Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 123 Raid
The night was fading, the moon was fading in the clouds, and the stars in the sky were shining brightly, but they did not bring much light to the ground. Except for the fire light from Heli City, the land was completely dark.

Without any warning, birds flocked in the forest in the dark, and the sound of swarms of insects rushing wildly suddenly became noisy.

The next moment, the sentry on the plain issued a stern alarm, and a specially made loud arrow rushed into the sky, making a loud noise.

The lizardmen on the top of the city were alerted immediately, but in the next second, the screams echoed across the field. It was the last sound made by the lizardman soldiers who were sentinels, and they were knocked down by the swarm of insects. After hitting the ground, the warrior's razor-sharp limbs pierced the brain, taking his life in an instant.

"Enemy attack!!" A startled and angry voice sounded above the city, and the next moment, continuous rockets carried oilcloths and shot into the distance, not for killing, but for illuminating.

Then, they saw something terrifying approaching rapidly in the shadow of the firelight, like a black tide, and soon directly submerged the rockets they fired.

However, within this short period of time, some sharp-eyed lizardman soldiers had already seen what it was.

"Bugs...that kind of bugs!!"

"During this time...the rumored bug!!"

"They really exist!!"

A trembling voice resounded above the city, causing an uproar.In the next second, under the scolding of the grassroots officers, more rockets shot into the distance.

But this time, the firelight basically illuminated the entire picture of the enemy in mid-air.

Really bugs, endless bugs!
Under the faint light of the fire, there were all swarms of worms rushing forward, as if they were endless.And in the darkness in the distance, there are even more shadows, and I don't know how many are hidden in it!
The Lizardman soldiers in the city had already entered the fighting state immediately. After the alarm sounded, more soldiers in the barracks in the city were rushing here.

Although they were terrified, they still had to face it. As fighters, they were born to fight against enemies, even if they had never heard of such enemies!

In the fortress below the city, the lizardman soldiers staying behind looked at the swarm of insects that were rapidly approaching from far and near with the faint light, and their panicked expressions gradually calmed down.

All the warriors in the fort knew very well that no matter how the battle progressed, they would have no chance of surviving in front of such a large swarm.

No matter how strong these earth-rock fortresses are, they cannot guarantee their safety, because there are too many bugs!

After experiencing intense ideological struggle and fear in a very short period of time, as the elite of the empire, they quickly calmed down. At this moment, they only had one thought in their hearts, to kill the enemy!
The swarm quickly approached, and after entering the range of the crossbow arrows, the first wave of arrow rain from the top of the city had already fallen, taking away the lives of each worm, and more worms had quickly passed over the corpses of their companions. Stay for the slightest bit.

Although the rain of arrows was dense, it did not cause many casualties to the swarm.Although the Zerg's body structure is not small, most of it lies in the legs that support the body. If the arrows are not directly shot at the head or the chest and abdomen, they will basically not cause fatal injuries.

And as long as it's not fatal, they'll keep fighting, even crazier!

Looking at the swarms of insects constantly rushing forward under the city wall, and the dense arrows did not even stop them at all, everyone couldn't help but began to thank Toril for his wisdom, which made them make a lot of preparations in the previous winter.

The next moment, the feet of the frontmost swarm suddenly sank, it was a trap!
Immediately after the top of the city, a rocket flew down and fell into it, and the next second the flames soared into the sky, illuminating the entire outside of the city extremely brightly.

The pit has prepared fire and inflammable materials in advance!

And at this moment, the farthest fortress began to attack the swarm, and the lizardman soldiers hiding inside held crossbows and fired arrows at the swarm frantically through the reserved shooting ports.

At such a short distance, even if the strength of the crossbow bolts fired by the crossbow machine cannot be compared with the hard crossbow, it is still enough to cause damage to the insect swarm.

Under this almost crazy rain of arrows, the units of the swarm close to the fort fell in pieces in a short period of time.

The previous salvos from the top of the city failed to cause such damage. Under the light of the fire in the pit, the outermost fortress played a huge role. This kind of trap buried underground escaped the vision of the explorers, allowing the swarm I suffered a small loss for a moment.

Blocked by the trap, the fortress standing outside the city crazily rained arrows on the insect swarm, and the attacks from the top of the city did not stop for a moment.

Bugs are dying every minute, and they're not just sitting around!

Temporarily unable to get past the flaming traps, the swarm immediately aimed their target at the fortress in front of them. Although this earth-stone structure was strong, there would soon be a gap in the swarm's frantic demolition.

Even the solid stone gate couldn't withstand the crazy impact of the swarm, let alone those reserved shooting holes.No matter how the lizardmen warriors roared and shot one arrow after another, it still couldn't change the fact that the entire fortress was being demolished quickly.

Soon, after a few screams, the first fort was breached by the swarm, followed by the second.

During this period, the insect swarm was restrained by the skyrocketing fire and moved slowly. Although the outermost fortresses were demolished, they also lost hundreds of people under the heavy arrow rain from the city walls and the crossbow arrows from neighboring fortresses. count.

But the fire couldn't last forever, but the swarms kept coming.Soon, the first bug leaped directly over the fire with the help of its companion, and continued to rush forward.

Although it died quickly under the arrows of the lizardmen, it was undoubtedly a good start.More swarms rushed over the fire and rushed towards the city wall. Although they were blocked again and again along the way, the companions in the rear were clearing the traps and fortresses along the way for them as quickly as possible.

The Lizardman's preparations outside the city are rapidly reducing the damage to the Zerg, and the main force of the Zerg is also getting closer to the city wall.

During this process, hundreds of swarms fell in the rain of arrows, or fell into traps and were burned to death by flames, but these casualties could not stop the swarm from advancing.

The swarm will not be afraid of the death of their companions, nor will they shrink back due to the dense arrow rain. They will continue to move forward and follow one another, gushing out of the jungle like a tide, as if it will never end.

The lizardmen were also well prepared. When the first group of Zergs who escaped the rain of arrows and traps rushed under the city wall and entered the blind spot for crossbow arrow shooting, kerosene poured down from the top of the city immediately as if they did not need money, and then The monstrous fire ignited.

The opponent obviously designed it carefully. Although there was no moat, the kerosene under the city wall did not spread outward to the lizardmen in the nearby fortress, but caused a lot of damage to the dense swarm of insects.

Toril obviously made a careful design for the weakness of the insect swarm to be afraid of fire. I don't know how many inflammable materials were mobilized in Heli City. Under the raging flames, the insect swarm couldn't get close to the city wall for a while.

Zero looked at everything in front of him indifferently. He saw the elaborate design of the lizardmen, the fiercely burning flames, the dense arrows on the fortress and the city walls like heavy rain, and the charred one in the sea of ​​fire. A bug with no waves in his heart.

This is just a trial, and the Zerg has not yet debuted a truly modified unit.

But the fire is indeed a trouble, even if it has been strengthened, the swarm is still afraid of these flames, or in other words, very few creatures are not afraid of this power.

In fact, the opponent designed this strategy against the swarm, and Zero had noticed it through the explorers before, but it is one thing to detect it, and how to stop or even destroy it is another matter.Only relying on the explorers who sneaked into the city, Zero has no way to cause damage to these materials.

However, the opponent's defense measures are not perfect.

Heli was a huge city. Although it was built between dangerous mountains, its span was very wide. On the side facing the insect swarm, the width of the city wall was four to five kilometers.

In such a wide area, if you completely rely on this method to resist the Zerg, the combustibles and fire oil mobilized by the other party will not last long at all, and their useless arrangement on the mountains also consumes a lot of them. For a part, it is absolutely impossible to use it openly, not to mention that it is stretched now, it can only be used as an emergency.

The insect swarms in the rear are still frantically destroying the lizardman fortresses that are constantly killing them. Every fortress is already covered with insects. Shooting holes often only takes a few shots to open the gap.

The smaller Zergs don't need much space, they can easily get into it, kill one lizardman warrior after another in the small space, and then rush to the next place.

It is true that these fortresses did cause far more casualties to the advancing insect swarm than their numbers, but even so, the loss of the insect race from the outermost edge to the city wall was only about [-]. , Dodging the kerosene on the top of the city and waiting for an opportunity to climb up, the opponent has almost exhausted all means, and the swarm has not even dispatched the real elite, let alone the real attack that has been waiting for a long time behind Heli City. The main force of the city.

This is not to say that the lizard people's combat power is not enough. In fact, as the elite of the empire, their combat power is second to none on the entire continent. Whether it is the quality of soldiers, weapons and equipment, or morale and combat power, they have no doubts. All top notch.

But unlike any enemies they have faced before, those conventional weapons, such as the powerful crossbows they used to sweep the world in the past, are often unable to play their due role at all.

Although the Zerg seems to be tens of centimeters high, most of this is due to the support of the feet. Unlike the Lizardmen, these parts of the Zerg are not afraid of their sharp arrows at all. It will not reduce the combat power much because of this, and it will even become more bloodthirsty and crazy because of it.

Lizardmen's arrows can only cause fatal damage if they hit the main part of the Zerg's body directly, but not many can really do this.

The only thing that caused some trouble to the swarm was the fire, but as the sporadic zerg units climbed to the top of the city struggled to cause chaos above, this attack was also stopped.

Under the city wall, a large number of Zerg took this opportunity to climb up the city wall, even causing the lizardmen above the city to panic.

But soon, this panic was stopped, because Toril brought the main force of the lizardmen from the barracks to the city wall.

As a famous general of the empire, Toril's existence is like a magic needle for the sea.

With the arrival of the new force, the Lizardman almost burned down the Zerg that had ants attached to the city wall by pouring fire oil all over them.

This is actually not cost-effective, at least not in Zero's view.Because while consuming a large amount of kerosene, the fire also continued to burn upwards along the kerosene sprinkled on the city wall, and the flames that soared into the sky even rushed to the city wall, igniting more kerosene, causing considerable fire. mess.

But no matter what, they did drive the swarm in front of them off the city wall, temporarily easing the crisis.

Such an attack regardless of cost and consequences, even if it is zero, there is nothing to do. After completely destroying the fortress outside the city, he let the swarm quickly withdraw.

Since the attack is temporarily impossible, there is no need to be attacked in vain below. This is only the first wave of attacks. The opponent has already dispatched the main support, and the Zerg has cleared all the obstacles in front of them. Although some units have been lost, they have It's harmless, it's not even a muscle injury.

Even if it didn't cause too many casualties to the Lizardmen, the adverse impact of the external environment on the Zerg siege has been minimized during this siege, and the attack will be launched again after the fire burning on the city wall is extinguished. time!
On the city wall, Toril's face was extremely solemn.Although he had prepared as much as possible in advance, and even mobilized all the power he could mobilize to guard against the Zerg at the risk of his honor and even his life, he still did not expect that the battle of the Zerg would happen before the war actually happened. ability will be so strong.

At this moment, he experienced the feelings of those fellows who guarded their homes in the jungle. After seeing the terrifying combat power of the swarm, he felt unconfident about the arrangement he made before for the first time.

Those well-built fortresses have been demolished in just two hours, and the kerosene in the large number of underground fire pits has also been completely consumed, only a few sporadic ones are still burning.

Without the obstruction of the fire, these potholes are no different from flat ground to the Zerg, and they can be easily jumped over.

Now, right in front of the city wall, they have no means of defense other than the city wall itself.

"Can you really hold it?" Toril asked himself in his heart.Looking at the swarm of insects that retreated out of the range of his bow and crossbow in an orderly manner, it was the first time he felt so unconfident in the years he had been in the army.

seeing is believing.

No matter how detailed the information he got from the white cloth, he didn't have enough knowledge before he actually saw the swarm. The only effective means is fire.

But no amount of kerosene could withstand such consumption. From midnight to now, it was only a few hours, and it was still dark, and the large amount of kerosene originally stored above the city wall was depleted.

If this continues, even if there are still some material reserves in the city that can keep them going for a while, with the ability shown by the Zerg, it will be a matter of time before they climb the city wall.

Fighting such a swarm of insects at close range, even if Toril has always had full confidence in the elite of the empire under his command, he is almost certain that it has no chance of winning!

Because what they are facing this time is not the tribes of the ice plains in the north, nor the desert savages in the west, nor the jungle barbarians who fight on their own. Every one of them is hideous, ugly, bloodthirsty and crazy Zerg!
What he didn't know was that at this moment, under the wall on the west side of Heli City, a group of bugs had already arrived here under the cover of night.

Different from the tight defense on the east side, the defense here is completely full of loopholes for the Zerg. There are no forts lined up, and there are no deep traps. The only defense force is the patrol team on the city wall.

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