The rock on which the bridgehead is located is a stone about the size of a bathtub. The upper part has a gentle slope, forming a platform, while the lower part has an extremely steep slope, just like an ancient Egyptian curved pyramid, but without an obvious spire.
The bridgehead was built on this stone. The first city wall defense line surrounded the stone platform and surrounded the relatively flat top of the stone platform.
The height of the wall is an average of half a meter above the ground. It faces land on three sides and only the side adjacent to the water. The parasitic dragon louse's water cannon will be able to shoot up to this height and hit the city wall.
But on the side next to the water, where shrubs grow beside the stone platform, an ant mound tightly wraps the trunk of the shrub. The walls of this ant mound are thick enough to withstand the continuous attacks of the parasitic dragon louse water cannon. Attack, and the dense leaves of the shrub hanging down from the water can also play a buffering and blocking role.
Therefore, thanks to the terrain, the defenders of the Angel King's Legion do not have to worry about threats from the water for the time being, and can concentrate on dealing with attacks from three sides, air and land.
But now, it's clear that the threat from the air is huge. The protagonist watched helplessly as the parasitic dragonflies diverted their target and swooped down again and again, catching the helpless warriors of the Envoy King into the air and biting them to death, then dropped the corpses, attracting a group of parasitic flies and moths to rob them.
The protagonist feels both angry and powerless.
Seeing tens of thousands of parasitic ants on the ground, like landslides and tsunamis, carrying a large number of land-based parasitic beasts, the protagonist also knows that just the twenty Angel King Legion squads on the front line are threatened by the air. When distracted, it is absolutely impossible to resist.
The protagonist promptly issued the order to retreat, saving the lives of hundreds of soldiers.
After the order was conveyed, the frontline troops took turns covering the ground and gradually withdrew the second line of anthill defense despite constant attacks from the air.
This is also the last line of defense for the bridgehead. If it cannot be defended, the protagonist will have to take everyone to take the risk of returning to [Swamp City] through the rope bridge when the enemy controls the air and water control. I am afraid that there will be no survivors by then. There's nothing like it.
And once they retreat, with the strength of the parasitic army stationed at the bridgehead, there will be only one legion of protagonists left, and even the possessor of the military god will be unable to recapture it. The only stronghold of the Angel King's legion in the swamp area is a lonely [Swamp City], and the "Swamp Strategy" will completely fail.
Therefore, in the protagonist's will, the bridgehead must be held to the end.
There are benefits to retreating back to the bridgehead. The main force of the Fourth Army was not damaged, and the morale and confidence of the male ant commanders were not dampened.
Moreover, the bridgehead walls are thick and solid, with only few entrances, exits and ventilation holes, eliminating the threat of the enemy's rampant air force. Even the enemy's army with a large number can only attack from a few channels. Even if the parasitic beasts try to dig through the wall, the strength of the dry ant concrete is not something that their jaws can dig through in a short time.
Not long after the last batch of the Divine Envoy King soldiers retreated to the ant mound, the first batch of parasitic war beasts and parasitic ants had climbed up the city wall and occupied the abandoned first line of defense.
Because there were too many parasitic armies today, the ground leading to the bridgehead was crowded. Even if the fast parasitic beasts stepped on the parasitic ants regardless of their life and death, they would still be blocked by other big guys.
So today, the parasitic war beasts were unable to speed up and get rid of their slower companions, and could only move forward together in a crowd. Along the way, they also left behind countless parasitic ants and parasites that were trampled to death and injured by the big guys, forming a continuous road of flesh and blood.
The protagonist left the window where he was watching the battle. Although this window was not big, it could only accommodate one ant in and out, and it was reinforced with wood fiber. But it is not safe here. Enemies can easily destroy the slender and fragile windows and launch attacks from here.
A small team arrived here and established a defense line. This kind of mobilization and defense was performed in every passage and vent of the ant mound.
The focus of the Divine Envoy Legion's defense is on two points: the bee entrance and exit and the rope bridge passage.
The bee entrance and exit is built on the side facing the water, tilted upward, and the opening is opened near the top of the ant mound. This entrance and internal passage are large enough to accommodate two bees running side by side, and are the largest passages to the outside of the anthill.
In order to facilitate the entry and exit of flying knights and bee mounts, this opening can also serve as a passage for the attack of some medium-sized enemy war beasts. The Divine Envoy King's Army has deployed a large number of defensive troops here.
The rope bridge passage is the only passage connecting [Swamp City] and the bridgehead. The rope bridge connected to the bushes has been surrounded by ant mounds, leaving only a small entrance and exit.
Although this entrance is not too big and can only accommodate a bee or a few ants moving forward in one direction at the same time, it is very close to the ground and water, so it is easy to be attacked from the beginning.
Moreover, the rope bridge was also the only retreat for the defenders, and there was no room for failure. The Fourth Army also deployed heavy troops here.
The parasitic army soon covered the surface of the stone like a spreading wildfire, quickly spreading towards the anthills. Following the scent left by the warriors of the Angel King, the parasitic ants quickly found the first entrance and exit of the ant mound.
In fact, the protagonist has time to fill most of the entrances and exits with stones, and these stones have been prepared long ago. There are only large passages such as the Bee Entrance and Exit, and it is difficult for the protagonist to move large enough stones to fill them.
However, the protagonist did not do this. Although the ant mound was temporarily safe, the parasitic beasts and parasitic ants who could not find their opponents might try their best to destroy the ant mound.
Although the ant mound is very strong, it will definitely suffer heavy losses if tens of thousands of enemies wreak havoc on it, and it may even take a night to repair it.
Moreover, the protagonist is still dissatisfied. He believes that the God Envoy King's army gave up the first line of defense before the battle because of frustration, just because they lost air superiority.
If they were to fight head-on in an anthill, the Divine Envoy King Army would definitely make the enemy pay a heavy price and let out a bad breath.
In this way, with the "connivance" of the defenders, the parasitic army began to besiege the ant mound.
If you look down from the air, the side supporting the defenders will see a scene that can be called "desperate".
In the air and on the water, the lonely anthill castle has been completely blocked and surrounded. On the ground, countless parasitic ants have completely covered the khaki anthill like a tarpaulin, and its original background can hardly be seen. There are hundreds of parasitic beasts of all kinds crawling around on the ant mound.
If the anthill were a volcano, perhaps one eruption could send so many enemies to hell at once. In addition, the more than 2,000 trapped defenders seemed to have no possibility of defeating the army in front of them.
