Chapter 144: Strange Tricks (4)

Although it had never encountered the enemy's second attack before, the Divine Envoy King's army did not relax after the battle just now, and naturally there was no need to panic, but immediately prepared for another battle step by step.

It has to be said that the Flying Knight provides ample warning time for the army.

The previous enemies of the Divine Envoy King's Legion had never attacked twice in one day. They will either fight hard for a day and then withdraw after a stalemate, and then they will return the next day. For example, the barbarian army of paving ants in the winter or the army of parasitic ants and war beasts in the southern swamps.

Either the enemy, who was defeated on the same day, retreated in a hurry, and was simply unable to organize a counteroffensive.

But the Destroyer had retreated on his own initiative in the afternoon, and it was still early, and even if the sun had set early in late autumn, there would still be two hours of light. The Destroyers took advantage of this opportunity to strike again.

The defenders who had been busy cleaning up the battlefield formed a formation again, and the battlefield had been almost cleaned up by this time, but there were still piles of corpses that had not been cleared.

At this time, the ballista had not been transported back to its original position, and remained on the high platform in the middle of the platform. At this moment, it is obviously too late to transport it over to block and shoot at the city.

Over and over again, the flying knights drew a warning signal in the air of "enemy attack", which was far more frequent than usual.

The protagonist suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his heart, and he couldn't bother to climb up to the high monitoring room to look, so he ran to the city wall in three or two steps and looked down.

I saw that the destroyers were coming from the grass like a black tide, and a dark tide line in front was rapidly approaching the trench.

To the protagonist's surprise, the Destroyer who launched the attack this time is not the same as the Destroyer who attacked in the morning.

Why would the protagonist know? Because these destroyers are obviously much smaller. It's a bunch of petty destroyers.

The protagonist's surprise is not only that the enemy has changed the attacking force, but also that the flying knights did not detect in advance that there are still a large group of small destroyers joining the southern expedition and the siege of the [bridgehead], which makes the defenders a little passive.

However, this can't be blamed on the flying knights, these little destroyers only went south a few days after the departure of the southern expeditionary army, at that time the weather had become bad, due to the rain flying knights could not go out to reconnoitre most of the time, even if they occasionally took advantage of the rain to go out, it was too late to conduct long-distance reconnaissance, and could only ensure the detection effect of key areas.

The little destroyers took advantage of this gap to evade aerial reconnaissance, and advanced all the way along the route of the large army in front, evacuating all the corpses that the large army had not had time to collect, until today they finally arrived at the [bridgehead] and joined the large army in front.

Of course, they also caught up with the heavy rain on the march because of the continuous march, and the size of the Little Destroyer made them suffer even more from the heavy rain and the final flood. It's just that there are still quite a few small Destroyers who have survived, and there are at least tens of thousands of Destroyers attacking [bridgeheads].

The protagonist's surprise is also partly due to the fact that, according to previous information, the Little Destroyer is more responsible for cleaning up the battlefield and acting as a reserve, without mentioning that they are also involved in the battle.

But now that the facts are in front of us, a large group of small destroyers are charging into battle, and they are also very fast, although because of the small pace, it is impossible to have the speed and impact of the big destroyer, but it is much faster than ordinary ants.

Faced with a completely different enemy, the protagonist hurriedly orders the 15th Legion to enter the city wall defense and stop forming in the middle of the position. At the same time, he hurriedly sent heralds to inform the 16th Army Corps to act as a reserve.

The protagonist figured out that the reason why the enemy sent the Little Destroyer to launch an attack was probably the protective net against the [bridgehead].

This protective net prevents the gigantic Destroyer from directly attacking the defenders, giving them a considerable advantage. However, the holes in the protective net are designed for the size of the Great Destroyer, and ants such as big-headed ants can enter and exit the net freely.

The Little Destroyer is the size of the Big-Headed Soldier Ant, and the protective net is useless to them.

Since you can't rely on the protective net, you can only rely on the defenders themselves. The [bridgehead] of the tall walls will be the most important thing to hold the line.

The ballistas did not have time to get into place and could only begin firing at large elevation angles. The commander of the ballista squad in charge of the command cannot directly observe the battlefield, and this kind of impromptu order given by the protagonist, even if there are detailed instructions in the information packet, the shooting effect is basically relied on. This type of shooting requires mathematical knowledge and cooperation, which cannot be grasped in a short time.

Ballista firing mostly misses, which makes the protagonist think about having to establish a system of indirect shooting after the war.

But at this moment, all the defensive pressure fell on the shoulders of the defenders.

Both the 15th and 16th corps were already in place. The fighters of the 15th Corps formed a line of defense on the rampart platform behind the protective net, and the 16th Corps acted as a reserve.

As soon as the Little Destroyers rushed through the trench and came within range of the slings, the soldiers of the 15th Legion began to spin the slings with their jaws, giving them high speed and throwing them out.

These slings have no effect on the Great Destroyer, but they can still kill the much smaller Destroyer.

In the dense rain of bullets that roared, small destroyers were constantly hit, and even hit by the secondary catapults.

A small number of Lesser Destroyers were killed on the spot, and many were wounded, but many more Lesser Destroyers were rushing through the barrage area.

As soon as you reach the bottom of the city wall, you will enter the dead end of the defenders' shooting, and most of the small destroyers, as long as they are not too lucky, can reach safely.

Moreover, the defenders did not have a lot of slings, because they were expected to be ineffective against the Great Destroyer, so the defenders only stocked up on a small number of slings in the [bridgehead], which was less than half of the usual configuration on weekdays, and each warrior carried only one with them in this battle.

This has to be said to be a mistake.

However, the little destroyers who arrived under the walls were not safe, and they had to rush through a network of fire to engage the defenders.

The walls of the [bridgehead] were piled with a number of falling stones, half of which had been consumed in the battle with the Great Destroyer, and the rest were now being pushed down.

These boulders are the size of mung beans and are just a distraction in the path of the Great Destroyer.

But for the little destroyer, although this stone of size and weight will not cause serious damage when smashed on the carapace of the body, if it is smashed on the limbs and antennae, it will also end up with broken bones and tendons.

The Little Destroyer is like a black tide swimming upstream, spreading and trying to envelop the entire anthill. But rockfalls have repeatedly scoured gaps in the Kuroshio.

Finally, the first little destroyer finally climbed the city wall!