Chapter 171: Monsters Attack the City
Cuiping Town is not a heavy town like Qingfeng Town, the defenders are only five hundred, of which fifty are magicians, and they are all first- and second-level magicians, and most of the other four hundred and fifty are high-level warriors.
Even if all the warriors in the city were gathered, there were only more than two hundred people, of which all the magicians in the magician branch, including magic apprentices, were less than thirty in total, and most of the rest were only at the level of high-level warriors and bronze warriors.
If they hadn't relied on the walls for defense, they would probably not have been able to withstand even a wave of impact.
Although they were given less than an hour to prepare, they were well prepared. The huge bed crossbow was ready to be fired, and each warrior was armed with a bow and arrow, and the quiver was full of arrows with demon-breaking arrows.
Now is not the time to be stingy, the weapons and equipment in the entire combat readiness warehouse have been mobilized. Relying on these equipment, it shouldn't be a problem to resist for an hour. Within an hour, the Empire and the Wizards' Guild would surely send reinforcements. Fortunately, Cuiping Town is not too far from Caro City, otherwise it would be really dangerous.
After everything was ready, in less than a quarter of an hour, dozens of man-eating ant soldiers appeared on the edge of the Mill Forest.
Everyone did not relax their vigilance when they saw dozens of soldier ants, and the intelligence showed that this batch of ogre ants was opened by pioneers, and there will be thousands more in the future.
The dozens of ogres appeared and tried to get close to the walls of Cuiping Town, and finally dropped a dozen corpses before retreating to the edge of the Mill Forest.
The remaining ogres gathered together as if to discuss, and several of them raised their heads and watched the surroundings warily. After a while, the ogre ants stopped their discussion, stopped at the edge of the Mill Forest, and stopped moving forward.
A few minutes later, a large number of ogre ants appeared on the edge of the Mill Forest, obscuring the sky and making people's scalps tingle. A third-order demonic beast didn't care too much, but thousands of third-order demonic beasts had to be shocking.
Two high-level warriors can compete with one ogre ant, but six high-level warriors will definitely not be able to defeat three ogres. The more ogre ants there are, the more terrifying they are, and it's not just as simple as one plus one equals two. Dozens of ogre demon ants could easily kill ordinary fifth-order demonic beasts unscathed.
After the ogre ant colony appeared, it did not rush to move towards Cuiping Town, but surrounded Cuiping Town.
Seeing the movements of the ogre ant colony, everyone's hearts tugged. Originally, the number of people was not superior, and now they have to disperse to guard all the city walls, originally thought that they could defend for an hour, but now it is a problem to look at the situation for half an hour.
Li Zhenbang hid not far behind the ogre ant colony, and naturally saw the current situation, and he also reported the situation to Omega in time, but after all, far water could not quench the thirst of the near.
According to the current situation, even if you hold on until the rescue arrives, the defenders in the city are estimated to be exhausted, which is not what Li Zhenbang wants to see.
The ogre ants outside the city couldn't bear it anymore, and began to approach the city wall little by little, and the defenders on the city wall were also obviously nervous.
Many soldiers who had not experienced such a large battle had turned white from the exertion of force in their arms. Even some veterans had fine beads of sweat on their foreheads.
Li Zhenbang released the demon from the acquired bag, the demon sucked* The ability to get the knowledge in the other party's brain cannot be wasted, and so many ogre ants, as long as they are not facing each other, it is a rare delicacy for the demon!
With the dual cooperation of Li Zhenbang and the demon, after sucking more than a dozen ogre ants, the demon barely learned some useful information.
It turned out that the queen ant of this group of ogre ants was captured by humans, and they came following the scent of the queen, and now the queen ant should be in the town of Cuiping opposite.
When Li Zhenbang heard the news, he couldn't help frowning, how could an ordinary person have the ability to snatch the queen ant from the nest of the ogre? Moreover, this ogre ant colony was much larger than the ordinary group.
This person is definitely very strong in snatching away the queen ant of the ogre, so why is he hiding in Cuiping Town? He is fully capable of running farther. With his own strength, he can easily follow behind this group of ogres and demon ants, and the person who snatches the queen ant should not be able to escape!
Li Zhenbang shuddered, he thought of a possibility, but this possibility is a bit too anti-human and unreasonable!
Li Zhenbang immediately passed the news to Omega, and now is not the time to think about the reason, but how to solve the current situation.
The demon has done its best to solve the ogre ants in the back row, and for it, this is not only a problem solving, but also a good opportunity to improve its strength.
There are so many third-order demonic beasts*, but you can't always encounter them. However, there is only one demon after all, and in order not to let the other ogre ants find out, it doesn't dare to go too far, it needs a certain amount of time to solve one.
The ogre ants have already begun to attack the city, and now the damage of the ogre ants is still very large. After all, the defending side of the city waits for work, and the besieging side suffers more losses, and the defending side is now full of energy, and casualties will definitely be inevitable over time. Fortunately, the ogre ants do not have the skill of long-range attack, otherwise the defenders would have suffered casualties a long time ago.
The mayor of Cuiping Town and the president of the magic branch knew the news of the ogre ant queen as soon as possible, but there was nothing they could do. With their strength, even if they find that person, I'm afraid there is nothing they can do about him. And if there is chaos in the town, I am afraid that Cuiping Town will be destroyed directly.
All they could do now was to block the news, defend the city with all their might, hold the walls as much as possible, and wait for reinforcements.
As the ogre ants attacked at any cost, the defenders began to suffer casualties. With the appearance of casualties on the defenders, holes began to appear in the defenses, and there were constantly ogres rushing to the city walls, and the casualties of the defenders began to expand, and a vicious circle continued.
Li Zhenbang was anxious but helpless, his current strength couldn't help much at all, it was okay to face one or two ogres alone, and he couldn't bear it anymore, it was not as good as the steady and fast demon demon.
As the number of ogre ants killed by the demon increased, the strength of the demon became stronger and stronger, and the speed of killing was significantly accelerated, and the dead ogre ants looked no different from normal, except that there was an extra hole in the head, and there was no trace left.