On the water and on the deck, the battle situation was at a stalemate.
The ships of the civilized ant coalition are still drifting along the current, but the Destroyer's pontoon is also moving. The two are relatively stationary. The fleet cannot break free from the constraints at all, but the Destroyer can launch an attack calmly.
Whether it's the sail on the mast being pulled to its highest level, or the towing bee stretching the reins straight, or the ants in the cabin desperately trying to restart the paddle wheel, the pontoon composed of countless destroyers is like a sticky mass. Glue to glue all the boats together!
The battle situation on the deck is still stalemate and has not worsened for the time being. However, as time goes by, the situation will obviously become increasingly unfavorable to the civilized ant coalition.
On the three giant bamboo ships, the Destroyers no longer just attacked from the paddle wheels. They were piled on top of each other to form an ant ladder. They had overcome the slipperiness of some of the ship's sides and climbed onto the deck from many places. The soldiers of the Divine Envoy King on the deck were not skilled at fighting, and they could barely block one or two gaps. But now they were attacked from both sides, the defense line was ventilated in all directions, and their feet were bumping constantly, and the casualties suddenly increased.
The situation on the rear walnut boats was not much better. The spreading pontoons had allowed more and more Destroyers to attack the crowded walnut boats. A few walnut ships were captured unexpectedly, and the remaining ones blocked the hatches in time, but they were unable to clear out the attackers outside the ship. As time went by, the destroyers who were discovered in the hatches were defeated one by one.
Zhu Jue saw that this was not going to work. His command could no longer involve other ships besides his own ship, and the entire fleet's command system was on the verge of collapse. The longer the battle drags on, the more chaotic the coalition forces will be and the greater the losses will be. It is not impossible that the entire army will be annihilated in the end!
At the critical moment, Zhu Jue had an idea in his mind. He hurriedly rounded the rope whip and forced back the several Destroyers who were watching eagerly around him. Then he quickly used the smell and friction sound to summon the nearby God Envoy King warriors to block them. Defensive line, oneself will retreat.
The soldiers of the Divine Envoy King rushed forward to cover the retreat of the Divine Envoy King. No matter what the reason for Zhu Jue's retreat, they would not question or complain, and were even willing to sacrifice themselves to protect Zhu Jue's retreat.
Zhu Jue finally squeezed out from the pursuers of the Destroyer and the warriors of the God Envoy King, and squeezed all the way to the entrance of the cabin. The soldiers of the God Envoy King were crowded together everywhere along the way, making it difficult to move even an inch.
There were many soldiers in the cabin who wanted to squeeze out of the cabin to fight, but there was no space on the deck. Unless a soldier dies, new reinforcements can squeeze out and step on the corpse to continue fighting.
This is one of the differences between water warfare and land warfare. Even in water warfare, there is not enough space for a large number of warriors to deploy, and the advantage of troop strength will be restricted by the narrow battlefield. Currently, 90% of the coalition forces are trapped in the cabin, unable to exert their strength. Fortunately, most of the Destroyers were trapped on the floating bridge on the water, and they were unable to take advantage of their strength.
Zhu Jue personally passed orders everywhere to leave space for the soldiers inside and outside the cabin, and at the same time used his own strength to open a path to the bottom of the cabin.
After about a quarter of an hour, the entire giant bamboo ship finally changed!
Ants began to pour out of the cabin one after another. These were not the fully-armed warriors of the Angel King, but sailors mainly composed of leaf-cutter ants. They used the unique balancing skills of tree-dwelling ants to walk quickly on the bumpy and crowded deck. You can climb on masts and cables to avoid fighting on the deck.
The Destroyer's body is heavy and bulky, and there is nothing he can do about it even if a sailor is climbing on the reins very close to his head!
These sailors all held something in their jaws. They threw the stuff down from the side of the ship or from a higher place where the Destroyer had not launched an attack. The thrown stuff hit the Destroyer's head without causing any damage. On the pontoon, or they fell into the water and floated again, and they still gathered together.
The Destroyers didn't know what it was and didn't pay attention to it. But the artillerymen of the God's Envoy Army are no strangers to these things.
These are punctured Molotov cocktails!
The new incendiary bombs produced in the Ant Alliance National Army workshop are filled with flammable grease. Unlike fire bombs, the grease will not spontaneously ignite when leaked, which improves the safety of the shells and makes them easier to store. When these incendiary bombs are fired from the barrel, the deflagration gas ignites the combustible outer shell. When the inner shell of the shell breaks, the grease is released and ignites.
But now, these incendiary bombs have been punctured in advance, and the grease-filled incendiary bombs float after falling into the water. The flowing grease gathers together due to tension. As more and more incendiary bombs were dropped, several oil film layers gradually formed.
Zhu Jue's ship only had a few hundred incendiary bombs in reserve. The manufacture of such shells was time-consuming and expensive. The artillery's ammunition was still mainly solid bullets. This time, Zhu Jue gritted his teeth and spilled them all in one breath in order to break through.
When the sailors used fire bombs and slings to ignite the oil film on the water surface one after another, due to their natural fear of fire, the destroyers near the ignition points automatically collapsed. Not only did the ant ladders that attacked from above collapsed, but the living ants that formed the pontoon also scattered. Escape, leaving only the burned corpses of some drowned Destroyers.
These flames don't burn long. The short ones go out in a few seconds, and the long ones only float on the water and burn for a minute or two. After all, there is really not much fuel. However, the effect of the fire attack is obvious. Even if the actual damage is not much, the Destroyer pontoon around Zhu Jue's ship has been basically destroyed. The ship that has been stagnant for a long time has finally moved forward a lot, but it can break through the last step of the pontoon at sight. Obstructed, but gradually slowed down by the Destroyer who returned after the flames were extinguished.
Seeing that the tactics were effective, Zhu Jue sent messengers to the other two giant ships to follow the same pattern. The two ships, one on the left and one on the right, got out of trouble one after another and moved forward under the power of wind, water and bee traction. Not only did they break through the pontoon siege, but they also Zhu Jue's ship was also dragged out!
As soon as the first three giant bamboo ships were freed from the trap, the loose reins were straightened again. At this time, God also acted favorably, and the downwind strengthened, and the three giant ships pulled all the walnut ships behind them out of the Destroyer's pontoon. .
The fleet finally broke through, but there were still thousands of Destroyers stranded on the deck, side of the giant bamboo ship, and on the walnut ship, especially since the surface of the walnut fleet was almost completely controlled by the Destroyers.
Zhu Jue organized an elite force and first wiped out the stubborn Destroyers on the giant bamboo ship. Then he fought for each walnut ship one by one. He also had to fight inside some of the conquered walnut ships. It was only at night that the remaining enemies were eliminated.
At this time, the fleet finally merged with the troops on land. The nearest Destroyer army had been left behind for half a day. At this time, the breakout was considered successful!
