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More than ninety tunnels were dug directly from all directions and depths into the underground sub-nest occupied by the barbarian army. At the beginning, the soldiers of the barbarian army had to organize resistance spontaneously without any command. However, thanks to the narrow underground battlefield environment, although the barbarian army suffered heavy losses and retreated step by step, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force failed to achieve a decisive breakthrough.
However, the attacks of these legions were just feints, and the protagonist's real killing move was yet to come.
Unlike the legions that are dispersed to carry out soil work, the protagonist personally directs and coordinates eight legions to carry out soil work in a low-lying area far away from the enemy's sub-nest. Only the Divine Envoy King's army was recuperating on the sidelines and did not participate in heavy physical labor.
The scale of the work here is much larger. Ten tunnels were excavated underground at the same time. These tunnels are as wide as a human index finger and can accommodate about ten ants passing through at the same time. They are wider than other tunnels excavated today. several times higher. The tunnel is tilted at an angle of about forty-five degrees, pointing in the direction of the enemy's sub-nest.
In addition to these tunnels, there are also a large number of ants that have dug many criss-crossing trenches horizontally near low-lying areas. These trenches are about one centimeter deep and two to three centimeters wide. They extend far to the vicinity of more than ten base nests nearby. There is a circle dug around the entrance of each base nest, which looks a bit like the trench positions during World War I.
Due to the large amount of work and the wide open area of the project, except for the Angel King Legion, most of the workers from the other eight legions were involved in the construction.
Time passes quickly, the sun has changed from high in the sky to low in the sky, and the battle underground has gradually become more intense. The commanders of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army finally realized that their rear was under attack. According to the defense plan when the sub-nest entrance was attacked, they began to organize different legions to defend the corresponding breached points. After having organization and command, The pavement ant barbarian army stabilized their position, abandoned some of the nests that could no longer be defended, and huddled in some important intersections where underground passages intersected to defend. Although the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army's casualties were far greater than those of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force due to the inferior combat effectiveness of their individual soldiers, they had established a firm foothold and once again dragged the battle into a tug-of-war by relying on a steady stream of reinforcements.
The nine legions around the protagonist, including the King of Gods legion, have not yet entered the battle. The criss-crossing trenches on the ground have been dug, but the tunnels under the ground are too wide and deep to be penetrated due to the large amount of work. Inside the enemy's sub-nest.
The protagonist is not in a hurry. Anyway, the enemy has not taken any countermeasures, and he still has time to slowly carry out the soil work. According to estimates, the first batch of young ants born by the queen of the pavement ant barbarians still have nine days to mature and go into battle. There is still plenty of time.
The protagonist returns to the silk bed he carried on his march and eats some food. Now that there are many subordinates, there is also a lot of dry food that can be carried for the protagonist, enough for him to eat for a week. It's just that drinking water is not easy to deal with. The rainwater collected in some places on the ground is too dirty. We have to wait until the early morning to let the subordinates collect some clean dew on the grass blades.
The protagonist fell asleep for a while after eating, and didn't wake up until the middle of the night. The construction site was still in full swing, but there was no good news yet. The other legions still firmly occupied the underground positions, but they were unable to expand their results in a short period of time. These big-headed ant legions continued to replace those underground teams with greater losses with fresh troops, and the pavement ant barbarian army was unable to drive out the invaders. Their losses far exceeded those of the big-headed ant expeditionary force.
The protagonist waited patiently for a while. He even climbed down the tunnel himself and estimated the progress of the project using the number of steps. The construction site is about 2.5 meters away from the entrance of the sub-nest. If the width of the underground part of the sub-nest is 1 meter, then a distance of about 2 meters needs to be dug horizontally to penetrate the sub-nest. The tunnel is 45 degrees deep into the ground. For every 1 meter dug, the horizontal direction is close to 0.7 meters. It is calculated that when the length of this tunnel reaches 3 meters, it will probably connect with the sub-nest. The protagonist estimates that it has already dug more than two meters. In this case, by tomorrow morning, the project will be almost complete.
After the assessment, the protagonist went back to rest. During this period, some impatient kings sent messengers to ask when they could launch an attack. When they saw that friendly forces were already starting a war, it was really unnerving to let these ants with a militaristic and aggressive temperament just dig here. The protagonist had no choice but to patiently comfort them. After such back and forth, the sky soon turned white.
Good news finally came from the construction site. A tunnel had been dug to a passage to the sub-nest. The protagonist immediately rushed over to inspect the situation. Arriving at the entrance of this tunnel, a worker ant that had just crawled out reported that some soldier ants and worker ants had already entered the enemy's tunnel to explore, and the target that the protagonist was looking for has not yet been found.
Because the tunnel dug at this construction site is very deep, reaching more than two meters underground, basically close to the bottom of the sub-nest, the number of pavement ants in this area is small, and the Big-headed Ant Expedition encountered relatively little resistance. All the big-headed ant warriors who invaded the sub-nest were searching for important targets in strict accordance with the protagonist's requirements. These targets are: queen, eggs, larvae and pupae.
The protagonist guesses that these valuable targets will be hidden at the bottom of the sub-nest, because the upper part will become a battlefield sooner or later. Only by hiding the queen ants and others at the bottom can they maximize their role in supplementing soldiers.
The three teams of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force, which had entered the secondary nest from the first large tunnel, had already searched for a certain distance, and had completed searching several small side roads, killing the few pavement ants they encountered. Yes, no whereabouts have been revealed yet. It's just that the target designated by the protagonist has not been patrolled yet.
Soon, the second tunnel was opened, and several more teams climbed in through the new entrance. This time they were lucky and found a nest with a large number of pavement ant pupae, and destroyed all the pupae. The bad news is that the team here let go of a pavement ant worker. If nothing goes wrong, the enemy's army will soon know that the bottom layer of the sub-nest has been invaded and will take countermeasures.
The protagonist still hasn't taken any action. A few ant pupae are of little value. He is waiting for news of discovering the enemy ant queen. This is the most important goal.
Soon two more large tunnels were dug. Other tunnels have been dug very deep, but have not yet been penetrated. The protagonist went down one by one and made a brief observation, and estimated that there would be no results if he continued digging, so the protagonist ordered the worker ant tunnels under construction to change the direction of the tunnels and move closer to the ends of the several tunnels that had been penetrated.
