The enemy finally managed to pass through the narrow passages on both sides of the depression and reach the south side of the depression to set up their formation.
In fact, the roads on both sides of the depression were not narrow originally, but the water level of the Qinghe River has obviously risen recently, submerging a large area of the original river beach. There are only two sections of road a few meters wide each left between the depression and the river, most of which are still very muddy. Full of moisture.
The fire ant army can only choose relatively dry and safe roads to pass through. Even so, ants are still trapped by the water droplets between the gravel from time to time. The surface tension of the water droplets makes these ants, who are famous for their strength, have to work hard. It takes many twists and turns to get rid of it.
When a few individuals are trapped, more ants are often blocked. The speed of these two roads drives the commander of the red fire ant army crazy!
By the time the enemy finally regrouped and launched their attack again, it was estimated to be around nine o'clock.
The fire ant army once again braved the artillery fire of the ballistae and slings to attack. When they arrived at the city wall, the flying catkins accumulated here could act as a barrier for them to prevent the ballistae from firing sideways, but as the protagonist expected, the enemy It is difficult for the army to climb directly to the city wall.
In some areas that can be climbed, the fire ant warriors led the forest ant warriors to attack upwards, while in other areas, the burrowing ants, black brown ants and abdominal ants with low combat effectiveness began to brave the fire of crossbows and artillery and the beating of rocks and logs. , and began to clean up the flying catkins.
The enemy's division of labor is very clear, and those who attack are elites who can form stronger breakthrough power.
But the situation is still in favor of the defenders. The enemy can only attack from a few locations. The defenders put the elite 1st Army and 2nd Army on the front line today. The 3rd Army is a reserve force and can resist easily. It stopped and did not allow the enemy to make any breakthrough.
By the time the slave auxiliaries had finally cleared up those annoying flying catkins, the most elite red fire ant warriors and forest ant warriors in this wave of enemies had suffered heavy casualties.
Although they were brave enough to launch an offensive across the board, they did not even take long-range shots, but instead engaged in hand-to-hand combat. However, after the black brown ants and the bellied ants retreated first, the enemy troops retreated like an ebbing tide. Still no results were achieved, and they could only retreat from both sides of the depression in despair.
The enemy's offensive was frustrated again. It was already afternoon and there was not much time left for the enemy today.
At this time, a large number of slave auxiliary soldiers of the fire ant army finally opened up roads among the flying catkins in the depression, but they have not yet been completed.
Because there were too many flying catkins, the ants were unable to carry them all away. After their initial efforts had almost no effect, they changed to another method.
The slave auxiliary soldiers brought some small stones and wooden sticks, and used the gravity of these props to flatten some of the flying catkins on the ground, creating several roads that could pass through the flying catkins in the depressions.
Although this kind of road is soft, it is enough for the ant army to pass without stumbling on the joints that entangle them.
After the red fire ant army retreated from the first wave of offensive, they did not launch the next attack, but waited patiently. They obviously still wanted to march and attack from the faster hollow path instead of taking the damn muddy side road.
By the time several roads in the depression were completed, it was already afternoon.
While the enemy army has been busy smoothing the road, the God Envoy King's army has not been idle either. The frontline troops are still waiting in full formation. At the same time, the protagonist summoned a few flying knights and did not know what he ordered.
Finally, the fire ant army dispatched another group of troops, and among these troops there were as many as 4,000 elite soldiers of the fire ant tribe. It was obvious that they were going to spend a lot of money in the last attack before sunset.
So many red fire ant warriors, followed closely by the slave auxiliary soldiers, were divided into multiple columns and walked through the roads between the depressions. Under their feet were compacted flying catkins, and on both sides of their bodies were almost the entire lowland. Fluffy wadding like a carpet.
The magical ant flying knights of the Divine Envoy King's legion were hovering in the air, closely monitoring this enemy army. Occasionally, some ants would shoot a few shots of acid into the air in vain, but would soon give up after achieving no results.
When most of the red fire ant army entered the depression, a small part was still waiting north of the depression, and when the vanguard was about to leave the Feixu area, the flying knights finally waited for the signal from [Xinyang City].
The protagonist asked a few ants to use a few pieces of iron to reflect the sunlight. After the flying knights saw the flickering light spots, they immediately dropped a few objects into the depression.
They were three mysterious balls that had just been smashed open with a small hole.
Although the shell of the mysterious ball is tough, with the iron jaw knife and the magical power inherited from the protagonist, which is second only to the protagonist in normal state, the magic worker ant can already open a hole in the mysterious ball.
When the mysterious ball landed on the flying catkins, the liquid inside soon ignited after oxidation. In fact, there is no need for so many mysterious balls. As long as one spontaneously ignites, the protagonist's goal is achieved. However, to be sure, the protagonist still uses three mysterious balls at once!
Flying catkins are very flammable. When the first mysterious ball burst into flames, it instantly ignited the surrounding flying catkins.
The continuous flying catkins caused the fire to spread very quickly. In almost the blink of an eye or two, the line of fire had already formed a circle and expanded from the inside out at an extremely fast speed.
The firelight disappeared in an instant, so fast that the protagonist almost thought that the firelight just now was an illusion.
But the protagonist knows that this is not an illusion. When he was a child, he used gunpowder powder from firecrackers to light a fire at the door of an ant nest. It was the same way. The fire flashed away, but left a place of death!
In the depression, it was indeed a hellish scene. All the white flying catkins were gone, and there were traces of fire on the ground and grass roots.
Most of the originally densely packed red fire ants and slave soldiers had turned into a small, charred, hunched group - they were all scalded to death by the instantaneous high temperature!
The lucky few may have survived because they were in a place with less flying catkins. The flying catkins burned too quickly and did not form a sustained high temperature, allowing them to escape the disaster.
These enemies were panicked, most of them lost their command, and ran back in confusion.
At this time, the three mysterious balls exploded one after another, blowing away the nearby soil, corpses and surviving ants, and three small holes were blown out of the ground.
The commanders of the red fire ant army were stunned. They did not realize what happened. They only felt that the light in their single eyes disappeared. Then, more than 7,000 elite soldiers were almost wiped out, and only a few dozen escaped. Ant.
Among them, only a dozen of the 4,000 leading fire ant warriors came back!
Such a moment of horrific battle damage made even the fierce fire ants shaken. Even though it was still some time before dark, the enemy troops withdrew one after another and retreated underground, as if they were afraid that the tragedy just now would happen again!
