The first wave of commandos of the Eastern Expeditionary Army were currently suppressed about 10 centimeters away from the wall of the parasitic fortress, unable to move or move forward.
I saw that the formation of the commando team was almost living up to its existence. Both tanks and infantry were now fighting on their own. I saw that the parasitic fortress was not far away, and I could even see clearly the swaying mycelium on the parasitic ants on the wall. , but the commandos were never able to move forward.
What caused all this was the large number of parasites that were almost everywhere and jumping around among the commandos!
In the distance, in the parasitic fortress, a black shadow was suddenly launched by an unknown device, leaping into the sky in a parabola, and then quickly dispersed into a large black dot, spreading in the air.
Small black dots as dense as raindrops hit the commando's position accurately. These small black dots continued to bounce after landing, because these small black dots were fleas and springtails, and they could easily jump several centimeters. distance.
What's even more frightening is that these fleas and springtails are parasitized. Each one has two small mycelium on its body. As these fleas and springtails jump around, a large number of mycelium is spread everywhere. Soldiers trying to infect the civilized ant coalition.
The commandos had no way to move forward, so they had to stop and kill these all-pervasive springtails and mycelium. However, the longer they stayed, the more parasitic springtails were thrown out of the fortress, almost inexhaustible to kill. These small fleas and springtails were extremely flexible, making it difficult for the ants to kill them accurately. As a result, I can only get more sleepy, struggle more and become unable to move!
The hyphae that successfully parasitize will immediately burn their lives at the cost of completely controlling these ants extremely quickly, turning comrades who originally fought side by side into life-and-death enemies in an instant, further exacerbating the chaos and cruelty on the battlefield. degree.
Even some tank mounts with hard shells were infected. They were trampling the ant warriors crazily, and the drivers, gunners and artillery on their backs had long been thrown away.
By the time the second batch of troop support arrived, one-third of the ants and many tanks in the first wave of commandos had been infected, and the situation on the scene was extremely passive.
Zhu Jue has ordered the artillery to cover the direction pointed by the flying knight, trying to suppress the parasitic fortress and prevent a large number of parasitic springtails from being shot out one after another.
However, the location of the Parasitic Fortress is so good. There are bushes above the head. The cannonballs fired in a straight direction are basically intercepted by the dense branches and leaves. The cannonballs that can penetrate the leaves also lose their kinetic energy. It is difficult to cause damage to the Parasitic Fortress itself, let alone Suppressing the unknown projectile device inside...
The combat flying knights formed a formation and tried to swoop down to bomb and support the beleaguered army, but they encountered an ambush.
There are many parasitic and jumping spiders hidden in and around the bushes. Parasitic spiders have built webs in dark places, and the flying knights will touch the webs if they are not careful. The parasitic jumping spiders ambush and suddenly jump up to attack those flying knights who are too low.
After losing more than a dozen flying knights, the air force was forced to move higher and gave up its intention to support. However, they did not find nothing, at least they could clearly see the device used by the parasitic creatures to throw the parasitic springtails from a close distance - they were two tall but rough towed trebuchets controlled by the parasitic ants!
Traction-type and counterweight-type trebuchets were experimented by Zhu Jue in his previous hometown, but were abandoned because they were not as powerful as ballistae. Now that the Divine Envoy King's Army already has advanced artillery, there is no need for such backward weapons. .
But "Gun" and other old subordinates all know its principles, and the traction trebuchet is very simple to manufacture and easy to copy.
For example, the towed trebuchet used by the parasites this time is a simple tripod with a long wooden pole that can move up and down fixed on it. One end of the long wooden pole is a spoon-shaped device for placing throwing objects, and the other end is a lot of Roots of plant fiber, a large group of parasitic ants pull the plant fiber together and use force to launch a large group of loaded parasitic springtails!
The parasitic brain also seemed to know that the towed trebuchet was not powerful enough, so it chose a suitable "ammunition", which indeed caused the Eastern Expeditionary Army to suffer...
Zhu Jue clenched his jaw. The battle situation coming from the front was very bad. The fleas and springworms in the parasitic fortress seemed to be thrown out endlessly. The three groups of troops that the Eastern Expeditionary Army invested successively fell into hard fighting and were trapped for tens of thousands of people. Qianji was unable to escape from the parasitic fleas and springtails, and the battlefield situation continued to deteriorate.
There were even sporadic parasitic fleas and springtails that had left the hills and moved closer to Zhu Jue's main formation.
Most ant warriors are not good at dealing with these fast-moving insects. Only the scythe-hunting ferocious ant scouts of the Divine Envoy King's legion and the warriors of the thin-footed ant clan. Zhu Jue found that these warriors with developed eyesight and fast movements can restrain these. The jumping parasites can accurately bite these small parasites and kill them one by one, including the parasites and mycelium.
Zhu Jue weighed the situation and ordered the frontline troops to retreat. These commandos who were in chaos could not protect themselves and could not capture the fortress. Any further stalemate would only increase casualties.
The troops on the front line were withdrawn and a lot of effort was wasted. Zhu Jue asked the Scythe Hunter ant scouts to gather together and go to support them. The Thin-footed Ant Army also went to support them. It was not easy for the large troops to escape.
The large army of parasitic fleas and springtails did not pursue them, but returned to the parasitic fortress in an orderly manner. Only those ants and insect beasts that were quickly controlled by the parasitic bacteria still rushed down the hill regardless of their inferior strength, and launched an attack on the Eastern Expeditionary Army of the civilized ant alliance.
Zhu Jue's ruthless deployment of troops eliminated thousands of ants and insect beasts. They were already dead the moment they were quickly infected and controlled. The parasitic mycelium burned its own life and the life of the host to quickly control the host's life. Nervous, but the host will only have a few short hours left to live.
Perhaps it is because of this that the parasitic brain does not reclaim these parasites.
The first wave of attacks failed, with a total loss of more than 3,000 warriors of all races and more than 40 insect beasts. However, it was not without gain after discovering the opponent's new tactics and deployment.
Zhu Jue immediately summoned his generals and organized a second wave of commandos.
The second wave of commandos is mainly composed of thin-legged ants and sickle-hunting ant warriors who can suppress parasitic fleas and springtails. At the same time, some big-headed ant warriors, marching ant warriors, and black fire ant warriors provide support.
This time Zhu Jue did not attack the two hills at the same time, leaving a partial division to monitor the hills on the north side, while the commando team attacked the hills on the south side with all their strength.
Before the attack is launched, the artillery unit still conducts fire coverage first. This time, the artillery troops fired precious incendiary bombs!
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