The army of bellied ants was first spotted by a nearby foraging team.

This is a small team of less than twenty ants, and since the threat of belly-raising ants, the Divine Envoy King's legion no longer sends out individual ants, but acts in groups. There are more than a dozen teams like this, all of which are active in the area near the left of [Xinyang City].

After discovering the enemy, the squad immediately sent messengers back to the lair to warn them.

Although the movement speed of the bellied ant is faster than that of the big-headed ant, once it gathers into a swarm, in order to maintain the formation, the speed will inevitably decrease, but it is not as fast as the large-headed ant that acts alone.

It's just that it's not much slower, and if the bellied ants follow the warning messenger closely, it will be difficult for the defenders in [Xinyang City] to have time to react and prepare.

As a result, in the foraging team, the remaining ants, whether they were soldier ants or worker ants, were led by the only old male ant in the team, and they bravely launched a counterattack against the enemy hundreds of times their size.

This is a heroic male ant warrior.

Compared with the professional ants who put life and death aside from the fighting, the male ants have always given the impression of being a little cowardly, they always seem to be in the safest position in a team, if their subordinates are killed and injured, these male ants often drift away, never in vain.

This is actually in the interests of an ant colony as a whole, and raising a male ant requires far more resources than ordinary occupational ants, not to mention the time and sacrifice required to accumulate experience in battle.

So, instead of dying in vain, it is better to keep an old male ant commander, and then you can rebuild the lost squad or legion around him as quickly as possible. And if the new generation of inexperienced male ants is relied on to form a legion, then the combat effectiveness of this legion is far less than the former, and the training and run-in time required is also longer.

This is the truth of the "cowardice" of male ants, and the "bravery" of professional ants are all traits that have evolved for the needs of the collective good.

And when the situation is critical and requires the male ants to make sacrifices, they often do not hesitate.

This old male ant, who has followed the protagonist since the second year he came to this world, is one of the earlier males in [Dongyang City].

said that he was an old male ant, but in fact, he was less than four years old, and in the male ant circle, he was just past the age of his establishment, and he was still early from real aging.

But he was already a veteran in the entire Divine Envoy King Legion, and most of the male ants were his juniors. If it weren't for the loss of a mid-limb in the battle with parasitic ants for the area around [Southern City], he would have become the commander of the legion along with the same batch of Flyhawks and Armored Oxen.

And now, he can only be on the second line, with a group of soldier ants and worker ants out to plan.

But he never complained, the male ant class is so cruel, the disabled male ant is not qualified to be the commander of the main army, it will only drag down the large army, so he can only retreat to the second and third lines. He was still willingly doing the work assigned to him, following the great Divine Envoy King through many hardships to reach a new and strange land.

Until death in this land. Finish!

The heroic counterattack of the old male ant and a small number of Divine Envoy King warriors was as futile as throwing a stone into the waves that were rushing to the shore, trying to stop the waves.

In vain, they did slow the enemy's footsteps.

When the brief fighting stopped, the bellied ants crossed the beach, leaving only a small piece of corpse, some with big heads and some with bellied ants. Standby station

Most of the corpses of the ants are fragmented, some with separate heads and some broken limbs. And the carcasses of the big-headed ants were all corroded beyond recognition. This small battle brutally reflects the cruelty of the ant world, but it also reflects the honor and sacrifice of individuals.

And the old male ant who died heroically, the protagonist didn't even give him a name because he had little impression...

- I'm the dividing line -

The bellied ants didn't get complacent for long, and they didn't make it to their destination, and they didn't kill or capture the drifting ants as they used to, and then dispose of them as usual.

After receiving the alarm, the defenders, who knew that this day would come sooner or later, had already been waiting for the day, and immediately mobilized their troops, assembled and went out of the city to face the battle.

[Xinyangcheng] has four main corps, namely the 9th Corps of the Stag Elephant, the 10th Corps of Jianiu, the new 7th Corps commanded by Centipede and the new 8th Corps under the command of the Leopard.

Among them, the mantis leopards had died from the plague not long ago, and the new 8th Regiment had no commander for the time being, and was dispersed to join the foraging team.

The remaining three legions are all out in action - quickly crushing the enemy with the strongest force to minimize losses.

According to the establishment of the Divine Messenger King Legion, a legion has 50 squads with a total of 2,600 officers and soldiers. However, due to the large losses in the battle with the Destroyer, these legions have been reduced at present, and each has only 30 squads, returning to the level of the protagonist before the military reform in [Dongyang City].

But even so, the three legions combined, there are 4,500 Ant Warriors alone, and even if they don't carry valuable long-range weapons, they can't be resisted by the Belly Lifters.

The Divine Envoy King Legion hid in the grass northeast of the Great Poplar Tree, and the bellied ants pursued a small team of Divine Envoy King warriors who had lured the enemy into the trap of death.

When death emerges from the grass, it is like a pack of wolves rushing out of their hideouts and swooping down on the trembling sheep. And how can the sheep resist the wild wolves, whose canine teeth glow with a cold cold light, and whose claws are sharp, metallic, that can easily bite the throat of a cowardly sheep or cut through their soft bellies.

The battle was lackluster, and the Divine Envoy King Legion, which had a numerical advantage, fought an ambush war, and also had an advantage in weaponry and individual combat effectiveness.

The bellied ants squirted all the formic acid in vain, but due to the influx of Divine Envoy King warriors from all directions, they were unable to gather fire, and their long-range fire was dispersed.

The Divine Angel King warriors had already gained experience from previous battles, and once they were hit by acid, they would immediately roll over the land or vegetation and wipe it, with little loss.

When the battle enters the hand-to-hand combat stage, the suspense is completely lost.

In less than half an hour, the bellied ants have lost their will to resist, and to the protagonist's surprise, the remaining thousands of bellied ants no longer resist, but skillfully lying on the ground, six arthropods and a pair of antennae stuck to the ground, as if surrendering and surrendering.

Look, it's not the first time they've done this!

In their homeland, few ants will surrender to the enemy, and the enemy will not spare the lives of these survivors at all.

The protagonist instructs the king warriors to stop slaughtering the bellied ants who have given up resistance, and then tries to find the enemy's commander to interrogate!