Chapter 247: Double Poison Battle (2)
The strength of the parasitic war beasts is extremely strong, and this is still in the absence of the largest number of parasitic ants, just like the war elephants and chariots, no matter how powerful they are, if they lack infantry, their combat power will be greatly reduced.
In fact, in the swampy area, if the Divine Envoy King's legions did not rely on a strong stronghold and relied on a combination of protective nets and ballistas to defend and counterattack, it would be difficult for them to defeat the parasitic army in the field.
Relying on a strong stronghold, you can make full use of the geographical advantage, so that the numerical advantage of the parasitic war beast is contained, and the number of troops invested in the unit time is limited.
The protective net not only prevents the parasitic beasts from directly attacking the defenders, but also protects the defenders, allowing the ballistas to be output without threat.
Moreover, the protective net also severed the connection between parasitic ants and small-sized parasitic war beasts and large and medium-sized parasitic war beasts. While parasitic ants and small parasitic beasts burrow into the holes of the protective net, large and medium-sized parasitic beasts with stronger melee combat capabilities are kept out of the net. The defenders can calmly deal with these parasitic armies that are not very effective and break them down individually.
Only when parasitic war beasts of different races are mixed together, can they exert their strongest combat power.
Just like in this ongoing battle, even if the parasitic army does not have the large number of parasitic ants, weakened in the rain, and subjected to a large number of premeditated destroyers, they are still very powerful.
Although the Destroyers are steadily advancing on the front, their losses are also increasing, and they have to pay a lot of casualties with each step forward. For every crab or scorpion that is destroyed, it costs an average of twenty Destroyers; Destroying a Tiger Armor or Locust also costs ten Destroyers; So far, they have not been able to kill a single flying parasitic beast such as a wasp or a wasp.
The battlefield was wet, the belligerents were covered in mud, and a group of muddy insects or animals were fighting for each other, a scene countless times more magnificent than the largest group of mud wrestling.
On the mud floors and in mud pits, there were corpses lying everywhere, some with their heads separated, some with broken limbs, and some with broken bones. On the surface of the salt marsh, as well as in the temporary puddles formed by the accumulation of precipitation, there are also all kinds of corpses, including destroyers, parasitic fungi, and parasitic war beasts.
In some puddles, the surface of the water was almost covered with corpses, as if a thick lid had been added to the corpses, and the murky water was barely visible.
Not only corpses, but blood of various colors also flowed everywhere, splattered into colorful bloody art. The red, yellow, blue, and green are all blood, and beautiful patterns are spilled on the canvas of various materials, forming a splash of blood and ink!
The battle lasted about three hours, and the Destroyers fought hard before they finally annihilated the army of parasitic war beasts, numbering in the hundreds, and paid more than a thousand casualties themselves.
The Destroyer's misfortune is that the density of life near this salt marsh is so high that the creatures of the King's Legion can infect so many bugs in a short period of time and gather them into a powerful parasitic legion.
But fortunately, the rapid spread of parasitic bacteria was inhibited by the rain, otherwise without these two rains, there would be more parasitic war beasts gathered together, and it would be more difficult to deal with.
After eliminating this group of parasitic war beasts, only a few flying parasitic war beasts escaped, and the source of infection was also eliminated by the destroyer.
The Destroyers don't use fire to kill the strains like the Legion of the Gods, nor do they simply cut or dry them, otherwise the strains might be resurrected.
The little Destroyers in the Destroyer's team stepped in, and they swallowed the whole strain, sometimes the strains were still alive, and they were forced to swallow by the little Destroyer when they wriggled, and the scene was very disgusting, like a person swallowing a snake in life.
This is the first time the Flying Knights have witnessed The Destroyer eating, as the protagonist has previously speculated that the Destroyer feeds on ant corpses, though no eating has ever been observed.
After destroying all visible parasites, the Great Destroyer has withdrawn from the battlefield, and the Little Destroyers are still busy. They will haul the corpses of their companions away. As for the corpses of parasitic war beasts, they are sometimes dissected, and the little destroyer finds some broken roots or larval strains inside, and swallows them as well.
As for the corpses themselves, they were discarded in place and left to decompose in the mud and dampness.
This gave the Divine Envoy King Legion an opportunity to take advantage of it, although there were no living parasitic bacteria in this cemetery, but the Divine Envoy King Legion still had quite a few strains in their hands.
Shortly after the battle that day, the protagonist listened to the report of the Flying Knights and immediately ordered the Flying Knights to drop a lot of parasitic strains on the battlefield.
At this time, the walnut ship fleet is not ready for the second transport, and the protagonist also needs the parasite to buy himself a little more time.
In just a few days, many carnivorous or scavenging insects that had come to the battlefield to get a piece of the pie, as well as some insects that had only come to the salt marsh to replenish water and salt, were infected by the rapidly spreading parasites.
The Destroyers have fought many times in the area of [New Salt City], but they have not been able to completely eliminate all the parasitic war beasts, but these parasitic war beasts have gathered more and more, and some insects in the southern mountains have also begun to infect.
For example, the Flying Riders discovered that some corn ants may have been infected by flying insects that flew to the area, and then hundreds of corn ants crossed the wide salt marshes with the help of parasitic cancers to nest near [New Salt City].
With parasitic ants, parasitic war beasts are like tigers, they can inhabit the ant nest and use the ant nest as a base to attack everywhere.
The Destroyers also felt intolerant of the presence of an old enemy's nest under their noses, and launched a large-scale battle to wipe out the parasitic nest at great cost.
But the next night, the parasitic corn ants from the mountains rebuilt the nest by riding on the back of the parasitic crab across the shallow wide salt marshes.
Fueled by the Legion of the Divine Envoy King, the parasite expanded its power at a faster rate than normal.
This is a bit of a thirst-quenching taste, because the spread of parasites that have spread to the southern mountains and other places is not at all controllable by the gods to make the king's legion.
The [Southern City] that the Divine Envoy King's legion had painstakingly seized from the parasitic ants had now been abandoned, and is now occupied by a group of parasitic ants that have migrated. There have also been many battles between the indigenous hunting sickle ants and the newborn parasitic ants.
If it weren't for the fact that the Flying Knights had discovered that tens of thousands of Destroyers were arriving on the south bank of the Great River from the Great Banyan Tree one after another, the threat of the Destroyers would be greater, and the protagonist would probably regret easily letting go of a devil.