905. North Expedition
In addition to purchasing a batch of bed crossbows and catapults from San Carlos City this time, merchant Maracom also bought a set of agile magic pattern structure from the Imperial Capital Auction House.
In addition, the 1,500 infantry soldiers in the barracks were also wearing heavy armor. They had bright heavy swords hanging around their waists, and behind them were dwarf heavy shields and Paglio spears.
One thousand five hundred infantry soldiers left Dodan Town on the last day of October, armed with all their arms, and they marched north through Dodan Canyon.
The infantry lined up in a long line, followed the armed Thunder Rhino and entered the Invercargill Forest in a mighty manner.
All the infantry soldiers seemed very excited. Most of these new troops were native young tribes. They had an obsession in their hearts, that is, they only had money when performing missions. This time, leaving Duodan Town, everyone wanted to make a fortune on the battlefield.
Eighteen armed thunder rhinos were carrying thirty-six bed crossbows on their backs, and on the shelves were carrying forty broken crossbow parts and twenty catapults. These ordnances would all be transported to the barracks in the canyon forest in the northern Invercargill Forest.
Surdak's northern expedition to the Dark Worm Valley also officially began on the last day of October.
He understood more than anyone else that the army was actually making money in war, but victory in the war could bring huge rewards to previous efforts.
But once the war fails, not all lords can bear the losses they suffer.
Surdak never thought of making the scale of this northern expedition to the Dark Worm Valley so large...
He just devoted all the wealth he had accumulated from the beast tide throughout the summer to this expedition.
In addition, he also wanted the copper mine to continuously sell the copper ingots and directly exchange it for a large number of strategic combat preparation materials to fully support the battle.
When these resources were continuously transported from the town of Dodan to the military camps in the canyon forest, the entire supply line was almost filled with horses carrying cargo.
Such a wealth of supplies had a huge impact on the indigenous tribes in the hilly mountains and the Invercargill Forest.
These indigenous tribes also fought with the army of the Green Empire, but they did not look at such a war from the perspective of bystanders in the rear of the war zone. Seeing these weapons and supplies, so many young soldiers rushed to the battlefield with well-equipped equipment.
These indigenous tribes could no longer sit still.
To be honest, their tribe is currently under the jurisdiction of Lord Suldak. Lord Suldak wants to start a war and they are obliged to send their own armed forces to join them.
The first time Suldak organized a war of this size, he mobilized a group of young indigenous warriors, so he forgot to issue a conscript order to various indigenous tribes.
However, when various indigenous tribes heard that Surdak began to mobilize troops frequently, the tribe leaders communicated in private. It would be easy to get caught in the future if they didn't go to the house. So, it would be better to respond actively.
So on the day when 1,500 heavily armored infantry entered the Invercargill Forest, each tribe sent a hundred indigenous warriors to the military camps in the canyon forest, and they even brought their own dry food and weapons.
Each tribe sends out not many warriors, but there are many of these tribes.
Thirty-seven indigenous tribes actually gathered nearly 3,000 warriors. They are a group of real hunters in the tribe. In terms of personal strength, they are much better than indigenous young people and have rich combat experience.
When these tribal warriors rushed to the canyon camp one after another, Surdak discovered that the camp was built was a little smaller, so he hurriedly logged and built some barracks.
Although these tribal warriors had alloy bows in their hands and heavy swords of craftsmen were hung around their waists, they were still covered with animal skin armor and covered with tattered animal skins, not even a pair of decent shoes.
For this reason, Surdak quickly stared at the merchant Maracum and three thousand sets of imperial infantry armor. Even if these indigenous warriors sent troops to help this time, they would have some benefits.
Even Maracom was a little surprised that Surdak made such a generous move.
He even didn't expect that the magic crystals that Suldak took out were all earned during the beast tide this summer. Now, for this battle in winter, he has almost lost his pockets than his face.
While it was not snowing in the Invercargill Forest, Surdak began to arrange people to pull up fifty arm-sized iron chains on the mountain valley, and used these iron chains to pave a cable bridge for armed thunder rhinoceros to pass.
In addition to such a vast iron cable bridge, Surdak also built more than a dozen ziplines on this mountain stream. These ziplines, which were low and high, allowed the soldiers to quickly slide through this chasm.
The beast tide has just passed half a year, and many areas have not recovered from the damage caused by ghost-patterned red ants.
Many people did not expect that Viscount Surdak, in Luther's legion, led a large army to cross the mountain stream north of Invercargil Forest in the name of the lord in the northern part of the White Lin plane, and was preparing to lead the army to attack the Dark Worm Valley when the first heavy snow fell.
Surdak's army had just arrived at the Canyon Woodlands Barracks in the northern Canyon of Invercargill Forest. A large number of adventure groups in Wilkes were like drought lees smelling blood in the tropical rainforest, pouring into the Invercargill Forest from all over the world.
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Some large mercenary groups even have more than 100 people in size.
They were not hired by Lord Suldak, but instead took a fancy to the magic cores in the heads of those ghost-patterned soldiers and ants.
This summer, they have already tasted the sweetness behind the cavalry battalion of Suldak. This time, Suldak is preparing for the northern expedition, and these adventure groups and mercenary groups are actually moved.
Just as the first week of November passed, the number of adventure groups and mercenary groups gathered on the south bank of the mountain stream surged to more than 5,000.
They had almost hunted all the ghostly red ants wandering in the opposite forest area.
So much so that there are no traces of ghost-patterned red ants that can be seen through the mountain stream.
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Dark clouds pressed against the sky layer by layer, and the north wind was filled with a humid and cold breath.
At this time, the birds in the north sky had already hidden in their nests. This was a call before the wind and snow. The light green mist surrounding the dark insect valley was constantly swept into the sky by the north wind.
In such cold weather, the woodland shrouded in poisonous fog gradually appeared in Surdak's sight.
As snow grubs that felt a little tingling on their faces landed from the air, the mist in the woodland opposite became even more faint.
Five hundred cavalrymen in the cavalry battalion were now guarding the iron chain bridge on the north bank. With the order of Surdak, eighteen armed thunder rhinos took the lead in stepping onto the iron chain bridge one by one. They crossed the bridge with heavy crossbows and set up a second line of defense north of the iron chain bridge.
A thousand archers followed these thunder rhinos and crossed the iron chain bridge in a mighty manner, followed by 1,500 heavily armored infantrymen.
By the time 1,500 heavily armored infantry built fortifications on the Iron Cable Bridge, Andrew led the cavalry battalion to quickly penetrate into the edge of the poisonous swamp.
Although the snow dissipated the poisonous fog, the entire swamp was still very difficult to get away, and the biogas in countless puddles and traps were hidden under the thick moss and weeds.
Usually this place is almost a forbidden area for cavalry, but now Andrew is preparing to lead 500 cavalry through here...
Chapter completed!