Due to the obstruction of trenches and earth slopes, as well as the interference of fresh ant droppings specially placed in the trenches, the thread-parasitic bacteria did not pose a threat to the defenders of the fortress at all.
These thread-parasitic fungi either exhaust their energy in aimless chaos, or they find a corpse of a parasitic ant or a wounded person to take root again in despair.
Only a small number of thread-parasitic fungi smelled the scent of real potential hosts coming from the top of the slope, and tried hard to climb up.
However, the smooth sloping soil slope is an insurmountable obstacle for these thread-parasitic fungi with weak climbing ability. Thread-parasitic fungi that want to do so will either fall or be trampled to death in the chaos by the parasitic ants that attack upward.
Therefore, the attacker is actually left with the parasitic ants fighting alone.
They worked hard to climb from the sloping soil slope to the top of the embankment. The forty-five-degree inclination angle was a natural obstacle for the thread-parasitic fungi, but it was not much of an obstacle for the excellent climbing ability of the parasitic ants.
But naturally, due to the restrictions of the terrain, the parasitic ants that initially gathered together to charge were gradually separated from each other.
The fortress defenders have long been accustomed to the daily routine attacks of parasitic ants. This kind of offensive is even launched at the same time every day. The God-Envoy King, who had been prepared for a long time, stood ready at the top of the earth embankment, ready to crush the enemy again.
In order to adapt to the fighting style of the ants, the top of the earth embankment did not build an undulating female wall like humans build city walls to cover the defenders behind the female wall. The top of the earth embankment is an unsheltered flat surface, with a flat walkway about half a decimeter wide.
When the enemy climbs to the top of the slope, the warriors of the Angel King Legion can continue to use their unique razor tactics just like they did on the ground.
The defensive line of the God's Envoy Army was slightly inside the embankment plane, leaving a gap just enough for the enemy to climb up half a body on the outside.
When the first wave of parasitic ants climbed to the top of the earth embankment, subsequent ants were blocked on the ramp and could only wait patiently for a space ahead to fill in.
The first row of soldier ants from the Divine Envoy King's Legion used their giant pincers to contain the parasitic soldier ants and parasitic worker ants on the opposite side.
Then, the soldier ants in the second row quickly climbed up the backs of the teammates in front, biting off the fragile necks of the enemies on the opposite side with a condescending bite.
The parasitic ants rushed forward in waves, and turned into corpses rolling down the sloping slope.
The parasitic ants that were crowded on the slope did not understand the tragic situation on the front line, and still tried their best to attack upward.
At the same time, these parasitic ants instinctively moved to both sides, expanding the front line.
However, the number of the fortress defenders was even greater than that of the attackers. Even excluding the two squads of slingers, the remaining eighteen squads were enough to defend a circle of earth embankment less than 16 decimeters long.
The parasitic ants could not find any gaps that were not well defended. The consequence of the continuous extension of the front line was that their army was losing faster and faster.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Planning and Attack Chapter" has a wonderful discussion on the comparison of the enemy's and our own forces and the corresponding strategies: "Therefore, the method of using troops is to surround the enemy ten times, to attack the enemy five times, to divide the enemy when doubled, and to defeat the enemy with fewer soldiers. If you can escape, you can avoid it. Therefore, the small enemy is strong and the big enemy can be captured."
It means: The principle of using troops is to surround the enemy with ten times the force, attack the enemy with five times the force, divide and destroy the enemy with twice the force, resist if the force is equal to the enemy, and avoid it if the force is less than the enemy. If it comes into direct contact with them, the weak troops will have to withdraw to a distant place. Therefore, if a weak army fights stubbornly, it will become a prisoner of a powerful enemy.
The parasitic ants themselves did not have enough troops, but they still stubbornly attacked the legions of the God Envoy King who had geographical advantages. Their defeat was inevitable.
There was no suspense in this battle. After the slingers failed to function, the protagonist landed back in the fortress.
After the battle was over, after Gun led the Angel King's army and the worker ants in the fortress to clean up the battlefield, the protagonist recruited Lambori and Ramboser over.
Generally speaking, the protagonist was satisfied with the performance of the slingers who went into battle for the first time. He commended the two commanders and said that he would reward the commander of the slinger team and all the soldiers with a drop of honeydew each.
Since training and training flying knights consumes a lot of honeydew, the honeydew in "Dongyang City" has now become a controlled substance. The worker ants that graze aphids have a special organization. After all the harvested honeydew is swallowed by the professional worker ants, it is then Spit it into the nest and store it in a special ceramic jar.
Each worker ant and soldier ant can only get one drop of honeydew per week, while the male and female ants are allocated one drop per day. In addition, only with the permission of the protagonist, these controlled honeydews will be additionally allocated to the corresponding objects as rewards.
Therefore, Lambori, Ramboser and their warriors are all excited about this reward from the protagonist.
Afterwards, the protagonist proposed that the slinger team should continue to study and improve tactics, at least to be able to accurately attack moving enemies.
Lambori and Ramboser had already used their subjective initiative in training before. Based on reality, they improved some of the shortcomings of the protagonist's purely theoretical training method and achieved good results. The protagonist forced them to continue working hard.
The protagonist is still very optimistic about this slinger unit, and if possible, will continue to expand this long-range unit in the future.
The reason why we attach so much importance to the slingers is that when different types of troops are combined, they can achieve the effect of 1+1>2.
"Sima Fa: The Righteousness of the Emperor" says: "If the army is not mixed, it will be disadvantageous. If the army is long, it will be defended, and if it is short, it will be defended. If it is too long, it will be difficult to attack, if it is too short, it will be ineffective. If it is too light, it will be sharp, and if it is sharp, it will be easy to cause chaos. If it is too long, it will be difficult to attack. Heavy means blunt, blunt means useless." This means that we must pay attention to the combination of different weapons.
The troops of ancient Greece and Rome were mainly heavy infantry. Their sophisticated equipment and tight formations could greatly weaken the effect of long-range weapons. But even so, the ancient Greek and Roman armies would also employ a large number of Cretan archers, Rhode Island slingers, and javelin-wielding warriors as auxiliary troops, used to weaken and contain the enemy, and as a skirmisher line to execute flexibly. tactics.
The protagonist's positioning of slingers is similar to auxiliary troops. They can weaken the enemy's strength when they are far away, and constantly attack the enemy's subsequent troops.
In this way, within the same operational frontal width, the enemies of the Angel King's Army will face triple strikes: diversionary attacks by the first line, condescending sneak attacks by the second line, and long-range strikes by slingers.
In contrast, the Army of the God Envoy King without slingers could only achieve the first two strikes. Traditional ant army operations only deal the first heavy blow, using a large amount of troops and time to fight against each other.
