The little destroyers continued to surge up the city wall like a tide, and were driven back like a tide under the tight defense of the defenders.
The city wall was like a water bank, becoming extremely muddy due to repeated battles between waves and air. However, this mud was entirely made of corpses and blood.
With yesterday's battle experience, the 16th Legion, which has more troops and sufficient physical strength, can deal with it relatively easily. For about two hours, it has never allowed the little Destroyers to gain a foothold on the city wall, let alone threaten the crossbow. gun.
However, the physical strength of soldiers is always limited. The little destroyers continue to use their lives to consume the physical strength of the defenders. The longer the time goes on, the more disadvantageous it will be to the defenders. A war of attrition is always what elite troops strive to avoid, and what the enemy strives to achieve.
The protagonist is already prepared. The 16th Legion only needs to hold on for half a day. In the afternoon, he will let Lambori's 5th Legion rotate up. Then tomorrow we can rotate the 5th Army and the 6th Army, and so on.
But the Destroyers clearly don't intend to follow the protagonist's script.
In the sky, new warning messages came from the flying knights, and the protagonist also heard the sound coming from the radar destroyer's tentacles in the high monitoring room.
Before the protagonist understood the meaning of the strange noise, he saw the grass swaying in the Destroyer's camp in the distance, and the enemy seemed to be making big movements.
Sure enough, hundreds of large destroyers suddenly emerged from the grass that was swaying violently like waves, and they quickly killed in a straight line.
The enemy actually sent the Big Destroyer to assist the Little Destroyer in fighting. This was a coordinated operation and mixed offensive that the Flying Knights had never detected before.
If the protagonist had sweat glands, he would be covered in cold sweat at this moment. Even without sweat glands, the protagonist can feel his breathing quickening and his whole body soaked with chills.
After thinking about it carefully, the protagonist estimates that the enemy's attack will be extremely difficult to deal with. As long as the enemy's large destroyers and small destroyers cooperate properly, they can easily penetrate the existing defense system of the defenders.
When defending against the Great Destroyer, which has a powerful individual combat capability, the defenders must form formations inside the platform because they cannot compete on the front line of the protective net, move in the ballistae, use the protective net to limit the number of enemy troops on the battlefield, and use the ballistae to kill the enemy. , using military formation as cover.
But when facing a large number of small destroyers, it is impossible to rely on protective nets. Obviously the best way is to stick to the city wall, arrange the troops and ballistae along the city wall, prevent the enemy from gaining a foothold, and use the advantage of being condescending to kill the enemy.
Once the big destroyer and the small destroyer merge, all existing tactics will be ineffective.
If you choose to defend the enemy on the city wall, then the ant-head wall composed of the big destroyers will be like a fire net, which will kill all the approaching defenders and cover the small destroyers to gain a foothold.
Even the ballistas slightly further back will not be directly attacked by the small destroyers, but once one or two large destroyers get in, they can immediately destroy the ballistas that are close at hand.
As long as you have the Great Destroyer, the distance outside the protective net and the distance inside the protective net that can be reached by the jaws will be a restricted area for the defenders.
But giving up the perimeter and constricting the defense on the inside of the platform will not work. This tactic is suitable for dealing with small units of large Destroyers in small numbers. And once faced with thousands of small destroyers, they can give full play to their numerical advantage and form a siege.
If you add a few large destroyers that get into the protective net, the enemy will be like a rolling beetle army. The large destroyers are like cavalry and elephant soldiers, and the small destroyers are like infantry. The two work together to tear apart. The defense line of the God's Envoy King's army.
With no way to advance or retreat, the protagonist was at a loss and couldn't think of any way to deal with it.
But the Great Destroyer had quickly arrived at the foot of the [Bridgehead] Ant Mound and began to climb upward.
They climbed with no regard for the life and death of the little Destroyers who were also climbing. They almost climbed the city wall while kicking, trampling or squeezing the Little Destroyers away along the way. With the size of the Great Destroyer, those little Destroyers who were accidentally injured could suffer injuries ranging from bruises to broken bones and tendons.
It seems that there is no perfect cooperation between the big and small destroyers. This is good news for the defenders.
As the outermost warriors of the God Envoy King were bitten and killed by the Great Destroyer outside the protective net, the bloody scene passed through the eyes of the protagonist, and the protagonist finally woke up.
He immediately asked the ants around him to pass the order for the troops to retreat.
Instead of retreating to the center of the platform and organizing a defense line again, they all retreated to the third line of defense inside the ant nest.
The protagonist himself did not expect that the third line of defense would be put into use only on the second day of the battle. The previously envisioned line of defense would only come in handy in winter.
Retreating during a battle is not something that can be done simply by walking away. Otherwise, it is easy for the enemy to seize the opportunity and turn the retreat into a rout.
The 16th Army on the front line cannot withdraw yet. They need to cover the evacuation of the crucial ballistae first.
It takes time to evacuate the ballistae, especially if you want to transport it into the underground lair, it must be disassembled, otherwise the size of the ballistae will not be enough to move the entire ballistae into the entrance and exit.
The 16th Legion had to brave the joint pressure of the big destroyer and the small destroyer and struggle to hold on.
After the Great Destroyer joined the battle, the casualties of the defenders were greatly increased. They could easily reach into their jaws from outside the protective net and snatch away a fighting warrior of the Angel King, and then spread the warrior's blood all over the world.
The 16th Legion had to take a few steps back to allow the Great Destroyer to attack outside the protective net. But the little destroyers took the opportunity to flood in in large numbers, occupied a position on the city wall, and then continued to attack.
After gaining a foothold, the Little Destroyer's advantages in strength and speed were brought into play. That is to say, the God Envoy King's army could still withstand the razor tactics, but other ant troops would have collapsed long ago.
But as some of the Great Destroyers got in and entered the battle, the 16th Legion finally couldn't hold on. To destroy a large destroyer mixed in with a group of small destroyers, the defenders almost had to pay the price of a small team.
The 15th Army Corps stepped forward in time, relieving some of the pressure on the front-line troops.
At this time, the ballistae was finally dismantled and transported. The two front-line legions reluctantly left a quarter of their troops behind, and then hurriedly rushed to the underground lair, even causing congestion at the entrance and exit.
The rear guard fought bravely for a long time, holding back the enemy at the cost of annihilating the entire army, and covered the withdrawal of the main force into the third line of defense.
[Bridgehead] On the second day of the defense battle, the ground defense line was declared lost!
