the north of Ruthia, the forest path.

The imperial team of more than two thousand people is slowly advancing in the tropical rain forest.

Muddy land, moist air, annoying mosquitoes, lush vegetation.

Green, endless green, sky-high giant trees, extremely lush shrubs, and sticky wet moss all make the Empire soldiers accustomed to the climate of the imperial black forest feel extremely uncomfortable. It was hot, but almost all the imperial soldiers were already sweating.

Hunter General Eric holds a large enchanted bow in his hand and walks in the front of the line. Behind him are the rows of imperial pikemen, then archers and crossbowmen, and then the imperial swordsmen And two imperial chariots.

"Attention! Don't try to pick any fruit, don't eat anything that looks like it can be eaten." General Hunter keeps ordering: "Don't order, gather, no one knows what will be in the forest, give me a fight. Get up! "

"Yes!" The imperial team was still very careful. They looked around cautiously. Many imperial soldiers had never seen such an environment, and naturally did not dare to mess up.

"It's surprisingly quiet." The march has been for several hours. The whole army has not encountered any enemies. Eric gasped for a few breaths. His hands held the big bow hard, which made him feel better. .

According to information gathered by the empire, Ruthia has a large number of carnivorous plants and carnivores. Marginal vines, bloodthirsty spore clouds and spiked plants are all looking for careless victims.

Large cats, man-eating monkey creatures, and large groups of buzzing giant insects are constantly infested in the jungle. The deadliest are the ancient giant beasts in the jungle. These reptiles should have been It has been completely extinct in the long history, but the fact is that they are still infested in the jungle and are at the top of the food chain.

As a general hunter, Eric ca n’t wait to get a good fight with these legendary monsters.

However, everything was very quiet, huge banana leaves, vines and shrubs filled all the sight of the entire imperial team, the difficult climb of the old vines and dead branches, the damp and hot flashes that could not see the sun, from the eyes to the soul, all Everything is overwhelmed by green, all levels of very clean green surround the expeditionary army from all directions, the trees are fragrant and rotten odors are mixed together, in this forest with billions of years of life, Time seemed to stand still, even leaking fine sunlight from the dense leaves, slowly moving in the jungle with fallen leaves.

"~" Is deep in the forest. There seems to be something moving. An empire hunter immediately turned around and was full of short bows in one direction of the forest: "Who!"

There is nothing, the forest seems to be quiet again, and the forest seems to be fogged, making everything unreal.

"Where?" When the Imperial hunter turned again to look at another line of defense, a blowing arrow suddenly flew from the distant canopy and stuck on his back. The Imperial hunter screamed, he was thinking Counterattack, the body's violent paralysis engulfed him.

"It's poisonous." The excellent empire hunter spit out the last word and died on the spot.

"Enemies !!!" General Hunter issued a sharp warning sound. The Imperial team woke up in a panic. The spearmen and swordsmen lined up in two rows, and the archers and musketeers immediately blew towards them. The arrow fired in the direction that the arrow was flying, and hundreds of feather arrows and dozens of projectiles roared deep into the forest.

But nothing happened, they just bombarded a bush and shot through some leaves.

The distant canopy swayed left and right under the attack.

Then, the silence was restored, and there was a whispering whisper in the depths of the jungle. The hunter general filled the bow in his hand several times but could not find the target at all, so he had to put down: "Go on!"

What he didn't notice was that a chameleon saw the human army moving on, not far away from the crown of the tree, and threw out his tongue, holding a hollow branch in his hand. It jumped gently and took two out of his arms. A poison dart disappeared on the canopy of another giant tree.

"Poof ~"

"Ah!" Another Empire soldier was hit by a poison dart! The poison on the poison dart killed him immediately.

"Damn! Damn! Damn!" The emperor team fired wildly again in panic, but still got nothing.

In this way, for the next two hours, the entire imperial team was constantly hit by arrows or poison darts, and died in pain under the action of toxins. The soldiers were panicked and morale was low. This special environment deep in the jungle Below, although the loss was not great, everyone was in danger and the soldiers crowded together and looked around with fear.

It seems that every tree, every bush, even every vine has become a terrible threat!

"His hissing" whisper of reptiles surrounds the woodland, far and near, seemingly absent.

"Dense formation, pay attention to look around!" At this time Eric was already sweating all over his face. He could always feel that there was something in the jungle that was watching them.

'S eyes are chilling.

Fortunately, after a long march, the ruins of the lizardmen finally arrived, and the legendary Tocan Temple appeared in front of the imperial soldiers, and as in the legend, the ruins were full of gold, silver, enamel, and various gemstones. The ruins are covered with moss and vines, as well as collapsed walls and trees. It can be seen vaguely that this used to be a glorious temple, but I do n’t know why it fell here.

"Oh! God, a lot of gold, Ms. Fortune is on, I have never seen so much gold in my life!"

"Charlie Man bless us!"

"We are rich!"

"Great! This piece of gold is mine!"

"This is enamel! I like this!"

The emperor team saw such amazing wealth and immediately disturbed their positions. The soldiers who spent two hours in the atmosphere of depression and suffocation could hardly restrain their madness. They desperately took any valuable things to the bag In the pockets, even in the armor, many soldiers simply searched the ground and walked away, and then threw their weapons away. The original neat lineup had now fallen apart. All the soldiers were busy looting, and even fought. .

General Hunter has the intention to stop the chaos of these soldiers, but he is helpless. At this time, these imperial soldiers have only gold and gems left in their eyes, and even Eric himself can't help but dig in the ruins ~ www. ltnovel.com ~ A piece of dog head gold that is bigger than his fist made him smile, "Your Majesty will like this."

"Roar ~ roo ~~~" When the imperial team was chaotic and greedily taking the wealth in the ruins, a roar of roaring sounds rose from the depths of the forest.

Next second, dozens of giant beasts rushed from all directions towards the ruins. These behemoths consisted of scary lizards, ankylosaurus, tyrannosaurus, and fire-spitting lizards!

Following these giant beasts are thousands of lizardmen! They release wild howling, holding shields and maces in their hands, and join the battlefield!

"Roar ~ solve these hot-blooded species, for the big plan!" Surrounded by hundreds of temple guards, the big white lizard-Roque and the two spirit lizard priests satisfactorily saw the human army fall into the trap, brother -Roque held the ancient holy artifact Urumak sledgehammer in one hand, and the ancient holy artifact generation shield in the other hand, pointing to the emperor team still busy in the ruins and ordered: "Go forward! For Itaza , For the big plan, for Lord Croke! "

Responded to him with a roar of a giant beast spreading ten kilometers away.

The jungle trembled more and more, and the lush forest shook back and forth for a long time.

Team is surrounded by lizardmen.

When the first terror lizard knocked over and crushed several imperial spearmen on the spot, the imperial team even just reacted.

I saw with my own eyes that the lizardmen were like a tide army, and there was only one thought left in the mind of General Hunter Eric.

"Hunter, it's prey."