The clicking sound turned into a buzzing sound, which was the sign of overheated weapons. The bullets fired by the new weapons installed on the ridge swept across the wall of fire under the city wall like a line.
The newly unstoppable horror beasts were blocked, and the powerful bullets killed them mercilessly. The crossfire worked much better than George imagined.
This weapon came with a lot of bullets, but considering its rate of fire, it was too few. Ten minutes after seeing the new weapon restrain the terror beast, George ordered the new weapon to stop firing. He couldn't use up all the ammunition here.
He plans to use other methods to consume the endless Swarm monsters.
The Terror Beasts spent three hours filling up the city wall with their lives, extinguishing the flames, and they rushed to the top of the city. The Terror Beasts wanted to vent their anger through killing, but found that there was no one on the city wall.
In front of them is a new city wall! It turns out that the Rock Fortress is a sandwich design, with a total of four walls. The middle of the city wall is usually the living area for soldiers and a place to store supplies. If one wall is lost, the next one will be retreated.
The orders given to the horror beasts are to cross the city wall and kill all life in sight. If they find that the order cannot be carried out, they will stop.
Joanna, who was observing the battle on the hill, strangely saw that the terrifying beasts had all stopped. Since she did not give the order through Swarm Network, she naturally could not share the sight of the terrifying beasts.
This is also the disadvantage of using indirect means to command Swarm. Swarm and the network are integrated.
At first, she thought there was something wrong with her Psionics carrier controller, and she worked all morning. It wasn't until a mage used Clairvoyance to observe the inside of the fortress that Joanna figured out the reason.
Joanna was very angry. She felt that she had been fooled, but after thinking calmly, she ordered the Terror Beast to retreat.
As for the reason why the city wall that was finally captured was abandoned again, the reason is simple: the inside of the city wall is hollow.
A large number of defenders are hiding inside. Once the opportunity is right, they will shoot magic crystal projectiles through small holes, crossbow arrows, or use spears to kill the enemy.
This was the first time Joanna felt that she had encountered difficulties. At first, when the Highlanders said that they could not capture the fortress, Joanna also felt that this was another opportunity to harvest the material resources of the Highlanders and Oakley people. War always kills people, and the Terror Beasts are invincible.
In the end, she lost more than 20,000 terrifying beasts and gained nothing. The Oakley people's defense method surprised her. After all, Joanna's education had always been about Psionics. Her attainments in the military field were a bit low, and she could not think of a good solution in a short time.
Even if she had hundreds of thousands of terrifying beasts on her hands and Hatchery with a massive amount of insect eggs, she still felt that she couldn't fight like this because the losses would be too great. The Oakley people's new weapons also made her wary.
She knew that there was a shadow of advanced civilization behind this empire, because after they were exiled, most of the equipment on the spaceship was broken down over time. Only radar could always detect a spacecraft landing in the Oakley Empire.
This empire often comes up with things that are not commensurate with its civilization. The spaceship has not come back in the past ten years. It may be that the radar is broken, but who knows the reason behind it?
Joanna decided to suspend the attack and discuss a better attack plan with her men and the Highlander generals.
In the Rock Fortress, after seeing the terrifying Swarm monster retreat, all the defenders cheered excitedly. For the first time, they defeated the seemingly invincible enemy with their own strength.
In the core fortress of the third city wall, General Lister's face flushed with excitement.
"Dear Prince George, your defense method worked. We really defended it. We defended the city wall with almost no losses!"
"This is not due to me alone. This is thanks to the cooperation of the general, the bravery of the soldiers, and the secret weapon sent by Her Royal Highness the Queen." George said modestly.
This answer made more Oakley people have a great impression of George, the foreign prince.
In fact, George did not expect that the terrifying beasts would freeze after they climbed up the first city wall and found that there was no one there. His original intention was to let the Oakley people use their lives to consume the number of terrifying beasts on the second city wall. He also buried magic crystals under each city wall as a final means of killing.
Of course, the result this time was better than expected, and he would naturally not tell the truth. He came here to take risks just to gain political capital, and there was no way he would fight for the Oakley Empire.
The 150,000 imperial army relies on the solid rock fortress and those Swarm monsters to defeat both sides. It is in George's interest that the entire army be annihilated.
In the next three days, Joanna used night attacks and took turns attacking the Highlanders and Terror Beasts in an attempt to capture the Rock Castle. During this period, she also sent her Astromancers to join the battle with Psionics support.
In the end, they all failed. She only captured the first city wall, and after completely occupying the first city wall, George detonated a large number of magic crystals in the city wall. The power of the explosion not only destroyed the city wall, but also almost collapsed the mountains on both sides.
Joanna only had less than 100,000 terrifying beasts in hand. She really didn't expect that this rock fortress would be so difficult to deal with.
Although the Terror Beasts also killed a large number of defenders, the bravery and tenacity of these defenders far exceeded the average Oakley Empire army. It seemed that the first day's defensive victory gave them hope and gave them unlimited morale.
It is not uncommon to see soldiers jumping into Swarm carrying a large number of magic crystals.
On the fourth day, Joanna paid the price of 30,000 terrifying beasts and occupied the second city wall. Then there was another loud noise, and the second city wall and 5,000 terrifying beasts went up to the sky.
With a sigh, Joanna was ready to give up. She would not be able to break through the Rock Castle in a short time. She did not have enough Terror Beasts, and the Highlanders' troops were unreliable. It would take time to wait for reinforcements from Hatchery.
But now she had no time. Skadi told her a shocking news. The Republic of Croland surrendered the warcraft Queen Chloe without any resistance.
Chloe now wears the crowns of two countries on her head, and she is heading towards her destiny.
Joanna didn't know how many times she scolded the insect councilors of the Republic of Croland. They were the most powerful country with the most advanced technology, the largest army, and the highest penetration rate of magic crystal weapons.
He surrendered without fighting, which seriously interfered with his own attack plan.
In the original plan, Joanna first led the main force to destroy the Oakley Empire and seize its resources to increase its strength. Then she stormed the Croland Republic. After annexing the Republic, she submerged Chloe's small-scale Swarm with the vast Swarm sea.
Finally enter Death Forest and have a decisive battle with Swarm Overmind.
Now everything is disrupted. She will not be able to capture the Rock Castle in a short time, and Chloe begins to threaten her rear.
Tactical strategies are about to change.