Chapter 125: The First Battle Is Unfavorable (2)
Through the gaps between the vegetation on the ground, the protagonist can see a large number of parasitic ants pouring out of the ground near the entrance and exit of the parasitic ant nest.
These second waves of parasitic ants are significantly more orderly than the first wave.
They did not flock to the hills as soon as they came out of the nest, but gathered in the vicinity.
The second wave of parasitic ants has tissue, and the protagonist immediately draws conclusions. Perhaps in each of the small regiments of the enemy, there was a large worker ant in command.
The protagonist immediately drives Xiaoqing towards the assembly area of the second wave of enemy forces, and in just a few seconds, the protagonist flies to the destination.
Sure enough, after the protagonist lowers his flight altitude, he soon finds a large number of large worker ants in the second wave of enemy troops. These large worker ants command the soldiers and worker ants around them to gather around them, and try to suppress the emotions of the ants who are about to move.
This time, the large worker ant has five silk threads on its back, two more than ordinary ants, showing its unique status.
As the parasitic ants pouring out of the parasitic nests became more and more sparse, the second wave of enemy forces had basically been assembled.
Soon, these gathered enemy troops suddenly did not know what orders they had received, and they moved in the direction of the battlefield one by one.
Although the second wave of enemy forces is less numerous than the first wave, the protagonist roughly estimates that there are two thousand.
Moreover, this wave of enemy forces has a unified command, and its combat effectiveness is certainly stronger than that of the first wave of enemy forces.
The Divine Envoy King's legion has been mired in a bitter battle with the first wave of enemy forces until now, and has suffered great losses. If the second wave of enemy forces were to be thrown into the battlefield again, the protagonist would not dare to imagine the final outcome of the Divine Envoy King's legion.
At this time, the protagonist finally regrets that he was too conceited before the expedition.
Due to the unstoppable performance of the Divine Angel King's legion in the battle against the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, the protagonist gradually becomes conceited, and also overestimates the actual combat effectiveness of his subordinate legions, and takes it for granted that relying on this legion is enough to conquer the parasitic ant nest.
However, at the beginning, the Divine Envoy King Legion was covered by countless friendly troops, so that the Divine Envoy King Legion was able to concentrate on facing the enemy army in one direction, and at a fixed frontal width, it gave full play to its tactical advantages, and constantly crushed the enemy like a meat grinder.
At that time, although the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, which was the opponent, was numerous, it could only be thrown into a narrow front and could not give full play to its numerical advantage. And the individual combat effectiveness of the Paving Ant Warrior is also weaker than that of the Divine Envoy King Legion.
The time and place are favorable, and under the accumulation of various advantageous factors, the army of the gods makes the king appear invincible.
But now, since the protagonist didn't even think to inform the main nest for support, the Divine Envoy King's legion could only fight alone, and had to face attacks from all directions at the same time.
And the individual combat effectiveness and fighting will of the enemy army, under the influence of the silk thread parasite, are also stronger than our army.
"Proud soldiers will be defeated", "If you don't know your confidant, you will die in every battle".
It is only at this moment that the protagonist finally realizes the horror of the enemy. Without doing a good job of adequate investigation, the protagonist rashly launched the southern expedition, which is a taboo in the army.
The protagonist who must break through and retreat immediately, and the protagonist who calms down makes a quick decision.
Depending on the speed at which the second wave of enemies moves, it will take a quarter of an hour for them to join the battlefield.
This quarter of an hour was the most crucial fifteen minutes for the King's legion to be able to retreat successfully.
Without delaying for a second, the protagonist immediately flew back to his position and landed in the open space in the center of the formation.
Mulan and Lambotu immediately greeted him.
Rambotu acts as the reserve commander assigned by the protagonist and is responsible for commanding the ten squads that have not yet entered the battle.
At this moment, although he did not know that the second wave of enemy troops was coming, he had already seen the unfavorable situation.
Rambo anxiously asks the protagonist if he needs to send out his reserve team to replace the squad that has been reduced by a lot on the front line.
And Mulan is still relatively calm, as the captain of the guard, she doesn't care too much about the battle situation on the front line. Her heart is to ensure the safety of the protagonist, and the protagonist with the flying mount is the safest in the entire legion.
The protagonist instructs Rambotu to immediately lead all reserves and launch a counteroffensive to the north.
The protagonist then sends a herald to inform all the kings of their plans to retreat.
With the protagonist's order, the entire legion starts to work like a starting machine.
On the north side of the battle line, which is also the very top of the convex arc line, the two squads guarding here suddenly split on both sides.
The parasitic ants, who had already turned red, didn't even know what was going on, and they were knocked down and killed by the countless soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion who swarmed in.
Since the first wave of parasitic ant armies did not have a unified command, all parasitic ants attacked by instinct. So some of them climbed the cliff, and some of them bypassed the cliff to attack the flanks of the Divine Envoy King's legion.
The position on the north side of the Divine Envoy King's legion faced the least number of enemies because it was facing away from the direction from which the parasitic ant army came.
With the full force of the reserves, the parasitic ants in this place were quickly cleared. The Divine King's legion finally gained a way to escape.
Smelling the smell of the enemy that had become thick in the escape route, more parasitic ants began to pounce on it in a frenzy.
According to the retreat plan, ten reserve teams established two lines of defense on both sides of the escape route to resist the incoming enemy forces.
The twenty squads that were still resisting on the front line gradually shrank their defensive lines according to the retreat plan, and the squad closest to the escape route was the first to withdraw, and the other squads followed one after another.
The last to retreat were the five squads that had been facing the direction of the cliff. These five squads did not have much defensive pressure before, and the losses were relatively light.
But as the last retreating squad, many fighters were inevitably left alone at this moment, while the other fighters were completely unable to rescue them, and could only watch them being killed.
The parasitic ants who hunt down the legion of the Divine Envoy are like bloodthirsty and tireless zombies. But if any of the warriors in the King's legion were negligent, they would be killed by these zombies.
After paying heavy casualties, the five squads behind the palace retreated into the escape route.
Subsequently, the ten reserve squads that were originally the vanguards, but had now established a defensive line on the spot, became the rear troops. Under the command of Rambotu, the ten squads struggled to gather their formation and began to retreat.
Not far in front of them, at the top of a hill, the other squads had already established another makeshift defensive line. As long as they retreat to this temporary line of defense, they will be safe for the time being.
According to the plan of the protagonist's sequential retreat, these reserve teams will then go halfway up the northern slope of the hill to establish a blocking line again to cover the retreat of their comrades.
And once they retreated into the bushes at the foot of the hills, where the vegetation was dense and the terrain was complex, the Divine Envoy King's legions were able to escape their pursuers.
But at this moment, Lamboto found that suddenly a large wave of enemy troops swarmed and appeared at the rear of the team, completely surrounding the three rearmost squads.