Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Battle for the Banyan Tree

After the protagonist activates the god-killing mode, the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force quickly rushes across the willow bridge that was heavily guarded by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, and overwhelms, divides, and surrounds the Paving Ant Warriors on the ground of the island, with only a few Paving Ant Legions building a defensive line around the roots of the trunk of the Big Banyan Tree.

The trunk of this banyan tree is so thick that about two people hug each other, the trunk faces the water on one side and the island floor on the other two sides, and the roots are intertwined. The paving ant barbarian army defends with the help of the complex terrain at the base of the tree, while the individual advantage of the big-headed ant army cannot be well played in this undulating terrain, and the soldier ants in front of the sudden are often besieged by the paving ant worker ant colony.

The best performers in the Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force are the Public Security Legion and the Western Legion, and since the Divine Envoy King Legion has shown super combat effectiveness, the Public Security and the Western King have almost become fans of the protagonist, and they have also consulted the protagonist's tactical information package.

The protagonist did not hide his secrets, and this level of tactical cooperation is not worth the protagonist's self-cherishment, and he generously handed over all the information packages to the two kings.

However, perhaps due to the constraints of experience and vision, the tactics practiced by these two kings with their legions after returning are very different from those of the Divine Envoy King's legion.

I don't know if it's because ants who are accustomed to two-dimensional thinking can't understand how to act in three-dimensional space (just like ninety percent of humans can't understand four-dimensional space), they can't understand the meaning of letting soldier ants climb on their companions and then attack them condescendingly.

Therefore, the tactics understood and implemented by the Public Security Corps and the Western Corps were: the worker ants were responsible for containing the enemy, and then the soldiers gathered to break through from the middle to open a breakthrough for the follow-up troops.

Even this kind of deformed and emasculated tactic has been very sharp in the legion battle, and it has already implied the secret of concentrating superior forces. In the field battles of the third, fourth, and fifth sub-nests, the two corps became more and more proficient in this tactic in actual combat.

The protagonist of course notices the change in the execution tactics of the Public Security Corps and the Western Legion, but he is happy to see the improvement and does not interfere. After all, it's easy to teach the ants to execute tactics mechanically, but it's hard to make them think and innovate, and since the police and the Western kings have made improvements that suit them, the protagonist should be happy.

Later, the protagonist finds an opportunity to express his appreciation for the improved tactics of the two kings during the meeting, which immediately makes the two legion commanders feel confident.

In the battle against the Great Banyan Tree, these two legions volunteered to be the vanguards, and were the first to break through the defenses of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army at the base of the Banyan Tree. The two legions, one on the left and one on the right, and nearly 300 soldiers and ants from each legion were gathered together, and under the command of the six brave big-headed ant kings, they quickly broke through the defense line in front of them with the advantage of size and individual combat strength. The two breakthrough troops were like left and right hooks, and after turning in one direction, they attacked the paving ant legions that were still intact from behind the other frontal fronts.

This finally led to the collapse of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army's defensive line at the base of the Banyan Tree. After abandoning some of the troops that had already been encircled and the troops behind the palace, the remnants of the Paving Ant Barbarian army joined forces newly supported by the nest in the trees, and re-established a defensive line in the middle of the trunk.

The big-headed ant barbarian army did not rush to attack upward, and there were still a large number of surrounded paving ant barbarian army on the ground of the island and at the base of the tree trunk that were not completely wiped out. There is no concept of surrender and capture in the war of ants, and the only outcome is victory or defeat and death.

It was not until a little more than a little time later that the enemy forces under the banyan tree were completely cleared, after which the attack on the banyan tree officially began.

Due to the terrain constraints, the island is not large, and the banyan tree is only adjacent to the island on two sides, and the other two are rivers, so only twenty of the forty legions remained on the island, of which ten were responsible for the first attack, and the rest were withdrawn to the south bank of the river to rest.

The Public Security Corps and the Western Corps suffered little losses in previous battles and once again took on the task of attacking the main forces. The first five legions climbed up the huge and rough trunk of the banyan tree from the island, and the black and yellow big-headed ants lined up in a circle around the trunk, as if they had put a yellow ring on the banyan tree from a distance.

Looking further up, there is also a ring in the middle of the trunk of the banyan tree, which is black, which is the defensive position established by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army.

The yellow ring slowly moved upwards, quickly colliding with the black ring.

Fierce fighting broke out again, with countless big-headed ants and paving ants fighting on the trunk of the banyan tree tilting towards the water. The big-headed ants are strong, but the inconvenience of attacking from the back largely negates this advantage. The paving ants occupy a favorable position, but the disadvantage of numbers and combat power has always constrained them.

They fought so selflessly that a pair of opponents often fell from the trunk of a tree holding each other.

Some of them fell on the ground of the island, so the big-headed ant warriors under the trees would immediately step forward to help their comrades kill the paving ants on the opposite side. Some of them fell into the river, and a pair of life-and-death opponents would be separated by the current and washed away, welcoming their unknown fate.

Because the banyan tree is inclined to the river, there are many ants that fall into the water, but fortunately, the river between this section of the island and the south bank is only half a meter wide.

The Public Security Corps and the Western Corps were once again the first to break through the enemy's central defensive ring, and then this breach was expanded larger and larger with the support of follow-up troops. Once again, the defensive positions of the Paving Ant Barbarian Army collapsed.

A paving ant barbarian king watched in disbelief at the scene unfolding in front of him, his position at the base of the banyan tree was only held for a short time before being broken head-on, and the defensive circle established after retreating was easily breached again, which completely subverted the experience of war with the yellow big-headed ant barbarian handed down by his ancestors. What's going on?

The dejected paving ant barbarian king was desperately dragged back by the loyal worker ant guards, fleeing towards the top of the canopy.

The Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force didn't care about the Paving Ant King, who had lost almost all of his subordinates, and was busy clearing out the recalcitrant enemy army.

After the defensive ring in the middle of the banyan tree collapses, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force can successfully attack the core of the "Waterfront City" hidden under the bark of the tree.

The tree city is divided into two parts, one is the core of the trunk, which consists of a naturally formed cavity in the middle of the banyan tree and a small number of tunnels dug by ants under the bark. There is also a part of the summer camp consisting of small scattered tree holes in the branches of the canopy.

In the summer, the ants stationed in the "waterfront city" will divide into groups and go to temporary camps on the trunks of the trees to hunt insects and collect banyan fruits in the dense canopy.

When winter comes, these makeshift camps are unable to protect themselves from the cold, and all the ants retreat to the core area and hide in hollows in the banyan trees for a long winter.

Strange to say, the banyan tree usually lives in the warm south, but this banyan tree grows in the local area where the water drips into ice every winter, and it is still alive and well. Normally, the banyan tree is an evergreen tree, but this banyan tree will lose all its leaves in autumn. It can only be said that nature is extremely magical.

The Big-Headed Ant Expeditionary Force invaded the interior of the core area of the "Waterfront City" from the entrance to the nest in the upper part of the trunk of the banyan tree. The entrances to these nests are small openings in the bark of the trees, which are usually angled down to protect them from rain, and the openings are facing south. Due to the special nature of Tree City, there is more than one entrance and exit of this secondary nest, and there are six of them. The entrance to the central tree hole is connected by a tunnel gnawed by ants under the bark.

Due to the fact that the garrison paving ant barbarian army had lost a lot of strength in the field, the big-headed ant expeditionary force was able to easily enter the core area from the six entrances and exits, and soon killed all the remaining paving ants in the hollow tree hole, and destroyed all the ant eggs, larvae and ant pupa.

In this way, the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force has basically broken down the effective resistance of the enemy army in "Waterfront City", but this does not mean that the battle is over.

In the dense canopy of the banyan tree, there may be sporadic paving ant troops on every branch and leaf, and these troops are guarded by legions and squads, and even three or two paver ant worker ants who have lost their establishment also spontaneously hide on the back of a leaf, ready to sneak attack the big-headed ant warriors who pass by at any time.

This kind of stubborn resistance has appeared in countless previous reconquest wars, and the big-headed ants have also been mentally prepared based on the experience passed down from generation to generation by their ancestors.

After basically clearing the resistance in the core area of the trunk of the "Waterfront City", several legions spontaneously slaughtered the canopy.

There are too many branches and more leaves, and in order to completely clear the enemy army, in case the captured enemy army threatens the safety of the secondary nest in the future, every branch and every leaf needs to be checked. Entire legions were forced to disperse into detachments, and then into squads, a battle for branch by branch, a sweep of leaf by leaf.

More and more legions threw themselves into the assault on the canopy, and soon twenty legions from the island were in. Even if there are 30,000 big-headed ants in total, sprinkling them on the dense and lush canopy of the banyan tree still seems to be overstretched.

The purge was suspended at night, and all forty legions entered the "Waterfront City" to rest, leaving only a small number of vigilant troops outside the trunk.

The paving ant defenders can only spend the night in small tree holes in the canopy or even on the leaves in the open air. Based on the constraints of tradition and experience, these paver ants have no intention of counterattacking or escaping at night.

After sunrise the next day, the battle continued, the Paving Ant army had long since gone, and the sporadic fighting was nothing but a death struggle, and on this day, the entire "Waterfront City" completely changed hands.

In the conference room, the kings of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force celebrated their early victory in this year's counteroffensive war, and also congratulated the Divine Envoy King on his great exploits.

No ant noticed that at the end of the battle, a paving ant king and a few worker ant guards were forced onto a banyan leaf by the big-headed ant warrior.

The king ordered the worker ants to bite off the petioles, and he would rather drown in the river than be humiliated by the big-headed ant barbarians.

But when the leaves tumbled in the air a few times and then landed on the surface of the river, the king, who had been extremely unlucky and was defeated by the public security army twice on the banyan tree, was still lying firmly on the leaves.

Only one of the worker ants around him remained, and one fell into the water and swam up the leaves, and the other worker ants disappeared in the process of falling.

With the help of the breeze, this fallen leaf was quietly blown to the north bank of the river.

There, it is the territory of the Paving Ant Kingdom.