As if sensing the dangerous aura on top of the city, the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants suddenly stopped. They raised their heads almost at the same time, and demonstrated towards the city with their sharp claws, and let out harsh hisses like metal friction.
Hiss.
Almost at the same time, the ghost-striped soldier ants that were crowded around the giant ghost-striped soldier ants were almost stacked on top of each other like wild horses, surging towards the city head like a tide.
They crawled very quickly, and in a blink of an eye they had climbed over the middle of the city wall.
The outer wall of the north city wall is very unique in design. The designer set the front of the city wall with a gentle slope of 80 degrees. The top of the north city wall is nearly eight meters wide, but the thickness of the bottom of the city wall is six or seven times that of the top.
, the length of the city gate hole below is almost more than fifty meters, which is also the main reason why a huge fire wall five meters wide and three hundred meters long burned under the city wall, and the city head was not completely reduced to a barbecue grill.
This kind of city wall is completely built with boulder bases, and looks more like a solid large dam.
Although the tilt frame angle of the bed crossbow cannot support the vertical downward design of the bed crossbow, during the war, in order to resist the tide of beasts, the city defense guards naturally used the city head to the extreme.
Therefore, according to the request of the Dark City Defense Army, the craftsmen used their brains. They fixed the bed crossbow on the huge door panel, installed a huge door shaft on the side near the wall stack, and installed a gantry-like structure on the tail of the bed crossbow, using pulleys and
The rope can directly lift the tail of the bed crossbow, which directly increases the pitch angle of the bed crossbow fixed on the giant door panel by 45 degrees.
In addition, the bed crossbow itself also has a tilting frame that can be adjusted to 45 degrees. In this way, although it is still unable to shoot vertically, there is no problem in adjusting the 80-degree angle of view.
The giant ghost-striped soldier ants also felt the danger, so they rushed to the front as cannon fodder. Their bodies were a little clumsy. When climbing the city wall with their huge bodies, each step their six legs took was deeper.
Wedge deeply into the rock crevices to stabilize your heavy body.
Fortunately, the base of this northern city wall is very strong, otherwise it would probably be plowed into a deep groove by the sharp bone-spurred abdomen of the giant ghost-striped soldier ants.
Andrew raised the butcher's tomahawk in his hand and shouted: "All rolling stones are ready..."
The guards guarding the huge stone ball immediately put down their repeating crossbows. Seven or eight people gathered behind the rolling stone, shouting slogans and pushing the rolling stone as high as a person along the guide groove to the edge of the city wall.
The diameter of these rolling stones is almost seven feet. There are coconut-sized iron rings embedded in the grooves on the sides, and there are iron rings on both sides. The iron rings are as thick as a thumb, as if growing out of the rolling stones, and they are very strong.
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When the guards pushed the rolling stone to the edge of the city wall, other guards actually carried bundles of arm-thick hemp ropes from behind the city wall. The length of each hemp rope was almost fixed, and there were hooks on both ends.
Two rolling stones connected on the city wall can be connected together. In order to prevent the rope from hanging on the wall stacks, after the connection is completed, the guards will throw the part of the rope outside the city wall.
In this way, the 350-meter north city wall suddenly had a pearl necklace that only the Titans could use.
"Five, four, three, two, one...let it go!"
Andrew saw that the ghost-striped soldier ants were about to rush forward, and quickly issued instructions.
The city defense guards moved the machinery, and the bayonet at the end of the guide groove sank at the same time. With the help of the city defense guards behind, more than fifty rolling stones rolled down the city wall.
Because the arm-thick hemp ropes are connected to each other, the rolling trajectory is very restricted, almost showing a linear crushing trend.
A huge roar came from the top of the ghost-striped worker ants.
Some rolling stones deviated from the track but were forcibly corrected by hemp ropes, causing them to make crunching and cracking sounds.
They raised the giant pincers on their heads. They didn't see clearly what was going on. They just saw dozens of rolling stones falling. The ghost-striped worker ants in front of the rolling stones were directly crushed into meat patties by the rolling stones. The rest of the ghost-striped worker ants were being crushed.
He was about to rush up through the gap between the rolling stones, but was pushed by a huge force and fell instantly off the city wall.
A large number of ghost-striped worker ants were entangled together, rolling and falling towards the bottom of the city wall. The rope in the middle of them stirred a large number of worker ants together, and some of the ghost-striped worker ants became fragmented during the rolling.
The eleven giant ghost-patterned soldier ants in the middle of the city wall wedged their six legs deeply into the city wall almost at the same time, keeping their bodies just pressed against the city wall. They even tilted their huge tentacles against the city wall.
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Some rolling stones whizzed past the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants. The ghost-patterned worker ants, which were stirred and entangled by the hemp ropes, collided with the giant soldier ants, and instantly became fragmented. Sharp spikes appeared on the backs of the giant soldier ants.
He directly cut off the thick hemp rope on his arm, and lost the restraint of the rope. The rolling stones immediately rolled down in twos and threes, and their power was much smaller.
Some rolling stones rolled over the ghostly patterned soldier ants, but were resisted by the giant soldier ants' armor. The rolling stones bounced up instantly after hitting the giant soldier ant's body.
The hard carapace of the giant soldier ant's body also made a cracking sound at the same time, but the giant soldier ant was not knocked off the city wall, and only suffered some damage caused by crushing.
A round of rolling stones rushed down, and the upper half of the city wall seemed as clean as if it had been washed.
The ghost-striped soldier ants were entangled in the rope, and the soldier ants with broken legs began to struggle in vain.
Those giant soldier ants had already pulled out the legs inserted into the cracks in the stone and climbed back to the top of the city wall. Behind them, the tide of ghost-striped worker ants surged up again.
Andrew on the top of the city shouted again: "Bed crossbow ready..."
What came this time was the sound of the bowstring being tightened. The final sound of the winch stopped abruptly, and all the crossbows were ready.
Andrew stood on the wall, looking at the ants that continued to press up, and shouted: "Three, two, one... let go!"
Eleven bed crossbows with a magical shimmer fired downwards with the sound of breaking wind.
When the danger was approaching, the giant soldier ants almost simultaneously raised their half-meter-long tentacles above their heads. Before they could hiss, they saw eleven ants emitting a string of magic light from their tails.
The giant crossbow arrow penetrated the body of the giant soldier ant.
When the crossbow blade cut through the giant soldier ant's hard exoskeleton, it inserted almost without any hindrance.
After these giant soldier ants fell down on the city wall, their bodies became stiff, and juice kept gushing out from their bodies. When they fell under the city, there was a thunderous cheer from the top of the city.
Only two giant soldier ants had better luck. A giant crossbow arrow cut off one of its tentacles and flew out close to its head, leaving only a long wound on its head.
Another bed crossbow simply missed the target, and the giant crossbow arrow flew past the giant soldier ant's body...
These two giant soldier ants led a group of ghost-striped red ants and continued to climb towards the top of the city.
The city defense guards standing on the city wall quickly withdrew their crossbows and threw hook ropes towards the bottom of the city. Just before the corpses of the giant soldier ants were submerged by the ant tide, they hooked their bodies and hung the ropes on the gantry.
On the pulley, everyone worked together to forcefully pull up these giant soldier ants that were almost submerged in the ant colony.
Some nimble ghost-striped worker ants tried to climb up using ropes, but were shot down by rows of arrows fired from the city wall.
As the archer brigade fired a large number of arrows, the charge of the ghost-patterned worker ants below the city was once again suppressed.
Looking at the giant soldier ants falling up with the hook, Andrew sighed on the city wall: "These magic crossbow arrows are really useful!"
Surdak watched the hooks stuck at the top of the city. Several city guards used long hooks to pull the giant soldier ants in from outside the city. Then he sighed and said: "Such a giant crossbow requires forty-five arrows."
If you can kill a giant soldier ant every time you shoot a silver coin, it would be worth it. If you can still get it back, it will be even more cost-effective."
Andrew also grinned and said: "Two crossbow arrows are worth one gold coin. The price is really a bit expensive."
Another round of arrows was fired from the city head.
The two giant soldier ants finally climbed up to the top of the city despite the rain of arrows. As soon as the heads of the giant soldier ants were exposed from the city wall, they spit out a large amount of acid into the city wall.
A group of heavy armored infantry quickly retreated towards both sides of the city wall while holding up their shields. Half of the body of the giant soldier ant popped out, and the tentacles above its head began to pinch towards a heavy armored infantryman. Seeing that he could not avoid it, two companions behind him
She desperately grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back.
The ferocious sharp teeth cut against his helmet, and the pincers cut a hole in his slightly bulging shoulder pads.
I saw several corpses of the same kind lying flat on the top of the city. Giant soldier ants worked hard to climb over the city wall. The crossbows on the top of the city had to resist the ant colony below the city. I couldn't immediately turn around to deal with this big guy, but I didn't wait.
It launched a second round of attacks. A giant ax covered in flames fell from the sky, and the ax hit the most vulnerable gap between its skull and sternum.
The bones here are the most fragile, and the ax blade is extremely sharp. A gash was opened in an instant, and a large amount of light brown blood spurted out from the neck of the giant soldier ant queen.
It didn't even see a human figure, it just felt someone stepping on its back. It wanted to knock that person to the ground, but unfortunately before it was ready, it felt that it couldn't control its body. It saw that the whole world was going on and on.
It was spinning, and there was even a huge body spurting blood slowly falling down next to it.
That body looked so much like its own that it wanted to lower its head to confirm, but it could only let itself spin and roll...
Andrew jumped off the giant soldier ant's body and used an ax to chop off all the huge legs that Surdak needed.
At the same time, Surdak also personally killed the giant soldier ant with its tentacles broken off.
A large number of worker ants were killed by arrows at every moment under the city.
More worker ants rushed onto the city wall, and ordinary ghost-patterned soldier ants rushed up one after another. Soon the archers on the city head were unable to suppress the ant colony.
Without the protection of the fire wall, the heavy armored infantry hoped that the archers would bring in more ghost-patterned soldier ants so that they could gain more merits on the battlefield.
The archers were still willing to help with such a request, but unfortunately everyone actually underestimated the combat effectiveness of the ghost-patterned soldier ants, so that the number of soldier ants that swarmed the city this time exceeded the capacity of the soldiers.
In addition to the archers and giant crossbow shooters standing guard in front of the arrow tower and the city wall, they still used platoon shooting to suppress the red ants under the city wall.
Soon, the city fell into a melee.
Although the scene was a bit messy, both Suldak and Andrew were on the city wall, and almost all the veterans who had reached level 1 in the cavalry battalion were following Andrew. These cavalrymen had rich combat experience and saw that the situation on the city was tense.
, immediately relied on the bed crossbow and began to diligently clean up these ordinary ghost-marked soldier ants.
The city wall was already filled with acid rot, and from time to time a veteran would jump out with an ice rhinoceros knife in his hand, and several cavalry would follow him to fight against the ghost-marked red ants.
In the cavalry battalion, this kind of improvised combat team is very common, and they are also very handy in dealing with ghost-patterned soldier ants.
These ghost-striped soldier ants are indeed extremely powerful, but due to their huge bodies, their movements are also very clumsy.
A few cavalrymen only need to separate two of them to attract the attention of the ghost-patterned soldier ants, and the others will take the opportunity to contain the ghost-patterned soldier ants. The promoted veteran holds a single-edged ax and jumps directly to its back to kill the ghost-patterned soldiers.
The ant's head was chopped off.
It's just that there were too many ghost-patterned soldier ants released this time, and the entire city wall was almost in a melee. Although the mercenaries who signed the temporary assistance agreement were all warriors of level one or above, they could only stand guard at the top of the city at this moment.
Their defense is impossible to kill.
Andrew ran left and right on the city wall to put out fires.
Even if the situation on the city wall faced such a crisis, Surdak still did not ask the military camp to send reinforcements.
The archers and crossbowmen on the top of the city were almost all struggling to suppress the ghost-patterned worker ants climbing up from the city. The thirty-five crossbows did not turn the turntable, and they were fighting for the heavy armored infantry on the top of the city.
The cavalry and mercenaries relieve the pressure and are still constantly looking for the ghost-striped soldier ants hiding in the ant colony to prevent them from getting a chance to climb the city.
Following Andrew's order, the city defense guards once again pushed the prepared rolling stones from the back end of the city wall to the front along the guide trough, preparing to connect them to tough thick hemp ropes to plow away the ant colonies climbing up the city wall in one fell swoop.
A halo of power flashed under Suldak's feet, holding a blood-red crescent moon and carrying a dwarf chain shield.
Every time he wields the Blood Red Crescent, the power of the Holy Light lights up along a certain pattern on his chest. This power is instantly injected into the Blood Red Crescent, and the sharp Blood Red Crescent blade comes into contact with it.
The ghost-striped soldier ant is like a red-hot iron bar touching a candle, and its hard carapace completely melts away in an instant.
The power of the Holy Light itself is very capable of restraining the ghost-patterned red ants. Coupled with Surdak's new understanding of using dragon language to interpret the 'Knight Seal', each sword will easily cut through the hard carapace of the ghost-patterned soldier ants.
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Probably seeing a large number of ghost-striped soldier ants rushing up to the north city wall, the new queen ants swimming at low altitude in the canyon in the distance felt that the ant colony had a chance to invade the north city wall.
So it made a series of piercing screams from behind, the kind of sound that would give people a headache.
It urged the ant colony in the canyon to attack massively. The ghost-striped red ants in the entire canyon were in commotion, forming a wave-like charging formation, swarming towards the north wall one after another.