This is a battle that the ant rarely rises to.
Perhaps the nest is behind them, and only the warriors can protect the fragile queen and larvae. These ants have no way to retreat. They finally no longer hide and fight guerrillas, but cut off the connection between the trees in the nest and the surrounding trees. Most of the rope bridges, along the trunks of the trees, established a formal line of defense.
On the ground, after the fire ants have gathered, they form several columns and move closer to the roots of the tree from the gathering place far away from the tree, preparing to climb the tree.
This dispersed column marching method greatly reduced the probability of them being hit by the acid liquid of the ants in the tree. If it is surrounded by a large tree, I am afraid that it will suffer a lot of damage from the acid.
Although fire ants are not arboreal ants, they are still very fast when climbing tree trunks. As long as it is not a maze of branches that is too complicated, they can barely adapt to it, so they can fight back and forth with the leaf-cutting ants, the overlord of the forest. many years.
The position of the ant is set up about half a meter above the ground on the tree trunk. It consists of about 4,000 warriors and is arranged in six rings. Each ring is a line of defense and consists of 600 to 700 warriors.
This is already an army that is overwhelming the country, and it is also their last line of defense!
When fire ants appear within the shooting range, the ants immediately raise their buttocks high and fling the secreted acid beads towards the enemy with trembling movements.
The acid accelerates its fall with the help of potential energy, and some larger acid beads disperse into small particles due to wind resistance.
The fire ants seemed to have been hit by acid rain. Waves of white acid corrosion and steaming smoke rose from the ground and the fire ants.
Fire ants are very tough and tough, forcing themselves forward despite the pouring acid rain. As long as they are not hit in a vulnerable part or suffer uncontrollable pain, these fire ant warriors will never stop their attack.
The fire ants at the front after climbing the tree are cannon fodder. They endure the densest tilt of the acid liquid and use their bodies to protect their companions behind.
Under the attack of acid rain, some fire ant warriors had their compound eyes damaged and even their antennae broken. They still moved forward, consuming the defenders' ammunition with their own bodies.
Relying on the sacrifice of the warriors at the front, the red fire ants have approached the front of the belly-lifting ants.
At this time, you can see the difference in size between the two ants.
The ants are small and medium-sized ants, and their warriors are only about 3mm in length, similar to the worker ants of Big-headed Fire Ants. Red imported fire ants have three types of warriors: large, medium and small. Small fire ants also have a length of 3mm, and the more numerous ones have a body length of 4mm (similar to Big-headed ants). Medium-sized fire ants (similar to soldier ants) and large-sized fire ants with a body length of 6mm.
The size difference between the two sides is huge, and the difference in size means the difference in close combat ability. Just like the reason why the ants are strong in single combat has a lot to do with their 16mm body length.
The red imported fire ants have won many battles in the south and north, relying on their own physical fighting ability. They not only rely on their size advantage in hand-to-hand combat, but also rely on the burning pain produced by their stings.
This is where their name comes from, the fiery pain that even humans, let alone ants, can’t stand.
When the red imported fire ants approached, the ants showed great bravery. Those ants in the first line of defense that had run out of acid took the initiative to fight with the red imported fire ants. At the same time, the acid from behind continued to cover them without stopping, and even the soldiers of our own who were fighting in the melee were not spared.
Although the belly-lifting ants are more resistant to acid, they are still unable to survive such a dense barrage. They actually intend to die together with the enemy.
Every ant that has exhausted its acid will take the initiative to step forward and commit itself to a certain death situation with enemies in front and acid behind, willing to sacrifice for its companions, its nest, and its tribe.
Those ants bitten by fire ants curled up in burning pain, rolled and fell from the tree, and soon became motionless in the severe pain.
Those belly-lifting ants whose bodies were full of acid jumped with all their strength, entangled the enemy in front of them with their six limbs and mandibles, rubbed the acid all over her body, and together they suffered the pain of being corroded.
This is the high fighting spirit and fearless spirit of sacrifice that the ants display in order to protect their nests.
However, such bravery cannot change the situation of the war.
Fire ants have a strength advantage of three to four times and can withstand consumption. But if every ant warrior dies, there will be one less enemy. If every enemy dies, the enemy will be one step closer to the nest.
Moreover, just one sting from a red fire ant is enough to make an ant lose its fighting ability due to severe pain. However, it takes more than a dozen or even dozens of shots to severely damage a fire ant with its acidic solution.
When the vanguard of the red fire ants, which had a hideous appearance due to acid corrosion, broke into the ants' main formation, the ants finally collapsed.
Some of the ants turned around and ran away, and some were still resisting instinctively. They no longer had a formation, and they no longer had the spirit and fighting spirit that they had before without fear of sacrifice.
As usual, the fire ants were the first to persist until the enemy collapsed first, and then began to pursue them wantonly.
Although there are still sporadic battles, the war is over, and the magical ant flying knight who is watching also realizes that the belly-lifting ants are finished.
They quickly reported this information to the protagonist.
——I am the dividing line——
After receiving the battle report, the protagonist was not surprised.
The belly ants are finished. The question now is, when will the red fire ants discover the existence of the God Envoy King's army, and when will they raise an army to invade!
War preparations have already begun in the territory of the God's Envoy Army. [Nansen City] has been abandoned, and the residents and herds there have been moved to the vicinity of [Xinyang City]. Due to insufficient pasture, some aphids and scale insects were even forced to be slaughtered. Lose.
In this way, if the enemy really invades [Xinyang City], most of the aphids and scale insects will have to be slaughtered, and the rest will be placed on the peninsula. After all, the area and amount of vegetation there cannot support too many herds.
Only the purple butterfly larvae that can produce crow honey were not slaughtered. They were placed in big poplar trees. They were lucky.
After giving up [Nansen City], the actual control range of the God's Envoy King's Army shrank to the level when they first arrived in this area.
Fortunately, in this way, the defense line of the God Envoy King's army has been greatly shortened, and there are no outstanding weaknesses. Relying on the defense system of [New Yang City], the protagonist does not think that the red fire ants can break through the city wall.
Judging from the battle report sent back by the flying knight, the fighting method of these red fire ants is still very primitive, relying on the body of the ants, and there is nothing too advanced.
What the protagonist is afraid of is the ant tribe like the big-headed ant tribe, which can domesticate and drive beetles to fight. Only such enemies will pose a greater threat to the defenses of the Angel King's army!
