Chapter 774: 763. Army pressure
Chapter 774 763. The army is under pressure
One of the things that stunned the merchants in Dodan Town was that the town had been quiet for less than a day. Because of the comeback of ghost-striped red ants, all the mercenary groups had to withdraw to the town.
The hard armor trade of the ghost-striped soldier ants was once again interrupted, and this time the size of the ant colony was larger than before.
The news from the city wall said that there were four queen ants in the ant colony this time. They should have the same status, but they all have their own male ant guards, and they formed four camps in the canyon. Huddled together in a mess.
The soldier ants and worker ants were extremely excited. They seemed to have found the guidance of the light again. The place where the ant swarm army stopped for the first time was just outside the range of the bed crossbow.
Perhaps it was because the ant queens joined hands to control the ant colony and were able to transmit instructions to each ant clan, so they stood so neatly on the battlefield in the canyon.
The frontmost worker ants and soldier ants are crowded together, almost forming a straight dividing line.
At the same time, more soldier ants appeared in the ant colony, and the ratio of soldier ants to worker ants was almost 1:20 at first.
Until giant soldier ants appeared, there were not as many worker ants as before, but it was almost 1:10.
But now the number of worker ants in the ant colony has been further reduced, and at the same time, the number of advanced ants has increased significantly. The ratio of soldier ants to worker ants is almost 1:5. In the densely packed ant colony, you can always see ghost patterns that are almost twice the size soldier ants.
Besides, ghost pattern male ants also appeared in the rear of the battlefield, one by one like giant siege beasts.
The ant colony gathered under the city wall this time, although the rushing up was not so bloody, and there were no monsters in the valley to slaughter them, but the sense of oppression it brought was much stronger than the first time.
The city guards standing on the top of the city had already pushed the rolling stones tied with hemp ropes to the front of the guide trough this time, and more than half of all the rolling stones were exposed outside the city wall.
The bed crossbows also showed sharp giant crossbow arrows from the wall stacks, and those polished giant crossbow arrows reflected a cold blue light in the sun.
Adams was also very speechless. He managed to take a rotation to guard the city wall during the day. After just one easy day, he ushered in the army of ants again. At first glance, he felt a little dizzy. The entire canyon was a sea of red.
The army of ants crushed the territory, and the iron fence of the north city gate fell down again.
The siege is about to start, this time the four ant queens are more cautious, hiding in the center of the guard group behind the ant colony, far away from the north city wall.
Galatin stood beside Adams. His face was pale, but he was in good spirits. His injuries had not fully healed, but it did not affect his participation in the battle.
I heard from Adams that Commander Suldak is going to update the merit exchange list.
Gallatin was as excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood. As the captain of the heavy armored infantry brigade, as long as Gallatin participated in the battle, he would gain nearly 100 points of basic merit every day. You can get a little bit, if you kill a ghost pattern red ant, you will gain more...
Now he is going to stack merits in exchange for a magic pattern.
Of course, there is a small promise from Adams. He has no pursuit of merit at the moment, so he promised his friend Gallatin that the merits he has obtained can be temporarily lent to Gallatin. Anything is fine.
According to the market price, 100 points of merit will be repaid with one gold coin.
For the Gallatin team, he never expected it anyway, so he climbed up from the sickbed in the dormitory like a chicken blood, and joined the defense battle.
"Come here quickly, come here, I really don't understand what they are still hesitating... My God, when did these ant tribes actually have a brain..." Gallatin stood at the top of the wall with an exaggerated expression.
"It's the queen ants. These new ant queens have completely controlled these ant tribes. It can also be said that these ant tribes are already the subjects of these four ant queens. Their kingdom has been established, and it is still an alliance kingdom. These worker ants No brains, but the queen ant behind them has at least rudimentary intelligence."
Adams glanced outside the city, urging the soldiers on the city wall to pile up bundles of arrows on the top of the city.
He felt that he would soon face the toughest battle.
Barrels of fire oil have been piled up on the wooden shelf behind the oil tank. It seems that as long as enough ant tribe corpses are accumulated in this siege, the fire wall will be re-ignited.
Gallatin leaned against the wall, with his shield and sword still leaning against the wall, and said to his friend:
"Adams, you said this siege... Will Suldak still use those precious magic scrolls?"
Adams said affirmatively, "It will definitely, since it has been taken out, it will definitely be used!"
"I said... Commander Suldak is really generous this time!" Gallatin sighed: "Adams, how much does a magic scroll like this cost in the magic market in Bena City?"
Adams thought about it seriously, and then said: "If it is really a magic scroll made by the third-order magic 'Hell Flame', throwing out one scroll is at least one magic spar. Ten fire magic scrolls form a group. , Throwing out two groups at once is really a big deal.”
Gallatin once again looked at the ant colony outside the city, and then whispered: "Ten catapults are now equivalent to ten one-turn magicians guarding the city wall, tsk tsk... no wonder you can win Miss Hathaway's favor .”
Adams glared at Gallatin, and warned in a low voice: "Be careful what you say!"
As the low-level officers of the Luther Legion, they can't talk about the members of the Luther family anyway. This is an extremely serious offense.
Gallatin rubbed his mouth and found that the stubble on his chin was already thorny. He took out a sharp dagger, scratched it casually twice, and said, "Do you think he might be in charge of Luther in the future?" Legion?"
Adams said bluntly: "It should be about the same."
The two waited until the sun set. Andrew and Samira led the team to the top of the city to take turns. The ghost-striped red ants outside the city did not move.
This time, Samira still has the God's blessing of "insight" on her body. The sky darkened, but she was not disturbed by the light. When she looked into the distance, she could see the four ant queens moving forward cautiously. moving.
The army of red ants under the city wall gradually crossed the range of the bed crossbow, and then entered the range of the archers.
Samila did not hesitate, standing on the archery tower in the middle of the north city wall, ordered all the archers to shoot arrows...
This kind of arrow is only equipped by longbowmen. It is a kind of arrow that is shot towards the sky with all its strength. After the steel arrow flies to the commanding height in a parabolic shape, it is pulled down by gravity. The higher the throw, the greater the power when it falls.
Two hundred archers shot arrows at the same time, and the arrows drew graceful arcs in the evening sky, and then smashed into the ant colony like falling meteors.
This kind of ordinary arrows can't cause much damage to ghost-striped soldier ants, but it has fatal damage to ghost-striped worker ants.
A rain of arrows fell, and almost all those who fell on the battlefield were ghost pattern worker ants.
Hundreds of ghost pattern soldier ants with steel arrows stuck in their bodies, stepped over the oil gathering tank, and began to climb the city wall...
(end of this chapter)