Under the rain of bullets, the first two legions of the King's Council Army immediately fell into chaos. Soldiers who lacked training and actual combat were running around. Even the commanders were in panic. Due to the lack of intelligence, they did not know that they were at all. Hit by something.
It is the fear of the unknown that makes these usually fierce ant warriors begin to ignore the commander's restrictions and run around.
This cannot all be blamed on these ordinary soldier ants and worker ants, but on instinct.
Just like a naughty boy in the human world, when he uses a grass stalk to tease an ant looking for food, the ant will immediately run away. With the eyesight of an ant, it cannot see the appearance of a human naughty child. It only knows that there is a long blade of grass chasing it, which may bring danger to itself. Running away, rather than fighting back, is what these ants believe is the best way to avoid danger.
Only those ant warriors who have received formal training can overcome the fear and avoidance engraved in their genes and maintain their formation intact in the sea of knives and fire.
From this point of view, both human armies and ant armies have something in common, and both require training and tempering.
The old-fashioned king watched almost in disbelief as the legion in front of him fell into chaos after a strange blow. He did not need the messenger to report back, and he could guess that the same scene was in front of other positions.
The old-fashioned king's main formation was placed in the middle and back of the entire king's conference army line, overlooking the central position. But what he didn't know was that the front line in front of him was the area that had been least hit, and the chaos was better.
This is because they are facing the First Legion of the Angel King. After this legion was reorganized into the Beetle Legion, the proportion of warriors carrying slings has been reduced to enhance the assault capability.
On the left and right wings of the position, where they faced the Second and Third Legions of the God-Emissary King, the scene was even more miserable. The density of bullets hit there was two or three times that of the central part, and the command ability of the front line almost ceased to exist. .
But even if the commanders in the middle position knew the situation compared with the two wings, they would not feel lucky, because they found that they were about to face another kind of nightmare.
With the firepower preparations over, the First Legion of the God-Emissary King began the assault.
As a beetle army, this legion has a total of twenty beetles, including three large beetles and seventeen medium beetles. These beetles and their attached ant squads are the core of the legion.
The first legion was arranged in a front line, with the largest unicorn as the arrow, and several medium-sized dung beetles, tiger beetles, etc. guarding it. The formation was tilted backward, and the outermost were two large spades. Armor raiding array.
These beetles are hatched in the winter, undergo a set of domestication processes in winter and spring, and have accepted and obeyed the command of the ant driver. These beetle legions have almost never participated in decent actual combat before. After all, these beetles cannot bear the role of street fighting. Facing a weak opponent in the field today, the protagonist deliberately released it, wanting to test the power of the new military unit.
Communication among beetle legions is more troublesome than that of ordinary legions. The messengers need to constantly climb up and down the ropes on the backs of each beetle in order to convey the legion commander's orders to the team commanders. Fortunately, each beetle team has Only with full-time communications troops can command be guaranteed.
About three minutes after the fire coverage ended, twenty beetles completed their attack one after another.
Arranged at the central position of the King's Council Army, they are already the most elite troops that can be dispatched from the main nest "Qingqiu City". Although these grassroots commanders are all young, they have received traditional military education, although they lack experience. , but the quality is still good.
In just a few minutes of breathing time, some teams had eliminated the chaos and gathered the remaining warriors.
When faced with a beetle as huge as a mountain, these teams, under the supervision of their commanders, actually dared to launch counterattacks and sieges.
But these counterattacks couldn't make a splash in front of the Beetle Squad, which was armed to the teeth.
A few decimeters away, the warriors of the Angel King on the back of the beetle began to throw stone bombs or clay bombs with slings, causing casualties and chaos in the dense formation of the King's Council Army squad.
Under the urging of the driver, the giant beetle quickened its pace and slammed its thick body into the enemy's formation, completely driving away these enemy soldiers.
Occasionally, there are tenacious warriors of the King's Council Army who will try to climb on the beetle's back the moment the beetle crashes in, or bite the weak spots in the beetle's carapace.
However, the beetles were accompanied by walking warriors and escorted warriors on their backs. These King's Council warriors who attacked sporadically were quickly killed by these beetle-affiliated warriors one by one, unable to stop the advance of the beetle army.
In this way, relying on the beetles to attack in front, the infantry to accompany behind, long-range firepower, assault force, and reserve force launched a seamless triple offensive. More than 20 squads of the two legions on the front line of the King's Council Army survived. After the first wave of long-range strikes, they finally collapsed and lost the ability to continue fighting.
The old-fashioned king's main formation could see the battle situation on the front line, but he did not expect that the front line would be defeated so quickly.
Although there is a front line and two legions behind the first line, judging from the battle just now, the old-fashioned king does not expect these two legions not to make the same mistake again.
The old-fashioned king still had two skills. He intuitively felt that only by dragging these strange beetles into the melee could he win. After all, in past hunting, ants have not killed huge beetle prey, and they relied on the advantage of ant numbers and siege tactics.
The old-fashioned king made a prompt decision and sent the two reserve legions of his own front forward to join forces with the two legions of the second line to launch a counterattack.
Although the beetle has strong assault ability, it needs a certain distance and speed before it can attack. Once you lose speed, you may be surrounded and defeated.
Moreover, the beetle needs to be accompanied by infantry protection, otherwise it will be difficult to protect it with just the soldiers on its back.
After defeating the enemy's first line, these beetles had stopped, waiting to accompany the infantry to clear the battlefield while resting for a while.
Legion Commander Gun's original plan was to completely expel the enemy's first line defenders and then rest for five minutes before launching a second wave of assaults. Unexpectedly, the King's Council Army actually took the lead in launching a counterattack.
Gun had simulated battles between infantry and beetles during training and knew the weaknesses of the beetle army.
In fact, the number of infantry accompanying the beetle legion is smaller than that of an ordinary legion. Since they need to quickly keep up with the beetles, their formations are often spread far apart. The density of the formation is not as good as that of the enemy. If the enemy is drawn into a positional battle, you will suffer a lot. Big loss.
Facing a large number of surging enemy forces, the newly born Beetle Legion will face a test...
