Just after noon, the legion of the Divine Envoy King finally reached the vicinity of the hills.

Since it was the first time that the Divine Envoy King's legion marched independently, although there was experience to learn from, it was inevitable that there would be some stumbles in the execution. What was supposed to be a five-hour march took six and a half hours to reach its destination.

When the Legion reaches the foot of the hill, the protagonist asks the legion to take refuge in a bush.

Going up the hill is where the protagonist encounters parasitic worker ants. At the foot of the hills, no trace of the enemy has been found, and perhaps this is no longer part of the enemy's activity area.

In this case, the protagonist is not stingy with a little time, and allows the team that has been marching for a long time to rest and replenish their strength. After all, although ants have good stamina, they are also overwhelmed.

After resting for half an hour, and when all the rearguard troops have arrived and the stragglers have returned to their formation, the protagonist finally gives the order to go.

At this time, the Divine Envoy King's legion had already entered the battle mode, and it was no longer a long snake column on the march.

Ten squads formed a horizontal formation as the first line, and at a width of about one meter, they searched high up in the hills.

This width is already the effect of the protagonist deliberately widening the front, in the past, there were only 12 ants on the front of the team, but this time the protagonist increased the front to 25, doubling the width.

Doing so maximizes the width of the formation and prevents the enemy from flanking and outflanking them when facing a superior number of enemies. In the face of a numerically inferior enemy, we can flank you.

However, the disadvantage is that the thickness of the formation becomes thin, and if the fighters' fighting will is weak or their combat effectiveness is low, it is easy to be broken through head-on.

However, the protagonist is very confident in the combat power and will of the Divine Envoy King Legion, so he dares to discharge such a formation. After all, the parasitic ant nest will definitely be a soldier for all the people to resist, and the number will be far greater than that of the Divine Envoy King Army.

However, due to the number of adult kings, and the limited command ability of a single king (up to fifty subordinates can be effectively commanded), the protagonist is unable to send more troops this time.

However, for the new formation, the protagonist is still confident. He borrowed from the tactics used by the famous Roman general Scipio the Great in the Battle of the Great Plains.

The Battle of the Great Plains was a battle fought in Africa after Scipio the Great landed in Africa during the Second Punic War, before the famous and decisive Battle of Zama.

At that time, Scipio the Great's army took the initiative to challenge Hannibal in order to annihilate the main field army of Carthage before he returned to Africa.

Scipio the Great had only 15,000 men, and the Carthaginian army was twice as large. Therefore, the Carthaginian army, which had the advantage of numbers, boldly lined up for battle.

In this battle, the Carthaginian army placed the elite Spanish Iberian mercenaries in the center, while the Roman army continued to spread out the traditional three-line array.

Soon after the battle began, the cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Carthaginian army was routed. However, the Iberian mercenaries in the center of the battle line fought extremely stubbornly, making it impossible for the inferior Roman army to win.

Seeing that the battle was stalemate in the center and that the two flanks had achieved complete freedom of movement, Scipio immediately ordered a change of formation, so that the infantry of the second and third columns of the Roman legions would be separated from the middle and advance to the left and right flanks of the first line.

In this way, the Roman infantry was changed from a three-line configuration to a one-line arrangement, the formation was tripled, and because of the complete freedom of movement on both flanks, the Roman legions were able to surround the Iberian infantry in the center of the Carthaginian formation at once.

Knowing that there was no hope of escape, these Iberian warriors fought to the last man in the Roman encirclement, all of them killed without a single survivor. Until their deaths, they maintained their battle formation.

But their bravery could not change the outcome of the battle, in which the Carthaginian army suffered a crushing defeat and was left without the strength to fight the Roman army again until Hannibal returned. This battle also fully demonstrated the tactical quality of Scipio the Great, proving the important role of the width of the front in victory.

Our gaze returns to the Legion of the Divine King.

Behind the ten squads on the first line, the remaining twenty squads were divided into two columns to follow closely behind, leaving a certain gap between the three columns. The formation of the entire legion is roughly a 100*50cm rectangle.

The Divine Envoy Legion slowly searched and groped its way up the hills at the speed of battle.

The protagonist does not intend to carry out a surprise attack quickly, the ant army is different from the human army, many human armies will lose their combat effectiveness or even collapse due to the surprise attack, but the ant warrior will resist to death even if he is alone. So the raid tactic means a lot less to the ants.

And the protagonist intends to kill all the parasitic ants completely, so it is better to crush the enemy's living forces through a frontal war like a meat grinder.

When the army of the gods climbed halfway up the hills, they began to encounter some sporadic parasitic ants foraging for food.

These parasitic ants are also all the same, with three silk threads growing on their backs.

After perceiving the approach of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, except for a small number of worker ants who went back to report the news, the other parasitic ants were under the control of the silk thread behind them, and their compound eyes were red and rushed towards the battle line of the Divine Envoy King's Legion in a tight formation.

This brave charge was doomed to be futile, and the soldiers on the front line easily killed the parasitic ants who dared to challenge, and wiped out the slowly approaching silk threads without losing themselves.

This sporadic spontaneous resistance could not stop the advance of the Divine Envoy King's legion. For about half an hour, the parasitic ants had not been able to organize an effective resistance, and the army of the Divine Envoy King had already attacked the top of the hill.

When passing a bush at the top of the mountain, the protagonist recognizes that it is the shrub he captures captive, and that the scale insects on the bush are a good source of nectar. But this is not the time to collect scale insects, everything will have to wait until the battle is over.

After sending a team to attack the bushes and eliminate the parasitic ants grazing the scale insects, the protagonist flies up to the bushes on Xiaoqing to observe the movements of the parasitic ants.

With the help of the height of the shrub, the protagonist is finally able to observe the movement of dense parasitic ants through the crevices of the vegetation on the ground.

When the protagonist comes to the bush before, the protagonist has not yet observed the nest of the parasitic ants.

But at this moment, because there are so many parasitic ants that are densely packed into a black torrent, the protagonist can easily see their source.

It turned out that the entrance to the nest of parasitic ants was in a valley on the southern side of the hill, where water was more abundant.

The Divine Messenger King's army had attacked the top of the hills from the northern slope, and at this moment thousands of parasitic ants were charging up from the southern slope in a chaotic and chaotic formation.

In order to avoid harming the precious scale insects in the melee, after the protagonist lands back to the ground, he orders the Divine Messenger King's army to move down the southern slope and prepare to engage the enemy army.