The hall of the command post was lit with dozens of wall lamps, and the atmosphere seemed a bit noisy.
Captain Emil Mason stood beside Suldak with some embarrassment.
He saw all the generals of the Western Route Army.
At this time, the generals of the West Route Army did not know that there was a big problem with the East Route Army's defense line. Everyone gathered in the hall of the command post, thinking that Suldak was going to hold a celebration dance.
Indeed, in the past nearly two months, the Western Route Army stationed at the foot of Moyunling Mountain had almost perfectly suppressed the evil ghost army in the mountain.
The fighting here has attracted countless adventure groups to hunt here.
The hall was crowded with nearly a hundred infantry regiment commanders, and none of them deliberately lowered their voices...
Until Surdak knocked the evil ghost shield with the scabbard of the light branding iron, and there was a "bang bang bang" sound in the hall, the commanders of the various corps and the infantry commanders quickly fell silent, and everyone focused their attention.
On Surdak's body.
Surdak stood on the high platform and said seriously to the group of generals in front of him: "Everyone, now we have received some intelligence about the Eastern Route Army's defense line. The battle situation there is not very optimistic, so I decided to lead the troops tonight.
We are leading the knights in the legion into the Great Meadow, hoping to intercept the vanguard of the evil ghost legion before they penetrate into Handanar City."
There was an uproar in the hall, and no one expected that there would be problems with the East Route Army.
When the Evil Ghost Legion goes from Naroda Fortress to Handanar City, they actually do not need to pass through the Great Meadow. They can reach Handanar City by walking eastward along the Buruin River south of the Great Meadow.
Therefore, according to Surdak's idea, if he wanted to intercept the vanguard of the Evil Ghost Legion, it meant that Surdak and the Knights had to cross the entire large meadow.
At this time, when everyone saw the heavily armed Andrew and Wolf Knight Tago striding in, they knew that the Constructed Knights were ready.
Surdak stopped talking and said directly:
"During my absence, the camp will continue to maintain the status quo. The magicians will continue to suppress the evil ghost army on Moyun Ridge and take out all the powder barrel reserves. In the next half month, all
Throw it to the mountain pass of Moyun Ridge on the other side."
"The infantry regiment must avoid large-scale battles as much as possible. Once the evil ghosts on the opposite side are dishonest, they must fight hard and beat them back..."
"Before we come back, try to hold on to the camp here as much as possible. It took us so long to build the stronghold. I don't want to see a scorched earth when we come back."
"If the Evil Ghost Legion sends a large number of Evil Ghost warriors to launch a massive counterattack, we will immediately retreat to the forest camp. Samira, Selina and Carrie Decker, you three, have the decision-making power of the West Route Army and command of all legions.
Both officers and infantry regiments must be under their management."
"Do you understand?"
Suldak's deep voice lingered in the hall of the command post, and the depressing atmosphere made people short of breath.
Captain Emil Mason looked at the overly young commander of the Western Route Army and finally understood why Marquis Luther pushed him to the position of commander of the Western Route Army.
Speaking of which, when he first heard the news, Marquis Edmund Arnold was still a little angry.
This is because the status gap between the commanders of the Eastern and Western Routes in the Bena Province is very different. If the commander of the Western Route Army was Marquis Luther, then Marquis Edmund Arnold would not say anything, but who would have thought that the military headquarters would let him
An unknown earl came to serve as the commander of the Western Route Army. Although I heard that this young commander was also a plane lord, such an unknown person actually made Marquis Edmund Arnold surrender.
Your own coffee spot.
When the reinforcements from the east and west gathered in Bena City, Marquis Edmund Arnold also used some tricks to occupy all the knights in the reinforcements.
Although this was the unanimous decision of the great lords behind the Constructed Knights, and it was hard for the military to say anything, what Marquis Edmund Arnold did seemed a bit disgraceful. At least for the next period of time, Lu
The Marquis of Siren refused all balls attended by the Marquis Edmund Arnold.
The two marquises were never able to meet each other during the period before the expedition.
So much so that the relationship between Suldak and Marquis Edmund Arnold was also very unfamiliar.
Now Captain Emil Mason is standing in the hall of the West Route Army command post, inevitably feeling a little embarrassed.
Surdak turned to Samira and Selina and said: "If the war situation here deteriorates rapidly, then evacuate decisively, but before evacuating, be sure to notify the caravans and adventure groups here in advance to let them
There is also some preparation time.”
What else could Selena say? At this time, she could only nod and agree:
"knew."
Surdak set his sights on Samira. The half-elf archer wanted to go to the battlefield with Surdak, but there was some reluctance in his eyes...
But Surdak looked at her seriously until the half-elf archer lowered his head and whispered:
"Don't worry, I will keep an eye on the battlefield here."
Surdak nodded with satisfaction and told the three of them:
"You should also be careful."
"Um!"
Three people answered.
Gary Decker thought that Suldak would also have some personal words to tell her, but she did not expect that Suldak turned around and strode out of the command post with Andrew and Tago.
'What I slept with is indeed different...'
The heavy-armed gunner whispered in his heart and followed Samira with his long legs.
At night, the gate of the military camp was closed.
The outside of the command post was crowded with knights preparing to go out for battle. They were all comforting their horses, so although the place was crowded with people, it seemed very quiet.
The group of ant riders live over there in the soldier ant burrow, in an independent place outside the camp.
Surdak walked in a hurry. He didn't even wait for the 1,500 ant cavalry to gather here, so he set off overnight with a thousand construct knights and 1,500 ant cavalry, which gave Surdak a little bit of trouble.
What I didn't expect was that for the ghost-patterned soldier ant army, although a large number of soldier ants would be sacrificed in every battle, those soldier ants that survived the battlefield began to gradually evolve...
After the battle, these soldier ants gnawed on the corpses of a large number of evil spirits, and a considerable number of the soldier ants evolved into giant soldier ants.
Surdak hadn't paid much attention these days. He originally thought there were only a few hundred giant soldier ants, so he asked Andrew to take them with him.
Now when we arrived at the cave where the ghost-patterned soldier ants live, we discovered that in addition to fifteen hundred ant cavalry, the place was densely packed with giant soldier ants.
After asking Dru Yin, who was about to set out with the army, Surdak finally knew the number of these mutated giant soldier ants, a total of 2,347 of them, which together were larger than the Construct Knights and Ant Cavalry.
Much bigger.
Mainly because the giant soldier ants are just too big.
If an adult soldier ant is about the size of an ancient Boreal horse, the giant soldier ant looks like an adult male rhinoceros.
Obviously a week ago there were only a few hundred giant soldier ants...
"How come there are so many?" Surdak, riding a war horse, asked Dru Yin who was standing on the head of a giant soldier ant.
The Dru Yin quickly saluted Surdak. For these Dru Yin, Surdak was their lord. The Dark Worm Valley where their tribe and people now lived was still Suldak in name.
of private territory.
After that war, Surdak fulfilled all his original promises, and these southern tribesmen are now completely autonomous in the Dark Worm Valley.
This was something that none of the tribal elders had thought of.
Before this expedition, the elders of the tribe made a special statement to this group of young Dru Yin: "When you bring this group of soldier ants into the battlefield, no matter who the commander of the army is, you must only obey Lord Suldak."
One person's orders...'
Drew Yinlani immediately came up and answered: "After the last war, nearly a thousand soldier ants got into the burrows and entered a dormant state. They have just re-molded in the past few days."
"Second hatching?" Surdak asked.
Lanny shook his head stubbornly and corrected: "Lord, this is molting, which is equivalent to the soldier ants completing a molt!"
Surdak was a little confused about how soldier ants shed their shells...
"Let's go, all the giant soldier ants will follow me this time..."
Under the darkness of night, there were violent vibrations on the entire hillside, and the dark team quickly rushed down the hillside, heading south along the forest road from Moyun Ridge to the forest farm camp.
When it was just dawn, the team had already passed by the forest farm camp.
The team did not rest at the forest camp, but went directly into the large meadow.
Captain Emil Mason followed Surdak's mixed army for a whole night, only to discover that although most of these construct knights were riding ancient Bolai war horses, these war horses were inferior in terms of physical strength and endurance.
, actually managed to stabilize the green-scaled horse beneath him.
Even if he came to ask for help, the green-scaled horse was very exhausted when it arrived at the Western Route Army camp, and it could not recover when it started again.
But after all, his bloodline is perfectly suppressed. He rides a scaly horse, and these construct knights are ordinary war horses...
Now Captain Emil Mason discovered that these Gubo war horses were actually anything but ordinary.
But what surprised Captain Emil Mason the most were the ant cavalry. These unique cavalry themselves seemed to have no characteristics. They looked exactly like heavy armored infantry regiment soldiers. They were all wearing dark, full-coverage heavy armor.
It's like a tin can.
But these soldier ants under their crotches are simply a group of monsters.
1. Running wildly all night, they still have plenty of energy. They don’t even eat or drink, they don’t need to rest, and they don’t need to consider all kinds of complex terrain. Even if there are cliffs, steep slopes, and hills, for these ant riders, it’s still
It was a smooth ride.
Watching them climb the steep fault zone more than 20 meters high, Captain Emil Mason was so surprised that he could hardly speak.
This means that this group of ant cavalry is not restricted by the terrain of the valley, and has a unique advantage especially in mountain warfare.
I heard a long time ago that the Bena Legion suffered heavy losses on the battlefield at Moyun Ridge, and it was a very hard nut to crack.
Captain Emil Mason initially thought that the East Route Army would be stationed at Moyun Ridge, while the West Route Army would be stationed at Naroda Fortress in the west of Handanar County. Unexpectedly, he discovered Duke Newman's combat deployment only after the order was issued.
completely opposite……
Now it seems that Lord Surdak with the Ant Cavalry is really suitable to garrison Moyun Ridge.
What happened next made Captain Emil Mason even more confused. He discovered that this group of ghost-striped soldier ants happened to pass by a herd of cattle while marching on the large meadow.
It is said that these cattle should be the private property of the local ranchers and are protected by the lord's decree.
Unexpectedly, Surdak waved his hand, and the four thousand soldier ants swarmed up and gnawed the cattle clean.
The herdsmen who were grazing seemed to be relaxed and rode away happily.
…
"This may be the last meal before entering the war. Let them eat enough! After leaving the northern area of the Great Meadow, I don't know if the supplies can keep up. It is best to meet the vanguard of an evil ghost first.
This way the food supplies for the soldier ants will be supplied!"
Suldak said to Andrew, who was lying on the grass and resting with his eyes squinted.
All war horses need to eat grass and drink water.
When the sun came out and the dew dissipated, Surdak asked the Construct Knights to stop and take a rest.
I just happened to meet a group of cattle that I purchased during the Battle of Yangchang Canyon...
When he first bought the cattle, Surdak had made an agreement with the rancher. Before the cattle were slaughtered, the herders on the ranch had to graze them for free for Surdak.
The herdsmen had been staying in this pasture for nearly two months. They were discussing when they could deliver the cattle out, when they saw a group of ghost-striped soldier ants, nearly two thousand, emerging from the edge of the large meadow.
The cow was completely killed by soldier ants.
Suldak and the Constructed Knights galloped on the big meadow for a day and a night, and finally arrived at the bank of the Bouyin River on the morning of January 14th.
This is also Captain Emil Mason's third day following the knights of Surdak.
The outline of Handanar City can be seen from a distance here, and Surdak heard from the herdsmen nearby that the vanguard of the Evil Ghost Legion has not yet appeared on the banks of the Buruin River.
This also means that the evil ghost army did not attack Handanar City...
Moreover, Surdak's cavalry came all the way from the big meadow and failed to encounter the vanguard of the evil ghost army, which meant that the evil ghost army did not choose to go north.
The Constructed Knights were resting by the Bruin River. Suldak took out the map again and asked Captain Emil Mason for details.
The magician Basil, who had been following Surdak, finally flew back from the west on his magic harpoon to face the rising sun. He controlled the magic harpoon and landed next to Surdak, and jumped off the magic weapon.
He didn't even have time to drink his saliva before he hurriedly put his finger on the map.
The place he was pointing to happened to be the lower reaches of the Bruin River. According to Suldak's estimation, it was about fifty kilometers away.
"Here! They rushed here and were blocked by a group of knights, maybe two knights. When I came back, there was still fighting there!"