Lord of the Desert

Chapter 449 Cruelty
The sound of drums was heard from the main watchtower.

From the rear of the Zerg, a long rainbow of green, white and purple slanted into the sky, naturally leading to a confrontation between the three masters of the human race without any verbal provocation, and within a moment, they were fighting and moving away.

Fighting at the meta-magnetic level is like elephant wrestling, and the ants underfoot are uncontrollable factors.

In the battle examples of the Shengyu Army, except for the high-ranking members of the Sea Clan who were driven crazy by the True Fire, the commanders of all clans would try their best to avoid this uncertainty.

Xiao Chu retreated from the top of the city wall under the protection of his personal guards. Soon, a black wind swept in with a roar, blurring the sky and the earth.

Countless numbers of flying insects swooped down from all directions, and the sparse wooden sheds provided only limited protection.

Compared with the city defenders who are fully equipped with light and heavy armor, the sub-insects have thin shells and weak vitality. A single blow from them is enough to kill them. It often takes dozens of them to exchange for one human casualty.

But their value does not lie in their combat power.

The humming sound of flapping wings stimulates the hearing.

Aerosolized sting toxin can corrode the respiratory tract.

The human soldiers continued to attack from above, and were forced to look directly into the sunlight, which inevitably made their eyes red and tearful.

Faced with the overwhelming swarm of insects, physical warriors like Hu Zhuang, Lin Luchuan and Shi Yuanwei performed mediocrely, while those who specialized in wind, thunder and fire performed brilliantly.

However, Hong Fan's Chichao fired continuously and cleared an area with one strike, but in order to avoid accidental injuries, his killing efficiency was limited by other people on the city wall.

The chaotic battle lasted for two quarters of an hour.

A small amount of flying insects were consumed, but in return there were more than a thousand casualties among the human race.

A horn sounded from the watchtower.

Hong Fan observed with his peripheral vision and saw a mixed force of real insects and worker insects pouring in from two miles away.

A few minutes later, the Zerg ground forces advanced to 300 meters below the city; the watchtower horn sounded again, urging the artillery team to go up to the city.

Thunder soon exploded on the top of the city.

Thirty-pound solid cast iron bullets penetrated the atmosphere, slid at a small angle for hundreds of meters, and then bounced on the hardened ground, leaving behind dead lines that were hundreds of meters long.

Any real insect, regardless of its size and defense, once unfortunately caught in the path of artillery fire, would suffer limb breaks at best, or even shatter its trunk at worst, splattering a pool of green blood on the loess.

Shuai Chong already had a good understanding of the power of heavy artillery at Feiyan Pass.

They forced the real insects to be sparsely arranged, leaving a distance of ten meters between each other, to minimize the killing effect of solid bullets.

The insect swarm advanced to two hundred meters.

The crossbows and iron arm bows opened fire upon receiving the order, filling the thunderous artillery fire with more clear whistles of wind.

A two-meter-long spear arrow is enough to pin a soldier insect to the ground, but it is not enough to kill it unless it hits the head. Relying on its claws or tail stinger, it cuts off the arrow shaft by itself and continues to move forward, dragging its dripping internal organs, until it falls down after being hit by two or three arrows.

At the beginning of the Shen period (3 p.m.), the vanguard of the insect swarm waded through the last two trenches.

The insect soldiers easily jumped over the several-meter-wide moat and arrived at the city. Erbai City was located on a peninsula beside Youhu Lake. In order to prevent the lake tide from eroding the city foundation, the moat was narrower than that of many medium-sized cities.

At this time, the black wind on the top of the city had cleared up a little, and the defenders were rotated in batches under Xiao Chujun's order.

The real show begins here.

The soldier bugs, which are lighter in weight and better at climbing, waved their blade-like feet and inserted themselves into the cracks between the bricks to climb, and were occasionally knocked down by wooden blocks and stones.

More heavy Zergs that were not suitable for vertical crawling were hiding at the foot of the city, ejecting their iron claws like mantis shrimps, concentrating on crushing the blue bricks and peeling off the skin of Erbai City layer by layer.

The vibration spread all the way to the top of the city.

After removing the blue bricks, the soldier insects then attacked the rammed earth inside.

Hong Fan had never seen this kind of siege mode.

Both humans and snake people knew that the city wall was a dead object and an obstacle that needed to be climbed over, but the insect swarm regarded it as an enemy and was determined to flatten it.

The wall of Erbai City is seven zhang thick and six zhang high.

How "stupid" would one have to be to try to "kill" it? !

But when the dense sound of broken bricks lingered on the top of the city, the defenders all felt a trembling fear.

The first lucky insect soldier climbed over the wall, its pincers flashing iron-blue in the sunlight, but it was immediately pierced by three spears in the cracks between its shells and died from the thorn bones that hit it on the head.

Under the cover of flying insects, more real insects climbed onto the top of the city walls, and were like moths to a flame under the targeting of the elite team.

The worker insects were weak, the flying insects were even more vulnerable, and most of the real insects were trapped under the city, digging rocks and soil.

The battle didn't seem difficult at all.

But everyone knows this is just the beginning.

The insect swarm is not like a human army, nor are they like snakemen who need sunlight to keep their blood warm; once they start attacking, they will not care about day or night and will not retreat easily.

In the first half hour, Hong Fan frequently used the Fire Jade and the Desolate Sand Armor, like a fiery golden sword wandering on the top of the city.

He even went down the city twice, using the hot wind hell to clear the way and kill several generals who were pressed in the rear. In the three counties of Huaiyang, without prior preparation, the army's strong attack would not take more than an hour.

Because soldiers will get tired, morale will drop, and command will become chaotic.

But at dusk, when the insect swarm sent out the fourth batch of reinforcements, Hong Fan even saw the exhausted soldier insects eating and resting on the spot.

A page of sunset glow is as red as a raging fire, burning the dark moon.

The battle continues.

There were no more shouts and war cries from the city walls; the heroic spirit of the defenders had been assimilated into the silence of the insect swarm.

After the third round of rest, Hong Fan went up to the city for the fourth time. Like the other innates, he wore a double layer of black iron armor and held a mace. He did not use his true energy unless necessary, so that he could stay on the top of the city as long as possible to maintain the front line.

A few more hours.

It was late at night and the moon had already set below Qingzhang Mountain.

I don’t know how far away the dawn is, and the world is as dark as being pressed into a coffin.

At this time, Zhou Wenyang and others also suffered from the exhaustion of their true energy several times, while Gu Yixin frequently used the city walls to pull the opponent back, relying on the help of the innates to relieve Xiao Tanghuang's pressure.

Even so, the wounds on his body increased.

Another half day later.

March 29th, afternoon.

The battle lasted all night and all day.

It was not like the Huaiyang Kingdom's fighting for a night and a day, but literally twenty-four hours without a break.

By 4 p.m., the insect swarm had deployed a total of more than 4,000 real insects and 80,000 sub-insects.

As the sun set, the earth melted in the slanting light. Another thousand real insects, carrying more than ten thousand sub-insects, pressed forward silently, with twisted and slender arthropod shadows tied to their sides, and gathered under the city.

Hong Fan stood in the most desolate section of the city core, leaning on his bald head and looking at the watchtower with his bloodshot red eyes.

Erbaicheng had to hand over his first trump card.

Xiao Chu personally waved the purple gold thunder flag three times, and when the defenders on the city lay down and hid, the explosives buried outside the city were immediately detonated.

Hong Fan did not retreat.

He stood facing the enemy, watching the flames burst out, spread, and slightly singe the edges of his robe.

The sound waves were like wind and earthquake, piercing into the ear holes like chisels; the wet mud scattered on the face, feeling warm to the touch.

Hong Fan sniffed the smoke of gunpowder and was lost in the great sound and image.

Under his feet, more than half of the more than a thousand real insects lost their combat effectiveness, and most of the sub-insects died from overpressure.

There was a dark swarm of insects in the distance. Although there were many real insects, there was a shortage of sub-insects.

It is not cost-effective for the general to continue the attack - no matter how powerful the tanks are, they cannot be wasted without infantry.

As a result, the pheromones in the air underwent complex changes, and the surviving insects retreated under the deep purple sky.

Hong Fan casually threw the thorn bone down to the city.

In front of him, a layer of the 20-meter-thick city wall was cut off, and it collapsed from a 90-degree cliff to a steep slope of more than 70 degrees; the dead true insects left behind their incorruptible exoskeletons, shining with iron light and standing firm.

On the left and right, the original color of the green-covered city walls can no longer be seen, only some stone-colored spots can be seen on the corner tower dozens of meters away.

In one night, the defenders on the city rotated 17 times, with a total of more than 15,000 casualties. Thirty percent of the bronze cannons exploded due to overheating, and battlements shattered by cast iron shotguns could be seen everywhere.

The cruelty of the Zerg was fully revealed to Hong Fan from then on - not only did it not care about its own life or death, it also forced its enemies to not care.

Fatigue surged up like a spring, and Erbai City was filled with tranquility.

Hong Fan staggered a few steps and sat down with his legs pressed down.

Next door city section.

Hu Zhuang, like a mountain of flesh, jumped to the foot of the city, tore off the broken pieces of armor on his shoulders, grabbed a charred soldier insect's front claws from the center of the explosion and ate it in big mouthfuls.

The corner tower is half ruined.

Gu Yixin stood on a high place and sharpened the gun with his fingers. He had more than twenty wounds from electric shocks and cuts on his body.

The whole place was covered with wounds.

Hong Fan lay back, his consciousness sinking into his mind.

Under the Dragon Soul Tree, vitality is overflowing like mist; a warm itch is coming from the overlapping area of ​​the Spleen and Stomach Meridians of the Foot Yangming and Foot Taiyin.

(End of this chapter)