The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 1022 Ambush in the Woods!

"How's the striker?" Roland asked Caslow, sitting on a tree stump.

"I don't know, but the Knights had no trouble getting through!" Caslo shook his head.

Upon hearing Caslo's words, a scene suddenly flashed into Roland's mind: "My department is unimpeded! My department is unimpeded!" Roland quickly shook his head. "You can't just plant a flag anywhere. The old general on the last cosplay stage is now buried under grass taller than a person!"

"Tell the soldiers to keep their speed down! Remind Omske and Mogus! Tell them to keep an eye on Lavian's troops! One knight commander can't cause much trouble, but if that guy gets too eager to show off and gets himself killed, that's one thing! Don't let me lose an entire knightly order!" Roland instructed, after all, a knightly order can't maintain a state of honor while marching! A high-level magical beast ambush can happen in an instant! Even a second-tier knight with an instant-cast defensive magic scroll might not be able to withstand it!

"The Bauhinia Cross Knights may be a bit mixed up, but they're still a knightly order! Don't lead me astray!" Roland warned. Even if they're the worst, they're still a knightly order, and if thrown onto the battlefield to fill in the gaps, they're top-tier cannon fodder!
"Understood!" Caslo nodded. Because the group was spread out over a long distance, there really wasn't a good way to communicate besides the dragon knights. What? You want to know how to locate each other in the dense forest? Well, that's where our great Duke Yunfeng's magical equipment comes in. A few positioning devices can easily provide one for each person! As for those magical equipment that's not even at the first tier, apprentices can easily draw a bunch of them with some rare materials!
"Here! Eat something before you go!" Roland pulled two ribs from the campfire and tossed them to Caslo, one of which was thrown into Kaldo's mouth. Kaldo had been waiting with his mouth open for Roland to feed him. In the whole kingdom, Roland was one of the few people who could feed Kaldo.

Caslo, whose stomach was empty after flying for half a day, naturally wouldn't refuse. The emperor wouldn't be short of hungry soldiers! Besides, the meat of high-level magical beasts is also a good thing. It can strengthen blood and qi and nourish battle qi. For the kingdom, the meat of high-level magical beasts is a rare delicacy! After all, those that are kept in captivity are inedible! And those that are edible are generally hard to come by. The intelligence of high-level magical beasts is comparable to that of humans. In that wretched place of Lagrang, where dragons rise and fall every day, only an idiot would stay in that dangerous area.

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"Something's not right! Why are we so far behind the rear guard?" Omske keenly noticed that the column was stretched too far!
"The Knights of the Bauhinia Cross are too far away from us! Where have they gone?" Omske's face was a little grim. He knew that Ravian would act recklessly, but he didn't expect him to be this reckless!
"Stop, knights! We can't go on like this! The distance between the knights and the infantry is too great!" Mogus said firmly, looking at the fourteenth legion of knights he was leading. Perhaps because he was of the earth element, his personality was as calm and cautious as his element. This aggressive advance had completely frightened him!

"Slow down, everyone!" At Omske's command, the knights trotting through the dense forest gradually came to a halt. As qualified knights produced on the assembly line of the Lagrange Empire, excellent professional skills were standard equipment for them; even in this dense forest, they could still control their warhorses to trot! (Brother! The magic of Middle-earth!)

"General Omske!" Suddenly a dragon's roar came from the sky, followed by the sound of tree branches breaking. Sunlight suddenly streamed in through the gaps, and Kaldo poked his head out and snorted.

"By the Dragon God! Is this so barbaric?" Omske stared in shock at Caslo and his dragon, who crashed down on trees.

"His Majesty instructed us to keep an eye on Lord Lavian! Where is he? Where did the Knights of the Bauhinia Cross go?" Caslo squinted and scanned his surroundings. After careful examination, he indeed could not see the banner or the figure of the Knights of the Bauhinia Cross.

“They’re too fast! Even the elven rangers can’t keep up with them! The two armies have already created distance between them!” Omske shook his head and said.

“Then you…” Caslo hesitated for a moment.

“Let’s stay here and wait! The infantry behind us are too far behind! This is deadly!” Omske’s professional skills were on point; he could instantly detect this kind of deadly danger!
“Then I’ll go after Lavian!” Caslo nodded. “Okay! Be careful!” Mogus waved to Caslo.

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"By the Dragon God! What are these?" As expected, the Knights of Lavian encountered trouble deep in the forest. What blocked their way was not a powerful magical beast or an orc, but a dense, sticky spider web! If Roland were here, he would definitely recognize them as the giant spider monsters native to the Dark Forest, which had captured the main characters in The Hobbit!

"Damn it! Help me!" the knight cried in terror as he was caught in the spider web. For the first time, these elite knights felt powerless. The soft, tough, and sticky spider webs would bind any warhorse or knight that approached, and the more they struggled, the tighter they became!

"Boom!" Finally, a fire-attribute knight ignited his battle aura, and the spider webs melted away like ice and snow in the flames.

"Boom!" As the spiderweb burned, sparks flew and landed on the ground. Don't forget, the Dark Forest is a primeval forest! The vegetation here is lush, and ancient trees reach for the sky! Large swaths of dead branches and fallen leaves have piled up into a thick layer of humus! This is the best fuel! In addition, the Battle Qi Flame is not an ordinary flame; it burns even more persistently and fiercely... So, without anyone's warning, flames shot out from under everyone's feet!
"Dragon God! Is there a dragon's nest here? What just happened?" The pillars of fire erupting everywhere instantly sobered Ravian from his excitement. The decaying aura of the earth was ignited like the breath of a dragon. The knights reacted quickly, most of them activating their battle aura and skills to protect their warhorses. However, the knights in the center were still thrown to the ground, horse and rider! The several-ton iron lumps, along with their riders and horses, crashed to the ground, kicking up a thick fog as dirt flew everywhere!
"It looks like something was detonated!" a knight said, spitting out mud from his mouth.

"Soldiers under our command, retreat! Something's wrong! Could it be instant war magic?" Ravian recalled the sight of fire snakes flying all over the ground just now, and his heart tightened. He immediately gave the order to retreat.

"Ah!" Suddenly a scream rang out, and everyone quickly looked in the direction of the sound. They saw a knight in silver-purple armor being pulled into the sky by several arms of silk threads.

"Enemy attack! Battle Qi Blade Slash!" Ravian reacted quickly; he knew what he was facing the moment the spiderwebs descended! Knights are weak in ranged attacks, but they possess formidable mid-range offensive capabilities! The released Battle Qi Blade is enough to tear apart enemies within a hundred meters!
"Thump!" The knight who had been grabbed was quickly cut by his colleague's battle aura blade and fell down.

"Attack! Target the canopy! The enemy is in the air!" Ravian roared.

"Gather around your comrades! Form a defensive formation! Damn it!" Ravian roared angrily at the soldiers being dragged up.

"Protect your comrades! Don't let them be dragged away! Raise your shields!" the officer shouted.

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