On April 10, the weather was cloudy.

As gloomy as the sky is today, there is also the heart of the protagonist.

Inside and outside the [Xinyangcheng] defense line, it is miserable at this moment.

Corpses, corpses strewn across the field. Yesterday's corpses, today's corpses, piled up horizontally.

The closer you get to the walls, the more corpses there are, both dead and fallen. So many corpses, almost a centimeter thick along the city wall, made the tall city walls seem to be a little shorter.

Indeed, the walls no longer looked majestic, not only the corpses that covered the corners, but also the flesh and blood that had been left behind by the victims of the side-fired ballistas.

And in the corners, almost filled with corpses, there are occasionally tunnels that go deep into the ground, even leading behind the walls.

It was the result of burrowing ants, and the enemy adopted new tactics, and some of the enemy troops were able to burrow through the tunnels and bypass the walls and enter the city, opening up a new front. It also made the Divine Envoy King's legion have to put in reserves to intercept it.

Since yesterday, the battle situation has become extremely cruel and tragic, countless batches of red fire ant troops have taken turns to attack, and the battle has started at the same time above and below the city wall, leaving almost no respite for the defenders.

The exhausted defenders can only adjust in the short period of enemy rotation, ensuring that there is always a fresh force on the front line, so that a force will not collapse after a long period of fatigue.

In the past two days, the defenders did not have the same calmness as in the previous defensive war, and they didn't even have time to organize the worker ants to go out to collect the corpses, so they could only leave countless corpses on both sides of the enemy exposed.

As for what germs and plagues, in the case that every soldier is in danger and does not know when he will die, and when the [Xinyang City] defense line does not know how many days it can last, even the protagonist doesn't care about this!

In just two days, the Divine Envoy King's legion suffered nearly 5,000 casualties, and on average, all legions suffered more than one-third of the battle losses. With no reserves to replenish, not even a rear, the defenders fought every drop of blood on the defensive line.

At the most critical juncture, even the 101st Legion, which was composed of pure vassal ant clans with weak combat effectiveness, also rose up, and most of the soldiers of the 101st Legion were not opponents of the Red Fire Ants, nor were they equipped with iron weapons, and they completely relied on sacrifice to hold back the enemy's footsteps, waiting for friendly support from other areas to slow down.

In the past two days, the protagonist has even led the Praetorian Guard Team and the Divine Ant Team again and again, acting as a firefighting team, sometimes rushing to the city, sometimes blocking the gap, sometimes blocking the tunnel, and struggling to cope with the increasing number of breaches.

At dusk, looking at the unwilling Red Fire Ant Army retreating again, the protagonist no longer knows if he will be able to see the sunset tomorrow.

Perhaps by that time the defenders had been forced to retreat underground, abandoning defensive warfare on the ground with heavy casualties. But once it retreats underground, not to mention how long the defenders' food stocks can be supported under the continuous consumption, it is also the last resort.

Retreating into the ground, it is really even the last way to retreat, even if the flow of the Qinghe River is gentle again, the army of the Divine Envoy King will not be able to retreat in the walnut boat! At that time, we can only fight to the death, and under the enemy's daily attacks, we will drain our blood little by little until we are destroyed!

Could it be that the Divine Envoy King Legion will quietly perish, like thousands of ant nests in this world?

The protagonist looks up and looks at the West, oh, I can't see any sunset today! A cloud obscured the sunset sky.

Of course, in the fierce fighting in the past two days, the Red Fire Ant Army on the attacking side was also uncomfortable, half of them had turned into corpses, especially the casualties of the slave auxiliaries were as high as seventy percent, and even the underground camp was becoming more and more empty.

The remnants of the army were retreating to the camp, and although the water in the hollow had not completely subsided, it could no longer stop the Red Fire Ant Army, and countless fallen leaves and dead branches floated on the water, forming a road that almost completely covered the water.

This is a pontoon bridge built by the Red Fire Ant Army, allowing them to engage in the attack force more quickly.

Although the casualties were also heavy, and even the casualty ratio was much higher than that of the defenders, compared to the isolated defenders, the Red Fire Ant Army had a vast territory as support.

No, at noon on April 10, a group of reinforcements arrived at the camp, a full 40,000 troops, of which 30,000 were slave auxiliaries.

The arrival of this batch of reinforcements basically made up for the battle losses of the Red Fire Ant Army, and the reinforcements also carried a lot of military rations, which was enough to support the attack for two or three days.

The elders of the Red Fire Ant Army have been through a hundred battles, and they can already see from the resistance of the defenders that it seems that it will not take two or three days to break through the city wall!

The Red Fire Ants also admit that this time they are one of the few they have encountered who are unusually difficult to deal with.

According to the martial tradition of the Red Fire Ant Clan, slaughtering the entire clan of such an enemy, leaving no one left, is the best affirmation of the heroic enemy!

- I'm the dividing line -

April 11th.

Stand on a tall tower and caress the ballista beside you.

These ballistas were unusable due to moisture before, but they were dried that night and played a significant role in the continuous battle.

The enemy also repeatedly organized elite death squads to try to storm the tower and destroy the ballistas, but they were desperately repelled by the defenders.

At this moment, looking at the black pressure of the enemy army is slowly passing through the pontoon bridge, the protagonist does not know whether even with the ballista, the army of the god envoy king can carry it today.

Yesterday the enemy came with reinforcements, and the Flying Knight has reported this to the protagonist.

Today, the enemy's entire army has pressed through the depression, and it is no longer a wave attack of troops on the scale of ten thousand ants as before, and it is obvious that it intends to attack in general.

Today's battle will be a life-and-death decisive battle, and the protagonist tightens the mace in his hand, which is a newly made iron rod a few days ago, and it is filled with the coagulated blood of the enemy!

Survive and fight here!

- I'm the dividing line -

Just after noon, the defenders had thrown in their last reserves, and all seven legions were fighting on the walls or in front of the tunnel mouth below.

If it weren't for the narrow terrain at the neck of the peninsula that limited the enemy's troop deployment, if it weren't for the desperate resistance of all the fighters, and if it weren't for the beautiful work done every day in the past few days, the defenders would not have been able to resist at this moment.

The enemy retreated slightly, as if regrouping, and the protagonist kicked a breath, looking at the Praetorian Guard team and the Divine Ant team that were already less than half of the left, there was a sense of desolation that was powerless.

The protagonist summons the "Celestials" and asks her to instruct the worker ants to prepare to load the last supplies onto the few walnut boats.

At this time, although the Qinghe River is still turbulent, it is not as turbulent as before, so if it can't be done, let's retreat! Even if tens of thousands of ant mouths can only remove a few thousand, that is still preserving the seeds!

But before the protagonist's order can be given, suddenly a flying knight suddenly lands down and flies over to catch the protagonist's tentacles.

"The enemy is retreating!"