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I'm the dividing line

The protagonist wakes up from the surprise of the warning and immediately summons several nearby warrior guards to escort them, and then crowds to the upper level of the lair, ready to direct the battle nearby.

The fortifications of [Trench City] have only completed the first line of defense so far, and the fortifications behind have not yet had time to be built, if the ballista positions in the first line are breached, the defenders will face a dangerous situation with no danger to defend, and can only use the lives of the soldiers to fight for consumption, which is the last thing the protagonist wants to see.

At this time, the protagonist is taking a few temporary guards, quickly squeezing through the swarms of worker ants in the passage, climbing up the intricate but familiar dirt passage.

The whole nest was very dark, and only a few fluorescent bacteria provided weak illumination, which reflected the darkness in the nest.

Fluorescent bacteria were already slow to grow in the previous winter, but after the Destroyer attacked, more than half of the nests and passages had fallen, and the fluorescent bacteria there quickly died due to lack of ant care. The few surviving fluorescent bacteria were redistributed after the war, providing a glimmer of light that was better than nothing for the entire nest.

At this moment, the whole nest has been disturbed by the alarm signal, and there are ants running around everywhere, but except for a few troops with a plan to enter their respective positions, most of the ants are just running blindly.

The protagonist doesn't have time to stop the chaos, so he can only send a guard to give orders to the ruling males of [Trench City] to restrain their subordinates.

Fortunately, even if the world of ants is congested, it will not be difficult to move an inch, and the ants have their own tacit understanding, which can make the more crowded passages maintain a certain two-way traffic capacity, and will never be as difficult to move as the traffic congestion of the human world.

In this way, the protagonist huddles with other ants, and from time to time crawls over the backs of other ants, and finally reaches the upper layer of the nest.

The troops on the front line are still confronting the Destroyers, and the first line is held by several squads of the 23rd Legion, as well as the Ballista squad, which has been trained by soldiers drawn from the surviving defenders of [Trench City].

On the front-line battlefield, it is not appropriate to say that the two sides are facing each other or fighting, the two sides are more like wrestling, more precisely in tug-of-war, and the "rope" is the body of two destroyers who died by arrows.

It turned out that the height and width of this preset battlefield nest were lower than the previous requirements, that is, the size of an ordinary passage, due to the construction of the tense construction.

By the time the Destroyer's vanguard had exhausted the sentries rushing in, the ballista unit had already been wound, and two giant bolts were fired one after the other, killing both Destroyers, and the bolts that passed through their bodies wounded several Destroyers behind them.

The corpses of two giant Destroyers blocked the passageway, and the larger Destroyer could hardly even climb over the corpses of their companions.

As a result, the destroyer in the front row began to grab the corpse of his comrade and drag it back, trying to move the corpse out and attack again.

The commander of a squad of the 23rd Legion, which was responsible for protecting the ballista positions, was clever enough to see an opportunity and immediately ordered his subordinates to rush forward, also pulling the enemy corpses and dragging them back.

Obviously, as long as the two corpses are not dragged away, the enemy will be blocked and unable to move an inch, which is a good respite and adjustment for the defenders who have suffered in close combat.

Although the Destroyer has great strength, the object of each Destroyer's tug-of-war is more than a dozen big-headed ants, so the two sides are evenly matched, and there is no progress in the stalemate for more than ten minutes.

The protagonist arrives at the front line, and after confirming the safety of the first line, he comes to the ballista position again, and takes over the command of the first line with ease, which he often does.

In fact, in a perfect army command system, the supreme commander will not be allowed to make a cameo appearance at the grassroots level, and the excellent case of Chang Kaishen, the captain of a logistics brigade, is enough to let the latecomers know, but after all, the protagonist is a soldier who has become a monk halfway, and there is no male ant here who dares to stop the Divine Envoy King from doing this.

At this point, the ballista has been rewound, but the protagonist asks the warriors to remove the bolts that have been loaded and replace them with stone bullets.

The giant crossbow arrows that have been transported from [Dongyang City] for thousands of miles are easy to use, but they add up to twenty, and two have just been used, and since they fell into the Destroyer Array, it is still unknown whether they can be recovered intact, and the rest can not be wasted.

As for the stone bullets, they are inexhaustible and inexhaustible.

The battle on the front line is not over yet, but it can be seen that the big-headed ants who are outnumbered and good at cooperating have gradually gained the upper hand, allowing the destroyer who fights alone to be drawn closer little by little.

The protagonist sent a herald to tell the front line commander to do this, and soon, the big-headed ants who had already had the upper hand all snorted in unison, and the Destroyers, who were fighting with all their might, suddenly let go, and slammed back with the corpses of their companions, and knocked down the companions behind, and the Destroyer team suddenly turned on their backs.

The Big-Headed Ant Warriors quickly retreated, and the two ballistae raised their muzzles slightly, avoiding the friendly forces in front of them, and fired two quick stone bullets, adding a corpse and a few wounded soldiers to the Destroyer's ranks.

Then the Divine Messenger King warriors stepped forward again, grabbed the corpse, and adjusted the position of the corpse before the Destroyer reacted, once again completely blocking the passage.

There were apparently clever commanders among the Destroyers, and when they saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, they actually withdrew their troops.

The protagonist asks the scouts to cautiously grope outside the lair, and find that the Destroyers are surrounding the entrance, numbering about a hundred.

The scout was so quick that he evaded capture by the Destroyer and fled back to report on the military situation. The protagonist estimates that this is probably the vanguard of the destroyer, and when he sees that the sneak attack is not successful, and the troops are not enough to attack, he retreats and waits for the large army.

It seems that the enemy is bound to win [Trench City] this time, and there will inevitably be a fierce battle here.

The protagonist instructs his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, leaving two corpses that the destroyer did not take away as a barricade, and dissecting the other corpses to extract the mysterious stones.

The corpses of the dutiful Big-headed Ant Sentinels who died in the previous battle were first placed in a temporary empty nest room, and then moved to the fixed burial chamber area of [Trench City] after the battle, which was actually a garbage dump. The ants see it as their home, and although the protagonist reforms the funeral system, it is mainly for male ants and queens, and the worker ants and soldier ants still follow the old customs.

Before the enemy attacked, the protagonist asked his subordinates to step up the excavation of the second line of defense, after all, one line of defense was too thin, and the enemy could fill it up with a pile of corpses.

But the second line of defense will take more than half a day to be repaired, and even if it is started day and night, the defenders will have to hold on to the first line of defense for a day.

At about noon, the enemy attacked again.