The parasitic war beasts showed extremely strong strength, and this was despite the lack of parasitic ants, the most numerous military type. Just like how powerful the war elephants and chariots are, if they lack infantry, their combat power will be greatly reduced.
In fact, in the swamp area, if the Angel King Legion did not rely on a solid stronghold and relied on a combination of protective nets and ballistae for defensive counterattacks, it would be difficult for them to defeat the parasitic army in the field.
Relying on a solid stronghold, you can make full use of the geographical advantage, so that the numerical advantage of the parasitic war beasts is contained, and the number of troops invested per unit time is limited.
The protective net not only prevents the parasitic war beasts from directly attacking the defenders, but also protects the defenders and allows the ballistae to output freely without threat.
Moreover, the protective net also separated the connection between parasitic ants and small parasitic war beasts and large and medium-sized parasitic war beasts. When the parasitic ants and small parasitic war beasts got into the holes of the protective net, the large and medium-sized parasitic war beasts with stronger melee capabilities were blocked from the net. The defenders can calmly deal with these parasitic armies that are not very powerful and defeat them one by one.
Only when parasitic war beasts of different races are mixed together can they exert their strongest combat effectiveness.
Just like the ongoing battle, even if there are no parasitic ants in the parasitic army, which is the main force in large numbers, they are weakened by the rain, and they are attacked by a large number of premeditated destroyers, they are still very powerful. .
Although the Destroyers were steadily advancing the front, their losses were increasing, and they had to pay a lot of casualties with every step forward. It costs an average of twenty Destroyers to kill a crab or a scorpion; it costs ten Destroyers to kill a tiger beetle or a locust; and so far, they have not been able to kill any A flying parasitic war beast such as a wasp or wasp.
The battlefield was wet, and both warring parties were covered in mud. A group of muddy insects or animals were fighting selflessly. The scene was countless times more grand than the largest group mud wrestling.
There were corpses lying everywhere on the muddy ground and in mud pits. Some had their heads separated, some had broken joints and limbs, and some were shattered into pieces. The surface of the salt marsh and the temporary puddles formed by accumulated precipitation are also filled with various corpses, including those of destroyers, parasitic bacteria, and parasitic war beasts.
The water surface of some puddles was almost covered with corpses, like a thick cover made of corpses, and the turbid water was almost invisible.
Not only corpses, but blood of various colors also flowed everywhere, splattering into colorful bloody art. The red, yellow, blue, and green are all blood, spreading out beautiful patterns on canvases of various materials, forming a blood-splashed ink painting!
The battle lasted for about three hours. After a hard battle, the Destroyers finally annihilated this army of parasitic war beasts, which numbered several hundred. They also suffered more than a thousand casualties.
The Destroyer's misfortune is that the biological density near this salt marsh is extremely high. Only the biological tactics of the Divine Envoy King's Legion can infect so many bugs in a short period of time and gather them into a powerful parasitic legion.
But luckily, the rapid spread of parasitic bacteria was suppressed by rainfall. Otherwise, without these two rains, there would have been more parasitic beasts gathered and it would have been more difficult to deal with them.
After destroying this group of parasitic war beasts, only a few flying parasitic war beasts escaped, and the source of infection was eliminated by the Destroyer.
When dealing with parasitic bacteria, the Destroyers do not use fire to completely kill the strains like the Angel King Legion does, nor do they simply cut or dry them, otherwise the strains may be resurrected.
The little Destroyers in the Destroyer team came forward, and they swallowed the whole strain. Sometimes these strains were still alive and squirming, and were forcefully swallowed whole by the little Destroyer. The scene was very disgusting, just like being swallowed by a human being. caught a snake.
This is the first time that the Flying Knights have witnessed the Destroyer eating. The protagonist previously speculated that the Destroyer feeds on ant corpses, but no eating scene has ever been observed.
After eliminating all parasites visible to the naked eye, the big destroyer has withdrawn from the battlefield, and the little destroyers are still busy. They will drag away the corpses of their companions. As for the corpses of parasitic war beasts, they are sometimes cut open, and the little destroyers find some broken roots or larval strains inside, and they also swallow them.
As for the bodies themselves, they were left to rot in the mud and damp.
This gave the God Envoy King's Legion an opportunity to take advantage of. Although there were no living parasitic bacteria in this cemetery, there were still many strains in the hands of the God's Envoy King's Legion.
Shortly after the battle ended that day, after the protagonist heard the report from the flying knights, he immediately ordered the flying knights to drop a lot of parasitic strains on the battlefield.
At this time, the walnut ship fleet is not ready for the second transportation, and the protagonist still needs the parasitic fungus to buy him a little more time.
In just a few days, many carnivorous or scavenging insects that came to the battlefield to get a piece of the pie, as well as some that just came to the salt marsh to replenish water and salt, were infected by the rapidly spreading parasitic bacteria.
The Destroyers have fought many times in the [New Yancheng] area, but have never been able to completely eliminate all the parasitic war beasts. Instead, these parasitic war beasts have gathered more and more, and some bugs in the southern mountainous areas have also begun to become infected.
For example, the flying knights discovered that some corn ants may have been infected by flying insects that flew to the local area, and then hundreds of corn ants, assisted by parasitic cancer crabs, crossed the wide salt marsh and came to [New Yancheng] ] nest nearby.
With the presence of parasitic ants, the parasitic war beasts are even more powerful. They can live in the ant nest and use the ant nest as a base to attack everywhere.
The Destroyers were also intolerant of the appearance of an old enemy's nest under their noses, and launched a large-scale battle to wipe out this parasitic ant nest at a huge cost.
But the next night, the parasitic corn ants from the mountains once again crossed the shallow and wide salt marsh on the back of the parasitic crab and rebuilt the nest.
With the help of the Divine Envoy King's legions, the parasitic bacteria are expanding their power at a faster rate than normal.
This is a bit like drinking poison to quench thirst, because the spread of parasitic bacteria that has spread to the southern mountainous areas and other places is beyond the control of the God's Envoy King's Army.
The [Southern City] that the Divine Envoy King's Army fought so hard to capture from the parasitic ants has now been abandoned and is currently occupied by a group of parasitic ants that have migrated over. Many battles broke out between the indigenous hunter ants and the new parasitic ants.
If the flying knights hadn't discovered that tens of thousands of Destroyers were arriving from the big banyan tree to the south bank of the river, the Destroyers would still be a greater threat at present, and the protagonist would probably regret releasing a devil so easily.
