Mantis Tiger led this legion for the purpose of fire reconnaissance.
Relying solely on the results of aerial reconnaissance and analysis can only be used as a reference. Before a face-to-face confrontation, everything is just talk on paper. No one knows what kind of opponent the bees are.
Therefore, before the official attack, a tentative attack is necessary.
The protagonist and the troops waited for two days, and after another cold north wind passed, a bright weather finally arrived.
On April 10, Mantis led his troops to launch a tentative offensive against the Hive. The protagonist and the flying knights were watching the battle.
The mantis and tiger ant hunting ant scout team was in front, marking the pheromone along the way, and quickly led the large army to a place not far from the honeycomb tree hole.
Mantis sat in the center of the formation. Thirty big-headed ant squads stood ready and fell behind, while two sickle-hunting ant scout squads began to attack. They were the main force in this trial attack, and the large army was only a backup.
At the entrance of the hive tree hole, there are always some worker bees on guard, and these worker bees quickly discovered the swooping ants.
Two worker bees immediately flew over to perform their duties.
At first, these worker bees just wanted to drive away the ants that were close to their nests. They thought that these ants were similar to the ants that stumbled here before and were not attacking the hive.
As a result, these worker bees flew to the ants and landed in front of them, vibrating their wings quickly to issue a warning.
In the past, the ants would have realized that they were not welcome, had no intention of dealing with these bees that were larger than themselves, and would have turned around and left.
But this time, the predatory ants were well prepared and quickly swarmed up and bit the worker bee in front of them.
The two worker bees that came to expel the ants were bitten quickly before they had time to react. After each was dragged by seven or eight hunter ants, these worker ants were unable to take off at all.
The worker bee was taken aback. In addition to flapping its wings desperately to get away, it also tried to attack the ant in front of it with its mandibles.
However, predator ants are natural hunters, especially good at cooperating to hunt large insects. They deftly avoid the bee's front mandibles and the bee stingers on its abdomen, and quickly pierce the bee's carapace with their mandibles, tearing it off. wings.
The two alert worker bees were soon separated from each other and died.
Still, the brief battle attracted the attention of other bees.
This was the time when the bees were taking advantage of the good weather to go in and out to forage for nectar. The bees had good eyesight. This battle that took place not far from the entrance of the cave was quickly seen by other bees.
A worker bee with pollen on its legs flew nearby. After seeing what was happening, it immediately fled and flew back to the hive.
Since the worker bee did not land, the ants were unable to attack it and could only watch it escape.
However, the plan of the God Envoy King's Legion also depends on how the bees respond to the ants' attack. The behavior of this bee who returned to report the news was exactly what he wanted.
The main force led by Mantis still did not move, and the ant-hunting team also stopped advancing not far from the honeycomb tree hole. Their goal was not to directly attack the honeycomb.
Soon, the hive tree hole began to become crowded, and more than a dozen worker bees poured out of the tree hole at once, led by the worker bee with pollen on its legs.
The bees' reinforcements arrived, although they were too late to save their companions. After killing the two worker bees, the hunter ants directly threw their bodies down the tree.
More than a dozen bees, led by the guide, rushed towards the hunting ants in an aggressive manner.
This time, these bees already knew that the ants had ill intentions towards them, but they still did not guess that the ants' intentions were actually targeting their own nests.
After all, according to the experience of bees, there is no precedent for ants actively attacking the hive. What they need to guard against are predators such as wasps or wasps.
These bees think that the ants' goal is to hunt a few bees as prey. Although there are many worker bees, they don't care about losing a few worker bees. But the hive obviously won't allow predators to be so arrogant in close proximity to the nest.
These bees follow their genetic instinct and want to drive away dozens of predatory ants.
The bees obviously also know that if they land, they may not be able to benefit from the ants who are better at fighting on the ground.
Therefore, the worker bees chose to stay in the air, formed a swarm, and swooped toward the ants over and over again, then quickly turned away and hit the ants on the tree trunks with airflow.
The predatory ants use their six limbs to hook tightly onto the bark of the poplar tree. Although the bark of the poplar tree is smooth, there are many irregularities that can be used. The six limbs of the ants are very strong and have extremely strong friction. structure of toes and feet. Being well prepared, these predatory ants withstood several airflow impacts from the bees without flinching.
The bees are also very depressed. Generally speaking, terrestrial insects such as spiders will also capture bees, but when faced with a prepared swarm of bees, they will quickly run away because there is no benefit to a stalemate.
But the ants in front of them just refused to retreat, and it was obviously impossible for the bees to let the ants stay so close to their hometown.
Seeing that the airflow impact was ineffective, the bees no longer swooped blindly, but followed the leading worker bee with pollen-covered legs, flew close to the ants, and began to hover.
This is a technique unique to bees; only a few insects, such as dragonflies and bees, can hover in the air like this.
The bees were not far away from the hunting ants, vibrating their wings crazily, and making piercing noises as they rushed towards the ants without interruption.
This kind of noise is unbearable for most insects, and it is also uncomfortable for hunting ants. The discipline of the scout troops of this newly formed legion was far inferior to that of the other old legions, and soon some of the ant-hunting warriors couldn't stand it anymore.
A hunting ant took the lead in disobeying the military order, jumped hard, and bounced towards the bees in mid-air.
The bees obviously did not expect that the ants in front of them had such strong jumping ability. The big-headed ants they had seen before were not good at jumping.
The sickle hunter ant failed to jump onto a bee. She was directly blown away by the high-speed vibrating wings and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, there is no strong wind today. It is estimated that she will not fall too far away from "Dongyang City" and can still return to the team on her own.
The movements of this predatory ant startled the bees. They did not know that the other predatory ants were still obeying the order and did not leave the trunk without permission.
The bees swerved away from the ants to avoid what they perceived to be danger.
After the eviction failed, the bees finally decided to get serious!
