Lord Highlander

  Chapter 775 764. Night battle

  The wind in the canyon seemed to blow out the torch on the city wall. The flame on the grease-soaked twine was very tenacious, and the flame made a loud noise in the wind.

  The ghost-striped red ants exude a sour smell, which becomes clearer and clearer as the ants approach the city wall.

They are constantly opening and closing the giant tongs on their heads, and the hard bone armor is constantly rubbing against each other, making a crisp sound of 'click'. When this sound is connected together, it makes people feel a kind of trembling from the joints. .

  The sense of oppression brought by those huge ghost pattern soldier ants is far more terrifying than the prairie lion and jungle tiger.

  They are numerous, ubiquitous, and can overcome almost any obstacle.

  For them, the northern city wall is just a slightly steep hillside.

   More and more soldier ants rushed to the north city wall, and Suldak felt that the ground seemed to be shaking.

  There are only dense stars in the night sky.

  Samira has already quickly jumped onto a bed crossbow, aiming at the ghost pattern soldier ants climbing up the city wall directly below, and shooting out the giant crossbow arrow.

  The touch of the chassis is very good, and Samira can't control the wind element in his body for a while.

  ‘嗡’

  The crossbow strings trembled, and the sound was a bit dull.

  The giant crossbow arrows completely merged into the dark night, bringing up an afterimage and a wind element wrapped around the arrow shaft.

The crossbow arrow penetrated the body of the ghost-striped soldier ant in an instant, not only piercing the ordinary ghost-striped soldier ant with a body length of nearly three meters, but the tip of the arrow protruded from the tail of the ghost-striped soldier ant, and penetrated the rear one again. In the head of the ghost pattern soldier ant.

  A crossbow arrow shot through two ghost-patterned soldier ants, and cheers erupted on the city wall again.

  The ghost pattern soldier ants who had just climbed up the city wall immediately accelerated their pace to climb up, and the thirty-five bed crossbows on the city wall fired a row of giant crossbow arrows almost simultaneously.

  Buzzing together...

   This giant crossbow bolt, which is slightly longer than ordinary spears, suddenly fell under the city wall with ghost pattern soldiers and ants.

However, reinstalling a new giant crossbow on this kind of bed crossbow is also quite laborious. At least two soldiers need to be busy for a while. One soldier needs to take out a giant crossbow from the wooden frame and put it into the arrow slot. A warrior is responsible for pulling the crossbow strings away with a winch.

  It takes at least two minutes to load a giant crossbow bolt, so these bed crossbows alone cannot suppress the ghost-striped red ants rushing up like a tide.

The ghost-patterned soldiers who rushed to the front quickly climbed up to the top of the city, and the heavy armored infantry and knights in full armor held long-handled weapons in their hands, and the ghost-patterned soldiers emerged from the cracks between the walls of the city. The moment he turned his head, a group of tactics and mercenaries with one-turn strength stabbed out with their spears, and the sharp spears precisely pierced into the skull along the jaw.

   Immediately, these ghost pattern soldier ants twitched a few times and kicked their legs directly, and some sour liquid continued to gush out of their mouths.

  The soldiers would never let these ghost-pattern soldier ants fall into the city. They held iron hooks in their hands and dragged the ghost-pattern soldier ants to the top of the city.

  A large number of ghost pattern soldier ants followed behind. After rushing to the top of the city, they began to spit a large amount of acid on the soldiers on the city wall.

  The city guards waiting on the archery tower hold a multi-shooter crossbow, aim at the mouth of the ghost-striped soldier ants by the firelight and shoot a series of crossbow bolts. As long as they hit the mouthparts of the ghost-striped soldier ants, the spit of acid will stop abruptly.

  Some experienced first-rank fighters rushed up along the trajectory of the ghost-striped soldier ants spitting acid, and pierced the spears in their hands into the soldier ants' jaws.

   There were also some heavily armored warriors holding their shields, but they didn't completely avoid the acid, and were sprayed all over by the acid, screaming 'ooooo' on the top of the wall.

  I saw at least fifty ghost pattern soldier ants crawling up the city wall and fighting with the guards on the city wall.

  Andrew quickly ordered: "Put down the rolling stone..."

  The guards waiting beside the rolling stone heard Andrew give the order, and they couldn't wait to push down the rolling stone. Some ghost pattern soldier ants even climbed on the rolling stone, and at this moment, they fell down the city wall together with the rolling stone.

   These rolling stones are covered with a layer of linen soaked in grease, so that the fire will not be easily extinguished when it is ignited.

  The rolling stones formed a chain, almost sweeping away all the ghost-striped red ants that were climbing the city wall.

  The ghost-striped red ants on the falling path were almost instantly crushed into a pulp by the rolling stone.

The pressure on the city wall suddenly decreased a lot. Suldak, Andrew, more than 20 first-rank veterans in the cavalry battalion, and a group of elite soldiers selected from the mercenary regiment blocked the ghost pattern soldiers from the front, and more than 200 heavy armored infantrymen And the cavalry in full armor swarmed up, and everyone hurriedly killed the ghost-pattern soldier ants.

  As long as it is fighting, it is difficult to avoid injury.

  However, Suldak has the Holy Light Art, which makes the soldiers have a lot less worries when fighting.

  As the rolling stone rolled to the bottom of the city wall, countless ghost-striped red ants were mixed together, causing casualties.

  Some ghost-striped soldier ants wanted to climb out of the pile of corpses, and the ghost-striped red ants that came up from behind stepped on their bodies and continued to climb towards the city wall.

   Another rain of arrows fell, and the number of ghost pattern worker ants in the ant colony decreased sharply.

  The bed crossbow at the head of the city has completed the second installation of crossbow arrows.

  The group of ghost-patterned soldier ants rushed up, and another row of giant crossbow arrows swept out, immediately laying down dozens of ghost-patterned soldier ants.

  The ghost pattern soldier ants behind continue to climb up...

  These burning rolling stones blocked their way forward, and they could only pass through the gaps where there was no fire, which immediately slowed down the ant colony's impact on the city wall.

  This time, I didn't light the fire wall under the city wall, but just blocked it with burning rolling stones.

Perhaps because of the sound of battle on the city wall, the ogre appeared on the city wall after a while, holding a bone-crushing club in his hand, and stepped on the head of the ghost-pattern soldier ant. From a distance, he felt like Tilting his head all the time, he smashed down the big bone-crushing stick in his hand, and the ghost pattern soldier ant let out a hissing sound, raised his head almost with all his strength, and clamped down on the thigh of the ogre with a pair of pliers.

   The bone-crushing stick in the ogre's hand was smashed down again, and the giant pincers on his head were smashed apart...

   At almost the same moment, the catapult inside the city wall threw a black iron ball out of the city again.

  These black iron **** exploded in the canyon, and dazzling fireworks burst out in the dark night, landing at a place less than 400 people outside the north city wall.

   A round of explosions, the roar resounded through the canyon.

  At the same time, it also completely isolated the front and back of the ant colony. The queen ants behind the ant colony could not give instructions to the ghost-striped soldier ants and worker ants in front, and these ghost-striped soldier ants stopped before the rolling stone that ignited the fire.

  The ghost pattern soldier ants rushing up the city wall were not as dense as before.

  The number of ghost pattern soldier ants attacking the city is insufficient, and the thirty-five bed crossbows on the top of the city can control the number of ghost pattern soldier ants on the top of the city...

  The north city wall at night is like a large slaughterhouse. Each soldier has a clear division of labor. As long as there are ghost pattern soldiers and ants climbing up, the treatment method is basically the same. In the end, the corpse will be pushed into the city wall by the city guards.

During this period, the occasional giant ghost pattern soldier ants that rushed up did cause a lot of trouble for Suldak. When encountering such a big guy, he and Gulitum were basically in the front, and Andrew and Sami La looked for an opportunity to kill the giant ghost-striped soldier ants.

   But those ghost-striped drones didn't show up until dawn.

  The soldiers on the north wall continued to fight all night, and there were a large number of corpses of ghost pattern soldiers piled up inside and outside the city.

  Although the ground on the city wall has been scoured several times this night, the acid is still flowing.

  The stumps and broken teeth of some ghost pattern soldier ants were scattered on the ground.

  The sun shines into the valley and dissolves the dense fog in the mountains, and the siege battle of the ant colony is considered calm.

  The large battlefield outside the northern city wall has been smashed to pieces,

  The ghost-patterned red ants retreated to the middle of the canyon, leaving many carcasses of ant clan corpses on the battlefield,

Suldak was still thinking about why he couldn't see the ghost-striped drones during the siege last night. It was only after dawn that the homemade bomb thrown by the catapult last night blew up a group of ghost-striped drones again. , the huge body is still struggling on the battlefield, it seems that it is not completely dead.

  These dead and injured ghost-striped red ants could not leave the battlefield in front of the north city wall, and they all emerged when the thick fog cleared.

  In order to wash away the sour liquid stained on his body, Andrew poured several buckets of water continuously, and his whole body was wet.

  There are still some scattered corpses of ghost-striped red ants hanging on the city wall, and the red lizard leather armor on Suldak's back was cut open during the battle.

   Fortunately, before he fought last night, he sacrificed the heads of several ghost pattern soldier ants, not only the "Blessed Body", "Superior Body" and "Insight", but also the "Blessed Shield" and "Holy Shield".

  On the city wall, the dwarf chain shield in Suldak's hand turned into a holy shield. As long as the ghost pattern soldier ants get a little closer to Suldak, they will be burned by the sacred breath on the shield.

  Even if he blessed himself with so many blessings from the gods, the salamander leather armor on Suldak's body was still cut open by the soldier ants, and it was basically scrapped.

  Samila’s condition seems to be better. The thick fog makes her hair wet, the black veil on her face is also translucent, and the wind attribute on her body is getting stronger and stronger...

  Suldak was using Holy Light to heal a soldier's puncture wound on his leg, when Andrew pointed to the outside of the city wall and asked:

   "What about these big guys?"

He raised his head and saw the huge corpse of the ghost-striped male ants along the wall. There were only scattered ghost-striped red ants around the battlefield. , of course we want to expand our results.”

   "I'll take people down from the city wall, and you keep an eye on the top of the city." Andrew said to Samira.

   After finishing speaking, he went to look for a rope behind the city wall, tied the hemp rope to the wooden frame behind the city wall, and threw the other end under the city wall. A group of veterans from the cavalry battalion followed Andrew, tying the rope one by one.

  Suldak told these people: "Be careful when cleaning the battlefield later, some ghost-striped red ants will pretend to be dead, and will bite you when you get close... More accurate than a few ropes..."

   Andrew grabbed the rope with both hands and slid directly down the city wall.

  Samila sat on the city wall, quietly watching Suldak treat the wounded soldiers, and said to Suldak after a while:

   "I found that these ghost-striped red ants are improving every day. This time they retreated... I guess when they charge up next time, it will not be so easy to defend this northern city wall."

  Suldak raised his head and looked at the canyon outside the city. At this moment, the ant colony had retreated to the middle of the canyon.

  Adams led a group of men to climb the city wall, and saw that the city wall was full of trophies, and the city guards used ropes to drag the corpses of the soldier ants up from the city. The scene was very lively.

On the battlefield outside the city, there was still a faint amount of gunpowder smoke. Andrew led a group of veterans to surround a ghost-striped male ant. Four legs of the ghost-striped male ant were blown off, and the remaining two legs were unable to support it. That huge body lay on the battlefield unable to leave.

  It saw a group of humans approaching, and began to struggle violently.

   Andrew couldn't pierce its outer armor with his spear, so he had to approach slowly from the blind angle of its sight, and cut off its last two intact legs.

  So it could only curl its body like a worm, and once Andrew and others approached, it would stretch out its body and spit out sour liquid in all directions.

For a while, Andrew could only let someone drop a long iron chain from the city wall. Several veterans stood far away, cooperating with each other to tie up the ghost-striped male ants, and using the door-shaped hangers on the city wall, Directly hang this living ghost-striped male ant weighing more than 2,000 pounds to the top of the wall...

  A storekeeper of the city defense brigade ran up the city wall panting, and reported to Suldak:

   "Commander Suldak, the fifth batch of supplies from Wilkes City has arrived!"

  Suldak stopped again and asked, "Is there anything special this time?"

  The warehouse keeper said excitedly: "In addition to food and arrows, some kerosene has been shipped this time!"

  …

   In the morning, Suldak personally received the quartermaster who rushed over from Wilkes City to **** supplies, and slept in the small building for a while.

   When I woke up, I found that some valuable giant soldier ants and ghost drones were almost transported to an empty field in front of the small building.

This ghost-striped male ant spews out a stream of acid from its mouthparts from time to time, probably the acid in the stomach sac has already been vomited out, and it can only accumulate a little before spitting it out, although it is tightly bound by chains, However, the huge head can still be twisted slightly, and the dark red crystal-like eyes above it are full of coldness.

   It didn't make some weak hissing noises, and the chains were wrapped around the two giant tongs, which could no longer open and close normally.

  Many fighters stood around the empty field, watching the ghost-striped drone.

  In this battle, a total of three ghost-striped drones were harvested. The two dead ghost-striped drones are far less valuable than the giant ghost-striped soldier ants. Although they also have life magic patterns on their bodies, they have been completely destroyed.

  The magic materials that can be obtained are also very limited, except for a magic core, there is only hard armor on the body.

   Far less valuable than the giant ghost pattern soldier ants.

  The six legs of the giant ghost-striped soldier ants have life-smiles growing on them. Although these life-smiles are not complete, as long as you search carefully, you can always harvest some powerful life-smiles.

Fourteen giant ghost-striped soldier ants were hunted all night last night. In order to prevent the magic power of the soldier ants from dissipating naturally on the outriggers after death, Suldak gave priority to dealing with these 14 dead giant ghost-striped soldier ants .

With the help of the "Eye of Reality", Suldak successfully found 19 complete life magic lines on the legs of 14 giant ghost-striped soldier ants. With a certain degree of damage, Suldak only managed to peel off thirteen complete life magic lines.

  Two days ago, in the battle to kill the ghost pattern ant queen, he harvested twenty-four magic patterns from the giant ghost pattern soldier ant.

   After careful calculation, he has obtained forty-eight life magic patterns from the giant ghost pattern soldier ant...

  The magic patterns on these giant ghost-striped soldier ants were very difficult to peel off, and Suldak was almost busy until the evening to complete them.

  (end of this chapter)