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

Chapter 872: Absolutely changeful!

"Are you sure in this winter?" Fenglin Youlan looked at Roland in front of him and said in disbelief, "Listen to what this guy is saying! Gather all the dragon knights, flying dragon knights and griffin knights in the kingdom and go to the Gray Mountains to catch griffins?"
"Wild griffins will mostly hibernate in winter!" Roland said calmly. According to the habits of griffins in the game, most griffins will hibernate in winter to reduce consumption, leaving only a few adult griffins to guard. After all, there are too few things in the vast northern wilderness that can provide them with food! Although the barbarian bull is big enough, don't forget that the barbarian bull is alive! These things have legs and can run by themselves!
If you really let a group of griffins eat to their heart's content, a herd of a hundred wild bulls would probably only provide them with a few months' worth of food!
Therefore, when it is difficult to hunt in winter, griffins will choose to hibernate to reduce consumption. After all, the territory of any flying monster race is extremely large! Monsters understand the dangers of exhausting the pond to catch fish better than humans, and even highly intelligent monsters will keep food populations in captivity!

"How can they hibernate? And isn't that too impulsive? All the Sky Knights? Don't want the city of Raglan anymore?" Fenglin Youlan's eyes widened. What's your family background? Are you planning to go all in? When you were just starting your business? Although the Orcs and the Tankmen were beaten into submission, it's inevitable that they would disgust Raglan with the mentality of building a kingdom after learning that the Sky Knights had evacuated! Don't forget that the east gate of Roland's family is separated from them by a river! In the extraordinary world, a river is not a natural barrier! In addition, our big-eyed Sauron is a real Middle-earth version of the "Khorne" God Chosen. Do you expect him to cherish the lives of the Orcs or the Tankmen?
"It's okay! Adolf Heinrich and the Knights are not leaving! There will be no problem for me to return to Rapids with the Dragon Knights!" Roland knocked on the letter on the table.

"Take a look for yourself. Our reconnaissance team has investigated and found that the frequency of griffins attacking ranches has dropped to freezing point since the beginning of winter! There are very few griffins visiting the ranches of the dwarves in Lonely Mountain and the ranches in Riverdale!" Roland motioned to Fenglin Youlan to look at the letter on the table. It contained intelligence compiled by the City of Rapids, which was the main basis for Roland to determine that the griffins were hibernating.

"Let me see!" Fenglin Youlan took the letter and began to read it. Like most of the kingdom's nobles, he did not know that griffins could hibernate. After all, wild griffins could no longer be seen in the empire, and domesticated griffins naturally did not need to hibernate. So Fenglin Youlan was still a little surprised to have rediscovered this secret.

"Wow! It's true! These things hibernate? I thought they were open all year round!" Fenglin Youlan rubbed his chin in surprise. The number of times the dwarves and the River Valley Ranch were attacked was clearly recorded. The griffins were smart not to hurt the dwarves and humans, but they were very interested in cattle and sheep. In the past, there were several looting incidents every month, and each time they robbed a few cattle and sheep! In the fall, it was so exaggerated that they visited almost every two or three days! The dwarves tried to drive them away, but unfortunately the griffins were smart enough to pick the loopholes in the dwarves' defenses and attack them immediately...

"Do these things know not to drain the pond to catch all the fish?" Fenglin Youlan's mouth twitched a few times. These griffins are quite good. They know how to share the spoils equally.

"Griffins have very high IQs! Don't really treat them as animals... These high-level magical beasts are no less intelligent than us!" Roland shook his head. Basically all high-level magical beasts have intelligence that is no less than that of humans. Otherwise, guess why they are classified as intelligent species?
"Okay, but I think it's still very risky to go there this way... After all, if something goes wrong, we don't have anything that can quickly reach the battlefield! At present, the domestic teleportation array has not been successfully repaired..." Fenglin Youlan worried. If it's just some small fry, it would be better. With the city shield, at least we can delay until the high-level reinforcements come back! But I'm afraid that the other side will also come out in full force! The last time, the group of level 6 tanks and orcs had a psychological shadow on Fenglin Youlan!

"The dragon knights can't leave! At least not all of them can leave! I found some scouts from the chariot people and orcs on the other side of the river. We can't completely eradicate these things, but we can confuse their vision! Now there are dragon knights taking off and landing in Laglang City every day. If you really plan to take the team away, you must at least leave one dragon knight behind!" Fenglin Youlan said firmly. After all, the dragon knights in the kingdom are now running like special lines. They take off from Laglang City every day and land at Dragon Cliff Castle. They follow the same straight line every day. If there is a sudden change, it is inevitable that they will be noticed by the enemy.

"Hmm... makes sense!" Roland nodded. Although his tactical command ability was not very good, Roland was a good listener! Didn't his generals have more command experience than he did? Roland was not the principal. He didn't need that kind of vigorous vitality, and there was no need to open champagne at halftime and shout that the Knights had the advantage over the Tankmen!

"Then you stay and confuse them!" Roland decided. It just so happened that Lagran City needed a heavyweight high-level professional to take charge. It wasn't that Adolf Heinrich was not good enough, but the main reason was that the sage suffered too much during the military training! Shouldn't the real sages shrink in the city or the heavy tortoise shell of the mage tower and cast crazy forbidden spells? The truly deterrent single-soldier profession is the knight. The mage's point-killing ability is too scarce. No serious mage would learn single-target forbidden spells. The first forbidden spells of the forbidden spell mage are almost all range forbidden spells. Facing low-level ones, they can do chopping vegetables and melons, but facing high-level ones, they may face the embarrassing situation of scraping.

“??? Me?” Fenglin Youlan pointed at herself and looked at Roland in disbelief. Wasn’t it him, a Holy Dragon Knight, who was left behind to guard the gate?
"What else? Aren't you the only useless dragon knight here? You don't want your dragon to get hurt by accident, do you?" There was no one around, so Roland just started to speak like a colonel. "..." Fenglin Youlan pursed her lips. To be honest, it was a bit hurtful to her self-esteem!

"Besides, isn't your wife Lilith here? You go out for a walk during the day and show your face, and come back to accompany your wife at night. Isn't that the life you like..." Roland shrugged. He found that Fenglin Youlan had some attributes of a 2D otaku. If possible, this guy would rather stay in bed with his wife and children than fighting and exploring.

"You convinced me with your sincere feelings!" Before Roland could continue speaking, Fenglin Youlan touched her chest and saluted respectfully.

"You can go ahead and capture the blueprint for the empire's future, and I! Your loyal dragon rider will stay in Lagrande City and wait for your triumphant return!" Fenglin Youlan said passionately.

"..." Roland's eyes twitched. "No, brother, you weren't like that just now..."

"Creaky!" The sound of the door opening startled Roland and the other man.

"Um... am I here at a wrong time?" Adolf Heinrich looked at Roland and Fenglin Youlan apologetically, apologizing for disturbing the affectionate relationship between the monarch and his subject.

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