The protagonist carefully thought about the existing supplies and conditions in the fortress, roughly formulated a targeted defense plan, and then called the legion commanders and ordered such and such.
There was less than an hour left for them to prepare. And an hour later, there will be a fierce battle.
——I am the dividing line——
The sun is scorching the earth. During the summer rainy season, when it doesn't rain, the ground seems to be on top of a steamer. Only at noon, when the sun is strongest, will the long-lasting water mist in the hills and valleys be driven away by the sun. At this time, the steamer is replaced by an oven, continuing to torture the earth.
But not all creatures hate the weather.
Plants love the scorching sun and abundant rainfall in summer. Everywhere on the soil, green branches and leaves are chasing the sun, crawling over the open space bit by bit, occupying every corner illuminated by the sun. Invisible underground, the dark roots are also expanding crazily, hungry for every drop of water they can reach.
Insects also love this weather.
As cold-blooded animals, the body temperature of insects generally depends on the environment in which they live, and higher ambient temperatures can give them more vitality. The suitable temperature zone for insects is generally between 8 and 40°C, and the most suitable temperature zone for insect growth, development and reproduction is generally between 22 and 30°C. Although the temperature in summer has been slightly higher, you can still see large groups of active insects in the shade at any time.
The Stump Fortress was shrouded in a layer of greenery. The weeds grow at an alarming rate. In order to maintain the defense of the fortress, the protagonist has ordered the Angel King's Legion to remove all weeds within one meter of the fortress.
Therefore, outside the fortress, there is a large area of lush wild grass and shrubs. Only the land occupied by scattered stones is exposed, forming an open space. Even the wasteland that was covered with coarse gravel a few days ago has grown a large number of tenacious vegetation. .
But near the fortress, the cleaned surface was as yellow as a desert, and in the middle of a circle of yellow mud was a towering tree stump fortress surrounded by trenches.
On the top of the tree stump fortress, inside the two rings of city walls, the originally rugged wooden pile faults have been built with "ant concrete" into a slightly sloping platform, with the lowest part of the platform connected to the drainage outlet. There are more than a dozen entrances and exits around the platform, connecting the huge facilities inside the fortress.
From time to time, a flying knight riding a fly would land on the platform and report military information to a male ant with a distinctive temperament waiting on the platform.
This male ant is naturally the protagonist. His unique life experience has given him a different temperament and demeanor from other ants. Even if he is hidden among a large group of ants, he still stands out like a flock of chickens.
As the flying knights report back more and more frequently, the protagonist knows that the enemy is getting closer and closer to the fortress.
This is a unique enemy force, with three huge parasitic dung beetles. It is an opponent that the Angel King's army has never encountered on the battlefield. However, the fortress defenders have made targeted preparations according to the protagonist's arrangements. Now let the war decide who is the winner!
The protagonist climbed onto the south wall, stood on the inner wall of the higher second floor, and looked south.
Over there, one meter away is a decimeter-high weed that has just grown. This patch of weed is already a forest that blocks out the sky and the sun to the ants.
At this moment, some grass blades were shaking irregularly in the forest from time to time. This is not the waves of grass caused by the breeze, but the shaking caused by some animal crawling across the grass ground and hitting the grass stems. From the traces of swaying grass blades, the protagonist can roughly grasp the movements of the enemy, especially the movements of the three huge parasitic dung beetles.
Soon, the first batch of parasitic ants crawled out of the dark grass and appeared in the open space outside the fortress. They did not stop, but continued to move forward in a disorderly manner - the rugged grass forest had disrupted the marching formation of the parasitic ant army.
More and more parasitic ants emerged from the grass. Their number seemed endless, gradually covering the surface of the open space with a dark carpet.
Although the Great Pale Gold Worker Ant can only accurately see things within half a meter, its blurred vision is farther away. Although there was a distance of one meter at this moment, the large pale gold worker ants could already clearly see the outline of the tree stump fortress. Having had the experience of fighting here last time, the large pale gold worker ants knew that there were enemies of parasitic ants there.
Therefore, under the command of the legion commander, the parasitic ants began to stop advancing and instead expanded their encirclement horizontally, like a black chain, extending little by little and finally closing, completely surrounding the entire stump fortress.
The parasitic dung beetle emerged from the grass almost last.
These huge war beasts, just lying on the ground, are one-tenth the height of the stump fortress. Once their six long jointed limbs start to crawl quickly, they can climb up the seemingly very high tower in just a few steps. Top of the fortress.
There are a large number of parasitic ants next to these parasitic dung beetles, maybe they are guarding Gong, maybe they are supervising the battle. The protagonist can see several large parasitic worker ants that are not acting as team commanders, but stay behind the parasitic dung beetle. From time to time, they use their large jaws to stab the soft abdomen of the parasitic dung beetle, and then these war beasts will change their movements. direction.
It seems that this is the way the parasitic ants command the war beasts. Although it is primitive, it is effective. As for why they were able to tame war beasts, perhaps only God knows, but it must have something to do with the thread-parasitic bacteria.
These three parasitic dung beetles looked clumsy, but were actually extremely flexible. They turned around and then entered the predetermined starting position. The distance between each parasitic dung beetle is 180 degrees, and the fortress is surrounded from three directions.
The parasitic ants are still adjusting their formation. It is difficult to communicate and command when marching in the grass. Many teams are scattered. They need to readjust their teams before they can launch an attack.
In the fortress, the Divine Envoy King's army was also ready to defend.
The second and third legions were responsible for the defense on the city wall, while the first legion was on standby inside the fortress as a reserve. Eighteen long-range teams are evenly distributed on the second-layer city wall.
The trenches around the fortress were filled with freshly placed hay and dead branches, and some fuel was mixed with fresh or pickled insect fat.
Around the long-range team, less than half of the clay bombs were coated with a mixture of insect fat and charcoal particles, and their ant silk slings were all coated with a layer of wet mud. On the second floor of the city wall, there are small charcoal piles at regular intervals. The charcoal piles are protected in makeshift stoves made of windproof leaves. There is a smoldering fire on the red charcoal blocks.
Both sides were in position, and a clash of spears and shields was about to determine the winner.
