After the main force of the Thin-footed Ant Army successfully broke through, although they lost their front station and a lot of food and baggage, the strength of the army remained intact and they were still capable of fighting.
"Longhorn" quickly commanded the troops and set up a new hidden assembly point. With the support from the rear, the army is not short of food and grass.
After that, the thin-legged ant army took the initiative to attack frequently. With the experience of the early battles, the plan of the Thin-footed Ant Army to deal with the Destroyer is more reasonable, and the fighting spirit is still strong, which brings a lot of trouble to the Destroyer.
In the next half month, the Thin-footed Ant Army took advantage of its mobility to eat several Destroyer units of thousands of sizes, sweeping away the haze of losing its base.
The Destroyers have recently been busy attacking a large number of small and medium-sized nests in the border areas of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom. Facing many targets, they will inevitably divide their troops. However, if one army has too few troops, it will be easily attacked by the Thin-footed Ant Army. Eat it, and if you want to ensure the safety of each unit, it will reduce the efficiency of the strategy.
Under the attack of the Thin-legged Ant Army, the speed of the Destroyer's attack was greatly slowed down. The Thin-legged Ant Army often took advantage of the Destroyer army's retreat to regain some key lost ground, and repeatedly fought with the Destroyer.
For a time, the Destroyers who invaded the western border of the Thin-footed Ant Kingdom were in a stalemate.
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Half a month after the Destroyers invaded the Western Territory of the Thin-footed Ant Army, the Flying Knights detected that the Destroyers had also begun to gather on the other side of the big rock seam in the northern border of the Thin-legged Ant Army.
This section is Zhu Jue's defense zone!
Prior to this, Zhu Jue later led his troops to complete the construction of three fortresses south of the stone crevices, and built observation posts every few meters along the stone crevices to prevent the destroyers from using any secret method to pass through the stone crevices, to serve as a warning and The effect of hysteresis.
After active preparations for the war, Zhu Jue now has 4 troops under his command, including 4 infantry regiments under the direct jurisdiction of the King of Gods, 16 field artillery squads equipped with millet cannons, 24 flying knight squads, and more than 20,000 fine foot soldiers at his disposal. Ant warriors and 60,000 trained honeypot ant warriors, totaling about 80,000 soldiers. There are also 200,000 thin-legged ants and honeypot ants recruited to help in the battle.
Zhu Jue is stationed in the fortresses "West Stone Fort" and "East Stone Fort" at the east and west ends of the big stone seam. Each fortress is stationed with 1 legion of the God Envoy King and 30,000 honeypot ant warriors. The remaining 2 legions of the God Envoy King, 20,000 thin-footed ant warriors, field artillery, and flying knight troops are stationed in the central fortress "Hou Shibao" as a mobile force.
In order to increase the firepower of the fortress and supplement the shortage of local artillery, Zhu Jue specially dispatched some craftsman ants from the mainland. With the help of local ants, he quickly built hundreds of crossbows in just one month.
These ballistae are more advanced than those used by Zhu Jue in his hometown and swamp areas. The Ant Alliance now has huge steel production and advanced technology. It rushed to produce a large number of iron components and flew them over to replace the ropes and wooden structures on the original ballista. With iron components, the production and assembly of ballistae are faster, the strength and service life are also improved, and even larger ballistae can be built.
Because he was facing a Destroyer known for its solid defense, the ballistae Zhu Jue ordered to build this time were all large and medium-sized ballistae, which could fire mung bean, soybean, and peanut-sized stones respectively, corresponding to the mung bean cannon and soybean cannon. Cannons and peanut cannons, these crossbows are classified into medium-sized mung bean crossbows, large soybean crossbows, and super-large peanut crossbows.
All ballistas are placed in three fortresses. Ballistas are different from iron cannons. They have more complex and heavier structures with the same power. Their mobility in the wild is limited, but they are very useful for defending cities.
These ballistas defending the city were concentrated in the design openings of the three ant mounds in the middle of the fortress. They were arranged from bottom to top according to the firepower of the ballistae. These design openings were densely packed and looked like a honeycomb. The shooting chambers of the soybean and peanut crossbows also have simple loading devices composed of levers and ropes, which greatly increase the speed of winding and loading of the crossbows. At the same time, there are pulleys at the bottom of the ballista. If necessary, it can be quickly disassembled and transported underground to participate in street fighting.
Before the Destroyers assembled and launched a massive attack, Zhu Jue had already completed preparations according to local conditions.
The Destroyer doesn't know this.
At the end of May, the Destroyers sent a reconnaissance force to invade south. This group of about 2,000 Destroyers groped westward along the stone seams, and soon discovered Zhu Jue's fortress "West Stone Castle" at the western end of the stone seams.
This Destroyer, who was just for reconnaissance, inherited the fierce and ferocious temperament of its own clan. It immediately launched an attack without waiting for support from the rear, which was equivalent to a fire reconnaissance.
Zhu Jue had already learned about the enemy's situation through aerial reconnaissance, and flew to the "West Stone Castle" to take charge. This was also to appease and supervise the honeypot ant warriors guarding the city.
Because they were too far away from the mainland, Zhu Jue had too few reliable warriors of the Envoy King, so he had to rely on a large number of honeypot ant warriors to help him fight. Like all ballista gun crews, except for the leader who is a big-headed ant, all other gunners are honeypot ants.
However, the combat effectiveness and obedience of the honeypot ant warriors were far inferior to those of the God Envoy King warriors, so Zhu Jue put in a lot of effort in training them. The carefully selected honeypot ant warriors, after a short period of high-intensity training, and with the blessing of iron armor, their combat effectiveness finally improved greatly, and they barely caught Zhu Jue's eyes. As for other honeypot ants, they can only undertake logistics and civil work.
But at the same time, some middle-level Honeypot Ants also criticized Zhu Jue because of the difficult training. Zhu Jue now has no time to subdue the potential dissatisfied forces. He can only defeat the Honeypot Ant commanders through military victory. Convinced.
Therefore, Zhu Jue now only dares to put these honeypot ant warriors in the fortress to defend the city, and they are absolutely not allowed to leave the city to fight!
When the Destroyer reconnaissance force launched the attack, the defenders immediately went up to the city wall to hold on, and the ballista units on the ant mound began to fire with all their strength as the Destroyer approached.
When shooting in a safe fortress, the crossbow gunners composed of honeypot ants were still very orderly and were able to maintain a fast shooting speed according to the previous training practices.
Waves of ballista shells were like flying sand and rocks in a stormy sky, covering the Destroyer's attack route with relative accuracy.
The rocks, large and small, fell like dense raindrops during a summer thunderstorm, but the lethality contained in these rocks was far greater than that of the raindrops. Even if the Destroyer is hit by large raindrops, it can still rely on its carapace to carry it. The raindrops scatter and dissipate, making it difficult to directly harm the Destroyer.
But the rocks fired by the ballista were different. The huge peanut shells carried the torque of the ballista, which was enough to flatten a Destroyer. Even the smallest mung bean shell can crack cracks in the Destroyer's proud carapace.
The Destroyer, who had never encountered such a powerful long-range fire strike, was at a loss for a moment!
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