Even when the heavy rain pours down in summer, the poisonous swamp is still a faint poisonous mist, and only after the snow in winter will the poisonous fog here gradually dissipate, and only from mid-November to early February in a year, in just over 70 days, the gate naturally formed by the Dark Worm Valley will be opened to the world.

Finely fragmented snow grits constantly covered the poisonous swamp, and although these fine snow completely suppressed the poisonous mist of the swamp, it also completely covered the entire poisonous swamp.

The line of sight has turned white.

It has just entered winter, and the poison bog has just formed a thin layer of permafrost.

It is covered with thick moss and wild grass, and if you step on it in ordinary places, the soft and damp grass can almost swallow the calves of pedestrians.

Andrew's cavalry opened the way ahead, and the first thing they did was to find a passage in the poison swamp with a hard layer of soil beneath the turf.

If it were other legions, even the Eagle Eye with the 'Bounded Sight' might not be able to do this kind of thing, and the safest way would be to try to move forward with infantry, but this kind of exploration like demining would keep the army stranded outside the poison swamp.

Surdak began the sacrificial rite directly in the makeshift marching tent and brought out the sacrificial items he had stored in the lava cave in boxes.

In addition to giving the 500 cavalrymen who opened the way in front of him a 'Divine Blessed Body', he also cast the 'True Eye' on Andrew, Samira, and himself.

Although the effect of the 'True Eye' only lasted for less than half an hour, Surdak basically sacrificed the heads of these soldier ants, and he, Andrew, and Samira walked in the front, and through the 'True Eye', they could see under the turf.

In their eyes, the water under the turf and the soil take on two completely different colors.

A flag was planted at each of the turf-covered puddles, and small flags were planted along the three paths that had been carved out.

Three thousand indigenous warriors, five hundred cavalry, and eighteen thunder rhinos were divided into three columns, and slowly approached behind Surdak, Andrew, and Samira.

At the end is the coalition of adventure groups and mercenary groups.

Fifteen hundred hoplites stood north of the chain bridge, guarding the only way to retreat.

There are also a small number of ghost-patterned red ants in the swamp, which hide in the wild grass and form ambush squads, but under the survey of the 'True Eye' of the three Surdaks, they are unexpectedly nowhere to hide for a while.

The Thunder Rhinoceros followed behind Samira, and this time the archers carried a large number of arrows and threw at the red ants hiding in the distant barren meadows, luring them out of the barren meadows.

Along the way, only by constantly hunting ghost pattern soldier ants can the loss of sacrifices be slightly supplemented.

In the cold weather, these ghostly red ants also become a little stiff, they rely on this body magic pattern to continuously inject energy into the body, in order to maintain enough vitality of the body, they have a stiff and thick hard armor skin, this layer of hard armor also has a certain thermal insulation effect.

But in this cold weather, they should have taken refuge in burrows under the soil, but now they are ambushed in the snow-soaked poisonous swamp.

The team had walked less than twenty kilometers, and the outline of the Dark Worm Valley in the wind and snow had gradually become clear.

At this moment, Surdak and Samira stopped almost at the same time, and Andrew, too, noticed something unusual in front of him, and raised his fist to stop the cavalry.

Without saying a word, Samira boarded the armed thunder rhino behind her, raised her long legs and jumped on it. The console of the bed crossbow, the bed crossbow operator next to him hurriedly lifted out a giant crossbow arrow and installed it in the groove, with the sound of the reel turning, the bowstring was slowly pulled in, and the magic patterns on the entire bed crossbow also lit up one by one.

A giant bolt slashed through the air, making a burst of air.

The next moment, it steadily shot at the forehead of the giant ghost pattern soldier ant eight hundred meters away, and the huge spearhead was deeply embedded in the hard armor skin, and half of the giant ghost pattern soldier ant was originally lurking in the swamp, and the other half of its body was covered by wild grass, and then the body suddenly burst out of the grass, and the pair of tentacles more than one meter long on the skull opened forward violently, but it couldn't catch the giant crossbow arrow anyway.

It came out of the grass like this, and the other giant ghost-patterned red ants thought they were charging, and they shook off the cold, sticky mire on their bodies, and came out of the swamp, and a large black pressure appeared in front of the army.

At the front were forty or fifty giant ghost-patterned red ants covered in dark red, and behind them were densely packed with a large number of red ants, the number of which was too numerous to count.

'Arrow formation, line up, prepare for the second round with bursting crossbow arrows, and use armor-piercing arrows in the second round!' ’

Samira commanded without hesitation.

A herald quickly climbed to the roof of the wooden house behind her, and waved a few simple movements at the row of armed thunderrhinos behind her, and the thunder rhinos following quickly adjusted his position, and turned sideways at the battlefield in front of him, and the controllers on the platform began to adjust the angle of the bed crossbow.

Samira didn't intend to save money for Surdak, the first two waves of arrangements were giant crossbow arrows tied with black powder, and magical giant crossbow arrows with an 'armor-piercing' effect just shipped from the imperial capital, such a crossbow arrow is thirty-five silver coins, and eighteen thunder rhinos will shoot out twelve gold coins if they shoot flat.

Andrew immediately let the cavalry move closer to the armed Thunder Rhino.

He didn't plan to charge at these giant soldiers and ants with a body size of six or seven meters long, the war horses didn't dare to run around on this poisonous swamp, they wanted to trap everywhere, and the charging and wolf pack tactics were purely an act of seeking death.

The three thousand native warriors behind Surdak saw a large patch of ghost-patterned soldier ants suddenly emerge from the poisonous swamp in front of them, and immediately screamed to convey the message.

Surdak shouted to retreat behind the armed Thunderrhino, and they didn't understand it at all.

A group of native warriors took out their Pagorio spears and scrambled forward, trying to throw their spears when the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants entered the throwing range.

Surdak almost burst his throat and grabbed several of the excited native leaders in the crowd to calm them down.

These indigenous leaders can still understand some imperial Chinese, and after listening to Surdak's instructions, they know that their group of people don't need to use their flesh and blood to block these giant insects, and they were a little stunned for a while, and then they were ecstatic......

The indigenous leaders hurriedly shouted, and quickly hid behind the armed thunder rhinoceros with these tribal warriors wearing standard armor.

They weren't slow at all, leaving Surdak last, and each of the natives could step four or five meters away in a single step on the poison swamp.

At the same time, the first wave of bursting crossbow arrows had been shot out, hitting the giant ghost-patterned soldier ant six hundred meters away, and with a series of explosions, the heavens and the earth cracked, and the soil and the stumps of the soldier ants flew high into the air in the fine snow.

In the midst of this violent explosion, a row of giant ghost-patterned soldier ants rushed out.

They began to run at an accelerated pace......

Samira stepped on the crossbow console with one foot, watched the goose wings line up behind her, and shouted to the herald on the roof again, "Another wave of armor-piercing crossbow arrows." ”

At the same time as the herald waved the flag in his hand, the second wave of armor-piercing giant crossbows had already been shot out, these giant crossbows were obviously much lighter than the first wave of burst crossbow arrows, and thirty-six giant crossbow arrows turned into narrow snow lines in the air, accurately hitting these giant ghost-patterned soldier ants that rushed head-on.

The armor-piercing giant crossbow arrows instantly shot these giant ghost-patterned soldiers and ants on their backs, and the sharp tips of the arrows cut into the hard armor skin, as if there was no hindrance in the slightest.

The ordinary ghost-patterned soldier ants behind them were like a red tide, stepping on the bodies of the giant soldier ants in front of them, surging towards the armed thunder rhinoceros.

The third wave of armor-piercing crossbow arrows was fired, and there was no longer a single giant ghost-patterned soldier ant to be found in the charging colony.

The ordinary ghost-patterned soldier ants had already rushed to the distance of two hundred meters of the armed thunder rhino, half of the thousand archers were standing on the shelves of the armed thunder rhino, and the remaining half of the archers were lined up in a long line at the foot of the thunder rhino.

The flag-bearers standing on the roof changed to a large flag and shook it vigorously in the air, and these archers did not hesitate to pull the bowstring and throw it at an angle of 45 degrees to the sky, and a rain of arrows flew towards the sky, reaching the highest point in the sky and falling smoothly by gravity. Fall.

This rain of arrows is very limited even to ordinary soldier ants, but these arrow rains are dense enough that if they happen to shoot into the weak joints, they can be nailed into the bone joints of the ghost pattern soldier ants.

For the past six months, she and Andrew have spent most of the last six months cleaning up the ghostly red ants in the hills and mountains and in the Invercargill Forest, and no one knows better than them how to hunt these big creatures.

For a while, a flock of soldier ants fell on the poisonous swamp.

These indigenous warriors who were crowded behind the armed thunder rhino saw the thunder rhino in front of them fall one after another, where could they still stand honestly behind, and squeezed out from behind the armed thunder rhino one after another, and the three thousand indigenous warriors instantly submerged the archers, they first ran a few steps, and threw the Paglio spear in their hands with all their might.

These natives were full of explosiveness, and the spears they threw could actually fly more than 150 meters.

This kind of war spear is not the kind of javelin that flies smoothly and has no edges, but it pierced into the body of the ghost pattern soldier ant, and fell down in a large piece.

Surdak had been trading with the indigenous tribes for the past two months, and the indigenous warriors had long since changed their weapons, and they untied their alloy bows and stood side by side with the archers.

The number of archers of a thousand archers instantly tripled, becoming four thousand.

All the archers lined up in three rows to the chaotic shouting, and when each column was ready, they went to the front, shot the arrows from the bowstring, and quickly retreated.

The alloy bow is not a longbow and has limited projectile power, but the distance of a flat shot is only lethal within sixty yards.

For a while, the rain of arrows shot out overwhelmingly, but I saw that those ghost-patterned soldiers and ants were nailed like hedgehogs by arrows, but they still rushed forward......