Not to be outdone, the defenders immediately dispatched a special team from the reserve to drive away the landing flying destroyers.
In order not to interfere with the artillery fire, these special teams are small in size, but they all ride small and medium-sized beetles in groups of three. They are not only fast in movement and good at climbing, but are also equipped with small insect-borne artillery, which is extremely efficient in killing.
The direct hit of the millet cannon's solid bullet is enough to kill the flying destroyer. The special team often rushes to a very close distance before firing, while other close combat infantry provide full cover. This tactic ensures the hit rate. Since the main goal of the Flying Destroyers was to destroy the artillery, the special team was able to kill and drive away the first batch of landing Flying Destroyers at a relatively small cost.
Subsequently, flying destroyers landed in waves, constantly consuming the strength of the defenders. The defenders also sent reinforcements and artillery to the position to ensure firepower density regardless of the cost. Because at this time, the Destroyers on the ground also launched an attack. This time they moved quickly. Under the enemy's three-dimensional air-ground offensive, the four bastions faced an unprecedented test.
After weighing the balance, "Rambo Flying III" ordered the artillery firepower of the bastion to attack the main force of Destroyers on the ground with all its strength, leaving only a small amount of anti-aircraft firepower to cooperate with the special teams and flying Destroyers. Wall No. 3, which is slightly further away, uses firepower to attack the approaching flying destroyers, providing cooperation that is better than nothing.
At the same time, the Flying Knights troops who had been providing treasure also attacked. They received orders and did not fight with the Flying Destroyers. Instead, they led a large group of Flying Destroyers back to near the first line of defense, on the ground. The firepower is coordinated with the lower circle to reduce the air defense pressure on the bastion battlefield.
When the scale of the battle reaches a certain level, it is difficult for any exquisite defense layout to be 100% effective, and there is no fortification that cannot be destroyed. As time passed and the troop inputs from both sides continued to increase, the battle eventually turned into a brutal war of attrition. The defenders' bastion and artillery fire could only increase the casualty ratio between the two sides, but it was impossible to completely avoid casualties. As flying Destroyers continued to land, the army of Destroyers on the ground also broke through the fire blockade, and at the same time, they attacked except for the enemy. The three bastions outside Bastion No. 7 launched a full-scale attack, and the blood on the battlefield was as thick as the sunset on the horizon.
How "Rambo Flying III" hopes not to see such a beautiful sunset, because the sunset indicates that tomorrow will be good weather and another day of war!
Today's battle once again continued into the night. Teams and brigades were filled into the battlefield one by one, and they were eliminated one by one. The survival world of ordinary individuals on the battlefield was much shorter than that of a mayfly. Positions were lost one after another, and some positions were desperately recaptured by death squads. The remaining artillerymen continued to fight with the damaged artillery. Those positions that really had no hope of recovery were even bombarded by explosive bombs, detonating the ammunition stored in the positions to pursue maximum damage.
If it weren't for the fact that most of the night-flying destroyers were attracted by the main ant mound that was deliberately brightly lit, the bastion position would have been even more difficult. By the time it was getting dark, two bastions had fully retreated to the second line of defense, and all the outer defense lines had been lost. But the defenders still persisted. They were tired and hungry. The troops involved in the battle had no chance to withdraw and rest. They could only persist until the moment of victory or death.
But until daybreak, the Destroyers did not retreat as expected. They continued to invest new troops. Those troops that were unable to participate in the battle due to the width of the battle line have been eyeing them. One-third of the Destroyers' troops are still fresh troops. It seems that the Radar Destroyer this time It’s time to take down the bastion position in one go!
The command post of "Rambo Flying III" was also attacked many times by the flying destroyers that reappeared during the day, but he refused the staff officers' suggestion to move the command post from the tunnel to the third line of defense and insisted on staying here. , living and dying with his bastion.
There were fewer and fewer staff officers around him. Every time there was a crisis, he would send a staff officer to the reserve team to cooperate with his commander in launching a counterattack. Most of these staff officers did not come back alive, just like the reserve team members. The soldiers also failed to come back and turned into flesh and dust that increased the height of the battlefield.
"Rambo Fly III" doesn't know the specific casualties of his army now. He has no time to count them now. The emergency battle report sent by his subordinates only contains relatively intuitive but crude information: such and such position is lost, so and so The counterattack failed, and reinforcements are needed somewhere. This short message contained countless lives and deaths, and he could only deduce the remaining strength at hand from the increasingly sparse sound of artillery fire and the increasingly dense corpses.
At noon the next day, Bastion No. 7 fell, and only the mighty Destroyer could be seen outside. There might be some remaining resistance inside the bastion, but it would not help the overall situation. Only a few ants managed to escape from the tunnel, which then had to be destroyed with explosives.
Immediately afterwards, Bastion No. 6 was heavily besieged by the enemy and was in danger. "Rambo Flying III" had to use the elite of the reserve team - the tank unit.
Due to the lack of cover for the infantry, most of them had died in the attack and defense of the bastion. He even wiped out the worker ants near the third line of defense where the tank troops started. As many as 30,000 ants were hastily recruited into the battle. Most worker ants don't even have basic jaw knives for fighting, and many are rushed to the battlefield wearing ordinary knives for work.
After a round of intensive fire suppression, the tank troops, under the cover of accompanying infantry, inserted themselves through the passage in the middle of Bastion No. 6 and No. 7, intending to cut off the retreat of the destroyers besieging Bastion No. 6. After attracting the enemy, The infantry will then cover the withdrawal of the tank troops, giving Bastion No. 6 valuable time to readjust its defenses and replenish troops and supplies from the tunnels.
The attack of the tank troops was effective at first. Under the charge of six halberds wearing heavy armor covered with spikes, the Destroyers were rushed to pieces, followed closely by the Rhinoceros carrying artillery. The beetles and stag beetles provided support with firepower, and the accompanying infantry expanded the breakthrough.
However, as the Radar Destroyer commanded more than 100,000 Destroyers from all directions to press forward, the momentum of the tank troops was hindered, and they had to turn around and retreat. However, the two frontmost Halberd Bugs could not evacuate in time, and were finally overturned by the Destroyer. His abdomen, which was not protected by iron armor, was bitten to death and torn apart. In order to protect the tank troops and retain their strength, the worker ant militiamen who rushed into battle burst out with great fighting spirit. It was difficult for them to kill the Destroyer with their crude weapons, but they still fearlessly blocked the Destroyer's mouthparts with their bodies.
In the end, less than 10,000 militiamen followed the tank troops back to their lair.
