Chapter 920: 906. The Battle of the Poison Swamp (Part 1)
Chapter 920 906. The Battle of the Poison Swamp (Part 1)
Even when there is heavy rain in summer, the poisonous swamp is still filled with faint poisonous fog, and the poisonous fog here will gradually dissipate only after the snow falls in winter. It will take many days for the gate of the Dark Insect Valley to be opened to the world.
Fine snow grits continuously covered the poisonous swamp. Although the fine snow completely suppressed the poisonous fog in the swamp, it also completely covered the entire poisonous swamp.
His vision has turned into a vast expanse of whiteness.
Winter has just entered, and a thin layer of permafrost has just formed in the poisonous swamp.
It is covered with thick moss and weeds. If you step on ordinary places, the soft and wet grass can almost swallow the legs of passers-by. This poisonous swamp grass is full of **** pits everywhere, and even people and horses will fall into it.
Andrew's cavalry opened the way ahead, and the first thing to do was to find a passage with hard soil under the turf in this poisonous swamp.
If it is another legion, even Hawkeye with the "Boundary Sight" cannot do this kind of thing. The safest way is to use infantry to try to move forward, but this kind of exploration like mine clearance will keep the army Stuck outside the poison swamp.
Suldak started the sacrificial ceremony directly in the temporary marching tent, and moved out his sacrifices stored in the lava cave in boxes.
In addition to allowing the 500 cavalry who opened the way in front to have the "God's Blessed Body", they also cast the "Eye of Reality" on Andrew, Samira and himself.
Although the effect of the 'Eye of Reality' can only last for less than half an hour, Suldak basically used the heads of these soldier ants as sacrifices. Ahead, through the 'eye of truth' to see under the turf.
In their eyes, the water under the turf and the soil present two completely different colors.
Every turf-covered puddle was planted with a flag, and the three roads opened were also filled with small flags.
Three thousand indigenous warriors, five hundred cavalrymen, and eighteen thunder rhinos were divided into three rows, and they slowly approached behind Suldak, Andrew, and Samira.
At the end is the leak detection coalition formed by the adventure group and the mercenary group.
1,500 heavy armored infantry guarded the north of the chain bridge, guarding the only way of retreat.
There are also a small number of ghost-striped red ants in the swamp. They hide in the weeds and form an ambush team one by one. However, under the survey of the "Eye of Reality" of the three of Suldak, there is nowhere to hide for a while.
The Thunder Rhino team followed behind Samira. These archers carried a large number of arrows this time, and also shot at the red ants hiding in the wild grass far away to lure them out of the wild grass.
On this road, only by constantly hunting ghost pattern soldier ants, can a little supplement the loss of sacrifices.
In the cold weather, the actions of these ghost-striped red ants also become a little stiff. They rely on the magic lines on their bodies to continuously inject energy into their bodies in order to maintain sufficient vitality in their bodies. Their bodies have stiff and thick hard armor. This layer of hard armor also has a certain insulation effect.
However, in this cold weather, they should have been hiding in the burrows under the soil layer, but now they are going to lie in ambush in the poisonous swamp filled with wind and snow.
The team walked less than 20 kilometers forward, and the outline of the dark worm valley in the wind and snow gradually became clear.
At this moment, Suldak and Samira stopped almost at the same time. Andrew also noticed that there was an abnormal situation ahead, and raised his fist to stop the cavalry.
Without saying a word, Samira boarded the armed Thunder Rhino behind him, raised his long legs and jumped onto the console of the bed crossbow. With the sound of the reel turning, the bowstring was slowly pulled in, and the magic patterns on the entire bed crossbow lit up one by one.
A giant crossbow arrow flew across the air, making bursts of explosive noises.
The next moment, he shot steadily at the forehead of the giant ghost-striped soldier ant 800 meters away, and the huge spear head was deeply embedded in the hard armor. The giant ghost-striped soldier ant was originally half hidden in the swamp, and the other half The body was covered by wild grass, and at this moment, the body suddenly jumped out of the grass, and the pair of contact pincers more than one meter long on the head suddenly opened forward, but no matter what, they couldn't catch the huge crossbow bolt.
It got out of the weeds like this, and the other giant ghost-striped red ants thought they were going to charge, and they all shook off the cold and sticky mud on their bodies.
Rushing to the front were forty or fifty giant ghost-patterned red ants covered in dark red, and a large group of red ants were densely packed behind them, the number was innumerable.
'Front arrow formation, line up, prepare to use bursting crossbow arrows, and use armor-piercing arrows in the second round! '
Samira ordered without hesitation.
An orderly quickly climbed to the roof of the wooden house behind her, waved a few simple movements at the row of armed Thunder Rhinoceros behind her, and the Thunder Rhinoceros behind him quickly adjusted their position, and aimed sideways at the front battlefield. The controls on the platform The hands began to adjust the shooting angle of the bed crossbow.
Samira didn't intend to save money for Suldak. The first two waves of arrangements were giant crossbow bolts bound with black powder, and giant magic crossbow bolts with 'armor-piercing' effects just shipped from the imperial capital. The crossbow arrows are worth thirty-five silver coins, and the eighteen thunder rhinos will smash out twelve gold coins in one wave.
Andrew immediately moved the cavalry closer to the armed Thunder Rhinoceros.
He didn't intend to charge towards these giant soldier ants six to seven meters long. War horses didn't dare to run wild on this poisonous swamp.
The three thousand indigenous warriors behind Suldak saw a large group of ghost-patterned soldier ants suddenly appearing in the poisonous swamp in front, and immediately screamed strangely to pass on the message.
Suldak yelled and retreated behind the armed Thunder Rhino, they couldn't understand at all.
A group of indigenous warriors took out Paglio spears one after another, scrambling to squeeze forward, trying to throw the spears in their hands when the giant ghost pattern soldier ants entered the throwing range.
Suldak almost yelled out his throat, and grabbed a few excited native leaders in the crowd one after another to calm them down.
These indigenous leaders can still understand some imperial language. After listening to Suldak's orders, they realized that their group of people didn't need to use their flesh and blood to block these giant bugs.
The indigenous leaders yelled quickly, leading the tribal warriors in standard armor to quickly hide behind the armed Thunder Rhinoceros.
They ran really fast, leaving Surdak at the end, and every native could walk four or five meters in one step on the Poison Swamp.
At the same time, the first wave of exploding crossbow arrows had already been shot, and hit the giant ghost-patterned soldier ant 600 meters away head-on. With a series of explosions, the sky and the earth cracked, and soil and soldier ant stumps flew up in the fine snow. high altitude,
Amidst the violent explosion, a row of giant ghost pattern soldier ants rushed out.
They start to speed up...
Samera stepped on the bed crossbow control console with one foot, watched the armed thunder rhinoceros team lined up behind him in a goose-wing shape, and shouted again to the herald on the roof: "Another wave of armor-piercing crossbow bolts."
While the herald was waving 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 exploding crossbows. Thirty-six giant crossbows melted into long and narrow snow lines in the air. Hit these giant ghost-striped soldier ants rushing forward.
The armor-piercing giant crossbow arrows shot these giant ghost-patterned soldiers on their backs in an instant, and the sharp point of the arrow cut into the hard armor, as if there was no obstacle at all.
The ordinary ghost pattern soldier ants in the back are like a red sea tide, stepping on the body of the giant soldier ants in front, rushing towards the armed thunder rhinoceros.
The third wave of armor-piercing crossbow arrows were shot out, and there was no longer a giant ghost pattern soldier ant among the charging ant colony.
Ordinary ghost-pattern soldier ants have already 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 lined up at the Thunder Rhino's feet.
The flag bearers standing on the roof changed to a large flag and shook it vigorously in the air. These archers pulled the bowstring without hesitation, and threw it at a 45-degree angle towards the sky. A rain of arrows flew towards the sky. , After reaching the highest point in the sky, relying on gravity to fall smoothly.
This rain of arrows has limited damage even to ordinary soldier ants, but the rain of arrows is dense enough that they can be nailed into the joints of ghost-patterned soldier ants by chance.
In the past six months, she and Andrew have been cleaning up the red ants in the hills and mountains and in the Invercargill forest. No one knows how to hunt and kill these big guys better than them.
All of a sudden, soldiers ants fell on the poisonous swamp again.
The indigenous warriors crowded behind the Armed Thunder Rhinoceros saw the ghost-patterned red ants in front of them fall one after another, how could they stand honestly behind and squeezed out from behind the Armed Thunder Rhino, three thousand indigenous warriors instantly drowned the archers, They took a few steps to run up and threw the Paglio spears in their hands vigorously.
These natives are so explosive that the thrown spears can fly more than 150 meters.
This kind of war spear is not the kind of smooth and edgeless javelin that flies smoothly. It pierced into the body of the ghost pattern soldier ant, and fell down a large piece.
Suldak has been doing business with the indigenous tribes for the past two months. The weapons in the hands of the indigenous warriors have already been replaced by guns. They untied their alloy bows one after another and stood shoulder to shoulder with the archers.
The number of 1,000 archers tripled in an instant, becoming 4,000 archers.
All the archers lined up in three rows amidst the chaotic yelling, and each row went to the front when they were ready, shot the arrows on the bowstring, and then quickly retreated.
Alloy bows are not longbows, and the power of projectiles is limited, but the distance of flat shots can only be lethal within a range of sixty yards.
All of a sudden, the rain of arrows was shot out, but I saw that the ghost pattern soldiers were nailed like hedgehogs by the arrows, but they still rushed forward...
(end of this chapter)