The cavalry rely on charging, and can pierce the five-meter-long knight's spear fiercely into the body of the ghost-patterned soldier ant, which is covered with hard armor.
The ghost-striped soldier ants, which are about three meters long, look like a grumpy one-horned bison, but they are stronger and have a worse temper than the one-horned bison, and they can also spit acidic liquid.
Even if he was half-lying on the battlefield with a knight's spear stuck in his body, he would still attack the cavalry with half of his immobile body.
However, what was waiting to lead them was another knight's spear that came later.
They will be firmly pinned to the ground by their spears, and even if they still have room to struggle, they will be killed by the cavalry following them.
The large number of ghost-striped worker ants have become dead souls under the iron hoofs of war horses.
Led by Andrew, the one hundred and seventy cavalry did not plan to penetrate the entire Dodan Canyon.
They just washed away a large group of red ants that were preparing to move towards the north wall, and then made a circle in the open space of the canyon.
He widened the charging distance again and launched a second charge towards these tenacious red ants. They were like bayonets, and their purpose was to use this piercing tactic to break up the ant colony.
Under the attack of 170 cavalry, the ant colony numbering nearly ten thousand was successfully cut into seven isolated islands, large and small.
In a colony of nearly 10,000 red ants, there are less than a thousand soldier ants.
There are no high-level monsters like giant chariots like the Ghost-marked Male Ants. These soldier ants do not pose much of a threat to the ogres.
The ogre Gulitem entered the ant colony and refused to come out again. After he had his brothers, his body entered a secondary development period.
His powerful physique gave him the power to completely suppress the ghost-patterned soldier ants.
Standing in the dense ant colony, his lower body was almost covered with acid rot, but the acid rot was almost blocked by the ice armor on his body. It looked extremely miserable, but in fact, the acid rot did not touch his body.
The bone-crushing stick in his hand smashed the heads of countless ghost-patterned soldier ants, and occasionally a fireball would be thrown from it.
The fireball exploded around the ogre, like a brilliant fireworks.
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As the cavalry cut through a group of people on the battlefield, the horse infantry behind them entered the field.
With the cooperation of 200 archers, Surdak led 800 infantry soldiers to concentrate their efforts on clearing out the ant colony separated on the easternmost side.
There were probably nearly two thousand ghost-striped red ants here, but under the attack of the cavalry, the number of ghost-striped soldier ants was reduced to more than a hundred.
For ordinary heavy-armored infantry warriors, ghost-patterned soldier ants are still very threatening, but with proper tactics, it only takes three people to work together to block a ghost-patterned soldier ant.
As long as you are careful to avoid the acid liquid of the ghost-striped worker ants, the strength of ordinary infantry and worker ants is about the same.
Adams and Gallatin followed Suldak. The two of them mainly stared at the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants that suddenly appeared from the ant colony.
This kind of giant ghost-patterned red ants are the biggest killers in the ant colony. They are extremely powerful and their hard armor is very strong. When they are killed from the ant colony, without the suppression of the crossbow, even ordinary warriors can possess it.
Surdak's aura of power also couldn't stop those giant soldier ants.
Samira stood at the front of the archer group. She stood on top of a wooden frame similar to a siege vehicle. There were four wheels under the wooden frame and it was drawn into the battlefield by six Gubo horses.
She is specifically responsible for being on the battlefield. Once the soldiers encounter danger on the battlefield, Samira will use her superb bow skills to kill those ghostly red ants and minimize the casualties of the heavy armored infantry.
An army formation of nearly a thousand people can quickly deal with this divided ant colony.
The direction pointed by Andrew's giant ax was the direction in which the cavalry charged.
The fierce fighting turned the entire battlefield into chaos. Surdak stood in the front row of the heavy armored infantry. He was more accustomed to this infantry fighting style.
The battle lasted from morning to night. As the entire ant colony was eaten by the Duodan Town garrison, the larger ant colony in the canyon did not even approach the battlefield.
This ant colony was driven to the northern section of the canyon by cavalry and archers. They were large in number, but extremely loosely organized. Under the rain of arrows, the ghost-striped worker ants were left dead and injured, and the rest of the red ants continued to attack.
The ground was forced to retreat.
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The town's mercenary group and caravan hunting group saw the cavalry battalion fighting in the field for the first time. They saw a group of cavalry overturning a huge ant colony, which made all the mercenaries a little dumbfounded.
Although these mercenaries have been cooperating with the garrison to fight on the city wall, they still retain this pride in their hearts.
The mercenaries believed that the reason why the garrison was able to defend the northern city wall was not because of their own strength, but because the high northern wall blocked the footsteps of the ghost-striped red ants. The garrison used sufficient ordnance supplies and they kept setting fires.
Throwing fire scale bombs and relying on bed crossbows and rolling stones, the ghost-striped red ants were blocked.
In terms of true combat effectiveness, a single powerful mercenary can throw these garrison cavalry several blocks away.
The mercenaries believe that as long as they are given a set of magic pattern constructs and strong war horses, they will become the reserve force of a construct knighthood.
No matter what, they are definitely stronger than ordinary cavalry...
In fact, many people in the business hunting team also have this view.
But what they saw now completely changed the mercenaries' perceptions. When they looked at the cavalry coming down from the battlefield again, their eyes became a little more respectful.
While the cavalry charged in the front, the infantry behind them cleaned up the separated red ants. The battlefield was filled with corpses of large and small ghost-striped red ants.
At dusk, some carriages passed through the north city gate and entered the rear of the battlefield in Duodan Canyon.
The soldiers piled the harvested red ant carcasses into categories, and many carriages loaded with various supplies returned to Duodan Town one after another.
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Surdak led the main force of the garrison back to Dodan Town. The residents of the town crowded into the open space behind the northern city wall, leaving only a narrow passage. Amidst cheers, buckets of diluted ant grass juice were poured out.
Clean water poured out from both sides. When the cavalrymen passed through the passage, the sour liquid on their bodies was quickly washed away by the clear water.
No matter where you are, the worship of warriors will never change.
The girls in the town stood at the front of the crowd, holding basins of light green juice in their hands, and poured water on the cavalry on horseback.
The brave cavalry would even lean down on horseback, hook one hand on the passionate girl's slender waist, and enjoy a brief passionate kiss.
Some businessmen also took the opportunity to get caught in the crowd, stretching their necks from time to time, trying to seduce some cavalry and buy their private goods privately.
When the cavalry entered the garrison camp, they were all soaked in the rain.
Although everyone's face was tired, they also had a kind of excitement.
Surdak immediately visited the wounded soldiers in the camp.
Under the bath wall, Andrew and Ogre were comparing the scars on their bodies. When the two men fought, they had a life-threatening ferocity. Even though Andrew was wearing the 'Earth Shield' magic pattern structure, he was still covered in wounds.
The injury made Surdak unavoidably worried. Andrew could still wear this set of magic pattern armor for a few days.
As long as there is a war, soldiers will inevitably die on the battlefield.
No matter how busy he is, Surdak will still attend the funeral, where he will announce the achievements of the dead soldiers, their private property, and publicly announce the subsequent settlement of their families.
Of course, these are also what the other cavalry want to know most.
At this time, the merit exchange list in the military camp becomes the most shining thing, because those achievements are like golden coins, magic crystals, or precious pieces of Warcraft leather.
The cavalry battalion was stationed in Dodan Town for more than a month, and many veterans gained wealth that was almost unprecedented in their lives.
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The next day, Suldak announced a decision: to expand the garrison camp.
The camp currently has a garrison of 1,500 troops. Although some new wooden dormitories have been built in the camp, the camp seems particularly crowded with so many people living there at once.
With a stroke of his pen on the town map of Dodan Town, Surdak expanded the entire narrow strip of land between the northern city wall and the military camp, and connected it with the city defense brigade into a large area. According to Surdak's plan, this
The land will completely separate the cavalry, infantry and archers.
Each troop type has a separate camp to avoid the increasing number of minor frictions.
Suldak has the final say in Dodan Town now, and of course Mrs. Luna will not refuse this.
Therefore, he submitted the proposal to the town hall and it was approved immediately. Since this land is the town's reserve land, the town has the right to decide the use rights.
That morning, the wood and stone from the lumberyard and quarry were transported to the gate of the station.
Selina personally went to the town to hire a group of craftsmen, and first built the wall according to the area divided by Surdak on the town map.
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The midday sun cast a small shadow on the ground on the gray tiles of the small military camp building.
Signa stood on the wooden bench in front of the railing of the small building and hung the washed bandages on the clothesline. She was short, even if she was stepping on the wooden bench, she had to stand on tiptoes to get the clothes to dry.
rope.
Nika walked in and out of the small building with a basin in her hand, almost trotting all the way.
Yesterday's battle in the canyon left the military camp full of wounded soldiers. The seriously wounded were treated overnight yesterday, and the soldiers with minor injuries will be treated together today.
After being busy all morning, Surdak paused the treatment until his mental power was exhausted. There was no need to start the sacrificial ceremony. The remaining wounded soldiers would probably have to wait until the evening, when his mental power recovered to some extent, before they could receive the treatment of the Holy Light.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead and planned to use his free time in the afternoon after lunch to peel off the complete life magic pattern from the giant ghost-marked red ants captured yesterday.
The ghost-striped red ants in the canyon retreated to the northern section, and the garrison camp did not mobilize again. They just opened the gate of the north city wall, and the mercenary group and the merchant hunting team hunted the ghost-striped red ants in the canyon.
Selena walked in from the small building wearing a headscarf and carrying a food box.
There was quite a bit of sunshine in the morning, and she spent the whole morning outside instructing the craftsmen to build the fence. The bright sunshine made her face a little red.
As long as she ate in the military camp, she would bring her lunch back to the small building and usually would not eat it in the cafeteria.
Nika and Xigna helped clear the table and put the plates on the table.
As soon as Surdak took a bite of the fried steak, the guard at the door ran outside the small building and informed Surdak that the owner of the Thunder Rhino Caravan, Malacom, was outside the military camp and wanted to visit Surdak.
At this time, Surdak remembered that there were two Thunder Rhinoceros recuperating in Dodan Town, and Quartermaster Handel asked him to help take care of them. As a result, there were so many things going on recently that he had never visited them once, and he didn't know what the current situation was.
What is the condition of the two injured Thunder Rhinoceros?
He put down the knife in his hand and asked Selena if she knew about the situation of Thunder Rhinoceros in town.
Selena shook her head, but Nika was sitting at the dining table beside her and said in a low voice: "The toes of those two Thunder Rhinoceros were ulcerated after being corroded by red ant acid. They have been recuperating in the town for the past few days. The local aboriginals used
Cao Zhi helped the two charioteers clean the Thunder Rhinoceros' wounds several times, and it was almost healed now. The two big guys were quite docile, but they were too voracious and kept eating grass almost all day long.
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Surdak nodded, thinking that nothing happened, otherwise he would not be able to give an explanation to Handel Quartermaster.
I didn't expect that the boss of the Thunder Rhino Caravan would come to Dodan Town in person. He thought that he still had a large number of fur goods that he had entrusted this business group to transport to Bena City. Now that the boss of the business group was here, he really needed it.
Meet him.
Then he asked the guards to go to the gate of the military camp and invite the owner of the Thunder Rhino Caravan in.
After thinking about it, I put down the lunch in front of me and walked out of the small building to greet him.
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Malacom has been running the Thunder Rhino Caravan for twenty-six years. He took over the business group from his father, old Malacom. At the time, his father ran the Thunder Rhino Caravan and almost monopolized Bai Lin's business.
For all the transportation business in the plane, the Thunder Rhinoceros caravan was also expanded to twelve.
But now, the caravan has been in his hands for more than 20 years, and he has lost almost all the business in the northern area of the Bailin plane.
There are only eight Thunder Rhino caravans still operating in the southern region. Even so, three of these eight Thunder Rhino caravans are not at full strength.
Of course, there are many reasons for the decline of the business group, but the most important one is that Malacom wants to transfer part of the industry in the Bailin plane to the Bena province. After all, plane wars have broken out frequently in recent years.
With all his family property on the plane like him, once the dark army of the Abyss invades Bai Lin, it is likely that everything will be lost overnight.
Originally, the two Thunder Rhinoceros were slightly injured, and all they needed to do was send a trainer over, and the matter should be resolved.
Even though the local garrison entrusted the transportation business of a large number of fur goods, the Thunder Rhino Caravan handled an unknown amount of this kind of business every year, and there was no need for him to come to negotiate the business in person.
When Malacom came to Dodan Town in person this time, he actually had some plans of his own.
In view of the possibility of a plane war breaking out at any time, Malacom hopes to make friends with some Bailin military forces, so that he can at least obtain military protection in the early stages of a plane war.
At present, almost all of his connections are in the southern Wilkes area.
Now, an animal tide has broken out once every ten years in the northern region. With the keen sense of smell of a businessman, Malacom immediately sensed some opportunities, so he came to Dodan Town himself.
He had actually arrived in Dodan Town yesterday, and happened to see the local garrison win a great victory. The entire town's residents lined the streets to welcome the victorious warriors.
Seeing that the garrison commander was such a radical, I wanted to make friends with him even more.