Chapter 147: Mixed Offensive (2)
The Little Destroyers continued to flood the walls, and were repulsed like a tide under the tight defenses of the defenders.
The walls were like waterfronts, muddy in the repeated battles between the waves and the air, but the mud was made entirely of corpses and blood.
With yesterday's combat experience, the 16th Legion, which was more abundant and physically stronger, was relatively less able to deal with it, and for about two hours, it never allowed the Little Destroyer to gain a foothold on the city walls, let alone let them threaten the ballistas.
However, the physical strength of the warriors is always limited, and the little destroyers continue to use their lives to consume the physical strength of the defenders, and the longer it drags on, the more detrimental it will be to the defenders. A war of attrition is always something that elite troops should strive to avoid, and that the enemy is trying to achieve.
The protagonist is ready, the 16th Legion only needs to hold out for half a day, and in the afternoon he will rotate the 5th Legion of Rambery. And then tomorrow it will be the 5th Army and the 6th Army Corps in rotation, and so on.
But the Destroyers clearly don't intend to play the main character's script.
In the sky, the Flying Knights send a new warning message, and the protagonist hears the sound of the Radar Destroyer's tentacles from the high monitoring room.
Before the protagonist can grasp the meaning of this strange noise, he sees the blades of grass swaying in the Destroyer's camp in the distance, and the enemy seems to be making great movements.
Sure enough, hundreds of Great Destroyers suddenly poured out of the grass that was swaying violently like waves, and they quickly killed in a straight line.
The enemy sent the Great Destroyer to assist the Little Destroyer in the battle, a coordinated and hybrid attack that the Flying Knights had never detected before.
If the protagonist has sweat glands, then he must be covered in cold sweat at this moment. Even without sweat glands, the protagonist can feel himself breathing quickly and drenched in chills.
After thinking about it, the protagonist calculates that the enemy's attack is extremely difficult to deal with. With proper coordination between the enemy's Great Destroyer and the Little Destroyer, it is easy to penetrate the defenders' existing defenses.
When defending against the Great Destroyer, who is strong in individual combat, because it is impossible to compete on the front line of the protective net, the defenders must form a formation inside the platform, move the ballista in, use the protective net to limit the number of troops that the enemy can put into the battlefield, use the ballista to kill and wound the enemy, and use the military formation as a cover.
However, in the face of a large number of small destroyers, it is impossible to rely on protective nets, and it is obviously best to hold the walls, line up the troops and ballistas along the walls, prevent the enemy from gaining a foothold, and use the condescending advantage to kill and injure the enemy.
And once the Great Destroyer and the Little Destroyer merge, the existing tactics will be ineffective.
If you choose to defend yourself against the enemy on the wall, the ant-headed wall formed by the Great Destroyer will act like a fire net, killing all nearby defenders and covering the Little Destroyer to gain a foothold.
Even the ballistas that are a little further back will not be directly attacked by the Little Destroyer, but once one or two of the Big Destroyer get in, they will be able to destroy the ballistas that are close at hand.
As long as you have the Great Destroyer, then the distance between the outside of the protective net and the big jaws on the inside of the protective net will be a forbidden area for the defenders.
But it is not possible to abandon the perimeter and shrink to defend on the inside of the platform. This tactic is suitable for dealing with small forces of Big Destroyers with a small number of them. And once faced with thousands of small destroyers, they can give full play to their numerical superiority and form a siege.
If you add a few Great Destroyers who have penetrated into the protective net, then the enemy is an existence like a rolling beetle army, the Great Destroyer is like cavalry and elephant soldiers, and the small Destroyer is like infantry, and the combination of the two is enough to tear through the defense line of the Divine Messenger King's legion.
There is no way to advance, no way to retreat, the protagonist is at a loss for a while, and he can't think of any way to deal with it.
But the Great Destroyer had soon reached the [bridgehead] ant mound and began to climb upwards.
They climbed up completely ignoring the lives of the little Destroyers who were also climbing, and almost as they climbed the walls, they kicked, trampled down, or squeezed the little Destroyers along their path. In the form of the Great Destroyer, those who were accidentally injured by mistake were not bumped or bruised, and it was possible to break bones and tendons.
It doesn't seem like the Destroyers are working together seamlessly, which is good news for the defenders.
As the outermost part of the Divine Envoy King warriors are bitten and killed by the Great Destroyer outside the protective net, the bloody scene finally makes the protagonist come to his senses through the eyes of the protagonist.
He immediately asked the ants around him to give the order to the troops to retreat.
Instead of retreating to the center of the platform to organize a defensive line again, all retreated to the third line of defense inside the nest.
The protagonist himself does not expect that the third line of defense will only be put into use on the second day of the battle, and the previously conceived line of defense will only come in handy in the winter.
Retreat during the battle is not a one-time walk, otherwise it is easy for the enemy to seize the opportunity and let the retreat turn into a rout.
The 16th Army Corps on the front line could not be withdrawn for the time being, and they needed to cover the vital ballista evacuation first.
Ballista evacuation takes time, especially if it is to be transported into an underground lair, and must be disassembled, otherwise the size of the ballista will not be large enough to move the entire ballista into and out of the entrance.
The 16th Legion had to brave the pressure of both the Great Destroyer and the Little Destroyer.
When the Great Destroyer joined the battle, it did cause the defenders to suffer a lot of casualties, and they could easily reach out of the protective net and into their jaws, and they were able to take a fighting Divine Envoy King warrior and let the warrior's blood spill all over the world.
The 16th Legion had to take a few steps back to get out of the way of the Destroyer's range outside the protective net. But the Little Destroyer took the opportunity to flood in, take a place on the walls, and then attack.
After gaining a foothold, the advantages of the little destroyer's strength and speed were brought into play, that is, the razor tactics of the Divine King Legion could still resist, and the other ant troops had already collapsed.
But with some of the Great Destroyers sneaking in and going into battle, the 16th Legion finally couldn't hold on. To eliminate a large Destroyer mixed in with the small Destroyer, the defenders will have to pay the price of a squad.
The 15th Corps rose up in time to relieve some of the pressure on the front-line troops.
At this time, the ballista was finally dismantled and transported, and the two legions on the front line reluctantly left a quarter of the troops behind, and then hurriedly rushed to the underground lair, even causing congestion at the entrances and exits.
The rearguard troops fought valiantly for a long time, dragging the enemy at the cost of the total annihilation, covering the withdrawal of the main forces into the third line of defense.
On the second day of the [bridgehead] battle, the ground defense line was lost!