Chapter 191: The Decisive Battle on the Hillside (2)

Sensing that the troops on both flanks of the enemy were moving closer to the center, the 14th Legion of Kite's Scythe Warriors immediately increased their pace of attack and tried to stop the enemy's movement.

However, in the face of the tall Destroyer, the Scythe Hunter Ant, which was also known for its huge size, did not dare to easily attack it, so when the Destroyer desperately turned around, its effect became very limited.

Once the two Destroyer troops of thousands of ants join the battle group, it will be a devastating blow to the 1st Legion that is fighting on the middle slope, no matter how brave the Beetle troops are, it will be difficult to penetrate the thick army formation composed of thousands of Destroyers, once the conflict is unfavorable, the 1st Legion will be forced to pull into the most undesirable hand-to-hand combat.

The 7th and 8th Corps, under the leadership of their commanders, immediately gathered some of the forces of the squads that were fighting, and their main forces were not engaged in the battle, but were to guard against enemy reinforcements.

At this moment, the two corps advanced and set up blocking positions on the flanks of the 1st Corps in the melee.

The Destroyer's flanks soon arrived in front of the Divine Messenger King's Legion's blocking position, and after a painless baptism of sling, the Destroyer, almost unscathed, rushed straight into the positions of both legions.

However, the 7th and 8th Legions, who spend the winter retraining their tactics against The Destroyer, are not as vulnerable as the Destroyer thinks.

I saw that on the positions of the two legions, the various squads were arranged very scattered, and they were not crowded together like the "razor tactic" with heads to heads and bodies to body.

Each squad is also divided into several detachments, and there is a certain distance between them.

The looseness of the defensive positions laid by these two corps can be seen from the fact that the width of the two regiments has been extended to twice the width of the original, and the thickness of the field has reached six times that of the original.

The loose but thick formation, like a sponge, dissolved the first wave of the Destroyer's assault force.

The Destroyer who burst into the formation found that the enemies in front of him nimbly avoided the frontal impact, and then the Destroyer was constantly besieged from the flanks, forcing the Destroyer to slow down in response to counterattacks from all sides.

Besieging a destroyer is often a small team composed of ten big-headed ant soldiers and ant warriors, and if you increase the number of fighters, you can only play soy sauce on the periphery because of the limited combat range, and ten warriors are the most efficient number of enemies.

Therefore, each of the Divine Envoy King squads dealt with three or four Destroyers at the same time, and the squad commander also had a certain reserve force in his hands to reinforce at any time to deal with unexpected situations.

This tactic made the vicious Destroyer unable to break through the resistance for a while, and the two sides fought repeatedly on the battlefield, no matter how many troops the Destroyer invested, they were trapped in the battlefield and could not extricate themselves.

The soldiers of these two legions have been well trained, and they are equipped with copper jaw knives, and they have achieved a good exchange ratio of three to one in the battle, that is, three big-headed ant warriors can be sacrificed to eliminate a destroyer, which is already the best record of the Divine King Legion in the field against the destroyer, and it is impossible to achieve such an exchange ratio for some other non-first-line main legions, and the exchange ratio between the two sides was between five to one and ten to one.

After the two flanks were secured, the 1st Army Corps in the center had no worries and concentrated on dealing with the enemy who had already been overwhelmed. With some of the Scythe Warriors rushing in for reinforcements, the 1st Legion has firmly grasped the battle situation in the middle lane.

At this time, the battlefield was divided into three small battlefields, which were roughly arranged in the shape of the finished product.

The easternmost part was the battlefield on the hillside, where the Divine Envoy King's legion was dominating, and the Destroyers could not resist it, but were only stubbornly resisting.

To the west, almost due north and south, there were two blocking battlefields, and the two Destroyer forces were fighting and trying to get closer, and the 7th and 8th Legions had to move their positions closer to each other to prevent the enemy from penetrating through the gap in the middle of the position to interfere with the 1st Legion's encirclement.

Eventually, after another period of fighting, the 1st Legion had completely wiped out the enemy in front of them, while the other two Destroyer forces had merged but were still unable to make a breakthrough.

The 1st Legion and the Scythe Hunter Ant Force rushed to reinforcements and soon surrounded the Destroyers.

The Destroyer's commander was clearly aware of the danger as well, and the remaining two commanders gathered their forces together in a dense formation.

At this time, the 1st Army Corps did not dare to surprise the dense enemy formation of about seven or eight hundred people, and the two sides could only rely on infantry to fight repeatedly along the battle line.

And such a dense front made the new tactics of the Divine Envoy King Legion ineffective to a certain extent, and could not achieve the effect of division and siege.

The two sides faced off like this for a while, and the Destroyer obviously wanted to stay up until dusk and wait for the Divine Envoy King's army to retreat, and the cold night of early spring was not something that the big-headed ants could survive.

It wasn't until the protagonist arrived with reinforcements that the tide of battle took a turn.

Although the protagonist has long given the order to attack, the defenders of [Trench City] are obviously not well trained, and it took a lot of time to complete the transition from defense to attack, and when the army finally arrives on the ground, the protagonist has already learned about the battle situation from the Scythe Hunter Ant Warrior who came to contact him.

At that time, it was too late for [Trench City] to cooperate with the ground forces to flank the Destroyers, and the Destroyers were already holding on in groups.

The protagonist climbs a dry plant nearby to inspect the battle situation, and when he sees that it is difficult for the enemy to be wiped out after huddles, he asks his subordinates to go down to [Trench City] to bring two ballistas.

The two ballistae are quickly disassembled and assembled on a nearby high ground, and the protagonist orders the besieging troops to move a certain distance, and the Destroyer does not take the opportunity to fight back, their purpose is to stall for time.

The protagonist personally commands the ballista unit and fires at the Destroyers who have gathered together. At the beginning, the ballista used a giant arrow that had been reluctant to use it, but the siege has been lifted anyway, the line of communication has been restored, and the protagonist no longer spares ammunition.

The massive bolts that could pierce several of the Destroyers at once in the Destroyer's team instantly frightened the Destroyers were a creature instinct, and the Destroyer's commander struggled to stabilize the situation.

The ballista gave vent to the anger that had been accumulating over the days of the siege, and a dozen huge arrows were quickly fired, and seeing that the enemy had not yet collapsed, the ballista began to fire huge stones again.

Because of the proximity and the need to pursue high range, this time the ballista fired three times as many stone shells as usual, and the boulder rampaged through the enemy line, and the death of the Destroyer who was hit was horrific.

Finally, the Destroyer couldn't hold it out under the rain of bullets.