Chapter 250: "Waterfront City" Defense Battle 4
The old-fashioned king's behavior of conscripting strong men to dry up and fish is not only difficult to find in the human world, but also uncommon in the ant world.
This will greatly affect the production in the territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and even now, after the large army is assembled, the food stocks of the various sub-nests within the influence of the Old-fashioned King are rapidly depleting, and the harvest of the large-scale hunting in the "Hunting Ground City" in the past few days alone cannot make up for the shortfall.
This is also the reason why the side of the old-fashioned king is eager to start a war
In the eyes of the old-fashioned king, the fall of the main nest was the most unbearable, and even if he paid the price of seventeen secondary nests reduced to ashes, as long as he could restore the tradition and glory of the king's council, he was willing to bear it.
Under the domination of this fanatical emotion, an offensive and defensive battle around the "Waterfront City" began.
- I'm the dividing line -
The old-fashioned king's army began to move, and one phalanx after another, led by a few commanders, advanced with a slightly chaotic but determined pace.
On the south bank of the river, on the other side of the "Linshui City", there is only a lush muddy land in the large tidal flats by the river, which was originally the farmland of the "Linshui City", and the horsetail grass, dogtail grass, tiger tail grass and rye grass planted after the beginning of spring have grown very strong, like a forest for ants.
The Old-fashioned King's main formation was located here, and he did not see that the "forest" around him was unnatural. The bearded king of Waterfront City also wished he hadn't noticed the farmland. As long as the enemy army does not wreak havoc, the "Waterfront City" will be able to resume the production of farmland as soon as possible after the war.
After the five legions of the old-fashioned king's army had approached the wooden bridge, as the flying knights passed back the news, Rambo Fei gave an order, and his legions immediately quickly climbed the wooden bridge composed of naturally fallen small trees.
The wooden bridge is roughly cylindrical, so the Divine Messenger King's legions are arranged in a circle around the wooden bridge to defend their positions.
This formation, the protagonist had seen in the first year of the Reconquista, when it was the paving ant barbarian army that stuck to the big banyan tree in the "Waterfront City" that put up this formation.
For the weaker defenders, this formation with the shortest front is the most suitable.
Since the diameter of the wooden bridge was much shorter than that of the Great Banyan Tree, only four squads could fit in the first line of defense. The Divine Messenger King's legion was behind the front line, and a very thick line was arranged to withstand the attack.
This thick, elastic formation proved to be very necessary.
Lan Bofei, the commander of the Divine Envoy King's legion, was originally specialized in administrative work and other work, and was not good at military affairs. This time, he brought to the "Waterfront City" to be the Second Legion, which was originally commanded by Rambo Buddha.
Rambo Buddha was ill during his stay in the main nest "Qingqiu City", and the protagonist was about to send Rambo to "Waterfront City" to exchange prisoners of war, so he temporarily took command of the Second Legion.
Because it was the first time to command a large army to fight, Rambo Fei arranged the formation one by one.
Like other commanders, Rambo Fei deduced from the number of enemies that the enemy army was in a state of temporary patchwork and a shortage of commanders, and he despised it.
But as soon as the battle began, those optimistic grassroots commanders found that the old-fashioned king army on the opposite side was not only fanatical and aggressive, but also fought to the death.
According to past combat experience, after the two armies have fought each other, if a squad loses more than two or three percent of the battle, it will retire as a whole.
This is because this battle loss ratio has seriously affected the continuous combat effectiveness of the squad, and retreating at this time can bring the wounded back in time, and after resting and recuperating, they can also be put into the next battle.
If the fight to the death does not retreat, then this squad will be basically disabled after the battle, and the wounded fighters will probably be disabled if they are not treated in time, and even the most valuable commander may be killed, which is very uneconomical.
Therefore, whether it is a big-headed ant or a paving ant, they are accustomed to after a fierce battle, the front-line squads retreat separately and fight with new forces.
In this way, when both sides rotate, there will be a brief truce.
The Divine King's Legion is more combative, and it will generally hold on to the opposite side after three or four waves of rotation.
Whenever the enemy army began to rotate, the Divine Envoy King's legion would take advantage of the situation to attack, biting the enemy's tail, and inflicting great damage on the enemy when the enemy's rotating troops and withdrawn troops were crowded together and it was difficult to command.
Even if the enemy commander decided to leave behind the troops in the rear, he would suffer losses. Many enemy troops who faced this tactic for the first time would even be stunned and completely confused, and would be surrounded by the Divine Envoy King's legion.
The reason why the Divine Envoy King's legion was able to inflict heavy damage on the enemy was not only because they were all composed of soldiers and ants, and their individual combat effectiveness was strong. All the more so because it has fewer rotations, which is conducive to seizing fighters.
However, in today's battle, the Divine Envoy King's legion was shocked to find that the enemy forces on the opposite side were not rotating at all.
Waves of enemy troops poured in, and as the commanders of the Divine Messenger King's legion had predicted, these enemy forces were all improvised patchwork, the quality of the soldiers was uneven, and the lack of grassroots commanders made it difficult to improvise.
These enemy warriors were soon killed and wounded in front of the first line of defense of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and their corpses were all over the bridge, and they fell to the surface of the river one after another in the crowd, attracting a swarm of aquatic insects to guard under the bridge and devour the corpses.
The battle line of the Divine Envoy King Legion seemed impregnable at first, and the old-fashioned King's army, although valiant, seemed to be unable to shake the line at all.
But as time went by, the four squads on the front line of the Divine Envoy King's legion found that the enemy had not rotated at all, and their own side could not take advantage of the opponent's rotation to counterattack or rotate, and could only be firmly nailed to the battle line by the enemy and remained motionless.
The reason why the enemy army does not change is also crooked. On the one hand, rotation requires good command from the grassroots commanders to ensure that the fighters in the fierce battle cover the retreat and give up the position to the friendly forces in the rear, who also have perfect command.
And the old-fashioned king's army lacks commanders, without commanders' orders, and these extremely fanatical warriors who have been incited by the old-fashioned kings and other male ants have no idea of retreating at all.
In addition, the old-fashioned royal army on the front line died too quickly, and many soldiers only lived for a few seconds from entering the front line to death, and they didn't have time to make a choice for them.
The four squads on the front line have used razor tactics to kill hundreds of enemies, and their own losses are controlled to single digits.
But their killing efficiency was decreasing, and even the toughest warriors were tired, their limbs trembling with exhaustion, and their jaws were no longer capable of cutting off the heads of their enemies from a high position.
Rambo Fei had already learned about the battle from the flying knights who were watching the battle, and he hurriedly ordered the rotation of the front-line troops, but it caused chaos......