On the first day of entering the hilly and mountainous area, ten four-wheeled carriages returned to Duodan Town that afternoon, fully loaded with ghost-striped soldier ants.
The day after the ten four-wheeled carriages returned fully loaded, Mrs. Luna, as the acting mayor of the town, organized twenty four-wheeled carriages to pass through the Dodan Canyon and arrived at the hilly battlefield before noon.
Although the acting female mayor made the boldest prediction in her life, twenty four-wheeled carriages still could not transport all the loot.
On the third day, a caravan of Thunder Rhinoceros came to the hills and mountains.
There are a total of twelve Thunder Rhinoceros in this caravan. They walk in a row among the mountains. From a distance, they look like a row of moving hills.
Thanks to the timely arrival of the Thunder Rhino caravan, all the loot accumulated in the three days could finally be transported to Duodan Town.
This Thunder Caravan was originally here to perform physical transformation on the Thunder Rhinoceros. Surdak led his troops to hunt ghost-patterned red ants outside the canyon. The caravan director immediately decided to bring the Thunder Rhino caravan to see Surdak.
commander.
The scene of cleaning up the battlefield was very lively.
Selina personally rushed to the front line and assigned personnel to tally the spoils, achievements, battle losses and the need to replenish supplies.
In this hunt, the merit points obtained by the cavalry battalions are no longer evenly distributed, but are divided according to the cavalry squads. All ghost-marked red ants killed on the battlefield will have the unique marks of each squad.
The span of the hilly and mountainous battlefield is also very large. The cavalry raided around the ant colony, leaving corpses of ghost-striped red ants everywhere in the hills and mountains. Many ghost-striped red ants failed to gather together in time, and they had to fight in this area again after the war.
Run through the area and use a lasso to drag back the missed ghost-striped soldier ants.
However, in this way, the cavalry's fighting enthusiasm suddenly increased a lot.
This time the hunt did not use explosives to clear out the ghost-striped worker ants. These ghost-striped worker ants were also included in the merit account again, making the merit statistics more cumbersome.
Selina temporarily found a few cavalrymen who knew the Imperial language to conduct statistics together. They were busy until night before returning to Dodan Town with the Thunder Rhino caravan.
As for the merit statistics, I was busy until the evening, mainly because when Selina did the final total check, the merit values and the number of ghost-marked soldier ants did not match up.
In order to count the merit points of each team as soon as possible, Selina temporarily invited several cavalry to join her.
But these cavalrymen participated in this battle after all. Many cavalrymen on the battlefield are their familiar friends. Everyone has their own selfish motives. Occasionally, someone will record some achievements in private. This kind of thing cannot be monitored...
This is the first time since the performance statistics were compiled that the cavalry battalion falsely reported its performance.
Until she returned to Duodan Town, Selena still had a straight face and didn't want to say a word.
Selina wanted to thoroughly investigate the cavalrymen who were responsible for counting the merits, but was later stopped by Suldak. The amount of falsely reported merits was not too large. In order to ensure that the next hunting of ghost-marked red ants could go smoothly, she did not continue.
Investigate this matter.
It's just that those cavalrymen who were responsible for counting their merits spent half a day working in vain without any subsidies or rewards.
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Lance and several of his friends have been living in the cabin on Thunder Rhinoceros' back these days.
I have also participated in several battles in the past few days, but unfortunately I did not take advantage of the magician's advantages.
They just stood on the platform and threw a few fireballs at the ant colony, which actually did not have much impact on the entire war.
Several young magicians have a certain understanding of the imperial cavalry's fighting methods, and have a clear understanding of the strength of Surdak's cavalry team.
Lance did not expect that Surdak would actually have second-level warriors like Andrew, a native warrior of the Nanai tribe, and the two-headed ogre under his command. No wonder he could not only easily defend the Dodan Canyon, but also lead the cavalry to fight out of the canyon.
The two of them led a group of cavalry to fight in the ant colony. They were almost the mainstay on the battlefield. All the cavalry followed them, like passing locusts, plundering and harvesting the ghost-striped red ants.
This is also Lance's most intuitive feeling when he goes to fight in the hills and mountains with the cavalry battalion.
Later, Lance discovered that the half-elf archer Samira was the core of the entire team. In the final battle to kill the queen ant, she shot sixteen ghost-marked male ants and one ghost by herself.
Tattooed Queen Ant.
Seeing these warriors in the cavalry battalion, the young magicians also began to think about what they could do to gain more achievements and how to fight in coordination with those cavalry.
The five of them gathered in the cabin and began to think about the role of the magician in a war.
They cannot charge like knights, nor can they shoot arrows as frequently as archers. Although fireballs are quite powerful, if they are used dozens of times, their mental power will be exhausted.
We discussed it for a long time, and finally sadly found that we couldn't find a good entry point.
Among the five magicians, it was Galena who took the lead in taking this step.
The reason is that Galena is a water magician. She learned the "hydrotherapy" technique and can perform simple treatments. Then she was honored to become Surdak's assistant and was usually responsible for some treatment of injured knights.
Several magicians also saw the ability of the Surdak Cavalry Battalion to make money quickly.
The cavalry have been killing ghost-patterned red ants these past few days, and have actually harvested a large amount of magic materials.
They couldn't figure it out. If it was like what they saw, why didn't other legions grab this piece of fat?
The Bailin plane is not outstanding among the planes controlled by Duke Newman of the Bena Province. The resources of this plane are very ordinary, and it does not have air superiority. Even the channel of the magic airship cannot be opened here.
It is not as highly developed as the Maca plane, nor is it as rich in resources as the Ganbu plane.
"How could such a tide of beasts not be noticed by other noble lords?"
Galena leaned against the window and looked at the hilly battlefield at dusk. A team of Thunder Rhinoceros loaded with various goods was slowly heading towards the Dodan Canyon. She couldn't help but sigh.
The sweet-faced female magician cuddled up next to her, and she also had some questions: "Yes! When did the noble lords of the Bena Province become so polite? Don't they even come to share a piece of the pie?"
"I think it probably has something to do with Commander Surdak's personal ability." The male magician with a monocle gave an answer.
Lance smiled and said nothing.
Other magicians asked curiously: "What ability?"
The male magician with the monocle said matter-of-factly: "Of course it's the Holy Light Technique! Do you think the acidic venom of these ghost-marked red ants has much influence on his cavalry?"
He pointed to the cavalrymen who were resting and dining on the hillside and said:
"Normal cavalrymen will lose their combat effectiveness even if they are not reduced in number if they come into contact with these sour poisons!"
"But what about them? You have also seen that if you rinse the red, swollen and ulcerated skin with clean water, the skin will grow back into new skin early the next morning. This is simply the effect of two-in-one treatment and detoxification agents.
"
"...So, magic potions is really a subject that deserves a lot of effort. If we carry a whole box of magic potions with us, we can probably create such a cavalry."
"..."
The young magicians no longer paid attention to this madman who was obsessed with potions.
Lance also discovered that Surdak had an unusual interest in the ghost-striped male ants.
He felt that the main target of the cavalry battalion's hunting was not the ghost-striped queen ants in the ant colony, but the ghost-striped male ants that had received extra care.
In order to hunt down all the ghost-striped male ants, after the cavalry killed the ghost-striped male ants, they dispersed and isolated these huge ghost-striped male ants. Almost every ghost-striped male ant was protected by a cavalry team on the battlefield.
The team took care of them, and the cavalry were obviously capable of killing them one by one, but they had to give these ghost-marked male ants a row of numbers.
Surdak participated in the killing of almost every ghost-marked male ant...
This is what Lance can't understand the most, who should be killed or not!
Surdak doesn't need merit, so why must he insist on killing every ghost-marked male ant?
Of course, when it comes to Surdak, Lance feels that he is not a competent commander because he rarely directs battles.
Andrew is often responsible for cavalry raids on ant colonies, and Samira is usually responsible for commanding the ant colony. Occasionally, Surdak will ask him to direct the cavalry brigade to transfer tasks. He is a magician and has never
Learned to command an army.
But as a holy knight, Surdak is undoubtedly the most competent. He will take the initiative to treat the injured cavalry.
This topic seems to be a bit far gone.
In terms of strength, the Ghost Patterned Ant is considered an early level three monster. Its biggest feature is that its armor is so thick that even a crossbow cannot penetrate it. Secondly, it has extraordinary power and can spit acid.
rot liquid.
Apart from this, the Ghost Patterned Male Ant is not a qualified level three monster in any way.
The most important thing is that the hard armor on its body is too thick, and it is impossible to use it to make magic pattern structures. The skull only has one magic core, which is still valuable. Lance thinks its value is not even as good as the ghost pattern soldier ant, but
Facing such ghost-marked male ants, Surdak was particularly concerned.
And Surdak is very obsessed with dismembering these ghost-striped male ants.
Lance knew that Surdak's skinning skills were pretty good, but he was the top commander of the cavalry battalion. How could he waste precious time on skinning? The skinners in the military camp could at least form a small team.
Facing the thick armor of the ghost-patterned male ant, he didn't need help from others...
Surdak has a very luxurious tent that can be set up to cover an entire ghost-striped male ant. Every time he dismembers these ghost-striped male ants, Surdak will get into the tent and cause trouble.
Mysterious.
He does not do all the ghost-marked male ants himself. Before doing so, he will select the ghost-marked male ants in advance. If he doesn't like the ghost-marked male ants, he will hand them over to other skinners, and then continue to hunt the next one.
, be sure to ensure that every ghost-striped male ant has just died when it comes to him.
There were nearly thirty ghost-striped male ants, but only five were picked out by him...
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After the hunting was completed, Surdak left Andrew, Gulitem, and Samira on the battlefield in the hills and mountains, while he returned to Dodan Town alone to meet the merchant Malakom.
Dodan Town has a backlog of nearly 10,000 soldier ant hard armor skins that need to be traded with merchants from Malakom. Surdak must negotiate such large transactions in person.
Merchant Malacom did not expect that Surdak would lead his troops outside Dodan Canyon so quickly to hunt the ghost-striped ant colony.
I heard that those ghost-marked red ants are almost all powerful beings that are close to the second-level monsters. Of course, there is no problem in killing one or two. You can just find one or two adventure groups or mercenary groups. There is probably no problem in dozens of them. But
These are tens of thousands of red ants with ghost stripes...
I heard that these garrisons are relying on the town's city defense system to resist these ghost-striped red ants. How come Duodan Town can actually take the initiative to attack?
If he hadn't known that the Luther Legion's Constructed Swordsmen were still daring to suppress the rebellion in Tarapa, he would have thought that the Luther Legion's main Constructed Swordsmen had secretly entered the Bailin plane...
This time, merchant Malacom brought a total of three caravans. The original plan was that only one caravan was to transport hard armor and other materials back to Wilkes City, while the other two caravans were to stay and undergo transformation.
However, looking at the current situation, only one and a half caravans of Thunder Rhinoceros can be left for the time being.
A group of aborigines were collecting dried hard skins on the grass. Thirty pieces of these hard leather armors were packed into a bundle. A Thunder Rhino can only carry less than twenty bundles, which is 600 pieces of soldier ant hard skins. It needs
It would take sixteen Thunder Rhinoceros to transport all the fur goods that Surdak had hoarded in the military camp.
No one expected that Surdak had the ability to hunt ghost-marked red ants.
So many hard armor skins rushed into the leather market of Bena City at once, and it is estimated that the price of this type of hard armor skins will instantly drop to the bottom. Therefore, how to sell these hard armor skins to the noble lords of Bena Province is also a matter of horse.
Something Lacombe needs to think about.
In fact, this kind of war horse armor made of hard leather is quite popular in the market, and many lords with cavalry are interested in this light hard shell.
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Seeing the aborigines loading large bundles of hard armor onto the Thunder Rhinoceros, the merchants in Duodan Town felt empty for a while.
Such a large amount of leather goods, no matter who falls on it, is a huge fortune. Even if it is just resold, a layer of oil and water will be scraped off.
Unfortunately, I was blinded by greed and failed to seize this business opportunity. As a result, the business was directly handed over to the businessmen in the South District of Wilkes City.
Baron Golding stood at the door of the small town's trading house, watching the Thunder Rhinoceros pass by with a blank expression.
He turned around and walked into the trading house and locked himself in the room...
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A group of Thunder Rhinoceros loaded with fur goods slowly left Duodan Town, and the entire town could feel the strong shock.
Businessman Malacom stood on the back of a Thunder Rhinoceros at the front, waving goodbye to Surdak from a distance...