"Look, those monsters can't hold on anymore." A squadron leader shouted from the top of the city.
The city defense guards on the city wall were also very nervous. While resisting the monsters attacking the city wall, they pushed a large number of rolling stones in front of the stone trough.
The city defense guards had already piled barrels of kerosene at the oil trough at the top of the city. This oil trough was carved on the outside of the city wall. When it rained heavily, it served as a drainage channel above the city wall.
When the war started, the oil tanks were directly connected to the city. Coordinated with these oil tanks were the fire canals under the city.
This channel usually has no function. It looks like a trench built with stones across the city. But as long as the kerosene flows in, it will concentrate in the fire channel and ignite the kerosene in the fire channel.
, a fire wall will be formed.
The catapults in the city have been prepared. The range of these catapults is about 1,500 meters. The prepared stone bullets are flints wrapped with oil ropes. Before throwing, these huge stones must be ignited before they can be thrown.
If you're lucky, it will land on flat and hard ground and roll twenty or thirty meters away, basically crushing countless ghost-striped worker ants along the way.
Of course, there are more times when you are unlucky. Sometimes the flint hits the soft soil and even misses nothing. Sometimes the flint hits the hard rock and breaks into pieces on the spot, with no stones flying out.
What lethality.
Everyone is now standing on the city wall, watching the melee in the canyon, and can only wait for the swarm of monsters to be completely wiped out by the ant colony.
Seeing the group of monsters under the city being slaughtered by ghost-marked red ants, Andrew sighed in his heart and said to Suldak:
"I was just thinking, if we hadn't built a wall here, these monsters would still be able to survive."
Surdak also sighed softly and said: "They want to survive, but we have blocked their way of survival."
Samira, who was standing aside, said calmly: "Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. We can't put them into the occupied area, and even if they come in, they won't survive. At most, more civilians will die. In the end,
It has been cleaned up by the adventure group and the local garrison, why should we bother with this!"
While several people were talking, several ghost-striped worker ants rushing ahead had already climbed up the city wall. Their six legs could firmly hook onto the stone cracks of the city wall. This kind of climbing was nothing to them.
Gulitem looked towards the bottom of the city. A group of ghost-striped red ants had gathered below the city. Although the monsters in the canyon were still fighting to the death with the ghost-striped worker ants, the ghost-striped red ants continued to invade.
He said angrily: "These red ants come so fast!"
A shift squadron leader standing at the top of the city looked at the red ocean in the distance of the canyon, his face turned a little pale, and asked Suldak in a low voice: "Commander, do you think we can stop them?"
"Of course, it must be possible."
Surdak patted the squadron leader's shoulder and glanced at Samira.
Samira understood this and immediately took out the 'Painting of Withering' hunting bow, opened the bow and nocked an arrow, aimed at the ghost-marked red ants that had just climbed up the city, and shot out an arrow.
What everyone didn't expect was that the red armor on the head of the ghost-striped worker ant was much weaker than expected. Just one arrow shot through the skull of the ghost-striped worker ant, and the second arrow simply passed through the arrow hole.
He passed through it and disappeared without a trace.
The ghost-patterned worker ant, whose head was shot through by an arrow, fell from the top of the city to the corner of the city wall. His body twitched twice and died unexpectedly.
Seeing that these ghost-patterned worker ants were even weaker than the first-level monsters, the morale of the city defense guards was immediately shaken.
These ghost-patterned worker ants are far inferior to first-level monsters. The monsters can at least release some long-range magic. They don't even know how to learn the lesson from the previous ghost-patterned red ants that were shot. They just climb up the city wall.
The guards on the city were all armed with crossbows and aimed at the ghost-striped worker ants. As long as one arrow penetrated the head, the ghost-striped worker ants would fall off the city wall.
Suldak specifically asked the guards to let a ghost-striped worker ant climb up the city. Andrew rushed up and chopped off the ghost-striped worker ant's head with an axe.
He examined the heads of ghost-striped worker ants and found that the heads of ghost-striped worker ants were not even the lowest-level sacrifices.
As they continued to hunt the ghost-striped worker ants with repeating crossbows, these ghost-striped worker ants swarmed up in overwhelming numbers, and there was a tendency to kill more and more.
The entire canyon turned into a sea of red.
A large number of ghost-striped worker ants gathered under the city wall, and more ghost-striped red ants stepped on the corpses of their companions and swarmed up.
The city defense guards at the top of the city have begun to shoot mechanically. Since the continuous shooter crossbow has a very strong suppressive force on the ghost-striped worker ants, the guard captain even asked his guards to move closer to them before shooting them, so that the power of the crossbow arrows would be greater.
Even bigger, it often results in a series of twos and a series of threes.
In addition, due to this kind of taking turns to kill the ghost-striped worker ants, the crossbow arrows stored in the warehouse seem to be too much, and the crossbow arrows are consumed too quickly.
As the crossbow arrows were fired one after another, so many ghost-marked red ants gathered under the city wall that it was impossible to rush out and pick up these crossbow arrows.
Besides, the city gate hole below the city has been filled with the corpses of ghost-striped worker ants, and the iron fence cannot be opened at all.
The corpses of ghost-striped worker ants gathered under the city wall very quickly. By evening, the corpses of ghost-striped red ants were piled up to a height of seven or eight meters under the city wall.
The corpses of the ghost-striped red ants formed a huge gentle slope under the city wall, and the rest of the ghost-striped worker ants stepped on the corpses of the same kind and rushed upward.
The group of monsters in the canyon has been divided into five areas by the ghost-striped red ants. The battle circle in almost every area is shrinking rapidly. There are also some monsters that have escaped into the woods on both sides of the mountain. It is probably of no use.
Under the setting sun, the entire canyon was filled with dark red figures that were constantly moving.
If the ghost-striped red ants continue to maintain this attacking rhythm, in less than a week, these ghost-striped worker ants will be able to use the same kind of corpses to build a gentle slope outside the city wall for siege.
By then, the advantage of the northern city wall will be gone.
In just one afternoon, it was already the seventh time to replenish crossbow arrows on the city wall. Seeing the bundles of crossbow arrows being consumed, the city defense warehouse manager showed a worried look on his face.
Although he didn't say anything, Surdak could guess that the crossbow arrows stored in the warehouse could not withstand such intense consumption.
However, even if the archer's crossbow suppresses them to this level, many ghost-patterned worker ants will still climb up and be stabbed to death by the spears of the heavy armored infantry guarding the city.
The ghost-striped red ants that climbed to the top of the city would also spit out acid, which was extremely corrosive. Dozens of heavy armored infantry soldiers had been injured, and their armors were also corroded by the acid with obvious black marks.
Surdak ordered: "Prepare kerosene!"
Andrew nodded, ran to the kerosene barrel himself, and ordered the guard guarding there to pour the barrels of kerosene down the oil tank.
The city walls are covered with a layer of climbing red ants, and the city walls are covered with corpses of red ants. The oil tanks and fire channels have been completely covered, and the barrels of kerosene poured out cannot be seen at all.
After pouring more than twenty oak barrels of kerosene, Andrew looked outside the city with some worry. He still couldn't see anything except the corpses of red ants with ghost patterns on the ground.
The sky has darkened.
Andrew hesitated a little. Suldak walked over and said to Andrew:
"continue……"
A large amount of kerosene flowed to the bottom of the city, and forty barrels were poured out before Surdak called Samira.
Samira stood on the high archery tower, stretched out her slender body, holding a hunting bow in her hand, put an arrow wrapped in fire oil cloth on the hunting bow, aimed at the fire oil tank in the middle of the city wall, and shot out
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A line of fire looked very eye-catching in the dim light of evening.
There were also ghost-striped worker ants that continued to rush towards the north wall, but this rocket seemed to have eyes, avoiding all the ghost-striped red ants, and delicately shot into the oil tank in the middle of the city wall, briefly falling into darkness.
Two seconds later...
'call'
Flames suddenly burst out from the oil tank and quickly spread up and down the city wall.
At this time, everyone discovered that there was no need to bother at all. As long as the kerosene was ignited at the oil filling port, the flame would spread downwards along the oil tank...
The ghost-striped red ants that died near the oil tank were more or less stained with kerosene. It is not easy to ignite this kerosene directly, but once it ignites, it is extremely difficult to extinguish it, especially because it has strong adhesion.
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The fire spread in a cone shape toward the bottom of the city. Since it was ignited by the kerosene under the pile of ghost-striped red ant corpses, the forty barrels of kerosene contained the kerosene in the ghost-striped red ant corpses near the fire canal.
The fire quickly broke out and became uncontrollable. The bodies of these ghost-marked red ants burned with a 'chichi' sound under the raging fire.
The carapace of some red ants was ignited, and the oil in their bodies was continuously refined, and then burned violently again.
At the beginning, the fire was only burning near the oil tank at the foot of the city wall.
These ghost-striped red ants are also quite afraid of fire. A large number of ghost-striped red ants chose to avoid the flames and continued to rush towards the city wall.
But as all the fire oil in the fire gathering channel under the city wall was ignited, the flames formed a wall of fire under the city wall, and almost all the ghost-marked red ant corpses under the city wall were caught in the sea of flames.
A large amount of heat surged up from the foot of the city wall, making it almost impossible to stand in front of the city wall.
The wall of fire under the city wall finally contained the attack of the ghost-striped red ants, and the smell of burnt barbecue filled the entire canyon.
The city defense guards only need to pay attention to the ghost-striped red ants swarming up from the mountain walls on both sides of the city wall.
Adams was on duty at night. He led a team of heavy armored infantry on duty to the top of the city. When he saw the sea of fire at the foot of the city wall, he was so surprised that he was speechless for a while.
"Pay attention to people to keep an eye on the movements of these red ants in the canyon. Once the situation is out of control, send people to the garrison camp in advance to call people!"
Amid the heat, Suldak ordered Adams.
Adams walked to the city wall to look at the situation outside, but before he could reach the wall stacks, he was forced back by the rolling heat wave.
He had no choice but to grin and replied to Surdak: "Yes, Commander!"