Chapter 829: Snowballing Chariot Corps

Gavin checked them one by one, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, he put his hands on the ground of the asphalt road and directly activated the paving technique.

As the giver of the paving technique, he certainly knew how to pave the road, and his power was incomparable to those of the dog-headed road builders.

Because his paving technique was absolutely divine.

With the surge of the power of the road, the whole road seemed to come alive, surging from both sides to the middle, and in an instant, the huge cracks were paved.

Far more than that, some small gaps or fish that were not collapsed by the earthquake spell were all filled by the surging road.

Careless.

All along, Gavin used the paving technique of the dog-headed road builders to measure his own performance.

He completely forgot that he was the owner of the power of the road, and there were still thousands of points of the power of the road that had not been infused in his body.

With the support of these road powers, it is impossible to travel hundreds of kilometers a day, but a few kilometers is no problem. The level is far beyond the reach of the road builders of the kobolds.

Not only did they waste three earthquake spells, but they also wasted a lot of road paving opportunities.

It cannot be said that it has no effect at all.

The scene of the gullies created by the earthquake spell being filled in an instant is even more shocking.

It inevitably attracted another round of cheers and thunder, and under the leadership of the chariot captains, they sang hymns.

The chariot corps directly regarded the hymn as a military song. Whenever there was something to do, they would sing a collective chorus, once before breakfast and dinner, without fail. This was a standard brainwashing posture, and the concept of Gavin as the future god of roads was first established in their hearts.

The rangers led by Mihayu did not disappoint Gavin. Fifteen kilometers away from Hongdao, they found the group of digging worms migrating to Roslin Forest.

The druids led by Hanso had no concerns about attacking these monsters.

They are alien invasive species in Faerun, and it is unknown which plane of the multiverse they come from.

All we know is that they are standard agricultural and forestry pests. They will destroy farmers' farmland, hunt their livestock, and gnaw on the roots of trees, which will cause many towering trees to wither and die.

As long as they see them, these natural guardians will take the initiative to eliminate them.

It's just that their habit of hiding deep underground makes ordinary rangers and druids helpless against them.

But Hanso and his group of extraordinary druids are not included. They have their own way to deal with these monsters.

Two quasi-legendary druids took the lead, and two earthquake spells directly collapsed all the mud tunnels dug by the digging worms when they came, blocking their retreat.

Then a group of green thick clouds rolled out and drilled down along the exits of the caves.

The fifth-ring spell Death Cloud.

These poisonous mists are much heavier than air and have the characteristic of gathering and flowing to lower places, becoming a powerful means to deal with monsters hiding in the cracks and caves.

The toxins contained in the poisonous mist are quite strong. Not to mention ordinary people, even those professionals with two or three life dice, if they do not have special abilities or equipment and are immune to toxin attacks, inhaling a breath is enough to kill them on the spot.

Even if they are lucky enough not to be poisoned to death, it will burn the respiratory tract and lungs of the inhaler, causing serious internal injuries, ranging from difficulty breathing to suffocation, and eventually suffocation to death.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

There was a tremor on the ground, that was the sound of sand being shoveled quickly.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The soil and rocks splashed.

One by one, huge monsters broke out of the ground.

They look like mole crickets, but they are magnified thousands of times. Just half of their bodies sticking out of the mud are taller and stronger than an adult. Their bodies are earthy yellow. In addition to a pair of strong and powerful front claws covered with fangs and spikes, they also have a pair of ant-like jaws. No one doubts its power. If an adult is bitten by it, it is estimated that he will be cut in half on the spot.

Although the other legs are pointed, they should not be underestimated. They are all covered with sharp claws. Once they are poked, it is estimated that there will be more holes on the body. The whole body is covered with thick keratin shells, which make their defense look very good.

Between the two huge jaws, there are tentacles of different lengths, which are constantly swinging, as if they are observing the movements around them.

This is indeed the case. Although this multi-legged insect-like burrower has huge compound eyes, it has long since degenerated into a decoration. What really works are these tentacles, which are extremely sensitive to various vibrations and tremors. With their help, it is easier to detect enemies and prey on the ground, so as to escape or hunt.

"Tripfoot bag!"

With Mihayu's order, alchemical items shaped like packages were thrown out one by one and hit the digging worms.

When they encountered the digging worms, the alchemical package exploded, and a large amount of white viscous material gushed out, like a huge spider web, entangled in the target, not only trying to entangle its limbs, but also sticking its body to the ground, making it very difficult to move, whether crawling out of the cave or crawling back.

This is an alchemical glue produced from natural resin. It is used to capture prey. It is far more useful than a net and is very convenient to carry. A palm-sized tripfoot bag, the sticky glue splashed out by the explosion is enough to stick a large creature.

The biggest flaw is that it is a one-time consumable. Once used, it cannot be used again regardless of whether it hits the target. However, the material can be recycled and re-refined, which can save up to 70%.

In the giant valley where there are many druids, this is not a flaw. Similar alchemical items are very productive and relatively cheap. If you collect the materials yourself and find those druids to refine them on your behalf, you only need to pay a small processing fee. Yes, the relationship is close enough, even processing fees can be saved.

There were eight diggers in total in the first wave of groundworms. The least one had three tripping bags to take care of them. None of them survived. They were hit by at least one tripping bag. The most unlucky one was tripped by five at the same time. Foot bag hit.

On the spot, he turned into a pitiful insect in amber. His whole body was covered in sticky glue and he couldn't move at all.

The rest refused to surrender and struggled hard while opening their jaws and spraying dark green juice outwards.

These green juices, like the copper dragon's breath, are also highly acidic and very corrosive.

Even the thick glue on the tripping bag could not withstand its corrosion, and the places where it was sprayed began to break.

The digger's carapace is immune to this strong acid, and it does not cause any damage when it falls on it.

Hiss! Kaka!

The next second, these ground-burrowing insects erupted in pain and screamed, and the strong acid they were spitting was forcibly interrupted.

Sharp arrows shot accurately into their mouths, bypassing the thick carapace and damaging their tender flesh.

Whether it is the bow and arrow style or the double sword style.

Since all rangers are excellent archers, they can shoot at fixed targets with frightening accuracy.

It's just that they specialize in different directions, and the bow and arrow style has more bow and arrow skills than the dual-sword style.

"Don't shoot them to death." Gavin couldn't help but warn him, "Just start when the heat is almost there. A group of ordinary monsters shouldn't have that strong will to resist."

The former sentence was spoken to the rangers, and the latter sentence was spoken to the accompanying chariot captains.

Gavin handed over the charm bracelets to them for use, and he planned to temporarily use this unexpected harvest as additional personnel for the tank corps.

Their ability to quickly dig ditches and caves is very complementary to the chariot corps that are good at positional warfare, and can further increase their tactical options.

It can also be placed on the periphery of the chariot corps at night to serve as an underground sentinel and trap.

As for the problem of slow movement, it is not a problem at all for a tank army with a large number of floor-type tanks.

Just as Gavin speculated, the difficulty of charming worms is not high. They generally have six or seven hit dice, and the elites are only eight or nine. Their intelligence is very low, and the possibility of being tamed by humans is almost zero, because They simply cannot understand the simplest instructions.

They can only be commanded by giving orders directly through the mind through the charm bracelet, and they can only be the simplest commands such as digging a hole or stopping. They cannot execute any slightly more complicated commands.

For Gavin and others who have charm bracelets, the biggest difficulty in controlling such large monsters is to find them and force them out of the ground.

As long as the first two problems are solved, they will be meat on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered.

After searching for several kilometers in the surrounding area, the Chariot Legion harvested a total of twenty-three adult burrowing insects and eight immature burrowing insects.

Apart from this small setback, the Chariot Legion went more and more smoothly in the next few days. Under the guidance of the Captain of the Chariot, the newly recruited members were quickly getting into their roles, and their cooperation with each other was getting better and better. skilled.

The combat effectiveness cannot be guaranteed, but it is more than enough for traveling.

At their scale, all monster tribes in the wilderness will automatically stay away.

However, their enemies, whether they were the Tukans or the red-robed mages, showed no movement at all. Whether it was because of lack of skills or because they were worried that it was a trap, the soldiers they sent never came back.

After all, in the Battle of Blight, the druids of the Great Valley showed considerable strength, and the Leatherman Kingdom attached great importance to this batch of military supplies and sent several legendary Leatherman witches to welcome them.

If you are not careful, you can easily become a food delivery person.

Gavin was not idle either. When he discovered that the paving technique he used was a bit unusual, he often ran to the kobold road construction team and tried it over and over again.

There is no limit on the number or distance of the paving technique he performs. It all depends on how much road power he puts into it.

Of course, it does not mean that the power of the road is poured out like the road statue, but consumed as a consumable, and it will be restored the next day.

The more road power you invest, the more times you can build it, and the longer the distance you pave, it all depends on how you allocate it.

But there is an upper limit, that is, a maximum of nine kilometers per day. This is not a coincidence, but an necessity. The road divinity I have now is nine points.

Moreover, the paving technique he casts is extremely malleable. He can not only define the width, but also the depth.

It's just that this is in exchange for the length of the construction. In the case of double thickness, he can build up to four and a half kilometers per day. If it is three times thick, it becomes three kilometers.

The effect is naturally different. On an asphalt road that is three times thick, let alone a building-type tank, even if it is replaced by a steel main battle tank, it will not have any impact.

Faerûn will not need such a road in a short period of time. Naturally, Gavin will not waste his energy in vain. The main thing is to pave the road normally.

The road paving speed increased by nine kilometers per day, which was a significant improvement, enough to advance the construction period by three days.

The chariot corps naturally adjusted the speed of the journey flexibly to ensure that when the Hongdao was rebuilt, they would arrive at the Leatherman military camp.

Those chariot captains were all old people who had walked the migration road and retained the fine traditions of the migration road.

They were not just passing by here, but wanted to leave their own marks here.

They actively interacted with the giant valley village communities along the way, helping them solve various difficulties while also absorbing members from them to further strengthen themselves.

When the chariot corps arrived at the town of Kront, it was not full, but overstaffed. Each chariot team had an average of fifteen people. It would not take long for them to split and dismantle the second chariot corps.

Not all giant valley people like to hide, especially those passionate young people. It’s just that the giant valley lacked a strong leader before, so even if they wanted to resist, they had no chance.

Now Gavin and the chariot corps he led gave them this opportunity, and they naturally responded positively.

This is just the beginning. As long as the chariot corps shines with its own brilliance, I believe that more people in the Giant Valley will respond to the call and join the ranks of resistance.

Even if the Giant Valley is vast and sparsely populated, the total area is there, and the total population is no less than 500,000, which has huge war potential.

The chariot corps that arrived at Kronte formed a sharp contrast with the Leatherman army stationed here.

Although the chariot corps' attire and weapons have not yet been unified, the military formations have begun to take shape, and they look orderly from a distance.

The Leatherman army is a bit messy, with low tents, a bunch of east and a bunch of west, like weeds in the wild, soldiers and civilians mixed together, and it is impossible to tell which one is a warrior and which one is a civilian.

Their Fangs War Team is integrated with the tribe.

Each village and town tribe has its own fang war team. The number of people in their composition is not completely uniform, and the number of fang war teams in each village and town tribe is also different. Their combat methods are naturally very diverse, giving people a very scattered and disorderly feeling.

The equipment on them is also very unrestrained. Not to mention full body armor, even scale armor and halberd armor are rarely seen. At most, they wear animal skin armor or cotton armor, and the number is not large. Most of them are worn by minors and women.

Most of the Leatherman men have combat straps on their upper bodies that are convenient for carrying weapons, and shoulder guards with fang spikes on their shoulders. Rather than defensive weapons, they are more like additional offensive means.

It is now deep winter. The temperature in Kronte, near Lake Asen, is four or five degrees lower than that inside the giant valley. It is wet and cold. The temperature during the day can barely reach above zero. At night, the average temperature is minus thirteen or fourteen degrees.

Many chariot captains from the south, especially those from Tesser, had never seen such a winter. Even if they wore double-layer thermal underwear specially distributed by the lord inside and a thick layer of cotton armor outside, they still felt the cold in their joints and the skin exposed outside was as painful as needles.

The Leathermen, who had exposed most of their upper bodies, were still talking and laughing, and were not affected at all.

The only thing worth praising was probably their number.

With the city of Kront as the center, the huge tent camp spread towards the Lesser Forest and Asen Lake, stretching into a continuous piece, with no end in sight, and it was no problem to accommodate 200,000 or 300,000 soldiers and civilians.

Those chariot captains who had received the most modern war military education in Faerun couldn't help but murmur in their hearts that in such a large-scale war, the more people, the better, especially when the soldiers and civilians were mixed together.

There are huge security risks inside. Once they encounter a large-scale attack, it is difficult for them to respond in a unified and effective manner. There are also huge security risks. Once the people are frightened by the enemy and collapse and flee in panic, it will hinder the soldiers who are rushing forward and even hit their morale.

In addition, their simple equipment makes people very suspicious. Once those Tukan cavalry step over Lake Asen, will they come to trample the camp and charge to disperse the scattered camps of the Leathermen.

The appearance of the chariot legion also attracted the attention of the Leathermen. Countless men, women, old and young came out of their low tents and watched curiously.

Not to mention that they have never seen such an army, even in the whole of Faerun, such a legion is unique.

Especially the way they are advancing while repairing the road gives people a stronger visual impact, as if there is an invisible force surging in front of them, and they are coming on the smooth and smooth asphalt road.