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The kings of the reserve of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army near the entrance of the Vice-Nest Cave had already learned from the remnants of the defeated soldiers that the battle line had been rapidly broken through. Although they could not understand why this situation had occurred, they took a series of countermeasures according to their instincts.

There are about 100,000 worker ants in the whole sub-nest paving ant, which is also the sub-nest with the largest number of troops among the six sub-nests captured on the south bank of the river. After the river melted in the spring, this forward force also turned to the defense on the spot. The other five Vice-Nests had much fewer defenders, ranging from four or five legions to ten. If this secondary nest falls now, the remaining paving ant barbarian army will not be able to resist the attack of the big-headed ant expeditionary force.

And according to past experience, there are so many secondary nests guarded by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and it often takes weeks or even months to be conquered. Just like before, the big-headed ant army advances one decimeter per hour, which is the normal speed, and when there is some rainstorm or lack of food, or when the paving ant barbarian army launches a fierce counterattack, it may have to fight again.

The kings of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army never imagined that the 60,000 troops of the thirty legions on the ground, and the twenty legions on the outermost periphery were guarded, and it was only half an afternoon and most of the night, and it didn't even support the dawn of the next day, when three legions collapsed and the defense line was breached.

Nor did the legions of the Paving Ant Barbarians have a unified supreme commander among themselves, but after the reserves sent messengers to inform all the legion kings on the ground of the latest battle situation, these experienced commanders still acted with a combination of experience and instinct to respond as they thought it was right.

First of all, the three legions in the reserve team quickly filled the gap that was broken through, and held off with the Divine Envoy King Legion, the Public Security Legion, and the Western Legion (that is, the legion to the left of the protagonist's Divine Envoy King Legion, which happened to be in the western part of the protagonist, and the protagonist gave it such a name).

The other seventeen legions retreated by half a meter after leaving a small number of palace troops, so that the new battle line was just connected with the front line after the breakthrough of the Divine Envoy King Legion, and after the battle line was straightened, the paving ant barbarian army was not in danger of being flanked. And due to the shortening of the battle line, there were only sixteen legions left in the first line of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, eleven legions in the reserve, the remaining one legion was destroyed, two legions were severely damaged, and the remnants of these three legions were withdrawn to the secondary nest.

The paving ant barbarian army is not worried about such a large loss of troops, they occupy the secondary nest has been relocated and placed ten queens, as long as the food supply is guaranteed, these queens can produce thousands of eggs every day, and the eggs can complete the process from eggs to larvae to pupa, and finally break the pupa to adulthood, and become a new paving ant warrior. This replenishment speed is also an important reason why paver ants can hold on for a long time. Fortunately, the secondary nests captured by the paving ants in winter generally do not have much grain in stock, and they were attacked before they had time to collect enough food after the beginning of spring, so the big-headed ant expeditionary force in previous years was able to win at most after the pavement ant barbarian army ran out of food.

However, the problem with the Paving Ant Barbarian Army now is that no matter how quickly it replenishes, it can't cope with the losses in the slaughter attack of the Divine Envoy King Legion.

After the Western Legion and the Public Security Legion keep up, the protagonist is no longer threatened by the enemy on his flank, and can concentrate on frontal attacks again.

The protagonist's earliest tactic is to use the lethality of this tactic to smash the Yellow Dragon into the secondary nest, but this is bound to fall into a heavy encirclement, and the labyrinthine narrow passage under the secondary nest is not conducive to the implementation of this tactic, and what is worse is that the protagonist does not dare to guarantee whether the friendly forces can understand the protagonist's intentions and cooperate with the support. Later, the revised tactic was to divide the troops to help the allies on both sides to achieve a breakthrough after a breakthrough, relying on the friendly forces to cover the flanks, and steadily advancing towards the entrance of the secondary nest step by step.

But now, after discovering that this tactic is far more lethal than the protagonist's most optimistic predictions, the protagonist has changed his style of play. Because *** said: "Do not fight for the gains and losses of one city and one place, and take the destruction of the enemy's living forces as the combat goal." ”

After the protagonist replaces the eight new squads on the front line, he does not order them to advance, but instead sits back and waits for the troops of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army to post up, and then sacrifices tactics again, and the soldiers and ants complete the killing. After destroying the enemy's forces, the front-line worker ants stepped forward slightly and crossed over a large area of paving ant carcasses so as not to affect the frontal battle, and the follow-up worker ants would drag these corpses away and throw them away. Then continue to sit back and wait for the second wave of enemy troops to come and send them to their deaths.

In this way, the Divine Envoy King Legion maintained a monotonous and efficient speed of destroying two or three waves of enemy troops in one minute, about four or five hundred paving ants, and after four or five minutes, the front paving ant legion lost more than half and was forced to hand over the battlefield. In just a few minutes of handover, the protagonist did not let the troops pursue, but also rotated the front line and reserves. Later, in the face of another wave of enemy attacks, it took another four or five minutes to let the enemy legions suffer heavy losses and retreat.

Later, the protagonist is numb to watch, and the paving ant carcasses that were moved to the rear of the legion by the worker ants in the moonlight are piled up into a small hill like a Beijing view. But the subordinates are getting more and more excited, and they are ecstatic to have achieved such an epic victory on the battlefield for the first time.

The protagonist doesn't know if he has broken down the seventh or eighth legion on the opposite side, the opponent's reserve is running out of use, and the disabled legion has fled into the secondary nest, and then several full legions have come out of the secondary nest, ready to continue to use the number to delay the time when the battle line is broken through. But this is exactly what the protagonist wants, and what the protagonist is thinking about now is to kill as much of the living force of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army as possible, rather than simply breaking through the position.

The only thing that worries the protagonist is the physical strength of the ants under him. Although the ants are known for their long stamina, the protagonist's legion has a long sleep on the first day in strict accordance with the protagonist's requirements, and today they hunted earthworms to fill their stomachs, and their physical reserves are relatively rich. But it can't stand up to a high-intensity fight all night, not to mention that the continuous accumulation of lactic acid will also make it more and more difficult for these ants to move. After seeing that the rotation of reserves could not completely eliminate the physical drain of his subordinates, the protagonist decisively sent a messenger to ask for a replacement position.

Now none of these veteran protagonists in the legion are reluctant to lose.

Soon, after the arrival of the replacement legion, the protagonist decisively gives the order to retreat. The legionnaires also consciously split the left and right sides to bypass the friendly formation. The protagonist doesn't even need to stay behind the army, because another enemy legion has just been destroyed, and the newly replaced enemy legion hasn't entered the position yet.

Returning to the rear assembly area, the protagonist recalls the battle just now, and can't help but giggle in his heart.

"I am the King of God's Messengers, the King who will lead you to victory!"