What the protagonist fears most is this - an enemy country that wisely knows how to imitate.
Although due to the gap in cognitive level between the two parties, the protagonist also clearly knows that the imitation of the Ant Emperor may not be successful.
For example, during the Pacific War in human history, some Pacific islands where only indigenous people lived had US troops stationed because of their important strategic position. The U.S. military built an airport on the island, arrived by plane, and occasionally distributed food to the indigenous residents. Native peoples viewed American planes as gods that could bring food.
After the U.S. military left, many years later, visitors arrived and were surprised to find that the local aborigines had built models of airplanes and towers out of grass and trees, and also used flags. All movements were imitated very well, as if they were guiding the plane to land. These natives do not understand the connection between airplanes and food. They simply think that such imitation can bring food, and the imitation is lifelike.
Although the gap between the Pavement Ant Empire and the Ant Alliance is not as big as the gap between the Pacific natives and the US military, they may not be able to figure out how to use the artillery from beginning to end, but the protagonist does not dare to take this risk.
The Flying Knight's reconnaissance report shows that at least this group of pavement ants already knows the direction of the muzzle. This is already a dangerous signal. The enemy ants are very good at observing and imitating.
Although the principle of artillery is complicated, the only thing that really needs to be done is to learn to fire, which is not as difficult as imagined. In the artillery crew of the God's Envoy King's Legion, each ant only needs to learn a few fixed movements and can be quickly trained by cooperating with them.
It is entirely possible that the Pavilion Ant Emperor can also learn to use artillery by studying separately and performing their respective duties. If he really learns it, the God Envoy King's army will face an enemy with thermal weapons for the first time.
This scene is like the European colonists suddenly encountering Indians who have learned to ride horses and use muskets on the American continent. It seems that civilization will never stop spreading.
No mature politician will let a potentially huge threat develop on its own. The protagonist immediately made up his mind and decided to destroy this potential threat!
The protagonist immediately ordered a flying knight messenger to set off to convey the order.
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In the afternoon, outside, the enemy's offensive had retreated.
After losing their top commander, the enemy troops entered a brief period of chaos. They were waiting outside the artillery range outside the city, not knowing where to go.
The protagonist stands on the fortifications, with a loaded millet cannon next to him, ready to respond to a new round of enemy attacks at any time.
The protagonist ignored the thousands of enemy troops in front of him, but looked up to the southeast from time to time.
The sun was shining on the ground from the southwest at this time. When the protagonist looked at it, the golden light reflected from the clouds on the horizon made him feel dazed if he stared for a long time, and he could only take a look back to rest.
Just when he was getting impatient, the "buzzing" sound of flapping wings finally sounded.
The giant dragonfly bombing force arrived in the sky for the second time today.
The protagonist looked up and watched as his country's air force flew overhead, roaring towards the enemy. There were obvious waves in the position of the Pavilion Ant Emperor. The enemy did not expect that the giant dragonfly troops would come again so soon after their attack in the morning. They had finally managed to pinpoint the giant dragonflies that would attack once a day or two. According to the rules, this attack greatly exceeded their expectations.
Now that the legions of the Ant Emperor's army have lost contact with the highest commander in the headquarters, and the command is in chaos, some military formations, led by their respective marquis and earls, begin to spread out to avoid, which in turn leads to more Many enemy troops left the station.
The enemy troops were crowding and fighting with each other. From the air, the ground was chaotic and disorderly, like a group of headless and wingless flies.
Taking advantage of the enemy's brief confusion, the giant dragonfly troops quickly penetrated into the center of the enemy's formation, with hundreds of flying knights guarding them. Their target was exactly where the artillery position captured by the enemy was located!
The combat flying knights took the lead in swooping over and driving away the surrounding garrison troops with dense fire bombs, exacerbating the chaos of the enemy ants and clearing the ground for the subsequent battle.
The enemy only had sporadic ants shooting in vain in the air, but most of the time the range could not even reach the combat flying knight.
The other enemy troops hurriedly fled. After seeing the giant dragonfly flying towards here, the Pado Ant Emperor, who was afraid of fire and lost control of the headquarters, was like a plate of loose sand, unable to deal with it at all.
The giant dragonfly troops quickly arrived at the enemy's artillery position. There were still hundreds of enemy soldiers who had not retreated, and they were showing their teeth and claws as if to protect these trophies.
The Giant Dragonfly Force did not bomb, they had exhausted their aerial bomb inventory in the morning. This time, they carried three squads of elite infantry to carry out the mission of destroying the enemy's captured artillery!
When the giant dragonfly landed to a certain height, some pavement ants couldn't wait to face the wind blown by the dragonfly's wings, wanting to surround this huge war beast.
The warriors of the God Envoy King jumped off the dragonfly's back one after another, fell to the ground, and fought with the enemy ants.
The scale of the battle on the ground was not large. There were only two to three hundred pavement ants, and the warriors of the God Envoy King only had three teams of 150 warriors.
But the cruelty is not weak at all.
The pavement ant warriors who were guarding and learning artillery were all selected enemy elites. They were the most bloodthirsty and militant worker ants. When nearby friendly forces were driven away and scared away, they still resisted tenaciously under the leadership of a viscount. .
On the side of the warriors of the God Envoy King, after jumping off the giant dragonfly, they had no time to form a formation and fought with the enemy in a melee. The advantage of the formation was gone. They only relied on sophisticated equipment and strong individual combat effectiveness to fight. Soon they also appeared. Many casualties.
The battle lasted for about a quarter of an hour. The three teams of the God Envoy Kings gradually gathered under the command of the leader of the God Soldier Ant Team and began to efficiently slaughter the recalcitrant enemy ants.
After finally suppressing the resistance, the warriors of the God Envoy King were finally able to carry out their mission.
At first, they wanted to hang 6 artillery pieces under the giant dragonfly and take them back, but the commander of the giant dragonfly force weighed it and said that the dragonfly's carrying capacity could not transport these heavy artillery pieces, let alone the attacking soldiers. go back.
There is no other way. At this time, some enemy troops have already tried to turn back, and the combat flying knights are trying their best to contain Zhou Xuan. The soldiers of the Divine Envoy King who performed the mission had no choice but to pile the captured mysterious ball propellants around the artillery, detonate them together, and destroy the artillery.
Then, the giant dragonfly troops returned with the surviving warriors of the Envoy King and the armor ripped off from the dead.
The corpses of the war dead and the jaw knives stuck firmly to their jaws were abandoned and lay quietly around the charred explosion site!
