1391. Return to the Woodyard Camp
As soon as the 50,000 ghost-patterned soldier ants appeared at the foot of the lonely peak, the demon warriors gathered on the lonely peak became a mess.
The general was trapped at the top of the mountain, and the human magicians had laid several walls of fire on the scorched earth, and the demon warriors were already like ants on a hot pot, and they couldn't even decide to break through the wall of fire in one fell swoop, go to the top of the mountain to rescue the general, or retreat to the woods at the foot of the mountain.
Now seeing the giant dark red soldier ants gathered at the foot of the mountain, the demon warriors knew that a battle for life and death would ensue.
As a berserker, Andrew is like a madman on the battlefield, and he is the first to rush to the front every time he fights.
This was the first time he had charged with a swarm of soldier ants, and the dark red soldier ants formed a tight horizontal line behind Andrew, and they huddled together one after another, following Andrew, looking like a dark red wall.
Andrew had heard Surdak talk about these demon warriors more than once, and knew that demon warriors were born with divine powers, and once they got into their familiar rhythm of combat, it might take some effort to win.
However, these demon warriors are all brainless and lack flexibility on the battlefield, so if you grasp their weakness, you can easily win.
This is the first time that the ghost tattoo soldiers and ants have engaged in a large-scale battle, in fact, Andrew is not sure, because in his impression, the combat power of these ghost tattoo soldiers and ants is also very weak, and when he fights in the Dark Worm Valley, every time he meets his Constructed Knights, they will be defeated and retreated.
Now these ghost-patterned soldiers and ants are lined up in a neat row on the battlefield under the command of a group of Druyin, with the hoplites following the soldiers, the shield warriors walking in front, and a row of spear warriors behind.
Fifty thousand ghost-patterned soldier ants surrounded the foot of Lone Peak Mountain, and all the soldier ants followed closely behind Andrew, approaching halfway up the mountain.
A group of demon warriors gathered, almost more than 300 evil ghosts, and they formed a battle group, hoping to take advantage of the soldier ant army at the foot of the mountain to fight their way out before forming a siege.
At the beginning of the battle, the demon warriors collided head-on with the ghost soldier ants, and when the fist swords and battle blades in their hands were stiffly framed by the teeth of the ghost soldier ants, and when they found that they could not suppress these soldiers with their strength superiority, the last hope of these demon warriors was shattered.
The Ghost Ant is also a powerful ant, and its body is also covered with a layer of hard armor with black magic patterns.
In hand-to-hand combat, the Ghost Soldier Ant and the Demon Warrior are evenly matched.
However, 50,000 soldiers and ants were gathered on the battlefield, and the number of demon warriors did not exceed 1,000, so the numerical advantage made the demon warriors quickly annihilate in the ant tide.
And the hoplite soldiers who followed behind would not miss the opportunity at this time.
Everyone first hid behind the soldier ants, and only when the soldiers and the demon warriors fought together, the heavy infantry soldiers behind would rush up and slash at the joints of the demon warriors with the heavy swords in their hands.
For heavy infantry warriors, the most conspicuous weakness of the demon warriors is in the crooks of their legs, and as long as the tendons are cut along the gaps in the bony hard armor, the demon warriors will instantly become lame.
Surrounded by these soldier ants, Andrew had no worries at all and rushed all the way to the top of the mountain.
After this battle, it was almost completely annihilated by this demon hunting group.
When collecting the corpses of demon warriors, the infantry soldiers brought back the corpses of more than 700 demon warriors, the heads of these demon warriors were too precious, and each head contained a magic core, and a black magic crystal was indispensable in it.
Today, the price of unidentified Black Magic Crystals in the market is as high as eighteen gold coins, and this is still priceless.
At the same time, each demon head is a good sacrifice, and it is more useful for Surdak.
Andrew led the ants to slay the demon warriors, crossed the fading wall of fire, and reached the top of the mountain, where Surdak had just healed the wounds of Bernita the frostwolf.
Gullitham and Tygo lay side by side on a stretcher next to a boulder, almost covered in bandages, and the top of the mountain was littered with traces of a scorched lake.
The three magicians of the mage group and Surdak gathered around a map and reported to Surdak: "After the investigation of our mage group, it can be confirmed that within a radius of dozens of kilometers, there is no second demon hunting group, and no remnant demon ...... escaped."
Surdak looked at the map and nodded slightly.
He turned his head to see Andrew, who was covered in blood, leading his horse and approaching him, so he asked him, "How did it feel to fight with these soldiers for the first time?" ”
"It's not bad, under the command of this group of Druyin, they are very obedient, and they rushed up in one go." Andrew replied cheerfully.
Then he strode over to Gulit and Tygo, and asked the two of them who were wrapped up like mummies, "Guys, I have avenged you two this time, and these demon warriors have all beheaded them all!" ”
Gulit and Brain Flower looked at each other unwillingly, but they could only sigh helplessly.
Apparently not satisfied with the performance of this reconnaissance mission.
"Commander Surdak, our scouts have found a large stockpile of bacon on a cliff on the other side of the valley, most likely from the hunting of these demon warriors." The magician Arvid stood aside and whispered to Surdak.
Hearing Avid say such information, Surdak's eyes immediately lit up.
The reason why Surdak's soldier ant army went north along the mountain forest was also because the edge of the mountain forest was rich in resources, which could solve the problem of ghost pattern soldier ant rations.
After all, the logistics department of the military department is not a merchant group with the army, and it can do all the details perfectly.
The Soldier Ant Legion has been in the Warsaw plane for more than half a month, but it still hasn't been able to solve the supply problem of the Ghost Pattern Soldier Ants.
Now that I heard that the scouts of the mage group had discovered the place where the demon hunting group had stored food, I was naturally more concerned.
"How many?" Surdak asked impatiently.
The Wizard of Arvid nodded to Surdak and said to him with a smile:
"There are so many of them that the whole one-horned bison bacon almost hangs on the roof of the cave below the cliff wall......"
The next step was to clean up the battlefield, and the heads of these demon warriors were all under Surdak's command, and the infantry soldiers in the legion who were good at skinning could also cut the black devil skins from the corpses of these demon warriors at will.
As for the outermost layer of bone hard armor of the demon warrior, it is useless, without the nourishment of the demon warrior's body, these bone armor will actually become very brittle, and the bone armor cannot be reshaped, so what can still be worth a few dollars on their body is the black pattern demon skin.
And this kind of black-veined demon skin has always belonged to whoever kills it to peel it.
When the skins are exchanged for money, all members of the battle squad are divided equally.
The biggest reward from winning the battle was the unidentified Black Crystal that filled an entire treasure chest.
As long as these magic crystals are brought back to the headquarters of the Bena Legion in Handanar City, these black magic crystals will become real military achievements.
Surdak's current title is only a third-class earl, and territorial expansion in the Bellin plane will not bring him any merit.
However, becoming a plane lord as an earl is indeed a lower title, and the way he wants to get promoted is nothing more than that as a second-turn powerhouse, he can enter the battlefield to obtain merits, or participate in plane wars, whether it is against the hell demon clan, the undead ghost clan, or the dark forces of the abyss, he can obtain the black magic crystal.
This is the road he must take to be promoted, so at the beginning of Duke Newman's order, Marquis Luthor did not stop him in the military department, but supported him to participate in this entry into the Warsaw plane and participate in the plane war.
And Surdak didn't expect to find a granary for the demon legion in this mountain range......
When the magician scout led Surdak to the cave below the cliff on the other side of the river, the cave was covered with ash, and the stone walls at the top of the cave were densely packed with bacon, which were almost whole beasts, and some sheep, elk, and one-horned bison.
When Surdak entered the cave, he found that the drier part of the cave was full of bacon that had already been baked.
Most of this bacon is a whole one-horned bison, and it can be said that the main targets of the demon hunting groups along the Samosto River are probably herds of one-horned bison, or wild boars and sheep.
The rations of 50,000 ghost pattern soldier ants have been solved for the time being, so much bacon can at least allow 50,000 soldier ants to last for a month, and all the food must be carried, this time thousands of soldier ants have to carry a heavy load to the north, fortunately, the soldier ants are very strong.
On the banks of the Samosto River, Surdak studied the map of Handanar for a long time.
In the end, instead of letting the Soldier Ant Legion return to the edge of the jungle along the same path that had been carved out in the mountains, he made the bold decision to lead the Soldier Legion further north along the Samosto River.
For the cavalry, some of the mountains along the Samosto River seemed impassable, and some deep ravines or waterfalls along the way required the cavalry to at least make a detour through the dense jungle, but it was not a problem for the soldiers who were excellent at climbing.
The most important reason for Surdak to make this bold decision was actually that when the mage reconnaissance team was scouting north along the river, they found another demon hunting group, and the number of demon warriors was about the same as the one encountered this time, probably nearly a thousand demon warriors.
Surdak and Andrew concluded that the valley of the Samosto River was an important hunting ground for the Legion of Demons, and that it was here that they sent a steady stream of food supplies to feed the Legion of Demons.
So this time, Surdak decided to wipe out the demon warriors who were hunting along the way, and plundered all the food they had hoarded.
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For this battle along the Samosto River, the upper echelons of the Demon Legion did not think about it at all......
In fact, the plane war has been going on for so many years, and the demon legion has become accustomed to the way the Imperial legion fights.
The most powerful army of the Grimm Empire is the Knights of Formation, and the demon warriors cannot resist the full charge of the Heavy Cavalry Regiment on the frontal battlefield.
The hoplite regiments often act as cannon fodder on the battlefield, and the demons don't look down on those infantry regiments.
A simple heavy infantry regiment and a demon army can not bargain for a jungle battle, but the Knights and Heavy Cavalry regiments cannot fight the demons in the jungle, which is also one of the problems that has always restricted the expansion of the Bena Legion into the northern mountains.
At the time of the Battle of Moyunling, Duke Newman mobilized nearly 6,000 heavy infantry soldiers to open up a forest road from the forest camp to Moyunling in order for the cavalry regiment to enter Moyunling.
The high-level of the Demon Legion did not expect that as soon as the Soldier Ant Legion entered the Warsaw plane, they would accidentally discover an important hunting ground of the Evil Ghost Legion, and they did not expect that this time the Western Route Army actually brought over 50,000 ghost pattern soldiers, these soldiers and ants are in the jungle, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the heavy cavalry.
So as soon as he found a demon hunting group, he quickly opened his fangs and swallowed it in one gulp.
Of course, the victory in this battle also had a lot to do with the fact that the magicians put down their posture and took the initiative to help Surdak's lord army scout the surrounding woods.
The second demon hunting group
The third demon hunting group
The Fourth Demon Hunting Regiment......
As long as the mage scout finds the demon hunting group, Surdak will surround it with the army of soldier ants, and the evil spirits in this mountain range have long been accustomed to this kind of hunting life, and there has never been any situation in the past few years, so that they have become a little less vigilant.
They subconsciously thought that the Imperial cavalry would not be able to enter the jungle to fight, and that the infantry regiment would be useless even if it came.
Therefore, many demon warriors think that hunting in the mountains will not be dangerous at all.
It was this negligence that allowed the soldier ant legion, which was rapidly advancing northward, to seize the opportunity, and along the way, the mage reconnaissance group found six demon hunting groups of about 1,000 people on the banks of the Samosto River, almost all of them wiped out all the demon warriors, and reaped rich loot.
When the Soldier Ant Legion reached the upper tributary of the Samosto River, and there was no trace of the demon warriors in the surrounding mountains, Surdak decided to take the Soldier Ant Legion west out of the mountains.
When the soldier ant army came out of the jungle, almost all of them were carrying a large amount of smoked meat on their backs.
This jungle road also allowed Surdak's soldier ant army to completely bypass the city of Handanar and the northern meadow of the county, and the soldier ant army only traveled west along the edge of the jungle, and after more than a month of trekking, this army of soldier ants loaded with food finally arrived at the forest farm camp.
Surdak rode a demonic warhorse and walked at the front of the ranks of the Soldier Ant Legion.
The camp in the col in the distance gradually appeared in front of him, and he could not suppress the excitement in his heart, there was still a market on the grassy slope opposite the camp.
Surdak rode his demonic warhorse to a stop on the high hill, looking out at the camp rebuilt from the ruins, feeling his heart beating violently......
'Bang...... Bang...... Bang......'
It was as if a huge fist was pounding violently on the chest, and the blood in the body seemed to be gushing out of the throat in the next moment......
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