Chapter 499: The Age of Energy Weapons
Although he took over in a hurry, the abundant preparation time still allowed the generals of the Tang Dynasty to adapt after a period of hectic, and began to use the various convenient means provided by Bai Yuqi to make strategic layouts.
Strictly speaking, with the various technologies in Bai Yuqi's hands, whether it is weapons and equipment, war equipment, or information and intelligence systems, they are no worse than the information warfare of later generations if they are really applied to warfare.
On the basis of the spiritual network and the Heavenly Dao system, a perfect command and control system has been established.
It is enough for professional soldiers who have adapted to this "real-time strategic information command mode" to intuitively control the front-line battle at the general headquarters established in Ash City.
Coupled with the Spore Scout Eagle Reconnaissance Network and the Teleportation Array Transportation System, the generals of the Tang Dynasty, who understood the characteristics of the wasteland race and their super combat power, all felt that this kind of unreasonable immortal face-riding war, how could they lose?
This arrogance was maintained until they saw the enemy they were dealing with from the mental projection of the real-time images of the front...... The tribes of the wasteland are strange enough, and the enemies who come to attack Ember City are all strange ghosts?
Because of the distance of the march, the first to come into contact with the front line of the Ash Forces was the remnant army of the Natural Sect in the Blighted Forest in the south.
It is said to be a "forest", but it should actually be regarded as an ancient forest relic, which was once supposed to be a withered forest with a vast sea of forests.
After 12,000 years of dark sun catastrophe, it is naturally impossible for plants to survive, and all that is left are fossilized stumps and broken wood.
The gray and dried plant fossils, like a huge garbage dump, are piled up in a mess I don't know how large, and normal creatures can't move an inch in these crooked piles of fossil trunks.
Only a few mutated giant insects and berserk beasts heavily eroded by the Darkfire can survive here.
And the southern remnants of that natural sect have also been affected by the environment for a long time, and they have mutated so much that they can hardly see their original race and form.
This humanoid creature with long pointed ears, a thin and flat body, strange blue skin, and a head covered in skin and bones like a skeleton, but with a head with spiked "hair" like a hedgehog, I don't know what kind of ancient race it was mixed in.
In the midst of an army of giant insects and berserk beasts, the Sand Witches, known as the Blue Poison Demons, apparently play the role of rulers, driving all kinds of mutated creatures in the direction of the Ash Wastes.
Through the observation of the reconnaissance screen, Bai Yuqi felt that they should have inherited some of the natural sect's ability to drive animals, a bit like the druids of the world of Etes.
And under their hands, there are strange giant spiders, giant beetles that serve as mounts.
There are also super giant centipedes that are hundreds of meters long, look like a train, and can bite an elephant in two in one bite.
Converged into a mighty torrent of monsters, and after pouring out of the complex environment of the petrified forest, it rushed wildly across the wasteland, and the dust raised rose to the sky!
The faces of the generals of the Tang Dynasty were ugly, although they had expected that the enemy would not be a simple thing, but they did not expect that it would be such a huge monster.
The first line of defense, built in a ditch that dotted the Taibara region, seemed to do little to stop these climbable monsters, whether giant spiders or giant beetles, walking flat on the near-vertical walls of the ditch.
So much so that the two sides fell into a fierce battle almost immediately, and no tactics were meaningless...... What battlefield rules can you expect a bunch of bugs to understand?
Fortunately, there are also a lot of troops on the side of Aster City, and they can increase their troops at any time through the teleportation array to places where the battle situation is critical, so there is no need to play with your life.
If it was the wasteland race before Bai Yuqi descended on the world of Etes.
When facing these large, even super-large monsters, they often have to choose to run away and dodge.
These large mutant insects, though only enlarged versions of insects.
There is no abnormal change in the attack method, it is just an instinctive scratching and biting.
In terms of energy level alone, these mutant giant insects may only be equivalent to junior warriors, but senior warriors may not be able to win when facing these mutant giant insects...... After all, the block is there.
Can a high-level ant beat a junior elephant?
Therefore, in the face of these hard chitin carapaces, sharp fangs, jaws, and bone spurs all over their bodies, even high-ranking warriors have to temporarily avoid their peaks, unwilling to engage in conflicting battles with them.
You can fight, but it's not necessary!
Even if they are killed, they are worthless, these giant insects are generally highly poisonous, and they can neither eat nor drink when killed, so why risk their lives to hit them?
The most important thing is that before joining the Ash Alliance, the bone blades and stone spears they used were particularly powerless in the face of these mutant giant insects with strong shells and claws, and they could barely break through the opponent's defenses.
Therefore, even high-level warriors, when fighting against these beginner-level mutant giant insects, have to hold the consciousness of being accidentally scratched by the stinger fangs on the opponent's body and being poisoned to death.
But these mutated giant worms are not just elementary level individuals.
They also have intermediate and advanced enhancement and evolution individuals, and even have been heavily infected by the power of Dark Fire, which is equivalent to the violent individuals of the legendary "Dark Fire Warriors" in the wasteland!
What makes the wasteland race even more desperate is that these mutant giant insects are not a species that rampant with individual strength, but a race that wins by their numbers, how can they not sigh at the insects, list the withered forest as a forbidden area for life, and dare not take a step closer in fear?
However, after joining the Ashes Alliance, this phenomenon was completely reversed, and the Ash City Lord not only provided them with sharp metal weapons and armor with superior defense, but also issued various special equipment.
For example, you can activate a "Dark Crystal Shield" to protect your bracers, and there is also a "Dark Crystal Burst Arrow" that can break through the defense of giant insects in one hit, and so on.
With Yingzhou's construction and intelligent machinery factory as a logistics base, all kinds of expendable ammunition are openly supplied, and advanced weapons and armor are installed in a structured manner.
The war in the world of Ethers seems to have suddenly entered the era of thermal weapons and even energy weapons from the bone and stone ages!
An armor-piercing arrow inlaid with a large dark matter crystal of a grain of rice on it explodes under the guidance of a simple impact trigger array, and the energy that can be released is almost equivalent to an air-to-ground missile of later generations!
This caused the battlefield to rain arrows like locusts, almost everywhere with the roar of explosions and the dark energy flames generated when the dark energy was released!