The first thing Commander Surdak did after returning from Handanar City was to place the merit redemption list at the door of the cafeteria.
Although the ten sets of magic pattern structures on the merit list are a bit too far away for the 110,000 soldiers of the Western Route Army, this does not affect the dream of every infantry soldier to have a knight construct.
Everyone is standing on the same starting line. In the following battle, strength is not the only criterion for judging merit.
Luck, diligence, courage, teamwork, command and leadership skills, etc., will all affect the achievements you obtain.
No one can guarantee that they will definitely obtain the magic pattern structure on the merit list.
Especially when the five second-level powerhouses Samira, Gulitem, Andrew, Wolf Knight Tago, and Gary Decker announced their withdrawal from the legion's merit competition at the same time. The merits they obtained would only be exchanged for some magic crystals.
Stone and gold coins.
The infantry soldiers of the West Route Army began to become restless.
After all, in addition to the ten sets of magic pattern structures on the merit list, there are also ten high-end magic weapons of excellent quality. There is also a single magic pattern structure at the back, and there are dozens of such prizes.
Behind them are excellent quality magic weapons and thousands of magic rune boards with various functions.
In fact, there is still a part of the rewards that Surdak has not made public, that is, in addition to the rewards of the magic pattern structure, Surdak's direct troops can also choose to implant the magic pattern of life.
The soldiers in the entire forest farm camp began to get ready to move, and everyone began to look forward to getting the task of going out on duty in the new day.
Especially when they saw that the ant cavalry brought back the corpses of the evil warriors from the forest outside every day, and each unidentified black magic crystal could be exchanged for 700 merit points, the heavy armored infantry soldiers became even more jealous...
What followed was a discussion in the forest camp about redeeming the merit list.
The 50,000 lords' army affiliated to Surdak have become accustomed to this method of combat rewards. Everyone is actively preparing for war, selecting some easy-to-achieve goals on the merit exchange list, and preparing to give it a try.
It's just that Surdak's reward and punishment system was also opposed by some small lords in the Western Route Army. These small lords believed that Surdak's approach was completely damaging the vested interests of the noble lords. Since the Western Route Army
The army is composed of the private armies of various lords, so Surdak does not have the right to require all lords to divide their merits in this way.
In response to such doubts, Suldak acted relatively simply.
All lord armies that do not agree to calculate their merit according to the merit exchange list can follow the original distribution system as long as they apply.
The loot captured on the battlefield is entirely distributed among the commanders of each team.
As soon as this news was announced, the reputation and prestige of the small lords who raised objections plummeted.
However, these small lords still have strong enough control over their own private armies.
They quickly suppressed these bad voices.
Then there was a new statement in the West Route Army, which listed some of the benefits of the old merit distribution model, which can quickly expand the lord's army, speed up the end of the war, and allow fallen soldiers to have more generous pensions, etc.
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But what the heavy-armored infantry soldiers in Lord Surdak's army did next made the foreign bumpkins in the forest camp unable to understand.
They actually exchanged their hard-earned achievements for some consumables on the battlefield. For example, the infantry soldiers of the same combat team actually exchanged some magic crossbow arrows that were difficult to recover after being shot, or some fire scales.
Bullets and magic scrolls.
Forget about the magic crossbow arrows and fire scale bullets, at least they can be used on the battlefield, but they are a bit of a luxury...
But what are the uses of magic scrolls? Infantry soldiers are not magic apprentices. Those magic scrolls require a little mana to activate, which means that only magicians can use them.
However, many infantry soldiers will buy these defensive magic scrolls...
Since I couldn't figure it out, I could only watch silently as the heavy armored infantry grabbed the consumables on the merit list.
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The news that the two injured members of the Duoyin Adventure Group recovered quickly after receiving treatment at the forest camp was like a dandelion blown away by the wind, with small white umbrellas flying all over the sky.
Many adventure groups hunting evil spirits in the north of the Great Meadow began to gather at the forest farm camp after hearing the news. In fact, everyone wanted to verify the authenticity of the news.
After all, once the news is true, it will be of great help to these adventure groups.
The conservative combat plan in the past can be made more radical, and at the same time, the harvest on the hunting grounds will also increase. After all, no one would mind having too much money.
And those bandits who dare to rob other adventure groups have less and less room for survival.
They can hide in the big meadow, but they can't go to the forest farm camp for supplies.
Unless they are an adventure group that is not exposed at all, once they run into the forest camp, they will become a street rat that everyone shouts about.
During the time he returned to the forest farm camp, Suldak had been very busy. He not only formed an ant cavalry regiment, but also took the time to summon merchants from the free market in the forest farm camp.
Surdak asked the merchants to give a certain degree of preferential treatment to the adventure groups that came to the free market for supplies. At the same time, he warned the merchants not to shield those adventure groups who dared to do evil in the big meadow. Once it is discovered that the merchant is shielding this group of people,
, will drive his business group out of the forest camp.
As the commander of the Western Route Army, Suldak's requests and warnings were still very effective.
In the past few days, Surdak also learned from businessmen that the pasture on the big meadow has actually been divided up by a group of noble lords, and the cattle and sheep seen along the way have also been divided up.
The private property of certain lords.
So Suldak recently took the time to meet with several large ranchers. The main purpose of talking to them was to buy cattle and solve the food ration problem for 50,000 ghost-striped soldier ants.
The bacon seized from the evil spirits was only enough to feed the ghost-striped soldier ants for a month.
The Western Route Army has been stationed in the forest camp for more than a month, and the bacon stored in the material warehouse has been exhausted, but the material supplies he applied for from the Military Logistics Department have still not been implemented.
Suldak could only contact the ranchers in the big meadow and purchase a large number of cattle and sheep to ensure that the soldier ants would not starve.
The forest farm camp had long since changed, and Suldak found a large cemetery on a hillside to the north of the forest farm camp.
He searched in this cemetery for a long time, but unfortunately he could not find the tombstone where the members of the second team were buried. After browsing the entire cemetery, he left with a sad expression.
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In the past month, the Magician Investigation Team not only visited the Gandaur Mountains, but also found out all the hidden mountain roads in the Gandael Mountains.
There is a huge panoramic map in the command post of Surdak's camp. The Gandaur Mountains have been restored to their original appearance in an extremely realistic way. The rivers around the mountains are dyed with some blue crystal powder, and the mountain roads are made of
Some yellow spar powder is applied, which is clearly visible at a glance.
Selena has been managing the merit redemption list recently. She needs to count merits every day, record the redemption of reward items, etc.
Every night Selena would chat with Aphrodite, Samira, Carrie Decker, and Naomi around this beautiful sand table. At first, these people were attracted by the bright lights on the sand table.
Attracted by the crystal powder, looking at those realistic rivers and clear mountain roads, Selina recalled some things that Surdak once was in the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment.
These were all things Suldak said every time he chatted with her after doing some kind of exercise in the evening during the time in Wall Village.
Now that everyone is sitting in front of the sand table, many of Surdak's battles with the Ghost Squad have become very clear.
Everyone gradually understood more deeply about the habits of those evil ghost warriors.
As the investigation work became more and more detailed, the magician investigation team began to understand the activity patterns of the evil ghost hunting group. Although they did not dare to get too close to the activity area of the evil ghost warriors, this area was clearly marked on the sand table.
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What Surdak didn't expect was that when these women were chatting together, they actually came up with something...
The reason was that the evil ghost army on Moyun Ridge had a food crisis. Not only did a group of evil ghost warriors run around the forest camp, intending to hunt down the scout team near the camp.
The magicians also discovered that a large number of evil ghost warriors would bypass Mount Gandaur and sneak into the northern area of the Great Meadow. Their activity area on the Great Meadow gradually became larger, and they continued to engage in small-scale battles with the adventure group.
, just to find a little more food.
It was this piece of information that allowed the attentive Selina to discover that the Goat Canyon in the Gandhar Mountains had actually become the most convenient way for the evil warriors to cross the Gandhar Mountains during this period.
These evil ghost hunting groups cautiously crossed the canyon at first, but during this period there was no military garrison.
Now the evil ghost hunting group has become more unscrupulous, and almost the entire hunting group enters the big meadow from this canyon.
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Although it was a bit hard to imagine, the group of ranchers on the big meadow quickly accepted the fact that they were a group of special units in the Western Route Army - ghost-patterned soldier ants.
These ranchers did not expect that Commander Surdak would actually spend money to purchase a large number of cattle just to fill the stomachs of these ghost-striped soldier ants.
These soldier ants had an astonishing appetite for food, and Commander Surdak was also very generous, purchasing more than 100,000 cattle from seven ranches. The deposit paid to these ranchers was boxes of magic crystals.
In order to drive the cattle to the forest camp as scheduled, these ranchers also sent a group of very capable herdsmen to escort the cattle.
Most of the herdsmen here are aboriginal people of the local Popostan tribe. Now this aboriginal tribe has been divided into pieces by the nobles. Almost all the Aboriginal people of Popostan are working for pastures on the big meadow.
The masters work.
An old herdsman looked at the grass in the northern area that was almost as high as a horse's belly. His wrinkled forehead became more profound, and his old face, which had turned bronze after exposure to wind and sun, was full of bitterness.
A group of young herdsmen followed the old herdsmen. On the grassland in front of them, a group of strong oxen almost completely trampled the pasture.
"The grass here stands really well..."
The young herdsman stood astride the smooth horse, holding the reins with one hand, looking at the green sea in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.
They live in the big meadow chasing water and grass, and will go wherever the water and grass are plentiful. However, the northern area of the big meadow has been a restricted area in recent years.
"Do you know why the grass can grow so high?" The old herdsman squinted his eyes and said coldly: "That's because there is a devil hiding here!"
His voice was a little dry, he licked his split lips, looked at the group of young people behind him, and ordered:
"We have to get through here as quickly as possible. In the next period of time, apart from letting the cattle drink water normally, we will not stop. We people also have to take turns to rest and deliver the cattle to the forest camp as quickly as possible.
there."
Hearing that the cattle had to be driven overnight, the young man began to complain:
"Didn't it mean that as soon as we reach the northern area of the Great Meadow, even if the cattle are robbed and killed by evil spirits, the losses will be counted at the forest farm and camp? Then why are we in a hurry?"
The old herdsman raised his eyebrows and swung the whip in his hand hard at the young herdsman.
"Do you think that once those devils appear, they will only kill cattle?" The old herdsman spat, and continued: "We are also food in their eyes."
Speaking of those creepy demons, everyone's expressions changed.
A young man cried in a trembling voice:
"I don't want to be eaten by those demons. I heard that even the souls of those who are eaten will be devoured..."
The old herdsman didn't even look at the timid young man. He looked at the forest farm camp in the distance and said very calmly: "The closer we are to the forest farm camp, the safer we will be, so we have to travel as fast as possible on this section of the road.
Speed through.”
"I know, Uncle Hai." A group of young herdsmen replied in unison.
However, just before dawn, this group of herdsmen encountered an evil ghost hunting team.
Six evil spirits emerged from the dark grass, scaring the herdsmen who quickly rode away from them.
The old herdsmen shouted loudly among the cattle: "Stay away from these devils. Let them kill the cattle. We just need to gather the remaining cattle and drive them away. We are riding horses. As long as we keep a distance, they will not be able to catch up with us."
, everyone pay attention to safety..."
"I know, Uncle Hai." Some young people responded.
Some people simply ran away.
Driven by the old herdsmen, the cattle began to turn around.
These six evil ghost hunters became even more unscrupulous.
After slaughtering dozens of cattle in a row, the six ghost hunters began to think... how to transport the beef back. After all, there were only six companions here. Although the ghost warriors were extremely powerful, one evil hunter
The ghost can only resist two scalpers at most.
The rest of the prey cannot be taken away, they need to call other evil spirits...
Just as these evil spirits were thinking about these things, the frightened cattle began to escape their sight and ran towards the forest camp.