Chapter 28: The Rainforest

When the order to retreat was given, the captains of each squad immediately beckoned their companions to prepare to retreat.

The vanguard at the forefront quickly stopped fighting with the human spiders.

The two sides took a step back at the same time, constantly letting out a low roar towards each other, and then slowly stepped back.

The large army that appeared in the rear was the first to withdraw, while the vanguard took cover at the front to prevent being kicked in the ass by the opponent during the retreat.

And the human spiders had no idea of pursuing, and after several hours of fighting, they were also exhausted at this time and had no intention of fighting again.

The armies of both sides quickly retreated from the Gobi desert.

The dense procession slowly moved from the Gobi Desert as if the tide was receding, and finally disappeared.

After the crowd receded, a large number of corpses remained on the Gobi Desert.

Countless hostile goblins and human spiders, orcs and human spiders, their corpses torn together.

The war has made these races, which had nothing to do with each other, feel like they have a common enmity.

Even if you die, you should bite off a piece of the other person's flesh before you die, or use your claws or fingernails to dig deep into the other person's body.

The wolf cavalry who was pushed down by the human spider before, and then buried by the spider tide.

His body also leaked out after the tide receded.

The rattan armor on his body was still intact, but underneath the rattan armor, only a rusty skeleton was left on its body that had been corroded by spider venom.

Its flesh was torn apart by countless spiders of various sizes.

Even some of the flesh in its joints was eaten by the frenzied spider swarm.

However, most of the corpses are still intact for the time being, but it is estimated that some of them may be eaten away if they are not cleaned up.

Because at this time there are countless crows and vultures gathered in the sky.

They are attracted by the breath of death brought about by this war.

Originally, they were hundreds of miles away and gathered towards this Gobi Desert.

After hovering in the sky for half a day, they finally waited for the two sides to retreat.

After smelling the meat for a long time but never being able to eat a bite, they became more and more hungry and thirsty, and became a little impatient and fierce.

Before the men and horses of both sides could completely withdraw from the battlefield, they swooped down from the sky in a hurry.

One by one, they stabbed the flesh on the ground like javelins.

They are desperate to occupy a vantage point in which to eat, and to devour the carrion on the ground that is so delicious to them.

In fact, they don't have to be in such a hurry to scramble at all.

The flesh and blood of the Gobi was enough for them to eat for several days.

After the infantry returned to the barracks, several squads carried wooden stretchers to the battlefield to collect the wounded.

Although it is clear to everyone that in this situation there are basically only those killed in the war and there are no wounded, but the post-war rescue work must be done.

Otherwise, when those soldiers go to the battlefield in the future, they will worry that no one will come to save them after they are injured, and it will not have a good impact on morale.

Looking at the tragic situation of corpses all over the battlefield, Ma Dong couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

At this moment, it stands to reason that the other side should go to the lord's war, rather than relying on the soldiers to fight.

Because generally speaking, everyone knows that after the last of their lords is invaded, they will temporarily lose the blessing of the world core.

When it comes to a critical juncture, it will definitely not be said that he will die obediently, and the lord will definitely play in person.

But now the leader of the Oda clan just let his soldiers fight, but he didn't show up, which is not normal.

Although it is said that the number of people killed by the lord in the war is limited, if the lord directly engages in the lord war, this can at least save a lot of soldiers' lives.

Only if you have enough soldiers can you continue to conquer cities and conquer more territory for yourself.

Even if the otaku patriarch of the Oda family on the other side doesn't understand this, Lord Marco of his own family should know it.

But for some reason, Master Marco still didn't show up.

On the other side, Li Ping'an and his party had already come behind enemy lines according to Marco's orders.

Most of the Oda family's domains are in their original state.

They are better at adapting to their environment than at adapting to it.

For example, Li Ping'an's team is in a rainforest area.

The road underfoot was muddy and unreachable, and the surroundings were humid and stuffy.

Walking in the rainforest felt like they were walking in a steamer due to the large number of trees blocking air circulation.

The sweat of the body cannot be dried, and all the clothes will feel stuck to the body.

When sweat sticks to the body for a long time, the salt and sebum metabolized by the person cannot be volatilized.

The bacteria would multiply in large numbers on the body, causing eczema on all members except Li Ping'an and Shadow.

Many of the members were miserable.

Two other soldiers had a cut in a bush on the road.

At first, no one cared about it, but then these wounds never healed, but became red and swollen, and later even pus and festered.

That night, the two soldiers began to have a high fever and died the next day.

Three other soldiers died with them.

When they were sleeping at night, several soldiers took great pains to find a few sticks of dry firewood and ignited them, and then took off their clothes to dry them.

When three of the soldiers took off their shirts, their companions saw that there were more than 20 large leeches struggling to suck blood behind them.

This almost made the soldier faint when he saw this scene.

When they learned that their backs were crawling with leeches, the soldiers were also scared with goosebumps.

Several of them took off their shirts and found that there were a few leeches scattered around their bodies.

But three of the soldiers had the most leeches on them.

It has sucked them into a pale face.

Everyone disposed of the leeches on their bodies in a panic before resting.

And Li Ping'an and Shadow don't have a single leech on them.

The shadow is because he is a shadow clan himself, and he doesn't have a drop of blood, so naturally there will be no leeches to suck it.

And Li Ping'an is because he has the coercion of a higher creature, and these mosquitoes and leeches dare not get close.

Li Ping'an quietly took out a large handful of fine salt in his personal space, and then asked the others to sprinkle it on the backs of the three soldiers.

The numerous leeches on their backs are covered with a thick layer of fine salt.

They had been lying quietly and motionless on top of the soldiers, and they began to writhe violently.

Leeches have a corneum on the surface of their bodies to protect their internal organs, and a layer of mucus on their epidermis.

When covered with salt, the fluid in the leech's body continues to flow out under the action of osmotic pressure (water molecules running from a liquid of low concentration to a liquid of high concentration).

This process is equivalent to drying a person alive, and the pain is self-evident.

But for the creature of leeches, there is no need to have the slightest sympathy.

The leeches writhed in pain, their bodies contracting, and in a short time they fell off the soldier's back.