Before the Pavement Ant scouts could pass back the information, the Pavement Ant army had already discovered the traces of the God Envoy King's army, which meant that the scouts failed to pass back the information in time and they were caught off guard.
In order to complete this ambush, the Divine Envoy King's Legion made a careful plan and executed it like a machine with the diligence and meticulousness unique to ants, ultimately achieving this perfect raid.
In the air, the Flying Knight serves as an eye, keeping a close eye on the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army without being noticed by the enemy.
Until the pavement ant barbarian army entered the predetermined ambush area, the flying knights began to change their flight trajectory and lower their altitude in the direction of the ground army to facilitate observation on the ground. In this way, they notified friendly forces on the ground in a way borrowed from bees.
On the ground, the Angel King's army was lurking in the grass two or three meters away from the ravine cliff bank, which was far beyond the detection range of the pavement ant scouts.
In the past, setting up an ambush here would have been a joke. Because the distance was too far and the line of sight was blocked by vegetation, the ambush troops could not observe the enemy's movements at all, and therefore could not grasp the favorable opportunities for ambush and surprise attack.
Even if a small number of sentries are ambushed on the cliff bank to deliver information, they will inevitably be discovered by experienced pavement ant scouts, alerting the enemy, and even losing their fighter plane.
However, with the assistance of flying knights in the air, the God Envoy King Legion can get rid of its reliance on ground reconnaissance to a certain extent.
However, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army relied too much on ground reconnaissance. When the ground scouts found no abnormalities, the entire army looked like a blind man with its eyes and antennae blindfolded.
——I am the dividing line——
A large amount of sand suddenly fell from the cliff, rolling and crashing into the dense army of pavement ants, causing a small commotion.
The pavement ant warriors on the edge of the team ran around in panic to avoid these "falling rocks" based on instinct.
In the forward legion, the legion commander, who was protected by layers of guards, had just received the information desperately passed back by the scouts in front.
In fact, this information is no longer important. The vanguard king of the pavement ant army can already see many dark shadows appearing on the cliffs on both sides of the river.
What else could this be but an enemy?
The defense instructions for enemy attacks are quickly transmitted to the entire legion through tentacles and scents. The legion will form a tight formation as usual to guard against the enemy's condescending surprise attack.
The forward king is not very worried. There are not many enemies, at least far less than the paving ants. As long as the formation is not torn apart by the first wave of enemy raids, the forward army can hold on until reinforcements arrive from the rear.
Especially, when the forward king vaguely saw that the enemy's formation on the cliff was very thin, he strengthened his belief.
The only thing that made the forward king frown was that after all, the legions under his command were all worker ants who had never been in battle. They were noisy when forming formations. Many kings who served as team commanders could not restrain their subordinates well, resulting in formations. It took a lot of time to defend the front.
However, the enemy did not dive down immediately, which made the forward king breathe a sigh of relief and bought his subordinates some time. When the formation is formed, even if the enemy intends to forcefully attack, it will still cost a lot of time and battle losses. Then the friendly forces behind you will have the opportunity to counterattack.
But what the forward king didn't know was that behind him, not far away and out of his sight, three other pavement ant armies were also ambushed...
Only 3,000 warriors from the Angel King's first and second legions participated in the ambush, but they faced four fully-staffed Pavement Ant Legions with 10,000 warriors.
Even if the Divine Envoy King's army has the advantage of an ambush, it may not be able to steadily defeat this enemy force. What's more, the protagonist also demands that the enemy troops cannot be allowed to break up and escape.
So tactics are crucial.
The choice of the battlefield for this gully ambush was very particular. The cliffs on both sides were mostly sandy soil, which was difficult to climb, and the angle was relatively steep. The entrances and exits on both sides were narrow, and only a small number of troops from the Divine Envoy King's Army were needed to block it.
Now, what the God Envoy King's army needs is to kill the enemy as much as possible according to the plan, and then drive them away.
——I am the dividing line——
In less than half a minute after discovering the ambush, the vanguard of the Pavement Ant Army had roughly formed a tight defensive formation. Although the speed was not fast, it still satisfied the vanguard king.
Just then, a scene occurred that surprised him and made him unable to close his jaws.
On the top of the cliff, countless black spots appeared vaguely in the enemy's thin front line. They were dense like a burst of black smoke, and they quickly "falled" towards their own army.
The legion covered in black smoke immediately collapsed. Even the guards directly under the forward king himself had many soldiers knocked down and then injured.
The forward king immediately asked his subordinates to bring over a ball of "black smoke" that fell on the ground nearby.
This is a broken piece of "soil" that appears to be extremely hard. Any warrior hit by these "soil particles" will have cracks in their hard outer carapace. If they are unfortunately hit in the head, they may even die.
This was exactly the clay bomb thrown by the Angel King's army using a sling.
Normally thrown clay bombs, due to their mass and kinetic energy, cannot cause damage to the pavement ant warriors at all. However, after the rotation and acceleration of the sling, its kinetic energy is greatly increased, and it can already cause damage.
A single stone throw is not very accurate, but when a large army throws stones collectively, it can still cover the stationary enemy army.
Under the first wave of stone-throwing attacks, the Pavement Ant forward army had suffered hundreds of casualties. Although there were very few casualties, the constant struggle and movement of the wounded soldiers had shaken the integrity and stability of the formation.
The striker king had no countermeasures. He could only send out defensive signals constantly, but to no avail. The injured worker ants can no longer listen to the instructions and are just struggling to care for themselves. This is a common behavior of new recruits.
Three rounds of dense slings were fired, and the vanguard army was filled with mourning. Even one of the vanguard king's middle limbs was injured by a fragment of a clay bomb that shattered on the gravel on the ground.
This limb was broken immediately. Fortunately, he still had five legs and could move at about the same speed as before.
In his legion's position, there were wounded soldiers everywhere, and the complete formation almost no longer existed. Only the soldiers on the periphery of the formation near the cliff suffered very few casualties because they were protected by the steep cliffs on both sides.
In other words, the perimeter of his legion's position basically maintained a complete formation. This gave the legion king another glimmer of hope. As long as he could hold on to the perimeter of the position, he still had a chance.
He immediately passed on the order and began to reorganize the defense within the legion.
However, the God's Envoy King Legion obviously will not give him this opportunity...
