Numerous "mosquitoes" were wandering back and forth over the long snake formation of the Divine Envoy King's legion, as if they were in an ant-free realm.
The flight status of the flying knights was affected by humidity today. With the lessons learned just now, they did not dare to approach too closely. They could only linger outside, trying to interfere and attract these "mosquitoes" away.
But "Mosquito" seems determined to implement the "decapitation" tactic and just lingers. Fortunately, they don't have any means of ground attack, otherwise the army of the God's Envoy King's Army would suffer.
These "mosquitoes" never found the eye-catching male ant commander, and instead tried to attack a few larger male ants. Fortunately, the surrounding divine angel king warriors protected them with all their strength. The "mosquitoes" failed to succeed after several attempts. More than ten of them were broken when landing.
Only then did the protagonist understand that the "Mosquito" decapitation tactic had to be executed by landing and melee combat. This trick was effective against commanders who were alone or whose position was not strict, but it was basically ineffective against the tightly protected Divine Envoy King's army.
The hand-to-hand combat capabilities of these "mosquitoes" seem to be much weaker than those of the God's Envoy King warriors who are armed to the teeth.
However, the "mosquito" still refused to retreat and was still lingering. The Angel King's army could no longer march normally. The "mosquito" had to be on guard as soon as it came over, and the flying knights could not be deployed. The protagonist hurriedly ordered the artillery unit to prepare to shoot in the air.
The rope system that comes with the gun cannot adjust the shooting angle to a particularly high angle. It can only place rocks and soil under the gun to raise the muzzle.
When the "Mosquitoes" flew directly above the muzzle, several artillery pieces filled with gravel shells that were ready to fire suddenly fired a salvo.
I saw a black mist rising from the muzzle of the gun. This black mist rushed towards the black mist composed of "mosquitoes" in the air at an extremely fast speed. The "mosquitoes" had no time to dodge, and the two black mists passed through each other. , dozens of "mosquitoes" fell like rain, and those who fell to the ground were either dead or injured. Most of them were dead and less than half were injured.
The artillery fire was hasty, and the artillerymen also fired in the air for the first time. Several cannons missed, but it also shocked the "Mosquito" troops.
The group of "mosquitoes" finally "buzzed" away. The scout troops of the God's Envoy King's army captured a few still alive mosquitoes from the fallen mosquitoes and brought them to the God's Envoy King.
The protagonist looks at these "mosquitoes". In fact, they are all very mini pavement ant workers, but they are physiologically different from ordinary worker ants: their jaws are larger, larger than the jaws of ordinary pavement ant workers. Number 1, looks deformed on the small head. Its thorax and abdomen are enlarged and developed like a male ant in order to adapt to flight, but its abdomen is small and its six limbs are short.
The protagonist tried to force the tentacles to connect, trying to interrogate and read the information in the other person's mind, but failed. After all, the pavement ants are not parasitic ants with confused consciousness. They are extremely hostile and wary of aliens. With a determined will to resist, the protagonist also No useful information can be read successfully.
In the end, the prisoners had to bite off their wings and six limbs, tie their jaws with ant wire, and carry them forward.
The Angel King's army trekked for five days before meeting up with the leaf-cutter ant army. The journey was extremely difficult.
Not only the "mosquito" troops came to harass them from time to time, but the rain and mud along the way made the God Envoy King's army suffer enough.
Even the Divine Envoy King's army was trapped in a temporary camp for two days by the spring rain. All the food for the army was eaten. It was not until the rain stopped that they hurriedly hit the road to join the next batch of transportation teams.
The hardships and harsh environment along the way also caused the King's Legion to suffer attrition due to illness.
Ants are very tenacious creatures and rarely get sick, but when they do, it is a big problem and their physiological functions have already suffered serious problems.
It has been humid these days, which is very conducive to the growth of germs. Sometimes, the campsite of the God's Envoy Army will see water continuously under the continuous spring rain, causing many soldiers to get wet, their body temperature will also drop, and their immunity will be weakened.
The ants suffer from all kinds of diseases. Some of them simply lose their strength. No matter how much they feed honeydew to replenish their strength, it is useless. Some of the patients can recover on their own, but some of them die soon.
There are also some patients who don't know when ant mites appear on their bodies. This kind of parasite can occasionally be found in ant nests. Each one is as big as an ant's compound eye, lying on the body and sucking body fluids.
Ant mites have special abilities that can interfere with the judgment of ants, so that the worker ants cannot detect their existence, and then secretly suck blood until the patient is sucked dry.
Fortunately, the male ants, magic worker ants and magic soldier ants in the army will not be deceived by ant mites. After the first case was discovered during the camp, a large-scale screening of the entire army was carried out that night, and dozens of patients were found and all were treated in time. Killing and getting rid of the ants and mites did not cause any bigger consequences.
Days of rain have also made it difficult for many ferocious insects to hunt. Some ferocious insects with hungry stomachs and poor eyesight tried to attack the Angel King's army, but they basically became food instead.
Only on the penultimate day of the retreat, a group of dozens of fly tigers appeared. However, they were extremely bold. Although their eyesight was good enough to see that the ants of the God Envoy King were numerous, they still dared to wander around the periphery, from time to time. Trying to attack some lone scout teams.
Fly tigers are usually loners, but these fly tigers move in groups, are extremely fast, and are good at hiding. They can also jump and pounce on relatively low-flying targets, making the Divine Envoy King's army extremely troublesome.
Finally, the flying knights were dispatched to monitor the fly tiger group in the higher airspace, always reminding the army to be alert in time. Under strict defense, the group of flies and tigers had no chance to take advantage, so they retreated.
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After enduring many hardships, the Angel King's army arrived at its destination on May 7 and joined the army of leaf-cutting ants.
On May 9, the vanguard of the leaf-cutting ant army finally returned. Their journey was also extremely difficult and suffered greater losses. There were 50,000 leaf-cutting ants at the time of departure. After some fighting and retreat, there were less than 20,000 in the end. The soldier comes back alive.
At this time, the leaf-cutting ant army has built a defense line in the central area, preparing to resist the paving ant imperial army that may move south at any time. However, the defense line constructed by leaf-cutter ants made the protagonist very dissatisfied.
The local defense lines of leaf-cutting ants are built based on scattered trees and shrubs. There are no nest fortresses built on large flat areas. This kind of defense system is a lonely point, which is easy to be defeated one by one.
The protagonist went to the commanders of the leaf-cutting ant army, but they said they were helpless. The leaf-cutting ants are not good at building underground nests. They are arboreal ants.
The plan of the leaf-cutting ant army is to consume the enemy's strength through offensive and defensive battles in tree nests, and then choose an opportunity to defeat the enemy in a decisive battle.
The protagonist is not optimistic that these tree nests, which are too scattered and lack the hinterland of a large forest, can really consume the enemy's vitality...
