Seeing the red fire ant army retreating step by step, the leaf-cutter ant army was even more excited. Under the supervision of the commander, they increased their attack intensity.
It was close to noon at this time, and the midsummer noon sun was extremely dazzling and hot. Most insects were unwilling to stay in the direct sun for a long time, for fear of their body temperature rising too high or losing precious water quickly.
[Slippery Rock City] There is no green shade on the battlefield outside. The white sunlight makes the soil and rocks on the ground white, and the ground is steaming with heat, distorting the scenery behind it.
At such a hot time and place, the ant warriors of the two armies and four tribes were fighting fiercely, but they could no longer think about it. On the battlefield, death is often a matter of seconds, and the dangers of high temperature and dehydration are secondary.
After a fierce battle under the scorching sun, the leaf-cutter ant army finally killed all the enemy slave auxiliary soldiers who had been forced to stay behind. Even the thousands of fire ant soldiers who oversaw the battle did not withdraw, and they all died in the battle.
Now, the two wings of the fire ant army's middle troops seem to have been completely exposed to the leaf-cutter ant front. The main forces of the original two-wing troops have withdrawn to form formations further away, leaving the Chinese army on the middle rock wall completely isolated and isolated on three sides. Enemy.
The leaf-cutter ant army naturally chose to attack from the two wings to the center, and first defeated the enemy troops in the protruding part.
If the leaf-cutter ant army had sent out beetles to conduct aerial reconnaissance in advance today, they might be more cautious.
The leaf-cutter ant army only conducted an aerial reconnaissance before the army arrived on the battlefield, and found nothing unusual. After the army arrived, they relied on ground reconnaissance, and the precious star beetles did not take off again.
In the past two days, the flying knights of the Divine Envoy King's Legion just watched from a distance, because the red fire ant army often organized groups of more than a dozen ants to ambush on trees and rocks near [Slippery Rock City], ambush approaching ones at any time. Flying Knight.
Such an air defense threat forced the flying knights to be cautious, and also forced the leaf-cutting ant army, which cherished the star beetles very much, to give up aerial reconnaissance.
It was precisely because of the oversight in the investigation that the leaf-cutting ant army did not know that the defenders actually had Pingyi.
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The star longhorns charged forward, followed by countless leaf-cutter ant warriors, rushing like a torrent towards the isolated middle position of the red fire ant army.
And standing in front of them were hundreds of ant lion traps.
Ants generally have poor eyesight, and the pits in the traps are the same color as the surrounding soil. There are also some dead branches and leaves dotted next to the traps for cover. The leaf-cutting ants didn't realize what they were facing until very late.
When the first two beetles had rushed very close to the trap group, the male leafcutter ants on their backs were looking down from a high position, and they were shocked to realize something was different in front of them.
He hurriedly notified the messenger, who then went to tell the driver and wanted the driver to control the sacred beast to stop, but it was too late to come and go.
The star beetle was the first to crash into the trap group, and the ordinary leaf-cutting ant warriors on the ground were not aware that they were walking into the trap, let alone the troops behind who had their vision blocked.
Even if occasionally a shrewd leaf-cutting ant notices something strange and stops, it will be pushed forward by the surging ant nest behind it.
The leaf-cutter ant army just rushed into hundreds of ant lion traps.
It was not the star beetles who were the first to run into trouble. The tall beetles themselves did not care about these ant lion traps. Even if they stepped on the heads of the ant lions in the traps, these ant lions would be unable to defeat them no matter how hungry they were and had no interest in attacking. of star beetles.
After these star beetles stopped one after another, some hesitated in place, while others continued to move forward.
However, common leafcutter ants suffered heavy losses in the trap group and could no longer accompany the star beetle.
These ant lion traps were moved here by the fire ant army in the past two days, and were originally placed near the nest in [Slippery Rock City].
[Slippery Rock City] is an important defensive point in the territory. Since the last time the leaf-cutting ant army threatened the main nest [Hive City], the guardian insect ant lions have been deployed here. There are quite a few, second only to the main nest. nest.
This time, in order to make up for the lack of strength of the defenders, the fire ant army moved the ant lion trap forward and placed it behind the first line of defense to protect the nest and the middle position.
There are pheromones on the ground of the trap group that can only be distinguished by the fire ants and the four slave ant tribes, so the defenders don't have to worry about straying into them.
These traps worked to great effect.
The ant lions in the trap had been hungry for two or three days. When faced with the first batch of leaf-cutting ants rolling out of the trap, these ant lions showed a strong killing instinct. They could kill an ant in one or two bites and then dragged it underground. Not caring about eating, they come out and attack other ants.
There are so many leaf-cutting ant warriors that there are only a few hundred traps. If they rush into the conical pit in a swarm, they will definitely kill the ant lions inside.
Even if the ant lions are not killed, numerous leafcutter ants can fill these traps simply by sheer numbers, allowing friendly forces behind them to physically step through and continue the attack.
But ant lions are inherently fearful to ants. Except for fire ants, which can face ant lions directly and can even control them and move them to designated locations, other ants tremble when faced with ant lions.
The Divine Envoy King's army was no exception at the time. They also used blasting, burning or filling pits to kill or force out the ant lions, and then sent elite troops to strangle them, so they were not suppressed by these ferocious insects.
As ants, leafcutter ants have a fear of natural enemies such as ant lions imprinted in their genes, just like humans are naturally afraid of poisonous snakes and tigers.
The leaf-cutting ants that fell into the trap had no intention of resisting and just wanted to escape from the pit wall which was too smooth to climb up.
The leaf-cutting ant warriors who didn't fall also looked at each other, trying hard to avoid the trap and not daring to move forward.
The ants at the back continued to push forward, and the entire front line became a mess.
The traps alone are not scary. At most, they kill some leaf-cutting ants and delay the attack of the leaf-cutting ant army. When the commander of the leaf-cutting ants reacts, there is always a way to eliminate, bypass or bypass these trap groups.
However, the fire ant army chose this time to counterattack just right.
This was something they had planned for a long time. Back then, they relied on this tactic of combining traps to defeat the leaf-cutter ant expeditionary force outside the main hive [Hive City].
This time, they did it again.
Their opponents, the leaf-cutting ant army, had actually thought about ways to deal with the ant lion traps, but they did not expect to suddenly encounter so many traps here.
The preparations made by the leaf-cutting ant army were all intended to be used in [Hive City]. After [Hive City] had fallen, the leaf-cutting ant army never thought that there would be traps in [Slippery Rock City], which they easily captured last time. Not prepared to encounter a trap.
The fire ant army launched counterattacks from the left and right wings and the center at the same time.
The star beetles who had passed through the trap group but lost the accompanying infantry became the first victims!
