Lord Highlander

  Chapter 759 748. Canyon battle

   "Look, those monsters can't hold on anymore." A squadron leader stood on the top of the wall and shouted.

  The city guards on the city wall were also very nervous. While resisting the monsters that attacked the city wall, they pushed a large number of rolling stones to the front of the stone trough.

  Some city guards have already piled barrels of kerosene on the oil tank at the top of the city. This kind of oil tank is carved on the outside of the city wall. When it rains heavily, it is a drainage channel on the city wall.

  When the war started, it was the oil tank directly under the city, and these oil tanks were matched with the fire canal under the city.

This channel usually doesn't see any function, it looks like a trench built with stones across the city, but as long as the kerosene flows in, it will be concentrated in the fire ditch, igniting the kerosene in the fire ditch , a firewall will be formed.

  The catapults in the city have been prepared. The range of these catapults is about 1,500 meters. The prepared stone bombs are flints wrapped with oil ropes. Before throwing this kind of boulder, it must be ignited before it can be thrown.

  If you are lucky, it will land on a flat and hard ground and roll twenty or thirty meters away. This way, it can basically crush countless ghost pattern worker ants.

Of course, there are more unlucky times. Sometimes the flint is smashed into the soft soil, and it can’t even hit anything. What lethality.

  Everyone is standing on the city wall at the moment, watching the scuffle in the canyon, and can only wait for the hordes of monsters to be completely wiped out by the ants.

  Watching the group of monsters under the city being slaughtered by ghost-striped red ants, Andrew sighed inwardly, and said to Suldak:

   "I was thinking, if we hadn't built a wall here, these monsters should still be able to survive."

  Suldak also sighed softly and said, "They wanted to survive, but we blocked their way of life."

Samira, standing aside, said calmly: "Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. It is impossible for us to put them into the occupied area, and even if they come in, they will not be able to survive. At most, more civilians will die. In the end, they will be killed." It was cleaned up by the adventure group and the local garrison, why should we bother with this!"

  While the few people were talking, a few ghost pattern worker ants rushed ahead and climbed up the city wall. Their six legs can firmly hook the stone cracks of the city wall. This kind of climbing is nothing to them.

  Gulitum looked down the city, and a group of ghost-striped red ants had already gathered below the city. Although the monsters in the canyon were still fighting to the death with the ghost-striped worker ants, the ghost-striped red ants continued to invade.

   Then he said in a low voice: "These red ants are coming so fast!"

   A squadron leader on duty standing at the head of the city looked at the red ocean in the distance of the canyon, his face turned pale, and he asked Suldak in a low voice: "Master Commander, do you think we can stop them?"

   "Of course, it must be possible."

  Suldak patted the squadron leader on the shoulder and glanced at Samira.

  Samira understood, and immediately took out the 'Withered Painting' hunting bow, stretched the bow and set up an arrow, aimed at the ghost-striped red ant that had just climbed up the top of the wall, and shot it out.

What everyone didn't expect was that the red armor on the head of the ghost-striped worker ant was much weaker than imagined. It only shot through the head of the ghost-striped red ant with one arrow, and the second arrow simply shot through the arrow hole. Passed through and disappeared without a trace.

  The ghost pattern worker ant that was shot through the head by an arrow fell from the top of the city to the corner of the city wall. Its body twitched twice and died unexpectedly.

  Seeing that these ghost pattern worker ants are even a little weaker than the first-level monsters, the morale of the city defense guards was immediately shocked.

  The ghost pattern worker ants are far inferior to the first-level monsters. The monsters can at least release some long-range magic. They don't even know the lesson of the ghost pattern red ants being shot before, but just climb on the city wall.

  The guards on the city held crossbows and aimed at the ghost-striped worker ants. As long as one arrow shot through their heads, the ghost-striped worker ants would fall from the city wall.

  Suldak asked the guards to let a ghost pattern worker ant climb up the top of the wall, and Andrew rushed forward and chopped off the ghost pattern worker ant's head with an axe.

  He inspected the heads of ghost-striped worker ants, and found that the heads of such ghost-striped worker ants were not even the lowest level of sacrifice.

  As the continuous shooter crossbow hunted and killed ghost-striped worker ants, these ghost-striped workers swarmed up overwhelmingly, and there was a tendency to kill more and more.

  The entire canyon turned into a red ocean.

  A large number of ghost-striped worker ants gathered under the city wall, and more ghost-striped red ants rushed up stepping on the corpses of their companions.

The city defense guards at the top of the city have already started to shoot mechanically. Since the continuous shooter crossbow has a great suppression force on the ghost pattern worker ants, the captain of the guard even asked his guards to bring them closer before shooting them, so that the power of the crossbow arrows will be more powerful. Even bigger, often resulting in a series of twos and a series of threes.

  The other thing is that this kind of shooting ghost pattern worker ants in turn makes the crossbow arrows stored in the warehouse seem a bit unbearable, and the consumption speed of the crossbow arrows is too high.

  A crossbow arrow was shot out, and there were so many ghost pattern red ants gathered under the city wall, it was impossible to rush out to retrieve these crossbow arrows.

  Besides, the gates below the city are already filled with corpses of ghost-striped worker ants, and the iron fence cannot be opened at all.

  The corpses of ghost-striped worker ants gathered under the city wall very quickly. By evening, the corpses of ghost-striped red ants had piled up to a height of seven or eight meters at the corner of the city.

  The corpses of the ghost-striped red ants formed a huge gentle **** under the city wall, and the rest of the ghost-striped worker ants rushed up by stepping on the corpses of the same kind.

  The monster group in the canyon has been divided into five areas by the ghost-striped red ants, and the battle circle in almost each area is rapidly shrinking. Some monsters have fled into the forest on both sides of the mountain, which is probably useless.

  Under the setting sun, the entire canyon was filled with dark red figures constantly moving.

  If the ghost-striped red ants continue to maintain this attacking rhythm, in less than a week, these ghost-striped worker ants will be able to use the corpses of the same kind to build a gentle **** outside the city wall to attack the city.

   At that time, the advantage of the northern city wall will be gone.

  In just one afternoon, it was the seventh time that crossbow arrows were added to the city wall. Seeing that the bundles of crossbow arrows were consumed, the warehouse manager of the city guard showed a worried look on his face.

  Although he didn't say anything, Suldak could guess that the crossbow bolts stored in the warehouse couldn't withstand such an intensity of consumption.

  However, even with the level of suppression of the continuous shooter crossbow, there will still be a lot of ghost pattern worker ants climbing up and being stabbed to death by the heavy armored infantry guarding the top of the city with their spears.

  The ghost-striped red ants that climbed to the top of the city can also spit acid. This acid is extremely corrosive. Dozens of heavy armored infantry soldiers have been injured.

  Suldak ordered: "Prepare the kerosene!"

  Andrew nodded, ran to the fire oil barrel himself, and ordered the guards there to dump the barrels of fire oil down the oil tank.

  The walls of the city were covered with a layer of climbing red ants, and the city was full of corpses of red ants. The oil tanks and fire channels had been completely covered, and it was impossible to see the barrels of kerosene poured out.

  After pouring more than twenty oak barrels of kerosene, Andrew looked outside the city with some concern, but he still couldn't see anything except the corpses of ghost-striped red ants all over the ground.

  The sky has darkened.

   Andrew hesitated a little, Suldak walked over and said to Andrew:

"continue…"

  A large amount of kerosene flowed down the city, dumping out forty barrels, and Suldak called Samira.

Samira stood on a tall archery tower, stretched out her slender body, held a hunting bow in her hand, put an arrow wrapped in a kerosene cloth on the hunting bow, aimed at the kerosene tank in the middle of the city wall and shot it out. .

  A line of fire is very eye-catching in the dim light of the evening.

   There are also ghost-striped worker ants that continue to rush towards the north wall, but this rocket seems to have eyes, avoiding all the ghost-striped red ants, and delicately shoots into the oil tank in the middle of the city wall, falling into darkness for a short time.

   Two seconds later...

   ‘call’

  The flame burst out from the oil tank all of a sudden, and quickly spread up and down the city wall.

  At this time, everyone realized that there is no need to be so troublesome. As long as the oil is ignited at the oil filling port, the flame will spread down the oil tank...

And the ghost pattern red ants that died near the oil tank were more or less stained with kerosene. It is not easy to ignite this kind of kerosene directly, but once ignited, it is extremely difficult to extinguish, especially the strong adhesion .

  The fire spread down the city in a cone shape. Since it was kerosene under the pile of ghost-striped red ant corpses that were ignited, forty barrels of kerosene made the corpses of ghost-striped red ants near the fire canal contain kerosene.

  The fire quickly ignited, and soon became uncontrollable. The corpses of these ghost-striped red ants were scorched under the fire.

   Some red ant carapaces were ignited, and the fat in the body was continuously refined, and then burned violently again.

   At the beginning, the fire was only burning near the oil tank at the foot of the city wall.

   These ghost-striped red ants are also quite afraid of fire. A large number of ghost-striped red ants choose to avoid the flames and continue to rush towards the city wall.

  But as all the kerosene in the fire-gathering channel under the city wall was ignited, the flames formed a wall of fire under the city wall, and almost all the corpses of ghost-striped red ants below the city wall fell into the sea of ​​flames.

  A large number of heat waves surged up from the foot of the city wall, and it was almost impossible for people to stand on the front of the city wall.

  The fire wall under the city wall finally stopped the attack of the ghost pattern red ants, and a smell of burnt barbecue filled the entire canyon.

  The city defense guards only need to pay attention to the ghost-striped red ants swarming up from the mountains on both sides of the city wall.

  Adams was in charge of the night watch at night. He led a team of heavy armored infantry on duty to the top of the city. When he saw the sea of ​​fire at the foot of the city wall, he was surprised and speechless for a while.

   "Pay attention to people keeping an eye on the movement of these red ants in the canyon. Once the situation is out of control, send people to the garrison camp early to call for people!"

   Provoking a scorching heat wave, Suldak ordered Adams.

  Adams walked to the city wall to see the situation outside, but before he reached the wall, he was forced back by the billowing heat.

   had no choice but to grin, and replied to Surdak: "Yes, Commander!"

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  (end of this chapter)