Chapter 29: Worm Blanket
The number of wolfworms that crawl up is small, but it is also a great threat, and their mouthparts are densely packed with fangs, which can easily bite through leather armor. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Even the sharp claws of their forelimbs are capable of cutting through the leather armor.
The pikemen standing on the city wall could not react effectively before they were pounced on by the wolf worms that climbed up, tearing open their chests and their hearts being directly shattered.
The pikemen around him hesitated for a moment, then reacted and stabbed them in unison with spears in hand.
But the wolf insect is not a vegetarian, so he directly put down the pikeman on the ground who was not yet dead, and hit it with the spear.
The steel spear head collided with the hard shell on the wolf's back from the side, and sparks sparked, and in an instant, several pikemen were knocked out and fell off the city wall, unable to die or live.
Several pikemen were killed in 1 second, and Lin Xiao's heart was also dripping blood, he gritted his teeth and said:
"Shortbowmen throw with all their might, don't let the wolf worms come up again!"
That being said, it's impossible to stop the wolf worms from climbing the walls, but it can also cause them a lot of damage.
You must know that almost all the wolf insects gathered under the city wall, and several waves of arrows rained down, and almost none of them missed, which also slowed down the speed of the wolf worm's attack and gave the pikemen on the city wall a chance to breathe.
With the advantage of numbers, the pikemen drove down the wolf worms that climbed up at the cost of more than 100 people.
Lin Xiao took advantage of this gap and replaced the sword and shield soldiers, they were equipped with steel armor, if they couldn't defeat the wolf worms, they could only retreat behind the spatial crack.
As soon as the sword and shield soldiers were replaced, the wolf insects attacked again, this time they could taste the power of steel armor, and it was difficult for their claws and mouthparts to hurt the sword and shield soldiers inside the armor.
Under the sharp steel knife, the wolf insect that climbed up was slashed, bleeding nonstop, and finally died under the knife.
The shortbowmen were also in full support, and the wolves paid a heavy price for every extra time they spent under the walls.
Follow-up support also became insufficient, and the defenders on the watchtower also attacked, shooting several bugs suspected of being the leader of the wolfworms.
The second attack then failed......
The third attack came soon, and the wolf worm rushed forward with all his strength, but it was quickly repulsed, and the remaining wolf worm was much more honest, retreating hundreds of meters, but had no intention of leaving.
This distance is also very ingenious, and the range of the short bow is completely insufficient, even if you change to a city crossbow, you can't hit.
"Do these wolf worms want to consume me, or do they have reinforcements?" Lin Xiao was vigilant, he didn't have time to spend time with wolves.
At present, he has killed nearly 1,000 people and injured hundreds of people before he repelled the wolf insects, leaving only 200 corpses of wolf insects and killing and injuring 500 wolf insects.
According to this casualty ratio, he couldn't afford it, and gradually had the idea of retreating, and on the Xiaozhou side, he had many ways to deal with the wolf worms.
This is the place where he plundered resources, and he was a little unwilling to withdraw like this, and it was difficult for him to choose for a while.
"Human, don't you notice that those bugs are behaving strangely?"
Chocolate on the side looked at the wolf worms in the distance and pointed behind them.
When Lin Xiao heard this, he looked over, only to see hundreds of wolf insects crawling over from behind dragging a light brown ball like a sun-dried thorn ball.
It can be found that the whole body of this ball is not full of thorns, but writhing bugs.
It's like a ball, the whole body is covered with cordyceps, these grasses are still alive, and they only make people's scalp tingle.
After transporting the 1-meter-tall worm ball, the wolf worms began to work, dragging all the corpses of the soldiers they had killed before, as well as the corpses of their own kind, and piling them up on the worm ball.
Lin Xiao didn't understand the idea of wolf worms for a while, but he knew that it would definitely not be good for him, and the hundreds of wolf worms that had newly joined him were also a big threat to him, who knew if there would be reinforcements from wolf worms behind.
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated and ordered the soldiers to retreat.
In order to prevent the wolf insects from discovering the abnormality, Lin Xiao did not leave immediately, he also wanted to see what these insects were doing.
Ten minutes passed, and there were only a dozen soldiers left in the No. 1 fortress, and it was easy to withdraw to Xiaozhou.
Lin Xiao also discovered the abnormality, the insect ball grew a large amount of cordyceps, which gradually spread, spread on top of the corpse, and devoured the flesh and blood of the corpse.
A few hours passed, and the worm carpet composed of cordyceps spread out hundreds of square meters, during which the wolf insects plundered everywhere, whether it was insects or plants, alive and dead, half-dead, all became the nourishment of the worm blanket.
This is not the most terrible, the worm blanket grows to 1,000 square meters, and then it stops growing, and those injured wolf worms step into the worm carpet and submerge into it.
Contrary to imagination, the injured wolf worms did not become nourishment for the worm blanket, and the worm blanket where they stayed all withered, and these wolf worms all recovered from their injuries!
Lin Xiao was a little shocked, but more afraid, if he didn't order a retreat, when these wolf insects recovered from their injuries, the horror would be another vicious battle, and there would be no chance to retreat if they wanted to.
"Withdraw, withdraw!" Lin Xiao did not stay and directly ordered a retreat.
As soon as he withdrew, all the wolf worms raised their heads, regardless of whether the injuries on their bodies had recovered or not, and all rushed towards Fort 1.
The distance of hundreds of meters is not very far for the wolf worms, but they have just climbed the city wall and there are no people in sight inside.
However, when the last one had just submerged into the spatial crack, it was still seen, and the wolf insects all pounced, but it was still a step too late.
Losing the breath of their prey, the wolf insects gathered around the spatial crack, watching the river rush in, and did not act rashly.
After a few seconds, the wolf worms seemed to have been discussed, and several wolf worms entered the spatial rift as the vanguard, while the rest of the wolf worms waited on the side.
The wolf insects, which were the vanguards, quickly returned, which also meant that they were not in danger, and the rest of the wolf insects rushed up and stepped on the river water into the spatial rift.
As soon as they arrived on the other side of the spatial rift, the wolf insects noticed a large number of human soldiers guarding not far away, watching them with fierce eyes.
Due to the huge disparity in numbers, the wolf bugs did not act rashly and waited for the follow-up troops.
It didn't take long for nearly a hundred wolf insects to gather, and the wolf insects with confidence were eager to try and would rush up at any time.
"All the soldiers retreat 100 meters!" Lin Xiao ordered.
The soldiers retreated, which also made the wolf insects think that these human soldiers were afraid of them, and moved a few steps forward.
"The number is just ......," Lin Xiao muttered, if he waited any longer, the wolf worm would attack, which was not what he wanted to see.
Calming his heart, Lin Xiao looked at the ground under the wolf's feet, and suddenly said, "The earth, crack it for me!" ”
The wolf insects were able to understand this sentence, but it was still difficult to understand, and they were slightly sluggish, and before a second passed, the ground shook slightly.
A crack formed at the foot of the wolf insect, and the earth and stone suddenly sunk in, and a large number of wolf insects were caught off guard and fell into the crack.
The wolf worm is very agile, and there are still many ways to dodge, but there is more than one crack in the crack.
Lin Xiao opened 10 large cracks just in case, which were more than 30 meters deep, and hundreds of square meters of land were all sunken in, and there was no place to stand.
That's why he asked his soldiers to retreat, just to avoid hurting his own people.
A few seconds passed, and there were large cracks under the spatial cracks, and the wolf insects that came to support them fell into it before they could understand what was going on, cutting off the possibility of going back to report the news.
Lin Xiao felt a lot more relieved when he saw this, and now he could finally take revenge on this group of damn wolf worms, but what he didn't expect was that the soldiers behind him then all knelt on the ground and bowed to him.
Chocolate had seen it once before, but she was still shocked, and looked at Lin Xiao with complicated eyes.
The rest of the soldiers were not as calm as Chocolate, and directly regarded Lin Xiao as a god......