MTL - Lord Highlander-Chapter 1470 1457. The ever-growing West Route Army

  Chapter 1470 1457. The ever-growing West Route Army

  Walking on the streets of Hailansa City, I saw the lively shops on both sides of the street.

   Under the careful management of Mrs. Mariana, the city of High Lansa slowly took on a new look.

   For a long time, the most important commodity here has been gold and silver acorns. Many businessmen came to Hailansa City, almost always buying these acorns from nobles in autumn.

  Other businesses are hard to see in the city of Hailansa, but now the city is very different, and the scale of the workshop area has increased significantly.

  Even at noon, Suldak could still see some citizens rushing to the workshop.

   They hurried on their feet, looking afraid of being late...

  On the street, a group of guard battalion knights can often be seen passing through the middle of the road on tall horses. These guard battalion knights are almost unfamiliar faces.

  Now Wall Village has developed into a bustling town with a population of more than 5,000 people.

  The free market in front of Wall Village is the largest market at the southern foot of Paglos Mountain. The merchants here are mainly engaged in items, almost all of which are prepared for the adventure group that enters Paglos Mountain for hunting.

  Currently, Wall Village mainly operates a pozzolan cement factory and a black powder factory.

One-third of the sulfur from the sulfur mine in Bump Mountain is consumed by the black powder factory in Wall Village, and the saltpeter and charcoal of the black powder factory are almost all procured from outside. The charcoal is almost all purchased from the residents of Oak Ridge , the saltpeter was procured from the Owen family of Constantinople.

  Now the explosive barrels prepared by the Black Powder Factory are almost all supplied to the West Route Army in Suldak.

At present, the maximum water storage capacity of the five-level reservoir in the village can irrigate nearly a thousand acres of fertile land. The artificial canal dug by the kobolds in front of Wall Village has been developed into a large area of ​​fertile land, and even the river bend wetland has been transformed into a wheat field. After several years of development, Wall Village has become the wealthiest village in the northern suburbs of Hailansa City.

  However, the people of Wall Village also have their pride...

  Because it is located in the outskirts of the remote city, it takes a whole day to go to Hailansa City, so it is rare to see Wall Villagers in Hailansa City.

  Although there are many acquaintances of Suldak in Hailansa City, the chance of meeting him on the street is very small, not to mention that he is wearing a cloak with a hood to cover his face.

  Suldak and Aphrodite walked into a trading house side by side.

  The owner of this firm brought a large number of armor made of ghost-patterned red ant hard armor from Bena City and provided it to Aphrodite.

  Recently, the latest batch of armor arrived in Hailansa City. Aphrodite came to the firm to pick up the goods and brought Suldak along.

These dark red hard armors are very hard, and the armor made of them is completely shaped according to the shape of the horse. It can completely wrap the horse in it from the beginning to the end, especially the armor on the horse's head, which fits the horse very well. The shape of the head will not affect the horse's field of vision.

  A piece of armor is neatly arranged like a war horse...

It is not the first time for Aphrodi to trade here. The boss of the firm saw Aphrodi walking in, and immediately invited her and Suldak into the rest area. The waiter brought in a few pieces of armor and asked Aphrodite to inspect the goods here.

  A maid brought a plate of delicate pastries, which she carefully placed on the tea table in front of Suldak and Aphrodite.

   When he raised his head, he said politely to the two of them: "Guests, please take your time..."

   It's just that at the moment when she raised her head, she stared at Surdak with wide eyes. She covered her mouth with her hand, and suppressed the surprised sound from her mouth.

  Suldak also immediately noticed the strange color on the maid's face, looked at the young maid curiously, and asked with a smile, "You know me?"

   "Are you a Knight of Suldak?" the maid asked Suldak.

   At this time, Suldak saw the appearance of the young maid clearly, and a name appeared in his mind—Nedra.

   His memory suddenly surfaced to the two female neighbors at Hailansa Knight Academy, Linna and Nedra. They were also female students of the Knight Academy at the beginning, and they lived next door to Suldak.

   I didn't expect to see Nedra here. She was wearing a maid's costume, her long brown hair was coiled up, and she was wearing a wedding ring...

   "Are you Nedra? I didn't expect to see you here..."

  Surdak immediately called out her name.

Suldak is also very happy to see his old friend here, but as the commander of the West Route Army, he should be on the frontline battlefield of Moyunling in the Warsaw plane at this moment, not in the city of Hailansa, so see When meeting acquaintances, it also made him a little embarrassed.

   "I heard Linna say that you have become a noble lord, it seems to be true!" Nedra looked at the noble badge on Suldak's chest and whispered.

Suldak nodded to her with a smile, took out a personal seal from his pocket, and wrote a line of text on a blank scroll of parchment with a quill: 'This scroll is for Ms. Nedra , if Ms. Nedra has any needs, please try my best to coordinate. '

   Then he wrote his name on the back of the parchment scroll, and then stamped his personal seal.

  Suldak rolled up the scroll, tied it with cloth strips and stuffed it to Nedra, and said to her with a surprised face:

"I don't live in Hailansa City. I'm giving you this scroll. If you encounter any difficulties in your life in the future, you can send this scroll to Hailansa City Hall. If it's not the kind of difficult problem that cannot be solved , someone will help you.”

   "Ah!" Nedra took the scroll a little at a loss.

   At this time, Suldak had already stood up.

  Aphrodite held Suldak's arm, glanced at Nedra, and nodded slightly to her.

   Then Aphrodite said to the owner of the firm: "This batch of goods can be sent to the warehouse, and the commission will be settled face to face..."

   After finishing speaking, the two left the firm in a hurry.

It wasn't until the figures of Suldak and Aphrodite disappeared in the busy street that the owner of the firm standing at the entrance of the firm turned his head enviously, looked at Nedra who was a little dazed aside, and asked with a pleasant face : "Nedra, do you know those two guests?"

   "Ah! I only know Sir Suldak Knight. When I was studying at the Knight Academy, he happened to be studying at the Academy at that time..."

  Nedra replied truthfully.

  The owner of the firm's eyes fell on the scroll of parchment, and after looking at it for a long time, he didn't say anything about buying the scroll for a lot of money.

  Finally reason overcame greed and just nodded towards Nedra.

   said to Nedra very kindly: "In the future, you can learn something from me..."

  …

"I really can't hang out in Hailansa City in the future, maybe I will meet some acquaintances... As the commander of the West Route Army, I can't show up in Hailansa City at this time anyway. If it gets into the ears of Duke Newman No, it is inevitable that he will be investigated by the military department."

  Suldak walked on the street, and said to Aphrodite angrily.

  Aphrodite said with a smile: "It's not that you are clamoring to come here to see the armored ones, and you also said that you want to inspect the business..."

   "Stop talking, I'm going back to the garrison camp."

Suldak quickly got into a magic caravan, and Aphrodite got into the car behind him. Suldak turned his head and said to Aphrodite: "You usually help me take care of a little bit of Wall Village, I wanted to go to Wall Village to take a look at it, but let’s forget it this time!”

   As Suldak said, a door of void had opened in front of him.

   When he stepped in, he didn't forget to wave to Aphrodite.

  …

  Suldak is really a little free during this time. The initiative of the battle on the mountain pass at the southern foot of Moyunling is completely in the hands of the West Route Army.

  Even if they didn't suppress the evil ghost army in the mountain pass, those hungry evil ghost fighters would not dare to run out easily.

There are demon hunters from adventure groups everywhere in the dense forest here. Many teams of adventure groups are led by second-rank powerhouses. As long as the ghost warriors dare to stand up in the mountains, they will almost always be targeted by some demon hunters. .

  What Suldak needs to do every day is almost to transform those ancient Bolai horses into magic-weave warhorses.

   Some rumors in the army say that the mysterious alchemist next to Suldak has made a magical strengthening scroll, which can strengthen the Gubolai horse into a powerful army horse.

  The fact is the same. These magic-pattern warhorses have once again become the mounts of the Constructed Knights. Their endurance during long-distance raids is obviously stronger than that of the scale horses.

Suldak also discovered something recently, that is, although frequent battles will consume more than 20,000 soldier ants left in the West Route Army, it will also cause some ghost pattern soldier ants to evolve into Giant soldier ants.

  When ghost-striped soldier ants evolved into giant soldier ants, the value of these giant soldier ants almost increased by leaps and bounds. The biggest value is that the limbs and legs of giant soldier ants can peel off some magic patterns of life.

  So during this period, when the West Route Army and the Evil Ghost Army fought on the battlefield, there were still a large number of ghost pattern soldiers and ants serving as cannon fodder at the front of the army formation.

The remaining 20,000 soldier ants almost all died on the Moyunling mountain pass battlefield in the following three months. Although the loss of so many soldier ants made Suldak feel distressed, nearly 2,000 soldiers were born. The giant soldier ants, together with more than 1,000 giant soldier ants left after the Battle of Buruin River, allowed Suldak to have nearly 3,000 giant soldier ants at once.

  And these giant soldier ants are constantly signing devil contracts with heavy armored infantry fighters, becoming a new ant cavalry.

  As Viscount Dunbar said, it took nearly four months for the military to transport 50,000 ghost pattern soldier ants from the Bailin plane in Bena province.

   These 50,000 ghost pattern soldier ants were driven by the druids to the garrison camp at the foot of Moyunling Mountain like a herd of cattle.

Almost in the same month, the tribes in the northern mountains of Moyunling also organized 30,000 aboriginal fighters to the camp of the West Route Army. These 30,000 young aboriginal fighters will learn how to fight against the evil spirit army in the garrison camp .

  At present, in addition to 100,000 heavy armored infantry, the West Route Army also has 50,000 soldier ants and 30,000 aboriginal soldiers...

  With the addition of some archers, constructed knights, magician scouts, ant cavalry and giant soldier ants, etc., the current total strength of the West Route Army has almost expanded to 200,000.

  The walled city at the foot of Moyunling Mountain is also constantly expanding.

  These soldier ants were excellent means of transport when they were not participating in the battle. They brought back a large amount of useful wood from the depths of the dense forest. Suldak used a large amount of wood to build a huge city wall on this hillside.

  The Walled City has the most complete walls and archery towers. Bed crossbows are placed on the fifty-seven archery towers, and there are also some catapults in the city.

  This walled city, which can accommodate nearly 200,000 troops, is undoubtedly a very huge wooden city.

  …

  In order to maintain the daily expenses of the West Route Army, Suldak also had to fight a fierce battle with the evil spirits stationed at the Moyunling Mountain Pass every few days.

The military department of Handanar City has supported nearly 300 bed crossbows to the West Route Army, and all of them have arrived on the battlefield. All the channels from Lansa City were transported to the West Route Army.

  These giant crossbow bolts with 'sharp' and 'penetrating' magic attributes can be said to be the biggest nemesis of the ghost warriors.

As the ant cavalry dragged two hundred bed crossbows to occupy the high ground on the battlefield, the ghost pattern soldiers and ants would no longer be cannon fodder on the battlefield. They would guard the front of the bed crossbows. A brand new way of fighting appeared on the battlefield of the West Route Army.

  Moyunling mountain pass was originally a sparse forest, and the continuous fighting in the past few months has turned the hillside into a bare one.

The aboriginal warriors wore heavy full-cover armor and held Paglio spears mixed in the heavy armored infantry regiment. The heavy armored infantry regiment and soldier ant army surrounded by two hundred bed crossbows slowly advanced to the Moyunling Mountain Pass on the battlefield.

  Surdak mobilized nearly 70,000 troops this time, and almost surrounded the Moyunling Pass.

The catapult group began to throw a large amount of flint and gunpowder barrels towards the Moyunling mountain pass, almost blasting the Moyunling mountain pass into a piece of scorched earth. Thousand ghost pattern soldiers and ants and 50,000 heavy armored infantry finally occupied the Moyunling mountain pass.

  The evil ghost army guarding the mountain pass was forced to retreat in the valley between Moyunling Mountain.

  The adventure group and mercenary group also helped a lot this time. This group of demon hunters almost completely restrained the evil spirit squad scattered among the mountains.

  The active attack of the West Route Army made the evil ghost army guarding the Moyunling Mountain Pass finally aware of the crisis...

The evil ghost army then launched a fierce counterattack, but after the West Route Army occupied the Moyunling mountain pass, Suldak placed two hundred bed crossbows on the mountain pass, allowing nearly ten thousand evil ghost soldiers to rush towards the mountain pass, and the bed crossbows almost Bo Ping shot harvested the lives of a large number of ghost warriors.

  Soldier ants and heavy armored infantry regiments kept the evil spirits on the battlefield like a high wall, watching a large number of evil spirits rushing out of the dense forest being shot and killed by bed crossbows.

  The evil ghost army finally recognized the facts, abandoned the Moyunling Pass, and retreated to the valley halfway up the mountain.

  (end of this chapter)