The fire ants gathered under sporadic artillery fire and immediately launched a charge without hesitation.
When they turned from stillness, for a moment, it seemed as if a red torrent rushed out of the river, the red wind roared and destroyed the trees, and the bright wildfire raged and destroyed the wilderness.
Thousands of fire ants formed a slightly dense horizontal formation, with a formation width of about one meter, and launched a rapid charge towards the city wall of [Xinyang City].
The western sunlight in the afternoon just shines on the army of fire ants from behind, reflecting a dazzling and blood-red light, which stains the surrounding dark brown soil, light yellow beach, and green grass. The color of death.
The sunlight at this time is not good for the Angel King's army. The sun is too dazzling, and the soldiers of the God Envoy King are almost arranging in the direction of the sun. Even the protagonist has to block one eye from time to time.
But they can't change the sun, they can only face it calmly.
The charging fire ant warriors were extremely fast, as if they were still at the gathering place one second and had already reached the city wall the next. The protagonist stood on the edge of the tower, feeling as if the huge, thick jaws of fire ants were waving in front of his eyes.
On the charge of the fire ants, the two ballistae fired another round. As the fire ants charge, the formation becomes sparser than when they gather, and the effectiveness of the crossbows also decreases. One stone bullet can often only knock down three or two fire ants.
At this time, the protagonist also discovered a shortcoming of the existing defense system of [New Yangcheng].
When the fire ants concentrated on attacking this section of the city wall, the defenders only had the ballista on the only tower in this direction to provide fire support. The other towers are too far away, and the ballistae range is not enough to support this side.
This was caused by a lack of experience during the original design. The Divine Envoy King's Army had never built such a "Great Wall" before!
It seems that after the war it will be necessary to increase the density of towers to one meter or even half a meter. At the same time, we must speed up the production of ballistae and ensure that there are two or three ballistae on all towers!
When the fire ants were halfway through their charge, the warriors of the God's Envoy King on the city wall spun their slings again, covering the enemy with a dense rain of bullets.
The sling shot out after spinning at high speed is still quite threatening to ants the size of the fire ant. Although it does almost no harm to the destroyer, the protagonist once considered abandoning this weapon.
However, as the only long-range attack method for the warriors of the Divine Envoy King, the sling was ultimately retained, and today it proved that it was "able to fight."
The last section of the charge of the fire ant warriors was the most difficult. The dense rain of stone bombs made up for the intervals between the firing of the ballistae, causing the fire ant team to turn upside down.
Even the red fire ants, which have fought all the surrounding ant races at least once, and even the red fire ants, which have experienced more intensive acid attacks in the battle, have never encountered such a long-range attack, and have never been exposed to it before. The enemy had suffered such casualties before.
Hundreds of corpses fell during the charge, hundreds of wounded soldiers were writhing on the ground, and hundreds of fire ants trapped in the threads of the slings were struggling. Such attrition accounted for one-twentieth of the entire Red Fire Ant army and one-tenth of the troops that launched the charge.
But the fire ants endured such casualties. They are born warriors and will never collapse like cowardly sour ants or belly ants because of this setback.
They are warriors who kill in all directions, they are warriors who are not afraid of death, and they are killers who control the enemy to death.
The sling shooting of the Angel King's Legion was soon forced to stop. The red fire ants were too fast and the vanguard had already arrived under the city wall.
The soldiers of the God's Envoy King had to stop shooting and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
There is a trench in front of the city wall of [Xinyang City], which is three centimeters deep and three centimeters wide. These trenches obviously cannot stop the ants, and their function is only to slightly delay the enemy's speed.
The agility of the fire ants made the trench completely useless. With a slight leap, these fire ant warriors appeared on the opposite side of the trench and under the city wall.
The fire ant warriors jumped over the trench and began to climb the vertical city wall. The walls were as repulsive to them as they were to the leafcutter ant's maze of woods.
The wall was only one decimeter high, and the leading red fire ant warrior climbed up quickly like the bravest climber.
The soldiers of the 2nd legion of the God's Envoy King's legion, who had been waiting for a long time, lined up densely on the city wall, greeting the enemy warriors with a row of jaws that shone with a cold metallic light.
The first fire ant tried to get close to the defender, but was quickly bitten by three large jaws and three pairs of jaw knives, and its head was quickly cut off.
But the head of the fire ant warrior who was still alive took advantage of the chaos and bit the forelimb of a divine envoy king warrior, biting it tightly and never letting go. Until the war, the surviving warrior of the Divine Envoy King could not get rid of this head, so he could only undergo a simple amputation surgery and then retire.
One head ruined the military career of a warrior of the Divine Envoy King! In this way, the fire ants use their relentless cruelty and ruthlessness to show their Spartan courage and fighting spirit.
More and more red fire ants climbed up the city wall and violently collided with the defending warriors of the Envoy King.
Although these fire ant warriors are not good at climbing vertical surfaces, a mere decimeter of height does not stop them.
From time to time, ants fell off the city wall, and they were red fire ants that were killed or seriously injured by the defenders. From time to time, some God's Angel King warriors would rise into the air, fall into the dense red fire ant team under the city wall, and then be immediately cut into pieces. This was because the red fire ant warriors used their strong jaws to forcefully pluck the God's Angel King warriors from their formation. came out, then raised his head and was thrown away.
The fire ant warriors are similar in size to the big-headed ant soldiers, but their strength is actually superior.
If it weren't for the cover of trenches and city walls, the red fire ants would have to expend energy and time to climb over, resulting in the formation no longer complete and tight; if it weren't for the God's Envoy King's legions equipped with iron jaw knives, the warriors would be able to move more easily The enemy's head was cut off and the enemy's chitinous carapace was pierced; if the number of enemies was not too large and the physical strength was reduced due to fighting for two consecutive days, the outcome of this battle might not be the same.
Although the fire ants are as fearless as Spartans, they are not stupid. After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the fire ants have never been able to make a breakthrough on the city wall.
Then, in the main formation of red imported fire ants, hundreds of red imported fire ants rubbed their hind limbs together, making a strange sound. The army of fire ants was like the ebbing sea water, quickly retreating at the same speed as when it charged before.
The protagonist's heart tightened. An enemy who knows how to advance and retreat is more difficult to deal with than an enemy who only knows how to fight to the end!
