Chapter 85: Offensive and Defensive Battles (2)

The red fire ants left behind hundreds of corpses and some of the wounded and trapped on the ground, and without hesitation, they retreated out of the range of the ballistas.

From this, it can also be seen that the red fire ants have an unusually keen sense of war and weapons, and they have just come into contact with ballistas, and they can already accurately judge the range of ballistas from experience.

Their new assembly point, just a little outside the edge of the ballista's range, would not take a few steps back.

The Divine Envoy King's Legion also took the opportunity to inspect the casualties, and in the battle just now, the Divine Envoy King's Legion paid the price of more than a dozen warriors' sacrifices.

This is the first time that the Legion of the Divine Envoy King has encountered an enemy like the Red Fire Ants, who are obviously inconspicuous and powerful, but not as outrageous as the Destroyer, but with extremely terrifying damage, a single bite is enough to kill the most heroic warrior in a painful struggle.

The soldiers who died in the battle of the Divine Envoy King's Legion were all in places that could not be defended by the iron armor, and were pierced through the outer carapace by the large jaws or stinging needles of the red fire ants, and died of injuries. The damage caused by the large jaw is milder, and the sting is often fatal.

If it weren't for the cover of the iron armor, the red fire ants would not have learned to attack the weaknesses outside the iron armor, and most of the enemy's big jaws and stinging needles would have attacked the iron armor to do useless work, and only a few unfortunate Divine Envoy King warriors were bitten to the armorless part by mistake, and they were afraid that the number of casualties of the Divine Envoy King Legion would have increased several times or even dozens of times.

In this battle, there are still a few wounded soldiers in the Divine Envoy King's legion, basically all of whom were bitten by the enemy on their arthrops or tentacles, which is not fatal here, but often requires amputation, which also means that this warrior will retire.

After some cleanup, the Divine King's Legion regrouped its defenses, and the Red Fire Ants attacked again after finishing their efforts.

Last time, the Red Fire Ants committed nearly half of their troops, and half of their troops and the escort team around the senior commander were not dispatched.

This time, the other half of the troops, under the blows of ballistas and slings, began to charge.

The Red Fire Ants once again rushed to the front of the wall, this time with a more dispersed formation and less damage as they charged. As they approached the ditches and walls, the red fire ants regrouped in a dense attack formation.

The protagonist can't help but admire the enemy's adaptability again, in such a short encounter, the enemy has realized that the long-range attack of the Divine Envoy King's army is much stronger than the acid shot of the belly ant or the sour ant, and also responded.

In this way, the Red Fire Ants greatly reduce the battle damage in the way of the charge, and will not reduce the power of the attack because it is too scattered.

The Red Fire Ants attacked more aggressively this time, they climbed along the city wall one after another, and at one point gained a foothold in many places on the city wall.

The number of defensive Divine Envoy King's legions is not dominant, and there are fortifications everywhere on this section of the wall, and the strength of each section of the wall is average.

While attacking on all fronts, the red fire ants also invested heavy troops in some parts in order to make key breakthroughs.

This is a unique tactic of their clan, which can often form a local advantage, and then lead to a move to the whole body, after a local breakthrough and victory, the chain reaction brings about an overall victory.

This is already very similar to human tactics, the protagonist just came to this world, and when he formed the Divine Envoy King Army, he also used this tactic in disguise, using the soldier ants intensively, so that the enemy paving ants at that time suffered a big loss.

This time, the red fire ants were equivalent to using their human ways to govern their bodies, at least at first, the defenders of the King's Legion had a hard time coping.

Seeing that the red fire ants occupy three locations on the city wall, and continue to increase their troops, there is a tendency to break through the defense.

The protagonist immediately sends a messenger to send a messenger to send a squad of Divine Ant Ants from the 3rd Legion in the reserve team into the battlefield.

At the same time, ballistas, which had almost lost their effectiveness because the battle had entered the hand-to-hand phase, also began to shoot at the enemy on the city walls with stone shells.

The ballistae on these towers are strategically positioned, and with the improved range and accuracy of the ballistas, they can cover most of the walls except for the inability to shoot enemies hiding under the walls.

Although the Red Fire Ants were not afraid of death, and were still attacking, biting, and stinging frantically under the fire of stone bullets, their formation became no longer complete and tight under the long-range strike.

A special team composed of heavily armed Divine Ant entered the battlefield at this time.

Like a boulder thrown into the water, weights and balances in balance, and torches lit a fire, this group of burly, powerful beetles-like beetles, swift and iron-clad Divine Ant showed great strength as soon as they entered the battlefield.

The Divine Ant Ants were not in a particularly tight formation, and when they suddenly jumped out of the backs of their allies, they were relatively scattered.

But the red fire ants, who took the opportunity to besiege them, found that these big enemies were slippery like earthworms covered in slime, and their large jaws and stinging needles seemed to have a hard time touching the enemy's body.

The Divine Ant Warriors work in groups of threes and twos, sometimes dodging to avoid enemy attacks, and sometimes using their arthropods or tentacles to flick the approaching enemy under the city walls. And when they attacked, they saw a flash of cold light, and before they could react, an enemy was already in a different place.

Just as dozens of weakened versions of the "Heavenly Gods descended to earth" god envoy kings entered the battlefield, the red fire ants that had already occupied the city wall and had almost broken through the defense line at one time quickly collapsed.

In the distance, the sound signal of the collective chirping of the red fire ants sounded again, and the red fire ants immediately gave up their intention to continue the attack, dispersed again, and retreated to their own formation at a rapid speed.

This time, they also braved artillery fire to take away the wounded soldiers and trapped people on the ground.

Unscathed, the Divine Ant retreated behind the walls and continued to act as reserves.

The protagonist is very satisfied with the performance of this Divine Ant Squad. In the winter, the protagonist finally discovers that these Divine Soldier Ants show super individual combat effectiveness and coordination ability, and they are also very smart and can understand and grasp a lot of things that the protagonist teaches.

The protagonist forms a squad of Divine Ant Ants and prepares to breed more Divine Ant Ants, although these Divine Ant Ants take longer to reach adulthood and consume a lot of resources, which the protagonist finds worthwhile.

And the Divine Soldiers and Ants also proved themselves worthy of the protagonist's dedication and expectations in this battle.

In the past, in his homeland, the protagonist gave up cultivating Soldier Ants, because the Soldier Ants' combat effectiveness was limited compared to ordinary Soldier Ants, but they consumed too much resources such as high-grade food.

However, the Divine Soldier Ant is very powerful, and the consumption of high-grade food and so on is not much more than that of the Great Soldier Ant. Such a cost-effective ratio is also a key factor that makes the protagonist determined to cultivate more divine soldier ants.