Chapter 268 Defending the City (4)
No wonder there are fewer bugs in other areas, and there are even fewer bugs at the level of alien beasts. It turns out that they are all attracted to the city gate by legion soldiers.
The killing of the legion is efficient, silently harvesting the lives of mutant insects, and the pile of round insect corpses is getting higher and higher.
Jacques looked at the shared vision of Fat Orange. Although he understood the way the Legion fought, he expressed his doubts, "The higher the pile of insect corpses, the more dangerous the people in the back row are. There are always bugs jumping over, which is both dangerous and affecting their rest."
"This is a loophole, but I think they will have a way to solve it."
Jacques still needed to focus on his own battle, but after watching it for more than ten seconds, he disconnected his vision and came back to deal with his enemies.
The Legion naturally had a way to solve his worries.
Not long after, the drums of the messenger sounded, and the circular formation shrank to the middle. Although the distance between people decreased, the distance between the legion soldiers in the front row and the pile of insect corpses was nearly ten meters away.
--interesting.
New piles of corpses accumulate again.
More than half an hour later, the new pile of insect corpses was built up more than two meters high.
The messenger beat the drum again, and the circular formation shrank again, but this time three small square formations retreated to the center of the circular formation and replaced the rear of other small square formations, reducing the small square formations facing the insect swarm to nine.
Fat Ju had already counted the number of legion soldiers. Before, each small square formation had one hundred people, a total of twelve hundred people.
After this formation change, the legion's round formation lasted for more than half an hour, and the insect swarm had not stopped attacking, but there were wounded soldiers on the legion's side, most of whom were bitten by mutant insects jumped into the formation.
The wounded retreated to the middle of the circular array and returned to his post immediately after being emergency rescued by the medical staff.
"Show me, what will you do now?" Fat Ju said to herself.
However, the movement in the city alarmed Pang Ju. He was originally squatting on the city gate to watch the battle, turned around to the other side of the roof and looked behind the city gate.
"Hey, so that's how it is."
There were thousands of legion soldiers lined up in small square formations on the streets in the city. It seemed that they were going to replace the twelve small square formations outside.
Another drum sounded, the city gate opened, and the legion soldiers at the door slowly walked out of the city gate and lined up in a row at the door.
Although most mutant insects are still attacking the circular array, some mutant insects still turn their heads and rushed towards the humans at the city gate, and were soon chopped to the ground by the soldiers in the front row.
The legion soldiers in the city finally came out, and twelve small square formations were arranged in a row at the city gate.
The small square formation unfolded to both sides, with six on one side. The front row of legion soldiers began to cast the "Square formation". The spear killed the pounced insects, and the square formation advanced forward.
The second row of legion soldiers in the circular formation also activated the coordinated energy skills, but it was not a "square formation", but was replaced with a "solid shield", and another layer of protective shield was placed in the spear.
The circular array suddenly expanded outward, and the rigid shield knocked away the three layers of insect corpses. The circular array opened and connected it with the other two small arrays. Twenty-four small square arrays formed a semicircle in front of the city gate.
The legion soldiers in the front two rows resisted the siege of the insect group, while the legion soldiers in the back row were in groups of five, killing all the scattered mutant insects surrounded in the semicircle, and then returning to their own square formation.
After cleaning up the mutant insects in the semicircle, many flat carriages drove out inside the city gate.
The personnel wearing the city hall uniform jumped out of the carriage, quickly shoveled the insect corpses onto the flatbed carriage, and took them back to the city.
In just over ten minutes, piles of insect corpses were cleaned up.
The biggest benefit brought by the beast tide to Chipewa is that the corpses of these mutated insects can be taken out of them. Strangely, these mutated insects are rarely encountered in the rain forest, which is also the reason why these materials are rare.
The skillful cooperation of the legion soldiers in changing the formation and the way the city hall efficiently collects insect corpses for staff all show that Zipeva City has made a lot of preparations for these alien beast materials.
After the insect corpses were cleaned up, two groups of legion soldiers also completed the defense change. One group slowly returned to the city, and the other group formed a circular formation in front of the city gate.
Taking turns to attack and taking turns to rest, the legion soldiers can maintain sufficient physical strength and source energy to fight the insect swarm.
The floating masters will take turns to return to the city to rest. They are the main force in fighting against the alien beast-level insects in the insect swarm. During the period when Fat Orange was squatting on the city tower to observe, fifteen masters came in and out one after another. It seems that most masters were concentrated at the city gate, and in the area where Jacques is located, one master is responsible for four sections.
The second wave of beast tide did not stop until the sun set in the evening, and the legion ants that were pressing the formation also retreated to the forest.
Jacques knew that according to the records, the beast tide would not attack at night, but the extraordinary people still could not leave the city wall and could only rest in the rest area under the wall.
The city walls are brightly lit, and the gas lamps and source stone lamps are all lit up, not only illuminating the city's top, but also the 300-meter-meter range under the city is clearly illuminated by the lights.
The flat carriage in the city hall was hung with a horse lantern to collect insect corpses outside the city, but the insect corpses near the city wall were burned by flames, so they could only collect scattered insect corpses in the wilderness.
——Have there never been a night attack?
A thought emerged in Jacques' mind, but it was soon denied by him. After nearly a hundred years of development, the city of Zipeva will not be wrong.
After a busy day, several friends finally gathered together and chattered about the story that happened to me today.
The three water healers were the easiest, but Fran's expression was a little bad. He said that Zipeva exaggerated the danger of the beast tide and deducted a large part of the taxes in the New World every year to build city defense and maintain the army and city guards.
"The 11th Legion has 3,500 people in Chipewa! None of the New World cities have stationed so many people! There are only two thousand-man teams stationed in York City! This is a huge waste! Not to mention how many source stones are consumed here every year..." As a civil servant in the imperial capital, Fran complained a little about this, and everyone also expressed their understanding, does the butt determine the head?
But Claudia was still advising him not to worry so much. It would be fine if Zipeva was careful, what if he was compromised...
Although Jacques wanted to tell the battle situation that Fatty Jue had seen on the top of the city tower and refute Fran's arbitrary opinion. However, there were too many outsiders around him, and he didn't want others to know his own secrets. Moreover, when he was in contact with Fran and Claudia, Jacques and others tacitly protected Fatty Jue and prevented people outside the small group from knowing about Fatty Jue's specialness.
It wasn't Jacques' turn to speak, but a soft voice said: "The main force of the beast tide was attracted by the legion at the city gate. The strange beasts there were ten times that of ours, and they were out of the city to fight the insect swarm..."
Chapter completed!