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Due to the reduction of human living space, the two empires started fighting again. The Northern Empire pushed the Southern Empire back nearly a hundred miles south, and exited the Fertile Plains. Finally, in the south of the Fertile Plains, relying on the Green Water River, it blocked the defeated the Northern Empire's troops.

The Bishui River originates from the Elf Forest on the east side of the mainland, and goes west along the south side of the Fertile Plain to reach the sea. Because the Elf Forest where it originates and the Fertile Plain where it flows are both covered by lush vegetation, its The river is deep and green, so it is named Green Water River.

Crossing rivers is still a difficult problem on modern Earth, because no matter how advanced the tools for crossing rivers are, they are still vulnerable to attacks on a wide, unreliable river.

Because of the obstruction of the Bishui River, the war between the two empires entered a stalemate. However, the urgent need for land brought about by the rapid increase in population pushed the expansion of the two empires forward.

Regardless of the fact that the Southern Empire continues to expand southward, the Northern Empire seems to have no room for expansion, because Fang Nan can't move south, and further north, we will reach the land with four distinct seasons, where there are goblins, dwarfs, and half-parties. The land of humans and dwarves.

Then, these short races, whose height only reached the human armpit, were unlucky.

The population of the Northern Empire increased dramatically, with a total number of more than 7000 million, and finally pointed their sword at these small races.

The goblins of these dwarf races like to do business all over the world. This is their hobby and life work, so they are at home everywhere.

In addition, the total population of goblins is not large, and most of the goblins and their combat power have been wandering with the caravans all year round. Therefore, after only slight resistance, the goblins gave up their not-so-loved homeland and broke into pieces. Wandered around the world.

The gnomes adjacent to the goblins had defensive weapons, ballistae, and various combat equipment, but these became their talisman.

Due to constant wars, human civilization has slowed down a lot since the thousand years of plane war, but its war capabilities have greatly improved.

The Northern Empire took a fancy to the dwarf's machinery. Because of their hobbies, the dwarfs had not only grown in population during the thousands of years of cultivation, but their mechanical development had also made great strides due to the recovery of the population.

Among them, the emperor of the Northern Empire was particularly jealous of the ballistas that caused huge casualties to the Northern Empire's army.

A short dwarf requires two people to wind the bow, but a human can do it with just one person. By relying on elastic metal to match the bow string, and a gear winding system, it can fire dozens of crossbow arrows at a time, with a range of more than 500 meters. His Majesty the Emperor, who was the imperial chariot's personal convoy, saw it and couldn't take it out.

You must know that the effective range of human excellent archers is only 100 meters. If it exceeds this distance, it must be launched by projectile. But the accuracy of projectile depends not on skill, but on fate.

Even so, the furthest they can shoot is about 300 meters.

The effective range of elven archers is close to 200 meters, and the projectile can reach nearly 400 meters. However, the elves rely on the rare bow and arrow materials produced in the elven forest and the tedious hand-made high-quality bows and arrows, as well as the more tedious hand-carved and polished bows that fit the air. Kinetic arrows.

If the bows and arrows were not recovered, the elves would be bankrupt after one battle.All races knew this during the plane war.

At that time, elves used standard arrows made by dwarves and humans. Their effective range was only 150 meters, only 50 meters longer than human archers, but their accuracy was commendable.

The dwarves not only have ballistas, but also other production equipment and primary machine tools that dwarfs regard as life.

As long as the dwarfs are robbed, both the ordnance manufacturing industry and productivity of the Northern Empire will be greatly improved.

Under this kind of temptation, how could the emperor of the Northern Empire let the dwarf go?

The gnomes' territory is bounded by the Meteor Mountains to the north, the destroyed goblins to the west, and the halflings who have basically no fighting power and have been partially expelled by humans to the east. The gnomes have been surrounded by humans and have no way out.

In the end, the dwarf had to give up his beloved machine and baggage, and climbed up to the Meteor Mountains.

The Meteor Mountains are high in terrain. Although there are rich resources there, the living environment is harsh and it is the territory of Warcraft.

Many of the peaks are higher than the snow line and are covered with snow all year round. Some of the peaks even have giant dragons living in caves, which shows how harsh their living environment is.

However, according to Nicole, in history, a dwarf great sage who participated in a plane war once obtained the Qingmi of an ice and snow dragon and became a fighting partner with her.

This dragon who lived in seclusion after the war once gave the dwarf great sage a communication scroll that could contact the ice and snow dragon.

The dwarf tribe that retreated to the Meteor Mountains was protected by the ice and snow dragon and found a place to stay, so the race was able to survive.

Ice dragon is the name of the female ice dragon, while the male ice dragons call themselves frost dragons.

Feng Yu also confirmed with Nicole, who definitely told Feng Yu that it was a female dragon who had formed a fighting partner with a male dwarf great sage.

Feng Yu couldn't help but sigh, wherever he thought, there were dragon knights who were so awesome that they exploded.

Nicole seemed to see Feng Yu's little thoughts and told Feng Yu that there was just a simple fighting friendship between them. Feng Yu blushed and quickly said that he thought the same.

Nicole covered her mouth and chuckled, ignoring him.

From the different names of male and female dragons in the ice dragon clan, Feng Yu discovered that the pursuit of beautiful images is not only the instinct of humanoid female creatures in the multiverse, but even non-human intelligent creatures cannot escape this true fragrance law.

Nicole told Feng Yu that not many female dragons participated in the war. Even if they did, they would partner with non-combat professions such as the dwarf great sage in the humanoid race. Their main task was to protect them from harm. , because they played a huge role in the war.

Feng Yu felt that this was also a deliberate arrangement by the cunning elder of the Dragon Clan, because in this way, the ladies in the Dragon Clan could be better protected.

After all, although the men conquer the world, they cannot continue the family line without women.

If there are fewer men, polygamy will not affect fertility, but if there are fewer women, the efficiency of childbirth will directly decrease.

It seems that the old dragon understood this truth very thoroughly.

Dwarves are masters of mining and forging, that is, miners and blacksmiths. They do not engage in farming, so they have a good relationship with the halflings who live next to them.

The dwarfs, the neighbors to the west of the halflings, were attacked by humans. Except for the goblins who were all forward-looking, the dwarf races usually had good relations with each other. They usually supported each other and were friendly and helpful to each other.

The future of the dwarves is slim, and the sentimental halflings often shed tears of sympathy. Unfortunately, their tears cannot be used as weapons against evil humans, otherwise the dwarfs might have been rescued.