When the leaf-cutting ant army attacks in a black mass, it is visually shocking. Even creatures as small as ants in human eyes, once they number in the tens of thousands, they can occupy a large area densely.
Hundreds of thousands of leaf-cutting ants are rushing towards you like a torrent. Even the battle-hardened protagonist rarely faces so many enemies at once.
At this time, the rope bridge of the leafcutter ants in the tree has not yet been set up, and it seems that it is still early to be set up.
It was getting late, and the leaf-cutting ant army, which had rejected the proposal of the Angel King's army, could not wait for the rope bridge to be completed, and was ready to seize the last opportunity today and launch a wave of attacks.
On the city wall of [Red Iron City], the black muzzles of artillery were facing the direction of the leaf-cutting ant army.
The iron cannons currently owned by the Divine Envoy King's Army have a much longer range than the ballistae. The starting position of the leaf-cutter ant army before launching the attack is about three meters away from the outside of [Hematite City] and is already within the range of the iron cannons.
The iron cannon squads received firing instructions one after another. The already loaded iron cannons were stuffed with propellant, pierced and ignited.
"Bang"..."Bang" "Bang"..."Bang" "Bang" Bang ""Bang"...
Explosions that had never been heard on the battlefield in the ant world came one after another, announcing the arrival of a new weapon and a new era, and also giving a huge shock to both the offensive and defensive sides.
There are 12 iron cannons of different calibers in [Akatie Castle]. Some are large-caliber cannons designed according to city defense cannons, some are small-caliber cannons for field use, and even half of the cannons are winter experiments, and they all participated in the battle at this time. .
The ants who operate the iron cannon don't know how to aim. Basically, the male ant commander just looks at where the muzzle of the cannon is pointing.
But with such a primitive iron cannon and such crude aiming technology, the first round of shooting achieved results that the protagonist could not have expected.
The dynamic vision of ants is not very good. In the eyes of the commander of leaf-cutting ants, he saw several long holes suddenly appeared in the surging forward team. In these long spaces, All the ants were left with only stumps and broken arms.
They had no idea what penetrated the military formation.
It wasn't until the shells slowed down that they could be seen as shadows and stopped bouncing on the ground. Only then did the leafcutter ants see clearly that the things that had caused huge damage to them were just black stones. They didn't know it was an iron bullet.
Only half of the 12 artillery pieces hit in the first shot, and the enemies were so dense that there was almost no need to aim. The hit rate was really low. The remaining iron cannons either fired high, low or missed.
The shooting caused hundreds of casualties to the leaf-cutter ant army. Such casualties were not enough to shake the leaf-cutter ant army.
However, the firing of the iron cannon was accompanied by an extremely shocking explosion at close range, like a thunderbolt on a dry day.
The tentacles of the leaf-cutting ant warriors clearly picked up the manic and lethal noise coming from the air. For a moment, the surging leaf-cutting ant army all stopped, and they all became confused and confused.
The star beetles in the sky did not join the first wave of attacks. Under the threat of the loud noise, they immediately flew far away. In particular, the few star beetles that had built a rope bridge just above [Hematite City] seemed to have disappeared in an instant. The sky around [Akatie Castle] suddenly became clear.
Ants rely heavily on the smell, touch and hearing of their antennae. Smell and touch can give them more detailed and real contact than vision, and hearing has a wider range of search and observation than vision.
Instinct tells these leaf-cutting ants that the huge "bang bang bang" sound just received by their antennae contains a fatal danger, making them hesitate and even unable to think of continuing to attack.
Not only the leaf-cutting ant army, but also the warriors of the God Envoy King who were closer to the iron cannon. Although they were informed in advance that there would be a loud noise, they also became confused the moment the iron cannon exploded. Many ants were running around like headless flies. It was easy to be suppressed.
If the leaf-cutting ant army takes the opportunity to attack, I am afraid that the defenders will be in a hard fight and unable to organize effective resistance.
Thanks to the iron cannon, both the offensive and defensive sides fell into confusion and confusion.
The protagonist asked the Guards team to go down and help control the chaotic situation. Now there is only the long-trained iron cannon team and some veterans who have been exposed to iron cannons in the winter.
The protagonist thinks that in the future, all troops must be familiar with the sound of iron cannons through training, otherwise the chaos caused by the iron cannons to one's own side will be far greater than the damage to the enemy.
When the iron cannon team took more than three minutes to reload and fire again, the Divine Envoy King's army had stabilized and began to slowly become familiar with the loud noise of shooting.
The leaf-cutting ant army, still in panic, began to retreat crazily amid the second round of fire, loud noises, and casualties caused by unknown reasons.
If the ants weren't so small and light that they could trample on each other, I'm afraid there would have been heavy casualties in this retreat.
The leaf-cutter ant army even abandoned the temporary camp they had dug very close to [Hematite City] and retreated dozens of meters to the north before regrouping.
That day, the shaken leafcutter ants did not retreat or continue their attack. They camped on the spot for the night.
On the protagonist's side, he began to lead the commanders to summarize some experiences and mistakes in today's battle.
In fact, the Divine Envoy King's Legion itself was not ready to enter the age of firearms, and they did not expect to usher in a battle at the beginning of spring.
The protagonist personally teaches the iron cannon team and tells them some methods of aiming and shooting. Although it is the simplest two-point and one-line direct-aiming shooting method, it is much stronger than the character shooting method just now.
Other troops were required to adapt to the sound of iron cannons, and gradually learn to cooperate with the firing of iron cannons to charge, so as not to make a joke of cannonballs hitting their own military formations.
That night, at the [Red Iron City] ground position, 12 iron cannons took turns to fire empty cannons. While allowing the gunners to continue to operate skillfully, they also pulled different troops to the ground to familiarize themselves with the sound of the cannons at close range.
I don’t know how I feel about the leaf-cutter ant army camp in the distance, listening to the sound of cannons one after another all night.
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The next day, the leaf-cutting ant army did not launch an attack. A star beetle brought a new mission and landed five meters away. The mission, consisting of 15 ants, arrived outside [Hematite City] on foot. , allowed to enter.
This time, the leafcutter ant army sent one female ant and two male ants. There were only 12 female ants in their army, so they obviously valued this negotiation.
This time, the leaf-cutting ants did not peek around slyly, and seemed very honest.
When the leaf-cutter ant envoy saw the protagonist, he bowed down humbly, with all six limbs on the ground and his tentacles close to the ground, performing a grand ceremony in the ant world.
The protagonist is a little confused, was the artillery fire yesterday so powerful? Why do leafcutter ants look so completely conquered?
