The wind in the canyon seemed to blow out the torches on the city wall. The flames on the grease-soaked twine were very tenacious, and the flames made a fierce sound in the wind.
The ghost-striped red ants exude a sour smell, which becomes increasingly clear as the ant colony approaches the city wall.
They are constantly opening and closing the giant pliers on their heads, and the hard bone armor is constantly rubbing, making a crunching sound. When these sounds are connected together, it makes people feel a tremor coming from the joints of the bones.
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The sense of oppression brought by those giant ghost-striped soldier ants is far more terrifying than that of prairie lions and jungle tigers.
They are numerous, omnipresent, and can overcome almost any obstacle.
To them, the northern city wall is just a slightly steep hillside.
More and more soldier ants rushed up the northern city wall, and Surdak felt as if the ground was shaking.
There are only dense stars in the night sky.
Samira had quickly jumped onto a bed crossbow, aimed at the ghostly patterned soldier ants climbing up the city wall directly below, and shot the giant crossbow arrows.
Ji Kuo's touch felt very good, and Samira was temporarily unable to control the wind element in her body.
‘Buzz’
The crossbow string vibrated and the sound was dull.
The giant crossbow arrow completely blended into the dark night, leaving behind an afterimage and a wind element wrapped around the arrow shaft.
The crossbow arrow instantly penetrated the body of the ghost-patterned soldier ant. Not only did it shoot through the nearly three-meter-long ordinary ghost-patterned soldier ant, the tip of the arrow emerged from the tail of the ghost-patterned soldier ant and penetrated the one behind again.
Inside the skull of the ghostly patterned soldier ant.
A crossbow arrow shot through two ghost-patterned soldier ants, causing another cheer to erupt from the city wall.
The ghost-patterned soldier ants that had just climbed up the city wall immediately accelerated their pace and climbed up. Thirty-five crossbows on the city wall fired a row of giant crossbow arrows almost simultaneously.
A continuous buzzing sound...
This giant crossbow, which was slightly longer than an ordinary spear, suddenly fell under the city wall like a cloud of ghost-patterned soldier ants.
However, it is quite laborious to reload this kind of bed crossbow with a new giant crossbow arrow. At least two warriors need to work for a while. One warrior needs to take out a giant crossbow arrow from the wooden frame and load it into the arrow slot.
A warrior is responsible for pulling the crossbow string with a winch.
It takes at least two minutes to load a giant crossbow arrow, so these bed crossbows alone cannot suppress the ghost-marked red ants that are coming like a tide.
The ghost-patterned soldier ants who rushed at the front quickly climbed up to the top of the city. The heavy armored infantry and fully armored knights held long-handled weapons in their hands. When the ghost-patterned soldier ants emerged from the cracks in the walls of the city head,
The moment he hit his head, a group of tactics and mercenaries with first-class strength thrust out with spears, and the sharp spears accurately penetrated the skull along the lower jaw.
Immediately, these ghost-striped soldier ants twitched a few times and then kicked their legs, while some acidic liquid continued to gush out of their mouths.
The soldiers would never let these ghost-patterned soldier ants fall into the city. They held iron hooks in their hands and dragged these ghost-patterned soldier ants up to the top of the city.
A large number of ghost-patterned soldier ants followed behind. After rushing to the top of the city, they began to spit a large amount of acid at the soldiers on the wall.
The city defense guards waiting on the archery tower were holding crossbows. By the light of the fire, they aimed at the mouths of the ghost-marked soldier ants and fired a series of crossbow arrows. As long as they hit the mouthparts of the ghost-marked soldier ants, the spitting of acid would stop abruptly.
Some experienced Tier 1 warriors rushed up along the path of the ghost-striped soldier ants spitting acid, and thrust the spears in their hands into the soldier ants' jaws.
There were also some heavily armored warriors holding shields, but they did not completely avoid the acid liquid. They were sprayed all over by the acid liquid and screamed on the top of the city.
I saw at least fifty ghost-patterned soldier ants climbing onto the city wall and engaging in a melee with the guards on the city wall.
Andrew quickly ordered: "Put down the rolling stone..."
The guards waiting by the rolling stone heard Andrew giving the order, and they couldn't wait to push down the rolling stone. Some ghost-patterned soldier ants even climbed onto the rolling stone, and at this moment, they fell down the city wall together with the rolling stone.
These rolling stones were covered with a layer of linen soaked in grease, so that the fire would not be easily extinguished.
The rolling stones formed a series and swept down almost all the ghost-marked red ants that were climbing the city wall.
The ghost-striped red ants on the path of the fall were crushed to pulp by the rolling stones almost instantly.
The pressure on the city wall suddenly decreased a lot. Surdak, Andrew, more than twenty first-level veterans in the cavalry battalion, and a group of elite soldiers selected from the mercenary group blocked the ghost-patterned soldier ants and more than two hundred heavy armored infantry from the front.
The cavalrymen and the fully armored cavalry swarmed forward, and everyone wasted no time in killing these ghost-patterned soldier ants.
As long as you are fighting, it is inevitable to get injured.
However, Surdak possesses the Holy Light Technique, which allows the warriors to have a lot less worries when fighting.
As the rolling stone rolled under the city wall, countless ghost-marked red ants were mixed together, causing death and injury.
Some ghost-striped soldier ants tried to climb out of the pile of corpses, but the ghost-striped red ants swarming up from behind stepped on their bodies and continued to climb up the city wall.
Another rain of arrows covered it, and the number of ghost-striped worker ants in the ant colony decreased sharply.
The bed crossbow at the top of the city has completed the second installation of crossbow arrows.
This group of ghost-marked soldier ants rushed up and swept out another row of giant crossbow arrows. Dozens of ghost-marked soldier ants immediately lay down.
The ghost-patterned soldier ants behind still continue to climb...
These burning rolling stones blocked their way forward, and they could only pass through the gaps where there was no fire, which immediately slowed down the ant colony's attack on the city wall.
This time, we did not light a wall of fire under the city wall, we just used rolling stones that lit the fire to block it slightly.
Perhaps he heard the sound of fighting on the city wall. Not long after, the ogre appeared on the city wall, holding a bone-crushing stick in his hand, and stepped on the head of the ghost-patterned soldier ant. Looking at it from a distance, it felt like he was like
He kept tilting his head and smashed the bone-crushing stick in his hand. The ghost-patterned soldier ant let out a hiss, raised its head almost with all its strength, and clamped down the ogre's thigh with a pair of pliers.
The bone-crushing stick in the ogre's hand was smashed down again, and the giant pincer on his head was smashed open...
Almost at the same moment, the catapult inside the city wall once again threw a black iron ball outside the city.
These black iron balls exploded in the canyon, and dazzling fireworks appeared in the dark night. They landed less than 400 meters away outside the north city wall.
There was an explosion, and the roar echoed through the canyon.
At the same time, the ant colony is completely isolated from the front and rear. The queen ant at the back of the colony cannot give instructions to the ghost-striped soldier ants and worker ants in front. These ghost-striped soldier ants stopped in front of the rolling stone that ignited the fire.
The ghost-patterned soldier ants rushing up the city wall were no longer as dense as before.
The number of ghost-marked soldier ants attacking the city is insufficient, so the thirty-five bed crossbows on the top of the city can control the number of ghost-marked soldier ants on the city head...
The north city wall at night is like a large slaughterhouse. Each soldier has a clear division of labor. As long as there are ghost-striped soldier ants climbing up, the treatment method is basically the same. In the end, the corpse will be pushed into the city wall by the city defenders.
During this period, the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants that occasionally rushed up did cause a lot of trouble to Surdak. When encountering such big guys, he and Gulitem were basically in front, and Andrew and Sami
Look for opportunities to kill the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants.
On the other hand, those ghost-striped male ants did not appear until dawn.
The soldiers on the north city wall were fighting continuously all night, and there were a large number of corpses of ghost-patterned soldier ants piled up outside the city.
Although the ground on the city wall had washed away several times that night, there was still acid flowing across it.
The broken limbs and teeth of some ghost-striped soldier ants were scattered on the ground.
When the sun shines into the valley and dissolves the thick fog in the mountains, the ant colony's siege finally calms down.
The large battlefield outside the northern city wall has been smashed to pieces.
The ghost-striped red ants retreated to the middle of the canyon, leaving the remains of many ant corpses on the battlefield.
Suldak was still thinking about why he couldn't see the ghost-striped male ants during the siege last night. It was only at dawn that he discovered that the homemade bomb thrown by the catapult last night once again blew up a group of ghost-striped male ants.
, the huge body is still struggling on the battlefield, and it seems that it is not completely dead.
These dead and injured ghost-marked red ants could not leave the battlefield in front of the north city wall, and they all emerged when the thick fog cleared.
In order to wash away the acid stain on his body, Andrew poured several buckets of water in succession, making his whole body wet.
There are still some scattered corpses of ghost-patterned red ants hanging on the city wall. The red lizard leather armor on Surdak's body had a gash on its back during the battle.
Fortunately, before the battle last night, he sacrificed several heads of ghost-patterned soldier ants, not only the 'Blessed Body', 'Hegemonic Body' and 'Insight', but also the 'Blessed Shield' and 'Sacred Shield'.
On the city wall, the dwarf chain shield in Surdak's hand turned into a holy shield. As long as the ghost-marked soldier ants got even slightly closer to Surdak, they would be burned by the holy aura on the shield.
Even though he had been blessed with so many blessings from the gods, Surdak's salamander leather armor was still torn open by soldier ants, and it was basically scrapped.
Samira's condition seems to be relatively good. The thick fog has made her hair wet, the black gauze on her face is also translucent, and the wind-attribute aura on her body is getting stronger and stronger...
Surdak was using Holy Light to treat a puncture wound on a soldier's leg when he heard Andrew pointing to the outside of the city wall and asking:
"What to do with these big guys?"
He raised his head and saw the huge corpse of the ghost-marked male ants along the wall. There were only scattered ghost-marked red ants around the battlefield, so he said: "Of course, grab them back. Don't waste any of them. Since they have withdrawn,
, of course we must expand our results."
"I will lead people down from the city wall, and you can keep an eye on the top of the city." Andrew said to Samira.
After saying that, he went to find a rope behind the city wall, tied the hemp rope to the wooden frame behind the city wall, and threw the other end under the city wall. Behind him, a group of veterans from the cavalry battalion followed Andrew, each one of them tying the rope.
Surdak told these people: "Be careful when cleaning the battlefield later. Some ghost-marked red ants will pretend to be dead and bite you when you get close... More accurate than a few ropes..."
Andrew grabbed the rope with both hands and slid directly down the city wall.
Samira sat on the city wall and quietly watched Surdak treat the wounded soldiers. After a while, she said to Surdak:
"I found that these ghost-striped red ants are making progress every day. This time they retreated... I guess the next time they charge up, it won't be so easy to defend the northern city wall."
Surdak raised his head and looked at the canyon outside the city. At this moment, the ant colony had retreated to the middle of the canyon.
Adams led a group of his men up the city wall and saw that the city wall was piled with loot. The city guards used ropes to pull up the corpses of soldier ants from under the city. The scene seemed very lively.
There was still light smoke on the battlefield outside the city. Andrew led a group of veterans to surround a ghost-striped male ant. Four of its legs were blown off, and the remaining two legs were unable to support it.
That huge body lay on the battlefield unable to leave.
When it saw a group of humans approaching, it began to struggle violently.
Andrew couldn't pierce its outer armor with his spear, so he had to slowly approach it from the blind spot of its sight and cut off its last two intact legs.
So it could only curl its body like a worm, and once Andrew and others got close, it would unfold its body and spit out acidic liquid everywhere.
For a moment, Andrew could only ask someone to drop a long iron chain from the city wall. Several veterans stood far away and cooperated with each other to tie up the ghost-marked male ants, and used the door-shaped hangers on the city wall to
Directly hoist this living ghost-striped male ant, which weighs more than 2,000 pounds, to the top of the city...
A warehouse keeper from the city defense brigade ran up the city wall out of breath and reported to Suldak:
"Commander Suldak, the fifth batch of supplies from Wilkes City has arrived!"
Suldak stopped again and asked: "Is there anything special this time?"
The warehouse keeper said excitedly: "In addition to food and arrows, some kerosene has been transported this time!"
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In the morning, Suldak personally met with the quartermaster who came from Wilkes City to escort supplies, and slept in the small building for a while.
When I woke up, I found that almost all the valuable giant soldier ants and ghost-striped male ants had been transported to an empty field in front of the small building.
This ghost-striped male ant will emit a stream of acid from its mouthparts from time to time. It must have vomited all the acid in its stomach and can only accumulate a little before spitting it out. Although it is tightly tied with chains,
But the huge head can still twist slightly, and its dark red crystal-like eyes are cold and cold.
It didn't make some weak hissing sounds. The two giant pliers were wrapped with chains and could no longer open and close normally.
Many soldiers stood around the empty field, watching this ghost-marked male ant.
A total of three ghost-marked male ants were harvested from this battle. The two dead ghost-marked male ants were far less valuable than the giant ghost-marked soldier ants. Although they also had the magic mark of life on their bodies, they were completely destroyed.
The magic materials that can be obtained are also very limited. Apart from a magic core, there is only the hard armor on the body.
Far less valuable than giant ghost-striped soldier ants.
The six legs of the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants have life magic patterns growing on them. Although these life magic patterns are not complete, as long as you search carefully, you can always harvest some powerful life magic patterns.
Fourteen giant ghost-patterned soldier ants were hunted all night last night. In order to prevent the magic power on the soldier ants' legs from dissipating naturally after death, Surdak prioritized the treatment of these fourteen dead giant ghost-patterned soldier ants.
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With the help of the 'Eye of Truth', Surdak successfully found nineteen complete patterns of life magic on the legs of fourteen giant ghost-patterned soldier ants. However, because many giant ghost-patterned soldier ants' legs suffered different
Due to the degree of damage, Surdak only succeeded in peeling off thirteen complete life magic patterns.
Two days ago, during the battle to hunt down the ghost-patterned ant queen, he harvested twenty-four magic patterns from the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants.
In total, he has obtained forty-eight life magic patterns from the giant ghost-patterned soldier ants...
The magic patterns on the bodies of these giant ghost-patterned soldier ants were very difficult to peel off, and Surdak almost worked until night before he could finish it.