After the ballistae continued to launch long-range strikes, there was some confusion among the enemy troops who had launched an assault but had not yet reached the city wall.
The chaos was caused by the black and brown ants and the ants. They were used to following the fire ant army to fight with the wind, and they had never encountered such a fierce and far-reaching counterattack.
But at this moment, the crossbows of the God Envoy King Army subverted their understanding. The black brown ants and the belly ants, who had never encountered such a strike method, were the first to waver.
At this time, the formation of the forward troops of the red fire ant army was very interesting. The soldiers of the red fire ants were lined up in the back row, like a supervising team.
The other slave auxiliary soldiers were divided into eight symmetrical small formations, lined up horizontally, and charged from the front. From east to west, they are the burrowing ant array, the belly-lifting ant array, the black-brown ant array, the forest ant array, the forest ant array, the black-brown ant array, the belly-raising ant array, and the tunnel-burrowing ant array, forming a symmetrical formation.
After the ants and black ants stopped in panic, the two groups of forest ants in the middle and the two groups of burrowing ants on both sides became protruding.
However, the fire ants supervising the battle at the rear did not keep the black and brown ant formations and the belly ant formations in chaos for too long. They brutally directly attacked the slave formations and massacred them. After killing several male ants in a row, they finally used fear to make these The slave auxiliaries regained their stability and continued to advance.
In preparation for war, the Angel King's Legion produced and stockpiled a large amount of ballista ammunition and slings, and even used its precious reserves of mysterious balls to produce a lot of fire bomb slings.
At this moment, countless ballista shells and slings were thrown out like free money, flying in the air like locusts. The offensive formation had been stretched into a jagged enemy, and soldiers were constantly being hit.
The two groups of forest ants in the middle charged the fastest, almost approaching the city wall at one point. Then they attracted all the firepower from all directions. Under the crossfire of direct and side fire, even though the forest ants were considered brave, they could not resist it. live.
After suffering huge losses, the two forest ant army formations could only turn around and run away, but they were still in order.
The forest ants all fled, and the black and brown ants immediately behind them also fled. In fact, their losses were not great, they really just fled when the wind came.
On the other hand, the burrowing ant formations on both wings took advantage of the sparse rain of bullets to reach the bottom of the city wall while the defenders gathered the forest ants, and then tried to climb up to feign an attack.
Immediately afterwards, the ants also arrived at the foot of the city wall, began to form a horizontal formation and sprayed formic acid upwards, trying to suppress the defenders.
What makes the enemy speechless and makes the protagonist laugh is that the range of the formic acid fired by the ants is limited. The Angel King's army has already raised the city wall to a full two decimeters, while the shooting height of the ants is no more than one decimeter. They The shots did not threaten the Angel King warriors at all, but instead kept hitting the burrowing ant warriors who were struggling to climb the smooth city wall.
Originally, after these burrowing ant warriors climbed up the wall, they were in a blind spot for sling fire. The rocks thrown by the defenders could at best smash them down, but they could not kill them. Only sporadic crossbows firing at an angle could threaten them.
The energetic burrowing ant warriors that were climbing were hit by a volley of formic acid from the belly-lifting ants, which almost wiped out the unsuspecting burrowing ant warriors.
Countless burrowing ant warriors wailed and fell like raindrops. Many warriors were covered with traces of corrosion and were too miserable to look at.
The burrowing ants retreated due to the strong friendly fire ability of the friendly forces, and the belly-lifting ants did not dare to stay for long and followed suit.
The red fire ant warrior supervising the battle did not stop the retreat of the four slave ants this time. Instead, he led them back to a safe distance and began to regroup.
The enemy's first probing attack left behind more than a thousand corpses and almost the same number of wounded soldiers who did not escape, but did not even touch the tentacles of the defenders.
However, the protagonist still issued an order for everyone to be on high alert. This was just a trial attack by the Red Fire Ant Army. The defenders did not even eliminate many of the enemy's cannon fodder troops. The enemy's most elite Chinese army, 30,000 "red preparations", was not used. When you are optimistic.
At this time, the protagonist and the flying knight noticed at the same time that the enemy troops who were regrouping in the depression were acting strangely.
After the enemy troops regrouped, the fire ants suddenly divided into several small groups, rushed into eight military formations, captured many slave ants, and escorted them to the front of the formation.
Those who were captured were all male ants. Apart from trembling, they and their subordinates showed no will to resist and allowed the fire ants to cut off their heads neatly.
Almost four or five male ants from each slave ant clan were killed, and the bodies with their heads separated were paralyzed in front of the military formation, looking cruel and terrifying.
The protagonist understands clearly that the fire ants are killing the chickens to scare the monkeys, warning these slave auxiliaries that they must fight hard in the next wave of attacks, otherwise they will continue to kill the male ants.
Generals are brave, and fear can inspire fighting spirit. Anyway, if you rush, you will die, and if you retreat, you may be killed. In the subsequent wave of offensives, the slave auxiliary soldiers, led by the almost crazy male ants who had been stimulated by fear, launched an attack. Crazy charge.
This time, the enemy troops basically kept their front straight during the charge, and even the most cowardly black and brown ants did not fall behind.
During a charge, if any military formation is too prominent, it is easy to encounter concentrated fire. Especially the flanking fire can often penetrate and kill more soldiers. Therefore, a military formation that encounters concentrated fire and flank attack can easily collapse due to excessive casualties. The collapse of one military formation in turn exposed the flanks of other military formations, and also freed up some of the defenders' firepower to invest in other areas. Under the circumstances of this ebb and flow, the attacker's collapse is inevitable.
However, if the attacker's formation maintains a straight line, the defenders can only deal with the enemy in front and have no time to worry about anything else. This will actually reduce the attacker's casualties.
After the fire ant supervising team resorted to the trick of killing chickens to scare monkeys, the enemy with numerical superiority finally attacked the underground of the city wall after paying a certain price.
Afterwards, the formation of the belly-lifting ants began to change, lined up in a row, and once again sprayed formic acid in an attempt to suppress the defenders, but their range was simply not enough.
Many of the climbing wood ants, burrowing ants and black brown ant warriors were accidentally injured by the ants and fell down. The ants were still enjoying themselves and shooting desperately for their own sake.
At this time, the elite red fire ants who were hiding at the end to supervise the battle finally rushed to the city wall. They rushed and killed them without hesitation, killing the ants that were madly injuring friendly forces, leaving the ants to collapse and ignore them. All escape.
The reason why the fire ant warriors went on a killing spree was naturally because they saw huge accidental injuries.
However, this cannot be completely blamed on the ants. They have never seen such a towering city defense, and they used the tactics of forest warfare in the past to deal with it, which naturally backfired.
Afterwards, the red fire ant warriors supervising the battle began to climb the city wall together with the slave auxiliary soldiers without any worries!
