Chapter 1337 1324. Evacuation
The redback giant tortoise's first breakout battle in Loon Lake ended in failure.
Samira and Carrie Decker, two second-rank powerhouses, sit on the frontline battlefield. Basically, half of the redback giant tortoises are killed by the two of them, especially Carrie Decker owns Santos. After using the shotgun, as long as she gets close to the giant redback tortoise, a few shots can kill one on the spot.
To say that this group of red-ridged giant tortoises is undoubtedly the overlord of Loon Lake in the Three Rivers Plain, and their population has been entrenched here for an unknown number of generations. It is not that no adventure group has paid their attention to them. After all, these red-spine giant tortoises The giant ridge tortoises are almost all Tier 3 magical beasts, covered with precious magic materials, and the individuals are very large. Even if they successfully hunt down one, it will make the adventure group a fortune.
But the biggest difficulty in hunting these red-ridged giant tortoises is that they live at the bottom of the lake. In the past, if the adventure group wanted to hunt the red-ridged giant tortoise, they had to take a boat into the lakes around Loon Lake. In addition, the members of the adventure group were required to be proficient in water warfare. .
In fact, these red-spine giant tortoises are almost invincible in the water. Whether it is water bombs, water column impact, or water shields, these are not easily resisted by members of the adventure group. There have been many famous adventure groups on the Sanhe Plain. , due to the large number of salamander ghost snakes and the red-ridged giant tortoise living in the lake.
It's a pity that the Suldak Lord Army took advantage of the turn of winter and spring this time. After the water in Lake Loen dried up, the area where the red-ridged giant tortoises in the lake moved became narrower, and some red-ridged giant tortoises were forced to climb to the land to find new animals. Habitat.
When these redbacked giant tortoises came to land, they could only be beaten when facing the lord's cavalry. However, with their powerful combat power, they were still not something that ordinary cavalry regiments could handle. The Suldak lord's army also carried a batch of magic The bed crossbow, and two second-rank powerhouses were in command to hunt and kill the red-ridged giant tortoises that had landed.
Lake Loon is not deep, it evolved from a low-lying wetland.
In spring, the Sanhe Plain is relatively dry. Although the snow melted in the mountains, the dry southwest wind blows from the field, which blows away the moisture on the land. The water level of the entire Loon Lake plummets by three in March. rice.
Even the leader of the Redridge giant tortoise hiding in the center of the lake revealed its huge shell. The huge Loon Lake has now shrunk by two-thirds.
All the giant red-ridged tortoises living in the lake have exposed their shells, and the soldiers of the lord army have also attacked the giant red-ridged tortoises in the lake, but as long as they are in the lake, they will be erected by the lake. A row of magic bed crossbows is helpless against those redback giant tortoises.
In addition to having a solid turtle shell, they can also condense a water shield around the body. The magic bed crossbow cannot penetrate these two layers of armor at all.
According to the investigation of the magicians, there are at least 170 red-ridged giant tortoises trapped in the center of the lake, and the leader of one of the red-ridged giant tortoises occupies the deepest part of the lake. '
Due to the serious shrinkage of Loon Lake, a large number of fish and shrimps also gather in this lake, and the food for the red-ridged giant tortoises is relatively sufficient...
But if the red-ridged giant tortoise in Loon Lake is not cleaned up, the land in the southern area of the Three Rivers Plain cannot be completely recovered, and Loon Lake cannot be drawn outside the territory.
The commanders of the lord armies reported this to Suldak.
Suldak specially transferred fifty catapults from the bridgehead camp for this purpose. The range of the catapults is much longer than that of the bed crossbow, and the most important thing is that the catapults can throw flint and black powder kegs. The giant ridged tortoise is not a threat.
In the eyes of other Lord Army commanders, it is impossible for these black powder kegs to blow up the armor of the Red Ridge Giant Tortoise.
But when these catapults lined up by the lake, they continuously threw two thousand black powder kegs towards the center of the lake, and the entire lake was blown up by the black powder kegs, and almost everywhere was covered with black powder. Mud and dead fish, the red-ridged giant tortoise was still shrunk in its shell for a few days and endured the deafening explosion and refused to come out. After ten days, finally a red-ridged giant tortoise couldn't stand this muddy Loon Lake. At night, dozens of redback giant tortoises rushed to the shore again.
The cavalry regiment of the Lord's Army who had been waiting on the shore was dispatched again and successfully hunted down these red-ridged giant tortoises.
The remaining redback giant tortoises in the heart of the lake even sank their bodies into the mud, and most of the giant tortoises entered a dormant state to avoid the damage caused to them by this quagmire-like environment.
The iron cavalry of the lord's army still couldn't step into the lake, so Suldak had to mobilize ten heavy armored infantry regiments to the lake of Loen again, and this time he even mobilized nearly 5,000 ghost pattern worker ants. On the first day when the ants came to Loon Lake, all the staff began to carry sand and gravel from the high hills by the lake, and forcibly used sand and gravel to fill in a flat road leading to the center of the lake from the lake.
This road in the lake penetrates into the center of the lake at a speed of almost 100 meters every day. This time, the leader of the giant red ridge tortoise in the center of the lake finally realized the crisis of the giant red ridge tortoise population.
He could only take more than a hundred red-ridged giant tortoises and fled to the southerly Qiandao Lake overnight, but this time Suldak did not let these cavalry regiments of the lord army launch a siege behind, only leaving behind more than 30 red-ridged turtles. After the corpse of the giant tortoise, nearly 80 redback giant tortoises were allowed to pass through the wetland between Loon Lake and Qiandao Lake, allowing them to escape into Qiandao Lake.
A group of commanders of the Lord Army stood on a high hill in the wetland, watching the group of giant redback turtles slowly leave.
The commander of the Ludwig family lord army asked Suldak a little puzzled:
"Lord Suldak, why don't we capture them all this time, this group of redback giant turtles is worth at least 40,000 magic spar..."
The commanders of other lord armies also looked at Suldak.
"Do you not understand my decision?" Suldak pulled the reins of the horse, walked out from the crowd, controlled the horse and turned to face the commanders and asked.
"I'm a bit confused..." Someone in the crowd replied.
Suldak held the reins of the horse in one hand and the whip in the other, pointed to the vast land and lakes in the distance, and said to the commanders: "Soon this will become our land, the land here is fertile and rich in products , and has excellent water resources, but what I consider is the comprehensive resources and sustainable development of this land."
"I let these redback giant tortoises leave, hoping that they can enrich the population of monsters in Qiandao Lake, and their existence will also become a good resource here."
"In the future we will build small towns here, and Qiandao Lake in the south will be the closest hunting ground to us. I believe that by that time, many people will have researched the weaknesses of the redback giant tortoise, and will also There will be a large number of adventure groups coming to Sanhe Plain for hunting in Qiandao Lake.”
Hearing what Suldak said, all the commanders were also full of longing.
"If the summer rainy season comes, Loon Lake and Qiandao Lake become one, and those redback giant tortoises make a comeback again, what should we do?" A young officer standing in the back row asked Surdak loudly.
Suldak looked up at him.
The young officer realized later that he had asked a stupid question and covered his mouth.
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Those hunted red-ridged giant tortoises were almost all sold on the battlefield to military merchants who bid each other.
When cleaning the battlefield, a group of quartermasters from the logistics department are like auctioneers in the auction hall. Behind them is a group of merchants. Everyone completely ignores the mess and mud on the battlefield, and walks to one by one. In front of the redback giant tortoise with a small flag.
The quartermaster must first record the hunter's name, and then assign merit points based on the name on it.
Afterwards, the condition of the entire redback giant tortoise, the degree of damage, the integrity of the precious leather, etc. were checked, and then a relatively low reserve price was given on the spot according to the previous auction price.
This kind of price evaluation is basically done by experienced quartermasters.
Holding a small hammer in their hands, they stood beside the dead redback giant tortoise, shouting at the top of their voices: "The starting price is 500 magic crystals. Those who are willing to raise the price raise their hands. Once you bid, you cannot go back on your word!"
The military merchants who followed him quickly opened their bids. The valuable materials on this kind of hill-like giant red-ridged tortoise can basically sell five hundred magic crystals. If the dismemberment is finer, the leftovers are The profit of each merchant accompanying the army, as long as everything goes well when dismantling the giant red-ridged tortoise, it is definitely a steady profit.
This is the violence of war. The victory of a battle will not only make the lord army a lot of money, but also often make huge profits for the military merchant group.
The practice of auctioning on the battlefield is very fair. These redback giant tortoises are basically the ones with the highest bids.
Unless a certain red-ridged giant tortoise is a favorite of Lord Suldak, these red-ridged giant tortoises will be marked separately and placed in the final auction.
The redback giant tortoises that are incomplete in this part are often auctioned off to those merchant groups that have made some special contributions to the lord's army.
Of course, there are some prerequisites for being able to become a business group eligible to participate in the on-site auction.
Those who can participate in the on-site auction are basically those merchant groups who have become the Lord of Suldak's army.
This qualification is required to submit an application to Surdak, and at the same time, only caravans that will invest a part of the cost in the early stage of the war can hope to obtain it.
Each complete redback giant tortoise carcass is often carried to about 600 magic spar, and there is no profit margin if it is higher.
And there are a lot of red-spine giant tortoises on the battlefield, and the business groups don't need to go shopping in the bidding process. Often when the price reaches a certain level, the quartermasters acting as auctioneers will clamor to prepare for the next red-spine giant tortoise. Turtle over there.
Moreover, the loot captured this time is not that there are more wolves and less meat. Probably all the accompanying merchant groups will be full, and the leftovers will be left to the ordinary merchant groups behind, and the starting price will be set very high...
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The Battle of Loon Lake in the southern part of the Three Rivers Plain lasted for one and a half months. The biggest harvest was not only the large fertile land around Loon Lake, but also 137 red-ridged giant tortoises like small hills. Before the flesh and blood of these giant tortoises rotted, these giant tortoises were quickly dismembered, and almost all the people who had worked as butchers rushed to the front with the military business group.
Facts have proved that the potential of the Bena people is still unlimited. The redback giant tortoise harvested in each battle is quickly decomposed, the best meat and leather are put into the magic sealing box, and the remaining inferior ones will be boiled Put it in a jar or dry it out in the sun. The only thing that is a bit inconvenient to transport is those giant turtle shells.
It is said that these turtle shells can be made into a very good magic material after being ground into powder, but there are a lot of turtle shells harvested this time, and it is estimated that it will easily affect the price of those turtle shell powders in the magic market.
Although Suldak did not participate in carve-up of the large area of the Three Rivers Plain this time, the benefits brought to him by this part of the red-ridged giant tortoise were as much as 50,000 magic spar.
After fighting in the Sanhe Plain for a month, they finally managed to recover the Sanhe Plain this spring.
The next step is to wait for the clerk of the Territorial Administration in Wilkes City to come to measure the actual land area, and then according to the 433 land distribution method, the lords will select the best quality land to become their own territory.
Suldak is already preparing to withdraw his troops, but the commanders of the various lord armies still have to stay on the Sanhe Plain, use boundary markers to delineate their respective territories, and leave a group of troops stationed on the Sanhe Plain.
However, the main force of the alliance lord army on the Ganbu plane wants to withdraw from the Bailin plane before the summer.
After two months of rapid construction of the dam on the Sanhe Plain, the main part has been fully formed, but there are still many trivial finishing work left. This time Aung San was transferred back from Ruyt City by Suldak, also for Can someone take charge of the situation here.
On the day Suldak's lord army arrived in Wilkes City, the Malakom businessman who went to the imperial capital to purchase the sky crossbow also returned to Wilkes City through the portal.
Malakom businessman learned that Suldak had arrived in Wilkes City, so he immediately ran over to invite Suldak himself, and he wanted to sit at home no matter what.
Suldak may be able to ignore such invitations sent by other merchants accompanying the military business group, but the Malakom merchant can be said to be the big businessman who cooperates most closely with Suldak, and his Thunder Rhino caravan has almost contracted In addition, the entire transportation business of copper and iron ore ingots, and the purchase of general large-scale military supplies, such as the army of Suldak, have been handed over to Malakom.
This time, at the request of Suldak, he went to San Carlos City to purchase a batch of shooting crossbows.
Therefore, Suldak still needs to give some face to the invitation of the merchant Malakom, and recently Suldak and the lords of the Bailin plane have completely fallen into a stalemate. When he came to Wilkes City, in addition to being able to There is almost nowhere to go except to go around the military headquarters and meet and chat with Chester Great Swordsman.
The procedure for the Lord’s Army to pass through the portal still needs to be approved by the military department and the Wilkes House of Representatives. It’s actually not a bad idea to take advantage of this spare time to sit at the Malakom merchant’s house...
Businessman Malakom has a large mansion in Wilkes City, but he is not eligible to live in the noble district. The mansion is located in the merchant residence area inside the city.
Brothers, I will build a new group tomorrow, don’t let me destroy the group this time...
(end of this chapter)