1282. Prologue to the Battle

A heavy snowfall turns the entire Invercargill Forest into a world of silver.

The outside temperature was not so cold this season, and the heavy snow lasted only two days, and it melted immediately after being exposed to the sun.

Although the poisonous fog swamp is not frozen, the swamp is still full of deep mud pits, but the poisonous fog that permeates the swamp has begun to gradually dissipate.

The lord army of the bridgehead camp was all ready, Surdak and Selena returned to the camp with the Thunder Rhino Caravan carrying supplies, and the lord army had already begun to prepare for the battle, and before that, Surdak had also organized some veterans from the previous battle to tell them the details of crossing the swamp.

Almost all of the bed crossbows brought from Bena City this time had already been brought to the bridgehead camp.

Outside the camp there was also a row of catapults that could throw oak barrels, which were piled up outside the camp.

Surdak convened the lord army and held a pre-battle mobilization meeting in front of the camp, and the main Surdak was going to announce the reward and punishment system in the army to the lord army of the Ganbu plane this time, and the most important thing was to explain the exchange rules of the merit exchange list to the lord army.

Because killing the ghost-patterned red ant has a high merit reward, these feats can be exchanged for gold coins, magic crystals, and weapons and equipment.

When Surdak announced these rewards, it was not surprising that the lord army that originally belonged to Surdak had experienced that kind of day.

But the other lord armies have never seen these, and these lord armies feel a little outrageous when they hear that when they are fighting, the ghost pattern red ants they kill can be exchanged for very good weapons, or that no lord was willing to invest such a large amount of money before.

Before the army set out, three forward battalions led by Andrew, Gulitham, and Wolf Knight Tiger took the lead in entering the Poison Mist Swamp.

The three armies marched hand in hand in the Poison Mist Swamp, because with the experience of entering the Poison Mist Swamp last time, this time the army entered the Poison Mist Swamp without any trouble, and passed through the Poison Mist Swamp very smoothly.

Hundreds of bed crossbows were easily brought to the swamp, in addition to dozens of catapults.

The ghost-patterned red ants also seem to sense the danger of the outside world, and almost all of them retreat back into the dark worm valley, and they don't know if it is the spiritual restraint of the ghost-patterned ant queen, and even the ghost-patterned worker ants rarely come out to forage.

In just one week, Surdak led the main army of the lord army through the Poison Mist Swamp.

This time, Surdak came to the ruins of the camp under the stone arch bridge by the lake, and there were only some broken tents in it, and some supplies were not taken away in a hurry, but those materials had almost turned into garbage.

Instead of rebuilding the camp in its place, Surdak once again built a large camp in a nearby vacant lot.

At the same time, the merchant group of the lord army and more than 10,000 members of the adventure group also followed behind the army, smoothly passed through the poisonous fog swamp, and set up camp on the tidal flat a few hundred meters away from the lake.

The Adventure League used to use the sneak attack tactics of the Ghost Pattern Soldier Ants, so this time the Adventure Group moved the loose camp back a few hundred meters to leave a combat buffer.

Immediately after that, Surdak ordered the army to occupy the huge arched stone bridge in front of him again.

A group of ghostly soldiers and ants were guarding the bridge deck, but they seemed to know that the lord army's side was in danger, so they did not rush far to fight, and they did not retreat, they just stood on the bridge deck, opening their sharp tentacles to warn the lord army.

This was the first time that the heavy armored infantry warriors of the dry cloth plane had seen these ghost-patterned red ants, and many warriors were a little disgusted by these dark red demonic beasts.

However, the lord army in Surdak's hands is extremely experienced in combat.

After Surdak returned from the battlefield, in addition to harvesting some magic pattern structures, the most important thing was that the combat concept changed, especially the battle in this narrow area, which was like fighting with demon warriors on the mountain path of the Blue Bridge Fortress.

When he was in the Blue Bridge Fortress, he fought with demon warriors in the narrow mountain passes.

This kind of battle doesn't require too many elite soldiers, so the first to rush onto the stone bridge was Andrew and his knight squad, he even only brought two constructed knight squads, followed by three heavy infantry squadrons on the bridge, the number of heavy infantry soldiers is only one hundred and eighty heavy infantry, and there are sixty archers at the back, these are all the men of Andrew's bridgehead commando.

Andrew stood at the front, with twelve Constructed Knights behind him, and almost instantly strangled with the Ghost Striped Soldier Ants after rushing onto the bridge.

Arrows continue to fall on the battlefield from behind, but the damage to the ghost-patterned red ants is almost negligible.

More than a dozen catapults were at the head of the bridge, constantly throwing some powder barrels on the bridge, these powder barrels exploded on the bridge deck, but it brought a lot of damage to the ghost soldier ants, and some of the ghost pattern soldiers whose bodies were stained with some corpse fire oil could only fall into the lake like dumplings.

After these ghost-patterned soldiers fell into the lake, they could hardly land directly.

Because there are already a large number of adventure party members gathered on the shore at the moment, they will not easily let go of any of the ghost-patterned soldier ants.

The roaring explosions rang out one after another, and the battle began.

Because Andrew already had a lot of experience before, he mastered the rhythm of the battle very well this time, almost forming a perfect linkage with the catapults and crossbowmen behind, the stone arch bridge passed by Andrew a little bit, and he could occupy some stone bridges every day, and these ghostly red ants kept retreating, and did not have any desire to fight. Hope.

Every day of the battle, the corpses of some ghost-patterned soldiers were brought back from the stone bridge.

Of course, Gulitham and Wolf Knight Tiger will alternate with Andrew, taking turns rushing to the stone bridge to kill the ghostly red ants.

The two-headed ogre has grown in strength lately, and as long as he stands on the bridge, the ghost-striped red ants will not look at the other warriors, although Gulit is almost in and out of the ghost-patterned red ant colony, and there are no giant soldier ants to resist its ravages and attacks.

The corpse of the ghost pattern soldier ant is the biggest trophy, and hundreds of ghost pattern worker ants are turned into everyone's trophies every day.

In addition to these ghostly red ants, there were also some soldiers who were injured in the battle, and the soldiers of the logistics team carried the wounded soldiers on the battlefield back to the camp, and Nika and her medical team would quickly start treatment, and only the kind of seriously injured warriors Surdak would personally treat them.

During this time, the adventuring group also formed a temporary legion, and they began to trap and kill ghost-patterned soldier ants by the lake.

For a time, the lake was full of battlefields......