Chapter Fifty-Nine: A Deadly Night Attack

When these beast-level knife ants swooped out from the crevices in the rocks, the formation of the unresponsive Alliance troops was instantly chaotic, and after losing the threat of machine guns and grenades, the commander had to order a retreat, and at the same time ordered the support troops to quickly change to flame-throwers, spraying hot flames at the colony and knife ants.

It took hundreds of flame-throwers to spray at the colony for half an hour before all of them were killed.

On the side of the Xuan War Department, although the three ministers with the highest combat power have temporarily lost their combat effectiveness, there are still 60 innate 2-layer and 3-layer masters, and they have eliminated the more than 10 fierce beast poisonous bee guards and poisonous queen bees at the cost of sacrificing 3 masters.

Today's battle can no longer be continued. In just this morning, more than 1,200 alliance fighters died at the hands of these powerful mutant beasts, and more than 2,000 soldiers who were bitten by ordinary giant ants and poisonous snakes completely lost their combat effectiveness due to poisoning, and countless minor injuries were innumerable.

The battlefield, on the other hand, advanced only 5 kilometers.

Counting the casualty data of the previous two days, the death toll of the alliance fighters has reached more than 5,000, and the number of wounded fighters who withdrew is close to 10,000.

Two hours later, the battle continued. This time, all the flame-throwers were sent to the front, and they were all closely protected by the Tongmai masters of the special operations battalion of the Xuan War Department, and the battle did not appear as tragic as in the morning, when the armistice was set up in the evening, counting the first two days, the battle line had advanced a full 90 kilometers, and there were still 110 kilometers away from the Tianchi Holy Land in the center.

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In the southern battlefield, the battle has been fought for three days, but the alliance army has made no achievements, the original strength here is only 20,000, the first two days because of lack of experience, insufficient troops, was pressed by the beast cannon fodder troops in the foothills, the third day of fighting, the beast cannon fodder troops retreated again, and the alliance troops also returned to the headquarters camp again.

On this day, the Union fighters in the southern battlefield sacrificed more than 1,200 people, and many more were seriously and lightly wounded.

After only three days of fighting, less than 10,000 of the 20,000 coalition troops in the southern battlefield were able to continue fighting. Even if this force wanted to attract the attention of some orcs for the main force in the northern battlefield, it would be impossible to do so.

Assisting in combat and needlessly sending people to death are two completely different things, and Commander Zhang of the Lunan Military Region, as the supreme commander, has not been stupid enough in his brain to that extent.

Therefore, Commander Zhang could only order a truce for the alliance forces at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain and build simple fortifications along the foothills.

From the fourth day onwards, Commander Zhang did not order the troops to continue to attack the mountains, he just dispatched dozens of artillery pieces every day and fired hundreds of shells at random in the mountains, hoping to use this helpless means to share a little pressure on the northern battlefield, and he had done his best.

The main battlefield in the north.

Just as the Alliance warriors in the camp were falling asleep, the deadly assault came again.

The average altitude of the Taihang Mountains is more than 2,300 meters, and now it is the end of autumn, the weather is cool, and the alliance fighters who have been fighting for a day are exhausted.

Not long after they fell asleep, a large group of black shadows suddenly emerged from the rubble and dead grass at the back of the camp and silently crawled into the military tents.

Many of the Alliance soldiers who slept soundly suddenly felt that they had been pricked by something like a needle, and before they could check and shout, they inexplicably convulsed, foaming at the mouth, and lost their breath in just 10 seconds.

The shadows quickly emerged from the tent and into another!

"Enemy attack! Poisonous insects! ”

The martial artist of the special operations battalion of the Xuan War Department, who was in charge of the vigil, finally discovered the abnormality and quickly sounded the alarm, but unfortunately it was too late.

The Orc forces that raided this time were a mutated force of highly venomous red-spotted spiders, numbering in the thousands, and although they were only the size of a baby's palm, the main thing about their mutations was not their size, but their poisonous damage.

Ordinary warriors and martial artists of the Tongmai Realm under the innate will die within 10 seconds as long as they are bitten by ordinary mutant red spotted spiders. Even if he is a master of the innate level, if he is bitten, if he can't use his true qi to force the toxin out within 5 minutes, he will definitely die. If he is bitten by the Red Spotted Spider King, even a master like Li Xuanyi will definitely die within 5 minutes.

Under the cover of the night, the main attack force of the alliance, which was too quiet and unprepared because it was too quiet in the previous two nights, left 7,000 corpses under the first wave of sneak attacks by the red spotted spiders, fled from the fortifications in disarray, and retreated several kilometers before regrouping and launching a counterattack.

In the face of the surging tide of highly poisonous red spotted beads on the ground, the guarded alliance forces did not pay too much sacrifice this time, relying on flame-jets and strong sulfuric acid, and quickly wiped out all of this red spotted spider beast clan.

Dozens of masters of the Xuan War Department also worked together to kill several fierce beast-level red-spotted spiders, but the half-meter-long red-spotted spider king disappeared strangely.

When the battle casualties were counted, there were only the number of dead and no wounded......

All the Union fighters who were bitten and bleeding were all poisoned, and none of them were saved. Only more than 10 people from the Xuan War Department were born masters, and their lives were saved because they ran the True Qi to remove poison in time.

The fighters, taking advantage of the time to trim, hurriedly replenished ammunition and took turns to eat. The corpses of the orcs and the remains of the martyrs were cremated, and the wounded and poisoned were quickly transferred out of the battlefield for treatment.

In the second half of the night, the camp was not attacked by the orcs again, but all the warriors did not dare to continue sleeping, they leaned on the rocky mountain with nervous faces, and tightly grasped the weapons in their hands, only in this way could they feel more secure!

At the end of the third day of fighting, less than 60,000 of the 80,000 coalition troops in the northern theater remained......

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On the fourth day, the order of the coalition was still to continue the offensive.

Li Xuanyi and Zhong Liang, who had rested for a day, with the help of their strong true qi, had begun to stutter after stitching the external injuries on their bodies, and their combat effectiveness had recovered eighty or ninety percent.

Since he did not have the ability to make the alliance military department change its decision, Li Xuanyi could only continue to attack with the remaining people of the Xuan War Department.

The morning assault went surprisingly well, and the encounters were still some cannon fodder, vipers, giant ants, and poisonous bees, including yesterday's Red Spotted Bead. During the day, the light was good, and the soldiers were on guard again, and under the suppression of powerful firepower, the cannon fodder troops of the beast clan were beaten back again and again, leaving hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder corpses behind. The success of the battle boosted the morale of the Alliance warriors who had been suppressed for two or three days, and they frantically poured ammunition on the orc camp.

The attack was too smooth, which made Li Xuanyi, who was following him, feel more and more uneasy, and he always felt as if a big trap had been dug and was waiting for him and others.

When the 60,000 warriors of the alliance chased a group of beast cannon fodder into a mountain col, Li Xuanyi's bad premonition became stronger and stronger. The dense forest at the col was very large, several square kilometers, and the beasts who fled along the downhill did not go anywhere else, but ran here, and after they ran in, there was no trace of any other animals or birds being disturbed in the dense forest.

Not good! There are definitely traps!

Since ancient times, there is a saying in the art of war, "do not enter the forest", and when you are not sure whether there is danger in the dense forest, a qualified commander will never let your soldiers enter the dense forest casually.

Li Xuanyi hurriedly rose into the sky, wanting to cross the alliance's warriors to the front to stop them from continuing the pursuit.

"All back, don't go into the jungle!"

Li Xuanyi's figure in mid-air had not yet fallen, and the more than 10,000 alliance soldiers who rushed to the front had already plunged into the dense forest. The trees in the dense forest were not very tall, and most of them had begun to wither and yellow, and the sight was not too bad, but 10,000 people suddenly plunged into it, and it immediately seemed crowded.

"Get out of here, hurry! Hurry up! ”

Li Xuan burst into tears, and he himself had already rushed into the dense forest, passing all the alliance warriors and falling to the front.

"Get out of here! Fast! Fast! Fast! ”

The fighters did not know what the situation was, why the commander was in such a hurry, but the duty of a soldier is to obey orders. The more than 10,000 soldiers who had already rushed into the dense forest quickly turned around and ran out of the dense forest.

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Before the Alliance troops ran a few steps away, a dense mass of poisonous insects suddenly poured out from the low bushes in the dense forest, and as soon as they came out, they directly bit the shoes and trouser legs of the soldiers, and desperately drilled into the bodies of the soldiers.

The more than 10,000 alliance fighters who were still alive just now fell one after another in the blink of an eye, and only a few dozen of them escaped by chance.

The corpses of the warriors who fell in the dense forest were crawling with a thick layer of poisonous insects, and they frantically gnawed on these corpses, and in just over 1 minute, more than 10,000 corpses were gnawed clean, and even the internal organs were gnawed away, leaving only a gray-white human skeleton.

Those alliance warriors who rushed slowly and were still outside the dense forest, and those who immediately retreated far away from the dense forest, these warriors who were used to seeing life and death, a large part of them couldn't help but vomit.

Although Li Xuanyi sensed the crisis in advance, he still failed to save the lives of these soldiers.

The true qi on the alloy war knife exploded rapidly, and Li Xuanyi, who was floating in the air for a short time, frantically swung the brilliant sword qi towards the poisonous insects on the ground, and each sword qi could kill hundreds of poisonous insects. It's a pity that those poisonous insects seem to be endless, and no matter how powerful his attack is, he can only kill a very small part. Dispensable for the situation as a whole.

Li Xuanyi had to give up continuing the attack, and he quickly withdrew from the dense forest and returned to the camp of the alliance warriors. But the strange thing is that the sense of crisis that shrouded Li Xuanyi's heart still hasn't subsided.

Li Xuanyi's cultivation was already congenital 6th layer perfection, and he was about to see the hazy door of the God Refining Realm, so he believed in his intuition very much. He looked uneasily into the depths of the forest, where powerful creatures seemed to be staring at him.