Chapter 110: A New Enemy
When the dawn appeared, the two elven zerg tribes once again arranged their troops to carry out the second round of attack and defense. Looking at the dense new opponents drilled out of the dense forest, Cesar's face turned pale.
Almost 3,000 acid monsters, which is a desperate number.
The acid monster, or the stinging snake in Hao Yun's mouth, has an ugly giant mouth, a bloated belly, and snake-like hind limbs that can writhe and move forward on the ground.
These demons, which are larger than the beasts, have zero melee ability, and even the elven militia can easily slaughter one with a scimitar.
But they are one of the most headache enemies for elves, as they can attack from a distance. The beasts are not terrible, and the town of Qiping is just short of troops. If Cezar is given enough Mountain Giants, Ranger and Treants, no amount of Wild Beasts will be enough to deliver food.
But the Acid Monster is hard to deal with.
These giant monsters have large amounts of strong acid stored in their abdominal cavities, which can be squirted out three hundred yards away by squeezing their muscles. When the overwhelming acid set on fire, the mountain giants had to kneel.
Because, if there is any weakness in the granite body of the mountain giant, then acid must be at the forefront.
A strong corrosive liquid of thick green, which can burn through even the armor plates of a starship, let alone the rocks composed of calcium carbonate. As long as the mountain giants are stained with these troublesome acid saliva, white smoke will immediately rise. If there are too many of them, they will be burned through the body and their legs will be burned.
The Mountain Giants are the core of the Elven side's defenses, and once they fall, the Treants will have to directly face the charge of tens of thousands of wild beasts. As strong as Elder Knut, he didn't dare to say that he could survive such a sea of worms.
Not to mention the more fragile Elven Rangers.
However, acid monsters are not without their weaknesses, their attack range is too short, only 300 yards. Theoretically, as long as the mountain giants shrink towards the walls, the ranger shooters above can shoot them out of range of the acid monsters to protect these big guys.
But this ideal tactic requires two conditions to be met. The first condition is that the difference in numbers should not be too large. The Ranger Shooters in Chiping Town are quite limited, and the militia is less than a thousand. Not to mention the fact that yesterday's offensive also lost dozens of people.
This number comparison is not effective in suppressing the forward pressure of the acid monster cluster, and despite their slow movements, they can still bring the mountain giants and even the entire city walls into range before the elven archers can deal them a fatal blow.
Another condition is that there can be no scorpions. But unfortunately, at the back of the saliva monster cluster, a scorpion followed slowly.
This is a special type of zerg with forelimbs and a head that resembles a scorpion, hence the name. But because its tail is up to 10 meters long, it looks like a giant centipede from a distance.
Contrary to their hideous appearance, scorpions do not have the ability to attack. It can release a yellowish mist from its mouth, enveloping a large area of Zerg troops around it.
This pale yellow mist is almost the most headache for the elves. The most important thing for the Elray elves to fight against the Zerg is the ranger shooter's long range and super accurate shooting. A large city like Fury Wind is guarded by a large ranger legion like the Burning Thunder Fury.
When more than 10,000 elven archers gather fire from 1,200 yards away, a salvo can inflict terrifying damage on the Zerg army.
However, the presence of the scorpion just restrained the long-range shooting advantage of the Eero elves. The mist released by the scorpion, with the effect of optical camouflage. The insects that move in it loom and are indistinguishable.
At this point, the Ranger Marksman's Weak Point Shot won't work, and you can't ask them to shoot the head or joint of a moving target from 1000 yards away without seeing clearly.
Of course, rangers can also choose to shoot over, but the effect will be greatly reduced. The steel arrowheads, elm shafts, and tail feathers could barely penetrate the thick carapace of the Zerg.
This yellowish fog is almost useless in close combat, but the Zerg are not afraid of elven melee combat. Although the mountain giants are powerful, as long as they are isolated from the rangers' support for them, the mountain giants will only turn into white smoke in front of the acid monster cluster.
A yellowish mist spread rapidly from the scorpion's mouthparts, and in a short time, more than 3,000 acid monsters were protected. This huge thick fog slowly opened from the east of Qiping Town.
"This thing has to be bombarded with siege tanks, and a large number of people will die in one shot, I will tell you." Hao turned his head to teach Terry the secret of the game, "The beetle cannon is fine, in short, you have to use the cannon, and the arrow is definitely not good." β
Tyri gave him a blank look, ignoring him.
Don't look at Tyri's young age, people have been quasi-** for many years, so they won't talk to strange men. And Hao Yun's appearance is not her cup of tea.
The little brother was bored with himself, and he plucked the bowstring in a curt, and then remembered that Yolanda was coming, and the philatelic girl could at least talk and pass the boring time. He looked in the direction of the castle tower to the east, where Yolanda and Cesar and other high-ranking military officials were staying together. In other words, this is called the carp jumping over the dragon gate, in the foreseeable future, Castile will rise a new star?
In fact, Yolanda is not having a good time now, and she happily follows Captain Pablo up the castle tower, and finds her father Alvita standing beside the Garrison of Cesar. The father and daughter stared at each other for a moment, and then turned their faces away, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.
Cesar didn't notice the small episode between father and daughter, and the old paladin frowned as he looked into the yellow mist that was slowly approaching in the distance. The Acid Monster loomed in it, just as it had been many years ago.
In the years of fighting against the Zerg, the Eero elves have studied this pale yellow mist in depth at the cost of flesh and blood. The Wind Spell couldn't blow it away, the Falling Rain couldn't extinguish it, the Cloud Incineration couldn't burn it, the Stinky Cloud Spell couldn't neutralize it, and even Shiloxian's True Sight couldn't see through it.
This is an inherent enchantment with mysterious properties, and there is only one way to deal with it, and that is to kill the scorpion that is the source of the enchantment. But this incapable insect has desperate defense and almost magic immunity, making all long-range means meaningless. Only a close assault with a large number of troops can really kill it.
The acid monster moves more slowly, far less than the beast. However, in response, the will of the swarm sent almost all the wild beasts out to besiege and harass the town of Qiping from all sides.
Except, of course, for the north-western section. There's a big area there that the main brain can't understand. All Zerg who strayed into it will be out of the absolute control of the Mastermind.
Moreover, these traitors will also frantically send requests in the psychic network:
"Huang Ama! Spare your sons! Erchen doesn't want to die! β
Swarm Mastermind: ???
Forget it, it's better to ignore it.
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Despite the confidence of Alexander, Cesar as the garrison officer, the whole town of Chipin, he did not hesitate and gave orders in an orderly manner.
"Command the purr to move closer to the wall."
The acid monster swarm advanced due east, and this was the line of defense for the mountain giants to snort. This big, reliable man, like all dwarf treemen, doesn't have a lot of brains. If it touches the acid monster silly, it will definitely be corroded into stone slag by the acid volley.
Approaching the city wall, in the end, Qiping Town can still give him some support, and he can escape over the city wall at the most critical moment. At its height, the tree wall was just a step across. The Mountain Giants are a very important combat force for the elves, and if Qiping Town falls, it will be considered a reduction in losses if these five big men can escape to Fury Wind City.
"Order all the rangers to assemble on the eastern front, and order all the militia to take over the rangers." Cesar sighed, "Blow the trumpet, and all the townspeople go up to the walls." β
If you don't wipe out the Zerg's stinging snake cluster, sooner or later the entire city defense will be destroyed under their saliva. These are genuine trolls, and their acid is not only damaging to the granite of the mountain giants, but also to the treants and elves.
Over the years of war, the elves and treants who died at the hands of the acid monsters were more than the other zergs combined. Cesar had too few regular troops at hand, but he had to give it a go.
He concentrates all of his elite shooters on the front of the acid monster, trying to kill as many dangerous bugs as possible. In other directions, the beasts' attacks can only be left to the militia, or even civilians, to block them.
An ominous trumpet sounded, and the town was immediately in a hurry. After a while, every household with bows and arrows and scimitars dragged their families to the city wall.
It was really lively, men, women and children went into battle together, men with scimitars in front, women with bows and arrows in the back, and children in the middle, most of them ridiculously holding pot lids and stumbling in oversized leather armor.
What is more special is that women will tie their children to themselves with ropes. This prevents the little ones from running around on the battlefield, and if they die, the family can also die together without being separated.
Even the traveling merchants got out of the caravan. Among them, the merchants who sell weapons, armor, food, and miscellaneous goods distribute all the goods to the people around them for free. Then he himself picked up his bow and arrows and ran to the battlefield.
Hao Yun stood on the city wall, watching the mobilization of the entire town, and felt that the chickens and dogs were dancing a little funny and a little tragic. What kind of never-ending war will make the elves united and tenacious to such an extent?
All the elves are soldiers, and it is normal for men, women, and children to fight against the demon tide. But for the Cesar garrison, it was tantamount to betraying his oath to protect the town of Chiping.
The only good news is that there is no need to worry about the defense hole in the northwest section, he has insufficient tree people in his hands, and the hole in the close defense of the city wall was almost torn by the wild beast group yesterday.
I don't know why the swarm gave up attacking in that direction, but there are barely enough treants in the other defensive areas, and the pressure on the militia and civilians should be much less.
"Order the casters to assemble, order all the druids to assemble, and prepare for the glory tactics!" Garrison Cesar took a deep breath and handed the green staff, which symbolized the command of Chiping Town, to his deputy, Captain Pablo.
"Pablo, my dear friend, over to you."
The Ranger Captain took the command staff with a struggling expression.
"Yolanda."
"Yes!"
Seeing the fashion leader of Qiping Town standing stupidly in place, the old paladin who gave up the command battle kindly called her to his side.
"This is your weapon?" He casually took Yolanda's short sword, "Don't think about changing the hammer? β
"I've considered switching to heavy weapons." The female elf's strength has increased a lot now, and yesterday the scimitar was broken and almost caused a catastrophe, "But my friend just gave me this short sword, and it is said that this sword will never break." β
"Never break? Not bad, isn't it? The old man returned the dagger to Yolanda, "But I still want you to consider Warhammer." β
"Yes!"
"Okay, go to the front and watch what happened today, and remember with your heart that today you are not the protagonist, but tomorrow, maybe it will be you."
Yolanda was confused and left as he was told. The Awakening of the Paladins is quite rare among the Elves of Eero, but at least it is provided that there is no such thing as devotion to Shilothy.
How devout Yolanda is, you can also get a glimpse of her attitude towards feelings. She herself did not know that she had awakened the glory of Shilosian, so she was flattered and confused by the special care of the garrison officer Cesar.
"Pablo."
Cesar looked at Yolanda's back and whispered to the Ranger Captain, "If the town of Chipin is finished, let Pegasus take Alverta's little sparrow when they leave." β
Pablo nodded in understanding.
This is not favoritism, paladins are extremely precious and cannot be sacrificed here meaninglessly. She needs to go to the Grand Temple of the royal capital to further her studies until one day she becomes the garrison of a certain town, like the CΓ©sar Paladin, and fulfills the glorious mission given to them by Shiloh when necessary.
Under the city walls, more than fifty druid warriors, led by Alveta, all roared and turned into giant bears. Most of the giant bears had a flash of inspiration on them, and there were further changes.
Heavy rock armor covers the entire body, and the natural ability to petrify the skin gives these fearsome giant bears a defensive power against the claws of wild beasts.
And that's not enough, the stinging snake's acid can hurt them just as much. Therefore, all the mages and priests in Qiping Town surrounded these big bears and smashed scrolls and blessings upwards as if they didn't need money.
Acid resistance, deflection shields, life blessings, rejoicing, bloodthirsty thaumaturgy, etc., etc., the years of accumulation in Qiping Town are precisely for this moment. A large number of buff spells are stacked on top of these giant bears, making them light like light bulbs.
The Glory Tactic is a special tactic for the elves to deal with scorpions. When the scorpion spreads through the fog and follows the acid monster swarm, ranged attacks are almost ineffective.
At this time, the only weakness of the swarm is the scorpion in the center. Kill it at all costs, the elves have the power to fight.
The druid, who turned into a giant bear, was already rough and thick-skinned, with sharp claws and quick movements. Coupled with so many buff spells, these beasts have the ability to charge into battle that the sea of insects can't stop.
As long as a dozen giant bears rush to the scorpion's side, no matter how heavy its carapace is, it can't withstand the siege of so many people, and it will be broken into pieces in minutes.
The druids rushed into battle and were beheaded, and most of them never returned. The glory of the glory tactics refers not only to the dazzling aura that flashes on their bodies, but also to their heroic spirit of death and lifelessness.
However, it would be naΓ―ve to rely on a few dozen druids and want to break away from the sea of worms. Hordes of Berserkers can delay them, and despite their increased resistance, acid can still deal some damage to them. If only Alveta had rushed over, it would have been annihilated halfway through.
So, they also need a super meat shield plus a trailblazer, the true core of the Glory Tactics.