1380 Endless Annoyance (1/2)
Even though incendiary torpedoes were combustible in water, their destructive power was much weaker than that on land.
As for the 100,000 iron-armored demons that jumped into Weishui River, besides the first batch which suffered a loss and some were killed by centrifugal ballista on the warships of Taixia Country, most of the iron-armored demons directly dove deep in water when encountering dangers. Although this method was nothing ingenious, it reduced the loss of iron-armored demons greatly.
Almost 90,000 iron-armored demons finally arrived at the east bank of Weishui River. Taixia troop only reduced a bit more than 10% of the total amount of iron-armored demons in the river, which figure was much smaller than the loss of iron-armored demons on the west bank of Weishui River.
Of course, it owed to iron-armored demon's good swimming skill. If it was ox-head demons or spider demons that tided over Weishui River, those incendiary torpedoes would definitely have killed more demons. Given this point, it was indeed a smart decision for Sagus the Monarch Abyss to assign iron-armored demons to be the vanguard.
The air fight finally affected the ground troops.
Some wing demons wanted to attack the warships of Taixia Country over the river; however, the warships gathered up in an air-defense formation and shot at those wing demons in a dense manner the moment those wing demons approached. As a result, some wing demons were hit down without causing any damage to the warships.
Besides shotting traditional bolts, the steam ballista on warships could also shoot more powerful incendiary bolts. The incendiary bolts being matched for these warships were different than those on air cavalry I airplanes in specifications as the former were longer, thicker with the evidently bigger caliber and more powerful. The moment these bolts exploded in the sky, they would cause a fireball whose diameter was over 10 m. Additionally, their land-to-air range could reach higher than 400 m. No wing demon could gain any advantage facing such a powerful air-defense strike.
Additionally, before those iron-armored demons which had reached the opposite bank gathered up, two wuthering and smoking air cavalry I airplanes had precisely hit the region on the east bank where there were most iron-armored demons. The moment the airplanes crashed onto the ground, they had exploded while their flames and flying metal parts devoured some more iron-armored demons.
After receiving the order, the iron-armored demons continued to march on.
To respond to this order, iron-armored demons which had embarked on immediately roared and rushed towards the east.
There was once a wood in the east bank of Weishui River. However, at this moment, the entire wood had been weeded out by Taixia troops. As a result, it was bald and full of undulating yellow ground and hills within hundreds of miles. Besides some short weeds, shrubs and some patches of stumps, no plant higher than 1.7 m could be seen. In that case, even a troop of over 1,000 people could barely hide there, not to mention large-scale troops.
In the last year, the troops of hundreds of millions fighters and the engineering corps of tens of millions of engineers had already well renovated the entire east bank of Weishui River. As a result, demons embarking on the east bank could barely take advantage of resources and topographical strengths.
The east riverside was absolutely a battlefield preset by Taixia troops.
However, not a single human could be seen over the east bank, except for undulating hills. The warships' shells reached the east bank; even though, the iron-armored demons embarking on the east bank continued to surge forward.
At this moment, flames rose from the ground, devouring those surging iron-armored demons one after another. The flames were caused by incendiary mines. Compared to that on the west bank, more incendiary mines were buried in the undulating hills, hillsides, gullies, shrubs and plain, open area. As a result, each step forward would mean the loss of many lives.
The entire east bank was covered with mines, where iron-armored demons couldn't see those human fighters but flames rising from the ground and those of their same kind whining and turning into charcoals in flames...
Iron-armored demons roared as they became hopeless. All the iron-armored demons above LV 10 started to launch battle qi strikes towards the ground in front while running.