Chapter 391: Covering and Breaking Through
After the termite colony broke through the defense line, more than 3,000 soldier ants followed behind and charged towards the soldiers' line through the breach.
At the back of the battlefield, Jiang Shishi stood on the head of the queen ant airlifted by the host. Seeing the coalition's defense line being breached, she secretly clenched her fists to encourage herself.
Then she looked at the flying dragon hovering in the sky and found the figure standing alone on the top of the flying dragon. Her expression became more determined. Millions of termites bit faster and bit all the soldiers in front of them into bones.
Behind the ant colony was the surging insect swarm. The broken defense line was like a heavy punch, hitting the coalition's heart hard, and the originally unstable morale immediately wavered.
The insect swarm was getting closer, and the soldiers had already seen the cold and sharp teeth in the insect swarm's mouth. They wanted to resist, but they were no longer able to resist. They had fought for so long before, but they could not stop the insect swarm from solving the problem, let alone now that the defense line had been breached.
Amid the desperate and angry screams of the allied soldiers, countless swarms of insects jumped into the trenches. The velociraptors ate the soldiers as snacks. The trenches were full of broken corpses. The close-range velociraptors were efficient hunters. The soldiers had no power to resist them. The so-called bayonet fight was just a joke. It was better to eat a bullet than to fight with a velociraptor that was the same size as a tiger but ten or a hundred times more ferocious.
The spurs of the hydralisk accurately eliminated the old soldiers who were still resisting. Occasionally, they would use their own forelimbs to disembowel the soldiers and cut them in half before swallowing them alive in the abyss.
Although the hydralisk was not a melee soldier, what did it matter? The three-meter-tall hydralisk was not something that ordinary humans could deal with even in melee combat.
The explosions of banelings continued, the horrible strong acid corroded everything, the iron hooves of cockroaches trampled, pushed down and crushed all the armored vehicles and tanks, and ordinary soldiers had to face the attacks of velociraptors, hydralisks and stalkers. The casualties of the coalition forces increased dozens of times in an instant. Once the mechanized army of mankind was approached by the swarm of insects, it would only end up being abused.
"The first trench defense line was broken." Screams came one after another. Seeing that they were powerless to save the situation, the coalition soldiers crawled out of the trenches and ran towards the second and third trenches behind.
The coalition had a total of five trenches. The first three trenches were not far apart because they had to maintain firepower, and the last two trenches were where the reserves were located and were farther apart.
The swarm of insects killed crazily in the trenches, frightening many soldiers. The few who came out to fight to the death, most of them either fell under the swarm of insects, or fled in a hurry with their armor and helmets abandoned, and only regretted that their parents had given them two less legs.
Wang Jin did not kill the swarm of insects, but let the swarm of insects drive them step by step from behind, and let these defeated soldiers attack the trench defense line behind. Otherwise, with the speed of the swarm of insects, these coalition soldiers would have been eaten clean long ago, and there would be no room for escape.
The first trench defense line has the most soldiers, and is also the elite part of the coalition. It contains the most elite soldiers from the five bases. Even they were defeated. It is conceivable how much psychological impact it will have on the soldiers behind.
A full 50,000 soldiers are on the first line of defense. Now the first trench has been breached, 30,000 soldiers are drowned by the swarm of insects, and 20,000 remnants are running back in panic. Behind the defeated army is the swarm of insects that Wang Jin is killing.
The soldiers on the second and third trench defense lines are very troubled. Should they open fire? If they open fire, their comrades will die in their hands first. The coalition is not elite. Most of them are not regular field armies, but young and strong survivors recruited and trained.
The lack of combat power is not a big deal, but when faced with defeat, they cannot handle it well like regular troops. Not to mention that there is no orderly retreat, the defeated soldiers do not know what it means to attack their own army formation, and the soldiers behind them do not know whether to shoot when facing these problems.
Although the officers have taught them, not everyone can take action immediately when facing these things. After all, they are not elite soldiers who have fought hundreds of battles and do not have the heart to kill decisively.
"Fire for me, have you fed the things I taught you to the dogs? Anyone who dares to attack the army formation, whether it is an enemy or a defeated army, will be killed as an enemy."
The highest officers of the second and third trenches understood the seriousness of the matter and immediately ordered the army to shoot regardless of everything, otherwise the defeated soldiers would get close, and the swarm of insects behind them would enter the trenches, and their second front would be finished.
The soldiers received the order from the superiors, put aside all their thoughts, pulled the triggers of the rifles, and the heavy machine gun ammunition belts were quickly consumed. Countless sparks lit up in the second trench in an instant, and thousands of bullets were fired.
The fleeing soldiers driven by the Zerg swarm were desperately shot countless times in the rain of bullets. Their bodies were shaken repeatedly under the impact of continuous bullets. It was not easy to fall down.
More fleeing soldiers were broken into two pieces by the 12.7mm machine gun bullets of heavy machine guns, and their heads exploded like rotten watermelons. They were beaten beyond human form and thoroughly experienced the feelings of the Zerg in the rain of bullets.
The fleeing soldiers shouted in grief and anger. There was a cold rain of bullets from their comrades in front of them, and a ferocious Zerg swarm behind them. If they rushed forward, they would be beaten into a pulp. If they retreated or stayed still, they would be torn into pieces by the Zerg swarm. No matter what, they could not escape death, and the way they died was extremely ugly. It was difficult to keep their bodies intact.
Although there were 20,000 fleeing soldiers, humans were weak and would either die or be crippled if hit by bullets. They were not like the Zerg who could still jump around after being shot by bullets. Therefore, the 20,000 were quickly shot and killed. Those who were not dead were also bitten and eaten by the sea of insects behind them. In the end, there was not a single one left in the 20,000 fleeing soldiers, and all died in the hands of the swarm of insects and their companions.
Because of the delay of the fleeing army, Wang Jin's swarm of insects ran safely and unobstructed for a distance. The first trench and the second and third trenches were not far away. After waiting for the fleeing army to die, the soldiers in the second trench found that the swarm of insects was already close to them. The endless sea of insects weighed on their hearts.
Until now, the soldiers in these two trenches understood why the comrades in the first trench collapsed so quickly. Now that it was their turn to deal with it, they realized how ridiculous their thoughts were. It was not that their comrades were too weak, but that the enemy was too strong.
Roar!
The swarm of insects rushed to the trench with great momentum, carrying the power of breaking through the defense. The soldiers in the second trench performed even worse than the first. Many soldiers were frightened by the swarm of insects and turned around and ran away.
The rain of bullets also seemed much sparser. The swarm of insects attacked the front of the trench with almost no effort.
The one-sided massacre appeared again. The close-range swarm of insects stared at all the two-legged creatures with bloodthirstiness. In the unwilling and miserable cries, the claws tore and the fangs bit. In the roar of the swarm of insects, they turned into a cold corpse and fell to the ground.
The first three trench defense lines of the coalition forces were all declared broken.