Walking on the streets of Helensa City, I saw the busy shops on both sides of the streets.
Under the careful management of Lady Mariana, the city of Helensa slowly took on a new look.
The main commodity here has always been gold and silver acorns. Many merchants come to the city of Helensa and almost always purchase these acorns from nobles in the autumn.
It is difficult to see other businesses in the city of Halanza, but now the city is very different, and the scale of the workshop area has obviously increased a lot.
Even at noon, Surdak could still see some citizens rushing to the workshop.
Their steps were in a hurry, as if they were afraid of being late...
On the street, you can often see a group of guard knights riding tall horses passing through the middle of the road. Almost all of these guard knights have unfamiliar faces.
Nowadays, Wall Village has developed into a prosperous town, and its population has exceeded 5,000 people.
The free market in front of Wall Village is the largest market at the southern foot of Paglos Mountain. The merchants here mainly deal in various supplies prepared for adventurous groups entering Paglos Mountain for hunting.
Currently, Wall Village mainly operates a pozzolan cement factory and a black powder factory.
One-third of the sulfur from the sulfur mines in Pudu Mountain is consumed by the black powder factory in Wall Village, and almost all the saltpeter and charcoal for the black powder factory are purchased from outside. Almost all of the charcoal is purchased from the residents of Oak Ridge.
, the saltpeter was procured from the Owen family in Constantinople.
Now almost all the explosive barrels prepared by the black powder factory are supplied to Surdak's Western Route Army.
The current maximum water storage capacity of the five-level reservoir in the village can irrigate nearly a thousand acres of fertile farmland. The artificial canal dug by the kobolds in front of Wall Village has been developed into large tracts of fertile farmland, and even the river bend wetland has been transformed into a wheat field.
, after several years of development, Wall Village has become the most affluent village in the northern suburbs of Helensa City.
However, the people of Wall Village also have their pride...
Because it is located in a remote outskirts of the city, it takes a whole day to get to Hiranza City, so it is rare to see people from the Vol village in Hiranza City.
Although there are many acquaintances of Surdak in Hiranza City, the chance of meeting them on the street is very small, not to mention that he is wearing a cloak with a hood, covering his face.
Surdak and Aphrodite walked into a trading house side by side.
The owner of this trading company transported a large number of armor made from the hard skin of ghost-patterned red ants from Bena City and provided it to Aphrodite.
Recently, the latest batch of armors arrived in the city of Hiranza. Aphrodite came to the trading house to pick up the goods and brought Surdak over.
The texture of these dark red hard armors is very hard, and the armor is completely shaped according to the body shape of the war horse. It can completely wrap the war horse from beginning to end, especially the armor on the horse's head, which is made to fit the war horse very well.
The shape of the head will not affect the horse's field of vision.
The armored bodies were arranged as neatly as war horses...
This is not the first time that Aphrodite has traded here. When the boss of the trading house saw Aphrodite walking in, he immediately invited her and Suldak into the rest area.
The waiters brought in several pieces of armor and asked Aphrodite to inspect them here.
A maid brought a plate of exquisite pastries, which she carefully placed on the coffee table in front of Surdak and Aphrodite.
When he raised his head, he said politely to the two of them: "Guests, please use it slowly..."
But at the moment she raised her head, she looked at Suldak with wide eyes. She covered her mouth with her hand and suppressed the surprised sound from her mouth.
Suldak also immediately noticed the strange look on the maid's face. He looked at the young maid curiously and asked with a smile: "Do you know me?"
"Are you the knight Surdak?" the maid asked Surdak.
At this time, Surdak saw the appearance of the young maid clearly, and a name came to his mind - Nedra.
His memory suddenly emerged of the two female neighbors at Helensa Knight Academy, Lina and Nedra. They were also female students at the Knight Academy and lived next door to Surdak.
I didn't expect to see Nedra here. She was wearing a maid's costume, her long brown hair had been tied up, and she had a wedding ring on her hand...
"Are you Nedra? I really didn't expect to see you here..."
Suldak immediately called out her name.
Suldak was also very happy to see his old friend here, but as the commander of the West Route Army, he should be on the frontline battlefield of Moyunling in the Warsaw plane at the moment, not in the city of Hilanza, so seeing him
It also made him a little embarrassed when he met acquaintances.
"I heard from Lina that you have become a noble lord. It seems to be true!" Nedra glanced at the noble badge on Suldak's chest and whispered.
Surdak smiled and nodded to her, took out a personal seal from his pocket, and wrote a line of text with a quill on a blank scroll of parchment: 'This scroll is for Ms. Nedra.
, if Ms. Nedra needs anything, please try your best to coordinate.'
Then he wrote his name on the back of the parchment scroll, and then stamped it with his personal seal.
Surdak rolled up the scroll, tied it with a cloth strip, and stuffed it into Nedra. He said to her with a surprised look on her face:
"I don't live in Halanza City. I'm giving this scroll to you. If you encounter any difficulties in life in the future, you can send this scroll to the Halanza City City Hall. If it's not the kind of problem that cannot be solved,
, someone will definitely help you.”
"Ah!" Nedra took the scroll at a loss.
By this time, Suldak had already stood up.
Aphrodite took Suldak's arm, glanced at Nedra, and nodded slightly to her.
Then Aphrodite said to the boss of the trading firm: "This batch of goods can be sent to the warehouse, and then the commission will be settled in person..."
After saying that, the two people hurriedly left the business.
It wasn't until Suldak and Aphrodite disappeared on the busy street that the owner of the trading company standing at the door turned his head with envy, looked at Nedra who was in a daze and asked with a pleasant look on his face.
: "Nedra, do you know those two guests?"
"Ah! I only know Lord Knight Surdak. When I was studying at the Knight Academy, he happened to be studying at the academy at that time..."
Nedra answered truthfully.
The owner of the trading company's eyes fell on the parchment scroll. He looked at it for a long time, but in the end he didn't say anything about buying the scroll for a lot of money.
In the end, reason defeated greed, and he just nodded towards Nedra.
He said to Nedra very kindly: "You can learn something from me in the future..."
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"I really can't wander around the city of Helensa in the future, maybe I'll meet some acquaintances... As the commander of the Western Route Army, I can't appear in the city of Helensa at this time. If Duke Newman's news comes,
If your ears are broken, you will inevitably be investigated by the military."
Surdak walked on the street and said to Aphrodite with some annoyance.
Aphrodite smiled and said: "It's not like you were clamoring to come here to see people wearing armor, and you also said you wanted to inspect the business..."
"No more talking, I'm going back to the garrison camp."
Surdak quickly got into a magic caravan, and Aphrodite followed him into the carriage. Surdak turned to Aphrodite and said: "You usually help me take care of some Wall Village.
I originally wanted to visit Wall Village, but let’s forget it this time!”
Surdak said as a gate to the void opened in front of him.
As he walked in, he didn't forget to wave to Aphrodite.
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Surdak really has some free time during this period. The initiative in the battle situation at the mountain pass at the southern foot of Moyun Mountain is completely in the hands of the West Route Army.
Even if the demon army at Yamaguchi was not suppressed, the hungry demon warriors would not dare to escape easily.
The dense forests here are full of demon hunters from some adventure groups. Many of the adventure groups' teams are led by some second-level experts. As long as the evil ghost warriors dare to show their heads in the mountains, they will almost always be targeted by some demon hunters.
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What Surdak needs to do every day is almost to transform those ancient Bolai horses into magic-patterned war horses.
Some rumors in the army are that the mysterious alchemist next to Surdak has made a magical strengthening scroll that can strengthen the ancient Bolai horse into a powerful military horse.
This is also true. These magic-patterned war horses have once again become the mounts of the Constructed Knights. Their endurance during long-distance attacks is obviously stronger than that of scale horses.
Surdak has also discovered something recently, that is, although frequent battles will consume the more than 20,000 remaining soldier ants of the Western Route Army, it will also cause some ghost-striped soldier ants to evolve into
Giant soldier ants.
When the ghost-striped soldier ants evolved into giant soldier ants, the value of these giant soldier ants increased almost by leaps and bounds. The greatest value was that the limbs of the giant soldier ants could peel off some magic patterns of life.
Therefore, during this period, the West Route Army and the Evil Ghost Legion were fighting on the battlefield, and there were still a large number of ghost-patterned soldier ants at the front of the army, acting as cannon fodder.
Almost all of the remaining 20,000 soldier ants were killed on the battlefield of Moyun Mountain Pass in the next three months. Although the loss of so many soldier ants made Surdak a little distressed, nearly 2,000 soldier ants were born.
The giant soldier ants, together with the more than a thousand giant soldier ants left after the Battle of the Bouyin River, gave Surdak the possession of nearly three thousand giant soldier ants at once.
And these giant soldier ants are constantly signing devil contracts with heavy armored infantry warriors, becoming new ant cavalry.
As Viscount Dunbar said, it took the military nearly four months to transport 50,000 ghost-striped soldier ants from the Bailin plane of Bena Province.
These 50,000 ghost-striped soldier ants were driven like a herd by the druids to the garrison camp at the foot of Moyunling Mountain.
Almost in the same month, the tribes in the mountains in the northern part of Moyunling also organized 30,000 aboriginal warriors to come to the camp of the Western Route Army. These 30,000 young aboriginal warriors will learn how to fight against the evil ghost army in the garrison camp.
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The West Route Army currently has 50,000 ant soldiers and 30,000 aboriginal warriors in addition to 100,000 heavy armored infantry...
With the addition of some archer groups, construct knights, magician reconnaissance groups, ant cavalry, giant soldier ants, etc., the current total strength of the West Route Army has expanded to almost 200,000.
The walled city at the foot of Moyunling Mountain is also constantly expanding.
When these soldier ants are not participating in battles, they are also excellent means of transportation. They drag back a large amount of useful wood from the depths of the dense forest. Surdak used a large amount of wood to build a huge walled city on this hillside.
The walled city has the most complete walls and arrow towers. The fifty-seven arrow towers are equipped with crossbows, and there are also some catapults in the city.
This walled city, which can accommodate nearly 200,000 troops, is undoubtedly a very huge wooden city.
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In order to maintain the daily expenses of the West Route Army, Suldak had to fight a fierce battle with the evil spirits stationed at Moyunling Pass every few days.
The military headquarters of Handanar City has sent nearly three hundred crossbows to support the Western Route Army, and they have all arrived at the battlefield. The magic crossbow arrows ordered by Suldakto merchant Malacom in the imperial capital have also passed through the sea.
The channels on the Lanza City side were all transported to the West Route Army.
These giant crossbows with 'sharp' and 'penetrating' magical properties can be said to be the biggest nemesis of the evil warriors.
As the ant cavalry dragged two hundred bed crossbows to occupy the high ground on the battlefield, the ghost-striped soldier ants were no longer cannon fodder on the battlefield. They would guard in front of the bed crossbows. As the bed crossbows slowly advanced on the battlefield, a kind of
A new way of fighting appeared on the battlefield of the West Route Army.
The Moyunling Pass was originally a sparse forest, but the continuous fighting over the past few months has turned this hillside bare.
The aboriginal warriors wore heavy full-coverage armor and held Paglio spears mixed with the heavy armored infantry regiment. The heavy armored infantry regiment and the soldier ant army slowly advanced to the Moyunling Pass surrounded by two hundred crossbows.
on the battlefield.
This time Surdak mobilized nearly 70,000 troops, almost completely surrounding the Moyunling Pass.
The catapult group began to throw a large number of flints and gunpowder barrels towards the Moyunling Mountain Pass, which almost turned the Moyunling Mountain Pass into a piece of scorched earth. The evil ghost warriors were repeatedly retreated by the gunpowder barrels. After a week of fierce bombardment, nearly two
Thousands of ghost-patterned soldier ants and 50,000 heavy armored infantry finally occupied the Moyunling Pass.
The evil ghost army guarding the mountain pass was forced to retreat to the valley on the mountainside of Moyunling.
The adventure group and mercenary group also helped a lot this time. This group of demon hunters almost completely restrained the evil ghost team scattered in the mountains.
The West Route Army's active attack made the evil ghost army guarding the Moyunling Mountain Pass finally realize the crisis...
The Evil Ghost Legion then launched a fierce counterattack. However, after the Western Route Army occupied the Moyunling Mountain Pass, Suldak placed two hundred bed crossbows at the mountain pass, allowing nearly ten thousand Evil Ghost soldiers to rush towards the mountain pass.
The wave flat shot harvested the lives of a large number of evil ghost warriors.
The soldier ants and the heavy armored infantry regiment blocked the evil spirits on the battlefield like a high wall. They watched as a large number of evil ghosts rushed out of the dense forest and were shot with bed crossbows.
The evil ghost army finally recognized the fact, abandoned the Moyunling Pass, and retreated to the valley halfway up the mountain.