These parasites, which were advancing despite artillery fire, quickly gathered about 2 meters east of the reef ferry.
Then Zhu Jue was a little dumbfounded: At this location, due to the obstruction of the ferry reef, only one-third of the gun positions in the coalition fortress can be shot, and the rest will be blocked by the reef itself. It is an excellent anti-gun position.
If you use a curved trajectory, you can avoid the obstruction, but the current artillery expansion is too fast, and a large number of artillerymen are novices. In addition, due to the intelligence level of ordinary soldier ant gunners, most of the running teams have not learned to master this complex technology, mainly based on Mainly direct aim shooting method.
Only a small number of elite artillery units equipped with ant gunners have the ability to direct fire by estimation, but this also requires the observation and cooperation of flying knights, which is suitable for small-scale precision strikes. This has not been tried in the chaos of large artillery group operations. ——First of all, the Flying Knight cannot distinguish the correspondence between the impact point of the artillery shell and the firing of the artillery. How can it be corrected...
The parasitic army moved very quickly. In just over ten minutes, they had already braved sporadic artillery fire and threw a large number of floating building materials, such as grass tendons, branches, sawdust, etc. into the stream.
A large number of parasitic ants rushed into the water, using their mandibles and joints as connecting members to bite and hook various floating building materials together. This was clearly the intention to build a pontoon bridge using half building materials and half ants.
It can be said that the parasitic army's choice this time was beyond Zhu Jue's expectation. They decisively avoided the reef ferry that seemed the easiest to cross the river, rendering most of the crossfire deployed by the Divine Envoy King's army ineffective.
This location downstream of the reef ferry, although the water surface is wider, the water flow is relatively slow, and it can avoid gunfire, making it an ideal place to build a pontoon bridge.
Zhu Jue suddenly remembered that when the parasitic ants were escaping the pursuit of the Angel King's army, they had collectively jumped into the lake and formed a floating ant blanket to escape. Unexpectedly, today the parasitic army repeated its old plan and improved it to forcefully cross this black stream.
If the parasitic army had used this method yesterday, it would have been even more difficult for the civilized ant coalition to deal with it. Fortunately, the flying knights had already gained control of the air today and could cover the safe movement of troops on the ground, giving Zhu Jue the confidence to mobilize his troops.
The artillery fixed in the internal gun positions in the fortress did not move. The artillery that could shoot directly was continuing to fire, and the artillery whose firing range was blocked began to experiment with deflection shooting.
There are also a large number of artillery in temporary gun positions outside the fortress, which were moved north carrying beetles and began to be transferred, preparing to be deployed in new gun positions in the wild to prevent the parasitic army from forcing their way across.
The transfer of these artillery positions takes about an hour. This time is when the firepower of the God Envoy King's army is at its weakest. Only sporadic artillery fire hits the strong crossing area to block fire.
Unless the shells of the millet cannon, which has the largest number, directly hit the connected parasitic ants, or hit a large floating object to shatter it, it is difficult to pose a threat to the pontoon bridge itself, and most of its range cannot reach the parasitic army gathering on the north shore. , unable to attack the assembled enemy forces.
The mung bean cannon can cause considerable damage to the pontoon bridge, and is enough to cover the enemy assembly point on the north bank. Unfortunately, the gun positions that can fire are limited, and it is not enough to completely destroy the slowly extending pontoon bridge through long-range artillery fire, nor is it enough to defeat the gathering parasitic army. , so Zhu Jue ordered them to hit the pontoon bridge to delay time.
The most powerful one is the peanut cannon. The Angel King's Army has deployed six peanut cannons on this fortress. Yesterday, it fired millet bombs and caused considerable damage to the enemy. The emplacements of these giant guns are located at the best and highest positions in the entire fortress group. They are basically not affected by obstacles such as rocks and can cover almost all places within the range with direct ballistics.
At the beginning, the Peanut Cannon was still firing multiple millet bombs, intending to expand the killing area. Due to the long distance, the shells were spread too much, and there was no accuracy at all. The multiple rounds of launches basically failed, and the sporadic hits did not cause too much damage. Big damage.
Soon the order came, and these giant cannons turned to fire special giant bombs. These giant bombs were iron balls the size of peanuts and weighed a lot. It took more than twenty ant artillerymen to use pulley tools to load the bombs indoors. Outdoors, special reloading beetles are required.
After several rounds of test firings, the experienced veteran operating the peanut cannon finally adjusted the shooting angle and successfully hit the pontoon bridge.
Relying on its kinetic energy, a giant bomb exploded into a water splash that was half a meter high, extending almost from the middle of the stream to the pontoon. The huge impact directly pushed all the ants and building materials at the hit location into the bottom of the water, or splashed them into the air. , the pontoon area about the size of a playing card was completely destroyed, and the lost parasitic ants and building materials were subsequently washed away by the slow but powerful current.
It’s just that the parasitic ants persevered and soon sent new ants to jump into the water to fill the shattered area. Many of the ants that had entered the water before had been drowned in the back and forth stampede, but they still clung to the bridge and transformed. As part of the pontoon.
After only a brief stagnation, the parasitic army repaired the pontoon bridge and was still approaching the south bank.
The flying knights have also been assisting in the attack. Attacking the pontoon with fire bombs and other weapons was not effective, so they turned to attack the parasitic ants gathered on the north bank, especially those transporting building materials. The parasitic army also tried its best to block the air attack by spraying formic acid or jumping.
At this time, the bombing troops appeared on the Black Creek battlefield for the first time with giant dragonflies, throwing incendiary bombs one after another. The incendiary bomb exploded into candle-sized sparks on both the pontoon bridge and the enemy gathering place, killing many enemy troops. It could also burn on the water, and its damage effect on the pontoon bridge was better than that of the peanut bomb.
But then, something happened that left Zhu Jue speechless. The bombing troops always kept flying at a safe altitude and should have avoided the trajectory of the direct-aiming artillery, but suddenly a giant dragonfly was injured in the abdomen and fell to the ground diagonally.
The giant dragonfly that fell on the north bank of the Black Stream and the warriors of the Angel King on it were surrounded by parasitic ants on the north bank. The flying knight saw a flame quickly ignited there - it was the warriors of the Angel King who ignited the fire. Fire bombs and perish together with the enemy.
Zhu Jue then analyzed that the artillery shells that were fired in a straight direction were flying randomly and hit the bombing troops by mistake, so he hurriedly stopped the straight firing...
At this time, three-quarters of the parasitic army's pontoon bridge had been built. Seeing that the existing firepower could not stop the opponent, Zhu Jue did not imagine that everything would be fine just by relying on immature bombing tactics and continued to mobilize his troops.
More than 200,000 infantrymen have gathered on the shore where the bridge will be reached, and have set up a semicircular defensive position, waiting for the enemy troops to come ashore and engage in hand-to-hand combat!
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