Chapter 1295: 1282. Prelude to the battle
Chapter 1295 1282. Battle Prologue
A heavy snow turned the entire Invercargill Forest into a silver-white world.
The outside temperature is not that cold this season. The heavy snow only lasted for two days, and it melted immediately after being exposed to the sun.
Although the poisonous mist swamp is not frozen, the swamp is still full of mud pits, but the poisonous mist permeating the swamp has gradually dissipated.
The lord's army at the bridgehead camp was ready. Suldak and Selena returned to the camp along with the thunder rhino business group that delivered supplies. The lord's army had already started to prepare for the battle. Before that, Suldak also organized Called some veterans of the last battle, and asked them to tell the details of crossing this swamp.
Suldak has almost brought the bed crossbow from Bena City to the bridgehead camp.
There is also a row of catapults outside the camp that can throw oak explosive barrels, and those explosive barrels are piled up outside the camp.
Suldak summoned the lord's army and held a pre-war mobilization meeting in front of the camp. The main reason was that Suldak was going to announce the reward and punishment system in the army to the lord's army on the Ganbu plane. Tell the lord army about the exchange rules of the exchange list.
Because killing ghost-patterned red ants has high merit rewards, these achievements can be exchanged for gold coins, magic crystals, and weapons and equipment.
When Suldak announced these rewards, the lord army originally led by Suldak was not surprised, because everyone has experienced those days.
But other lords have never seen this before. When these lords heard that they could exchange the ghost-striped red ants they killed for very good weapons, they thought it was a bit outrageous, or that no lord was willing to do so before. Big capital.
Before the army set off, three vanguard battalions led by Andrew, Gullitem, and Wolf Knight Tiger entered the poisonous mist swamp first.
The three armies marched side by side in the poisonous fog swamp. With the experience of entering the poisonous fog swamp last time, this time the army entered the swamp without any trouble and passed through the poisonous fog swamp very smoothly.
Hundreds of bed crossbows were easily brought to the swamp, besides dozens of catapults.
The ghost-striped red ants also seemed to sense the danger from the outside world, and almost retreated into the dark worm valley. It was unknown if it was the mental restraint of the ghost-striped ant queen, and even the ghost-striped worker ants rarely came out to look for food.
In just one week, Suldak led the main force of the lord army through the poisonous mist swamp.
This time, Suldak came to the ruins of the camp under the stone arch bridge by the lake. There were only some dilapidated tents inside. There were still some supplies that were not brought away in a hurry, but those supplies had almost turned into garbage.
Suldak did not rebuild at the original site of the camp, but once again built a large-scale camp on the side of the open space.
At the same time, the merchant group of the lord's army and more than 10,000 members of the adventure group also followed behind the army, passed through the poisonous fog swamp smoothly, and set up camp on the beach a few hundred meters away from the lake.
The adventure group alliance had used the sneak attack tactics of ghost-striped soldiers and ants, so this time the adventure group moved the loose camp back several hundred meters, so as to leave a battle buffer zone.
Immediately afterwards, Suldak ordered the army to occupy the huge arched stone bridge in front of him again without stopping.
A group of ghost pattern soldiers guarded the bridge, but they seemed to know that the Lord's army was in danger, so they didn't rush over to fight, and they didn't retreat, they just stood guard on the bridge, spreading their sharp tentacles to attack The Lord Army issued a warning.
This is the first time that the heavy armored infantry soldiers on the Ganbu plane saw these ghost pattern red ants, and many soldiers were a little bit pale when they faced these dark red monsters.
However, the lord army in Suldak's hands is extremely rich in combat experience.
After Suldak came back from the big battlefield, apart from gaining some magic-weave structures, the most important thing is that the battle concept has changed, especially the battle in this narrow area is like fighting the magic pattern on the mountain road of the Blue Bridge Fortress. warriors fight.
When he was in the Blue Bridge Fortress, he often fought with demon warriors on narrow mountain passes.
This kind of battle does not require too many elite fighters, so Andrew and his knight squad were the first to rush up the stone bridge. He even brought only two constructed knight squads, followed by three A squadron of heavy armored infantry, the number of heavy armored infantry fighters is only 180 heavy armored infantry, and at the end there is a squadron of 60 archers. These are the entire manpower of Andrew's bridgehead commando.
Andrew stood at the front, with twelve constructed knights behind him. After rushing onto the bridge, they were strangled with ghost-pattern soldiers almost instantly.
Arrows kept falling on the battlefield from behind, but these arrows did little damage to the ghost-striped red ants.
More than a dozen catapults were at the head of the bridge, throwing powder kegs onto the bridge continuously. These gunpowder kegs exploded on the bridge deck, causing a lot of damage to the ghost pattern soldiers. The ghost pattern soldier ants can only fall into the lake like dumplings.
After these ghost pattern soldier ants fell into the lake, there was almost no way to land directly.
Because there are already a large number of members of the adventure group gathered on the shore at this moment, they will not easily let any ghost-patterned soldier ants go.
The sound of roaring explosions sounded one after another, and the battle kicked off like this.
Since Andrew already had a lot of experience before, he mastered the rhythm of the battle very well this time, forming a perfect linkage with the catapults and crossbowmen behind him. bridge, and these ghost-striped red ants kept retreating, without any desire to fight.
Fighting every day, some corpses of ghost-striped soldier ants were brought back from the stone bridge.
Of course, Gullitum and Wolf Knight Tiger will alternate with Andrew, rushing to the stone bridge in turn to kill those ghost-striped red ants.
The two-headed ogre has recently increased in strength, and as long as it stands on the bridge, the ghost-striped red ants will not look at other fighters. Although Gulitum is almost fighting in and out of the ghost-striped red ants, it is impossible No giant soldier ants came out to resist its raging and attacking.
The corpses of ghost-striped soldier ants are considered the biggest spoils of war, and hundreds of ghost-striped worker ants are turned into everyone's trophies every day.
In addition to these ghost-striped red ants, some soldiers were injured in the battle. The soldiers of the logistics team will carry the wounded soldiers back to the camp, and Nika and her medical team will quickly carry out treatment. Only the dead soldier Suldak will personally treat him.
During this time, the adventure group also formed a temporary army, and they began to trap and kill the ghost pattern soldier ants by the lake.
For a while, battlefields were everywhere around the lake...
(end of this chapter)