In just a few days, the hellhounds roaming in Black Crow Ridge were cleaned up by the Constructed Swordsman Regiment, and the Black Mages did not expect that this group of Constructed Swordsmen was not afraid of revealing their whereabouts at all, although during this period, the Black Mages forcibly intervened several times and damaged several Black Mages.

This annoyed the Dark Mage McCarthy, but there was nothing he could do, and the only thing he could do was to find out where the Surdak Legion was hiding.

Subsequently, Grova. MacDonnell immediately sent two heavy cavalry regiments and three infantry regiments straight into the col.

Because of the mages probing in the sky, Surdak knew the movements of the lord's army in advance, and by the time they surrounded the col, Surdak had already rushed to the valley at the foot of the Black Crow Ridge with his heavy infantry regiment.

During this time, some new troops were recruited one after another, and the number of Surdak's army has exceeded 8,000.

Although the team is a bit bloated, these fighters are members of the Resistance Army, and they have a lot of experience in surviving in the jungle, and they are also very experienced in how to get out of the pursuit of the lord army.

A heavy cavalry regiment of the lord's army, less than two hundred men, wandered at the foot of the Black Crow Ridge Mountain, and happened to encounter the retreating heavy infantry regiment.

This squadron of heavy cavalry, with its superior equipment of heavy armor and knight's spears, actually wanted to drag down Surdak's heavy infantry regiment by itself.

The Quintas Archswordsmen and the Constructed Swordsmen are just not there, otherwise Surdak plans to directly eat the two hundred heavy cavalry squadrons.

The fighters of the 1st Heavy Infantry Regiment fought and retreated in the jungle all the way to the river.

The jungle is full of vines, the war horses can't run at all, and in some places where the vines are dense, the cavalry has to make a detour.

"Their cavalry is coming after them from behind, what are we going to do?" Samira leaped nimbly from the canopy of a large tree and reported to Surdak.

Surdak looked at the thirty or so flat-bottomed boats docked by the river and said:

"Beckoning the warriors to get on board, let's go across the river!"

Most of the hoplites had already crossed the river, and the rest of the 1st Hoplite Regiment had jumped into the flat-bottomed boats, which could only transport a thousand men at a time, and the remaining 500 men did not board the boats, so they quickly took off their heavy armor and threw them on the boats, but the men jumped into the river and swam across the river with their hands on the side of the boat.

The heavy cavalry tried to rush to the bank of the river to stop them, but were stopped by a rain of arrows fired by archers on the other side of the river.

I watched a wave rise in the river, pushing more than 30 flat-bottomed boats, almost all of which docked without ferrying.

The heavy cavalry stood by the river, across the river from Surdak's heavy infantry.

Some knights couldn't help but try, the water of this river was a little deep, and the front legs of the blue-scaled war horse had just stepped into the river, and it had already reached the chest of the war horse, so in desperation, the knight could only pull the reins of the horse and let the blue-scaled war horse flutter back to the shore.

At this time, Grova, who had been following behind to eat ashes. McDonnell finally led a large force to catch up, and looking at the hoplite regiment retreating on foot along the other side of the river to the west, Commander Grova finally gave the order again:

"The 1st and 2nd Heavy Cavalry Regiments continue to pursue these rebels across the riverbank, and the 3rd and 4th Heavy Cavalry Regiments continue the pursuit from the shallow water ten miles behind this river to the opposite bank!"

Then Grova looked at the panting infantry regiment that was running all the way, thought for a moment and said, "Let's set up some rafts here......"

Among the supplies that came from the camp were sheepskins that could be blown into air bags, and when these sheepskin air bags were injected into the air and tied under the rafts, they could be used as rafts to transport troops. That's what Grova wants to do.

He said to several commanders of cavalry regiments:

"I want to have some troops on both sides of the riverbank, and then the cavalry on both sides will go together, and I will make some rafts here to meet you, and this river will be an important passage for our crusade in the future, and I will have the infantry regiment open a forest road along both sides of the river bank for the cavalry to pass."

Hearing Grova's arrangement, several commanders of the heavy cavalry regiment could only take orders to set off.

……

Just as the four heavy cavalry regiments were in action, Grova suddenly noticed a noble knight standing in the shade of a tree on the other side of the river.

Although he had never seen him before, his intuition told him that the man opposite him was the commander of the rebel army.

Surdak looked at the young commander quietly, Samira originally wanted to shoot an arrow from a long distance to see if he could hit it, but after hesitating for a moment, he jumped down from the top of the tree, and left decisively after the large army without looking back.

More than thirty flat-bottomed boats also followed the large force down the river......

A heavy cavalry pursued on the other side of the river, but they did not seem to dare to go too far from the larger forces behind.

The rainforest was overgrown with vines, and the cavalry had no speed advantage, and in this pursuit, because the Surdak Heavy Infantry Regiment had been adopting a strategy of avoiding battle, so that the main cavalry of the Lord Army of the Third Army thought that these heavy infantry were vulnerable, and under the influence of this great psychology, a large number of Third Army lords were scattered along the river.

Grova's army of lords numbered 15,000 men, including 10,000 infantry warriors, 2,000 heavy cavalry, 2,000 light cavalry, and 1,000 archers, but all the combat units of the Third Legion were scattered in the narrow valley between the front camp and the Kempera Valley.

In order to allow the passage of cavalry, Grova prepared to carve out a forest path in the dense woods on both sides of the river.

The infantry of the 3rd Army was again reduced to a group of lumberjacks......

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The heavy infantry regiment finally ran to the place where Surdak had preset a decisive battle, and the lords of the Third Legion on the opposite side were finally dragged out of formation, and almost all the lords could only act in battalions.

The cavalry that pursued at the front had always pursued the desire to hold back the heavy infantry regiment and wait until reinforcements from the large rear forces arrived.

It's just that in the course of the pursuit, they didn't realize that they had pulled some distance from the main army.

Or rather, there were no large forces at all, and the entire Third Army was dragged into a mess.

It's a low-lying canyon where three rivers meet and then split into two branches.

A river that flows to the canyon town to the east.

Another river, flowing to the south of the Honkai Lands.

The valley is flanked by a faulty mountain range more than 50 meters high, and the area in the middle is still three or four kilometers wide, but the whole canyon is ten kilometers long.

Fragmented by a meandering river, it is known locally as the Kempera Valley.

Coming here, there was no need for the hoplite regiment to retreat blindly.

At this moment, the Surdak Heavy Infantry Regiment has been fully equipped with four heavy infantry regiments that can participate in the battle, counting five hundred armored swordsmen and five hundred archers, the number of participants in the battle is a total of seven thousand, and it is already in ambush in the canyon at this moment.

As night fell, rivers flowed everywhere, and these rivers blocked the heavy cavalry regiment.

"O cowardly rebels! In front of the iron cavalry of the Third Legion, they would only flee with their tails between their legs...... If it weren't for this river, they might not have survived tonight, but now they can only live a little longer, tomorrow! Tomorrow will be the time for us to ride down this canyon! ”

Many cavalrymen in heavy cavalry regiments thought so.

At present, only four heavy cavalry regiments have caught up, and a large number of infantry are still cutting trees behind......

As for the regiment of archers of a thousand...... In fact, there was no archer regiment anymore, and the Archswordsmen of Quintas had ambushed the archers with their constructed swordsmen just now.

For the constructed swordsmen, this group of archers is in the jungle and is not qualified to act alone at all.