Chapter 35 Heading North
Early the next morning, Levi went to Orne's House where he bought things yesterday to pick up his statue of the Beast God, and then led his Monterey family's private army to break camp and head north.
It wasn't that Li Wei was in a hurry to leave, but that Viscount Verin couldn't wait to make contributions to the orcs. There was no other way. Earl Norton arranged for Li Wei to go with Viscount Verin, and Li Wei could only hurriedly embark on the journey north.
Along the way, Levi took out the statues of the beast gods more than once to tinker with and study them.
These beast god statues have different shapes. According to the fat old man from Orne's House, the beast god has no fixed image and is created and worshiped by each tribe's own priest. Therefore, the beast god statue of the werewolf tribe has more werewolf characteristics, and the beast god statue of the tauren tribe has more tauren characteristics.
But the "divine" Levi mentioned by the system was not seen at all. So, during a short break on the road, Levi activated the system privately while no one was paying attention, and redeemed this so-called "sacrifice".
I saw that the statue of the beast god in Li Wei's hand changed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The previous oily touch was gone, and the entire body of the statue became dry, as if it had been weathered outdoors for a long time.
Moreover, the lifelike feeling of the beast god statue has also disappeared. If I have to use an analogy, Levi feels that this thing has changed from a work of art carefully carved by a master to an industrial product polished by a machine, although its appearance has not changed.
"Isn't this broken system specially designed to encourage me to kill gods? I haven't developed yet. How can my small body hold it now?" Levi couldn't help but muttered as he looked at the statue in his hand.
Then, Li Wei continued to redeem the remaining two beast god statues. Now Li Wei took stock of his trump cards. There were five elementary treasure tokens and one intermediate treasure token, which can be said to be very wealthy.
"Lord Baron, we found traces of a small group of orcs eleven kilometers ahead to the right."
"Oh? Send another group of scouts to find out how many people there are on the other side, and the others are ready to fight!"
Levi was not used to it along the way. With the arrogant Viscount Weilin in mind, they nominally went to Shanglin County to join forces with Viscount Ome. In fact, the armies of Li Wei and Weilin almost went their separate ways.
The two teams have always maintained a distance of two kilometers. If it weren't for the best route from Green County to Shanglin County, it is estimated that the two would have gone their separate ways.
Now there were traces of a small group of orcs, and Li Wei didn't bother to find out about Viscount Verin who had been targeting him. Why should such a good opportunity to train troops and gain military exploits be given to that mentally ill Sol Welin?
And Li Wei is not afraid of Weilin coming to snatch it. Li Wei transformed the entire army into mules and horses. Although the number was small, only 200, they were all cavalry and the quality of the soldiers was above average. In addition to fifty third-level elites, even the auxiliary soldiers were all second-level high-level soldiers.
The configuration of Viscount Verin's 900 private troops was quite satisfactory, with 80 third-level regular soldiers, more than 800 second-level auxiliary soldiers, a quarter of the cavalry, and the remaining three-quarters were all infantry.
The marching speed of an army is always determined by the speed of the slowest soldiers. Viscount Verin could not abandon his large army and only bring a small number of elite troops to compete with Li Wei for battle glory.
Soon, after figuring out the situation on the other side, Li Wei led his two hundred cavalry to swarm forward and ate up the small group of orcs.
In fact, Master Li Wei didn't like these dozen orc heads at all. He mainly wanted the soldiers under his command to adapt to them.
Although most of the soldiers under his command had experienced the defense of Fort Monterey, half of the soldiers were officially recruited into the Monterey family's private army after the war.
Although their cultivation base is good, war is not a street fight and requires the tacit cooperation of the soldiers. Moreover, there are still quite a few soldiers who are not very familiar with horse fighting. Such small-scale encounters are regarded as sharpening their weapons before the battle. "MD, has Levi, the upstart, never seen the heads of orcs? Even the orcs want to rob them!" Viscount Weilin, who had been robbed of beast heads by Li Wei these days, was furious.
Since the first encounter with a small group of orcs, Li Wei and Viscount Verin have encountered small orc armies seven or eight times in the past ten days. Especially after entering the territory of Shanglin County, the number of orc skirmishers obviously increased.
These small-scale orc armies, without exception, all became victims of the Monterey family's private army. There are not many heads obtained each time, but the total number is more than two hundred, and the number of people on our side is only a dozen.
Especially once, Li Wei encountered an orc scout led by two fourth-level intermediate fox-men. Li Wei directly summoned Fat Purple, and two hundred private troops swarmed forward, killing the fifty-man orc reconnaissance team. The group was destroyed directly.
Now Li Wei's men are all veterans who have seen blood and can cooperate with each other tacitly. Under Viscount Verin, there are a bunch of raw men who have only received basic training and have not experienced actual combat.
Although Viscount Verin has always been arrogant, he still has basic military qualities as he is determined to strengthen his family. Of course, he also wanted to find an opportunity to practice his skills and get used to it in advance, so as to avoid fast forwarding to the decisive battle - collapse - group destruction when he arrived in Yorkshire.
But that hateful Levi never gave him a chance. He relied on himself as a cavalry and wiped out all the small groups of orcs around him.
At this time, his subordinates suddenly reported that Li Wei was visiting with several followers.
"What on earth does this Li Wei want to do? Forget it, it doesn't hurt to meet him."
After a while, Li Wei led several followers and rode to Viscount Verin.
As soon as they got off their horses, Viscount Weilin was about to say something sarcastic, but Li Wei spoke first.
"Viscount Verin, I just met a messenger from Shanglin County who came to us. He told me that the situation of Viscount Ome is not good."
As he said, a dusty knight He leaned out from behind Li Wei, walked to Viscount Verin, took out a crumpled letter and handed it to Viscount Verin, while saying:
"Your Excellency, Viscount Omei did not arrive as planned a few days ago. Our county has lost contact near the Elais Mountains in the west. Count Faye does not have the extra troops to search for the time being."
After Thor Welin frowned and read the letter, Levi also handed it over. I asked for the letter and read it quickly.
This letter was sent last night. When it was written, Viscount Ome's private army had been out of contact for two days. The enemy situation in the area of the Iles Mountains is currently unknown, and the possibility of a large army besieging Viscount Ome cannot be ruled out.
As the actual person in charge of Shanglin County, Count Faye currently has no spare mobile troops to mobilize, and Viscount Ome, as the son-in-law of the Marquis of Ashan, cannot fail to save him.
So the Earl of Faye directly gave the ball to Viscount Verin and Li Wei, two pawns from other counties, and let them decide for themselves.
It's better to just kick the ball if you can't decide. If you don't do it, do it well, and don't take responsibility, the next person who takes over can only consider himself unlucky.
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