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I am the dividing line
The protagonist woke up from the surprise of just hearing the warning, immediately called several nearby soldiers to protect him, and then squeezed to the upper level of the lair, preparing to direct the battle nearby.
The fortifications of [Trench City] have only completed the first line of defense, and the subsequent fortifications have not yet been constructed. If the ballista positions on the first line are breached, the defenders will face a dangerous situation with no danger to defend. , can only use the lives of soldiers to fight for consumption, which is what the protagonist least wants to see.
At this time, the protagonist is leading a few temporary guards, quickly squeezing through the swarms of worker ants in the passage, and climbing up the intricate but familiar dirt passage.
The entire nest was dark, with only a few fluorescent fungi providing weak illumination, making the nest dim.
The fluorescent fungi grew slowly in the previous winter. After being attacked by the Destroyer, more than half of the nest chambers and passages were destroyed. The fluorescent fungi there quickly died due to lack of ant care. The few remaining fluorescent fungi that survived were redistributed everywhere after the war, providing the entire nest with a glimmer of light that was better than nothing.
At this moment, the entire nest has been disturbed by the alarm, and there are ants running around everywhere. But except for a few troops with pre-planned plans who are entering their respective positions, most of the ants are just running blindly.
The protagonist has no time to stop this chaos, so he can only send a guard to give orders to the ruling ants of [Trench City], asking them to restrain their subordinates.
Fortunately, even if the world of ants is congested, it will not be difficult to move. The ants have a tacit understanding that can maintain a certain two-way traffic capacity in even the most crowded passages. It will never be as difficult to move as traffic jams in the human world.
The protagonist was crowded with other ants like this, and from time to time he had to climb over the backs of other ants, and finally reached the upper level of the nest.
The troops on the front line are still confronting the Destroyers. Holding the front line are several squads of the 23rd Legion, as well as the ballista squad. They were trained by soldiers drawn from the surviving defenders of [Trench City]. .
On the frontline battlefield, it would be inappropriate to say that the two sides were confronting or fighting. It was more like a wrestling match or a tug-of-war, and the "rope" was the corpse of two Destroyers who died from arrows.
It turned out that due to tight construction, the height and width of this preset battlefield nest were lower than the previous requirements, which was the size of an ordinary passage.
When the vanguard of the Destroyers rushed in after killing all the sentries, the crossbow unit had already been cocked. Two giant crossbow arrows were fired one after the other, killing two Destroyers. The crossbow arrows that passed through the body also injured several Destroyers behind them. .
The corpses of two huge Destroyers blocked the passage, and it was difficult for the larger Destroyer to move forward even over the corpses of its companions.
As a result, the Destroyers in the front row began to grab the bodies of their comrades and drag them backwards, trying to remove them before launching an attack.
The commander of a squad of the 23rd Army Corps responsible for protecting the ballista position was very smart. He spotted the opportunity and immediately commanded his men to rush forward and also grabbed the enemy's corpse and dragged it back.
Obviously, as long as these two corpses are not dragged away, the enemy will be blocked and unable to move forward. This is a good opportunity for the defenders to breathe and adjust after suffering a disadvantage in the close combat.
Although the Destroyers were powerful, the targets of each Destroyer's tug-of-war were more than a dozen Big-headed Ant Soldiers. As a result, both sides were evenly matched, and the stalemate lasted for more than ten minutes with no progress.
The protagonist arrived at the front line. After confirming that the front line was safe, he came to the ballista position and took over the front line command with ease. He often did this kind of thing.
In fact, in a complete military command system, the highest commander will not be allowed to serve as a guest commander at the grassroots level. The excellent case of Chang Kaishen, the captain of a certain logistics brigade, is enough to give warning to latecomers, but after all, the protagonist is a soldier who became a monk halfway. , and no male ant here dares to stop the God Envoy King from doing this.
At this time, the crossbow has been re-wound, but the protagonist asked the soldiers to unload the giant crossbow arrows and replace them with stone bullets.
The giant crossbow arrows transported thousands of miles from [Dongyang City] are useful, but there are only twenty in total. Two have been used just now. Since they fell into the Destroyer Formation, it is still difficult to recover them intact. As for the unknown, the rest cannot be wasted.
As for the stone bullets, they are inexhaustible and inexhaustible.
The struggle on the front line is not over yet, but it can be seen that the large-headed ants, which are numerous and good at cooperating, are gradually gaining the upper hand, allowing the Destroyer, who is fighting alone, to get closer little by little.
The protagonist sent a messenger to tell the frontline commanders that this was the case. Soon, the big-headed ants who had already gained the upper hand all started talking. The Destroyers, who were fighting with all their strength, suddenly let go, carrying the corpses of their companions with them. He fell backwards, knocking down his companions behind him, and everyone in the Destroyer team suddenly fell on their backs.
The Big-headed Ant warriors retreated quickly, and the two ballistae slightly raised their muzzles to avoid the friendly troops in front, and quickly fired two stone bullets, adding another corpse and several wounded soldiers to the Destroyer team.
Then the warriors of the God Envoy King stepped forward again, grabbed the corpse, and adjusted the position of the corpse before the Destroyer could react, completely blocking the passage again.
There were obviously smart commanders among the Destroyers, and they actually withdrew their troops when they saw no opportunity to take advantage of them.
The protagonist asked the scouts to cautiously explore outside the lair, and found that the Destroyers were surrounding the entrance and exit, numbering about a hundred.
The scout's reflexes were so clever that he evaded the Destroyer's capture and escaped back to report the military situation. The protagonist estimated that this was probably the vanguard of the Destroyer. Seeing that the sneak attack failed and the troops were not strong enough to attack by force, he withdrew and waited for the main force.
It seems that the enemy is bound to win [Trench City] this time, and a fierce battle is inevitable here.
The protagonist ordered his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, leaving two corpses that the Destroyer had not taken away to form roadblocks, while the others were dissected as usual to obtain the mysterious stones.
The corpses of the responsible Big-headed Ant Sentinels who died in the previous battle were first placed in the temporary empty nest chamber, and after the battle was over, they were moved to the fixed tomb area of [Trench City], which was actually a garbage dump. The ants regard it as their home. Although the protagonist reformed the funeral system, it was mainly for male ants and queen ants. The worker ants and soldier ants still followed the old customs.
Before the enemy launched an attack, the protagonist asked his subordinates to dig out a second line of defense. After all, the first line of defense was too thin, and the enemy could fill it up with piles of corpses.
But the second line of defense would still take most of a day to be repaired. Even if work was started day and night, the defenders would still have to stand in front of the first line of defense for a day.
About noon the enemy attacked again.
