808. Hilly and mountainous
The northern part of the Thorny Mountains, hilly and mountainous
This is the northernmost boundary line of the Grimm Empire's occupation area in the White Forest Plane, and the boundary monuments engraved with the Grimm Empire's characters still stand on this hilly land, and these boundary stones are connected in a curve of hundreds of kilometers on the hilly and mountainous land, encompassing the entire Thorny Mountains.
Ten years ago, the Bona Legion had blocked the ghostly red ants along the Thorn Mountains, and this legion known throughout the Empire as the Bednar Swordsman had fought all the way to the Dark Worm Valley, and after the beast tide retreated, they buried a boundary monument in the hills and mountains north of the Thorn Mountains, establishing the Empire's border in the northern part of the White Forest Plane.
Many of the indigenous tribes of the White Forest Plane live in this mountainous area, which is now almost a piece of red earth.
A large number of ghost ant colonies are constantly roaming in this mountain range, each ant colony maintains a relatively independent community, they are equivalent to a team of ghost red ant empire, once the queen chooses the location to create the red ant empire, these ghost pattern worker ants will immediately put into the construction of the empire.
It's just that these queens didn't build an empire north of the Thorny Mountains.
The cavalry of the garrison of Dodan Town came out of the canyon, and a team of nearly a thousand people pulled out a long line of nearly two kilometers in the canyon, followed by ten four-wheeled carriages, indicating that this was there.
A group of mercenaries standing at the mouth of the canyon looked at the cavalry team that slowly walked out, with a look of envy on their faces.
This group of cavalry should indeed be envied by everyone, and their achievements may not be so dazzling, but all the mercenaries in Dodan Town know that it is such a group of cavalry who can almost kill the ghost-patterned red ants in the Dodan Canyon by themselves.
Now that they saw the cavalry coming out of the canyon, they knew that their target should be those ghostly red ants in the mountains.
For Surdak, without Aphrodite and Selena by his side, he didn't want to have a head-on conflict with the queen ant in the colony for the time being, after all, it was a fourth-level demonic beast, even if it had just hatched from a freozy, but the coercion brought by the high-level demonic beast it possessed was also heart-wrenching.
Surdak had hunted five ghostly ants in total, but he had never really come up close.
Even the last colony of ghostly red ants in the town of Plantos was shot by Samira with a bed crossbow, and it can be said that Surdak killed the first and fifth ghosted ants after killing them all under the giant bolts of the bed crossbow.
The second ghostly queen rushed into Selena's dark fog and was killed by everyone.
The third and fourth queens died in the rockfall.
According to the Great Swordsman of Chester, the ghost pattern ant queen has spirit skills such as spirit piercing, mind control, and illusion, so keep your distance as much as possible when fighting against it, otherwise you may be affected by the ghost pattern queen.
This time I went out of the Dodan Canyon to hunt, fortunately, there was a thunder rhinoceros carrying four bed crossbows to follow, otherwise Surdak would really have to design a way to hunt the ghost pattern ant queen.
As soon as the cavalry entered the hills and mountains, there were some ghost pattern soldiers and ant scouts who were free from the ant colony to discover the cavalry team, and it didn't take long for an ant queen with a large group of ghost red ants slowly approaching the cavalry.
Tens of thousands of ghost-patterned red ants can almost cover several mountains in the hilly and mountainous areas, and the mountains are full of ghost-patterned red ants from a distance.
Surdak didn't want to confront these ghost-patterned red ants head-on, they had a steady stream of red ants, and no matter how good the physical strength of the eight hundred cavalry was, they would eventually run out of strength.
The cavalry brigade stopped a few kilometers away, and only Andrew and the two-headed ogre led fifty cavalry directly killed them.
They relied on the speed of the Gubolai horses to run around the colony.
A large number of soldier ants in the ant colony rushed out towards Andrew and the others, and several giant ghost pattern soldier ants were mixed in.
Andrew also met the battle, immediately turning the horse's head and running in other directions.
The cavalry came and went like the wind in the hills, and these ghostly soldiers could not catch up with the cavalry, so they could only eat ashes behind them.
Surdak led a large force of cavalry and waited on a hill at the edge of the canyon.
After Andrew rode his horse several times and pulled in the ant colony, the ant colony, which was originally a little bloated in formation, was soon torn apart by Andrew's cavalry.
The ant colony, which was originally round, is now like a split continental plate, with gaps everywhere.
Andrew and the two-headed ogre are simply two scoundrels, rampage through the ant colony, and they are simply entangled with the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants, and they just use the speed advantage of the cavalry to cut one wound after another on the ghost-patterned soldier ants.
The soldier ants in the ant colony spat acid at the two of them, Andrew had the Earth Shield Demon Pattern Structure, and Gulit had the frost armor blessed by his good brother Brain Flower, and both of them had protective measures on them, so no one cared much about these acid decay liquids.
The two of them are like two sharp arrows, unstoppable in the ant colony.
Even so, the ghost striped ant queen did not send the male ants of the personal guard group, but sent the largest force in the ant colony, the ghost striped worker ants.
Even if the queen wants to reserve some rations, these ghost worker ants eat food into their stomachs, and the nutrients in their stomachs are converted into sugar, and finally become honeypots that store honey, and then hang them on the roof of the cave to dry slowly.
Although these ghost-patterned worker ants do not have much combat effectiveness, their biggest feature is that they are numerous.
They rushed out of the colony according to the queen's orders, trying to surround the cavalry, and as long as they could hold these cavalry, the ghost-patterned soldiers and ants chasing after them would entangle the cavalry to death.
Where would the cavalry give them such an opportunity, that is, to run around in the mountains with these ghostly red ants, and have the opportunity to launch a charge, of course, they will not miss it.
In this way, the tugging battle lasted all day, and the surrounding hills and mountains were littered with the corpses of ghost-patterned worker ants.
The cavalry led the ant colony to the edge of the Dodan Gorge several times, but unfortunately the ghost male ants were unwilling to leave the ant colony, and they were also meticulous in protecting the ghost pattern queen, preferring to be trapped in the ant colony and eat sand rather than leave.
As the sun was about to set, I saw that the 'Path of Fire' was finally burning behind the two-headed ogre.
The two-headed ogre ran through the hills and mountains, burning wherever it went.
However, these ghost-patterned red ants are very afraid of fire, and even if they are two-foot-high walls of flame, they are reluctant to cross them.
In the end, these ghost-patterned red ants can only be led by the nose by the two-headed ogre, and Andrew with a group of cavalry wanders outside these ant colonies, as long as there is a chance to make a move, it is to bite from behind, even if it is a queen ant in the ant colony, there is no ability to restrict Andrew's comings and goings.
The cavalry constantly harassed the ant colony, and each time there were only a hundred cavalrymen.
It wasn't until two days later, when the ghost-patterned worker ants and soldier ants on the periphery of the colony were cleared, that the queen trapped in the middle of more than 30 ghost-patterned male ants realized that she had lost the best chance to escape.
As the giant bolts continued to accumulate, the ghost-patterned male ants fell one after another in the mountains.
At the last moment, the ghost ant queen finally realized that she was dying, and she no longer cared about the birds in the sky, and flapped her wings and rushed towards the sky.
A giant crossbow bolt wrapped in the wind element on its shaft slammed into it, piercing its chest......