Chapter 216: The Battle in the Gravel Land (3)

Under the rain of bullets, the two legions on the first line of the army of the Great King Conference immediately fell into chaos, and the soldiers who lacked training and actual combat were scurrying around, and even the commanders were in a panic, because of the lack of intelligence, they did not know what they had hit.

It is the fear of the unknown that makes these usually fierce ant warriors begin to ignore the constraints of their commanders and run around.

This cannot all be blamed on these ordinary soldier ants and worker ants, but instinct.

Just like the naughty boy in the human world, when he takes a grass stalk to pick up an ant that is foraging, the ant will immediately run away. With the eyesight of an ant, it cannot see the appearance of a human naughty child, and it only knows that there is a long blade of grass chasing after it, which may bring danger to itself. Running away, rather than fighting back, is what these ants believe is the best way to avoid danger.

Only those ant warriors who have received formal training can overcome the fear and dodging engraved in their genes, and keep their formation intact in the sea of swords and fire.

In this sense, both the human army and the ant army have something in common, and both need to be trained and honed.

The Old-fashioned King watched in disbelief as the legion in front of him fell into disarray after a strange blow, and he could guess the same scene in front of the other positions without the herald reporting back.

The main formation of the old-fashioned king is arranged in the middle of the entire army line of the king's conference, which can overlook the central position. But what he didn't know was that the front in front of him was the least struck area, and the chaos was better.

This is because they are facing the First Legion of the Divine Messenger King, which has reduced the proportion of warriors carrying slings after being reorganized into the Beetle Legion to enhance their assault capabilities.

On the left and right flanks of the position, facing the Second and Third Legions of the Divine Envoy King, the scene was even more miserable, where the density of bullets and bullets was two or three times that of the center, and the command ability of the first line almost ceased to exist.

But the commanders of the middle position, even if they knew the contrast with the two flanks, would not be glad that they found themselves facing a different nightmare.

As the fire was ready, the First Legion of the Divine Messenger King began the assault.

As a beetle legion, the legion has a total of twenty beetles, including three large beetles and seventeen medium-sized beetles, and these beetles and their affiliated ant squads are the core of the legion.

The first legion was arranged in a sharp line, with the largest one-horned fairy as the arrow, and a number of medium-sized dung beetles, tiger armor, etc., guarding it, the formation was inclined backwards, and on the outermost side were two large stag armor sweeping formations.

These beetles are hatched in the winter, undergo a complete domestication process in both winter and early spring, and have accepted and obeyed the command of the ant driver. These beetle legions had hardly participated in decent combat before, after all, these beetles could not take on the function of street fighting. Today, in the face of a weak opponent in the field, the protagonist deliberately released it, wanting to test the power of the new military branch.

The communication of the Beetle Legion is more troublesome than that of ordinary legions, and the herald needs to constantly climb up and down the sabers on the backs of each beetle in order to convey the orders of the legion commander to the squad commander.

About three minutes after the end of the fire coverage, twenty beetles finished their sortie.

Arranged in the central position of the Dawang Conference Army, it is already the most elite troops that can be sent out in the main nest "Qingqiu City", although these grassroots commanders are all young, they have all received traditional military education, although they lack experience, but their quality is still okay.

In just a few minutes of respite, some of the squads had cleared the chaos and rallied the remnants of the warriors.

In the face of the huge mountain of beetles, these squads, under the supervision of the commander, actually dared to launch a counterattack and siege.

But these counterattacks can't make waves in front of the beetle squad, armed to the teeth.

A meter or two away, the Divine Envoy King warriors on the back of the beetles began to throw stone or pottery bullets with throwing ropes, causing casualties and confusion in the dense formation of the Great King's army.

At the urging of the pilot, the giant beetle sped up its pace and smashed its heavy body into the enemy's formation, completely dispersing the enemy warriors.

Occasionally, a tenacious warrior of the King's Army will try to climb onto the beetle's back or bite at the crack in the beetle's shell the moment the beetle crashes in.

However, the beetle also had accompanying warriors on foot and guards on their backs, and these warriors who attacked sporadically were quickly killed by these beetle-affiliated warriors one by one, unable to stop the advance of the beetle legion.

In this way, relying on the beetle to assault in the front, the infantry to accompany the rear, and the long-range firepower and the assault force and reserve forces to launch a seamless triple offensive, more than 20 squads of the two legions on the front line of the Dawang Conference Army finally broke up after surviving the first wave of long-range attacks, and they had lost the ability to continue fighting.

The old-fashioned king's own formation can see the battle situation of the first line, he didn't expect the first line to rout so quickly.

Although there are still two legions on one front behind the first line, judging from the battle situation just now, the old-fashioned king does not expect these two legions not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

The old-fashioned king still had two brushes, and he had a gut feeling that he could only win by dragging these strange beetles into the melee. After all, in previous hunting, ants did not kill huge beetle prey, but relied on ant number advantages and siege tactics.

The old-fashioned king immediately made a decision and sent the two reserve legions of his own formation forward, and joined forces with the two legions of the second line to launch a counterattack.

Although the beetle has a strong assault ability, it needs to start at a distance, and it can only strike after having a certain speed. Once you lose your speed, you may be besieged and defeated.

Moreover, the beetle needs to be protected by the infantry, otherwise it will be difficult to protect the warrior on its back alone.

After crushing the enemy's first line, the beetles had stopped, waiting to be accompanied by infantry to clear the battlefield while resting for a while.

The plan of the corps commander Rolling Yuan was to completely expel the defenders of the enemy's first-line position, and then rest for five minutes before launching a second wave of assault, but he did not expect that the army of the Great King would take the lead in launching a counterattack.

Roll in training to let the infantry and the beetle simulate the battle, know the weakness of the beetle legion.

In fact, the number of accompanying infantry of the Beetle Legion is smaller than that of ordinary legions, and because of the need to quickly keep up with the Beetle, the formation is often very open, and the density of the front is not as good as that of the enemy, and if it is pulled into positional warfare by the enemy, it will also suffer great losses.

In the face of a large number of surging enemy forces, the nascent Beetle Legion will be put to the test......