In another dark underground passage, groping forward was a joint force composed of the Thin-legged Ants and the Sand's Flat-headed Ants.
The territories of these two ant tribes border each other, and their relationship is very friendly. Every time they attend a civilized ant tribe meeting, representatives of the flat-headed ants that do not have flying mounts arrive on the wasps of the slender-legged ants.
The armies of these two tribes also often fight together and have a tacit understanding for a long time. Now this small joint force consists of more than 40 yellow slender-legged ants and about 10 red flat-headed ants, each with a male ant as the joint commander.
The two types of ant warriors are similar in body length, about 4-5mm, but their body color and appearance are different, so there is no need to confuse them.
The joint force cautiously explored the passage. The fast-moving Thin-legged Ants often sent one or two warriors forward to investigate in the dark and lightless passage.
After about half a meter of zigzagging, a fork in the road suddenly appeared ahead. One led to the left front, diagonally downward, and the other led to the right, roughly in a horizontal direction.
The combined force has too few troops and cannot be divided. It must choose a direction to continue exploring.
The two male ant commanders, Flat-headed Ant and Thin-legged Ant, touched their tentacles and discussed it before deciding to take the fork on the left, which is downward. Their target is also underground. Their intuition told them that this path is more reasonable. .
After walking downhill for a while, the commanders didn't know whether they were still in the ant mound on the ground or had entered the underground part. The maze-like enemy nest almost confused all the senses.
There was a sound of "thumping" coming from the front. It was a signal that the footsteps of ants were continuously amplified in the narrow passage, and it was felt by the joint limbs of the joint force soldiers.
The coalition soldiers were ready for battle. The flat-headed ants and the thin-legged ants were mixed together, closely arranged head to head, and they were obviously accustomed to this fighting method.
But after they met, the familiar smell and cold touch made the commander of the joint force realize that he was encountering a warrior from the Ant Alliance wearing iron armor and coming from the Thor heritage.
The commanders of the three parties communicated with each other and realized that it was meaningless for each other to continue to move forward. The other party had already explored it once, so they turned around. The joint force commander returned with his troops and continued exploring the fork in the road they had skipped before.
Returning to the fork in the road, the joint forces moved to the right. The road stretched horizontally for a short distance and began to slope downward. It seemed that it might also lead to the underground.
Not far ahead, the coalition forces encountered resistance. A group of defenders blocked the intersection, and the coalition forces immediately launched an attack.
But soon, the joint force commander realized that there were too many defenders in front of him, and we quickly lost several dead and wounded. The vibrations coming from behind the enemy forces became stronger and stronger, and the battle pressure transmitted from the enemy's rear became more and more intense. As the enemy advanced, the combined forces were soon forced to retreat.
The defenders chased after them, and the fire ant warriors with their sickle-like jaws could easily kill their opponents first during the siege of two or three thin-legged ants, gaining the upper hand in melee combat.
A flat-headed ant was bitten by two burrowing ants on its limbs and antennae, unable to break free. It was also attacked by a ant that sprayed acid all over its head and face, and it seemed that it could not survive!
I saw the hind legs of this flat-headed ant suddenly rub violently, making a harsh noise. After hearing the news, the other flat-headed ants and slender-legged ants hurriedly lowered their bodies regardless.
The defenders still didn't understand why, but at this time, the abdomen of the entangled Sangren's flat-headed ant expanded and contracted several times, like a lung lobe breathing violently.
Then, a crack suddenly appeared in the ant's body, and then it exploded.
The sound of the explosion was not loud, but the propagation back and forth in the narrow underground area was extremely irritating to the tentacles.
At the same time, a large amount of viscous colloidal acid was exploded and splashed in all directions. The few defender ants that bit the flat-headed ants or were very close to them were immediately stuck to the highly corrosive acid, and immediately Writhing in pain.
This kind of colloidal acid is very viscous and very harmful. The rolling red fire ants, burrowing ants, and bellied ants were in vain even if they rolled desperately. White smoke quickly emitted from their carapace, and they were not affected by the soil at all. Adsorb away.
After one of the flat-headed ants self-exploded, other flat-headed ants and slender-legged ants that lay down to avoid the explosion quickly evacuated while the enemy ants struggled in pain, leaving behind pheromones along the way.
Soon, a large number of civilized ant coalition soldiers who received the news arrived at the battlefield following the pheromones.
The two sides fought fiercely in the narrow passage. The defenders, weakened by several explosive tactics, gradually couldn't support their retreat and were forced to let go of a fork they were guarding and retreat underground.
Such small-scale battles occurred frequently throughout the city, and as the coalition forces gradually deepened, the battles became more frequent and more intense.
Although the scale of these battles was small, the intensity was not low at all. As the coalition forces approached the defensive hub of the defenders, in many cases, both the attacking coalition forces and the defending defenders fought to the last soldier in some critical areas.
Some passages were densely packed with corpses of soldiers from both sides, even completely blocking the passages.
A group of warriors from the God's Envoy King were struggling to clear a path blocked by the corpses, and then got through. Some of the leafcutter ants that followed took over the battlefield cleaning, and they had to carry the corpses back to the camp for food storage.
This small group of God's Envoy King warriors continued to move forward and left the battlefield where they had just fought.
After walking forward for a while, suddenly there were defenders blocking the road again. The soldiers of the God's Envoy King immediately formed a dense formation and rushed forward. They were well-equipped and had a great advantage in this kind of street fighting, and they were not timid at all.
The defenders also had high fighting spirit, and the two armies quickly became entangled.
But not long after the battle began, a sudden change occurred!
I saw a wall next to me, and suddenly several pieces of soil fell down. It was a hidden fork in the road.
More than a dozen red fire ants and slave ants came out from the side and broke the unprepared warrior of the Envoy King into two pieces.
The team commander sat in the back half and hurriedly organized the soldiers around him to form a formation to block the enemy's fierce counterattack.
The first half of the divided army only had a dozen soldiers, and they were forming formations to protect themselves in the face of attacks from both sides. The situation was very critical.
Fortunately, the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King used the fire bombs they carried. The hot and dazzling incendiary bombs made the defenders who had been underground for a long time panic and retreated from the side road.
The God Envoy King's team gathered together again, and saw many defenders pressing forward. Unaware of the enemy's situation, they could only fight and retreat.
It wasn't until they returned to the area where the corpses had just been densely packed that the defenders took the initiative to retreat to their defensive positions and stopped pursuing them.
This team of the God Envoy King had lost 17 soldiers in continuous battles. They felt unable to break through the front position and had to ask for help from the rear.
