Almost all of the border towns in the northern occupation zone were built along the Thorn Mountains.

They are built on this mountain range.

These border towns are located on the southern slopes of the mountains.

After breaking through these towns, to the south is the vast meadows of the Flat River.

Many nobles owned pastures here, but none of them were noble lords of great repute.

The town of Plantos is also a town built on a hillside, with all the houses lined up on the hillside, and only to the north of the town is there a high wall, embedded in the body on both sides.

There was no resistance in sight in the town, and a large number of ghostly red ants rushed out of the town of Plantos and immediately dispersed like a fan.

The southern part of the town is a vast area of land, and these ghostly red ants have poured out, and Surdak has walked so long towards the town of Plantos that he has not encountered a single colony of ants.

It wasn't until he saw the cavalry battalion in the distance that Surdak saw the complete ant colony, and although he didn't see where the ghost striped ant queen was hiding, he found a personal guard group composed of ghost striped male ants from the dense ant colony.

This group of guards is surrounded by a large group of ghost-patterned red ants.

The cavalry battalion on the opposite side was besieged by a large number of ghost-patterned red ants at this moment, and more than a dozen ghost-patterned male ants lined up in a row, spreading their huge tentacles and approaching the cavalry step by step.

The ordinary bows and arrows in the hands of those cavalrymen couldn't handle the hard armor skin on the ghost-patterned male ants.

The ghost-patterned male ants pushed almost all the way over, and the cavalry battalion could only retreat.

It's just that their back road was cut off by a group of ghost pattern soldier ants, and the ghost pattern soldiers and ghost pattern worker ants around them continued to surround them, and began to squeeze their living space.

Once the cavalry can't run on the battlefield, its combat effectiveness is not even as good as that of the heavy infantry.

The commander in the silver armor was powerless to break the situation, and could only retreat frequently before the ghost-patterned soldiers formed a circle from all directions.

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Obviously, once the ant tide is formed, the continuous offensive will make it difficult for the cavalry to parry.

Only by relying on high walls can it be possible to hold on to a certain place.

Seeing that the cavalry battalion would be pounced on by the ghost-patterned soldiers and ants from time to time, they should have fallen into a dilemma, they wanted to retreat while fighting, but they were entangled by the ghost-patterned red ants around them, and it was extremely difficult to retreat.

Ant colonies surged up like a tidal wave.

And that cavalry battalion was like a sailing ship in the red sea, in danger of capsizing at any moment.

Surdak personally urged his horse to the front and shouted to Andrew: "Andrew, let's rush over......"

Andrew, who was wrapped in a heavy demonic pattern, rode on a horse covered in scale armor, swung his axe at a group of cavalry behind him, readjusted the direction of the attack, and all the veterans rushed forward with Andrew.

The cavalry went from slow to fast......

Charging in the direction of the cavalry battalion opposite, there were constantly ghostly red ants being cut down on the grass.

Surdak was also in the front row, and with him providing an aura of strength, the cavalry could charge a little faster.

Gallatin was responsible for leading the five hundred cavalry behind him to slowly advance around the two thunder rhinos.

The horses in the latter were not implanted with magic crests, nor did they have light hard armor and leather armor, so these horses could only be used as mounts for transportation, and could not charge.

Samira stood on the high platform of the Thunder Rhino, and at present the two Thunder Rhinos carried four bed crossbows on their backs, each of which required three people to control, and a group of rescued children hid in the wooden house, and they looked through the window in horror at the countless ghost-patterned red ants on the vast grass, and they couldn't even speak for a while.

The archers on both sides of the Thunder Rhino's body frequently shot arrows, and some ghost-patterned worker ants rushed up on both sides and fell down one after another, only some ghost-patterned soldier ants wanted to surround them, but they were disposed of in time by Captain Gallatin.

The tall thunder rhinoceros makes the earth tremble with every step......

When Surdak's cavalry joined the battle, the situation immediately became different, and a large number of ghostly red ants immediately poured out of the colony, as if they wanted to separate the two cavalry.

Apparently the queen ant was controlling the colony, and the ghostly red ants rushed desperately to try to keep Surdak's cavalry out.

The queen didn't realize that this cavalry regiment was different from the cavalry battalion in front of her, they were more courageous, and they were very unrestrained when charging in the ant colony.

Until Andrew led the cavalry directly to the flank of the ghost-patterned male.

The cavalry rushed in almost all the way by stepping on the carcass of the ghost-patterned red ants.

Seeing the reinforcements of the brother battalion coming in, the cavalry battalion on the opposite side was also greatly boosted, and immediately grasped the situation on the battlefield, and fought back towards the ghost-patterned red ants that were surging up around.

Andrew rode a war horse and rushed directly to the left side of the ghost-patterned male ant at the very edge, the ghost-patterned male ant twisted the body awkwardly, wanting to bite Andrew's war horse with a huge tentacle forceps, but he didn't expect Andrew to pull the reins of the war horse violently, and the war horse immediately braked its body, and suddenly stood up in place, and a pair of front hooves stepped fiercely on the flank of the ghost-patterned male ant.

Andrew took the opportunity to pounce forward, and one hand touched the middle of the outrigger of the ghost pattern male ant, although he was wearing a full-coverage magic pattern structure heavy armor, which looked like an iron can, but his movements were extremely flexible, climbing on the outrigger with one hand, and the axe in his hand was stuck on the flank armor, which actually allowed him to successfully turn over to the back of the ghost pattern male ant.

The ghost-patterned male ant couldn't turn around, but he leaned back sharply and slammed his tentacles into the ground, ready to lift Andrew off behind him.

Andrew grasped the bone spurs of the ghost-patterned male ant with one hand, and stepped firmly on the back of the ghost-patterned male ant with both feet as if it had taken root, and in front of everyone, he picked up the axe and slashed at the armor on the back of the neck of the ghost-patterned male.

The armor was stripped off, and the ghost-patterned male ants went completely berserk, and immediately broke away from the queue of males who were advancing forward, and plunged their heads into the soft grass, and the ghost-patterned soldier ants around them also gathered frantically.

Just as the ghost-patterned male ant was sticking his hard head into the dirt, Andrew inserted the axe into the ghost-patterned male's brain marrow and felt the magic core in the cranial cavity.

The ghost-patterned male ant twitched violently before dying, and Andrew strode onto the grass.

A group of ghost-patterned soldier ants surrounded them, and Surdak followed closely behind with a team of cavalry to kill them, and immediately stopped the group of soldier ants.

The row of ghostly males continued to pursue the cavalry who were trapped in place, Samira bit half an apple, stepped on the bed crossbow with one foot, and shot an armor-piercing crossbow arrow into the head of the second male, and glanced coldly at the crossbowman beside him.

The crossbowman was furious, and immediately said to his companion, "Let's go get another giant magic crossbow arrow......

Such a giant magic crossbow arrow with the attribute of 'Armor Piercing' is worth twenty-five silver coins, which is almost a month's income for ordinary residents of Dodan Town.

It made Samira feel the pleasure of grabbing a handful of silver hammers and smashing them in the face in anger.

Last time, Quartermaster Handel sent a total of ten of these magical giant crossbow arrows, and now there are only six left, which is still trying to recover every time it is shot, but the uncertainty on the battlefield is too great, and the magic crossbow arrows are worn out very quickly.

Not long after, Andrew stepped on the back of a ghost-patterned male ant, and the butcher's axe in his hand slashed down again......

Surdak's cavalry almost killed the group of ghost-patterned males in one go, and the ghost-patterned ants hiding behind the colony realized that the situation was a little wrong, but the ghost-patterned males in front of them had been almost killed.

These queens urged the ghost-patterned worker ants around them to rush up and use their bodies to hold back the cavalry's footsteps.

It's a pity that at this time, Surdak has led the cavalry to merge with this cavalry, there is no ghost pattern male ant approaching, Andrew's heavy cavalry is almost unstoppable in the ant colony, even if some ghost pattern soldiers and ants come up, they will be killed by Andrew and Surdak who bear the brunt of the attack, the two are at the front of the team, and they cut fifteen ghost pattern soldiers in a row, and the ant colony momentum is finally suspended.

More than a thousand horsemen finally broke through the ant colony and ran towards the outer hills of the town of Plantos.

With ant colonies blocking it, the cavalry could not rush to the town of Plantos in one go, so they could only retreat to the periphery to rest.

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On the wooded hillside, the cavalry jumped off their horses and set up makeshift camp.

The commander of the cavalry battalion on the opposite side had just walked in front of Surdak, he was wearing a suit of armor plated with Mithril in the same style as that worn by Adams and Gallatin, and the commander took off his helmet, revealing a resolute and calm countenance and blonde hair, and the sweat on his face rolled down to the ground dripping from his face.

He said to Surdak with great gratitude: "My name is Intas, the commander of the 7th Cavalry Battalion, and I clearly lead the 7th Cavalry Battalion of the Luthor Regiment and garrison the town of Vladivo at the easternmost point of the Northern Theater of Operations. Thank you for pulling the seventh battalion out of the colony......"

"Surdak, I have not long joined the Luthor Legion and am leading a separate cavalry battalion to garrison the town of Dodan." Surdak touched his nose and introduced himself as he stood under a pine tree.

One of the horsemen brought two chairs, and the two sat under the tree and chatted.

The cavalrymen camped in the woods and fed the horses.

The battalion commander of Intas leaned closer and said, "I know you, I believe that among the officers above the rank of commander of the Luthor Legion, even if they have not seen you, they have all heard your name, and the people chosen by the Marquis are indeed a little different...... I mean strong! ”

Surdak didn't want to talk about it, no matter how you explained it, there would always be people who thought it was climbing up by the corner of Miss Hathaway's skirt.

He turned his head to look at the town of Plantos halfway up the mountain, and whispered, "Well, I heard that the 13th Cavalry Regiment of the Luthor Regiment and the 19th Heavy Infantry Regiment are stationed in the town of Plantos......"

"I told this guy a long time ago that there is a problem with this pass of his, and when you want to hold on, you must prepare the materials fully, but I didn't expect that there was still a big problem here." The Intas battalion commander said helplessly, it seemed that he was familiar with the commander here.

Surdak didn't see the remnants of the 13th Cavalry Regiment and the 19th Heavy Infantry Regiment all the way, and couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Did you come from there, did you pick up the remnants of the army?"

Intas's expression was a little gloomy, and he shook his head before saying: "I know the character of that guy, he is a proud and irascible guy, and he is also the most chivalrous battalion commander, and it is estimated that in order to allow the residents of the town to evacuate safely, all the lives of the soldiers will be filled in that pass." ”

The two fell silent for a moment.

Surdak couldn't find any topic, but looked at the swarms of red ants below the hill, and his heart was inevitably a little heavy.

With so many ghost-striped ants entering the northern occupation zone, the situation is spreading further to the south, and many townspeople may die.

The squadron leader of the third squadron of the cavalry battalion came over.

He knows the Grimm Empire's writing and usually knows a little mathematics, so he usually does some statistics on the number of people in the cavalry battalion.

Surdak came back to his senses and asked the squadron leader, "Have the wounded cavalry been counted?" ”

"Yes, Commander Surdak." The squadron leader replied.

Surdak got up from his chair, walked to the pergola set up in front of him, and said, "Then let them come together, we won't have too much time to rest, hurry up and get better before we can continue fighting." ”

Intas then saw Surdak roll up his sleeves and begin to treat the wounded cavalrymen one by one......

At a time when healing potions are as valuable as gold, there is definitely one person in the army who is good at healing, and he is definitely the luckiest.

Intas's eyes widened as he watched as the soft light emanating from the torch of holy light emerged from Surdak's palm...... The Adam's apple stirred and grunted!

He swallowed heavily.

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The entire frontier town is completely overrun by ghostly red ants, and a large number of ant colonies flow south from the Plantos Pass into the savannah in the northern part of Wilkes.

By noon, seven cavalry battalions had arrived on the southern outskirts of the town of Plantos.

Everyone had occupied one place, but as the Chester Swordsman led a regiment of guards and arrived on the outskirts of the town of Plantos, all the cavalry battalions quickly moved closer to his position.

The Great Swordsman of Chester constantly summoned the commanders of each cavalry battalion to the tent individually to communicate with each other.

Surdak's cavalry battalion belonged to the temporary camp of the Chester Great Swordsman who arrived first, and some cavalry battalions arrived later, and they also went in one after another to talk in detail, and he was the last to be called in.

Walk into something dim

The Chester Great Swordsman sat down, pinched the corners of his eyes hard, and asked strongly: "Surdak, how is the situation over there in Dodan Town, I don't want this side to be blocked, and the ghost-patterned red ants will open a breakthrough in the garrison area you are responsible for." ”

Surdak sat down opposite the Chester Great Swordsman and said, "It's okay, everything is under control, before I came, I had already driven those ghost-striped red ants to the area around the north exit of the Dodan Gorge. ”

"Drive the ghostly red ants out of the canyon...... Tell me how you did it? The Great Swordsman of Chester said.

He sat up straight in his chair and posed as if he was listening.

Surdak thought for a moment before saying, "The main thing is to recognize where the biggest threat comes from, and we think it's the queen...... It has extremely strong spiritual power, and can assign tens of thousands of ghost-patterned red ants at the same time to obey its scheduling arrangement, once the queen is lost, the red ants will not have any motivation to move forward, and of course they will not be very aggressive. ”

"So we tried to lure a ghostly ant queen to the city, then threw a few firescale bullets to disrupt them, and then shot it with a bed crossbow...... Those ghost-striped red ants had no leader, and they disappeared for several days. ”

The Chester Archswordsman glanced up at Surdak and didn't speak.

"Later, we sent an elite team at night to set up some traps to lure them out of the colony, and killed three more ghost queens." Surdak continued: "Since that day, these ghostly red ants have not retreated to the middle of the canyon......"

The Chester Great Swordsman didn't ask anything more, and waved his hand to let Surdak leave on his own.