Heroes of the Invincible Knight

The sun is shining brightly, and a heat wave is coming. The earth seems to be roasted. It is obvious that it has entered the end of summer and is about to enter autumn, but the temperature is strangely high, even hotter than in the previous midsummer. a bit.

It's just that under this weather, people who should be busy still have to work hard, and the whole Northland is racing against time, whether it is various projects or soldiers' training, they are racing against time.

However, the labor force in the Northland has increased a lot now. After several months of kobold trade, there are at least over a million kobolds working everywhere in the Northland. These kobolds are short in size and weak in strength, but There is one advantage that humans do not have, that is, very good endurance. Human workers sweat profusely after working on the construction site for a while, and must drink some heat-relieving soup to rest for a while, while kobolds only need to drink a few sips of water casually, stick out their tongues and continue working alive.

However, now the kobolds have a new usage. A group of kobolds who are close to 1.5 meters tall and look "majestic" have completed their assembly in Miracle City.

The 10,000 kobolds are elites carefully selected from millions of kobolds. They are generally a head taller than other kobolds, and their muscles are also bulging. They don’t have the feeling of thinness like ordinary people. For example, these kobolds are stocky and strong like bully dogs.

From the moment they were selected, they got rid of the fate of slave labor and became a glorious cannon fodder.

Of course, these kobolds did not feel depressed as cannon fodder. Instead, they all held their heads high, full of a sense of superiority in front of a group of fellows who were mining and building roads, and in the distance they were still sweating for the infrastructure construction of the Northland. Occasionally, the kobolds would take advantage of the overseer's inattention and cast envious eyes at this team, wishing that they could also be selected for this team.

As for the risk of losing your life in a war, it is generally not within the scope of these kobolds. In fact, the kobolds have long been used to life and death. For a moment, most kobolds felt that they were not afraid of death.

Instead of worrying about being killed on the battlefield later, it is better to care about whether you can finish today's work and receive enough food to wrap your stomach. The most enviable thing about these kobolds who have been selected into the army is that they can eat with their stomachs open. There are rye steamed buns to keep you full, and you can also eat refined grains and fatty meat that ordinary kobolds cannot eat.

And did the envious eyes cast by the same race in the distance make the kobold fighters in the team feel their chests stand taller, trying to make their height of less than 1.5 meters stand out by two meters.

Lord Haba has said that this time they follow the great Lord Richard to destroy the enemy. As long as they return from victory, they will be able to get rid of their status as laborers for the last time, successfully become a dog-head labor head, and get an independent kennel. If you succeed, you can also get a few beautiful kobold girls to act as maids like Master Haba, and live a life of dogs and dogs. Therefore, the morale of this 10,000-strong kobold army is still very high at this time, and they even want to hurry up. battlefield.

However, although Li Cha has a little intention of using the kobolds as cannon fodder, the equipment he gave is quite sophisticated, all customized according to the kobolds' figure, because there is a professional large-scale ordnance factory, combined with hydraulic forging technology With the assembly line management method, the production capacity of armor weapons in the Northland even tends to overflow, so even the kobolds are qualified to wear armor.

These kobolds are basically a simplified version of cloth face armor, which is painted in the traditional blue and white tone of the Hunter family. Only the helmet is the earliest iron bone animal skin helmet, with a small luggage and a shovel on their backs. A set of equipment such as short spears and small machetes, and some of them also carry logging tools.

"quiet!"

As the kobold officer yelled loudly, the kobold army, who had been barking just now, became quiet in front of the kobold army, but there were occasional whining sounds that couldn't be suppressed.

"My lord duke, good day."

The arrival of Li Cha made the kobold officers a little nervous. During the few months of following humans, these intelligent kobolds have learned a lot of human behavior. Well, now the officers are trying to suppress the kobold soldiers who are still making strange noises. And the leading Haba ran up to Li Cha.

"Well, get up, you don't need to kneel down."

"Thank you, Lord Duke."

Seeing the confusion in front of him, but still listing a few kobolds in the phalanx, Li Cha is actually quite satisfied, at least Lint did a good job in what he told him, and he made such a batch in three months It's not easy for kobold soldiers who are well-equipped and look like an army. Li Cha has seen the virtues of kobolds in battle before, so they rush in a swarm. There are no tactics or formations, just depend on not being afraid of death And the quantity is hard to come by.

It's just that if the kobold phalanx doesn't look carefully, Li Cha can see the feeling of little devils lined up. Is this height just right?

Shaking his head, Li Cha put aside the strange thoughts in his mind and ordered the officers on the side to continue training with the kobold army. He observed from the side to see how powerful the kobolds were in combat.

Following Li Cha's order, the kobolds quickly dispersed in teams under the command of several human officers. The nominal general of this team is Haba, who is currently bowing his head and bowing beside Li Cha, but the actual military In fact, the command is still in the hands of a few human officers, and the kobold's lower-level officers are more accustomed to obeying the orders of human officers. The orders of these human officers are generally more reasonable and detailed, and they will not just grab the kobolds to eat them, but they are much easier to serve than the ogres.

Following the instructions given by the human officers, the kobolds began to show the effect of several months of training on the spacious school grounds.

Use the short spear in your hand to assassinate the wooden target.

Hold a machete in both hands to perform a standard slashing action.

Some even started digging and building simple camps on the spot.

Because of Li Cha's inspection, the kobold fighters showed more effort, and the whole scene seemed to be the same thing. The only thing that made Li Cha feel that it was against the law was that in such a passionate scene, there was a burst of excitement from time to time. Wang Wang sound.

Enduring a strong sense of disobedience, after watching the demonstration of these elite kobolds, Li Cha nodded in reassurance, and turned his head to Molier and several senior officers who came to watch together:

"It's really reassuring that Lint's work is really reassuring. These kobolds may not necessarily suffer a loss if they use it to fight against the third-line defense team in the kingdom."

"Under the same number, the kingdom's third-line defense army will definitely be defeated by the kobolds. Although their strength is stronger than that of the kobolds, the gap is not so large that it cannot be made up. However, their morale and fighting will cannot be compared with the kobold army at all. .”

Molly on the side praised the group of kobold warriors solemnly, but added another sentence at the end:

"Although the individual combat effectiveness is worrying, considering their strong will to fight and their large number, they are a good group of cannon fodder. Maybe they can play a greater role under some special circumstances."

Mo Lier spoke frankly, but she expressed Li Cha's position on the Kobold in his heart.

The so-called special circumstances may mean that in certain complex and rugged terrains, the kobolds' movements will be more flexible, but a more wicked idea popped up in Li Cha's mind.

Kobolds add black powder, will it...

Forget it, this idea is too immoral. Li Cha is still unwilling to do such inhuman things unless it is absolutely necessary. Things that are dead but not alive, these are two concepts.

"That's right, my lord. The training cost of these kobolds is relatively low, just give them stutterers. If they train a few more legions, they can increase their military strength."

Li Cha's wicked thoughts were interrupted by another general, and after temporarily letting go of the idea of ​​using kobolds as book agents, Li Cha replied:

"These are the elites carefully selected from the kobolds in the north, and the quality of training a few more legions cannot be guaranteed. Let's wait for the town to catch some kobold slaves and then take it slowly. After all, it is just watching In order to see their training, we have to wait for them to go to the battlefield and go through the test before we can correctly evaluate their combat effectiveness."

"Okay, order the logistics side, the food and grass for this kobold army must be supplied normally according to the standard of the regular army, and no deduction shall be allowed."

"Yes, my lord."

The food consumption of ordinary kobolds is less than half of that of humans, but these kobolds with a whole body of tendons obviously cannot be treated as ordinary kobolds. With such a large amount of training every day, the food intake must increase a lot. Li Cha is afraid that the logistics people will discriminate against them kobolds.

No, according to the urgency of this era, discrimination is a perfectly normal thing. If Li Cha hadn't specifically warned, it would be absolutely impossible for the logistics to supply food and grass to the rear kobold army according to normal standards, and even the kobolds themselves would be treated differently There will be no great feeling.

It's just that although Li Cha is not a holy mother, he is a very practical person. Next, these kobolds will go to work in the mountains in the northern jungle. Even if they are cannon fodder, they have to eat enough to have the strength to fight.

A group of people came suddenly and left quickly. After watching the kobolds training in the camp for a while, Li Cha led the people to leave the camp under Haba's respectful all the way. Not only here.

"Lord Richard."

"Master Li Cha!"

"Lord Molly."

Back to the Duke's mansion, guards and waiters were greeting Li Cha and Molly who was behind him all the way.

"How did you treat General Kuz these two days?"

"My lord, except for going out once on the first day, General Kutz has not left the Duke's mansion for the past two days, and he has been practicing martial arts in that courtyard almost all day except for eating."

"Well, try to satisfy General Kutz's request as much as possible, after all, he is a guest from the capital."

"Yes, Sir Richard."

After Kuz came to Miracle City, except for the first day when Richard met him, Richard didn't have time to entertain him for the next two days. If the person who came was Sol, maybe Richard would accompany him for a while. It is true that Li Cha is not qualified to accompany Li Cha all day long.

Kurtz is also considered interesting. After receiving an accurate reply from Li Cha, he stayed in the duke's mansion honestly, and did not go to bother Li Cha. He even discovered the secret of Miracle City in the past two days. He has improved a lot, and now he has no motivation to bother Li Cha, and enjoys the joy of fast training all day long.

Li Cha didn't care when he heard about Kurtz's recent movements. He used the special effects of Miracle City to promote it, and he wasn't afraid of other forces knowing it.

I even hope that Kurtz will spread the news to the capital, publicize him, and kidnap a group of knights to seek refuge in the Northland. After all, Richard's series of behaviors in the Northland have given him a bad image among the aristocrats of the kingdom. , Now the number of knights who come to seek refuge with him has decreased a lot, and we must rely on other ways to attract knights, but these are things for later.

After asking about Kurtz's situation in the past two days, Richard returned to the hall of the Duke's Mansion, turned around and asked Morrill:

"Molly, do you have something to say to me?"

Molly nodded and said:

"Master Richard, is he sincerely trying to defeat the orcs for the kingdom?"

"It doesn't count. The 300,000 cavalry from the Ross family in the west have already arrived on the central plain. This time I only plan to bring the 5,000 rangers that Gru is training with the 10,000 kobolds. The rest of the army will guard Do not move in the North."

"No, my lord, your effort is no less than that of the Duke of the Western Territory. Just a few of our heroes, the giant dragon you plan to bring, and some soldiers are already able to support the 300,000 cavalry."

"As long as the orc army breaks through the dragon's breath pass, the king's capital will never be able to defend it. At that time, we will go all the way south from the north. After defeating the orcs, you will be the one who sits on the throne, and you don't have to accept them sitting in the king's capital to give orders." .”

"At that time, you will become the unique king of mankind, and it is only a matter of time before you conquer all races and establish a great empire comparable to the ancient elves."

Molly's words became more and more agitated, while Li Cha held his forehead with some headaches.

Molier's ambition is a little offended. Judging by her state, she must have been holding back for a long time. She has never had any righteousness in her heart. She herself is not a human being. What she expects is that the situation will become more and more chaotic. Alright, as for whether the orcs will threaten the Northland after they break through the capital, Morrill feels confidently that after the orcs defeat the Golden Dragon Kingdom, the Northland will develop for another year or two, and it will be easy to come forward to clean up the mess, which is logical He took over everything, so there was no need to run to Longxi Pass to fight desperately.

"After defeating the orcs first, we still have the ability to go south to take that position."

"But my lord, this is a bit..."

"Needless to say, prepare well for this battle now, time is always on our side."

Li Cha's refusal was very firm. After all, Li Cha always had his own bottom line. He could rebel and take his father-in-law's throne, but he couldn't do anything like borrowing the hands of foreigners to clear the way for him.

Molier didn't try to persuade him anymore. Fortunately, although Molier had a personality, she only persuaded him verbally, and respected Li Cha, the lord, in action.

If he really recruited abnormal undead heroes like Sandro, maybe he would make some trouble for Li Cha.

When watching the back of Moliel leaving, Li Cha inexplicably thought of Sandro who was almost recruited, and he was still a little scared. Moliel, Gru, and Siaire are already considered problem heroes. The appearance of an evil hero really gave Li Cha a headache...