The dedicated worker ants worked hard to maintain order and keep the ants as calm as possible due to sudden and unknown attacks.
At the same time, their team is still changing their formation. Only after changing to a horizontal formation can they form the widest assault surface when launching a charge, posing the greatest threat to the defenders.
There were too few pottery bombs in the first wave, so these parasitic ants still managed to maintain their ranks.
But soon, in the second and third waves, countless clay bombs rained down. The slinger squads, divided into two groups, continued to pour long-range firepower on the enemy at intervals of six seconds.
In addition, Lambori and Ramboser, who were in charge of the command, constantly adjusted the team's shooting direction based on the observed impact points, and the hit rate of the pottery bombs was getting higher and higher.
For parasitic ants, the time when they don't know where the attack comes from and can only be beaten is short and long.
A large number of pottery bombs fall from the sky all the time. Unlucky parasitic ants will be killed and injured by the pottery bombs that directly hit their bodies. The lucky ones will also be knocked unconscious and maimed.
For the already lethal thread-parasitic bacteria on the backs of the parasitic ants, this was an even more miserable day. There were pottery bombs everywhere in the air, and the number of flying pottery bomb fragments was countless.
For parasitic ants with hard carapace, apart from being rather painful when these fragments hit their bodies, there is no harm as long as they do not hit their compound eyes or antennae.
The thread-parasitic fungus is different. These soft hyphae stand tall on the back of the parasitic ant, and can easily be cut into two pieces by sharp fragments. Even if he was lucky enough not to be cut off, he was still seriously injured and unable to struggle.
Wave after wave of clay bullets rained violently on the parasitic ant army. The enemy army, always known for its discipline and fanaticism, could no longer adjust their formation in an orderly manner.
As more and more ants are killed and injured, even the big worker ants are unable to effectively command the team that is on the verge of collapse.
The thread-parasitic fungi feel threatened, and they desperately secrete a large amount of hormones to stimulate the parasitic ants under them to charge as quickly as possible without being beaten in place. The parasitic ants also secrete a large amount of adrenaline due to the crisis.
Under the joint stimulation of the two hormones, this parasitic ant army rushed forward in a chaotic manner without waiting for the formation change to be completed.
This time, even the big worker ants no longer stopped the army's movements. With their higher IQs, they felt a great threat - if they didn't launch an attack, they wouldn't have to attack again.
The physiological habits of ants endow them with strong combativeness, as well as high morale and organization, which makes them not easy to collapse even when they are extremely disadvantaged. Even if they collapse, they choose to charge forward blindly instead of running away in embarrassment backwards.
At least human armies, especially pre-modern armies, cannot reach this level.
Under normal circumstances, an ordinary army in the cold weapon era would basically collapse before the casualty rate exceeded 10%, and once it exceeded 30%, it would completely lose its organization. Of course, this ratio also includes logistics troops. The loss rate of front-line combat troops will be slightly greater than this figure.
The ants basically do not need logistics troops when fighting. All troops are front-line troops. They can ensure that they do not starve for several days by eating a good meal before setting off. Even if the war lasts longer, the ants can take turns going out to forage, with basically no logistical burden.
His eyes returned to the attacking parasitic ants.
Using their sense of smell and blurred vision, these parasitic ants know their enemy is right ahead. They ran hard and left their previous starting position.
The goddess of luck seemed to favor them at this time. After they left the starting position, no more clay bombs hit their heads.
What they didn't know was that the ants, which had only been trained briefly, had been trained with a throwing distance of two decimeters.
This distance is determined by the protagonist based on the enemy starting position provided by the fortress defenders, the distance from the fortress, and the physical strength of the ants.
When the parasitic ants left the starting position, the distance to the fortress quickly shortened.
Although the ants can reduce the force to shorten the throwing distance, they can continue to attack the enemy on the charging route.
However, the slingers who rushed into battle had not received this kind of training, especially the two kings Lambori and Ramboser who were in charge. They could only adjust the firing direction of the troops and did not know how to accurately control the distance of their subordinates' projections. , especially when the enemy is still moving quickly and constantly shortening the distance.
Therefore, after being bombarded by six rounds of pottery bombs, the parasitic ants left behind more than thirty corpses and fifty or sixty wounded soldiers, but the large army still launched the charge unscathed.
These parasitic ant warriors quickly climbed across the open space outside the trench along the same route as their predecessors for many days, and then plunged into the trench.
The bottom of the trench was filled with the feces of the fortress defenders. The feces had a strong smell of "Dongyangcheng" ants. The reason why these excrements are piled up is also a tactic of the fortress defenders.
Sure enough, after smelling the strong scent of the enemy, the parasitic ants became even more crazy. They began to work hard to climb the 45-degree earth slope and kill the God's Envoy King's army that was waiting at the top of the earth embankment.
However, the thread parasitic bacteria do not cooperate as closely as before with the parasitic ants.
Due to the presence of a large number of strong scents of potential hosts nearby, these thread-parasitic fungi with simple nervous structures immediately broke away from the original host's body under the control of instinct.
Countless thread-parasitic fungi snake, crawl, and roll around the trench like snakes. They can't find their target host, and all they have around them is piles of ant droppings that smell attractive but are meaningless to them.
Most of the thread-parasitic bacteria exhausted their vitality in the meaningless swimming at the bottom of the trench. When they wanted to return to their original hosts, there was no one at the bottom of the trench except some dead and wounded who fell in the fierce battle. There is no suitable host left.
Some lucky thread-parasitic fungi penetrated into the bodies of dead and injured parasitic ants. Due to fierce competition, many ants even had more than ten thread-parasitic fungi penetrated into their bodies.
The dead ants will become nutrients for the thread-parasitic bacteria, allowing them to recover and reproduce, but too many thread-parasitic bacteria will compete with each other, which will only make most of them malnourished.
Excessive thread-parasitic bacteria parasitizing the wounded body will drain the dying host dry in a short period of time.
However, these thread-parasitic bacteria are destined not to live long. After the parasitic ant army is wiped out, the Angel King's army cleaning the battlefield will burn them all together with the corpses of the parasitic ants.
But compared to most of their companions who failed to find their original host and waited silently to die, these thread-parasitic fungi were lucky and could at least survive for a short period of time.
