Chapter 272: After the War
The last hope of the old-fashioned king, the elite troops with roundabout wings, quickly vanished before the onslaught of the Beetle Legion. Receiving this news, Deng Shi caused the old king and the other male ants to fall into despair.
The old-fashioned king's army was divided into two ways, and he wanted to attack front and back. However, there was no good communication channel, and the troops on both flanks could only fight on their own, but they were broken by each other.
Roll seized this point, and with the intelligence support of the flying knights, he prioritized attacking the closest and faster enemy forces.
After an autumn wind swept away the leaves, he immediately turned and attacked another sluggish enemy army, thus winning a great victory.
The beetle troops' assault ability was invincible in the narrow terrain on the ridge, and even if the old-fashioned king army was extremely heroic and formed a dense formation to resist, it could only be continuously broken and driven off the cliff layer by layer.
Moreover, Roll has also continued to improve the tactics and coordination skills of the Beetle Legion in several battles of "Qingqiu City" and "Waterfront City", and now, at least in the narrow terrain, it is difficult for the Old-fashioned King Army to use the dense queue to delay the Beetle and the surprise force of the accompanying infantry, and then divide and surround the Beetle and the subordinate infantry.
With the rout of the elite roundabout troops on both wings, the males on the frontal battlefield and the main formation of the old-fashioned king's army finally lost the determination to persist in the battle, and began to ignore the messengers sent by the old-fashioned king, and retreated on their own.
The prestige of the old-fashioned king was finally exhausted after successive defeats, and even though he knew that retreating was death, he could no longer convince the other males who insisted on going their own way.
Each male ant began to retreat with one or more legions, with the troops of the main formation wanting to retreat to the secondary nest in the rear along the ant path, and the troops on the front line wanting to retreat to the "Hunting Ground City" first.
After receiving the information sent back by the flying knight that the enemy army was shaken and scattered on all fronts, Roll did not hesitate to start the pursuit.
Because the protagonist asks to annihilate the main force of the enemy army in the first battle, he just left Rambo Fei's legion behind, and pressed the enemy troops on the front line all the way to escape to the "Hunting Ground City", and then blocked the entrance and exit, ignoring these routs for the time being.
And he himself led the main force along the ant road, vowing to completely destroy the enemy forces that were still intact.
These old-fashioned kings who fled along the ant path also escaped smoothly along the ant path at first. But after some time, when they finally encountered Lambosser's legion, they realized that things were not good.
Rambotser had already been warned by the Flying Knight in advance and had set up his defenses.
Even if the old-fashioned king army broke out with its last combat strength at this moment and wanted to rush through the blockade line in one fell swoop, after hitting the wall, it was quickly defeated by the rolling beetle troops chasing after the Ouroboros.
After destroying the fleeing enemy army, he wiped out the enemy's reinforcements with another wave, and only then did he turn back and continue to blockade the "Hunting Ground City".
As the fighters were tired from a day of fierce fighting, Roll decided to rest for the night and launch a general attack the next day.
In the evening, after statistics and estimates, in today's battle, the Divine Envoy King's army eliminated three or four thousand enemies, captured more than 10,000 worker ants and soldier ants, and the enemy's male ants were still all killed in battle as usual and did not surrender. At best, there were only four or five thousand enemy troops stationed in the "Hunting Ground City".
While cleaning up the battlefield, the Divine Envoy King warriors did not find the corpse of the Old-fashioned King, and guessed that he had taken refuge in the "Waterfront City". But this is just a lingering breath, tomorrow as soon as the sun rises, roll can wave the army to capture the "hunting ground city", and completely eliminate the old king's heart.
In today's battle, the Divine Messenger King's legion also paid a triple-digit casualty ratio. Especially in the final stage of the battle, the whereabouts of the three flying knights who were responsible for guiding the pursuit of the ground forces were unknown, which was much more serious than ordinary battle damage.
The battle damage of the Flying Knights is a relatively rare thing, after all, they fly high in the air, and it is difficult for the ants to threaten them with their usual methods.
However, there have been cases of parasitic ants hiding on vegetation to sneak up on flying knights, and flying knights being attacked by fierce insects such as spiders and wasps.
The three flying knights did not return until nightfall, apparently because they were unlucky. And among the three of them is the commander-in-chief of the flying knights, the Flyhawk.
This is something that Rolling and Rambo Fei are very concerned about, although the status of the Flyhawk is not as good as a few of them, but it is also a very important member of the Divine Envoy King Legion, and the future is limitless.
He could only send more search troops to search for him early the next morning, even though he knew it might be futile.
- I'm the dividing line -
The next day, after the sun rose, he led the army to attack the "Hunting Ground City" on time, the defenders had a great consumption of a day of combat yesterday, and after returning to the lonely city, there was no food to replenish, and they were already physically exhausted and demoralized.
It didn't take much effort for the Divine Envoy Legion to occupy the nest, killing the three remaining males and capturing more than 3,000 ordinary ants. But in it, there is no old-fashioned king, no ants alive, no dead corpses.
Roll is very puzzled, yesterday the enemy army did not have a large force to escape, and those who could escape were scattered worker ants and soldier ants who had lost their command.
But now that the old-fashioned king has not been found in the "Hunting Ground City", will he still be able to fly?
On one side, they dug three feet into the ground and failed to find the old king, and on the other hand, the flying knights who went out to search for the commander because they didn't need to participate in the underground battle also returned in vain.
Instead, they found the corpses of two flies on the edge of the battlefield, with saddled saddles on them, apparently the mounts of the Flying Knights. But the knight above and another fly mount were nowhere to be found.
Don't dare to delay, hurry up and let the flying knights report the news of the military situation and the disappearance of the flyword to the protagonist.
At the same time, roll also had to deal with tens of thousands of captive ants.
These ants are all members of the Big-headed ant family, although they had shown no mercy to the Divine Envoy King's legions when they were commanded by the Archaic King and his male ants. But after losing its commander, in the face of a "king" like rolling, he still showed obedience, and did not make a single mistake.
Roll decided to let the second legion of Rambo Fei, which suffered the most damage in the battle, escort these large numbers of captives back to the main nest "Qingqiu City" and wait for the protagonist to dispose of.
- I'm the dividing line -
The next day, Roll led the remaining three legions and set out from the "Hunting Ground City" and spent eight days destroying the remaining sixteen enemy-controlled sub-nests.
These lairs lost their unified command, fought separately and with insufficient troops, and were easily broken down one by one, without much difficulty or damage.
However, the old-fashioned king still does not see ants alive or dead corpses, as if he has disappeared from this world out of thin air.
In any case, the Divine King's legion basically pacified the archaic king, the number one enemy who quickly emerged and grew, and ushered in the victory of the first war after the protagonist entered the main nest.