Warlord: King of All Clans

The following days were filled with boring yet exciting clearing and patrolling.

It's boring, it's patrol day after day.

It's tense and exciting because you may be attacked by orcs at any time.

After being received by the Grand Duke of the North, Legion Commander Arnold's attitude towards Leo changed again. He almost gave Leo whatever he wanted and completely delegated command to him.

As for the remaining corner flags, they were also in awe of the dragon-scale horse that the Duke of the North presented to Leo, and they had no intention of disobeying him.

The Dragon Scale Horse is the exclusive mount of the Wind Knight. In the past seven hundred years, there has been very little record of it being given to outsiders.

Even the dragon-blooded horses bred from dragon-scale horses and northern horses are already the top war horses in the North, and are worth thousands of gold that only great nobles can own.

Because the Dragon Blood Horse has a trace of red dragon blood and an extremely high body temperature, it is also called the Olenik Hot Blood Horse. It is one of the few famous horses in the empire and is also a guest of honor in all major arenas of the empire.

As for the dragon-scale horse, firstly, it is strictly controlled by the Duke's Mansion, and secondly, it is a mid-level magical beast, so it is cheating to participate in the competition among ordinary horses.

In a small mountain city like Isenbol, there is not even a single Olenik Hot-Blooded Horse, let alone a Dragon Scale Horse.

Leo sent out all fifty wild hunters as scouts, and explored in different directions along the route from Frovald to the small town of Melesi.

He would actually prefer to go out to fight with the kobold scouts and the two-headed ogre tribe.

Fill the wilderness with dogs with strong survival abilities, and when you find the orc hunting team, take the ogres to clear them out. This is safer and more efficient than taking low-level human infantry with you.

Unfortunately, the Imperials were even more hostile to the wild aliens than to the orcs. The appearance of kobolds and ogres in Frovald could easily be treated as enemies and wiped out by the human army.

Just as the legion commanders had expected, in less than ten days, after the three thousand orcs had gathered together and captured the empty town of Melesi, they fell apart due to lack of food and continued to disperse into the wilderness to gather and hunt.

But after the Isenbol Legion's crackdown, their vigilance increased greatly, they were not too far away from each other, and their connections became closer.

No matter which clan is attacked by humans, the surrounding clans can provide reinforcements within a day.

But fighting a war is not just about charging forward blindly; strategy is more important.

If the entrenched orc clan is difficult to defeat, then don't fight it.

They patrolled and confronted them with large troops, interfering with their hunting and gathering and squeezing their living space.

The orc clans that lost their food source had no choice but to retreat or take the initiative to attack.

The two sides are in a stalemate, waiting for the other side to give up and make a mistake.

Therefore, the subsequent cleanup by the Isenbol Legion did not yield much gains. After a month, only four or five hundred heads were taken.

Among these heads, many were the results of encounters between the Legion’s patrol teams and orc hunting teams.

Although the human legion patrol had more people, the orc hunting team had stronger individual strength, and the casualties were almost one to one.

Even Leo's wild hunters and river infantry suffered many casualties.

The small town of Melesi is located southwest of Frovald, very close to the big city, and is behind the human defense line.

There are not many orc clans that have fled here, with a total number of no more than 10,000, and there are almost no clans with more than a thousand people.

Otherwise, the Grand Duke of the North would not have sent a local army to conquer the rebellion.

If we cross the human defense line and go to the wilderness north of Frovald, the orc clan there will be even more powerful.

Deep in the Wolf-Driving Plains, there are large alien tribes and high-level magical beasts. Those areas are the hunting grounds of the orc clans.

Not to mention low-level legions like the Isenbol Legion, even if the heavily armored elite legions under the earls were to go and clear out the enemy, they would probably suffer heavy losses.

During the confrontation between the two major races, not only were the local lords' armies out clearing out the enemy, but the main armies of the Earl of the North would occasionally go out to deal with the counter-clearing by the main orcish forces.

Leo even witnessed the deployment of the Wind Knights. The steel torrent composed of hundreds of Wind Knights was like an armored tank unit. It was hard to imagine that it was a product of this era.

Although their numbers are small, no one will underestimate them.

Mortal armies pose almost no threat to them, and only higher-level transcendents can block their attacks and break their defenses.

And Rio Mundo has only just been able to become one of them.

The dragon-scale horse Leo obtained was named "Red Hare". At first, he could only lead it for a stroll and was always alert, as it would bite people if he was not careful.

After feeding them for a few days and becoming familiar with each other, Leo began to try riding.

But Red Hare has a very fierce temper and will not surrender easily.

There was no way Leo would give up. He put his skills of taming wild red rabbits to use here.

As long as he took advantage of Red Hare's inattention, he would jump onto the horse's back in a flash, and no matter how the opponent jumped and swung, he would stay on the horse's back and not fall off.

Besides, the dragon-scale horse had a fierce temperament, and Leo also had a bad temper. If he was thrown off the horse and lost face, he would just start a fight.

Therefore, the soldiers of the legion could often see Leo fighting with his horse, with both sides winning and losing.

It took another week before the dragon-scale horse finally recognized Leo's qualifications to ride and began to carry Leo around.

The dragon-scale horse is not a wild horse, and is not extremely wild.

In the southern prairie of Olenik, they have been strictly trained by senior horse trainers of the Duke's Palace since childhood. The dragon-scale horses that can be trained are all top-grade heavy war horses that are proficient in battlefield combat.

However, the pride of the mid-level monster would not allow it to be ridden at will by strangers.

Before every Wind Knight Squire obtains an official title, he or she will serve as a groom at the training ground for a period of time, feeding and training dragon-scale horses.

They are familiar with almost all the dragon-scale horses, and the smell of their bodies is also familiar to the dragon-scale horses.

Only after becoming a Wind Knight can you switch to other dragon scale horses when your own dragon scale horse is injured on the battlefield.

Leo was able to ride the dragon scale horse in just half a month, which was considered excellent in the eyes of the Wind Knight.

During this period, Freya came several times to help convey messages to the family members in Hewan.

Sometimes, when Leo was leading the team on patrol, he would suddenly see a big groundhog jump out of the dense forest, squat in front of him and wag its tail wildly.

"Leorio! Sister Olivia asked when you will be returning!"

"Well, I don't know. I'm still fighting."

"Oh!" Without waiting for Leo to say anything, Freya ran away.

Sometimes when Leo led his team back to the city, he would suddenly see a little groundhog squatting on the side of the road, winking at him.

"Leorio, Ivan said the cassava flour processing factory has a new product. Let me bring it to you to try!"

"What is this? Is it delicious? Let me try it!"

"Oh, I ate it halfway."

"roll!"

Freya ran away with a bang.

But she would stop occasionally, especially when she saw Leo riding on Red Hare.

Staring at the ferocious dragon-scale horse, Freya felt that her family status was challenged and expressed aggrieved.

Leo could only comfort her that since he had a new Red Hare, he would no longer think about riding her old Red Hare.

Freya immediately thought that this was a good idea, so she moved over and wanted to get close to the new member of the River Bay Zoo.

The new Red Hare didn't tolerate the old Red Hare at all and bit her directly on the butt.

Freya was so frightened that she ran back to the river bend five hundred miles away overnight.

Because of the presence of Freya and the Rose Knight, Leo felt inexplicably at ease and felt that the river bend was not far away.