Chapter 157: Fortress Battle (3)
A large number of parasitic insects with parasitic ants on the top of the city wall flocked densely to the front of the Divine Envoy King's legion. This caused a small amount of confusion in the legion of the Divine Envoy King, who lacked a plan.
However, most of the warriors of the Divine Envoy King Legion still instinctively chose to destroy the silk thread parasite in front of them first.
Although silk thread parasites have special abilities that can make ordinary ants ignore their presence. But this ability is also limited, so many parasites gather together, it is difficult not to notice them. What's more, the Divine Envoy King Legion, who had suffered a big loss from parasites, had previously emphasized the threat of these parasites to all the warriors.
The soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion in the first row simply and neatly bit off the incoming silk thread parasites into several pieces, even so, as long as the head is still there, these parasites will try to climb up the legs of the soldier ants, and then climb onto their backs.
Fortunately, the fighters in the second row will also help clean up the parasites on their comrades in the front row. So although it caused a little confusion, the losses were acceptable and did not destroy the integrity of the defensive formation.
Although the parasitic ants have cunning commanders, the lowest warriors do not have a high IQ, and they have not been able to grasp the opportunity for the first batch of silk parasites to cause trouble for the defense line of the Divine Envoy King's legion. Almost until the parasites were almost wiped out, the parasitic ants that were carrying them attacked immediately.
The defense line that had just finished cooking the parasite was hit again, and some of the soldiers in the first platoon who were not able to react were instantly caught in the head by the strong enemy. Then the successful parasitic ant only needed to throw it back hard, and the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion who were clamped to the head were thrown into the air, fell diagonally from the fortress, and landed in the dense enemy army on the ground, and were dismembered into pieces by countless large jaws in an instant.
Fortunately, the cooperation between the parasitic ants and the parasite bacteria was not synchronized, and most of the defense line withstood the test, and continued to use razor tactics to eliminate this group of enemy troops.
Immediately after that, the second group of enemy troops appeared, still the first silk thread parasite fungus to attack the defense line, and then the parasite ants attacked again, which seemed to be very orderly.
However, as the Legion of the Divine Envoy King gradually adapts to this tactic, the damage that the parasitic ants can inflict on the Legion of the Divine Envoy becomes lower and lower.
If this main force of the Parasitic Ant Nest is only capable of this, the protagonist feels that he has won the battle.
The protagonist hovers in the air, while his attention is always locked on the enemy's seven pale gold workers.
These pale gold workers are very cautious, or rather very afraid of death. Protected by a large number of sturdy guards, they huddled in a hidden place at the base of the stump, watching as hordes of parasitic ants climbed up the fortress to attack, but they never acted.
In the kingdom of big-headed ants, whether it is the commander of the king in the squad or the commander of the king in the legion, they all follow the main force of the troops, and there is no such situation where the commander is behind and orders his subordinates to attack on their own.
It is precisely because these light gold workers did not come to the scene in person that they were cunning and did not know the situation on the battlefield and failed to change their tactics in time.
However, judging from the fact that the time between the launch of the attack and the defeat of the parasitic ants is getting shorter and shorter, these pale gold workers obviously also indirectly understand the disadvantages of the front-line war.
After sacrificing a few more batches of soldiers, the main force of the parasitic ants composed of seven legions has lost a fifth of its strength, and it seems that they have no good way to break through the defenses of the fortress, even if they rely on the silk parasite to cooperate, they will not be able to break through the line of the united Divine Envoy King's army.
I saw that the parasitic ant army stopped sending troops upwards to attack on the back, and there were countless herald ants coming and going among the light gold workers, as if they were exchanging opinions.
Not long after, to the protagonist's amazement, the parasitic ants actually re-lined up, and then quickly left the bottom of the fortress, retreating quickly and orderly in the direction they came.
Not to mention the parasitic ants characterized by madness, even ordinary big-headed ants or paving ant barbarians are extremely aggressive, unless there is a mandatory order from the king, otherwise on the battlefield, there are more ant warriors who fight to the death, and rarely see ants fleeing or retreating (unless the ants are attacked by an attack they can't understand, and they will run away instinctively).
So the protagonist didn't react for a while, and by the time he realized what was happening, the enemy had escaped from the range of the catapult weapon, missing a good opportunity to collect the head.
The protagonist lands back to the fortress and orders the troops to remain on guard. He was afraid of what tricks the cunning enemy was playing, after all, it was too different from the style of ant fighting.
Taking advantage of this time, the Divine Envoy King's legion began to clean up the battlefield, dumping the corpses of both the enemy and the enemy from the fortresses, sending out vigilant scouts, and dedicating some of their forces to clean up the corpses piled up in the trenches and re-pile ant dung, treat the wounded, and so on.
Then the protagonist rode Xiaoqing again and chased after him in the direction of the enemy's retreat, he wanted to see up close what kind of medicine was sold in the enemy's gourd.
As soon as the protagonist takes to the air, he realizes that there is no trace of the enemy in his field of vision. This is a very abnormal thing, you must know that flying in the air at a height of half a meter, his vision can cover a long distance.
It can only be said that either the enemy has withdrawn quickly, or the enemy has entered the area with lush vegetation, so the protagonist is invisible.
The protagonist leans towards the second possibility, after all, ants are still creatures crawling on the ground, and it is impossible for them to move at such a high speed.
The protagonist flies over a dense patch of grass on the southern slope of the hills, looking for traces of the enemy, the largest flora in the direction of the enemy's retreat.
Grass blades are particularly abundant in the grass, with countless blades of grass coming in a variety of shapes, with only a few gaps revealing the dirt on the ground.
In order to better detect, the protagonist unknowingly controls Xiaoqing to reduce the flight altitude, at this altitude, there are already many blades of grass that will interfere with Xiaoqing's progress. But fortunately, without the protagonist's control, Xiaoqing herself will instinctively avoid these obstacles, and then move along a roughly straight route.
After the reconnaissance of this piece of grass, the protagonist still does not see any trace of the enemy. Further on there was a shrub more than a meter high, and in addition to that was a huge rock, on which there was no shadow of an enemy.
This is too strange, with Xiaoqing's speed chasing all the way, it is impossible to catch up with the enemy at this time. The rocks in front of you are also the only way for enemies to return to their nests, and there are no enemies visible from above.
The protagonist had no choice but to take Xiaoqing and prepare to turn around at the one-meter-high bush and return to the fortress.
Just as Xiaoqing flew under the branches and leaves of the bush. The protagonist suddenly hears a loud noise overhead.
When he looked up, he saw countless parasitic ants jumping down from the branches and leaves of the bush, forming a dark cloud that completely enveloped the protagonist and Xiaoqing, making him unavoidable!