Even when it rains heavily in summer, the Poison Swamp is still filled with a faint poisonous mist. Only after snowfall in winter will the poisonous mist here gradually dissipate. Only from mid-November to early February in the year, the poisonous swamp lasts only seven days.
In more than ten days, the naturally formed gate of Dark Worm Valley will be opened to the world.
Fine snow grits continued to cover the poisonous swamp. Although these fine snow completely suppressed the poisonous swamp fog, they also completely covered the entire poisonous swamp.
His vision had turned into a vast expanse of white.
Winter has just begun, and a thin layer of frozen soil has just formed in the Poison Swamp.
This place is covered with thick moss and grass. If you step on it in ordinary places, the soft and wet grass can almost swallow the calf of a pedestrian. The poisonous swamp grassland here is full of pits for bastards. If you don't pay attention, even people and horses will be trapped.
Everyone will fall into it.
Andrew's cavalry opened the road ahead, and the first thing they did was to find a passage in this poisonous swamp with a layer of hard soil underneath the turf.
If it were other legions, even the Eagle Eye with the 'World Vision' might not be able to do this. The safest way would be to use infantry to try to move forward. However, this kind of exploration, like mine clearing, would keep the army from moving forward.
Trapped outside the Poison Swamp.
Surdak started the sacrificial ceremony directly in the temporary marching tent and moved the sacrifices he stored in the lava cave into boxes.
In addition to allowing the five hundred cavalrymen who opened the way to possess the 'Blessed Body', they also used the 'Eye of Truth' on Andrew, Samira and himself.
Although the effect of the 'Eye of Truth' can only last for less than half an hour, Surdak basically used the heads of these soldier ants as sacrifices. He, Andrew, and Samira walked at the forefront.
Ahead, you can see under the turf through the 'Eye of Truth'.
In their eyes, the water and soil under the turf show two completely different colors.
Someone planted a flag at every turf puddle, and small flags were planted along the three roads that were opened.
Three thousand indigenous warriors, five hundred cavalry, and eighteen thunder rhinoceros were divided into three columns, slowly approaching behind Surdak, Andrew, and Samira.
At the end is the leak-picking coalition composed of the adventure group and the mercenary group.
Fifteen hundred heavy armored infantrymen guarded the north of the chain bridge, guarding the only escape route.
There are also a small number of ghost-striped red ants in the swamp. They hid in the grass and formed ambush teams. However, under the survey of the "True Eyes" of the three Surdaks, they were unable to hide for a while.
The Thunder Rhinoceros followed Samira. These archers carried a large number of arrows this time and shot at the red ants hiding in the grassland in the distance to lure them out of the grassland.
Along the way, only by constantly hunting ghost-patterned soldier ants can the loss of sacrifices be slightly replenished.
In the cold weather, the movements of these ghost-marked red ants also become somewhat stiff. They rely on the body magic patterns to continuously inject energy into the body to maintain sufficient vitality of the body. They have stiff and thick hard armor on their bodies.
This layer of hard armor also has a certain thermal insulation effect.
However, in this cold weather, they should be hiding in burrows under the soil, but now they have to lurk in the poisonous swamp filled with wind and snow.
The team walked less than twenty kilometers forward, and the outline of the dark insect valley in the wind and snow gradually became clear.
At this moment, Surdak and Samira stopped almost at the same time, and Andrew also noticed something unusual in front of them, and raised his fist to tell the cavalry to stop advancing.
Without saying a word, Samira boarded the armed Thunder Rhino behind her, raised her long legs and jumped onto the console of the bed crossbow. The bed crossbow controller beside her quickly lifted out a giant crossbow arrow and installed it in the groove.
There was a sound of the reel turning, the bow string was slowly pulled in, and the magic patterns on the entire bed crossbow also lit up one by one.
A giant crossbow arrow streaked through the air, making bursts of air explosions.
The next moment, a steady shot hit the forehead of the giant ghost-patterned soldier ant eight hundred meters away. The huge spearhead was deeply embedded in the hard armor. Half of the giant ghost-patterned soldier ant was originally lurking in the swamp, and the other half
The body was covered by the grass. At this moment, the body suddenly jumped out of the grass. The pair of one-meter-long tentacles on the head suddenly opened forward, but they could not catch the giant crossbow arrow no matter what.
When it emerged from the grass like this, the other giant ghost-striped red ants thought it was launching a charge, and shook off the cold and sticky mud on their bodies. They emerged from the swamp, and a large black mass appeared in front of the army.
At the front were forty or fifty giant ghost-patterned red ants covered in dark red, followed by a dense and overwhelming mass of red ants, the number of which was too numerous to count.
'In sharp arrow formation, line up, prepare to use explosive crossbow arrows, and use armor-piercing arrows in the second round!'
Samira ordered without hesitation.
A messenger quickly climbed to the roof of the wooden house behind her and waved a few simple movements at the row of armed Thunder Rhinos behind her. The Thunder Rhinos following behind quickly adjusted their position and turned sideways to aim at the battlefield in front and the controls on the platform.
The hands began to adjust the shooting angle of the bed crossbow.
Samira had no intention of saving money for Surdak. The first two waves of arrangements were giant crossbow arrows packed with black powder, and a magical giant crossbow arrow with the 'armor-breaking' effect that had just been shipped from the imperial capital.
The crossbow arrows cost thirty-five silver coins, and if the eighteen thunder rhinoceros fired in a straight wave, twelve gold coins would be thrown out.
Andrew immediately asked the cavalry to move closer to the armed Thunder Rhinoceros.
He had no intention of charging at these giant soldier ants, which were six to seven meters long. The war horses did not dare to run around in this poisonous swamp. They were looking for traps everywhere. Charges and wolf pack tactics were purely seeking death.
The three thousand indigenous warriors behind Surdak saw a large group of ghost-patterned soldier ants suddenly emerge from the poisonous swamp in front of them, and immediately howled and screamed to convey the message.
Surdak shouted to retreat behind the armed Thunder Rhino, but they couldn't understand it at all.
A group of indigenous warriors took out their Paglio spears and rushed forward, trying to throw the spears in their hands before the giant ghost-striped soldier ants entered the throwing range.
Surdak almost screamed, grabbing a few excited indigenous leaders in the crowd and calling them to calm down.
These indigenous leaders could still understand some Imperial language. After listening to Suldak's instructions, they realized that they did not need to use flesh and blood to stop these giant bugs. They were a little dazed for a while, and then they were ecstatic...
The indigenous leaders shouted quickly and quickly hid behind the armed Thunder Rhino with these tribal warriors wearing standard armor.
They were really not slow at all, leaving Suldak at the end. Each of the natives could take a step forward four or five meters in the poisonous swamp.
At the same time, the first wave of explosive crossbow arrows had been shot out, hitting the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants six hundred meters away. With a series of explosions, the sky and the earth collapsed, and the soil and soldier ant stumps flew up in the fine snow.
high altitude,
In this violent explosion, a row of giant ghost-patterned soldier ants rushed out.
They started to run faster...
Samira put one foot on the crossbow control platform, looked at the armed Thunder Rhinoceros formation behind her in the shape of wild goose wings, and shouted to the herald on the roof again: "Another wave of armor-piercing crossbow arrows."
While the herald waved the flag in his hand, the second wave of armor-piercing giant crossbows had already been fired. These giant crossbows were obviously much lighter than the first wave of explosive crossbow arrows. Thirty-six giant crossbow arrows turned into narrow snow lines in the air, with precise accuracy.
Hit these giant ghost-patterned soldier ants that are charging forward.
The armor-piercing giant crossbow arrows shot these giant ghost-patterned soldier ants instantly, knocking people off their feet, and the sharp arrow tips cut into the hard armor, as if there was no obstruction at all.
The ordinary ghost-striped soldier ants at the back were like a red sea tide, stepping on the bodies of the giant soldier ants in front and swarming towards the armed Thunder Rhinoceros.
The third wave of armor-piercing crossbow arrows was fired, and there was no longer a single giant ghost-patterned soldier ant among the charging ants.
Ordinary ghost-striped soldier ants have rushed two hundred meters away from the armed Thunder Rhino. Half of the thousand archers are standing on the shelves of the Armed Thunder Rhino, and the remaining half of the archers are forming a long queue at the feet of the Thunder Rhino.
The flag bearer standing on the roof changed to a large flag and waved it vigorously in the air. The archers did not hesitate to draw the bow string and threw it at an angle of 45 degrees into the sky. A shower of arrows flew towards the sky.
, after reaching the highest point in the sky, it falls smoothly by gravity.
The damage of this rain of arrows to ordinary soldier ants is very limited, but these rain of arrows are dense enough that if they happen to hit the weakest joints, they can be nailed into the joints of the ghost-striped soldier ants.
In the past six months, she and Andrew had spent most of their time cleaning up ghost-striped red ants in the hills and mountains and Invercargill Forest. No one knew how to hunt these big guys better than them.
Suddenly, swarms of soldier ants fell on the poisonous swamp.
The indigenous warriors who crowded behind the armed Thunder Rhino saw the Thunder Rhinos in front of them falling down one after another. They could not stand honestly behind, so they squeezed out from behind the armed Thunder Rhino. Three thousand indigenous warriors instantly overwhelmed the archers. They first
He took a few steps and threw the Paglio spear in his hand vigorously.
These natives are so explosive that the spears they throw can actually fly more than 150 meters.
This kind of war spear is not the kind of javelin that flies smoothly and is smooth and edgeless. It pierced the body of the ghost-marked soldier ant, and a large piece fell down.
Surdak has been conducting trade with the indigenous tribes in the past two months. The weapons in the hands of the indigenous warriors have long been replaced by guns. They took off their alloy bows and stood side by side with the archers.
The number of one thousand archers tripled instantly, becoming four thousand archers.
All the archers lined up in three rows amidst the chaotic shouting. When each row was ready, they walked to the front, shot the arrows on the bow strings, and then quickly returned.
The alloy bow is not a longbow, and the power of the projectile is limited, but the flat shot is only lethal within a range of 60 yards.
For a moment, a hail of arrows shot out, but those ghost-patterned soldier ants were stabbed like hedgehogs by arrows, but they still rushed forward...