In the past year or so, Aphrodite has successively produced nearly 8,000 magic contract scrolls, and the ant cavalry of the Western Route Army has expanded to 8,000 on the eve of the war, and a total of sixteen ant cavalry regiments have been organized, and due to the ghost pattern soldiers and ants have participated in several major battles one after another, the number of giant ghost pattern soldiers and ants has also exceeded the 10,000 mark.

It's just that the number of 70,000 ghost-patterned red ants in the Western Route Army has plummeted to 35,000 because of successive battles.

In other words, Surdak requisitioned 100,000 ghost pattern soldiers from the Bailin plane twice, and after a year of fighting, there were only 35,000 ordinary ghost pattern soldiers left, and there were also 10,000 evolved giant ghost pattern soldiers and 8,000 ant cavalry mounts.

Nearly half of the ghost-patterned soldiers died on the battlefield of Moyunling Highlands, but Surdak harvested tens of thousands of ordinary magic cores. (There is no black magic crystal on the ghost pattern soldier ant)

In addition, most of the hard armor skins peeled off by the Ghost Tattoo Ant were also brought back to Hylanza City by Surdak, and then transported by land to Bednar City, where they became Harvey. Raw materials from Gopfer's leather workshop.

In the Western Route Army, these ghost tattoo soldiers have always belonged to an independent existence, they usually live in the burrow, they will not cause any trouble to the lives of the soldiers in the barracks, and the food is also very simple, basically from those ordinary ghost warriors in the demon army.

The Western Route Army claims to have gathered 400,000 troops, and judging from the current situation, the strongest legion is not the Constructed Knights led by Andrew, nor the nearly 130,000 heavy infantry, but these ghost-patterned soldiers who are completely fearless of death on the battlefield.

After the start of each war, it is always the ghost soldiers and ants who are at the forefront, taking advantage of the fight between the demon warriors and the ghost soldiers, and constructing the knights and heavy infantry regiments to enter the battlefield again.

In just one year, the Western Route Army won successive victories in the northern part of Handanar County, completely establishing the Western Route Army's dominance in the northern battlefield of Handanar County.

At the same time, since no lord army was willing to reinforce the Warsaw plane, the Bena military headquarters made a promise to prepare for these two reinforcements. The spoils of war still belonged to the lords and battlefield commanders of the two western routes.

It was precisely because of this contract that the Western Route Army did not count the captured trophies of the Demon Legion, and with the 45,000 ghost pattern soldiers that died, it made a net profit of nearly 50,000 ordinary magic crystals.

The Western Route Army also relied on the brilliant achievements of the year, and the entire army gained savage growth......

Surdak's Constructed Knights have changed from the first two to five, and there are eight thousand more ant cavalry and a monster army composed of nearly 10,000 giant ghost-patterned soldiers and ants.

It is worth mentioning that the first turn knights of the latter two constructed knights are basically tribal warriors who came out of the Aigrod tribe, and almost all of these tribal warriors have the combat power of the peak of the first turn, and Surdak also absorbs nearly sixty Aigrod warriors, which is the so-called second-turn strong.

These second-turn powerhouses of the Aigrod tribe were incorporated into each squadron of the Constructed Knights by Surdak, and the squadron of Constructed Knights with second-turn powerhouses would increase their combat power exponentially.

Five Constructed Knights and nearly 10,000 giant ghost-patterned soldiers roamed around the North Sunderland Mountains, they were like locusts in transit, and almost no small group of demons dared to appear at the foot of the North Sunderlands.

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The North Sunderland Range stretches for nearly 300 kilometers from east to west, and the eastern part of the mountain range gradually becomes less steep, and the cliffs become low mountains and plunge into the inner lake.

In a mountain col less than seventy kilometers away from the inner lake, a corps of more than 700 evil ghosts was trapped inside, and giant ghost-patterned soldier ants could be seen everywhere on the mountain beams.

After receiving the information from the Magician Scout Group, the Second Constructed Knights of the Western Route Army set off from the Neihu Fortress on the south bank of Neihu Lake and hurried all the way to here, defeating the demon legion lurking in the mountain col of this wooded area in one fell swoop.

The surrounding ridges are filled with ant cavalry and giant ghost-patterned soldiers, who intercept the fleeing demon warriors.

There are battles everywhere on the high ridge, although these demon warriors are much stronger than the ant cavalry in strength, but they are not good at climbing rock walls, and they have escaped from the battlefield of the mountain pass, and they have no fighting spirit, so when facing the ant cavalry, they are almost always one-sided defeated.

Hitchcock, the leader of the Constructed Knights, had just fought the demon generals in this legion when he was cut open by a blade in his arm, and although the bleeding had stopped and he was first aided with a hemostatic bandage, he still needed to be stitched up as soon as possible.

Therefore, although a large number of demons fled on this side of the battlefield, the knights did not launch a deep pursuit.

The Constructed Knights began to pack up the spoils of war on the battlefield, and recently Commander Surdak has greatly expanded the Constructed Knights and Ant Cavalry Regiment, and some gossip has been circulating in the Western Route Army, and many knights have heard that Commander Surdak has taken out almost all his savings and invested them in the battle of Moyunling Heights.

Even if it is a defeat in the future, the impact on the Western Route Army will be very huge......

Therefore, the knights attached great importance to collecting the spoils of war on the battlefield, and in the past, many black-striped demon skins were casually abandoned in the wilderness, but now the knights have also dismounted and began to skin them seriously.

A group of knights rode on the back of demonic warhorses, strangling the seriously wounded demon warriors on the slopes of the col, followed by a group of constructed knights who were skinning the black devil on foot.

With the completion of the construction of the Inner Lake Fortress, the Constructed Knights of the Western Route Army have begun to launch an offensive from the edge of the Inner Lake to the North Sunderland Mountains, and the cavalry regiments have gradually captured the eastern section of the North Sunderland Mountains.

Seeing those scattered evil ghosts running outside the mountain pass, several squadron leaders of the Knights didn't want to give up, each evil ghost represented a rich merit, and now chased out, these evil ghost heads are almost picked up in vain.

But once these demon warriors escape from the col, then the adventuring group lying in ambush outside the col will inevitably take the opportunity to bite in the face of this piece of fat.

Some of the Constructed Knights have seen the members of the Adventure Group who have come out of the dense forest, and they are constantly ambushing the fleeing demon warriors with crossbow arrows and trap nets......

Seeing the adventure party hunting demons beyond the col, the costumed knights are eager to chase them out......

"Commander, can we chase after us?" The leader of the third squadron asked Hitchcock, the head of the second Formation Knight, holding the head of the demon general in one hand and the two-foot-long green horn in the other.

"The Commander gave us an order at the last meeting, allowing those adventure groups outside the col to fish for oil and water on the outskirts of the battlefield, as long as it doesn't affect the fighting on our side." Captain Hitchcock said.

Then the knight leader commanded: "Tell those adventurers, let them be careful, there may be a small army of the demon legion in the nearby jungle......"

"Yes!"

One of the heralds immediately agreed, turned and rode his horse towards the outside of the col.

Seeing that the battlefield here was almost cleaned, the knight leader Hitchcock immediately turned on his horse and ordered to a group of knights in costume: "Let's go, go back to the Inner Lake Fortress!" ”

The whistle for the assembly was immediately sounded inside, and then a group of five hundred Constructed Knights quickly ran out of the col and ran along the plains at the foot of the North Sunderland Mountains in the direction of the Inner Lake Fortress to the east.

The ghost-patterned soldiers and ant cavalry who surrounded and killed the demon warriors on the mountain beam also quickly withdrew from the battlefield and followed behind the Knights of the Constructed Knights back to the Inner Lake Fortress.

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Small-scale annihilations like this occur almost daily, and the Constructed Knights of the Western Route Army use the fortifications along the defensive line as their bases, using the very timely information provided by the Wizard Scouts to raid the demon legions that haunt the North Sunderland Mountains......

These five Constructed Knights will not stay in the North Sunderland Mountains for too long, and will basically control them within two hours from the launch of the attack to the end of the battle, and will not wait for the demon legions from other regions to come to support them, and then quickly withdraw from the mountains.

The benefits of such a blitzkrieg are very obvious, because the Constructed Knights are a surprise attack, and they have an absolute superiority in troops, and there are ghost soldiers and ants rushing in front, so the attrition in battle is very rare.

The Constructed Knights of the Western Route Army relied on the Gaogang Fortress, the Inner Lake Fortress, and the Canyon Fortress to launch a surprise attack on North Sunderland, which has completely suppressed the demon legion in the North Sunderland Mountains, and as the demon legion gradually retreats westward, only a small group of demon legions lurks in the eastern part of the mountain range in the depths of the dense forest.

As long as these demon warriors are cleared out, the eastern section of the North Sunderland Mountains will be considered the occupied area of the Western Route Army.

In addition, Surdak encouraged the adventuring group to enter the battlefield of North Sendran, and promised the adventuring group that as long as the adventuring group did not affect the battle of the Western Route Army, after defeating the demon army, the adventure group could wantonly hunt down and kill those defeated demon warriors, and the Western Route Army would not interfere with it.

On the day the order was issued, more than 700 adventuring groups ventured into the North Sunderland Mountains overnight.

Surdak's move proved to be very effective, as the group was like an invisible net spread in the North Sunderland Mountains, spotting a large army of demons and even firing magic flares to alert the magicians who were spotting the enemy at high altitudes.

So much so that in just one month, the eastern section of the North Sunderland Mountains was almost in the hands of the Western Route Army.

The area of activity of the Demon Legion is further compressed......

Due to the large number of flying demons in the North Sunderland Mountains, the magicians of the reconnaissance group are currently afraid to fly low in the mountains, so it is difficult to detect the small group of evil spirits hiding in the dense forest, and this situation has changed with these adventure groups entering the North Sunderland Mountains.

These flying spirits with bony wings also like to haunt the mountains in groups, and they usually hide in the crevices of the cliffs, and only when the magicians pass by, they will leap deep from the cliff face, and then glide through the air for long distances.

The flying demons are a great threat to the magicians, and after the Knights have driven away the large army of the demon legions, nearly 8,000 ant cavalry have poured into the eastern part of the mountain range, and a large number of ant cavalry have climbed the cliffs to hunt down the weak flying demons with their standard crossbows and short flying spears.

It is only at this moment that the role of these ant cavalry is fully highlighted.

With their ability to climb, they can easily find the flying demons hiding in the crevices of the cliffs, clearing the way for the mage reconnaissance team.

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The greatest advantage of the demon legion on the Moyunling Heights is that there is a demon gate in the demon camp in the Horsens Mountain, which connects to the dark areas deep in the Abyss, and the demons living there can enter the Moyunling Highlands in a steady stream.

It's just that Surdak has recently found that after launching the general attack, the number of demons on the Moyunling Heights has continued to decrease, and during this time, except for some flying demons, there is no legion at all from the Horsens Mountain camp.

In other words, due to the successive defeats of the Demon Legion in the Moyunling Heights, it is very likely that the Demons of Sanaé are ready to abandon the Moyunling Heights......

Through the information obtained by the Western Knight Alliance, they found a demon gate in a demon barracks on the Kempato River, and after preliminary research by the magicians, they found that this kind of ghost gate is similar to a one-way portal, that is, after establishing the ghost gate, the evil ghosts in the abyss can only crawl over, and once they enter the Warsaw plane, there is no way to return the same way.

Surdak has occupied two mountain passes in the north and south of the Moyunling Heights, and the demon legions on the highlands have no way to escape, and now they can only fight the trapped beasts.

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The Western Route Army won successive victories in the eastern sector of the North Sunderland Mountains, and there were few demons in the occupied areas outside the fortified lines.

The merchants brought a large amount of supplies from the rear, and they were currently hoarding the stronghold outside the Neihu Fortress, and the merchants became very bold in order to pursue profits, and they transported the materials hoarded in Epson City as soon as the general attack on the North Sunderland Mountains began.

Now the materials hoarded in the Neihu fortress are almost enough for the 400,000 troops of the Western Route Army to consume the whole winter.

Before Baron Martino arrived at the Moyunling Heights, news had already reached the ears of the merchants, and they didn't know where they heard it, saying that the commander of Surdak was preparing to build a city by the lake, which was not only a big event, but also a huge business opportunity for the merchants that was rare in several years.

Before Surdak could give any hint, a merchant group had already purchased the right to mine the rock at the easternmost point of the North Sunderland Mountains from Surdak, and began to build a quarry on the west bank of the inner lake, the first stonemasons were recruited from the province of Ivorson, and some of the remaining quarrymen were some homeless refugees in the city of Epson who could not return to the province of Evenson.

On the first day of Surdak's arrival at the Inland Lake Fortress, he found that there were already quarries and lumber yards here......

(End of chapter)