Located on the eastern side of the Dak Valley, there is a huge flat top at the top of the cliff, which is now part of the military administration of the Western Route Army, and the entire cliff top is surrounded by dense woods.

Many people in the Darke Valley know that this mountain is home to the monster legion of the Western Route Army.

The giant red ants dug countless burrows on the hillside, and the outermost part of the area was fenced off with barbed wire, with warning signs every 10 meters to dissuade unsuspecting outsiders from entering the mountain.

After the cavalry regiment returned to Dak Valley, the number of military guards patrolling the area doubled.

There are unfounded rumors circulating in the valley camp that some witcher has sneaked into the mountain, and nothing has been heard from since.

The hillside is overgrown with tall trees, and between the trees it is crowded with weeds, vines, bracken and bushes, and it is not easy to carve a path through this steep hillside.

Every morning, a large number of demon corpses are transported to the foot of the mountain, and two merchant groups in the valley have signed a supply contract with the cavalry regiment of the Western Route Army, and they are responsible for transporting some demon corpses from the high ground, and these demon corpses are almost all food for the ghost red ants hidden in the mountain.

It's just that few people know that in addition to the army of ghost-patterned red ants stationed in this mountain, there is actually a necromancer Ms. Naomi who does not want to contact the outside world on the top of the mountain.

Her whole body has become more than seventy percent stiff, many parts of the joints are completely hardened, only the thighs, arms, cervical spine and other parts can barely move, she can not blink for a long time, she does not like to talk much, and now she has given up using magic carving pens, but the magic is that she can still draw magic patterns on the body of abomination.

Because the skeleton that accompanied her was able to hold a magic pen in her hand, and squatted on the body of Abomination as Naomi had instructed, drawing magic patterns on his rotten skin.

What made Surdak a little puzzled was how this skeleton had the power to squat down on the body of the abomination and draw magic runes in a decent way.

It is said that after Naomi and the Skeleton Warrior reached a magic contract, Naomi was able to attach her divine sense to the Skeleton Warrior, and the Skeleton Warrior continued to input mana, so the Skeleton Warrior was able to draw magic runes.

The skeleton warrior doesn't have a sense of smell yet, and naturally doesn't smell the disgusting stench of the abomination.

Looking at the skeleton, which still seemed a little ignorant for the time being, Surdak felt that giving him a set of swords and shields could give him some momentum.

The body is becoming more and more like a zombie, in fact, for Naomi, this kind of life is somewhat inconvenient, and even a little painful.

She even hoped that her life would come to an end soon, and then she could change to another life form and continue to 'live' with the skeleton in front of her.

However, the reason why Naomi has been reluctant to take the last step is also very simple, she is worried that after her death, if she still stays in this world, she will be easily erased.

In this situation, it is actually similar to death.

Naomi's daily life is actually very simple, she couldn't eat anything a long time ago, usually just drink a little potion of her own preparation, and occasionally have to do some daily maintenance on her rigid body.

She and the skeleton stitched together the abomination on the corpses of the demon warriors every day, then drew runes on them, and infused the abomination with the soul fire extracted from the demons, giving them another form of life.

Naomi and the Skeleton Warrior usually live on top of a hill next to the cliff on the east side of the valley, and they usually spend their days stitching together the Abomination.

After more than two months, they actually formed a combat squadron of sixty abominations, this time Surdak led the Western Route Army to advance to the Moyunling Heights, Naomi's abomination army also had to accompany them, and they were the best cannon fodder for the demon legions on the battlefield.

……

The Western Route Army's Wizard Combat Regiment was successfully formed, and now this combat regiment has annexed the former Wizard Scout Group, which now has 337 magicians.

In other words, Surdak's speech summoned 306 magicians.

Although the strength levels of these mages are uneven, at least they can control the magic bag, and each of them has a magic tool in their hands.

However, these magicians, who were originally the backbone members of each adventure group, joined the magician combat group of the Western Route Army, which is bound to have a great impact on these adventure groups, and the role of a magician in the adventure group is still quite large.

Considering that these adventure groups would suffer some losses, Surdak issued a letter to these adventure groups, saying that all adventure groups with magicians joining the Western Route Army would receive priority treatment from the Western Route Army's medical team.

This compensation alone made some of the mage-based adventurers stationed in the valley cheer.

In addition, Surdak also agreed that he would give these adventure groups certain convenient conditions for hunting in the Moyunling Heights, such as following behind the Western Route Army to pick up leaks and hunt down those evil ghosts who were left alone or on the run.

However, the news quickly spread throughout the valley, and at the same time, all the adventure groups in the valley were eager to try it after hearing the news......

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In this way, in the first week of September in the Grimm Empire, the heavy infantry regiments began to leave the barracks one after another, and marched towards the Moyunling Heights.

Due to the large number of troops, only one mountain road would stretch the line very long, so these nearly 100 heavy infantry regiments were scattered in the complex mountain passes of the southern foot of the Moyun Mountains, and there were heavy infantry soldiers in almost every mountain road.

Of course, the 70,000 Oni Soldiers and Naomi's Abomination Squadron were also mixed in, but they traveled at the wrong time with the Heavy Infantry Regiment, and they went out day and night every day, so as to avoid panicking at the sight of those adventurers and merchants who followed the legion.

It was not the first time that more than a thousand adventuring regiments had followed the Western Route Army behind the army.

In addition, more than twenty large merchant groups set out from the Dak Valley, and their convoys covered almost every kind of supplies needed by the Legion.

And the reason why these merchant groups can develop is actually due to some reasons for the logistics department of the Bena Military Department......

The reason is that the officials of the Pena military department discovered a rather outrageous thing two months ago:

The supply team has to rent more than 300 four-wheeled carriages to transport the materials of Handanar City to the Moyunling Dake Valley, and this transportation process actually has to coordinate a large number of four-wheeled trucks and manpower, which is a very troublesome thing for the logistics department.

By chance, because of the arrival of the rainy season, the convoy got stuck in an endless mud road on the Great Meadow.

The materials could not be delivered to the barracks of the Western Route Army as scheduled, and the delivery date of the materials was about to pass, and once the delivery date was delayed, the military department would punish the logistics department very severely.

In particular, this Western Route Army has won many battles recently, and has attracted the attention of the noble lords of Handanar City, once the report is sent to Duke Newman's desk, the supreme commander of the logistics department may really be relieved of his post.

At that time, a person in charge of the logistics department thought of a way, he rushed directly to the Reach Valley with a bag of gold coins, and then purchased all the materials that needed to be delivered on time from the merchant groups in the valley and sent them directly to the barracks of the Western Route Army.

To the surprise of the person in charge, not only was there plenty of stock in the business group, but the selling price of such materials was even much cheaper than the bulk purchase price in Handanar City.

At that time, the person in charge was a little puzzled, obviously we were purchasing in Handanar City, and we had to rent a four-wheeled carriage to transport it to the northern battlefield of Handanar County, hundreds of kilometers away, and the cost of renting a car and hiring a coachman was a huge amount of money, how could the materials purchased in Handanar City be more expensive than the materials sold by the merchant groups in Dak Valley?

This is a bit outrageous, a price list was sent to the military department.

But then some nobles revealed that the noble lords of Handanar City controlled the market in the city and raised the price of all the goods, but those previous deals had been reached, and even if all the scandals were revealed now, the losses could not be recovered.

As a result, the Bena military department suspended its trade with the noble lords of Handanar City, and then sent only one clerk with gold coins in the Dak Valley, and then purchased most of the supplies from the merchants in the valley.

Since the logistics department of the Bena Military Department began to purchase various military supplies from local merchants, the prices of various daily necessities in Handanar City have dropped by nearly 10%.

Now that the Western Route Army is advancing into the Moyunling Heights, the merchant group is actually the first to hear the wind and follow the legion with a large amount of supplies, striving to reach more deals with the Western Route Army.

In this way, if the soldiers in the army have any daily necessities, they can buy and use them at any time, which is very convenient.

Because of the large number of competitors, the prices of these 20 or so merchant groups have basically been transparent, and basically the goods are transported from Epson City for long distances, and the basic price plus freight, loss and meager profits is the price of these materials.

Although these merchant groups cannot be regarded as military merchant groups, their role is no different from that of military merchant groups.

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Every night, when it gets completely dark, the Legion of Ghost Soldiers and Abominations crawls out of their makeshift burrows on the hillside and heads along the rugged mountain road towards the Moyunling Heights.

The druids commanded nearly 70,000 ghost-patterned soldiers and ants to rush all the way.

The Ant Cavalry Regiment was also divided into two teams, on both sides and behind the team, to prevent some ghost-patterned soldiers from falling behind.

As a new force of the Western Route Army, Naomi's abomination once again went to battle with the legion, in fact, Naomi also knew very well that these abominations might become the first to fall in the Western Route Army when they reached the frontal battlefield.

Even on the march, Naomi would tirelessly stitch up new abominations every day while resting in the crypt during the day.

Abomination is nothing wrong with this thing except for the strong stench it exudes all over its body, like a giant dung can.

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In the Battle of Kitayama Pass, Andrew's reckless appearance caused him to lose his position as the Grand Master of the Constructed Knights, and he was originally beaten by Surdak to the logistics regiment as a handyman captain.

Before the expedition, Tiger Tiger, the wolf knight, suggested to Surdak if he could reinstate Andrew during the war phase.

Thinking that the next battle is bound to be extremely cruel, it is a battle for survival between humans and evil spirits, there will be no prisoners on the battlefield, once the soldiers of the Western Route Army are killed, they will inevitably become the rations of these evil ghosts, and the evil ghosts will be cut off for the first time when they fall on the battlefield.

Considering the brutality of the war, Surdak agreed to Andrew's return to the Constructed Knights, but for now he is only an ordinary knight in the Constructed Knights.

This time, the Western Route Army entered the Moyunling Heights, and there was also a lord army that remained in the Dak Valley to garrison.

This time, Surdak arranged for the Lord Army of the Ludved family, and Viscount Price, the brother of Councillor Macmillan, was to serve as the defense chief of the Duck Valley.

The main army of the Western Route Army left the Dak Valley, and a large number of adventuring groups and caravans also left at the same time.

Now the whole valley is empty, leaving a large number of vacant wooden houses, and the shopping streets in the valley have lost their former prosperity.

There are only a few men who are left behind in the trading house to sit at the gate to bask in the sun, and even if some customers walk into the trading house, they will find that many of the containers in the house have been emptied, and only some goods are left in the shop.

Even the merchant guys have become lazy......

However, the dense magic bed crossbows on the northern wall of the Dak Valley made the people in the valley feel inexplicably at ease.

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The vanguard of the Western Route Army passed through many mountain roads at the southern foot of the Moyun Mountains and successfully arrived at the Moyunling Heights, almost relying on their legs to advance on foot.

I walked almost all the way up the hill, and these roads were not difficult to walk, but I still walked for almost a week.

Walking in the front was the 17th Heavy Infantry Regiment of the Western Route Army, when they crossed the last mountain pass and saw the plateau in front of them, almost all the heavy armored soldiers were excited, and everyone cheered while speeding up the speed of running forward.

The sound of cheers soon reached the ranks behind.

These heavy infantry regiments, which were the first to arrive at the Moyunling Heights, quickly set up water stations in the mountain passes to provide drinking water for the soldiers who arrived on the Moyunling Heights one after another.

Others began to set up large iron pots and began to boil water to cook porridge.

A group of infantry warriors followed their regimental commander and carved out square areas of white stone powder as shown on the magical parchment map, and wrote the numbers of each infantry regiment in these areas.

Since this is the exit on the south side of Moyunling Heights, the demons in this vicinity have almost been completely caught by the adventure group, so this area is relatively safe.

Surdak planned to spend the first night of the Western Route Army's entry into Moyunling at the foot of the mountain pass on the south side.

(End of chapter)