[Willowbank City] finally ushered in the Destroyer's long-prepared offensive.
On this day, not long after daybreak, the Giant Mosquito Knight in the sky noticed that the Destroyer's actions were different from those in the past, and he was obviously mobilizing into an attack position.
In the past few days, the Destroyers were busy cutting and transporting building materials across the river. The endless stream of ants came and went, piling the building materials into hills, but there were not many Destroyers staying on the water bank. Today, tens of thousands of Destroyers who were dormant in the grass and bushes deep in the land at night began to gather on the shore one after another. They gathered here and did not return.
Looking down from the air, all that could be seen from the mottled green gaps on the ground were the surging crowds of Destroyers, like pulses beating on exposed flesh.
These "black blood" quickly gathered into a large pool on the water bank. They climbed up the hill made of building materials, and carried down the materials accumulated in the past few days from top to bottom. The hill was being flattened at an obvious speed.
Some Destroyers carried a fragment of grass alone, and there were also two or more Destroyers who worked together to move larger pieces of wood or bamboo. These materials were quickly transported to the pond not far away, and then the Destroyer responsible for the transportation stepped directly into the water, stepped on the water film that was pressed into dents, placed the materials in the appropriate position, and slowly pieced them together. A giant floating ship!
Most of the Destroyers turned around and went back to continue carrying it. A few Destroyers did not leave. Instead, they used their own flesh as chains and nails, and relied on their jaws and joints to firmly hook the surrounding materials together to prevent them from being blown away by the wind.
In the past, when Destroyers built pontoon bridges to cross water, they mostly relied on their own bodies to form long pontoon bridges. But this time, the waters around [Willowbank City] were too vast, and the number of Destroyers was not sufficient, so the Radar Destroyers chose this method of saving troops. The price paid was a delay of several days and an extra few days for the defenders. days of preparation time.
However, in this way, the front of the pontoon bridge built by the Destroyer is extremely wide. There are pontoon bridges spreading on the water on both the north and east sides of the entire [Willowbank City]. These pontoon bridges cannot even be seen as passages spaced apart from each other. It is not like the shape of a giant wheel at the beginning, but gradually spreads into a piece and continues to grow, as if the destroyers are building land from the water.
This project is so huge that hundreds of thousands of Destroyers don't even have many follow-up reserves. They are all put into this project, which is also spectacular. Even the destroyers who attacked [Qingzhu City] withdrew most of them, leaving only a small number of troops and the two remaining defenders to continue the fierce battle.
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The high-ranking nobles such as "Rhinestone" and "Jug" had been awakened long ago. They came to the branches and looked at the Destroyer in a posture of destroying the world through their compound eyes and the giant mosquito knight's information package. The pontoon approached [Willowbank Castle] at a leisurely pace.
After a long time, a mid-level officer under "Rhinestone" who had visited the battlefield on the Western Front carefully asked if air troops would be sent?
Although "Rhinestone" has never seen the famous "Vulcan" weapons of the Ant Alliance before, it is said that these weapons are also blessed by "Thunder God" and can be thrown by flying mounts. But there are some officers under his command who understand the secrets, so "Rhinestone" also obediently mobilized a part of the dragonfly and locust mount flying troops to form an air strike force before the war, in order to delay the Destroyer's attack as much as possible under the current circumstances. Speed when crossing water.
"Rhinestone" is just waking up from a dream. If the Destroyer is allowed to act, [Willowbank City] will be directly attacked this afternoon, and the water surface used as a barrier will also be useless. So he hurriedly ordered the flying troops to attack, using the weapons at the bottom of the box.
Subsequently, 12 dragonflies and 18 locusts took off from the tree hole next to [Liu'an City].
The locust troops flew faster and carried a larger load. The locusts dispersed in groups of three, skimming over the water at a low altitude, so low that the driver of the hairy forest ant could clearly see his own reflection in the compound eyes of the Destroyer looking up. Degree! The ant knight on the back of the locust threw down the large and small stones with all its strength, causing small splashes and ripples on the water.
However, the power of solid stones is too small to pose any threat to the pontoon that is already fluctuating. Some materials or destroyers that were smashed into the water by the stones quickly floated up again.
Therefore, during the second round of attack, the noble officer commanding from the tree branches asked the locust troops to improve their tactics and switch to dropping bombs at a higher altitude. Anyway, the Destroyer has a wide front for crossing water, so it can hit without flying low to aim. After all, the power of high-altitude bombing is greater.
But all in all, the air strike effect of the Locust troops is better than nothing, but the smaller number of Dragonfly troops has more results.
These dragonflies flew smoothly, 12 of them flying horizontally in a line, also flying at low altitudes, but the weapons on their backs did not need to rely on potential energy to function.
I saw some balloon-like white objects being continuously dropped from the dragonfly's back. These objects exploded when they fell on the water. The pale yellow liquid immediately burst out from inside and quickly spread to the surrounding water. The sunlight shone on these thin objects. The yellow film reflected a colorful luster.
As the yellow film spread, many materials and destroyers that were originally floating on the water began to slowly sink into the water. At first, these pontoon bridge sections did not disintegrate because the few materials and connected destroyers that were still floating refused to give up. , but as the sinking force became stronger and stronger, the bridge deck was finally forced to open holes as large as walnuts and as large as watermelons.
For a time, the Destroyer's pontoon bridge on this piece of water was on the verge of collapse, and this was the shortest distance from the water bank to [Willowbank City]. The Dragonfly troops effectively disrupted the Destroyer's offensive in one attack.
The Dragonfly troops returned to reload and prepare to attack again. The weapons they carried turned out to be ant glue balls filled with liquid grease. The grease film covers the water surface, which can destroy the surface tension of the water body and make many objects that cannot float and are only supported by tension sink. This is a problem that occurs all year round. The hairy forest ants that live by the water have long known this knowledge.
According to legend, among the ancestors of the hairy forest ants, there was an unlucky one who sank while walking on the water due to his strong oil secretion. Therefore, before entering the water, hairy forest ants must lick each other to clean the grease and dirt on the surface of their bodies.
"Rhinestone" was regretting in his heart at this time, because oil is very precious and was mostly used for small-scale foreign trade in the past, so the inventory in the city is not very sufficient, which is enough for the Dragonfly troops to attack for more than a dozen waves. The current oil reserves are still emergency stock of plant seeds, which are squeezed out bit by bit by slave ants with their jaws, and the yield is extremely low.
If only there was more grease, this fight would be easier to fight!
