The battle on the second day was more fierce, and the defenders suffered greater losses.
Although it was not the army from the previous day, the attackers had obviously learned from the battle experience from the previous day. This time, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army did not launch sporadic charges on their own as soon as they entered the flat nest battlefield. They made full use of the open space near the entrance to gather troops. , and then several teams launched an attack together.
This is obviously stronger than the bravery of a single warrior, but in the face of the defense line of the Divine Envoy King's Army, it did not achieve much effect at first. It only reduced the killing efficiency of the Divine Envoy King's Army.
The real test came in the afternoon, when too many corpses piled up, and the God's Envoy King Corps had to face the same predicament as the previous day.
Fortunately, this issue was discussed at yesterday's meeting, and the confidence package of the corresponding plan was also conveyed to all soldiers.
According to the plan, Gun began to order the defense line to retreat and create an open space again, so that the enemy would not be able to use the height of the pile of corpses to suppress the defense line of the First Legion of the Angel King.
However, there were still problems when the plan was implemented. During the retreat of the front-line troops of the Angel King, the enemy still launched an endless stream of offensives. Some of the entangled soldiers of the Angel King failed to communicate with their comrades on both sides. Sync backwards.
Due to the dim light on the battlefield, Gun and some front-line commanding Wang failed to discover this problem in time, which eventually resulted in dozens of soldiers breaking away from the large army and being surrounded.
Under the crazy siege of the pavement ant barbarian army, these warriors of the God's Envoy King who gathered in twos and threes could not withstand the tide of enemy troops and were quickly engulfed.
However, the newly established defense line withstood the test and blocked the enemy's offensive for the last half day.
After persisting until dusk, the pavement ant barbarian army had to retreat again - even if they could use sunlight to recharge and move in the wild during the day, they still had to return to their relatively warm starting base to spend the long cold night.
After counting, there were more than 50 dead in the King of God's Army today, while the enemy's casualties still remained at more than 1,000. This is a dangerous sign. The number of the Divine Envoy King's legions is limited. Even if the exchange ratio is one to twenty or thirty, the enemy's strength still has a sufficient advantage.
And according to general experience, when the number of defenders drops to a certain level, the exchange ratio between the two sides will quickly increase. This is obviously more beneficial to the attacking ant barbarian army.
However, the protagonist is not very worried about this. According to the plan, if there are a large number of casualties, the Angel King Legion will no longer set up a defense line in the flat nest, but will establish shorter defensive positions at each entrance and exit. This can reduce the contact front between the two sides. Although it cannot kill the enemy efficiently, it can also slow down the enemy's offensive.
That night, "Linshui City" continued to clean up the corpses on the battlefield. The protagonist had a brief exchange with several commanders, and everyone's morale was still very high. After all, the enemy's losses were much greater than ours, and "Linshui City" seemed indestructible. Everyone was confident that they would hold on until next year. Spring begins.
——I am the dividing line——
On the third day, the enemy failed to attack.
The night before, the protagonist inside "Linshui City" felt increasingly violent vibrations coming from the entire sub-nest while sleeping.
This vibration is different from the chaotic vibrations coming from the soles of the feet when fighting on the battlefield, but the entire sub-nest is swaying in a regular and synchronous manner. The protagonist doesn't understand what's going on at first, but the feeling of being thrown around in a canoe by the waves is very frightening.
Fortunately, the commander of Linshui City's garrison came over and told the protagonist that this was caused by the swing of the branches of the big banyan tree being shaken by the strong wind. This makes the protagonist feel slightly at ease.
It's not just the protagonist who is worried. Many warriors of the God's Envoy King who have never experienced this kind of continuous earthquake-like shaking have become anxious and have a sense of crisis. As the reports are gathered to the protagonist, he has to take people to comfort him everywhere. These frightened ants.
The night was spent in various tossings.
Waiting until daybreak, the protagonist drags his tired body and crawls to the established observation point.
He walked out little by little along the passages in the city. As the only entrance and exit of "Linshui City" got closer and closer, the protagonist felt that the temperature around him was getting lower and lower - it was even colder than yesterday.
The protagonist's feeling was correct. He wrapped the fibers around his body tightly, and the moment he got out of the hole, he saw a completely different winter world.
The sky was very dark, with rolling dark clouds flowing rapidly southward driven by the swift and howling north wind. There is no bright yellow warm sunlight between the sky and the earth. The sun is completely covered by dark clouds, and only cold-toned dim light is reflected from behind the clouds.
The air temperature is at least ten degrees Celsius lower than the previous day. Even during the period after sunrise, the temperature should be below freezing.
The cold wave is coming.
The protagonist felt his whole body shivering with cold, and a thick layer of plant fibers could not stop the rapid loss of heat. Especially the six exposed limbs, as soon as they came into contact with the cold banyan tree bark, they quickly became heavy as if they no longer belonged to him. Body.
The protagonist could only brave the cold wind and barely climb to the north of the banyan tree. He could no longer defeat the power of nature to reach yesterday's observation point.
After a quick glance, the protagonist did not see any trace of ant activity on the north bank of the river. It seemed that even the pavement ant barbarians did not dare to go out in the cold day without sunlight.
The trunk on the north side of the tree where the protagonist is now happens to be where the coldest wind is. The flowing cold air encounters obstacles on the surface of the trunk and splits into two paths to go around. Being in the wind, the protagonist feels as if the blood and various messy tissue fluids in his body are freezing bit by bit.
He didn't dare to lift himself up, so he dragged his cold and stiff body back to "Linshui City" little by little.
Although the protagonist is different from other ants in that he is not a cold-blooded animal, he can still maintain a constant body temperature. But as soon as he climbed into the city, he was like the worker ants who were responsible for carrying the corpses at night. He couldn't wait to rush to the combustion chamber, using the residual heat of the jumping flames to warm his almost frozen body.
The worker ants brought some food, and the protagonist wolfed down the breakfast of roasted grass seeds and dried meat while keeping warm. Only then was he able to recover half of his life that was taken away by the north wind.
Afterwards, the protagonist called Guan over and assigned him a defense mission - although the protagonist believed that the enemy would not launch an attack today, he still had to be on alert.
After the arrangements were made, sleepiness set in. The protagonist didn't get a good rest last night, so he simply took advantage of the lack of fighting to catch up on some sleep today.
