The Destroyer Battalion formed a column, rushed through the barrage at the fastest speed, and quickly reached the bottom of the city wall. Then the formation began to extend to the left and right, transforming into a horizontal formation to attack the city.
Along the way, the Destroyer once again dropped thousands of corpses. In the face of the large-scale incoming enemy ants, the ballistas in the [West Stone Fort] fortress also used incendiary bombs and precious explosive bombs for the first time, which greatly enhanced the lethality of artillery fire.
As the enemy entered the dead zone, the ballistas went out one after another, and the Destroyers began to climb the city wall, and the offensive and defensive battles shifted to the stage of close combat and melee. Soon, brutal hand-to-hand fighting continued to take place on sections of the city walls.
At the beginning, the Destroyer was obviously at a disadvantage. During the climb, Destroyers kept falling, or were hit by fire bombs, or hit by rocks and rolling logs. The Destroyer who barely managed to climb to the top of the city wall quickly turned into a corpse and fell down under the siege.
However, the Destroyers were not afraid of death in their attack this time, and they invested a lot of troops. Seeing that the speed of climbing the city wall was too slow, many Destroyers actually gathered into cone-shaped ant piles and stuck to the wall, allowing the subsequent ones to The Destroyer can climb uphill and gain speed instantly.
And in this way, the defenders' stone, rolling and wooden bases were basically useless. The Destroyers piled up like a hill almost ignored the stone, rolling and wooden attack. The defenders didn't have many fire bombs, and they couldn't shake these ant hills either.
As more and more Destroyers stormed the city wall, some sections of the wall were gradually occupied by Destroyers. Not to be outdone, the defenders immediately organized a reserve force to counterattack and fought to the death to recapture the gap.
The main force guarding the city wall in the fortress are honeypot ant warriors who have recently been trained, while the reserve team for counterattack are all regular warriors of the God Envoy King Legion. They use the agile and powerful scythe-hunting ferocious ant warriors as arrows, and the big-headed ant warriors are behind them. Support, counterattack from both ends of the breached section at the same time, using the advantages of weapons and skillful cooperation to kill the enemy, some lost sections of the city wall were quickly recovered.
However, as more and more sections of the city wall were breached and occupied, the first-line reserves were overwhelmed and soon became overwhelmed and unable to block the gaps in time.
Seeing the Destroyers slowly gaining a foothold in some breaches, if there were not defenders around to restrain them, these Destroyers could climb down the inside of the city wall and directly attack the second line of defense in the ant mound!
Next to Zhu Jue, the commander of the Divine Envoy King's Army stationed at the fortress, "Zhuzi III", knew Zhu Jue's battle plan. Seeing that the front line occupation was showing signs of fatigue, he hurriedly made suggestions to launch an ambush.
Zhu Jue shook his head. If the first line of defense of the fortress cannot withstand even a mere 10,000 Destroyers, and reinforcements must be needed, how can it have a chance of winning in the face of more Destroyers in the future! ?
Zhu Jue refused to send reinforcements, and the frontline troops did not know it. They still performed their duties loyally. Before receiving the order to retreat, they fought one by one risking their lives and never took a step back.
Not only are the well-trained warriors of the God's Envoy King looking forward to death, but the honeypot ants who have lost their homes are also led by middle- and lower-level commanders and are full of deep-seated hatred. They did not collapse at the first touch like they did in the country before, but under Zhu Jue's command. The strongest fighting power broke out.
The battle on the city wall gradually became more intense, and the forces of both sides were continuously consumed at a ratio of almost one to one. The essence of the fierce battle was actually the number of troops invested by both sides in the competition.
The reason why Zhu Jue refused to send reinforcements was because he calculated that after the destroyers gathered into an anthill, although they attacked the city wall faster, a large number of troops were trapped under the city wall and could directly participate in the destruction of the attack. There are only about two thousand of them.
There are a total of four thousand troops deployed by the defenders on the city wall. If the current exchange ratio continues to be used up like this, the first one to be unable to hold on will definitely be the Destroyer!
However, the current stalemate and even the occasional disadvantage of the defenders are due to the fact that the Destroyers have not lost their vigor. In addition, they are the attackers and can flexibly choose where to attack. The defenders have to set up defenses everywhere, so they are occasionally suppressed in local areas. .
However, as the Destroyer has fewer and fewer troops to devote to the attack, and the attack route is gradually fixed on several occupied city wall areas, the battle will enter the second half, and the Destroyer's advantage will eventually be exhausted.
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The female honeypot ant "Ma Linhua" has been fighting on the city wall for several hours. The team she led was already exhausted. So far, a total of 6 Destroyers had been killed, and 7 soldiers in the team had also been killed.
Now, they faced the challenge of four Destroyers who came fiercely to kill them.
"Horse Flower" made a grinding sound, and the honeypot ant warriors beside it immediately rushed to meet it. Two or three of them surrounded one, fighting with the enemy ants.
Each of these standard destroyers is two times larger than the honeypot ant warriors, a head taller, and their strength is ridiculously great. The individual strength of the two sides is not at the same level.
A honeypot ant warrior failed to avoid the bite of the destroyer's jaws, and the carapace on his chest and back was bitten by the opponent's jaws. "Ma Linhua" only felt a sound that made her mouth sore from the tentacles. The iron armor on the back of the honeypot ant warrior was like a ball of crumpled paper, "squeaking" and being twisted into wrinkles. Baba shape.
The chitin carapace under the armor of this honeypot ant warrior must have been shattered, and the internal organs in his body must have been seriously injured under such a huge force. But the honeypot ant warrior still clenched her jaws tightly. She bit one of the honeypot ant's limbs and would not let go until she died.
Although the Destroyer severely injured the honeypot ant warrior in front of him, the damaged armor also happened to clamp its jaws. No matter how it shook, the jaws could not be pulled out. The honeypot ant warrior was torn into two pieces by it, and the remaining head was still biting on his foot.
The other two honeypot ant warriors have also been taking the opportunity to launch attacks, biting the Destroyer's weak points, causing the Destroyer to continue to be injured. About half a minute later, the Destroyer was severely injured and fell to the ground, almost dead.
Not far away.
The honeypot ant warrior whose body was torn apart by it had already died a step ahead of it. However, the mandibles of this honeypot ant would not let go until she died, and there was still a hint of revenge in her tarnished compound eyes!
Such battles were happening everywhere. Before the Destroyer retreated, more than half of "Ma Linhua's" team had been killed or wounded, and she herself was killed by a Destroyer. But the remaining warriors in her team took the initiative to join the other female ant team captains, and continued to fight despite exhaustion.
Seeing that they were unable to completely break through the city wall defenses, the Destroyer's ant pile finally disintegrated, and they began to climb the smooth city wall separately. Although the attack momentum slowed down, the attack range was expanded!
The defenders of [West Stone Castle] will face the second wave of challenges!
