Chapter 166: Fortress Battle (12)
As the parasitic ant army formation was reorganized, countless heralds rushed to various places, and a silent command was issued, and the parasitic ant army surrounding the fortress launched an attack almost simultaneously.
This time, the parasitic ant army put all the bets on it at the beginning: the three parasitic dung beetles took the lead, and the subsequent parasitic ants also swarmed up, and all the troops were rushing forward at a rapid pace. There were no reserves, and all enemy forces were thrown into the offensive at the first opportunity.
The only ones left were the seven pale gold workers and their guards, as well as a few heralds.
The enemy line was rapidly approaching, and when it was within range, all the long-range squads, led by the commander, fired the clay shells as fast as they could.
Every second, hundreds of pottery bombs are smashed into the team of parasitic ants, and parasitic ants are constantly hit, the light ones are broken bones and tendons, and the heavy ones are directly killed. However, more parasitic ants were unaffected and rushed forward desperately.
Ordinary earthenware bullets did no damage to the three huge parasitic dung beetles covered in thick carapaces, and when they hit them, the earthenware bullets either shattered or bounced off.
The only weakness of these parasitic dung beetles is the pair of large compound eyes, which are not protected by carapaces, but require some luck to hit accurately from a distance.
Seeing that the parasitic dung beetles were completely unaffected by the pottery bombs, the commanders of the ranged units activated a backup plan.
The long-range team facing the direction of the war beast stopped firing ordinary pottery bombs, and a few soldier ants went to a nearby charcoal furnace to get fire, and lit the pottery bombs coated with mixed fuel one by one.
Before the flammable fuel grease on the surface of the clay bomb quickly burned out, the attached charcoal particles burned red. The bombs were then placed into a sling coated with a wet mud firebreak, and were forcefully thrown in the direction of the parasitic dung beetles.
Dozens of fire-fired pottery bullets streaked across the sky like scorching meteors, smashing into the parasitic dung beetles and the accompanying infantry behind them.
Many pottery bombs smashed into the parasitic dung beetle, some of which were bounced off or rolled off, and some of which were attached to the dark carapace of the beast, some of which were quickly extinguished after running out of fuel, while others burned and ignited some silk parasites, or scalded along the cracks of the carapace and stung the sensitive flesh of the beast.
Under the blow of waves of fire pottery bombs, two of the three parasitic dung beetles only panicked slightly, and did not suffer much damage, but still moved forward firmly, and soon entered a safe shooting blind spot.
The third beast was unlucky, the parasites on its back were ignited one after another, as if it was moving forward with a raging flame on its back. The intense burning of the back and the smoldering charcoal in the cracks of the carapace all caused the beast great pain.
Eventually, the beast no longer obeyed the orders of the commander behind it, and it turned sharply and ran away in the direction it had come.
The parasitic ants in front of it were forming a tight formation to accompany the parasitic dung beetle charge, and when the huge war beast spread its six legs and dragged its heavy but rapid steps into the parasitic ants' ranks, it caused terrible damage.
The parasitic dung beetle, with its huge cephalothorax carapace with three spikes, rushed into the ranks like a heavy rushing truck, splitting even the black ant tide in two everywhere it went.
When the war beast disappeared into the grass in the distance, this legion, which was ravaged by the charge of the war beast, lost nearly a hundred parasitic ant warriors in one fell swoop.
Thanks to the sheer number of them, most of the parasite warriors have survived long-range strikes and entered the shooting blind spot.
This time, though, due to the ranged units fighting on the second layer of walls, their shooting blind zone was much smaller than before.
Most of the parasitic ants and the two parasitic dung beetles crawled into the trench and the blind area on the edge of the trench, but there were still some parasitic ants that were blocked in the attack range of the ranged troops, unable to enter the already very crowded blind zone, and the ranged troops of the Divine Envoy King's Legion could wantonly harvest these unlucky eggs.
Seeing that most of the enemies have arrived near the trench, the protagonist gives a new order.
Subsequently, many clay bombs with fire and some smoldering charcoal from charcoal stoves were thrown off the walls by the warriors of the Legion of the Divine Messenger King.
The flames rolled in red trails across the sky, bouncing and rolling back and forth on the bark and the ground, slowly igniting the combustibles in the trenches.
The trench was filled with hay, twigs, and grease, and although the fire did not start quickly, it spread firmly in all directions.
Most of the parasitic ants sensed something was wrong in time and retreated behind the trench before the flames and smoke could catch up with them.
But there are also some parasitic ants, either due to poor information or too aggressive, surrounded by flames, and quickly curled up in a ball under the flames and smoke, and turned into charred corpses.
The two parasitic dung beetles survived and were driven out of the trench.
The flames were billowing in the trenches, and the combustibles were quickly burned clean. But even if the flames were extinguished, the parasitic ants would not dare to enter the burgeoning trench with many smoldering flames.
There were too many parasitic ants gathered on the outside of the trench, and they could only silently endure the continuous long-range attacks of the Divine Angel King Legion, but could not fight back.
Some of the large worker ants hid behind the parasitic dung beetles, and they found it safer, with the beast's large, sturdy body able to withstand the fire of the clay bullets.
Under the command of the light gold workers, many parasitic ants began to throw themselves into the trench with sand and dirt, and they wanted to fill the trench and pass through the trench as soon as possible to reach the city wall to attack.
The progress of this work was greatly accelerated after two parasitic dung beetles were also put in. With their flat heads and shovel-like forefeet, these parasitic dung beetles were used by their ancestors to roll dung balls, and these beasts used them to dig and doze the earth. Soon two half-decimeter-wide dirt roads were piled up in the trenches.
The army of parasitic ants followed three passages to the bottom of the fortress. Two of the roads were dirt paths piled up by parasitic dung beetles, and one was the roots of the stump fortress that originally crossed the trench, which served as a bridge for the parasitic ant army.
When the army of parasitic ants reaches the bottom of the fortress, the army of the Divine Envoy King will not be able to deal with them, as it has been proven that small pieces of stone or earthenware bullets thrown from the top of the fortress will not damage the parasitic ants.
So the long-range squad of the Divine Angel King's legion began to concentrate their fire on the enemy troops gathered at the entrance to the narrow passage of the trench. The melee squad is on the front of the first wall, ready to take on the parasitic ants that are about to climb the wall.
The two most threatening parasitic praying mantis have begun to climb the rough bark of the stump fortress from two directions, one east and one west.
The moment these two beasts climb the city wall, the Divine Angel King Legion will face the most difficult challenge.