Chapter 180: Breaking the Siege (1)
The enemy is menacing, pursuing the protagonist and his army, numbering in the thousands. And the protagonist only has three legions of less than 7,000 soldiers, and some of them are wounded, and the number does not occupy a particularly large advantage.
The protagonist decides not to fight hard with the enemy and deal with the Destroyer, and if he does not have a tenfold superiority in strength in the field, it is better not to start the battle lightly.
Because the camp is under repair and can't lead the enemy over, the protagonist immediately moves north with three legions, hoping to attract the enemy there.
The Great Destroyer doesn't move very fast, and the Legion of the Divine King, with the assistance of the Flying Knights' reconnaissance, can easily execute the dog-walking tactics. This tactic doesn't work with the Little Destroyers, who march faster than the Big-Headed Ants.
So the god sent the king's army to the north, where there was a secondary forest in the distance, and as long as he got into the woods, even if he didn't rely on his speed, he could escape the pursuit of the destroyer by relying on the difficult terrain.
Once the enemy is gone, the protagonist's plan is to speed up to [Trench Castle] and quickly break through the siege network of [Trench Castle] while the enemy's army is scattered, and relieve the siege for the defenders.
According to the Flying Knights' reconnaissance, sure enough, after the Divine Messenger King's legion turned, the Destroyers also pursued northward, leaving less than a hundred Destroyer ground garrisons near [Trench City].
Although it is not clear how the Destroyers detect their movements, the protagonist estimates that as long as the Destroyer is introduced into the secondary woods with complex terrain, all detection methods will be greatly reduced, and the Divine Legion can get rid of the enemy with the help of the relatively unrestricted Flying Knights, and then kill the horse pistol.
But things don't go as planned, after the army moves north for about an hour, a flying knight who has been hovering in the air, back and forth, suddenly lands in front of the protagonist, there must be some unexpected situation, and he needs to inform the protagonist in time.
Sure enough, the Flying Knight reported: After being thrown farther and farther away, about forty minutes away from the Divine Envoy King's legion, the Flying Knight suddenly turned around and returned en masse, no longer pursuing.
The protagonist was stunned for a moment, the destroyers had a difficult appearance of advancing and retreating in the previous battles, why did they chase today? So that the protagonist's plans can't keep up with the changes.
Suddenly, the protagonist thinks about it, could it be that the Destroyers have detected and lost the Divine Envoy King Legion?
Although the protagonist still can't figure out what the Destroyer is, they don't have scout warriors like other ants, but the detection range is very far, and sometimes it is not smaller than that of the Flying Knight.
Could it be that these destroyers have the same detection ability as radar? The protagonist thinks of the radar destroyer again, and a strange thought runs through his mind.
At this time, there is no huge radar destroyer in the destroyer's army, but the way to verify whether the destroyer has lost his target and gives up the pursuit is very simple, and the protagonist leads the army of the god envoy king to turn around and turn back, and speed south.
Sure enough, not long after, the Flying Knight drew the trail of the alarm in the air again, and the Destroyer began to pursue the north again.
In this way, the god made the king's legion keep a suitable distance and attract the enemy to the secondary forest area.
No matter what kind of reconnaissance ability, it will be limited in the woods, and the flying knights' aerial reconnaissance must avoid dense trees and vegetation, and they must get close to detect enemies and contact allies; Scouts on the ground often have to travel more distances, and the complex three-dimensional terrain can be transformed into two-dimensional images that ordinary ants can understand in order to complete the task. Even if it is wireless communication for humans, the communication distance in an area such as the forest is greatly reduced.
After entering the woods, the Destroyers quickly wanted to turn around again, their detection ability was obviously really weakened, and they couldn't find the Divine Messenger King's legion, and they wanted to fight their way home.
The protagonist has foreseen this, and the 21st Legion has approached the Destroyer under the guidance of the Flying Knights. About fifteen minutes away, the legion was spotted and began to circle the woods with the main force of the Destroyer.
The protagonist leads the 19th and 20th Legions in a small circle in the woods, avoiding the detection range of the Destroyer, and under the guidance of another team of flying knights, they kill [Trench City].
I'm the dividing line
I walked the dog with the main force of the Destroyer for a long time, and by the time the army of the Divine Envoy King arrived near [Trench City], it was already past noon.
The protagonist finds a suitable wooden stick nearby before leading his troops to attack.
It was not until the army of the Divine Envoy reached their visible distance that the small group of destroyers spotted the enemy and hastily organized resistance.
The less than 100 Destroyers were no match for the large army led by the "Heavenly Messenger King", and after taking out the enemies on the ground, the army of the Divine Envoy King began to enter the underground of the [Trench City] and attack the Destroyer forces that were besieging the city inside.
The Destroyer's army of about 3,000 people surrounded [Trench City], and there were about 1,000 Destroyers underground, excluding those who had been killed by the Divine Messenger King's legion in the past two days, and those who were circling in the woods.
This number of destroyers is still a great threat, and if it is in a field battle, it is even possible to wipe out the two legions currently under the protagonist's command.
The protagonist does not intend to storm the city, and orders his troops to build fortifications near the entrance and exit of [Trench City]: a trench is quickly dug and a circle of embankments around the entrance and exit is piled up with gravel and small rubble.
Subsequently, the protagonist sends a small group of death squads into the underground lair and initiates a suicidal attack on the enemies underground.
A dozen of the Divine Envoy King warriors were killed with little resistance, but they also alarmed the Destroyers who were attacking the defenders of [Trench City].
The attack on the back road made the Destroyers understand that something must be going on on the ground. Last night, the Destroyers already knew that enemy reinforcements had arrived, so they sent out their night attack troops, and today they also left a lot of garrisons on the ground during the day.
The Destroyers immediately left behind the broken rear troops and began to evacuate, and the commanders with normal IQ understood what would happen if the back road was cut off, once they were blocked in front and back, and they were caught in the ground.
The vanguard of the first Destroyers made their way through the entrance, but they didn't realize that the entrance was much narrower than when they entered, and could only barely accommodate one Destroyer.
This is the result of the emergency construction of the Divine Envoy King warriors with saliva, ant glue, clay and hay.
Although the Destroyers were in a hurry to break through, they were very disciplined, and one by one they lined up and poured out from the entrances and exits.
But this is exactly what the gods have made the king's army want, and the number of destroyers who line up is at an absolute disadvantage, and they are besieged as soon as they emerge and are quickly killed.
Even if there are occasional fish that slip through the net and try to fight back, there is also a mending knife eyeing by the protagonist with a long stick on the side!