On the front line, except for the Angel King's army and a few completely different blind leaf-cutting ants and marching ant troops who were still resisting, the rest of the coalition forces retreated.
A few parasitic ants came around, and dozens of them chased hundreds or even thousands of defeated troops. Among the defeated coalition soldiers, new parasitic ants suddenly appeared every minute, further exacerbating the collapse.
The field artillery positions that were originally in a safe position in the rear were unable to protect themselves under the impact of the defeated army and the focused attacks of sporadic parasitic ants, and they could no longer provide fire support to the front line.
Some field artillery units had to quickly mount their artillery on the beasts and then retreat quickly. A few artillery positions were even washed away, and the artillerymen abandoned their iron cannons and disappeared.
Fortunately, the pontoon bridge built by the parasitic ants is not strong enough to pass through. The current swarms are all parasitic ants and small insect beasts. Some small insect beasts even stepped on the pontoon bridge and fell into the water. The most threatening large and medium-sized insect beasts dare not pass through the pontoon bridge and are still waiting for the bridge at the reef crossing to be completed.
At present, the Divine Envoy Army and a small number of allied troops are still holding on before the tide of parasitic ants. They are firmly blocked not far from several pontoons, which plays a role in stabilizing the morale of the troops and buying time for the rear. But once a large number of large and medium-sized parasitic beasts with assault power arrive in the war zone and engage the infantry of the God's Envoy Legion without fortification cover, the battle situation may be devastating.
Therefore, the current focus of the front line is the Reef Ferry. The civilized ant coalition must prevent the completion of the simple bridge at the Reef Ferry in order to have a chance to reverse the situation.
Zhu Jue immediately issued an order through the cobblestone telegraph line and the messenger, ordering all the artillery in the central fortress to aim at the reef ferry for bombing. The flying knights also assisted at all costs.
Two pieces of good news came one after another. One was that the guards soldiers led by his old guard captain "Tianxian" took the initiative after sensing the internal turmoil and had basically put down the "rebellion" in the central fortress group. Not many parasitic ants appeared in this base camp. They were originally attacking several forts, but fortunately they were suppressed in time.
Another good news is that a mobile tank regiment commanded by "Rambovan II" realized the danger before receiving the order, took the initiative to support the south bank of the reef ferry, and used its own firepower to join the enemy. Being attacked by parasitic ants building a simple bridge.
At this time, the war situation was still bad, with only sporadic intelligence coming from the eastern and western fortress groups. The rebellion in these two places seemed to be fierce, and the artillery support from the fortress groups on both sides had almost stopped.
At the same time, the situation on the front line was precarious. The weak defense line and poor fire support at the reef ferry meant that it could be breached at any time. The rest of the ferry area could only barely block the attack, and it was impossible to mobilize troops to support the reef ferry.
Even the airspace that had been firmly controlled was plunged into an anxious melee due to the violent counterattack of thousands of parasitic flying insects regardless of casualties.
Years of war experience and countless encounters with difficulties and dangers are valuable assets that can make ordinary commanders grow into calm veterans.
Faced with such a bad battlefield situation, Zhu Jue did not panic. He immediately ordered the central fortress group that had completed the counterinsurgency to concentrate all forces except the artillery, including a large number of workers who were ordinary laborers, as well as his own guards. , formed two reserve teams and rushed to the east and west fortress groups to support them.
Zhu Jue chose to trust the front-line soldiers, believing that they could withstand the situation long enough. He wanted to prioritize solving the internal "rebellion" by first stabilizing the rear and restoring fire support.
At the same time, the commanders of other ethnic groups in the joint meeting were also asked to send their cronies or guards to rush to the battlefield to help clean up the defeated troops. These defeated allied forces must be put back into battle as soon as possible to reduce the pressure on the front-line warriors of the Divine Envoy King.
At the same time, Zhu Jue ordered several forts in the central fortress group to put into use secret weapons that had not been used.
A hidden fort is located high up in the fortress's anthill. The shooting port here was originally blocked with a mixture of plant fiber, ant glue and clay, and the appearance looks exactly like the walls of the ant mound. At this time, the thick camouflage was torn off, revealing a horizontally long shooting port, which was several times larger than the shooting port of an ordinary turret.
The space inside this fort is extremely open, and you can see many ventilation pipes leading to the outside. The surrounding walls, ceiling, and floor have reinforced ribs of wooden construction exposed.
Inside the fort, the ant silk cover on a huge, strange-shaped weapon was lifted, revealing a weapon with 20 holes arranged neatly on the front like a honeycomb structure.
This weapon is actually a combination of 20 iron cannons with no sealed tails, fixed together in a structure of 10 guns in each group and two upper and lower groups.
These iron cannons have a larger caliber than ordinary iron cannons, but the tube walls are thinner. Each caliber is almost the size of a soybean. Such weapons are heavy and obviously difficult to move, but just by looking at them with the naked eye, you can tell that they are quite powerful. .
The busy ant artillerymen were busy loading "cannonballs" from the rear. These cannonballs were not round structures with separated ammunition like ordinary cannonballs, but a long and narrow tube with a pointed top.
Each cannonball is very large and requires the cooperation of dozens of artillerymen to carry it. If it is outdoors, small beetles can also be used to assist. Now in order to improve the range, it has been moved to a high place indoors, so it can only rely on the power of ants.
Fortunately, ants are already known for their strength. If they were replaced by humans, even if they had twice as many people, they would not be able to manually load rockets of this proportion.
After loading, all the artillerymen retreated outside the fort, leaving only one gunner to light the slow-burning fuse from a distance, then immediately turned around and ran away.
After passing the two turning passages, the gunner reached the safe space. The other artillerymen worked together to block the passage with a safety cover and put the door bolt on.
Not long after, there was a sudden loud noise, and the safety cover was shaken many times by violent impacts. The safety room was instantly filled with dust, as if it had experienced a major earthquake.
At this time, both armies were fighting selflessly outside and stopped almost at the same time. A whistle that was sharper than the fastest wasp swooping came from the air, attracting the attention of all living things.
The roars of the central fortress group were heard one after another, and as many as 400 fast-flying objects with long white tails were flying across the sky quickly!
The first flying object with a white tail landed on the stream near the reef ferry, and a huge explosion exploded, sending up a burst of white smoke and a huge puff of water mist.
Then came the second, third... and the explosions continued in succession!
