This is not the first time that the Destroyer has encountered the powerful firepower of the Angel King Legion, but even in the Great Wall Battle with the most intensive firepower before, the God Angel King Legion and its allies were covered by the powerful firepower of heavy artillery and rocket launchers. In the end, they still needed to Achieve decisive victory by waging close combat.
But in this battle, the defenders relied on fortifications such as bastions, and the unprecedented density of firearms deployment, so that most of the Destroyer's casualties occurred during the charge before the battle. With the number and density of today's radar destroyers, their aggregated neural network will not be unaware of the changes behind this huge cost and its very intuitive reasons.
Therefore, under the command of the Radar Destroyer, the Destroyer's response emerged: for the first time, they began an organized destruction of weapons on the battlefield!
In the past, the Destroyers only targeted living individuals. Cold metal firearms or crossbows made of wood and rope would not attract the attention of the Destroyers at all. After killing all the ants, they looked at the weapons and weapons left behind. Stones and branches are no different.
Therefore, the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King often take advantage of this. In some areas that have been repeatedly contested, they decisively abandon their weapons and ammunition when they need to retreat in order to evacuate lightly. Then, after the counterattack is successful, they can continue to use the intact equipment left in place.
However, in today's battle, at several fire positions on the bulges of the bastion, after they were recovered, the defenders reported that the weapons had been deliberately damaged, and some were simply dragged out by the destroyers and thrown into the bastion. Under the fort, the whole was still intact, but some were damaged beyond recognition by the self-explosion of the White Belly Destroyer. Some of the gun barrels were even blown apart and had to be rebuilt. In some areas, ammunition even exploded, causing serious damage to nearby fortifications.
"Rambo Wan III" was surprised that the White-bellied Destroyer did not even blow up the city walls and tomb fortifications that blocked the Destroyer's advance, but would rather expend himself to blow up the artillery that seemed to pose no threat at the moment. This shows that The Destroyer's hatred for these cold dead things is at least as much as that of living ants.
He couldn't help but pay little attention to such changes. Although the tactics of the God Envoy King's Army have been upgraded based on sufficient firepower, resulting in cross-era progress, the Destroyers are not static and waiting to be beaten. They are also learning, and are also Progressive...and very pragmatic and responsive!
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On July 21st and 22nd, the pressure on "Rambo Van III" was greatly reduced. The six-day offensive and defensive battle caused the Destroyer to suffer heavy losses, but it still had no way to defeat the four bastions.
The loss of troops was so great that the Destroyers only dispatched 100,000 troops in the past two days. After half a day of fighting, they would conserve their strength and retreat, losing the indomitable spirit. The morale of the defenders increased greatly. Many commanders who had faced the Destroyer for the first time but had grown up hearing about its horrific records discovered that these demons were nothing more than that. The ammunition consumption in the city has also dropped a lot compared to the past few days. Relying on the production of military workshops and the transportation from the rear via rope bridges, the total ammunition inventory has even increased instead of falling.
There are only more than 300,000 Destroyers left outside the city, which is about one-third of the strength before the war. Since the war, the average daily loss has been 100,000. With so many destroyers now, it is theoretically impossible to break through.
However, "Rambo Wan III" still did not dare to be careless. According to the intelligence coming from the western battlefield, the local enemy forces had stopped attacking and camped to the east. The intention should be to join forces with the attacking Destroyers. By then, the siege would be destroyed. There will be another 800,000 people.
The Northeast Deputy Governor "Shu Xia" also received information that a new army of Destroyers has appeared in the guerrilla zone and is moving south one after another. It should also support the battlefield. Although this support force is not as strong as the previous batch, it still has a size of 100,000 to 200,000, and there are tens of thousands of mosquitoes among them, making the guerrillas' reconnaissance effect very poor and causing heavy losses!
It will take about a week for these three groups of Destroyers to join forces. By then, the enemy force faced by "Rambo Van III" will be equivalent to the size of the Destroyer army that had just begun to attack the city. The situation of the army is more serious.
Among the ten lines of defense, the first three lines of defense have been completely lost, and have become disorganized and lost their defensive value under the fierce fighting and artillery coverage; the defenders have lost as many as 150,000 troops in the fierce fighting, even if they were replenished There is a large number of new soldiers, but there is also a gap of 50,000; the ammunition reserve in the city is only a quarter of what it was before the war, and it is expected that it will only be replenished to half full in a week.
This is not the most important thing. "Rambo Wan III" knows that in the next stage of the battle, the most dangerous thing for the defenders is that air superiority will be lost!
In the previous stage of the defensive battle, due to the early fighting of the mobile air force, almost all the mosquitoes of the Destroyer were wiped out. The defenders thus controlled the sky and could calmly use air superiority to conduct reconnaissance, direct artillery fire and transmit intelligence orders. The defenders There is no need to worry about threats from the air.
But now, the mobile air force is being reorganized due to excessive losses, and has been ordered to support the counterattack on the Western Front after the reorganization is completed, and can no longer cover the local airspace. "Rambowan III" has only a small amount of air power in its hands. Among them, the combat flying knights currently only have 10 squads due to previous losses. Now that the Destroyer has been reinforced by tens of thousands of mosquitoes, "Rambo Van III" feels that it cannot maintain air superiority no matter how it calculates.
He asked the great God Envoy King for help, and the God Envoy King only transferred half of the temporarily safe air force to his command as reinforcement, and also supported some new anti-aircraft guns, ammunition and artillery. "Rambo Wan III" also quickly took advantage of the respite from the war in the past few days to adjust its subordinates, stuffing more anti-aircraft guns into various fortifications, and replacing damaged or old artillery with newly produced artillery.
The newly built mounds on the bastion played a huge role in actual combat. "Rambo III" simply expanded the command mound in the center of each bastion to accommodate more artillery, and other mounds were also added. Partial gun window. At the exit of the four bastions leading to the No. 3 city wall, "Rambowan III" also built a bastion-shaped urn city at the corresponding gate of the No. 3 city wall, with a square square full of gun windows built on it. The tower looks a bit like the Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower in the human world.
After seeing the actual combat performance of the perfect combination of bastion and artillery, "Rambo Van III" has now become a patient with severe phobia of insufficient firepower and highly dependent on fortifications!
