While the army of parasitic ants has not yet climbed halfway up the hill, the protagonist asks the Angel King's army to move downwards and move the front forward to protect the rare scale insect resources.
Soon, the Angel King's army formed a formation in a relatively favorable terrain.
This is the top of a mini cliff. This cliff is actually a stone protruding from the ground, about half a meter wide and half a meter high. Three sides of the stone are connected to the ground, and only the south-facing section forms a cliff.
Although this section of cliff is nearly 90 degrees, its height and width are insufficient and cannot completely block the footsteps of ants who are good at climbing. But cliffs can cause great obstacles to silk threads with poor crawling ability.
The protagonist asked the Angel King's army to form a semicircular formation on the cliff rocks.
Five of the legions were lined up in a straight line, facing the direction of the cliff. Due to the obstruction of the cliff, there is little defensive pressure here. Even if the parasitic ants climb up the cliff, they will inevitably lose their formation.
Fifteen legions formed an arc on the other side with a protruding center. The last ten legions served as reserves.
The protagonist once again rode Xiaoqing and flew into the sky, overlooking the entire battlefield. An army of thousands of parasitic ants soon appeared at the bottom of the cliff.
What makes the protagonist strange is that these enemies do not form the usual marching columns or combat lines of the Big-headed Ant Army.
To be precise, these parasitic ants have no formation at all, like an unorganized group, spontaneously gathering into a criss-crossing tree-shaped team, densely intertwined on the ground, extending forward little by little.
In this kind of tree-shaped team, each branch has no difference in thickness. It seems that no matter which direction is the main force, it is not the main force. At the front of the team, there are a large number of parasitic soldier ants. Sometimes they form horizontal lines, sometimes they form columns, and they move forward in an unorganized manner.
But this strange formation was actually not slow, and it quickly reached the foot of the stone cliff.
At this time, the army of parasitic ants in the downwind direction had smelled the scent of the assembled legion of the Divine Envoy King from the air.
I saw the parasitic ants near the front who had smelled the enemy's scent, and their compound eyes began to turn red little by little. Then these parasitic ants, whether they were worker ants or soldier ants, all gave up charging in the windward direction without caring about keeping their formation or line intact.
The protagonist did not see a single large worker ant in this first batch of parasitic ant armies. It seemed that the resistance was spontaneously organized by the enemy, rather than a battle organized by large worker ants for effective command.
A few of the chaotic parasitic ants tried to climb up the stone cliff, but the scattered enemies were completely unable to shake the battle line of the God's Envoy King's army, which was waiting for them.
The silk threads shed by these parasitic ants were completely unable to climb up the nearly vertical cliff, and accumulated more and more under the cliff. Many of them were trampled to death by the parasitic ants on their way.
The greatest threat to the Angel King's army was on the flanks. A large number of parasitic ants bypassed the stone cliff and launched a fierce attack on this side. Especially there are a lot of parasitic soldier ants among them.
Stimulated by thread-parasitic fungi, these parasitic ants are not afraid of death. Although ants are already very brave in fighting, these parasitized ants are even worse.
Not only do they not care about injury and death, but they are also stronger than ordinary ants.
The protagonist soon saw some soldier ants on the front line who were fighting according to traditional experience. They were caught off guard and were quickly caught by the parasitic soldier ants with large pincers. They were lifted up into the sky and thrown backwards to the parasitic ants. In the team, he was quickly cut into pieces and died.
Fortunately, the soldier ants on the second and third lines quickly woke up and no longer tried to duel with the parasitic soldier ants on the opposite side. Instead, they instinctively lay firmly on the ground, restrained the opponent's pincers according to tactics, and then handed them over to the rear. Platoon teammates condescended to snap the enemy's neck.
However, in the first round of confrontation, more than a dozen soldier ants were sacrificed. This casualty rate was truly astonishing.
After adapting to the enemy's strength, the casualties of the God Envoy King's army dropped rapidly, and the meat grinder-like tactics began to work.
These parasitic ants without unified command have no idea what retreat is. However, the parasitic ants that gathered together interfered with each other. Only a small number of parasitic ants were able to fight against the Angel King's army on the front line, and then were harvested round by round.
Groups of parasitic ants fell in front of the Angel King's army's position. Their corpses were quickly crossed and crushed by the parasitic ants that followed, but they still could not shake the solid front line.
But soon a new threat emerged.
A large number of thread-parasitic fungi that smelled the scent of their potential new host had broken away from the body of the original host, the parasitic ant, and followed the scent to approach the God Envoy King's army.
These thread-parasitic fungi are like little snakes, snaking and crawling towards the indestructible front of the God's Envoy King's Army.
The number of these thread-parasitic fungi is three times that of the parasitic ants. If a large number of thread-parasitic fungi were not trampled to death by the chaotic parasitic ants, the overwhelming crawling threads would be extremely spectacular and terrifying.
These thread-parasitic bacteria may be more suitable for parasitizing new hosts in small-scale encounters without being detected. But in the chaotic battlefield, only a few lucky ones can crawl to the host's side.
But it was these sporadic thread parasites that caused great casualties to the God Envoy King's army.
Although the protagonist emphasized the need to pay close attention to these threads before the expedition, in the chaos of the war, the enemy was a fierce and fearless parasitic ant that came in a steady stream. Even if most of the front-line soldier ants paid attention to the slowly approaching threads, Parasitic bacteria can't be spared to deal with them.
Perhaps subconsciously, the soldier ants themselves do not feel any threat from these tiny and weak threads.
But soon, the threads found an opportunity and climbed up the legs of the soldier ants of the God Envoy King's legion on their backs.
Some of the silk threads were promptly removed by the soldier ants in the rear row, but a few fish that slipped through the net suddenly plunged into the gaps in the carapace of the soldier ants.
The attacked soldier ants suddenly felt a sharp sting coming from their backs. While distracted, these soldier ants were easily lifted high and killed by the parasitic ants.
A small number of soldier ants endured severe pain and continued to persevere, looking for opportunities to retreat to the rear as requested by the protagonist. However, under the attack of silk threads and parasitic ants, very few soldier ants can successfully retreat after being injured.
Everything that happened on the battlefield on the ground was reflected in the eyes of the protagonist flying in the sky. In the meantime, the line of the God's Envoy King's army quickly retreated two or three steps, leaving a pile of corpses.
In just half an hour of fighting, the Angel King's army had killed more than a hundred soldier ants, most of whom died from the sneak attack of the silk thread parasites, and dozens more were injured.
Even if nearly a thousand parasitic ants have been eliminated at this moment, it still cannot comfort the protagonist's bleeding heart.
The thread-parasitic bacteria finally showed their fangs at this moment. Like a lurking assassin, ready to deliver a fatal blow to the warriors of the Divine Envoy King Legion who are unable to reach them at any time.
The Angel King's army has been reduced by nearly one-tenth, and two-thirds of the parasitic ant's troops have not been able to join the front line, and are crowded with each other and blocked in the rear.
The protagonist cannot imagine how heavy the price the God Envoy King's army will pay if they want to completely eliminate this wave of enemies under the dual threats of silk thread parasites and parasitic ants.
To make matters worse, the protagonist glimpses a parasitic ant nest in the valley, and a large number of enemies emerge from the ground.
The second wave of enemies is about to enter the battlefield.
