Liu Qianqian searched the camp again before finding the armor.
Subsequently, he left with Chai Yi, who was still teasing the young dragon in the forest, and rushed to the front line.
The junction of Telosi with Rees and Mill is located in the valley between the two mountains of the Lonely Hills and the Grey Mountains.
There is a dense forest growing here, which is called the Three Daughters Woodland.
The Third Daughter Woodland is also the only place where the other two city-states can invade the territory of Tylosi by land.
The three city-states set up strongholds around the woodlands of the three daughters to monitor each other's military movements.
Jelena was at this military stronghold in Telossi, watching the camp.
She had already pulled the entire force from Crowntown here.
Recently, the Reese people have been making frequent moves.
According to Mezzo's intelligence, mercenary groups appeared in the disputed land controlled by Reese.
Liu Qian guessed that these mercenary groups should have been specially hired by Reese to deal with him.
Two days later, Liu Qian and Chai Yi led their troops to the watch camp and joined forces with Jelena.
Plus Chai Yi's five hundred soldiers and five hundred dragon spirit guards, as well as Janice gave Liu Qian's three hundred dragon spirit guards.
Today, they had a total of seven thousand five hundred soldiers and one thousand twelve hundred dragon spirit guards.
Liu Qian sat in the tent of the camp, looking at the detailed topographic map of the disputed land.
On the east side of the Third Daughter Woodland is the Central Hill, where the highland fortress built by the Mir people is located.
Mill's handicraft industry was extremely developed, and its finances were more abundant than those of Telossi.
The vast majority of estates are located along the Mill River in the northeast of the Central Highlands, which is the economic lifeblood of Mill.
Therefore, in order to defend the central hill, the Mirs built a very strong fortress on the edge of the hill, where a slave army was stationed all year round.
On the southeast side of the Third Daughter Woodland, there is the outpost of the Reese people, the outpost tower.
There were also slave legions of the Reese stationed there.
If you want to invade the territory of Mir and Reese, you must pass through these two strongholds.
Fortunately, neither Reese nor Mill were free trade city-states known for their military power.
Their regular slave soldiers were only a few thousand people, and they were poorly trained and their weapons and armor were average.
Liu Qian looked at the south of the watch camp on the map again.
There are endless tall mountains called the Ash Mountains.
It was the Reese who controlled the mines at the southern end of the mountains that allowed them to wage a trade war against Telossi.
The most direct way to break the monopoly of the Reese is to seize these mines.
Liu Qian pondered for a while and decided to launch a night attack on the outpost tower.
At this time, the mercenary group hired by the Reese had not yet arrived.
As long as he directly attacks the outpost tower, uproots the most important stronghold of the Reese, advances to the hinterland of Reese, and captures the veins of the Grey Mountain Range, he can gain the initiative on the battlefield.
The decision was made, and Liu Qian began to mobilize soldiers.
The soldiers had a full meal, checked their equipment, wrapped their horses in thick cloth, and waited for nightfall.
The outpost tower, this 150-foot-high boulder outpost tower, stands at the northern foot of the Grey Mountain Range, guarding the throat to the hinterland of Reese.
In the beacontower at the top of the tower, a Reese slave soldier was wrapped in thin clothes, sleepily monitoring the woodland of the Third Daughters below, which was engulfed by darkness.
Suddenly, the edge of the woodland seemed to shake strangely, like the wind blowing grass,
"Hey! Look over there!" "
The slave soldier rubbed his eyes and woke up his companion next to him, his voice with a hint of suspicion:
"There seems to be something moving in the forest."
The other two soldiers also approached the tower, trying to widen their eyes and look at the dark woodland.
The patrol on the ground apparently also noticed the anomaly, and the Reese officer in charge of the outpost tower, Savio, was a sturdy man with a thick black beard.
He immediately waved his whip and shouted at a group of slave soldiers to enter the woodland to investigate.
At the moment when this group of slave soldiers trembled and stepped onto the edge of the woodland with torches.
"Kill one by one!"
The earth-shattering shouts were like thunder on the ground, and suddenly exploded.
Countless black shadows surged out of the darkness of the woodland like a tide,
Under the light of the fire, there were densely packed and well-dressed Telosi soldiers.
Armed with spears and swords, they instantly divided and surrounded the patrol and the scouting slave soldiers.
Is it one by one?
One by one, the mournful horn sounded from the bottom of the outpost tower, cutting through the silent night sky.
Enemy attack!
The Telosi people actually fought without declaring?!
Have the slave soldiers under the tower ever seen such a battle?
They are poorly equipped, lax in training, and have a weak will to fight.
Under the sudden violent attack, his soul was instantly scattered.
What officer's orders, what whip threats, were all thrown out of the clouds.
They screamed, dropped their weapons, turned like headless flies and fled,
Officer Savio was furious, brandishing his whip and whipping the fleeing soldier on the back:
"Bastard! Take up arms! Hold on! Reinforcements will arrive soon! "
But the whip was whipped like a mud cow into the sea in a panicked crowd, and it could not stop the collapse at all.
He saw more and more enemies pouring out of the woodland, the formation was tight, and the murderous aura was rising, and he knew that something was wrong, so he immediately turned around and fled to the tower:
"Quick! Close the tower door and stand for help! "
At this moment, Liu Qian's figure appeared on the edge of the woodland.
His gaze was fixed on the chaotic tower area,
"Advance with a shield array and fill in the trenches! Break the goal, on! "
The well-trained Telosi soldiers immediately sprang into action. The soldiers in the front row held huge square shields high above their heads, tightly connected to form a moving steel dome.
The soldiers in the back row, carrying heavy sandbags, under the cover of shields, quickly rushed to the ten-foot-wide deep trench on the outskirts of the tower like workers.
Arrows like locusts were shot down from the towers, clanging down on the shields, and sparks splashed, but they could not stop the soldiers from filling the ditches.
The trench was quickly filled in several sections.
Meanwhile, a gatebreaker team of the strongest soldiers, carrying a giant wooden ram with an iron front end, roared and rushed towards the tower's heavy oak gate, under the cover of their shields.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! "
The dull and huge impact sound was like war drums, knocking on the hearts of the defenders in the tower, and also on the desperate nerves of officer Savio: "Hold on!" Hold the door for me! "
Savio roared hoarsely inside the tower, commanding the soldiers to press their bodies and debris against the gate.
However, fear has long destroyed the will of the slave soldiers to resist.
"Boom——!!!
With a deafening loud noise and sawdust flying, the gate of the outpost tower collapsed inward with a bang under the violent impact of the giant tree.
"Kill in!"
Liu Qian took out his long sword and pointed straight at the open tower door.
The soldiers of Telosi poured into the tower like a flood that burst into the embankment.
Resistance is minimal.
The panicked slave soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy, and their weapons were thrown all over the ground.
The few Reese officers who tried to organize resistance were instantly drowned in the crowd.
The top officer, Savio, was pressed to the ground by several wolf-like soldiers on the second floor of the tower, tied up tightly, and his face was full of incredible horror and despair.
The battle ended in just half an hour.
The outpost stronghold of the Reese people was pulled out by Liu Qian at the least cost.