Walking at the forefront of the army was a legion led by a veteran general.
This king's qualifications and prestige are not as good as those of King Fuye, but he has also stayed in the cruel northern battlefield for a full year. Although he only led a cobbled-together army consisting of old and infirm worker ants who had not experienced war, King Fuye trusted him very much and entrusted him with the responsibility of being the vanguard.
He is naturally willing to obey the wisdom of the prestigious King Ukiha. Although the enemy seems weak, he resolutely implements King Ukiha's instructions and meticulously performs the duties of the vanguard.
Half of the two elite squads of veteran scouts were deployed under his command.
These scouts repeatedly scouted the army's advance route and appeared to be extremely capable.
They not only scout the advance route of the troops, but also conduct fan-shaped searches to control a certain nearby area. This way, should they encounter an ambush or surprise attack, they can leave ample warning time for the main troops.
These are valuable experiences gained through blood and flesh fighting on the northern battlefield, condensed with the lives of countless soldiers.
Now, the scouts passed through a ravine, and this terrain made them very wary.
This gully runs north-south and was probably washed out by sudden floods during the rainy season.
The bottom of the gully is about two to three meters wide. The ground is dry soil with not much vegetation.
In terms of transportation, this is a very suitable road for the army to advance. The vegetation is sparse and the terrain is flat. The pavement ant army can follow this ravine expressway directly to the vicinity of the "bridgehead".
The scouts had repeatedly scouted here before and planned a route along the bottom of the ravine.
However, on both sides of the gully, there were steep slopes made of sand. Beyond the steep slope, there was a large expanse of dense grass on both sides.
This is an excellent ambush battlefield. If you control the high ground on both sides of the ravine, you can have a commanding advantage. Even if the ants lack long-range attack methods, they can gain a great advantage by taking advantage of the situation and attacking down.
The experienced scouts would naturally not let go of this potentially dangerous place, even though they had repeatedly conducted reconnaissance here over the past few days.
The three scouts advanced from the road at the bottom of the ravine, and on the highlands on both sides, strange shakings continued to occur in the grass.
It was more than a dozen pavement ant scouts conducting a net-like search in the grass. Their search range was within half a meter of the cliff. As long as the enemy troops hide here, they can't escape the sensitive tentacles of the scouts.
According to general experience, if the enemy hides too far away, they will not be able to grasp the dynamics of the pavement ant army passing through the bottom of the ravine, and will not be able to grasp the appropriate timing for a surprise attack.
Therefore, the search behavior of the pavement ant scouts is to eliminate potential threats for the troops in the most efficient way. This is an experience that only experienced veterans can master.
But the Divine Envoy King Legion obviously cannot judge this with common sense.
Just above the heads of the pavement ant scouts, about one or two meters high in the air, there were several small black dots hovering constantly.
Pavement ant scouts do not care about these small flying insects. Whether they are flies, moths or wasps, they generally will not provoke ants, let alone approach the assembled ant army.
But these little black dots are the flying knights of the God Envoy King's legion.
In order to prevent alerting the paving ant army, these flying knights hovered at a relatively high altitude, although this way they were unable to detect details on the ground. But they could never misjudge the swarms of pavement ants. It would be a large, long black ant tide that could be seen from a distance.
The scouts did not issue a warning. Under the command of the king, the vanguard army entered the ravine in a long marching column and advanced rapidly at the bottom of the ravine.
The other two legions followed closely and also entered the ravine. Finally, the rearguard army led by King Ukiye all entered the ravine.
Although he intuitively felt that the terrain here was somewhat unfavorable, King Fuye believed in the abilities of the scouts.
In the far northern battlefield, when the army of pavement ants faced brutal and fierce enemies, they had to rely on the intelligence and time that the scouts constantly exchanged their lives for in order to deal with the enemy.
All scouts who have experienced in the northern battlefield are trustworthy and are the tentacles and eyes of the large army.
At the beginning of entering the gully, everything went smoothly. The army of pavement ants was advancing rapidly. In more than half an hour, the army would leave the gully and appear near the stronghold of the big-headed ants.
However, at this time, few pavement ant warriors noticed that the height of the cliffs on both sides of the gully had increased, and the width of the bottom of the gully was also narrowing.
In the sky, several small black dots that had been circling in a circular flight path were now circling in a figure-eight shape...
——I am the dividing line——
A pavement ant warrior and several companions behind her turned to the left because they needed to bypass a bunch of grass roots blocking the road. They were separated by a few centimeters from the large army and clung to the edge of the steep cliff. edge.
At this time, several coarse gravel particles rolled down the steep slope, falling right next to the lone pavement ant warriors. The back of one pavement ant warrior was also hit by a grain of gravel.
But this impact was nothing, and the Pavement Ant Warrior who was hit didn't even feel any pain.
It is normal for gravel to roll down. A gust of wind or a beetle crawling over a steep slope can cause this phenomenon. Therefore, this did not alarm the pavement ants.
However, soon more and more gravel and soil rolled down the steep slope, and even the slowest pavement ants sensed something was wrong. They raised their heads and saw...
——I am the dividing line——
Several pavement ant scouts were running away, and behind them, several pavement ant scouts bravely fought forward, hoping to use their lives and flesh and blood to slow down the pursuers.
Almost suddenly, the scouts discovered that the originally calm grass seemed to be boiling, and the grass blades were swaying everywhere.
The experienced scouts understood that this was an abnormal situation.
But before they could go to find out what was going on, they found that the grass had parted, and the army of big-headed ants arranged in neat arrays were already in front of them.
In the past, this was almost impossible. The grass blocked the sight of both parties. When the two parties encountered each other, each other should be unaware of it.
The big-headed ants are numerous and powerful, and they act with an astonishing momentum, making it harder to hide their whereabouts. It should be that the pavement ant scouts are more likely to be alert.
But this time, just when the pavement ant scouts noticed something was wrong, they suddenly found that they were surrounded.
The big-headed ant army has already formed a line, and they are obviously well prepared.
Several clever pavement ant scouts immediately turned around and ran away. They wanted to pass the information back instead of dying here.
The remaining scouts launched a counterattack forward very bravely. They only hoped to hold off for a moment and create an opportunity for their companions to return.
