There are two wooden platforms less than four square meters on the back and front of the Thunder Rhinoceros.
There is a fence made of linen rope around the platform.
In order to prevent the crossbowmen of the city defense brigade from falling from a height of eight meters while carrying giant crossbows.
There are two platforms on the back and front of this kind of armed Thunder Rhino, mainly two of which can rotate 360 degrees. The pitch angle of the crossbow bracket is 120 degrees, which can freely shoot flatly on the ground and in the air.
The body of the bed crossbow manufactured by the Green Empire is engraved with three magic patterns of 'wind control', 'guidance' and 'accurate hit'. The crossbow has a total of three gem bases, which need to be inlaid with three magic crystal fragments.
Get started.
With the help of the magic pattern array, the range of the bed crossbow can reach about one thousand meters.
However, the actual distance that can ensure accurate hitting of the target is only about 800 meters that Samira can control, and ordinary crossbowmen are even closer.
This kind of bed crossbow is very large, with a body length of about two and a half meters. If a giant crossbow arrow is installed in the arrow trough, the length of the crossbow body will be nearly three and a half meters. The width of the tilting frame of the base is one meter and two meters, and the length of the crossbow arm is about
is four meters.
The bowstring is made of the toughest dragon-neck snake tendon, and human power cannot pull the crossbow apart, so the crossbow is equipped with a ratchet winch mechanism.
The crossbow operator is usually equipped with two assistants. One assistant is responsible for loading the crossbow arrows into the arrow slot and adjusting the pitch angle according to the operator's instructions. The second assistant is mainly responsible for shaking the ratchet winch and pulling the bow string to the preset position.
On shooting position.
When everything is ready, the crossbow operator will fine-tune the sight in the main position to strike the target accurately.
To control a bed crossbow, there need to be three crossbowmen on a platform, one master and two auxiliary operators. The main operator sits on the bed crossbow control position.
In the center of Thunder Rhinoceros' back is a wooden house that is only about twelve square meters.
The exquisite and compact structure allows the wooden house to be divided into two bedrooms and a bathroom. Each room can sleep about four people. It is mainly used for the rest of the crossbowmen on the platform. However, except for Samira, no one on the platform is currently there.
The crossbowmen have never had the opportunity to live in this exquisitely decorated wooden house.
The adult Thunder Rhinoceros is nearly fifteen meters long and eight meters tall.
The Thunder Rhino caravan is equipped with standard wooden cargo racks for these Thunder Rhinos. The current crossbow platform and exquisite wooden houses are also expanded based on the shelves.
It is worth noting that these storage and logistics shelves are not on the back of Thunder Rhinoceros, but hung on both sides of its body. This kind of shelf is a wooden frame structure with two eight-meter-high columns in the center of both sides.
Closely connected to the wooden house, these four columns are also the main support of the wooden house.
Originally, the racks in the Thunder Rhino caravan were used to carry goods. The overall structure of the racks is somewhat similar to a saddle, to be precise, it is a more exaggerated 'n'-shaped frame. The wooden house and platform are on the upper part of the 'n'-shaped frame.
, all the shelves loaded with goods are hung on the two legs of the 'n' frame.
Each Thunder Rhino has eight cargo spaces on the left and right sides, arranged in three levels in a 'three three two' pattern from top to bottom.
The wooden house platform on the back and the storage rack are an integrated structure. The bottom layer of the storage rack is equipped with telescopic outriggers. When the Thunder Rhino arrives at its destination, it usually extends the outriggers to lift the entire gantry-type shelf.
This allows Thunder Rhinoceros to relieve the burden on his body and have a good night's rest.
When setting off in the morning, Thunder Rhino gets under the gantry-type shelves and holds up the shelves before setting off.
The armed Thunder Rhino that Samira rode was organized into the Archer Battalion. Each Thunder Rhino was organized into an independent combat formation in the Archer Battalion. It currently belongs to the 1st and 2nd Squadron of the Archer Brigade of the Cavalry Battalion. She was riding a
Thunder Rhinoceros of the 1st Squadron.
All archers were seconded from the reinforcements.
Since there is no need to load too many supplies, each Thunder Rhino can carry three archers in its cargo space. A Thunder Rhino has a total of sixteen cargo spaces and can carry a total of forty-eight archers, plus the platform
There are six crossbow archers, and each Thunder Rhino rides a total of fifty-two archers.
The two Thunder Rhinoceros carried a total of 104 archers.
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Lance and the other two magicians were on the Thunder Rhinoceros of the Second Squadron.
Looking north from the north exit of Dodan Canyon, you can see the endless hills and mountains. Originally, this area was covered with a large number of wild grasses and low shrubs. It was also an area where wild boars and wolverines liked to move. Occasionally, there would be some from
A monster escaped from the Invercargill forest.
But now the mountains and plains are full of wandering red ants, looking for their way south.
Unfortunately, what stands in front of them is the thorny mountains stretching for hundreds of kilometers. They cannot pass through the thorny stone pillars and can only look for the passes and canyons between the mountains.
Duodan Canyon is a canyon located in the middle of the Thorny Mountains. The entire canyon is not very wide, and the narrow area is less than 300 meters away.
However, it is a good choice for the ghost-striped red ants traveling south.
However, at the northern exit of Duodan Canyon, there are not many ghost-striped red ants that want to flood into the valley.
Maybe they smelled the 'danger' smell left by the queen ant that escaped from the canyon, and they stayed away before entering the canyon.
Tens of thousands of ghost-striped red ants wander among the hills and mountains, and they usually gather in large swarms.
The number of these ghost-striped red ants can make one's scalp numb just by looking at them. They are everywhere in the mountains and fields.
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Eight hundred cavalrymen lined up in six rows in the Duodan Canyon, their blades pointed at the ghost-patterned red ants wandering in the canyon.
Two Thunder Rhinoceros are guarding the north exit of the canyon, responsible for cutting off the rear.
Andrew led fifty first-turn cavalry at the front of the team. This group of cavalry was like a sharp knife, charging unscrupulously towards the ant colony in the canyon, stirring up the ant colony and becoming active.
Most of the red ants are forced to move south.
Some ghost-patterned soldier ants with a desire to fight rushed forward. Andrew took the lead and rushed forward. After entering the realm of a second-level powerhouse, his strength has undergone earth-shaking changes. He has absolute suppression of these ghost-patterned soldier ants in front of him.
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In the chaos, many ghost-striped red ants wanted to flee north, but were blocked by the cavalry brigade.
The cavalry were almost stepping on the corpses of ghost-striped worker ants as they advanced.
As for those ghost-patterned soldier ants with the desire to attack, once they appear in groups, Samira will command the four crossbows on the backs of two thunder rhinos to kill them.
These ghost-striped soldier ants are scattered in the ant colony and have no attack power at all. They cannot gather together. Once more than five ghost-striped soldier ants attack side by side, they will be hunted by bed crossbows.
Occasionally a fireball will fall overhead.
Lance quickly found the rhythm of the battle with the other two magicians. With teamwork, they did not need to kill these ghost-marked red ants on the spot. With so many cavalry below, they were the ones hunting the ghost-marked red ants.
The main force of red ants.
The magician stood on the back of the Thunder Rhino, which at most served as a magical deterrent. A fireball exploded in the ant colony. Although it could not cause fatal damage to the red ants, the explosion could make the ant colony even more panicked.
This kind of battle is only very fierce in the early stages. Once the ant colony forms a retreat wave, most of the red ants in the canyon will be trapped in it, and they will flee towards the south of the canyon like wind and clouds.
Soon the ant colony expanded from several thousand to tens of thousands.
Looking from the back of the Thunder Rhinoceros, this red wave has slowly swept over to the ghost-striped red ants in the middle of the canyon.
Only now did Lance fully understand what Suldak said under the bulletin board yesterday.
According to Suldak, there is currently no ghost-striped ant queen in Dodan Canyon. They participated in the cavalry battalion's hunt for ghost-striped red ants in order to cooperate with the large army to kill more ghost-striped red ants.
Surdak still has some queen ant magic skins in his hand. When they gain enough achievements, he will take out these queen ant magic skins and distribute them to his magician friends.
Of course, there is no problem in organizing your own team to hunt ghost-striped red ants in the Dodan Canyon, but there are only ordinary red ants in the canyon, and no matter how much you hunt, you can't get the queen ant magic skin.
I want to get out of the Dodan Canyon and run into the hills and mountains to look for ghost-striped red ants.
Haha! Thinking too much.
Just take a look at the ant colonies on the hills and mountains, which are like white clouds in the blue sky. The mercenary group in Duodan Town is not stupid, who would risk death!
Lance found this kind of fighting very satisfying. If he saw an emergency situation somewhere, he could just throw a fireball and scare the ghost-striped red ants into scattering, just like a prairie wolf driving away a herd of bison in a canyon.
Once the ant colony starts moving, it cannot stop. The red ants behind will push the red ants in front forward.
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When the ant colony reached the middle of Dodan Canyon, the mercenary group hunting red ants in the canyon was the first to feel the pressure.
Seeing more and more red ants, the mercenary group began to retreat towards Duodan Town.
In the morning, these mercenary groups all received similar notices. They heard that the garrison was going to conduct a large-scale hunting activity. All mercenary groups were required to pay attention to the movements of the ant colonies at all times. Once any abnormal movement of the ant colonies was found, they would
Retreat to Duodan Town for refuge in time.
A swarm of ants appeared in the middle of Dodan Canyon like a flood peak, and many mercenary groups retreated one after another.
When the mercenaries ran back to the north city wall of Duodan Town, they discovered that the canyon passage in front of the city wall was three to four hundred meters wide and one kilometer long. It was already covered with five-meter-high log walls, and these walls
Built like a maze, the tops of these logs are sharpened and have a trumpet shape facing the canyon.
The construction of these log fortifications began three days ago, and only today can everyone see the full picture.
The mercenaries walked into the log wall, and inside the wall was a huge square.
Aung San and Latu were leading the aborigines to dig holes in the open space. There were almost two thousand aborigines in the town, almost all of them, regardless of gender, and they had already transported all the large timber from the lumberyard to the canyon. Finally,
Get all the logs up before noon.
Now everyone's task is to dig a hole. Several veterans of the cavalry battalion behind them put a linen bag with a fuse attached into the hole, and asked the aborigines behind to fill it back with sand and gravel.
Some people also drew marks on the ground with lime powder and warned everyone not to step on the marked areas.
On the land about a hundred meters away from the north city wall, there was a neat row of log horses built with logs, and countless hay piled on top of the horses.
The mercenary group returned to this huge square, and immediately there were city guards guiding them to circle around the left side of the canyon and retreat to Dodan Town.
Someone did not follow the instructions of the city defense guards and walked around the square. Immediately, a group of archers drew their bows and arrows and collectively aimed at the mercenary...
"You have crossed the line, please go back!"
The archers closest to the mercenary shouted.
"Why should I listen to you? Who do you think you are!"
The mercenary punched his solid chest twice with his fist and shouted in demonstration.
This row of archers seemed a little nervous. Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and for a moment they didn’t know what to do.
The mercenary proudly showed his bravery to his companions behind him.
A squadron leader of the archers came up from behind and yelled at him: "Go back quickly. If you dare to come out again, I will shoot you immediately!"
The mercenary was immediately enraged. He spat on the captain of the archer, pulled out the sword from his waist, and strode towards the captain of the archer.
"Fire arrows..."
The squadron leader of the archer squadron gave the order without hesitation, and sixty arrows were shot at the mercenary at the same time. The mercenary only had time to raise his shield and roll away to the left, but in the end he could not avoid so many arrows.
, he was hit by several arrows in an instant and fell on the spot.
Blood spurted out along the arrows, and I couldn't hold it back even if I wanted to.
When several of the mercenary's companions saw this, they all wanted to rush over to save this companion.
The captain of the archers shot a loud arrow into the air with a tough attitude. With a sharp whistling sound, the thirty-two crossbows on the north city wall immediately poked their heads out from behind the wall stacks and aimed in the direction pointed by the captain of the archers.
Those mercenaries.
"Hurry back and follow the marked passage. Anyone who dares to disobey will be shot..." the captain of the archers shouted at the top of his lungs.
The mercenary team leader quickly grabbed the mercenaries around him, and everyone stopped in the marked area and retreated with an angry look on his face.
Not long afterward, two city defense guards carried a stretcher along the complicated white line, ran to the mercenary who had fallen to the ground after being hit by an arrow, and carried him away very quickly.
Two veterans from the cavalry battalion walked over very cautiously and began to inspect the gunpowder fuse buried in the soil over there.
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The trumpets of retreat sounded from the city walls.
The indigenous people lined up to evacuate this huge square, followed by several veterans urging them hard.
Before everyone could evacuate, someone lit the hay on the road-blocking horse, and flames accompanied by billowing smoke came out of the road-blocking horse.
Seeing that the north wall was about to be completely sealed by fire, these aborigines started to run.
By the time the last few veterans ran into the passage under the north city wall and the city guards put down the iron fence, the ant tide had already poured into the square along the bell mouth of the log wall, and countless ghost-patterned red ants rushed in like a sea tide.
The red ants who rushed ahead saw the raging fire that immediately broke out under the city wall.
They subconsciously wanted to stop, but the red ants behind them couldn't stop at all. Some bumped into the red ants in front of them, and some simply stepped on their bodies and passed over.
A large swarm of ghost-striped red ants quickly filled the entire empty space.
Because the passage at the entrance is in the shape of a trumpet, the red ants outside can't see what's going on inside the square. Therefore, a large number of red ants continue to pour in, and all spaces are crowded with red ants.
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The cavalry who followed all the way blocked the trumpet-shaped entrance of the log square, and the ghost-striped red ants that could not squeeze in turned around and began to attack the cavalry.
The cavalry retreated slowly.
Samira sat on the control console of a crossbow, and the assistant beside her lit the explosive fuse tied to the giant crossbow arrow.
The giant crossbow arrow flew into the ant colony with a wisp of green smoke. After four or five seconds, a huge explosion completely sent the trumpet-mouthed ghost-striped red ants into a frenzy. There were also ghost-striped red ants that wanted to rush out, but they all fell to the ground.
Arrow down.
Lance and his two friends looked at the chaotic scene in front of them in surprise.
Galena stood next to Lance and said with certainty: "It's not the 'Exploding Flame' scroll. There is no strong fire element fluctuation on that giant crossbow arrow."
The young magician wearing a monocle wiped the grease on his face with a handkerchief and asked doubtfully: "Could it be the large fire scale bullet developed by the firearms workshop?"
Lance nodded and said: "It's possible...I don't know, there is a sulfur mine in Dake, and it has always been in contact with the firearms workshop in Constantinople..."
The male magician with the monocle took a deep breath and said, "This friend of yours is really ruthless! This thing is much stronger than a small fireball..."
Before he could finish his words, his voice was covered by a dense explosion.
At this moment, the entire valley was shaking violently...