There were only a few hundred wasps in total, and excluding those responsible for containment and those hovering in the air for warning, only a hundred actually attacked the army of pavement ants.
However, the pavement ant army did not stop marching when faced with any other fierce insects, but it had to stop to organize defense at this time.
The pavement ants obviously took this defensive measure because of their painful experience. The subsequent battle situation also proved that this measure was necessary, because the lethality of just a few hundred wasps was already too terrifying.
The wasps not only have air superiority, they can continuously use dives to tear apart the tight formation of the pavement ant barbarian army. Their strength and agility are also far superior to the ants.
Once a small group of pavement ants is forced to separate from the larger army, the wasps will immediately launch a siege on these stray pavement ants to prevent them from returning to their formation.
Under the attack of the wasps that were larger, stronger and more agile, these pavement ants that were forced to leave the swarm were quickly slaughtered and could not even cause effective damage to the wasps.
What's worse is that other fierce insects will not continue to attack as long as they are full, but wasps are greedy.
In other words, they are too well-trained and are not eager to satisfy their appetites on the battlefield, which will waste the time.
Instead, they will seize the time to chew up the killed pavement ants, then make them into "meat balls", and then transport the "meat balls" back to their nests.
In this way, the wasps do not need to waste time eating on the battlefield. After transporting the "meat balls" back to the nest, they can quickly return and continue to participate in hunting.
The pavement ant barbarian army suffered heavy losses under this attack from the air. The movement trajectory of the fast-flying wasps was not something that the pavement ants with poor eyesight could grasp. Therefore, although the counterattack of the pavement ant warriors was heroic, it also seemed Blind.
Wasps are not without casualties. Some unlucky wasps are sometimes stained by one or two pavement ant warriors during the process of containing or diving. Most of the wasps can knock down the pavement ants by shaking their bodies, but There are always some pavement ant warriors that successfully climb onto the backs of wasps and attack the roots of their fragile wings.
When a wasp is temporarily unable to take off due to injury or pain, the heroic pavement ant warriors naturally do not give up the opportunity. They swarm up and tear the unlucky wasp into pieces.
But overall, the wasps completed one successful hunt after another with minimal losses to themselves.
Where is the protagonist now? He took the Flying Eagle and the Mantis to stop on the trunk of a tree a little further away and observed the battle from a distance.
The reason why he does not plan to leave is because the protagonist estimates that this swarm of wasps will cause thousands of losses to the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army at most, and it will not prevent the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army from continuing to advance. The protagonist believes that after the killing is over, he can continue to follow the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army to solve the mystery.
But he made two mistakes that soon put him in danger.
The first one is that he is a little close to the battlefield.
The current location of the reconnaissance team was selected and was several meters away from the battlefield.
Considering that insects generally have poor eyesight, and the light in the forest is dim, and the colors of the protagonist and their mounts are not conspicuous, it stands to reason that they should be relatively safe.
The wasps in charge of vigilance in the distance never noticed the reconnaissance team hiding on the tree trunks.
However, this distance is too close for the eyesight of the reconnaissance team's mount, the fly.
The second mistake is that the protagonist overestimates the tameness of his mount.
The main mounts domesticated by humans, like horses, are also often used in warfare. Horses are delicate and sensitive animals. The noise, fire, and smoke on the battlefield will all make war horses uncomfortable. Unqualified war horses will run wildly and not obey commands.
However, a trained war horse will ignore these interferences and dare to charge towards the enemy's position under artillery fire.
But the flies ridden by the flying knights of the reconnaissance team are different.
Flies are also sensitive, and unlike horses that have been domesticated for thousands of years, flies have just been "domesticated" in the hands of the protagonist.
This "domestication" must be put in quotation marks, because it is not domestication in the complete sense. Rather, there is a symbiotic agreement between ants and flies, where the ants provide food and the flies agree to have the ants ride on their backs, and that's it.
As for the fact that flying knights can control the movement of their mounts through the reins, that is not the result of intentional training. It is just that the reins are tied to the balance rod of the fly, and the fly adjusts its flying posture precisely through the balance rod.
In other words, the flying knight's control of the fly is more of an imposed external control, unlike the human knight's control of the horse, where the knight gives instructions and the horse understands and executes them.
This makes these fly mounts very unstable. When the reconnaissance team stops and lurks, they have actually given up control of the flies in a short period of time.
During the period when the flies were able to act independently, their good eyesight saw a terrifying creature wandering not far away.
Those terrifying creatures are wasps. Their bodies are brightly colored, which is a warning color and is also the nightmare of most insects.
So suddenly, Flying Eagle's mount was frightened, jumped up suddenly, and ran away quickly in the direction it came from. By the time Flying Eagle reacted and controlled the mount to stop, they had already been discovered.
The wasp colony has always had a portion of wasps responsible for outer security. When the reconnaissance team hid on the tree trunks, they found nothing unusual.
But when the Flying Eagle's mount was frightened and fled, the wasp's dynamic vision was triggered, so two wasps immediately flew here to drive the Flying Eagle away.
This drive can also turn into hunting at any time once the wasps find that the eagle cannot escape.
The protagonist saw two wasps coming towards this place and immediately shouted that something was wrong. At this time, the fly eagle had regained control of the mount. When the fly's balance rod received external instructions, they would execute it without thinking.
But now the Flying Eagle's vision is too short, and he hasn't seen the wasp targeting him yet. He is returning to the lurking place and is also crashing into the wasp's bloody mouth.
The protagonist made a prompt decision. He leaned over, communicated briefly with the mantis beside him, and gave the order.
The protagonist and Mantis hold the reins firmly, control their mounts, and wait for the opportunity.
Soon, the wasp flew over the tree trunk where the reconnaissance team was lurking, and killed the flying eagle not far ahead. The flying hawk was not aware of the danger yet...
When two wasps flew past the reconnaissance team, the protagonist suddenly took action. With a pull on the reins, Xiao Qing II led the protagonist towards the wasps that were facing him.
The mantis tiger followed closely behind, and together they launched a surprise attack on the two wasps!
