Just when the walnut ship fleet encountered a three-dimensional siege from the air, water, and underwater, the protagonist stood still in [Swamp City].
It's not that he's not in a hurry, it's just that he can't do anything.
The defenders on the walnut ship fleet can also take advantage of the geographical advantages of the fleet ships, but if the defenders in [Swamp City] abandon the cover of the air defense net to fight, they will be placed in a quite disadvantageous situation.
The protagonist himself has been observing the war from the highest point of the ant mound in [Swamp City]. Seeing that the development of the war situation and the losses are still within the acceptable range, he will not make extraneous matters.
As the walnut ship fleet gets closer to the island where [Swamp City] is located, the defenders on the island are also ready to respond.
At this time, the sun was already heading west, and the sky was extremely clear and blue. Unknowingly, the battle had lasted for several hours.
The swamp area is located in the mountains and hills. There are taller and towering peaks in the east and west than ants. Because of the obstruction of the mountains, the sun rises late and sets early here, and the day length is relatively short. In this early autumn, although the autumnal equinox has not yet passed, it is already sunset around six o'clock.
It is estimated to be around three o'clock in the afternoon, which means that in less than three hours, the parasitic war beasts have to leave before it gets completely dark - even the diurnal parasitic beasts are not willing to leave in danger. night activities.
The Walnut Ship Fleet and [Swamp City] are already close at hand. It can be seen that the parasitic war beasts are very tired, but they are still lingering and refuse to leave the battlefield.
The defensive side is much better. The ant warriors spend most of their time hiding in the safe walnut boats and will not be attacked. The bees can also rest on the masts and sails, and only attack when there is a battle.
The parasitic dragonflies have been hovering in the air, which consumes a lot of physical strength. Now they rarely even perform maneuvers such as climbing and diving. They just fly around the walnut ship fleet over and over again, searching in vain for a trace of a fighter.
The two parasitic dragon lice no longer dive into the water to rock the boat, which consumes a lot of energy. Now they are just lying on a water plant from a distance to borrow strength, with their buttocks facing the fleet, firing a few water cannons from time to time, but to no effect, it is more like helping the God Envoy King's army to wash the ship.
Only the parasitic water spiders are still energetic. They always follow the fleet, running happily on the surrounding water for a while, and then suddenly approach the ship. Even at this time, there was no ant visible outside the ship.
The parasitic water spider will approach and use its long tentacles to probe into the entrance and exit of the walnut boat. But once the ants inside are discovered, the parasitic water spiders will bounce away like an electric shock and will never cause fire.
There seems to be a mysterious connection between parasitic water spiders and parasitic dragon lice. Whenever the parasitic water spider discovers that there are ant warriors in a ship, the parasitic dragon louse will turn its muzzle and continuously spray water cannons at the ship, and the shooting frequency will suddenly increase.
At this time, the defenders on [Swamp City] were also ready to attack.
The straight-line distance between the walnut boat fleet and the island was less than one meter. Today's wind was intermittent and the wind direction also changed slightly. As a result, the walnut boat fleet had not crossed this short distance for most of the day.
The soldiers of the Divine Envoy King who stayed in [Swamp City] untied a few knots fixed on the south side of the air defense net and opened a small opening. The dozens of surviving flying knights in [Swamp City] filed through here. fly out.
After these flying knights gathered above the island, they flew together to the walnut boat fleet not far away.
The parasitic dragonflies wanted to stop them, but they were exhausted and flew slowly. A whole team of bee flying knights counterattacked. These parasitic dragonflies slipped away, but they refused to go far and were still peeping nearby.
The flying knights who set off from [Swamp City] had their own mission and had no intention of pursuing them. After driving the parasitic dragonflies to a distance, they headed straight for the walnut ship fleet.
Some bee flying knights shouldered the task of messengers. They quickly passed the protagonist's order to the flying knights on the walnut ship, and then braved the threat of water cannons to find an opportunity to land on the ship and pass it to the male ant commander.
Soon, the ant messengers climbed out of the safe cabin and shuttled among the ships to convey orders, even if they were attacked by water cannons and fell into the water, they did not care.
The bees on the ship split into half, changed their positions and lay down on the north side of the mast or the north side of the walnut ship, and began to flap their wings vigorously - they were pushing the entire fleet closer to [Swamp City].
Since the fiber rope had been untied and cut in the previous battle, the ants on the ship had no time to recycle the fiber rope, and the bee "trackers" had no time to re-drape the fiber rope, so they simply temporarily changed pulling to pushing to provide power for the walnut ship fleet - also It's just one meter away and you can reach it in a matter of seconds.
The other half of the bees are still on guard to prevent the parasitic dragonflies from attacking.
However, when the parasitic dragonflies saw that the number of bees had increased, although they did not leave, they did not dare to approach easily.
Soon, with a slight shaking, the walnut ship fleet encountered the reef where [Swamp City] is located.
Some ants who had been prepared for a long time left the ship, holding the rope connected to the ship in their mouths, quickly passed through the holes in the air defense net, and fixed the rope on the shore.
The fleet of walnut boats dropped anchor and more and more ropes were attached to the shore.
But at this time, the enemy had not yet withdrawn, and from time to time a water cannon shot onto the ship or the shore, making it impossible to unload the large troops and supplies on the ship.
The warriors of the God's Messenger King hid in the cabin again, and the bees also retreated under the cover of the mast.
After suffering for a while, the parasitic war beast finally left, a little earlier than usual.
After waiting for a while and confirming safety, the Angel King's army finally left the ant mound and the cabin and met in victory.
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist met with the commander of the walnut ship fleet, Lanbori. Lanbori had previously organized the troops to conduct an inventory and unload all the supplies.
According to Lambori's report, the Fifth Army lost a total of 136 warriors, 4 flying knights and mounts in today's battle. Most of them were casualties caused by being shot into the water by parasitic dragon louse water cannons, and a small number were caused by air combat. damaged. These battle losses are still within the acceptable range of the protagonist.
Lambori also reported on the supplies brought by the walnut ship fleet this time, including precious food, including honeydew that cannot be replenished locally in [Swamp City]. Although it is not much, it is enough to supply each commander of the entire army with one or two meals. , helps maintain the morale of commanders.
There are also a large number of ropes, building materials, clay bombs and other supplies, many of which cannot be replenished in swamp areas.
Of course, the most important supplies are the accessories for the two crossbows produced by the scientific research team based on the design information package provided by the protagonist.
