As the parasitic ant army's formation was reorganized, countless messengers rushed to various places. A burst of silent instructions was issued, and the parasitic ant army surrounding the fortress launched an attack almost at the same time.
This time, the parasitic ant army put all the bets on it from the beginning: the three parasitic dung beetles took the lead, and the parasitic ants that followed also swarmed up, and all the troops were advancing at a fast pace. With no reserves, all enemy forces went on the offensive immediately.
The only ones left in place were seven large pale gold worker ants and their guards, as well as a few messengers.
The enemy's front line quickly approached. After entering the firing range, all the long-range teams immediately launched the clay bombs as quickly as possible under the leadership of the commander.
Every second, hundreds of clay bombs smash into the ranks of parasitic ants. Parasitic ants are constantly being hit. Some of them have broken bones and tendons, and some of them are dead. However, more parasitic ants were not affected at all and charged forward desperately.
Ordinary clay bombs did no harm to the three huge parasitic dung beetles with thick carapaces all over their bodies. After hitting them, the clay bombs either shattered or bounced away.
The only weakness of these parasitic dung beetles is the pair of huge compound eyes. Although the compound eyes are not protected by carapace, it really takes some luck to hit accurately at a long distance.
Seeing that the parasitic dung beetles were completely unaffected by clay bombs, the commanders of the long-range troops launched a backup plan.
The long-range team facing the war beast stopped firing ordinary pottery bombs, and a few soldier ants went to the nearby charcoal stove to get fire, and lit the pottery bombs coated with mixed fuel one by one.
The flammable oil and grease on the surface of the clay bomb burned out quickly, igniting the attached carbon particles and burning them red. These clay bombs were then put into slings coated with a fireproof layer of wet mud and thrown forcefully in the direction of the parasitic dung beetles.
Dozens of flaming clay bombs fired one after another were like hot meteors streaking across the sky, hitting the parasitic dung beetle and the accompanying infantry behind it.
Many fire pottery bombs hit the parasitic dung beetle. Some pottery bombs were bounced or rolled down, and some were attached to the dark carapace of the war beast. Some of these pottery bombs quickly extinguished after running out of fuel. Some burned and ignited some thread parasitic bacteria, or burned along the seams of the carapace and stung the sensitive flesh of the war beast.
Under the blows of waves of fire pottery bombs, two of the three parasitic dung beetles only panicked slightly, but did not suffer much damage. They still moved forward resolutely, and soon entered a safe shooting blind spot.
The third war beast was very unlucky. The parasites on its back were ignited one after another, as if it was moving forward with a blazing flame on its back. The intense burning on the back and the smoldering charcoal in the cracks of the carapace brought great pain to the war beast.
Finally, the war beast no longer obeyed the orders of the commander behind it. It turned around suddenly and ran away in the direction it came from.
The parasitic ants in front of it were forming a tight formation to accompany the parasitic dung beetle in charging. When the huge war beast opened its six legs and dragged a heavy but fast pace into the parasitic ants' team, it caused a terrible scene. s damage.
The parasitic dung beetle has a huge cephalothorax carapace with three spikes. It rushes into the team like a heavy truck. Wherever it goes, even the black ant tide is split into two.
When the war beast disappeared into the grass in the distance, the legion ravaged by the war beast's charge lost nearly a hundred parasitic ant warriors at once.
Due to the huge number, most of the parasitic ant warriors were able to withstand long-range attacks and entered the shooting blind spot.
But this time, since the long-range troops were fighting on the second-layer city wall, their shooting blind zone was much smaller than before.
Most of the parasitic ants and the two parasitic dung beetles crawled into the trench and the blind spot beside the trench, but some of the parasitic ants were blocked within the attack range of the long-range troops and could not enter the already very crowded blind spot. Long-range troops can brutally harvest these unlucky ones.
Seeing that most of the enemies have arrived near the trench, the protagonist issued new orders.
Subsequently, many flaming pottery bombs and some smoldering charcoal in the charcoal stove were thrown over the city wall by the soldiers of the God's Envoy King's Army.
These fires rolled out red tracks in the sky, bounced and rolled back and forth on the bark of the trees and the ground, slowly igniting the combustible materials in the trenches.
The trench was filled with hay, twigs and grease. Although the fire started slowly, it spread firmly to the surrounding areas.
Most of the parasitic ants sensed something was wrong in time and retreated to the back of the trench before the flames and smoke caught up with them.
But there were also some parasitic ants that were surrounded by flames, either due to poor information or being too aggressive, and soon curled up into a ball under the flames and thick smoke and turned into charred corpses.
The two parasitic dung beetles survived and were driven out of the trench.
Flames billowed in the trench, and the combustibles were quickly burned away. However, even if the flames are extinguished, the parasitic ants will not dare to enter the steaming trench with many smoldering flames for the time being.
There were too many parasitic ants gathering on the outside of the trench. They could only silently endure the continuous long-range attacks from the Angel King's army without being able to fight back.
Some large worker ants hid behind the parasitic dung beetles. They found that it was safer here. The beast's huge and sturdy body could withstand the fire of clay bombs.
Under the command of the Danjin worker ants, many parasitic ants began to carry sand, gravel and soil in their mouths, and threw them into the trench with great effort. They wanted to fill the trench, pass through the trench as quickly as possible, and reach under the city wall to launch an attack.
The progress of this work has been greatly accelerated after two parasitic dung beetles were also invested. These parasitic dung beetles have flat heads and shovel-like front legs, which are tools used by their ancestors to roll dung balls. These war beasts also use them to dig and bulldoze soil. Soon two half-decimeter-wide dirt roads were piled up in the trench.
The army of parasitic ants followed three passages and arrived under the fortress. Two roads are dirt roads piled up by parasitic dung beetles, and the other is a tree root that originally crossed the ditch of the tree stump fortress, which happened to become a bridge for the parasitic ant army.
When the parasitic ant army arrived at the bottom of the fortress, the Angel King's army was unable to deal with them. It has been proven before that small stones or clay bombs thrown from the top of the fortress cannot cause harm to the parasitic ants.
So the long-range squad of the Angel King Legion began to concentrate their firepower on the enemy troops gathered at the entrance of the narrow channel of the trench. The melee team stood ready at the first city wall, preparing to fight the parasitic ants that were about to climb the wall.
The two most threatening parasitic mantises have begun to climb the rough bark of the Stump Fortress from both east and west directions.
The moment these two war beasts climb the city wall, the Legion of the God Envoy King will face the most difficult challenge.
