Three days later, in the morning, the protagonist rode Xiaoqing alone to the southern fortress. He came here to test the training results of the slinger team led by Lambori and Ramboser.
After the team gathered, they came to an open space outside the fortress and demonstrated to the protagonist the results of their three days of training in batches.
The protagonist was surprised that they had changed to a training venue. Before he left last time, he clearly trained in the open space surrounded by the earth embankment of the fortress.
After the inspection, the protagonist was quite satisfied - these soldier ants were able to throw the pottery bombs to the target area two decimeters away. Although the throwing was extremely irregular, the scattering area of the pottery bombs that landed was also terrifying...
However, on the battlefield, when facing tens of thousands of enemies, such a slight deviation does not have much impact.
However, the protagonist discovered that only more than 80 soldier ants came to the scene, which was more than ten fewer than when it was fully edited.
After questioning, Lambori and Ramboser reported to the protagonist this way:
Although the protagonist had previously formulated a method for ten soldier ants to stand in a row at a time to practice throwing, so as to prevent too many soldier ants from throwing clay bombs at the same time and inadvertently injuring their companions.
However, the protagonist still overestimated the intelligence of these soldier ants. After he left, various bizarre casualties occurred during the actual training.
Some soldier ants stood too close to each other when throwing. As soon as they waved the sling, they knocked their companions unconscious... Fortunately, the sling did not pick up speed at this time, and they just knocked down their companions. Passed out!
Not to mention, at the beginning, many soldier ants were completely unable to grasp the direction of throwing (after all, ants do not understand what tangent is), and the thrown clay bombs flew in all directions, some forward, some to both sides, and some directly into the waiting team of soldier ants behind them. These flying clay bombs caused some casualties to the soldier ants on standby and other nearby ants.
After Lambori and Ramboser found out, since the protagonist was not around and could not ask for instructions, they adjusted the plan on their own, and finally stopped this self-destructive training method in time.
They moved the training ground to the open space outside the fortress, greatly increased the distance between the ants, reduced the number of soldier ants thrown each time from ten to five, and let the ants who were not trained hide in the trenches. , which reduced the casualty rate in subsequent training.
Even so, various accidents still occur one after another. After a few days, only these eighty or so soldier ants are still standing here intact...
Except for the three dead, the other wounded were basically sent back to the main nest for treatment on the same day with the troops sent later. Most of the disabled soldier ants can no longer serve! The protagonist did not pay attention to these injured people in "Dongyang City", so he did not know in advance that there were so many own goals that occurred during training.
Fortunately, after many training sessions, under the guidance of the commander, these soldier ants gradually mastered the technique of throwing pottery bombs forward.
After listening to the report, the protagonist was speechless for a while, with countless grass and mud horses racing past in his mind. After these few days of training, the casualty rate was comparable to that of a fierce battle.
He knew that accidental injuries were inevitable in military training. Even in the Celestial Empire, which was founded by force in its previous life, many recruits were injured or even died during training every year.
Especially the grenade throwing process requires one-on-one guidance from veterans, and bulletproof pits have been dug around them. Even so, it is not foolproof.
Thinking of this, he was relieved. At least Lambori and Ramboser had improved their training methods, which could be considered as something fruitful.
After checking the training results, the protagonist is generally satisfied. After three days of high-intensity training, these slingers are ready to go to the battlefield to test their skills.
The protagonist promised Lambori and Ramboser that he would allocate enough soldier ants from "Dongyang City" to them to fill the gap in the team.
Later, the protagonist summons Gun and tells him that two squads of slingers will go into battle in the afternoon to participate in today's defensive battle, while the protagonist will stay and watch the battle.
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On the gravel ground in the south, the sounds of creatures crawling slowly came.
Gun stood on the earth embankment of the fortress and looked to the south. There was only a blur in the far direction. His vision could only accurately see the scene within three meters at most, and he could vaguely see a range of one meter. But now, nothing can be seen in the distance.
Even so, as a male ant, his eyesight is much stronger than that of worker ants and soldier ants. Worker ants and soldier ants can only see moving objects within one decimeter, and sometimes even need the help of antennae to make accurate judgments.
Even if he couldn't see the scene in the distance clearly, based on his experience over the past few days, Gun knew that another group of about seven to eight hundred parasitic ants were coming to die.
The protagonist was riding Xiao Qing and hovering in the air. He could see clearly - a large number of parasitic ants emerged from the grass about four meters south of the fortress, and passed through an open gravel field in columns, approaching the fortress.
Approximately three meters away from the fortress and two decimeters away from the edge of the trench, these parasitic ants stopped.
Both armies discovered each other through sight and aura coming from afar.
The parasitic ants began to enter a manic state under the stimulation of hormones from the thread-parasitic bacteria, but under the command of the big worker ants, they spread out the team into a horizontal line in a relatively orderly manner.
Just when the enemy changed their formation, the fortress defenders who had been waiting for a long time also launched a defensive formation on the top of the half-decimeter-wide earth embankment.
What is different from the past is that this time there are some ants holding strange weapons on the inside of the top of the earth embankment - these are the soldiers of the slinger team.
Before the parasitic ants had fully formed their formation, a dense and rapid sound of breaking through the air suddenly sounded.
The big worker ants raised their heads, and their compound eyes could barely catch some black shadows quickly crossing the sky. Soon, something crashed into the nearby team.
The protagonist saw in the sky that a wave of clay bombs passed by like a meteor and hit the position where the parasitic ant team was.
The parasitic ant that was directly hit immediately fell to the ground with broken bones and tendons. Even if there is no direct hit, the clay bomb that hits the open space in the middle of the team will shatter and spatter countless fragments, which can also severely damage the nearby thread parasites.
The two squads of slingers have now divided the soldier ants into two groups, taking turns to throw pottery bombs.
Since a team of seven to eight hundred ants spread out over a small area on the ground, and the soldier ants were directed by male ants to shoot blindly in a general direction, the hit rate for the first shot was very low.
Of the more than forty pottery bombs thrown for the first time, less than ten hit the enemy's dense formation.
Even so, three parasitic ants died, several others were injured, and dozens of threads of parasitic bacteria were injured.
More importantly, the parasitic ants were startled by the sudden blow. Even with the violent BUFF of the thread parasite and the efforts of the large worker ants to suppress it, there was still a small chaos in the parasitic ant army.
Ants have always been full of fear of inexplicable threats. Just like a naughty boy teasing an ant with a grass stalk, the ant's sensory organs are limited and it cannot find the attacker. It will only run away in panic to increase its chance of survival.
