Chapter 376: Bloody Beast Tide (3)
According to the principle of the beast tide, this is only the first round of attack, the strongest is the third level of the blue order, with the level of their white level to participate in the battle, this should be the limit, otherwise it is not called the big beast tide, but the tide of annihilation, and the upgraded version of the fire beetle in front is upgraded on the basis of the third level of the blue level, no matter what, it cannot be the fourth level, so it should be the peak of the third level of the blue order, in other words, it should be the last batch, as long as this batch is eliminated, it means that they can survive the first round of the big beast tide.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qi quickly ordered to destroy the besieging fire beetles as soon as possible before the arrival of the fire beetles, otherwise once the two sides met, then they would be under great pressure.
After receiving the order, the soldiers defending the city frantically smashed downward, and even ordinary people participated in it, and at the same time, Zhang Qi also ordered to throw the stone bullets directly out without saving.
At the same time, open the side gate, and a large number of horse archers poured out of the city gate, frantically harvesting the fire beetles that were still behind.
The fire beetles in the back saw that someone rushed out of the city gate, and they also rushed up, and many slow soldiers were burned to death on the spot, but a large number of fire beetles were also eliminated, and they used their lives to complete Zhang Qi's order.
With the efforts of everyone, this batch of fire beetles was all wiped out, and the city gates were quickly closed, waiting for the arrival of the last batch of fire beetles!
As the last batch of fire beetles approached, the warriors saw its full picture, and everyone was taken aback by this upgraded version of the fire beetle, this is too big!
However, when they saw the true strength of this upgraded version of the fire beetle, they really felt what the real Extreme Beast Terror was.
When this group of fire beetles came to the edge of the moat, they suddenly stopped moving, but stared at the small eyes looking at the city defenders, which made Zhang Qi feel a chill, because this showed that this batch of fire beetles was by no means ordinary insects, if it wasn't for the wisdom of these insects, then there was a leader among them, commanding this battle, no matter what the situation, this difficulty was much more terrifying than all the previous combined.
And the next attack of the fire beetle finally confirmed Zhang Qi's latter inference.
The million fire beetles were clearly divided into three large blocks, half of which remained in place, while the other half was divided into east and west, attacking the main city in two directions, and it was clear that there must be a commander among them.
Zhang Qiyi, who was still worried, saw this formation, but the corners of his mouth showed a rare sneer.
According to common sense, the previous way of playing with a swarm of swarms is definitely not as good as being commanded by someone, but after seeing this formation, Zhang Qi smiled instead, because this formation seems to be steady and steady, but in fact, it exposes a huge loophole.
That is the caution of the commander, and if you put it another word, it is timidity, and this kind of thinking is a taboo in war.
This can be seen from the formation, the opponent uses half of his strength to defend himself, obviously afraid that he will be hurt, but this weakens the numerical advantage of the fire beetle, plus this guy is too cautious, even the offensive part is divided into two, which further weakens the strength of the fire beetle.
Although Zhang Qi smiled, he still didn't have any relaxation in his heart, after all, the strength of the fire beetle in front of him was definitely much higher than before.
The fire beetles attacking in two parts advanced rapidly, advancing like two tentacles, and the city guards were already in full array.
The fire beetle that arrived first did not climb up directly like before, but jumped up on the spot, its size was larger than the previous one, but the bounce force was much higher, this jump, directly went up nearly ten meters, and its claws were much harder than the former, and it was actually inserted into the gap in the city wall to fix the body, although not all fire beetles can do it, but the number of people who can do it is also amazing.
The guards of the city were amazed, and if this continued, it would not be long before these fire beetles would be able to climb the city wall and quickly smash down on things, but to their great surprise, many people would not be able to smash light objects down, such as tree trunks, and even let the fire beetles fall.
Zhang Qiyi saw this situation, his heart was bad, and he also underestimated these things, and hurriedly ordered to directly use heavier things to smash, as well as stone bullets and the like, do not save, at the same time, first withdraw some of the weak, and transfer all the strong ones to the city wall to defend, at the same time, he decisively ordered the stone throwing cart to open fire, smashing at the fire beetle's Chinese army.
Maybe many people don't understand, why such an important catapult does not deal with the fire beetles that are climbing the city under the city, but against the part that still participates in the siege, in fact, the reason is very simple, there is their command center, only let the commander feel the danger again will not dare to increase the siege part of the city at will, so as to reduce the pressure of defending the city in disguise.
Due to the large number of warriors joining and the increase in the quality of the materials for defending the city, he finally managed to hold the first round of attacks, but Zhang Qi was not as optimistic as the others, but his brows were even more furrowed, because he saw that in the first round of counterattacks, the proportion of fire beetles that actually died was very low.
The good news is that this batch of fire beetles is different from the previous batch, once they storm the city, they will not die, and this time as soon as they saw that the siege was blocked, they took the initiative to retreat and return to the side of the Chinese army to adjust, which gave the defenders a lot of buffer space, and they took the opportunity to mobilize personnel to quickly replenish strategic materials.
Zhang Zhongzhong smiled secretly, the main commander of the Heart Dao is really stupid, if it was the kind of siege before, it would definitely be able to cause great damage to the defense of the city, but now this has become a tactic to add fuel to the fire, and it consumes his own strength in vain, it is really a bearish house!
Sure enough, after resting for a while, the fire beetle organized the siege again, but at this time, the city guard was already fully prepared, and once again repelled the fire beetle, so back and forth more than a dozen times, and nearly half of the fire beetle was consumed, and what was even funnier was that the commander was reluctant to send nearly half of the fire beetle of its Chinese army at this time, and still attacked the city with those remnants, but in the end, the so-called east and west attack parts were all wiped out, and the defending side had almost no damage except for material consumption.
What's even more surprising is that as soon as this half of the fire beetles saw that all the ones in front of them were wiped out, they didn't even fight, they just slipped away, and the black pressure receded like a tide.
Seeing this, the defenders in the city erupted in cheers one by one, and even Zhang Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
However, his nerves did not relax in the slightest, and he always felt that things were not so simple, and just when everyone was about to cheer, he suddenly noticed something strange.
The retreating group of fire beetles slowed down, and then actually stopped, and after a short time, they actually slowly moved forward again, moving in the direction of the main city again.
What's going on? Is there any special tactical arrangement?
It stands to reason that if the commander had been so clever, there would not have been such a stupid siege before.
But looking at it like this, it seems that someone is preventing them from retreating, and their progress is a little helpless, otherwise it would not be possible to move forward so slowly, but in any case, this group of things turned back again, which is indeed bad news for the main city.
Just when this group of insects arrived at the edge of the moat, it seemed that they were suddenly stimulated, and suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the city wall, and almost all of them charged, except for a small handful in the back, the rest were all up, but fortunately, this group of insects did not concentrate a little, but lined up and advanced head-on.
The defenders were not afraid to cheer, but suddenly the situation took a turn for the worse and hurriedly took up arms to defend the city.
But this time the siege was very intense, the charge of the fire beetle was also very crazy, almost a suicidal rush, once it was smashed by something, it exploded directly, the powerful explosion and combustion force was much stronger than the previous fire beetle, many of the guards on the city wall were burned by the high temperature of the flames, some were directly blinded, and some were directly deaf in their ears.
And the powerful force generated by the explosion also caused the city wall to partially collapse, and finally, under the crazy explosion of the fire beetle, there was finally a section of the city wall that was blown out of an inclined plane, and those fire beetles rushed directly along the slope to the city surface, and the guards on the city wall were able to resist the attack of the fire beetle, and were constantly killed, and that time the city body also became a breakthrough in the main city, and there were constantly fire beetles through here to climb the city wall.
"Seventh Brother ......" Xuan Tiancheng hurriedly stepped forward, they all knew that the people who were defending the city wall now were those white-level warriors, and they were fighting head-on with a blue-level three-level peak extreme beast, which was no different from looking for death.
All of them have always puzzled, why did he fight for so long, Zhang Qi didn't even send out a single blue order, and he didn't send out a dream armor, could it be that he was really cold-blooded and let these white orders die?
In the face of Xuan Tiancheng's urgency, Zhang Qi's face did not have the slightest expression floating, it was still like ten thousand years of ice, Xuan Tiancheng knew that Zhang Qi at this time was just like the newcomer in the zombie world, cold-blooded, ruthless, and wise, and it was Zhang Qi in this state who was the most terrifying Zhang Qi, and all his decisions were the most correct of all the countermeasures, and there was no one, so Xuantian Zhengma stood aside obediently and remained silent.
Xuantian Chengdu didn't dare to speak, and others didn't dare to say more, so he could only watch the fresh life on the city wall being harvested continuously.
At this time, Zhang Qi's thoughts had been fully integrated into the battlefield, every movement in the field was under his control, and orders were issued in an orderly manner, and those screams could not shake his emotions.
"Beheaded!" Just when the battlefield appeared in turmoil, Zhang Qi immediately caught it and issued an order in time.
I saw a piece suddenly collapse under the corner of the city wall, revealing a small door, and then a white-level team of tens of thousands of people suddenly rushed out of the door, directly rushing to the command post of the insects.
Judging from the dress of this team, it is obvious that it is more well-equipped, this is a white-level powerhouse formed by Zhang Qi's secret, and the members in it are mainly from the white-level powerhouses of the Double Killing Sect, plus some high-strength adventurers, this team is incomparable to other white-level opponents in terms of combat experience and hunting experience for polar beasts.
And now the team is rushing straight ahead.
As soon as they saw these white steps, those fire beetles didn't care, they just sprayed flames forward to block, but these people are extremely experienced, especially those adventurers, who know how to deal with this kind of fire beetles, and they don't know what they have painted on their bodies, and then they pull out their shields from behind them, and rush in against the flames, and the warriors trapped behind them flashed at once, and stabbed at the fire beetles frantically.
Suddenly, he was caught off guard by the fire beetle, and he didn't even have time to explode himself, and a large area was wiped out.
The commander in the middle was obviously also alert, and hurriedly organized the rest of the fire beetles to protect it, but it still underestimated the strength of this group of white-rank warriors.
Because Zhang Qi clearly told them when he formed them, if you think I am choosing the elite team, then you should quit as soon as possible, because what I want to choose is a death squad, a death squad that fully serves the order, without my order, even if the city dies, you are not allowed to move, once the order is given, you have only one task, that is, to attack, reckless attack, without an order, everyone must not take a step back, even if it is to pay for their lives, they will only take a step forward and charge.
At this time, the death squad finally understood Zhang Qi's words, and the weapons in their hands went all out to kill the fire beetles, even if the other party blew himself up, they would not retreat in the slightest, and use their lives to fight for the space for the comrades behind to take a step forward.
The madness of the death squad finally frightened the commander, and while directing the fire beetle defense, it slowly retreated, and at the same time hurriedly commanded the defense of those besieging cities.
So, when the soldiers defending the city were facing a desperate slaughter, they suddenly found that these fire beetles were inexplicably retreating, but the movement at this time was captured by Zhang Qi for the first time, and he immediately issued an order, a strong order for the big beast tide this time: general attack!
A group of trumpeters suddenly appeared on the city walls, and under the blessing of magic, they roared and blew the horns of the general attack, and the people who listened to the passionate voice were enthusiastic.
In an instant, artillery, stone projectiles, bows and arrows ...... Shoot out like you don't want money, and the city defenders also chased out with the weapons in their hands and chased the fire beetles, mighty and overwhelming, this was the largest reaction of human beings for the first time, and gave up the big counterattack of the city wall defense.
A strange scene appeared, those who ran fast, such as the cavalry, they caught up with the fire beetle and went up with a knife, but I didn't expect the fire beetle to seem to have no idea at all, without any sense of defense at all, let alone a sense of resistance, and the other fire beetles in the same company were as if they didn't see it, just caring about their own lives and rushing to the place where the commander was.
This slash of the cavalry was seen by the people behind, and they went crazy at once, no, it should be ecstasy, these fire beetles are like they have been spelled, except for escaping, they are only left to be slaughtered.
So they only hated their father and mother for having one less leg, and they stepped forward to kill the insects with all their might, and at this time, the long-range ones took advantage of it and killed the most, and when this batch of fire beetles that originally attacked arrived near the commander, only tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of fire beetles remained.
However, in fact, a wave of unsettled, wave after wave, perhaps because of reinforcements, or perhaps because of the insult to himself by the annoyed death squad, the commander actually directly ordered the fire beetles to attack the death squad, and at this time, the death squad had the commander's swarm in front of it, and then there was the group of swarms that had withdrawn from the first line, and they were directly surrounded by them......
"Death squads! ......Seeing this, Zhang Qi calmly gave an order, with the current situation, there is no need for the death squad to sacrifice, and it is difficult to cause danger to the main city with only the remaining fire beetles, so he issued the order for all the death squad to retreat in time.
"Brothers, disperse and break through, and each has a destiny!" The death squad that received the order roared, and combined with the order issued by Zhang Qi, they stopped the offensive and retreated directly to the left and right.
However, the angry fire beetle is the third level of the blue order after all, both in speed and predatory, it is far stronger than the death squad, and it quickly rushed up, only as soon as it was contacted, a large number of death squads died tragically on the spot, fortunately, the human warriors who came to chase and kill arrived one after another, reducing the pressure, but the fire beetle became even more crazy under the commander's forced order, and the one who chased directly breathed fire and burned to death, and the one who couldn't catch up jumped up and blew himself up in the air.
Some of the death squads also understood their own dangerous situation, and it was impossible to think that it was impossible to escape with all of them, and only by sacrificing some people could more people have a chance to survive.
"Brothers, we will be brothers again in the next life, kill ...... with me" Those daredevils who were not fast saw that there was no hope of escaping, and directly turned back to organize the team members to fight back, and used a near-suicidal way to delay the fire beetles, and the daredevils in front of them shouted with eyes in their eyes, bleeding, and almost crying: "Brothers, let's go......"
The fire beetle only cared about hunting the death squad, but exposed its back to the soldiers who caught up, and the result was also heavy casualties, and under the sacrifice of those who went to the death, they were still escaped by a group of death squads, tens of thousands of daredevils, only a few thousand people survived, this is the real nine deaths!
With the last few besieging fire beetles eliminated, Zhang Qi finally saw the so-called commander.
To his surprise, this fire beetle is not bigger than other fire beetles, but smaller, but its color is different, it seems that there are at least three colors mixed, very conspicuous, originally it was surrounded by layers of fire beetles, naturally plus its body is not large, so it is difficult to see its true body, but now it is only less than a thousand fire beetles around it, naturally at a glance.
This guy was very cautious about even escaping, and even stepped on the bodies of other fire beetles, and those fire beetles were like under a spell, no matter what orders it had, they all obeyed unconditionally, which may be the innate level suppression of the Zerg Extreme Beast, and it is obedience from the soul.
Looking at the fleeing fire beetle, the soldiers pursued even more frantically, but at this moment, Zhang Qi decisively gave the order to retreat, and kept repeating it.
In this battle, it was precisely because of Zhang Qi's command that there was such a brilliant record, so people were completely convinced by Zhang Qi, although they didn't understand why they could completely kill this group of fire beetles, but they suddenly withdrew their troops, but Zhang Qi's order was above all else, they still consciously retreated, and the commander of the fire beetles successfully escaped.
Zhang Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and the whole person sat on the ground as if he was paralyzed, and fell asleep in a few seconds.
He was tired, he was so tired, for a few days and nights, his brain was in a highly tense calculation almost every second, such a large battlefield, his perception covered every corner, and only then did he issue instructions accurate to everyone, which was beyond the limit of human beings.
Xuan Tiancheng saw Zhang Qiyi lying down, and immediately stood on the side with a sword, no matter who it was, if someone approached Zhang Qi half a step, his ruling would definitely allow him to kill him at the first time, and during the day, he also gave Zhang Qi a powerful soul healing technique, just so that he could sleep more peacefully.
When the high-level leaders of the Double Killing Sect and the Thousand Spirits Sect saw Zhang Qi lying down, they also knew that he was too tired, so they spontaneously took over the work of cleaning up the aftermath, cleaning the battlefield and treating the wounded...... There are many, many things to do in a war, but Zhang Qi doesn't need to worry about these things.
This sleep, I slept directly for a day and a night, Zhang Qi slowly woke up, stretched his waist, his whole body sounded like popping beans, and his spirit was as comfortable as drinking ice water in the summer.
However, the first thing he said when he woke up was: "Notify the relevant personnel, and the council hall will assemble." ”