Chapter 172: Breaking the City
The Divine Envoy King's legion quickly completed the siege, and the 4 legions tightly sealed the [Hive City], and the surrounding red fire ants and slave ants were either killed, driven back into the city, or subdued.
Many of the slave ants still didn't know what was going on, and they didn't receive orders from the red fire ants, and these submissive slaves felt that the Divine Angel King's legion was a friendly army, and they were obediently controlled and became prisoners of war.
Some of the ants who foraged at a distance have not yet noticed the mutation, and they will return to the city one after another, and the flying knights and hunting sickle ants will be responsible for intercepting and controlling them.
Before [Hive City] falls, the protagonist gives a death order not to let the news get lost. It's only been a day since the Red Fire Ant army was launched, and if they rush back after hearing the news, the protagonist's plan will have to be adjusted and may even fail.
On the other side, the army of the king attacked the city from the south of the city.
The 8 guns carried by the tank unit constantly fired at the tall ant mound of [Hive City] at an unpleasant frequency, and although the rate of fire was not high, the power was not small. The dense entrances and exits on the ant mound [Hive City] were soon smashed out of more holes.
The artillery focused on the lower part of the anthill, where the walls were pierced and the sand had collapsed, and it was already a mess.
Many red fire ant warriors rushed out when they heard the news, and the first batch of enemy troops who came came out spontaneously, lacking the command of male ants, rushed out of the nest in a chaotic manner, they had poor eyesight, and could only vaguely see the existence of ants in the distance, thinking that it must be the enemy.
The red fire ants with the target spontaneously came out of the nest to fight back, and they had no idea what kind of enemy they were facing. The ground full of antlion traps also made these scattered red fire ant warriors more and more scattered, unable to assemble, and such a level of counterattack could be easily defused.
After repelling the Red Fire Ant Army's counterattack, the Divine Envoy King warriors quickly paved a road through the swarm of traps south of [Hive City] using debris such as blades of grass and branches. The clutter is light and fluttery, and it's hard for the antlion to clear it out of the trap.
Some antlions couldn't stand the accumulation of debris and crawled out of their hideouts and were quickly killed by the Divine Angel King's warriors, while others continued to hide and could not threaten the Divine Envoy King's legion, so they were ignored.
After paving the way, the centipeda's legions were the first to charge, and they quickly followed the safe passage to the bottom of [Hive City].
There is a narrow circle of safe areas without traps under the city, and at this time, the second group of red fire ant army has gone out to assemble, and this group of red fire ant army has the command of male ants, which is not so messy.
But their number was too small, about the same as the first batch, only two or three hundred. In fact, at present, all the Red Fire Ant Warriors in [Hive City] are only more than a thousand, and the number of troops is pitiful.
The Red Fire Ant Nation felt that there were no hostile forces around [Hive City], and with the assistance of slave ants, they thought it would be safe here. But now this is obviously not the case, the slave ants do not know why, most of them are not involved in the battle.
The Centipeda Legion, with a huge advantage in equipment and numbers, quickly defeated the enemy in front of them and entered the city through the entrances and exits.
The artillery stopped firing, and the tank brigade shifted to the west, forming a blocking position to prepare for the possible return of the Red Fire Ant army.
The Divine Envoy King Legion threw 1 reserve legion into battle, and the 2 Divine Envoy King Legions all drilled into [Hive City], and the battle entered the street fighting phase.
The protagonist also went into the city with a remodeled Praetorian Guard team composed entirely of divine soldiers and ants.
In addition to the small number of red fire ants resisting fiercely, many slave ants did not know what was going on, but they were frightened and scurried around like flies, and these slave ants quickly surrendered under the coercion of the warriors of the Divine Angel King.
A small number of slave ants resisted along with the red fire ants, but their forces were scattered and did not form a climate.
The centipeda's legion finally found the main passage, and the entrance and exit of the main passage of [Hive City] were inconspicuous from the outside, and were consciously hidden, and the Divine Envoy King's legion entered only a small path at first.
After finding the main passage, the centipeda's legion immediately followed the sloping downward passage and went straight to the bottom level.
From the subdued slave ants, the Divine Envoy King's legion has learned the exact location of the Elders' Council meeting room and the Elder's Dormitory in the Red Fire Ant Country, which is at the bottom of the lair, and they are going to destroy the head of the enemy.
The other legion dispersed into small squad-sized clusters to extinguish sporadic resistance around the nest and capture the slave ants who had no intention of fighting.
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The protagonist walks into the main passage, where he is guarded by the Praetorian Guards, and there are a small number of dead corpses on the side of the road, all of which have their heads cut off.
Some of the "corpses" are not yet dead, the antennae and jaws on the skull are still slowly trembling, or the headless body is still twitching.
The protagonist ignores the corpses and walks slowly through the enemy's main lair.
Although there are many ants in [Hive City], most of them are slave ants, and many of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and are not suitable for battlefield.
This time, the army of red fire ants pulled away almost all the elite warriors of their own clan, and most of the young and strong slave ants, and in the early spring of this year, a large number of ant mouths were extorted by the suzerain, which led to the fact that the garrison force that remained in [Hive City] in the end was too weak, and it also cheapened the army of the Divine Envoy King.
The resistance of [Hive City] was already insignificant, and the elders of the Red Fire Ants showed the courage and will of the Red Fire Ant Clan, leading more than 2,000 native warriors and slave ants to make the last resistance in the deepest part of the nest.
But the centipeda's legion has a secret weapon for the nest ** lane battle, several mysterious balls were chiseled and rolled down, after a few loud noises, the last line of defense of the red fire ant army wavered, and the god made the king warriors rush in, tearing apart the enemy army, slaughtering the enemies who were shocked and panicked by the explosion.
When the protagonist descends leisurely all the way to the bottom, he arrives at the large conference room of the Presbyterian Church, where the Red Fire Ant Country was once the highest authority. He saw that the ground was also a familiar white pebble floor.
Whether it is a savage ant or a civilized ant clan, it seems to be a heritage, otherwise it is impossible to explain that the conference room of the Red Fire Ant Kingdom is exactly the same as the conference room of the old big-headed ant kingdom and the leaf-cutting ant country.
The protagonist ponders, although the civilized ant clan has a vision of brute ants like a hater, but the protagonist does not have this deep-rooted consciousness accumulated over thousands of years. They are all ants, and maybe they can all be a helping hand in the fight against the Destroyer.
The protagonist ponders his plans for the future.
At this time, the centipeda's messenger found the protagonist, saying that he had put down the last resistance, and captured several stunned red fire ant elders, as well as many red fire ant queens.
The protagonist asks to bring the Red Fire Ant Elder captives to the conference room!