Just when the escort team had just retreated into the spacious queen ant chamber, a large number of pavement ants were seen pouring out of five of the six entrances and exits of the queen ant chamber, quickly surrounding the small team in the center of the nest. Maybe in the next second, the protagonist and the escort will be overwhelmed by the ant tide.
The protagonist is filled with despair, and now perhaps only a miracle can save him!
Hua Mulan and the others tightly surrounded the protagonist, burying him inside with their bodies. If these loyal guards want to kill their Divine Envoy King, they must at least step over their bodies.
The next second, the swarm of pavement ants rushed forward ferociously and fought with the guards of the big-headed soldier ants. Almost all the soldier ants were besieged by three or four pavement ant workers. These soldier ants were overwhelmed and exhausted. Not only could they not kill the enemy, they could not even guarantee their own safety. They soon became disfigured. According to this posture, in six or seven seconds, the protagonist's escort team will be completely wiped out.
Then, a miracle happened.
The entrance of the cave where the protagonist came from suddenly erupted with fierce and rapid footsteps, and then countless soldier ants and worker ants from the Divine Envoy King's legion rushed out of the cave. As soon as they appeared in the nest, they automatically formed a formation with worker ants in front and soldier ants in the back, and used field tactics to quickly eliminate half of the nest's pavement ant workers.
Even though the pavement ants who encountered the attack had lost their minds due to their rage, they still felt the huge threat from the attack force. They did not bother to add more force to kill the protagonist and his escort, but fought feverishly. Driven by his will, he turned around and killed the big-headed ants who dared to attack.
Hua Mulan supported the limping protagonist and fled back to the Angel King's army, but only seven of the fourteen soldier ants returned...
The protagonist has basically achieved his tactical goal and eliminated 70% of the enemy's queen ants. Now it doesn't make much sense to continue fighting underground, so he orders a retreat. Some legion soldiers first covered the protagonist as he retreated. The soldiers on the front line launched a more rapid offensive, killing the enemies or forcing them back into the narrow tunnel before withdrawing their troops.
The protagonist who narrowly escaped death went all the way down the drainage channel. When he was about to leave the drainage channel, he suddenly stopped and used his remaining strength to dig out a larger piece of soil from the wall of the drainage channel. The stones were thrown down hard and blocked the drainage outlet below. After doing this, he led the legion back to the ground.
Returning to the ground, the protagonist asked the messengers to set off and deliver the prepared command packages to the various frontline legions. Then he was carried into the underground of the base nest, lying on the exclusive silk bed and groaned... uh, silent moaning.
After he was completely out of danger, the protagonist felt the pain all over his body. All the muscles seemed to have burst or dissolved. They were sore, painful, swollen and soft. This uncomfortable force made the protagonist keep banging his head against the ground. See Hua Mulan next to her was stunned for a while.
Ignoring the tragic situation of the protagonist for the moment, the camera returns to the ground.
After receiving the order from the Gentleman King, all the legions evacuated underground in an orderly manner, and only invested a small number of troops at the entrance of the dug tunnel to compete with the pavement ant barbarian army, preventing the other party from having the opportunity to repair the gap in the nest. The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army was focused on retaking these gaps, and had no thought of retreating and sealing off the occupied areas. This also left hidden dangers for their subsequent disaster.
The protagonist lay on the silk bed for two days and one night, without getting out of bed to eat or drink, before he finally recovered. During this period, what he couldn't forget was the weather, and he would send Hua Mulan to look at the sky every hour. In fact, this is a useless skill. The protagonist can now roughly predict the weather with his own body reaction. However, the lack of rain makes the protagonist anxious, so he keeps urging Hua Mulan to see the changes in the sky and clouds.
In the past two days, all the legions have withdrawn and rested. A batch of food was transported from Liangmo City to supplement their consumption, so that these legion soldiers who were extremely physically exhausted could have enough to eat. The small-scale battle around the tunnel entrance continued, but because the battlefield was too small and the casualty rate was very low, the pavement ants were never able to recapture and repair most of the gaps.
Until the early morning of the third day, the weather that the protagonist was looking forward to was finally coming.
In the early morning, the appearance of the sun did not bring warmth and light to the earth. The thick clouds gradually gathered and thickened from the evening, and a heavy rain was about to come.
The ants had long expected that heavy rain was coming, but at the repeated request of the protagonist, the team that competed with the pavement ant barbarian army for the entrance of the tunnel did not withdraw from their position until sporadic raindrops fell. The pavement ants had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, and desperately tried to repair the caves, but the hundreds of breaches could not be blocked in a short time.
The rain gradually increased, and the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force hid in the base nest one after another. It was warm and dry inside. At the request of the protagonist, a complete drainage facility was built at the beginning of the excavation: in addition to multiple underground drainage channels, there were also excavated holes on the ground. Open channels direct water flow to low-lying areas.
The protagonist came to the entrance of the base nest of the Angel King Legion. The entrance of the cave was originally on a higher ground, and before it rained, the protagonist designed and built a simple rain shelter composed of leaves, branches and grass fibers. He was able to overlook the scene of the sub-nest occupied by the pavement ant barbarians without being hit by the wind and rain. He wanted to see with his own eyes the effect of his final killing move.
The rain became more and more intense, falling from the sky very fast like water splashing, and large pools of water began to appear on the ground. The dozens of dug tunnels in the sub-nest became vents for the water on the surface, and a large amount of water poured in. The sub-nest washed away all the pavement ants and building materials that had worked hard to repair the gaps. These pavement ants have never experienced a flood of this scale. Their previous experience in dealing with water seepage in their nests is completely useless, and they are unable to block floods from dozens of water inlets. They can only try their best to move the water-soaked food, ant eggs, ant larvae and ant pupae to a relatively dry place.
This is not over yet, the greater threat comes from the bottom of the sub-nest. Under the guidance of the criss-crossing open channels that the protagonist had previously commanded to dig, large pools of accumulated water flowed on the ground, pouring into the bottom of the sub-nest along the ten largest tunnels. Some of the pavement ants at the bottom of the sub-nest were still struggling to save themselves at first, and the water in the remote areas on the bottom did not attract the attention of the pavement ant kings at the top.
However, supplemented by the continuous flow of water on the ground, the water level on the ground floor rose rapidly. Several pavement ant kings who were directing disaster relief on the ground floor suddenly found in despair that they were forced into a dead end by the rising water level and were submerged bit by bit. The rapidly rising water level submerged the location where most of the ants were without even knowing it, and even the escape channels had sunk underwater, completely cutting off the life of the ants who did not know water.
The raindrops made the awning made of leaves crackle, and this lookout could be destroyed by wind and rain at any time. The protagonist had no choice but to retreat underground to the base nest. Although he could not see the flooding inside the sub-nest, he saw the scene of a large amount of rain pouring into the sub-nest. He knew that the sub-nest was finished.
This heavy rain seems to be God helping the protagonist. It has been raining all day and night without stopping. Even if the rain eases slightly, it will soon become violent and violent. Even the base nest, which was specially designed to be rainproof, encountered water seepage, but after active and effective rescue efforts, it did not pose much of a threat.
It wasn't until the sun completely dispersed the dark clouds at noon the next day that the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force set out again. Most of the area near the sub-nest turned into a muddy swamp. Most of the legions were not dispatched this time. Only ten legions lined up in columns and carefully approached the entrance and exit of the sub-nest step by step along the drier land between the swamps. .
As for the tunnels originally dug, they have all turned into deep holes filled with water.
At the entrance and exit, there were still a few muddy pavement ants struggling to resist, but they were quickly eliminated by the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force. Each team dispersed to explore the tunnels inside the sub-nest, and soon fed back information to the protagonist.
Since there was still a large amount of water on all the forward paths, each team had to withdraw. The scouts reported that the water surface in the sub-nest was covered with the corpses of pavement ants, including king ants and worker ants. Deaths caused by floods In front of them, they were extremely equal.
Since it was impossible to explore the area covered by stagnant water, the protagonist had to suspend the exploration. However, with the flooding in the sub-nest so severe, not many enemies would be able to survive.
Every one or two hours, the protagonist will send several teams down to explore the interior of the sub-nest. As time goes by, the water level in the secondary nest gradually decreases, revealing more and more corpses of pavement ants. Many corpses of pavement ants gather together in hundreds or thousands, filling the interior of the higher-lying nest chamber. , they entered a dead end while avoiding the increasingly high floods, and ultimately could not escape the disaster. There were also a few lucky pavement ants hiding in places that were not submerged due to air pressure or terrain, but their numbers and physical strength were not enough to resist the recharged Big-headed Ant warriors, and they were quickly wiped out.
It wasn't until the next day that all the water in the sub-nest was drained away. The big-headed ant army searched all the passages and executed all the pavement ants that were lucky enough to survive. The protagonist did not stop this behavior. He once wanted to communicate with an injured paving ant king who was unable to resist, but all he received from the other party was endless hatred, so the protagonist had no choice but to kill him to avoid future troubles.
But for some reason, the protagonist asked the Angel King's Legion to collect a batch of ant eggs that were not soaked in water and brought them back to the base nest of the Angel King's Legion.
At this point, the last sub-nest captured by the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army last winter, a military fortress stationed with 100,000 troops and ten queens, was captured after less than ten days of resistance. More than ten Pavement Ant Barbarian Army The entire army of tens of thousands of ants was wiped out, but the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force only paid a slight price of thousands of casualties. It was a great victory.
