Chapter 68: Defending the City (2)
These two parasitic spiders did not fully climb the walls of the first line of defense.
Although this wall is not high, it is wide at the top, half a decimeter wide, and the first-line god envoy king warriors set up defenses on it, and it is here that they kill the parasitic tiger armor and parasitic beetle that recklessly break in.
But the parasitic spider lay on the façade of the city wall, not daring to enter, but stuck on the edge.
These parasitic spiders are ordinary spiders, but after being parasitized, their habits have changed drastically, and instead of hiding in the woven cobwebs and waiting for rabbits to hunt, they follow other parasitic beasts.
Now, their bellies bulged one after another, and from time to time a sticky silk thread erupted from their glands, shooting towards the army formation of the Divine Envoy King's army. These spider silks don't have a long range, but they are enough to cover a distance of a decimeter.
With each shot, one or two unfortunate ant warriors will be stuck with the silk thread, and then the spider will immediately use its front two legs to quickly pull the silk thread back, and carry the trapped ant warrior to its hideous mouthparts.
The parasitic spider will then use its silk to bind the ant warriors like mummies.
The ants that were tied up had no chance of surviving, and some of them were injected with venom by parasitic spiders at the same time, and the flesh inside the carapace would soon dissolve into a mass of liquid. Some were not injected with venom, but some parasitic bacteria took the opportunity to climb up and infect her, and it may not be long before a new parasitic ant breaks out of the cocoon.
The ants need to maintain their formation, and if they stick to their positions, they will have no way to shoot the parasitic spiders from a distance, and if they pursue, they will not be able to catch up with the extremely agile and agile enemy.
Some of the Divine Envoy King squads tried to fight back with slings, but the effect was not good, and the spiders stuck on the edge of the city wall only had to bend slightly sideways to hide on the façade of the city wall, and the stone bullets fired were blocked by the city wall that was originally to protect the ant defenders, and could not pose a threat to the spiders.
At this time, the parasitic ant's military formation was also rapidly approaching, although the speed was not too fast because of the need to maintain the formation, but it had already traveled nearly half the way, and it was almost into the attack range of the defenders' slings.
If the Divine Envoy King's legion does not deal with these two obscene parasitic spiders before the enemy attacks in a big way, it will inevitably affect the future battle.
At this time, I saw that the hunter scythe ant scouts, who had not moved before, appeared from the ant mound in the bridgehead and quickly killed the parasitic spider.
The parasitic spiders are extremely sensitive to the high-speed approaching scythe ants, and immediately spray spider silk at them to intercept them.
However, the scythes were extremely dexterous, dodging and moving left and right, effortlessly avoiding a few incoming spider silks, allowing the two parasitic spiders to spray frequently, but none of them were shot, but quickly narrowed the distance between them.
At this time, the parasitic spider turned around and wanted to run, but it was too late, and after the distance was shortened to a certain extent, the hunting sickle ants ejected one after another, and quickly fell to the parasitic spider, three times five divided by two, and cleanly killed the enemy who had escaped from the city wall.
At this time, the large army of parasitic ants was already very close, and the scythe ant scouts did not engage recklessly, but quickly retreated under the leadership of the commander.
Almost at the same time, a large black cloud rose over the walls - and the defenders began to fire slingstones.
Stone bullets and pottery bombs rained down on the parasitic ants, and among these parasitic ants, whether they were big-headed ants, scythe hunters, or corn hairy ants, although they had carapace cover, the stone throwing was not powerful enough to be killed directly. However, it is very common for the legs to be broken and the tentacles to be broken, and the parasites on the back to be stoned to death and injured.
There was a commotion in the ranks of the parasitic ants, and if it weren't for the bullet pressure of the pale golden parasitic ants, the rabble of these different ant races would soon fall apart.
After all, no matter how fierce they are, these parasitic ants still have an instinct, and when they are attacked without seeing an enemy in sight, the instinct of any creature is to flee.
Only those pale golden parasitic worker ants, who have good eyesight and developed intelligence, know that there is an enemy on the stones not far away, and will have the fighting spirit to continue fighting when they have a goal.
The parasitic ants rushed through the firing area of the stone, but were somewhat weakened.
When the parasitic ants began to climb up the rocks, many of the parasitic ants voluntarily broke away from their hosts, and instead of following the upward climb, they wandered in the soil, as if looking for something.
Looking closely, it turned out that the Divine Envoy King Legion had sown a large amount of ant droppings around the stones, and these droppings emitted a strong ant smell, misleading the parasites to wander here in search of the next host.
This is also the experience of fighting parasitic ants in the southern hills, which can effectively separate parasitic bacteria from parasitic ants.
When these two enemies appear at the same time, the warriors of the Divine Envoy King will inevitably lose sight of one or the other, and if they are not careful, they will be easily infected by parasites.
But as long as they are forced to separate, both parasitic ants and parasites alone have obvious weaknesses and are not to be feared.
However, the tactics of dealing with ordinary parasitic ants can be recognized by light gold parasitic ants. These pale gold parasitic ants immediately instructed their subordinates to fill the nearby ant droppings with soil, and soon, the parasites, which had lost their prey breath, crawled back to the parasitic ants around them.
But ordinary ants are parasitic with up to three strains of parasitic bacteria, and more parasitic bacteria will consume too much nutrients, so that the host will be dragged to death. Therefore, many parasites cannot find a suitable host for a while, and wander on the ground, so they can only hide in the shade first, otherwise they will be quickly dried by the sun.
While the parasitic ants were filling in the ant's droppings, the defenders' god envoy king warriors also poked their heads out of the edge of the city walls, and in groups of more than a ten, pushed down some stones the size of mung beans to peas.
These rocks, large and small, rolled down the edge of the walls and the stones at the bottom of the walls, and smashed into the parasitic ants, causing some casualties.
The parasitic ants had to brave falling rocks and climb up a slope of more than 70 degrees.
When they finally climbed to the top of the city wall, they were faced with the razor tactics of the Divine Envoy King Legion, and they could only die of hatred.
Only a few parasitic scythes have a chance to shake the defenders' formation, but they are too few and will soon be killed by the defenders' counterattack.
By about noon, most of the parasitic ants had been killed, leaving behind corpses and the remains of minced parasites. However, the pale gold parasitic ants hid in the rear, and only a few were killed by the active scythe hunter ant scouts.
Seeing that the battle had been defeated, the remaining pale golden parasitic ants quickly summoned the remnants of the defeated army to retreat, and the Divine Envoy King's army turned back after a little pursuit.
The first day of the defensive battle was won!