Lord Highlander

  Chapter 764 753. The secret of the ghost pattern soldier ants

  In the early morning, heavy fog appeared in the Dodan Canyon.

The entire northern city wall was shrouded in thick fog, and the flames below the city wall caused the fog to continuously rise upwards. The archers at the top of the city could not see the ghost-striped red ants in the distance, and could only wait until these ghost-striped red ants crawled closer. shoot it.

  A large number of ghost-patterned red ants rushed up from both sides of the mountain wall, and started a hand-to-hand fight with the heavy armored infantry on the top of the city. The guards on the city wall were in a bitter fight.

  The archers withdrew to the arrow tower for a while, shooting arrows continuously, suppressing the ghost pattern red ants on the city wall.

  However, in the thick fog, there were too many ghost-striped red ants coming up from the mountain wall. The corpses of ghost-striped red ants were piled up on top of the city, and there were still a large number of ghost-striped red ants swarming up.

  The city guard who controlled the bed crossbow kept Suldak's order in mind, and stared at the giant soldier ants mixed in the ant colony.

  The giant crossbow arrows are basically used to shoot these ghost pattern soldier ants that have just emerged from the top of the city. As long as there are soldier ants appearing, they will be nailed to the mountain near the top of the city by the giant crossbow bolts.

   Throughout the morning, more than a hundred ghost-patterned soldier ants have been nailed to the left mountain wall. Each soldier ant is as big as an adult one-horned bison, nailed densely to the mountain wall.

  Some soldier ants broke free from the giant crossbow bolts, and their bodies were broken in two.

  The bodies of some soldier ants fell down the wall, while others with their heads attached insisted on climbing up the wall, trying to spit acid.

   It’s just that the abdomens of these soldier ants have already been broken, and they can only linger on. They attack the heavy armored infantry on the city with huge pincers, and some heavy armored infantry with spears will work together to pick these soldier ants down from the city.

  There are about 200 heavy armored infantry on duty at night, and there are also nearly 150 city guards and 20 mercenaries.

  At this time, one hundred and fifty city guards armed with continuous shooter crossbows desperately guarded the thirty-five bed crossbows at the top of the city.

  The heavy armored infantry, led by Adams and Gallatin, forcibly squeezed the activity space of the ghost pattern soldier ants on the east and west sides of the city wall, trying to force the ghost pattern worker ants on the top of the city back to the mountain wall.

  Suldak and Andrew boarded the northern city wall.

I happened to see Adams in silver armor standing at the front of the line with a tower shield in his hand. Around him were some mercenaries and veterans of the infantry regiment. These people formed a human wall, brandishing the epee in their hands, struggling to clean up the crowd. Ghost pattern worker ants at the head of the city.

  Adams was standing on the high pile of corpses piled up by ghost pattern worker ants, and a group of worker ants surrounded him.

  Standing at the front of the team, Adams swung the long sword in his hand, a white horse flashed along with the blade, and the heads of several ghost pattern worker ants that rushed forward were cut off by the long sword at the same time.

However, Adams was also very embarrassed at this time. His leg armor and mithril battle skirt were covered with acid and dark brown body fluids spewed by ghost pattern worker ants. There were already serious corrosion marks on them, and there were several scratches on his body. hurt.

  The heavy armored infantrymen and mercenaries around him were all wounded, and several veterans held shields on both sides of Adams' body, protecting him from the attacks of the worker ants.

  Neither Suldak nor Andrew expected that the ghost-striped red ants would take advantage of the morning fog to attack the northern city wall.

By the time they climbed up the north wall, the corpses of ghost pattern worker ants had piled up like mountains on both sides of the city wall. The city guards who followed Andrew immediately held a multi-shooter crossbow and shot a round of arrows at the worker ants with hard carapaces. .

  The fine steel arrows pierced the armor of the ghost pattern worker ants, nailed them into their bodies, and spattered light brown blood everywhere.

  The worker ants rushing to the front let out hissing screams after being injured, and wanted to hide behind, but were surrounded by ghost pattern soldier ants coming up from behind, rushing forward like a wave...

  Seeing this scene, Andrew immediately took big steps and jumped onto the city wall.

   Pulled out the butcher's ax from behind, a layer of flames gushed out from his hands, like a meat grinder caught in an ant colony, and some stumps and broken legs flew out of Andrew.

  The momentum of the ghost pattern worker ants that came up was finally stopped.

  Suldak also followed closely behind Andrew, and a halo of power emerged under his feet.

  He rushed to the top of the wall and stood with Adams.

  Adams and the surrounding heavy armored infantry suddenly felt a force gushing from their feet like a spring, and Adams and Suldak rushed into the ant colony almost at the same time...

  Andrew also followed behind a team of fresh troops.

  Everyone stood on the city wall a few meters wide, and forced the ghost pattern worker ants that came up to the north wall little by little.

The battle situation at the top of the city gradually stabilized like this. The ghost pattern worker ants coming from both sides of the mountain wall were suppressed by the crossbow arrows again. Once again blocked the attack of worker ants.

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

  It’s just that there are some sour liquid and light brown blood left on the city wall, exuding a disgusting stench. Buckets of clean water are poured on it, and sewage mixed with acid, worker ant body fluid, and blood flows down from the city.

  …

  The fog also began to dissipate in the morning light.

  Some ghost pattern worker ants that crossed the north wall became the training targets of the town's reserve corps.

  The ghost pattern worker ants are extremely aggressive, and at the same time they are not afraid of death, and they don't know how to hide. They were quickly wiped out by the reserve army in the city.

  …

  When the ghost pattern red ants charged up the city wall, almost all the bed crossbows on the city wall were shooting and killing the ghost pattern soldier ants.

   The giant crossbow arrows were shot out one after another, containing a huge impact.

  It was such a short distance, almost as long as it shot the ghost pattern soldier ants, it would fly them out and nail them to the side wall of the mountain.

  After the fog cleared, more than a hundred giant crossbow arrows were stuck on the mountain wall.

Some ghost-striped soldier ants were nailed to the mountain wall and could not break free. At this time, they were still struggling and wriggling among the giant crossbow bolts densely covered with mountains. Climb the ladder and cut off the crimson head with a long-handled scythe.

  The city defense guards only dared to approach the mountain wall after killing the ghost pattern soldiers and began to collect the giant crossbow arrows that were shot into the mountain wall.

  Ordinary arrows are difficult to recover.

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

This amount accounts for almost half of the arrows in the warehouse of the City Defense Brigade. These arrows are almost all the materials shipped over by the logistics department of the Wilkes Military Headquarters in the past three times. However, there are still a large number of fine steel arrows in the warehouse. Clusters, as long as the arrow shaft and tail feathers are installed, a brand new arrow can be made.

  Although the consumption of ordinary arrows is huge, at least there is still a way to raise them. The trading houses and some merchants in the town have arrows in their hands.

  But the situation with the giant crossbow is different. If it can be recovered, it needs to be recovered as much as possible.

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

   This kind of giant crossbow arrow belongs to military management materials, and it is almost difficult to replenish if it is lost.

  Suldak hopes that in the fourth batch of materials that the logistics department will soon bring, it is best to bring enough materials such as kerosene, giant crossbow bolts, and fine steel arrows.

  …

  In the early morning defense battle, almost all the guards on duty on the city wall suffered some injuries.

  If the sour liquid sprayed out by the ghost ants is not cleaned up in time, the wound will continue to deteriorate.

   If it sticks to the skin, the skin will soon become red and swollen, itchy and produce blisters, and then the blisters will burst, causing severe pain and further corroding the subcutaneous tissue.

   These sour liquids need to be washed with light salt water in time, but fortunately, the resident has already prepared them.

  The city guards and heavy armored infantry on duty at night withdrew from the city wall. Even if they suffered some minor injuries, they had to take a shower in the barracks as soon as possible.

   Compared with Adams, Gallatin's injuries were more serious. He almost exhausted himself in the battle on the city wall, and he couldn't lift his shield with his hands.

When he was evacuated from the city, his body was covered with acid, and one arm was pierced by ghost worker ants with giant pincers. When Adams saw the wound at first, he thought that Gallatin's arm was broken. A triangular piercing laceration that took up almost the entire right forearm.

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

  Two cronies from the cavalry battalion were treating Gallatin's other wounds, and every time he touched the wound, it made him scream in pain.

  Adams walked up to Gallatin, took out a bottle of light red healing potion and stuffed it to him.

   Gallatin waved his hand, but didn't take the bottle of healing potion. He endured the pain and said to Adams: "Since I came back alive, I don't need this. It's better to keep this thing."

  Adams was wet all over. After such a big battle, his face was not only not tired, but radiant, and even the wounds on his body had quickly healed.

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

  Adams did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Are you a little regretful?"

  Galatin smiled wryly: "Regret? Even if I want to regret it, I still can't get the money..."

   At this time, two cavalrymen ran over and said to Gallatin: "Captain Gallatin, your injury is serious, and it's your turn to receive treatment!"

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

   Gallatin stood up with the support of his cronies, and asked the cavalry as he walked.

  A cavalryman said: "Twelve soldiers were killed on the city wall, and three seriously wounded were not rescued. The other seriously wounded will take more than ten days to recover. There are many lightly injured soldiers..."

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

   Moreover, the slightly injured soldier is expected to recover soon...

  …

  Suldak was busy all morning in the consulting room remodeled from the guest room of the small building before putting away the holy light torch standing beside the bed.

   Almost consumed all the sacred breath in his body, and at the same time wasted more than 70 sacrifices of Moonblade Fire Wolf heads.

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

  The only way for these wounded fighters to recover as soon as possible is for all wounded fighters to be given the blessing of God with the "Blessed Body".

  Anyway, hundreds of boxes of those Moonblade Fire Wolf heads have been hoarded, and it doesn’t feel bad to use up some now.

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

"Commander Suldak, the corpses of ghost pattern soldier ants piled up outside the barracks are already stinking, what should we do with them? Do we want to throw them into the fire wall outside the city and burn them?" A center of the city guards said. The captain came over and saluted Surdak before asking.

  Suldak patted his forehead, only to realize that the beast horde had been going on for two days, and he had no time to deal with the corpses of these ghost pattern soldier ants.

   "Let's go together, I just want to go and see..." Suldak said to the city defense squadron leader.

  The squadron leader was slightly taken aback, and immediately led the way.

Walking out of the barracks, the place where the corpses of ghost-striped soldier ants were piled up was not far from the north city wall. Although the number of ghost-striped soldier ants was not large when they attacked the city, after two days of accumulation, the corpses of these ghost-striped soldier ants were almost gone. Filled the pit.

  A sour smell filled the pit.

  In order to prevent the acid in the corpse from flowing everywhere, Suldak asked someone to dig a large pit with a diameter of more than ten meters in the open space behind the north city wall.

  The ghost-striped soldier ants thrown from the city wall will first be carried to the leatherworker, where the head of the soldier ant will be cut off and the magic core inside will be taken out, and then the corpse of the soldier ant will be thrown here.

  At this moment, it is already filled with the corpses of ghost-striped soldier ants.

What Suldak didn't expect was that a large amount of acid liquid emerged from the corpse of the ghost-striped soldier ants. These acid liquids may have dissolved the flesh and blood in the ghost-striped soldier ants, diluting more acid with an extremely foul smell, almost All the ghost pattern soldier ants were soaked in the blood water.

  The acid solution has completely dissolved the protein in the body of the soldier ants. It is estimated that these ghost-striped soldier ants can no longer become delicious food.

Surdak covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, stood by the edge of the pit, suppressed the feeling of vomiting, and poked the corpse of the ghost soldier ant in the acid with a wooden stick. Now, many ghost pattern soldier ants seem to have only some hard shells left, soaked in the pit.

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

   Pulling the captain of the city defense squadron a little farther away, he happened to see a temporary work shed built under the city wall. The town's leather maker and four young men were working together to decapitate a ghost pattern soldier ant.

Suldak walked over with the captain of the city defense army, and Suldak asked the leathermaker named Mu Lun: "Boss Mu Lun, look... the hard skins of those ghost-patterned soldiers over there are still there. Can it be cooked further?"

The leathermaker named Mullen stopped the hatchet in his hand, bowed to Suldak, bowed his head and said respectfully: "Reporting to Commander Suldak, the hard skins of those ghost-patterned soldiers have already disappeared. Soaked in acid, it gradually melted away, and even if it still has some use value, it’s not worth much.”

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

  When he spoke, he never met Suldak's eyes.

   It made Suldak feel a little strange...

  (end of this chapter)