Chapter 84: Offensive and Defensive Battles (1)

The red fire ants braved sporadic artillery fire to assemble and immediately launched a charge without hesitation.

As they turned from still, for a moment, it was as if a red torrent rushed out of the river, a red wind roared and ravaged the trees, and a brightly colored wildfire raged to destroy the wilderness.

Thousands of red fire ants formed a slightly dense horizontal formation, and with a formation width of about one meter, they launched a rapid charge towards the walls of [Xinyang City].

In the afternoon, the sun shone from the west, shining on the army of red fire ants from behind, reflecting a dazzling and blood-red light, which was stained with the color of death on the surrounding black-brown soil, pale yellow sand, and turquoise meadows.

At this time, the sunlight is not good for the Divine Envoy King Legion, the sun is too dazzling, and the Divine Envoy King warriors are almost facing the direction of the sun, and even the protagonist has to block one eye from time to time.

But they couldn't change the sun, so they had to keep their composure.

The Red Fire Ant Warrior who launched the charge was extremely fast, as if he was still in the assembly area one second, and had already killed under the city wall in the next second. The protagonist stands at the edge of the tower, feeling the red fire ant's large, thick jaws waving right in front of his eyes.

On the way of the red fire ants, two ballistas fired another round. As the formation of the red fire ants became thinner when they charged than when they were assembled, the results of the ballista also decreased, and a single stone bullet could often only knock over three or two red fire ants.

At this time, the protagonist also discovered a shortcoming in the existing defense system of [New Yang City].

When the Red Fire Ants concentrated on this section of the wall, the defenders had only the ballista on the only tower in this direction to provide fire support. The other towers were too far away for the ballista range to support this side.

This is due to the lack of experience in the original design, and the Divine Envoy King's army has never built such a "Great Wall"!

It seems that after the war, it was necessary to increase the density of towers to one per meter, or even half a meter. At the same time, speed up the production of ballistas and make sure that there are two or three ballistas on all towers!

When the Red Fire Ants were halfway through the charge, the warriors of the Divine Messenger King on the city walls spun up their slings and covered their enemies with a dense rain of bullets.

The slings that shoot after spinning at high speed are still quite threatening to ants of the size of the red fire ant, although the protagonist is tempted to abandon this weapon because it is almost harmless to the destroyer.

However, as the only long-range attack method for the individual soldiers of the Divine Envoy King, the slings were finally retained, and today they have proved that they are "still capable of fighting".

The last part of the Red Fire Ant Warrior's charge was the most difficult, and the dense rain of catapults made up for the intervals in the ballista firing, making the Red Fire Ant team overturned.

Even the Red Fire Ants, which had fought at least once with all the ant races in the vicinity, and even those that had been subjected to a more intensive acid attack in battle, had never suffered such a long-range attack, and had never suffered such casualties before they had even come into contact with the enemy.

Hundreds of corpses lay on the way to the charge, hundreds of wounded soldiers writhed on the ground, and hundreds of red fire ants trapped by the silk threads of the slings struggled. This attrition accounted for one-twentieth of the entire Red Fire Ant army and one-tenth of the troops that launched the charge.

But the red fire ants endured such casualties. They are born warriors, and they will never collapse like a cowardly sour ant or a bellied ant because of this setback.

They are warriors who kill everywhere, they are warriors who are not afraid of death, and they are killers who defeat the enemy to death.

The slinging fire of the Divine Angel King's legion was soon forced to stop, and the Red Fire Ants were too fast, and the vanguard had already reached the city wall.

The Divine Envoy King warriors had to stop shooting and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

There is a circle of moats in front of the wall of [Xinyangcheng], which is three centimeters deep and three centimeters wide. These trenches were obviously not able to stop the ants, and their effect was only to slow down the enemy a little.

The agility of the red fire ants renders the trench completely useless. With a slight leap, these red fire ant warriors appeared on the other side of the trench, under the city walls.

The Red Fire Ant Warrior, who jumped over the trench, began to climb the vertical wall. These walls are as annoying to them as they are to the labyrinth of woods where leafcutter ants are to be.

The wall was only a decimeter high, and the Red Fire Ant warriors at the head climbed up as quickly as the bravest of the first to ascend.

The soldiers of the 2nd Legion of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, who had been waiting for a long time, lined up the city walls with dense objects, and greeted the enemy's warriors with a row of large jaws that shone with a metallic cold light.

The first red fire ant tried to get close to the defenders, but was quickly bitten by three large jaws and three pairs of jaw knives, and its head was quickly cut off.

However, the head of the Red Fire Ant Warrior, who had not yet died, took advantage of the chaos to bite the forelimbs of a Divine Envoy King Warrior, and just bit it like this, never letting go. Until after the war, the surviving warrior of the god envoy king could not get rid of this head, so he had to undergo a simple amputation and retire.

A head, scrapping the military career of a Divine Messenger King warrior! In this way, the red fire ants used their cruelty and ruthlessness to the death, showing their Spartan-like courage and fighting spirit.

More and more red fire ants climbed the city wall and collided violently with the defending Divine Envoy King warriors.

Although these Red Fire Ant warriors are not good at climbing vertical planes, a mere height of one decimeter does not stop them.

From time to time, ants fall on the walls, red fire ants that have been killed or seriously injured by the defenders. From time to time, there are also gods who make the king warriors rise into the air and fall into the dense red fire ant team under the city wall, and then they are immediately divided, which is the red fire ant warriors with strong jaws to pull the god king warriors out of the formation, and then throw their heads up.

The Red Fire Ant Warrior is about the same size as the Big-Headed Ant's Soldier Ant, but its strength is actually superior.

If it weren't for the cover of ditches and city walls, the red fire ants would have to expend physical strength and time to climb over and climb, resulting in a formation that was no longer complete and tight; If it weren't for the Divine Envoy King's legion equipped with iron jaws, it would have been easier for the warriors to cut off the enemy's head and pierce the enemy's chitinous carapace; If it weren't for the fact that the number of enemies was not too large, and the physical strength of the two consecutive days of fighting had decreased, the outcome of this battle might not have been the same.

Although the red fire ants were as fierce as the Spartans, they were not stupid, and after more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the red fire ants were never able to make a breakthrough on the city wall.

Then, only to hear the red fire ants in the main array, hundreds of red fire ants rubbing their hind limbs in unison, making a strange sound. The army of red fire ants quickly retreated like the sea at low tide, at the same speed as when they had charged before.

The protagonist's heart is tight, and the enemy who knows how to advance and retreat is more difficult to deal with than the enemy who can only fight to the death!