That afternoon, the Eastern Expedition troops were divided into six groups, pounced on several parasitic fortresses blocking the front, and launched simultaneous attacks.
After sending troops to protect the communication lines, Zhu Jue planned to clear out the many fortresses in front of him as soon as possible and decided to divide his troops into multiple groups to attack at the same time.
Although the parasite's fortress group tactics would cause some trouble for the Eastern Expeditionary Army and delay the battle, it was not without its weaknesses and could not stop the Eastern Expeditionary Army from advancing.
The biggest weakness of the parasitic organisms' tactics is that they actually gave up the initiative in the battle and split up. In addition to delaying the Eastern Expeditionary Army's strategy, it did not play a role in reversing the situation of the war. It also dispersed its strength and was eaten bit by bit sooner or later. Lose.
What Zhu Jue has to do is to shorten the time of the battle as much as possible while ensuring victory, so as to prevent the opponent's intention of parasitic brain. In this way, no matter whether the opponent intends to delay the return of the main force heading north or until winter, all plots and calculations will be wiped out in the face of strength.
Zhu Jue was sitting in Tulong Fortress and did not go to the front line in person. Instead, he appointed several generals from the Divine Envoy King's Army to each be responsible for the war in a fortress.
The troops commanded by the generals of each route are 20,000 to 30,000. The tank troops and artillery are also divided into small groups and dispersed and assigned. The armies of other civilized ant tribe allies are also broken up and strengthened. Therefore, each army has complete types of arms and combat effectiveness. Not to be underestimated.
On the same day, various armies arrived in front of the Parasitic Fortress and began to build camps in preparation for launching an attack the next day.
The next day, six parasitic fortresses were attacked at the same time. The battle was not large in scale, but still fierce.
Some parasitic fortresses in open areas were first bombarded by artillery fire, forcing the parasites underground, and then the Eastern Expedition Army, led by the Angel King's Legion, launched a ground attack. The situation in these battlefields is clear from the beginning.
Outside other fortresses where the shelling effect was not effective, the Eastern Expeditionary Army organized death squads and rushed forward carrying explosive bombs. Braving the counterattack of parasites, they opened gaps outside the outer walls of the fortress one after another, and the infantry who followed them swarmed up.
On these two battlefields, in order to break the gap in the city wall, the Eastern Expeditionary Army suffered certain casualties, but the situation was also under control.
Only the largest parasitic fortress battlefield, the parasitic organism defenders have a simple trebuchet. This fortress is also the only fortress where parasitic fleas and springtails are stationed. The defenders used their previous tactics and frequently launched long-range attacks by parasitic springtails, which caused some trouble to the attacking Eastern Expeditionary Army.
However, this was not the first time that the Eastern Expeditionary Army had seen this tactic, and it was not as at a loss as before. The commander of the army, "Rambo Fei II" followed Zhu Jue's example and sent the Sickle Hunting Ant Scouts and the Thin-footed Swift Ant Allies to eliminate the insects. At the same time, he implemented Zhu Jue's order to end the battle as soon as possible and did not allow the troops to take a step back. Fighting against the raging parasitic springtails, they broke through the outer wall of this parasitic fortress.
After capturing and dismantling the trebuchet, the troops at the rear slowly eliminated all the parasitic springtails jumping around and seized control of the ground. In the subsequent street fighting, the threat of parasitic springtails with limited movement space was greatly reduced.
These parasitic fortresses do not have many defenders. The smallest one has less than 1,000 parasites, and the largest one only has 4,000 parasites, half of which are small parasites such as springtails.
From noon to evening that day, news came one after another from various armies that they had conquered the parasitic fortress in front of them. After clearing the battlefield, the armies would move to the next parasitic fortress that day or the next day.
Even the "Rambo Fly II" unit, which made the slowest progress, captured the target in the evening of the same day and then camped on the spot for the night.
Based on the speed of the Sixth Route Army, Zhu Jue calculated that one week would be enough to clear out the thirty or forty parasitic fortresses in front of him.
The flying knights also observed that the parasites did not build new parasitic fortresses after building the current fortress group. It is estimated that the troops are no longer enough to split them up.
This is good news
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On this day, the parasites were not completely passive.
In order to rescue the six parasitic fortresses that were attacked, an elite force composed of thousands of parasitic ants and more than a hundred parasitic beasts marched in the hidden places of the vegetation and slowly approached the battlefield.
The flying knights have been patrolling in the air, but because the enemy can hide their whereabouts, they were not finally discovered until the enemy was very close and occasionally appeared from the open space.
After the parasites discovered that the flying knights were giving warnings, they evacuated decisively. The fly-tiger knights of the Divine Envoy King's Legion chased after them and clashed with some of the parasites in the rear, causing injuries to each other. Seeing that the opponent was heavily guarded, the Fly Tiger Knights retreated.
Zhu Jue also had a reserve team of about 50,000 soldiers and many tanks at hand, under the command of "Gun II", to deal with such emergencies. However, this time, the opponent escaped before he could dispatch. .
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The next day, the Eastern Expeditionary Army once again captured four fortresses. The overall front line moved forward a lot, and the outermost defense line of the parasitic fortress group had been knocked down.
But on this day, the logistics transportation line of the Eastern Expeditionary Army was attacked again.
This time, the parasites are not dispatched from hidden strongholds that have never been discovered. The scouts of the Eastern Expeditionary Army have conducted dragnet searches in nearby areas many times. Most of the parasites' hidden strongholds have been removed, and a few escaped parasites. The small-scale infection caused has been basically eliminated, making it difficult to repeat the same plan.
The parasites sneaked in from the rear of the Eastern Expeditionary Army through detours. They rode on parasitic water bugs in the early morning, crossed through a tidal flat in the southeast of [Black Fire City] that was difficult for ordinary insects to pass, and appeared on the side of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. rear.
In such tidal flats, amphibious insects such as field turtles and dragon lice can move forward unhindered. Since no parasitic waterworms had been found in previous battles, the Eastern Expeditionary Army was somewhat lax in this direction.
Due to the lack of detection and vigilance, thousands of parasitic ants were able to move forward quietly under the dense vegetation. The local parasitic beasts hidden in the network guided this task force to the ant track often used by the Eastern Expedition Army transport team. The attack was launched as the convoy passed.
Fortunately, this time the transport team had sufficient escort troops. An entire legion of the Divine Envoy King was on guard in front of and behind the transport team, and formed a formation in time to block the enemy's situation after discovering the enemy's situation.
The incoming parasitic ants are also elites, including the parasitized former God Envoy King warriors, the tall and large parasitic carpback ants, as well as the parasitic corn hair ants and parasitic burrowing ants who were old enemies and now cooperate with each other tacitly.
The guarding Legion of the Divine Envoy King was a newly established legion with not many veterans, but it was still well-trained and withstood the opponent's attack.
Soon after hearing the news, the mobile troops of the Eastern Expedition Army arrived and wiped out the parasitic ant task force. Zhu Jue and the "Black Carbon" King responsible for protecting the communication lines immediately launched a raid on the tidal flat area.
