Chapter 96: April Fool's Day Offensive (2)

During the day, the protagonist can feel the wavering of his commander in the face of enemy troops who arrive outside the city like raging floods.

This wavering doesn't show itself, but just like parents know their children are lying, the protagonist also knows that they are wavering, and there is a little trepidation.

This is not only because of the large number of enemies and the momentum, but also because of the reasons why the protagonist is helpless.

At present, the existing legions of the Divine Envoy King Legion are not very strong in combat effectiveness, even if they are legions from their homeland, whether they are commanders or warriors, they are not top-notch in the past.

Relatively speaking, the protagonist trusts the combat power of Roll, Rambo Fei, Rambo and their legions, but these famous generals of the Divine Envoy King Legion should all be folded in the swamp.

It means that there are only a few second-rate commanders and troops under the command of the protagonist. Will be brave, whether it is a spade elephant or a bull or a centipede, the three of them are all flying knights turned legion commanders, and they have not experienced many real big battles, and it is inevitable that they have not fully grown up.

It's okay for them to fight the cowardly belly-raising ant clan, and it's okay to rely on strong city defenses to deal with the Red Fire Ant Army, which only has 10,000 people.

But now, the enemy army in front of you is so numerous and so aggressive. The number of troops they sent this time alone even exceeded the current total number of Divine Envoy King Legions, and more than five times the total number of Divine Envoy King warriors after the expansion of the army at all costs.

How does this not make these male ants frightened?

You must know that the enemy's strength can still send troops of this size again and again. What if the Legion of the Divine King's Legion wins once? What about twice? It's going to be swallowed up!

The protagonist knows that if the commanders are allowed to slump like this, this battle will be really difficult to fight, and something must be done to boost morale and hone the combat effectiveness that has declined a little due to the expansion of the army.

- I'm the dividing line -

In the night, the Divine Messenger King's legion was dispatched.

The 1st and 3rd Legions quietly set out from the city and prepared for a night attack on the enemy. In this battle, the protagonist does not intend to make a big scene, as long as he wins a small victory, he can prove that the enemy is not enough, and boost morale and confidence.

The night attack should not be too many, and for the sake of safety, the protagonist chose the 1st Legion, which is currently the strongest combat power, and brought the reorganized 3rd Legion.

In the large-scale expansion of the 1st Legion, the original 50 elite squads brought out from their homeland were divided into 20 as the backbone of the establishment of other new legions, and 20 new squads were added, and the commander of the new squad was also a young male ant who had just been promoted. At present, the regiment has not been honed for a long time, and its combat effectiveness has also declined.

The 3rd Legion was originally a mixed legion of the vassal ant clan, and it has just been rebuilt into the main legion, and its combat effectiveness is no different from the other four newly built legions.

Therefore, it can be seen that although the blind expansion of the army has brought about an increase in numbers, it will reduce the average combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

But even if the army is expanded, even if it is a cup of bitter wine, the protagonist has to swallow it, if the army is not expanded, the army of the god king will now have to fully defend the entire city wall, and there is no reserve team!

One can only count on these commanders and warriors to grow up quickly in blood and fire!

The 1st and 3rd Legions set off with a large amount of charcoal, and the protagonist's plan was to smoke the enemy to dismount the enemy army, following the previous tactics of night attacks on parasitic ants.

Through the last encounter with the Red Fire Ant Army, the protagonist discovers that the Red Fire Ants do not fight at night.

For the sake of prudence, before the departure of the night attack army, the protagonist also sent a team of divine soldiers and ants with the same night vision ability as himself to set out to investigate, and the enemy troops were indeed underground, and there were no warning measures on the ground.

Only then did the night raid troops set off boldly, and the protagonist also accompanied the Praetorian Guard team and the Divine Ant Squad.

When they crossed the flat bottom to the north of the city, crossed the large depression, and reached the enemy camp, the army of the Divine Envoy did not alarm the Red Fire Ant Army.

At this time, the more troublesome thing is that there are only a few knotweeds that can be used as smoke pipes around [Xinyangcheng], and even if all of them are used as flues, the total length is not enough.

Fortunately, the Divine Envoy King's army was also prepared, they used plant fibers, ant glue, ant dung and soil to make a simplified version of ant concrete, using a wooden stick as a mold, covering the concrete on it, and when it dried a little, it formed a hollow soil pipe.

The knotted grass pipes were only used at one end and the other, the head of which could be connected to the freshly dug combustion chamber at any time, and the tail part was inserted into the entrance of the enemy camp before the smoke was released.

The protagonist observes that the underground camp of the Red Fire Ant army is quite large, and there are dozens of entrances and exits alone. A smoke attack will certainly not cover all of the underground space, and the results will not be as brilliant as attacking a parasitic nest with only a few entrances and exits.

The protagonist asks the Divine Ant to lead a few squads to block several nearby entrances and exits with stones and clods of soil as much as possible, and the farther it is beyond the reach of the whip.

As the smoke is thrown into the combustion chamber and the flue is in place, puffs of smoke begin to pour from the pipes into the underground camp of the red fire ants.

The Divine Envoy King's Legion was guarding the smoking earthen pipes while guarding the enemy dogs from jumping over the wall.

Soon, smoke filled the ground near the mouth of the flue, as evidenced by the black smoke coming out of the cracks in several nearby blocked entrances and exits.

The enemy also moved, and the flue pipe inserted into the entrance moved a few times, but there was no sound again. It may be that an enemy soldier risked his life to push the flue out, but he quickly fell unconscious in the black smoke.

The red fire ants did not sit still, the smoke could not cover all the underground, and the vigilant soldiers outside soon reported that there were red fire ant warriors and slave auxiliaries crawling out of the ground one after another at the entrances and exits of other slightly farther locations.

The light was obscure at night, and these ants could not use their eyesight, so they could only fumble with their tentacles and approach the army of the Divine King.

At this time, the night vision ability of the protagonist and the Divine Ant reflects its value.

The protagonist formed a dozen squad-sized night combat teams, all led by the Divine Soldier Ants, and took advantage of the dispersion of the enemy army to launch several night attacks.

The Night Warriors of the King's Legion avoided the enemy forces that had gathered in large groups, picking out the scattered enemies who groped in the darkness. Before each attack, he was quick and ruthless, quickly surrounded and killed, and then retreated before enemy reinforcements arrived at the sound of movement.

In this way, the army of the Divine Envoy King also killed hundreds of enemy soldiers. At this time, the enemy army had gathered several thousands of troops and rushed towards the smoke attack site.

The protagonist sees that the goal has been achieved, and withdraws [Xinyangcheng] with the troops.

The Divine Envoy King's legion lost single digits of warriors, and conservatively estimated that thousands of enemies were destroyed.

Although this was only a small victory, it did greatly boost the morale of the Divine Envoy King's legion.