Chapter 190: The Decisive Battle on the Hillside (1)
The Destroyer had not yet been assembled, and the formation was very scattered, so he looked at it and felt that it was a good time, and he even wanted to charge directly with his men at one point.
But reason allowed Roll to suppress his unrealistic thoughts, and the years of experience as a senior commander, as well as the growth of age, made Roll no longer the reckless young male ant.
Not to mention that the Destroyer team was not assembled, and the other two legions under his command were not in place, it was not that they were prepared to attack unprepared, and there was not much numerical advantage.
If the enemy is a paving ant or a big-headed ant, roll still has the confidence to defeat the enemy with the strength of the 1st Legion alone.
But the enemy is the destroyer, and even if the enemy has not yet assembled, even if our army has a condescending advantage, it is still a moth to the fire.
The Divine Envoy Legion did not dare to attack hastily, and the Destroyers quickly assembled under the control of their commanders, and the two sides faced each other across a gentle slope.
On the side of the Divine Messenger King's legion, the 7th legion of the mantis tiger and the 8th legion of the dung rhino finally arrived, and began to deploy on the left and right flanks of the 1st legion.
The 14th Army Corps deployed its forces flanks flanked the enemy flanks farther away, and even went far behind the enemy in an attempt to contact [Trench City]. They also expanded the scope of reconnaissance, and at the same time put pressure on the enemy from the side, taking on a lot of tasks.
The formation of the rolling 1st Army has also been fine-tuned. Because the protagonist had previously requested that the "tanks" were not allowed to perform hand-to-hand combat missions, he let the two "tanks" go to the far sides of the formation, leaving only three stag armor and two double-pronged rhinoceros beetles without ballistas in the center as the main assault force.
To be honest, Roll didn't understand the Divine Envoy King's interest in the "tank", he felt that such an arrangement was just a waste of the assault power of the two large two-pronged rhino beetles, and their long-range attack power was not satisfactory.
On the Destroyer's side, it was also roughly assembled, this was the first time that the Divine Envoy King's legion had encountered such a large number of Destroyers in the wild, and it was also the first time to observe the Destroyer's formation.
The Destroyers are in groups of about five hundred, each of which is roughly an irregular archetype.
What Roll didn't know was that there were exactly three commanders in the Destroyer army on the opposite side, and the Destroyer's formation was arranged with these three commanders as the core.
I'm the dividing line
The north wind for two days made the sky unusually clear, and the golden sun shrouded the green land in early spring, but the wind and the sun could not dispel the clouds of war on this small hillside.
The first to assemble, or rather only gathered, were the Destroyers in the middle, who preemptively launched the assault and made their way up the hillside.
The two groups of destroyers on both sides were attacked by the scythe warriors of the 14th Legion of the Divine Envoy King on both wings, and they were pinned down and did not attack the hillside immediately.
The legion of the Divine Envoy King on the hillside was also roughly assembled.
Roll knew that the beetle army under his command was the most lethal only when it was assaulted, and stopping it was tantamount to a huge target.
So, imitating the great Divine Messenger King, he issued a message to the heralds, "Divine Messenger King Legion, Advance!" ".
More than twenty heralds were running quickly to relay the military order information to the squad commanders to the left, right, and rear, while emitting scented messages along the way to prepare ordinary soldiers.
Roll personally sat on a giant stag armor, with three stag armors in the middle, two double-pronged rhino beetles and accompanying infantry, a total of five squads took the lead in launching a counter-assault.
With the middle lane as the spearhead, the medium-sized beetles on the left and right also followed one after another, and the entire 1st Army formed a sharp formation, rushing down the hill with an indomitable momentum.
The 7th and 8th Legions followed, their formations in a smooth straight line.
The 1st Legion and the Destroyer Mid Lane troops, who were attacking each other, soon collided like two speeding trains, and the scene was tragic and messy.
Even a mighty destroyer can't resist a giant beetle that is condescendingly onslaught.
The crowd of black destroyers suddenly knocked out several empty passages in the middle, like an iron plough cutting through a trench in a field, the effect of several large beetles penetrating the enemy line.
They are followed by medium-sized beetles, who follow the pathways left by the large beetles to further add to the chaos of the Destroyer, or surprise the Destroyer who are still in a clump in an attempt to break the enemy apart.
Previously, the 1st Army had used the same tactics to defeat the blocking forces.
But this time there are more enemies, even if the large beetles have already assaulted a round, and some of the destroyers in the group still have dozens of people, such a group is not something that a medium-sized beetle can lift.
A medium-sized Scarab's assault was unfortunate enough to be met with a large group of Destroyers, and its momentum was quickly exhausted in the dense ranks of Destroyers, who immediately swarmed up the stopped Scarab and the Divine Messenger King warriors on its back.
Although the accompanying infantry tried to break the siege, they could not save the scarab and its comrades.
The other dung beetle was about to burst into the crowd of enemies, and the male ant on top saw the opportunity and hurriedly ordered the rider to pull his mount down.
The two riders fiercely pulled the dung beetle's tentacles with the reins, causing the dung beetle mount to stop in pain.
But under the rapid braking and the terrain was a hillside, the dung beetle was on a relatively steep part of the road, and it immediately couldn't stop its inertia, rolled up, and threw the ants on its back everywhere, and crashed into the enemy group, and was quickly bitten to death.
Most of the medium-sized beetles that followed the assault managed to penetrate the enemy formation, and a few fell into it for various reasons.
However, the Destroyer's ranks had not yet been defeated, and the accompanying infantry of the 1st Legion, along with some of the soldiers of the 7th and 8th Legions, were entangled with the enemy, and failed to take the opportunity to defeat the enemy like the autumn wind swept away the leaves.
The two "tanks" of the 1st Regiment were supported by ballistas behind the line and did not join the assault queue.
Roll immediately took the beetle troops that had already passed through the formation, and turned around to strike again. Because the two sides were already fighting together at this time, in order to avoid accidentally injuring their comrades, the beetle troops could only reduce some speed and concentrate on attacking the place where the enemy had the most.
This time, the beetle unit fought more with weapons such as the big jaws of stag armor and the horns of the two-pronged rhinoceros beetle, rather than assault speed.
After all, the Divine Envoy King's legion had a numerical advantage and the help of fierce beetles, and the Destroyer's mid-lane forces soon fell into disarray.
But at this time, the destroyer troops on both wings finally stopped paying attention to the entanglement of the scythe hunters and began to move closer to the middle lane.