The last hope of the old-fashioned king, the elite troops on both wings, quickly disappeared before the attack of the Beetle Legion. After receiving this news, the old-fashioned king and other male ants immediately fell into despair.
The old-fashioned king's army was divided into two groups, intending to attack from both front and rear. But without good communication channels, the troops on both wings could only fight independently, but were defeated individually.
Gun grasped this point, and with the intelligence support of the flying knights, he prioritized attacking the enemy forces that were closest and could assemble faster.
After a fierce offensive like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, they immediately turned around and attacked another slow-moving enemy army, thus achieving a complete victory.
The assault capability of the beetle troops was invincible in the narrow terrain on the ridges. Even if the old-fashioned King's army was extremely brave and formed a dense formation to resist, they could only be broken through layer by layer and driven off the cliff.
Moreover, Gun also continued to improve the tactics and coordination capabilities of the beetle army in several battles in "Qingqiu City" and "Linshui City". Now, at least on narrow terrain, it is difficult for the old-fashioned king's army to use dense formations of delayed beetles. and the assault force accompanying the infantry, and then divided and surrounded the beetle and the attached infantry.
With the defeat of the elite roundabout troops on both wings, the male ants on the frontal battlefield and in the main formation of the Old-fashioned King's army finally lost their determination to persist in fighting, and began to ignore the anxious messengers sent by the Old-fashioned King, and retreated on their own.
The prestige of the old-fashioned king was finally exhausted after consecutive defeats. Even though he knew that retreat would mean death, he could no longer convince other male ants who were determined to have their own way.
Each male ant began to retreat with one or more legions. The troops in the main formation wanted to retreat along the ant path to the secondary nest in the rear, while the troops in the front wanted to withdraw to the "Hunting Ground City" first.
After receiving the information from the Flying Knight that the entire enemy army was shaken and dispersed, Gun started the pursuit without hesitation.
Because the protagonist wanted to annihilate the main force of the enemy in a battle, Gun just kept Rambo Fei's legion behind, forcing the enemy troops on the front line to escape to "Hunting Ground City", and then blocked the entrances and exits, ignoring these defeated troops for the time being.
And he himself led the main force to advance along the ant road, vowing to completely eliminate those enemy forces that were still well organized.
These old-fashioned king's troops who fled along the ant path escaped smoothly along the ant path at first. But after a while, when they finally encountered Ramboser's army and intercepted them, they realized that something was wrong.
Ramboser had already received warning from the Flying Knight in advance and had deployed his defenses.
Even though the staid King's army had unleashed its final fighting strength at this moment, trying to break through the blockade in one fell swoop, it was quickly defeated by the rolling beetle troops after hitting the wall.
After annihilating the fleeing enemy troops, Gun sent his troops to annihilate the enemy's reinforcements. Only then did he turn around and continue to blockade "Hunting Ground City".
Since the soldiers were tired from a day of fierce fighting, Gun decided to rest for a night and launch a general attack the next day.
In the evening, after statistics and estimation, in today's battle, the Angel King's army eliminated three to four thousand enemies and captured more than 10,000 worker ants and soldier ants. As always, all the enemy male ants died in battle without surrendering. Currently, there are only four to five thousand enemy troops stationed in "Hunting Ground City" at best.
When cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers of the God Envoy King did not find the body of the old-fashioned king, and Gun guessed that he had hid back in "Linshui City". However, this is just a lingering breath. As soon as the sun rises tomorrow, Gun will be able to attack "Hunting Ground City" in one go and completely eliminate the old-fashioned king, a major problem in his heart.
In today's battle, the God's Envoy Army also suffered a three-digit casualty rate. Especially in the final stage of the battle, the whereabouts of the three flying knights responsible for guiding the ground troops in pursuit were unknown. This was much more serious than ordinary battle losses.
It is relatively rare for the flying knights to suffer battle losses. After all, they fly high in the sky, and it is difficult for the ants to threaten them with their normal methods.
But there have been precedents of parasitic ants hiding on vegetation and sneak attacks on flying knights, and of flying knights being attacked by spiders, wasps and other predators.
The three flying knights did not come back until nightfall, and they were obviously in danger. And among these three is Flying Eagle, the commander-in-chief of the flying knights.
This is something that Gun, Lan Bofei and others are very concerned about. Although Flying Eagle's status is not as good as those of them, he is still a very important member within the Divine Envoy King's legion, and his future is limitless.
Gun could only send more search troops to look for him early the next morning, even though he knew it might be a futile effort.
——I am the dividing line——
The next day, Gun led his troops to attack "Hunting Ground City" on time after the sun rose. The defenders were exhausted from fighting yesterday. After returning to the isolated city, they had no food replenishment. They were already exhausted and demoralized.
The Angel King's army occupied the nest without much effort, killed the three remaining male ants, and captured more than 3,000 ordinary ants. But among them, there is no figure of the old-fashioned king, no ants alive, no corpses dead.
Gun was very puzzled. No large enemy force managed to escape yesterday. All that could escape were scattered worker ants and soldier ants who had lost their command.
But now the old-fashioned king has not been found in "Hunting Ground City". Is it possible that he can still fly?
Even after digging three feet into the ground, they still couldn't find the old-fashioned king. On the other hand, the flying knights, who didn't need to participate in the underground battle, all sent out to search for the commander, also returned in vain.
Instead, they found the corpses of two flies at the edge of a battlefield. There were saddles tied on the corpses, which were obviously the mounts of the flying knights. But the knight above and another fly mount were missing.
Don't dare to delay, and quickly ask the flying knights to report the military situation and the news of the missing Flying Eagle to the protagonist.
Meanwhile, Gun had to deal with tens of thousands of captive ants.
These ants are all of the same species as the big-headed ants, although they were merciless to the Angel King's army when they were commanded by the old-fashioned king and his male ants. But after losing his commander, facing a "king" like Gun, he still showed obedience without making any mistakes.
Gun decided to let the second legion led by Rambo Fei, who suffered the most losses in the battle, escort these large numbers of prisoners back to the main nest "Qingqiu City" for the protagonist to deal with.
——I am the dividing line——
The next day, Gun led the remaining three legions and set out from "Hunting Ground City" and spent eight days wiping out the remaining sixteen enemy-controlled sub-nests.
These lairs lost unified command and fought independently with insufficient troops. They were easily defeated one by one without causing too many difficulties or battle losses.
However, the old-fashioned king still has no ants alive or dead bodies, as if he has disappeared from this world out of thin air.
In any case, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King basically put down the old-fashioned King, the number one enemy that was rapidly growing in strength, and ushered in the victory of the first war after the protagonist entered the main nest.
