The cavalrymen pulled on the reins of their horses, raised their knights' spears high, and stood in front of the archers in a dense formation. Under Andrew's command, they did not line up and charge forward, but
Following Andrew, Gulitem, and Surdak respectively, they pierced into the ant colony like a trident.
This greatly avoids falling into a dark pit in the swamp.
The indigenous warriors surrounding the armed Thunder Rhino, holding alloy bows in their hands, followed the cavalry and rushed forward one after another.
Not only are they proficient in archery, but they can also carry swords and shields and follow the cavalry in close combat with ghost-patterned soldier ants.
At this time, Andrew unleashed his most powerful fighting spirit, with flames and electric arcs all over his body, and he rushed into the ant colony, immediately splitting the heads of two soldier ants in succession, and was only stopped by the third ghost-striped soldier ant.
But there was a steady stream of cavalry behind him. The cavalry at the front were all those who had obtained magic patterns in one turn. They rushed up from the front of the battlefield and were no longer inferior to these ghost-patterned soldier ants in terms of strength.
Using the knights' spears to charge, as soon as the two sides came into contact, the cavalry flew away dozens of soldier ants.
Of course, there were also cavalrymen who were less lucky. They rushed to the front and were picked off by the ghost-striped red ants with their fork-like tentacles. The two-headed ogre following behind saw this scene. Gulitem waved his bone-crushing stick and roared.
With a war cry, the ogre magician threw a fireball at the same time...
He rushed over in a few steps, rounded the stick in his hand, and hit it hard on the head of the ghost-striped soldier ant. Suddenly, the head of the ghost-striped soldier ant was like a sand-flesh watermelon hanging on the ground, and it shattered in an instant.
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Surdak held the Holy Light Torch with one hand and a shield with the other. A halo of power lit up under his feet, and the Holy Seal on his chest flashed frequently...
After rushing into the battlefield, Surdak discovered that these ghost-striped soldier ants were much more powerful than those in the hilly highlands. The hard armor of these ghost-striped red ants was very dark in color. In Surdak's hands,
When the Holy Light Torch hits it, it can only leave some dents and cracks.
Every ghost-striped red ant is very ferocious, and they are not afraid of death. They don't even try to dodge the cavalry's charge.
Before dying, he had to take a bite of flesh from the cavalry.
Of course, the tribal warriors had never fought against ghost-patterned soldier ants like this before. They were now wearing standard armor, with sharp weapons and strong shields. When they saw the cavalry charging forward, they followed them in a swarm.
This group of tribal warriors are usually a group of experienced hunters. When they held hardwood bows and wooden spears in their hands, they all worked together to hunt down these ghost-patterned soldier ants. Now they hold sharp and tough heavy swords, even more so.
No longer afraid of these ghostly patterned soldier ants.
The battlefield fell into melee for a while.
Ghost-patterned soldier ants keep coming from the north.
The native warriors gradually found a simple way of fighting, which they learned from the cavalry who jumped off their horses to fight on foot.
Several warriors who were very familiar with each other gathered together, and everyone had a clear division of labor. From the shield warrior to the main attacker, and then to the last-ditch shooter at the back, the three indigenous warriors formed a combat team, which not only withstood the attack of the ghost-patterned soldier ants.
, and frequently succeeded in battles.
The archers at the back lined up in a neat row. Wherever the red ants were suppressing the situation on the battlefield, their arrows would be directed there.
Occasionally, there will be these tribal indigenous warriors on the battlefield, and the ghost-striped soldier ants they kill will be marked. After the battle, these will become achievements.
The tribal warriors didn't understand this and didn't care about the ghost-marked soldier ants they killed.
After the battle broke out, the combined forces of the adventure group and mercenary group that followed found that Lord Surdak's army had stabilized the situation, and immediately moved forward, looking for those fish that had slipped through the net in the swamp behind.
There were so many of them that they were like a big net spread out, surrounding a group of ghost-striped soldier ants in the swamp that wanted to get around them.
Although they fought independently, they were actually very effective at blocking a group of ghost-patterned soldier ants at this time.
The battle lasted until the afternoon, before the group of ghost-striped soldier ants withdrew from the battlefield with heavy casualties, leaving corpses on the ground.
Cleaning the battlefield is the most important task in the battle. This not only cleans up the corpses of the ghostly patterned soldier ants, but also collects all the precious magic arrows shot by the archer brigade.
The biggest harvest of this battle was the forty-one giant ghost-striped soldier ants hunted by the crossbow. The legs of these soldier ants were removed and moved in front of Surdak as soon as the ant colony retreated.
Surdak needed to select some complete life magic patterns from these outriggers. There were a total of one hundred and seventy-three outriggers with life magic patterns that were very intact.
Looking at the life magic pattern legs piled up like a hill in front of him, Surdak felt that almost one-third of the goal of this northern expedition plan had been completed.
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There was no dry place to camp in this swamp. After the battle, everyone stood in the mud and ate some marching rations, drank some water, and continued on their way.
The snow was still falling, and there was a vast expanse of white everywhere above the Poison Swamp.
Wherever the army had passed, only a dirty trace was left on the swamp.
Surdak and his army finally found a place with trees when it was just getting dark. At least they wouldn't be soaked in ice water if they stepped on it. Seeing that the night was about to fall, they still couldn't see anything in front of them.
At the end of the swamp, Surdak decided to stay here.
Although the heavy snow covered up the poisonous fog, there was still a faint poisonous fog in the places where people stepped along the way, and the water in the swamp was not drinkable.
Many soldiers inhaled some faint poisonous mist during this day, and those with weaker constitutions began to suffer from some poisoning symptoms of dizziness and vomiting. Suldak had already been prepared for this, and Justin took the poison in Dodan Town.
After getting the herbal medicine, this period of time is mainly about preparing two magic potions. The first is the 'secondary life potion', and the second is the detoxification potion.
Although there are many ways to detoxify, the most effective ones are the magic potions prepared by magicians.
When Surdak sets out to conquer the Dark Worm Valley, the first thing he has to face is the poisonous mist in this swamp. Of course, he will not fail to prepare the antidote.
Surdak quickly poured several portions of the antidote into the drinking water and asked all the soldiers to drink some. The poisoning symptoms were finally effectively curbed.
In order to prevent poisoning, Surdak asked the indigenous warriors not to eat food from the swamp or drink water from the swamp.
For this reason, he could only use part of the supplies he had prepared.
At night, piles of bonfires were lit in the forest.
The combined forces of the adventure group and the mercenary group also camped in the woods. Some of them were discussing today's harvest. However, some of them encountered such and such situations. The symptoms were mild poisoning at most. Not everyone could afford the antidote.
Surdak would not be too stingy at this time. Anyway, if the symptoms of poisoning are mild, a bottle of antidote can dilute a barrel of water, enough for a hundred or ten people to drink.
In the evening, Surdak began to use the Holy Light Technique to treat the wounded. After a series of treatments, the more seriously injured soldiers would be moved to the forest camp overnight.
The indigenous warriors of the tribe had never experienced this before. When they saw that even if they were injured, they would most likely not die, their morale immediately increased.
For dinner, the indigenous warriors of these tribes ate something special. It was a poisonous insect similar to a millipede dug out from the underground mud of the Poison Swamp. This poisonous insect will hibernate underground after entering the winter. Even if it is dug out, it will be too lazy.
Yangyang is at his mercy.
The indigenous warriors said that this is a kind of poisonous insect that likes to hibernate in the swamp, hiding under the grass. Many adult poisonous insects have a physique close to that of a monster. Some skulls can even have magic cores dug into them, but their living habits cannot be changed.
It becomes extremely easy to catch in winter.
However, digging out these poisonous insects is also a physical job. You need to find the entrance of the hole, then test whether there are poisonous insects inside, and finally start digging.
Sure enough, Surdak found some poisonous insects that were stiff and asleep, and he was able to find the magic core even after cutting open their skulls.
The two-headed ogre believed that the meat of this poisonous insect was very tender, so he had long joined the indigenous warriors to exchange cooking methods with them.
Surdak didn't want the soldiers' physical strength to be wasted digging for these poisonous insects, so the army did not carry out extensive digging. Instead, they started taking turns to rest early after nightfall. This northern expedition cannot be completed in a day or two.
The end is still far away.
However, the news about the swamp millipede was not deliberately concealed from the adventure group and the mercenary group.
When Surdak walked out of the tent early the next morning, he found that the swamp outside the forest was almost completely dug up by these people.
Some people were lucky enough to find it, while many others just searched blindly in the muddy water.
It was in such a chaotic scene that Surdak had breakfast with the soldiers, and then hurriedly pulled down the tents in the camp, and the large army continued to move forward.
The Northern Expeditionary Army opened a passage through the poisonous swamp and walked for another whole morning before they finally got out of the poisonous swamp and saw the high mountains like Tianzhu Peak in the north.
It is said that the Dark Worm Valley is under this mountain peak.