Chapter 770 759. The Death of the New Ant Queen
The ant colony climbing up the city wall encountered the most resolute resistance from the archers and crossbowmen this time.
Ordinary arrows can only effectively kill ghost-striped worker ants, but not enough to kill ghost-striped soldier ants. Therefore, as long as there are larger ghost-striped soldier ants standing in front of the ant colony, the city guard's continuous crossbow will Out of action.
At this time, it is necessary to kill the ghost pattern soldiers in the ant colony with the bed crossbow immediately, and the archers cover them with arrow rain to completely cut off the attack of the ant colony.
Obviously, the new ant queen in the distance issued a clear command to attack.
There are a large number of soldier ants mixed in the ant colony, ready to break through the north city wall in one fell swoop, only in this way can the ant colony continue to go south.
The order of the new ant queen was obviously very firm, even hundreds of huge male ant guards moved from a distance, and the new ant queen also slowly fell into the ant colony. Surrounded by them, they cautiously approached the north city wall.
Because the sky is the territory of the rocs, although most of the time these rocs hardly fly over the Thorn Mountains, but if they fly too high in the canyons of the Thorn Mountains, they are still in danger of being hunted.
It didn't dare to fly too high, and it didn't even dare to suspend its body within the range of the bed crossbow when it was close to the north city wall.
Because it knew that, the bed crossbow on the city wall would definitely kill it immediately.
Seeing the soldier ants rushing up the north city wall, the new ant queen resolutely decided to mobilize all the ant colonies in the canyon to attack the north city wall at all costs.
And there are nearly two hundred giant ghost-striped drones gathered in its personal guard group, and these powerful combat forces will rush up together. In order to be able to absolutely control these ghost-striped drones, it has to venture into the range of the bed crossbow.
It didn't dare to fly at all, it only dared to float its body at the lowest altitude, and slowly approached with its wings flapping.
Suldak saw this scene in hand-to-hand combat, and exchanged glances with Andrew on the other side.
Waiting for this moment!
Among them, ten bed crossbows shot intensively, and all the giant crossbow arrows in the arrow slots were emptied. The city guards cut off the ropes hanging from the end of the bed crossbows on the gantry frame, and thirty-five bed crossbows returned to their normal positions.
The rolling stones connected by ropes were pushed down the city wall at the same time, clearing out all the ant colonies climbing on the city wall.
The city defense guard lifted the precious magic giant crossbow bolt from the top of the shelf and installed it in the arrow slot of the bed crossbow.
At this moment, the phalanx of the male ant pro-guard group has approached to a place six hundred meters away from the city wall. The queen ant is hiding in the ant colony, and is blocked by the male ant in front.
The ghost-patterned soldier ants on the top of the city seemed to have taken a stimulant. Even if they were cut in half, those soldier ants were fighting with their last breath against the heavy armored infantry on the city wall.
The colony of ants under the city wall surged up again, and not far away was the phalanx of the male ant pro-guards.
Under the pressure of the army, the guards on the city finally saw the guard army composed of ghost-striped drones. If the size of giant soldier ants is compared to a rhinoceros, then these ghost-striped drones are war elephants. The male ants are almost five or six meters long. They not only have a pair of huge claws on their heads, but also have sharp bone scythes on the joints of each outrigger, and their bodies are also covered with gorgeous bone spurs. The armor is covered on the black hard carapace, which is actually double armor.
These ghost-striped male ants are like giant siege weapons. When they approached the north city wall, they brought enormous psychological pressure to the city guards.
The herald on the arrow tower made a gesture to Suldak, and Suldak raised the blood-red crescent in his hand high.
The herald immediately issued semaphores to the catapult camp inside the city wall.
The soldiers guarding the ten catapults immediately stopped installing the flint, and lifted a large wooden box from the warehouse, took out the round black iron **** inside, put them into the catapult very carefully, and followed the operator with a torch The fuze of the black iron ball was ignited, and the ten catapults threw the black iron ball with the ignited fuze in the basket almost simultaneously beyond the north city wall.
The new ant queen saw a black stone ball thrown from the north city wall, and thought it was still the same as before, it was the kind of flint that would roll and explode when hit the ground.
It has four of the strongest ghost-striped male ants protecting its surroundings, even if a flint falls, it will never hit itself.
The black iron ball fell into the guard group of the male ants, and only smashed the thick armor on the back of the ghost-striped male ants, without damaging the hard shell inside.
It is in the center of the SS camp, ready to continue approaching the northern city wall.
At this moment, a violent explosion sounded next to the future, a huge impact force accompanied by a deafening explosion sound, and at the same time as the flames burst out, a huge ghost-striped male ant was blown into three pieces Son.
The explosion also affected other ghost-striped drones, and the other two ghost-striped drones were blown up so that the three outriggers on one side were completely shattered.
Violent explosions sounded one after another, and the burly ghost pattern male ants had nowhere to hide, and there was chaos among the male ant guards.
The new ant queen was also in this wave of explosions, and one of her wings was stabbed by a severed limb of a male ant, so that she couldn't keep her balance when flying at low altitude.
It was terrified by the bursting flames, and the ghost-striped drones in the personal guard crawled out from the stumped limbs and arms, and almost all the drones blocked their bodies around the new queen.
In the dense fog like gunpowder smoke, the exact location of the new ant queen could not be found at all.
The new ant queen is worried about another wave of explosions, and she has been scared out of her wits.
The moment it flew out from the protective wall of the male ant pro-guard group, the ten bed crossbows that had been waiting in full swing on the north city wall adjusted their angles almost at the same time, and then the ten giant crossbows shot at the new ant queen in no particular order. Save and shoot away.
Several giant crossbow arrows passed through the fat body of the new queen ant, a smear of light brown juice burst out from her body, and the queen ant's wings, which looked like a big fly, shattered and fell into the smoky battlefield.
The moment the arrow fell from the new queen ant, several male ants of the guard group rushed up. They twisted their clumsy bodies, first surrounded the queen ant, and protected the queen ant. The ghost-striped male ant used the pincers to fork up the seriously injured queen, and was about to leave the battlefield area in front of the north city wall quickly.
Their movements were quite fast, but the explosion frightened the ghost pattern worker ants around them. They couldn't sense the message from the new queen, and immediately became a mess.
Countless ghost-striped worker ants gathered towards the explosion area like a death squad, and blocked all the ghost-striped male ants' retreat for a while.
The two ghost-striped male ants could only rely on their brute strength to forcefully open a path with their bodies, and kept moving towards the middle of the Duodan Canyon, but because there were countless ghost-striped worker ants blocking the way, their retreat speed was not considered fast. .
And the most important thing is that the speed of the second reloading of the catapult inside the city wall is not too slow. The whole process is the four steps of positioning, loading, igniting, and launching.
A new wave of black bombs was thrown out, and ten black bombs detonated one by one outside the city.
The corpses of ghost-striped red ants exploded one after another, and the male ant guards suffered another heavy blow. This time, the queen ant was even more unlucky, and the bomb detonated directly on top of her head, not only blowing up the new queen ant to pieces, but also taking the new ant queen with her. The two ghost-striped male ants that fled later were also decapitated, and the two layers of armor did not save its life.
The moment the new ant queen was blown to death on the battlefield, the ghost-striped red ants in the entire canyon became sluggish for a moment. They felt that the king was dead...
The ghost-striped red ants in the canyon turned into a mess of sand again. Without the queen's instructions, they were no longer so active in attacking the city.
The ant colony under the city wall began to disperse into the canyon, and countless red ants were fleeing.
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Suldak did not expect that the gunpowder prepared last year to blast through the river would be of great use this time stationed on the north wall of Dodan Town.
Detonated twenty bombs at once, completely blowing up the guard group of ghost pattern soldiers.
The north city gate had been sealed for five days. As the iron fence was opened by the city guards with a noose, Aung San led a group of aborigines, endured the stench, rushed into the gate hole of the north city wall, and drove the ghosts in the passage to the gate. The carcass of the red ant was dragged away, and the road leading to the North Canyon was quickly opened.
The city gate was still filled with the stench and the pungent smell of sour liquid. A group of cavalry rushed to the outside of the northern city. They were not chasing and killing the thousands of ghost-striped red ants in the canyon, but they wanted to kill the ghost-striped red ants in a limited area. During the time, collect as many spoils on the battlefield as possible, such as the remains of the ghost-striped drones that were blown to death.
Of course the most important trophy is the new ant queen who is full of magical giant crossbow bolts.
Thirty-five bed crossbows on the top of the city began to attack the ant colony gathered under the city wall. As long as they were within the effective range, these crossbowmen began to shoot and kill those ghost pattern soldier ants. The crossbow could not be recovered.
Opening the gate of the north city wall, a team of cavalry and a team of heavy armored infantry quickly formed a formation outside the city, and then quickly pressed towards the ant colony in the canyon.
The heavy armored infantry immediately collected giant crossbow arrows, ordinary arrows, and some huge rolling stones on the battlefield, followed by ghost pattern soldiers and ants who died in the city. As long as they were of any value, they almost threw them into the carriage.
Now it is time to grab all the wealth against the clock.
After the new ant queen was shot, the male ant guard group was also instantly shattered. Those male ants who were like giant chariots, as long as they were not killed by gunpowder, turned around and walked to the north of Dodan Canyon.
Besides the huge crater left by the explosion, there were only some ghost-striped male corpses left on the battlefield, and some male ants were seriously injured by the explosion and could only wait to die on the battlefield.
The cavalry rushed into this area quickly, facing the ghost-striped drones who were not completely dead, they were not even qualified to make up the knife.
As long as they find living ghost-striped drones, the cavalry will greet the city wall, mobilize bed crossbows to punch a few holes in them, and then they will be completely honest.
Suldak went out of the city this time, and finally found the mutilated body of the new ant queen on the edge of the battlefield.
When the mercenaries in the town saw the city gate open, they also began to organize their men to enter the canyon to hunt down the ghost-striped red ants.
For a while, the cavalry of the garrison camp drove the ghost-striped red ants to the middle of the canyon a few kilometers away, but the cavalry did not dare to pursue them too deep, and only dared to swim around the range of the crossbow on the north wall.
Aung San led a team of aboriginal people through the city gate and came under the city wall.
These aborigines brought various tools and began to carefully clean the oil tank under the city wall, making sufficient preparations for the next ant swarm to attack the city.
In fact, in addition to cleaning up the oil gathering tank, Aung San also had to check the structural damage of the lower part of the city wall. Some completely broken cornerstones had to be pried out and a new one put in. This kind of work can only be done by skilled bricklayers.
"This commander is actually a ruthless person! He actually killed the queen ant..." The old bricklayer squatted under the city wall, commanding two apprentices to lift a strip-shaped cornerstone and insert it into the gap.
The young bricklayer also said enviously: "I heard that those boys in the city defense army have made a fortune. If I knew that the beast tide makes so much money, I would have joined the city defense team!"
"If you want to go now, it's not too late!" said the companion.
The young bricklayer hummed, and then said: "Forget it, if you join now, you can only enter the reserve."
(end of this chapter)