Having learned from the experience of losing a large number of troops in the first fortress, when Chloe discovered that Meteor City's security was unusually tight, she prepared for a protracted war.
Even if the flying insects and siege beasts could crush the human army, she was not going to take the risk. The fighting bugs could also crush the humans, and it was not the same accident.
In order to reduce losses, Chloe's combat plan is also extremely simple, allowing Ymir and Jonathan to surround two outer fortresses respectively.
Let the siege beast hatch and fly small locusts to attack the city, and the fighting bugs will ambush inside Creep. If Arthur goes out to fight in the field, with the blessing of Creep, the field combat power of the fighting bugs can completely eat up all his troops.
Time passed quickly, and on the fifth day of the siege of Meteor City, the energy stored by the siege beast was completely enough, and strings of eggs began to be produced at the bottom of Hatchery Pool.
When the egg floated to the surface of Hatchery Pool, it had become very large, and then a small locust with fangs as long as a forearm crawled out of the egg.
They rely on instinct to climb out of Hatchery Pool, wait for the mucus to dry, then flutter their wings and fly high into the sky.
When he heard the news from the city wall that the monsters had begun to attack the city, Arthur felt a rare sense of relief. Being surrounded all the time also made him feel an invisible pressure in his heart.
When he saw the scene displayed by the mage using Clairvoyance, Arthur wanted to take a breath of relief again. It was better to be surrounded than to be attacked.
The originally blue sky changed and was covered by gray clouds. Under those dark clouds there were threads connecting the giant towers of flesh and blood that surrounded Meteor City.
After the perspective was zoomed in, everyone could clearly see that in the thick dark clouds was the terrifying-looking Swarm monster. The information from Nixiang knew very little about this monster, except that they could spit steel needles.
No one knows how many Swarm monsters are in these dark clouds. They only know that the number must be far beyond their imagination.
"Let the shooters and mages on the city wall leave and start shooting at will. Use up all the bullets of the magic crystal guns and you won't let these bugs enter the city." Arthur ordered angrily.
This is an order with no military logic. For shooting troops, only salvo fire is the most powerful, so the commander will only issue a free-fire order when the situation is completely chaotic.
But this is not a logical situation. Looking at the gray clouds in the sky, I imagine that they are full of scary-looking insects. Soldiers who dare to stick to their posts and shoot are all warriors.
The first thing to howl on the arrow tower was the continuous-fire magic crystal gun brought by Isabella. This weapon was invented not long ago and is very expensive. There are only twenty units, and all of them are placed in Meteor City.
Continuous rounds of bullets smashed and knocked down the insects in the distance one by one. With such a thick cloud density, the bullets had almost no chance of hitting the target.
You can soon see a lot of fallen insect corpses spread on the ground.
The morale of the defenders was boosted. Since this kind of bug can be killed, there is nothing to be afraid of. The fear comes from the lack of firepower.
The magic crystal gunners and crossbowmen joined the shooting, and more and more bugs were shot down. The Psionics mage on the side could create a hole with one shot of Psionics Shock, and the killing efficiency was comparable to the output of a team of shooters.
A cheerful atmosphere began to emerge.
"These bugs are not that scary."
"Yes, look at the bugs we killed on the ground, all piled up in small hills."
"Stop talking nonsense and fight quickly, the bugs are coming." This was the commander's roar of command.
"Why do you feel that there are still so many bugs?" Some people also felt that something was wrong.
The little locusts hatched by the siege beast fly slowly and are very fragile. The advantage is that they maintain strong firepower and are very numerous at the same time. Very, very many!
The death cloud composed of one million small locusts began to move under the command of Chloe, like all the sand dunes in the sky Consume, stable and unstoppable at the same time.
A flame appeared in the sky, which was cast by a large group of Psionics mages. Many small locusts were burned to death and scorched, and fell from the sky.
Looking at the burning sky wall, humans cheered, they saw hope, they thought they could win.
Indeed, their struggle had a killing effect on the locust Swarm. The effect cannot be said to be useless, but its lethality is only a drop in the bucket.
After the gray cloud enveloped the city wall, the soldiers on the wall raised their heads and realized in despair that they were so weak and powerless in the face of this Swarm that was so thick that it could cover the sky.
Soon they will be freed from the painful despair, and steel needles will rain down from the sky. The power of each steel needle is equivalent to a large-caliber anti-material sniper rifle.
There were no soldiers on the city wall, and a large number of the city walls were completely destroyed by steel needles. They were riddled with holes, as if they were ruins that had gone through countless battles.
Since the siege attack started from all directions, the gray clouds came into contact with the city walls at different times. Some city walls had been submerged by the gray clouds and the terrifying rain of steel needles, and the soldiers on some walls were still shooting at the small locusts in the distance.
The explosion caused by the rain of steel needles was like thunder striking the city. The soldiers on the city wall had a wide field of vision. As soon as they turned around, they saw the terrifying rain of steel. After realizing what they were really facing, they all collapsed.
The bravest people dropped their weapons and ran down the city wall, crying like little girls, and fled into the city. The endless killing bugs in the sky and the rain of steel needles they shot were simply unstoppable, and only death awaited everyone.
Arthur also saw this scene. The insect-shaped monsters in the sky shot out steel rain of death and wrote thunder of destruction on the ground.
The dust stirred up by the violent impact covered the ground, and people couldn't see clearly what kind of tragedy was inside. Even if they couldn't see it, they knew in their hearts that nothing inside would be alive, or that nothing would be complete.
Across the mage's Clairvoyance, everyone's faces were filled with fear, and their mouths were too big to speak.
"I thought this kind of scene would only appear in the end of the world in religious books." After Isabella finished speaking, she approached Arthur in fear and grabbed his arm tightly.
"It seems that the most wrong order I have ever made in my life was to fight against fate. Chloe is really the son of prophecy. No country can resist this terrifying power." Arthur patted Elizabeth's hand to express comfort.
Arthur softened his heart towards this woman. Originally, he did hate her because of the threats. But after this period of contact, this smart, cunning, and beautiful woman did leave a place in his heart.