As the coalition of red fire ant warriors and slave auxiliaries scaled the city wall, the battle entered a stage of hand-to-hand combat.
But the defense line of the Divine Envoy King's Army is not that easy to attack - the city wall of [Xinyang City] has been increased very high, and is made entirely of ant concrete. It is very strong, and the exterior facade has been specially smoothed, making it look very strong. Smooth and difficult to climb.
But no matter how smooth the city wall is, it only makes it more difficult for the enemy to climb. It is impossible to prevent them from climbing up bit by bit.
The enemies gathered under the city wall, like a black and red undercurrent spreading in reverse direction on the city wall, like the night swallowing the earth unstoppably.
The defenders of the God's Envoy King's Legion were waiting on the city wall while continuing to counterattack with long-range weapons.
The ballista on the tower began to fire diagonally at the climbing enemy. The tower protruding outside the city wall provided a good side-fire range.
When the fast-moving ballista shells hit enemies on the city wall, they will not cause serious damage to the solid city wall. Instead, they can bounce to the ground and cause secondary damage.
The slings were no longer useful, and the rocks and rolling logs accumulated on the city wall came into play. Although these weapons were difficult to damage the enemy ants with strong carapace, they could also knock down the enemies who had managed to climb halfway up. , slowing down their climb.
Countless enemies gathered under the city wall, countless enemies climbed on top of the city wall, countless enemies fell one after another, but more enemies gradually approached the top.
Under the scorching sun in mid-spring, this war entered a new climax.
The first group of people to climb to the top of the city wall were the forest ant warriors. These warriors, who were also half-body in fiery red, were not as powerful as the red fire ants' red warriors, but they were better at climbing. Their actions on the city wall were only slightly affected. Still very fast.
Thanks to their agility, the forest ant warriors took the lead in poking their heads from several locations.
The city wall of [Xinyang City] does not have crenelations like the human city wall, so that it is easier for the lying ant warriors to shoot.
But similarly, the lack of crenelations will not provide cover for the defenders in close combat, and it is also beneficial to the attackers.
As soon as the forest ant warriors showed their heads, they ran into the jaws of the big-headed ant warrior ants that were waiting in a dense formation on the city wall. The two sides immediately started biting, entangled, and wrestling with their jaws.
At the beginning, it was obvious that the defenders had the advantage. They could form a siege in many against one. The iron jaw knife could not only easily cut off the opponent's fragile neck, but even if it bit on the hard head, the tip of the knife could pierce through Lin Lin. Ant brain.
These iron jaw knives were smelted with the iron ore that had just been traded from the leaf-cutter ant country. The Divine Envoy King's army finally equipped the entire army with iron jaw knives before the war, which greatly enhanced their combat power. . It's just that the iron armor that the protagonist longs for hasn't had time to become popular yet, and it's only equipped for legion-level commanders and a few squads of magic soldier ants.
As more and more forest ants came up, the oblique fire of the ballistae could not stop the enemy, and the defenders finally began to suffer casualties.
The forest ant warriors are also very brave. As long as they bite the warriors of the Envoy King, they will not let go easily. Some of the front-line warriors continue to kill enemies and constantly welcome new enemies. The dense formation on the city wall made it difficult for him to turn around, let alone retreat. He could only keep fighting until he was scarred and died from his injuries.
Black and brown ants and burrowing ants have also begun to join in hand-to-hand combat. Wood ants, black and brown ants, and burrowing ants each have their own areas to attack. Generally speaking, the forest ants attack in the most intense direction, while the black and brown ants almost collapse at the first touch. , and quickly retreated. The burrowing ants persisted for a while and then retreated.
The defenders then faced an onslaught of fire ant warriors.
The fire ant warriors chose a very good breakthrough direction - the wood ants that were attacking fiercely from behind suddenly dispersed to attack on the left and right wings, leaving a path in the middle, and the fire ant warriors fought out from this passage.
The defenders of this section of the city wall have been fighting with the forest ants for a long time. They have suffered certain losses and the soldiers are also very tired.
When the fire ants approached, the frontline soldiers saw that the fire ants were also red and thought they were still forest ants. However, the fire ants were obviously more powerful and their tactics were more targeted. The defenders suffered a heavy loss at first.
After the fire ants intertwined with the mandibles of the defenders, these fire ant warriors did not give the defenders a chance to close their mandibles to cut the carapace. They simply flicked their six limbs and fell down the city wall with the warriors of the God Envoy King.
The city walls were full of red fire ants and slave auxiliary soldiers. These fallen warriors of the Envoy King were immediately surrounded and killed.
Relying on such tactics, the fire ant army used more than a hundred commandos to take the lead in opening a small gap, and more fire ants and forest ants were rushing towards this breakthrough.
However, the line of the Divine Envoy King's army was very thick this time, and the nearby team immediately closed the gap. After the attacker occupied a small area of the city wall, it was still difficult to advance.
Before the critical moment has come, the protagonist is not in a hurry to send out the reserve team and allows the frontline defenders to do their best.
These new soldiers and new commanders are performing well so far and can withstand the enemy's offensive, which makes the protagonist very satisfied.
After experiencing such a battle of blood and fire, the protagonist believes that the new legion will grow rapidly.
——I am the dividing line——
The first wave of the fire ant army's offensive was finally completely defeated. The God's Envoy King's army suffered more than 300 casualties.
Taking advantage of the enemy's retreat, they quickly cleared away the corpses on the city wall. The God's Envoy Army rearranged their defense lines. At the same time, they also transported ammunition up the city walls and towers to replenish their previous consumption.
The fire ant coalition suffered heavy losses, leaving behind more than 4,000 corpses and nearly a thousand wounded soldiers who failed to retreat from the battlefield and were executed on the spot by small teams sent by the Angel King's Army.
More than half of the thousand elite warriors of the Red Fire Ant clan suffered casualties in this offensive. They were also the culprits who caused the greatest losses to the Angel King's army.
Followed by forest ants, nearly two thousand of the three thousand forest ants were lost, and more than half of them were killed or injured. Like fire ants, they fought until they ran out of ammunition and food before retreating.
The remaining burrowing ants, black brown ants and abdominal ants were much better, and only lost more than a thousand soldiers in total.
However, after returning to the formation, a small team sent by the red fire ant army slaughtered hundreds of black and brown ants and ant soldiers directly in front of the formation as punishment.
The forest ants that performed well and the burrowing ants that chose the tallest ones were lucky enough to escape punishment.
It was already noon at this time, but the enemy troops continued non-stop and sent another force of about 10,000 to attack.
The configuration of this wave of enemy forces is similar to that of the previous ones, with one thousand red fire ants' elite red warriors as the supervising team and the main force, three thousand forest ants, two thousand burrowing ants, two thousand black brown ants, two thousand The ants with their bellies are accompanying them.
The defenders did not change the front-line troops, but just took a breather for a few minutes, and the two sides continued to fight in a bloody river!
