Ghast (not Ghost), also known as hell jellyfish, demons, etc. Personally, I think the most appropriate title is "Hell Bombers", as they are capable of firing ghast fireballs of the same material as fireballs, which will explode and burn upon impact.

Their attacks are among the most powerful mob attacks in Minecraft, and some data show that they are more powerful at close range than creeper explosions.

If it were 5,000 creepers, I would have nothing to fear, but 5,000 Hell bombers flew over, and so dense ghast fireballs were overwhelming, and our fortress was useless.

"Let's take refuge in the underground cloister we just dug first." Victor advised, "This thing is not easy to fight. ”

"No, I can't. As far as I know, only blocks with an explosion resistance of 20.17 or higher can withstand ghast fireballs. But we only have dirt here now, and the explosion resistance of dirt is only 2.5, so we can't stand the explosion at all. I said.

"What then?" Chen Xiaolin asked me, "We don't have wood to make pickaxes or anything now, so we can't get stones to block it." ”

The ghasts were overwhelming, approaching, and were already firing at another fortress not far in front of us. They screamed with each fireball, and five thousand ghasts screamed together, and the sound resounded through the clouds, making my eardrums buzz incessantly.

Their fireballs raged like a storm above the fort, worthy of hell bombers, a carpet bombardment, with no grass growing and all the eye could see, black smoke and open flames, and dust flying and shaking the ground.

In just a few tens of seconds, the fortress was razed to the ground, leaving only a large pit of black smoke, and no one was left.

"Captain Four, Captain Two asked you to have a meeting below." The third captain, Bonoveva, flipped over the wall with a smile and said to Bu Xin.

Bu Xin was a little embarrassed when he saw her, hesitated, and said to me and Victor, "Which of you two is going with me?" ”

"Me." I saw that he looked uncertain, so I had to step forward.

I went with him to the meeting below. The captains of the eight teams are all gathered in the fenced open space below, and they are arguing about something, and they are red-faced, you don't let me, I won't let you.

"Even if you dig by hand, you have to dig through the layers of stones!" Captain Kasanov of the fifth shouted loudly.

"Don't talk nonsense, it takes 7.5 seconds to dig up a rock with your bare hands, and we can't afford to spend so much with our numbers. We should resort to guerrilla tactics......" a captain Vess discouraged.

"Ghast is brittle, and 56 people standing in a volley of arrows can restrain their tracks, as long as they can't keep up with the speed of death." Captain Seven proposed.

"Two arrows and one arrow, good. There are fifty-six of us here, and there is half a set of arrows left after the wave just now, how many can we shoot? Captain Six looked disdainful.

Bu Xin and I watched helplessly as they were arguing and yelling, but they couldn't come up with a reason. The second captain, Wu Haoxuan, persuaded this for a while and that for a while, and was very busy, but he still didn't control the scene.

However, listening to their heated discussions, I did have a rudimentary tactic in my mind, which could be dealt with temporarily, and as long as it was durable enough, it could withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of thousands of ghasts.

"I have an idea, but I'm going to have to quiet them down first." I said to Bu Xin.

"I'll come. Give me silence! Bu Xin shouted like thunder, pulled out his sword with a bang, and stuck it on the ground.

Everyone was startled by the voice, and they all turned their heads to look at him with wide eyes. This time it was quiet.

Seeing this, in order to avoid another dispute, and in addition to the urgency of time, I did not wait for them to speak, but walked straight forward and said straight to the point:

"Guys, I have an idea. ghasts are nothing more than fireballs. In addition to using blocks with high explosion resistance, fireballs can be countered by releasing water, hitting back with a sword, raising a shield to block, and so on. As you have said, digging stones takes a long time, there are not enough arrows, there is no way to avoid them, and there is no water, so we have to use shields and swords first. ”

"Not bad. But one by one, one by one, at the expense of the other......" said the sixth captain.

"So we need a bucket-like formation to bring everyone together." I continued, gesturing with my hand, "This formation is like a barbed turtle shell, one layer is the shield, which is responsible for defense, and the other layer is the sword, which is responsible for counterattacking, and the layers are wrapped, and this coordination can be used to solve the defect of not being able to attack when defending. ”

"What about durability? Once the shield is blown up......" Weiss said.

"Rotate offense and defense, let the one with the sword in the back change the shield up, and the one with the shield in front change the sword up." I said, "Guys, there's not much time, do you have any questions about my approach?" ”

After listening to this, several captains thought thoughtfully, and although they had some doubts in their hearts, no one put forward any further rebuttals. Because in any way, this method seems to be the most feasible method at present.

"I think you can, if you can't cite any fatal flaws, just do as he says." Wu Haoxuan said.

"Okay...... Let's do it! They gritted their teeth and nodded, turned to their respective teammates and shouted, "All assembled!" ”

Both in the underground cloisters and on the walls of the fortress were quickly assembled in the open field, and the fifty-six men all stood in a row of seven according to the procession. Wu Haoxuan walked over and said to me with a serious face: "Brother of the fourth team, the next matter of arranging the formation will be handed over to you." Just now I sent a message from my team members above telling me that the only four forts in front of us had all been razed to the ground, and now the ghasts have arrived. ”

"Hmm." I nodded, walked over to the front of the team, and said to the captains, "Captains, please choose the best archery player on the team." ”

Eight people, including Chen Xiaolin, stood in front of me.

"You wait here for a while. The best fighters on each team come out in line, sword in hand, and stand in a circle back to back. I said, "Your mission is to get the fireball fired by the ghast back as fast as possible." ”

The eight of them quickly stood up, armed with iron swords, shining armor, and high spirits.

"The strongest men of each band went out in column, with shields, and stood outside the eight of them." I continued, "Your job is to protect them. ”

Several sturdy young men stood in front of the eight men with their shields in their hands.

"The captain of each team, and the eight archers just now, you are also responsible for repelling the fireball with your sword, now stand around them in a circle and crouch down." I continued.

Wu Haoxuan, Chen Xiaolin and others took out their swords from their backpacks and trotted over.

"The rest of the people, in a circle around the outermost, raising their shields to protect those behind them, also crouched down." I give my final instructions.

The 55 men were arrayed under my arrangement, all dressed in iron armor and standing in a circle, looking like a large convex mirror with silver glittering, glittering in the sun.

"The shield bearer holds the shield at an angle of about 60 degrees in the inner ring and about 30 degrees in the outer ring, which is higher than the top of his head." I ordered.

In the middle of the formation, he raised two circles of shields, close together, and the combination was so tight that he could not see the person behind the shield, but only the feet under the shield. If it was a convex mirror just now, now it really seems to be a turtle shell.

"Sword wielder, swing your sword quickly." I continued to order.

A bunch of swords suddenly grew out of the seams on the "turtle shell" and swung quickly in the air, this time the turtle shell turned into a large barbed cover.

"Okay, let's just fight like this later." I nodded.

As soon as I finished speaking, several people in the team suddenly shouted to me in unison, "Come here, they're coming!" Here they are! ”

I turned my head to see that most of the sky had been obscured, and the dazzling sun, which had just been bright, was nowhere to be seen, and was blocked by the thousands of ghasts. The moment the sun was blocked, the surrounding light suddenly dimmed, and even the temperature dropped a few points, and the wind was blowing in all directions, and the coolness hit.

My scalp was numb, so I took my shield out of my backpack and slipped into the ranks. I didn't have this terrifying feeling when I looked at it from afar before, but it was just shocking and inexplicable, but now that the soldiers are in the city, I can feel the suffocation and powerlessness.

All of us huddled together, the atmosphere not daring to come out, nervously peering through the gaps in our shields at the darkening world outside.