The dead branch monster that was thrown out did not dare to come back to talk to the Demonic Tree Man and ran forward again with the large army to hunt new prey.
Not only do their hunting patterns resemble ant colonies, but their overall composition pattern also resembles them.
They are the worker ants at the bottom of the entire ant colony. Everything they have is given by the queen, and their purpose of birth is to serve the queen.
At least this is the pattern among the Demonic Tree Army.
The Demonic Tree Men who had just snatched the food from their mouths were not soldier ants, but ant guards, the direct guards of the Queen. They did not enjoy a bite of the food, but worked together to drag it to the rumbling Demonic Tree. On the road that must be passed.
The magic tree that enters the mobile state does not grow hands and feet like ordinary tree people. It rises from the ground. The lower body is like a spider with eight claws. It has a thick chassis and eight thick roots supporting it in all directions. Thin steps drive the thick upper body forward.
When this happens, it is an inevitable choice.
Unlike ordinary treants, those activated seed demon treants are an extremely important part of maintaining their own survival. This means that even if they enter the mobile state, they must maintain an extremely large upper body, and they may even be full of hangers before they are mature. of numerous fruits.
If you walk on two feet, it is a problem to stand firmly, let alone move forward.
Another advantage of maintaining a huge tree root system like this is that it can maintain a part of the rooting state without deliberately taking root.
As for the arms, those bloody vines hanging from the tree crown are much more useful than the arms. They wrap up the prey that has been placed within reach, bring it to the big mouth, and swallow it whole. The sound of heavy objects falling into the pool was heard, along with the sound of strong corrosion.
You can guess without looking that the prey are being corroded and decomposed by the strong acid body fluid in the demon tree's body at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The process of their march is also the process of their hunting.
There are as many as thirty such hunting circles.
Due to the different speeds of various monsters, the formation of the withered army of the magic tree was very long.
The dead branch monsters had already driven the herd out of the forest for four or five kilometers, and the demon trees staggered out with their huge bodies like spiders.
By the time the herd of beasts arrived at the gates of Uxmail City, the withered army of the Demonic Tree had already stretched out a ten-kilometer front.
"So many! The enemy's strength is far stronger than we expected. The number of those withered ones is at least more than 30,000!"
After seeing the enemy's appearance clearly, everyone couldn't help but take a breath of air.
The enemies looked scattered, but in fact, they were clearly divided into thirty hunting circles.
Each hunting circle has a magic tree as the core. There are twenty or thirty magic tree people wandering around it, and then there is a square formation composed of varying numbers of withered needle monsters and withered vine monsters. One hundred, more than two hundred.
The ones rushing to the front are those dead branch monsters. Each hunting circle has at least seven to eight hundred, or even thousands, and they are the ones who are most scattered.
The distance between the demon tree people and the demon tree is only one kilometer at most, while the withered needle monster and the withered vine monster can't be farther than three kilometers at most.
"Tactics! Tactics! Tactics! Aren't those magic trees intelligent? Don't they have any concept of tactics? Doing this is simply to disperse your troops and die!" Felican, the third leader of the Sword and Thorn Brotherhood, was lying on the tower. Up, looking at the situation below, I gritted my teeth with hatred, and some doubted whether the other party had obtained intelligence and deliberately adopted this tactic as a vicious plan against them.
If they were replaced by ordinary enemies and adopted this swarm tactic, they would definitely be overjoyed and rely on the city wall to consume their vitality bit by bit.
However, they had just formulated a series of tactics of inviting the emperor to the urn and burning the city with fire. It was a bit unpleasant to face the enemy's long front line.
They can't afford to pay a heavy price to burn a group of cannon fodder monsters.
"Tactics are dead, but people are alive. Even those well-trained soldiers cannot fully implement tactics according to our will, let alone the enemy. They cannot cooperate with us 100%. We must use our We use our power to make them follow our will and push them into the trap step by step."
Gavin, the architect of this strategy, was not surprised, and his face was still full of confidence.
War is not hunting, so how can one try to win the final victory of a war with just one or two traps? In the Goblin Borderlands, during the battle to ascend the Goddess of Strategy, even if there was a god standing on their side, they were still trying their best. After all the hard work, we won the final victory in the war.
This time was no exception. Burning the city with fire was just the last step. If he could rely on the city's defense facilities to eliminate the enemy outside the city, he wouldn't mind doing so.
"Commander is worthy of being the divine choice of the strategic lady. His use and understanding of tactics are indeed beyond our reach." Duis, the leader of the Sword Assassin Brotherhood, praised Gavin highly.
As the enemy approached the city, their last doubts disappeared. The enemy did not deliberately set up a trap for them.
As for the reason why this monster army attacked Usmail City, it is no longer important. What is important is that both sides are already grasshoppers tied to the same rope and have the same interests in defending Usmail City. .
"The big leader is overly praised." Gavin took the opportunity to ask about the progress of their mission, "How are you going with the evacuation of ordinary citizens of Usmail City?"
The leader of Jianzhao said apologetically: "It's not going very well. So far, only about 40% of the citizens have responded to our call. Except for the Shadow Union and the Skeleton Gang, most of the remaining citizens don't believe that there is anyone. If the enemy wants to attack Uthmer, even if there are enemies, they should come from the sea, not from inside the giant valley."
"Normal." Gavin nodded understandingly, "The enemy's loose formation leaves us more time. Now that the enemy has arrived at the city, they can't help but believe that I will send a field medical team to assist you in this matter and strive to win the battle." More than 80% of the citizens evacuated."
It is impossible to be 100%. No matter which world you are in, there is no shortage of people who are extremely minded and have a luck mentality.
Especially when there are people who are interested in it.
They were seeking death, and no one could stop them. When the enemy really entered the city, it was too late for them to regret it.
"Leave it to me to organize the evacuation of the remaining citizens. Brady and Felican will be left to the commander. The one hundred swordsman elites and more than a thousand militiamen they led are our swordsmen brothers. It will be formed in conjunction with the citizens of Uxmail. Although they cannot charge into battle, they all have good archery skills. They can be used to defend the city and delay it for a while. There is still no problem." Duis pointed at the people behind him. Jun Jun said.
Although this army was put together temporarily, its equipment was quite good.
Needless to say, the sword stabbing elites are all heavily armored soldiers wearing Far Eastern Mingguang armor. This time they are no longer holding sticks, but matching sophisticated weapons. Armed to the teeth, with both long-range bows and arrows and short-range weapons, they are the foundation of the Brotherhood of Swords.
The remaining one thousand militiamen had different types of armor, including animal skin armor and heavy cotton armor, but their weapons were basically the same, equipped with long bows and spears.
At a glance, you can tell that a lot of the equipment has just been taken out of the weapons depot and distributed, and it still has a strong smell of tung oil.
As for the source, it is naturally the Sword and Thorn Brotherhood.
In order to defend the city of Uxmail, the Sword Thorn Brotherhood also spent a lot of money.
"Thank you for your great help, Chief. I will make reasonable use of them and ensure their safety as much as possible." Gavin's evaluation of the three leaders of the Sword and Thorn Brotherhood involuntarily improved by one point.
Although they come from the market, they still have some necessary responsibilities.
While seeing their bullying and domination of the city of Usmail, we cannot ignore their management and protection of the city.
Gang rules, even in the absence of laws, are also an effective management method.
"Commander, you are out of touch when you say this. This is our city, and we also have the responsibility to protect it!" Duis said with a look of shame, "But our abilities are limited. In a short period of time, we can only organize such With more than one manpower, we can only choose where to start. In the end, it all depends on you, Commander."
Then he turned around and said, "Brady, Felican, next, you must obey the commander's orders completely. He tells you to move forward. You must not retreat or disgrace our brotherhood."
"Here!" Brady and Felican responded loudly, performing a chest-beating military salute.
"Okay, to be polite, I won't say more." Gavin was not polite and directly arranged for them to enter the battlefield and said, "These hundred swordsman elites, led by Chief Felican, will stand by at the city gate. Thousands of militiamen were led by Chief Brady into the city defense. They formed a small team of ten and joined the Giant Valley Rangers and rangers to supplement their long-range firepower. All the arrows you carried were soaked in oil and modified into Rocket."
After a pause, Gavin turned to Duis and said, "Big Chief, I still need you to organize a few hundred soldiers to go to the warehouse, soak the arrows there with oil, modify them into rockets, and be ready to transport them to the city wall at any time. Come up, we have to prepare for a protracted war.”
The first batch of the Kingdom of Cormyr fleet delivered not only food, but also a large amount of military supplies, of which arrows were naturally indispensable. Tens of millions of arrows were enough to support a large-scale war.
It's just that ordinary arrows have very limited damage to those activated plants and must be modified into rockets.
"This is simple. I'll start preparing now." Duis promised, patting his chest.
"Then please, enter the battlefield." Gavin waved his hand towards Brady.
"Here!" Brady shouted again, "Follow me."
Under his leadership, these thousand temporarily armed militiamen surged onto the low earthen walls of Usmail City.
The situation on the city wall made the citizens of Uxmail couldn't help but exclaim, "How is this possible?!"
The city of Usmail was built based on the terrain. It is like a sword, piercing the Eastern Gulf. It is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and only one side is connected to the land. It is wrapped by a city wall about one and a half kilometers long.
There are far more threats from the sea than from the land.
Coupled with very limited financial resources, this one and a half kilometer city wall was built bit by bit over decades and was made of a mixture of earth and stone.
Now the earthen wall has disappeared and been replaced by a brand new stone wall.
"Turn mud into stone! This is using the magic of turning mud into stone, turning our original earthen city wall into a stone city wall."
"One and a half kilometers of the city wall were all turned into stone using the mud-to-stone spell. It would take at least a hundred people to do this."
"Hundreds of five-ring spells? Wouldn't it cost millions just to cast the spells? If we could have spent half of it, we could have built a similar stone wall."
"Based on this alone, I am full of confidence in the next defense. It is not easy for monsters who lack intelligence to break through their defense."
Some knowledgeable people instantly guessed what was going on. This was the result of the spell cast by extraordinary druids.
Suddenly, their morale increased greatly.
Because this not only means that they have enough protection, but also means that there are a large number of spellcasters fighting alongside them.
The stone city walls were not empty, but were already covered with defenders, and there were more than one wave because they wore very different clothes.
Most of the people in this group were wearing dark brown animal skin armor, their faces more or less smeared with oil paint, and they were carrying around pieces of animal bones, feathers and other decorations, or carrying double swords on their backs, or He has a short sword in his hand and a long bow in his hand.
Not far away, there is either a ferocious hound lying down, or a wild wolf, or even a tiger or a black bear. What shines in the eyes is not a wild light, but a color of wisdom. Even if you see a stranger, He didn't show much aggression either.
These people from Usmail recognized their identities at a glance, because they were natives of the Great Valley, the rangers of the Great Valley. They were the most important defensive force in the Great Valley besides the druids. The one I see most often.
If there is an overflow of monsters or darkness and corruption in the giant valley, the rangers closest to the place usually investigate. When they find that they cannot solve the problem with their own strength, they will contact the druids.
No matter where they go in the Giant Valley, they will be greatly respected, because their protection of the Giant Valley is spontaneous and does not have any interest demands. On the contrary, they will often give away the prey they hunt to those who live in poverty. people.
These Usmer people instinctively feel close to them and move towards them involuntarily.
When the rangers who were adjusting their bow strings, sharpening their weapons with a whetstone, or slowly chewing dried meat saw them approaching them, most of them just responded silently, and a very few nodded in a friendly manner.
The Usmer people were not surprised by this. These rangers traveled in the wilderness all year round and spent far more time dealing with beasts and monsters than with people. Most of them developed a taciturn temperament, and they The superb archery skills and rich combat skills are trustworthy, because the failed rangers have long been eliminated by the cruel wilderness.
The other wave of people were obviously not Jugu people. Their equipment was very uniform. They were all equipped with double layers of armor. They wore chainmail armor on the inside and a layer of thick cotton armor on the outside. They did not hold weapons, but Huge city defense ballistae pieces are being assembled.
Like the city defense ballistas, they were brought by Commander Gavin, who was also part of the military supplies.
The number is frightening. On the short 1,500-meter city wall, nearly 200 are crammed into it, which can be said to be one per ten steps.
The last wave of people are short and stocky, with red skin unique to the plateau. The men have more or less tattoos on their bodies, and most women cover their faces with veils. Except for the Leathermans, the entire Fei people have this unique custom. There is no second home in London.
There were about a thousand rangers, and there were also thousands of crossbow operators from the valley. There were slightly less Leathermen, about five hundred, plus the Usmer people who had just climbed onto the city wall.
Thirty-five hundred people filled the entire city wall.
"The beasts are coming up, and these monsters are going to drive the beasts against the city wall."
"The herd must not be allowed to get too close. Even if the stone city wall blocks their rampage, those monsters will kill them and let their corpses pile up under the city wall, which can become their springboard, allowing them to easily rush up the city wall. Just With just a few of us, we simply cannot withstand the impact of thousands of monsters at once."
"As smart as you are, you, a melon and eggless person who has never been on the battlefield, can figure out things. Do you think the commander who is the strategic choice of the lady will not understand? Calm down, calm down, calm down, look at those rangers Sir, how can anyone make such noises as you?"
"They seem to be very close to the city wall. That's because they are so powerful and we are condescending. In fact, the closest one to them is also five hundred meters away, far outside the attack range of the city defense ballistae, let alone It’s an arrow.”
"Don't judge the distance with the naked eye. If you see any small bumps on the ground, that's what the commander has sent people to pile up in advance to help judge the distance. The largest and highest one is located at one kilometer, and then every One every 100 meters, and after 300 meters, one every 50 meters.
This method is only useful now. Later, when the ground is completely covered by enemies and corpses, other methods will be needed to assist in identifying distances.
This kind of telescope is a good thing. It has a built-in distance recognition function.
If there is no such auxiliary equipment, you have to rely on the range of the ballista and the range of the bow and arrow. The bow and arrow range test is an introductory course for archers, so I don’t think I need to teach you. "
"It turns out there is such a mystery in this. Thank you for your teaching."
"This is your first time on the battlefield, so you don't understand some of the little tricks. It's normal. You just need to remember the first point of militia training. All actions must be obeyed. If you are told to shoot, shoot as many arrows as you are told. The gun will come out, and you can dodge as long as you are allowed to dodge. You don’t have to worry about whether you hit the target or why you did it. Just listen to me."
"clear."
(End of chapter)
