The ant army was first discovered by a team looking for food nearby.
This is a small team of less than twenty ants. Since the threat of belly-lifting ants, the Angel King's army no longer sends out individual ants, but operates in groups. There are more than a dozen teams like this, all operating in the area near [Xinyang City].
After discovering the enemy, the team immediately sent a messenger back to the lair to warn them.
Although the belly-lifting ants move faster than the big-headed ants, once they gather into a swarm, the speed will inevitably decrease in order to maintain the formation, and they are not as fast as the big-headed ants acting alone.
It's just that it can't be much slower. If the belly ants chase the warning messenger, it will be difficult for the defenders in [Xinyang City] to get time to react and prepare.
Therefore, the remaining ants in the foraging team, whether they were soldiers or worker ants, were led by the only old male ant in the team, and they bravely launched a counterattack against an enemy hundreds of times their size without hesitation. .
This is a heroic male ant warrior.
Compared to worker ants who disregard life and death when fighting, male ants have always given people a somewhat cowardly impression. They always seem to be in a relatively safest position in a team. If all their subordinates are killed or injured, these male ants often also If you retreat in a daze, your death will never be in vain.
This is actually in line with the overall interests of an ant colony. The resources required to cultivate a male ant are far more than ordinary worker ants, not to mention the time and sacrifice required to accumulate experience in battle.
Therefore, instead of dying in vain, it is better to retain an experienced male ant commander, and then the lost squad or legion can be rebuilt as quickly as possible around him. And if you rely on the new generation of inexperienced male ants to form a legion, then the combat effectiveness of this legion will be far less than the former, and the training and running-in time will be longer.
This is the truth about the "cowardice" of male ants. Like the "bravery" of worker ants, they are both traits evolved for the needs of collective interests.
And when the situation is critical and male ants need to make sacrifices, they often do not hesitate.
This old male ant has followed the protagonist since the second year he came to this world. He is an earlier batch of male ants in [Dongyang City].
Although he is said to be an old male ant, he is actually less than four years old. In the male ant circle, he has just passed his thirties, and is still early to truly age.
But he is already the senior member of the entire Angel King's army, and most of the male ants are his juniors. If he hadn't lost one of his middle limbs in the battle with parasitic ants for the Southern City area, he would have become a legion commander like the same group of hawks and cows.
But now, he can only be on the second line, leading a group of soldier ants out to hunt for food.
But he has never complained. The male ant class is so cruel. The disabled male ants are not qualified to be the commanders of the main army. They will only drag down the large army and can only retreat to the second and third lines. He was still willing to do the work assigned to him, following the great God Envoy King and going through all kinds of hardships to reach a new and strange land.
Until you die on this land. Got it!
The heroic counterattack by the old male ants and a small number of the Angel King warriors was as futile as throwing a stone into the waves rushing towards the shore, trying to block the waves.
Although in vain, they did slow down the enemy.
When the brief battle stopped, the ants crossed the beach, leaving only a small piece of corpses, including those of big-headed ants and those of ants. standby station
Most of the bodies of the ants were broken into pieces, with some heads separated and some limbs broken. The corpses of the big-headed ants were all corroded beyond recognition. This small battle cruelly reflects the cruelty of the ant world, but it also reflects the individual's honor and sacrifice.
As for the old male ant who died heroically in battle, the protagonist never even gave him a name because he had little memory...
——I am the dividing line——
The ants did not remain complacent for long. They ultimately failed to reach their destination, nor could they kill or capture the drifting ants as they had done in the past, and then disposed of them as usual.
After receiving the alarm in [Xinyangcheng], the defenders knew that this day would come sooner or later. They were already on the alert and immediately mobilized their troops. After gathering, they went out of the city to fight.
[Xinyang City] has four main legions, namely the 9th legion of the Spade Elephant, the 10th legion of the Jianiu, the new 7th legion commanded by the centipede and the new 8th legion originally commanded by the katydid leopard.
Among them, the katydid leopard had died of the plague not long ago. The newly formed 8th Army had no commander for the time being and was dispersed to join the foraging team.
The remaining three legions all attack - quickly defeat the enemy with the strongest force, so as to minimize losses.
According to the organization of the Divine Envoy King's legion, a legion has 50 squads, with a total of 2,600 officers and soldiers. However, due to the heavy losses in the battle with the Destroyer, these legions have been downsized. Each of them only has 30 squads, returning to the protagonist's level before the military reform in [Dongyang City].
But even so, the three legions combined have 4,500 light-soldier ant warriors. Even if they do not carry precious long-range weapons, they are not something that the abdominal ants can resist.
The Legion of the God's Envoy King was hidden in the grass northeast of the big poplar tree. The ants were chasing a small group of the God's Envoy King warriors who had lured the enemy into a death trap.
When death emerges from the grass, it is like a pack of wolves rushing out of their hiding place to pounce on the trembling sheep. How can the sheep resist the wild wolves? These wild wolves' canine teeth glow with a cold light and their claws are sharp and metallic. They can easily bite the throats of cowardly sheep and scratch their soft bellies.
The battle was lackluster. The Divine Envoy King's legion, which had a numerical advantage, fought in ambush warfare. It also had advantages in weapons and equipment and individual combat effectiveness.
The belly-lifting ants sprayed all the formic acid in vain, but because the Divine Envoy King warriors came from all directions, they were unable to focus their fire, and the long-range firepower was dispersed.
The warriors of the God's Envoy King have gained experience from previous battles. Once hit by acid, they will immediately roll over the land or vegetation and wipe it with little loss.
When the battle entered the melee stage, the suspense was completely lost.
In less than half an hour, the ants had lost their will to resist. To the protagonist's surprise, the remaining thousands of ants no longer resisted, but lay on the ground skillfully, with their six jointed limbs and a pair of tentacles dead. Sticking to the ground, as if surrendering and surrendering.
Look, this isn't the first time they've done this!
In their homeland, few ants would surrender to the enemy, and the enemy would never leave these survivors alive.
The protagonist ordered the soldiers of the God Envoy King to stop killing the ants that had given up resistance, and then tried to find the enemy commander for interrogation!
