Chapter 35: Becoming an Army
Lawn's hunting plan began the second half, different from before, Lawn, who had a little more experience, faced with the increasingly powerful group of demonic beasts, and was also ready to strengthen the hunting intensity, the elite naturally had to be worthy of the elite's training intensity, otherwise how could they be worthy of their talent? As for the loss? Geniuses can only reflect the value of geniuses by surviving, and the elites with excellent talents, Lawn will arrange a death worthy of their elite name.
Without embarrassing the soldiers too much, Lawne gave the 50,000 men three days of rest, and at the same time, let the five captains fully understand Lawn's actions through three days. Fortunately, they know the current affairs and understand that in Nanlin Province, they have no qualifications to resist, and at the same time, they have a deep feeling for DeWitt's straw bales, and the five captains not only did not resist Lawn, but had ideas about DeWitt's position, and that Aloy was a role model!
The first opponent of 50,000 people is still the demon cow herd, but the scale is larger, the scale of nearly 30,000 is definitely the largest group of herbivorous demonic beasts in the range of Bloodskull City, but this time the opponent is different, the captains with hunting experience, even without Lawn's participation, have successfully driven the demon cow herd, and it is the joint efforts of the five people, and the leader of the herd has such an effect in an instant, plus the elite of the soldiers, and the casualties of thousands of people, they took down this group of demon cows. Raune was naturally satisfied with the cooperation and command of the five people, they had a month of simple familiarity and cooperation, and it was indeed not comparable to the previous 10,000 teams, but the real purpose of Lawn's choice of this opponent was just for meat, this group of nobles did not feed him well, and Lawn could only come by himself!
It was only after the soldiers had digested the first harvest that Lawn began to hunt for the elite: a nest of demon ants! Demon ants and demon bees are all in groups, and this nest is preliminarily estimated, the number is not less than 100,000, this is still the number of worker ants who go out, and the rank also has 3 levels, presumably a really powerful combat individual, there will be at least 5 orders, this is also the nest found by Bloodskull City when cleaning up the crazy forest, I think it is a remnant of many years ago, I was going to let it go, and the mercenary union slowly cleaned it up through mercenaries, but Lawn took over the job, as for the reward, Lawn vaguely remembered that it was to upgrade Lawn's mercenary rank to level 5, but Lawn didn't apply for mercenaries at all, and he didn't care, because it was Nanlin's government affairs system that issued the taskThe biggest reward is that the government department can save this part of the expenditure in the future.
Looking at the large number of ants coming in and out of the hill in front of him, Raun didn't talk nonsense, and directly said "start work!" and handed over the work to his subordinates to arrange, and stayed at a distance to observe the situation. Because such a huge ant itself has a mutation factor in it, even if someone tells Ron that this is a group of 8th-order armor demon ants, in fact, there is only armor and no meat, Raune will believe it.
The nest built by the huge ants is the hill in front of him, as the once tall mountain peak is now potholed, there are two or three high entrances and exits everywhere, and the exits are not less than hundreds, which is why Lawn dares to take a group of rookies to challenge it: the number of exits limits the numerical advantage of the ant colony! With 50,000 people to plug hundreds of gaps, even if the ant colony is a little higher, Lawn is confident of victory, and at the same time let his soldiers get training. The premise is to clean up the demon ants that are active outside first.
But when it comes to creatures like ants, it doesn't seem easy to deal with...... Raune looked at the worker ants that his soldiers cleaned up, and really had the illusion of a legion battle, no wonder this ant nest had not been exterminated for many years, not to mention the soldier ants that would be faced, it was the worker ants that also made Lawn's army tired to deal with, although there was no professional matching, but the tacit attack rhythm between the ants actually made Raune have a feeling of being defeated, this kind of pure strength creature is so powerful?
Needless to say, the strength of the demon ant is much higher than that of humans;In terms of speed,It's a 6-legged creature,The speed is faster than that of a human who has not accelerated with fighting spirit;In terms of defense,The hard carapace is not inferior to the armor of the soldier;The only consolation is that the means of attack are only a strong front jaw,The size of the mouth limits the damage of the demon ant,This kind of demon ant can only hurt humans,It's hard to be fatal,But once the limbs are bitten off,It's also very troublesome to use the recovery spell。 This is the situation of Lawn's team now, fighting and retreating!
Lawn looked at the chaos of this group of soldiers speechlessly, Lawn felt that this group of demon ants was using soldiers as food, at least Lawn saw this group of demon ants attacking while moving the corpses of unlucky ghosts who died unexpectedly into the ant nest, as if they didn't take Lawn in their eyes!
The warriors holding the shield in the front row do not dare to use all their strength every time the shield strikes, the shield must be quickly withdrawn, otherwise this group of ants is a random bite, directly scrap the shield, although the gold mage can easily repair the plasticity, but that must also have someone else to replace the warrior, as the front-line shield warrior, every replacement is not so random, many warriors just slowly touch the doorway, with a twisted shield defense; followed by the shield hand is the spear of the long weapon soldier, the effect is still not good, it is difficult to pierce the hard head of the demon ant; the long weapon lacks defense but has a miraculous effect on the high-speed cavalry and monsters, so the El Salin army, The pikemen still retain the formation, and then the soldiers who use two-handed swords to fight soy sauce, this battle, they were a little blind when they originally focused on attacking, they had no chance to attack, and they could only make up for the lack of shield warriors. After that, the spells that the little mage had and didn't have fell on the ant colony, which didn't hurt much, but there were unexpected gains.
There is a slightly clever commander who discovered the problem of ant tentacles, a certain fire mage's fireball technique burned off the tentacles of demon ants, and he found that for a world where strength is respected, it is already very good to have such a cognition, once the demon ants are interrupted tentacles, they will disrupt each other's communication, and the offensive will be scattered......
After a chaotic retreat, the soldiers who found a way began to stabilize the defensive line, and the demon ants whose tentacles were broken were intentionally put into the battle line, and began to be separated one by one by the warriors holding two-handed swords, and more than a dozen people collectively besieged and eliminated one by one. However, the ants who do not communicate do not mean that the individual strength is weak, and the regiment that launched the offensive not only did not reduce the casualties, but because of the chaos of the ants, the battle line was distorted and lengthened, and there were more injured soldiers for a while, but fortunately, the battle line was no longer a rout, and the battle that Lao Enjian saw was afraid that it would become a protracted war, so he had to call a few captains, arrange the soldiers waiting for rotation behind, strengthen the camp, collect the spoils, and directly process them into food by the way. If it weren't for the constant deaths, it would have been a good hunting camp...
Lawn thought so, but the captains didn't think so!
The real legion battle is not to throw all the soldiers at once, and Lawn's battle line at this time is only more than 7,000 people who are really fighting directly on the front line, and this is not counting the healing mages, 50,000 people are directly grouped, resting and fighting at the same time. Occasionally, there will be male ants flying out of the nest, forcing the captains to join forces to raid, and they can quickly solve the occasional flying male ants (most of the male ants have wings), but the probability of injury is also very large, because they risk stepping on the worker ants to attack, otherwise the 4~5th level male ants can easily open the defense line, leading to a rout!
For a time, the entire battlefield and the army were in a scuffle, and there were occasional sneak attacks by the air force, coupled with the mage's colorful attack spells, it was very much a picture of a real war! To be honest, Lawn was very satisfied, and it was indeed the elite who was picked out, plus a month of hunting and running-in, this group of people was indeed a little stronger than the soldiers who stayed behind before, and as long as they experienced their own destruction, they were definitely better than the previous group of people. Such a clear attack and defense can already be called an army.
Satisfied, just in case, Lawne had to call Ferrana from Bloodskull City again, and Bloodskull City itself was simply handed over directly to the original city guards, because although this battle was very decent, the casualties were too large, and the healing team needed to go directly to the front line, otherwise, Lawn would not have a reason to let the healing team share the spoils.
For three whole days, the worker ants around the ant nest that Lawne saw gradually became scarce, and the legion did not eliminate so many worker ants, according to estimates, it was only about 50,000, but after losing a large number of worker ants, the entire ant nest seemed to finally not regard Lawne's legion as a stable food source, but as an enemy, so the number of external worker ants was so scarce, and the more reason was that the queen ant transferred them back to the ant nest to defend!
The battle began to reach the moment of attack, after eliminating the few worker ants wandering outside, Lawne pushed the battle line to the hundreds of exits of the anthill, which also provoked the queen ant, countless worker ants mixed with stronger soldier ants no longer attacked slowly, and began to fight back frantically along the various holes, but unfortunately, they missed the best opportunity. The increase in the intensity of the attack has indeed seriously forced the limit of the soldiers, but there are only a few hundred holes, and how many magic ants can come out at one time? Although the large number of soldier ants has put a lot of pressure on the battle line, those commanders and commanders have always been on the front line, and it is difficult to have a chance to rest, because the damage of soldier ants to ordinary soldiers has been great, and the layers of corpses are quickly dragged out, so as not to become the rations of the queen ant, among which there are demon ants, there are also soldiers, and the occasional fifth-order demon ants already need Raun to put out the fire. He is here to train soldiers, not to kill, similar to the pure war of attrition of the demon snake, he can sit back and watch the soldiers go to fight, but now, a bad one is the problem of total annihilation, so he can't help but not participate!
Lawne also thought about sealing off a few exits, but was vetoed by several captains. Attack and defense, is a difficult to distinguish between the two ends, Lawn is the attacker at this time, hundreds of caves in the eyes of several captains in addition to not conducive to the counterattack of the demon ants, but also not conducive to the future attack of the legion, now the best way, is the soldier to drag the soldier ants, send an attack team to kill the queen, this task is naturally Lawn's, only for a few people in parallel ant nest, can not open a large-scale army at all! The most important thing is that except for a few people, most of the soldiers entered the passage and lost their numerical advantage, so they were not the opponents of the demon ants, so the attack point outside at this time could not be sealed!
Lawn waited for another day, the ant nest of the crazy counterattack also made the worker ant soldiers lose quickly, and the attack after a day was already difficult to ensure that all the exits were covered, and the pressure was greatly reduced, Lawn, who was not worried about the rout of the legion, took a few captains into the anthill, followed by a few earth mages, Lawn really didn't dare to trust the solidity of the anthill! In fact, if he didn't trust the nobles, Lawne would not have left the little sister to Felana, so that she could help control the legion outside, and bring all the commanders who commanded the high-level.
Lawn's main attack, several captains are full-time shields for defense, and there are earth mages, except for Lawn himself, all of them are defense, and the captains who were originally skeptical about it saw Lawn's fire spell advanced and shut up! 8th order, it can already be called a strong man, the fire method known for attacking, only there is no need to consider the defense problem, and the powerful attack power that erupts is enough to make the ninth-order warrior embarrassed. It's all rapid fire arrows.,Each rapid fire arrow no matter where it's concentrated, it instantly results in the life of a demon ant.,Even if it doesn't hit the vital point.,The burning characteristics of the fire system,It's enough to bake the demon ant into ashes.,The whole passage.,It seems to have become a maze game for everyone.,The key is not how to survive.,But how to find the right owner.。
Several captains were glad that they had chosen to resist Lawn, and now they would have basically turned into ashes......
There is no surprise, Lawn and his party did not spend too much time to solve countless soldier ant male ants, and saw the last main queen, many of them 6th-order male ants and 7th-order queens, so that Lawn understood why this ant nest can stand in the Blood Skull City for so long, the 8th-order powerhouse disdains to come, and the 7th-order professionals can't solve it, and finally it becomes Lawn's training ground, roughly incinerating the remaining demon ant eggs, Lawn and his party quit the ant nest, the male ants are wiped out, and the remaining soldier ants are still handed over to the soldiers, there are a lot of them, without the drive of the queen ant, it will take some time to gradually eliminate them。
From the moment Lawn re-stepped into the camp, this training was also over, the number of nearly 100,000 demon ants almost exhausted the soldiers, and the tense battle did not leave some opportunities for the soldiers to understand life and death, although the war dead were still no less than 10,000, but unfortunately, no one had time to dizzy and vomit, because compared to that, their own life and death were more important.
Raun is still satisfied, such a battle intensity can be maintained, this group of soldiers is already available, all that remains is to reorganize the team, and in the back, they have to accept the final test: the beast tide is coming. So Raun didn't add any new trials, and after the Battle of the Ant'Hive, Raun destroyed the entire mountain with a spell, ending the battle. The actual purpose is to show the soldiers combat effectiveness, just the awe of the captain is not enough in the eyes of Lawn, the battle below, but it is a bloody battle!
After leaving the Blood Skull City for nearly 10 days, Lawn returned to the city, with nearly 10,000 bones and the final total of more than 150,000 demon ant corpses, no accident, Lawn let tens of thousands of people fully enjoy the harvest of their battle, only in the last week, the remaining 40,000 people were scattered according to the hundred-man team, and the nearby carnivorous demonic beasts that had gradually appeared, at this time there was no large group, just the vanguard of the beast tide, the hundred-man team was enough, although occasionally encountered powerful individuals could only flee in the wilderness.
After summing up all the troops, Lawne's army only had more than 70,000 people left, and many of the commanders became the captain's deputies as they wished, and Lawne also unceremoniously put the people in Aloy's team into vacancies. The power that Lawne has at this time is the 10,000-person team controlled by Aloy, the healing team of Felana and the elite 10,000-person team selected by Lawne himself, and the strength of 30,000 people is enough to balance the remaining 40,000 people. What's more, many of the remaining 9 captains are staring at DeWitt's position, especially a Captain of Cork Tang, although he is a remote branch of Duke Tang, the commander of the Eastern Army of the Northern Territory, but the surname "Don", Lawne feels that it is enough for him to take DeWitt's position. And Lawn was very intimate to hand over the full number of 10,000 people of Kirk Tang to DeWitt's direct subordinates, as for the remaining captains, Lawne divided the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers equally, and each captain barely maintained the size of more than 4,000 people, but they were not in a hurry, and soon, the next batch of replenishments would also arrive.
This brand new group of small commanders, following Lawn's nonsense, have gradually adapted to their positions and become familiar with their subordinates, and the so-called resentment is probably only DeWitt alone, who is still gritting his teeth inexplicably, dreaming of fighting against Lawn. The other commanders followed Raun and completed his initial growth, gradually becoming a tree to rely on.
It doesn't matter if you hate someone, but if you stop your growth because of hate, like Devit, it's really not worth it! Because after growing up, he is the kind of person he is, and he himself has gradually become unqualified to hate anymore!
In front of the huge conference table, Lawne no longer pointed his fingers as he did in the past: "This year's beast tide is still not large, according to the arrangements of various fronts, set up a posture in front of the city and take the initiative to attack, and our Bloodskull City is no exception! DeWitt, you bring about 20,000 people with Cork, Jim, and Jay as the first echelon; Aloy, you bring York, Weizz, and Zhjev about 22,000 people in the second echelon, your echelon is relatively weak, and you have to worry more when the time comes; Latin, the fifteen thousand people of the three of you, plus the three of you from me let Abner lead 3,000 people to form a three-echelon, three waves of rotation to guard the first line of the blood skull, if I identify the first commander killed, the second and third people will take over the command task in turn, and finally, Felana, the healing mage in your team sits in the city, and the warriors act as stretchers, carrying back the seriously injured and unable to fight again from the defense line! As for me, I will camp at the city gate and stand by, form a second buffer defense line, and if there are invincible demonic beasts above the 6th order, I will also go to support you! Do you have any objections to the arrangement?"
Everyone was silent, and Lawne nodded and announced loudly, "Fight!"