The Envoy King's Legion quickly completed the encirclement, and the four legions tightly blocked [Hive City]. The surrounding red fire ants and slave ants were either killed, driven back into the city, or subdued.
Many slave ants still didn't know what was going on. They didn't receive orders from the red fire ants. These obedient slaves felt that the God Envoy King's army was a friendly army, and they were controlled obediently and became prisoners of war.
Some ants that are foraging far away have not noticed the change yet, and they will return to the city one after another. The flying knights and scythe-hunting ants are responsible for intercepting and controlling them.
Before the fall of [Hive City], the protagonist gave a death order and could not let the news get lost. It has only been a day since the fire ant army set off. If they rush back after hearing the news, the protagonist's plan will have to be adjusted or may even fail.
On the other side, the God's Envoy King's army attacked the city from the south.
The eight artillery pieces carried by the tank troops kept firing at the tall ant mounds of [Hive City] at an unpleasant frequency. Although the rate of fire was not high, the power was not small. [Beehive City] The ant mound was densely packed with entrances and exits, and more holes were soon opened.
The artillery concentrated its fire on the lower part of the ant mound, where the wall was penetrated, the sand collapsed, and it was a mess.
Many fire ant soldiers came out after hearing the news. The first batch of enemy troops came out spontaneously. Without the command of the male ants, they rushed out of the nest in a chaotic manner. Their eyesight was poor and they could only see vaguely in the distance. There are ants everywhere, and I think they must be the enemy.
With the target in mind, the fire ants spontaneously leave the nest to fight back. They have no idea what kind of enemy they are facing. The ground covered with ant lion traps also made these scattered fire ant warriors more scattered and unable to assemble. Such a level of counterattack could be easily resolved.
After repelling the counterattack of the red fire ant army, the Angel King warriors quickly used grass blades, branches and other debris to pave a road in the trap group south of [Beehive City]. The debris is so light that it is difficult for the ant lions to clean it out of the trap.
Some ant lions couldn't stand the accumulation of debris, crawled out of their hiding places, and were quickly killed by the Angel King's warriors. Others continued to hide and could not threaten the Angel King's army, so they were ignored.
After paving the road, Centipede's legion took the lead in charging, and they quickly followed the safe passage to the bottom of [Hive City].
There is a narrow safe area without traps under the city. At this time, the second batch of red fire ant army has gone out to assemble. This batch of red fire ant army is commanded by the male ants, which makes it less messy.
But their number is too small, almost the same as the first batch, only two to three hundred. In fact, there are only more than a thousand fire ant warriors in [Hive City] at present, and the number of troops is pitifully small.
The Fire Ant Nation felt that there were no hostile forces around [Hive City], and with the help of slave ants, they thought it would be safe here. But that's obviously not the case now. The slave ants don't know why, and most of them don't participate in the battle.
The Centipede Legion had huge advantages in equipment and numbers. They quickly defeated the enemy in person and entered the city through the entrance and exit.
The artillery stopped firing, and the tank brigade moved to the west to build a blocking position to guard against the possible return of the fire ant army.
The Angel King's Legion put another reserve legion into the battle, and the two Angel King's legions all entered [Hive City], and the battle entered the street fighting stage.
The protagonist also sneaked into the city with a modified squad of guards composed purely of magic soldier ants.
[Hive City] was in chaos, and the fighting was not intense. Except for a small number of red fire ants who were resisting fiercely, many slave ants didn't know what was going on. They were just frightened and ran around like headless flies. These slave ants were Under the coercion of the soldiers of the God's Messenger King, he quickly surrendered.
A small number of slave ants resisted along with the fire ants, but their forces were scattered and ineffective.
Centipede Python's legion finally found the main passage. The entrance and exit of the main passage of [Hive City] was not conspicuous from the outside and was consciously hidden. The legion of the God Envoy King only entered through a small path at the beginning.
After finding the main passage, Centipede's legions immediately followed the sloping downward passage and rushed straight to the bottom.
From the surrendered slave ants, the God Envoy King Legion has learned the specific location of the Presbyterian Council meeting room and the Presbyterian Palace of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom, which are at the bottom of the nest. They want to rush to eliminate the enemy's leader.
The other legion dispersed into several squad-sized clusters, extinguishing sporadic resistance everywhere in the nest, and subduing the slave ants who had no intention of fighting.
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The protagonist walked into the main passage, with guardsmen guarding him. There were also a small number of dead bodies beside the road, all of which had their heads cut off.
Some "corpses" are not completely dead yet, with the tentacles and jaws on their heads still shaking slowly, or their headless bodies still twitching.
The protagonist ignored these dead bodies and walked slowly in the enemy's main lair as if taking a leisurely stroll.
Although there are many ants in [Hive City], most of them are slave ants, and many of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and are not suitable for the battlefield.
This time, the red fire ant army took away almost all the elite warriors of the tribe and most of the young and strong slave ants. In addition, in the spring of this year, a large number of ant colonies were extorted by the suzerain country, resulting in the number of ant colonies that ended up remaining in [Hive City]. The defensive strength was too weak, which also disadvantaged the Divine Envoy King's army.
The resistance in [Hive City] has become negligible. The elders of the red fire ants showed the courage and will of the red fire ant clan, leading more than two thousand warriors and slave ants of their own clan to make the final resistance in the deepest part of the nest.
But the centipede python army had prepared secret weapons for the battle in the nest alley. Several mysterious balls were cut open and rolled down. After several loud noises, the last line of defense of the red fire ant army was shaken, and the warriors of the God Envoy King swarmed in. Tear apart the enemy troops and slaughter the enemies who were shaken to pieces and panicked by the explosion.
When the protagonist leisurely descended to the bottom, he arrived at the large conference room of the Presbyterian Church, the former seat of the highest authority in the Red Fire Ant Country. He saw that the ground was also familiar white pebbles.
Whether they are savage ants or civilized ants, they all seem to have the same inheritance. Otherwise, it would be unexplainable that the conference rooms of the red fire ant kingdom are exactly the same as those of the old big-headed ant kingdom and the leaf-cutter ant kingdom.
The protagonist ponders. Although the civilized ant tribe regards the barbarian ants as enemies, the protagonist does not have this deep-rooted consciousness accumulated over thousands of years. They are all ants, and maybe they can all be helpful in fighting the Destroyer.
The protagonist thinks about future plans.
At this time, Centipede Python's messenger found the protagonist, saying that he had put down the last resistance, and captured several stunned fire ant elders, and also captured many fire ant queens.
The protagonist asks the captive elders of fire ants to be brought to the conference room!
