The material manager uncovered a large piece of cloth next to the catapult, revealing the black powder barrels arranged very neatly inside.
Stored here are black powder barrels transported from the village of Wall, arranged like a wall. A group of heavily armed soldiers swarmed up, loaded these black powder barrels onto flatbed trucks, and pushed them to the battlefield ahead.
Now the battle at the entrance of the ant nest is still going on in full swing.
Every day there will be some casualties in the lord army, but because they are handled properly, they are still within the controllable range. However, the hunting by the adventure group seems a bit messy. Some adventurers are often dragged into the ant nest by the red ants. Finally,
Not even a single bone could be found.
A strong heavy armored infantry soldier carried a barrel of black powder and strode to the entrance of an ant nest in the core area. The heavy armored infantry soldiers lined up in a shield wall made room for him, and there were spearmen.
A plank was set up on the shield wall that was tilted toward the entrance of the hole. The heavy armored infantry soldier placed the barrel of black powder on his shoulder on the plank. When everything was ready, the soldier behind lit the fuse of the gunpowder, and the heavily armored soldier immediately let go.
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The round oak barrel rolled along the flat board towards the entrance of the ant nest. Once the heavy black powder barrel started rolling at a speed, it would be difficult to stop even if there were rocks or something underneath.
As the black powder barrel rolled into the entrance of the ant nest, the fuse at one end flickered with a magnificent flame.
The ghost-striped red ants crowded at the entrance of the cave did not know that what fell from the outside was a barrel of black powder.
Seeing the black powder barrel falling, a ghost-striped soldier ant immediately bit into the black powder barrel with two scissor-like fangs.
The gunpowder barrel was cut to pieces in an instant, and the black powder inside the oak barrel was instantly swayed out. The fuse shining with sparks lost its restraints, swinging back and forth in the wormhole. The sparks hit the black gunpowder that was sprayed out, and it was dazzling and scorching in an instant.
When it exploded, the air in the entire wormhole was instantly drained, the flames spread out, and all the ghost-marked red ants crowded at the entrance were engulfed in flames.
A carbonized burnt lake mark formed on the hard armor, and countless ghost-marked red ants howled in fear and despair.
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The heavy armored infantry soldiers who were ambushing around the entrance of the cave only felt that a burst of light burst out from the entrance of the cave, and the thick smoke was steaming like a mushroom cloud.
The black powder barrel did not explode, but the black powder fully exerted its burning power, almost burning through the hard armor of the ghostly patterned soldier ants at the entrance of the cave.
At this time, upon hearing the squad leader's whistle, the soldiers who were ambushing around the entrance of the cave immediately put up their tower shields again.
The squad leader waved to the heavy armored infantry soldier carrying the black powder barrel behind him and motioned for him to carry the black powder barrel to the front. The squad leader lit the fuse of the second black powder barrel, and then rolled it along the plank again.
In the wormhole.
The ghost-striped soldier ants at the entrance of the cave, whose bodies were covered with burns and bruises, were scrambling to retreat into the cave without even noticing the falling black powder barrel.
The entrance to this ant nest is a vertical shaft, about ten meters deep, and then it is dug parallel to the mountain. It is surrounded by burned ghost-striped soldier ants...
Ten seconds later, a muffled sound was heard deep in the wormhole...
As a strong stream of smoke was ejected from the hole, the smoke was mixed with the broken limbs of some ghost-striped red ants, which were scattered around like raindrops.
Some red ants were frightened by the explosion and crawled out of the hole almost desperately.
Their bodies were burning with flames, some were missing some legs, and they walked crookedly. Although the heavy armored infantry soldiers waiting at the entrance of the cave were also affected by the huge earthquake, they saw the ghost-striped red ants crawling like this
When he came out, he used a sharp spear to stab the red ant from the mandible into its head...
At the foot of the mountain, almost half of the ant nests were experiencing this scene. There were explosions and smoke everywhere.
Countless ghost-striped soldier ants were killed and injured.
This action of throwing a gunpowder barrel almost dumbfounded the adventure group who was playing soy sauce on the outside.
For a long time, from the simplest fireball spell to the fifth-level magic meteorite, this kind of explosion damage has never been possible without magicians. They either throw out prepared magic scrolls, or simply chant spells to cast magic, starting from the fireball.
Spells, fireballs, bursting flames, fire walls, hell flames, volcanoes... Fire magicians can cast more powerful fire magic every time they break through a level.
Although many armies of the Green Empire are equipped with fire scale bullets, the core of this firearm is also a simple magic scroll.
All along, the members of the adventure group thought that black powder barrels were like exploding flints and could only be used in big battles. But this time they clearly opened their eyes. It turns out that black powder barrels can be used in this way.
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This thing is so destructive that most of the ghost-patterned soldier ant corpses brought back from the battlefield were burned to black. This part of the hard armor can no longer be used. I wonder if they can still be picked out from the broken limbs.
How much fresh meat will be produced?
Such a battle would cause too much damage on the battlefield. The heads of some ghost-patterned soldier ants would explode, and the magic cores inside would fly to no one knows where.
Just as the red ants were forced back into the depths of their caves by the explosion, some cave entrances began to collapse amidst the explosion.
Moreover, these heavy armored infantry soldiers seem to be artificially controlling the number of cave entrance collapses.
Not only did they retain some of the cave entrances used by the adventure group for hunting, but they also selected some wormholes with less deep shafts and slightly tilted angles to preserve them. These preserved cave entrances were prepared for the future general attack.
The explosion lasted for a whole day,
At dusk, a tank-like ghost-striped male ant finally crawled out of the cave against the frequent explosions of black powder barrels.
They were not followed by the agile ghost-patterned soldier ants. Just when they emerged from the ground, their majestic bodies lifted up countless huge stone slabs. The ghost-patterned male ants spurted out a large amount of acid rot from their mouths, immediately disturbing the heavy armored soldiers around them.
The infantry soldiers fell on their backs, and some soldiers were even stained with acid.
Andrew and Gary Decker saw the ghost-striped male ants emerging and immediately rushed to support them.
Samira, on the other hand, was sitting on the console of a bed crossbow, aiming the giant crossbow arrow at the ghost-marked male ant in the distance, triggering the trigger without hesitation, and the crossbow arrow flew out extremely fast...
Andrew held two axes in his hands and jumped up high. At the moment when the giant ax crashed in the air, the ax blades streaked across the sky, triggering an electric arc and crashing down.
The electric arc and the battle ax hit the ghost-marked male ant's head at the same time, and the patterned hard armor was immediately opened with a deep wound by the sharp ax.
There are hundreds of wormhole exits on the Stone Arch Bridge. Except for some well-located ones that are suitable for fighting ghost-striped red ants, the other wormholes have all been destroyed by barrels of black powder.