The fire under the city wall also burned all night.
The corpses of the ghost-striped red ants were turned into ashes in the flames, leaving only a shallow layer of ash under the city wall. The rocks under the city wall were melted by the flames and became like uneven glass, but it was full of
Impurities.
At dawn, the corner of the city wall was still full of smoke and smoke, and you could feel the heat wave there even ten meters away.
The ghost-striped red ants on both sides of the mountain wall stopped their offensive, and the heavy armored infantry at the top of the city fought all night, and finally were able to take a breath at dawn.
At this moment, all the monsters in the canyon were devoured by the ghost-striped red ants. Except for some bones and rocks exposed in the ghost-striped red ants, even the barren grassland and the woods at the foot of the mountain completely disappeared in this night.
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The only thing that remained intact was the north city wall. The ghost-patterned red ants that gathered under the wall retreated fifty meters away from the wall.
Densely packed red ants with ghost stripes huddled together, facing the heat wave under the city wall, not daring to take a step forward.
Gallatin climbed up the city wall in the morning, and he got close to Adams. He saw that half of the short golden hair on his head had been burned by the fire, and his handsome face had become pitch black, making him look very embarrassed.
Just when he was about to make fun of Adams, he saw a commotion among the ants surrounding the city.
The ghost-striped worker ants moved to both sides, and large ghost-striped red ants emerged from the ant colony. These red ants with darker patterns have huge pincers on their heads, and each leg is covered with sharp tips.
With their sharp spines, the giant red ants are at least three times larger than ordinary worker ants.
Gallatin's eyes were somewhat straightened, and he pointed at the large red ants under the city and asked, "Adams, what are those?"
Adams had never seen it either. Standing with Gallatin, he didn't know what to say.
"Ghost-patterned soldier ants, they are the real warriors in the ant colony." Suldak walked over and said to the two of them.
He endured the heat wave coming up from below the city and stood by the city wall to check the extent of damage to the city wall below. He found that the situation was not bad.
He turned around and said to one of the squadron leaders behind him: "Go and get those catapults under the city wall started. Now the whole canyon is crowded with ghost-marked red ants. If you throw out a flint, it will hit you."
If dozens of them die, don’t be reluctant to part with the stones.”
"Yes!" The squadron leader followed and climbed up the city wall, just waiting for these words.
I ran down to the city with a bang, but I didn't dare to complain at all.
The catapult is like a long lever supported on a huge wooden frame. One end is a spoon-shaped throwing groove, and the other end is connected to a huge and strong iron basket box filled with weighted boulders.
This iron basket containing counterweight stones weighs several tons. It is hoisted to a two-meter-high platform using a pulley block. As long as the wrench on the platform is pulled, the flaps of the platform will automatically open, and the entire iron basket will fall instantly.
Fall. While falling, pull the lever of the catapult to throw out the flint in the spoon-shaped groove at the other end.
Before throwing this kind of catapult, it is usually necessary to calibrate the throwing angle.
This has been debugged a few days ago, and now it only needs to be loaded with ignited flint and it can be started.
The soldier responsible for operating the catapult has climbed onto the high wooden frame, and the flint has been loaded into the spoon-shaped groove.
Surdak stood at the top of the city and ordered a secretary:
"Tell Selina and ask her to notify the town's quarry to process flint and the blacksmith shop to make a large number of arrows. Now mobilize the whole town to sharpen arrow shafts and make sure to increase the inventory of crossbow arrows to five thousand.
Bao, tell the merchants in the town that Warcraft materials are now only exchanged for military supplies. We need more kerosene, twine, and arrowheads, and tell the merchants who come to trade with gold coins and magic crystals to get out of here."
Suldak paused for a moment, turned around and saw Adams still standing there, widened his eyes and yelled at him:
"Adams, why are you still here?"
Adams was startled and was about to explain.
Surdak drove him off the city wall and said: "Hurry down and rest. The beast tide has just begun. We don't even know how long we have to guard. We must be prepared for a protracted war..."
The ghost-striped red ants still dare not pass through the scorching wall of fire.
The flints were thrown out from the catapult and exploded among the ghostly red ants, causing quite a commotion.
The linen cloth soaked in fire oil was wrapped around the rocks, ignited and thrown out, rolling down into the ant colony, plowing a deep trench almost twenty meters long, and finally bursting into pieces filled with flames.
A row of ghost-striped soldier ants that rushed to the front of the ant colony finally found a breakthrough from both sides of the city wall. They climbed to the rock wall with a group of ghost-striped worker ants, bypassed the fire wall and rushed to the side of the city wall. There were tall buildings built on both sides of the north city wall.
The archers on the arrow tower suppressed the ghost-patterned red ants pouring from the rock wall.
On the other hand, the ghost-patterned soldier ants who rushed at the front were hit by several arrows. The fine steel arrows fired from the alloy bow could not penetrate the ghost-patterned soldier ants' armor.
Suddenly, emergency signals were sent out on both sides of the city wall.
Andrew will be on duty at night. If there is no emergency during the day, he will rest in the military camp.
Samira and the ogre Gulitum followed Surdak to the top of the city. The ogre Gulitum followed Gallatin and rushed to the cliff on the west side of the city wall to support.
Surdak and Samira rushed to the east side of the north city wall and saw a huge ghost-patterned soldier ant about to climb over the wall. Samira was still running. At this moment, he immediately stopped and took the
She took out the 'Painting of Withering' hunting bow she was carrying, and the shadow of a great elf appeared behind her. Samira squatted and drew the bow...
There seemed to be rays of light that were converging around the arrow tip.
At the moment when it opened its bow and fired its arrow, the ghost-patterned soldier ant looked towards Samira with a pair of huge oval eyes. It opened its huge pincers and wanted to pounce on Samira.
The arrow turned into a white light and hit one of the eyes of the ghost-patterned soldier ant at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and the arrow was deeply embedded in it.
Surdak stepped on the aura of power and rushed in front of the ghost-marked soldier ant. The blood-red crescent moon in his hand stabbed the soldier ant without hesitation.
At the moment of stabbing, Suldak uttered a short runic language in his throat.
‘Tir-El’
A magic pattern then lit up in front of him, and the edge of the blood-red crescent moon lit up with overlapping patterns. When the blade cut into the ghost-patterned soldier ant's pliers, it was like cutting into a piece of soft cheese.
In an instant, the head of the three-meter-long ghost-patterned soldier ant was beheaded by Suldak.
A group of worker ants hiding behind this ghost-striped soldier ant were also shot and killed by the archers on the arrow tower.
Samira has climbed onto the crossbow on one side of the bed, preparing to use a giant crossbow to shoot down the ghost-patterned soldier ants on the cliff in the distance.
At this time, Surdak was on the side and ordered Samira: "Put in another one and let it climb up. This one should be the most brainless type among the second-level monsters!"
As Surdak said, he threw the head of the ghost-patterned soldier ant in the corner of the city wall. The body of the ghost-patterned soldier ant was also dragged up the city wall by two heavy armored infantry, and then thrown into the inner city wall and under the city wall.
There are also clerks at the leather shop who are busy skinning the monsters they hunted yesterday...
Samira sat on the console of the bed crossbow, staring at the ghost-patterned red ants swarming up from the stone wall in the distance. She resisted not pulling the trigger in her hand, and let the front one crawl closer and closer.