Chapter 131: Defensive Battle

The protagonist leads the Divine Envoy King's army to the south in a hurry, preparing to intercept the sudden appearance of the parasitic ant army.

According to the intelligence, the enemy is hunting and hunting the subjects of "Dongyang City" along the way, and if it is not stopped in time, it will cause heavy losses.

Although the army under the command of the protagonist is still called the Divine Envoy King Legion, 70% of the ants in it have not participated in yesterday's battle with the parasitic ants, nor do they understand the tactics used by the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Fortunately, it is very easy for ants to learn a new knowledge, as long as the information package passed is detailed enough and within the scope of the ant's understanding, they can quickly grasp it. However, if you want to use it proficiently, you need more practice and practice.

During the journey, according to the orders issued by the protagonist, the kings of each squad passed the corresponding tactical information packets to their subordinates.

Soon after the Divine King's legion set out, they spotted the enemy.

Seven or eight hundred parasitic ants, in groups of thirty or forty, were scattered across a large open field, chasing and killing the ants that attacked the "Dongyang City" they encountered.

This clearing is dominated by salinity-rich gravel land, with occasional scattered weeds and shrubs, and little vegetation. Because of the salt, it has become an important salt mine for ants.

In addition, many insects that need to replenish salt also venture here, so it is also an important hunting ground for ants.

At this moment, hundreds of ants working in the salt mine are spontaneously resisting the attack of the parasitic ant army. The disadvantaged "Dongyang City" ants are already strewn with corpses, and the rest don't seem to last long.

The protagonist immediately orders the Divine Legion to go into battle to save the surviving people as much as possible.

The enemy had dispersed, acting in small squads, without a mass build-up. The protagonist divides the Divine Envoy King's legions into four groups, each with seven legions, to launch assaults from different directions, forming a superiority in strength on various battlefields.

The protagonist's eyesight is far beyond that of parasitic ants, and he completes the grouping and tactical arrangement of troops in places that cannot be observed by the enemy.

Therefore, when the army of the gods almost killed the parasitic ants, they knew that the defenders had arrived.

The first round of raids caught the parasitic ants off guard, and the four squads near the northern edge were all wiped out at the first time, leaving not a single one alive. Even the silk thread parasites, which are good at sneaking up in the shadows, have all been found and killed.

The Divine Legion also paid the price of three ants killed in battle and two ants parasitized. Due to the large number of recruits in the legion, even if the protagonist repeatedly advises them when delivering the packets, there are still many ants who ignore the enemy's strength and the sneak attack of the silk parasite when engaged, which is the main reason for the loss.

This parasitic ant army attacking "Dongyang City" is obviously commanding, which is completely different from the chaotic parasitic ant army that the protagonist has fought before.

Upon sensing the attack, the parasitic ants began to sound a familiar grinding sound in the ranks, which was a signal for help between the big-headed ants.

The parasitic ants abandoned their prey one after another, and they began to gather towards the center, and the formation began to become closer.

And the warriors of the Divine Messenger King's legion, after hearing the familiar command, instinctively wanted to obey the command of the signal and get close to each other in order to support each other. Thanks to the efforts of the squad commander, these simple-minded worker ants and soldier ants barely managed to maintain their formation.

The sound of the enemy's signal was the same as that of the Legion of the Divine Envoy King, and it almost caused many legionnaires to mishear the signal. Fortunately, the grassroots commanders are quite effective.

After the four assault groups defeated and annihilated several parasitic ant squads directly opposite, they finally met with the main force of the parasitic ant army.

The four assault groups merged again and resumed their usual formation, engaging the enemy in the form of worker ants in front and soldier ants in the rear.

After having the command, these parasitic ants are no longer like zombies that smell blood, but only know how to chase the smell of their prey and attack instinctively.

The parasitic ants now behave more like ordinary ants, knowing how to form formations and fight in a tug-of-war in the form of battle lines.

The tactics of the three-dimensional attack of the Divine Envoy King Legion are still sharp, and the soldiers in the back row can always be condescending and kill the enemy on the opposite side with one blow. However, due to the lack of experience of most ant warriors, the power of tactics cannot be 100% exerted.

And the parasitic ants also performed well, because the individual strength was much stronger than the soldiers of the Divine Envoy King Legion, many of the worker ants in the first row of the Divine Envoy King Legion were killed in seconds before they could even contain the enemy, and the soldier ants in the second row could only passively turn to frontal wrestling if they did not succeed.

The silk thread parasites on parasitic ants are also quite threatening, like stealthy poisonous snakes, they can sense the smell of potential hosts in the vicinity through their sense of smell and touch, and then unexpectedly cause harm to new hosts.

Both sides have their own strengths, and in the engagement, the exchange ratio between the two sides is almost close to one-to-one. The loss rate of the Divine King's legion in this battle was even higher than yesterday's defeat.

It can also be seen from this that the big-headed ants parasitized by silk parasitic bacteria not only greatly increase their individual combat effectiveness, but also their group combat effectiveness is extremely terrifying after they have command.

The protagonist estimates that except for the Divine Envoy King Legion, no legion in the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom can defeat this parasitic ant legion with the same number of troops. Even the troops under the command of the Public Security and the Western King who had learned the experience of the Divine Envoy King's Legion could not do it.

Fortunately, this parasitic ant army only has seven or eight hundred troops, and the Divine King Legion relies on the home field to fight, even if there is a loss, it can quickly return to the nest to replenish, and the protagonist doesn't care about battle damage.

After nearly an hour of attrition, the Divine Envoy King's legion finally consumed the enemy. After paying the heavy price of more than 500 ants killed and 40 ants parasitized, this parasitic ant army was completely annihilated.

At the end of the battle, it was still routine to clean up the battlefield, summarize the gains and losses, treat the wounded and other aftermath work, and the protagonist handed over the work to Roll and Rambotu, and he was lazy.

After defeating this attack, the protagonist thinks that the parasitic ants should not attack again anytime soon, and the next day they let all the ants go out to work normally.

After all, the parasitic ant nest is a full five or six hours' walk from "Dongyang City", and even if the parasitic ant army sets off early in the morning, it is impossible to return to its mother nest that day.

Coupled with the defense of the Divine Envoy King's legion, as well as the dangerous wild environment at night, if this parasitic ant army is completely killed if it is outside overnight, the probability of returning to the brood is extremely small.

The protagonist is apparently unable to comprehend the thoughts of the ruler of this mysterious ant nest. In the afternoon of the next day, the protagonist received an alarm again, and a parasitic ant army appeared in the south of "Dongyang City", and the number was still seven or eight hundred.

As if stabbing a hornet's nest, the protagonist has a premonition that the enemy's attacks will seem to be endless......