Chapter 126: Defeat in the First Battle (3)

According to the tactics of the protagonist covering the retreat one by one, after the reserve team forcibly opens a breach, each squad is roughly in a group of five and takes turns to retreat.

The team that retreats first establishes blocking positions along the way to cover the retreat of the other follow-up teams. Among them, the reserve of the first ten squads to break through was the first to establish a defense and became the new rear army

This tactic went very well in the early stages. Although some of the teams that took turns behind the temple were lost, most of the living forces were able to escape.

Rambotu commanded ten squads of the reserve team that opened the breach, and after watching the last five squads leave, he was about to retreat to the hilltop position again, when the tide of battle took an unexpected turn.

Since the parasitic ants had the same poor eyesight as the ordinary big-headed ants, and there were no male or large workers with good eyesight in the first wave of the enemy army, they all relied on the smell of the Divine Angel King's Legion to lock on to their targets.

However, due to the fact that the wind direction on the surface is limited by the terrain on the ground, it changes from time to time. When the parasite ants are upwind, the parasitic ants that are far away will suddenly lose the smell of the enemy, and stop in confusion because they have lost their target.

If you change to any team with a commander, you won't have this kind of low-level mistake. But the first wave of parasitic ant troops did not have commanders, and they were all ordinary parasitic ants that spontaneously came out after receiving the enemy's attack signal.

But thanks to this, it gave the Divine Envoy King Legion who was breaking through a lot of respite.

With the death of a large number of parasitic ants and silk thread parasites, the rest of the living silk thread parasites seemed to sense, and they suddenly released a large amount of thin pale green smoke.

The smoke quickly covered the large number of parasitic ants in the back row that had not yet been put into battle under the action of the breeze.

The parasitic ants immediately fell into a state of even more madness than before. They no longer care about their comrades in front, and frantically bypass them from left to right, crawling and drilling past their comrades if they can't get around.

The frantic parasitic ants, stimulated by the hormone gas released by the silk parasite, led by the Divine Envoy King's legion at the forefront, blindly pounced on it with fanaticism, and the tide of the battle changed.

The sudden onslaught immediately disrupted the formation of the reserve team, which was fighting and retreating.

The protagonist can see clearly in the sky, and the entire three squads, together with the king who commands in them, are instantly encircled.

Feeling the breath of the encircled Divine Envoy King Legion, as well as the smell of blood emitted by the wounded and killed, the mad parasitic ants even abandoned the pursuit of other squads and frantically launched a surprise attack on the besieged Divine Envoy King Legion soldiers.

Their compound eyes had turned blood-red, and their assault was so crazy and bloodthirsty, crawling over the bodies of their comrades layer by layer, as if forming waves of ants. Before they knew it, the tactics they used and the Divine Envoy King's legion were aligned, and it turned into a three-dimensional offensive.

There were even some crazy parasitic ants that somehow climbed onto the nearby plants in the crowd, and then jumped into the center of the stubbornly resisting Divine Envoy King's legion squad in the crowd, causing great damage to the defenders.

Seeing that the three squads that were trapped in the siege were being dragged, Rambotu immediately commanded the seven reserve squads around him to launch a counterattack.

The few parasitic ants that rushed to this side were quickly killed in front of the tightly formed reserves.

But as they got closer, more parasites spotted the force, and they turned around, once again dragging the counteroffensive reserves to the ground with their frenzied fighting spirit and sheer numerical superiority.

The protagonist sees in the sky the reserves in a bitter battle, one after another of the legionnaires dying heroically due to his conceit.

He was eager to bring back the troops who had already established positions at the top of the hill at once, perhaps to save the surrounded troops behind the temple.

But reason told him he couldn't, and the second wave of the Parasitic Ant Army had climbed halfway up the mountain. If the Divine Legion of Kings does not leave the battlefield as soon as possible, once all of them are encircled, perhaps no ants will be spared except for the protagonist in the air.

The protagonist dives downward, though he doesn't have any weapons capable of dealing damage to enemies on the ground.

He could only keep his flight altitude as low as possible, so that these red-eyed enemies who were caught in the thrill of killing could see him, smell him, and then run after his ass.

In this way, at least to a certain extent, it can attract away some enemy troops and reduce the pressure on the reserves.

There are too many enemies, even if dozens of parasitic ants are taken away from the battlefield by the protagonist each time, they can only reflexively turn back to their positions again after chasing and losing their targets. But there are hundreds of parasitic ant warriors left, densely covered with the ground, and just looking at it makes the protagonist desperate.

The counter-offensive force, commanded by Rambotu himself, consisted of about three hundred fighters, and the three squads that were surrounded were divided into two pieces, and now consisted of only thirty and seventy fighters each. And they still face more than two thousand enemies.

The protagonist flies over the battlefield again and again in despair, flying lower and lower, and even many parasitic ants have begun to try to jump into the air to attack the protagonist and Xiaoqing who fly overhead.

With Xiaoqing's innate excellent eyesight and flying ability, the protagonist only needs to control the general direction and not be pounced on by the enemies that are suddenly provoked on the ground.

However, there was still nothing he could do, and he could only watch as a surrounded squad was completely overwhelmed by the parasitic ant nest.

This is really submerged, obviously this team still maintains a small tight circle formation, but countless parasitic ants still climb higher and higher like a tide, and then cover this force from the top of their heads.

There is also movement from time to time in the area covered by the parasitic ants, indicating that the last resistance is not over, but the strength of the resistance is getting weaker and weaker. Eventually, the parasitic ants crawled away, leaving behind the corpses of both sides.

Among them is a king, a male ant born in a group with the protagonist, who escaped the murder of the wedding team, and was the first to follow the protagonist and win the battle against the Paving Ant Barbarian Army. But now, his body is lying here, with his torso and limbs torn apart.

The other two squads that had come together to defend were also in jeopardy.

The protagonist finally gives up, and he rides Xiaoqing back to land next to Lambotou, who is directing the counterattack, and forcibly orders Lambo to retreat with the rest of the reserves.

The emotions that Rambo transmitted back were full of anger and sadness. But he still faithfully carried out the order, delicately commanding the remaining seven squads, alternately covering and retreating to the hilltop position.

Most of the parasitic ants were attracted by the recalcitrant team of the palace, which allowed Rambo to withdraw smoothly.

The protagonist flies into the sky again, and he can only do nothing but watch the two squads disappear little by little into the dense tide of parasitic ants.

The three squads behind the palace were all wiped out.