662. Kill the wolf

Surdak didn't leave the Sweetwater Oasis the next day, the closest desert oasis to the Badlands, about two days on horseback.

It was the last springboard for these desert bandits on their way into the Badlands, and for Surdak, it was impossible to send troops to garrison here, and the Badlands Security Squadron did not have such strength for the time being, but they could not let the Sweetwater Oasis sit here like this.

The Sweet Pond is a deep pool that is connected by a deep underground river that will never dry up here.

Relying on the northern part of this sweet water pond grows a broad-leaved poplar forest, this woodland is only about half an acre in size, it is winter at the moment, I can't see any small beasts living in the woods, I don't think there will be, after all, this forest is too small, and the sweet water pool is often stationed desert robbers, although they will not settle here for a long time, the property here can not support many people, but the robbers will use this place as a temporary camp to replenish the water source, but it is a good place.

It's just that I didn't expect that this time there would be a bandit group with more than 200 people, who used this place as a winter place and hoarded a large amount of grain and grass for the winter.

According to the judgment of Gabri, the leader of the Sea Giant Mercenary Group, this desert bandit is likely to be a weak brigade that was expelled by other stronger desert bandits when they were fighting for territory...... It can only be said that they are unlucky.

In the cold winter, the moist sand by the sweet water pool has been frozen, but Surdak didn't care about this, and directly ordered two hundred veterans of the cavalry battalion and the reserve knights of the guard battalion to start cutting trees together.

Surdak ordered the hill-like trees to be set on fire.

The fire ignited, and the flames soared into the sky, and a thick and straight smoke rushed into the sky.

It burned from noon until the next morning, and at night, the fire could be seen dozens of miles away, and the fire directly roasted and melted the frozen soil around the sweet pool, and when the flames were extinguished and the sand became cool, two hundred veterans filled the sweet pool with shovels.

In just three days, a desert oasis with a pool of sweetwater disappeared from the map, and Surdak also drew a small red cross in the location of the sweetwater oasis on the map outside the barren lands.

If there is no war, it would obviously be a great hideaway.

The mercenary group has not been idle for the past three days, sending all the rangers in the team to disperse and reconnoitre, looking for the oasis closest to the Sweetwater Oasis.

True, the target is not a bandit group, but a desert oasis.

Perhaps it was the battle here that scared away the surrounding desert bandits, and the mercenary group found two desert oases one after another, although there were traces of habitation, but they did not find the desert bandits.

According to the information obtained by the mercenary group, Surdak drew two circles on the map, and casually pointed to one of the circles and said to everyone: "Let's go here!" ”

When the team arrived at the oasis, they found that the pool had dried up, and some reeds around the pond roughly circled the outline of the pool, which was several times larger than the pool in the Sweet Water Oasis, and if there was water, it should be a small lake.

Seeing that there are abundant aquatic plants on the shore, it is obvious that the pond here is probably watery in the summer during the high water season, and now it has entered the dry season, and the small lake here has dried up again.

On the west side of this small lake is a high sand hill, on which there are some sea buckthorn grass and thirsty immortals, and there are clusters of oil trees under the sand hill, this low arbor wattle can be used to weave baskets and baskets, this oasis is not habitable, but between the pool and the sand hill, there is a well made of stones, and from above, this well is very deep.

Surdak's party camped here, stayed only one night, and then rushed with the group to another oasis.

Before leaving, Surdak asked all the veterans to find a large rock near the sand hill of this oasis......

As he took out a firescale bullet from his bosom, he had twenty of them in total, all of which were in Constantinople when he was leaving. Baron Owen gave him a gift, and now he took out one, to test the power of the firescale bullet.

Pull out the fuse on the firescale bomb and throw it into the well, and soon after hearing a 'bang', the firescale bomb fell into the well water.

Gulit tried to look into the well, but Surdak grabbed him by the arm.

The ogre turned his head to look at Surdak in confusion......

With a muffled sound, the well water rushed out from more than ten meters underground, like a violent fountain rushing out three meters high, and then quickly retreated.

Looking at the strength of the explosion, it is clear that the bottom of the well has completely collapsed.

Surdak turned around and waved at the old soldiers who were lined up carrying stones, who threw them all into the well and finally buried the well with dry yellow sand, before leading the group out of the oasis.

Captain Gabry grinned, only now did he understand Surdak's plan, since these oases in the desert were useless to the villagers in the barren land, and would become a temporary camp for desert bandits, it was better to destroy them directly.

This is also another form of hard wall clearing, but it is not your own wilderness.

Surdak's team had an extra group of women who had been taken from the desert bandits, and the speed of the journey was much slower, and some of the women on the way fled from the group at night, and Surdak did not let anyone stop them, as long as they took care of the horses, they left with them if they wanted to......

However, most of the women were forced to stay, and they would not have been able to leave the desert alive in such a cold winter without food supplies from Surdak's team.

In the first two days of entering the desert, Viru was so lazy every day that he almost rode a horse and followed the team leisurely, except for using the 'Earth Vision' to probe the situation around the team.

When Surdak destroyed the second desert oasis, Viru began to get serious, replacing his horse with a camel that walked faster in the desert, and almost every day he had to travel around the team, spreading the range of reconnaissance twenty kilometers away.

This year, the wind wolves in the desert also began to form a large-scale wolf pack because they did not have enough food to survive the winter, and this wolf pack had obviously smelled the smell here, and at first it was only gathering in the distance, and when they appeared in the field of vision, it was like a gray cloud on the sand dunes, and there were at least a few hundred of those wind wolves, but they seemed to be very patient, and did not rush up to hunt Surdak this team, but first sent a small group of wind wolves to run over to test the strength of the team.

A large force of wind wolves followed the group, like a gray shadow.

Seeing these wind wolves, except for the ogre Gulitam who seemed a little excited, there was a shadow in everyone's hearts, the number of wind wolves was too much, these were not ordinary wolves, but first-class monster wind wolves, which could be called monsters, which meant that they had some kind of magic in their bodies, and this kind of low-level wind wolves belonged to the lowest level of wind attribute monsters, and they were good at releasing wind blades in battle.

And don't look at them as first-level Warcraft, but they are the most useless of Warcraft, the probability of the appearance of a magic core in the skull of a first-level Warcraft is not one in ten, and the fur is hard and long, it belongs to the worst Warcraft fur, and the wolf teeth and wolf claws are all rotten things and are not valuable, so many adventure groups and mercenary groups will not choose to hunt these Warcraft with low added value.

In contrast, first-level magical beasts such as the Demon Antelope and the Blue Ice Deer are of very high value in their own right, and they are the preferred targets for many adventure groups.

It is precisely because the wind wolf does not have much commercial value, so there will be more and more wind wolves in the wilderness, to such a remote place, the wind wolves who were originally good at walking alone or in groups of three or five actually gathered hundreds, this kind of monster is very annoying, and at the same time very cunning, once they are targeted, they will become very patient, like a piece of kraft candy stuck behind them, they have a strong endurance, will definitely wait until the best time, will all go out.

Most of the veterans in the cavalry battalion had experience in hunting wind wolves, but the fifty reserve knights sent by the guard battalion did not have any experience in killing wolves.

In the face of these headache-inducing wind wolves, Surdak was actually a little excited, and he had been very eager for primary sacrifices recently.

Surdak was a little worried that when the wolves tracked down halfway, they would see that they had no way to speak, so they would decisively choose to give up.

So he slowed down the team and gathered everyone together to discuss what to do.

For hunting Warcraft, the head of the Sea Giant Mercenary Group, Gabry, has an absolute right to speak, and many times the Mercenary Group really can't receive the task, and will also go to the area around the Paglos Mountains to hunt some Warcraft, collect Warcraft materials and sell them in the magic market for money.

Captain Gabri and his mercenaries are very familiar with the habits of these wind wolves, and they don't look down on them at all, considering them worthless.

However, Surdak doesn't seem to talk about the value of wind wolves at all, but directly discusses how to hunt these wind wolves.

"There are so many of us, they will never rush up easily, unless they confirm our real strength, the gap with them is too big, they have enough strength to eat us in one bite." Commander Gabre said to Surdak: "So booby traps should not work, they are very clever and will not be easily fooled." ”

Andrew, who was sitting across from Surdak, said, "Then is it feasible for us to place some traps along the way, when they track down, there will definitely be wind wolves falling into the traps." ”

Captain Gabri shook his head again and said, "We don't carry many beast traps, and it's not realistic to set traps to hunt, but those are wind wolves, and their sharp teeth are enough to bite the chains on the beast traps." ”

rejected the two plans one after another, and seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on themselves, Captain Gabri thought about it seriously before saying: "The best way is for us to dispatch a few small elite squads, wander around the large group of wind wolves, and use a safari method on them to eat them little by little." ”

"But is it really okay for us to stay here and waste our time hunting these wind wolves?" Head Gabry asked Surdak.

He felt that Surdak might not know the value of the wind wolves in the market, so he asked, "These wind wolves are not worth anything at all, there is not even a trading house in the city of Hylanza that is willing to buy the magic materials on the wind wolves, and their fur is the least valuable." ”

"Ahem, anyway, it's still useful." Surdak coughed lightly, and then said to Captain Gabbri: "Captain Gabbri, these wind wolf heads will not be as hardware as the desert bandits, and I haven't talked about these before, so I want to price it at the market price first, a complete wind wolf head fifty silver coins, what do you think?" ”

"The mercenary group obeys your arrangement." Gabre felt that the price offered by Surdak was very fair, and their mercenary group had a lot of experience in hunting wind wolves.

Deciding to hunt the wind wolves, the team stopped moving forward and settled on the southern slope of a sand dune.

A total of two elite wolf hunting teams were set up here, Captain Gabry drew ten people from the mercenary group to form a hunting team, the rest of the mercenary group stayed behind to guard the large army, and Surdak also gathered Gulitem, Andrew, Viru and several veterans who were good at hunting to form a second hunting team.

Each of them, carrying two horses, pounced on the wolves in reverse.

Captain Gabri felt that his mercenary group was more familiar with these wind wolves, so it would be easier to hunt the wind wolves......

It was only when he saw Viru riding a horse, pulling out a scorching bow a hundred meters away, and easily shooting through the throat of the wind wolf with a steel arrow, that he realized how terrible it was to have an eagle eye in the team, running back and forth outside the wolf pack, and shooting more than ten wind wolves in one fell swoop.

Viru's move angered the wolves, and dozens of wind wolves pounced on Viru like crazy.

Instead of shooting, Viru turned his horse's head and pulled his horse into the desert.

When these wind wolves catch up, they will inevitably be disconnected from the wind wolf army, and if Viru is allowed to go, he will ride another war horse and continue to release cold arrows on the periphery of the wind wolf army.

After pulling back and forth a few times like this, there were already more than thirty of the corpses of the wind wolves, and those wind wolves finally lost their minds and ran at full speed, rushing towards Viru.

Gulitham couldn't contain his excitement for a long time, and carried a bone-crushing stick to meet Viru, who ran back from a distance.

This hunt continued until the sun went down.

Viru shot almost all the steel arrows he was carrying, and when he counted the corpses of the wind wolves, he found that he had actually hunted more than eighty wind wolves......

For Surdak, such a large amount of wind wolf head income made him really relieved, and the 'Divine Blessed Body' could continue to be maintained.