Surdak did not leave the Sweet Water Oasis the next day. This was the closest desert oasis to the deserted land, about two days' journey on horseback.
It is the last springboard for these desert bandits to enter the deserted land. For Surdak, it is impossible to send troops to station here. The deserted land security squadron does not have such strength for the time being, but it cannot let the Sweetwater Oasis be shelved like this.
here.
Sweet pool is a deep pool, and a deep underground river is connected to it, forming a sweet pool that never dries up.
A broad-leaved poplar forest grows in the north of this sweet pond. This forest is only about half an acre in size. It is winter at the moment, so you can't see any small animals living in the forest, and there won't be any if you think about it. After all, this is a forest.
It is too small, and desert bandits are often stationed near the sweet pool. Although they will not settle here for a long time, and the products here cannot support many people, the bandits use this place as a temporary camp to replenish water sources, but it is very useful.
Good place.
I just didn’t expect that this time there would be a bandit group of more than two hundred people, using this place as a wintering place, and hoarding a large amount of winter food and grass for this purpose.
According to the judgment of the sea giant mercenary leader Gabri, this desert bandit was probably a weak brigade driven out by other more powerful desert bandits when they were fighting for territory. In the past, the deserted land would not send troops to the desert.
When Surdak leads a team to attack the desert bandits this year... it can only be said that they are unlucky.
In the cold winter, the moist sand beside the sweet pool was frozen solid. However, Suldak did not care about this and directly ordered two hundred veterans of the cavalry battalion and reserve knights of the guard battalion to start logging. Originally, this area
The poplar forest was not that big, and hundreds of trees were cut down in half a day without pruning the branches. All the trees were piled directly on the sweet pond that had become an ice pond.
Suldak ordered his people to light the hills of trees.
The fire ignited, the flames shot into the sky, and a thick and straight plume of smoke shot into the sky.
It burned from noon to the next morning. At night, the fire here could be seen dozens of miles away. The fire directly melted the frozen soil around the sweet pool. When the flames extinguished and the sand became cool, two hundred people
The veterans used shovels to fill in the sweet pool.
In just three days, a desert oasis with a sweet water pool disappeared from the map. Surdak also drew a small red cross at the location of the sweet water oasis on the map outside the deserted land.
If there was no war, this place would obviously become an excellent paradise.
The mercenary group has not been idle in the past three days, sending out all the rangers in the team to conduct reconnaissance, looking for the oasis closest to the Sweetwater Oasis.
That's right, the target is not the bandit group, but the desert oasis.
Perhaps the fighting here scared away the surrounding desert bandits. The mercenary group found two desert oases one after another. Although there were traces of habitation, no desert bandits were found.
Based on the information obtained by the mercenary group, Surdak drew two circles on the map. He casually pointed at one of the circles and said to everyone: "Let's go here!"
When the team arrived at this oasis, they found that the pool here had dried up. Some reeds and grass around the pool roughly circled the outline of the pool. The pool here was several times larger than the pool in the Sweetwater Oasis. If there was water, it would be
A small lake.
Seeing lush aquatic plants on the shore, it is obvious that the pool here probably has water in the summer during the high water season. Now it has entered the dry season, and the small lake here has dried up again.
There is a high sand hill on the west side of this small lake. There are some sea buckthorn grass and thirsty grass on the whole sand hill. There are also clusters of oil trees under the sand hill. This kind of low tree wattle can be used for
Weaving backpacks and baskets, this oasis is not suitable for living, but there is a well made of stones between the pool and the sand hill. From above, this well looks very deep.
Suldak's team camped here for only one night before leading the team to another oasis.
Before leaving, Suldak asked all the veterans to find a big stone each near the sand hill in the oasis...
Then he took out a fire scale bomb from his arms. He had a total of twenty fire scale bombs like this. These fire scale bombs were all given to him by Baron Iman Owen when he was in Constantinople before leaving.
His gift, I took out one now because I wanted to test the power of the fire scale bullet.
Pull out the fuse on the fire scale bomb and throw the fire scale bomb into the well. Not long after, you heard a "dong" sound and the fire scale bomb fell into the well water.
Gulitem wanted to look into the well, but Suldak grabbed his arm.
The ogre turned to look at Surdak in confusion...
With a muffled sound of "boom", the well water rushed out from more than ten meters underground, like a violent fountain rushing out to a height of three meters, and then quickly fell back.
Looking at the intensity of the explosion, it was obvious that the bottom of the well had completely collapsed.
Surdak turned around and waved to the veterans who lined up carrying stones. These veterans threw all the stones into the well, and finally buried the well completely with dry yellow sand.
The team left this oasis.
Captain Gabriel grinned. Only now did he understand Surdak's plan. Since these oases in the desert are of no use to the villagers in the barren land and will become temporary camps for desert bandits, it is better to destroy them directly.
Lose.
This can also be regarded as another form of clearing the wilderness, but it is not one’s own wilderness.
Surdak's team had a group of women who had been recaptured from the desert bandits. The march was much slower along the way. Some women escaped from the team at night. Surdak didn't let anyone stop him. He just took care of them.
Good horses, if they want to leave, let them go...
However, most of the women were forced to choose to stay. In such a cold winter, without the food supplies from Surdak's team, they would not be able to leave the desert alive.
Two days before entering the desert, Viru was so lazy that he used his 'Earth Sight' to explore the situation around the team, and he just rode a horse and followed the team leisurely.
When Surdak destroyed the second desert oasis, Viru also started to get serious. He replaced his war horse with a camel that could walk faster in the desert. He had to run around the team almost every day, transferring the reconnaissance team
The range spreads to 20 kilometers away.
This year, the wind wolves in the desert also began to form large-scale wolf packs because they did not have enough food to survive the winter. And this wolf pack has obviously smelled the smell here. At first, they just gathered in the distance until they appeared in the field of vision.
At that time, it was like a gray cloud on the sand dunes. There were at least hundreds of those wind wolves, but they seemed to be very patient. They did not rush up to hunt Surdak's team, but sent out small groups first.
The wind wolf came over to test the strength of the team.
The large group of wind wolves followed behind the team, like a gray shadow.
Seeing these wind wolves, except for the ogre Gulitem who seemed a little excited, everyone felt a shadow in their hearts. There were too many wind wolves. These were not ordinary wolves, but first-class wolves.
Warcraft wind wolves can be called warcraft, which means that they possess some kind of magic in their bodies. This low-level wind wolf belongs to the lowest wind-attribute warcraft and is good at releasing wind blades in battle.
And even though they are first-level monsters, they are the most useless kind of monsters. The probability of a magic core appearing in the skull of a first-level monster is 1 out of 10, and the fur is hard and long. It is the worst kind of monster fur. Wolf
Fangs, wolves and claws are also commonplace items that are not valuable, so many adventure groups and mercenary groups will not choose to hunt these monsters with low added value.
In comparison, first-level monsters such as the Magic Antelope and Blue Ice Deer have very high value in themselves, and are the first choice hunting targets for many adventure groups.
It is precisely because wind wolves do not have much commercial value that there are more and more wind wolves in the wilderness. In such a remote place, wind wolves that were good at traveling alone or in groups of three or five actually gathered hundreds of them. This kind of magical beast
Very annoying and very cunning at the same time. Once they are targeted, they will become very patient, like a piece of brown candy stuck behind their back. They have extremely strong endurance and will wait for the best time before they all attack.
Move out.
Most of the veterans in the cavalry battalion have experience in hunting wind wolves, but the fifty reserve knights sent by the guard battalion did not have any experience in killing wolves. When they saw the wolves behind them, their faces turned pale with fear.
Facing these troublesome wind wolves, Surdak is actually a little excited. Recently, his thirst for primary sacrifices has been very high.
Suldak was a little worried that when the wolves were tracking halfway, they would have no choice but to give up decisively.
So he asked the team to slow down and then called everyone together to discuss countermeasures.
When it comes to hunting World of Warcraft, Captain Gabri of the Sea Giant Mercenary Group has the absolute say. Many times when the mercenary group really doesn't get the mission, they will go around the Paglos Mountains to hunt some World of Warcraft and collect Warcraft materials for the magic market.
Sell for money.
Captain Gabri and his mercenaries are very familiar with the habits of these wind wolves. At the same time, they do not look down on these wind wolves at all, thinking that they are worthless.
However, Surdak did not seem to discuss the value of wind wolves at all, but directly discussed how to hunt these wind wolves.
"We have so many people, they will never rush up easily, unless they confirm that our true strength is too far behind them, and they are strong enough to eat us in one bite." Captain Gabri said to Suldak: "
So trapping shouldn't work, they are very smart and won't be fooled easily."
Andrew, who was sitting opposite Suldak, said: "Is it feasible for us to place some traps along the way? When they follow them, there will definitely be wind wolves falling into the trap."
Captain Gabri shook his head again and said: "We don't carry many wild animal traps, and it is unrealistic to set up traps for hunting. Those are wind wolves, and their sharp teeth can bite off the chains on the wild animal traps."
After rejecting two plans one after another and seeing everyone's eyes focused on him, Captain Gabri thought about it seriously and then said: "The best way is for us to dispatch a few small elite teams and stay in the middle of the large group of wind wolves.
Surround them, hunt them, and eat them bit by bit."
“But is it really okay for us to stay here and waste time hunting these wind wolves?” Captain Gabri asked Surdak.
He felt that Surdak might not know the value of wind wolves in the market, so he had such an idea, so he asked: "These wind wolves are not valuable at all. There is not even a trading house in Helensa willing to buy the magic from the wind wolves."
Materials and their fur are the least valuable.”
"Ahem, no matter what, it is still somewhat useful." Suldak coughed slightly, and then said to Captain Gabri: "Captain Gabri, these wind wolf heads will not be as valuable as the desert bandits. Before,
I haven’t talked about this yet, so I want to price it according to the market price now. A complete wind wolf head is worth fifty silver coins, what do you think?”
“The mercenary group obeys your arrangement.” Gabri felt that the price given by Surdak was very reasonable, and their mercenary group had rich experience in hunting wind wolves.
Deciding to hunt these wind wolves, the team stopped moving forward and chose to camp on the southern slope of a sand dune.
A total of two elite wolf hunting teams were set up here. Captain Gabri deployed ten people from the mercenary group to form a hunting team. The rest of the mercenary group stayed to guard the main force. Surdak also called in the ancient wolf hunting team.
Litem, Andrew, Viru and several veterans who are good at hunting formed the second hunting team.
They each carried two horses and rushed towards the wolves in opposite directions.
Captain Gabri feels that his mercenary group is more familiar with these wind wolves, so it will be easier to hunt them...
It was only when he saw Viru riding a horse, drawing a scorching bow a hundred meters away, and easily shooting through the Wind Wolf's throat with a fine steel arrow, that he realized how terrifying it was to have an Eagle Eye in the team.
The horse ran back and forth outside the wolf pack, killing more than ten wind wolves while running.
Viru's move angered the wolves, and dozens of wind wolves rushed towards Weiru like crazy.
Weiru did not continue to shoot, but turned the horse's head and pulled the horse into the desert.
These wind wolves will definitely get out of touch with the wind wolf army when they catch up. If Viru is allowed to get away, he will ride another war horse and continue to shoot cold arrows outside the wind wolf army.
After pulling back and forth like this several times, there were already more than thirty wind wolf corpses. Those wind wolves finally lost their minds and ran at full speed, rushing toward Viru.
Gulitem could not hold back his excitement for a long time, and carrying a bone-crushing stick, he faced Veru who ran back from a distance.
This kind of hunting lasted until sunset.
Viru shot almost all the fine steel arrows he carried with him. When he counted the wind wolf corpses, he found that he had killed more than 80 wind wolves...
For Suldak, receiving such a large amount of wind wolf heads made him feel relieved, and he could continue to maintain the "Blessed Body".