Chapter 501: Pull the Italian Cannon Up!
It's not to blame the giant spiders for not working hard, it's really the Blue Poison Demon who is the commander is too incompetent.
Spiders are obviously the best lurkers, but after breaking away from the withered forest with a complex environment, their innate advantages are directly abolished.
Although a few varieties of jumping spiders and tarantulas are good at attacking, they must also be able to get close to the enemy.
Judging from the chaotic behavior of the mutant giant worm, although the blue poison demon can control and drive the mutant giant worm, it can only achieve "shepherd-style" driving and cannot carry out fine command.
As a result, the fast-moving spiders ran in front of the thicker beetle swarms, and died miserably under the saturated firepower of the Ash Legion.
This is the end of information asymmetry, before the remnants of the Natural Sect have stepped into the battlefield, the Ash Legion has already figured out the structure of their troops and the size of their troops.
Not only did they lay out a defensive line in the direction of their march, but they also developed weapons in a targeted manner.
This left the giant beetles the size of a tank, and the giant centipedes that looked like a train, to scream in despair in the midst of explosions and flames.
After frantically attacking for a while, the Blue Poison Demons, who had lost a large number of giant insects, finally realized that their attacks were meaningless except for consuming some of the opponent's ammunition if they continued like this, so they stopped urging the mutant giant insect swarm to come up and send them to death, but temporarily hibernate at the edge of the withered forest.
The Ash Alliance was not in a hurry to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but sent a logistics force to clean up the battlefield and collect thousands of giant insect corpses.
Under the command of the generals of the Tang Dynasty, the Ash Legion cleaned up the battlefield, collected loot, repaired the defense line and trench traps in an orderly manner, and did not pay attention to the mutated giant insect swarm that gathered not far from the defense line and was about to move on the edge of the withered forest.
The suspension of the offensive is nothing more than to gather more giant insect swarms for saturation charges, but the more bugs gathered, the more enjoyable the bombardment will be?
I heard that the Lord of Ashes also prepared several big killing weapons for them, what are they called "Little Thin Man, Big Fat Man", and what are "10,000 rings of the Spring Festival" and the like, although the name is a bit strange, but it sounds very powerful!
The temporary recuperation did not last long.
Gathering more and more at the edge of the withered forest, a new movement soon appeared in the restless giant swarm.
A large xenomorph spider with a bloated belly squeezed out of the swarm and lay quietly on the edge of the forest.
Because of the distance, and the dim environment of the Ertes world was not conducive to long-distance naked eye observation, the command quickly sent a spore scout eagle to investigate.
But I didn't expect that the other party was smart this time, and before the spore scout eagle approached, a giant spider sprayed a large amount of corrosive spider silk into the sky.
Although most of them failed, there were still spore scout eagles that were entangled in dense spider silk and fell, quickly devoured by giant insects.
It was only a brief glimpse, but it was enough for the rear command to see what those big-bellied spiders were doing, they were laying eggs!
A large number of spider eggs about the size of a football were expelled in clumps, and soon after landing, they hatched into almost transparent round-bellied spiders, gathered into a carpet-like colony of young spiders, and crawled in the direction of the southern defense line with a thin and dense rustling sound.
What are they trying to do? Even the huge adult worms can't break through the Ash Legion's defenses, so what's the use of sending these young spiders that can be trampled on with one kick?
But as the young spiders crawled, their round, translucent bellies deepened in color, glowing with a dark red glow, as if a dark red flame was burning.
When all the young spiders lit up with dark red flames in their stomachs, it was like a layer of ash sparks that had not yet burned out on the ground, forming a dark red tide that kept pouring forward, pressing towards the southern defense line!
The generals of the Tang Dynasty, who had never seen such a scene, could only hurry up to Bai Yuqi, who had gone to cultivate after the war stabilized.
Hearing this, Bai Yuqi glanced at the picture on the front line, almost didn't break out a foul word, and hurriedly opened the [Dark Energy Shield] rune array on the southern defense line.
But there were already sporadic spiders crawling into the defensive line, and the soldiers of the Ash Legion with itchy feet curiously stepped on it, and the result was ...... Rumble!
A cloud of exploding dark energy directly blasted the Ash Legion soldiers on the defensive line into the sky!
And as if it had caused a chain reaction, whether it was the young spiders that had already crawled into the defense line, or the young spider swarms that were isolated outside the [Dark Energy Shield], they burst out one after another, boom bang ...... The crazy explosion kicked up a cloud of dust and obscured everyone's sight!
Those newly hatched spiders were actually able to absorb the dark energy in the space and store it in their bodies in a very short period of time, and then release it to form an explosion when attacked!
Isn't this a bomb spider?
The power of a single bomb hatchling explosion is not great, and it can't match the power of the Dark Crystal Burst Arrow.
But the problem is that the shock wave formed by the sudden explosion of highly concentrated dark energy can cause great damage and shock to the environment, and the trench that has just been repaired is directly razed to the ground, and it has to be dug again if it is to be restored.
Although the shattered ash warriors who were blown away were protected by the Dark Crystal Shield, the shockwave from the explosion could still make them vomit blood.
For a while, the loss was even more serious than the previous giant worm, although not many people were killed, but it was inevitable to lose combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
What's worse is that the bomb swarm isolated by the [Dark Energy Shield] rune array continued to explode, not only causing the dark red energy barrier to flicker and darken, but also the energy of the dark crystal core of the circle was rapidly consumed, and the ground of the entire defense line was even dented by the explosion as a result!
You must know that the southern defense line is built on a platform with dense ditches, that is, a series of earthen platforms.
If they continue to bomb like this, they will have to cause a large-scale collapse, and the positions distributed on these earthen platforms will be buried directly!
"it!"
Bai Yuqi, who couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, shouted loudly while instructing the infrastructure construction corps to urgently strengthen the foundation of the earthen platform where the position was located: "Second battalion commander...... No! Yu Chi Baolin! Pull up Lao Tzu's 'Italian cannon'!"