During the day, facing the enemy troops arriving outside the city like a raging flood, the protagonist can feel the slightest wavering of his commander.
This wavering is not shown, but just like parents know that their children are lying, the protagonist also knows that they are wavering and a little scared.
This is not only because of the large number of enemies and their overwhelming momentum, but also the reason why the protagonist is helpless.
At present, the existing legions of the Divine Envoy King's Legion are not very powerful in combat effectiveness. Even the legions from their homeland, whether they are commanders or warriors, were not considered top-notch originally.
Relatively speaking, the protagonist trusts Gun, Rambo Fei, Lambo Tu and the combat effectiveness of their legions more, but these famous generals of the King's Legion should have been lost in the swamp.
It means that the protagonist currently has only some second-rate commanders and troops. General Soldier Courage, whether it is a spade elephant, an armored ox, or a centipede python, the three of them are flying knights turned legion commanders. They have not experienced many real big battles, and it is inevitable that they have not fully grown up.
It's okay to let them fight against the cowardly ant clan, and it's also okay to rely on solid city defenses to deal with the red fire ant army of only 10,000 people.
But now, the enemy troops in front of us are so numerous and so powerful. The force they sent this time alone even exceeded the current total population of the Angel King's army, and was more than five times the total number of soldiers of the Angel King after expanding the army at all costs.
Why doesn't this scare these male ants?
You must know that the enemy is strong enough to send troops of this size over and over again. So what if the God's Envoy King's Legion won once? So what, twice? It will eventually be swallowed up!
The protagonist knows that if the commanders are allowed to remain depressed, this war will be really difficult to fight. Something must be done to boost morale and hone the combat effectiveness that has been somewhat reduced due to the expansion of the army.
——I am the dividing line——
Under nightfall, the God's Envoy King's army was dispatched.
The 1st Army and the 3rd Army quietly set out from the city to prepare for a night attack on the enemy. In this battle, the protagonist does not intend to make a big fuss. As long as he wins a small victory, he can prove that the enemy is mediocre and boost morale and confidence.
The night attack should not have too many troops. For the sake of safety, the protagonist chose the 1st Legion, which currently has the strongest combat effectiveness, and brought the reorganized 3rd Legion with him.
During the large-scale expansion of the 1st Army, 20 of the original 50 elite squads brought out from their homeland were used as the backbone to establish other new legions, and 20 more squads of recruits were added. The new squad commander also just Promotion of young male ants. At present, the legion has not been tempered for a long time, and its combat effectiveness has also declined.
The 3rd legion was originally a legion mixed with vassal ant tribes. It has just been transformed into the main legion. Its combat effectiveness is no different from the other four new legions.
Therefore, it can be seen that although blind military expansion brings about an increase in quantity, it will reduce the average combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
But even if the army expansion is a bitter cup, the protagonist has to swallow it. Without the army expansion, the God's Envoy King's Army will now have to fully defend the entire city wall defense line, and there will not even be a reserve team!
We can only hope that these commanders and soldiers will grow up quickly in the blood and fire!
The 1st and 3rd legions set out carrying a large amount of charcoal. The protagonist's plan was to use smoke to give the enemy a disastrous attack based on the previous tactics of attacking parasitic ants at night.
Through the last battle with the fire ant army, the protagonist discovered that the fire ants do not fight at night.
For the sake of caution, before the night attack force set off, the protagonist also sent a team of magic soldier ants who had the same night vision capabilities as himself to conduct reconnaissance. As expected, the enemy troops were all underground, and there were no warning measures on the ground.
The night attack force then set off confidently and boldly, and the protagonist also accompanied the squad of guards and the squad of magic soldiers.
When they crossed the flat bottom in the north of the city, crossed the large depression, and arrived in front of the enemy camp, the Angel King's army did not alert the red fire ant army.
At this time, what is more troublesome is that there are only a few thorngrass plants growing around [Xinyang City] that can be used as smoke pipes. Even if they are all used for the total length of the flue, it will not be enough.
Fortunately, the Angel King Legion was also prepared. They used plant fiber, ant glue, ant droppings and soil to make a simplified version of ant concrete. They used a wooden stick as a mold and covered it with concrete. When it dried a little, A hollow earth pipe is formed.
The pipes are only used at one end and one end. The head can be connected to the newly dug combustion chamber at any time, and the tail will be inserted into the entrance of the enemy camp before the smoke is released.
The protagonist has observed that the underground camp of the fire ant army is quite large, with dozens of entrances and exits. It is certainly difficult for a smoke attack to cover the entire underground space, and the results will not be as brilliant as attacking a parasitic ant nest with only a few entrances and exits.
The protagonist asked the magic soldier ants to lead a few teams and try their best to block several nearby entrances and exits with rocks and clods. The farther ones were beyond reach.
As the smoking material is thrown into the combustion chamber, the flue is in place, and thick smoke begins to flow from the pipe into the underground camp of fire ants.
While the legion of the God's Envoy sent out ant hands to maintain the earthen pipes that were smoking everywhere, they also stood ready to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall in a hurry.
Soon, smoke filled the ground near the flue mouth. This could be seen from the black smoke rising from the gaps in several nearby blocked entrances and exits.
The enemy also made some movement. The flue pipe inserted into the entrance moved a few times, but there was no sound again. It may be that some enemy soldiers risked their lives to push the flue out, but they soon fell unconscious in the black smoke.
The red fire ants did not sit still and wait for death. The thick smoke could not cover the entire underground. The magic soldier ants on alert outside soon reported that at other entrances and exits slightly further away, red fire ant soldiers and slave auxiliary soldiers were crawling out of the ground one after another.
The light was dim at night, and these ants could not use their eyesight. They could only rely on their tentacles to grope and approach the legions of the God Envoy King.
At this time, the night vision ability of the protagonist and the magic soldier ant shows its value.
The protagonist formed a dozen small night battle teams, all led by magic soldier ants, and took advantage of the enemy's dispersion to launch several night attacks.
The night combat team of the God's Envoy King's Legion avoided the enemy troops that had gathered into large groups and focused on picking out the sporadic enemies groping in the darkness. Before each attack, he was quick and accurate, surrounded and killed quickly, and then retreated before the enemy reinforcements arrived after hearing the noise.
After all this, the Divine Envoy King's army also killed hundreds of enemy troops. At this time, the enemy army had gathered several thousand troops and rushed towards the smoke attack location.
Seeing that the goal has been achieved, the protagonist leads the troops back to [Xinyang City] with ease.
The army of the Divine Envoy King that went on the expedition lost single-digit warriors, and conservatively estimated that it destroyed thousands of enemies.
Although this was only a small victory, it did greatly boost the morale of the God Envoy King's army.
