Chapter 174: Fortress Battle (20)

The protagonist looks to the east, where there is nothing but the city walls.

However, the protagonist's gaze seems to be able to penetrate the city walls, pass the dense enemy army, and then sharply leap over the wasteland around the fortress, and throw himself farther away.

There, a small group of Divine Emissary Legion warriors were leading the Sky Flying Knight towards the pale golden workers and their guards hiding on the edge of the battlefield.

These are the six melee squads that the protagonist has dispatched from the Third Legion, who are constantly using the rocks and dirt slopes on the wasteland to cover their figures, relying on the guidance of the flying knights in the sky, constantly correcting the direction of progress, and stealthily approaching the location of the pale gold giant worker ant.

With the light gold workers having good eyesight, and the fortress is surrounded by wasteland with no vegetation, it stands to reason that if the Divine Angel King's legion wants to attack them, it will be easy to spot.

However, due to the fact that the Light Gold Workers were currently focused on the fierce battle above the fortress, and the countless messengers running back and forth to receive orders had diverted their remaining energy, it was not until the Divine Envoy King's legion suddenly appeared from a close distance that they discovered this group of deadly killers.

The small detachment of the Divine Envoy King's legion stopped and stopped, constantly approaching with the help of cover, and also dodged the messengers shuttling along the way, and it took more than ten minutes to cover the distance of less than half a meter.

When they suddenly came out, the guards of the light gold worker ant who were in charge of guarding raised a sharp alarm, and the light gold worker ant woke up like a dream and hurriedly wanted to escape.

However, at this time, it was too late, and the Divine Envoy King Legion had already opened the encirclement net, and quickly surrounded the pale gold worker ant and the guards of a small team around her with a pincer attack.

With an absolute numerical superiority of six to one, the tightly formed Divine Envoy King Legion squad wiped out the enemy at a fraction of the cost!

There were five pale gold workers left, and these pale gold workers were about three centimeters apart from each other, and when the team attacked one of them, the nearest enemy had already spotted the sneak attackers, and sent messengers to inform their ignorant companions further away.

There are also not many guards around the other light gold workers, and they can't resist the large number of small teams. So they fled backwards and sent messengers to the frontline troops asking for help.

The protagonist's intention in sending this team is not to wipe out all the light gold workers, and he knows that this is almost impossible.

However, before the parasitic ants on the front line received the signal to return to help, the team still had time to make the next move.

Following the protagonist's orders, the team continues to assemble and, under the guidance of the Flying Knight, chases down the nearest pale gold worker ant.

There is now a distance of more than three centimeters between the two, and under normal circumstances, the speed of both sides is the same, and they will definitely not be able to catch up with the enemy.

That's when the Flying Knight showed his presence.

The spear-armed flying knight quickly lowered his altitude from behind, approaching the fleeing parasitic ants, and then piercing an enemy with his spear.

Then, with a flick of the flying knight, he shook off the corpse of the enemy from the tip of the spear and quickly climbed up, dodging the counterattack of the enemy who turned back and opened his teeth and claws.

Each Flying Knight's charge harvests the name of a parasitic ant warrior. If it weren't for the fact that the Great Worker Ant was firmly covered in the innermost part, the Flying Knight would have been ready to kill her directly.

Soon, the Flying Knight's clay spearhead was no longer able to cope with such frequent stabbing and was broken, and now he had to directly use his wooden stick without a spearhead to whip the parasitic ants that could reach it, and he had lost the ability to kill the enemy with a single blow.

However, his goal was not to kill many enemies, and with each charge, the enemy had to readjust their formation, stopping and trying to attack the pesky fly and the cunning male ant on it. As a result, the team of escaped parasitic ants slows down more and more until they are finally caught up by the squad.

The team eliminated the second light gold worker ant, but at this time they could no longer see the shadow of the other light gold worker ants, and they had escaped without a trace by this moment.

Moreover, the Flying Knight came to the squad commander and told him the bad news - the army of parasitic ants on the front line of the fortress had drawn a legion back and was coming this way.

So the detachment immediately followed the plan, quickly hid in the grass behind the wasteland, and retreated to the west of the fortress where there was no enemy, preparing to return to the fortress from there.

The Flying Knight, on the other hand, continued to take off to monitor the returning Parasite Ant Legion.

Instead of chasing down the small detachment of the Divine Envoy King's legion as expected, the fully formed legion quickly converged with the other four pale gold workers to ensure their safety.

These parasitic ants, and even all of them, are utilitarian through and through, and it is better to prioritize the protection of survivors than to avenge the death of the light-gold workers.

After the enemy troops on the front line of the fortress were transferred away from a full legion, the pressure on the Divine Envoy King's legion was reduced a lot, and it also gave the protagonist more room to play his tactical arrangements.

The Second and Third Legions reduced their flanking of the enemy and instead devoted more of their forces to the battle for the lost positions on both sides of the gap in the second wall, and succeeded in recovering the lost ground.

The First Army continued to retreat, putting more enemies into the gap. However, in this way, the defensive positions of the First Army were also stretched longer and longer, and they became thinner and thinner.

After estimating that the enemy has two insufficient legions that have passed through the gap, the protagonist feels that the time is almost up, so he gives the order for the next step.

The Second and Third Legions condescendingly dropped a large amount of hay, dead wood, and grease from above the gap in the wall, and piled a thick layer on the ground at the breach.

Subsequently, the ranged units threw clay shells into the gap.

Soon, the flames at the gap burned rapidly, the flames were raging, the smoke was billowing out, and the army of parasitic ants was completely divided into two parts by the second wall and the flames.

The army of parasitic ants dispatched a total of eight legions this time, one more than in the first attack.

In the previous battle, the Parasitic Ant Army had lost two legions of troops, and another full legion was sent back to protect the Light Gold Worker Ants, and now there were only five legions left in the fortress.

Of the five legions, two of the inadequate legions were now trapped within the second wall, and the other three were completely unable to support them on the platform of the first wall.

The fighters that divide and encircle the enemy army have appeared! The Divine Envoy King's legion left part of its forces behind to defend the second wall to deal with the frantic counterattack of the enemy forces outside the wall.

The rest of the troops, including the squad that had just returned from outside the fortress to hunt the Tarjin Workers, began to attack the enemy forces trapped within the second wall with all their might.

The army of parasitic ants is now divided and surrounded, and they can only fight on their own.

To add insult to injury, for some reason, they had not received the latest instructions from the rear of the Light Golden Giant, which added to their confusion.