996. Grova's plan
Thea followed Surdak's side, and her hydrotherapy healed most of the warriors' minor injuries, though it hurt a little during the treatment.
At this time, everyone realized that this girl with eyes as beautiful as a lake was actually a water magician, and they usually saw this little girl surrounding Master Surdak all day long, but they didn't expect that she was still a magician......
The magicians in the law enforcement corps are also on the move, and everyone wants to get to know this beautiful girl.
Of the group of magicians, only Archmage Harper saw some clues, and he immediately stopped the unreasonable actions of these magicians who exuded male hormones.
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The captured Dark Mage took poison before dawn and did not reveal anything about the Dark Arts Retreat until his death.
The next day, when the merit value was counted, the new troops of these infantry regiments learned that the trophies they had captured were not handed over for free, but could be exchanged for a certain amount of merit, and the heavy infantry regiment had issued an announcement that a hundred merit points could be exchanged for a gold coin......
Well, last night's battle, all the soldiers of the 1st Heavy Infantry Regiment earned the first hundred points of merit in their lives.
This alone was the envy of other infantry regiments.
The captured metal armor, Lord Surdak, did not put it into his pocket, but with the efforts of everyone, he reassembled two thousand five hundred sets of intact armor.
These suits were then issued to the 2nd Heavy Infantry Regiment, and about 1,000 infantry soldiers from the 3rd Heavy Infantry Regiment were given this captured armor.
Nearly 4,000 new troops were armoured throughout the camp.
The quality of this batch of armor is far inferior to the fifteen hundred sets of heavy armor purchased by Surdak!
Even so, for these infantry regiment recruits, being able to wear a full set of armor means that they are eligible for the next battle, and everyone is looking forward to it.
When the bearded man captured the town of Takkale, he captured a large amount of supplies, but the armor and weapons he obtained were very limited.
Not as much armor and weapons as Surdak captured in this battle.
The soldiers of the heavy infantry regiment continued to rest in this camp for half a day.
Afterwards, Surdak led them to another area of Crow Ridge.
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In the afternoon, the Dark Mage scouts also found the abandoned camp, and when he tried to follow the clues, he was almost shot down from the air by Samira with an arrow from the sky.
If it weren't for the fact that this black mage was proficient in a little electric magic and magic armor, he would probably have become Samira's trophy.
When he fled back in a hurry, and the other infantry regiments of the Third Army touched this side, all traces of the camp here were covered by a heavy rain......
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The six commanders of the infantry regiment, riding on their horses, circled twice in the ruined camp, and gathered together with gloomy faces.
The warriors of the Guards surrounded the clearing, forming two distinct circles with the hellhounds.
Not far away, there are stinking demonic minions who soothe the grumpy hellhounds.
Twenty or so black mages hovered through the sky on their magic handles, tirelessly circling the jungle up and down, looking for clues left behind by the Resistance.
However, these magicians just wandered back and forth in this woodland, not daring to fly too far, after all, their companions have died a little bit this time, who knows if the next person will be themselves, there is always nothing wrong with being careful.
This time, the black mage transferred 2,000 hellhounds and demon minions from the rear of the Third Legion, just to let these hellhounds play their due role in the jungle.
The hellhounds searched the abandoned camp for a long time, but found nothing but flocks of birds in the forest that flew up from the treetops and killed a few slow-moving beasts.
From time to time, the black-pressed hellhounds let out a burst of roars and whimper......
In the eyes of these dark mages, the Hellhound battle is much more reliable than the group of infantry warriors in front of them.
Unfortunately, the Dark Mage didn't expect the rain to come so quickly, and by the time they arrived, all the smells had been washed away by the rain.
Even the last bits of blood on the ground seeped into the dirt.
According to the information provided by the infantry regiment, the magicians arrived early, but unfortunately nothing has been found until now.
The Black Mage suspects that the disappearance of several Black Mages on the outskirts of Bansk Town half a month ago may have an indirect relationship with the annihilation of the 7th Infantry Regiment.
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The 7th Infantry Regiment was attacked by the rebels at night, and the 3rd Army finally realized that it had underestimated the strength of the opposing side.
At the same time, the phenomenon of internal turmoil within the Third Legion has finally subsided, and the internal supply lines of the Legion have finally extended to the eastern border of Banksy Town, Crow Ridge, and those noble cavalry lords are also in Grova. At MacDonnell's urging, he slowly marched towards the eastern border.
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Several infantry regiment commanders got together, and they didn't fit in with the black-robed magicians, and even if they were in the same camp, they didn't look down on each other and didn't get along very well.
Therefore, the two groups of men and horses usually do not get together, and if it weren't for the destruction of the 7th Infantry Regiment this time, their regimental commanders would not have endured the stench and stood on the same abandoned camp as these hellhounds.
The camp was empty, and only a few extinguished campfires remained.
The commander of the first step corps was a bald man with a steady personality, and his speech seemed to be urn-like, so he said: "There are so many people, have you left any traces to follow?" ”
His lieutenant hurriedly explained in a whisper: "Yesterday a rain covered up all the smells, and now those hellhounds can't do anything." ”
The leaders glanced to the other side of the ruins, where there was a gathering of black and crushing hellhounds, and from time to time there was a low roar.
"I've heard that those demon minions came from Acretown......"
A young infantry regiment commander was about to tell the gossip he had inquired about, when he was interrupted by a bald man's remarks:
"Hey, don't ask if we shouldn't know, you see, maybe one day we'll end up with the same fate as the 7th Infantry Regiment, but at least this is a decent death, if you really offend some people because of your nonsense, maybe you will be sprinkled in the vegetable garden as fertilizer, then it will be too worthless, I am not reconciled......"
Hearing the bald man say this, the commanders of the infantry regiment who wanted to talk about the recent strange events collectively became silent.
The commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment looked around and asked the bald man:
"Where do you say those Constructed Swordsmen came from?"
The bald man sneered with disdain, "Apart from the stubborn veteran lords of Bena, is there any province that is willing to train a constructed swordsman?" ”
The commander of the Fifth Infantry Regiment asked with a worried face, "So what are we going to do next?" With our infantry regiment, how could we defeat the constructed swordsmen! ”
"I heard that the legionnaires are coming." The bald man touched his slippery head, and added: "Young Master Grois will arrive in the afternoon, I think we should prepare seriously, and when we see him, we should always have some words." ”
The expressions of several infantry regiment commanders immediately became much more serious, and it was not long before the infantry regiment commanders dispersed and led the infantry regiment to carpet search the area.
The Dark Mages also began to urge the Hellhound Legion to search westward, and they followed through the air on their Magic Handles......
Wait until the afternoon of the same day, Grova. MacDonnell led a detachment of personal cavalry to the ruins of the camp.
Dozens of green-scaled horses scurried out of the jungle, a well-armed group of knights, with a young man in the center.
This young master of Grois looks very similar to Lord MacDonnell when he was younger, with slender eyes, sunken eye sockets, a little dark circles under his eyes, a little pale face, and a little sickly complexion, which gives people the feeling that his gaze is a little gloomy at a glance, and he looks at everything around him with a scrutinizing gaze.
Seeing that Young Master Grois had arrived at the ruined camp, the dark mages in the air hurriedly gathered.
They are very familiar with Grois, and if it weren't for Grova pulling the strings from him, the Dark Mage would probably have been difficult to gain a foothold in the Dry Cloth Plane. Nike Donnell was able to bring in 3,000 hellhounds and demon minions from the north, as well as fifty dark mages, to participate in the war to destroy the rebels.
In fact, the encirclement and suppression of the rebels went very smoothly the other day, after all, it was the elite troops of Lord MacDonnell's regular lord army, who pushed down five rebel camps and used two weeks to hunt down countless rebel soldiers in the mountains.
The only thing that made Grova rush to the annoyance was that the logistics regiment of the Third Army was not well prepared, and there were no merchants willing to go with the army, so the logistics of the Third Army could not keep up.
In addition, because of the victory in the preliminary stage, there are many voices in the legion.
The tension between the cavalry and the infantry also deepened, and these problems made Grois scratch his head.
"Lord McCarthy, what's wrong with the reconnaissance team, so many rebels gathered here without noticing?" Grois asked to the Dark Mage Leader, Mage McCarthy.
"A while ago, there were some second-turn powerhouses hunting our people everywhere in the mountains, and recently a group of magicians from the Magic Guild Law Enforcement Group have gathered here, and our flight reconnaissance trajectory is very limited, and we can't get close to their main force at all......," McCarthy explained with a gloomy face.
He's the head of this Dark Mage Support Team, and his personal relationship with Grova has always been good.
Recently, six dark mages have been lost one after another, so he doesn't know how to explain to the elder when he returns to Acre Town.
Grova's gaze softened a little, and he turned his head and asked:
"So can you roughly determine the location of this group of rebels?"
The dark mage McCarthy reluctantly nodded and said, "Yes, it should still be lurking in the western mountains of Raven Ridge, and I will send Hellhound out to scout all the areas next, I think...... The unexplored place is probably their hiding place, when will your cavalry regiment arrive on this side of the battlefield? ”
"It won't take more than ten days...... at most," Grova said with a determined gaze.
"All the commanders of your infantry regiment are here, I don't need you to look for clues about the rebels here, and from now on, you take all the infantry fighters to the jungle for me to cut trees...... I need an unobstructed road from here to the town of Bansk, which will facilitate the transport of strategic goods by the transport group. Grova took the reins of his horse in one hand and commanded the infantry commanders who were arriving.
The commanders of these infantry regiments didn't care what to do, and it was much safer to cut wood in the jungle than to rush to the front line and face the group of swordsmen.
"Yes, Captain Grois."
The infantry commanders received orders one after another, and then quickly retreated to the ruined camp with their own infantry regiments.
The reconnaissance team that was conducting a search mission between the mountains in front also saw the retreating magic flares, and immediately stopped, so that Surdak could withdraw from this Black Crow Ridge as soon as possible.
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A heavy infantry squad ambushed on the mountain beam of Black Crow Ridge looked at the infantry reconnaissance team of the lord army who turned around and left one hundred and fifty meters down the mountain, and looked at each other for a while.
"How did they withdraw?" The infantry warrior crouching behind a boulder looked down the hill and muttered quietly.
"I thought I was going to fight here...... "My companion said with some regret.
"I pulled out my knives, and they actually slapped their ass. The shares ran away. A warrior put his dangling knight's sword back into its scabbard, craned his neck, and said.
In order to find out the situation, this infantry team took advantage of being extremely familiar with the surrounding environment, and took advantage of the night to run back to the original ruined camp to investigate the situation, only to find that the infantry regiment of the lord's army was building a camp here.
One of the soldiers in the squad climbed a tree and looked at the place where the campfire was lit not far away, and said, "They are camped on our old camp, don't you say, they are quite discerning." ”
One of the infantry soldiers standing at the front of the guard quickly said: "Everyone, be careful, the hellhounds are coming, let's lure them back a little." ”
The twelve warriors did not hesitate any longer, turned and went into the leafy jungle......