After noon, the Divine Envoy King's army finally arrived near the hills.
Since this was the first time that the Divine Envoy King's Legion marched independently, although there was experience to draw from, there were inevitably some stumblings during execution. The march, which was originally expected to take five hours, ended up taking six and a half hours to reach the destination.
After the Angel King's army arrived at the foot of the hills, the protagonist let the army hide in a bush to rest for a while.
Going up the hill is where the protagonist encounters the parasitic worker ants. At the foot of the hills, no trace of the enemy has been found yet. Maybe this is no longer the enemy's activity area.
In this case, the protagonist is not stingy with a little time, allowing the team that has been marching for a long time to rest and replenish their physical strength. After all, although ants have good endurance, they are also overworked.
After resting for half an hour, after all the rearguard troops had arrived and the stragglers had returned to their formation, the protagonist finally gave the order to set off.
At this time, the Divine Envoy King's army has entered the battle mode and is no longer a long snake column when marching.
Ten teams formed a horizontal formation as the first line, searching towards the heights of the hills with a width of about one meter.
This width is the effect of the protagonist deliberately widening the front. In the past, there were only 12 ants on the front of a team. This time, the protagonist increased the front to 25, doubling the width.
This can increase the width of the formation as much as possible, and can effectively prevent the enemy from outflanking when facing a numerically superior enemy. Facing an enemy with a numerical disadvantage, we can flank them.
However, the disadvantage is that the thickness of the formation becomes thin. If the warrior's fighting will is weak or his combat effectiveness is low, it is easy to be penetrated head-on.
However, the protagonist is very confident in the combat power and will of the God Envoy King's army, so he dares to form such a formation. After all, if the parasitic ant nest resists, all the people will definitely have an army, and the number will be far greater than that of the God Envoy King's army.
However, limited by the number of adult kings and the limited command ability of a single king (can effectively command up to fifty subordinates), the protagonist cannot send more troops this time.
However, the protagonist is still confident about the new formation. He was drawing on the tactics used by the famous ancient Roman general Scipio the Great in the Battle of the Great Plains.
The Battle of the Great Plains was a battle after Scipio landed in Africa during the Second Punic War, before the famous and decisive Battle of Zama.
At that time, Scipio's army took the initiative to challenge Hannibal in order to annihilate Carthage's main field army before he returned to aid Africa.
Scipio had only 15,000 men, while the Carthaginian army was twice as many. Therefore, the Carthaginian army, which had a superior strength, boldly formed a battle array.
In this battle, the Carthaginian army placed the elite Spanish Iberian mercenaries in the center, while the Roman army still deployed a traditional three-line array.
Soon after the battle began, the cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Carthaginian army were defeated. However, the Iberian mercenaries in the center of the battle line fought extremely tenaciously, making it impossible for the Roman army with inferior strength to win.
Seeing that the battle situation in the center was stalemate and that the two wings had achieved complete freedom of movement, Scipio immediately ordered a change of formation, allowing the second and third columns of infantry of the Roman legion to separate from the center and advance to the left and right wings of the first line respectively.
In this way, the Roman infantry changed from a three-line configuration to a one-line arrangement, and the formation was extended three times. Because the two wings had complete freedom of movement, the Roman legions were able to immediately surround the Iberian infantry in the center of the Carthaginian formation.
Knowing that there was no hope of escape, these Iberian warriors fought to the last man in the Roman encirclement. They were all killed without a single survivor. They maintained their fighting formation until death.
However, their bravery could no longer change the outcome of the battle. The Carthaginian army suffered a disastrous defeat and was no longer able to fight in the field with the Roman army until Hannibal returned to help. This battle also fully demonstrated Scipio's tactical literacy and proved the important role of front width in victory.
Our sights return to the Legion of God's Envoy King.
Behind the ten teams in the first line, the remaining twenty teams were divided into two columns and followed closely behind, leaving a certain gap between the three columns. The formation of the entire legion is roughly a 100*50cm rectangle.
The Legion of the Divine Envoy King slowly searched and groped its way toward the top of the hills at the speed of a battle.
The protagonist does not intend to launch a surprise attack quickly. The ant army is different from the human army. Many human armies will lose their combat effectiveness or even collapse due to being raided, but the ant soldiers will resist until death even if they are alone. Therefore, the surprise tactic is much less meaningful to the ants.
Moreover, the protagonist intends to completely kill all the parasitic ants. At this time, it is a better choice to crush the enemy's vitality through frontal war like a meat grinder.
When the Angel King's army climbed halfway up the hill, they began to encounter some sporadic parasitic ants looking for food.
These parasitic ants also all have three silk threads growing on their backs.
After sensing the approaching of the God's Envoy King's Legion, except for a small number of worker ants who returned to report the news, the other parasitic ants were controlled by the threads behind their backs. Their compound eyes glowed red and they rushed towards the tightly-formed front of the God's Envoy King's Legion.
This brave charge is destined to be in vain. The frontline soldier ants easily killed the parasitic ants who dared to challenge, and also eliminated the slowly approaching silk thread, without any loss themselves.
This sporadic spontaneous resistance cannot stop the advancement of the God Envoy King's army. In about half an hour, before the parasitic ants could organize an effective resistance, the Angel King's army had already attacked the top of the hill.
When passing a bush on the top of the mountain, the protagonist recognized that it was the bush where he captured the captive. The scale insects on the bush were a good source of honey. But now is not the time to collect scale insects. Everything has to wait until the battle is over.
After sending a team to attack the shrubs and eliminate the parasitic ants that were grazing the scale insects, the protagonist rode Xiaoqing and flew up to the shrubs to observe the movements of the parasitic ants.
With the help of the height of the shrub, the protagonist was finally able to observe the dense movements of parasitic ants from the gaps in the ground vegetation.
When he came to this shrub before, the protagonist had not observed where the parasitic ant's nest was.
But at this moment, because there are so many parasitic ants densely packed into a black torrent, the protagonist can easily see their source.
It turns out that the entrance to the parasitic ant's nest is in a valley on the south side of the hill, where water is more abundant.
The Angel King's army attacked the top of the hill from the north slope, and at this moment thousands of parasitic ants were forming a chaotic and disorderly formation, charging up from the south slope.
In order to avoid harming the precious scale insects in the melee, the protagonist landed back on the ground and ordered the Angel King's army to move down from the south slope, preparing to engage the enemy.
