Chapter 79 77. Sweeping the Plains
On the slightly undulating plains, you can see the mountains connecting the city in the distance. Two towering ridges suddenly appeared, as if a powerful force split the mountain from the middle.
"Sir, Korniko Pass is ahead. We explored the plain in front of the mountain pass and found no tribes." After Neil's investigation, he returned to Landen and reported to Landen.
Today is November 27th. It has been 8 days since Landen set out south. In the previous 7 days, Landen traveled an average of less than 30 kilometers per day on average. In addition to fixed marches, it was more of a cavalry formation and charge training.
Before leaving camp every day, Landen must first lead Knight in 1-2 formation and charge training.
Salt Mine's Knights have been training for about 10 days, and their riding skills have fully recovered. At least now they are on par with the Barbarian riders when lining up and charging. Even Big Stone, who once despised Knight Order, is now very respectful to the Knights.
After setting off at noon, Neil, who completed the reconnaissance in the morning, will tell Landen whether there are tribes or targets nearby that can be attacked.
Landen swept through all the Barbarian camps along the way in 7 or 8 days. The biggest gain was to directly capture 4 medium-sized tribes, two medium-sized tribes, and eight small tribes. The animals came in, allowing Landen to obtain 70 Barbarian Cavalry (people + horses), and an additional 120 horses Black-Scaled Horse and more than 30 Human Race Mana-Wielder.
The addition of 200 Black-Scaled Horse allowed Landen to greatly expand its team. Now each main Knight squadron has doubled in size, adding 10 Mana-Wielder and 25 Barbarian Cavalry.
The two cavalry teams have added 10 cavalry, and the Neil and Greyhound teams have also added 30 Mana-Wielder and cavalry.
This round of expansion basically adds all the newly added Black-Scaled Horse to the team. Landen's entire force has reached 400 cavalry. Now the team goes from Big Stone to Raul. No one will doubt that Landen can win against Gray Goose.
Every afternoon when Landen leads the team to a new camping spot, each detachment will disperse to hunt, just like Landen set traps on various rivers before, Mana-Wielder will go out to catch Water Arrow Fish, Mud-Flow Crocodile, and even ordinary beasts on the plains.
The army doubled in size, and the logistics consumption doubled, so the Mana-Wielders needed to hunt on their own to replenish the Magic Beast Meat. Of course, every team that captured the monsters would leave some Magic Beast Meat for the Landen who were busy supervising the settlement of the camp and burying pots for cooking in the camp.
The good news about the grain and grass is that due to the slow movement of the Landen troops, the position of the large troops behind them is getting closer and closer to Landen, and the distance Landen moves every day is actually within the detection range of Mage's Eye on the mast of the luxury carriage. There is no need to worry about problems with the team delivering grain and grass in the morning.
Therefore, the daily movement track of the two camps is that in the morning Neil scouts forward, Landen leads the troops for training, and the rear camp delivers food and grass to Landen; at noon Neil returns the target, Landen broke out of camp, and the rear camp broke out at the same time and advanced to the camp site that Landen left. In the afternoon, Landen set up a new camp and released each team for hunting. After setting up camp in the rear camp, they began to prepare for the second morning transportation of grain, grass and supplies.
The nearly synchronized mode of the two camps ensures that Landen's camp always has plenty of food, and the main camp in the rear can receive support from Landen's army at any time. Landen can also use the supplies from the main camp at noon to understand the problems Lannia and Gandalf encounter in camp management.
During the march of the camp, Lannia once again demonstrated her extraordinary management skills. The entire camp moved in an orderly manner, and it only took 2 days for all Mana-Wielder in the camp to be convinced of her.
Just the day before, at noon on November 26, Neil ran over and said that he had found an excellent camp with natural flat ground and even several small tribes that could provide supplies.
Neil is talking about the Night-Kirin City ruins, which is where Grey Goose Tribe held every alliance. From the highest point of the Night-Kirin City ruins, you can already see Korniko Pass. It only takes one day at most to get from the ruins to the mountain pass.
On the afternoon of the 26th, Landen led the team to enter West City Wall of Night-Kirin City Ruins. There was a large open space under the city wall. The two small tribes where they originally lived surrendered to Landen without any resistance.
Landen also met the latest team of envoys sent by Head Goose here. When the envoys first saw Landen, they thought they were reinforcements organized by Grassland to reinforce Gray Goose. They happily hugged Landen while laughing and scolding them for arriving so late.
Landen did not expose himself, but asked about the battle situation.
"The Viscount Rothe who has been blocking us all year round is gone a long time ago, and I guess you know that too.
Ten days ago, our Head Goose led people to fight against that Count Bristle-Wolf, and we won a great victory. Old Bristle-Wolf hid in his Stone Castle in despair and never came out."
"We won Old Bristle-Wolf?" Landen can finally say his nickname Count without any scruples, and Raul next to him can't stop him.
"Yes, it was several Priest who showed their magical powers. Head Goose said they put a curse on Old Bristle-Wolf." The messenger showed off very happily.
"Then since Old Bristle-Wolf doesn't dare to leave the nest, does the leader still need our support?"
"Of course we need it. Now we don't have much food. In the past two days, Head Goose sent several teams to Human Race's small territory to get food. Unexpectedly, they were attacked by Knight Order from Bristle-Wolf. We lost dozens of people.
Head Goose was very angry when he found out. Didn't he ask me to bring a few brothers over to urge reinforcements on Grassland?"
"Doesn't that mean there are less than 200 people in front of us now?"
"That's not the case, but don't we still occupy Rothe Castle? We still have to station some people there to watch over the slaves we snatched."
"Oh, in this case, I really appreciate the envoy. Don't worry, I will lead my troops to find Head Goose immediately." Landen sorted out the information he wanted to know most, and handed over the envoys to his subordinates to deal with it.
That night, Albert rode his horse directly to the camp of Landen. During the day, he saw the ruins of Night-Kirin City through Mage's Eye. At night, Albert could no longer rest peacefully, so he simply rode 30 kilometers to the camp of Landen.
In Landen's opinion, Albert should have come for a pilgrimage. He stroked Night-Kirin City's magnificent West Gate with a pious attitude.
"This trace should be left by Beastmen. It's almost 300 years old and it's still so clear. If it's repaired in the future, shouldn't it be left as a warning to future generations?"
Albert was stroking the city wall while whispering to himself, leaving Landen, Gandalf and Wendy next to him speechless for a while.
"You haven't won the lottery yet, have you already thought about how to spend it?" Landen complained silently in his heart.