Chapter 517: Giant Ant-Man Reinforcements
It was not a strange species that stopped the Ash Legion from advancing, but the giant ant-men that had appeared on the island of Chechnya.
The many dimensional doors that have been opened on the island of Chechnya, after such a long period of exploration, have basically found out the places connected by the opposite side.
One-third of them are connected to the hidden corners of the Aether world, which can be seen from the fact that the heterotopic creatures that poured into the Tang Dynasty basically have the characteristics of the Aether world.
Another third is connected to places that are not inaccessible, such as certain elemental half-planes.
Or it is a sub-plane, a sub-plane, or even a void space that has not yet been formed.
These places may appear directly in a piece of magma, in a vacuum, or simply buried in the center of the earth.
It may even be directly flattened because of excessive gravity, because the flow of time is not the same, instantaneous aging, etc., in short, they are not suitable for life to survive.
The last third is a relatively normal plane and a half-plane, but there are often various dangerous plane creatures living in them, which are not the existence that the human warriors of the Tang time and space can compete with.
After investigating the situation in these planes using methods similar to the Spore Scout Eagle.
The Tai Sui Vortex has already built a plane gate with energy storage obsidian, and most of it has been banned and controlled.
In order to ensure that the Datang space-time and space, which is the rear of the Great Rear, will not be invaded by creatures from these different planes.
Nowadays, there is basically no fighting on the Caspian Sea defense line, and the island of Chechnya has been transformed into a one-seat teleportation island.
The plane passages that were connected by the plane rifts were also fixed by the Tai Sui vortex to the energy storage obsidian, including the one that led to the giant ant-man's lair.
However, it is obvious that although the battle of the Caspian Sea defense line against the dimensional invasion was won, it only took advantage of the time, location, and people of the Tang Dynasty to block the plane passage leading to the giant ant-man's lair, and did not completely eliminate these giant ant-men.
And now, they have apparently discovered the giant ant-man, located in the true habitat of the world of Etes.
The only thing that makes people a little confused is that the giant ant-man was not found in the army of mutant giant insects originally organized by the blue poison demons.
And after the Blue Poison Demon's giant insect army was almost lost in the battle, the giant ants suddenly began to fight, but they did not obey the command of the Blue Poison Demon.
It seems that these giant ant-men should be the rescuers invited by the Blue Poison Demons after they couldn't withstand the attack of the Ash Legion.
At this point, the mutant giant insects controlled by the blue poison demons did not dare to approach the battlefield where the giant ant-man cluster was located.
Moreover, after the giant ants joined the battlefield, their first task was not to attack the Ash Legion, but to frantically collect the corpses left on the battlefield and transport them back to the rear with all the resources that could be used, which can be seen.
This is very consistent with the habits of the giant ant-man that Bai Yuqi and the others learned on the island of Chechnya.
Water, plants, and even dirt are all targets for their plunder, so they almost can't find a bag to hold air.
Strangely, the huge giant ant people seem to be just holding the line of defense and not allowing the Ash Legion to go any further, and they have no intention of counterattacking with their huge military superiority...... Is there such a strong sense of territory?
It stands to reason that with the predatory nature of the giant ants' greed for resources, there is no reason why they would stop at the southern front line so politely.
However, even Shabal and the natives of the wasteland had never heard of the existence of such giant ant-men, and had never seen them operate in the relatively rich ash wasteland for countless years.
Through the aerial reconnaissance network of the Spore Reconnaissance Eagle, the approximate range of the giant ant-man has been determined, which is a circular area with a diameter of 1,000 kilometers to the south bounded by the southern front.
Just to find out this range, the Ash Legion lost several Spore Scout Eagle Brigade and quite a few Spore Cyborg Air Cavalry Scouts.
After all, whether it is the mutant giant insect army under the Blue Poison Demon or the giant ant colony under the giant ant man, there are flying troops, and the ash army cannot form an effective air suppression, and it is even slightly inferior to the other party in the field of air combat.
The air power under the giant ant-man is mainly composed of a giant flying ant.
These giant flying ants, with their chitinous crusts, have the same surprisingly high defenses as their flightless counterparts.
This makes them not consider any strategies and tactics such as aerial dog fights and maneuvering detours when they encounter aerial battles, and usually collide directly and brutally, and then use six barbed limbs to hug the enemy, and gnaw and it's over.
The combination of the Spore Giant Eagle and the Spore Biochemical Halfling Air Cavalry of the Ash Legion is really a bit helpless when it encounters such an unreasonable enemy.
Although equipped with an armor-piercing blaster, this is a powerful weapon for air combat.
But the number of giant flying ants is so great that when they fly, they are simply obscured.
Although the number of spore biochemical air cavalry is also quite large, but it is consumed one by one with the other party, and the spore regeneration pool is still a little unbearable.
And the most important thing is that these air cavalry are carrying the latest generation of equipment such as dark crystal blaster guns produced by the construction and intelligent machinery factory.
Most of the areas of air combat between the two sides were in enemy-occupied areas outside the southern front.
As a result, after a large number of air cavalry were killed, these equipment fell into enemy-occupied areas and were difficult to recover.
As a result, the cunning Blue Poison Demon was captured and used to equip himself, which in turn caused a lot of casualties to the soldiers of the Ash Legion.
The air cavalry generally carried a Dark Crystal Bomb, four air-dropped Dark Crystal Bombs, and six Bomb Magazines, which were one hundred and eighty rounds of arrows if each magazine contained thirty Dark Crystal Bombs, which was enough to fight a medium-intensity encounter.
But when you encounter an enemy like the giant flying ant, who is unreasonable and fearless of death.
Unless you can hit the opponent's wings with one shot, use the explosive power of the Dark Crystal Explosion to destroy the opponent's wings and knock them down.
Otherwise, as long as the giant flying ant does not die for a while, even if half of its body is blown off, it will pounce and die with the air cavalry.
In this case, the ammunition carried by the air cavalry was often sacrificed before it ran out, and a lot of guns and ammunition were sent to the other side for nothing.
This can make the twelve-star sub-body incarnation who was responsible for guarding the front line at that time angry, and inexplicably has a sense of "the enemy has no guns and no cannons, we will build them!", what is going on?