A heavy snowfall turned the entire Invercargill forest into a silvery white world.
The outside temperature was not that cold during this season, so the heavy snow only lasted for two days and melted immediately as soon as it was exposed to the sun.
Although the poisonous fog swamp is not frozen, the swamp is still full of mud pits, but the poisonous fog that permeates the swamp has begun to gradually dissipate.
The Lords' Army at the Qiaotou Camp was ready. Surdak and Selina returned to the camp with the Thunder Rhinoceros Merchant Group transporting supplies. The Lords' Army had already begun preparations for the battle. Before that, Surdak also organized
I asked some veterans who had participated in the last battle to talk about the details of crossing this swamp.
Almost all of the bed crossbows brought from Bena City this time by Surdak have been brought to the Qiaotou camp.
There is also a row of catapults that can throw oak barrels of explosives outside the camp. Those barrels of explosives are piled outside the camp.
Surdak summoned the lord army and held a pre-war mobilization meeting in front of the camp. The main reason was that Surdak was going to announce the reward and punishment system in the army to the lord army in the Ganbu plane. The most important thing was to transfer the merit card to the lord army.
The exchange rules of the exchange list will be explained to the Lord Army.
Because killing the ghost-marked red ants has high merit rewards, these achievements can be exchanged for gold coins, magic crystals and weapons and equipment.
When Surdak announced these rewards, the lord army originally led by Surdak was not surprised, because everyone had experienced that kind of day.
But other lord armies have never seen this. When these lord armies heard that during the battle, the ghost-marked red ants they killed could be exchanged for very good weapons, they felt that it was a bit outrageous. In other words, no lord was willing to do such a thing before.
Big capital.
Before the army set off, three forward battalions, led by Andrew, Gulitem, and Wolf Knight Tago, took the lead into the Poisonous Mist Swamp.
The three armies marched hand in hand in the poisonous fog swamp. Because of the experience of entering the poisonous fog swamp last time, the army encountered almost no trouble entering the poisonous fog swamp this time, and passed through the poisonous fog swamp very smoothly.
Hundreds of bed crossbows were easily brought to the swamp, along with dozens of catapults.
The ghost-striped red ants seem to have sensed the danger from the outside world, and have almost completely retreated into the Dark Worm Valley. I don't know if it is because of the mental restraint of the ghost-striped ant queen, but even the ghost-striped worker ants rarely come out to look for food.
In just one week, Surdak led the main force of the Lord's Army through the Poisonous Mist Swamp smoothly.
This time Surdak came to the ruins of the previous camp under the stone arch bridge by the lake. There were only some dilapidated tents inside. There were still some supplies that had not arrived and had to be taken away in a hurry, but those supplies had almost turned into garbage.
Instead of rebuilding the camp on its original site, Surdak once again built a large-scale camp on a vacant lot.
At the same time, the lord's army's merchant group and more than 10,000 members of the adventure group also followed behind the army, smoothly passing through the poisonous fog swamp, and set up camp on the beach a few hundred meters away from the lake.
The adventure group alliance has experienced the sneak attack tactics of ghost-striped soldier ants, so this time the adventure group moved the loose camp several hundred meters back to leave a fighting buffer zone.
Immediately afterwards, Surdak kept ordering the army to occupy the huge arched stone bridge in front of him again.
A group of ghost-patterned soldier ants were guarding the bridge, but they seemed to know that the Lord's army was in danger, so they rushed over to fight from a distance. They did not retreat, but stayed on the bridge, opening their sharp tentacles to attack
The Lord's Army issued a warning.
This is the first time that the heavy armored infantry warriors of the Ganbu plane have seen these ghost-patterned red ants, and many warriors are a little distraught when facing these dark red monsters.
However, the Lord's Army in Surdak's hands was extremely experienced in combat.
After Surdak came back from the big battlefield, in addition to harvesting some magic pattern structures, the most important thing was that his fighting philosophy changed, especially the battle in such a narrow area, just like fighting the magic pattern on the mountain road of Blue Bridge Fortress.
Clan warriors fight.
When he was at Lanqiao Fortress, he often fought with demon warriors on narrow mountain roads.
This kind of battle does not require too many elite warriors, so the first group to rush onto the stone bridge was Andrew and his knight squad. He even only brought two squads of constructed knights, followed by three squads of knights who climbed onto the bridge.
A heavy armored infantry squadron, the number of heavy armored infantry soldiers is only 180 heavy armored infantry, and at the end there is a 60-man archer squadron. These are the entire manpower of the Andrew Bridgehead Commando.
Andrew stood at the front, with twelve construct knights behind him. After rushing onto the bridge, he was strangled with the ghost-patterned soldier ants almost instantly.
Arrows continued to be lost on the battlefield from behind, but the damage caused by these arrows to the ghost-marked red ants was almost minimal.
More than a dozen catapults were at the bridge head, constantly throwing some gunpowder barrels onto the bridge. These gunpowder barrels exploded on the bridge deck, causing considerable damage to the ghost-striped soldier ants. Some of their bodies were stained with corpse fire oil.
The ghost-striped soldier ants can only fall into the lake like dumplings.
After these ghost-striped soldier ants fell into the lake, it was almost impossible to land directly.
Because a large number of adventure group members have gathered on the shore at the moment, they will not let go of any ghost-striped soldier ant easily.
Roaring explosions sounded one after another, and the battle began.
Since Andrew already had a lot of experience before, he mastered the rhythm of the battle very well this time, almost forming perfect linkage with the catapults and crossbowmen behind him. The stone arch bridge was gradually eroded by Andrew, and he was able to capture some stone arches every day.
Bridge, and these ghost-striped red ants kept retreating without any desire to fight.
Every day during the battle, some corpses of ghost-patterned soldier ants were brought back from the stone bridge.
Of course, Gulitem and Wolf Knight Tago will alternate with Andrew, taking turns rushing to the stone bridge to kill those ghost-striped red ants.
The two-headed ogre's strength has increased greatly recently, and as long as it stands on the bridge, the ghost-marked red ants will not look at other warriors. Although Gulitem almost fights in and out of the ghost-marked red ants, it is not possible at all.
No giant soldier ants came out to resist its rampage and attack.
The corpse of the ghost-striped soldier ants is considered the biggest trophy, and hundreds of ghost-striped worker ants become everyone's trophies every day.
In addition to these ghost-striped red ants, some soldiers were injured during the battle. The soldiers of the logistics team carried the wounded soldiers back to the camp. Nika and her medical team would quickly start treatment. Only those who were seriously injured would
Only the dead warrior Surdak would personally treat him.
During this time, the adventure group also formed a temporary army, and they began to trap and kill ghost-patterned soldier ants by the lake.
For a time, battlefields were everywhere around the lake...