According to the protagonist's strategy of covering the retreat one by one, after the reserve team forcibly opened a breakthrough, each team was roughly divided into groups of five and took turns retreating.
The team that retreats first establishes blocking positions along the way to cover the retreat of other subsequent teams. Among them, the reserve teams of the ten teams that broke through first were the first to establish defenses and became the new rear troops.
This tactic went very well in the early stages. Although some of the teams who took turns to stay in the rear suffered losses, most of the effective forces were able to escape.
Lambotu commanded the ten reserve teams that had opened the breakthrough. After watching the last five teams leave, and when he was about to retreat to the mountaintop position again, the battle situation took an unexpected turn.
Since the eyesight of the parasitic ants is as poor as that of ordinary worker ants and soldiers of big-headed ants, and there are no male ants or large worker ants with better eyesight in the first wave of enemies to command them, so they all rely on the messengers floating in. The king's army uses the scent to lock the attack target.
However, since the wind direction on the surface is restricted by the terrain, it changes from time to time. When the parasitic ants are in the upwind direction, the parasitic ants further away will suddenly be unable to smell the enemy's scent, and will stop in confusion because they have lost their attack target.
Any other team with a commander would not have made such a low-level mistake. But the first wave of parasitic ant army did not have a commander. They were all ordinary parasitic ants that spontaneously emerged after receiving the signal of enemy attack.
But thanks to this, it gave the Divine Envoy King's army a lot of breathing space that was breaking through.
As a large number of parasitic ants and thread-parasitic fungi died, the remaining living thread-parasitic fungi seemed to sense it, and they suddenly released a large amount of thin light green smoke.
The smoke quickly covered a large number of parasitic ants in the back row that had not yet entered the battle under the influence of the breeze.
These parasitic ants immediately fell into an even crazier state than before. They no longer cared about their comrades in front, and frantically bypassed them from left to right. If they couldn't get around them, they crawled over or drilled through their comrades.
The frantic parasitic ants, stimulated by the hormone gas released by the thread-parasitic bacteria, were led by the legion of the God Envoy King who had already seen the traces at the front. They blindly and fanatically pounced on them, and the battle situation changed.
The sudden impact immediately disrupted the formation of the reserve team, which was fighting and retreating.
The protagonist could see clearly in the sky that the entire three teams, together with the king who commanded them, were instantly surrounded.
Sensing the breath of the surrounded Angel King's Legion and the smell of blood from the injured and dead, the crazy parasitic ants even gave up chasing other teams and launched a frantic attack on the surrounded soldiers of the Angel King's Legion. .
Their compound eyes had turned blood red, and their attack was so crazy and bloodthirsty that they crawled over the bodies of their comrades layer by layer, as if forming waves of ants. Unknowingly, the tactics they used were consistent with those of the God Envoy King's army, and turned into a three-dimensional offensive.
There were even some crazy parasitic ants that somehow climbed up nearby plants in the crowd, and then jumped following the breath, and jumped into the center of the stubbornly resisting Angel King Army team, causing great damage to the defenders. .
Lambotu saw that the three squads trapped in the encirclement were being held back, and immediately commanded the seven reserve squads around him to launch a counterattack.
The few parasitic ants that rushed here were quickly killed in front of the tightly formed reserve team.
But as they rushed closer and closer, more parasitic ants discovered this force. They turned around and once again used their crazy fighting spirit and absolute numerical advantage to drag the counterattack reserve team back an inch.
The protagonist sees the reserves locked in a bitter battle in the sky, and one legion soldier after another died heroically because of his pride.
He wanted to immediately pull back the troops who had established positions on the top of the mountain. Maybe this could save the surrounded troops at the rear.
But reason told him not to do this. The second wave of parasitic ant troops had already climbed halfway up the mountain. If the God Envoy King's army cannot leave the battlefield as soon as possible, once the entire army is surrounded, perhaps no other ants will be spared except the protagonist in the air.
The protagonist swoops down, but he has no weapons that can cause damage to enemies on the ground.
He could only lower his flying height as much as possible, so that these red-eyed enemies who were in the pleasure of killing could see him, smell him, and then run after him.
In this way, at least to a certain extent, some enemy troops can be attracted away and the pressure on the reserve team can be reduced.
There are too many enemies. Even if dozens of parasitic ants are taken away from the battlefield by the protagonist each time, after losing the target, they can only turn back and slowly return to their position. But there are still hundreds of parasitic ant warriors left, covering the ground so densely that just looking at them makes the protagonist despair.
The counterattack force under the personal command of Rambotu consisted of about 300 warriors. The three surrounded teams were divided into two, and now each had only 30 and 70 warriors. And they faced more than two thousand enemies.
The protagonist desperately flies over the battlefield again and again, flying lower and lower, and many parasitic ants have even begun to try to jump into the air to attack the protagonist and Xiao Qing flying overhead.
Relying on Xiaoqing's innate excellent eyesight and flying ability, the protagonist only needs to control the general direction and is not afraid of being jumped by enemies suddenly provoked on the ground.
However, he was still powerless and could only watch helplessly as a surrounded team was completely overwhelmed by the parasitic ant nest.
This is really submerged. Although this team still maintains a small and tight circular formation, countless parasitic ants still climb higher and higher like a tide, and then cover this team from the top of their heads.
From time to time, there were movements from the area covered by the parasitic ants, indicating that the final resistance was not over yet, but the strength of the resistance was getting weaker and weaker. In the end, the parasitic ants crawled away, leaving the bodies of both parties on the ground.
Among them is a king, a male ant born in the same batch as the protagonist. He escaped the murder in the marriage flight team, followed the protagonist at the beginning, and won the battle to recapture the barbarian army of paving ants. But now, his body lies here, with his torso and limbs torn apart.
The other two teams that gathered together to defend were also in danger.
The protagonist finally gave up. He rode Xiaoqing back to the side of Lambotu who was commanding the counterattack and landed, and forcibly ordered Lambotu to retreat with the remaining reserves.
The emotions conveyed back by Rambotu were filled with anger and sadness. But he still faithfully carried out the order, commanded the remaining seven teams skillfully, and retreated to the mountaintop position under alternate cover.
Most of the parasitic ants were attracted by the stubborn rear team, which allowed Rambotu to withdraw smoothly.
The protagonist flew into the sky again. He was powerless and could only watch the two teams disappear little by little into the dense tide of parasitic ants.
The three teams at the rear were all wiped out.
