Chapter 67: Defending the City (1)
By nightfall, the 4th Army had already assembled at the bridgehead.
Due to the limited area of the bridgehead, twenty of the fifty squads of the Fourth Army were deployed on the first wall defense, ten squads were placed in the second anthill defense, and the remaining twenty were temporarily left in the anthill and bushes as mobile troops, waiting for the battle situation to be re-engaged.
Some of the ants in charge of logistics quickly crossed the rope bridge and sent a small amount of food from [Swamp City] to the bridgehead, ensuring that the soldiers who were resting before the battle could have a bite to eat.
The protagonist also rode Xiaoqing II to the bridgehead, and with the Bee Flying Knights gaining air supremacy, he can finally avoid being trapped inside [Swamp City], but can overlook the battle from the air.
As the sky brightened, the Bee Riders poured out of their nests and gathered together like a black cloud, circling back and forth over [Swamp City] and the bridgehead, guarding and guarding the sky.
The sun rose in the east, and the wind blew across the sky, and the clouds that had covered nearly half of the sky gradually showed signs of dispersing, and the sun shone through the gaps in the clouds to the earth, coating the clouds and the earth with a dazzling and warm gold, dispelling the slight chill that had just gathered in the night.
It's a warm, bright day, the weather that insects love, and a great day to kill!
At this moment, the bee flying knights hovering in the air suddenly turned en masse, turned back from the south, and flew in a circle with a very short radius over the bridgehead - a pre-agreed signal that the enemy was approaching, and the warriors of the Divine Messenger King on the ground immediately entered the battle position under the command of the male ant commander and waited for the battle.
The enemy has appeared!
The first thing to be discovered was the parasitic dragonflies in the air, which were approaching in formation, and the bee flying knights immediately left the sky above the bridgehead and rushed forward bravely.
Although the parasitic dragonfly is obviously no match for so many bees, the parasitic dragonfly with its brain already controlled does not escape, but recklessly continues to move forward.
The bees and dragonflies in the air collided violently, and the dragonflies, which were good at turning and stationing, did not fly as flexibly as before after being parasitized, and were soon hugged by the bees rushing up, and their wings were unable to support such a large weight, and they slowly struggled to fall to the ground.
The parasitic dragonfly fell heavily to the ground, and the bee flying knights who were hugging it were also uncomfortable, and fell to the ground and scattered.
However, the bees soon recovered under the control of the flying knights, and before the parasitic dragonflies could react, they swarmed up again and bit off their wings first.
The gnawing of the wings was not easy for the bees' chewing mouthparts with small jaws and long straws, but with the numerical advantage, the bees quickly bruised the parasitic dragonflies that fell to the ground and could not take off.
Flying knights on the backs of bees also use spears made of wood fibers to stab or pick off parasites that try to attack.
The battle between the Bee Flying Knights and the Parasitic Dragonfly, which turned from an air battle to a land battle, ended quickly, and the Bee Flying Knights eliminated the enemy air force with zero casualties and regained air supremacy by relying on gnawing and heat tactics.
At this time, the army and navy units of parasites were belated.
The troops of these parasites converged from different directions.
On the water, the swarthy dorsal armor of several parasitic dragon lice drew a long track on the water, and soon leaned in the direction of the bridgehead. The vicinity of the bridgehead is also their daily fixed staging place.
In addition to parasitic dragon lice, parasitic water spiders also gather from different directions of water.
The land route to the bridgehead was a narrow stretch of land that meandered through the waters, and the parasitic army's army was advancing in a group.
According to the report of the Bee Flying Knight, the enemy army that arrived today has hundreds of parasitic ants and more than a dozen parasitic beasts, including parasitic centipedes, parasitic spiders, parasitic tiger armors, and parasitic beetles.
The number of armies on the parasite's side is not very large, and the number of troops gathered is much smaller than when [Swamp City] was first discovered by them. This is also an adjustment in terms of parasites after discovering that the army was unable to attack the defenders for many days, but whether it was intentional or naturally formed, the protagonist is still uncertain.
According to previous experience, parasitic ants or other insects only retain most of their instincts, and only some queens and special pale golden workers can still maintain the ability to think, and these queens or pale gold workers are obviously able to control the actions of parasitic ants with precision, but can they command parasitic beasts like their arm's fingers? The protagonist is still suspicious.
The enemy army also has the kind of large pale golden worker ant with five silk thread parasites in the north that the protagonist encountered in [Southern Fortress] before, this large worker ant has good eyesight, and can even look at the protagonist in [Swamp City] across the water.
After the large force of parasites reached the outside of the bridgehead, the enemy could not wait to attack.
At this time, it can be seen that the command of this army composed of ants and different insects and arthropods is confused: except for the parasitic ants, which are under the restraint of the light gold worker ants, they advance at a relatively uniform speed and maintain a formation, and the other insects are completely fighting on their own.
Completely ignoring the bridgehead, the parasitic dragon lice ran to the old location of [Swamp City] and began to spray water cannons, seemingly at the outer walls of [Swamp City], vowing to take it down.
Parasitic water spiders hovering over the water, they don't venture ashore, but they don't pose a threat to the Divine Legion if they remain in the water.
On the ground, the only parasitic tiger armor had already rushed over, leaving the other parasitic beasts far behind. This parasitic tiger armor is extremely fast, and the protagonist only sees an afterimage, and the enemy has come to the city.
In a field battle, this parasitic tiger armor is enough to disrupt a legion's defenses with its speed and assault power alone.
But in the defensive battle, in the face of the high stones and the city wall above, the parasitic tiger armor could only stop and start climbing, and the speed dropped in a flash.
By the time it climbed the bridgehead walls, its proud speed had been lost, and the ant warriors of the Divine Angel King's legion were not afraid of the big man with the big jaws, and quickly swarmed up and killed him with the characteristic siege of ants, although they also paid some casualties under his big jaws.
After the parasitic tiger armor was beaten to death, the second wave of parasitic beetles and parasitic spiders reached the city and then climbed up as well.
The parasitic beetle has no characteristics except for a little more strength, and this time it is a small beetle, and the three parasitic beetles are also quickly hated at the first line of defense.
However, the two parasitic spiders are more annoying, these spiders did not directly impact the defense line of the Divine Envoy King warriors, but sprayed spider silk from a distance!