On April 10, the weather was cloudy.
As gloomy as today's sky is, there is also the protagonist's heart.
[Xinyang City] The scene inside and outside the defense line was already miserable.
Corpses, corpses scattered everywhere. Yesterday's corpses and today's corpses were piled up in random piles.
The closer you get to the city wall, the more corpses there are. There are corpses of enemy soldiers who died under the wall, and corpses of defenders who fell from the city wall. With so many corpses, a layer nearly one centimeter thick was spread along the city wall, making the tall city wall seem a little shorter.
The city wall indeed no longer looked majestic. Not only were the corpses covering the corners of the wall, the surface of the city wall was covered with minced meat and blood, which were the last traces left in the world by the victims of side-fired crossbows.
In the corner of the wall, almost filled with corpses, there are occasionally tunnels that go deep into the ground and even penetrate behind the city wall.
That was the result of the burrowing ants. The enemy adopted new tactics. Some enemy troops were able to get through the tunnels and bypass the city wall to attack the city, opening up a new front. It also forced the Divine Envoy King's Army to deploy its reserve team to intercept.
Since yesterday, the battle has become extremely cruel and fierce. Countless batches of red fire ant armies have taken turns to attack. The battles started on and off the city wall at the same time, leaving almost no breathing room for the defenders.
The exhausted defenders could only make adjustments within a short period of time during the enemy's rotation to ensure that fresh troops were always on the front line, so as to prevent a unit from collapsing due to long-term fatigue.
In the past two days, the defenders were not as calm as they were in the previous defensive war. They did not even have time to organize worker ants to go out to collect the corpses, leaving countless corpses of both the enemy and ourselves exposed.
As for what kind of germs and what kind of plague, when every soldier is in danger and doesn't know when he will die, and when the [New Yangcheng] defense line doesn't know how many days it can last, even the protagonist doesn't care about it!
In just two days, the Divine Envoy King's legion suffered nearly five thousand casualties, with all legions suffering on average more than one-third of their battle losses. With no reserves to replenish, or even a way out, the defenders spent every drop of blood on the defensive line.
At the most critical moment, even the 101st Legion, which was purely composed of vassal ants and had little combat effectiveness, stepped forward. Most of the soldiers in the 101st Legion were no match for the fire ants and were not equipped with iron weapons. They relied entirely on sacrifice to hold off the enemy. The troops continued to move forward, waiting for the support of friendly forces in other areas that had slowed down.
In the past two days, the protagonist even personally led the Guard Squad and the Magic Ant Squad again and again, acting as a fire brigade, sometimes rushing to the top of the city, sometimes blocking gaps, sometimes blocking tunnels, and constantly struggling to deal with the situation. Increased number of breaches.
At dusk, watching the unwilling red fire ant army retreat again, the protagonist no longer knows whether he will be able to see the sunset tomorrow.
Perhaps the defenders had been forced to retreat underground at that time, giving up the defensive battle with huge casualties on the ground. But once they retreat underground, not to mention how long the defenders' food reserves can last after days of consumption, this is the last resort.
By retreating underground, you really have given up your last retreat. Even if the Qinghe River becomes gentle again, the Divine Envoy King’s army will not be able to retreat on a walnut boat! At that time, we can only fight to the end, and bleed blood bit by bit under the enemy's offensive day after day, until we are destroyed!
Could it be that the Divine Envoy King’s Army, like the thousands of ant nests in this world, will quietly perish?
The protagonist raises his head and looks to the west. Oh, we can’t actually see the sunset today! A cloud covered the sunset sky.
Of course, the two days of fierce fighting had not been easy on the attacking red fire ant army. Half of them had turned into corpses, especially the slave auxiliary soldiers who had suffered 70% casualties. Even the underground camp was becoming increasingly empty.
The remaining troops were returning to the camp. Although the water in the depression had not completely subsided, it could no longer prevent the red fire ant army from passing. Countless fallen leaves and branches floated on the water, forming a road that almost completely covered the water.
This is a pontoon bridge built by the fire ant army, allowing them to deploy attacking troops more quickly.
Although they also suffered heavy casualties, and even the casualty ratio was much higher than that of the defenders, compared with the isolated and helpless defenders, the fire ant army had a vast territory as support.
No, at noon on April 10, a group of reinforcements arrived at the camp, totaling 40,000 troops, of which 30,000 were slave auxiliaries.
The arrival of this batch of reinforcements basically made up for the fire ant army's battle losses. The reinforcements also brought a lot of military rations, enough to support the attack for two or three days.
The elders of the fire ant army have experienced hundreds of battles. They have seen from the resistance of the defenders that it seems that it will not take two or three days to break through the city wall!
The fire ants also admitted that this time their opponent was one of the few extremely difficult opponents they had encountered.
According to the martial tradition of the fire ant clan, killing all such enemies until no one is left is the best recognition of the heroic enemy!
——I am the dividing line——
April 11th.
Standing on the tall tower, caressing the ballista beside you.
These ballistae were damp and could not be used before, but they were dried that night and played a big role in the continuous battle.
The enemy also repeatedly organized elite death squads to try to rush to the tower and destroy the ballistae, but they were all driven back by the defenders.
At this moment, looking at the dark mass of enemy troops slowly passing through the pontoon bridge, the protagonist does not know whether the Angel King's army can survive today even with the ballistae.
Yesterday the enemy came with reinforcements, and the Flying Knight had already reported this to the protagonist.
Today, the enemy's entire army has pressed through the depression. They no longer attack in waves of troops the size of tens of thousands of ants as before. They are obviously planning a general attack.
Today's battle will be a life-and-death battle. The protagonist tightens the mace in his hand. This is a newly made iron rod a few days ago, and it is covered with the enemy's coagulated blood!
Life or death, fight here!
——I am the dividing line——
Just after noon, the defenders had put in their final reserves, and all seven legions were fighting on the city walls or in front of the entrance to the tunnel below.
If it weren't for the narrow terrain at the neck of the peninsula that restricted the enemy's troop deployment, if it weren't for the desperate resistance of all the soldiers, and if it weren't for the God-given blessings of the past few days, the defenders wouldn't have been able to resist this moment.
The enemy retreated slightly and seemed to be regrouping. The protagonist took a breath and looked at less than half of the Guards Squad and the Magic Ant Squad left around him. He felt desolate and helpless.
The protagonist calls over the "celestial being" and asks her to instruct the worker ants to prepare to load the last supplies onto the few walnut boats.
Although the Qinghe River is still flowing rapidly at this time, it is not as turbulent as before. If it doesn't work, just retreat! Even if only a few thousand of the tens of thousands of ant colonies can be removed, the seeds will still be preserved!
But before the protagonist's order could be issued, a flying knight suddenly landed suddenly and ran over to catch the protagonist's tentacles.
"The enemy is retreating!"
