At this point in time, the frontline swarm had already engaged in their second battle with the human legions.
This time, the enemies consisted of two legions located less than twenty kilometers apart. If one was attacked, the other could quickly arrive to provide support.
The brain bug calculated the terrain and initiated a direct frontal assault on the forward unit using the swarm.
A total of 40,000 main force units, supported by 100,000 locusts, carried out the encirclement and slaughter of these enemies.
There were no fancy tricks. Knowing the enemy had strong detection capabilities, the Zerg's first wave of attack consisted of hydralisks performing long-range bombardment, targeting their mages.
A massive number of Tier 6 spines rained down from the distant long slope, leaving the entire 8th Legion dazed by the explosions.
Amidst the sounds of explosions, a tide of zerglings rolled in from the distance.
Clearly, the attention of the human mages was immediately drawn toward the zerglings and hydralisks.
At that moment, the lurkers quickly approached from underground, launching earth spike attacks against the enemy's artillery.
Following that, a massive number of banelings were treated as single-use consumables, launched into the enemy formation using catapults.
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News requesting reinforcements soon reached the other legion twenty kilometers away.
The 13th Legion.
The legion commander, a Tier 8 powerhouse, did not act immediately. Instead, he ordered the falcon units to take flight and scout the situation from a distance.
Without a doubt, this played right into Xia Jin's hands.
Hydralisks, which had dug deep pits to hide in the woods, suddenly emerged and fired barrages into the sky.
Over twenty falcon knights were caught off guard, with more than ten being shot down in an instant.
The survivors turned and fled, as expected.
Because they were flying high, these falcon knights had seen from afar the sight of the 8th Legion being besieged by tens of thousands of insects.
“I didn't manage to shoot them all down at once.”
When Xia Jin connected to the battlefield, she happened to witness this scene.
There was certainly nothing wrong with the brain bug's tactical command, but the strategy required creating the right conditions.
After the few falcon knights returned and reported the situation, the 13th Legion commander indeed began to accelerate his movement toward the battlefield.
The leading cavalry units split into several groups, conducting reconnaissance in all directions to provide early warnings of any ambushes.
Several hundred reconnaissance squads also began to climb the earthen slopes on both sides.
Consequently, the insects lying in wait nearby had no choice but to retreat underground.
Fortunately, the legion commander had not yet received intel that the swarm could move underground.
After scouting for a while and finding no issues, he ordered the entire legion to advance.
They did not force a march at an exceptionally high speed but maintained a jog while keeping their basic formation.
Such a marching formation was enough to demonstrate how well-trained the kingdom's regular army was.
They could essentially stop their pace and enter combat mode immediately.
As the troops passed through the nearby area, a mage suddenly detected the lurkers underground.
Just as he was about to speak, countless earth spikes shot out from below. Row after row of spikes erupted, forming a crossfire network that attacked the marching troops from beneath the ground.
Two mage squads were also caught in the crossfire.
It wasn't that the brain bug didn't want to target the mages, but these fellows often discovered them once they got too close. Therefore, the only way for the lurkers to carry out an effective sneak attack was to target the parts of the army furthest from the mage units.
And at this moment, the effect was excellent.
The artillery responsible for long-range bombardment and the archers situated in the front quarter became the primary targets of concern.
Over 2,000 men instantly suffered heavy losses under the assault of countless blood-red blades.
The mage unit immediately retaliated, blasting countless spells toward the ground.
Groups of melee soldiers were at a loss. Although they knew how to fight, they truly had no solution for a sneaky enemy hiding underground.
In the next moment, countless banelings suddenly flew in from the distance, falling upon the legion commander like rain.
That's right—the old method. Banelings were specifically used to bombard the enemy's strong individuals.
Although the cost was a bit high, a wave of explosions wouldn't just hit the legion commander alone. Calculating that an average of seven or eight hundred banelings could kill a Tier 8 powerhouse, the cost for one wave was less than 200,000 units of energy.
“200,000 units of energy just to blow up one person.”
Xia Jin felt a pang of heartache if she thought too much about it.
If she had used that for zerglings, she could have had several thousand.
But this was indeed the fastest way to kill such a powerhouse.
After all, at Tier 8, if they wanted to run, zerglings alone couldn't stop them.
It was best to blow them up in the first wave or at least severely wound them.
For this battle, the brain bug had mobilized insects from other fronts, concentrating a full 100,000 main force swarm units plus 120,000 locusts.
This massive number of insects was solely to annihilate the 40,000 main force troops and 15,000 logistics soldiers here.
In fact, concentrating so many troops in this direction meant that the other fronts basically had no ability to resist.
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