Chapter 381 The advantage of six thousand versus three thousand is mine!
When the headquarters arrived at the Shining Plains, detailed reports on the battlefield also came out. As Li De expected, the insect swarm carried out a sneak attack through the Falaki Mountains and was unable to deliver too many troops. After observation, the number of the insect swarm was only about 6,000.
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But even this number has put a lot of pressure on the alliance, because the full number of soldiers in the first column is only 3,000.
Everyone remembers what Shiloma said: The most disadvantageous thing about fighting the insect swarm is the medium-sized battle. With efficient command, the insect swarm has a huge advantage even if the troops are equal, not to mention the current ratio of the enemy's and our own troops.
Two to one?
In a field encounter with this kind of numerical disparity, especially if one column is an infantry column, this can almost be a death sentence for one column.
Everyone didn't understand Ashkandi and Chen Stormstout's decision at first glance when they saw the battle report, but they fell silent after learning the details.
The current population of Hanhai Protectorate has exceeded 50,000. As an integral part of Gadgetzan's core economic circle, nearly 5,000 people work and live here.
The first column can choose to stay in Gadgetzan, or station in the northern valley of Gadgetzan, block the road from Shining Plains to Gadgetzan, and keep out the insect swarm.
But doing so will undoubtedly abandon the residents of the Shining Plains under the iron jaws of the swarm!
War does require long-term considerations, but an army that is indifferent to the safety of the people is destined to go nowhere and has no future.
The heroic Lao Chen firmly believed that only grand narratives in the context of cherishing life are meaningful, so he resolutely announced the dispatch of troops to the Shining Plain to hold back the Zerg troops and buy time for the residents to retreat!
After understanding this, Li De couldn't help but sigh.
"Since the story of Liusha Town spread, Yizong has had a temperament of asking for orders for the people. Master Chen has injected soul into this army."
Crassus, who was watching the battle from a high place, couldn't help but praise him.
"What an amazing unit. They are more than passionate. Their combat effectiveness and command tactics are outstanding in all aspects."
It turned out that facing twice as many enemies as oneself, Yi Zong divided his troops into two parts and formed the two most perfect defensive formations - circular formations. The reason why the two circular formations were formed was because Yi Zong was not passive.
Defensive resistance, they are also looking for opportunities to counterattack during the defense process.
In order not to be separated by the insect swarm, the two circular formations are very close to each other, and there is a connection point in the middle. This connection point is destined not to be cut off, it is an absolutely unbreakable connection point. It was created by Chen Stormstout himself.
Leading the team, his subordinates are the eighteen best elite warriors selected from the entire column.
Lao Chen's deeds of resisting the Zerg army by one man at Highland 109 gave Yi Zong more courage than other troops, and he could still maintain a strong fighting spirit when facing the Zerg.
If Lao Chen is the courage of the Yizong, then Ashkandi is the brains of the Yizong. In the absence of three-dimensional coordinated operations of multiple arms in the night encounter, he only relies on his keen battlefield intuition and uses rhythmic tactics.
The roar aroused the emotions of the soldiers, guiding the soldiers in the two circular formations to take the same steps, draw the sword at the same angle, and breathe at the same frequency, completely stabilizing the rhythm of the battlefield.
The two circular formations were surrounded by the insect swarm, slowly rotating around the connection point of Lao Chen, giving the insect swarm no chance to break through.
"Ashkandi has the potential to be a commander. In my opinion, he has obtained all the true inheritance of Marshal Lothar."
Antonidas stroked his beard and praised, he cherished the perfect coordination between Ashcandi and Chen Stormstout, and was afraid that the two excellent commanders would make a mistake and die.
It's just that he wanted to use magic to help Yi Zong several times, but he was worried that his actions would interfere with the current rhythm of the battlefield, which would harm Ashkandi and Lao Chen.
As one of the alliance's trump cards, the Great Magician threw a rat weapon, but he didn't know that the enemy was a little restless at this time.
‘How can a mere human race have such an excellent command? To be able to achieve this level should be the limit. By destroying the logistics center of these inferior races, tonight’s strategic purpose has been achieved.
The order given to me by the Nest Mother is to withdraw before dawn... There is still some time before dawn, which does not prevent me from eating another one of their troops, six thousand versus three thousand, the advantage is mine!'
The insect pillar located in the sinkhole south of Zuffak is expanding and contracting, and the air flow formed will blow the energy particles carrying instructions along the underground passage to the battlefield of the Shining Plains.
Ashkandi, who was in the midst of a fierce battle, noticed something strange. The insect swarm seemed to be giving up on their movement towards the north.
In addition to the logistics and trading center, there is also a medium-sized town in the north of Shining Plains. Its name is Defiance Town. It has such a special name because its prototype was established during the war with the goblins to help the wild boars in their anti-colonial struggle.
A resistance camp set up at that time.
After the war, the economy and population here have further developed. The original camp on the cliff was too small, so a new settlement was built under the cliff and expanded into a town. The permanent population is three to four thousand people, and the races include
Wereboars, trolls, humans, and even a small number of ogres and murlocs.
The attack by the swarm of insects was so sudden that Ashkandi and Lao Chen didn't know if the residents of Defiance Town had evacuated. They could not forget the photos reported by the Wind Rider scouts when they received the attack on the trading center. The entire trading center became
It was in ruins, and it is conservatively estimated that nearly a thousand soldiers and civilians were killed in the attack.
At this time, the insect swarm intended to leave the battlefield and march north, probably conveying a hint of abandoning its column to attack civilians.
"Ashkandi! What should we do?"
Lao Chen yelled and asked, and Ashkandi was extremely conflicted at the moment. He was caught in a dilemma.
"This is probably a strategy of the insect swarm to induce us to give up the circular formation and pursue them. If we give up the defensive formation now, we will definitely lose..."
"But if we leave them alone, what if the civilians in the rebel town don't evacuate..."
For this war, Hanhai Protector mobilized a large number of men. In places like Liusha Town and Defiance Town, most of them were women, children and the elderly. Only a small number of young men stayed at key positions. If they encountered a swarm of insects,
This kind of town is completely defenseless.
Ashkandi and Chen Stormstout now understood the dilemma faced by Fandral Staghelm. The swarm only used one strategy to attack Southwind Village, and then pulled Staghelm step by step into the abyss.
Just as the two were in a dilemma, Kel'Thuzad's shout rang out from the sky.
"Commanders, please stay calm, we are here to support you!"
Kel'Thuzad and Shilomar arrived on a flying carpet, accompanied by a team of windriders guarding them.
Seeing the alliance's flying troops arriving, the alien bees in the insect swarm also took to the air to fight.
"Stop them and buy us time."
Kel'Thuzad did not hesitate at all, and took Shilomar to avoid the obstruction of all flying insects, while throwing the morning wheat powder into the air. The bright energy of the morning wheat itself dispersed in the night sky, and small lights suddenly flashed.
point, when it comes into contact with the shadow energy released by the insect pillar in the air, neutralization and settlement occur instantly.
Hiloma's eyes were closely watching the intensity of the reaction in the air, and soon a somewhat excited expression appeared on her face.
"Sure enough, the spatial distance helped us. The secretion concentration of the insect pillar is not that high. Our morning light wheat can affect the connection between the insect pillar and the insect swarm."
Sure enough, after continuing to scatter the morning wheat powder, it was obvious that the response of the insect swarm was a little slow. They looked around confusedly and kept shaking their tentacles to capture the instructions from the insect pillars in the air.
At this time, Hiloma stopped throwing morning wheat powder and replaced it with another cloth bag.
"The next thing to throw is the Shadow Mushroom spores. This thing is a bit dangerous. We must control the wind direction and never let it float into our array."
Kel'Thuzad nodded clearly, stretched out a hand to create a magic circle out of thin air, and guided a stable air flow. Shiloma scattered the spores along the wind created by Kel'Thuzad, and the spores of the shadow mushrooms floated to the insects along the wind.
on the body.
The spores absorbed the shadow energy and took root on the ground. What's more, they opened small mushroom umbrellas directly on the insect's tentacles.
In an instant, there was a panic among the insect swarm, and those insects whose tentacles were damaged by the shadow mushroom began to attack without distinguishing between friend and foe.
"Success! We cracked the swarm's command!"
Shiloma shouted excitedly on the flying carpet, and Ashkandi on the ground also seized the opportunity. At the most chaotic point of the insect swarm, Ashkandi waved his Brotherhood Sword with both hands.
"Victory is at hand, destroy these bugs!"
The two circular formations opened up suddenly, and the warriors rushed towards the insect swarm like a tide.
"ah!"
Kel'Thuzad suddenly screamed on the flying carpet, startling Siroma who was standing beside him. When he saw the other party looking over, he explained.
"We need to remind Ashkandi and the others not to wipe out all these bugs, but to leave a few alive for us!"
"Yes, yes, I forgot about it when I was happy, but you were so considerate."