Early in the morning, there was a heavy fog inside the Dodan Gorge.

The entire northern city wall was shrouded in fog, and the flames below the wall caused the mist to surge upwards, so that the archers at the head of the city could not see the ghost-patterned red ants in the distance, and could only shoot them when they crawled closer.

A large number of ghostly red ants poured up from both sides of the mountain wall, engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the heavy infantry at the head of the city, and the guards on the city wall were locked in a bitter battle.

The archers retreated to the arrow tower for a while, and shot arrows in succession, suppressing the ghostly red ants on the city wall.

However, in the dense fog, there were too many ghost-patterned red ants pouring up from the mountain wall, and the corpses of ghost-patterned red ants were piled up almost on top of each other at the head of the city, and a large number of ghost-patterned red ants still poured up.

The city guards who wielded the bed crossbow kept to heart Surdak's instructions and stared at the giant soldier ants that were mixed in with the ant colony.

Giant crossbow arrows are basically used to shoot these ghost-patterned soldier ants that have just emerged from the city, and as long as there are soldier ants, they will be nailed to the mountain near the city by the giant crossbow arrows.

Throughout the morning, more than 100 ghost-patterned soldier ants had been nailed to the left side of the mountain, each of which was the size of an adult one-horned bison, and they were densely nailed to the mountain wall.

Some of the soldiers broke free from the giant bolts, and their bodies were broken in two.

Some of the ant's bodies fell under the city, while others with their heads attached to them insisted on climbing up the city, trying to spit out acid.

It's just that the abdomen of these soldiers has long been broken, so they can only survive and use huge pincers to attack the heavy infantry in the city, and some heavy infantry armed with spears will work together to pick these soldiers down the city.

There were about two hundred hoplites on night duty, in addition to nearly one hundred and fifty city guards and twenty mercenaries.

At this time, one hundred and fifty city defenders were desperately guarding the thirty-five bed crossbows at the head of the city with even archer crossbows.

The heavy infantry, led by Adams and Gallatin, forcibly squeezed the movement space of the ghost-patterned soldier ants on the east and west sides of the city wall, trying to force the ghost-patterned worker ants on the city head back to the mountain wall.

Surdak and Andrew ascend the northern wall.

I happened to see Adams, dressed in silver armor, standing at the front of the line with a tower shield in his hand, surrounded by some mercenaries and veterans of the infantry regiment, who formed a human wall, brandished the heavy sword in his hand, and were struggling to clear the ghostly worker ants that were pouring into the city.

Adams stood on a tall pile of corpses piled up by ghost-patterned worker ants, and a swarm of worker ants surrounded him.

Adams, who was standing at the front of the line, swung out the long sword in his hand, and a white sword flashed with the blade, and the heads of several ghost-patterned worker ants that pounced on him were cut off by the long sword at the same time.

However, at this time, Adams was also very embarrassed at this time, his leg armor and Mithril battle skirt were stained with acid and dark brown body fluids spewed by ghost striped worker ants, and there were already serious signs of corrosion on them, and there were several scratches on his body.

The hoplites and mercenaries around him were also wounded, and several veterans held shields at Adams' sides to defend him against the worker ants.

Neither Surdak nor Andrew expected that the ghostly red ants would take advantage of the morning fog to attack the northern city wall.

By the time they reached the northern wall, the corpses of the ghost-patterned worker ants had been piled up on both sides of the wall, and the city guards who followed behind Andrew immediately held repeating archer crossbows and fired a rain of arrows at the hard carapace workers.

The steel arrows sliced through the armor of the ghost-patterned worker ants and nailed them into their bodies, sending hazel blood flying everywhere.

The worker ants who rushed to the front were injured and hissed and screamed, trying to hide behind, but they were surrounded by ghost-patterned soldiers from behind, and rushed forward like a wave......

When Andrew saw this, he immediately took a big step and jumped onto the wall.

The butcher's axe was drawn from behind, and a layer of fire poured out from his hands, like a meat grinder caught in an ant colony, and some stumps and broken legs flew out of Andrew's side.

The momentum of the ghost-patterned worker ants that poured up was finally stopped.

Surdak also followed closely behind Andrew, and an aura of strength appeared under his feet.

He rushed to the head of the city, and stood with Adams.

Adams and the surrounding hoplites suddenly felt a surge of power pouring out from under their feet like a spring, and Adams and Surdak rushed into the ant colony almost at the same time......

Andrew was followed by a new force.

Everyone stood on the wall several meters wide, forcing the ghost-patterned worker ants that poured up little by little down the north city wall.

The battle situation at the head of the city slowly stabilized, the ghost-patterned worker ants on both sides of the mountain wall were suppressed by the crossbow arrows again, and the corpses of the worker ants under the mountain walls on both sides burned, and a large amount of smoke dispersed the dense fog, and the burning assembly once again blocked the attack of the worker ants.

The newly arrived city guards threw the corpses of worker ants piled up on the walls into the fire wall under the walls, and cleaned the walls again.

It's just that there are some acid rot and light brown blood left on the city wall, and the disgusting stench, buckets of clean water are splashed on it, and sewage mixed with acid and worker ant body fluids and blood flows down from the city.

……

The fog also began to dissipate in the morning light.

Some of the ghost-patterned worker ants that crossed the northern city wall became the training targets of the town's reserve regiment.

These ghost-patterned worker ants are extremely aggressive, but also fearless of death, and do not know how to hide, and are quickly wiped out by the city's reserve corps.

……

When the ghost-patterned red ants rushed to the city wall, the bed crossbows on the city wall were almost all shooting the ghost-patterned soldier ants.

Giant crossbow arrows are shot out, containing a huge impact.

At such a close distance, almost as soon as you shoot the ghost pattern soldier ants, they will be taken out and nailed to the side wall of the mountain.

After the fog cleared, more than 100 giant crossbow arrows were inserted into the mountain wall.

Some of the ghost-patterned soldier ants were nailed to the mountain wall and could not break free, and at this time, they were still struggling and wriggling among the giant crossbow arrows densely packed on the mountain wall, and these ghost-patterned soldier ants were basically taken by the city guards on a long ladder and cut off their dark red heads with long-handled scythes.

After the city guards had executed the ghost-patterned soldiers, they dared to approach the mountain wall and began to collect the giant crossbow arrows that had been shot into the mountain wall.

Normal arrows are hard to recycle when fired.

In just two days, more than 100,000 arrows were fired by the garrison and city guards of Dodan Town.

This amount accounts for almost half of the number of arrows in the warehouse of the city defense brigade, and these arrows are almost all the materials transported by the logistics department of the Wilkes military department in the past three times, but there are still a large number of steel arrow clusters in the warehouse, as long as the shaft and tail feathers are installed, they can be made into brand new arrows.

Despite the high cost of ordinary arrows, there is at least a way to raise them, and the town's trading houses and some merchants have them in their hands.

However, the situation of giant crossbow arrows is different, and if they can be recovered, they still need to be recovered as much as possible.

The tip of each crossbow is thicker than a spear, and the tip of each crossbow is mixed with some magic metal to increase its hardness and sharpness.

This kind of crossbow arrowhead belongs to the military management material, and it is almost difficult to replenish it after the loss.

Surdak hoped that in the fourth batch of supplies that the logistics department was about to transport, it would be best to bring enough supplies such as fire oil, giant crossbow arrows, and steel arrows.

……

In this early morning defensive battle, almost all the guards who were on night duty on the city walls were wounded.

If the acid putrid liquid spewed out by the ghost red ant is not cleaned up in time, the wound will continue to worsen.

On the skin, the skin quickly becomes red, itchy and blisters, which then burst, creating severe pain and further eroding the subcutaneous texture.

These acids need to be cleaned with light salt water in time, but fortunately, the station has been prepared for a long time.

The city guards and heavy infantry on duty at night withdrew from the city walls, and even if they were slightly wounded, they had to take a shower at the barracks as soon as possible.

Gallatin's injuries were more severe than Adams's, and he fought almost to the point of exhaustion on the walls, unable to lift his shield in his hands.

When he was withdrawn from the city, his body was covered with acid, and one of his arms had been pierced by the ghost-patterned worker ant with giant pincers, and Adams first saw the wound, and thought that Gallatin's arm was broken, and the triangular puncture laceration took up almost the entire right forearm.

His body collapsed a little, and he sat on the wooden platform outside the small building.

Two cronies of the cavalry battalion were treating Gallatin's other wounds, and every time he touched them, he screamed in pain.

Adams walked over to Gallatin and took out a bottle of reddish healing potion and stuffed it to him.

Gallatin waved his hand, but did not take the bottle of healing potion, he endured the pain and said to Adams, "Since you came back alive, you don't need this, this thing is more useful to keep." ”

Adams was drenched, and after such a big battle, his face was not tired, but bright, and even the wounds on his body had quickly scabbed.

Gallatin hesitated for a moment before asking softly, "Is the effect of that magic pattern really that good?" ”

Adams didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically, "Isn't it a little regretful?" ”

Gallatin smiled bitterly: "Regret? Even if I want to regret it, it's not like I can't get that money......"

At this time, two cavalrymen ran over and said to Gallatin: "Captain Gallatin, your injuries are serious, it's your turn to be treated!" ”

"I've been waiting here for a long time, how are the wounded this time?"

Gallatin stood up with the help of his cronies, and asked the cavalry as he went.

One of the cavalrymen said: "Twelve were killed on the spot on the city wall, three more seriously wounded were not rescued, the other seriously wounded will take more than ten days to recover, and there are many lightly wounded warriors ......"

Adams and Gallatin glanced at each other, neither of them expected such a tragic battle, and the casualties were not high.

Moreover, the lightly wounded fighters are expected to recover quickly......

……

Surdak spent another morning in the renovated examination room of the small building before he put away the torch of holy light standing beside his bed.

Almost all the divine aura in his body was consumed, and at the same time, he wasted the sacrifice of more than seventy moon blade fire wolf heads.

After all, it is a time of war, and the garrison must maintain the strongest combat power as much as possible.

The only way to recover these wounded warriors as quickly as possible is for all wounded warriors to be blessed with the blessing of the gods.

Anyway, those moonblade fire wolf heads have been hoarded in hundreds of boxes, and I don't feel distressed to use some of them now.

Surdak walked out of the small building, endured dizziness, and stood with his eyes closed on the wooden railing for a while before he felt a little refreshed.

"Commander Surdak, the corpses of those ghost-patterned soldiers and ants piled up outside the barracks have already stinked, what are we going to do with them? Do you want to throw it into the wall of fire outside the city and burn it? A squadron leader of the city's defense guards walked over and saluted Surdak before asking.

Surdak patted his forehead, only to remember that the beast tide had been two days old, and he had not had time to dispose of the corpses of these ghostly soldier ants.

"Let's go together, I've always wanted to see ......," Surdak said to the captain of the city's guard squadron.

The squadron leader was slightly stunned, and immediately led the way in front.

Walking out of the barracks, the place where the corpses of the ghost soldiers were piled up was not far from the north city wall, although the number of ghost soldiers and ants was not many when they were attacking the city, but after two days of accumulation, the corpses of these ghost soldiers and ants had almost filled the pit.

A sour smell filled the area around the pit.

In order to prevent the acid from flowing everywhere in the corpse, Surdak had a large pit more than ten meters in diameter dug in the open space behind the northern city wall.

The ghostly soldier ants thrown from the city wall will first be carried to the tanner, the head of the soldier ant will be cut off and the magic core inside will be removed, and then the corpse of the soldier ant will be thrown here.

At this moment, it has been filled with the corpses of the ghost pattern soldier ants.

What Surdak didn't expect was that a large amount of acid came out of the corpse of the ghost pattern soldier ants, and these acids may have dissolved the flesh and blood in the body of the ghost pattern soldier ants, diluting more foul-smelling acid, and almost all the ghost pattern soldiers were soaked in blood water.

The acid has completely dissolved the protein in the body of the soldier ants, and it is estimated that these ghost soldier ants can no longer be a delicious food.

Surdak covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, stood on the edge of the pit, resisted the feeling of vomiting, and stabbed the corpse of the ghost soldier ants in the acid with a wooden stick.

Originally, he wanted to peel the skin himself, but now he doesn't seem to need it.

Pulling the captain of the city guard squadron a little further, he happened to see a makeshift shed set up under the city wall, and the town's leather maker and four young men were working together to cut off the head of a ghost-patterned soldier ant.

Surdak walked over with the captain of the city's defense guards, and Surdak asked the tanner named Mullen, "Boss Mullen, what do you see...... Can the crust of those ghost-patterned soldier ants over there be further ripened? ”

The tanner named Maren stopped his hand axe, bowed to Surdak, hung his head and said respectfully: "Returning to Commander Surdak, the hard skin of those ghost-patterned soldier ants has gradually melted away under acid soaking, and even if it is still of some use, it is not very valuable. ”

"It is estimated that only some businessmen who make saddle covers are willing to buy some." The owner of the leather shop, Mullen, lowered his head and said.

As he spoke, he never made eye contact with Surdak.

Surdak felt a little strange in his heart......