Sorry, I went to have dinner with someone yesterday, so I didn’t bother to update tonight~(￣▽￣~)~
——I am the dividing line——
The black-headed sour ant tribe is retreating rapidly, and the old camp guards the queen, carrying trophies and marching in the middle of the team.
The rear troops had already fought against the pursuing ant barbarian army. Faced with the organized acid spray and the thick acid mist that followed, the red-eyed ant barbarian army had to postpone its pursuit.
At the front of the team are the elite scouts. These scouts do not carry loot and have sufficient formic acid. They are responsible for finding out the way back based on the pheromones they came from, and using new pheromones to strengthen the route markers again. Assist the large forces in retreating.
It was these elite scouts who first discovered the second paving ant barbarian army that was waiting to outflank their own rear.
Ants generally have poor eyesight, and they rely heavily on signals such as pheromones to travel long distances. Although the pheromones of ants of different races and even different nests are different, experienced ants can still roughly distinguish what they are and will not mistake them for natural traces emitting strange smells.
Seizing the weakness of the black-headed sour ant tribe that had to retreat along the pheromones, the scouts of the pavement ant barbarian army searched everywhere for the pheromones they had left when they passed through this place not long ago, and successfully found them.
The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army then inserted themselves here and set up a line of defense here, preparing to attack this annoying enemy from both sides and completely eliminate it.
After the queen ant accompanying the black-headed sour ant tribe learned the information, she immediately realized that she was in great danger. This did not require much rational judgment, and her instinct alone was already warning her wildly.
The black-headed sour ant queen immediately organized a wave of elite warriors with sufficient formic acid, and launched a desperate assault forward, trying to open a way for the large army to survive.
These elite warriors use acid to clear the way. What is different from the past is that under the command of the Queen Ant and stimulated by another scent information secreted by her, these elite warriors appear to be fearless of death, which is completely different from the previous style of opportunism and cherishing life.
After these black-headed sour ant warriors sprayed the acid, they rushed directly into the newly formed acid mist, regardless of the fact that long-term exposure to high-concentration acid mist would be harmful to themselves.
In the acid mist, the Pavement Ant Barbarian warriors who were directly attacked by the acid were struggling painfully, while the lightly injured and unaffected warriors were retreating, preparing to reorganize their formations where the acid mist could not affect them.
The commander of the Pavement Ant barbarian army knows that the opponent's formic acid is limited. As long as some soldiers are abandoned and the enemy's formic acid reserves are consumed, the remaining enemies will definitely not be able to compete with the elite Pavement Ants.
But in the midst of the white, steamy acid mist exuding a thick sour smell, the black-headed sour ant warriors had already pounced on them.
The worker ants of these black-headed sour ants ignored the struggles of the seriously injured people, and ignored that the outer carapace was being corroded little by little under the high concentration of acid mist. They bravely attacked and killed those scattered resisters with their numerical superiority under the cover of the acid mist. Pavement ants.
As the acid mist ahead becomes thinner and thinner, the organization of the pavement ant barbarian army becomes more and more rigorous, and the black-headed sour ant death squad encounters increasing resistance.
They had to use their remaining acid stocks again, shrouding the battlefield in new acid mist.
Acid mist is the home ground of black-headed sour ant warriors. Even if they stay here for a long time, they will also cause damage to these warriors, especially exposed delicate organs such as compound eyes, antennae and mouth. However, after all, their resistance to their own acid is much stronger than that of the pavement ants, and in this environment, their combat effectiveness is also higher than that of their opponents. And if it were a normal battlefield, the black-headed and smelly ant army who were not used to fighting in formations and were smaller in size would definitely not be able to match the same number of paving ant barbarian troops.
These black-headed acid ant warriors showed unparalleled bravery. Some warriors would even take the initiative to stand out from the cover of the acid mist and let the jaws of multiple enemies bite their bodies. Before they were torn apart, this A warrior will point his belly toward the sky and violently spray out all the acid.
Formic acid fell like raindrops, covering a small area nearby. The white acid mist rose instantly, covering the injured and dying black-headed ant warriors and the nearby pavement ants, killing them all together.
Often a suicide attack like this by a few black-headed ant warriors can break through the defense line of a small group of paving ant barbarian troops and cause them to collapse.
Under the heroic assault of the death squads, the defending Pavement Ant Barbarian Army fell into an unexpected and bitter battle.
Even if you know that this is just a counterattack by the black-headed sour ant tribe, as long as you can hold on, you can usher in victory. Another barbarian army of paving ants is already on its way, and the black-headed sour ant warriors at the rear have exhausted their acid and collapsed.
However, the commander of this army of pavement ants that cut off the retreat of the black-headed sour ant tribe can only watch the troops fight independently and hope that they can hold the line on their own.
Another side effect of the acid attack of the black-headed sour ants is that the battlefield is shrouded in a strong sour smell, which seriously interferes with the odor signal of the pavement ant commander.
Ants mainly rely on smell, sound and messengers to command their troops.
Among them, messengers are the most accurate in delivering orders, but they are slow and have limited recipients. Different combinations of smells and sounds are the best way to command large-scale troops. When the commander releases smells and sounds, ordinary soldiers who receive the order will also release the same sound and smell signals, and it is like a relay. Quickly convey the commander's orders to the entire military formation.
Now, the acid severely interferes with the transmission of scent signals, and the sound signal alone is meaningless.
The Pavement Ant Barbarian Army in the defensive formation can only rely on previous orders to stick to their own positions, or carry out limited evasion or counterattack under the orders of the team commander.
However, since there are no new orders, most of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army teams can only stand by and wait. Even if a point is broken through, the neighboring teams will rarely come to fill the gap because they have no orders and their sight is blocked.
This gives the black-headed sour ant tribe a glimmer of hope.
After paying huge sacrifices, the death squads used suicide attacks to finally open a small gap in the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army's defense line.
The old battalion immediately got the news. They quickly defended the queen, carried the trophies, and staggered out of the gap.
Behind him, the pursuers were getting closer and closer, and around him, the acid mist was getting lighter and lighter. The time left for the black-headed ant tribe to escape is very short!
