Chapter 312: Straight to the Yellow Dragon (4)
After receiving the report from the forward troops, the commander of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction judged that the enemy on the opposite side was the minions of the Divine Envoy King, and the male ants and queen ants of the Queen Ant Inheritance faction still knew more about this declaration of war, and only under the command of the Divine Envoy King would there be alien ants, which was another example of why the Divine Envoy King was evil.
The male ant commander of the Queen Ant Legacy faction immediately gave an additional order to attack his own kind, but not the scent of the brood.
This order was quickly conveyed, the queen ant inheritance faction army did not advance in a line of marching troops, but in a combat formation, the front width is large, the depth is shallow, and it is divided into more than a dozen teams crisscrossing the battlefield with dense vegetation.
In contrast, Rambery's 5th Legion was still marching along the ant path in a long snake formation, and the Flying Knights were unable to detect the presence of enemy troops and provide early warning.
And when the Scythe Hunter Scouts hurriedly returned, Rambery knew that the enemy was coming.
Ramberry was marching in the middle of the legion with the escort team, and when he learned the news, the middle troops immediately stopped, and the front team had already engaged the enemy, while the rear troops were still moving forward without knowing what was going on, blocking the already not spacious ant road.
Ramberie hurriedly gave the order to change the battle formation, but in this case, it was difficult for the order to be passed on in time, and it was difficult for the Divine Envoy King Legion to quickly change formations in the dense sea of grass.
After encountering the enemy, the Divine Envoy King team at the forefront instinctively formed a small circle formation with their respective male ant commanders as the core. These small formations are arranged around a plant or a small open field, and while you need to watch out for enemies overhead and from all directions, you have teammates to rely on.
There are also a few squads that march too long and fall into chaos after being raided, the male ants can only control a few fighters around them, and the other fighters can not receive the commander's anxious voice and smell signals in the melee, so they can only fall into a situation of fighting on their own, which is very dangerous.
Around the narrow ant path, in the dense sea of grass, the army of the god envoy king lined up along the ant road, and the front line was cut in pieces. The Queen Ant Legacy faction army shuttles through the blades of grass, using old pheromones and scouts' guidance in familiar places to quickly outflank.
At the beginning of the battle, it developed in the direction of the melee and brawl that the Divine Envoy King Legion was not good at, accompanied by the noisy sound of vegetation rubbing, groups of ants were entangled in close quarters, if outsiders came to see, they would only see a large group of big-headed ants with the same appearance fighting chaotically, and it was completely impossible to see that these warriors were united in the same country not long ago.
Thanks to the small number of enemies, when the front-line troops fell into a melee and dragged many enemies, he finally commanded more than a dozen squads to stabilize the central defense line, and arranged a circular position around the ant road to block the enemy from continuing to advance to the rear.
At the rear of the position, more squads poured into the circular defensive position, making the position more and more solid, and the queen inheritance faction army that had tried to attack many times was repulsed.
The Scythe Warriors also haunt the blades of grass overhead, easily defeating enemy forces that intentionally or unintentionally climb the plant "overpass" to cover the "sky" of friendly forces.
After stabilizing the situation, Lambray hurriedly organized ten squads to march forward, preparing to save the ten vanguard squads that were at the forefront of the melee.
Under the organized offensive of the Divine Angel King's legions, the enemy army retreated. The enemy was originally an enemy army temporarily organized by the hunting force, the number was only one thousand, the strength was less than half of Rambery's legion, and the proportion of soldiers and ants was also very low.
Rambori's troops chased all the way, and only stopped after arriving at the entrance of the secondary nest, waiting for all the legions to converge, and then began the underground battle.
The Legacy Wing of the Queen Ant resisted very resolutely in the underground nests, and the enemy males fled back to the ground, giving the order to fight to the end.
Rambery's 5th Legion trampled all the way to the corpse before finally conquering the nest, and the local ruling male ants finally did not give in and died with their escort troops.
By the time the battle was over, it was already sunset, and then the army entered the lair in the dark and cleared the lair.
After counting, Rambery's legion lost nearly 200 fighters in one day, which is the establishment of nearly four squads, with a battle loss rate of as high as 7%, including the death of a male ant squad commander.
Most of these losses came from the surprise attack encountered in the sea of swirling flowers, this force of more than a thousand enemy troops, the enemy that the Divine Envoy King Legion could destroy without any pressure in the past, made the Divine Envoy King Legion pay a lot of tuition in the special geographical environment. The rest of the losses mainly came from underground street fighting, in order to complete the task of conquering a secondary nest every day, so that the large army had a place to rest, Rambery's troops had to attack the fortification under exhaustion, and also paid a certain price.
To add insult to injury, the Divine Envoy King's Legion had barely captured any food in the nest, and the few grains that were there were only enough for the male ants to eat.
Since all the ants in this sub-nest were killed in battle, the Divine Envoy King's legion had no way to inquire about the reason for the scarcity of food here. It may be precisely because of the small amount of food in stock that the enemy had to organize a large-scale hunt, and only then did he discover the Divine Envoy King's army and organize an offensive at the first time, which can only be said to be the will of heaven.
Fortunately, the army ate yesterday and the day before yesterday, and even if ordinary ants eat less for a day or two, it is not a big problem, only Ramboray's 5th Legion consumes a lot after a day of fierce fighting. Roll basically allocated the stored food to Rambori's legion, so that the soldiers who had been fighting for a long time had something to eat.
Roll is going to send a messenger the next day, asking the previous sub-nest to allocate and transport military rations to keep up, so that in case a sub-nest can't capture food, the army will not go hungry.
- I'm the dividing line -
The protagonist receives information from the Flying Knight the next morning, knowing that Ramboray's troops had been through a bitter battle on the first day.
However, he did not blame Rambori, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, no plan is perfect, Rambori can block the enemy's attack with this level of loss, and finally complete the task of conquering the enemy's nest as scheduled, which is already good. As for the lost troops, what the protagonist can do is to organize reserve forces to replenish them as soon as possible.