In the face of the dragon lice that are constantly spraying water cannons in the water, the warriors of the Divine Envoy King certainly don't want to go into the water to compete with each other. Since the ants can't fight in close combat, they have to repeat their old tricks and start countering with their only long-range attack, the sling.

However, the slings have already shown a lack of armor-piercing ability in the face of dragonflies, and rely more on the entanglement of ropes to affect the actions of the restrained opponent.

In the face of these never-before-faced enemies in the water, the shortcomings of the slings are even more exposed.

Water spiders can swing very lightly and far away, escaping the range of the sling. The carapace of the dragon lice is hard, and most of the body is hiding under the water, most of the slings have strayed into the water, and a small number of them cannot break the defense on the dragon lice, and at the same time, they cannot play the role of entanglement, and they quickly sink after floating on the water surface.

The protagonist also tries to fire a stone projectile from the platform on top of the [Swamp City] Ant Mound, and his strength is enough to cause the stone projectile to penetrate the dragonfly's carapace, but this time it is equally ineffective.

When the protagonist counterattacks the dragonfly, he must wait until the opponent flies close to launch it, which is more accurate and has strong penetration.

But the dragon lice are hiding in the water half a meter away and constantly spraying, the difficulty of the protagonist's throwing hit is equivalent to requiring a human man of 1.8 meters to throw a lead ball to accurately hit a target more than 100 meters away, and the difficulty can be imagined.

Coupled with the dragon lice, a strong long-range attacker, most of the body is still obscenely hidden underwater, leaving only a small part of the butt exposed on the water to fire water cannons.

Passing through such a long distance, stone or pottery bullets whose kinetic energy has been weakened by air resistance are simply difficult to damage parasitic dragon lice whose bodies are mostly underwater.

You must know that the resistance of water is very large, and a small part of the pottery bullets and stone bullets that hit the water surface next to the dragon lice of the protagonist all lost most of their energy in the moment of entering the water, and slowly sank, even if they sank to the dragon lice, there was no lethality at all.

For comparison, for example, a military rifle with an effective range of several hundred meters in the human world that relies on propellant to drive a warhead can kill no more than two or three meters once it is placed underwater...... At this distance, it is not as good as the killing effect of a knife. Even the special underwater pistols that only a few countries in the world can develop have an ultimate effective range of between a few meters and tens of meters. This is evident in the resistance of water and the weakening of ranged weapons.

The ants' long-range counterattacks were completely ineffective, and the dragon lice continued to spray water cannons, causing casualties to the passively beaten ant army. If it weren't for the fact that this attack needed to pause to store water and energy, I was afraid that the ant army would be hit badly.

Just like some Western countries like to use water cannon trucks as soon as they encounter a group of tourists, this attack method is really effective against large groups of targets.

(I really hope that a certain port will also let the water cannon truck open as soon as possible, aim at the yellow corpse, and launch!) ）

Seeing that the situation is not good, the protagonist can only be beaten passively, so he has to quickly let the herald order to retreat.

Under the constant attack of water cannons and water stains all over the ground, the Divine Envoy King's army retreated into the [Swamp City] with difficulty, relying on the ant mound to defend against the water cannons.

In the battle just now, the Divine Envoy King's army lost double digits of warriors, most of whom were swept away by the current and fell to the surface of the water to be captured and killed by parasitic water spiders, and a few were trapped in puddles and drowned.

After repeated battles with the parasite Hujia, the air force and the navy, the Fourth Army was reduced to about two squads today, and the loss ratio was not large, but the combat effect was not good, and only killed the enemy parasitic beasts in the small double digits.

After the Divine Legion retreated into the anthill, the parasitic dragon lice continued to spray water cannons at [Swamp City], but it seemed to be in vain.

The foundation of [Swamp City] is a rotten wood stump, and although it looks rotten, the bark shell is close to carbonization, and it is not something that a few water cannons can shake. Although the upper part of the ant mound is made of soil as the main building material, it is also similar to real cement concrete after being processed into ant concrete and dried for a period of time, and is not afraid of the impact of water flow in a short time.

The few entrances and exits connected to the outside are either set on the top of the anthill or have a waterproof passage that slopes upwards inside, and the internal drainage system is not afraid of frontal attacks from water cannons.

The parasitic dragon lice were a tendon, and even though the attack was ineffective, they still held out until dusk before withdrawing. With all the enemy in the air, in the water and on land withdrawn, the day of fighting finally ended.

In the evening, the protagonist takes Rambotu and the commanders of the Fourth Legion to discuss today's battle, which is a battle that has never been fought before, and there are many lessons to be learned in the face of an enemy that has never been seen before.

Overall, the Legion of the Divine King, with its strict discipline and good adaptability, has withstood the test. But in the battle, a lot of problems were also exposed, after all, the main combat objects of the Divine Envoy King Legion before were all kinds of ants, and today in the face of all kinds of parasitic beasts, they are greatly limited in their attack methods.

The most prominent is the lack of long-range firepower, today's slings are weak in the face of enemy parasitic beasts in the air and water, after all, this kind of long-range weapons that rely on the strength of the ant's neck to obtain rotational acceleration, a direct hit on a small ant may not be able to kill, let alone those large insects whose carapace is generally very strong.

The restraint power of the long rope of the slingling line is also not very good against large enemies or hiding in the water.

At this time, the protagonist seems to suffer from the phobia of insufficient firepower that was common in the army of his motherland in his previous life, and feels that he urgently needs some weapons with stronger firepower and more power to deal with the current situation.

In the history of mankind, it was the bow and crossbow that finally eliminated the long-range weapons such as slings and javelins that relied solely on strength, and then it was the chemical weapons of gunpowder weapons that replaced the human-wound bows and crossbows. The protagonist feels that the long-range weapon improvement of the Divine Envoy King's Legion must also follow this law of development.

But both the bow and the gunpowder weapon are too complicated to be so simple to solve, and now that the battle situation is urgent, it is definitely impossible for the scientific research team of [Dongyang City] to complete the research and development without a protagonist.

The new weapon is still a pie, and the protagonist must find a way to deal with the next day's battle. In the protagonist's opinion, the enemy obviously does not give his side a chance to breathe.

At present, the [Swamp City] ant mound is not afraid of water cannons for the time being, but no one can say whether the ant mound will be suddenly broken in the face of continuous water impact, after all, even the modern buildings of reinforced concrete may collapse after being soaked in water for a long time!

Crisis has descended on [Swamp City]!