Chapter 101: April Fool's Day Offensive (7)
With great difficulty, the enemy troops passed through the narrow passages on both sides of the depression and arrived at the south side of the depression to set up a formation.
In fact, the roads on both sides of the depression were not narrow, but the water level of the Qinghe River has risen significantly recently, flooding a large area of the original river beach, and there are only two sections of road several meters wide between the depression and the river, most of which are still muddy and full of water.
Even so, from time to time, ants are trapped by water droplets in the sand, and the tension on the surface of the water droplets makes it difficult for these ants, who are known for their strength, to get rid of.
And a small number of individuals are trapped, often more ants are blocked, and the speed of these two roads simply makes the commander of the Red Fire Ant Army crazy!
By the time the enemy finally formed their ranks and launched another attack, it was estimated that it would be more than nine o'clock.
Once again, the Red Fire Ants are barring ballista and slings, and when they reach the bottom of the walls, the flying flotsams that accumulate there can be used as a barrier against the side of the ballistas, but as the protagonist expects, make it difficult for the enemy to climb directly onto the walls.
In some areas that can be climbed, the Red Fire Ant warriors lead the Wood Ant Warriors upwards, while in other areas, the low-fighting burrowers, black brown ants, and belly-raising ants begin to clear the flying flotsam in the face of ballista fire and rock-rolling logs.
The division of labor of the enemy is very clear, and the attackers are all elites, which can form a stronger breakthrough force.
But the situation was still in favor of the defenders, the enemy could only attack from a few points, and the defenders today put on the front line of the elite 1st and 2nd Army Corps, and the 3rd Army Corps, as a reserve, easily resisted and did not allow the enemy to make any breakthrough.
By the time the slave auxiliaries had finally cleared up the annoying flying flotsam, the most elite Red Fire Ant Warriors and Forest Ant Warriors in this wave of enemy troops had already suffered heavy casualties.
Although they rose up again and launched a wave of offensive on all fronts, they did not even shoot long-range ants, but invested in hand-to-hand combat, which was not good at hand-to-hand combat. However, when the black brown ants and the bellied ants took the lead in retreating, the enemy retreated like a low tide, but still did not achieve any results, and could only withdraw from the depression on both sides of the depression.
The enemy's offensive was once again frustrated, and it was already afternoon at this time, and there was not much time left for the enemy today.
At this time, a large number of slave auxiliaries of the Red Fire Ant Army finally opened up one road after another in the flying flotsam, but they were not all completed.
Due to the large number of flying flotsam, the ants could not carry them all, so they changed the method after their initial efforts were almost ineffective.
The slave auxiliaries brought in some small stones and sticks, and used the gravity of these props to flatten some of the flying floc on the ground, creating several paths that could pass through the hollow flying flocculents.
Such a path was soft, but it was enough for the army of ants to pass without stumbling over their arthropods.
After the first wave of the Red Fire Ant army retreated, they did not launch the next attack, but waited patiently. They clearly wanted to march and attack from the quicker hollow path instead of the damn muddy side road.
By the time the roads in the hollows were built, it was already afternoon.
While the enemy army has been busy leveling the road, the Divine Envoy King's army has not been idle, and the first-line troops are still in full array, and at the same time, the protagonist has summoned several flying knights, and I don't know what to order.
Finally, the Red Fire Ant army dispatched another batch of troops, and there were as many as 4,000 elite warriors of the Red Fire Ant clan in this group, apparently to make a final attack before sunset.
The Red Fire Ant warriors, and the slave auxiliaries who followed them, split into columns and walked through the hollows, their feet covered with compacted flying flakes, and on either side of their bodies were fluffy carpet-like flying flakes that covered almost the entire lowland.
The Divine Ant Flying Knights of the Divine Envoy King's Legion hovered in the air, keeping a close watch on the enemy army. Occasionally, the bellied ants would shoot a few rounds of acid into the air in vain, and soon give up after no success.
When most of the Red Fire Ant Army entered the hollow, a small part was still waiting north of the hollow, and the vanguard was about to leave the Flying Fluff Zone, the Flying Knights finally waited for the signal from the [Xinyang City] side.
The protagonist asks several ants to use a few pieces of iron to reflect the sunlight, and when the flying knights see the flickering spots of light, they immediately drop a few objects into the hollow.
Those were three mysterious balls that had just been smashed open with a small hole.
Although the shell of the mystery ball is tough, with the iron jaw knife, with the strange power inherited from the protagonist and second only to the protagonist in his normal state, he can already make a hole in the mystery ball.
When the mystery ball lands on the flying flocculent, the liquid inside soon ignites spontaneously after oxidation. In fact, there is no need for so many mystery balls, as long as there is one spontaneous combustion, the protagonist's purpose is achieved, but in order to be sure, the protagonist still uses three mystery balls at once!
Flying fluff is a very flammable thing, and when the first mysterious ball comes out of flames, it instantly ignites the surrounding flying flocculents.
The flying flotsam that stretches together makes the fire conduct extremely fast, almost in the blink of an eye or two, and the fire line has been circled, and it quickly expands from the inside out.
The firelight has disappeared in a moment, so fast that the protagonist almost thinks that the firelight just now is an illusion.
But the protagonist knows that this is not an illusion, when he used the gunpowder powder in the firecracker to light the fire at the door of the ant nest when he was a child, it was also like this, the fire flashed away, but left a place of death!
In the hollow, it was already a hellish sight, all the white flying flakes were gone, and there were traces of fire on the ground and grass roots.
And the originally dense red fire ants stood up straight and the slave auxiliaries, most of which had turned into a small charred black mass lying together—they were all scalded to death by the instantaneous heat!
The lucky few may have survived because they were in a place with fewer flying flotsam, and the flying flotsam burned too quickly to form a sustained high temperature, which allowed them to escape.
These enemies panicked, and most of them lost their command and ran back in a daze.
At this time, three mysterious balls exploded one after another, blowing away the nearby dirt, corpses and surviving ants, and three small holes were blown out of the ground.
The commanders of the Red Fire Ant Army were stunned, they didn't react to what was happening, they only felt that the light in one eye flashed and disappeared, and then the more than 7,000 elite soldiers were almost wiped out, and only a few dozen ants fled back.
Among them, only about a dozen of the 4,000 Red Fire Ant Warriors at the forefront have returned!
Such a moment of terrifying battle damage made the fierce red fire ants shake, even if it was still some time before dark, the enemy troops also withdrew one after another, retreating underground, as if they were afraid that the tragedy just now would be staged again!