Outside "Hunting Ground City", the two armies faced each other. The military formations were dense and fierce, and the battle was in full swing.
The Flying Eagle sat on its mount, circling the battlefield over and over again, overlooking the battlefield and the battle situation.
Since the protagonist increased the supply of high-end food, the eyesight of male ants such as the eagle has improved. Their visual field advantage is even greater than that of ordinary ants such as worker ants and soldier ants.
Previously, ordinary male ants could only clearly see objects within half a meter, and vaguely see objects within two meters.
Now, the well-nourished and well-developed male ants can clearly see the scenery within two to three meters, and are especially sensitive to moving objects as always. As for large gatherings like military formations, the male ant flying knight can already take a rough look at them from a distance of about five meters.
The increase in vision is mainly due to the guaranteed nutrition. Although male ants were not afraid of food shortage in the past, their food sources were too single. In particular, big-headed ant nests generally relied on honeydew and plant seeds as their staple food. The supply of prey was unstable, resulting in sufficient caloric intake but insufficient protein intake. This would Resulting in malnutrition and poor development.
Because of this, high-grade food rich in protein is so important in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and the male ants will oppose the King of Gods supplying high-grade food to the big worker ant class.
After the protagonist raised mealworms on a large scale, there was actually no shortage of meat in the Angel King's army. The sufficient supply of high-end food makes the physical fitness of the second and third generation male ants far exceed those of the first generation male ants raised according to traditional methods.
The increased vision also makes the flying knights safer when performing tasks. They can avoid dangerous spider webs, dragonflies or enemy ambush in the trees in advance. This is also the reason why the casualty rate of flying knights has dropped sharply recently.
Soaring in the sky, the flying eagle likes this perspective and even more likes this sense of security.
Although he also loves the feeling of commanding an entire infantry regiment to fight on the ground, he also knows that he is the safest when flying in the air, unlike infantry who always encounter all kinds of dangers.
Even the Divine Envoy King has been in danger many times in battles and fought in person!
Flying Eagle and the two flying knights behind him formed a triangular formation of three knights, which was a common aerial team formation among the flying knights.
Their mission, together with several other groups of the Three Knights, is to coordinate the actions of ground troops above the battlefield, detect and convey military information.
Specifically, they are responsible for reporting the battle situation, especially the enemy's movements, to Gun, the commander of the formation, in a timely manner; second, they are responsible for guiding the scout troops to cut off communication between the enemy's main force and reinforcements; When the army is defeated, guide the ground troops to pursue and do not let any enemy escape, especially the old-fashioned king.
Flying Eagle has been paying close attention to the direction of the enemy's main formation. When he flew to the area directly above the entrance of "Hunting Ground City", he could see the enemy troops densely arranged on the edge of the vegetation. Based on the general rules of formations in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, he guessed that the old-fashioned king's formation was here, and he was among them.
Every five minutes or so, the Flying Eagle and the Cavalry can circle the battlefield. If there are no emergencies, every fifteen minutes or so, the Flying Eagle and the Cavalry will return to the sky above their own formation, and then one of the Cavalry will land. Passing the information packet to Gun and back again, the three-horse formation continued to circle.
If there is an emergency, the flying knights will immediately give up circling and report directly to the formation.
Thanks to the ants' communication method using information packets, the flying knights do not even need to judge the enemy's intentions by themselves. As long as the information package is handed over to the commander, the commander will analyze and make decisions.
This kind of mission is very boring. Apart from being able to view the overall situation of the battlefield from a high perspective, there is nothing good about it.
And if there is a flaw in the intelligence, it will be entirely the responsibility of the flying knights, just like in a previous battle, the flying knights missed some of the enemy's messengers who scattered and escaped, resulting in the arrival of enemy reinforcements.
Flying Eagle doesn't like this kind of work. He is waiting for an opportunity.
Soon, the opportunity came.
The enemy's ground troops began to retreat and were divided into two separate operations. One group retreated from the frontline battlefield to "Hunting Ground City", and the other group retreated from the enemy's main position along the ant road to other sub-nests.
In addition, there were some scattered enemy forces in small squads, which began to break out. They did not stick to the ant path, but moved in any direction where they could escape.
Flying Eagle quickly drove his mount back to the sky above his own formation, and his team of cavalrymen, who had already had a tacit understanding, immediately descended to report the military situation.
Afterwards, Xiaoying led his troops to quickly return to the enemy's sky and began to guide the hunting ant scouts on the ground to hunt down the fleeing enemy troops.
The two main forces of the enemy army were ignored by Flying Eagle. One group was retreating to the "Hunting Ground City". Even if they got into the ground, they would still be unable to escape. The other group was escaping along the ant path. There was no need to worry, as there were other flying forces. The knights will lead a large force in pursuit, and our army will block them in front.
The most important task of Flying Eagle is to pursue and intercept the enemy troops who have scattered and fled. This is a delicate job. Moreover, Xiaoying intuitively felt that the old-fashioned king might be among them.
Generally speaking, the ant army rarely disperses to break through, but the old-fashioned king and some other male ants have obviously lost confidence in frontal breakthrough, so there will be a scattered breakthrough at the squad level.
The three flying eagles chased each lone enemy team in the sky, and then drew a figure-eight trajectory similar to the dance of bees.
When the hunter ant scouts on the ground with good eyesight see it, they will follow the guidance and come to pursue it.
In the face of individual powerful scythe-hunting ant warriors, these scattered enemy teams are often defeated without a single fight.
Soon, Flying Eagle led the flying knights and almost wiped out these scattered enemy teams.
Now there are very few organized enemy troops on the ground. Only enemy soldiers who have been scattered in twos and threes are running for their lives. These enemies are not a threat, even if they can survive through this area where beasts roam and return to other places. The secondary nests cannot enhance the defense of those secondary nests.
The Flying Eagle began to turn its attention to searching for enemy male ants. During the breakout, some enemy male ants took advantage of their vision and avoided the encirclement of the ant scouts during the melee and defeat, and fled in embarrassment with three or two followers.
Flying Eagle had never found any trace of the old-fashioned king before. He speculated that the old-fashioned king had abandoned his troops and fled alone. Just as the previous captives told him, the old-fashioned king escaped from his main nest "Qingqiu City" to "Hunting Ground City" in this way.
Soon, a large male ant hiding in the grass and moving loomingly attracted the attention of the Flying Eagle.
