1483. The Second Wall
The indigenous warriors in charge of reconnaissance lay behind the rocks high up in the mountains, looking out towards the North Mountain Pass, where the sun was a little harsh.
The snow-capped peaks reflected a blinding light in the distance, but the highlands in the distance were still verdant, and some shriveled berries hung from the bushes between the mountain paths.
From the foot of Moyunling Mountain, it will take you a few days to walk along the mountain road to reach the north pass of Moyunling Highlands.
From here, looking towards the northern hills, you can see a sea of dark green trees stretching to the edge of the sky.
Just looking back at this vast Moyunling Highland, the desolation between the moss, green grass and gravel looks a little bleak everywhere.
According to Elder Ambrobie, it was once a sacred place for the Egrod Clan, and every Egrod First Nation has a deep attachment to the land.
Several indigenous warriors gathered together, they were worried about being discovered by the evil spirits, and hid behind a pile of rubble high in the mountain road, originally planning to find out how many evil ghost warriors were stationed here, but they didn't expect to look at the North Mountain Pass camp from afar, and see the flag fluttering on the camp, which actually looked like the silk banner of the lord army.
The flags of the demons are almost always leather, and they are usually hung on wooden crosses, and they rarely flutter in the wind.
The banners of the lord army are much more elaborate, usually made of silk, and some of the great lords will also add gold and silver threads to the silk of the banner, and ask the magic tailor to embroider some delicate magic patterns on it.
These patterns usually have some morale-boosting and uplifting effects.
Under the harsh sunlight, the indigenous warriors could clearly see the ornaments on the fluttering flags in the North Mountain Pass.
The native warrior with the best eyesight reported to the squad leader:
"Headhunter, that banner looks a bit like the banner of the Imperial Lord's Army......"
As the leader of the indigenous reconnaissance team, Sakri squinted his eyes from behind the boulder and looked out towards the North Pass, the glare of the sunlight making his vision white.
He could only take a few steps forward with his waist bent, selected a stone monument more than four meters high on the pile of rubble, and climbed up along the cracked stone crack.
At this time, the flag was indeed clearer.
Sakri jumped deep, jumped in front of the team members, and said to several members:
"I'll get closer, you stay here and wait for me, if I am discovered by the demons, you can resolutely retreat to the side of the mountain slope, I will find a way to lead them to the other side of the mountain road, and then find a chance to get rid of them, if you can't wait for me to come back before dark, you can return to the legion and report the situation here to Patriarch Logan, understand?"
"Headhunter, I'm running fast, let me go this reconnaissance!"
One of the members of the squad volunteered.
Sarkry glanced at him and did not speak.
He had always disliked the fact that the members of the squad had any doubts about his orders.
The team member retracted his head and said with a little humility:
"Got it, then be careful!"
Scouting on the edge of the North Pass camp is very dangerous.
In particular, the valley was filled with the strong smell of blood, and there were still the remains of some demon warriors on the slopes, as well as some broken blades that had not had time to be sorted out, and the traces left by the battle left the slopes on both sides of the mountain road full of devastation.
The unknowns are even more uncertain......
At such times, of course, the most experienced old hunters need to go to the front to investigate, which is the practice of the natives of Egrod.
Sarkry patted each of the team members on the arm and said to them:
"Don't worry! We've all come this far, so naturally it's impossible to have a problem here. ”
After saying that, he walked out of this pile of rocks, and the slope in front of him was in full view.
Sakri looked at the battlefield in front of him with some shock, he had actually seen the corpses of some demon warriors on the edge of the battlefield, but he didn't expect that it was just the tip of the iceberg.
This battlefield was far bigger than he had guessed, and the corpses of those demon warriors on the battlefield were too numerous to count.
Even the slopes of the hill, covered with moss and oily needles, were soaked in purple blood......
He bent down and picked up a broken blade, if the battle was involving indigenous warriors, this black metal broken blade would definitely not be discarded here, if it was a tribe, it was likely to be sharpened into a wood knife.
But now on this battlefield, these kinds of broken blades can be seen everywhere, and there are some white sharp bone spears stuck here and there in the dirt.
There are still a lot of messy footprints and severed limbs and legs left on the battlefield, so you can imagine how large-scale battles were fought here.
Sakri didn't know how to express the shock in his hidden heart, this battlefield had many similarities with the place where the battle had been fought at the foot of Moyunling Mountain.
He looked at the North Pass again, and when he saw the flag fluttering in the wind, he felt that it should be the lord army from the Grimm Empire guarding there.
Now that he found out that this place had been completely occupied by the lord army, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking at the stumps and broken bones all over the ground, he sighed how many demon warriors this lord army had killed to make such a mess of the battlefield.
The further Sarkry walked forward, the more traces he saw on the battlefield, and the clearer the look of surprise became on his face......
He straightened up from the hillside and waved vigorously at his companion behind him, who was hiding behind a pile of rubble.
The indigenous warriors of this reconnaissance team came out of the rubble one after another, and some of them were confused and merged with him.
Sarkry said to his companions:
"Guarding the mountain pass is an Imperial army, it should be the Imperial Lord Army that Patriarch Logan told us to pay more attention to."
"Let's go, let's see!"
After speaking, he took the lead and strode towards the North Pass camp......
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On the fourth day after the departure of the reconnaissance team of the Agrod Confederate Army, this indigenous coalition army with nearly 200,000 soldiers finally appeared in the mountain pass of the northern mountain pass of Moyun Ridge.
These warriors climbed up the hill and occupied almost all the space around the mountain path.
Their appearance is like a jump of thick blankets covering the slopes on both sides of the mountain road......
It seems that the indigenous coalition army should have eliminated those evil ghost hunting groups at the foot of Moyunling Mountain, so that there would be such a large-scale mountain road at the northern foot of Moyunling.
Grand Patriarch Logan and several other burly patriarchs were at the head of the group, who were also the patriarchs of the various indigenous tribes.
As for the great witches in the indigenous coalition army, they rode in the carriage of the black-horned elk and quietly followed the team.
"I didn't expect that as the Great Elder said, the Imperial Legion has already occupied the North Mountain Pass of Moyun Ridge, no wonder I haven't seen the evil ghosts running down from Moyun Ridge these days, it turns out that the source is stuck by the Imperial Lord Army's neck, hehe." Grand Patriarch Logan said with a laugh.
The other patriarch standing beside him did pout, and said with some disdain:
"Actually, the danger has not been completely lifted, we should be more careful, God knows if there is a large group of evil spirits on the other side of this camp......"
"As long as we can hold the North Mountain Pass this time, the Demon Army will no longer be able to run down the mountain with impunity." A patriarch said with emotion.
This mountain road didn't seem to be very far, but if you measured it directly with your legs, the vanguard of the Indigenous Alliance Army walked all morning before finally reaching the Moyunling Heights.
At this time, the North Mountain Pass camp has been reduced to ruins after the battle in turn in the past few days.
Nine times out of ten, the original fish-scale cavities in the camp had collapsed, and after several rounds of fighting, it had completely turned into a scorched earth, and the soil was filled with not only a smell of rotting blood, but also a sour smell, which seemed to contain oil and was not suitable for the growth of any plant.
The Patriarch of Logan led a group of indigenous leaders to the front of the North Pass camp, and saw that Surdak had indeed come out with a group of officers.
The armies of the two sides converged, but the camp was indeed distinct, and the 200,000 indigenous warriors had to say that in addition to the reserved area of the North Pass, a considerable number of indigenous warriors wanted to camp in the mountain road below the North Pass.
There is no way, there are too many people in the indigenous alliance army, and there is only such a big place in the North Mountain Pass.
On the empty field on the south side of the North Pass camp, a large group of giant ghost pattern soldiers and ants are talking about the bodies of those demon warriors gathered together, the demon warriors are tall, and it is obviously unrealistic to dig a pit on the battlefield to bury them, but this is the North Mountain Pass camp, and a city wall will be built here in the future, so the corpses of these demon warriors must not be discarded.
So Surdak chose the most trouble-free method this time, and that was incineration.
The giant ghost-patterned soldier ant piles the corpses of all the demon warriors together and then does them with fire oil to set them on fire......
The fire can quickly turn the fat in the demon warrior's body into oil, so that the demon warrior's corpse will not be extinguished until the corpse is completely burned.
There was even a pungent spicy smell wafting from the billowing smoke.
Grand Patriarch Logan took a deep look at the giant ghost-patterned soldier ant who was doing hard labor, he strode up to Surdak in his heavy heavy armor, and then said in a friendly voice:
"I didn't expect Lord Surdak to really fulfill his promise and capture this camp in advance......"
"Didn't Patriarch Logan also come as promised?" Surdak said with a smile, and then explained: "It also happened that when the cavalry regiment first arrived here, it found that the demon legion in the camp had come out of the nest, and it was with this rare opportunity that I was able to pick up a bargain and drive the demon legion stationed here to the hinterland of the Moyunling Heights." ”
"But...... The demon warriors here are relatively tenacious, and even if they are scattered, they will quickly organize a counterattack. ”
"You have come at the right time this time, there has just been a big battle here, and the demon army has just retreated from this side, taking advantage of this gap period, we can build a wall here in the North Mountain Pass."
Before Patriarch Logan came here, he had already heard from Elder Ambrobie about this matter.
This was an important part of the grand strategy developed by the Aborigines of Aigrod and the Lord Army of the Western Road.
The Logan Patriarch also understood that as long as the city walls were built at the north and south ends of the Moyun Mountains, the demon army's path down the mountain could be completely controlled.
Such......
Even if the next few battles don't go well, as long as you firmly control the exits at both ends, even if you take a more brutal fortified wall, you can finally win the war.
"What do you need us to do, the young fighters on our side are already a little impatient!" Grand Patriarch Logan pleaded with Surdak.
"So...... The first priority is to build a wall......"
Surdak said loudly.
……
Even if he had known that it was a reply, Patriarch Logan was still a little confused when he heard Surdak say this......
Where to build this wall, how to build it, what materials to use, and how long the construction period will take, this series of things Patriarch Logan is not very good at.
His bronzed face was crammed with wrinkles.
The indigenous warriors have already begun to set up tents in the planned area.
Here, Surdak took Grand Patriarch Logan to an area where a straight white line was drawn, with two parallel white and gray lines, the span between the two lines was almost thirty meters, and the length of the two lines was surprisingly fifteen hundred meters.
Surdak took Patriarch Logan through the two white lines before explaining, "A wall thirty meters wide, sixty meters high, and 1,500 meters long will be built here, and no buildings can be built in the area south of the wall, and no buildings can be built within thirty meters of the north of the wall. ”
After saying that, he bent down, picked up a piece of hard shale from the ground, and said to the Logan Patriarch, "Next, you need to let these young indigenous warriors of your mine go outside to pick up these kinds of rocks, and transport them all to the sides of the city wall, these stones are the main building materials for the construction of the city wall." ”
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In the distance, a group of ant cavalry came on, and these ant cavalry were driving the ghost pattern soldier ants under their crotch to clear out all the remnants of the city wall at the planning site, and they could see the cyan rock formations below when they dug less than one meter deep.
Only by removing these abandoned remnants can the first step of building the city wall be completed.
Next, Surdak had to bring in some iron cages containing rocks, and then a large amount of pozzolacanic cement and other supplies.
Grand Patriarch Logan then asked, "And where is our camp built?" ”
Surdak did not talk to the Logan team leader to the map, but directly took the Logan patriarch to the area where the scene was located, pointed to the land under his feet and said:
"Here, although most of the sunlight here will be blocked by the city wall, it is definitely suitable for building a military camp."
As he spoke, Surdak took out an architectural drawing, and Patriarch Logan had heard some descriptions of the city wall before, so now that he saw the architectural drawings, he also had some general outlines of the building in his mind.
Immediately afterward, Surdak asked Patriarch Logan about the construction of a fortress camp.
This is a bit more complicated to say, mainly involving the fact that the way of life of the indigenous warriors and the warriors of the lord army is somewhat different......