The army of black-headed sour ants is rolling in, like waves and troubled water.

Compared to the black-headed sour ant warriors who swarmed on the ground, the paving ant warriors who poured out of the narrow nest entrances and exits were significantly slower to reinforce at a fraction of the rate.

Perhaps aware of this, the paving ant warriors who had already come to the ground, under the constraints of the commander, did not directly launch a counterattack, but formed a close formation outside the entrance and exit of the nest to cover the large army to continue to arrive.

The close combat formation, strict organization and discipline, and the fighting style of not fearing death are the common characteristics of the paving ant and the big-headed ant army, and there is no basis for whether this similarity between the two races has been learned from each other in long-term warfare.

Relying on this fighting style, the paving ant and the big-headed ant rarely faced opponents on both sides of the river, and each became the overlord of their respective regions.

The vast majority of indigenous ants, whether they are Japanese black brown ants or hunting sickle ants, are limited to the size of a single colony, and do not have such a tight degree of organization, and their fighting methods remain in a simple group mode.

However, the population of black-headed sour ants is huge, and they have developed a set of their own tactics according to their own characteristics.

In the face of the army of paving ants who were waiting for the battle, the black-headed sour ants did not rush forward to attack. The purpose of their trip is not to fight for life and death, and if they get into a fight, they will suffer from their size.

I saw that when the black-headed sour ants were about to approach the front line of the paving ant army, they began to spread out their formation, and the soldiers in the front row separated to the left and right, like a pair of arms extended, and spread out the encirclement of the paving ant army with a relatively thin line thickness.

From the perspective of the protagonist in the air, the formation of the black-headed sour ant ant is very thin, and the paving ant army can easily tear the hole as long as they stop a counterattack.

However, the paving ant commander on the ground did not have this kind of vision, he could only see the endless army of black-headed sour ants, occupying the entire line of sight, and completing the encirclement of his own army.

This seemingly very "disparity" in the comparison of forces, although it is not enough to panic the battle-hardened paving ant warriors, but for the sake of conservatism and in order to buy enough time for the reinforcements of the nest, they chose to stick to the place.

Such a reaction played into the hands of the army of black-headed sour ants, and after completing the siege, the army of black-headed sour ants had about twice the numerical advantage over the paving ant army on the ground now. However, the Paving Ant Army continued to pour out of the ground, filling the void at the rear of the formation.

The Blackhead Sour Ant Army began to move forward, and soon approached the front line of the Paving Ant Army.

The protagonist begins to lower his flight altitude in order to witness the battle up close, gathering as much information as possible on both sides (especially the black-headed sour ant).

The black-headed sour ants stopped moving after rushing to the front of the paving ant army, and the worker ants began to adjust their bodies and face the paver ants sideways.

Then, the front of the black-headed sour ant army began to shoot countless water lines.

This is the first row of black-headed sour ants shooting at the enemy in front of them, and they shoot the secretions from their glands hard at the front line of the paving ant army.

These secretions splash onto the carapace of the paver ants or on the ground, instantly emitting a puff of white smoke. Even the protagonist in the depths of the air quickly smelled a strong sourness.

This is the smell of formic acid secreted by black-headed sour ants.

Formic acid, also known as formic acid, is the simplest carboxylic acid, which is a colorless and pungent smelling liquid, very acidic and corrosive. Found in the secretions of bees, certain ants, and caterpillars.

High concentrations of formic acid are also harmful to people, let alone ants.

The Pioneer Warriors who had been shot straight out began to struggle in agony, the intense pain of corrosion coming from their fragile tentacles and arthropods, causing them to roll in place, only to be contaminated with more formic acid on their faces.

Under this attack, the front-line paver ant warriors almost collapsed, and the few paver ants who were not seriously injured were also at a loss as to what to do.

At this time, the second wave of black-headed sour ant attacks also followed, and the black-headed sour ant warriors on the second line stepped forward and sprayed formic acid again.

The previous front-line fighters had depleted the formic acid reserves in their glands and began to retreat, scattering to find nearby aphids and begin to suck honeydew.

After the second and third blows, the originally tight Paving Ant Army Front was immediately on the verge of collapse, and countless Paving Ant Warriors were injured by formic acid. Although most of them were minor injuries, they had already shaken the entire front.

Under the threat of formic acid, the commander of the Paving Ant Army had to order a retreat, and the Paving Ant Warriors who were still able to move burrowed into the ground, preparing to use the terrain to defend against powerful enemies.

However, the black-headed sour ants do not intend to attack the secondary nest directly.

After the Paving Ant Army retreated, the Black-headed Sour Ant Army began to advance, they approached to the entrance and exit of the secondary nest, and then divided into small units, constantly taking turns to spray formic acid at the entrance and exit, preventing the Paving Ant Warriors from rushing out again.

In the previous brief battle, about 1,000 paving ant warriors were hit by formic acid, but most of them were slightly injured and had already withdrawn underground with the main force. After a few days of recuperation, these minor injuries will be healed.

Only two to three hundred seriously wounded were left on the ground, some were dying, and many were still struggling.

Unafraid of the formic acid-contaminated soil, the black-headed sour ant warriors assembled in small teams to slaughter the paving ant warriors who were powerless to resist, and then transported the corpses away.

Then, the black-headed sour ant warriors, who no longer have formic acid, begin to search for whatever food is nearby: aphids, honeydew, ant carcasses, or other prey.

In a short period of time, they looted dozens of square meters of food in the surrounding area. They even fished in the dry waters, and the aphids and scale insects that were drained of honeydew were mercilessly killed as meat.

This was the main purpose of their trip - to loot the food resources of this ploughing ant nest.

The black-headed sour ants rarely did this before, and the paving ants were not easy opponents to mess with, once the other party organized a large army to encircle and suppress, the black-headed sour ant warriors who were inferior in number were easy to fail, and the formic acid they relied on was limited, and it took a while to regenerate after a battle.

However, the recent food shortage has forced the black-headed sour ants to continue to migrate in search of more food destinations.

In the face of hunger, no ant, including the overlord paving ant, can deter the black-headed sour ant from advancing.

At this time, despite their precautions, the black-headed sour ants were quickly counterattacked by the paving ant army.