1394. The original ant cavalry
Looks pretty good!
At least that's what Surdak thinks.
He used his broadsword to slash at the edge of the bone shield a few times, and when the blade touched the bone face, it was like inserting the blade into a viscous honey jar, not that it couldn't be cut, but the surrounding chaotic aura was like a substantial viscous liquid, surrounding the blade, greatly slowing down the speed of the blade to cut down.
The Demon General's bones were like tough rubbers, and the broadsword slashed on them only left a mark, and did not cause substantial damage to the bone shield.
Blacksmith Herak saw Surdak test the strength of the shield with a broadsword with magical attributes, and at first he was a little worried that the broadsword would crack the bone shield in half. It wasn't until Surdak tried a few times that the bone shield was still undamaged, and the hanging heart was considered to have fallen.
As a blacksmith in the army, Herac, of course, has seen the world.
He knew that the magic pattern engraved on this broadsword was the blessing of some magic buff effects, and the magic pattern that wrapped the entire sword body showed that this broadsword was very valuable.
It was such a magic broadsword, and it only left a slight mark on the bone shield, which was by no means how exquisite his skills were, which improved the strength of the bone shield itself, but that this bone face itself was a high-grade magic material.
Such a high-grade magic material was not smashed in his hands, and the blacksmith Herak was still secretly relieved.
Thinking of this, he finally wanted to take a serious look at what material was used for the skin of the bone shield.
It's clearly a bony face that has been peeled off from the demon's body......
It's not like Herac, the blacksmith, has never seen this thing, but this bony face looks a little bigger, and the aura that overflows is even stronger.
Surdak tied it securely to his right arm, and when he saw that there was some confusion at the gate of the barracks, he walked towards the gate of the barracks.
When I got closer, I saw a group of ghost-patterned soldier ants carrying a large amount of bacon stopped outside the camp by a group of guards, who were holding spears and vigilantly pointing at the soldiers outside the camp.
Commander Drake hurried from the barracks with a team of guards, seemed to circle around the soldiers, and asked Surdak, "Commander Surdak, are they ...... The army you brought with you too? ”
Surdak nodded and said, "They are prisoners of war that I captured in the White Forest Plane. ”
Commander Drake immediately waved his hand and motioned for the guards at the gate of the garrison camp to let them go.
His gaze fell on the bone shield on Surdak's arm, and his eyes suddenly became extraordinarily bright, apparently recognizing the origin of this bony face.
"It's really a tyrannical thing, with this rough production method, it is impossible to preserve the aura on the demon general's body, and when these chaotic aura completely dissipates, this bone shield can only become an ordinary shield."
A 'tsk' sigh came out of his mouth.
"If you can bring it to Handanar City, this demon general's bone face can at least be made into a white bone shield with magical attributes."
"This kind of high-quality demon general bone face is rarely seen even in Handanar City."
Commander Drake added at the end.
However, he didn't know that there were five demon generals' heads in the demon sealing box placed in Surdak's magic belt.
Surdak just smiled innocently, patted the bone shield with his broadsword, and said casually: "No way, the shield that is the most convenient is damaged, so I can only do this side temporarily, I will throw this shield into the magic sealing box, so that at least I can delay the spread of the magic aura above......"
Commander Drake's gaze lingered on the two hollow eyes of the demon general, and he didn't speak for a moment.
At this time, the ghostly soldiers who stayed outside the camp entered the garrison camp one after another under the command of the Druyin.
In the most conspicuous spot in the middle of the camp were stacked with supplies, and the Druyin ordered the soldiers to go to the clearing over there, and the soldiers piled the bacon made from the whole animal in the clearing, and since they couldn't stack it, the bacon soon became a hill in the clearing.
The ghostly soldiers piled up the bacon in the camp and left the garrison.
The ghost-patterned soldier ants entered the camp carrying a large amount of bacon meat, and not only the soldiers of the garrison who were about to leave were a little dumbfounded, but even Commander Drake was a little envious.
"Where did these supplies come from?" Commander Drake asked Surdak.
Obviously, he should know the origin of these smoked meats, but he is not too sure yet, so he asks.
Surdak did not hide it, and said casually: "Our Western Route Army walked all the way from Epson City to Handanar County, and after entering Handanar County, we followed the Samosto River all the way north, and met the demon hunting group in the jungle on the bank of the river, we killed some and drove some away, and then the magician reconnaissance team also found their food storage warehouse near the cliff, and it happened that the rations of these soldiers and ants had not yet landed at that time, so they brought these bacon back." ”
The quartermaster in charge of the supplies in the camp was counting the bacon with a bitter face, and he also called a group of infantry soldiers to stack the bacon neatly.
"You just went through a jungle battle a few days ago and captured so much loot?" Commander Drake thought it was a little incredible, but he believed the facts.
"That's pretty much it." Surdak honestly admitted.
Commander Drake looked at the ghost-patterned soldier ants and said with some envy, "This is really a strange soldier!" ”
Then he thought of something, and immediately reminded Surdak: "In the next few months, the demon army in Moyunling may not be so peaceful, and since their food supplies have been plundered by you, they will find ways to replenish them. ”
"There are no animals left in this jungle for them to hunt, and they have accumulated so much food that they can't make up overnight."
"In the past, they couldn't hunt enough prey, so they would wage frequent wars against the forest camps."
"And there are only two ways for them to solve the food shortage, the first is to get a large number of corpses of imperial soldiers from the battlefield and eat them on the spot, and the second is to reduce the number of demon warriors in the legion to a state that can be maintained by the current supplies."
"Of course, both of these ways need to wage war on our side, so in the next period of time, you must be more careful on the side of the forest farm camp, and it is best to prepare in advance on the forest farm side."
"Then again, in the absence of cavalry support, we have never taken advantage of the demons in jungle warfare in the past few years...... You're saying you wiped out a demon hunting group in the jungle? ”
"These ...... Soldier ants are yours? Commander Drake stood there swallowing.
"That's right, they're the cannon fodder corps I brought from the White Forest plane, but now they've fought two jungle encounters, and they seem to be working pretty well." Surdak said.
"Do you really want to have such a cannon fodder corps, and their character is docile?" Commander Drake stared at the soldiers and asked Surdak.
Surdak could only say vaguely, "It's okay now. ”
"My legion happens to be short of troops who are good at jungle warfare, you have brought so many soldiers and ants, can you exchange some with me? War horses, weapons, armor, or anything else are negotiable. Commander Drake looked at the ghostly soldier ants and asked Surdak tentatively.
Surdak looked at the black figure on the hillside outside the barracks, scratched his head and said:
"It's easy to get the ghost pattern soldier ants, the biggest difficulty in this matter is the lack of a sufficient number of Druyin, only these Druyin can sign a contract of enslavement with them and command them to fight on the battlefield, others can't command them at all, these Druyin I found from the Bailin plane with great difficulty, and I can't give them to you."
"Isn't there any other way to control these soldier ants?" Commander Drake asked, somewhat unwillingly.
Surdak didn't speak, just shook his head.
In fact, he has been thinking about it recently, so many ghost pattern soldiers and ants are controlled by more than thirty Dru Yin, and in a large-scale melee, these ghost pattern soldiers and ants can only fight according to instinct, and cannot exert their maximum combat power.
……
Commander Drake gave the order, and the garrison of the forest farm camp withdrew overnight. At night, the wooden houses in the camp were finally completely vacated.
With Surdak's 50,000 lord army infantry moving into the camp, Surdak officially took over the forest camp.
The new camp has been rebuilt on the same site, and rows of wooden huts have been built where soldiers can sleep in large bunks.
The camp has long since lost its original appearance, and the garrison is a new name that Surdak has never heard of.
After the Ghost Soldier Ants stored the bacon in the camp material warehouse, the Ghost Soldier Ants were taken to the forest area behind the camp by Druyin, who were more accustomed to living in crypts.
Commander Drake gave Surdak a detailed description of the surroundings of the forest camp and the situation of the Moyun Ridge in the mountains, and then gradually realized that Surdak's army had a good combat power.
Especially those ghost-patterned soldier ants, if they are used well, they can even suppress the demon army in the jungle.
So on the third day, he left the camp with the last of the cavalry regiments, and hurried to the camp of the Bena regiment day and night.
The forest camp became the barracks of the Surdak lords' army, and the number of wooden houses built in this camp could only meet the needs of 60,000 soldiers, so on the third day of his arrival, Surdak began to send soldiers from the heavy infantry regiment to the mountains and forests to cut down some pine trees and come back, and continue to expand the wooden houses in the forest camp camp.
For the lord army brought by Surdak, a large part of their warriors were rebels of the Gamp Plane, who had lived in the rainforest south of the Gamp Plane and had a lot of experience in building wooden houses.
The other part of the warriors are the tribe natives from the White Forest plane, most of whom live in the tribes of Invercargill Forest, and have lived in high cabins since childhood.
The forest camp lacks everything but wood.
Therefore, the first thing Surdak's Western Route Army did in the forest camp was to build a large number of wooden houses to meet the needs of his 110,000 troops.
In addition, these days, Surdak has almost let the mage scout team fly all over the mountains here, just to be able to find out the deployment of the demon army in Moyun Ridge.
As Commander Drake had expected when he left, Surdak had come all the way down the Samosto River and completely cleared out the demon hunting group there, which had put a heavy burden on the logistical supply of the demon legion.
As a result, the forest farm camp, which had been quiet for nearly three months, had been disturbed by some demon scout teams again in recent days.
However, it is clear that these demon scout teams are unaware of what kind of army they are facing, and they are even less aware of the habits of those ghost-patterned soldier ants.
These ghost-patterned soldier ants usually like to hide in the burrows in the ground, and when the ghost scout team touches them from the depths of the mountains, once they enter the area where the soldiers are hiding, they will be ambushed by those soldiers hiding in the burrows.
Every day, the heads of evil spirits are sent to the forest camp.
In fact, these soldiers prefer to gnaw on ghost warriors, and some even mutate into giant soldier ants after eating evil spirits.
Of course, Surdak was not willing to hide in the forest camp and be beaten passively, he came here to rest for a while, and waited for another part of the Western Route Army led by Samira to arrive at the forest camp and then find a way to attack Moyunling.
During this period, Surdak began to experiment with some changes in the barracks, and since the hoplites were not as agile as the cavalry, many hoplite regiments made up of new recruits were almost cannon fodder on the battlefield......
He didn't want to bury the hoplite regiment he had brought all the way from the Ganbu plane here.
Along the way, Surdak also noticed one thing, that is, under the orders of the Druyin, the hoplites could ride on top of the heads of the ghostly soldiers.
It's just that if they want to stand on the ghost ant and fight the demon warrior, it's not possible at the moment, because the infantry warrior can't stand on his feet at all during the battle.
But Surdak also has some experience in dealing with this, and his cavalry battalion was originally an infantry cavalry, that is, an infantry with a certain amount of horsemanship, and could usually ride on horseback, but the battle was still in line with the heavy infantry.
The demon warriors were running through the jungle with flying speed, and ordinary infantry warriors could not catch up with the demons when they ran with all their might.
But as long as they chase after the soldiers, these demon warriors will probably lose their speed advantage.
Recently, there are often patrol squads of ghost soldiers and infantry soldiers going out on missions, and although there will be some casualties when encountering ghost squads in the jungle, it has actually been proven that such a combat squad combination is quite reasonable.
As the two-headed ogre and the wolf knight Tiger recover from their wounds, Surdak plans to send a mixed army into the depths of the mountains to sweep away the demon warriors scattered throughout the forest......
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