What made the protagonist's eyes tense was the action being carried out by the paving ant barbarian army in the tunnel blocked by stones.
Seeing that the enemy could not pry the stones that the protagonist had stuffed in with his own hands, the enemy began to try to expand the openings of these passages so that they could enter through these passages that emitted the enemy's smell.
In theory, this kind of construction is very difficult, because even if the banyan wood is not very tough, compared to other woods, it is still a very difficult building material for the ants' jaws to cut, just like before The same dilemma faced by the defenders when they wanted to expand their lair.
And in winter, the water-rich bark and xylem on the surface of the banyan tree are frozen hard, making it even more difficult to cut them.
However, due to the large number of such tunnels, the protagonist did not carefully check each one when he stuffed the stones inside. Therefore, the pavement ant barbarian army found two suitable construction sites.
There was some decay at the entrances of these two cavities, but the protagonist had not noticed it before. After the pavement ants found out, they immediately started working on the rotten entrances of these holes, trying to expand the entrances of the holes.
These originally rotten xylems become brittle and brittle when frozen by low temperatures in winter, and the ants' jaws will be able to crush them.
The protagonist saw that the pavement ants took turns to move away and throw away the pieces of wood. The two holes in the tunnel were expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even the stone blocks that had been tightly packed in the door were expanding. There are also signs of looseness.
Judging from the appearance of these cave entrances, it doesn't look like they were dug just today. The enemy may have discovered the vulnerability here last time and started digging. However, the protagonist and the defenders were all huddled in the base of the nest before and did not notice this problem. If the protagonist had not taken advantage of the lack of enemy soldiers to go out to conduct careful reconnaissance today, he might have been caught off guard.
The protagonist knows that today's battle will be no different than in the past few days. The enemy will definitely be able to open new entrances and exits, and the defensive pressure on the Divine Envoy King's army will also increase a lot.
Fortunately, for this possible situation, the protagonist and the two-level commanders of the army also have plans. Permanent sentries are arranged behind each blocked tunnel. Once the tunnel is discovered to be breached, they will Immediately summon the defenders to block it.
However, there is no specially built battlefield behind these tunnels like the flat nest chamber, so it is impossible to take into account defensive properties while also killing a large number of enemies. The defenders can only block the door to prevent the enemy from advancing as much as possible. As for the lethality, they cannot force it.
Around noon, the entrance to a cavity finally expanded to a certain extent, and the stones blocking the door were already crumbling.
The straw that broke the camel's back came when a pavement ant worker, perhaps trying to dig a spot while standing on a rock. As a result, as soon as he climbed up the stone, the door blocking stone rolled and fell to the bottom of the tree, and even the pavement ants who stepped on it fell down with it.
Due to their light weight, ants can fall unscathed from a relative height equivalent to a nearly 100-story skyscraper for humans.
However, the troops he belonged to would not wait for this unlucky guy to return. They could not wait to organize their troops and rush into "Linshui City" along the dug tunnel.
Although he knew that there must be sentries and defenders inside, the protagonist was still a little anxious when he saw this scene. He was not only afraid that the defenders were not vigilant enough and would be caught off guard, but also worried that they could not complete the door-blocking strategy and cause heavy casualties to the defenders. . The protagonist can't wait to show up quickly and kill him.
However, reason finally defeated this reckless impulse, and the protagonist still quietly observed the enemy's movements.
After about a quarter of the pavement ant army got into the hole, no more troops were added. This makes the protagonist breathe a sigh of relief. If the enemy really succeeds in the raid, they will definitely invest all their troops in it and even call in friendly forces for assistance. The enemy's current situation should be blocked by the defenders somewhere, preventing the troops from entering the limited indoor space.
On average, the army guarding the opened hole here will invest a new soldier every minute. This speed is roughly the speed at which the front line dies. Judging from this speed, the Angel King's army should have successfully completed the blockade at the passage. mouth, otherwise the attacker's mortality rate would not be so low. Correspondingly, the protagonist can also infer that the casualty rate of the defenders will be lower, which is also good news.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the second stone block in the tunnel was also dug up with the perseverance of the paving ants. The enemy now had a third attack point.
With the experience of false alarm before, the protagonist is not so nervous this time. The Angel King's army also lived up to the protagonist's expectations, and also blocked the enemy's advance at the third attack point.
The battle continued until near dusk, and ended once again with the voluntary retreat of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army. Perhaps because they needed to trek back to the north bank of the river, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army withdrew before the sun set, and returned to their starting base along the same route.
This day's battle has come to an end. Although there is sunshine, the protagonist has not taken in water or rice all day, and has been blown by the cold wind all day long. Now he hurriedly hid in the warm "Linshui City" to keep warm and eat.
After a break, the protagonist asked the commanders about today's battle situation.
Today, on the Flat Nest battlefield, the enemy army failed to pull off any tricks. They still used the ant sea tactics to carry out wild attacks. However, they were beaten and bloody in front of the defense line of the God's Angel King's First Army, which was moving step by step. More than a thousand corpses were killed, and the losses of the First Legion of the Divine Envoy King were still controlled at double digits.
However, the exchange ratio between the two cavities is not very good.
The two cavities are not far from each other. After entering the "Linshui City", they both happen to be in the defense zone of the Fourth Army. The commander of the Fourth Army, Rambotu, immediately organized a defense according to the plan and blocked the enemy's initial violent attack.
However, due to the limitations of the battlefield environment, Rambotu could only prevent the troops from deploying defenses in two tunnels. The diameters of these two tunnels were not enough for the Angel King's army to spread out their fronts and use razor tactics, but they could allow the enemy troops to move along the ground, Walls and ceilings swarmed, forcing the defenders into a head-to-head tug-of-war.
The Angel King's legion has no tactical advantage. The only thing it can rely on on the frontal battlefield is that the legion is composed of pure soldier ants, which has an advantage in individual combat effectiveness.
At the end of the day, the two enemy legions attacking along the two tunnels lost about 500 soldiers, and the second and fourth legions also lost a hundred soldiers, which was equivalent to the total losses in the past few days.
