After receiving the report from the forward troops, the commander of the ant queen's inheritance faction, the male ant, judged that the enemy on the opposite side was the minions of the God Envoy King. The male ants and the queen of the ant queen's inheritance faction were relatively familiar with this object of war. Only alien ants exist under the king's command, which is another example of why the God-King is evil.
The male ant commander of the ant queen's inheritance faction immediately issued a supplementary order allowing attacks on fellow ants but not on the smell of their own nest.
This order was quickly conveyed. The ant queen inheritance faction army did not advance in a front-line march, but in a battle formation. The front was very wide and the depth was shallow. They were divided into dozens of teams on the battlefield with dense vegetation. Staggered, although this formation is a last resort due to the division of terrain, it is very suitable for the rapid transmission of orders due to a combination of circumstances.
In contrast, Lambory's 5th Army was still marching along the ant path in a long snake formation, and the flying knights failed to detect the enemy's appearance and provide early warning.
Only when the Scythe Hunter ant scouts returned in a hurry did Lambori know that the enemy was coming.
Lambori was marching in the middle of the legion with his escort team. When he learned the news, the middle troops immediately stopped. The front team was already engaged with the enemy, while the rear troops were still moving forward without knowing where they were. , blocking the already narrow ant tunnel, making it difficult to move forward.
Lambori hurriedly issued an order to change the battle formation, but in this case it was difficult to pass the order in time, and it was also difficult for the Divine Envoy King's army to quickly change formations in the dense sea of grass.
After encountering the enemy, the God Envoy King team at the front instinctively formed small circular formations with their respective male ant commanders as the core. These small formations are arranged around a plant stem or a small open space. Although you need to be careful of enemies overhead and coming from all directions, at least you have teammates you can rely on.
There were also individual squads that marched too long and fell into chaos after being raided. The male ants could only control a few soldiers around them. The other soldiers could not receive the commander's anxious voice and smell signals during the melee and could only fall into chaos. The situation of each fighting alone is very dangerous.
Surrounding the narrow ant tunnel, in the dense sea of grass, the Divine Envoy King's army lined up along the ant tunnel, and the front line was cut to pieces. The army of the ant queen's inheritance faction shuttled through the blades of grass and quickly outflanked familiar places, using old pheromones and the guidance of scouts.
From the beginning of the battle, it developed in the direction of melee fighting, which the Divine Envoy King's army was not good at. Along with the noisy friction of vegetation, groups of ants were entangled in close quarters. If an outsider looked at it, they would only see a large group of big heads with the same appearance. In the chaotic fighting, it is completely impossible to tell that these warriors were united in the same country not long ago. .
Lambori finally managed to stop the rear troops from rushing forward. Thanks to the small number of enemies, when the frontline troops fell into a melee and held back many enemies, he finally commanded a dozen squads to stabilize the situation. After seizing the central line of defense, a circular position was set up around the ant tunnel to prevent the enemy from continuing to advance to the rear.
At the rear of the position, more teams poured into the ring defense position, making the position more stable, and the Queen Ant Heritage Faction troops who tried to attack many times were repelled.
The ant-hunting warriors also appeared on the grass blades above their heads, easily defeating the enemy troops who intentionally or unintentionally climbed up the plant "overpass" to cover the "sky" of the friendly troops.
There were still teams coming from the rear that had not participated in the battle, and Lambo Tu's legion was not far behind. After stabilizing the situation, Lambo Rui hurriedly organized ten teams to move forward, preparing to save the ten people on the front line who were caught in the melee. A vanguard team.
Under the organized offensive of the Divine Envoy King's army, the enemy army retreated. The enemy was originally an enemy force temporarily organized by the hunting force. There were only a thousand in number, less than half of Lambory's legion, and the proportion of soldier ants was also very low. Although they once had an advantage based on geographical location and surprise attacks, by the time After the God Envoy King's army began to stabilize and counterattack, the army of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction, which had taken the lead, finally began to be unable to hold on.
Lambori's troops pursued them all the way, and only stopped when they arrived at the entrance of the sub-nest. After waiting for all the troops to join together, they began to attack the enemy underground again.
The army of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction resisted extremely resolutely in the underground nest. The enemy male ants also fled underground and gave orders to fight to the end.
Lambori's 5th Legion stepped on the corpses all the way before finally conquering this sub-nest. The local ruling male ants did not surrender in the end and died in battle with the escort.
By the time the battle ended, it was already sunset, and then the army entered the lair in the dark and cleaned it.
After counting, Lanbori's legion lost nearly 200 soldiers in one day. This was a composition of nearly four squads. The battle loss rate was as high as 7%. Among them, a male ant squad commander was killed.
Most of these losses came from the surprise attack encountered in the sea of swirling flowers. This enemy army, which numbered only a few thousand, was an enemy that the God's Envoy King's Army could eliminate without any pressure in the past. Under the special geographical environment, the God's Envoy King's Army had to pay a heavy price. Paid a lot of tuition. The remaining losses mainly came from underground street fighting. In order to complete the task of conquering a sub-nest every day so that the large troops could have a place to rest, Lambori's troops had to carry out the attack despite fatigue, and they also paid a certain price.
To make matters worse for the Angel King's army, almost no food was captured in this sub-nest, and the small amount of food was only enough for the male ants to share.
Since all the original ants in this sub-nest were killed in the battle, the Divine Envoy King's army was unable to find out the reason for the scarcity of food here. Perhaps it was because there was too little food in stock that the enemy had to organize a large-scale hunting, and was the first to discover the Divine Envoy King's army and organize an offensive. It can only be said to be God's will.
Fortunately, the army ate yesterday and the day before yesterday. It would not be a big problem for ordinary ants if they missed a day or two. Only Lamborry's 5th Army consumed a lot of energy after a day of fierce fighting. Gun basically allocated all the stored food to Lanborui's legion, so that the soldiers who had been fighting for a long time had something to eat.
Gun prepared to send a messenger the next day, asking the previous deputy nest to allocate and transport military rations to follow, so that if the next deputy nest could not seize food, the army would not go hungry.
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist received information from the Flying Knight the next morning and learned that Lambori's troops had experienced a hard battle the first day.
However, he did not blame Lambori. The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and no plan was perfect. Lambori was able to block the enemy's attack with such a level of losses, and finally completed the task of conquering the enemy's nest as scheduled, which was considered good. As for the lost troops, all the protagonist can do is to organize reserve troops to replenish them as soon as possible.
