The cavalrymen pulled the reins of their horses, raised the knights' spears in their hands, and stood in front of the archers in a dense formation, under the command of Andrew, they did not charge forward in a line, but followed behind Andrew, Gulit and Surdak respectively, like tridents piercing into the ant colony.

This greatly avoids falling into the swamp pit.

The indigenous warriors surrounding the armed thunder rhinoceros, with alloy bows in their hands, also followed behind the cavalry, and rushed forward one after another.

Not only are they proficient in archery, but they are also able to carry swords and shields and follow the cavalry in hand-to-hand combat with the ghost-patterned soldiers.

At this time, Andrew released his strongest battle intent, bursting into the ant colony with flames and arcs all over his body, and immediately split the heads of two soldier ants in a row, only to be stopped by the third ghost-patterned soldier ant.

But there was a steady stream of cavalry behind him, and the cavalry who rushed to the front were all turned around and obtained the magic pattern, and they rushed up from the front of the battlefield, and they were no longer inferior to these ghost pattern soldiers and ants in terms of strength.

With the help of the knight's spear, as soon as the two sides came into contact, the cavalry picked up dozens of soldier ants.

Of course, there are also cavalrymen who are a little less lucky, rushing to the front and being picked off by the ghost-patterned red ants with fork-like tentacles, followed by the two-headed ogre next to him Seeing this scene, Gullitham waved the bone-crusher stick and roared a war roar, and the ogre threw a fireball at the same time.

After a few steps, he rounded the stick in his hand and slammed it on the head of the ghost pattern soldier ant, and suddenly the head of the ghost pattern soldier ant was like a sand watermelon hanging on the ground, and it shattered in an instant.

Surdak held the torch of light in one hand, and the shield in the other, and his feet lit up with an aura of power. The holy seal in front of it flickered frequently......

Rushing into the battlefield, Surdak found that these ghost-patterned soldier ants were far more ruthless than those ghost-patterned soldier ants in the hilly heights, and the hard armor on the body of these ghost-patterned red ants was very dark, and Surdak smashed the torch of holy light in his hand, leaving only some dents and cracks.

Each of them is very fierce, and they are not afraid of death, and they do not hide from the cavalry charge.

Before dying, he had to bite off the flesh from the cavalry.

Of course, the warriors of the tribe had never fought like this before, and they were now wearing standard armor, with sharp weapons and strong shields, and when they saw the cavalry rushing up, they rushed forward in a swarm.

This group of tribal warriors is usually a group of experienced hunters, they used to hunt these ghost-patterned soldiers together when they were holding hardwood bows and wooden spears in their hands, and now they are holding sharp and tough heavy swords, so they are not afraid of these ghost-patterned soldiers.

The battlefield was plunged into a scuffle for a while.

From the north, ghost-patterned soldiers and ants continue to pour towards this direction.

The native warriors gradually found the simple way to fight, and they learned it from the cavalry who jumped off their horses and fought on foot.

Several warriors who are very familiar with each other get together, everyone has a clear division of labor, from the shield warrior to the main attacker, and then to the back of the knife man, the three indigenous warriors form a combat squad, not only withstanding the attack of the ghost pattern soldier ants, but also frequently succeeding in battle.

The archers in the back lined up in a neat row, and wherever the red ants appeared to suppress the situation on the battlefield, their arrows would shoot at them.

Occasionally, these tribe and indigenous warriors will be on the battlefield, and the ghost-patterned soldiers and ants killed will be marked, and these will be successful after the battle.

The tribal warriors didn't understand this, and they didn't care about the ghost-patterned soldier ants they killed.

After the battle broke out, the combined forces of the adventuring group and the mercenary group that followed behind found that the army of the Lord of Surdak had stabilized the situation, and immediately moved forward, looking for those fish that had slipped through the net in the swamp behind.

There were so many of them, like a big net that had been spread, that they had enclosed a group of ghost-patterned soldiers and ants in the swamp.

Although they fought on their own, they were also very effective at blocking a group of ghost-patterned soldier ants at this time.

The battle continued until the afternoon, when the group of ghostly soldiers withdrew from the battlefield with heavy casualties, leaving behind a corpse.

Cleaning up the battlefield is the most important job of a battle, not only to clean up the corpses of those ghostly soldiers, but also to pick up the many precious magic arrows fired by the archers.

The biggest takeaway from this battle was the forty-one giant ghost-patterned soldier ants hunted by the bed crossbow, and these soldier ant legs were unloaded and moved to Surdak as soon as the colony retreated.

Surdak needed to pick out some complete life patterns from these legs, and there were a total of one hundred and seventy-three legs that were kept very intact.

Looking at the life demon pattern legs piled up like a hill in front of him, Surdak felt that the goal of this northern expedition plan had almost been completed by a third.

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There was no dry place to camp in this swamp, and after the battle, everyone stood in the muddy water, ate some marching rations, drank some water, and continued on their way.

The snow was still falling, and there was a white expanse everywhere above the poisonous swamp.

Only where the army walked, there was a filthy trail on the swamp.

Surdak and his army finally found a place with trees when it was just getting dark, at least they would not soak in the ice water if they stepped on it, Seeing that the night was about to fall, and there was still no end in sight, Surdak decided to stay here.

Although the snow covered the poisonous fog, there was still a faint poisonous fog where people stepped on the way, and the water in the swamp was not drinkable.

Many warriors inhaled some faint poisonous mist during this day, and those with weaker physiques began to have some symptoms of dizziness and vomiting, and Surdak had been prepared for this for a long time, after Justin got the herbs in Dodan Town, this time was mainly to prepare two magic potions, the first was the 'secondary life potion', and the second was the antidote.

Although there are many ways to detoxify, the most effective are the magic potions that magicians have concocted.

When Surdak set out to conquer the Dark Worm Valley, the first thing he had to face was the poisonous mist on this swamp, and of course the antidote would not be unprepared.

Surdak hurriedly poured several antidotes into the drinking water and asked all the fighters to drink some, and the symptoms of poisoning were finally effectively contained.

To prevent poisoning, Surdak demanded that the indigenous warriors not eat food from the swamp and not drink the water from the swamp.

To do this, he could only take a portion of the supplies he had prepared.

At night, piles of bonfires were lit in the woodland.

The coalition of adventure groups and mercenary groups also camped in the woods, some of them were discussing today's harvest, but there were also people who encountered such and such situations, and the symptoms were at most people with mild poisoning, and not everyone could afford to buy the antidote.

At this time, Surdak will not be too stingy, anyway, the poisoning symptoms are mild, and a bottle of antidote can dilute a wooden bucket of water, enough for a hundred and ten people to drink.

In the evening, Surdak began to use the Holy Light Technique to treat the wounded, and after a series of treatments, the more seriously injured soldiers would be transferred to the woodland camp overnight.

Where have the indigenous warriors of the tribe experienced this, and when they saw that even if they were injured, there was a high probability that they would not die, and their morale suddenly soared.

For dinner, the indigenous warriors of these tribes ate a special food, a millipede-like poisonous insect dug out of the underground silt of the poisonous swamp, this poisonous insect will lie dormant in the ground after entering the winter, and even if it is dug up, it is lazily left to be slaughtered.

The indigenous warriors said that this is a kind of poisonous insect that likes to hibernate in the swamp, hiding under the grass, many adult poisonous insects will be close to the physique of the monster, and some skulls can also dig the magic core, but their living habits cannot be changed, and they become extremely easy to catch in winter.

However, digging these poisonous insects is also a kind of physical work, you need to find the hole, and then test whether there are poisonous insects inside, and finally start digging.

Surdak really found some poisonous insects that were stiff and sleeping, and he could find the magic core by cutting open the skull.

The two-headed ogre believed that the flesh of the poisonous insect was very tender, and had long since gathered among the indigenous warriors to exchange cooking methods with them.

Surdak didn't want the soldiers' physical strength to be wasted on digging these poisonous insects, so the army did not start digging on a large scale, but after nightfall, they began to take turns to rest early.

However, the news of the swamp millipede poisonous insect did not deliberately hide the adventure group and mercenary group.

When Surdak came out of his tent early the next morning, he found that the swamp outside the woodland was almost all dug up by the men.

Some people are lucky enough to find it, and many more are blindly looking in the muddy water.

It was in the midst of this tumult that Surdak had breakfast with the warriors, and then hastily uprooted the tents in the camp and the large army continued to march.

The Northern Expeditionary Army opened a passage on the poisonous swamp, and walked for another morning to get out of this poisonous swamp and see the high mountains in the north like Tianzhu Peak.

It is said that the Valley of the Dark Worm is beneath this peak.