The eight commanders sat around a campfire, and Intas beckoned Surdak over, and everyone casually exchanged pleasantries.

When they looked at Surdak, the curiosity in everyone's eyes could not be concealed.

Intas recounted the battle that had taken place in the morning, and how he had met Baron Surdak.

One of the cavalrymen brought hot marching rations, porridge and scones, and the commanders began to eat a somewhat late lunch.

Surdak sat by the campfire, eating silently.

Intas knew the cavalry battalion commanders well, and while he was eating, he discussed with the other commanders about the ghostly red ants scattered in the southern part of the town of Plantos, and occasionally chatted casually, such as a certain commander who brought a woman to the town next to the station, or a certain commander who always liked to have a few drinks in the tavern.

These commanders are stationed in the border town, and if it weren't for this beast tide, I'm afraid they would have had a good life.

Now, the situation is not so rosy, a large number of ghostly red ants are blocked north of the Thorny Mountains, including Intas and Surdak, and there are four commanders guarding the border towns.

They led the cavalry to the town of Plantos, but they were also worried about the situation in their town.

Two commanders were discussing the two armed Thunderrhinoceros at the bottom of the hill, but they didn't know that they belonged to Surdak for the time being.

The Thunder Rhino, a huge giant beast, has not been widely used in the army, and the ultimate factor is that the Thunder Rhinoceros itself is too expensive, and the other is that the target is too big, and the enemy will always take care of it, and it is easy to die on the battlefield, and then dozens of magic crystals will be wasted like this, if you have this money, it is better to buy a magic pattern structure.

The noble lords of the Grimm Empire like to treat the magic pattern structure as private property, and the property of the noble lords is mainly divided into manors, territories, trading houses, and private collections, and the magic pattern structure is the most important part of the private collection, which retains its value more than gold, jewelry, and antiques.

However, the four bed crossbows on the back of the Thunder Rhinoceros still made all the commanders a little envious, these bed crossbows were almost the biggest killer against the ghost-patterned male ants, those male ants were larger than the size of the traveling caravan, and a few of them lined up to attack forward could restrain the cavalry to death.

Intas said that when he was fighting with the ghost-patterned red ants just now, he encountered more than a dozen ghost-patterned male ants, that is, Baron Surdak, the bed crossbow on the two thunder rhinoceros fired a series of angry shots, which immediately left those ghost-patterned male ants on the battlefield.

If it weren't for the ant colony coming up one after another, it would have brought back a few trophies.

The magic materials on the ghost pattern male ant are still very good.

……

Intas thought about how to get Surdak to help treat the wounded soldiers, the seriously wounded soldiers just now were really lucky, because Commander Surdak came to the rescue, he was lucky to save his life, but there were still many wounded knights in his cavalry battalion.

Surdak quickly filled his stomach with his marching rations, and when he saw Intas, the strong man, squinting at him, and was about to ask him, 'Is there anything wrong?', he saw the Great Swordsman of Chester come out of the tent with a straight face.

The commanders gave him a place, the Great Swordsman of Chester sat down, and a cavalryman brought the same marching rations.

The Great Swordsman of Chester ate two bites indiscriminately, and the commander of a cavalry battalion next to him said:

"Legion Commander, for now, we can only ask the Constructed Swordsmen in the Legion to come and clean up the situation, and our cavalry is on the outskirts of Plantos Town, as much as possible to delay the antcolony south."

The Great Swordsman of Chester shook his head and said in a deep voice:

"All the Constructed Swordsmen in the legion are in Talapa and dare to quell the rebellion, even if they can withdraw immediately, it will take at least half a month to reach the Bailin plane."

"Now we have to not only keep these ant colonies within the confines of the town of Plantos, but also find a way to block the pass of the town of Plantos to prevent more ghostly red ants from rushing in."

He pulled a burning stick from the campfire, blew out the flames at the top, and used the black charcoal to draw a sketch of the situation on the outskirts of the town of Plantos on a slightly raised rock slab at his feet.

"At present, the ghost-patterned red ants that have rushed through the pass can be roughly divided into three large-scale ant colonies."

The Great Swordsman of Chester said as he drew three circles on the stone tablet.

Surdak could see where one of the ant colonies was, just where he had met the Seventh Cavalry Battalion.

The other commanders of the cavalry battalion also surrounded them.

The Chester Archswordsman said, "The preliminary guess is that these ant colonies should be controlled by the queen ant, and we need to send a cavalry battalion to stop these three ant colonies from continuing south." ”

"As for the small colony, it doesn't matter if they leave Plantos."

"Follow-up infantry regimental reinforcements are on the way, and in three days they should be gathered on the outskirts of the town of Plantos."

"No matter how far we control the situation in the town of Plantos today, the 3rd and 4th Cavalry Battalions leave the town of Plantos before sunset and return to your station, and make sure that there are no problems with the defense of your side."

Two commanders hurriedly stood up and gave a military salute to the Chester Great Swordsman: "Yes, Chester Commander!" ”

The commander beside Intas said differently: "But what about the town of Plantos?" ”

Intas took the opportunity to say: "Hold back the three ant colonies, wait for the heavy infantry regiment and the archer regiment to arrive one after another, control the situation here, and then take Prantus back in one go." ”

Surdak also felt that this plan was more secure.

The commander beside Intas immediately said, "But there are still a large number of ghost-striped red ants running out of the pass, and if we don't block the opening, the ghost-patterned red ants rushing from the north will not be able to be effectively contained." ”

The commander who shared his view chimed in: "We might as well concentrate our forces and take the town of Plantos with all our might." ”

"But what about the future?" Another commander put forward a different opinion, saying: "There are so many ghost-striped red ants in the south of Plantos Town, if we allow these ant colonies to disperse into the grasslands of the northern occupied areas, it is estimated that it will take ten or twenty times more manpower and material resources to find them and destroy them." ”

He paused and continued: "Just imagine, if these ghost-patterned red ants in the south of Plantos Town do not leave, but turn around under the control of the queen ant and attack the town of Plantos again, even if we can recapture Plantos Town, we will be attacked by the enemy at that time, and there is no city wall in the south of Plantos. ”

Surdak also didn't want to stay behind the White Forest Plane, spending the time in the endless pursuit of ghost-striped red ants into the northern occupation zone.

"If you take the town of Plantos, you probably won't need so many cavalry." Surdak looked at the pass where dense red ants kept popping up in the distance, and said in a cold voice: "On the contrary, these three ant colonies in the south of the town must definitely pay attention to it, and it is necessary to let the cavalry battalion contain them around, and no matter what, we can't let them get out of our surveillance range." ”

Chester's eyes lit up and he asked, "If this side can contain the ghost-patterned red ants south of Plantos Town and prevent them from turning around and supporting Plantos Town, are you sure that you will recapture the pass of Plantos Town?" ”

Surdak thought about it, Hengzhi was going to participate in the war, and if he stuck into the pass of the mountain pass like a knife, he might have a bigger harvest.

He said, "You can try it, and even if it doesn't work, I have a way to return it!" ”

The Great Swordsman of Chester rubbed his face very excitedly and said, "How many cavalry battalions do you need to join?" ”

"Give me two more cavalry battalions, and there will be a good chance of retaking the pass." Surdak said.

One of the commanders stood up and said, "I object, I think it's better to concentrate my forces and destroy these three ant colonies in the south of the town of Plantos first. ”

Then a dissenting commander said: "If you keep cleaning up like this, no one will block the mountain pass over there, and the ghost-patterned red ants here will only gather more and more." ”

"Probably not, as long as we kill enough of them, we can kill them back from the front, and even if we can't kill them back, at least we can stop the ant colony from moving south into the grassland." The rest of the commanders also began to babble.

Each commander has a little bit of his own idea.

The Chester Great Swordsman waved his hand, and the surroundings fell silent for a moment, and then the Chester Great Swordsman said:

"I'm leading a team to clean up the ant colony in the south of Prantos Town, and we only need to find and kill the three queens to turn them into a plate of loose sand, so that we can clean up the rest of the colony and not have so much pressure."

Then the Great Swordsman of Chester said:

"Now there is also hope of retaking the town of Plantos, try anyway, who of you would like to complete this mission with Surdak?"

A group of commanders who expressed their opinions fell silent all of a sudden, and none of them wanted to do stupid things with the red man in front of Marquis Luthor.

Intas coughed lightly, elbowed his friend beside him, raised his hand, put one arm on Surdak's shoulder, and said to the great swordsman of Chester: "Count me in, I'll go crazy with him." ”

The commander next to Intas also raised his hand and said, "Then I'll try it too!" ”

The Chester Great Swordsman nodded and said, "Intas and Hampton, you two are on a mission with Surdak to capture the pass of the town of Plantos, if you can't rush through, then try your best to contain the ant colony from the north over there, help us reduce the pressure of the frontal ant colony, I estimate that more infantry regiments will arrive before noon the day after tomorrow at the latest." ”

Surdak, Intas, and Hampton stood up and said at the same time:

"Yes, Great Swordsman of Chester."

The Great Swordsman of Chester also stood up and said to the other commanders:

"The rest of the cavalry battalion will follow me to encircle these three colonies from the front, and we will try to kill them as much as we can before they find a foothold."

"Yes...... The Great Swordsman of Chester. ”

Now everyone's voices are much louder.

……

There was still half an hour to prepare for the battle, and the veterans of the cavalry battalion gathered to polish the edges of their weapons.

Everyone seemed so calm that no one even asked about the battle plan, and Andrew walked back and forth among the cavalry to check on the status of the veterans.

The merit exchange list almost made everyone in the cavalry battalion want to sleep on the battlefield.

No way, those ghost-patterned red ants on the battlefield are a lot of merits.

One hundred merits can be exchanged for a gold coin, which is equivalent to every merit is a silver hammer, such a generous welfare completely drives the emotions of these veterans, killing an ordinary worker ant is a little merit, killing a ghost tattoo ant is fifty merits, killing a giant ghost tattoo soldier ant is five hundred merits, even if the veterans can clean up twenty ordinary ghost tattoo worker ants every day, the harvest in two days is more than chiseling stones in the quarry for a month.

Therefore, the cavalry battalion was full of minor injuries and could not get out of the line of fire, and some veterans would even hide some secret injuries.

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Surdak ordered Andrew to carefully check the true condition of the veterans' injuries before each battle.

Intas took the opportunity to bring over a group of wounded soldiers from the 7th Cavalry Battalion and asked Surdak to heal them a little with the Holy Light Technique.

Then the three cavalry battalions converged, and more than 1,800 cavalry made the team look immense.

In this way, a group of cavalry braved the scorching sun and walked out of the woods of the hill towards the pass of the town of Plantos.

Some alert ghost-patterned red ants saw such a large group of cavalry and fled one after another.

Rushing through the pass of Plantos Town, the killing aura in their bodies has diminished a lot, and they are no longer the kind of people who rush up desperately even if they know that they are dead, so as to give their fellow red ants some chance to live......

……

At the same time, the Archswordsmen of Chester sent two battalions of cavalry to pin down the two ant colonies further south of the town of Prantos.

The two cavalry battalions, the 3rd and 4th Cavalry Battalions, were to rush back to their garrison camp that night after taking part in the afternoon pin mission.

The colonies were moving rapidly south, and if it weren't for the cavalry, they would not have been able to catch up with them in the vast meadows.

And he took three other cavalry battalions and three hundred swordsmen from the Guards Regiment, and nearly two thousand warriors, led by the Great Swordsman of Chester, directly to the vicinity of the ant colony closest to the town of Plantos.

In the afternoon, when the sun is abundant, most of the ghost-striped ants bury their bodies in the grass to escape the scorching sun, and they slowly move through the grass, these ghost-patterned soldier ants are only a circle smaller than the steppe wolf.

The ghost-patterned soldier ants, which were as big as prairie lions, walked on the grass, their upper bodies almost exposed, and from a distance, the grass looked like a dark red cloud.

Although the size of the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants mixed with the ant colony is exaggerated, it is also within the range of the cavalry's hearts.

And those ghost-patterned male ants with a body length of six meters seem to be a bit beyond imagination, and they can all be called grassland giant beasts.

Tens of thousands of ghost-patterned red ants gathered together, and it seemed that they had also discovered the situation here, three hundred swordsmen with this light small round shield on their arms, and slowly advanced in the center with double-edged swords in their hands, and on both sides were five hundred cavalrymen into a large net, and the other five hundred cavalry went around to the other side of the ant colony to contain the rear of the ant colony.

As long as the queen ant dares to press the elite of the ant colony on the whole line, the cavalry behind will press up, waiting for the opportunity to attack the male ant guard group of the queen ant......