Chapter Eighty-Three: Reinforcements
Since ancient times, it has been said that it is the norm to kill 1,000 enemies, lose 800 yourself, fight in close combat, and die to the enemy. The crowd that killed the red eyes ignored this fact, the decline of personnel, the combat effectiveness was not as good as the beginning, and the man-eating ants in the melee slowly increased again, and the dawn that everyone was looking forward to became a bubble.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind, and sure enough, the disaster did not go alone, and worse things appeared.
The work team in the rear spread the word that the ammunition and food were exhausted. It means that the fire belt that blocks the attack of the man-eating ants is about to be extinguished, Liu Yu understands whether to withdraw or defend, and now he has to make an idea, after waiting for the fire belt to be completely extinguished, the man-eating ants will definitely come to the chrysalis, and don't think about running away at that time.
"Team leader, retreat! Cheng has not heard the news yet, and he will definitely be able to protect you. The captain of the cavalry team, who has been by Liu Yu's side, said.
Liu Yu didn't answer immediately, he raised his eyes and looked, the original team of more than 5,000 people was now less than 1,000, all of them were exhausted and covered in blood, and the 500 heavy armored cavalry only had a few horses left, most of them were colored, and the majestic wind no longer looked a little weak.
For a temporarily formed team, it is rare to fight to such a situation, but it is a little unbearable to make a death, and now the pursuit of individuals in the tower is not that necessary, the main thing is to underestimate the man-eating ants, and it is good to go back and think about it in the long run, at this moment Liu Yu kept thinking in his heart.
Suddenly, the ground shook, and I saw the direction of the power grid, dusty, people roaring and neighing, and the momentum was huge, like a torrent of breaking embankments, sweeping in.
"Reinforcements"
Someone in the crowd shouted.
Liu Yu looked up and saw a large cavalry approaching, not only heavy armored beasts, but also many unknown riding beasts.
When the reinforcements approached, it was Xiao He who led the team.
"Brother Liu has worked hard, and the next thing will be handed over to us. Xiao He approached Liu Yu and stopped and said.
"Brother Yu, I didn't notice if there was a bustle, fortunately, Minister Xiao notified us to come over, otherwise we wouldn't even be able to clean up the battlefield!" Wang Sheng said as he surrounded him.
"Why are you all here, don't you care about the outside defense line?" Not only Xiao He, but also Wang Sheng, Xiao Ming and others came over, and asked a little puzzled.
Xiao He said as a result: "Brother Liu Yu, there is a new situation, let's talk about it after clearing this wave of man-eating ants." β
Liu Yu found that this reinforcement not only increased a lot of riding beasts, but also had a stronger overall combat effectiveness than leading this team himself, the key is that the degree of tacit understanding seems to be better, not like a new hand, at first glance it is an old driver.
There were more than 10,000 new reinforcements, and the beast riders accounted for half of them, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined, and it didn't take long to clean up the man-eating ants.
"One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither" Liu Yu looked at the corpses all over the place, and only felt that this poem was the most appropriate to put here.
Although it was a victory, everyone was not happy, according to the statistics of the battlefield cleaning, a total of more than 6,000 man-eating ants were eliminated, more than 5,000 people died, more than 1,000 beasts were lost, and even more were maimed.
Xiao He inspected it, briefly appeased the wounded soldiers, and immediately found Liu Yu.
"Thank you so much this time, if it weren't for the idea you mentioned, it is estimated that the new city would have been chaotic by now, with your idea, I sent people to the city to publicize and recruit so many people, not bad!" Xiao He said.
Liu Yu always felt that the matter was not completely solved at all, and even more serious problems existed, if there was no big event, how could it be possible to recruit so many people, although Xiao He did not say how to recruit people, but when this army was in chaos, it would not be easy to get such people all the time, so Liu Yu felt that there was still a big situation.
"Is there still a bad battle to be fought? Liu Yu said directly.
"It's not good to say! I can't tell you that the new city is really going to end!" Xiao Hete was sad, giving people the feeling that his innocence was about to collapse.
Xiao He paused and said: "We caught a person in the city, this person is an intelligence officer, from this person we found a document, through the document, it is shown that this man-eating ant invasion of the city was arranged by them, this is a huge conspiracy." β
Xiao He sighed and said: "The other party has set up a big game, and they also arranged the naval chaos some time ago, the purpose is to divert the attention of the military, divert the tiger from the mountain, and make such a move when the city is empty." β
"I don't understand how they control the man-eating ants. Liu Yu asked.
"Infrasonic, they put the infrasonic device in the right position, and then forcibly drive away the man-eating ants located in it, according to their plan, a total of three drives, the first time was last night, drove away the man-eating ants around the power grid, the second time is now this time, the drive is the man-eating ants in the middle, the third time should be to drive away the man-eating ants in the hinterland, that is, the ant tower, according to the time calculation, it should take more than half a day, that is, tonight, will drive away the man-eating ants for the third time, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to resist at that timeγ β
Xiao He shook his head, feeling like he was narrating a very terrible thing, "Do you know? There are tens of thousands of man-eating ants in the entire ant tower, the worker ants and soldier ants are not very powerful, the flying male and female ants are more difficult to deal with, and what is even more terrifying is the queen ant, the queen ant is a very strong general-level creature, and it is rumored that the mature queen ant is a first-line creature from the handsome-level creature, and there is only the naval commander in the entire new city, who can barely fight against one or two, and the naval commander is a five-mutant ability, which can be regarded as a person with full cultivation ability." β
"It's not a big deal, how much manpower and material resources are needed, and it takes so much effort, what do they want to do. Liu Yu was even more confused, if he simply wanted to slaughter the city and kill people, there was no need to be so troublesome, wouldn't it be easier to set fire to people in the city.
"Who knows! Capture the man, and before he can be interrogated, he will be assassinated. Xiao He said helplessly.
"Then what do you want to do next?" Liu Yu asked after thinking about it.
"What else can I do, retreat to the grid, step up patrols, and hold the line tightly. β
"You're so passive that you haven't thought about taking the initiative. β
"How can we take the initiative to attack, we haven't even figured out who the enemy is, and the person who assassinated the intelligence agent has not been caught so far, how easy is it?" Xiao He said.
"Thinking about it in another direction, if we don't let him do what the enemy wants to do, can it be said that we have stopped their conspiracy, and since we know that they will still go to the ant nest to do something, we send someone to intercept it, is it considered a way to take the initiative. Liu Yu said thoughtfully.
"It's not easy to talk about! The ant nest is dangerous, there are too many people, and if the popularity is too strong, it will be attacked by the ant colony, definitely not good, and it is completely useless if there are fewer people. Xiao He felt that this matter seemed unreliable.