The ants that climbed up the city wall encountered the most determined resistance from archers and repeating crossbowmen.
Ordinary arrows can only effectively kill ghost-patterned worker ants, but are not enough to kill ghost-patterned soldier ants. Therefore, as long as there are larger ghost-patterned soldier ants in the ant colony, the continuous shooter crossbows of the city defense will
Out of action.
At this time, the crossbow must be used to snipe and kill the ghost-striped soldier ants in the ant colony as soon as possible, and the archers can cover them with arrows to completely cut off the ant colony's offensive.
Apparently the new queen ant in the distance gave clear instructions to attack.
There are a large number of soldier ants in the ant colony, ready to break through the northern wall in one fell swoop. Only in this way can the ant colony continue to move south.
The new ant queen's order was obviously very resolute. Even the hundreds of huge male ant bodyguards started to move from a distance, and the new ant queen also slowly fell into the ant colony. Behind the bodyguards,
Surrounded by people, they cautiously approached the northern city wall.
Since the sky is the territory of rocs, although most of the time these rocs will hardly fly over the Thorny Mountains, there is still a risk of being hunted if they fly too high in the canyons of the Thorny Mountains.
It didn't dare to fly too high, or even float its body within the range of the bed crossbow when it was close to the northern city wall.
Because it knew that in that case, the bed crossbow on the city wall would definitely shoot it immediately.
Seeing the soldier ants rushing up the north city wall, the new ant queen decided to mobilize all the ant colonies in the canyon to attack the north city wall at all costs.
There are nearly two hundred giant ghost-marked male ants in its bodyguard group, and these powerful combat forces have to rush forward together. In order to absolutely control these ghost-marked male ants, it has to risk entering the range of the bed crossbow.
It didn't dare to fly at all, it only dared to float its body at the lowest altitude, slowly flapping its wings and approaching forward.
Surdak saw this scene during the hand-to-hand combat and looked at Andrew on the other side.
This is the moment you have been waiting for!
Ten of the bed crossbows fired concentratedly, emptying all the giant crossbow arrows in the arrow troughs. The city defense guards cut off the rope hanging the tail of the bed crossbow on the gantry, and thirty-five bed crossbows returned to their normal positions.
The rolling stones connected by ropes were pushed down the city wall at the same time, clearing away all the ant colonies climbing on the city wall.
The city defense guard lifted the precious magic giant crossbow arrows from the top of the shelf and installed them in the arrow slot of the bed crossbow.
At this moment, the phalanx of the male ant guards had approached six hundred meters away from the city wall. The queen ant was hiding in the ant colony and was blocked by the body of the male ants in front.
The ghost-patterned soldier ants on the top of the city seemed to have taken stimulants. Even if they were cut off by Lazy Yao, those soldier ants still fought to the death with the heavy armored infantry on the city wall with their last breath.
The ants under the city wall surged up again, and not far away was the phalanx of the male ant guards.
Under the pressure of the army, the guards on the city finally saw the bodyguards composed of ghost-striped male ants. If the size of the giant soldier ants is compared to a rhinoceros, then these ghost-striped male ants are war elephants. Each ghost-striped male ant is a war elephant.
Male ants are almost five or six meters long. Not only do they have a pair of huge tentacles on their heads, but also there are sharp bone sickles on the joints of each leg, and their bodies are also covered with gorgeous bone spurs.
The armor is covered with black hard carapace, which is actually double armor.
These ghost-striped male ants were like giant siege weapons. As they approached the northern city wall, they brought huge psychological pressure to the city defenders.
The herald on the arrow tower made a gesture to Surdak, and Surdak raised the blood-red crescent in his hand high.
The herald immediately made continuous semaphores to the catapult camp inside the city wall.
The soldiers guarding the cross catapult immediately stopped installing flints, lifted out a large wooden box from the warehouse, took out the round black iron ball inside, and carefully put it into the catapult. Then, the operator used a torch to move it.
The fuse of the black iron ball was lit, and ten catapults almost simultaneously threw the black iron ball with the fuse in the basket outside the north city wall.
The new ant queen saw a black stone ball being thrown from the north city wall, and thought it was still the same kind of flint that would roll and explode when hit on the ground.
It has four of the strongest ghost-marked male ants protecting it around its body. Even if flint falls, it will never hit itself.
The black iron ball fell into the male ant's bodyguard group, only smashing the thick armor piece on the back of the ghost-marked male ant, and the hard carapace inside was not damaged at all.
It is in the center of the Guards camp, preparing to continue approaching the northern city wall.
At this moment, there was a violent explosion next to him. A huge impact was accompanied by a deafening explosion. At the same time as the fire burst out, a huge ghost-striped male ant was blown into pieces with its entire body broken into three pieces.
Son.
This explosion also affected other ghost-striped male ants, and the other two ghost-striped male ants were blown to pieces with three legs on one side completely shattered.
Violent explosions sounded one after another, and the burly ghost-striped male ants had nowhere to hide, and the male ant bodyguards were in chaos.
The new queen ant was also in this wave of explosions. One of its wings was stabbed by a broken limb of a male ant, so that it could not maintain balance when flying at low altitude.
It was frightened by these bursting flames. The ghost-striped male ants in the bodyguard group crawled out from their broken limbs. Almost all the male ants blocked their bodies around the new queen.
It was impossible to find the specific location of the new queen in the thick smoke.
The new queen ant is worried about another wave of explosions, and she has been frightened to death.
The new ant queen dragged her slightly fat and rickety body, fluttering her wings desperately and taking off, trying to quickly escape to the middle of the canyon.
The moment it flew out of the protective wall of the male ant guards, the ten crossbows that had been waiting on the north wall adjusted their angles almost simultaneously, and then ten giant crossbow arrows were fired at the new ant queen in no particular order.
Shoot away.
Several giant crossbow arrows passed through the fat body of the new ant queen, and a touch of light brown juice burst out from the body. The wings of the queen ant, which looked like a big fly, were shattered and she fell into the smoke-filled battlefield.
The moment the new ant queen fell from the arrow, several ghost-striped male ants from the bodyguard group rushed up. They twisted their clumsy bodies and first surrounded the queen to protect her. There were two more
The ghost-striped male ant used its tentacles to pick up the seriously injured queen and prepared to quickly leave the battlefield area in front of the northern city wall.
Their movements were quite fast, but the explosion frightened the surrounding ghost-striped worker ants. They could not feel the message transmitted by the new queen, and immediately fell into chaos.
Countless ghost-striped worker ants gathered towards the explosion area like a death squad, and for a while they blocked all the retreat routes of the ghost-striped male ants.
The two ghost-striped male ants could only rely on the brute force of their bodies to forcefully use their bodies to open a road and keep moving towards the middle of Duodan Canyon. Just because countless ghost-striped worker ants blocked the road, their retreat speed was not very fast.
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And the most important thing is that the reloading speed of the catapult inside the city wall is not too slow. The whole process is four steps: positioning, loading, ignition, and launching.
A new wave of black bombs was thrown, and ten black bombs detonated one by one outside the city.
The corpses of the ghost-striped red ants exploded continuously, and the male ant bodyguards suffered another heavy blow. This time the queen ant was even worse. The bomb detonated directly on top of her head, not only blowing the new queen to pieces, but also taking the new ants with her.
The two ghost-striped male ants that fled later were also blown to pieces, and two layers of armor could not save their lives.
The moment the new queen was killed on the battlefield, all the ghost-marked red ants in the canyon became sluggish. They felt that the king was dead...
The ghost-striped red ants in the canyon have once again become a piece of loose sand. Without the instructions of the queen, they are no longer so active in attacking the city.
The ant colonies under the city wall began to disperse into the canyon, and countless red ants were fleeing.
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Surdak did not expect that the gunpowder prepared last year to blast the river would be put to great use this time when stationed on the northern city wall of Dodan Town.
Twenty bombs were detonated at once, completely destroying the bodyguards of the ghost-patterned soldier ants.
The north city gate had been sealed for five days. As the iron fence was opened by the city guards with nooses, Aung San led a group of aborigines and rushed into the gate hole of the north city wall despite the stench to remove the ghosts in the passage.
The carcasses of the red ants were dragged away, and the road to the north canyon was quickly opened.
The city gate hole was still filled with the stench and the pungent smell of sour liquid. A group of cavalry rushed out of the north city with great speed. They were not going to hunt down the thousands of ghost-striped red ants in the canyon, but to kill them within a limited time.
During the time, collect as many trophies as possible on the battlefield, such as the remains of the ghost-marked male ants that were killed.
Of course, the most important trophy is the new queen ant, which is filled with magic giant crossbow arrows.
Thirty-five bed crossbows on the top of the city began to attack the ant colonies gathered under the city wall. As long as they were within the effective range, these crossbowmen began to shoot and hunt the ghost-patterned soldier ants. Anyway, they were not worried about the giant ants they shot out.
The crossbow arrow cannot be retrieved.
Opening the gate of the north city wall, a group of cavalry and a group of heavy infantry quickly formed a formation outside the city, and then quickly pressed towards the canyon ant colony.
The heavy armored infantry immediately collected the giant crossbows, ordinary arrows, and some huge rolling stones on the battlefield, followed by the ghost-patterned soldier ants that died under the city. As long as they were of any value, they almost all were thrown onto the carriage.
Now it is a race against time to seize all the wealth.
After the new queen ant was shot, the male ant bodyguards were instantly destroyed. Those male ants that were like giant chariots, as long as they were not killed by gunpowder, actually turned around and walked towards the north of Dodan Canyon.
In addition to the huge crater left by the explosion, there were only some corpses of ghost-marked male ants left on the battlefield, and some male ants were seriously injured by the explosion and could only wait to die on the battlefield.
The cavalry quickly rushed into the area. Facing the ghost-marked male ants that were not completely dead, they were not even qualified to deal a last blow.
As long as they find living ghost-marked male ants, the cavalry will say hello to the city wall, mobilize their crossbows to punch a few holes in them, and they will become completely obedient.
Surdak personally went out of the city this time and finally found the mutilated body of the new ant queen on the edge of the battlefield.
When the mercenaries in the town saw the city gate open, they also began to organize people to prepare to enter the canyon to hunt the ghost-striped red ants.
For a time, the cavalry from the garrison camp drove the ghost-striped red ants to the middle of the canyon a few kilometers away. However, the cavalry did not dare to pursue them too deeply. They only dared to wander around the crossbow range of the bed on the north city wall.
Aung San led an aboriginal team through the city gate and came to the foot of the city wall.
These aborigines brought various tools and began to carefully clean the oil tank under the city wall to make sufficient preparations for the next ant wave to attack the city.
In fact, in addition to cleaning up the oil tank, Aung San also had to check the damage to the wall structure of the lower half of the city wall. Some of the completely broken foundation stones had to be pried out and a new piece put in. However, this
This kind of work can only be done by skilled bricklayers.
"This commander is actually a ruthless person! He actually killed the queen ant..." The old bricklayer squatted under the city wall and directed his two apprentices to carry a strip-shaped foundation stone and insert it into the gap.
The young bricklayer was also very envious and said: "I heard that the boys in the city defense army have made a fortune. If I had known that the beast tide was so profitable, I would have joined the city defense army!"
"It's not too late if you want to go now!" said my companion.
The young bricklayer hummed before saying, "Forget it, if you join now, you can only join the reserve force."